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US11925128B2 Differential ionic electronic transistors
An ionic transistor including a first source, a first drain spaced apart from the first source, and a first storage layer electrically connected to the first source and the first drain. The ionic transistor also includes a second source spaced apart from the first source, a second drain spaced apart from the second source, and a second storage layer electrically connected to the second source and the second drain. The ionic transistor further includes an electrolyte layer situated between and electrically connected to the first and second storage layers. The ionic transistor may be implemented as non-volatile memory in a machine learning (ML) application.
US11925127B2 Phase-change memory device and method
A method includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate, the dielectric layer having a top surface; etching an opening in the dielectric layer; forming a bottom electrode within the opening, the bottom electrode including a barrier layer; forming a phase-change material (PCM) layer within the opening and on the bottom electrode, wherein a top surface of the PCM layer is level with or below the top surface of the dielectric layer; and forming a top electrode on the PCM layer.
US11925123B2 Spin-orbit torque type magnetization rotational element, spin-orbit torque type magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic memory
This spin-orbit torque type magnetization rotational element (10) is provided with: a spin-orbit torque wiring (2); a first ferromagnetic layer (1) that is laminated on the spin-orbit torque wiring; a first nonmagnetic metal layer (3) and a second nonmagnetic metal layer (4) that are connected to the spin-orbit torque wiring at positions flanking the first ferromagnetic layer in a plan view from the second direction, and a first insulating layer (31) surrounding the spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein the gravity center (G) of the first ferromagnetic layer is positioned on a side closer to the first nonmagnetic metal layer or the second nonmagnetic metal layer than is a reference point (S) located at the center between the first and second nonmagnetic metal layers in the first direction, and the first insulating layer is any one selected from the group consisting of silicon nitride, aluminum nitride, aluminum oxide, and magnesium oxide.
US11925121B2 Piezoelectric element having excellent flexibility and bend resistance
Provided is a novel piezoelectric element that has a generally long linear shape and has excellent flexibility and bend resistance. The piezoelectric element includes a core wire which is a resin wire having at least one layer of metal foil helically wound therearound, an organic piezoelectric layer that coats the core wire, and a conductor layer that coats the organic piezoelectric layer. The metal foil and the conductor layer each function as an electrode having the organic piezoelectric layer interposed therebetween. The at least one layer of metal foil is helically wound around the resin wire with gaps, and the ratio of the gap to the helical pitch of the metal foil is 0.4% to 50%.
US11925118B2 Light activated photoreaction via genetic hybridization of far-red fluorescent protein and silk
A method of inactivating harmful microorganisms of a filtration medium including pathogenic bacteria and viruses is disclosed which includes placing a predetermined quantity of a hybridized fluorescent silk on to a filtration medium, applying light for a predetermined amount of time to the placed quantity of the hybridized fluorescent silk, and passing a fluid through the medium, wherein the fluid is one of substantially air or substantially water,wherein the hybridized fluorescent silk is one of KillerRed, SuperNova, KillerOrange, Dronpa, TurboGFP, mCherry, or any combination thereof.
US11925115B2 Organic light-emitting device comprising emission layer satisfying specific singlet excitation energy level conditions
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting device including an emission layer that includes a compound satisfying conditions 5′ and 6 below: 0 eV<ΔEST2≤0.1 eV  Condition 1: ΔEST>0.2 eV  Condition 6:
US11925113B2 Heterocyclic compound and organic light emitting device comprising the same
Provided is a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein: Y1 is O or S; Ar1 is a substituted C6-60 aryl; or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 heteroaryl containing one or more heteroatoms selected from among O, N, Si, and S; L is a single bond; a substituted or unsubstituted C6-60 arylene; or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 heteroarylene containing one or more heteroatoms selected from among O, N, Si, and S; R1 to R3 are each independently hydrogen; deuterium; a halogen; cyano; nitro; amino; a substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 alkyl; a substituted or unsubstituted C1-60 haloalkyl; or a substituted or unsubstituted: C1-60 alkoxy, C1-60 haloalkoxy, C3-60 cycloalkyl, C2-60 alkenyl, C6-60 aryl, C6-60 aryloxy, or C1-60 heteroaryl containing one or more heteroatoms selected from among N, O, and S, and n1 to n3 are each independently 1 to 5, and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US11925111B2 Organic light emitting device
An organic light emitting device including an anode; a hole transport region on the anode; an emission layer on the hole transport region; an electron transport region on the emission layer; and a cathode on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes: a first hole transport layer including a first hole transport material represented by the following Formula 1 or a second hole transport material represented by the following Formula 2; and a second hole transport layer on the first hole transport layer, the second hole transport layer including a third hole transport material represented by the following Formula 3 or a fourth hole transport material represented by the following Formula 4:
US11925110B2 Polycyclic aromatic compound and organoelectroluminescent device using the same
Disclosed is a polycyclic aromatic compound that can be employed in an organic layer of an organic electroluminescent device. Also disclosed is a highly efficient organic electroluminescent device including the polycyclic aromatic compound. The use of the polycyclic aromatic compound significantly improves the luminous efficiency of the device.
US11925105B2 Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Provided is a new composition of matter for phosphorescent emitters containing a chelating ligand including five or more fused carbocyclic or heterocyclic rings that form two bonds to a metal forming a 7-membered chelate. This fused ring structure provides added rigidity to the molecule for enhanced stability in an OLED device and improve photophysical properties.
US11925102B2 Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
Novel ligands for metal complexes containing five-membered ring fused on pyrimidine ring combined with partially fluorinated side chains exhibiting improved external quantum efficiency and lifetime are disclosed.
US11925088B2 Foldable display apparatus
A foldable display apparatus includes: a non-folding area, and a folding area, in which an aperture ratio of a plurality of red sub pixels in the folding area is lower than an aperture ratio of a plurality in red sub pixels of the non-folding area, an aperture ratio of the plurality of green sub pixels in the folding area is lower than an aperture ratio of the plurality of green sub pixels of the non-folding area, and an aperture ratio of the plurality in blue sub pixels of the folding area is lower than an aperture ratio of the plurality of blue sub pixels of the non-folding area.
US11925087B2 Display substrate and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus
Provided are a display substrate, a preparation method thereof, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes: a first display region and a second display region; the first display region includes a plurality of first pixels, the first pixel includes a passive light-emitting device, the second display region includes a plurality of second pixels, the second pixel includes an active light-emitting device and a pixel drive circuit electrically connected to the active light-emitting device. The first display region further includes a plurality of first cathode blockers, and the first cathode blocker includes at least one first groove, wherein the first cathode blocker is provided between at least two adjacent columns of first pixels, to make the cathodes of the two adjacent columns of first pixels disconnected.
US11925085B2 Display device and electronic device having the same
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a first panel pad, and a second panel pad and a circuit board including a first substrate pad and a second substrate pad to apply a first power voltage to the first panel pad and the second panel. The display panel further includes a first power line pattern connected to the second substrate pad to apply the first power voltage to the pixels and a second power line pattern connected to the first substrate pad. The circuit board includes a first electrostatic discharge protection circuit connected between the first substrate pad and the second substrate pad, a substrate power pattern electrically connected to the first substrate pad, a ground pattern receiving a ground voltage, and a second electrostatic discharge protection circuit connected between the substrate power pattern and the ground pattern.
US11925083B2 Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a substrate, a display unit disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a power supply wire disposed on the insulating layer outside the display unit, and a cladding layer. The display unit includes a pixel circuit and a display element electrically connected to the pixel circuit. The insulating layer extends from the display unit to an edge of the substrate. The power supply wire is electrically connected to the display element and includes an alignment pattern that exposes at least a portion of the insulating layer. The cladding layer covers an inner surface of the alignment pattern and contacts the at least a portion of the insulating layer.
US11925082B2 Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a pixel unit including a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit including a first transistor, the pixel unit including a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit located in a same row and adjacent columns; a first gate line and a second gate line, connected to gate electrodes of the first transistors of the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit; a first gate signal line, connected to the first pixel unit; a second gate signal line, connected to the second pixel unit; a first connection line connected with the first gate signal line through the first connection line; and a second connection line connected with the second gate signal line through the second connection line.
US11925076B2 Display panel and display device
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate as well as, at a side of the base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, a power bus, a plurality of first power lines extending along a column direction and a plurality of second power lines extending along a row direction, where each of the plurality of first power lines is electrically connected to the plurality of the sub-pixels arranged along the column direction, and the plurality of first power lines and the plurality of second power lines are electrically connected in overlapping regions of vertical projection on the base substrate. The display panel further includes a plurality of connection units.
US11925074B2 Display panel and electronic apparatus
A display panel has an active area, and the active area has a camera region. The display panel includes a base, an insulating layer, and a plurality of transparent wirings. The insulating layer is disposed on the base. The insulating layer is provided with a plurality of first grooves located in the camera region. An included angle between a groove wall of a first groove and a surface on which an opening of the first groove is located is less than 90 degrees. The plurality of transparent wirings are disposed on groove walls of the plurality of first grooves.
US11925071B2 Method for forming light emitting element pattern and display device using the same
A method for forming a light emitting element pattern according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes forming a pattern layer having an opening on a target material, forming a light emitting element pattern on the target material in correspondence to the opening, and removing the pattern layer. Here, the pattern layer includes a first pattern layer disposed on the target material, a second pattern layer disposed on the first pattern layer, and a third pattern layer disposed on the second pattern layer. The second pattern layer has an undercut portion recessed from edges of the third pattern layer.
US11925067B2 Display panel and display device
Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate including a plurality of sub-pixels, at least one of the plurality of sub-pixels including a pixel circuit; a first conductive layer located on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of a first insulating layer; a second insulating layer located on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the first conductive layer; a second conductive layer located on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the second insulating layer; a fourth insulating layer located on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the second conductive layer; and a third conductive layer located on a side, facing away from the base substrate, of the fourth insulating layer, the third conductive layer including a plurality of data wires arranged at intervals.
US11925065B2 Display panels and display devices
A display panel includes a switching transistor and a light-emitting transistor. The switching transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, a first active layer, and a first drain electrode. The light-emitting transistor includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, a second active layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second drain electrode. The second gate electrode is the first drain electrode of the switching transistor. The switching transistor and the light-emitting transistor may be on a substrate. The switching transistor, the second source electrode, the second active layer, the light-emitting layer, and the second drain electrode are stacked in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.
US11925060B2 Display with movable reflective member
A display apparatus includes a display panel having a first area and a second area, a main body supporting the display panel, an auxiliary member arranged in the main body, and a reflective member arranged between the auxiliary member and the display panel, wherein the reflective member may movably be provided to overlap the first area or the second area. Therefore, light emitted from the display panel toward the inside of the main body may be reflected in the outside, and a luminance difference between the first area and the second area of the display panel may be prevented from occurring, whereby a user's satisfaction for an image may be enhanced.
US11925059B2 Organic light emitting diode display device with electrode disposed over convex portions of insulating layer
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate having an emitting area and a non-emitting area. An insulating layer is on the substrate, and the insulating layer includes a plurality of convex portions, a plurality of connecting portions and at least one wall in the emitting area. A height of the at least one wall is greater than a height of the plurality of convex portions. A first electrode is on the substream, emitting layer is on the first electrode, a second electrode is on the emitting layer. The first electrode, the emitting layer and the second electrode constitute a light emitting diode.
US11925057B2 Display device comprising optical compensation layer at light-emitting unit and transmissive unit
Discussed is a display device for improving both transmittance and efficiency of light that is transmitted through a light-emitting unit and a transmissive unit due to a phase difference of π at an interface between an organic layer and an optical compensation layer of the display device.
US11925049B2 Display device
The present disclosure provides a display device including a display panel, a main frame positioned behind the display panel, an inner plate positioned between the display panel and the main frame, a support plate mounted on a back surface of the display panel and facing the inner plate, and a coupling member for coupling the inner plate and the support plate, wherein the coupling member includes a first coupling member mounted on the support plate, and a second coupling member mounted on the inner plate and coupled to the first coupling member.
US11925042B2 Organic electroluminescent device
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device, in which co-host materials with a specific P:N ratio are used, and the energy level and mobility of the materials of the functional layers are adjusted to be within specific ranges, so that good device performances could be produced under a plurality of P:N ratios, thereby providing more possibilities for the selection of devices.
US11925040B2 Hybrid image sensors having optical and short-wave infrared pixels integrated therein
An image sensor pixel includes a substrate having a pixel electrode on a light receiving surface thereof, and a photoelectric conversion layer including a perovskite material, on the pixel electrode. A transparent electrode is provided on the photoelectric conversion layer, and a vertical electrode is provided, which is electrically connected to the pixel electrode and extends at least partially through the substrate. The photoelectric conversion layer includes a perovskite layer, a first blocking layer extending between the pixel electrode and the perovskite layer, and a second blocking layer extending between the transparent electrode and the perovskite layer. The perovskite material may have a material structure of ABX3, A2BX4, A3BX5, A4BX6, ABX4, or An−1BnX3n+1, where: n is a positive integer in a range from 2 to 6; A includes at least one material selected from a group consisting of Na, K, Rb, Cs and Fr; B includes at least one material selected from a divalent transition metal, a rare earth metal, an alkaline earth metal, Ga, In, Al, Sb, Bi, and Po; and X includes at least one material selected from Cl, Br, and I.
US11925032B2 Memory device with flat-top bottom electrodes and methods for forming the same
A memory device includes an array of memory cells overlying a substrate and located in a memory array region. Each of the memory cells includes a bottom electrode, a vertical stack containing a memory element and a top electrode, and dielectric sidewall spacers located on sidewalls of each vertical stack. The bottom electrode comprises a flat-top portion that extends horizontally beyond an outer periphery of the dielectric sidewall spacers. The device also includes a discrete etch stop dielectric layer over each of the memory cells that includes a horizontally-extending portion that extends over the flat-top portion of the bottom electrode. The device also includes metallic cell contact structures that contact a respective subset of the top electrodes and a respective subset of vertically-protruding portions of the discrete etch stop dielectric layer.
US11925031B2 Arrays of capacitors and arrays of memory cells
A method of forming an array of capacitors comprises forming rows and columns of horizontally-spaced openings in a sacrificial material. Fill material is formed in multiple of the columns of the openings and lower capacitor electrodes a are formed in a plurality of the columns that are between the columns of the openings comprising the fill material therein. The fill material is of different composition from that of the lower capacitor electrodes. The fill material is between a plurality of horizontally-spaced groups that individually comprises the lower capacitor electrodes. Immediately-adjacent of the groups are horizontally spaced apart from one another by a gap that comprises at least one of the columns of the openings comprising the fill material therein. The sacrificial material is removed to expose laterally-outer sides of the lower capacitor electrodes. A capacitor insulator is formed over tops and the laterally-outer sides of the lower capacitor electrodes. Upper capacitor electrode material is formed over the capacitor insulator and the lower capacitor electrodes. A horizontally-elongated conductive line is formed atop individual of the groups that directly electrically couple together the upper capacitor electrode material there-below in that individual group.
US11925030B2 Method for forming a MFMIS memory device
Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards a metal-ferroelectric-metal-insulator-semiconductor (MFMIS) memory device, as well as a method for forming the MFMIS memory device. According to some embodiments of the MFMIS memory device, a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region are vertically stacked. An internal gate electrode and a semiconductor channel overlie the first source/drain region and underlie the second source/drain region. The semiconductor channel extends from the first source/drain region to the second source/drain region, and the internal gate electrode is electrically floating. A gate dielectric layer is between and borders the internal gate electrode and the semiconductor channel. A control gate electrode is on an opposite side of the internal gate electrode as the semiconductor channel and is uncovered by the second source/drain region. A ferroelectric layer is between and borders the control gate electrode and the internal gate electrode.
US11925029B2 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate on which a first insulation film is provided. A first conductive film is on the first insulation film. First electrode films are on the first conductive film and stacked. A charge accumulation member is between one of the first electrode films and the semiconductor member. The first conductive film includes a main body arranged below the first electrode films and an outer peripheral portion provided in an outer periphery of the main body to be apart from the main body. First and second slits are alternately provided in the outer peripheral portion, and extend along the outer periphery of the main body. The first and second slits are apart from each other as viewed in the stacking direction, and partly overlap each other as viewed in a first direction directed from the main body toward the outer peripheral portion.
US11925028B2 Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor memory device, and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor memory device, includes a peripheral transistor, a first insulating layer covering the peripheral transistor, a source layer on the first insulating layer, and a stack structure on the source layer. The semiconductor memory device also includes a peripheral contact structure penetrating the stack structure and the source layer, the peripheral contact structure being electrically connected to the peripheral transistor. The stack structure includes a stepped structure including a step side surface and a step top surface. The peripheral contact structure is in contact with the step side surface.
US11925026B2 Structures for novel three-dimensional nonvolatile memory
Disclosed are novel structures and methods for 3D NVM built with vertical transistors above a logic layer. A first embodiment has a conductive film under the transistors and serving as a common node in a memory block. The conductive film may be from a semiconductor layer used to build the transistors. Metal lines are disposed above the transistors for connection through 3D vias to underlying circuitry. Contact plugs may be formed between transistors and metal lines. The conductive film may be coupled to underlying circuitry through contacts on the conductive film or through interconnect vias underneath the film. A second embodiment has conductive lines disposed under the transistors. Either of conductive lines and metal lines may serve as source lines and the other as bit lines for the memory. For low parasitic resistances, the conductive lines may be shorted to bypass metal lines residing in underlying logic layer.
US11925025B2 Semiconductor device and method of controlling the same
An occupied area of the switch circuit electrically connected to a memory cell is reduced to reduce the size of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell on a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor chip in which a switch circuit electrically connected to the memory cell is formed, wherein the switch circuit includes a second transistor electrically connected to the memory cell, and the second transistor includes a second word gate formed on the semiconductor substrate through a third gate insulating film, and a second coupling gate formed on the semiconductor substrate through a fourth gate insulating film having a thickness greater than that of the third gate insulating film, wherein a voltage higher than a voltage applied to the second word gate is applied to the second coupling gate of the second transistor when a current is applied to the memory cell.
US11925019B2 Channel structures having protruding portions in three-dimensional memory device and method for forming the same
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a memory stack including conductive layers and dielectric layers interleaving the conductive layers, and a channel structure extending through the memory stack along a vertical direction. The channel structure has a plurality of protruding portions protruding along a lateral direction and facing the conductive layers, respectively, and a plurality of normal portions facing the dielectric layers, respectively, without protruding along the lateral direction. The channel structure includes a plurality of blocking structures in the protruding portions, respectively, and a plurality of storage structures in the protruding portions and over the plurality of blocking structures, respectively. A vertical dimension of each of the blocking structures is nominally the same as a vertical dimension of a respective one of the storage structures over the blocking structure.
US11925017B2 Semiconductor device having a wall structure surrounding a stacked gate structure
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked gate structure, and a wall structure. The stacked gate structure is on the substrate and extending along a first direction. The wall structure is on the substrate and laterally aside the stacked gate structure. The wall structure extends along the first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The stacked gate structure is overlapped with the wall structure in the first direction and the second direction.
US11925016B2 Memory arrays comprising strings of memory cells and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises a conductor tier comprising conductor material. The memory array comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers directly above the conductor tier. Conducting material of a lowest of the conductive tiers is directly against the conductor material of the conductor tier. Channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Intervening material is laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The conducting material in the lowest conductive tier is directly against the channel material of individual of the channel-material strings. Conductive material is of different composition from that of the conducting material above and directly against the conducting material. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US11925015B2 Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same
Vertical memory devices, and methods of manufacturing the same, include providing a substrate including a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, forming a mold structure in the cell array region, forming an opening for a common source line passing through the mold structure and extending in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, forming a first contact plug having an inner sidewall delimiting a recessed region in the opening for the common source line, and forming a common source bit line contact electrically connected to the inner sidewall of the first contact plug.
US11925011B2 Fin-based strap cell structure for improving memory performance
Fin-based well straps are disclosed for improving performance of memory arrays, such as static random access memory arrays. An exemplary integrated circuit (IC) device includes a FinFET disposed over a doped region of a first type dopant. The FinFET includes a first fin having a first width doped with the first type dopant and first source/drain features of a second type dopant. The IC device further includes a fin-based well strap disposed over the doped region of the first type dopant. The fin-based well strap connects the doped region to a voltage. The fin-based well strap includes a second fin having a second width doped with the first type dopant and second source/drain features of the first type dopant. The second width is greater than the first width. For example, a ratio of the second width to the first width is greater than about 1.1 and less than about 1.5.
US11925010B2 Display panel, display module and manufacture method thereof, and communication device
A display panel, a display module and a manufacture method thereof, and a communication device are provided. The display panel includes a display substrate and a multiplexing circuit arranged on a first surface of the display substrate. The display panel further includes a wave-absorbing material layer arranged on a second surface of the display substrate. The wave-absorbing material layer is configured to absorb electromagnetic wave interference signals. The second surface is a surface opposite to the first surface.
US11925005B2 Systems and methods for pneumatic release manifold sealing
Systems and methods. The methods comprise: causing bellows to transition from expanded states to collapsed states by removing a first fluid therefrom (the bellows being coupled to opposing sidewalls of a chassis configured to structurally support at least one circuit card); receiving the at least one circuit card in a cavity of the chassis; causing the bellows to transition from the collapsed states to at least partially expanded states by allowing the first fluid to enter the bellows; applying a pushing force by each said bellow to an intermediary structure disposed between the bellow and the circuit card; and creating a seal between the intermediary structure and the circuit card when the bellow is in the at least partially expanded state.
US11924995B2 Water cooling head with sparse and dense fins
A water cooling head with sparse and dense fins, including a main body, a first fin set and a second fin set. Wherein a chamber is formed inside the main body, the main body has a first plate and a second plate, the main body forms an inlet channel and an outlet channel, so that the cooling water passes through the chamber. The first fin set and the second fin set are arranged in the chamber, and the first fin set and the second fin set are connected to the first plate respectively. The first fin set comprises several first fins spaced apart, the first fins divide the chamber to form several first channels. The second fin set comprises several second fins spaced apart, the second fins divide the chamber to form several second channels. The water cooling head can increase the overall heat sinking efficiency.
US11924994B2 Managing a heatsink of an information handling system
In one embodiment, a method for managing a heatsink of an information handling system includes: determining, by a controller unit of the information handling system, that a vibration event is to occur, the vibration event associated with a vibration unit of the information handling system, the controller unit communicably coupled to the vibration unit, the vibration unit removably coupled to the heatsink; and causing, by the controller unit, the vibration unit to generate the vibration event, the vibration event causing the vibration unit to apply one or more vibrations to the heatsink, the one or more vibrations causing a boundary layer of particles to be removed from a surface of the heatsink.
US11924993B2 Auxiliary equipment for an electronic apparatus
An apparatus (1) comprising hardware equipment (3) having hardware components (10) enclosed by a chassis (2) having a front side (2A) and a rear side (2B), and auxiliary equipment (5) movable within the chassis (2) along at least one transportation rail (7) with a non-linear trajectory extending in horizontal plane between a first position at the front side (2A) of the chassis (2) and a second position behind the hardware equipment (3) at the rear side (2B) of the chassis (2), wherein a part of the hardware components (10) is at least temporarily removable from the chassis (2) or movable within the chassis (2) to provide space (11) for moving the auxiliary equipment (5) within the chassis (2) along the at least one transportation rail (7) between the first and second position.
US11924991B2 Aircraft avionics rack with interconnection platform
An aircraft avionics bay provided with at least one shelf (4) that includes: a support platform (5); retention seats (12) for a rack-mountable electrical module (6) each including a module connector (14); an external connection interface (7); an interconnection platform (9) extending substantially parallel to the support platform (5), on the side opposite the retention seats (12), the interconnection platform (9) supporting conductive connection tracks (28); a plurality of rear printed circuits (15), each rear printed circuit (15) extending opposite a module connector (14); the conductive connection tracks (28) of the interconnection platform (9) extending into each rear printed circuit (15) and to the external connection interface (7) via flexible conductors (18, 19).
US11924990B2 Protective cover for portable electronic device and associated systems and methods
A protective cover for a portable electronic device includes a support with a support element that includes a slot bounded by a forward surface and an opposed rear surface. The forward surface and the opposed rear surface are planar surfaces oriented parallel to one another and spaced apart a distance that enables the slot to receive peripheral edges of any of a plurality of differently configured devices from different manufacturers and having different capabilities. The forward surface and the opposed rear surface are located a single fixed distance apart from one another, enabling the slot to self-support the plurality of differently configured devices from different manufacturers and having different capabilities. The protective cover may include a keyboard.
US11924989B2 Fixing device
A fixing device includes a circuit board, a first cover, a reinforcing piece, and a double-layer chip. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The first cover is disposed adjacent to the first surface and has a first bump which has a first abutting surface facing the first surface. The reinforcing piece is located on the first surface and adjacent to the first bump. The double-layer chip has an upper layer and a lower layer which are electrically connected. An upper surface of the upper layer and a lower surface of the lower layer are respectively located on opposite sides of the double-layer chip, and an area of the upper surface is smaller than an area of the lower surface. The lower layer of the double-layer chip and the second surface of the circuit board are electrically connected.
US11924985B2 Display device
A display device includes a display panel that includes a first hole and a device housing that is configured such that the display panel is fastened and fixed to the device housing by a screw passed through the first hole and screwed into the screw hole. The display panel includes a display-side positioning part which is configured to fit to a portion of the device housing to perform positioning of the display panel with respect to the device housing and which includes the first hole, and the device housing includes a housing-side positioning part which is configured to fit to the display-side positioning part to perform the positioning and which includes a second hole formed so as to communicate with the first hole when the housing-side positioning part is fitted to the display-side positioning part.
US11924984B2 Display device
A display including a screen, a bracket, a hanging element and a fixing element is provided. The support is connected to the screen and has a top end and a bottom end. The hanging element is disposed on the top end. The fixing element is disposed at the bottom end. When the hanging element is hung on an upper edge of a plate, the fixing element is fixed on a surface of the plate.
US11924979B2 Resin composition, laminate, semiconductor wafer with resin composition layer, substrate for mounting semiconductor with resin composition layer and semiconductor device
A resin composition that has both excellent flux activity and high insulation reliability, that possesses good storage stability, and that further has flexibility with good operability upon being used as a laminate is provided. The resin composition contains a chelating flux agent (A), a thermal radical polymerization initiator (B) and a radical polymerizable compound (C).
US11924976B2 Work machine
A work machine comprising a work head configured to hold an electrical component having multiple lead terminals; a moving device configured to move the work head in the up-down direction; an imaging device configured to image the electrical component held with work head while being illuminated from the side; and a control device configured to control the operation of the work head and the moving device; wherein the control device calculates the inclination of an electrical component held by the work head based on imaging data of lead terminals of the electrical component imaged by the imaging device while the work head is moved in the up-down direction by the moving device, so that the mounting work of the electrical component is performed by taking the calculated inclination into account.
US11924971B2 Printed circuit board arrangement, inverter, and motor vehicle
The disclosure relates to a printed circuit board arrangement with a printed circuit board with at least two current conducting layers. The current conducting layers extend in an axial direction of the printed circuit board and are arranged in succession in a thickness direction of the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board arrangement has a busbar which is arranged on a lateral surface of the printed circuit board and is in contact with at least one part of the current conducting layers of the printed circuit board.
US11924970B2 Cable assembly for a cable connector module
A cable assembly includes a cable having an insulator holding a first signal conductor and a second signal conductor and a cable shield surrounding the insulator. Exposed portions of the signal conductors extend forward of an end of the insulator for termination to a circuit card. The cable assembly includes a ground clip coupled to the end of the cable. The ground clip includes a bottom ground rake below the cable and a top ground hood above the cable. The bottom ground rake includes a window that receives the exposed portions of the first and second signal conductors therethrough. The bottom ground rake includes a lower grounding tab electrically connected to a lower portion of the cable shield and the top ground hood includes an upper grounding tab electrically connected to an upper portion of the cable shield. The bottom ground rake is coupled to the circuit card to support the cable relative to the circuit card.
US11924967B2 Substrate, electronic circuit, antenna apparatus, electronic apparatus, and method for producing a substrate
According to one embodiment, a substrate includes a first dielectric substrate with a first through-hole, a second dielectric substrate with a first conductive via, a first signal line provided between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate, a third dielectric substrate with a second conductive via, a first planar conductor provided between the second and third dielectric substrates and located away from the first and second conductive vias, a fourth dielectric substrate, and a second signal line provided between the third and fourth dielectric substrates. At least a part of a first inner wall of the first through-hole is not covered with a conductor. The first through-hole and the first conductive via partially overlap in a first direction. The first and second conductive vias partially overlap in the first direction. The second conductive via and the second signal line partially overlap in the first direction.
US11924966B1 Reconfigurable circuit devices
Loss reduction methods are described. A first transmission loss associated with signal transmission through a trace in a first circuit board design is determined. The trace is routed from an integrated circuit disposed on a circuit board to a circuit element disposed on the circuit board. It is determined that the first transmission loss is greater than a threshold transmission loss. The first circuit board design is altered to obtain a second circuit board design. In the second circuit board design, the trace is routed from the integrated circuit to a connector disposed on the circuit board, and the connector is electrically coupled to the circuit element by a cable. A second transmission loss associated with signal transmission between the integrated circuit and the circuit element in the second circuit board design is less than the threshold transmission loss.
US11924964B2 Printed circuit board for galvanic effect reduction
Devices and methods are described for reducing etching due to Galvanic Effect within a printed circuit board (PCB) that may be used in an electronic device. Specifically, a contact trace is coupled to a contact finger that has a substantially larger surface area than the contact trace. The contact finger is configured to couple the electronic device to a host device. The contact trace is electrically isolated from the rest of the PCB circuitry during a fabrication process by a separation distance between an exposed portion of the contact trace and an impedance trace. The contact finger and the exposed portion of the contact trace are plated with a common material to reduce galvanic etching of the contact trace during fabrication. The contact trace is then connected to the impedance trace using a solder joint.
US11924958B2 Flexible printed circuit copper overlay for temperature management
A hard disk drive flexible printed circuit (FPC) includes a plurality of fingers extending from a main portion, with each finger having a first wiring layer including a first electrically conductive trace layout, a second wiring layer including a second electrically conductive trace layout, and a base film interposed between the first and second wiring layers, where the first conductive trace layout includes at least one thermally conductive protective island overlaying a respective portion of the second trace layout to provide a protective thermal barrier to the base film. Hence, maximum temperatures across various layers of the FPC laminate can be reduced, damage to the FPC prevented, and manufacturing yields improved.
US11924956B2 Systems and methods for Thomson scattering background interference suppression
An apparatus for measurement of Thomson scattering signals from a plasma includes a light emitting device, configured to emit a light beam into the plasma, along an axis. In addition, the apparatus includes a collector configured to collect the Thomson scattering from the plasma at an angle less than 90 degrees from the axis of the light beam. Further, the apparatus includes a sensor assembly to detect the Thomson scattering.
US11924955B2 Extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus and electronic device manufacturing method
An extreme ultraviolet light generation apparatus includes a target supply unit configured to output a droplet target into a chamber device, a prepulse laser light irradiation system configured to irradiate the droplet target with prepulse laser light having linear polarization to generate a diffusion target, and a main pulse laser light irradiation system configured to irradiate the diffusion target with main pulse laser light to generate extreme ultraviolet light. Here, a cross section perpendicular to an optical axis of the main pulse laser light when being radiated to the diffusion target having a shape longer in a polarization direction of the prepulse laser light when being radiated to the droplet target than in directions other than the polarization direction.
US11924952B2 Microwave assisted parallel plate e-field applicator
A system and method for annealing a target substrate such as a semiconductor using industrial microwave heating and parallel plate reaction. Using a uniform microwave field, with the target substrate located between parallel plates controls application of eddy currents to the target substrate. The system may include a uniform microwave field generator, support elements, two plates held in parallel to each other, and a turntable device configured to rotate the two plates and the target substrate within the uniform microwave field. The rotating of the plates and target substrate in the uniform microwave field creates a periodic change in polarity of the microwaves applied to the target substrate. The eddy currents in the uniform microwave field react by flowing perpendicular to the plates, and not parallel to the surface as in traditional microwave reactions of metals. This redirection of the eddy currents provides even heating of the target substrate.
US11924948B2 Control module for a driver for an electrical load
A lighting control system for controlling a cumulative light emitted by a lighting fixture may comprise a light-emitting diode (LED) driver comprising an output for conducting an output current, and a control module electrically coupled to the output of the LED driver for receiving the output current. The LED driver may regulate the magnitude of the output current towards a target current, and may be characterized by a low-end intensity. The control module may be coupled to a first LED light source of the LED light sources. The control module may receive a command including a requested intensity and control the magnitude of a first LED current through the first LED light source. The control module may control the cumulative light output of the lighting fixture below the low-end intensity of the LED driver by diverting a portion of the output current away from the first LED light source.
US11924946B1 Occupancy sensing system with verbal notification
An occupancy sensing system and/or an occupancy sensor including a transmitter arranged and configured to provide a verbal (i.e., audio) notification before changing a state of a load such as, for example, turning OFF a load (e.g., lights, etc.) coupled thereto. In some embodiments, at a predetermined period of time prior to changing the state of the load, the occupancy sensor emits a verbal notification to elicit feedback from any occupant who may be present in the monitored space. In response, the occupant may respond with a verbal confirmation and/or by moving. In some embodiments, the transmitter may be a speaker for transmitting a verbal notification. Alternatively, the transmitter may be a wireless transmitter for communicating with a remote device for relaying the verbal notification.
US11924941B2 Light emission control system, light emission system, light emission control device, and light emission device
In a first light emission control device, a clock signal is generated, and after a first driving sequence starts to be performed in which the respective states of light-emitting elements in a first light-emitting element array are sequentially switched synchronously with the clock signal, at a particular time point a characteristic of the clock signal is changed from a first characteristic to a second characteristic. After the change, in a second light emission control device, a second driving sequence is performed in which the respective states of light-emitting elements in a second light-emitting element array are sequentially switched synchronously with the clock signal.
US11924933B2 Light driver with improved dimming profile
A light driver includes a pulse generator circuit configured to generate a pulsed signal based on a rectified input line voltage, a dimming detection circuit configured to determine whether phase-cut dimming is present at an input of the light driver based on the pulsed signal and to generate a phase-cut detection signal, and an input selection circuit configured to apply a first voltage or a second voltage to a reference input of a power factor correction (PFC) circuit of the light driver based on the phase-cut detection signal.
US11924932B2 Load control device having a controllable filter circuit
A load control device may be configured to control an electrical load, such as a lighting load. The load control device may include a first terminal adapted to be coupled to an alternating-current (AC) power source, and a second terminal adapted to be coupled to the electrical load. The load control device may include a bidirectional semiconductor switch, a filter circuit, and a control circuit. The bidirectional semiconductor switch may be coupled in series between the first terminal and the second terminal, and be configured to provide a phase-control voltage to the electrical load. The filter circuit may be coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal. The control circuit may be configured to render the bidirectional semiconductor switch conductive and non-conductive to control an amount of power delivered to the electrical load, and be configured to adjust the impedance and/or filtering characteristics of the filter circuit.
US11924929B2 Ceramic heater and thermocouple guide
A ceramic heater includes a ceramic plate having a wafer placement surface, a tubular shaft having one end that is bonded to a rear surface of the ceramic plate on an opposite side to the wafer placement surface, a within-shaft region of the rear surface of the ceramic plate, an elongate hole extending from a start point in an outer peripheral portion of the within-shaft region to a terminal end position in the outer peripheral portion of the ceramic plate, and a thermocouple guide that guides a tip end of an outer-peripheral-side thermocouple to come into the start point of the elongate hole. A portion of the thermocouple guide, the portion extending from the other end (lower end) of the tubular shaft to the start point of the elongate hole, is formed in a shape following an inner wall of the tubular shaft.
US11924928B2 Cartridge and e-vaping device
A cartridge of an e-vaping device includes a housing extending in a longitudinal direction, a reservoir in the housing, a heater in the housing, and an absorbent material at least partially surrounding the sinusoidal shaped member. The reservoir is configured to store a pre-vapor formulation. The heater has a sinusoidal shaped member translating about an elliptical shape to define a channel there through. The absorbent material is in fluid communication with the reservoir.
US11924927B2 UU interface enhancement for NR V2X
A method and apparatus for performing sidelink communications in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) using Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) technologies is described herein. A WTRU receives downlink control information (DCI) on a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a gNodeB (gNB), wherein the DCI is associated with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The a determination is made as to whether the DCI is for an LTE or NR technology sidelink transmission. On a condition that the DCI is for NR technology, the WTRU determines which transmit modulation and coding scheme (MCS) table to apply based on the masking of at least some of the bits in the CRC. Then the WTRU transmits sidelink data on resources indicated by the DCI using the determined MCS table. The WTRU may also receive HARQ feedback on resources indicated by the DCI for HARQ feedback.
US11924925B2 5G enhanced HetNet gateway
A 5G enhanced HetNet Gateway (HNG) is presented. In one embodiment the 5G HNG includes at least one non-5G virtual network function (VNF); a 5G Core (5GC) option selection VNF; a 5GC default VNF; a 5G local breakout VNF; at least one interface for any G base station; and at least one interface for any core network. Core functionality is abstracted for the EPC and for the 5GC.
US11924923B2 WLAN sensing using high-efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) PPDUs (HE TB PPDUs)
An access point (AP) configured for wireless local area network (WLAN) sensing is configured to encode a trigger frame (TF) for transmission. The trigger frame allocates resource units (RUs) for receiving high-efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) physical-layer protocol data units (PPDUs) (HE TB PPDUs) from a plurality of client devices (non-AP STAs). The trigger frame may solicit each of the client devices to transmit an HE TB PPDU in accordance with an UL OFDMA technique or an UL MU-MIMO technique. The AP may decode the HE TB PPDUs received from the client devices and may estimate channel state information (CSI) for a radio link associated with each of the client devices based on an HE-LTF of an associated one of the HE-TB PPDUs received from one of the client devices. In accordance with these embodiments, the AP may process changes in the CSI of the radio links over time for a WLAN sensing application.
US11924920B2 Obtaining 5G or next generation network dual connectivity mobile device communication-related operating information
The described technology is generally directed towards obtaining communication-related operating information of a user equipment, such as via a terminal adapter to a terminal equipment. Communication-related operating information can include component carrier information, frequency band information, MIMO layer information, modulation information, and active user plane (uplink and downlink) information. In one aspect, a terminal equipment can send a communication command (e.g., an AT command) to a terminal adapter requesting return of frequency-related operating information and/or active user plane information, and receive the requested information from the terminal adapter. The terminal equipment provides access to the received information to a program running on the terminal equipment.
US11924918B2 Enhancements to shared data
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for enhancing shared data in a communications system are provided. One method may include receiving or retrieving, at a service consumer, shared data from a service producer. The shared data may include at least one treatment attribute configured to indicate a treatment of at least one attribute in the shared data with respect to at least one attribute in individual subscriber data. The method may also include applying a value provided in the at least one shared data attribute or a value provided in the at least one individual subscriber data attribute based on the at least one treatment attribute.
US11924917B2 Systems and methods of automatically pre-provisioning embedded subscriber identification module (ESIM) profiles on an information handling system
A method of provisioning an embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) profile on an information handling system may include, with an embedded controller (EC), detecting a powering up process at the information handling system; with the execution of the EC, establishing an out-of-band (OOB) connection with a subscription manager-discovery server (SM-DS) to communicate an electronic identification confirming that the information handling system has an authentic subscription to services provided by a wireless wide area network (WWAN) carrier, the OOB connection being established at a level below an operating system (OS) of the information handling system; receiving a WWAN carrier eSIM profile over the OOB connection including an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI); installing the eSIM carrier profile with an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC); and initiating a subscription confirmation with a WWAN carrier.
US11924914B2 Network slice control method and apparatus, and computer readable storage medium
A method and apparatus for controlling a network slice, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: binding a network slice established in a bearer network on a basis of a quality of service (QoS) requirement to a user network interface or a virtual sub-interface of the bearer network, where a plurality of network slices with different QoS are bound to different user network interfaces or virtual sub-interfaces, and when a first network slice of the bearer network and a network slice group of a non-bearer network are bound to a same user network interface or a same virtual sub-interface, QoS of the first network slice is same as QoS of the network slice group.
US11924908B1 User equipment network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip reader applications and devices
User equipment (UE) network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip (AEPH) reader applications and devices is provided. In some embodiments, radio link state management services are provided that may be engaged by a UE that can wirelessly communicate both with a wireless telecommunications network, and an AEPH chip. Embodiments may include a method that determines when an AEPH chip communication event is pending, suspends a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending, performs the AEPH chip communication event; and releases suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link.
US11924907B2 Method for discontinuous transmission and terminal device
Discontinuous transmission method and device Disclosed are a discontinuous transmission method and device, capable of improving the discontinuous transmission performance of a terminal device and further reducing the power consumption of the terminal device. The method comprises: the terminal device determines at least one DRX configuration in multiple DRX configurations; and the terminal device detects a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) according to the at least one DRX configuration.
US11924906B2 Aligning DRX cycles using system level configuration
In a particular implementation, a method of wireless communication includes transmitting, from a first user equipment (UE) to a second UE, a radio resource control (RRC) request that includes a first discontinuous reception (DRX) preference at the first UE. The method also includes receiving, at the first UE from the second UE, a RRC setup message that includes a second DRX preference at the second UE. The method further includes transmitting, from the first UE to the second UE, a RRC setup complete message that includes an indication of a confirmed DRX cycle.
US11924905B2 Method and apparatus for implementing radio resource control of multi-connectivity
A method and apparatus may include receiving, by a user equipment from a first access point which supports a first radio access technology, a radio-resource-control (RRC) reconfiguration message including an RRC configuration information of a second access point, after an initiation of a slave RRC at the second access point has been determined. The second access point supports a second radio access technology, and performing, by the user equipment, a random access procedure with the second access point based on the RRC reconfiguration message. The user equipment is configured to have an RRC connection with the first access point and the first access point is a master node.
US11924904B2 Configuration protocol (DHCP) optimization for Wi-Fi connectivity in a network of moving things, for example, autonomous vehicles
Systems and methods are provided for using dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) optimization for supporting Wi-Fi connectivity in a network of moving things. Wi-Fi connectivity of a mobile access point (MAP) configured for deployment within a vehicle may be managed, with the managing including applying, in one or both of the mobile access point (MAP) and a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server, one or more timing measures for shortening an amount of time needed to obtain a DHCP lease associated with at least one of a plurality of Wi-Fi access points in the network, and one or more optimization measures for optimizing at least one parameter used by the mobile access point (MAP) to secure DHCP lease for connecting to a particular Wi-Fi access point from the plurality of Wi-Fi access points.
US11924902B2 Directional sidelink (SL) beam failure detection
A method of wireless communication, by a first sidelink user equipment (UE), includes periodically receiving a set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals (RSs) from a second sidelink UE. The method includes incrementing a beam failure detection (BFD) counter in response to one or more reference signals of the set of sidelink beam failure detection RSs having a received signal strength below a threshold. The first sidelink UE starts a beam failure detection timer in response to the reference signal(s) of the set of sidelink beam failure detection reference signals having the received signal strength below the threshold. Another method by a sidelink UE may periodically transmit a set of sidelink BFD RSs to another sidelink UE. The set of sidelink BFD RSs comprise one or more sidelink receive RSs. The sidelink UE configures the other sidelink UE with the sidelink receive BFD RSs.
US11924895B2 Techniques for new radio layer two relay
Techniques for new radio layer two relay are disclosed. In an example, a base station may configure a user equipment (UE) and a relay UE having individual direct communication links with the base station to configure a sidelink communication link between the UE and the relay UE. The sidelink communication link may allow the UE to communicate with the base station via the direct communication link between the base station and the UE and the sidelink communication link between the UE and the relay UE.
US11924892B2 Enhanced RACH (random access channel) design for 5G CIOT (cellular internet of things)
Techniques for random access (RA) in a cellular internet-of-things (CIOT) are discussed. An example apparatus configured to be employed within a User Equipment (UE), comprises a receiver circuitry, a processor, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive RA resource allocation information via one of a system information message or a downlink control information (DCI) message. The processor is operably coupled to the receiver circuitry and configured to: select a RA preamble sequence; generate a payload; and spread the payload via a spreading sequence. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit, based on the RA resource allocation information, a RA message comprising the RA preamble sequence and the payload, wherein the RA message is transmitted in a RA slot. The receiver circuitry is further configured to receive a response comprising a device identity of the UE and one of an uplink (UL) grant or a RA reject message.
US11924891B2 Method of performing random access (RA) procedure, and transmitting device, apparatus and storage medium therefor, and method and apparatus for transmitting MAC PDU of RA procedure
In the present disclosure, a UE transmits a random access preamble (RAP) on a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a common control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU) on a physical uplink channel (PUSCH). The UE receives a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on transmitting the RAP and the CCCH SDU. The MAC PDU may include a MAC PDU associated with a contention resolution identity (CRID) in the MAC PDU. The UE determines whether a MAC SDU is present or not in the MAC PDU, based on the MAC SDU indicator associated with a CRID in the MAC PDU in a state in which the CRID matches the CCCH SDU.
US11924890B2 Enabling management of random access attempts in a wireless communication system
There is provided a method, performed by a network unit, for enabling management of random access attempts in a wireless communication system by a plurality of devices having wireless communication capabilities. The method comprises obtaining (S1) information representing the load of random access attempts, and determining (S2), based on the information representing the load of random access attempts, control information for controlling a distribution of the random access attempts over time.
US11924884B2 Preamble and physical uplink shared channel resource ordering and scrambling identifier generation for two-step random access channel procedure
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a random access channel (RACH) occasion (RO) configuration that includes information related to ordered preamble resources. The UE may generate a preamble resource index according to various parameters selected based on the RO configuration information that relates to the ordered preamble resources. The UE may generate an uplink RACH message that includes a preamble based at least in part on the preamble resource index and a payload associated with a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource unit (PRU) mapped to the preamble resource index. After decoding the uplink RACH message, the base station may send a response message including scrambled downlink control information (e.g., based on a scrambling identifier or payload information associated with the uplink RACH message). Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924882B2 Method and apparatus for providing non-scheduled network access
A terminal device selects are source indicator to be used for non-scheduled access and transmits it to an access device of the network in the non-scheduled access. If it determines based on a response to the non-scheduled access, that it has selected the same resource indicator as another terminal device, it keeps the resource indicator but selects different physical random access channel occasions by setting a time offset for a retransmission with the selected resource indicator. An initial waiting time may be determined by the access device (e.g. based on a traffic amount on the access channel) and transmitted to the terminal device for setting the time offset. Also, a layer (2) error caused by a random access channel resource collision of terminal devices may be determined at the access device and a feedback indicating a non-acknowledgement for layer (2) may be transmitted to colliding terminal devices.
US11924881B2 Supplementary uplink for random access procedures
Wireless communications for selecting an uplink carrier for a random access procedure are described. A base station may configure a wireless device with one or more uplink carriers associated with a downlink carrier of a cell. The one or more uplink carriers may comprise at least a normal uplink (NUL) carrier and a supplemental uplink (SUL) carrier. The wireless device may measure one or more downlink reference signals and channel occupancy level(s) of an NUL and/or an SUL. The wireless device may select one of an NUL or an SUL for a random access procedure, for example, based on a signal strength of the one or more downlink reference signals and/or the channel occupancy level(s).
US11924874B2 Enhanced channel occupancy sharing mechanism for random access and PUCCH in unlicensed spectrum
A method performed by a wireless device (110) includes, for a first transmission of a procedure, selecting a first channel sensing procedure for determining availability of a channel in the unlicensed spectrum. Based on the first channel sensing procedure, it is determined that the channel in the unlicensed spectrum is available. In response to determining that the channel in the unlicensed spectrum is available, a maximum channel occupancy time, MCOT, duration associated with the first channel sensing procedure is determined. The MCOT duration is an amount of time in which the wireless device and a network node are allowed to transmit on the channel in the unlicensed spectrum for the procedure. The wireless device transmits the first transmission during the MCOT duration and receives a second transmission from a network node (160). The second transmission includes a first listen-before-talk, LBT, scheme for a third transmission associated with the procedure.
US11924872B2 Prioritization in aeronautical satellite networks
Systems and methods implementing prioritization of network resources in an aeronautical satellite network system, which determines network utilization of a beam of the aeronautical satellite system by a plurality of aircraft using network capacity of the beam, where network demand in the beam indicated by the network utilization is greater than capacity of the beam, share network bandwidth of the beam to the plurality of aircraft based on a service priority factor, where the service priority factor may depend on altitude of the plurality of aircraft in the beam.
US11924868B2 Method and apparatus for performing carrier (re)selection in NR V2X
Provided are a method for performing sidelink communication by a first apparatus (100) and an apparatus supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: performing channel busy ratio (CBR) measurement on at least one bandwidth part (BWP) associated with a first sidelink service, among a plurality of BWPs included in a first carrier; and determining a CBR value of the first carrier, on the basis of the measured CBR value of at least one BWP associated with the first sidelink service.
US11924864B2 Network coded sidelink communication using reserved resources for retransmission
A sidelink device can perform a network coded sidelink transmission without increasing resource overhead by using resources originally reserved for retransmission of a packet. The sidelink device can reuse the reserved resources when retransmission is not needed based on feedback of the initial sidelink transmission. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission of sidelink data received from other sidelink devices. In one aspect, the sidelink device can use the reserved retransmission resources to transmit a network coded transmission including a retransmission of the sidelink device's own sidelink data and sidelink data from other devices.
US11924862B2 SSB, coreset, SIB signal block for initial access information
A base station may transmit, to a UE, at least one of the SS, the PBCH, the CORESET, or the SIB, via the plurality of resources based on the indication of the at least one initial access structure. In some aspects, the SS may be time-division multiplexed with the PBCH and may be frequency-division multiplexed with the CORESET and the SIB. In one aspect, the CORESET may be time-division multiplexed with the SIB. In another aspect, the CORESET may be frequency-division multiplexed with the SIB. In some aspects, at least one switching gap may be configured after the at least one initial access structure, the at least one switching gap being configured based on an SCS.
US11924860B2 Systems and methods for offloading computing tasks from vehicles using characteristics
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to selecting servers and allocating resources concurrently for offloading computing tasks from vehicles. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring characteristics of a vehicle and a server for an offloading request, wherein the offloading request is associated with a computing task of the vehicle. The method also includes, upon satisfying criteria for optimization associated with executing the computing task remotely, determining server selection and resource allocation by processing the characteristics using modeling. The method also includes communicating the server selection and the resource allocation to the vehicle.
US11924859B2 BWP configurations for UEs having different capabilities
A user equipment (UE) having a first capability associated with a lower maximum UE bandwidth than a second capability receives information for initial access using a first initial downlink bandwidth part (BWP) that is shared among UEs having the first capability and UEs having the second capability. The UE transmits a random access message in an initial uplink BWP that is dedicated for the UEs having the first capability.
US11924858B2 Performing inter-band carrier aggregation based on device capability
Performing inter-band carrier aggregation based on device capability includes monitoring a dominant type of wireless devices in a wireless sector based on whether or not they are capable of inter-band carrier aggregation, and enabling or disabling inter-band carrier aggregation in the sector based on the dominant type. Enabling/disabling inter-band carrier aggregation can include allowing or preventing usage of usage of a low-frequency carrier as a primary component carrier aggregated with a high-frequency carrier as a secondary component carrier. Carriers using FDD and TDD duplexing modes are included.
US11924855B2 Sidelink dormancy
To facilitate SL dormancy, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided. An example method of a UE includes monitoring for SCI in a first CC and refraining from monitoring for the SCI in a second CC, the first CC corresponding to a non-dormant CC, the second CC corresponding to a dormant CC. The method further includes receiving, from a second UE, the SCI in the first CC. The method further includes receiving, from the second UE, a PSSCH in the first CC or the second CC.
US11924853B2 Method and apparatus for interruption handling for vehicle to everything communication
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus for interruption handling for V2X communication are provided.
US11924852B2 Resource configuration for EPDCCH
A system and method for providing both localized and distributed transmission modes for EPDCCH is disclosed, where one EPDCCH comprises of one or multiple CCEs. Localized versus distributed transmission may be defined in terms of the EPDCCH to CCE resource mapping. In a localized transmission CCEs are restricted to be contained within one PRB. In a distributed transmission a CCE spans over multiple PRBs. A UE can be configured to either receive the EPDCCH only in localized or only in distributed transmissions. A UE can also be configured to expect EPDCCH transmissions in both localized and distributed transmissions. In each PRB configured by the higher layer as an EPDCCH resource, 24 REs that may be used for any DMRS transmission are always reserved and not used for EPDCCH transmission.
US11924849B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting control and data information in wireless cellular communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for joining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G system, and a system thereof. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, a health care, a digital education, retailing, security and safe-related service, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and to a method and an apparatus for smoothly providing a service in a communication system. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink and uplink control information within a communication system.
US11924846B2 HARQ process identification and soft buffer management for non-terrestrial networks
A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process method for nonterrestrial networks. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a first downlink control information (DCI), the first DCI including a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identifier (ID); calculating a first HARQ process number based on the first HARQ process ID and on a slot number associated with the first DCI; and processing a first data block via a HARQ process associated with the first HARQ process number.
US11924845B2 Satellite uplink management system
A satellite provides communication between user terminals (UTs) and ground stations that connect to other networks, such as the Internet. Because the satellite is within range of many UTs at any given time, many UTs are in contention to use an uplink to send upstream data to the satellite. This saturates a random-access channel (RACH) on the uplink. When a UT has data to uplink, it sends a short buffer data status (SBDS) message using the RACH. The minimal size of the SBDS facilitates use of a non-orthogonal multiple access uplink. Based on the SBDS, the satellite allocates a grant to the UT to use the uplink. Additional messages from the UT involving buffer status may be sent using the granted uplink. Unsolicited grants may be issued to the UT based on analysis of uplink and downlink traffic. If needed, the RACH may still be used to request additional grants.
US11924833B2 Transmission feedback method and user equipment
The present disclosure provides a transmission feedback method and a UE. The transmission feedback method includes: transmitting a time-frequency transmission resource for transmitting feedback information for unicasting or multicasting transmission to at least one target UE which has established a connection with a source UE; acquiring the feedback information transmitted on the time-frequency transmission resource from the target UE; and determining a unicasting or multicasting transmission state in accordance with the feedback information.
US11924831B2 User equipment (UE) for performing flexible scheduling for inter-terminal direct communication
A user equipment includes a control unit that controls transmission or reception of a sidelink signal in which a first resource and a second resource are multiplexed in a same slot, wherein at least one of SLSS (Sidelink synchronization signal) or PSBCH (Physical Sidelink Broadcast Channel) is allocated in the first resource, and at least one of PSCCH (Physical Sidelink Control Channel), PSSCH (Physical Sidelink Shared Channel), and PSDCH (Physical Sidelink Discovery Channel) is allocated in the second resource; a reception unit that monitors the first resource, the second resource, or the first resource and the second resource; and a transmission unit that performs transmission using any one of the first resource, the second resource, and the first resource and the second resource.
US11924829B2 Signal reception apparatus and method and communications system
A signal reception apparatus and method and a communications system. As the starting position of the time domain resource section used for receiving signals is determined according to the predefined or preconfigured reference time domain resource section, time domain resources on which receiving beams determined by the network device and the terminal equipment are based are uniform, thereby avoiding mismatch of the network device and the terminal equipment in receiving and transmitting beams and ensuring transmission reliability of the system.
US11924828B2 Adaptive demodulation reference signal density for physical downlink control channel
A user equipment may receive a configuration that indicates a density of demodulation reference signal (DMRS) resource elements and a set of locations of the DMRS resource elements in one or more resource element groups associated with a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); receive an indication of a change to at least one of the density of the DMRS resource elements or the set of locations of the DMRS resource elements, resulting in at least one of a modified density of the DMRS resource elements or a modified set of locations of the DMRS resource elements; and monitor for downlink control information in a search space associated with the PDCCH based at least in part on the at least one of the modified density of the DMRS resource elements or the modified set of locations of the DMRS resource elements.
US11924827B2 UE processing time for PDSCH repetition in the same slot
In some implementations, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE) from a base station, a downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). The PDSCH includes a first transmission occasion and a second transmission occasion following the first transmission occasion during a single slot. The method further includes determining, at the UE, an overall processing time following a last symbol of the PDSCH.
US11924823B2 Multi-link device association and reassociation
One example discloses a first-device: wherein the first-device is configured to be coupled to a second-device over an IEEE 802.11 communications link; and wherein the first-device is configured to, store a current setup between the first-device and the second-device; identify a unique identifier of the second-device; transmit a request frame to a third-device; wherein at least one of the second-device and third-device is a multi-link-device (MLD); wherein the request frame is configured to request an association with the third-device and includes the unique identifier of the second-device; receive a response frame from the third-device; and wherein the response frame includes an indication that request was successful.
US11924822B2 Concurrent use of multiple protocols on a single radio
A method for concurrent execution of multiple protocols using a single radio of a wireless communication device is provided that includes receiving, in a radio command scheduler, a first radio command from a first protocol stack of a plurality of protocol states executing on the wireless communication device, determining a scheduling policy for the first radio command based on a current state of each protocol stack of the plurality of protocol stacks, and scheduling the first radio command in a radio command queue for the radio based on the scheduling policy, wherein the radio command scheduler uses the radio command queue to schedule radio commands received from the plurality of protocol stacks.
US11924820B2 Frequency-based communication system and method
A communication system includes multiple nodes of a time-sensitive network and a scheduler device. At least one of the nodes is configured to obtain a first signal that is represented in a frequency domain by multiple frequency components. The scheduler device generates a schedule for transmission of signals including the first signal within the time-sensitive network. The schedule defines multiple slots assigned to different discrete frequency sub-bands within a frequency band. The slots have designated transmission intervals. The nodes are configured to transmit the first signal through the time-sensitive network to a listening device such that the first signal is received at the listening device within a designated time window according to the schedule. At least some of the frequency components of the first signal are transmitted through the time-sensitive network within different slots of the schedule based on the frequency sub-bands assigned to the slots.
US11924819B2 Power limits based on signal type for managing maximum permissible exposure
Methods and systems for determining transmission power levels according to signal types and RF exposure limits. An example method generally includes determining a first transmission power for transmitting a first type of uplink (UL) signal, determining a second transmission power for transmitting a second type of UL signal based on the first transmission power, and transmitting at least one of the first UL signal according to the first transmission power or the second UL signal according to the second transmission power.
US11924815B2 Bandwidth recourse switching method, terminal, and network device for indicating bandwidth resource switching
A bandwidth resource switching method and apparatus are provided. When a network device sends bandwidth resource indication information to a terminal by using downlink control information, the network device may impose some constraints on uplink transmission mode-related configuration information or SRS-related configuration information on an indicated bandwidth resource, and other indication information carried in the downlink control information, so that no ambiguity occurs when the terminal parses the bandwidth resource indication information. Alternatively, when a side of a terminal receives bandwidth resource indication information sent by a network device by using downlink control information, the terminal parses, in an unambiguous interpretation manner, configuration information on a bandwidth resource indicated by the bandwidth resource indication information in the downlink control information. According to the application, a BWP is smoothly switched to perform uplink transmission, uplink transmission efficiency can be improved, and system robustness can be improved.
US11924813B2 Coverage for time division duplex systems
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal including a system information block (SIB) with a first time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) configuration. Also, the WTRU may receive a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal including downlink control information (DCI). In addition, the DCI may indicate an uplink grant. Further, the WTRU may transmit a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission based on the uplink grant. Also, the WTRU may transmit at least one PUSCH repetition transmission based on the uplink grant. The at least one PUSCH repetition transmission may be transmitted in at least one time interval that is non-overlapping with a downlink time interval indicated by the first TDD UL/DL configuration. In an example, the SIB may be a SIB Type 1 (SIB-1) or a SIB Type 2 (SIB-2).
US11924810B2 Narrowband management for machine type communications
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications, and more specifically to managing narrowband regions of system bandwidths for devices with limited communications resources, such as machine type communication(s) (MTC) devices and enhanced MTC (eMTC) devices. An example method generally includes determining a set of downlink (DL) narrowband regions partitioned from a DL system bandwidth, determining a set of uplink (UL) narrowband regions partitioned from an UL system bandwidth, determining a mapping between the set of DL narrowband regions and the set of UL narrowband regions, and communicating with at least a base station (BS) using at least one of the mapped narrowband regions.
US11924809B2 Uplink transmission for scheduling resources using buffer status report
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for wireless communication in a User Equipment and a base station. In one embodiment, a first node receives a first signal set in a first radio resource pool by blind detection, and recovers a first bit block on a physical layer according to the first signal set; delivers first buffer information from the physical layer to a higher layer; when fulling a first condition set, triggers first information to the higher layer; after triggering of the first information on the higher layer, transmits a first radio signal, the first radio signal comprising the first information; herein, the first information is used to indicate data size contained in buffer that can be transmitted, the first condition set comprises a first condition. The present disclosure improves transmission efficiency and spectrum utilization, and effectively prevents buffer overflow.
US11924807B2 Paging notification management in a wireless network
A wireless network environment includes user equipment. A communication management resource in the user equipment establishes a wireless communication link between the user equipment and a first wireless station. The first wireless station provides the user equipment access to a remote network. Based on operating conditions of the user equipment, the communication management resource initiates execution of a paging notification retrieval function on the user equipment to retrieve paging notifications. Via the executed function (such as an application executed on the user equipment), and one or more request messages for paging notifications, the communication management resource communicates with a remote entity to retrieve the paging notifications.
US11924804B2 User equipment positioning estimate for specified time
In an embodiment, a wireless node (e.g., UE or BS) receives from a network component (e.g., BS or core network component) a request for a positioning estimate of a UE associated with a specified time. The wireless node performs positioning measurements at a plurality of times, and determines (e.g., via interpolation or extrapolation) the positioning estimate associated with the specified time based on the positioning measurements. The wireless node transmits, to the network component, a report comprising the determined positioning estimate.
US11924800B2 Positioning system, mobile terminal, and program
In a positioning system configured to perform positioning using N mobile terminals, where N is an integer of two or greater, each of the mobile terminals includes a positioning device, a communication device configured to exchange information with another mobile terminal using wireless communication, and a battery configured to supply power to the positioning device and the communication device. Each of first mobile terminals that are some of the mobile terminals activates the positioning device to perform positioning of a first current position, and a second mobile terminal other than the first mobile terminals reduces at least power to be used by the positioning device, and uses information of the first current position positioned by the first mobile terminal, and the information exchanged with the first mobile terminal by the communication device to perform positioning of a second current position.
US11924798B2 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for expediting an emergency services initiation
A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide enhanced emergency services fallback procedures. The user equipment may indicate the emergency services fallback within the registration request message to a network entity, such as the access and mobility management function. Upon receiving the registration request message the emergency services fallback procedure is triggered. The user equipment receives an indication, such as via an access stratum layer and the received indication is considered, such as by the non-access stratum layer in the user equipment, as the registration response message. The user equipment is configured to respond differently upon receiving differently configured registration response rejection messages or upon expiration of a response timer.
US11924789B2 Method and apparatus for broadcast channel configuration and broadcast channel transmission and reception for communication system
A method, apparatus, and system for transmitting and receiving a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) are provided. A base station may perform a first scrambling process on PBCHs in a time period before a channel coding, and perform a second scrambling process after the channel coding. PHCH payloads and PBCH DMRS may provide information bits to be used in the scrambling processes. A wireless user device may receive one or more PBCHs transmitted from the base station.
US11924788B2 Physical channel and method for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless communication system, and apparatus using the same
A base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. Each base station in the wireless communication comprises: a communication module; and a processor. When the processor attempts to transmit a synchronization signal and PBCH block (SSB) at a SSB transmission candidate position in a discovery reference signal (DRS) transmission window, and fails to transmit an SSB at a first SSB transmission candidate location in a first DRS transmission window, the processor is configured to attempt to transmit the SSB at a second SSB transmission candidate position that is later than the first SSB transmission candidate position in the first DRS transmission window. The DRS transmission window is a time interval in which the base station can transmit the SSB. The SSB transmission candidate position indicates a time point at which the base station can start SSB transmission within the DRS transmission window.
US11924787B2 Electronic device for performing beamforming-based communication, and method therefor
An electronic device includes a housing, at least one antenna array disposed in the housing or formed on a part of the housing and including a plurality of antenna elements, a processor electrically or operatively connected to the antenna array, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. In addition to the above, various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
US11924783B2 Apparatuses and methods for controlling exposure to wireless communication
A signal processing apparatus for controlling exposure to wireless communication includes processing circuitry configured to control transmission through a first antenna module based on a reflection coefficient of a second antenna module, the first antenna module configured for wireless communication in a first frequency band, the second antenna module configured for wireless communication in a second frequency band, the second frequency band being a lower frequency band than the first frequency band.
US11924782B2 Power value for uplink transmission when adding base station distributed unit
A first base station distributed unit (BS-DU) receives, from a base station central unit (BS-CU), a first power value for uplink transmission of a wireless device to the first BS-DU. The first BS-DU receives, from the BS-CU, a third power value for uplink transmission of the wireless device to the first BS-DU, wherein the third power value is based on a second power value for uplink transmission of the wireless device to a second BS-DU. The first BS-DU transmits, to the BS-CU, a response confirming addition of the second BS-DU for the wireless device.
US11924781B2 Adaptive power control for intercell interference management
A method for controlling transmission power from one or more radio units is provided including monitoring channel state feedback for a signal communicated between a first radio unit of the one or more radio units and a user device in a transmitted frequency range, wherein the channel state feedback is based at least in part on a metric of quality of the communicated radiofrequency signal, determining that the channel state feedback satisfies a channel state condition, wherein the channel state condition includes a metric to evaluate performance of the one or more radio units relative to the user device based at least on the metric of quality of the communicated signal, and transmitting an instruction to adjust a transmission power in the transmitted frequency range of at least one of the one or more radio units based at least on the satisfaction of the channel state condition.
US11924780B2 Method for receiving phase tracking reference signal by terminal in wireless communication system and apparatus supporting same
Disclosed are a method for receiving a phase tracking reference signal by a terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present invention, a terminal may receive a phase tracking reference signal from multiple demodulation reference signal port groups on the basis of information on whether power boosting is applied to a phase tracking reference signal according to the number of layers of each of the multiple demodulation reference signal port groups from a base station.
US11924775B2 Power control method and terminal
A power control method includes obtaining, by a first terminal, parameter information required for power control, where the parameter information includes at least one of a first parameter, a second parameter, and a third parameter, and determining, by the first terminal based on the parameter information, uplink transmit power used when uplink transmission is performed on a target beam or a target beam pair; where the first parameter includes a beam reception gain of a network device and/or a beam sending gain of the first terminal, where the second parameter is used to indicate interference caused by a second terminal to the first terminal on the target beam, and where the third parameter includes beam-specific target power and/or terminal-specific target power.
US11924774B2 Method for transmitting preferred link information
In a wireless local area network system, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) may receive, from a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) station MLD (NSTR STA MLD), STR information related to transmit power information for the NSTR STA MLD to operate in STR. The NSTR STA MLD includes a first STA and a second STA, the first STA operates in a first link, the second STA operates in a second link, and the first and second links have NSTR relationship. The AP MLD may receive, from the NSTR STA MLD, a reference signal to calculate a path loss between the NSTR STA MLD and the AP MLD. The reference signal may include a transmit power value of the reference signal. The AP MLD may determine whether the NSTR STA MLD is capable of operating in STR based on the STR information and the path loss value.
US11924771B2 Uplink power control on unlicensed carriers
Systems and methods relating to transmit power control are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio access node for providing transmit power control commands to a wireless device for uplink (UL) transmission on a cell that operates in an unlicensed frequency spectrum is provided. The method comprises indicating, for the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum, a dynamic Transmit Power Control (TPC) command using a downlink (DL) control channel which indicates a DL-UL allocation of upcoming subframes in the cell that operates in the unlicensed frequency spectrum. In some embodiments, the DL control channel is a common DL control channel. In some other embodiments, the DL channel is a common Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH).
US11924769B2 Exploitation of transmitter (TX) power for each band dual up-link (UL) carrier aggregation (CA)
Various techniques are provided for a method including receiving, at a network device from a user equipment (UE), an indication of a UE capability to support a per-band maximum power for a radio band combination (BC) used by the UE, determining whether the UE supports per-band maximum power for the radio BC based on the indication of the UE capability, and in response to determining the UE supports per-band maximum power for the radio BC, determining a total UE transmission power based on a sum of a maximum power of each band in the radio BC.
US11924761B2 Communication apparatus and communication method
A method of the present disclosure performed by a first communication device comprises determining wake-up operating parameters and entering WUR (wake-up radio) mode by communicating with a second communication device; wherein one of wake-up operating parameters is duty cycle schedule of WUR receiver of the first communication device; and the starting point of the duty cycle schedule of WUR receiver of the first communication device is aligned with TWBTT (target WUR Beacon transmission time).
US11924759B2 Determination of operational state
Disclosed herein is a method of a communication device operating in a wireless communication network for managing power consumption of the device. The device is configured to operate according to first, second and third operational states for communication with a network node associated with the communication network. The method comprises receiving from the network node an instruction to transit to a decided operational state when leaving the first operational state, the decided operational state being one of the second or third operational state; obtaining information of a first network configuration applied by the network node for the second operational state and information of a second network configuration applied by the network node for the third operational state; determining to operate according to the second operational state or the third operational state based on the obtained information; and transit to the determined operational state when leaving the first operational state regardless of the decided operational state.
US11924757B2 Systems and methods for providing wireless asymmetric network architectures of wireless devices with power management features
Systems and methods for implementing power management features while providing a wireless asymmetric network are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system includes a hub having a wireless control device that is configured to control communications and power consumption in the wireless asymmetric network architecture and sensor nodes each having at least one sensor and a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the wireless control device of the hub. The wireless control device is configured to determine a scheduled timing of operating each sensor node during a first time period that is close in time with respect to a transmit window of the transmitter and during a second time period that is close in time with respect to a receive window of the receiver for each wireless device to reduce power consumption of the wireless devices of the sensor nodes.
US11924756B2 Networked evacuation system
A method includes determining, by a sensor node in communication with a communication network, an evacuation condition, retrieving by a decision node, occupancy information pertaining to an area, retrieving area data, and determining an evacuation route, at least in part using the evacuation condition, occupancy information, and area data, and communicating the determined evacuation route to area occupants.
US11924755B2 Facilitating discontinuous reception for mutli-panel user equipment
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for a user equipment in a wireless communications system to receive configuration information that has one or more TCI-states. With this configuration information, the user equipment can then determine inactivity on TCI-states. Based on that determination, the user equipment enables either a discontinuous monitoring or a cessation of monitoring on those TCI-states. Each TCI-state corresponds to a radio beam and also corresponds to an antenna panel. By reducing such monitoring, the use equipment can deactivate antenna panels corresponding to the TCI-states. The determination can be done through the use of a timer with various time thresholds based on the TCI-state. The activity being transmitted on those beam can be scheduling received by the user equipment from a network element such as a base station. The TCI-states can also be grouped and the functionality of the invention dealt with on a group basis.
US11924754B2 Energy-efficient base station with synchronization
Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing an energy efficient base station with synchronization. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, comprising: performing traffic analysis to determine off-peak hours duration when traffic is light; updating downlink and uplink schedulers to transmit a minimum required signaling and control information; and wherein updating downlink and uplink scheduler for minimum required signaling and control information further comprises scheduling, in a downlink direction, at least one of transmitting only reference symbols over selected OFDM symbols, PDCCH on up to a first three OFDM symbols, PSS and SSS on a central six PRB s and PBCH.
US11924752B2 Device onboarding using cellular data services directory
An approach to automatically provision a data service name (APN or DNN) when an endpoint device connects to a mobile network is described. A methodology includes receiving from an endpoint device a first request to connect to a mobile network, the first request including an identifier of the endpoint device and a default data service name, responsive to detecting the default data service name, determining, from the identifier of the endpoint device, a group to which the endpoint device belongs along with a corresponding group identifier for the group, querying a repository with the group identifier, and receiving, in response, an assigned data service name that is associated with the group identifier, providing the assigned data service name to the endpoint device, and receiving from the endpoint device a second request to connect to the mobile network, the second request including the assigned data service name.
US11924751B2 Method and apparatus for performing communication to use network slice in wireless communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication technique of converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates after a 4th generation (4G) system with Internet of things (IoT), and a system therefor. The disclosure provides a method performed by a first network entity managing a packet data network (PDN) session in a wireless communication system supporting interworking between a first and second networks. The method comprises receiving subscription update information of a user equipment (UE) for which a PDN connection associated with a network slice is established in the second network, the network slice being subscribed in the first network, determining whether to release the PDN connection if the subscription update information includes information notifying that network slice related information of the UE is changed, and performing a release of the PDN connection associated with the network slice if the release of the PDN connection is determined.
US11924747B2 Method and device for supporting multiple SCG configurations in dual connectivity supported by next-generation mobile communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first base station, configuration information for a secondary cell group (SCG) including at least one serving cell associated with a second base station, receiving, from the first base station, a first message for activation or deactivation of the SCG, and in case that the SCG is deactivated based on the first message and uplink data arrives on at least one bearer of the SCG, transmitting a second message for activation of the SCG. According to the disclosure, carrier aggregation and dual connectivity can be quickly activated, thereby reducing battery consumption of a terminal.
US11924746B2 Method supporting separate data transmission for independent network slices in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication system and method, in a system providing mobile communication services to terminals, in which the system supports a plurality of network slices, and if the use of some of the network slices is only authorized in a specific application group, the use of resources of the network slices by applications for which the use of the network slices is not authorized is effectively prevented, thus satisfying user experience and needs of the specific network slices.
US11924743B2 Systems/methods of establishing a capability, and using the capability, to execute financial transactions by a smartphone
Systems/Methods of establishing and using a capability at a smartphone to conduct financial transactions are disclosed. According to some embodiments, responsive to sensing a value of a parameter and responsive to determining that the value of the parameter sensed satisfies a criterion, a master-slave relationship is selectively established with a device and an authorization to establish said capability is selectively requested from the device. Responsive to receiving the authorization, the capability to conduct financial transactions by the smartphone is established. Then, provided the smartphone is proximate to an access point maintained by a vendor and provided that the value of the parameter is sensed and satisfies the criterion, said capability that has been established may be used to conduct a financial transaction and pay for a product.
US11924737B2 Method for performing relay forwarding on integrated access and backhaul links, information acquisition method, node, and storage medium
Provided is a method for performing relay forwarding on integrated access and backhaul (IAB) links. The method includes receiving, by a first IAB node, a data packet; and transmitting, by the first IAB node, the data packet to an IAB donor. Further provided are an information acquisition method, an IAB node, an IAB donor node and a storage medium.
US11924729B2 Lighting control system using barcode information
Disclosed is a lighting control system for directing a show. The system includes at least: a master device; and a plurality of slave devices that receive lighting control signals from the master device. The light control signals correspond to seats of a plurality of audiences in an auditorium. The plurality of slave devices receive position information indicating specific positions at which the plurality of slave devices emit a light, light-emitting status information including preset information to classify the plurality of slave devices into a plurality of groups, and group identification number information. The plurality of slave devices are grouped in accordance with received information. The master device controls the grouped plurality of slave devices to emit a light per group basis by broadcasting the lighting control signals including group light-emitting pattern information for each of the plurality of groups of the plurality of slave devices.
US11924728B2 Method and an aerosol delivery device for transmitting aerosol delivery
A method for an aerosol delivery device, may include storing, during use of the aerosol delivery device and in a memory of the aerosol delivery device, information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device. The method may further comprise creating, using a wireless communication interface of the aerosol delivery device, a connectionless-state advertising packet that includes information relating to an identity and advertising state of the aerosol delivery device and a first set of information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device from the memory; and transmitting the advertising packet via the wireless communication interface. The method may further comprise receiving a connectionless-state request packet from a remote wireless device, via the wireless communication interface; and responsive to receiving the request packet, creating, using the wireless communication interface, a connectionless state response packet that that includes a second set of information recording usage characteristics of the aerosol delivery device from the memory.
US11924727B2 Wireless communication system using an in-vehicle device as base station
In response to a vehicle being switched from an IGN OFF state (non-operating state) to an IGN ON state (operating state) in a state in which a mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via a network using an in-vehicle device as a base station can be started. In response to the vehicle being switched from the IGN ON state (operating state) to the IGN OFF state (non-operating state) in the state in which the mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via the network using the in-vehicle device as the base station is stopped.
US11924724B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless vehicle communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless vehicle communication system. The method, performed by a UE, includes obtaining vehicle communication configuration information, determining, for vehicle communication, at least one of whether data is to be relayed, allocated resources, or a waveform, based on the obtained vehicle communication configuration information, and transmitting or receiving signals to or from at least one other UE based on the determination result.
US11924721B2 System and method for microlocation sensor communication
A system and a method to wirelessly synchronize, monitor, or communicate, or a combination thereof, amongst sensors (e.g., sensors, hubs, sensor controllers, etc.) in a Bluetooth Low Energy-based microlocation system. The system or method, or both, may use the BLE hardware (e.g., transmitters, receivers, antennas, etc.) to interleave a communications protocol within the connection interval gaps of the BLE protocol used to communicate with devices.
US11924718B2 System and method for expanded reach rich business messaging
A method and a system employing an expanded reach rich messaging application (ERRMA) for creating and transmitting a rich message or an equivalent rich message is provided. The ERRMA receives a request to send a rich message on a specified rich messaging channel (SRMC) to a user's mobile number. The ERRMA determines whether the user's mobile number is enabled for receiving rich messages on the SRMC. Upon a successful determination, the ERRMA creates and transmits the rich message on the SRMC to the user's mobile number. Upon an unsuccessful determination, the ERRMA determines whether the user's mobile number is enabled for receiving the rich message on an alternative rich messaging channel. Upon determining that the user's mobile number is enabled for receiving the rich message on the alternative rich messaging channel, the ERRMA creates and transmits the equivalent rich message on the alternative rich messaging channel to a user device.
US11924717B2 System and method for data analytics for communications in walkie-talkie network
An embodiment of the invention provides a deskless workstation that comprises a network of walkie-talkies connected to a mobile phone that forwards the audio communications to a remote processing device for further processing and to take appropriate actions. The remote device may analyze the audio information to determine what action to perform. An embodiment of the invention may be assembled largely from existing components such as a particular type of audio cable, an Android mobile phone, and a radio application available for Android phones.
US11924716B2 Automatic connection to work site equipment groupings
A work site equipment grouping system includes a plurality of work machines including a first work machine and a second work machine. Each work machine is configured to wirelessly communicate with other work machines. The system further includes a local area network including a plurality of communicatively connected nodes, the nodes including the first work machine and the second work machine. The system further includes a third work machine configured to detect one of the first work machine or the second work machine within a signal range of the third work machine and, upon detecting one of the first work machine or the second work machine, automatically join the local area network.
US11924713B2 Device-based timely emergency call routing
Systems and methods for providing timely location estimates when a user equipment initiates a call to an emergency number are disclosed. The system enables a user equipment to send the earliest available location that the user equipment can come up with, after detecting an emergency message (e.g., detecting a 911 digit string). This can be done by sending the current location of the user equipment via HTTPS protocol to a telecommunications service provider node (e.g., an end point in GMLC). In this manner, the system avoids a major overhaul of the existing 3GPP E911 location standard while allowing timely compliance of the NG911 mandate.
US11924711B1 Self-mapping listeners for location tracking in wireless personal area networks
A listening device for tracking locations of a tracking device in a physical space includes one or more wireless transceivers, one or more sensors, and one or more processors. The processors generate positional indicators associated with the listening device based on signals generated by the one or more sensors, based on communications with an external device, or both. The listening device communicates with the tracking device to receive a tracking signal, based on which the processors identify a position of the tracking device relative to the listening device. The tracking device is located within the physical space based on the identified position of the tracking device relative to the listening device and the positional indicators associated with the listening device.
US11924708B2 Information processing device and information processing method
There is provided an information processing device that includes a blocking detection unit to detect blocking of a communication channel to a reproduction device which reproduces content on the basis of content data, a movement calculation unit to calculate, in a case where the blocking of the communication channel is detected, an amount of movement of the reproduction device to a position that escapes the blocking, and a control unit to control generation of the content data on the basis of the amount of movement.
US11924707B2 Sensor data for ranging procedure
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a first UE and a second UE perform a ranging procedure which includes communication of one or more ranging signals between the first UE and the second UE. The first UE obtains sensor data via a set of sensors coupled to the first UE, and transmits the sensor data to the second UE in association with the ranging procedure. The second UE determines a distance between the first UE and the second UE based on ranging measurement data associated with the one or more ranging signals and the sensor data.
US11924704B2 Conditional mobility selection
Embodiments include conditional mobility methods performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless network. Such methods include receiving, from a network node via a serving cell, a conditional mobility configuration related to a plurality of mobility procedures, of different types, towards one or more candidate target entities. The conditional mobility configuration includes one or more triggering conditions for the plurality of mobility procedures. Such methods include monitoring for the triggering conditions based on measurements of radio signals associated with the candidate target entities and/or the serving cell. Such methods include, based on detecting a particular triggering condition, performing a particular mobility procedure towards a particular candidate target entity, wherein the particular candidate target entity and/or the particular mobility procedure is selected based on a selection rule. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a network node, and UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
US11924703B2 One or more remote modems connected to antenna circuitry by analog cabling and connected to control circuitry that controls behaviour of the one or more remote modems by digital cabling
There is provided a network comprising antenna circuitry to receive incoming signals and transmit outgoing signals. Remote modem circuitry, connected to the antenna circuitry by analog cabling, demodulates a first incoming signal of the incoming signals to produce first incoming data and control circuitry, remote from the remote modem circuitry and connected to the remote modem circuitry via digital cabling, controls a behaviour of the remote modem circuitry and receives the first incoming data from the remote modem circuitry.
US11924695B2 Mobile telecommunications system method including switching between radio resources based on measured signal properties
A mobile telecommunications system method is described. A property of a first received reference signal from a first base station operating in a first mobile telecommunications system and a property of a second received reference signal from a second base station or a user equipment operating in a second mobile telecommunications system are measured. It is switched from the first base station to the second base station as a serving base station based on the property of the first received reference signal and on the property of the second received reference signal.
US11924693B2 Resume request followed by release and redirect
Methods and systems for resume request followed by release and redirect are herein provided. According to one aspect, a method performed by a User Equipment for communicating within a telecommunications network comprises: while in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) INACTIVE state, sending, to a base station, a request to resume communication, and, without entering an RRC CONNECED state, receiving, from the base station, an instruction to release and redirect; and in response to receiving the instruction to release and redirect, performing cell selection in a Radio Access Technology and attempting to establish or resume communication with the selected cell.
US11924692B2 Reserved resource indication for sidelink
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a reservation for a sidelink resource for a communication by the UE, wherein the sidelink resource was previously reserved by a transmitter UE for a communication by the transmitter UE; and receive an indication that the sidelink resource is reserved and that the UE is not permitted to reserve the sidelink resource. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924690B2 Method for managing telecommunications resources dynamically allocated to a plurality of telecommunications operators, computer program product and corresponding devices
A method for managing telecommunications resources dynamically allocated to a plurality of telecommunications operators is disclosed. At least one module for centralized management of the resources carries out: receiving a request for resources emitted by a requesting module representing one of the plurality of telecommunications operators, referred to as a requesting operator, to the at least one module for centralized management of the resources; and sending, to the requesting module and in response to the request, at least one offer of resources. The at least one offer of resources comprises: a piece of common objective information, representing a resource management objective common to the plurality of telecommunications operators; and/or at least one piece of reliability information from at least one other of the plurality of telecommunications operators, referred to as an offering operator, proposing the at least one offer of resources.
US11924689B2 Control device, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
To provide a control device that can prevent an increase in a processing load and that can effectively allocate a radio resource. A control device (30) according the present disclosure includes: a deciding unit (31) configured to decide whether or not an interval between generation of a first flow that is generated when performing radio communication between a communication terminal (10) and a base station (20) and generation of a second flow that is generated after the generation of the first flow exceeds a permissible delay time of the first flow; and a determination unit (32) configured to determine deletion of non-transmitted data related to the communication terminal (10) after lapse of the permissible delay time of the first flow when it is decided that the generation interval exceeds the permissible delay time of the first flow.
US11924688B2 Role assignment for caching content at network nodes
A system, method, and computer program are disclosed to provide an ad-hoc network of network nodes of caching content at the network nodes. A coordination server performing as a manager or controller determines the network node to cache content for a group of user equipments (UEs) attached to a first base station. The coordination server reassigns the network node that cache the content for the group of UEs when a user equipment (UE) moves from the first base station to a second base station.
US11924687B2 User plane function (UPF) load balancing based on network data analytics to predict load of user equipment
Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for user plane function (UPF) and network slice load balancing within a 5G network. Example embodiments include systems and methods for load balancing based on current UPF load and thresholds that depend on UPF capacity; UPF load balancing using predicted throughput of new UE on the network based on network data analytics; UPF load balancing based on special considerations for low latency traffic; UPF load balancing supporting multiple slices, maintaining several load-thresholds for each UPF and each slice depending on the UPF and network slice capacity; and UPF load balancing using predicted central processing unit (CPU) utilization and/or predicted memory utilization of new UE on the network based on network data analytics.
US11924684B2 Electronic apparatus, method for controlling an electronic apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium
An electronic apparatus includes a sub-system that receives, from a wireless LAN module, incoming data including wireless LAN packets according to plural communication methods and a main system including a processor that process the incoming data. The sub-system includes an interface circuit and a sub-processor. The interface circuit acquires a data length of each of the wireless LAN packets from a header of the wireless LAN packet. Based on MAC addresses included in the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit identifies a communication method of the wireless LAN packet. Based on the data length and the communication method of the wireless LAN packet, the interface circuit transfers the wireless LAN packet to one of different storage areas respectively corresponding to the communication methods. The sub-processor transfers the wireless LAN packet from the one of the different storage areas to the main system.
US11924680B2 User-plane congestion management
Methods, apparatuses and systems for user-plane congestion management are provided. Among these method, apparatuses and systems is a method, implementable by a base station (and/or a serving gateway), for mitigating user plane congestion. The method may include sending a congestion indication to a core network; receiving a general packet radio system (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) packet including an first internet protocol (IP) packet associated with a first flow within a bearer; obtaining, from a header of the GTP packet, an indicator indicative of a priority of the IP packet, wherein the indicator was inserted into the header of the GTP packet by the core network responsive to the congestion indication; and dropping any of the GTP packet and the first IP packet on condition that a priority of a second IP packet associated with second flow within the bearer takes precedence over the priority of the first IP packet.
US11924679B2 Distinguishing between general NAS level congestion and S-NSSAI related congestion control
A RAN node includes means for receiving a N2 message containing a list of S-NSSAI of the congested network slice from an AMF and means for sending the list of S-NSSAI and a wait timer for each S-NSSAI in the list in first AN signaling message to an UE when receiving, from the UE, second signaling message containing the list of S-NSSAI to establish an AN signaling connection, the S-NSSAI being indicated in the N2 message as congested by the AMF.
US11924674B2 Data transmission method and apparatus
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, information used to indicate a first condition; obtaining to-be-transmitted data; and when the first condition is met, sending, by the terminal over a sidelink, the to-be-transmitted data that is on a first logical channel by using a first carrier frequency and the to-be-transmitted data that is on a second logical channel by using a second carrier frequency. In this method, the same data is sent, over the sidelink, on different carrier frequencies by using two logical channels, and a receiving device can receive the same duplicate data, thereby improving data transmission reliability.
US11924670B2 QoS flow management over E1
A method is provided by a central-unit-control plane (CU-CP) of a network node for exchanging information with a central-unit user plane (CU-UP) of the network node to manage Quality of Service (QoS) flows for the optimization of radio resources. The method includes transmitting, to the CU-UP, a request for flow information for at least one QoS flow and receiving, from the CU-UP of the network node, the flow information for the at least one QoS flow. Based on the flow information for the at least one QoS flow, at least one action is taken.
US11924667B2 Wireless communication terminal, wireless communication base station, wireless communication system, and reporting method
In a wireless communication terminal in a wireless communication system for performing a control not to transmit signals, or to transmit signals with a reduction in a transmission power by a part of radio resources for a downlink signal in a cell provided by a base station, the terminal receives control information in generating a report related to a measurement result of the cell provided by the base station, monitors a state of a radio link with an own cell, and performs measurement on reception of the downlink signal. If an instruction for restricting the measurement to a part of the radio resources is included in the control information from the base station after the radio link failure occurs, the terminal generates and transmits a radio link failure report including the measurement result in the radio resources as instructed when the radio link failure occurs.
US11924664B2 Communication device, communication method, and program
A communication device includes: a communication unit that performs wireless communication; a notification unit that notifies another communication device of first information regarding setting related to measurement of a communication environment with the other communication device transmitting a reference signal, on the basis of predetermined conditions; and an acquisition unit that acquires second information regarding the setting from the other communication device.
US11924660B2 Method and apparatus for group management for group event monitoring
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides a method and a device for a group management that enables addition/deletion/replacement of a group member in a group-based event monitoring method.
US11924659B2 Pose-based beam update techniques for wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a user equipment (UE) may be configured to monitor a set of beams, and may request an update to a monitoring configuration based on a position of the UE, an orientation of the UE, a rate of change of the position or orientation, or any combinations thereof. In some cases, the position or orientation information of the UE may include information for a current time period, predictive information for one or more future time periods, other information, or any combinations thereof. The UE may transmit a beam monitoring request to a base station for an updated monitoring configuration, such as a subset of a set of configured beams or an identified scan angle to be monitored by the UE.
US11924653B2 High throughput control information and field extension
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to high throughput (HT) control information. A device may determine a frame comprising HT control information. The device may determine to extend a size of the HT control information. The device may cause to generate a management or data frame for sending to a first station device of one or more station devices, the management or data frame comprising extended high throughput (HT) control information, define a new control identification (ID) associated with the extended HT control information, and cause to send the management or data frame to the first station device.
US11924651B2 Base station supporting self-configuration and self-optimization and method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a base station that supports self-configuration and self-optimization and a method thereof. A method performed by a target base station in a mobile communication system includes: receiving a radio link failure (RLF) report of a user equipment (UE) from a source base station or a third base station; detecting a reason for an occurrence of a failure based on the RLF report of the UE; and transmitting a message to the source base station based on the detected reason for the occurrence of the failure.
US11924650B2 System, method and service product for content delivery
A system, method and computer program product for content delivery of services in a mobile telecommunication network on the basis of predictions of user and network needs. The method includes collecting and receiving information of the use of services in the network, and analyzing network behavior on the basis of the information received. The traffic load in the network is continuously monitored in real-time by estimating the traffic load locations in the network and the network capacity needs for delivering the services. The analysis is used for deciding the optimal network configuration to be used for supporting the estimated traffic load locations in the network. The network behavior is controlled based on the selections and decisions of the analysis by sending requests to network components for network configuration.
US11924649B2 Method to modulate signals by reflecting surfaces
This document generally relates to use of intelligent reflecting devices in wireless communication systems, which may increase the coverage for a wireless access node or base station. An intelligent reflecting device may configure its surface with a degree of reflection according to a reflection scheme, and in turn, the surface may reflect an incident signal according to the reflection scheme. As a result, the reflected signal may have one or more characteristics that indicate to a receiving device that the received signal was reflected by an intelligent reflecting device, and/or one or more characteristics of the intelligent reflecting device.
US11924647B2 Method for secure connection to an embedded web service and corresponding device
A method for securely connecting and providing access to an onboard web service, between an item of client equipment, including a screen, and a mobile device, equipped with a camera. The method, is implemented by the mobile device and includes: establishing a wireless connection with the item of client equipment; transmitting a unique pictogram onto the screen of the item of client equipment; reading the pictogram, displayed on the screen of the item of client equipment, using the camera of the mobile device; authenticating the item of client equipment, by comparing data from the transmitted pictogram with the data from the pictogram that was read by the camera; and opening a secure connection and access to an onboard web service on the mobile device, for the item of client equipment.
US11924645B2 Authorizing programming of an implanted device using second factor
Described herein are techniques to ensure a user using an external device is authorized to connect and connecting to a correct implantable medical device using a wireless communication protocol. A request for authorization is sent to the external device from the implantable medical device, and the authorization can be provided by an authorization pulse sent using the implantable medical device charger over the inductive link between the charging device and the implanted device. The authorization pulse can be trusted because the inductive link is short range, ensuring the patient is aware of the connection to the implanted device. Once the implanted device receives the authorization pulse, it may finalize the pairing over the first connection.
US11924642B2 Privacy considerations for network slice selection
User equipment performing communication with a core network node by using network slices obtained by logically dividing a network includes: means for sending information related to security of one network slice; and means for sending identity information of the one network slice in a secure method, based on a request to send information in the secure method sent from the core network node based on the sent information.
US11924639B2 Revoking credentials after service access
In some examples, an electronic device receives configuration information relating to network connectivity with a network of a vehicle, the configuration information including a credential. The electronic device establishes, using the configuration information, a connection with the network of the vehicle to access a service, and revokes the credential in response to a termination of the access of the service.
US11924635B2 Security authentication method and apparatus thereof, and electronic device
Disclosed are a security authentication method and an apparatus thereof, and an electronic device. The method includes: sending a verification request to a verification end; receiving a first data packet and acquiring third preset data, fourth preset data, second time data, a control instruction, and fifth preset data, the first data packet being determined by the verification end in response to the verification request; generating a key based on the third preset data, the fourth preset data, the second time data, and the first data packet; encrypting the control instruction and the fifth preset data based on the key to generate first encrypted data; and sending the first encrypted data to the verification end, so that the verification end sends the control instruction and the fifth preset data to an execution end, and the execution end executes the control instruction based on the following method: determining whether the fifth preset data is the same as internal preset data; and if so, executing the control instruction. The present invention can reduce interaction process, improve the time delay experience, and reduce a risk of malicious power consumption due to NFC-Key encryption and decryption behaviors triggered by fake messages of a card reader.
US11924631B2 Bluetooth communication system capable of increasing generation efficiency of cypher keys required for data transmission between bluetooth host device and bluetooth device set, and related bluetooth device set
A Bluetooth communication system includes: a Bluetooth host device; and a Bluetooth device set which including a first member device and a second member device. The Bluetooth host device controls a display device to display a candidate device list, and to display a single device item in the candidate device list to represent the Bluetooth device set, but does not simultaneously display two device items in the candidate device list to represent the first member device and the second member device. The Bluetooth host device generates a first cypher key according to an instruction from the first member device and a device information of the first member device after receiving a selection command. The first member device establishes a connection with the Bluetooth host device, and generates a second cypher key corresponding to the first cypher key according to a device information of the Bluetooth host device.
US11924626B2 Sound tracing apparatus and method
Disclosed are a sound tracing apparatus and a sound tracing method, and the sound tracing apparatus includes a first acceleration structure generation unit configured to generate a first acceleration structure for a static scene in a sound space, an intersection test execution unit configured to perform an intersection test on each of a plurality of dynamic objects constituting a dynamic scene in the sound space to detect whether or not the dynamic object affects a sound propagation path, a second acceleration structure generation unit configured to select the dynamic objects that affect the sound propagation path as a result of the intersection test and then generate the second acceleration structure for the dynamic scene, and a sound generation unit configured to generate a 3D sound by performing sound tracing based on the first and second acceleration structures.
US11924623B2 Object-based audio spatializer
A 3D sound spatializer provides delay-compensated HRTF interpolation techniques and efficient cross-fading between current and delayed HRTF filter results to mitigate artifacts caused by interpolation between HRTF filters and the use of time-varying HRTF filters.
US11924618B2 Auralization for multi-microphone devices
A method for auralizing a multi-microphone device. Path information for one or more sound paths using dimensions and room reflection coefficients of a simulated room for one of a plurality of microphones included in a multi-microphone device is determined. An array-related transfer functions (ARTFs) for the one of the plurality of microphones is retrieved. The auralized impulse response for the one of the plurality of microphones is generated based at least on the retrieved ARTFs and the determined path information.
US11924612B2 Distraction remediation at a hearing device
Presented herein are integrated techniques to address the perception of distracting sounds by a recipient's residual hearing during testing of a hearing prosthesis. More specifically, in accordance with embodiments presented herein, a first hearing prosthesis located at a first ear of a recipient is configured to selectively operate in a testing-assistance mode in order to support or supplement the testing of testing of the first hearing prosthesis or a second hearing prosthesis located at a second car of the recipient.
US11924611B2 Artificial cochlea for mechanical processing of sound
Described herein are bio-inspired acoustic bandpass sensors with a user-defined range of frequencies mimicking the geometric structure of a human's basilar membrane to capture infrasonic, sonic or ultrasonic waves per design with a target frequency range for a specific application and methods of making same.
US11924610B2 MEMS transducer having a diaphragm made of polymer and method of producing same
A method for manufacturing a MEMS sound transducer for generating and/or detecting sound waves in the audible wavelength range and/or in the ultrasonic range, includes arranging at least one piezoelectric element on a support substrate. A diaphragm is formed on the at least one piezoelectric element. In forming the diaphragm, a flowable and curable polymer, which forms the diaphragm after curing, is at least partially cast around the at least one piezoelectric element. The invention further relates to the MEMS sound transducer formed by the method.
US11924604B2 Speaker adapter, and dual core speaker assembly
The present disclosure provides a speaker adapter, and a dual core speaker assembly. The speaker adapter includes: a main body, symmetrically provided with two mounting portions at both sides for matching with speakers respectively; a bottom base, extending from and around the main body, for supporting the main body; and an inner cavity formed within the main body.
US11924595B2 Electronic device with sealing structure
An electronic device may include: a housing including a front plate oriented in a first direction, a rear plate oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member enclosing at least a part of a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The electronic device further including a display disposed to be visible through the front plate; a printed circuit board disposed between the display and the rear plate; a support structure having a first face oriented in the first direction and supporting the display and a second face oriented in the second direction and supporting the printed circuit board; a conductive member disposed between the support structure and the rear plate; and a sealing structure disposed between the conductive member and the rear plate, the sealing structure extending along a periphery of the conductive member and formed in a closed curve shape.
US11924591B2 Intelligent fiber port management
A fiber port management system that can be connected between network devices and network appliances is provided. The fiber port management system includes a housing, one or more hydra cables within the housing, one or more indicators and a controller. The housing has a front panel with a plurality of low density fiber connectors and a rear panel with a plurality of high density fiber connectors. The hydra cable is positioned within the housing and connects one of the plurality of high density fiber connectors to two or more of the plurality of low density fiber connectors. The one or more indicators are associated with each of the plurality of low density fiber connectors and each of the plurality of high density fiber connectors. The controller is located within the housing and is used to control the operation of the indicators.
US11924585B2 Video monitoring apparatus, control method thereof, and computer readable medium
A position and pose determination unit (103) is configured to determine a position and an pose of the video acquisition unit (110) in such a way that a level of hiding caused by overlapping of objects becomes low based on environmental object information indicating an environmental object including a structural object present in the monitored area and a placed object placed in the structural object, and staying characteristic information indicating a staying characteristic of the object determined depending on the environmental object. The analysis and display unit (111) is configured to perform at least one of analyzing a video captured by the video acquisition unit (103) at the position and the pose determined by the position and pose determination unit (110) and displaying the video.
US11924581B2 Multi-device teleconferences
A system and method are disclosed for generating a teleconference space for two or more initial communication devices using a computer coupled with a database and including a processor and memory. The computer generates a teleconference space and transmits requests to join the teleconference space to the two or more initial communication devices. The computer stores in memory identification information, and audiovisual data associated with one or more users, for each of the two or more initial communication devices. The computer transmits audiovisual teleconference data to each of the two or more initial communication devices. The computer transmits a request to join the teleconference space to a third communication device, stores identification information and audiovisual data from the third communication device, and transmits audiovisual teleconference data that includes audiovisual data from the third communication device to each of the three or more communication devices.
US11924577B2 Methods and systems for controlling a light source of a cue light device
A cue light device may comprise one or more connection interfaces configured for electrical coupling to a video switcher via a cable; a microcontroller configured to obtain and analyze data from the video switcher via the cable and the one or more connection interfaces; a multi-position switch configured to selectively permit a segment of the data to be processed by the microcontroller; and a light source electrically coupled to the microcontroller and configured to selectively illuminate based on a configuration of the multi-position switch.
US11924576B2 Dynamic activity-based image generation
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure can help to automatically generate images displaying activity-based information and distribute such images to other users, such as members of a social network. The image may be modified based on activity data associated with other users and/or from other activity sensors.
US11924575B1 Conversion of color film to digital media
The applicant proposes a method and an apparatus to realize a faster, easier and more precise multispectral digitalization of films. The proposed method and apparatus ensure quality control of the multispectral film digitization using sensors and can correct the digital images for film shrinkage and deformation. This can allow for efficient digitization of films which can enable an effective automatization of the mass safeguarding of archived films. The proposed film digitizer apparatus can comprise a novel and improved light source module, which comprise a light assembly that can allow for better illumination of the film and shorter required exposure time that can lead to lower acquisition time for each of the various wavelength image acquisitions for each film image. Monitoring of the spectral distribution and/or the temperature of the light sources can ensure quality control of the digitalization.
US11924569B2 Image sensor sampling pixel signal multiple times and an operating method of the image sensor
An image sensor for sampling a pixel signal a plurality of times during a readout time includes an analog comparator configured to compare a signal level of the pixel signal with a signal level of a target ramp signal that is any one of a plurality of ramp signals, a counter configured to output counting data based on a comparison result of the analog comparator, and a digital comparing circuit configured to compare a binary value of a target reference code corresponding to the target ramp signal with a binary value of the counting data and determine whether to output a digital signal corresponding to the counting data to a data output circuit based on a result of the comparison between the binary value of the counting data and the binary value of the target reference code.
US11924563B2 High dynamic range (HDR) photography with in-sensor zoom
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for image processing that supports high dynamic range (HDR) photography. In some aspects, a method of generating a full-resolution HDR photograph with in-sensor zoom includes receiving first and second image data corresponding to first and second exposure captures of a scene. First and second full-resolution image frames may be generated from the first and second image data, which are subsequently processed with HDR fusion to obtain an output image frame with higher dynamic range than either the first or second image data. The first full-resolution image frame may be determined from both the first and second image data by compensating the second image data for differences between the first and second exposures. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US11924560B2 Methods for improved camera view in studio applications
A studio display environment and/or applications thereof are provided, wherein a display (e.g. LED display) is used onto which images or video are being shown, that are recorded by one or more cameras. The invention further relates to methods and systems for improved camera view in such studio display environment and/or applications.
US11924557B2 Pinhole camera, electronic apparatus and manufacturing method
The present disclosure relates to a pinhole camera, an electronic apparatus and a manufacturing method, an electronic apparatus and a manufacturing method by which further reduction in profile can be achieved. The pinhole camera includes a semiconductor substrate on which a pixel array unit on which a plurality of pixels are arranged in an array is formed, a protective substrate stacked on an on-chip lens arranged corresponding to a pixel array unit of the semiconductor substrate through a seal resin, and a light shielding film formed on the protective substrate and configured to block light to be irradiated upon the semiconductor substrate. A pinhole is formed in the light shielding film. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a CMOS image sensor of the stacked type.
US11924556B2 Automatic prediction of exposure of camera in projector-camera systems
The present invention is directed to predicting and optimizing the exposure value of cameras in order to properly capture images, achieve robust and efficient calibration, and detect faults. The present invention features a method comprising displaying one or more reference images and using the camera to capture the reference image at one or more camera exposures. This allows an optimal camera exposure and an optimal reference image to be determined. The method may further comprise estimating ambient light. The method may further comprise the display device displaying an input image and identifying relative properties of the input image in comparison to the reference image. The method may further comprise predicting an optimal exposure based on the relative properties of the input image, ambient light, and the optimal reference exposure, adjusting the exposure value of the camera based on the optimal exposure, and capturing the input image at the proper exposure.
US11924555B2 Intelligent auto-exposure control for RGB-IR sensor
An apparatus comprising a light projector, a sensor and a processor. The light projector may be configured to toggle a light pattern. The sensor may be configured to generate pixel data. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames, extract IR images with the light pattern, IR images without the light pattern and RGB images from the video frames, generate a control signal in response to the IR images with the light pattern and the RGB images, calculate an IR interference measurement in response to the IR images without the light pattern and the RGB images and select a mode of operation for an IR channel control and an RGB channel control in response to the IR interference measurement. The control signal may be configured to adjust an exposure for the sensor.
US11924551B2 Method and apparatus for correcting blur in all or part of an image
A method, apparatus, and processor for capturing digital images. The method comprising: displaying a preview scene to be captured in a user interface of the imaging device, capturing a plurality of images using a lens having one or more lens elements and at least one moveable lens element, and moving the moveable lens element electro-mechanically to counter an effect of motion. The method further including processing the plurality of images, receiving and executing instructions stored in a memory of the imaging device, to obtain a corrected image, such that the corrected image includes a first and second subject, the first subject in the corrected image is blur free, and the second subject in the corrected image is blurred compared to the first subject, storing the corrected image in the memory, and displaying the corrected image in the user interface.
US11924547B2 Sensor block
Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and methods for sensor blocking. In a number of embodiments, a method can include operating a sensor block of an apparatus in a first mode to allow a sensor to receive inputs, and operating the sensor block in a second mode to inhibit the sensor from receiving the inputs. A sensor block can be used to prevent a sensor, such as an image sensor, from receiving an input, such as a light source input, to capture image data. A sensor block can be used to prevent a sensor from capturing image data even when an application causing to the sensor to operate, such as when applications have access to the sensor, but the user of a device is unaware that an application is using the sensor. The sensor block can be used to prevent the sensor from capturing useful images and the sensor can only capture a black image of the sensor block and not the surroundings of the device.
US11924542B2 Accuracy estimation apparatus, image capturing apparatus, accuracy estimation method, control method, and storage medium
An accuracy estimation apparatus includes at least one processor and/or at least one circuit that functions as an obtainment unit configured to obtain a shooting condition for a plurality of parallax images that mutually exhibit parallax, and an estimation unit configured based on the shooting condition, to estimate an accuracy of dimension measurement that is performed using the plurality of parallax images.
US11924541B2 Automatic camera exposures for use with wearable multimedia devices
Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, operations performed by the wearable multimedia device or cloud computing platform include accessing information from one or more data streams, where the one or more data streams include at least one of image data or preset image parameters; determining, using the information from the one or more data streams, exposure parameters for capturing one or more images; applying the determined exposure parameters to a camera; and controlling the camera to capture one or more images with an exposure set according to the applied exposure parameters.
US11924537B2 Image signal processor and image processing system performing interrupt control
An image signal processor includes a command queue circuit, an image processing engine and an interrupt control circuit. The command queue circuit stores a plurality of commands and sequentially provides the plurality of commands one by one. Each command of the plurality of commands includes an interrupt control value corresponding to each image unit of a plurality of image units. The plurality of commands are received from a control processor. The image processing engine receives the plurality of image units and sequentially processes the plurality of image units based on the plurality of commands sequentially provided from the command queue circuit. The interrupt control circuit receives the interrupt control value from the command queue circuit, determines one or more output interrupt event signals among a plurality of interrupt event signals based on the interrupt control value and generates an interrupt signal based on the output interrupt event signals.
US11924536B2 Augmented reality device including variable focus lenses and operating method thereof
Provided is an augmented reality device including a variable focus lens, an eye tracking sensor configured to emit light to eyes of a user, receive the light reflected by the eyes of the user, and detect a plurality of feature points based on the light reflected by the eyes of the user, and at least one processor configured to obtain information with respect to eye relief, which is a distance between the eyes of the user and the variable focus lens, based on position information of the plurality of feature points detected by the eye tracking sensor, obtain information with respect to a gaze point at which gaze directions of the eyes of the user converge, and an interpupillary distance of the eyes of the user, based on the plurality of feature points, and determine a position of a focal region of the variable focus lens based on the information with respect to the eye relief, the gaze point, and the interpupillary distance.
US11924532B2 Camera assembly with concave-shaped front face
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image sensor; and (b) an outer section between the housing and the inner section, the outer section having a concave shape that extends from an outer periphery of the outer section to an inner periphery of the outer section; and where the concave shape extends around an entirety of the outer periphery.
US11924531B2 Retractable camera module and electronic device
The present invention provides a retractable camera module, including a housing, a lens assembly, a support assembly, a driving assembly, and an exterior part covered on the housing. A bulge portion is arranged on an outer wall of a top plate in the housing; a first groove matched with the bulge portion is formed in an inner wall of the exterior part; the support assembly includes a lifting plate connected to the lens assembly, a guide rod penetrating through the lifting plate and fixedly connected between the bulge portion and a bottom plate, and at least two elastic members elastically connected between the lifting plate and the bottom plate. the present invention provides a retractable camera module which occupies a small space and can ensure the extending and retracting steadiness and achieves better optical characteristics.
US11924529B2 Camera actuator, and camera module and camera device comprising same
A camera actuator according to an embodiment can comprise: a housing; a prism unit disposed inside the housing; a driving part for tilting the prism unit; and a rotation unit for tilting the prism unit about a first axis or a second axis. The rotation unit can comprise: a rotation housing; a rotation guide disposed inside the rotation housing; and a guide pin member coupled to the rotation guide.
US11924526B2 Segment types as delimiters and addressable resource identifiers
An example device for processing media data is configured to parse a bitstream including the media data, the bitstream being formatted according to Common Media Application Format (CMAF), detect, during the parsing, a file type (FTYP) value for a CMAF track file of the bitstream, determine that a CMAF header of the CMAF track file starts with the FTYP value, and process one or more CMAF fragments following the CMAF header of the CMAF track file. The device may additionally be configured to detect one or more segment type (STYP) values in the bitstream, determine that each of the one or more STYP values corresponds to a start of a respective one of the CMAF fragments, and process each of the CMAF fragments starting from the corresponding STYP value.
US11924524B2 Metadata distribution and management via transactional blockchain technology
Systems and methods are described for securely distributing metadata using a block chain. The system generates a block for a distributed blockchain ledger such that the block includes an encrypted metadata item of a media asset. The system, at a first time, transmits the block for storage in the distributed blockchain ledger such that a copy of the distributed blockchain ledger is stored by the first computing device and a second computing device. The system generates a smart contract that includes a decryption key for the encrypted metadata item and an identifier of the second computing device. The system transmits the smart contract for storage in the distributed blockchain ledger. The smart contract is configured to be automatically executed at the execution time that is later than the first time, to provide the second computing device with the decryption key for the encrypted metadata item.
US11924522B2 Multimedia content delivery with reduced delay
A content delivery server is configured to receive a request for a chunk of a segment of a video stream, the segment of the video stream including a series of chunks, each of the chunks including a set of video frames, a first of the chunks being aligned with a first Instantaneous Decoder Refresh frame in the video stream, and a second of the chunks being aligned with a second subsequent Instantaneous Decoder Refresh frame in the video stream; determine whether the request was received during a first interval or a second subsequent interval of an intra period between the first of the chunks and the second of the chunks; and output the first of the chunks or the second of the chunks for transmission based on the determination of whether the request was received during the first interval or the second interval.
US11924520B2 Subtitle border-crossing processing method and apparatus, and electronic device
A method, an apparatus and an electronic device for processing a subtitle beyond scope are provided. In the method, size information of a display device of a terminal is acquired, where the size information indicates a size of the display device. A secure zone is established according to the size information, where the secure zone has a size less than or equal to the size of the display device. A video frame is selected from video images in response to playing the video images by the terminal. A composite frame is generated using parts of the video frame that are beyond the secure zone. It is judged whether the composite frame contains text. It is determined that a subtitle in the video images is beyond scope if the composite frame contains text.
US11924517B2 Adaptive on-screen guide based on channel or content transition commands
Systems and methods for generating a channel sequence for display via an abbreviated on-screen guide are disclosed herein. Channel tuning commands are entered via a user interface of a computing device. Channel tuning data, which describes channel transitions caused by the channel tuning commands, is stored in a buffer. Based on the channel tuning data, a channel family comprising a plurality of channels is generated. A determination is made as to whether a currently tuned channel is included in the channel family. In response to determining that the currently tuned channel is included in the channel family, an on-screen guide, which comprises an abbreviated channel listing of the plurality of channels of the channel family, is generated for display.
US11924516B2 Video interaction method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
A video interaction method includes receiving a video posting operation for a first video, where the first video is a video shot by a first user by using a target prop, where the target prop is a preset type of shooting prop; in response to the video posting operation, posting the first video; in response to finishing posting the first video, acquiring information about the degree of completion of interaction between the first user and the target prop in the shooting process of the first video; determining a first target object corresponding to the first video according to information about the degree of completion of interaction; and paying the first target object to the account of the first user and displaying a first object information window of the first target object.
US11924512B2 Personalized, event-driven, and location-based consumption of media content
A computing entity identifies media streams based at least in part on user profile information corresponding to a user and monitors corresponding stream information. An audio/video device is providing a first media stream for user consumption. Based at least in part on the user profile information, the computing entity determines an interest score for each media stream and, responsive to determining, based at least in part on an analysis of the interest score corresponding to a second media stream and the interest score corresponding to the first media stream, that the interest score corresponding to the second media stream satisfies a configurable criteria, analyzes one or more attributes of the first media stream to determine if the first media stream is eligible for a switch trigger. Responsive to determining that the first media stream is eligible for a switch trigger, the computing entity identifies a stream switch trigger.
US11924511B2 Smart remote control for audio responsive media device
Disclosed herein is a battery operated, audio responsive remote control for controlling a media device. The remote control includes a speaker, microphone and talk button. The remote control is configured to: detect the talk button being pressed; responsive to the detection and within a time period that commences from the detection, analyze audio data received via the microphone to recognize one or more audio commands; and process the recognized audio commands. The remote control is also configured to: determine a volume level of the received audio data; and audibly confirm the recognized audio commands at the determined volume level. According to some embodiments, the remote control also includes a motion sensor, and is configured to: detect motion of the remote control using the motion sensor; determine that the detected motion corresponds to a volume changing motion; and adjust volume of the remote control and/or a media device according to the volume changing motion.
US11924510B2 Systems, methods, and devices for determining viewership data
Systems, methods, and devices relating to determining viewership data are described herein. In a method, viewing data associated with a household is received. A first portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a first video device and a second portion of the viewing data is indicative of video programming associated with a second video device. One or more characteristics associated with the first and second portions of the viewing data are determined. Based on the one or more characteristics and a comparison of the respective video programming associated with the first and second video devices, it is determined that the first portion of the viewing data is duplicative, at least in part, with the second portion of the viewing data.
US11924507B2 Adapting search query processing according to locally detected video content consumption
A process adapts user-initiated search queries. The process executes at a client device with a microphone. The process downloads audio fingerprints from a remote server for a plurality of video programs, and downloads information that correlates the audio fingerprint to the video programs. The audio fingerprints are preselected according to relevancy criteria, including stored user preferences and prior search queries by the user. The audio fingerprints and correlating information are stored locally. The process detects ambient sound using the microphone and computes one or more sample audio fingerprints from the detected ambient sound. The process matches a sample audio fingerprint to a locally stored audio fingerprint and uses the correlating information to identify a first video program corresponding to the matched sample audio fingerprint. The process then receives user input to initiate a search query. The process provides auto-complete suggestions for the search query based on the first video program.
US11924504B2 Method of receiving a recovery file format
A method and a receiver for receiving a recovery file format file from a provider comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a recovery data table including a RecoveryDataTable element; (b) receiving a contentID field of said RecoveryDataTable element describing a type of content identifier provided in a message having a cardinality of 0 . . . N; (c) receiving a svcInetUrl field of said RecoveryDataTable element describing service information; (d) receiving a URLValue field of said svcInetUrl field describing URL to access Internet signaling files for said service information; (e) decoding elements of said file based upon said recovery data table.
US11924496B2 Channel switching method for display apparatus, and display apparatus
The application provides a channel switching method for a display apparatus, and a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display, a remote control, a communicator, an input interface and a controller, the controller is configured to perform: receiving a channel switch instruction generated from an input number, taking the input number as a digital channel number for a first round of channel search, and determining whether a first channel corresponding to the digital channel number exists in a channel table stored in the display apparatus; in response to the first channel not existing in the channel table, further processing the input number to obtain a processed input number and taking processed input number as a physical channel number for a second round of channel search; and in response to the first channel existing in the channel table, control the display to play content from the first channel.
US11924492B2 Content delivery system for television broadcast systems
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating the selection of content for a television broadcast system. A first request for content in a broadcasting based format is received from a television broadcast system. A second request for content in a computer based format is sent to a network-based content selection system. A content identifier associated with selected content is received from the network-based content selection system and sent to the television broadcast system.
US11924482B2 Method for on-demand video editing at transcode-time in a video streaming system
A method includes: receiving a script configured to modify the audio-video file; calculating a performance metric based on execution of the script on a set of test files; classifying the script as performant based on the performance metric; defining a metadata store associated with the script and the audio-video file; receiving a playback request specifying a rendition of the audio-video file from a computational device; in response to receiving the playback request: accessing a set of data inputs from the metadata store; executing the script on a frame of the audio-video file based on the set of data inputs to generate a modified frame of the audio-video file; transcoding the modified frame of the audio-video file into the rendition to generate an output frame of the audio-video file; and transmitting the output frame of the audio-video file to the computational device for playback at the computational device.
US11924481B2 Automated workflows from media asset differentials
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) accessing a first media data object and a different, second media data object that, when played back, each render temporally sequenced content, (2) comparing first temporally sequenced content represented by the first media data object with second temporally sequenced content represented by the second media data object to identify a set of common temporal subsequences between the first media data object and the second media data object, (3) identifying a set of edits relative to the set of common temporal subsequences that describe a difference between the temporally sequenced content of the first media data object and the temporally sequenced content of the second media data object, and (4) executing a workflow relating to the first media data object and/or the second media data object based on the set of edits. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11924477B2 Signal reshaping for high dynamic range signals
In a method to improve backwards compatibility when decoding high-dynamic range images coded in a wide color gamut (WCG) space which may not be compatible with legacy color spaces, hue and/or saturation values of images in an image database are computed for both a legacy color space (say, YCbCr-gamma) and a preferred WCG color space (say, IPT-PQ). Based on a cost function, a reshaped color space is computed so that the distance between the hue values in the legacy color space and rotated hue values in the preferred color space is minimized. HDR images are coded in the reshaped color space. Legacy devices can still decode standard dynamic range images assuming they are coded in the legacy color space, while updated devices can use color reshaping information to decode HDR images in the preferred color space at full dynamic range.
US11924475B2 Signaling of quantization information 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 current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that the current picture is a recovery point picture in response to the current picture being a Gradual Decoding Refresh (GDR) picture with a recovery Picture Order Count (POC) value of 0. The recovery POC count specifies a recovery point of decoded pictures in an output order.
US11924469B2 Conditional signaling of reduced secondary transform in video bitstreams
Devices, systems and methods for digital video process are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the performing of the conversion includes determining, based on a width (W) and/or a height (H) of the current video block, an applicability of a secondary transform tool to the current video block, and wherein the secondary transform tool includes applying, during encoding, a forward secondary transform to an output of a forward primary transform applied to a residual of a video block prior to quantization, or applying, during decoding, an inverse secondary transform to an output of dequantization of the video block before applying an inverse primary transform.
US11924465B2 Luma-based chroma intra-prediction for video coding
A method for luma-based chroma intra-prediction in a video encoder or a video decoder is provided that includes filtering reconstructed neighboring samples of a reconstructed down sampled luma block, computing parameters α and β of a linear model using the filtered, reconstructed neighboring samples of the reconstructed down sampled luma block and reconstructed neighboring samples of a corresponding chroma block, wherein the linear model is PredC[x,y]=α·RecL′[x,y]+β, wherein x and y are sample coordinates, PredC is predicted chroma samples, and RecL′ is samples of the reconstructed down sampled luma block, and computing samples of a predicted chroma block from corresponding samples of the reconstructed down sampled luma block using the linear model and the parameters.
US11924462B2 Encoding and decoding method and device for determining a decoding order between a left and a right lower blocks
A video decoding method includes obtaining split information indicating whether to split a current block, splitting the current block into two or more lower blocks when the split information indicates to split the current block, obtaining encoding order information indicating an encoding order of the lower blocks of the current block, determining a decoding order of the lower blocks according to the encoding order information, and decoding the lower blocks according to the decoding order.
US11924455B2 Coefficient coding method, encoder, and decoder
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a coefficient coding method, an encoder, and a decoder. The method includes the following. A bitstream is parsed to obtain a video flag. When the video flag indicates that a video satisfies a preset condition, the bitstream is parsed to obtain a last-significant-coefficient position-reverse flag and coordinate information of a last significant coefficient. When the last-significant-coefficient position-reverse flag indicates that a position of the last significant coefficient is reversed for a current block, the position of the last significant coefficient is determined by calculation with the coordinate information of the last significant coefficient. According to a preset scanning order, all coefficients before the position of the last significant coefficient are decoded to determine coefficients of the current block.
US11924451B2 Image decoding device and image coding device
A reference picture information decoding unit (13) omits decoding of a reference list sorting presence or absence flag and/or a reference list sorting order based on the number of current picture referable pictures.
US11924450B2 Physical adapter, signal processing equipment, methods and computer programs
A physical adapter receives a data stream comprising data usable to derive a rendition of a signal at a first level of quality and reconstruction data produced by processing a rendition of the signal at a second, higher level of quality and indicating how to reconstruct the rendition at the second level of quality using the rendition at the first level of quality. The physical adapter reconstructs the rendition at the second level of quality and outputs the reconstructed rendition and/or data derived from the reconstructed rendition. The physical adapter is connectable to signal processing equipment that outputs the data usable to derive the rendition at the first level of quality. The physical adapter increases the quality of the rendition of the signal relative to the first level of quality and enhances the functionality of the signal processing equipment.
US11924448B2 Luma-mapping-based video or image coding
According to the disclosure of the present document, LMCS may also be applied to a block having a dual tree structure. In addition, the number of LMCS APS may be limited. Therefore, an LMCS procedure may be efficiently performed, and the complexity of LMCS may be reduced. As the performance of LMCS is improved, the video/image coding efficiency may be increased.
US11924440B2 Techniques of multi-hypothesis motion compensation
The present disclosure describes techniques for coding and decoding video in which a plurality of coding hypotheses are developed for an input pixel block of frame content. Each coding hypothesis may include generation of prediction data for the input pixel block according to a respective prediction search. The input pixel block may be coded with reference to a prediction block formed from prediction data derived according to plurality of hypotheses. Data of the coded pixel block may be transmitted to a decoder along with data identifying a number of the hypotheses used during the coding to a channel. At a decoder, an inverse process may be performed, which may include generation of a counterpart prediction block from prediction data derived according to the hypothesis identified with the coded pixel block data, then decoding of the coded pixel block according to the prediction data.
US11924430B2 Data encoding and decoding
A data encoding method comprises: encoding an ordered array of data values as data representing a data value magnitude and data representing a data value sign; predicting, for a set of data values comprising at least some of the data values, the respective data value sign from a property of one or more other data values in the ordered array; and encoding the data value sign for the set of data values in dependence upon the respective predicted value.
US11924425B2 Method and device for encoding or decoding encoding unit of picture outline
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a coding unit on an outline of a picture. An image decoding method and apparatus according to an embodiment determine whether a current coding unit extends across an outline of a picture, by comparing a location of the current coding unit in the picture to at least one of a width and a height of the picture, split the current coding unit in at least one direction into a plurality of coding units based on a shape of the current coding unit upon determining that the current coding unit extends across the outline of the picture, obtain block shape information and split type information of the current coding unit from a bitstream and split the current coding unit into a plurality of coding units based on the block shape information and the split type information upon determining that the current coding unit does not extend across the outline of the picture, and decode a coding unit that is no longer split among the plurality of coding units.
US11924423B2 Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of partitions, obtains a prediction image for a partition, and encodes the image block using the prediction image. When the partition is not a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains (i) a first prediction image for the partition, (ii) a gradient image for the first prediction image, and (iii) a second prediction image as the prediction image using the first prediction image and the gradient image. When the partition is a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains the first prediction image as the prediction image without using the gradient image.
US11924420B2 Picture decoding device, picture decoding method, and picture decoding program
A block partitioner includes a quad splitter structured to partition a target block obtained by recursive partitioning in half in both a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to generate four blocks, and a binary/ternary splitter structured to partition the target block obtained by recursive partitioning into two or three in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction to generate two or three blocks, and the binary/ternary splitter disallows partitioning of the target block in the horizontal direction when partitioning of the target block in the horizontal direction causes the target block obtained by partitioning to be located beyond a right side of a picture boundary, and disallows partitioning of the target block in the vertical direction when partitioning of the target block in the vertical direction causes the target block obtained by partitioning to be located beyond a lower side of the picture boundary.
US11924412B2 Image encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium having bitstream stored therein
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing representative sample-based intra prediction are provided. An image decoding method may comprise deriving an intra prediction mode of a current block, configuring a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the reference sample, wherein the intra prediction is representative sample-based prediction.
US11924410B2 Video coding using overlapped block motion compensation, combined inter-intra prediction, and/or luma mapping and chroma scaling
An example device for decoding video data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: generate an inter-prediction block for a current block of video data; generate an intra-prediction block for the current block of video data; generate a final prediction block for the current block of video data from the inter-prediction block and the intra-prediction block, including performing each of combined inter/intra prediction (CIIP) mode, overlapped block motion compensation (OBMC), and luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) while generating the final prediction block; and decode the current block of video data using the final prediction block. To generate the final prediction block, the processors may perform LMCS on a first inter-prediction sub-block, combine the LMCS-mapped first inter-prediction sub-block with the intra-prediction block using CIIP, and perform OBMC between the first CIIP prediction block and a second inter-prediction sub-block.
US11924409B2 Systems and methods for inter prediction compensation
A video processing method includes: determining whether an inter predictor correction is enabled for a coding block; and when the inter predictor correction is enabled for the coding block, performing the inter predictor correction by: obtaining a plurality of predicted samples from a top boundary and a left boundary of a predicted block corresponding to the coding block; obtaining a plurality of reconstructed samples from top neighboring reconstructed samples and left neighboring reconstructed samples of the coding block; and deriving a corrected predicted block based on the plurality of the predicted samples, the plurality of the reconstructed samples and the predicted block.
US11924405B2 Evaluation method and evaluation device of image stabilization effect of imaging device, and program storage medium
An evaluation method of an image stabilization effect of an imaging device includes calculating an evaluation value of the image stabilization effect on the basis of shutter speed values in case of which each of a reference shake amount theoretically calculated on the basis of a shake waveform applied to the imaging device and a measured shake amount calculated using an image captured in a state in which the imaging device is vibrated becomes a specified shake amount, and setting the specified shake amount. The setting includes calculating an image deterioration amount of the imaging device caused by something other than a shake from the outside, and selecting a determination level that defines the specified shake amount from a plurality of determination levels having different shake amounts on the basis of the image deterioration amount.
US11924403B2 Imaging element and electronic device
An imaging element of the present disclosure includes a first substrate on which a pixel circuit connected to a light receiving part is formed and a second substrate on which a pixel control part that controls the pixel circuit is formed, the first substrate and the second substrate being stacked. Then, the first substrate includes a first wiring formed corresponding to a first pixel row or pixel column, a second wiring formed corresponding to a second pixel row or pixel column, a first connection part that connects the first wiring and the pixel control part, a second connection part that connects the second wiring and the pixel control part, a switch part that controls connection between the first wiring and the second wiring, a first electrode connected to the first wiring via the switch part, and a second electrode connected to the second wiring via the switch part.
US11924402B2 Information processing apparatus and information processing method
To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program for restraining a burden on a user who observes a three-dimensional image. Therefore, a display control unit performs display control to cause a three-dimensional image to be displayed so that a first plane surface parallel to a horizontal plane in a real space is observed in an area based on a distance between a lower end and an upper end of a display surface on which a display unit displays the three-dimensional image and an angle between the horizontal plane and the display surface.
US11924401B2 System and method for displaying a 3D image with depths
A system and method for displaying a 3D image with depths, which utilize at least one light signal generator to sequentially generate multiple light signals(S100) and at least one optical assembly to receive the multiple light signals from the at least one light signal generator, and project and scan the multiple light signals within a predetermined time period to display the 3D image in space(S200). Each pixel of the 3D image is displayed at a position by at least two of the multiple light signals to a viewer's eye, paths or extensions of the paths of the at least two light signals intersects at the position and at an angle associated with a depth of the pixel, and the predetermined time period is one eighteenth of a second. Accordingly, the advantages of simplified structure, a miniatured size, and a less costly building cost can be ensured.
US11924397B2 Generation and distribution of immersive media content from streams captured via distributed mobile devices
A method for generating content includes receiving information regarding electronic devices respectively capturing content associated with an event. The method also includes identifying, based on the received information, one or more parameters for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content, the one or more parameters identified to assist in generating multi-view content for the event from the captured content. The method further includes identifying, based on the received information, a common resolution for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. Additionally, the method includes identifying, based on the received information, a common frame rate for the electronic devices to use in capturing the content. The method also includes sending information indicating the one or more parameters, the common resolution, and the common frame rate to the electronic devices.
US11924396B2 Non-mechanical beam steering assembly
A depth camera assembly (DCA) for depth sensing of a local area. The DCA includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a controller. The transmitter illuminates a local area with outgoing light in accordance with emission instructions. The transmitter includes a fine steering element and a coarse steering element. The fine steering element deflects one or more optical beams at a first deflection angle to generate one or more first order deflected scanning beams. The coarse steering element deflects the one or more first order deflected scanning beams at a second deflection angle to generate the outgoing light projected into the local area. The receiver captures one or more images of the local area including portions of the outgoing light reflected from the local area. The controller determines depth information for one or more objects in the local area based in part on the captured one or more images.
US11924393B2 Shared viewing of video among multiple users
Described are techniques for shared viewing of video among remote users, including methods and corresponding systems and apparatuses. A first computer device operated by a first user can receive an input video stream representing a three-dimensional (3D) space. From the input video stream, an output video stream corresponding to the 3D space as seen from a viewing direction specified by the first user is generated. The output video stream includes images that cover a narrower field of view compared to the input video stream. The first computer device can receive information indicating a viewing direction specified by a second user, who is a user of a second computer device. The first computer device can update the output video stream based on the information indicating the viewing direction specified by the second user. The updated output video stream can then be presented on a display of the first user.
US11924392B2 Method for mitigating 3D crosstalk and 3D display
The disclosure provides a method for mitigating 3D crosstalk and a 3D display. The method includes: detecting first and second eye positions of a user, and determining a viewing angle of the user and a rotation angle of a head of the user accordingly; estimating a first reference position and a first midpoint position between first and second eyes of the user based on the first and second eye positions of the user; obtaining a second reference position, and estimating a difference between the first and second reference positions; correcting the first midpoint position to a second midpoint position based on the rotation angle of the user and the difference; and determining a first pixel for projecting to the first eye and a second pixel for projecting to the second eye among the pixels of the 3D display based on the second midpoint position.
US11924389B2 Communication apparatus having enhanced wireless communication, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
An information processing apparatus detects a signal transmitted from an external communication apparatus and displays information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the detected signal. If a first signal is detected, a notification screen for prompting a user to perform a specification operation on the communication apparatus is displayed, and if a second signal is detected after displaying the notification screen, when the second signal corresponds to the specification operation, information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the second signal is displayed. If the first signal and the second signal are both detected, a second notification screen for prompting the user to perform a different second specification operation is displayed, and if a third signal is detected after displaying the second notification screen, when the third signal corresponds to the second specification operation, information of the communication apparatus corresponding to the third signal is displayed.
US11924388B2 Image recording apparatus and feed tray that includes a side guide inside a pair of sidewalls for roll paper
An image recording apparatus includes a feed tray, a feed mechanism feeding a sheet-shaped medium accommodated in the feed tray, and a recording device recording an image on the sheet-shaped medium fed by the feed mechanism. The feed tray includes a first accommodation portion accommodating a roll, in which the sheet-shaped medium is rolled, a pair of side walls interposing the sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll in a first direction parallel to an axis of the roll, and a side guide disposed inside the pair of side walls and having an inner-side surface contactable with an edge in the first direction of the first sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll. The side guide has a metal portion made of metal, the metal portion forming at least part of the inner-side surface.
US11924387B2 Sheet conveying device and image forming apparatus incorporating the sheet conveying device
A sheet conveying device includes a corrector configured to correct a position of a sheet, and at least three detectors disposed in a sheet conveyance direction. Each of the at least three detectors is configured to detect a lateral end of the sheet according to a length of the sheet to be conveyed in the sheet conveyance direction. The corrector is configured to correct the position of the sheet based on detection results of each of the at least three detectors.
US11924382B1 Enhanced caller information used for nuisance caller management
A system may include one or more of a called device, a calling device, configured to call the called device, and a network module. The network module is configured to process incoming call information of a call placed to the called device and configured to route the call to a destination based on preferences of the called device.
US11924381B1 Interactive routing of data communications
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to monitoring user-data communications corresponding to a user-generated message. According to a specific example, user-data communications, which are addressed to a client among a plurality of remotely-situated client entities, are directed to a message recording system. Each of the plurality of remotely-situated client entities are respectively configured and arranged to interface with a data communications server providing data communications services on a subscription basis. During recording of a message associated with the user-data communications and on the message recording system, speech characteristic parameters of the message may be analyzed, and a sentiment score and a criticality score for the message, may be determined. During the recording of the message, the user-data communications may be routed based on the determined sentiment score and criticality score.
US11924373B2 Dynamic enhanced call data assignment based on called numbers
One example method of operation may include identifying a call originated from a caller entity destined for a called entity at a call content server, identifying a called number associated with the called entity and a caller number associated with the caller entity, comparing a telephone number prefix associated with the called number with a number of enhanced call content data elements to identify a match, selecting one or more of the enhanced call content data elements to pair with the called number based on the match, and forwarding the selected enhanced call content data elements to the called entity.
US11924370B2 Method for controlling a real-time conversation and real-time communication and collaboration platform
A method for controlling a real-time communication between at least two participants can include identifying, from the at least two participants a first participant as an active speaker in the conversation by using audio signals received from the first participant via a microphone, and activating the digital assistant unit for the first participant. A voice recognition procedure for identifying and transcribing identified voice commands can be used so the transcribed voice commands are analyzed and executed.
US11924369B2 Voice communication system, voice communication method, and voice communication program
Provided is a voice communication system that notifies a terminal device of transmission restriction information when the number of received voice signals reaches a predetermined number. A server device continuously counts the number of simultaneously received voice signals. A first terminal device transmits, to the server device, a voice signal with identification information of a second terminal device. The server device transfers, to the second terminal device, the voice signal transmitted from the first terminal device. However, when the number of simultaneous receptions of the voice signals reaches a predetermined restriction value, the server device transfers, to the second terminal device, the received voice signal with transmission restriction information attached thereto. The second terminal device does not transmit a voice signal, even if a user performs a transmission operation, during reception of the voice signal with the attached transmission restriction information.
US11924366B2 Coordinated session charging in roaming scenarios
There are provided measures for coordinated session charging in roaming scenarios. Such measures (of a first session management entity of a first mobile network in a roaming charging related scenario between said first mobile network and a second mobile network) exemplarily comprise transmitting a session creation request message to a second session management entity of said second mobile network, said session creation request message including information indicative of a first configuration utilized for mobile network related charging, and receiving a session creation response message from said second session management entity of said second mobile network, said session creation response message including information indicative of a second configuration utilized for mobile network related charging.
US11924365B2 Clinical workflow, apparatus, method and system for providing indirect to direct telemedicine eye examinations using portable medical equipments connected via emulation software
The present disclosure relates to a clinical workflow, method, system and apparatus for performing an remote ocular health examination of a patient using medical equipment adapted to apparatus and emulating software and remote administration tool technology application. According to various embodiments portable medical equipment kit (OEK) can be assembled anywhere in the world connected to a computer. The MCB will have proprietary software to provide indirect to direct connection via layers. In an example embodiment, a method includes instructing a patient to position their eyes onto a camera where the image of the eyes are viewed on computer software. Where an on demand doctor can control the software that controls the cameras and review real time or near realtime the ocular images or videos via a indirect to direct connection to the main control base via a remote administration tool technology and emulating software using an internet connection.
US11924351B1 Optimizing data transactions and verification on a blockchain network
A transient blockchain proxy server consolidates many individual requests to add data to a blockchain by aggregating hashed data from these requests and sending the aggregated hashed data to the blockchain network as a single request. The blockchain network adds a new block to the blockchain with the aggregated hashed data and returns a transaction identifier for the new block to the transient blockchain proxy server, which passes the transaction identifier back to all the requestors who then can directly use the blockchain network to verify the hashed data using the transaction identifier. The transient blockchain proxy server buffers all incoming requests until one of the pending requests reaches a send timepoint that is the blockchain network delay plus a buffer time before a guaranteed time of verification. All incoming requests are then consolidated and sent as a single transaction to the blockchain network. Tiered verification-time services are enabled.
US11924349B2 Third party biometric homomorphic encryption matching for privacy protection
Systems and methods for secure distribution of biometric matching processing are provided. Certain configurations include homomorphic encrypting of captured biometric information. In some configurations, the biometric information is classified without decryption between a first identity class and a second identity class. The biometric information may be formed as a feature vector. A homomorphic encrypted feature vector may be formed by homomorphic encrypting of the biometric information.
US11924348B2 Honest behavior enforcement via blockchain
An example operation may include one or more of establishing a communication channel between a sending system and a receiving system, executing an oblivious transfer protocol between the sending system and the receiving system via the established communication channel, wherein the oblivious transfer protocol provides the receiving system with a functional encryption key based on a data vector of the receiving system without the sending system learning the data vector, committing to the functional encryption key using a cryptographic commitment and signing the functional encryption key commitment with a digital key of the receiving system, and storing the signed functional encryption key commitment to a blockchain.
US11924341B2 Reliable cryptographic key update
A method for updating a cryptographic key via a computation unit configured with one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors is disclosed. The method includes loading a base key into a cryptographic storage unit integrated with a cryptographic application. The method includes generating a temporal key based on the base key using a one-way key update algorithm via cryptographic application logic integrated within the cryptographic application. The temporal key is assigned an update count based on the number of updates performed on the temporal key. The method further includes comparing the update count value to a required update count, updating the temporal key if the update count is less than the required update count, and zeroizing the temporal key if the update count is more than the required update count, in which the temporal key may be regenerated with the required update count.
US11924338B2 Split random number generator
A computing system may implement a split random number generator that may use a random number generator to generate and store seed values in a memory for retrieval and use by one or more core processors to generate random numbers for secure processes within each core processor.
US11924335B1 Systems and methods for quantum session authentication
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for session authentication. In an exemplary embodiment, a session authentication system encodes and decodes a set of quantum bits using different quantum bases in order to generate a random number used to generate a session key or a random seed (e.g., a set of bits that is randomized due to quantum effects such as the principle of quantum uncertainty) for pseudorandom number generation used to establish a secure session. An example system includes decoding circuitry configured to receive, over a quantum line, a set of qbits generated based on a first set of quantum bases not received by the decoding circuitry, and decode, based on a second set of quantum bases, the set of qbits to generate a decoded set of bits; and session authentication circuitry configured to generate a session key based on the decoded set of bits.
US11924326B2 Blockchain platform service
The present invention describes an architecture for increasing the performance of blockchain using a virtual actor model to provide stateful services that are highly scalable and responsive to events as they support publishing and/or subscribing to streaming messages and/or events. The architecture as described leverages established distributed design practices to achieve what would otherwise require costly resource intensive hardware.
US11924311B2 Hybrid HTTP and UDP content delivery
A hybrid HTTP/UDP delivery protocol provides significant improvements for delivery of video and other content over a network, such as an overlay. The approach is especially useful to address problems (e.g., slow startup times, rebuffering, and low bitrates) for HTTP-based streaming. In general, the protocol has two phases: an HTTP phase, and a UDP phase. In the HTTP phase, the client sends an HTTP GET request to a server. The GET request contains a transport header informing the server that the client would like to use UDP-based transfer over the protocol. The server may refuse this mode and continue in ordinary HTTP mode, or the server may respond by sending an empty response with header information informing the client how to make the connection to enter the UDP phase. In the UDP phase, the client initiates a connection and receives the originally-requested content over UDP.
US11924308B2 Dynamic scheduling system for planned service requests
A computer system can receive user data from a computing device of a user, and based on the user data, determine that the user will utilize a transport service to arrive at a destination location at a specified time. The system can monitor transport provider availability within a proximity of a current location of the user prior to the specified time. The system can then determine a service request time for the user based at least in part on the transport provider availability, and automatically generate the service request for the user at the service request time to match the user to a transport provider.
US11924306B2 System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US11924298B2 Message pushing method for a virtual gift and electronic device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a message pushing method for a virtual gift and an electronic device. The method includes: when a virtual gift is received in a live broadcast room, determining a live broadcast room area to which a notification message is pushed, where the notification message is used to inform all live broadcast rooms in the live broadcast room area that the virtual gift is received; and pushing the notification message to the live broadcast room in the live broadcast room area respectively. The embodiments of the present disclosure implement rich methods for posting notification information about the receipt of the virtual gift, thereby improving user experience.
US11924292B2 Deployment updates in multivendor cloud environments
Deployment updates in multivendor cloud environments are provided by obtaining, from an administrative user, deployment objectives for a network deployment; identifying currently deployed infrastructure in the network deployment; identifying information sources to provide information for evaluating candidates for additional infrastructure to include in the network deployment to meet the deployment objectives; performing a cognitive computing analysis based on the deployment objectives to identify a configuration of the network deployment that includes the additional infrastructure selected from the candidates provided by the information sources; and providing the administrative user with the configuration.
US11924291B2 Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
An information processing apparatus provides a sharing service of enabling information to be shared by one or more terminal apparatuses, the information processing apparatus being capable of communicating with the one or more terminal apparatuses, and the one or more terminal apparatuses being associated with a group; receives first identification information from each of the one or more terminal apparatuses; and associates the first identification information with the sharing service. When having associated the first identification information with the sharing service, the information processing apparatus associates, with the group, the one or more terminal apparatuses having received the first identification information from outside and having transmitted the first identification information; and provides the sharing service of enabling information to be shared by the one or more terminal apparatuses that are associated with the group.
US11924290B2 Aggregated stochastic method for predictive system response
An information handling system operating a sensor fusion prediction based automatic adjustment system may comprise sensors measuring influencing attributes comprising information handling system operational values, wherein a subset of the influencing attributes influence one of a plurality of system characteristics, and a memory storing definitions of a user behavior characteristic, a performance mapping characteristic, a power status characteristic, a security profile characteristic, and a policy configuration characteristic. A processor may execute code instructions to apply stochastic prediction to the subset of influencing attribute values to predict a future value of a system characteristic influenced by the subset of influencing attribute values at a future instance in time, determine an adjustment to a policy controlling operational bounds of the system characteristic if the predicted future value of the system characteristic falls outside current policy-defined operating bounds, and automatically perform the policy adjustment before the future instance in time.
US11924288B2 Methods and systems for transferring a user session between devices
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a method and system for transferring a user session between a source device and a target device. The method may include receiving a request to transfer a user session from a source device to the target device, the user session corresponds to a running session between the source device and a session end point device, receiving session data corresponding to the user session transfer request, determining, at the target device, a corresponding launch application for the user session using the session data, launching the corresponding launch application to initiate a transfer of the user session; and replacing the source device in the running session by establishing a communication channel with the session end point device upon the launch of the corresponding launch application using the session data and terminating the user session at the source device.
US11924285B2 Data center asset deployment via a connectivity management deployment operation
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a data center asset with a connectivity management system client; establishing a secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and a connectivity management system; exchanging information between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system via the secure communication channel between the connectivity management system client and the connectivity management system, the information including a provisioning request; and, providing provisioning information to the data center asset via the secure communication channel.
US11924284B1 Automated security, orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) app generation based on application programming interface specification data
Described herein are techniques are provided for enabling a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) service to automatically manage apps used to interface with an integrated security operations service and other related devices and services. Further described herein is a SOAR app generator service or application used to automate the creation of apps for a SOAR service based on application programming interfaces (API) specifications for related devices or services, as well as visual playbook editor interfaces for a SOAR service that enable the configuration of complex action input parameters including arrays and objects.
US11924281B2 Service request information transfer system and method
A service request information transfer system includes: a service request taking/management terminal managed by a service desk, that receives a room service request from a customer, matches the serial number of a customer terminal provided to the customer with the order number and room number of the customer, identifies the staff member closest to the location of the room from which the room service request is received, upon receiving the room service request, and provides order information to a staff terminal the closest staff member is carrying; a customer terminal that is provided to a customer and sends the serial number of the device as a short-range wireless communication signal when the customer makes a call; a cloud service server that receives a room number and the serial number of a customer terminal matching the room number from the service request taking/management terminal and stores the same, finds the room number matching the serial number upon receiving the serial number of the customer terminal, creates a room service message corresponding to the room number and sends the same to the staff terminal of the staff member closest to the room with the room number; and a staff terminal that receives a room number and a room service message from the cloud service server and displays the same so that a corresponding room service staff member acknowledges information about the room service request and provides room service.
US11924277B2 Systems and methods for establishing and maintaining virtual computing clouds
Networking systems and methods for establishing and maintaining virtual computing clouds are disclosed. A networking system can comprise a server and various instances of a software agent, each agent being installed on a computing device participating in a virtual computing cloud. The server can maintain account setting for a user, wherein the settings can indicate which files on indicated computing devices are included in the virtual computing cloud. The networking system can selectively synchronize data between the computing devices automatically and in a secure manner, and can transmit data in real time to simulate local storage when synchronization of certain files is inappropriate in light of file incompatibility. As a result, the networking system can provide the user with a seamless, automatic system and method for accessing a total computing environment.
US11924274B2 Modular electronic apparatus for distribution of satellite signals
The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
US11924270B2 Method and system for transferring data
Systems, methods and computer programs for transferring data in a communication system are described. The communication system has a first node arranged to send data to a plurality of second nodes using a first protocol. The first protocol allows the transfer of data of a first type. At least one of the second nodes additionally requires data of a second type, which is not included in the data sent according to the first protocol. First data, of the first type, is transferred to a plurality of the second nodes using the first protocol. Second data, of the second type, is stored in a memory. Subsequently, in response to a request, access to the second data is provided to the second node.
US11924268B1 Systems and methods for locating microserver nodes in proximity to edge devices using georouting
Systems and methods for locating microserver nodes in proximity to edge devices using georouting are disclosed. Microservers automatically form a global peer-to-peer network to serve edge functions and content to edge devices. Edge devices use HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to execute serverless functions or otherwise retrieve data from edge nodes and/or microservers located in proximity to the HTTP client. The cloud platform locates the nearest edge node and/or microserver. Edge devices georoute HTTP requests to the nearest edge node and/or microserver. Serverless functions are implemented in secure, isolated environments using a blockchain.
US11924266B2 Latency reduction in remote rendering with adaptive phase shifting
Sending streamed data packets from a producer to a consumer. A method includes, at a first entity, sending consumable data packets from the first entity to a second entity at a first consumable packet rate. The method further includes receiving a first phase delta from the second entity, wherein the first phase delta is computed from transmission jitter, computed from timing information in the consumable data packets. The method further includes sending from the first entity consumable data packets at a second consumable packet rate, the second consumable packet rate being dependent on the first phase delta.
US11924261B2 Network protocol for enabling enhanced features for media content
A web server provides media content for playback on client devices that is associated with a set of enhanced features. When enabled, each enhanced feature provides functionality associated with and supplemental to the media content. The web server performs a handshake with each of a plurality of client devices to authenticate a communication channel. The web server enables one or more of the enhanced features while delivering media content for playback on a first device if information exchanged in the handshake with the first device satisfies a first criterion. The web server delivers the media content for playback on a second device, without enabling any of the enhanced features, if information exchanged in the handshake with the second device does not satisfy the first criterion.
US11924260B2 Secure television distribution over heterogeneous networks
A method and system of providing a second broadcast signal from a first broadcast signal is described. The method includes receiving a broadcast signal containing media content and data content and selecting, from the data content, a first portion containing control and configuration and a second portion containing replacement content. The method further includes converting the first portion and the second portion into a multicast internet protocol stream and processing the replacement content as a second broadcast signal using the control and configuration information. The system includes a transceiver that receives a broadcast signal, selects a first portion and a second portion of the data content, and converts the first portion of the data content and the second portion of the data content into a multicast internet protocol stream. The system further includes a gateway device that processes the replacement content using the control and configuration information.
US11924259B1 System and method for transmitting non-audio data through existing communication protocols
Methods and systems provide data transmission through unused transmission channels. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying one or more available audio channels in the communication stream available to transmit non-audio data, wherein the communication stream includes a plurality of audio channels and transmitting the non-audio data through the identified one or more available audio channels. Identifying the available audio channels includes determining each audio channels from the plurality of audio channels that is unused in the communication stream. Identifying the available audio channels may also or alternatively include identifying one or more channels from the plurality of audio channels in the communication stream as potential channels available to transmit the non-audio data and reserving the potential channels for transmitting the non-audio data.
US11924257B2 Systems and methods for providing media communication programmable services
Systems and methods for providing real-time media communication services to make use of a software application resident on a server that receives the media feeds of multiple sending participants, and generates a single composed media feed that includes media feeds of the sending participants and that sends the composed media feed to other computing services for manifold purposes like recording, re-broadcasting and/or re-transmission to remote computing devices of multiple real-time media communication participants. The composed media feed can include supplementary information in addition to the media feeds of live participants. This supplementary information is provided by means of API configurable programmatic code that is then executed and used as the software application resident on the server.
US11924254B2 Digital assistant hardware abstraction
This relates to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to intelligent context sharing and task performance among a collection of devices with intelligent automated assistant capabilities. An example method includes, at a first electronic device participating in a context-sharing group associated with a first location: receiving a user voice input; receiving, from a context collector, an aggregate context of the context-sharing group; providing at least a portion of the aggregate context and data corresponding to the user voice input to a remote device; receiving, from the remote device, a command to perform one or more tasks and a device identifier corresponding to a second electronic device; and transmitting the command to the second electronic device based on the device identifier, wherein the command causes the second electronic device to perform the one or more tasks.
US11924253B2 Network node, IMS node and methods in a communications network
A method performed by a network node, for handling an outgoing call from a first user in a communications network. The network node receives a request for the outgoing call to be set up via a first persona out of multiple personas associated with the first user, which request is obtained as a voice instruction from the first user via a Digital Assistant device. The voice instruction comprises a personalized name associated with the first persona of the first user. The network node identifies among the multiple personas associated with the first user, an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) user ID corresponding to the first persona based on the personalized name received in the voice instruction. The network node sends to an IMS node in the communications network, the identified IMS user ID, and a request to initiate the outgoing call via the first persona of the first user.
US11924252B2 Methods and devices for triggering lawful interception
Methods and network devices implement a lawful interception (LI) trigger control function as an LI target handler and a modified trigger control function. A generic LI triggering interface enables the modified trigger control function to query the LI target handler regarding whether entities using a network function instance are in a target list. The LI target handler has to meet the LI security requirements, but the modified trigger control function does not have to meet such requirements.
US11924249B2 System and method for distance based secured communication over an unsecure communication channel
Methods and systems for secure communication over an unsecure communication channel, including a server, to send at least one access token to a computerized device over a secured communication channel, and a terminal, to receive from the computerized device, over an unsecure communication channel, at least a second token, where said second token is based on the access token received from the server.
US11924248B2 Secure communications using secure sessions
Various example embodiments for supporting secure communications via secure sessions in communication systems are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting secure communications via secure sessions in communication systems may be configured to support mechanisms in a session layer protocol which enable communications of any communication protocol at any communication protocol layer to be transported over a session layer session (e.g., tunneling any data link protocol, any network layer protocol, any transport layer protocol, and/or any application layer protocol transparently over the session layer protocol), which enable multiple communications of one or more communication protocols of one or more communication protocol layers to be transported over a single session layer session (e.g., multiplexing two or more data streams of any data link protocol, any network layer protocol, any transport layer protocol, and/or any application layer protocol transparently over the session layer protocol), and so forth.
US11924244B2 Methods and apparatus to automate cyber defense decision process and response actions by operationalizing adversarial technique frameworks
In some embodiments, a method can include identifying detection coverage of a set of adversarial techniques based on telemetry data and a detection instance of an environment. The method can further include determining a subset of detection coverage that has a metric value below a metric value threshold and among the detection coverage for the set of adversarial techniques. The method may further include identifying at least one detection instance associated with the subset of detection coverage. The method can further include presenting, via a graphical user interface, a representation of at least one of the subset of detection coverage or the at least one detection instance associated with the subset of detection coverage. The method can further include updating the subset of detection coverage based on the telemetry data, the detection instance, or the at least one detection instance to improve the metric value.
US11924240B2 Mechanism for identifying differences between network snapshots
Aspects of the subject technology relate to a system configured to receive a set of network snapshot segments from an output stream of a stream processing service, compile the set of network snapshot segments from the set of messages into a first network snapshot and a second network snapshot, and compare the first network snapshot and the second network snapshot to identify a difference between the first network snapshot and the second network snapshot.
US11924238B2 Cyber threat defense system, components, and a method for using artificial intelligence models trained on a normal pattern of life for systems with unusual data sources
A cyber-defense appliance securely communicates and cooperates with a suite of different lightweight probes that can ingest onboard traffic from multiple different independent systems using protocols for at least one of a data link layer, a physical layer, and then one or more of an application layer, a transport layer, a network layer, and any combination of these layers when a protocol is used in that layer in the independent system. The lightweight probe ingests data and meta data with an independent system it resides within. The appliance has AI models to model a normal pattern of life in each of the independent systems using the data and/or meta data from protocols listed above. An analyzer module cooperates with the AI models that model a normal pattern of life in each of the independent systems to determine when abnormal behavior or suspicious activity is detected.
US11924237B2 Digital asset based cyber risk algorithmic engine, integrated cyber risk methodology and automated cyber risk management system
We are in a digital revolution. Over 85% of an organization's value is in digital form. Digital assets are systems, processes, data and technologies. Cyber exposures are quantified and cyber risks are scored. A graphical user interface visualizes a cyber-risk engine that quantifies cyber risk in alignment to how insurance companies pay claims, using flexible and multiple cyber risk algorithms that are prescribed in relationship to a customer's risk requirements. Digital asset cyber risk ratings are measured to increase cyber resiliency. A cyber risk management platform automates business processes across each cybersecurity function that provides data from near-real time cybersecurity tools for participants to reduce cyber risk back to acceptable risk tolerances and improve cyber resiliency.
US11924235B2 Leveraging user-behavior analytics for improved security event classification
Systems and methods for improving security event classification by leveraging user-behavior analytics are provided. According to an embodiment, a UEBA-based security event classification service of a cloud-based security platform maintains information regarding historical user behavior of various users of an enterprise network. An endpoint protection platform running on an endpoint device that is part of the enterprise network performs an initial classification of the event, based on which the endpoint protection platform blocks activity by the process. The endpoint production platform requests input from the cloud-based security platform which causes the cloud-based security platform performs a reclassification of the event based on contextual information, multiple data feeds and the UEBA-based security event classification service. Based on the reclassification of the event, the cloud-based security platform causes the endpoint protection platform to allow the process to proceed by providing the resulting security event classification to the endpoint protection platform.
US11924232B2 Establishing and maintaining secure device communication
Techniques for dynamically generating a trust level for an IoT device are described. A plurality of characteristics for a first device of a first device type are analyzed against a set of expected characteristics of the first device type. Embodiments monitor runtime behavior of the first device over a window of time to collect runtime behavior data and analyze the runtime behavior data for the first device to determine whether the device is operating in a manner consistent with the first device type. Upon determining that the analyzed plurality of characteristics is consistent with the set of expected characteristics and that the first device is operating in a manner consistent with the first device type, embodiments generate a security profile for the first device designating the first device as a trusted device.
US11924231B2 Malchain detection
A method and apparatus are disclosed for malware detection in service function chains. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data associated with a service function chain, the service function chain comprising a plurality of virtual components organized into a plurality of hierarchical levels and the data indicating interactions between the virtual components when processing at least one packet through the service function chain; filtering the received data based at least in part on a time-between order relation of the interactions between the virtual components and the hierarchical level of the virtual component; and generating a harmony feature vector for the service function chain by applying a featurization function on the filtered data, the harmony feature vector including metrics, the metrics calculated according to the featurization function for each hierarchical level being based at least in part on metrics calculated for at least one lower hierarchical level.
US11924229B2 Distributed security in a secure peer-to-peer data network based on real-time sentinel protection of network devices
In one embodiment, a method comprises: monitoring, by a first security agent executed within a network device, for real-time detection of a cyber threat in the network device, the network device configured for secure communications in a secure peer-to-peer data network, the monitoring including detecting a detected cyber threat; communicating by the first security agent with at least one notified agent about the detected cyber threat, the at least one notified agent one of a second security agent executed within the network device, or a corresponding first security agent in a second network device having a two-way trusted relationship with the network device in the secure peer-to-peer data network; and executing, by the first security agent, a corrective action to at least mitigate the cyber threat based on the communicating with the at least one notified agent of the detected cyber threat.
US11924228B2 Messaging server credentials exfiltration based malware threat assessment and mitigation
A method includes enabling a messaging server and providing credentials for the messaging server. A computing system is enabled and a malware application is received by the computing system. The malware application is executed by the computing system. The credentials are rendered accessible to the malware application via the computing system, and the malware application is enabled to transmit the credentials via network transmission from the computing system to a computer. An actor is enabled to access the messaging server over a network in response to the actor applying the credentials, and a first electronic message transmitted by the actor is received by the messaging server, the first electronic message including first content.
US11924226B2 Device analytics engine
Systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a fraudulent device. A device analytics engine receives device data from a computing device, the device data including parameters associated with the computing device. The device analytics engine selects a set of rules in a plurality of rules that indicate at least one parameter in the plurality of parameters in the device data for determining a device identifier. The set of rules are evaluated in an order until the device identifier is determined from the at least one parameter indicated in the set of rules, the device data, and previously stored data from multiple computing devices. A score is generated for the computing device using one or more of the device identifier, device data, a set of rules, and previously receive device data that corresponds to the device identifier. A computing device is identified as a fraudulent computing device based on the score.
US11924222B2 Intelligent real time dynamic smart contract generation for secure processing of internet of things (IoT) device based events
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for IoT event processing. A computing platform may monitor communication between an initiating IoT device and a service provider IoT device to detect an event processing request. The computing platform may extract, from the event processing request, event features. The computing platform may feed the event features into a deep learning engine, which may produce a smart contract corresponding to the event processing request. The computing platform may identify, using a distributed ledger, whether the event features comply with the smart contract. Based on identifying that the event features do comply with the smart contract, the computing platform may send, to an event processing system, authorization to process the event processing request, which may cause the event processing system to transfer funds from an initiating user to the service provider.
US11924219B1 Age assurance during an interactive query workflow
A solution for efficient and secure automated age assurance checking in association with a third party workflow involving an interaction between a user having an associated email address, and a target service. A request to estimate an age of the user is received and includes the email address. In response, the system issues a query to one or more data sources, each data source being of a different type and having an age attribute associated therewith. The data source(s) return responses to the queries. The system then associates an age attribute (typically, a minimum age) to each indication received from each data source queried. Based on a frequency of occurrence of the indications and the associated age attributes, a digital footprint that includes an estimate of the individual's minimum age is derived. A response (e.g., the estimated minimum age) to the request is then returned to the third party workflow.
US11924217B2 Data security systems and methods
A system for data security includes a processor and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that cause the processor to perform operations including: (i) logging data access events initiated by a user; (ii) generating a user profile of the user, the user profile including a size and a type of data accessed by each data access event; (iii) receiving a new data access event initiated by the user including a size and a type of data requested by the new data access event; (iv) comparing the size and the type of the requested data of the new data access event to the user profile; (v) determining that the new data access event initiated by the user does not correspond to the data included in the user profile; (vi) restricting the requested data associated with the new data access event; and (vii) transmitting the restricted data to the user.
US11924214B2 Systems and methods for accessing cloud resources from a local development environment
A method for accessing cloud resources via a local application development environment on a computing device. The method includes invoking an access management client at the computing device; obtaining an account identifier associated with a user account and communicating the account identifier to an identity platform; receiving an authentication message from the identity platform in response to the identity platform validating the account identifier, the authentication message comprising a role identifier; communicating the authentication message to the cloud platform; receiving security credentials associated with the role identifier from the cloud platform in response to the cloud platform validating the authentication message and the associated role identifier; setting a variable in the local development environment based on the received security credentials for use by the local development environment to request access to one or more resources maintained by the cloud platform.
US11924211B2 Computerized device and method for authenticating a user
The invention relates to a device and a method for authenticating a user utilizing an internet access client (10) for accessing remote resources of a computer infrastructure, said access comprising a first authentication (130) of the internet access client (10) and a second authentication (140) of the user of the internet access client (10). The method includes sending (132), to a token security module (21), by the internet access client (10), a client certificate (220), said client certificate (220) being associated with items of identification information of the internet access client (10); and receiving (133), by the internet access client (10), an authentication token (210) generated by the token security module when the client certificate (220) sent has been verified by the token security module.
US11924208B2 Computer implemented networking system and method for creating, sharing and archiving content including the use of a user interface (UI) virtual space and associated areas, content prompting tool, content vault, and intelligent template-driven content posting (aka archive and networking platform)
A computer implemented networking system and method for content-creating, sharing, and archiving, includes maintaining profiles for a plurality of users each having an account that stores and displays user-authored content posts, and generating, for each user profile, a virtual space (e.g. building or house) displayed via a UI, and including a main area and a plurality of sub-areas each being associated with a respective category, and wherein the main area provides navigation to the sub-areas. The approach includes generating the user-authored content posts for each of the users via posting templates that prompt a user to input and organize various content based upon the template guidance for the respective category. A prompting tool operates within the virtual space for each profile by displaying prompts within each of the sub-areas and related to the respective category and includes a prioritized list of user tasks.
US11924206B2 Systems and methods for providing security and tamper detection in I/O systems
A network adapter within an industrial input/output (I/O) system includes one or more processers. The one or more processors are configured to: receive a first combination; determine whether the first combination matches a predefined lock combination; upon determining that the first combination matches the predefined lock combination, start a lock process; receive a second combination; determine whether the second combination matches a predefined lock key; and upon determining that the second combination matches the predefined lock key, lock the adapter.
US11924203B1 Systems and methods for secure logon
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for secure logon. One or more method includes: determining, via authentication information provided by a user of an electronic device, that the user is authorized to access an online account provided by the online account provider; providing the user with a selectable option to enable an expedited logon process by which the user can access the online account by solely providing a particular authentication item of the user; receiving a verification credential in response to a next logon attempt using the expedited logon process; and verifying that the received verification credential matches an assigned verification credential provided to the user for use in conjunction with the next logon attempt using the expedited logon process.
US11924201B1 Authentication for application downloads
Embodiments described herein disclose technology for verifying authorization of an application download. The system can receive from a device associated with a user, a request to download an application. In response to a first instance of the application being downloaded on the device, the system can assign a unique identifier to the first instance of the application. After the application is downloaded and prior to granting the person requesting the application download access to the first instance of the application, the system can request via the first instance of the application identification information and particular authentication information to verify that the person requesting the application download is authorized to do so. In response to verifying that the person requesting the application download is authorized, the unique identifier can be associated with the account, user and/or device to result in a verified download of the first instance of the application.
US11924195B2 Onboarding an unauthenticated client device within a secure tunnel
Example method includes: establishing a secure tunnel with an unauthenticated client device associated with a user of a restricted network; receiving user credentials associated with the user and transmitted from the unauthenticated client device within the secure tunnel; validating the received user credentials; and transmitting at least a client certificate and device configuration information to the unauthenticated client device within the secure tunnel such that the unauthenticated client device is able to access the restricted network after installing the client certificate and applying the device configurations based on the received device configuration information.
US11924189B2 Systems and methods for credentialing of non local requestors in decoupled systems utilizing a domain local authenticator
Embodiments as disclosed provide systems and methods that use a local authenticator within a domain to provide a credential to access a resource of the domain to a non-local requestor. When a request is received from a non-local requestor at the domain the non-local requestor can be authenticated based on the request. The local authenticator can then be accessed to obtain a credential. This credential may be the same type of credential provided to members of the domain when they authenticate using the local authenticator. The credential is provided to the non-local requestor so the non-local requestor can access the resource of the domain using the credential and authentication of the non-local requestor with respect to these accesses can be accomplished using the local domain authenticator and the credential.
US11924183B2 Encrypting data in a non-volatile memory express (‘NVMe’) storage device
Data protection in a storage system that includes a plurality of Non-Volatile Memory Express (‘NVMe’) Solid State Drives (‘SSDs’), including: retrieving, from a plurality of NVMe SSDs (‘Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid State Drives’) of a storage system, one or more unencrypted shares of a master secret; reconstructing the master secret using the shares of the master secret; decrypting one or more encrypted device keys using the master secret; and using the decrypted device keys to perform a plurality of accesses to one or more of the NVMe SSDs.
US11924171B2 Private application platform
Methods and systems disclosed provide for creating private networks for secured communication between devices. The devices can communicate with each other over a secure tunnel created for a closed circle of devices. Furthermore, the methods and systems can enable offline communication between devices on a private network.
US11924169B1 Configuring a system for selectively obfuscating data transmitted between servers and end-user devices
Systems and techniques provide activity monitoring and selective obfuscation of various fields or categories of information included in traffic between servers providing services and end-user devices accessing such services. The selective obfuscation may account for a user's role and one or more levels of authorization or permission assigned to such a role. More generally, the disclosed techniques provide the ability to selectively restrict end-user access to data included in server responses, such that desired portions of the data are not accessible while other portions of the data are still accessible. An administrator tool may configure the permissions and rules used to decide whether traffic to or from a particular server or service should be selectively obfuscated; and if so, how that traffic should be selectively obfuscated.
US11924168B2 Firewall rules intelligence
A firewall intelligence system, includes a data storage storing a set of firewall rules for a network; a recommendation engine that receives, from a log service, traffic logs detailing traffic for the network and firewall logs detailing the usage of firewall rules in response to the traffic for the network, accesses, from the data storage, the set of firewall rules for the network; processes the set of firewall rules to evaluate the firewall rules against a set of quantitative evaluation rules to determine one or more firewall rule recommendations, wherein each firewall rule recommendation is a recommendation to change at least one of the firewall rules in the set of firewall rules; and a front end API that provides data describing the one or more firewall rule recommendations to a user device.
US11924167B2 Remote session based micro-segmentation
The disclosure provides an approach for implementing a distributed firewall within a data center. The firewall is implemented as a kernel space filter driver within the operating system of virtual machines. Each virtual machine hosts several user sessions. The firewall may be dynamically updated with new security policies, either by an administrator or a component of the data center.
US11924166B2 Resource-path-based, dynamic group membership support for membership groups
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for providing dynamic mechanisms for resource-path-based, dynamic group membership support for local and external membership groups is described. A method comprises: detecting, by a group resolver implemented in a management and control plane, that information about an object stored in the plane was created or updated; determining whether a URI of the object matches a URI regular expression and other conditions specified in membership criteria created for a membership group; in response to determining that a URI of the object matches a URI regular expression and other conditions specified in membership criteria created for a membership group: distributing the information about the object to network agents implemented in transport nodes to cause the network agents to automatically update a group membership policy associated with the membership group; and wherein the group membership policy affects packet forwarding behavior of a forwarding node.
US11924164B2 Cloud access to local network addresses
Various systems, device and automated processes allow video streaming hosts or other server devices to publish their internal/local addresses (e.g., addresses used on a subnet or other local area network) to a backend address server operating on a wide area network (WAN) such as the Internet. Client devices attempting to subsequently contact server devices operating in the same local network can contact the address to obtain the internal address of the target server, thereby allowing direct LAN connections between clients and servers.
US11924160B2 Application awareness in a data network with network address translation
Techniques for management of traffic in a network. The techniques provide application awareness in a Network Address Translation (NAT) system. In some examples, a first traffic is received at a first switch in a network from a first application hosted behind the first switch. The first switch identifies a first resource tag associated with the application from the first traffic. Further, the first switch identifies a first rule from the first resource tag indicating that the first traffic is to be routed through an intermediate device that performs network address translation. Moreover, the first switch transmits the traffic to an intermediate device, which perform NAT to translate the source IP address of the first traffic to a second IP address. Finally, the intermediate device sends the traffic to a destination device indicated by the first traffic.
US11924158B2 System, information processing method, information processing device, terminal, and medium
A system for providing a messaging service includes a talk storage for storing talk information in association with first user identification information, the talk information including a message from a second user to a first user, the first user identification information identifying the first user, and processing circuitry for outputting specification information specifying the one or more registered messages based on an acquisition of one or more registered messages, adding a first registered message specified by the first specification information, to the talk storage, based on each of one or more first requests accompanied by the first user identification information and first specification information included in the specification information, and adding a second registered message specified by the second specification information, to the talk storage, based on each of one or more second requests accompanied by the first user identification information and second specification information included in the specification information.
US11924155B1 System and method for managing notifications from published applications
Disclosed are systems and methods for managing notifications from published applications. A method for managing notifications from one or more published applications includes detecting, by a server, a notification from the one or more published applications launched by a user at a client device, forming a notification packet containing information from the notification, and causing the notification packet to be provided to the client device.
US11924154B2 System and method for deep message editing in a chat communication environment
A method includes detecting a modification to one chat message that forms a modified one chat message. Subsequent chat messages that are posted after the one chat message has been posted are processed. The method includes automatically identifying a chat message from the subsequent chat messages that has a dependency on the one chat message. The method also includes automatically determining whether a content of the chat message from the subsequent chat messages is impacted by the modified one chat message.
US11924152B2 Messaging selection systems in networked environments
Users of personalized messaging systems can encounter message fatigue, thereby reducing the efficacy of a message on its intended recipient. Message fatigue can result in wasted computational resources and bandwidth as messages transmitted over a network to the user's client device are not acted upon at the client device. For applications involving desired user interactions and responses, personalized messaging can be a tool to achieve user engagement targets. The systems and methods presented herein may address several of the technical challenges with personalized messaging.
US11924149B2 Composition of complex content via user interaction with an automated assistant
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that facilitates the creation of complex messages from user input(s) to the automated assistant. Each message can be created according to a respective template that is selected based on user input that directs the automated assistant to communicate a message to a recipient. Furthermore, sections of a template can be designated for certain content based on prior messages communicated by one or more users to one or more recipients. In this way, in response to a user requesting that the automated assistant send a message, the automated assistant can select a related template and fill out the template accordingly. In some instances, content that is assigned to certain sections of the selected template can come from a variety of different sources and/or may not be explicitly specified in the request from the user to the automated assistant.
US11924146B2 Full duplex uplink and downlink scheduling
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a full duplex transmission mode, at least one downlink control information (DCI) transmission for scheduling an uplink communication and a downlink communication, wherein the at least one DCI transmission indicates a full duplex beam pair including a first beam associated with the uplink communication and a second beam associated with the downlink communication. The UE may communicate with at least one wireless communication device based at least in part on the uplink communication and the downlink communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11924145B2 Multiple power references for high rank transmissions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to estimate a signal-to-noise ratio for each antenna port associated with a reception of one or more tracking reference signals. The UE may receive one or more of multiple single-port tracking reference signals, a single multi-port tracking reference signal, or a tracking reference signal associated with multiple power ratios. The UE may be able to estimate a channel upon receiving a demodulation reference signal. The channel estimation may be based on the reception of one or more of multiple single-port tracking reference signals, the single multi-port tracking reference signal, or the tracking reference signal associated with multiple power ratios. The UE may communicate with the base station based on estimating the channel.
US11924144B2 Method and apparatus for configuring aggregate maximum bit rate
A system for configuring a UE-AMBR includes a MME to send the UE-AMBR to an eNB covering the serving cell of the UE, the eNB covering the serving cell of the UE establishes a radio access bearer of the UE on at least one secondary cell. The MME sends an AMBR of the UE in the primary eNB covering the serving cell of the UE and an AMBR of the UE in a secondary eNB to the primary eNB. The primary eNB sends the AMBR of the secondary eNB to the corresponding secondary eNB. The technical solutions of the present disclosure can make total rate of all non-GBR services of the UE be not larger than the UE-AMBR when the UE has multiple S1 bearers or one S1 bearer.
US11924140B2 Subband channel quality information
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a plurality of reference signals on a plurality of reference signal resources, wherein the plurality of reference signal resources span a plurality of subbands associated with the UE. The UE may determine, for the plurality of subbands, respective selected CSI reports from a set of CSI reports based at least in part on the plurality of reference signals. The UE may transmit information indicating a subset of the respective selected CSI reports. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11924136B2 Method and device for transmitting/receiving sounding reference signals in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a method and device for transmitting/receiving sounding reference signals in a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting sounding reference signals (SRS) according to one embodiment of the present disclosure may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, setting information related to slot setting; receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) for triggering transmission of an SRS for an SRS resource set; and transmitting the SRS to the base station in the SRS resource set. One or more SRS transmission symbols for transmission of the SRS are determined, and in the one or more SRS transmission symbols, downlink scheduling may not be performed in one or more symbols that have been set as flexible symbols by the setting information.
US11924135B2 Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node receives a first signaling; transmits a second signaling; and transmits a first signal in a second time-frequency resource set; the second time-frequency resource set belongs to a target resource sub-pool; the first signaling is used to determine a first identifier, a first priority and a reference time-frequency resource set; a first time-frequency resource set is related to the reference time-frequency resource set; the second signaling is used to indicate a second identifier, a second priority and the second time-frequency resource set; a relationship between a first transmission node identified by the first identifier and a second transmission node identified by the second identifier. The present disclosure offers an effective way of addressing the resource wastes and transmission delay resulting from PSFCH conflicts in the NR V2X system.
US11924121B2 Data transmission method and apparatus, and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a data transmission method and apparatus. The method can include, in response to performing resource mapping on a physical downlink channel, mapping data symbols to a data transmission symbol and an adjustment symbol of a target sub-frame containing the adjustment symbol. The target sub-frame is a last sub-frame before performing a frequency adjustment or an uplink/downlink switching and/or a first sub-frame after performing the frequency adjustment or the uplink/downlink switching. The data transmission symbol is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for transmitting data, and the adjustment symbol is an OFDM symbol used for an adjustment time of a narrowband frequency adjustment or an adjustment time of the uplink/downlink switching. The method can further include transmitting the data symbol in the adjustment symbol or disabling transmission of the data symbol in the adjustment symbol when performing data transmission in the target sub-frame.
US11924117B2 Automated local scaling of compute instances
At a first compute instance run on a virtualization host, a local instance scaling manager is launched. The scaling manager determines, based on metrics collected at the host, that a triggering condition for redistributing one or more types of resources of the first compute instance has been met. The scaling manager causes virtualization management components to allocate a subset of the first compute instance's resources to a second compute instance at the host.
US11924110B2 System and method for prioritizing network traffic in a distributed environment
A system and method for prioritizing network traffic in a distributed environment. The system includes: a plurality of logic modules configured to receive policy data from a network device; a control processor associated with each logic module, each control processor configured to determine data associated with a traffic flow and coordinate traffic actions over the plurality of logic modules; a packet processor associated with each control processor and configured to determine a traffic action based on the traffic flow and received policy data; and at least one shaper object configured to enforce the determined traffic action. The method includes: receiving policy data from a network device; determining data associated with a traffic flow at logic modules to coordinate traffic actions of the logic modules; determining a traffic action based on the traffic flow and received policy data; and enforcing the traffic action across at least one shaper object.
US11924105B1 Method and apparatus for control of congestion in storage area network
In a storage area network operating in accordance with a transport-level protocol to interconnect host and target devices, where the transport-level protocol issues congestion notifications when any of the host or target devices becomes congested, a method for reducing congestion includes, on receipt of a request to (a) write data to one of the target devices or (b) read data from one of the target devices for return to one of the host devices, (A) determining whether congestion already exists at (a) the target device to which the write request is directed, or (b) the host device to which data from the read request is to be returned, and (B) when a congestion state already exists, comparing current depth of a queue of write or read requests to a maximum permissible queue depth. When the current depth of the queue exceeds a maximum permissible queue depth, the request is rejected.
US11924103B2 Traffic processing method, apparatus, and network device
A network device obtains Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) flow specification (FlowSpec) information, and generates, based on the BGP FlowSpec information, a first forwarding information base (FIB) table entry including a first prefix and an action, where the BGP FlowSpec information indicates to perform an action on traffic matching a filter condition, where the filter condition includes an attribute of a destination address, where the first FIB table entry indicates the network device to perform the action on the traffic matching the first prefix, and where an attribute of the first prefix is the same as the attribute of the destination address in the filter condition.
US11924102B2 Minimizing deviation from average latency of table lookups
A computer-implemented method, network switch and computer program product for performing exact match lookup operations in a table. A hash of the lookup key is performed to generate a value which is used to identify a location in the hash memory space. The generated value is separated into a bucket row, a bucket column, a bucket plane and a secondary hash value, where the bucket row, bucket column and bucket plane are used to identify an originating home hash root bucket. The head entry on the collision chain of a hash root bucket identified via the secondary hash value that is a neighbor to the home hash root bucket is read to determine if an exact match of the lookup key exists. If the head entry exactly matches the lookup key, then a finding of an exact match of the lookup key is reported.
US11924096B2 Layer-2 mesh replication
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a device of a virtual overlay for a Layer-2 mesh obtains a frame sent by a source toward a destination via the Layer-2 mesh. The device makes a classification of the frame. The device modifies, based on the classification, the frame to include a header associated with the virtual overlay and to include a trailer that comprises a sequence number of the frame, an identifier for a source of the frame, and a flow identifier. The device sends the frame modified by the device into the virtual overlay toward the destination, wherein the frame is replicated along different paths in the virtual overlay. The node in the virtual overlay performs deduplication with respect to two or more copies of the frame based on the trailer.
US11924094B2 Virtual circuit-based data packet processing method and forwarding table entry construction method
Provided is a virtual circuit-based data packet processing method, which includes that: identification information of a next-hop Provider Edge (PE) node of a routing packet and identification information of an Original PE (OPE) node of the routing packet are determined according to the routing packet corresponding to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service instance; a context virtual circuit is determined, wherein nodes at both ends of the context virtual circuit are respectively the current PE node and the OPE node; a virtual circuit label of the context virtual circuit is determined; a final data packet to be forwarded is obtained by carrying a VPN label of the routing packet and the virtual circuit label with an initial data packet of the VPN service instance; and the final data packet to be forwarded is forwarded to the next-hop PE node.
US11924092B1 Systems and methods of routing data transaction messages for distributed systems
A distributed computing system is provided that communicates with a routing computer system. A routing module that is internal to the distributed computing system controls how and when data transaction requests are sent to the routing computer system for routing to destination systems.
US11924089B2 Convergence for time sensitive cloud applications
Failover functionality is by identifying at least two network paths for a media communications session between a virtual machine at a computing environment and a client application. Unique Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are assigned for the at least two network paths. Based on application and network metrics at the computing environment, a network condition at the computing environment is determined that is indicative of a performance degradation of the media communications session. A signal is communicated to the client service indicating a switch to a second path of the at least two network paths and a second of the unique IP addresses.
US11924088B2 Packet routing with redundant network devices
An environment includes at least two network devices and a plurality of downstream devices or networks. The downstream devices or networks are communicatively coupled to network interfaces of the network devices using a plurality of data cables. The data cables each comprise a switch device configured to switch communication paths to the coupled network devices. Each of the data cables communicatively couple each of the network devices to one of the plurality of downstream devices or networks so that each of the downstream devices or networks has a communications path to each of the network devices and a switchable communications path from each of the network devices. The network devices do not arbitrate active/passive status via direct communication. Based on data contained in a reply packet indicating that a request packet sent by the first network device was acknowledged, the first network device determines that the first network device is an active network device.
US11924087B2 Adjustable multi-criteria network path computation and visualizations thereof
Systems and methods include receiving a request for a path in a network including a plurality of network elements interconnected to one another via links, wherein the request includes values for a plurality of criteria, wherein the plurality of criteria include one or more of trust, privacy, and secrecy; utilizing a multi-criteria path selection process to determine the path through the plurality of network elements over the links based on the plurality of criteria and the associated values; and providing a display of the determined path in a network map. The trust quantifies trustworthiness of each link in the network and the values of trust are any of a rating and a selection for inclusion or exclusion, the privacy quantifies a number of the links the network path is routed over for network obfuscation, and the secrecy quantifies a level of encryption utilized on the links.
US11924086B2 Load-based management for NVME over TCP connections
The disclosed systems, methods and computer readable media relate to managing Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) over Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) (NVMeOTCP) connections between a smart network interface card (smartNIC) and a block storage data plane (BSDP) of a cloud computing environment. A software agent (“agent”) executing at the smartNIC may manage a number of network paths (active and, in some cases, passive network paths). The agent may monitor the network traffic (e.g., input/output operations (IOPS)) through the paths (e.g., using established NVMeOTCP connections corresponding to the paths). If a condition is met relating to a performance threshold associated with the monitored paths, the agent may increase or decrease the number established NVMeOTCP connections to match real time network conditions.
US11924082B2 Control device and control method
A policy control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an amount of communication of an accommodated user terminal from a relay device that notifies the amount of communication when the amount of communication exceeds a communication amount threshold value, a calculation unit configured to calculate a communication speed by using an amount of communication in a past fixed period of time including at least the amount of communication currently acquired by the acquisition unit, and calculate the communication amount threshold value based on the calculated communication speed, and a notification unit configured to notify the relay device of the communication amount threshold value calculated by the calculation unit.
US11924078B2 Identifying a tethered device using TCP error transmissions
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, mechanisms, and apparatus by which a network operator such as a wireline internet service provider (ISP) may determine that an endpoint device has one or more other wireless devices tethered to it, such as a mobile handset providing dual-Wi-Fi ad-hoc tethering (i.e., connected to a high-speed Wi-Fi network while simultaneously providing Wi-Fi connections to wireless devices tethered to the mobile handset), by monitoring Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/IP traffic flow associated with endpoint devices (i.e., to or through endpoint devices), characterizing these traffic flows in accordance with one or more error indicative criteria to establish thereby a baseline profile of error indicative criteria that is indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is not associated with tethering (e.g., a rate or number of duplicate ACKs), wherein deviations from the baseline profile of error indicative criteria beyond a threshold are indicative of a TCP/IP traffic flow associated with an endpoint device that is associated with tethering.
US11924068B2 Provisioning a service
Examples of an apparatus and method for provisioning a service are described. Descriptors are described that represent the service. These are accessed and used to determine a reference required to implement the service. The reference indicates a type of entity and an entity to be passed to a function. The descriptor for the service is instantiated to obtain an instance of the service. This includes obtaining an instance of the type of entity indicated by the reference.
US11924066B2 Ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure for a SaaS provider
Systems and methods for ticket-based provisioning of cloud infrastructure from one or more cloud providers to build one or more computing workspaces of an enterprise. A provisioning platform provides a module catalog having one or more infrastructure-as-code (IAC) modules, each including code that is executable to provision cloud computing resources for the cloud infrastructure from the cloud providers to build the computing workspaces of the enterprise. A service catalog has one or more electronic entries mapped to and corresponding with the IAC modules of the module catalog. The service catalog receives one or more tickets that each specify at least one of the electronic entries in the service catalog, to bind each specified electronic entry with a corresponding IAC module, causing the provisioning platform to instantiate on the more cloud providers the computing resources for the cloud infrastructure corresponding to the ticket.
US11924065B2 Method and electronic device for placing micro network function
A method, performed by an electronic device, of placing a micro network function, includes: determining at least one micro network function used for a service; predicting control signaling overhead of at least one cell including at least one cell edge cloud, based on a history of control signaling overhead of the at least one cell; and placing the at least one micro network function in the at least one cell edge cloud, based on the predicted control signaling overhead of the at least one cell.
US11924055B2 Electronic device with intuitive control interface
An electronic device may include a display system and control circuitry. The user's environment may be presented on the display system. The environment on the display system may be a captured image of the environment, may be the actual real world viewed through an optical combiner, or may be a completely virtual image representing the environment. The control circuitry may gather information about external electronic devices in the user's environment, including determining a type and location of each external electronic device and a status of wireless communications links between external electronic devices. The display system may overlay computer-generated display elements onto the user's environment to indicate the status of wireless communications links between the external electronic devices. In response to touch or gesture input, the control circuitry may send control signals to the external electronic devices to establish or break wireless communications links between external electronic devices.
US11924052B2 Management server that controls network devices, and processing methods of network devices and model management servers
A network device divided into a training plane and a control plane, model management server that controls a network device, and processing methods of a network device and model management server are disclosed. A processing method may include receiving a machine learning model from a model management server, obtaining network data to generate analytics information, generating analytics information by inputting the network data to a machine learning model, feeding back the analytics information to the model management server, and generating a control command of the network device using the analytics information, wherein the analytics information is generated by a training plane function and the control command is generated by a control plane function.
US11924049B2 Network performance metrics anomaly detection
A method for detecting anomalies in one or more network performance metrics stream for one or more monitored object comprising using a discrete window on the stream to extract a motif from said stream for a first of said network performance metric for a first of said monitored object. Maintaining an abnormal and a normal cluster center of historical time series for said first network performance metric for said first monitored object. Classifying said motif based on a distance between said new time series and said abnormal and said normal cluster center. Determining whether an anomaly for said motif occurred based on said distance and a predetermined decision boundary.
US11924046B1 Network hierarchy constructs enabling instant global wide area network connectivity
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for a central management plane to automatically create and assign system identifiers to network devices, thereby creating a global network hierarchy within a network. The techniques enable the use of a system identifier to be automatically generated and assigned, as well as configuration and network policies to be automatically generated based on the system identifier. Accordingly, the techniques enable automation of regional connectivity and policy application, a simplified manner of troubleshooting/debugging of any connectivity issues, and a simplified, aggregated view of statistic and analytics related to problems at site, sub-region, and region levels.
US11924045B2 Connectivity management system client inventory and configuration operation for interconnected connectivity management clients
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center connectivity management operation. The connectivity management operation includes: providing a plurality of data center assets with a respective plurality of data center asset client modules; establishing a connection between the respective plurality of data center asset client modules and a connectivity management system, the connectivity management system comprising a connectivity management system aggregator; discovering interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets; and, generating a topological map of the plurality of data center assets based upon the interrelationships of the plurality of data center assets.
US11924043B2 Establishing trust relationships of IPv6 neighbors using attestation-based methods in IPv6 neighbor discovery
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assessing reliability and trustworthiness of devices operating within a network. A recipient node in a network environment can receive a neighbor discovery (ND) message from an originating node in the network environment that are both implementing a neighbor discovery protocol. Trustworthiness of the originating node can be verified by identifying a level of trust of the originating node based on attestation information for the originating node included in the ND message received at the recipient node. Connectivity with the recipient node through the network environment can be managed based on the level of trust of the originating node identified from the attestation information included in the ND message.
US11924041B2 Wireless backhaul network, communication method and apparatus
The embodiments of the present application provide a wireless backhaul network, a communication method and an apparatus. The wireless backhaul network comprises at least one tree topology structure, each of the at least one tree topology structure being composed of a serving base station node and at least one relay node, the root of the tree topology structure being the serving base station node; and any two nodes in the wireless backhaul network are in a child-parent relationship or non-child-parent relationship, and any two nodes, which are in the child-parent relationship, communicate by means of wireless connections.
US11924037B2 IoT deployment configuration template
Apparatus and associated methods relate to dynamically configuring an Internet of Things (IoT) device and a processor interfacing the IoT device. The processor captures a specific one or more of a plurality of deployment configuration templates for the IoT. The IoT device is then configured by the processor based, at least in part, on the one or more of the plurality of deployment configuration templates captured. The processor then deploys software for use by the processor to interface with the IoT device configured. The software deployed is determined based on the one or more of the plurality of deployment configuration templates captured.
US11924036B1 Automatic SAAS optimization
Techniques for enabling a network access provider to make automatic Software as a Service (SaaS) optimization decisions. Among other things, the techniques may include determining a SaaS application that is being accessed by client endpoints via flows through a network access provider. The techniques may also include determining, based at least in part on a policy associated with the network access provider, whether to enable network optimizations for traffic through the network access provider to the SaaS application. Based at least in part on a determination that the network optimizations are to be enabled for the traffic to the SaaS application, the techniques may include installing a service definition associated with the SaaS application in a service policy database of the network access provider.
US11924034B2 Migration of an existing computing system to new hardware
Software, firmware, and systems are described herein that migrate functionality of a source physical computing device to a destination physical computing device. A non-production copy of data associated with a source physical computing device is created. A configuration of the source physical computing device is determined. A configuration for a destination physical computing device is determined based at least in part on the configuration of the source physical computing device. The destination physical computing device is provided access to data and metadata associated with the source physical computing device using the non-production copy of data associated with the source physical computing device.
US11924030B2 Client device configuration based on client context
The described technology is generally directed towards configuring a client device with client configuration data based on client context data. The configuration data can include endpoints of various services to which the client can connect that are appropriate for the client device based on the client context data, along with dimension information (route key values) for connecting to each such service. For example, a roaming client device can be given an endpoint and dimension information to connect to a content service in the roaming region, with a different endpoint and dimension information for communicating user information to a home region to which the user is affiliated. This facilitates single hop/reduced latency for content requests, and compliance with home regulations via a single hop to the home service.
US11924026B1 System and method for alert analytics and recommendations
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center asset alert operation. The data center asset alert operation includes: monitoring a plurality of data center assets; determining when a first data center asset of the plurality of data center assets generates a first data center asset alert; determining when a second data center asset of the plurality of data center asserts generates a second data center asset alert; determining when the first data center alert and the second data center alert are substantively similar; and, generating a recommendation when the first data center alert and the second data center alert are substantively similar.
US11924016B2 Method and device for multilevel polar-coded modulation transmitting and receiving
The present disclosure relates to a method (50) for transmitting a data stream from a transmitting device (30) to a receiving device (40), the data stream comprising m data sub-streams, said method (50) comprising: encoding (S51) the data sub-streams with respective polar codes, such as to produce m polar-encoded data sub-streams, modulating (S52) the m polar-encoded data sub-streams onto symbols of a multilevel modulation comprising m levels defining 2m different symbols, such as to produce a symbol stream, transmitting (S53) the symbol stream to the receiving device (40), wherein the 2m symbols of the multilevel modulation are distributed in the complex plane such that they are regularly spaced along the real axis and the complex axis by a spacing factor K, the predetermined labeling function Z being such that Φ(Z)<1.7m×(0.0425×m−0.06), expression in which: Φ ⁡ ( Z ) = ∑ i = 1 m ∑ { c 1 , … , c m } ∑ { c 1 ′ , … , c m ′ } \ ( c i , … , c m ) e - 4 K 2 ⁢ ❘ "\[LeftBracketingBar]" Z ⁡ ( c 1 , … , c m ) - Z ⁡ ( c 1 , … , c i - 1 , c i ′ , … , c m ′ ) ❘ "\[RightBracketingBar]" 2 .
US11924011B2 Communication of information using guard band of a communication channel
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a computer program product for communication of information in a communication channel comprising at least one main band and an adjacent guard band. The method is performed by a transmitter node in a wireless communication network. The method comprises determining whether to transmit information in the guard band based one or more configured transmission parameters associated with the transmitter node. Upon determination to transmit information in the guard band, the method comprises determining transmission power for frequency resources allocated in the guard band based on a spectral mask defining a power density limit across an allocated frequency range. The method further comprises transmitting first information on the frequency resources allocated in the guard band and second information on frequency resources allocated in the main band to a receiver node according to the determined transmission power.Corresponding transmitter node, receiver node and computer program products are also disclosed.
US11924008B2 Compensation circuit for adjusting ratio of coincidence counts of data patterns, and memory device including the same, and operating method thereof
Disclosed is a compensation circuit which includes a data analyzer that receives a first bit stream including first to N-th bits, counts a number of times of coincidence of each of first to 2M-th patterns each having an M-bit size from the first bit stream, and generates a first pattern stream including first to 2M-th count values each corresponding to the number of times of coincidence of each of the first to 2M-th patterns, and a compensation calculator that determines first to 2M-th compensation values based on the first pattern stream such that results of multiplying the first to 2M-th count values and the first to 2M-th compensation values one-to-one are even. “N” is a natural number, and “M” is a natural number smaller than “N”.
US11924007B2 Estimating delay spread and doppler spread
To obtain delay spread estimations and/or Doppler spread estimations, data representing received data is input to at least one trained model, the trained model outputting spread estimations.
US11924005B2 Dedicated network gateway device
A dedicated network gateway device capable of bridging, switching or routing network traffic between a traditional network and a direct interconnect network is provided. The device may include a host interface card having a first port, second port, and one or more computation devices. The first port may be a direct interconnect port connected to a direct interconnect network. The second port may be a traditional network port connected to switches and devices in the traditional network. The computation devices may be internally connected to the first and second ports. The host interface card may be connected to a host device via a communication bus. The host interface card may be capable of switching network traffic between the traditional and direct interconnect networks without intervention by the host device.
US11924002B2 Smart energy hub
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for a smart energy home. The smart energy home may promote optimization of consumption of electricity by appliances and other consumer devices. Prioritization of where and when electricity may be provided to various appliances, chargers, or other devices which draw electrical power may be managed by the smart energy home. Information concerning prevailing weather conditions and contemporaneous electrical tariffs may be utilized in processes executed by the smart energy home. Related systems, apparatuses, and methods are also described.
US11923998B2 Channeling messaging communications in a selected group-based communication interface
Provided is a group-based communication interface configured to allow users of the interface to communicate within group-based communication channels and across group-based communication channels to provide relevant information to other users efficiently and effectively. Group-based messaging communications across the plurality of group-based communication channels can be channeled to specific receiver channels providing relevant information to users of the group-based communication interface thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of group-based messaging communications and the lifetime of the system.
US11923992B2 Modular system (switch boards and mid-plane) for supporting 50G or 100G Ethernet speeds of FPGA+SSD
A chassis front-end is disclosed. The chassis front-end may include a switchboard including an Ethernet switch, a Baseboard Management Controller, and a mid-plane connector. The chassis front-end may also include a mid-plane including at least one storage device connector and a speed logic to inform at least one storage device of an Ethernet speed of the chassis front-end. The Ethernet speeds may vary.
US11923991B2 Dynamic configuration of DMRS
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for dynamic configuration of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs). A method that may be performed by a base station (BS) includes receiving one or more uplink signals from at least one user equipment (UE); estimating a Doppler shift associated with the one or more uplink signals; determining a density of reference signals (RSs) within a slot for the at least one UE based, at least in part, on the estimated Doppler shift associated with the one or more uplink signals; and transmitting information to the at least one UE indicating an allocation of RS resources for the UE, wherein the allocation of the RS resources is based on the density of the RSs for the at least one UE.
US11923990B2 Techniques for triggering reference signal transmission based on decoding parameters
Aspects described herein relate to receiving one or more downlink transmissions from a base station, and transmitting, based on comparing one or more parameter values of the one or more downlink transmissions to one or more threshold values, a sounding reference signal (SRS) to the base station over uplink resources. Other aspects relate to receiving, from a user equipment (UE), feedback related to decoding one or more downlink transmissions, wherein the feedback includes an indication that the UE is transmitting a SRS, and receiving, based on the indication, the SRS from the UE over uplink resources.
US11923989B2 Uplink feedback method and apparatus, terminal, base station and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to an uplink feedback method and apparatus, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. The method includes: monitoring downlink information transmitted by a base station; transmitting uplink feedback information during a configured time window as a feedback to the downlink information, wherein the time window comprises a plurality of transmission units, and the uplink feedback information is transmitted by the terminal on any of the transmission units in the time window.
US11923987B2 Method and device for transmitting control information in wireless cellular communication system
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system supporting a data transmission rate higher than 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 disclosure relates to a wireless communication system, and disclosed are a method and a device for performing retransmission when data for a first-type service is damaged by a second-type service data during transmission of the data for the first-type service in a communication system.
US11923986B2 Communication device, communication method, and computer-readable storage medium
A communication device transmits to a communication partner device or receives from the partner device a radio frame conforming to an IEEE 802.11 standard series, wherein a capability of HARQ (Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest) that a device that transmitted the radio frame has is indicated in a MAC (media access control) frame of the radio frame.
US11923983B2 Communication of a status bit for deferred hybrid automatic repeat request feedback
Aspects relate to providing a status bit to a base station, where the status bit indicates whether all of multiple downlink transmissions have been successfully decoded. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives a plurality of downlink transmissions from a base station, and generates a plurality of acknowledgement data respectively for the plurality of downlink transmissions, each of the plurality of acknowledgement data indicating whether a respective downlink transmission of the plurality of downlink transmissions has been successfully decoded. The UE further transmits, to the base station, at least one status bit based on the plurality of acknowledgement data, the at least one status bit indicating whether all of the plurality of downlink transmissions have been successfully decoded.
US11923977B1 Decoder success predictor signaling for adjusting MIRS scheduling policy
A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, an indication of support for a decoder success prediction capability. The network node may obtain the indication of support by the UE for the decoder success prediction probability. The network node may output a transmission for the UE including one or more parameters based on the indication of support by the UE for the decoder success prediction capability. The UE may receive the transmission including one or more code blocks based on the indication of support for the decoder success prediction capability. The network node may optimize a multiple incremental redundancy scheme (MIRS) schedule for at least one of transmitting the transmission or retransmitting the transmission based on the indication of support by the UE for the decoder success prediction capability. The transmission may include the MIRS schedule.
US11923976B2 Method for transmitting analysis-relevant data, transmitter and system
The invention relates to a method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from a transmitter (2), in which the analysis-relevant data is present, to a receiver (4), in which data analyses can be performed. In order to improve the method for transmitting analysis-relevant data from the transmitter (2) to the receiver (4), according to the invention one selection rule (30) to be applied to the analysis-relevant data is selected for a data transmission from a plurality of predefinable selection rules (26) for the selection of data to be transmitted from the analysis-relevant data, wherein the selection of the selection rule (30) to be applied for this data transmission is dependent on a data analysis applied to the data to be transmitted and on a state of the data link (6) between the transmitter (2) and the receiver (4). Moreover, the data to be transmitted is selected from the analysis-relevant data according to the selection rule (30) selected and the data to be transmitted is transmitted from the transmitter (2) to the receiver (4).
US11923975B2 Device and method for compressing and/or decompressing channel state information
The invention relates to generating compressed channel state information and restoring the channel state information from the compressed channel state information. A computation device for compressing channel state information, CSI, representing a channel transfer function H having a spatial dimension and a frequency dimension comprises a transforming unit configured to perform a spatial transformation and a frequency-to-time transformation subsequently and in any order on the channel transfer function H to obtain a transformed channel transfer function HT, and a compressing unit configured to select values of the transformed channel transfer function HT and to generate compressed channel state information, CCSI, based on the selected values.
US11923973B2 Method and apparatus for encoding data using a polar code
Embodiment techniques map parity bits to sub-channels based on their row weights. In one example, an embodiment technique includes polar encoding, with an encoder of the device, information bits and at least one parity bit using the polar code to obtain encoded data, and transmitting the encoded data to another device. The polar code comprises a plurality of sub-channels. The at least one parity bit being placed in at least one of the plurality of sub-channels. The at least one sub-channel is selected from the plurality of sub-channels based on a weight parameter.
US11923970B2 Systems and methods for dynamic switching between waveforms on downlink
Systems and methods providing for dynamic switching between the various waveforms on the downlink are described. Embodiments of a dynamic downlink waveform switching implementation may, for example, support utilization of one or more multiple carrier (MC) waveform (e.g., OFDMA) or other high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) waveform and one or more SC (SC) waveform (e.g., discrete Fourier transform-spread-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM)) or other low PAPR waveform. Dynamic selection of a downlink waveform may be made by an access point based upon various metrics, including relative distance to a served an access terminal and the preference of downlink waveform indicated by a served an access terminal. A downlink waveform selection indication may be signaled from the access point to the served an access terminal using downlink control information (DCI).
US11923968B2 Optical transmission device, optical transmission system and method of updating the optical transmission device
An optical transmission device includes: a signal processor, a first frame generator circuit and a second frame generator circuit. The signal processor accommodates a client signal into one or a plurality of time slot sequences among n time slot sequences. The first frame generator circuit generates a frame including the client signal accommodated into a part of time slot sequences among the n time slot sequences. The second frame generator circuit generates a frame including the client signal accommodated into other time slot sequences among the n time slot sequences. The signal processor accommodates the client signal into the n time slot sequences when the first frame generator circuit and the second frame generator circuit are implemented, and accommodates the client signal into the other time slot sequences when the first frame generator circuit is not implemented and the second frame generator circuit is implemented.
US11923966B2 Dynamic configuration of a flexible orthogonal frequency division multiplexing PHY transport data frame preamble
A method for operating a transmitting device to communicate with a receiving device is described herein. The method includes the step of the transmitting device selecting a root index value from a set of root index values. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device generating a frequency domain Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence based on the selected root index value. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device modulating the Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence by a pseudo-noise sequence. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device generating an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol, wherein the frequency domain Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation sequence modulated by the pseudo-noise sequence defines subcarrier values for the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol. The method further includes the step of the transmitting device transmitting the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol as an initial Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing symbol of a preamble of a frame to the receiving device.
US11923957B2 Maintaining network connectivity of aerial devices during unmanned flight
Maintaining network connectivity of aerial devices during unmanned flight is facilitated. An example method may include providing, to an access point of a radio access network (RAN) during flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on a flight route, channel allocation instructions for connecting the UAV to the radio access network via communication channels. The method may further include detecting an interference event associated with a portion of the flight route of the UAV during the flight. The method may further include adjusting, during the flight, the channel allocation instructions in response to detecting the interference event. The method may further include providing the adjusted channel allocation instructions to an access point of the radio access network during the flight.
US11923953B2 Wireless communication device, system, computer-readable storage medium, and control method
There is provided a wireless communication device, comprising: a plurality of radio units including a first radio unit and a second radio unit; and a control unit configured to control the plurality of radio units to form a multi-cell on the ground, wherein the control unit has a removal processing performing unit configured to perform, based on a first reception radio wave in which the first radio unit received a first transmission radio wave which includes a first signal transmitted by a first user terminal, and a second reception radio wave in which the second radio unit received a second transmission radio wave which includes a second signal transmitted by a second user terminal, removal processing to remove a component of the first transmission radio wave contained as an interference wave in the second reception radio wave.
US11923952B2 Distributed relay
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to a distributed relay. The distributed relay may utilize beamforming and/or a specific physical arrangement of transmit and receive antennas to ensure a high isolation between antennas. The distributed relay may further facilitate the concurrent operation of two different intermediate frequency (IF) chains to support communications between a network entity and user device, receiving and transmitting data on each of the two IF chains independently of one another.
US11923949B2 Portable deployable underground communication systems, devices and methods
Disclosed are passive reflector radio communications systems, such as for UHF frequencies or greater than UHF frequencies, and related deployment systems and devices that provide underground communications. Embodiments of the system include reflector elements to provide passive radio communications, structural frameworks to support and orient the reflector elements, methods for calculating reflector size, shape, and position corresponding to a desired wavelength, and deployment methods and devices to install the communication system at a desired location. The passive reflectors can be placed in a folded or otherwise compact mode, for transport into underground tunnels. Once at the desired installation location, the system can be installed, with the reflectors positioned appropriately for the radio frequencies used at the location. Some of the embodiments include any of vertical or horizontal foldable reflector poles, reflective sheets, reflective mesh sheets and/or ropes, inflatable reflective pucks, and rapid deployment systems and methods.
US11923947B2 Method and device for random access for beam failure recovery
A method for random access for beam failure recovery. In the method, a random access configuration for the beam failure recovery is received. In the event of a beam failure, a random access procedure is performed according to the random access configuration.
US11923946B2 Beam measurement reporting on sidelink channel
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A communication device may receive control signaling indicating a sidelink beam failure reporting configuration including a set of sidelink beam failure reporting events. The communication device may identify occurrence of a sidelink beam failure reporting event, and may transmit a beam measurement report to another communication device over a sidelink in accordance with the sidelink beam failure reporting configuration. The transmission of the beam measurement report may be triggered based on the sidelink beam failure reporting event.
US11923942B2 Signaling for MU interference measurement with NZP CSI-RS
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining Non-Zero Power (NZP) Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) resources to be used for channel and interference measurement. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving, from a network node, a semi-static indication of one or more first sets of NZP CSI-RS resources for channel measurement and a semi-static indication of one or more second sets of NZP CSI-RS resources for interference measurement. The method further comprises receiving, from the network node, one or more dynamic indications that indicate a first set of NZP CSI-RS resources from the one or more first sets of NZP CSI-RS resources to be used by the wireless device for channel measurement and a second set of NZP CSI-RS resources from the one or more second sets of NZP CSI-RS resources to be used by the wireless device for interference measurement.
US11923940B2 Channel state information reporting method and apparatus
A channel state information reporting method and apparatus are described. The method can include a terminal device obtaining first indication information and sending the first indication information to a network device. The network device receives the first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a differential value between channel state information of a first antenna port set and channel state information of a second antenna port set. The first antenna port set includes x antenna ports of the terminal device, the second antenna port set includes m antenna ports of the terminal device, and the first antenna port set is different from the second antenna port set. The channel state information reporting method and apparatus in embodiments of this application help improve accuracy of channel state information obtained by a network device, and improve data transmission performance.
US11923939B2 Distributed mobility for radio devices
Multiple mobility sets are maintained for nodes of radio networks. The sets comprise information such as: transmit and receive point identities; cell identities; beam identities; frequency channels; channel bandwidth; and black lists. The sets may be defined at different levels, such as network and physical (PHY) level. A network mobility set, e.g., a new-radio (NR) mobility set may, be determined by the gNB, the cell, the UE, or another device. Multiple radio access network nodes and UEs may exchange mobility set information to achieve a distributed mobility solution. A UE may monitor its orientation relative to a TRP, e.g., via use of an onboard MEMS gyroscope, and alter its beamforming parameters in response to changes in orientation and/or changes in TRP connection strength. Cell selection and reselection for beam based networks may use Single Frequency Network (SFN) broadcast of initial access signals without beam sweeping.
US11923938B2 Beamformed transmission towards groups of terminal devices
A method for beamformed transmission towards groups of terminal devices. Each terminal device is, according to a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration, configured with a BWP set. One BWP in the BWP set is an active BWP for the terminal device. The method is performed by a network node. The method comprises configuring a new terminal device entering one of the groups with an active BWP based on frequency overlap avoidance with the active BWPs of the terminal devices already part of the group entered. The method comprises serving all terminal devices by performing beamformed transmission towards the terminal devices in accordance with the active BWPs.
US11923937B2 Reducing spurious beamforming in high density environments
Spurious beamforming in high density environments can be reduced via transmitting a first signal from a first Access Point (AP) to a first endpoint associated with the first AP via a first beamforming arrangement; in response to identifying that the first beamforming arrangement is pollutive to a second endpoint associated with a second AP: deprecating the first beamforming arrangement; and transmitting a second signal from the first AP to the first endpoint via a second beamforming arrangement, different from the first beamforming arrangement.
US11923936B2 Methods and apparatus for beam training based on beam configuration information over sidelink
A scheme for beam training include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for establishing a communication link with a second user equipment (UE), transmitting first information associated with first beam configurations of the first UE to the second UE, receiving second information associated with second beam configurations of the second UE from the second UE, and performing a beam training process by transmitting a number of reference signals to the second UE, wherein the number is derived from the first information associated with the first beam configurations and the second information associated with the second beam configurations.
US11923932B2 Codebook subset restriction signaling
A network node signals to a wireless communication device which precoders in a codebook are restricted from being used. The network node in this regard generates codebook subset restriction signaling that, for each of one or more groups of precoders, jointly restricts the precoders in the group by restricting a certain component (e.g., a certain beam precoder) that the precoders in the group have in common. This signaling may be for instance rank-agnostic signaling that jointly restricts the precoders in a group without regard to the precoders' transmission rank. Regardless, the network node sends the generated signaling to the wireless communication device.
US11923931B2 System and method for distributed antenna wireless communications
A system and method are described for distributed antenna wireless communications. For example, a method implemented within a wireless transmission system comprised of a plurality of wireless client devices and a plurality of distributed antennas is described comprising: computing channel state information (CSI) for wireless communication channels between the plurality of base distributed antennas and the wireless client devices; computing precoding weights from the channel state information; precoding data using the precoding weights prior to wireless transmission from the plurality of distributed antennas to the wireless client devices; and wirelessly transmitting the precoded data from the distributed antennas to each of the wireless client devices, wherein the precoding causes radio frequency interference between the plurality of base stations but simultaneously generating a plurality of non-interfering radio frequency user channels between the plurality of distributed antennas and the plurality of wireless client devices.
US11923927B2 M-MIMO receiver
A method for detecting transmitted data in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver, the method comprising: iteratively calculating symbol estimates by: obtaining input symbol estimates and input symbol variances; calculating error values for the input symbol estimates; refining the input symbol estimates to obtain refined symbol estimates, based on the error values, wherein the refined symbol estimates are used as input symbol estimates for the subsequent iteration of the above calculation, and wherein the refined symbol estimates are used as final symbol estimates when the difference between refined symbol estimates from one iteration to the next is below a threshold change.
US11923926B2 Wireless communication device, wireless communication terminal and wireless communication method
A wireless communication device includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a plurality of first frames each including first information for generation of a trigger frame for uplink multi-user transmission. The transmitter transmits a second frame generated on the basis of the first information included in the plurality of first frames, the second frame being the trigger frame and designating at least one target terminal for the uplink multi-user transmission. Each of the first frames is transmitted by a respective one of terminals, each of which accesses a wireless medium using an access category associated with the first frame under CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Carrier Avoidance) to transmit the first frame. The second frame instructs the at least one target terminal to transmit third frames including data in a SIFS (Short Interframe Space) after the second frame is received.
US11923920B2 Wireless communication device
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of first frames which are transmitted by multiplexing; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame containing check results indicating whether the plurality of first frames are successfully received and first information specifying at least one wireless communication device. The receiver is configured to receive a plurality of third frames transmitted by multiplexing in response to the second frame.
US11923917B2 Electronic device with activity-based power management
An electronic device may have a power system. The power system may receive power such as wireless power or wired power and may use a portion of the received power to charge a battery. Power consumption by control circuitry in the device can be adjusted by deactivating or activating processor cores in the control circuitry and by selectively starting or stopping software activities. By selectively reducing power consumption by circuitry in the electronic device other than battery charging circuitry in the power system that is charging the battery, additional power may be made available to charge the battery and/or battery capacity can be extended. The electronic device may reduce non-battery-charging activities in the device in response to information gathered with sensors such as motion and temperature information, information from the power system, information on device location, information on software settings, and other information.
US11923915B2 Convertor between control voltages and supply voltages
A voltage conversion apparatus for converting from a control voltage to a supply voltage and an apparatus for converting from a supply voltage to a control voltage are described. The supply voltage is designed to power, through a coaxial cable, a data communication device, and the coaxial cable is suitable for transmitting said supply voltage signal and at least one data signal associated with said data communication device. A conversion means of the conversion apparatus is configured to convert from the control voltage to the supply voltage comprising conversion means configured to convert from a first value of control voltage Vp1 and from a second value of control voltage Vp2 to a first value of supply voltage Va1 and, respectively, to a second value of supply voltage Va2. Said first value of control voltage Vp1 and said second value of control voltage Vp2 are values of control voltage for controlling a device that is distinct from such a data communication device.
US11923913B2 Satellite pointing system and method of automatic satellite tracking antenna using auxiliary LNB
Provided is a satellite pointing system and a satellite pointing method of an automatic satellite tracking antenna using auxiliary LNBs including: an antenna unit configured by coupling a main feeder receiving a satellite broadcast signal and two or more auxiliary feeders to an antenna and a controller tracking a location of a target satellite by analyzing strength of each satellite signal received through the auxiliary feeders and generating a control signal for controlling a pointing direction of the antenna unit based on location information of the tracked target satellite.
US11923912B2 Measurement method and device
A measurement method includes: determining first information, where the first information includes at least one of the following: a measurement quantity of a cell in which a terminal device is located that is obtained by the terminal device through measurement and information related to a movement velocity of the terminal device, where the measurement quantity indicates at least one of SINR, RSRP, and RSRQ; and determining a measurement periodicity based on the first information and a first correspondence, where the first correspondence indicates that the measurement periodicity is related to at least one of the measurement quantity and the movement velocity.
US11923910B1 CMOS circuit
A CMOS integrated circuit comprising digital-to-analogue converters (DACs), analogue-to-digital converters (ADCs), a digital signal processor (DSP), on-chip switching, an on-chip processor; and logic enabling to receive data from data sources in a 5G network, combine the data from the data sources into a single data stream, encode the single data stream using the DSP, and cause the encoded single data stream to be transmitted to another device in the 5G network.
US11923909B1 Self-coherent receiver based on polarization-independent delay interferometers
Disclosed is a self-coherent receiver based on polarization-independent delay interferometers, relating to a technical field of optical communication, including a first beam splitter, a first circulator, a second circulator, a first polarization-independent delay interferometer, a second polarization-independent delay interferometer, a first balanced detector, a second balanced detector and an electrical signal processing module.
US11923905B2 Distributed antenna system, method and apparatus
The present application relates to a distributed antenna system, a method and an apparatus. The distributed antenna system comprises a digital-analog expansion unit and a remote cascade chain, the remote cascade chain comprising multiple remote units cascadingly connected by means of radio frequency cable, and a first remote unit of the remote cascade chain being connected to the digital-analog expansion unit by means of radio frequency cable. The digital-analog expansion unit is used to perform a baseband processing operation on a received external signal, and to perform interconversion of an analog RF signal and a digital RF signal. On this basis, the digital-analog expansion unit and the remote units use a cable connection-based daisy chain topology, which can both increase transmission bandwidth and effectively decrease transmission link costs; in addition, baseband processing being executed by the digital-analog expansion unit, and a remote unit not requiring baseband processing equipment, can effectively lower system component costs and operating power consumption. The present system is characterized by multi-mode, multi-band support and cell splitting, is easy to expand, and has low construction difficulty.
US11923900B2 Optical wireless communication receiver with large photodetector surface area, large field of view and high bandwidth
An Optical Wireless Communication (OWC) receiver configured to receive an incoming optical beam modulated with data and output an output signal including the modulated data. A lens receives the incoming optical beam. Photodiodes positioned at a distance from the lens and proximal to the focal plane of the lens receive a fraction of the incoming optical beam and generate a photocurrent in correspondence with photons received. The photodiodes are provided in a two-dimensional array including rows and columns wherein outputs of the columns are combined and their photocurrents are summed. An amplifier connected to the combined output of the columns converts the summed photocurrents into an output signal. Interconnections of the photodiodes form at least two parallel branches wherein each branch includes a cascade of at least two photodiodes forming a combined photodetector surface.
US11923897B2 Method, device and program for estimating optical communication status
The present disclosure has an object of proposing a method and a device for estimating the state of a transmission path or an optical transmitter capable of mechanically estimating a factor causing an error with a small amount of constellation data and a low computing amount. The present disclosure provides a device for estimating a state of optical communication, the device including: a data preprocessing unit that reduces the number of data using random sampling with respect to constellation data in which an amplitude and a phase of optical communication data are represented by a polar coordinate diagram and performs distribution calculation and a dimension reduction; a learning unit that learns a dictionary matrix in sparse coding using learning constellation data processed by the data preprocessing unit; and a recognition unit that calculates a sparse coefficient using recognition constellation data processed by the data preprocessing unit and the dictionary matrix learned by the learning unit and estimates a factor causing degradation of the optical communication using the calculated sparse coefficient.
US11923895B2 Optical transmitter tuning using machine learning and reference parameters
A test and measurement system includes a test and measurement device, a connection to allow the test and measurement device to connect to an optical transceiver, and one or more processors, configured to execute code that causes the one or more processors to: set operating parameters for the optical transceiver to reference operating parameters; acquire a waveform from the optical transceiver; repeatedly execute the code to cause the one or more processors to set operating parameters and acquire a waveform, for each of a predetermined number of sets of reference operating parameters; build one or more tensors from the acquired waveforms; send the one or more tensors to a machine learning system to obtain a set of predicted operating parameters; set the operating parameters for the optical transceiver to the predicted operating parameters; and test the optical transceiver using the predicted operating parameters.
US11923890B2 Wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication system, and communication method
A wireless communication apparatus includes a first conductor and a second conductor that function as a set of electrodes for wireless communication, a third conductor and a fourth conductor that function as another set of electrodes for wireless communication. A difference between a first distance between a centroid of the first conductor and a centroid of the third conductor and a second distance between a centroid of the second conductor and the centroid of the third conductor is less than a width of the first conductor and a width of the second conductor. A third distance between the centroid of the first conductor and a centroid of the fourth conductor is longer than the first distance. A fourth distance between the centroid of the second conductor and the centroid of the fourth conductor is longer than the second distance.
US11923888B2 Full-duplex self-interference cancellation method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a full-duplex self-interference cancellation method and apparatus. The full-duplex self-interference cancellation method may be applied to the field of radio frequency self-interference cancellation in a full-duplex scenario. The full-duplex self-interference cancellation method is implemented by a full-duplex self-interference cancellation apparatus with self-interference reconstruction modules of two levels, and the full-duplex self-interference cancellation apparatus is implemented by a terminal. This greatly reduces hardware implementation complexity and costs of the second self-interference reconstruction module, and improves a full-duplex self-interference cancellation capability.
US11923885B2 High-frequency module and communication apparatus
A high-frequency module (1) includes a mounting substrate (90), a transmission filter (6MT) arranged on the mounting substrate (90), a reception filter (6MR) arranged on the mounting substrate (90), and a semiconductor control IC (40) arranged on the mounting substrate (90) and stacked with the reception filter (6MR) of the transmission filter (6MT) and the reception filter (6MR).
US11923883B2 Method and apparatus to optimize power clamping
A clamping circuit that may be used to provide efficient and effective voltage clamping in an RF front end. The clamping circuit comprises two series coupled signal path switches and a bypass switch coupled in parallel with the series coupled signal path switches. A diode is coupled from a point between the series coupled signal path switches to a reference potential. In addition, an output selection switch within an RF front end has integrated voltage clamping to more effectively clamp the output voltage from the RF front end. Additional output clamping circuits can be used at various places along a direct gain signal path, along an attenuated gain path and along a bypass path.
US11923882B2 Communication device, operation method thereof, and communication system including the same
A hybrid communication device, an operation method thereof, and a communication system including the same are provided. The hybrid communication device includes a contact unit that includes an antenna for receiving a first communication signal and an electrode for receiving a second signal, a switch controller that includes a first switch and a second switch and controls the first switch and the second switch based on a change in capacitance of the electrode, and a signal processing unit that receives at least one of the first communication signal and the second communication signal from the contact unit via the first switch and processes the received signal. The first switch is connected to the contact unit, and the signal processing unit is connected to the first switch.
US11923881B2 Interference detection and suppression in non-coordinated systems
A data receiver is configured to receive a signal, the signal comprising interferences of an interference-infested transmission channel, the data receiver being configured to form a histogram of receive information of a signal portion of the received signal and to determine mean receive information and/or a noise measure from the histogram.
US11923880B2 Non-invasive electromagnetic system for the diagnosis and monitoring of in-vivo and ex-vivo skin anomalies using lesion-optimized sensor system design and topology
An electromagnetic (EM)-based diagnostics and monitoring system and method for the non-Invasive diagnosis and monitoring of in-vivo and ex-vivo Skin Anomalies Using Lesion-Optimized Sensor System Design and Topology is disclosed herein.
US11923879B2 Radio unit for unsynchronized TDD multi-band operation
A radio unit for TDD multi-band operation in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The radio unit comprises a transmitting power amplifier for multi-band operation; one or more receiving amplifiers for multi-band operation and an antenna element. The radio unit further comprises one or more switch networks coupled in parallel between the power amplifier and the antenna element. Each of the one or more switch networks comprises one or more shunt switches coupled between an output of the transmitting power amplifier and a signal ground. Each of the one or more switch networks is configured to operate at a certain frequency band in transmitting or receiving mode and is controlled separately by a switching control unit based on un-synchronized TDD time slots configured according to user data traffic scheduling requirements.
US11923870B2 Method for constructing a fault tolerant encode using a quantum computational model
A method for constructing an n-qubit fault tolerant encode for any k-qubit quantum gate M, in any given quantum code [n, k, C], comprising: choosing a number n−k of independent spinors Sr from the first stabilizer C and a first ordered set SC consists of the independent spinors Sr; choosing a number n−k of independent spinors Ŝr from a second stabilizer Ĉ in the intrinsic coordinate and a second ordered set Ŝr consists of the independent spinors Ŝr consist; implementing an encoding Qen, wherein the encoding Qen converts the first ordered set SC to the second ordered set SĈ, wherein the encoding Qen is a sequential product provided by sequential operations of a number n−k of unitary operators Qr; wherein each of the unitary operator Qr is composed of a single s-rotation or a product of two s-rotations; and wherein the encoding Qen converts and maps the rth independent spinor Sr in the first ordered set SC to the rth independent spinor Ŝr in the second ordered set SĈ correspondingly; a fault tolerant action Û in the quantum code [n, k, C] generated by the second stabilizer Ĉ in the intrinsic coordinate, wherein the fault tolerant action Û is a direct sum of a basis state operator Λ and a correction operator Ω; and acquiring a fault tolerant encode in the quantum code [n, k, C] generated by the first stabilizer C, wherein the fault tolerant encode is a sequential product of the encoding Qen, the fault tolerant action Û and a complex conjugate Qen† of the encoding Qen.
US11923866B2 Digital-to-analog conversion apparatus and method having signal calibration mechanism
The present invention discloses a DAC method having signal calibration mechanism is provided. Operation states of current sources are controlled to generate an output analog signal by a DAC circuit according to a codeword of an input digital signal. An echo signal is generated by an echo transmission circuit according to the output analog signal. The codeword is mapped to generate an offset signal by a calibration circuit according to a codeword offset mapping table. The offset signal is processed to generate an echo-canceling signal by an echo-canceling circuit. By a calibration parameter calculation circuit, offset amounts are generated according to a difference between the echo signal and the echo-canceling signal, the offset amounts are grouped to perform statistic operation according to the operation states and current offset values are calculated according to calculation among groups and converted to codeword offset values to update the codeword offset mapping table.
US11923861B1 Wideband rail-to-rail voltage controlled oscillator
A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), including: at least one second upper voltage rail; at least one second lower voltage rail; a ring of N cascaded inverters, wherein the set of N cascaded inverters are coupled between the at least one second upper voltage rail and the at least one second lower voltage rail; at least one first frequency band select circuit coupled between first upper voltage rail and the at least one second upper voltage rail; at least one second frequency band select circuit coupled between the at least one second lower voltage rail and first lower voltage rail; at least one first VCO frequency control circuit coupled between the first upper voltage rail and the at least one second upper voltage rail; and at least one second VCO frequency control circuit coupled between the at least one second lower voltage rail and the first lower voltage rail.
US11923858B2 Clock data recovery circuit
A clock data recovery circuit includes a phase detector, a first signal processing path, a second signal processing path, an oscillator circuit and a phase control circuit. The phase detector samples input data signal according to first clock signals to generate an up control signal and a down control signal. The first signal processing path includes at least one first signal processing device generating a phase control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The second signal processing path includes at least one second signal processing device generating a frequency control signal according to the up control signal and the down control signal. The oscillator circuit generates second clock signals according to the frequency control signal. The phase control circuit controls phases of the second clock signals according to the phase control signal to generate the first clock signals.
US11923856B2 Low-latency time-to-digital converter with reduced quantization step
Methods and apparatus for time-to-digital conversion. An example apparatus includes a first input; a second input; a delay line coupled to the first input and comprising a plurality of first delay elements coupled in series, each of the plurality of first delay elements having a first delay time; a second delay element having an input coupled to the second input and having the first delay time; a third delay element having an input coupled to the second input and having a second delay time, the second delay time being smaller than the first delay time; a first set of arbiters having first inputs coupled to the delay line and having second inputs coupled to an output of the second delay element; and a second set of arbiters having first inputs coupled to the delay line and having second inputs coupled to an output of the third delay element.
US11923851B2 Drive device and semiconductor module
According to one embodiment, a drive device includes a drive circuit configured to drive a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes first to fourth electrodes, a semiconductor member, and an insulating member. The semiconductor member includes first to fourth semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region includes first to third partial regions. The first semiconductor region is between the first electrode and the second semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is between the first and second semiconductor regions. The fourth semiconductor region is between the first electrode and the first semiconductor region. The second electrode is electrically connected to the second semiconductor region. The first partial region is between the fourth semiconductor region and the third electrode. The second partial region is between the fourth semiconductor region and the fourth electrode. A part of the insulating member is provided between the semiconductor member and the third and fourth electrodes.
US11923848B1 Majority or minority logic gate with non-linear input capacitors without reset
A class of complex logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. At least one input to an individual multi-input majority gate is a fixed input. Other inputs are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node, which provides a majority function of the inputs. The summing node is coupled to a CMOS logic. Leakage through the capacitors is configured such that capacitors of a majority gate have substantially equal leakage, and this leakage has a I-V behavior which is symmetric. As such, reset device(s) on the summing node are not used. The non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels, which reduces the high leakage problem faced from majority gates that use linear input capacitors.
US11923837B2 Load switch including back-to-back connected transistors
An apparatus includes a first drain/source region and a second drain/source region over a substrate, and a first gate adjacent to the first drain/source region and a second gate adjacent to the second drain/source region, wherein the first gate and the second gate are separated from each other, wherein the first drain/source region, the second drain/source region, the first gate and the second gate form two back-to-back connected transistors.
US11923834B2 Switch device
A switch device includes an output transistor, an overcurrent protection circuit configured to be capable of performing an overcurrent protection operation in which magnitude of target current flowing in the output transistor is limited to a predetermined upper limit current value or less, and a control circuit configured to be capable of controlling a state of the output transistor and capable of changing the upper limit current value among a plurality of current values including a predetermined first current value and a predetermined second current value less than the first current value. The control circuit can limit the magnitude of the target current to the first current value or less in response to the magnitude of the target current reaching the first current value, and then change the upper limit current value to the second current value.
US11923829B2 Reduced temperature coefficient of frequency at filter transition band while retaining pass-band width
An electronic filter includes a plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in series between an input port and an output port, a plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators electrically connected in parallel and electrically connected on first sides between respective ones of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators and electrically connected on second sides to ground, and at least one additional acoustic wave resonator electrically connected in parallel to one of one of the plurality of series arm acoustic wave resonators or one of the plurality of parallel arm acoustic wave resonators and having a temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) lower than a TCF of the acoustic wave resonator to which it is electrically connected in parallel.
US11923824B2 Acoustic wave resonators and radio frequency elements with isolation
Embodiments of this disclosure relate to reducing coupling between acoustic wave resonators. An isolation region of a substrate can be located between acoustic wave resonators. The isolation region can reduce capacitive coupling through the substrate between the acoustic wave resonators. In certain embodiments, the isolation region can be located between acoustic wave resonators of different filters to thereby increase isolation between the filters.
US11923823B2 Acoustic wave device with high thermal conductivity layer on interdigital transducer
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate, interdigital transducer electrodes including a predetermined number of electrode fingers disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, and a dielectric material layer having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate and between the interdigital transducer electrode fingers. The second portion is disposed above the interdigital transducer electrode fingers. The acoustic wave device further includes at least one thermally conductive bridge disposed within the dielectric material layer and contacting upper surfaces of at least two adjacent interdigital transducer electrode fingers to dissipate heat therefrom.
US11923819B2 Wideband signal attenuator
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a wide bandwidth attenuator circuit having a tunable gain and tunable input impedance. In some embodiments, the wideband attenuator circuit comprises a serial capacitor shunted to ground by a plurality of circuit slices that are connected in parallel and switchably coupled to the output node of the attenuator. Each circuit slice has a tunable resistor that can be set to a conductive state (“enabled”) or a high impedance state (“disabled”) The number of enabled circuit slices that are connected in parallel may be used to program the attenuator gain and the attenuator impedance.
US11923812B2 Delay-compensating power management integrated circuit
A delay-compensating power management integrated circuit (PMIC) is provided. The PMIC includes a target voltage circuit configured to generate a target voltage that is utilized for generating a time-variant voltage to amplify an analog signal. The target voltage is generated based on a time-variant envelope of the analog signal but lags behind the time-variant envelope by a temporal delay(s) due to an inherent processing delay in the target voltage circuit. In this regard, a voltage processing circuit is provided in the target voltage circuit to generate a modified target voltage that is time-adjusted relative to the target voltage to substantially offset the temporal delay(s). By generating the time-variant voltage based on the modified target voltage, the time-variant voltage can be better aligned with the time-variant envelope of the analog signal, thus helping to reduce amplitude distortion when amplifying the analog signal.
US11923805B2 Low power electronic oscillators
An oscillator arrangement is provided, comprising a relaxation oscillator having an active state and an inactive state; a bias current circuit portion arranged to provide a bias current to the relaxation oscillator during said active state; and an electronic switch arranged to isolate said relaxation oscillator from the bias current circuit portion when in said inactive state. The oscillator arrangement is arranged to store an internal voltage value associated with said bias current and the bias current circuit portion is arranged to use the stored internal voltage value to generate the bias current when the oscillator is started up from the inactive state to the active state.
US11923799B2 Systems and methods for regulating slew time of output voltage of DC motor drivers
An apparatus for regulating a slew time of an output voltage of a motor driver system includes a gate current control circuit which has a first input coupled to receive a target slew time and a second input coupled to receive a slew time. The gate current control circuit provides an incremented gate current if the slew time is greater than the target slew time and provides a decremented gate current if the slew time is less than the target slew time. The apparatus includes a gate driver which has a first input coupled to receive a PWM signal and a second input coupled to receive the gate current. The gate driver provides a gate drive signal.
US11923798B2 Drive system with inverter and electric motor, and method for operating a drive system
In a drive system having an inverter and electric motor, and a method for operating a drive system, the electric motor is fed from the AC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter, a first series circuit, which includes a brake resistor and a first controllable semiconductor switch, is connected at the DC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter, and a second series circuit, which includes an impedance and a controllable second semiconductor switch, is connected in parallel with the first series circuit, e.g., in parallel with the DC-voltage-side terminal of the inverter.
US11923797B2 Motor driving device and air conditioner including the same
A motor driving device and an air conditioner having the same of the present disclosure limits the switching of a winding switching device when there is a possibility that the winding switching device is deteriorated, in order to increase the life of winding switching device of a motor and prevent malfunction.
US11923796B2 Apparatus for switching and protection of a load based on current rise speed
An apparatus for switching and/or protection of a load connected to said apparatus, said apparatus (1) comprising: a power switch (5) through which the connected load receives an electrical current; a sensor component (4) connected in series with said power switch (5) and adapted to generate directly an electrical voltage drop corresponding to a current rise speed of the electrical current flowing via the sensor component (4) and via the power switch (5) to said load; and a driver circuit (6) adapted to detect an occurring overcurrent depending on a voltage drop generated by said sensor component (4) with or without a voltage drop along the power switch (5) and to switch off said power switch (5) upon detection of an overcurrent within a switch-off period to protect said power switch (5) and said load.
US11923793B2 Motor-drive with universal jumper configuration
A motor-drive system may include a rectifier, a metal-oxide varistor (MOV) assembly, and an inverter. The rectifier may generate a direct current (DC) voltage based on a first voltage received from at least one supply voltage line coupled to a voltage source. The MOV assembly may include at least two metal-oxide varistors (MOVs) respectively coupled to the at least one supply voltage lines. The MOV assembly may couple between the voltage source and the rectifier. The motor-drive system may also include a permanently-installed jumper to couple at least one MOV of the at least two MOVs of the MOV assembly to a system ground. The inverter of the motor-drive system may convert the DC voltage to an alternating current (AC) voltage, which may be provided to a load of the motor-drive system.
US11923791B2 Harvesting energy for a smart ring via piezoelectric charging
A smart ring is configured harvest mechanical energy using piezoelectricity. The smart ring includes a ring-shaped housing, a power source disposed within the ring-shaped housing, and a charging circuit. The charging circuit includes a piezoelectric harvesting element, and is configured to charge the power source when user motion causes a mechanical deformation in the piezoelectric harvesting element. The smart ring further includes a component, disposed within the ring-shaped housing and configured to draw energy from the power source, and further configured to perform at least one of: i) sense a physical phenomenon external to the ring-shaped housing, ii) send communication signals to a communication device external to the ring-shaped housing, or iii) implement a user interface.
US11923789B2 Power converter
According to one embodiment, a power converter includes an inverter and a controller. The inverter operates in an interconnected operation mode in which a grid is connected to an electric load and an isolated operation mode in which the inverter is connected to the electric load, for generating power from a local power supply. The controller detects a frequency difference and a phase difference between an inverter output from the inverter and grid power. The controller calculates, based on the frequency difference and the phase difference, an output frequency pattern to be used for synchronizing the inverter output with the grid power. The controller controls, when switching from the isolated operation mode to the interconnected operation mode, a frequency of the inverter output based on the output frequency pattern.
US11923785B2 Power module for the operation of an electric vehicle drive with improved temperature determination of the power semiconductor
Method for measuring an operating temperature of a power module (10) that is used for operating an electric vehicle drive, the power module (10) comprising a plurality of semiconductor switching elements (14) and drive electronics (16), wherein the semiconductor switching elements (14) can be switched by the drive electronics (16) in such a way that the semiconductor switching elements (14) allow or interrupt a drain-source current in order to convert the direct current fed into the power module (10) at the input side into an output-side alternating current, wherein the method comprises measurement of a voltage present at a point located on a side of a diode (22) that is connected in series with the semiconductor switching element (14) and that faces away from the semiconductor switching element (14), wherein the method comprises measurement of a drain-source current of the semiconductor switching element (14) that is generated by a current source (18), wherein the method comprises determination of a mathematical dependency between the measured voltage and the measured current.
US11923784B2 Pyramid-type multilevel converter topology
A pyramid-type multilevel converter for converting DC voltage to AC voltage waveforms, and vice versa. An example device can use modular building blocks to form a selector stage, a converter stage, and at least one intermediate stage if the number of converters within the converter stage is greater than or equal to 3, with the converter stage switching at high-frequency PWM to chop the DC voltages. The modular building blocks are connected in a symmetric or asymmetric pyramid configuration having a base of using the converter stage and an apex of the selector stage.
US11923780B2 Matrix converter control using predicted output current
There is provided a method of generating a control strategy based on at least three switching states of a matrix converter. The at least three switching states are selected based on at least a predicted output current, associated with each switching state, and a desired output current. In particular, mathematical transformations of a desired output current as well as output currents associated with each of a plurality of switching states are used to identify appropriate switching states.
US11923775B2 In-vehicle power conversion device
Provided is an in-vehicle power conversion device in which a smoothing capacitor includes a first electrical connection portion, a second electrical connection portion, a mechanical connection portion, and a smoothing capacitor main body. The first electrical connection portion is electrically connected to a first conductor. The second electrical connection portion is electrically connected to a second conductor. The mechanical connection portion functions as an additional electrical connection portion configured to fix the smoothing capacitor main body to the first conductor or the second conductor to be electrically connected to a fixing destination of the smoothing capacitor main body.
US11923774B2 Switching power supply apparatus
A switching power supply apparatus includes switching elements that generate switching current flowing through an inductor, a switching control circuit, and an inductor current detection circuit that detects current flowing through the inductor. The inductor current detection circuit is composed of a time constant circuit including a detection capacitor and a detection resistor that are connected in series to each other and is connected in parallel to the inductor. A time constant of the inductor current detection circuit has characteristics varied with frequency or temperature. This compensates variation of equivalent series resistance of the inductor with respect to the frequency or variation thereof with respect to the temperature.
US11923771B2 Control circuit and power source circuit
A control circuit for controlling an output transistor for outputting power includes: a ramp terminal connected to a ramp resistance; a ramp waveform generation unit for generating a ramp waveform including a slope corresponding to a resistance value of the ramp resistance; an output control unit for controlling at least one of an ON time or an OFF time of the output transistor based on a comparison result between the ramp waveform and a comparison voltage; and a state detection unit for detecting a state of the ramp resistance connected to the ramp terminal, wherein the output control unit turns the output transistor to an OFF state regardless of the comparison result, when the state of the ramp resistance becomes a predetermined state.
US11923766B2 Apparatus and approach to actively balance thermal performance of paralleled devices
The present invention provides an apparatus to actively balance the thermal performance of paralleled power devices, comprising: a monitoring unit for monitoring the temperature of each power device of the paralleled power devices to judge whether the temperature is out of balance; and a balancing unit for adjusting power loss of the power devices with monitored higher temperatures so as to achieve the balance of the thermal performance of the paralleled power devices.
US11923765B2 Multi-level power converters having a top and bottom high-voltage protective switches
Circuits and methods for protecting a multi-level power converter using no more than two high-voltage FET switches while allowing all or most other power switches to be low-voltage FET switches. Some embodiments provide protective high-voltage top and bottom FETs designed to saturate before the remaining low-power FET switches saturate. Other embodiments may use only low-power FETs for the power switches but provide protective circuits configured to be in an always-ON (conducting) state when in normal power conversion operation, and to quickly switch to an OFF (non-conducting) state in the event of transients or a fault condition. Optionally, one or more of the protective circuits may be used in a controlled manner to limit or block current flow during certain types of fault conditions and/or to limit in-rush current during startup of a power converter.
US11923764B1 Electrostatic discharge circuit for switching mode power supply
In one example, a circuit comprises: a controller, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit, and a driver circuit. The controller has a driver control output. The ESD circuit has a driver control input and an ESD output, the driver control input coupled to the driver control output. The driver circuit has a driver input and a driver output, the driver input coupled to the ESD output.
US11923763B1 Ripple cancellation apparatus and control method
An apparatus includes a first winding and a first switch connected in series between an input terminal and ground, a second winding magnetically coupled to the first winding and coupled to an output terminal through a second switch, a third winding magnetically coupled to the first winding and connected in series with a fourth switch, a fourth winding magnetically coupled to the first winding and connected in series with a third switch, and an energy storage device connected between a common node of the third winding and the fourth winding, and ground.
US11923758B2 Power conversion circuit with a transformer
A power conversion circuit includes an input positive terminal, an input negative terminal, an output positive terminal, an output negative terminal, a first bridge arm, a second bridge arm, a transformer, a first resonant capacitor, a second resonant capacitor, a third resonant capacitor and a third resonant capacitor. The transformer includes a first winding, a second winding and a third winding. The plurality of switches in the first bridge arm and the plurality of switches in the second bridge arm are selectively turned on or turned off. The ratio of the input voltage to the output voltage can be adjustable by changing the turn numbers of the first winding, the second winding and the third winding.
US11923756B2 Control apparatus for power conversion apparatus
A control apparatus for a power conversion apparatus acquires a detected voltage of an alternating-current power supply. The control apparatus determines a period from when the detected voltage exceeds a first determination value for determining a zero-up-crossing timing of an actual voltage of the alternating-current power supply until the detected voltage falls below a second determination value for determining a zero-down-crossing timing of the actual voltage to be a period during which the actual voltage has a positive polarity, and determines a period from when the detected voltage falls below the second determination value until the detected voltage exceeds the first determination value to be a period during which the actual voltage has a negative polarity. The first determination value is less than the detected voltage when the actual voltage is zero, and the second determination value is greater than the detected voltage when the actual voltage is zero.
US11923740B2 Stator for a rotary electrical machine
The invention relates to a stator (200) comprising an annular body (210) provided with a plurality of slots (213) and a winding (400) comprising a first series (A) of needles (1) and a second series (B) of needles (1) which are arranged in the slots (213) in a plurality of superimposed layers (C1-C4), each needle (1) comprising a first segment (1A) and a second segment (1B) which are each arranged in different slots (213) and connected by an elbow connector (1C). According to the invention, the first segments (1A) and the second segments (1B) of the first series (A) are respectively arranged in a first layer (C1) and in a second layer (C2) and the first segments (1A) and the second segments (1B) of the second series (B) are respectively arranged in a third layer (C3) and in a fourth layer (C4), the first series (A) being electrically connected to the second series (B).
US11923739B1 Electric motor with bar wound stator and end turn cooling
An electric motor includes an end turn ring and a cooling structure that is in a thermally conductive relationship with the end turn ring.
US11923737B2 Flywheel system with stationary shaft
A flywheel system includes a rotor and a fixture. The rotor forms an aperture. The fixture includes a bottom support, a top support, and a shaft connecting the bottom support to the top support. The shaft passes through the aperture. The bottom support and the top support are outside opposite ends of the aperture. The rotor is configured to rotate about the shaft. A method for operating a flywheel system includes converting between rotational energy of a rotor and electrical energy in windings of a generator stator that is implemented in a stationary shaft passing through an aperture of the rotor, while the rotor is rotating about the shaft.
US11923735B2 Rotor with non-through shaft and associated rotary electric machine
The rotor with a non-through shaft for a rotary electric machine comprises a cylindrical magnetic body clamped between two half-shafts, each comprising an attachment flange connected to the magnetic body, axial housings being uniformly provided in the magnetic body on at least one diameter of the magnetic body in order to house conductive bars. At least one attachment flange comprises insertion holes, each arranged facing a housing for inserting the conductive bars into the housings and the exterior diameter of the attachment flange is substantially equal to the exterior diameter of the magnetic body, the attachment flange comprising as many insertion holes as housings.
US11923734B2 Counter-rotating motor and high speed blender
A counter-rotating motor and a high speed blender is described. The counter-rotating motor includes a stator, an inverter, an inner rotor and an outer rotor, the stator is provided with an outer winding and an inner winding, and the outer winding and the inner winding have opposite phase sequences, the inverter is connected in parallel with the outer winding and the inner winding to synchronously supply excitation current to the outer winding and the inner winding, the inner rotor is provided in the inner winding and is used for rotating in a first direction under the effect of the inner winding, and the outer rotor is provided in the outer winding and is used for rotating in a second direction opposite to the first direction under the effect of the outer winding.
US11923730B2 System and method for estimating engine temperature of an engine
A system for monitoring the temperature of a motor (M) with an electromechanically drivable motor shaft. The system comprising a sensor that is based on a thermal model (MOD), which describes the thermal behavior of the motor (M), a measuring means for determining the electrical input power (P) of the motor (M), and a measuring means for recording the shaft speed n of the motor shaft. An evaluation device is also provided, which is designed to determine the respectively current motor temperature of the motor (M) from the input power (P), a reference temperature TRef, the determined shaft speed n, and the thermal model (MOD).
US11923719B2 Energy recovery control method, system, and vehicle
The present disclosure relates to the field of vehicle technology and provides an energy recovery control method, a system, and a vehicle. The method is applied in a vehicle, and the vehicle comprises a drive motor and a battery electrically connected to the drive motor; a first energy recovery torque curve with respect to the drive motor is pre-configured in the vehicle, and the first energy recovery torque curve is used to indicate a correspondence relationship between vehicle speed and energy recovery torque of the drive motor. The present disclosure performs reduction on a first energy recovery torque curve by means of utilizing a reduction ratio, allowing energy recovery in accordance with a relatively low torque strength when a usable charge power of the battery is unable to satisfy a preset power requirement corresponding to the first energy recovery torque curve.
US11923717B2 Charging circuit and electronic device
A charging circuit and an electronic device are provided. The charging circuit includes a transmitting circuit. The transmitting circuit is configured to wirelessly transmit electric energy to a receiving circuit, receive a feedback signal of the receiving circuit, and wirelessly transmit a control signal to the receiving circuit.
US11923715B2 Adaptive multi-mode charging
An apparatus is disclosed for adaptive multi-mode charging. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes at least one charger having a first node and a second node. The at least one charger is configured to accept an input voltage at the first node. The at least one charger is also configured to selectively operate in a first mode to generate a first output voltage at the second node that is greater than or less than the input voltage or operate in a second mode to generate a second output voltage at the second node that is substantially equal to the input voltage.
US11923714B2 Device and method for controlling a storage battery system
A device for controlling a storage battery system is provided. The device includes: a state information calculator configured to calculate state information on each of batteries of a plurality of storage battery modules; a conversion efficiency characteristics calculator configured to calculate a power conversion efficiency of each of DC/DC converters of the plurality of storage battery modules; and a storage battery module selector configured to select one or a plurality of storage battery modules to be used while the storage battery system is charged or discharged and to determine a charge power or a discharge power of each of the selected storage battery modules, based on the state information of the batteries and the power conversion efficiencies of the DC/DC converters.
US11923705B2 Battery control system and method, and electronic device
A battery control system, comprising: a number of battery components used for storing electric energy and supplying power for a load; a number of switch units connected to a number of battery components to form a charge/discharge branch and used for turning on or off the charge/discharge branch where the battery components are located; and a first control unit connected to a number of switch units separately and used for receiving a charge control signal to control the on/off of a number of switch units so that a number of switch units is connected in series to form a serial charge branch, and used for receiving a discharge control signal to control the on/off of a number of switch units so that a number of battery components is connected in parallel to form a parallel discharge branch.
US11923699B2 Method for detecting foreign material, and apparatus and system therefor
The present invention relates to a method for detecting foreign material, and an apparatus and a system therefor, and a method for detecting foreign material in a wireless power transmitter, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: measuring a quality factor value, which corresponds to a reference operation frequency, when an object is sensed; searching for a current peak frequency having a maximum quality factor value within an operation frequency band; receiving, form a wireless power receiver, a foreign material detection state packet including information on a reference peak frequency; correcting the measured quality factor value by using a difference value between the current peak frequency and the reference peak frequency; and determining whether the foreign material exists by comparing the corrected quality factor value with a predetermined quality factor threshold value. Therefore, the present invention has an advantage of enabling foreign material to be more effectively and accurately detected.
US11923698B2 Coil for foreign object detection and wireless power transmitter comprising the same
A detection coil includes a first sub coil disposed on a first PCB, the first sub coil includes a first part, and a second part that is disposed under the first part and that includes: one end connected to one end of the first part and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the first part is wound. The detection coil includes a second sub coil disposed on a second PCB and including a third part and a fourth part disposed under the third part. The fourth part includes one end connected to one end of the third part, and is wound in a direction opposite to a direction the third part is wound. The first and second parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The third and fourth parts have polygonal shapes symmetrical to each other. The first and second sub coils are arranged to partially overlap each other.
US11923696B2 Passive adapter for magnetic inductive wireless charging
This document describes a passive adapter for wireless charging of an electronic device and associated methods and systems. The described passive adapter includes two coils connected by a capacitor and separated by a core material that prevents mutual coupling between the coils. These two coils may have differing sizes, such that one coil can size-match to a transmitter coil of an existing wireless charger and the second coil can size-match to a smaller (or larger) receiver coil in a wireless-power receiver to charge a battery of the wireless-power receiver. In aspects, these two coils may be separated by a distance that enables the passive adapter to act as a passive repeater by bridging a space between the transmitter coil and the receiver coil.
US11923692B2 Wireless power transmission device and operating method therefor
Provided are a wireless power transmission device and an operating method therefor, the device confirming an optimum phase adjustment degree for each antenna by applying a reference signal to at least one from among a plurality of patch antennas and sequentially applying a plurality of phase electric signals to each of the remaining antennas, when an RF wave is formed using electric signals from a plurality of power sources.
US11923690B2 Wireless charging apparatus and method
A wireless charging apparatus for a wireless power transmission system and a method are provided. The apparatus includes a voltage conversion circuit, an excitation coil, n first resonance coils, and a controller, where n is greater than or equal to 3. The voltage conversion circuit is connected to the excitation coil and converts a power grid voltage into a high-frequency alternating current voltage. The excitation coil generates a magnetic field based on the high-frequency alternating current voltage. The n first resonance coils are arranged in different directions and conducts the magnetic field, and the controller monitors power statuses of the first resonance coils, and enable or disable the first resonance coils based on the power statuses.
US11923687B2 Bipole power transmission schemes
A bipole power transmission scheme with two independent converts, two power feed and one return conduit. During operation of the bipole power transmission scheme under abnormal conditions, when a return conduit is faulty and unable to provide a return current path, each converter controller is programmed to monitor the first power feed in the first transmission conduit and the second power feed in the second transmission conduit and, if the first power feed in the first transmission conduit and the second power feed in the second transmission conduit differ from one another, at least one converter controller modifies the power infeed from its corresponding power source to reduce the difference between the first power feed and the second power feed.
US11923679B2 Power management for network device line modules
A line module for use in a network device a plurality of circuits; and a power module comprising at least one circuit, wherein the power module is connected to the plurality of circuits and a Power Distribution Unit (PDU), and the at least one circuit of the power module is configured to shut down one or more of the plurality of circuits until a current threshold is no longer exceeded by a current drawn from a power feed connected to the first PDU.
US11923676B2 Method for identifying element failure in capacitor banks
A method for identifying element failure in capacitor banks is provided. Capacitor bank phase current is measured and a zero-sequence or negative-sequence current is calculated or measured. A three-phase voltage is measured from a three-phase bus voltage transformer and a zero-sequence voltage or negative-sequence voltage is calculated. A compensated unbalance current is calculated and compared to a predetermined acceptable range. A failure is identified where the compensated unbalance current is outside the predetermined acceptable range.
US11923675B2 Systems and methods for liquid presentation detection
A data interconnect system includes: a plurality of pins arranged within a receptacle, a first one of the pins being a power pin, wherein the pins are electrically isolated from each other within the receptacle; a first switching network including a first plurality of parallel switching devices, each of the parallel switching devices of the first plurality of parallel switching devices coupling a respective one of the pins to a node; a first current path from the node to ground, the first current path including a current device; and a second current path, parallel to the first current path, the second current path including a resistor coupling the node to ground.
US11923674B2 Method and apparatus for controlling solid state circuit breaker, and solid state circuit breaker
A method for controlling a solid state circuit breaker includes detecting a direction of a current flowing through the solid state circuit breaker, obtaining a breaking current value of the solid state circuit breaker according to the detected direction of the current, obtaining a value of a maximum threshold current to flow through the solid state circuit breaker, obtaining a predicted current value within a next sampling period of a present sampling period of the solid state circuit breaker, comparing the predicted current value with the breaking current value, and upon the predicted current value being greater than the breaking current value, delaying the solid state circuit breaker, and upon the predicted current value being greater than the maximum threshold current value, controlling the solid state circuit breaker to disconnect a circuit in which the solid state circuit breaker resides.
US11923671B2 Photovoltaic rapid shutdown and arc sensing system
The present disclosure provides a system, apparatus and method for providing rapid shutdown for photovoltaic power systems and provides a system, apparatus and method for providing arc sensing for photovoltaic power systems. An AC current can be put on the DC bus to control PV panel shutdown. Local mean decomposition can be used to sense arcing on the DC bus.
US11923670B2 ARC detection device, solar inverter, indoor wiring system, circuit breaker, solar panel, solar panel attachment module, and junction box
An arc detection device includes: a low-impedance circuit connected between a node on wiring connecting the positive electrode of a DC/DC converter and a plurality of DC/DC converters, extending from the positive electrode of the DC/DC converter, and branching toward the plurality of DC/DC converters and a node on wiring connecting the negative electrode of the DC/DC converter and the plurality of DC/DC converters, extending from the negative electrode of the DC/DC converter, and branching toward the plurality of DC/DC converters; an electric current detector that detects an electric current flowing through the low-impedance circuit; and an arc determiner that determines, on the basis of the electric current detected by the electric current detector whether an electric arc has occurred.
US11923669B2 Light fixture mounting bracket and canopy assembly
A canopy assembly for a light fixture includes a mounting bracket configured to be positioned over a junction box and directly mounted to a support surface. A canopy cover is connected to the mounting bracket. The canopy cover includes a plurality of conduit openings. One or more cover inserts are configured to be selectively positioned in the conduit openings. One or more conduit inserts are configured to be selectively positioned in the conduit openings. The canopy cover is configured to extend over the mounting bracket and the junction box.
US11923658B1 Laser diode firing system
A laser diode firing circuit for a light detection and ranging device is disclosed. The firing circuit includes a laser diode coupled in series to a transistor, such that current through the laser diode is controlled by the transistor. The laser diode is configured to emit a pulse of light in response to current flowing through the laser diode. The firing circuit includes a capacitor that is configured to charge via a charging path that includes an inductor and to discharge via a discharge path that includes the laser diode. The transistor controlling current through the laser diode can be a Gallium nitride field effect transistor.
US11923655B2 Light emission device
The present embodiment relates to a light emission device capable of removing zero-order light from output light of an S-iPM laser. The light emission device comprises an active layer and a phase modulation layer. The phase modulation layer includes a base layer and a plurality of modified refractive index regions. In a state in which a virtual square lattice is set on the phase modulation layer, a center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is separated from a corresponding lattice point, and a rotation angle around each lattice point that decides a position of the center of gravity of each modified refractive index region is set according to a phase distribution for forming an optical image. A lattice spacing and an emission wavelength satisfy a condition of M-point oscillation in a reciprocal lattice space of the phase modulation layer. A magnitude of at least one of in-plane wavenumber vectors in four directions formed in the reciprocal lattice space and each including a wavenumber spread corresponding to an angle spread of the output light is smaller than 2π/λ.
US11923651B2 Gain equalization in C+L erbium-doped fiber amplifiers
Techniques for improving gain equalization in C- and L-band (“C+L”) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFAs) are provided. For example, the C- and L-band amplification sections of a C+L EDFA may be separated and configured in a parallel arrangement or a serial arrangement. For both the parallel and serial arrangements, the C- and L-band amplification sections may share a common gain flattening filter (GFF) or each amplification section may include and employ a separate GFF. Moreover, in some examples, an “interstage” L-band GFF may be located before or upstream of the L-band amplification section such that the L-band optical signal is gain-equalized or flattened prior to the L-band amplification section amplifying the L-band.
US11923650B2 Cable connection part structure of power control unit
A cable connection part structure includes a power control unit, a unit-side connector and a cable-side connector. The unit-side connector is connected to a power supply passage of an electric power control device and has a first connection terminal directed to a space below a unit case. The cable-side connector is connected to a power supply cable and has a second connection terminal connected to a first connection terminal from below the unit case. The cable-side connector has a connector case, and a bolt fixed to a connector case and having a shaft section passing upward through a part of the unit case from below. A nut is fastened to the shaft section of the bolt passing through the unit case from above.
US11923647B2 Conductive mechanism and lamp
A conductive mechanism includes two bases, an inner conductive spring and an outer conductive spring. The two bases are opposite to each other. Each of the bases includes a surface and a partition wall protruding relative to the surface. The inner conductive spring is disposed at inner sides of the two partition walls of the two bases. The outer conductive spring is disposed at outer sides of the two partition walls of the two bases. At least one of two ends of each of the inner conductive spring and the outer conductive spring rotatably abuts against the surface of one of the bases.
US11923646B2 Slip ring assembly with paired power transmission bands
A high current and RPM-capable slip ring assembly for use in a selected application for transferring electricity between an exterior environment and an interior environment that includes a non-rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a rotating electrical power member with concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands with wiring and a housing that surrounds both the non-rotating electrical power member and rotating electrical power member to align the first set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands and the second set of concentric electrically conducting power transmission bands to slide on one another during rotationally operation of the slip ring assembly.
US11923644B2 Electronic device
There are provided a flat plate; a substrate having a first side and a second side facing an inner surface of the flat plate; a first receptacle connector that is provided along the first side of the substrate and configured to be coupled to a first plug of a first cable via a first opening of the flat plate; and a second receptacle connector that is provided along the second side of the substrate and configured to be coupled to a second plug of a second cable via a second opening of the flat plate, a distance from the inner surface to the first side is shorter than a distance from the inner surface to the second side.
US11923635B2 Protective cover and on-vehicle device
A protective cover protects a connector coupling portion which is an electrical connection between an on-vehicle sensor to be mounted on a vehicle body component and a wiring. This protective cover includes a protection portion and a fixing portion. The protection portion covers the connector coupling portion at which a sensor-side connector which is provided on the on-vehicle sensor side and which extends in an extending direction is coupled to a wiring-side connector which is provided on the wiring side and which is to be coupled to the sensor-side connector while moving relatively with respect to the sensor-side connector in a coupling direction opposite to the extending direction. The fixing portion is integrally provided with the protection portion so as to be fixed on the on-vehicle sensor side.
US11923631B2 Sealed cable connector, manufacturing method and use thereof
The invention relates to a sealed cable connector, including electric cables; an electrically insulating housing; electrical terminals, each of the electrical terminals having an end portion that is electrically connected to an end portion of a corresponding electric cable; the housing having a frame forming a cavity that extends in a z-direction, wherein connected end portions of the electric cables and the electrical terminals are provided within in the cavity of the frame; wherein the electrical terminals have a planar shape in the cavity and are oriented in the x-direction and the z-direction, in that the housing is molded onto the connected electric cables and the electrical terminals, and in that an electrically isolating material is injected into the cavity such that it seals the connected end portions of the electric cables and the electrical terminals. A manufacturing method and use of the sealed cable connector is also provided.
US11923629B2 Device connectable to a printed circuit board with high precision
A device may include a frame, a first leg extending from the frame, and a second leg extending from the frame, wherein each of the first leg and the second leg is curved in a respective direction, the respective directions being different.
US11923625B2 Patch antenna and array antenna comprising same
A patch antenna includes: a substrate; a first radiator disposed on the substrate and having a first shape; a second radiator disposed on the substrate while being spaced a predetermined distance apart from the first radiator, and having a second shape; and a power feeder which supplies a power feed signal to the first radiator, wherein the first radiator includes a first outer edge portion straightly formed in the horizontal direction and second outer edge portions vertically formed from both ends of the first outer edge portion.
US11923620B1 Compact ceramic chip antenna array based on ultra-wide band three-dimensional direction finding
The present invention provides a compact ceramic chip antenna array based on ultra-wide band three-dimensional direction finding, comprising a dielectric substrate, a metal floor and a coplanar waveguide feeder, wherein the front face of the dielectric substrate is provided with three antenna units; three coplanar waveguide feeders are electrically connected to three antenna units, respectively; a plurality of impedance matching structures are further arranged on a front side and a back side of the dielectric substrate, respectively; the first and second impedance matching structures are respectively arranged on a right side of the first antenna unit and a left side of the third antenna unit; the first and second impedance matching structures are rectangular grooves etched on the metal floor; the third, fourth, fifth and sixth impedance matching structures are respectively arranged at both ends of the second coplanar waveguide feeder; and the fifth and sixth impedance matching structures are rectangular metal patches. The compact ceramic chip antenna array based on ultra-wide band three-dimensional direction finding provided by the present invention not only improves the dimension of target positioning, but also effectively reduces the space occupied by the antenna, and is suitable for wireless handheld devices in indoor accurate positioning.
US11923616B2 Antenna feed horn with near-constant phase center with subreflector tracking in the z-axis
A dual reflector earth station antenna (ESA) system for transmitting uplink in a first frequency band and receiving downlink in a second frequency band, the ESA system comprises a reflector; a reflector tracking assembly coupled to the reflector and configured to control the direction of the reflector; a feed horn coupled to the reflector and optimized for a near-constant phase center for both the first frequency band and the second frequency band; a subreflector tracking assembly including a subreflector, configured for tracking in the X, Y and Z-axes and supported proximate a focal point of the reflector; and a control system in communication with the subreflector tracking assembly and comprising at least one processor. The processor is configured to adjust the subreflector of the subreflector tracking assembly along X, Y and Z axes of the reflector until a signal gain of the reflector antenna is maximized for the second frequency band; and wherein a signal gain of the reflector antenna is also simultaneously maximized for the first frequency band due to the optimization of the feed horn for a near-constant phase center for both the first frequency band and the second frequency band.
US11923615B2 Clamping apparatus for antenna
The present invention relates to a clamping apparatus for an antenna, the clamping apparatus including a rotation unit configured to rotate an antenna in a horizontal direction, a tilting unit configured to rotate the antenna in a vertical direction, and a rotation/vibration prevention unit configured to adjust a direction of the antenna by rotating at least one of the rotation unit and the tilting unit and prevent the antenna from arbitrarily rotating after the direction of the antenna is adjusted, in which the rotation/vibration prevention unit includes a rotation motor, a worm gear configured to be rotated by the rotation motor, a shaft configured to define at least one rotation center, and a worm wheel gear installed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft and configured to rotate at least one of the rotation unit and the tilting unit while being rotated by the worm gear, thereby easily adjusting the direction of the antenna by controlling the rotation motor and preventing the antenna with the adjusted direction from arbitrarily rotating.
US11923612B2 Systems and methods for circular-polarized beam forming and steering based on the superposition of circular modes for communication and radar systems
An antenna comprises a substantially circular ground plane with an upper surface and a defined center. A plurality of radiating elements are placed radially on the upper surface, arranged at constant angles around the defined center to, when electrically excited, create a plurality of circularly polarized electromagnetic emissions. Each radiating element of the plurality of radiating elements is in electrical communication with an electromagnetic source via an electrically conductive feed, the electromagnetic source configured, when in use, to create a radial excitation current on the radiating element, and further configured, when in use, to provide phase and amplitude control of the excited current on the radiating element for both beam forming and 360 degree beam steering by superposing omnidirectional circularly polarized electromagnetic emissions.
US11923605B2 Millimeter-wave antenna for 5G applications and vehicle comprising such antenna
A millimeter-wave antenna for 5G applications is provided which includes an upper outer layer with a plurality of first radiating elements arranged spaced apart from each other on a first dielectric sublayer, a first inner layer arranged below the upper outer layer and having a plurality of through slots for conveying, towards the first radiating elements feeding signals to be radiated, a second inner layer arranged below and adjacent to the first inner layer having a dielectric sublayer on which there is arranged a plurality of conductive lines for conducting the feeding signals to be radiated towards the first radiating elements, a further inner layer arranged below and adjacent to the second inner layer, and a plurality of first through openings each formed on the further inner layer in a position corresponding to the position of an associated through slot.
US11923604B2 Rotating multi-beam antenna
Apparatus and associated methods relate to using a plurality of antennas radially distributed about a rotatable turret to sequentially scan a field of view. Each of the plurality of antennas directs an electromagnetic beam and senses its reflection along a principal direction defined by a roll position of the rotatable turret and an azimuthal beam angle. The principal directions of the antennas have a unique azimuthal beam angle relative to a boresight (i.e., axis of rotation). As the turret rotates, each of these antennas is sequentially turned on at a first roll position and off at a second roll position. This enables electromagnetic beams generated by the antennas to pan a scene both in azimuth and roll. An image processor then determines, based on the reflected signals received by the plurality of antennas, directions to and/or velocities of objects within the scanned field of view.
US11923602B2 Outdoor customer premises equipment
An outdoor customer premises equipment (CPE) is disclosed. The out door CPE may include: a main body which includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a heat sink, a heater assembly, a SIM card holder, a radio frequency (RF) cable and a fifth generation (5G) communication module; and an antenna module which is detachably connected to the main body and includes a cable interface connected to the RF cable, where the antenna module is a high-gain antenna module or a low-gain antenna module.
US11923598B2 Scalable high-bandwidth connectivity
A scalable, high-bandwidth connectivity architecture for portable storage devices and memory modules may utilize EHF communication link chip packages mounted in various two-dimensional and three-dimensional configurations on planar surfaces such as printed circuit boards. Multiple electromagnetic communication links between devices distributed on major faces of card-like devices may be provided with respectively aligned pairs of communication units on each device. Adjacent communication units on a printed circuit board may transmit or receive electromagnetic radiation having different polarization, such as linear or elliptical polarization. Power and communication between communication devices may both be provided wirelessly.
US11923595B2 Parapet-hanging-type antenna mount
A mount main body for a parapet-hanging-type antenna is provided with a vertical support column part (or VSC part) that vertically hangs down along an outer wall surface of parapet. The antenna is installed to VSC part so as not to protrude upward from the parapet. A horizontal support column part (or HSC part) that bends and horizontally extends in a direction orthogonal to the parapet is provided at an upper end of VSC part. The mount main body is provided with a cylinder holding HSC part such that HSC part is movable frontward/backward along a central axis thereof and is rotatable about the central axis. VSC part is made pullable to an inner wall side of the parapet by rotating HSC part about the central axis, and moving HSC part to the inner wall side of the parapet along the central axis.
US11923594B2 Antenna mounting device
The present disclosure has disclosed an antenna mounting device configured to collectively mount a plurality of base station antennas on a mast of a communication tower. The antenna mounting device is substantially in the shape of a polygon, and the mast is disposed at a center of the polygon. The antenna mounting device comprises: a plurality of brackets, which are elongated and include a head bracket, at least one intermediate bracket and a tail bracket attached sequentially; and a bracket fastening mechanism which is disposed between two adjacent ends of the head bracket and an adjacent intermediate bracket, or disposed between two adjacent ends of the adjacent intermediate brackets, or disposed between two adjacent ends of the tail bracket and the adjacent intermediate bracket, and which is configured to move two adjacent ends of the adjacent brackets from a position away from each other to a position close to each other. The antenna mounting device according to the present invention is capable of mounting a plurality of base station antennas on a mast by surrounding the mast in a compact manner, thereby realizing a small-form factor mounting structure.
US11923593B2 Integrated radio frequency transmitter and modem
An antenna pedestal including: a body having an inner cavity defined by a wall and a top ledge; a Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system to provide climate control for the inner cavity; and a door to access the inner cavity of the body, wherein the top ledge supports a mechanical steering.
US11923592B2 Waveguide device and method of manufacturing this device
Waveguide device (1) for guiding a radio frequency signal at a given frequency f, the device (1) including: a core (3) manufactured by additive manufacturing and including side walls with inner and outer surfaces (7, 8), the inner surfaces (7) delimiting a waveguide channel (2), wherein a cross-section of the channel (2) has two straight sides joined together by two half-portions, at least one of the two half-portions being rounded or formed of at least two straight segments the cross-section having a maximum length (a) and a maximum width (b), the ratio between the maximum length (a)/maximum width (b) being between 2.05 and 3.5, preferably between 2.05 and 2.4.
US11923589B2 Electric coupling of a substrate integrated waveguide cavity resonator to a suspended substrate stripline low pass filter for introducing a notch response
A Substrate Integrated Wave (SIW) coupled to a Suspended Substrate Stripline (SSS) filter for introducing a notch response has a substrate having metal layers formed on a top surface and a bottom surface thereof. A filter circuit is formed on the top surface of the substrate. A top ground plate is provided and has an air cavity formed on a bottom surface of the top ground plate. The air cavity on the top ground plate is positioned directly above the filter circuit when the top ground plate is positioned on the top surface of the substrate. A bottom ground plate is provided and has an air cavity formed on a top surface of the bottom ground plate. The air cavity on the bottom ground plate is positioned directly below the filter circuit when the bottom ground plate is positioned on the bottom surface of the substrate. A SIW cavity resonator is coupled to the filter circuit by means of an aperture to create a notch response in the SSS filter.