US08864517B2
Disclosed is a power transmission module having a main support configured to be mounted at a power outlet and including a power input connector for connection with the output of a recharger and an output connector for connection with a rechargeable device.
US08864513B2
A terminal for conduction includes an insulating member that is fixed to a housing and that includes a flange portion that extends along the housing; a first terminal member that is provided to penetrate through the insulating member and that includes a tubular portion, the first terminal member being conductive; and a second terminal member that includes an engagement portion and that is inserted into the tubular portion of the first terminal member, the second terminal member being fixed to the first terminal member through the engagement portion in the tubular portion and extending in an axial direction of the tubular portion. The engagement portion is positioned in a space between one surface and the other surface of the flange portion in the axial direction.
US08864509B2
A rocket launcher connector assembly that comprises a first connector component coupled to a launch tube and a second connector component is coupled to a rocket. The second connector component includes an interface side configured to engage the mating interface of the first connector component. Spring members of the second component have rounded portions for engaging contact pads of the first component. A housing of the assembly has a connector holding portion for holding the first and second components. The connector holding portion defines an alignment channel that supports the first component and the alignment member is slidably received in the alignment channel in an insert direction. A tolerance member is engaged with both the alignment member and the connector holding portion of the housing, wherein as the alignment member slides in the alignment channel, the tolerance member biases the alignment member in a direction opposite the insert direction.
US08864507B2
An electrical pop out device has a shroud and an outlet housing. The outlet housing is sized to be placed inside the shroud. A guidance mechanism connects the outlet housing with the shroud. The guidance mechanism includes multiple rack gears and multiple pinion gears. The outlet housing is moveable with respect to the shroud along a direction defined by the rack gear. A spring connector electrically couples the shroud to the outlet housing.
US08864500B1
An electronic module for a computer system comprises a first circuit board having a plurality of edge connectors configured to releasably connect to electrical contacts of a computer system socket, a second circuit board having a plurality of contacts configured to connect with a plurality of electrical components, and a flexible portion having electrical conduits to provide electrical connection between the plurality of edge connectors and the plurality of contacts. The flexible portion further includes an electrically conductive layer extending across a region of the flexible portion. The electrically conductive layer is superposed with the electrical conduits and separated from electrical conduits by a dielectric layer.
US08864497B1
A distributed, networked simulation system has two or more vehicle simulators that resists latency errors when the vehicles are close to each other, and is especially useful for close maneuvering training such as tanker and receiver aircraft refueling exercises or combat exercises where one aircraft closely follows another. One simulator sends the other simulator data defining the relative linear displacements and rotations between their two vehicles. The receiving simulator uses the data to maintain the relative position of the other vehicle in its local scene data based on the defined relative displacement and rotation between the vehicles. An additional simulator may simulate the boom control on the tanker using similar relative position data. The system starts relative displacement data operation when one vehicle approaches another in the virtual world, and returns to normal operation when the vehicles separate.
US08864496B2
A computer based simulation system for virtual training for vehicle crews is disclosed. The vehicle crew training system (VCTS) simulates crew positions for different military vehicles. Two or more crewman modules are networked together to support a partial or full vehicle crew. The crewman modules are self-contained devices that are modular in hardware and software design, easily reconfigurable, and that require minimal facility space, allowing use in restricted environments such as trailers. The VCTS is modular at the crew position level; crewman modules are added or deleted as required to meet a particular training need. One of the crewman modules can be a gunner module, which provides an unrestricted view of the simulated environment to the gunner by means of a display and a simulated vehicle-mounted weapon.
US08864482B2
A consumable assembly comprising a container portion configured to retain a supply of filament, a guide tube connected to the container portion, and a pump portion connected to the guide tube.
US08864477B2
A compressor that generates compressed air by compressing raw air has a case section; a driving motor that is provided in the case section and that has an output shaft; head sections operated by the rotation of the output shaft of the driving motor and that suck and compress raw air to generate thereby compressed air; and a raw air intake section formed of a plurality of raw air intake holes for taking raw air into the case section and supplying the raw air to the head sections.
US08864474B2
A method of fluid delivery from a rotary peristaltic pump is provided. A roller assembly having a plurality of rollers is provided, the roller assembly having at least one anomalous range. A rotational position of the plurality of rollers is determined. A speed of the plurality of rollers is increased when at least one of the plurality of rollers is in the anomalous range and the speed of the plurality of rollers is decreased when each of the plurality of rollers is outside the anomalous range.
US08864472B2
A method of repairing or of reworking a turbomachine disk including, on its rim, at least one external radial tab with an axial bore to accept an axial pin including a head and a shank with a threaded portion, the pin being slipped into the bore such that the head comes to press against one face of the tab through tightening of a nut on to the shank with the threaded portion against the opposite face of the tab, the pin forming a retaining mechanism to keep a tab secured to a component attached to the rim. A spot face is machined in the tab around the bore corresponding to a wearing zone, and a replacement pin including a flange pressing against the surface of the spot face, of a diameter greater than that of the head, is fitted.
US08864469B1
An air cooled turbine rotor blade with a leading edge region cooling circuit having pressure and suction side feed channels separated by a rib, where the feed channels are connected to metering and diffusion cooling channels formed in the pressure and suction side walls and the middle rib that discharge into three rows of exit slots on the leading edge of the blade. The trailing edge region cooling circuit includes rows of serpentine flow circuits each having an impingement channel along a suction side and a return channel in a middle that opens into metering and diffusion channels on the pressure side that discharges into exit slots on the pressure side of the trailing edge region. The middle of the blade is cooled with a multiple pass aft flowing serpentine flow circuit with metering and diffusion film cooling slots.
US08864461B2
The invention concerns a turbine structure for the expansion of gas and vapour, comprising a body or casing with a peripheral work fluid transit volute from an entrance to an exit passage, at least a first stator and possible subsequent stators, a turbine shaft rotating around an axis and carrying at least a first rotor and possible subsequent rotors working together downstream of the first stator and subsequent rotors, respectively, an external tube member jutting out frontally from said body or casing and coaxial to the rotating turbine shaft, and where between the tube member (18) and the turbine shaft (15) is positioned a supporting unit (19) extractable en bloc from said external tube (18) except for the shaft.
US08864454B2
A supersonic compressor system. The supersonic compressor system includes a casing that defines a cavity that extends between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and a first drive shaft that is positioned within the cavity. A centerline axis extends along a centerline of the first drive shaft. A supersonic compressor rotor is coupled to the first drive shaft and is positioned in flow communication between the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet. The supersonic compressor rotor includes at least one supersonic compression ramp that is configured to form at least one compression wave for compressing a fluid. A centrifugal compressor assembly is positioned in flow communication between the supersonic compressor rotor and the fluid outlet. The centrifugal compressor assembly is configured to compress fluid received from the supersonic compressor rotor.
US08864449B2
A drive ring bearing has a body with a generally cylindrical outer peripheral surface, and a generally u-shaped cross-section, with over a circumferential portion of the body. A web defines the outer peripheral surface. Radially inwardly extending legs define the u-shape in combination with the web. A plurality of circumferentially spaced feet extend from the outer peripheral surface of the body to an inner peripheral surface of the body. In addition, a diffuser assembly incorporating the drive ring bearing, a compressor assembly including the diffuser assembly, and a method of mounting the drive ring bearing are also disclosed.
US08864448B2
A ram air turbine system for generating electrical power in an aircraft when the system is exposed to an airstream exterior of the aircraft. The ram air turbine system includes a turbine, a housing defining an interior, a gearbox having a speed-increasing gear train, and a generator.
US08864447B1
A low-profile ceiling fan which utilizes a fan assembly in a horizontal configuration is herein disclosed. The fan includes an enclosure that mounts to the ceiling. The fan has a low-profile design for low ceilings as commonly found in basements, attics, patio enclosures, mobile homes, recreational vehicles and similar locations. The fan enclosure includes at least one fluorescent lamp mounted alongside the fan. Accessories such as heaters, security cameras, a remote control, and the like are available. The fan includes a heating element and a blower to distribute heated air.
US08864444B2
A cooled turbine vane for a turbine engine, that includes a blade mounted on a platform carried by a base, the blade including one or more cavities formed therein for cooling air circulation, the cavity extending along the trailing edge and being supplied with cooling air by a supply duct connecting an air intake located in a lower portion of the base and the cavity of the trailing edge by defining a bend within the base. The duct includes, on an axis substantially radial relative to the air intake a bell-shaped niche located under the platform, the niche being open at a top thereof via a dusting hole extending through the platform and being defined at a foot of the base by walls extending substantially radially from the platform to close the platform laterally.
US08864440B2
A vertical axis omni-wind turbine having a wind sail centrally mounted to a turbine drive shaft, the wind sail consisting of three generally identical vanes paced 120 degrees apart. The vanes each have a generally concave surface for capturing impinging wind thrust with an opposite generally convex surface to provide minimal wind resistance. The resulting disparate wind resistance causes a stronger reaction on the concave side of a vane which in turn provides rotation about the vertical oriented drive shaft. The turbine has omni-wind characteristics in that regardless of the wind direction an adequate portion of the concave surface of a rotor blade will always be exposed to impinging wind. The subsequent drive shaft rotation is transmitted to an electrical turbine.
US08864433B2
A bin sweep comprising a first auger section configured to be movably mounted to a central support framework of a storage bin, and a second auger section operably engaged with the first auger frame such that the second auger section is moveable relative to the first section frame substantially along an axis.
US08864426B2
A machine tool is provided, comprising a machine frame, at least one carrier device for a tool or a workpiece by means of which a tool acting on a workpiece or a workpiece being acted upon by a tool is held during the machining of a workpiece, and a holding device holding the at least one carrier device in a non-movable or movable manner relative to the machine frame, wherein a bearing device is provided by means of which the at least one carrier device is mounted in a floating manner on the holding device with displaceability in a direction of displacement along a displacement path, and wherein an adjusting device is provided by means of which the position of the at least one carrier device along the displacement path can be adjusted and fixed.
US08864425B2
A bevel head replaceable rotary tool is provided. The rotary tool includes a coupling protrusion and a coupling recess, plural sets of serrations provided on an outer circumferential surface of the coupling protrusion and an inner wall surface of the coupling recess, circumferential abutting portions provided on the tool body and the bevel head, and axial tight-contact portions, provided on the tool body and the bevel head. The serrations of the coupling protrusion and the serrations of the coupling recess arranged such that curvatures of circumferential circular arcs of the serrations of the coupling protrusion are greater than those of the serrations of the coupling recess or the serrations of the coupling protrusion and the serrations of the coupling recess have circumferential circular arcs with centers deviated from each other.
US08864421B2
A method of lifting a structure using one or more inflatable hoses is described. In one embodiment, a method of lifting a structure resting on the ground includes attaching a lift apparatus to the structure to the raised. An inflatable hose is introduced underneath the lift apparatus, with the inflatable hose being disposed between a bottom surface of the lift apparatus and the ground. The structure is then lifted by inflating the hose with pressurized media so that the hose increases in volume to impose an upward force on the lift apparatus which in turn lifts the structure.
US08864418B2
A method and apparatus for rehabilitating an underground water conduit having at least one service entrance including a plug having a light emitter which is responsive to the presence of an electromagnetic field, wherein the at least one service entrance is plugged with the plug and a semi-transparent membrane lining the internal surface of the underground water conduit thereby covering the plug. A drilling head is disposed on a body moveable within the underground water conduit, the drill head having a drill bit and a coil inductor concentric with the drill bit. The coil inductor is adapted to generate an electromagnetic field near the drilling head, wherein the light emitter of the plug is adapted to be turned on by the electromagnetic field emitted by the coil inductor to allow visual alignment of the drill bit with the light emitted by the light emitter through the semi-transparent membrane. The plug is drilled with the drill bit through the semi-transparent membrane in order to reopen the at least one service entrance.
US08864409B2
This application relates to a method of forming multiple inlaid patterns to complete a final predetermined rotational pattern onto or into a pavement surface. The pattern may be selected for functional or decorative purposes. In one embodiment the method includes the steps of providing a first template created of multiple blocks with portions of rotational isometric patterns having a predetermined pattern; impressing the first template into the pavement surface when the pavement surface is in a pliable state forming an impression therein; removing the first template from the pavement surface exposing the impression; providing a grid having a predetermined pattern matching the pattern of the first template; inserting the grid into the impression; and fixing the grid in position within the impression to form the inlaid pattern thereby creating multiple blocks of said portions of said patterns such that rotational isometric patterns form a final rotational predetermined isometric patterned preform.
US08864408B1
Compact, readily maneuverable apparatus for picking up and laterally transferring roadway barrier modules includes a vehicle for moving along a roadway barrier and elongated conveyors located at the sides of the vehicle, connected to the vehicle and pivotal between operative and inoperative positions.
US08864405B2
A releasably locking device, and clamping element for such a device, secures a bicycle component to a bicycle frame. The device has a traction rod associated with a rotation cam extending in a housing. The rotation of the cam is driven by a lever-operated manual actuation system between a clamping operating position and a release position. The rotation cam has two ends that can be commanded into synchronous rotation through said lever-operated manual actuation system.
US08864401B2
A packaging and application device for a cosmetic product includes a receptacle for packaging the cosmetic product that has an outlet orifice, an application member having a plate forming an application surface for the product, a tube extending from the face of the plate opposite to the application surface to the receptacle so as to define a delivery duct leading on the one hand to the application surface and on the other hand into the receptacle, and an electrical heating element. The electrical heating element is a heating resistive wire mounted at least partly around the tube defining the delivery duct.
US08864400B1
A golf tee insertion depth marking device includes a housing having a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of bores extend from the first surface into the housing. Each bore has a diameter sufficient to receive the shaft of the golf tee when the shaft is inserted therein and a depth that is different from depths of other of the bores. A plurality of windows are disposed in the second surface of the housing. Each window provides an opening into a corresponding one of the bores. Each window is of sufficient size to receive a tip portion of a marking pen inserted therein, whereby the tip portion of the marking pen may make contact with and mark the shaft of the golf tee inserted into one of the bores.
US08864398B2
Packaging for cosmetic products, such as mascara, are provided, including a container for holding a cosmetic composition and an applicator which is disposed within a cut-out portion of the container. The container includes a number of passages through at least one side such that a portion of the applicator is brought into contact with the passages when seated on the container. The applicator is adapted to seal the container when seated on the container. The applicator is further adapted to be removed from the container and pressed or squeezed onto keratinous fibers (e.g., eyelashes) of a user to apply the cosmetic product.
US08864394B2
According to one example of the present invention there is provided a printer for a printing on a roll of substrate. The printer comprises a substrate support for receiving a roll of substrate, a drive mechanism for driving substrate from a roll of substrate when installed on the substrate support through a print writing module, and a substrate edge trimming module for trimming the longitudinal edges of a substrate prior to the substrate passing through the print writing module.
US08864386B2
A roller bearing comprises an inner ring, an outer ring and an annular cage. The annular cage retains and guides at least one roller body. The annular cage comprises at least one pocket for retaining the roller body and at least one retaining rim disposed on one axial end of the pocket. The retaining rim extends at least in the radial direction relative to a main body of the cage.
US08864383B2
An axle box for a railway vehicle bogie comprises a rolling bearing having an outer ring element, an inner ring element, rolling elements mounted there between, and a seal element, the inner ring element being adapted to be secured by screw bolts to an axial end of bogie axle. The axle box comprises an end cap comprising a flange with an inner face and an outer face, an annular first radial surface portion of the inner face being so defined that it is able to lean against an axial end of the inner bearing ring element of the rolling bearing. The flange comprises a central part traversed by screw bores. The flange comprises a first inner axial ridge running alongside the outer circumference of the cap, and extending axially towards the rolling bearing all around the flange, further than the first radial surface portion.
US08864381B2
A fluid dynamic bearing device (1), comprising a dynamic pressure generating groove region (B) being provided on an inner peripheral surface (3a) of a bearing member (3), which forms a radial bearing gap, the region (B) comprising: a first region (B1) for generating a fluid dynamic pressure when the bearing member (3) and a shaft member (2) are rotated relative to each other in a forward direction; and a second region (B2) for generating a fluid dynamic pressure when the bearing member (3) and the shaft member (2) are rotated relative to each other in a reverse direction. A portion of the region (B), corresponds to an end portion on an open-to-air side of the radial bearing gap, comprises an annular projecting portion (6) provided closer to the shaft member (2) with respect to a groove bottom of each of the plurality of dynamic pressure generating grooves (4).
US08864379B2
A system to carry a drawer may include a fixed-length rail to be fastened to a server rack. The system may also include a roller fastened to the fixed-length rail on one side of the roller so that the roller spins freely. The system may further include a channel carried by a drawer, and the channel is sized to permit the roller to traverse a portion of the channel.
US08864363B2
The present invention provides a back frame of flat panel display device, which includes at least first and second primary assembling pieces, in which the first primary assembling piece has an end forming at least two joint sections, and each of the joint sections has a structure mating an end of the second primary assembling piece. The first primary assembling piece uses one of the joint sections to join the corresponding end of the second primary assembling piece. The present invention also provides a mold for making a back frame of flat panel display device, a method for manufacturing a back frame of flat panel display device, and a backlight system. The back frame mold of the back frame, the mold for back frame, the method for manufacturing back frame, and the backlight system is of a simple structure and can reduce the expenditure of the back frame mold, and can also save the material used for back frame so as to lower down the cost of flat panel display device.
US08864356B2
A backlight module includes a light guide plate, a first light source device, and a second light source device. The first light source device is disposed adjacent to a first side surface of the light guide plate and has at least one first polarized light source for emitting a first polarized light beam. The second light source device is disposed adjacent to a second side surface of the light guide plate and has at least one second polarized light source for emitting a second polarized light beam. The light guide plate includes a first polarized light transmitting region adjacent to the second light source device and a second polarized light transmitting region adjacent to the first light source device.
US08864355B2
An illumination device comprising a light guide bar, a light source and a reflective sleeve is provided. The light guide bar comprises a first end surface, a second end surface, and a cylindrical surface. The cylindrical surface is disposed between the first end surface and the second end surface and has a light-emitting surface and a reflective surface. The light source is disposed at the outside of the first end surface of the light guide bar. The reflective sleeve covers the second end surface of the light guide bar and has a reflective cavity, which tapers inward to form a vertex angle. A part of the incident light of the light source is reflected to the light-emitting surface via the reflective surface by the reflective cavity or directly reflected to the light-emitting surface by the reflective cavity.
US08864354B2
In one embodiment, a light-emitting pompon including a handle, a plurality of flexible streamers, and a plurality of elongate light-emitting objects is provided. The handle may include a first end and a second end and the plurality of streamers may extend from the first end of the handle. The plurality of elongate light-emitting objects may extend from the first end of the handle. In some embodiments, the plurality of elongate light-emitting objects may be flexible. A light source may be disposed in the handle. The light source may be configured to emit light towards the first end of the handle such that the emitted light enters into and is dispersed out of the plurality of light-emitting objects. In some embodiments, the light source may be spaced from the plurality of elongate light-emitting objects.
US08864353B2
A vehicle position lamp can include a plurality of circuit boards each mounting an LED. The vehicle position lamp can also include a first inner lens having a plurality of optical plates and at least one connecting plate connecting between the adjacent optical plates and a second inner lens. An inner surface of each of the optical plates can be located adjacent the respective one of the circuit boards so that an optical axis of a diffusing lens of each of the optical plates corresponds to a substantially optical axis of each of the LEDs. The second inner lens can be located adjacent the first inner lens that can be formed in various slender curved shapes. Thus, the disclosed subject matter can provide vehicle position lamps having a high visibility that are formed in various slender curved shapes such that match headlights, which fit both front corners of a vehicle.
US08864347B2
An illustrative modular light fixture apparatus may comprise a plurality of modules, each having a base component and a cover component. The base component has a split vertical male plug positioned within a cylindrical recess, and a cylindrical female receptacle formed at an opposite end thereof. The cylindrical female receptacle and split male plug are so configured such that the female receptacle of one module will snap fittingly or otherwise interconnect with the split male plug of another module. The cover component has respective pairs of rectangular openings on first and second sides thereof configured to snap fittingly engage respective tabs on the sides of the base component as the cover component is pushed downwardly over the base component to thereby attach the cover component to the base component.
US08864345B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to an LED lamp having a heat dissipating means as well as a headlamp (to be mounted e.g. to the front of a vehicle such as e.g. a car or a truck) comprising said LED lamp. Embodiments of the present invention also generally relate to a method for dissipating heat from an LED lamp.
US08864342B2
A display device and a lighting device are provided. The display device includes a display element for outputting an image according to a provided image signal, a frame disposed on a rear surface of the display element, and a reflection layer formed on the frame and positioned between the display device and the frame, the reflection layer being a coating layer formed using a paint including at least one of silver and aluminum. When the backlighting device of the display device is configured, a reflection plate where deposition films and a reflection layer made of a metal component are deposited is not required and the reflection layer is formed on the frame by using a paint having at least one of silver and aluminum as its main components, thereby simplifying a manufacturing process, and contributing to reducing the thickness of the display device.
US08864333B2
A golf lighting system includes a golf cup light assembly having a cup housing sized to fit within a golf cup hole and a light source disposed within the housing and configured to illuminate a cup-shaped portion of the housing. The system also includes a plurality of partially removable lighting devices, each of which having a base portion fixed within the ground and a removable, riser-mounted light.
US08864327B2
A laser readable surveying rod is provided with adjustable lighting elements. More specifically, lighting elements, such as LED lights are provided along a length of a surveying rod such that laser readings may be taken at night or in dark conditions. Lighting elements may be translated along a length of a rod, particularly where it is desirable to illuminate only a portion of a rod and conserve valuable energy.
US08864311B2
Among other things, an illumination device (10) is described for one, two or more observation beam paths, each with an observation device having an observation beam bundle, in particular for an operating microscope, having at least one light source (12) for producing at least one illumination beam bundle for illuminating an object to be observed (13), in particular, an eye to be observed, wherein the at least one illumination beam bundle runs coaxially to an observation beam bundle. It is provided according to the invention, in order to be able to suppress disruptive reflections, that illumination device (10) has an illumination optics (11) that is constructed according to the Köhler principle of illumination, and in which at least one reflection diaphragm (18) is provided in order to avoid light reflected from the surface of an objective element (19). In addition, a correspondingly improved observation device is described.
US08864310B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating human eye tracking. One method includes receiving data representing the location of and/or information tracked by an individual's eye or eyes before, during, or after the individual performs a task; identifying a temporal phase or a biomechanical phase of the task performed by the individual; identifying a visual cue in the identified temporal phase or biomechanical phase; and scoring the tracking of the individual's eye or eyes by comparing the data to the visual cue.
US08864309B2
Scanning optical beam imaging systems for imaging a surface with convex curvature are provided. The systems include a sphero-telecentric objective, wherein a scanning radius of curvature of the sphero-telecentric objective is greater than an apical radius of curvature of the surface and less than or equal to four times an apical radius of curvature of the surface.
US08864308B2
An imaging apparatus includes changing unit for changing a positional relation of irradiation positions of a plurality of measuring beams to be radiated onto an object. The imaging apparatus includes scanning unit for scanning the plurality of measuring beams in the positional relation which has been changed by the changing unit, and acquiring unit for acquiring an optical coherence tomographic image of the object on the basis of the plurality of measuring beams.
US08864292B2
In a print fluid cartridge, a main body has a first surface facing in a first direction. A print fluid outlet part is provided on the main body, and has an opening at the first surface. An electric interface is provided at an external surface of the main body and faces in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The electric interface moves relative to the main body in the first direction and in a direction opposite to the first direction between a first position and a second position that are apart from each other in the first direction and the direction opposite to the first direction. The main body supports the electric interface at the second position against pressure that is applied to the electric interface in a direction opposite to the second direction.
US08864290B2
A fluid ejection device includes a fluid ejection unit that ejects a fluid onto an ejection target; a main chassis case that includes a platen disposed in a area for ejecting the fluid by the fluid ejection unit; a container case for containing a pack, the pack containing a fluid for ejection, wherein the container case is pivotably attached to the main chassis case and openable by rotation about a rotation shaft; and a delivery tube that delivers the fluid from the pack to the fluid ejection unit.
US08864289B2
A drop detector assembly is provided including an ejection element to eject a fluid drop, a light guide to selectively receive light scattered off of the fluid drop, and a light detector formed in the light guide to detect light received by the light guide.
US08864286B2
A liquid ejecting head includes: an orifice plate provided with an ejection port forming face which has an ejection port row formed thereon, the ejection port row including a plurality of ejection ports which eject a liquid arrayed in a first direction, wherein each of the ejection ports is formed inside a plurality of grooves which are provided on the ejection port forming face and extend in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, and with respect to a cross section of the groove in the first direction, which includes centers of the ejection ports, the groove has an inner wall surface in a circular arc shape, and the groove has an aperture larger than an aperture of the ejection port, in the first direction.
US08864284B2
A device for an inkjet printer includes a compliant cap, which in turn includes a floor and flexible walls extending upwardly from the floor, and a lip formed on the walls. The floor, walls and lip define an open interior volume sized to accommodate a print head assembly of the inkjet printer. The device further includes a cap post that accommodates the compliant cap and supports the floor.
US08864280B2
A control circuit for a drop-on-demand piezoelectric fluid-ejection mechanism includes a drive and sense circuit, and a switch. The drive and sense circuit has an input, a drive output, and a sense output. The drive output is to be coupled to the drop-on-demand piezoelectric fluid-ejection mechanism. The switch is to switch the input of the drive and sense circuit between a feed-forward driving mode of the drive and sense circuit and a feedback damping mode of the drive and sense circuit. In the feed-forward driving mode, the switch is to couple the input to a drive waveform to cause the fluid-ejection mechanism to eject a drop of fluid. In the feedback damping mode, the switch is to couple the input to the sense output to dampen the fluid-ejection mechanism after the fluid-ejection mechanism has ejected the drop of fluid.
US08864277B2
In an embodiment, an authentication system includes a base unit to receive a replaceable supply device, a controller integrated into the base unit, known characteristic data accessible by the controller, and an authentication algorithm executable on the controller to authenticate the supply device if a known characteristic measured on the supply device matches the known characteristic data.
US08864269B2
A printing apparatus includes a printing unit, a platen, and a conveyance unit. The printing unit discharges ink for printing. The platen supports a sheet in the printing unit. The conveyance unit includes a first roller and a second roller arranged on a downstream side of the first roller and conveys the sheet along a conveyance path including a route from a sheet feed unit to the printing unit. In a cleaning mode to clean the platen, the printing apparatus conveys a cleaning sheet fed from the sheet feed unit until a trailing edge of the cleaning sheet reaches at least a position downstream of a nip position of the first roller, and then to reciprocate the cleaning sheet at least once by the second roller with such a stroke as not to allow the trailing edge to return to the nip position of the first roller.
US08864267B2
A printer includes an ink reservoir that includes yellow ink, cyan ink, and magenta ink. The printer includes an ink dispenser that employs a yellow distribution setting to increase the drop volume of yellow ink droplets and lower the drop frequency of the yellow ink droplets on the media with respect to the cyan ink droplets and/or magenta ink droplets to control the lightfastness of the print on the media.
US08864264B2
A printing system configured for multi-mode printing, the printing system including a print head, the print head including a number of nozzle pairs, each nozzle pair including a primary ink nozzle and a secondary ink nozzle; and switching circuitry for selectively firing either or both of the nozzles in a selected pair within one of a number of time slots based on a current print mode.
US08864263B2
An inkjet recording device is configured to cause a head control substrate to generate a first drive waveform signal and a second drive waveform signal. The first drive waveform signal is for applying, after 2 AL from finishing time of an ejection pulse P1 having a voltage V1 and a pulse width AL, a cancel pulse C1 having a voltage V3 (
US08864256B2
When distributing image data of a plurality of planes to a first chip and a second chip that constitute the same overlapped portion of a connected head, a distribution method is changed for at least a part of the plurality of planes.
US08864253B2
A refrigeration device, in particular a refrigerator and/or freezer, includes a housing with a top, a base, lateral walls and a rear wall as external walls, a door, an interior compartment situated in the housing and surrounded by internal walls and a front frame for thermally decoupling the internal walls from the external walls, the lateral walls being thermally insulated from the other walls by an additional insulation strip. The invention is characterized in that the entry of heat from the exterior into the interior compartment via the lateral walls can be significantly reduced by the thermal decoupling of the lateral walls, thus significantly increasing the efficiency of the refrigeration device.
US08864249B2
A refrigerator having a first storage box inserted and withdrawn like a drawer in association with a door, a second storage box seated and rolled on an upper part of the first storage box, and a roller device to enable the rolling motion of the second storage box on the first storage box. The roller device includes a first roller member mounted to the second storage box, a first roller supporting part formed at the first storage box to support a rolling motion of the first roller member thereon, a second roller member mounted to the first storage box, and a second roller supporting part formed at the second storage box to support the rolling motion of the second roller member thereon. The second storage box may be smoothly moved since the load of the second storage box is distributed to the first and second roller members.
US08864246B2
A vehicle brake hydraulic pressure control apparatus includes: a control unit into which a base body, a motor and a controller housing are unitized and in which the motor and the controller housing are disposed so as to hold the base body therebetween; and a support device interposed between a vehicle body and the control unit. The support device has a lower mount member fixed to a lower surface of the base body that becomes vertical when the control unit is mounted on the vehicle body and a bracket that connects the lower mount member with the vehicle body. A center of gravity of the control unit is situated on the base body. The lower mount member is supported by the bracket to be situated at an intersection point between a vertical line passing through the center of gravity and the lower surface of the base body.
US08864245B2
A valve device is provided for a pneumatic brake system of a commercial vehicle and comprises a pilot piston, radial seals and at least one valve seat, which can be displaced in the direction of motion of the pilot piston.
US08864239B2
Disclosed is a back rest structure for vehicle seats and a method for manufacturing the same. The back rest structure has a back panel element and a seat back frame element fixed to each other, where at least one of the back panel element or the seat back frame element is provided of a thermoplastic composite material comprising a thermoplastic compound material and a reinforcement material, wherein with respect to the thermoplastic material the reinforcement material represents 50 wt-% or more than 50 wt-%.
US08864237B2
Systems and methods for enabling passengers to rest or elevate their feet. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a seat-back attachment portion, a support portion and a footrest portion integral to an adjustable loop of fabric. The seat-back attachment portion is positionable on a top or tray table of a seat-back. The support portion is coupled to the seat-back attachment and footrest portions and suspends the footrest portion at a variable height above the floor. The apparatus may include an integral cover which substantially encloses the apparatus when in a folded position. The footrest portion may have a substantially rigid lateral member, and may have padding secured to the rigid lateral member.
US08864236B2
Provided are a versatile and thin headrest, and seat for same, that can be operated smoothly by reducing an operation load at the time when the headrest is tilted from a head support state to a storage state, and is capable of preventing noise caused by the headrest. The headrest includes a pillar having a transverse shaft part and mounted to the upper part of the seat back, a headrest frame rotatably engaged with the transverse shaft part of the pillar, a headrest urging element that urges the headrest frame to one side, a locking element that hinders turning the headrest frame and pillar, a ratchet lever operating the locking element and sliding in the transverse direction, and a ratchet lever urging element, that urges the ratchet lever in the direction at a predetermined angle to the ratchet lever sliding in the transverse direction.
US08864234B2
A discontinuous recliner for a vehicle seat back that may be locked in a desired angular orientation. A memory function is provided by a memory pawl that is actuated by a memory handle. The memory pawl carries a memory pad in the memory disengaged position. The memory pawl carries the memory pad in a deactivated position and lodges the memory pad in internal gear teeth of a gear plate when the memory feature is activated. The memory pad rotates with the gear plate as the seat back is folded forward. When the seat back is returned to the memory position, the memory pad engages a stop on the memory pawl that is pivoted to move the memory pad out of engagement with the internal gear teeth of the gear plate.
US08864229B2
Human support systems for one or more of the safety, convenience, comfort of the user.
US08864213B2
In a door frame for vehicle which is mounted to a door panel via a reinforcing bracket, the door frame has a projecting portion which projects toward the vehicle interior side from a design portion over a range from a frame forming portion, which appears on the outward appearance of the door, to an insertion portion which is fixed to said reinforcing bracket, and the projecting portion is formed into a widened shape which makes the distance between a wall surface on the frame inner peripheral side and a wall surface on the frame outer peripheral side at the insertion portion greater than that at the frame forming portion. Accordingly, the strength of the fixed portion of the door frame to the reinforcing bracket is improved. In addition, the selectivity of welding location between the door frame and the reinforcing bracket is improved.
US08864204B2
A center panel assembly for a body of a vehicle includes a left cover, a right cover, a top cover, and a plurality of fasteners. The top cover is releasably attached to the left cover with at least a first one of the plurality of fasteners and is releasably attached to the right cover with at least a second one of the plurality of fasteners. The center panel assembly is configured for releasable attachment to a frame of a vehicle.
US08864199B2
A device allows mail carriers to open and close mail boxes without having to touch the receptacle directly. The device includes a ring portion that the mail carrier can attach to their finger. An engager portion can engage a mail box door handle while wings on each side of the engager portion and stabilize the device while it is used to open and close the mail box.
US08864196B2
A pedestrian collision detection device is obtained that is capable of improving pedestrian detection performance in the vicinity of a bumper corner portion. A pedestrian collision detection device includes a chamber member disposed with pressure detectors, and an ECU is connected to the pressure detectors. Terminal portions of the chamber member are wrapped around so as to cover vehicle width direction outside end faces of bumper reinforcement at bumper corner portion sides. When a load of a specific value or greater is input to the terminal portions of the chamber member from a bumper cover side during a collision, the terminal portions obtain a reactive force from the bumper reinforcement and undergo compression deformation towards the vehicle width direction inside, and the pressure inside a pressure chamber of the chamber member changes.
US08864193B2
A vehicle door handle device for attaching to a door panel for operating a door latching device and a door locking device comprises an operation handle and a lock knob. The operation handle operates the latching device to unlatch and open the door. The lock knob operates the locking device to lock and unlock the door. An open cable links the operation handle to the latching device. A lock cable links the lock knob to the locking device. An inner handle housing houses the operation handle and the lock knob. The handle housing includes a cable support part defining a first space for receiving an end portion of the open cable, and a second space for receiving an end portion of the lock cable. The cable support part is configured to prevent one of the end portion of the open cable and the end portion of the lock cable from being received in one of the first space and the second space.
US08864191B2
The invention relates to a device (10) for actuating the closure of a movable part (12) of a motor vehicle, in particular a door, or hatchback, or similar, comprising a support (11) that can be fixed to the inner face of the movable part (12), a bearing unit (20) that can be pivoted about a first axis (13) provided on the support (11) and a handle element (40) with a first (41) and a second end (42), said first and second end (41, 42) being located on the bearing unit (20). According to the invention, the bearing unit (20) is equipped with a retaining element (24) which lies at a distance from the first axis (13) and on which the first end (41) is situated. Said first end (41) at least partially surrounds the retaining element (24).
US08864181B2
A pipe coupling for coupling adjacent ends of a pair of pipes includes a sleeve, a split-ring gland positioned around one of the ends of the sleeve, and at least one annular gasket positioned within the split-ring gland and configured to be compressed by the split-ring gland for sealing one pipe end to the sleeve. The split-ring gland includes two partially circular gland members with spaced ends defining a gap. The pipe coupling includes an armor positioned to span the gap between the spaced ends to provide a generally closed annular periphery about the gasket. The armor includes a corrugated portion having a plurality of corrugations engaging the split-ring gland and the gasket during compression of the gasket. The armor is cold formed to improve structural strength and durability.
US08864178B2
A protective sleeve for quick connect fittings and couplings of a computer system environment. In one embodiment, a protective sleeve with a hollow center is provided that once disposed around the quick connect fittings will protect against leakage of liquids flowing into quick connect fittings during mating and unmating of them. The sleeve comprises an actuation collar area that extends over unmated portion of the quick connect fitting and a flare area disposed over the actuation collar to provide an additional gripping area for actuating the quick connect fitting.
US08864174B2
A vehicle includes a roll cage, at least one rear seat, and at least one rear seat belt assembly. Each rear seat is positioned within a rear protected area at least partially defined by the roll cage. Each rear seat belt assembly is associated with a respective one of the rear seats, and includes a retractor assembly attached to the roll cage.
US08864170B2
A bag body of an airbag includes a recessed area that is sunken forward and extends vertically generally at the center in a left and right direction of the passenger side wall. The airbag internally includes a vertical tether that pulls the front end of the recessed area forward at airbag deployment. The airbag further includes two horizontal tethers; an upper horizontal tether and a lower horizontal tether, which connect the left side wall and right side wall of the bag body, respectively, and are deployable generally in a left and right direction in order to limit the clearance between the left side wall and right side wall. The upper horizontal tether is located in an area above the vertical tether and the lower horizontal tether is located in an area below the vertical tether.
US08864164B2
Provided is a tugger attachment apparatus configured for use with a pallet transport. The pallet transport has a front drive portion and a rear load portion having a pair of forks. The tugger attachment includes a body, a fork coupling member at a bottom side of the body that is configured to secure the body to the forks, and a hitch supported by the body. A linkage can be provided that opens and closes the hitch in response to raising and lowering of the forks of the pallet transport.
US08864161B2
A tricycle may be operable between a first mode of operation steerable by a tricycle rider, and a second mode of operation steerable by an individual pushing the tricycle. A rider handle, in the first mode, may be configured to be rotationally coupled with the stem in a manner permitting a tricycle rider to exert forces on the rider handle and thereby turn the fork, and the rider handle in the second mode, being configured to be rotationally uncoupled from the stem, preventing forces on the rider handle from turning the fork. At least one rotation restrictor may be included for preventing the frost wheel from turning to a position where the front wheel axis leads the fork axis, and for maintaining the front wheel axis in a position trailing the fork axis both when the tricycle is propelled by a tricycle rider in the first mode and when the tricycle is pushed from behind in the second mode.
US08864160B2
A front fork in which a stroke amount of a spring leg that relies on an air spring can be detected precisely, wherein pressure leaks in the spring leg are detectable. The front fork has: a guide cylinder that extends from one of a vehicle body-side tube or an axle-side tube that make up a spring leg; a piston mounted to the leading end of a guide rod extending from the other one of the tubes; an inner airspring chamber in the interior of the guide cylinder; an outer airspring chamber, outward of the inner airspring chamber, in the interior of the vehicle body-side tube and the axle-side tube; first and second detectors for detecting pressure and temperature in the outer airspring chamber the inner airspring chamber, respectively; and stroke detection compensator for detecting a stroke amount on the basis of outputs of the first and second detectors.
US08864148B2
An antimicrobial, molded laminate shopping cart part and method of manufacturing same are provided. The part, such as a small child seat, includes a structural carrier made from a thermoplastic resin and having an outer surface. The part further includes a formed plastic film sheet having upper and lower surfaces. The lower surface is bonded to the outer surface of the carrier. The film sheet includes an outer clear plastic layer including at least one antimicrobial agent disbursed throughout the plastic layer. The antimicrobial agent exhibits controlled migration through the clear plastic to the outer surface of the clear plastic layer.
US08864144B2
A tool connecting rod of the present invention includes a barrel and a rod. A resilient unit and a retainer are disposed between the barrel and the rod. Both of an inner wall of the barrel and a body portion of a pushing member are formed with at least two stepped recesses respectively. As such, the structure of the tool connecting rod is simple so that a tool bit assembles on and detaches from the present invention rapidly.
US08864135B2
A game table having a multiplayer interactive display/input device which enables multiple players to simultaneously play primary or base wagering games and/or secondary or bonus games using the display/input device. The display/input device enables multiple players to simultaneously interact with the game table and the various games using the same display/input device. The game table enables multiple players to manipulate displayed objects (such as virtual cards or other game symbols) displayed by the display/input device at the same time. This enables the display/input device to simultaneously display the same game to multiple players in an integrated seamless manner without the need for multiple different sets of display devices and input devices for each of the players.
US08864132B2
Upon continuous feeding of a plurality of sheets and upon detection of a leading end of a sheet by a detection unit before an elapse of a first time after a start of a paper feed roller, a controller performs control such that a paper conveyance speed of the paper feed roller is set lower than a paper conveyance speed of a registration roller, and the paper feed roller is stopped after conveying the sheet having the leading end detected for a specified conveyance distance before a next timing of starting the registration roller.
US08864131B2
A paper conveying apparatus includes a sound signal generator for generating a sound signal, a sound jam detector for determining whether a jam has occurred based on the sound signal, a control module for stopping conveyance of a paper when the sound jam detector determines that the jam has occurred, a paper state detector for detecting a state of the paper, and a recovery processing module for performing recovery processing which resumes conveyance of the paper in accordance with a content of detection of the paper state detector when the sound signal generator outputs a predetermined sound signal after stopping conveyance of the paper by the control module.
US08864128B2
There is provided a sheet discharge unit which includes a tray which a first area and a second area, a discharge mechanism, a pendulum mechanism, a signal transmission mechanism which transmits a first signal and a second signal, a memory, and a controller. The controller judges whether or not a time interval of two sheets discharged consecutively exceeds the first time interval, and judges that the sheets loaded onto the tray up to a height not lower than the reference position, when the time interval of the two sheets exceeds the first time interval, and when the signal transmission mechanism continues to transmit the second signal exceeding the first time interval.
US08864123B2
An image forming apparatus includes a manual feed portion provided on a side surface of a housing that accommodates an image forming portion and having an abutting portion against which a downstream end in a sheet feeding direction of a sheet inserted into a gap between the manual feed portion and the side surface abuts. The manual feed portion also includes a holding portion configured to hold the sheet such that a sheet surface is held along the side surface of the housing in the condition in which the downstream end of the sheet abuts against the abutting portion.
US08864118B2
A device for stabilizing a launcher, in particular during the firing of camouflage bodies and decoy flares or other systems in which vibrations can build up, thereby subjecting them to shocks. The device is a stabilizer (4) provided on a known damping system (1), for example a metal cable damper etc., into which a re-adjustable system (10), consisting of a rod (11) provided with a curved portion or groove, a pre-loaded device (12), a type of pressure part (13) and a type of pawl part (14), is placed. Pressure can be exerted on the curved portion of the rod (11) by the pre-loaded device (12) using the pressure part (13) and pawl part (14).
US08864112B2
A humidifier includes a main body having a hollow interior, the main body including a fluid reservoir for receiving a fluid therein, wherein the fluid reservoir is formed from a material which at least one of minimizes impurities in the fluid and militates against an emergence of impurities in the fluid, and a discharge vent coupled to the main body, wherein the discharge vent includes a removable tray for receiving a fragrance therein and a compartment for receiving a heat source therein for heating the fragrance, wherein the discharge vent emits a mist to humidify the surrounding air and an aroma of the fragrance.
US08864107B2
One form of sewer comprises a pipe having a bottom section 100 incorporating a flow channel 101 along which sewage flows. A cable guide 110 comprises a body section 111 and an arm section 112. The body comprises a panel 111 curved so as to be able to lie substantially flush with the walls of the flow channel 101 and the arm comprises a tube with an internal passage. The arm 112 projects from the body 111 and the passage within the arm 112 extends from an opening 113 provided in the body 111 to an opening 114 provided at the distal end of the arm 112. The openings 113, 114 and the passage within the arm 112 are of suitable dimensions to carry a cable 105. The body is also provided with a cable clip 115.
US08864104B2
Apparatus to mount process control devices to actuators are described. An example includes a mounting plate having a first side to receive the process control device and a second side opposite the first side, where the second side includes a first clamping finger extending away from the second side and configured to engage a first edge of an actuator yoke. The example apparatus also includes an elongated clamp arm having second and third clamping fingers adjacent respective ends of the elongated clamp arm, where each of the second and third clamping fingers is configured to engage a second edge of the actuator yoke opposite the first edge, and where the elongated clamp arm is slidably coupled to the mounting plate. Additionally, the example apparatus includes a fastener adjustable to cause the elongated clamp arm and the mounting plate to slide toward each other so that the first, second and third clamping fingers engage the respective edges of the yoke to fix the mounting plate relative to the yoke.
US08864103B2
The invention concerns a valve actuator (1) comprising a housing (2) and a nut and screw arrangement. A first portion (5) of the nut and screw arrangement is operated by an electric motor (7), which is fixed to the housing (2). A means (8) is in contact with a second portion (6) of the nut and screw arrangement, and a resilient means (9) is acting between the means (8) and the housing (2). A relative rotation between the threaded nut (3) and the threaded screw (4) leads to a translation of the means (8) and an energizing or de-energizing of the resilient means (9). A locking means (10) locks the resilient means (9) in an energized state by locking the relative rotation of the nut and screw arrangement. When the locking means (10) are released, the resilient means (9), when de-energizing, acts on the means (8), leading to a translation of the means (8).
US08864100B2
A pin assembly (20) having a substantially automatic locking and stowing mechanism, including a latch (90), a biasing member (70), and an engagement pin (30). The engagement pin includes a hollow-tipped forward end, allowing a hardened core pin insert to be introduced. The latch is operably connected to the pin assembly such that raising the latch compresses, creating an extension force, and tensions, creating a rotational force, the biasing member, and applying a force to the rearward end of the pin assembly causes the extension force to drive the engagement pin forward through aligned openings of the adjacent panels and the rotational force drops the latch securing the two panels in place. The adjacent panels are easily disconnected by raising the latch, compressing, creating an extension force, and tensioning, creating a rotational force, the biasing member, and applying a force to the forward end of the pin assembly causing the extension force to drive the engagement pin back through the aligned openings of the framework panels and the rotational force to drop and stow the latch for later use. A biased catch (75) secures the engagement pin in a retracted position.
US08864097B2
An anti-theft structure for a socket display hanger contains a socket display hanger and a fitting seat extending outwardly from a bottom end of the socket display hanger. The fitting seat has two flexible retaining pieces fixed on two sides thereof, two locking projections mounted on two outer walls of the two flexible retaining pieces, an engaging rack defined between the two flexible retaining pieces, two flexible abutting extensions extending outwardly from two sides of the engaging rack, a connecting segment extending upwardly from a top end of the engaging rack and coupling with the socket display hanger, and an arcuate hollow space defined on two sides of the connecting segment and the fitting seat. The fitting seat of the socket display hanger is connected with a square hole of a wrench socket.
US08864087B2
An adjustable furniture attachment clamp for attachment to the underside of a furniture item with two spaced apart arm fasteners, the clamp comprising a clamp body having oppositely disposed laterally extending forked arms, each arm having a fastener slot having a width greater than the shanks of the arm fasteners, the fastener slots including inner ends spaced apart a distance less than the arm fasteners, such that lateral and forward-to-back play is provided for adjustment of the clamp relative to the furniture item, the clamp also having a downwardly facing beam pocket including a beam capture surface for holding the right upper beam flange of a support I-beam and a cam having a binding face for pressing against the lower portion of the left upper beam flange when a cam fastener is tightened for attaching the clamp body to the I-beam.
US08864083B1
Concepts and technologies described herein provide for a low noise aircraft wing slat system. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a wing slat is used in conjunction with upper and lower bridging elements to minimize airframe noise associated with a high lift system during takeoff and landing flight operations. An upper bridging element deploys from a slat or an aircraft wing during deployment of the slat for takeoff operations and creates a continuous aerodynamic surface between the slat and an upper surface of the wing leading edge to improve the airflow and reduce drag. A lower bridging element deploys from the wing during cruise flight to bridge a gap between a lower surface of a stowed leading edge slat and a lower surface of the wing. During landing operations, both upper and lower bridging elements remain stowed to optimize ambient airflow for noise abatement and lift creation.
US08864074B2
A multi layer composite L-shaped stringer for use in an aerospace structure comprises a foot and a web extending from an edge of the foot. A first surface on the foot is shaped to abut a structure to be stiffened. The foot also has a second surface opposite the first surface. The web has a third surface and a fourth surface at the same layer in the composite material as the first and third surfaces, respectively. The geometry of the stringer may vary along its length (L) so that as the first surface is displaced towards the second surface, the fourth surface is displaced towards the third surface. The developed width (DW) from the distal edge of the foot to the distal edge of the web of the stringer may be substantially constant for all cross-sections along a length of the stringer. The risk of causing, during fabrication of the stringer, undesirable creasing, stressing or stretching of composite material layers in a region in which the geometry of the stringer varies may be reduced by means of such arrangements.
US08864069B2
A method of launching and retrieving a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) (10). The preferred method of launch involves carrying the UAV (10) up to altitude using a parasail (8) similar to that used to carry tourists aloft. The UAV is dropped and picks up enough airspeed in the dive to perform a pull-up into level controlled flight. The preferred method of recovery is for the UAV to fly into and latch onto the parasail tow line (4) or cables hanging off the tow line and then be winched back down to the boat (2).
US08864067B2
An auxiliary power unit is composed of a gas turbine engine, a gearbox, and a gearbox driven generator. A mount bracket is mechanically attached to the gearbox. The bracket is for connecting to an aircraft strut system. The aircraft strut system connects to the aircraft structure. The mount bracket has an upper mechanical attachment point and a lower mechanical attachment point to the gearbox. The gearbox includes an oil reservoir, and the lower attachment point is beneath the oil level within the oil reservoir such that said lower attachment point will be cooled by oil in the oil reservoir.
US08864063B2
In one example, a tethered airship system for high altitude long endurance missions includes a first airship configured to be equilibrially buoyant in a first altitude range and a second airship configured to be equilibrially buoyant in a second altitude range, such that the first airship is at least five kilometers above the second airship. The first airship and second airship are connected by a tether.
US08864061B2
A winder for winding a web to produce a rolled product is provided. The winder includes a web transport apparatus that is used for conveying the web. Also included in one exemplary embodiment is a plurality of independent winding modules. The winding modules are independently positioned to independently engage the web as the web is conveyed by the web transport apparatus. The winding modules may be configured to wind the web to form a rolled product by center winding, surface winding, and combinations of center and surface winding. The winding modules are structurally and operationally independent of one another where if one module is disabled, another may still operate to produce the rolled product without shutting down the winder.
US08864052B2
A trigger sprayer has a housing, a piston bore within the housing, and a piston reciprocally mounted within the piston bore. The housing further includes a flow passage through which liquid passes from a passage inlet to a passage outlet. An actuator is operable to reciprocate the piston within the piston bore between a vacuum stroke creating reduced pressure in the piston bore and a compression stroke creating increased pressure in the piston bore. A valve assembly within the flow passage controls the flow of liquid through the flow passage upon operation of the actuator. The valve assembly further comprises a check valve and a priming valve. The sprayer has a closure for mounting the sprayer to a container. The valve seat for the check valve is in a component formed separately from and operatively connected to the housing.
US08864044B2
The present invention provides a low environmental burden type coating method using carbon dioxide and a coating device therefor that carry out carbon dioxide coating in which carbon dioxide is substituted for all or a portion of a diluent solvent (thinner) used in organic solvent-based spray coating, the coating method being configured to prevent deposition of a polymer of a paint component that has entered as a result of backflow by preliminarily adding, to carbon dioxide, a true solvent component of the paint in at least an amount required for saturated solubility (20% to 50% per weight of carbon dioxide) to lower the dissolving power of carbon dioxide with respect to the true solvent component. According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a coating method and a device therefor capable of considerably reducing VOC generation, and a coating method and a device therefor capable of performing stable carbon dioxide coating of a one-liquid curing type or two-liquid curing type paint.
US08864042B2
A system and a method for monitoring and inspecting food safety is disclosed. The system adopts insert and use concept that only requires an initial push on a button to begin its function. The system provides visual alert for different conditions if food products are in unsafe status. The system is pre-calibrated during manufacture without complicated or multi-step calibration or recalibration procedures during application. The system relies on modern surface-mount microprocessor technology that enables long-term calibration stability along with very low power consumption for extended battery life.
US08864034B1
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a barcode reader, comprising a first illumination system that emits first illumination with a first illumination spectrum, and a second illumination system that emits second illumination with a second illumination spectrum. The second illumination spectrum is broader than the first illumination spectrum. The barcode reader also comprises a first lens assembly with a first optical path through the first lens assembly to a first image sensor section. The first optical path includes a first filter configured to pass an acceptance spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and attenuate an attenuated spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. The first illumination spectrum is primarily composed of the acceptance spectrum. The barcode reader also comprises a second lens assembly with second optical path through the second lens assembly to a second image sensor section.
US08864032B2
Network and device configuration systems and methods are described. In an embodiment, a first user interface configured to receive from a user configuration information regarding a first network provided. Program code stored in computer accessible memory is configured to generate a barcode that includes information related to the first network configuration information, wherein the barcode can be scanned by a device having a barcode scanner and a network interface to configure the network interface to access the first network.
US08864029B2
MICR documents are read and sorted to a destination pocket for processing subject to a determination that an exception does not prevent the routing of the document. In example embodiments, for example, an error does not prevent the routing of the document if it is not related to the routing/transit field. In the case of digit errors, an optical character recognition (OCR) process is performed on the stored, electronic image of the document to correct digit errors in the stored data read from the documents. If a determination is made that correction or other exception processing cannot be handled through the OCR process, the image and corresponding MICR data is displayed on a user terminal, for manual verification or correction by reference to an image of the document, rather than the document itself.
US08864027B2
Low-power pulse width encoding scheme and counter-less shift register that may be employed therewith
A method of decoding an encoded signal includes steps of receiving the encoded signal, creating a decoding signal by delaying the encoded signal by a predetermined amount of time Δ, sampling the encoded signal using the decoding signal, and determining a value of each of a plurality of decoded bits represented by the encoded signal based on the sampling. Also, a method of operating a shift register wherein the shift register has an initialization state wherein a first binary symbol is stored in a first position and a second binary symbol different than the first binary symbol is stored in each of one or more intermediate positions and a last position. The method includes determining that the shift register is full responsive to detecting that the first binary symbol has been stored in either one of the intermediate positions or the last position.
US08864025B2
A system for tracking a plurality of larger produce delivered to a consumer includes capturing data related to the larger produce in a computer system and affixing a statistically sequential value to each of the larger produce. A first statistically sequential value and a last statistically sequential value is used by software running on the computer system to form an association between the series of statistically sequential values and the data pertaining to the larger produce in a database. The database is later used to track the origin of the larger produce.
US08864023B2
A payment system includes transaction handler that processes transactions, each characterized by a consumer and a merchant engaging in a sales transaction involving a prepaid program having prepaid cards, such as a gift card, that an issuer provides to consumers. A method for establishing a prepaid program includes the issuer remotely accessing a computer system at the transaction handler. The computer system presenting the issuer with a program information form on which the issuer enters requested data. As each data item is entered, the computer system checks for errors, which are identified to and corrected by the issuer in real time. The issuer submits the data as a request to create a prepaid program, which the transaction handler reviews and responds by approving or rejecting creation of the prepaid program. The transaction handler electronically communicates approval or rejection of the prepaid program to the issuer.
US08864019B2
The technology described herein is directed to a system that quickly and efficiently transmits photographs from a camera to one or more computing devices. The link for such a transmission is easily and automatically configured. Once the photographs are stored in the one or more computing devices, they can be submitted to a photograph management system that facilitates distribution of the photographs as well as collaboration with other individuals or autonomous agents for editing and re-editing of photographs.
US08864018B2
Systems and methods for providing access to a collection of related binary files via a collection of machine-recognizable codes provided on a device or consumer item.
US08864015B2
A frusto-conical cup (1, 20, 30, 40, 50) made from a flexible resilient material, having a circular rim (5) defining the top opening (6) of the cup. A pair of arcuate crease lines (7, 8) is formed at the opposing sides of the wall (2) of the cup below the rim defining a pair of flaps (70, 80) for closing the top opening of the cup by folding the flaps along the crease lines. Due to the resilience of the cup material, each flap can toggle between two stable positions on application of an initial external force on the flap, namely an open upright position in which the flap is convex and forms part of the wall of the cup, and a closed slanted position in which the flap changes its shape to concave. In the closed mode, the rim of one flap impinges against the inner face of the second flap and forms a spill-tight seal between the flaps. The seal is maintained due to static opposing forces acting between the flaps.
US08864011B2
Provide is an apparatus for thermal melting processes that is capable of directly cooling the process object without requiring a separate cooling plate.The apparatus for thermal melting process according to the present invention is an apparatus 1 for thermal melting process that thermally melts objects 100 including solder in an atmosphere containing carbonic acid vapor, and the hand part 4 for carrying and transferring the thermally melted process objects 100 is used as a cooling plate as well.
US08864010B2
A loading unit is provided. The loading unit includes a housing defining a longitudinal axis, a mounting support pivotally connected to the housing and including a tool assembly operably connected thereto, a curved guide member extending between the housing and the support member, and a drive member extending through the curved guide member for actuating the tool assembly when the mounting support is articulated relative to the housing.
US08864007B2
A fastener cartridge can comprise a compressible, collapsible, and/or crushable cartridge body and fasteners embedded within the cartridge body which can be utilized to fasten tissue. In use, the fastener cartridge can be positioned in a first jaw of a surgical fastening device, wherein the first jaw can be positioned opposite a second jaw, or anvil. The anvil can be engaged with the fastener cartridge to compress, collapse, and/or crush the cartridge body and deform, or otherwise deploy, the fasteners contained therein. As the fasteners are deformed or deployed, the fasteners can capture at least a portion of the cartridge body therein along with at least a portion of the tissue being fastened. In various embodiments, the cartridge body can comprise a thickness which is not uniform thereacross. In at least one embodiment, the fasteners can comprise different unformed heights and/or different formed heights.
US08863990B2
A manually-actuable, non-aerosol dispenser to be used with a personal care composition having a relatively higher viscosity that gives a desired foamed composition generated from a manually-actuable, non-aerosol dispenser.
US08863988B2
The cosmetic container having a release prevention device in which a vertical bar type stopper is applied to a release-prevention and locking device and a vertical panel type protrusion having teeth is installed to implement a stopper function, a release-prevention function, and a remaining liquid absorbing function. The cosmetic container includes a connector tube stuck to the inner wall of the cylinder, a hollow piston coupled with the lower end of the connector tube to support the connector tube, a release-preventing and locking device having a lower end to be inserted into the cylinder and allowing a screw-coupling of an upper outer side of the cosmetic container, and a push button coupled with the top of the release-preventing and locking device and pumping the hollow piston while up-and-down movements to pump the content in the cosmetic container out through an ejection hole.
US08863985B2
An ice supply system includes an ice transport system, a volumetric feeder coupled with the ice transport system and adapted to deliver a preset volume of ice to an ice output system, and an ice delivery controller coupled with the ice transport system, the volumetric feeder, and the ice output system. The ice delivery controller receives ice requests from the ice output system, controls the delivery of ice from the ice transport system to the volumetric feeder in response to ice requests, controls the volumetric feeder to receive the preset volume of ice therein, and controls the delivery of the preset volume of ice from the volumetric feeder to the ice output system.
US08863979B2
A lid assembly for a beverage container having a lid housing, a seal assembly and a trigger member. The seal assembly has one or more drink seals that engage a corresponding one or more drink apertures to close the drink apertures. The seal assembly is rotatedly connected to the lid housing and movable between a use position and a cleaning position for cleaning. The trigger member is connected to the lid housing and is capable of engaging the seal assembly in the use position, but not in the cleaning position. The trigger member is connected to the seal assembly such that the vent aperture is opened during a first portion of the operation of the trigger, and the drink apertures are opened during a second portion of the operation of the trigger so that the vent aperture is opened before the drink apertures.
US08863972B2
A transport and storage container for liquids includes an inner container of plastic material, an outer casing of a metal mesh or sheet metal, and a pallet-like underframe. The container is configured for manipulation by a transport means. A bottom of sheet metal rests on corner and middle legs for supporting the inner container equipped with a closable filling socket and a drain socket for connection to a removal fitting, wherein the inner container has a drain bottom with a middle draining groove which extends with a slight downward inclination from the rear wall of the container to the drain socket arranged at the end wall of the container for connection of the removal fitting. The bottom of the underframe adapted to the bottom of the inner container is divided into two bottom sections which are inclined downwardly from the two longitudinal rims of the bottom in the direction toward the middle axis of the bottom and from the rear rim toward the front rim of the bottom, and wherein the two bottom portions are equipped with stiffening corrugations having corrugation troughs located in a common horizontal plane.
US08863963B2
A product management display system for merchandising product on a shelf includes at least one tray having a front rounded portion and defining a plurality of apertures and having two sides. A lip may extend upward from the front rounded portion of the at least one tray. A front shelf may extend forward from the lip. The at least one tray may include one divider extending upwardly from each of the two sides and a front wall. The front wall may include a top wall, a bottom wall, and two side legs. The front wall, bottom wall, and two side legs may form a wall aperture and the front wall may include a plurality of projections configured to engage with the plurality of apertures on the tray.
US08863953B1
A thermoformed package that is specially adapted to allow a cell phone (or similar product) to be partially packaged at one time and place, and then at a later time adapted for sale as a finished product with a particular brand (from a variety of brands or trademarks), and/or with a particular service plan (from a variety of rate plans or payment terms and/or languages) and/or with a particular language (or other localization) at a second time and place.
US08863933B2
A conveyor for a sheet glass tempering furnace, comprising a roller conveyor and an inclined airborne conveyor, as well as support and transport rollers at a lower edge of the airborne conveyor. The roller conveyor includes a horizontal level conveyor and an adapter conveyor between the horizontal level conveyor and the airborne conveyor. The adapter conveyor features a horizontal level upstream end and an inclined downstream end, the inclination angle of which matches substantially that of the airborne conveyor. The adapter conveyor has its rollers increase in inclination step by step when proceeding from the up-stream end towards the downstream end.
US08863920B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic parking brake which is installed in a vehicle and is operated by a motor. The electronic parking brake having a drum rotating together with a wheel and first and second brake shoes includes a motor rotated in normal and reverse directions and generating driving force for braking, a cycloid reducer connected to a rotary shaft of the motor and amplifying the driving force generated from the motor, a spindle member connected to the cycloid reducer and rotated, a spur gear assembly rotated by rotary force transmitted from the spindle member, a piston rotated and provided with the outer circumferential surface on which one gear of the spur gear assembly is integrally formed, and a push rod unit installed at both ends of the piston in the longitudinal direction, rectilinearly moved according to rotation of the piston and supported by the first and second brake shoes.
US08863917B2
A metal fiber, copper, and titanate free non-asbestos friction material for brake pads is provided. The friction material includes a binder, such as a phenolic resin, forming 16-24 % by volume; a fiber, such as aramid fiber, forming 4-12 % by volume; a lubricant, such as a blend of antimony tri-sulfide and another metal sulfide, forming 2-5 % by volume; and at least one abrasive, such as a blend of mineral fiber, magnesium oxide, and mica, forming 10-22 % by volume. The friction material further comprises rubber powder in an amount of at least 4 % by volume. The brake pad can be formed by a cost effective process consisting essentially of mixing the ingredients, pressing and curing the friction material to a backing plate, and post baking the brake pad.
US08863916B2
A brake shoe, in particular a brake shoe for a drum brake, comprising a bridge unit and a brake pad unit, wherein the bridge unit comprises a bridge element with an at least partially arched geometry and a bridge-sided connecting portion, the brake pad unit comprises a brake-pad-sided connecting portion, and the brake-pad-sided connecting portion and the bridge-sided connecting portion are configured such that they positively engage each other at least in a certain area so that the positive engagement prevents, in at least one direction, the brake pad unit dislocating relative to the bridge element.
US08863914B2
A part-lining disk brake is described, having an electromechanical actuator, a self-energizing application device with a wedge arrangement designed to press a brake lining against a disk brake, and at least two wedge elements of the wedge arrangement moveable relative to one another, arranged on one of a brake caliper frame and an auxiliary frame. The wedge elements are used to apply the brake lining, and act on the brake lining via a trapezoidal pressure plate.
US08863903B2
The invention relates to an aerial platform for a wind turbine with a tower and rotor blades arranged on the tower, which aerial platform comprises: a vehicle; at least a first pair of cables and a second pair of cables, which are each attached with one end to the vehicle and can be attached with the other end close to the upper side of the tower of the wind turbine; a lift cradle which is guided by at least a first pair of cables; and hoisting means for hoisting the lift cradle with the second pair of cables along the first pair of cables. The invention further comprises a lift cradle for an aerial platform according to the invention.
US08863901B1
A portable tool box includes an integrated hanger for engagement with a ladder rung on a ladder. The tool box is quickly and easily placed on a ladder allowing a user to quickly and safely store and access multiple tools while on the ladder.
US08863893B2
An inlet for an aircraft engine nacelle having an acoustic barrel panel, a septum buried or sandwiched within the acoustic barrel panel, and a perforated face sheet. The inlet may be located forward of an engine and/or an engine fan housed within the aircraft engine nacelle. Both the septum and the perforated face sheet may have perforations or holes therein of varying sizes and varying distances apart from each other. The smaller the area of the perforations or holes and the further apart they are from each other, the higher the impedance of a given area of the septum or the perforated face sheet. The impedance of the septum and/or the perforated face sheet may progressively increase in a direction away from the engine fan.
US08863887B2
A utility vehicle which can shorten the entire length of an air intake duct includes a belt-type continuously variable transmission that converts and transmits a driving force from an engine, a transmission case that accommodates the continuously variable transmission, an air intake duct that introduces outside air into the transmission case, and an exhaust duct that discharges air in the transmission case, wherein the transmission case is provided in a console box, and an air intake port of the air intake duct is arranged in the console box.
US08863880B2
A hydraulic excavator basically includes a lower traveling unit, an upper revolving unit, a counterweight, a machine compartment, a first handrail, a second handrail and a pair of antenna supporting parts. The upper revolving unit is revolvably mounted on the lower traveling unit. The counterweight is disposed on the upper revolving unit. The machine compartment is disposed in front of the counterweight on the upper revolving unit. The first and second handrails are disposed on the machine compartment. The antenna supporting parts are configured to support a pair of antennas. The antenna supporting parts are respectively connected to the first and second handrails.
US08863878B2
In a vehicle battery mounting structure, each sidewall of a bracket body has a load-receiving portion extending obliquely from the vehicle vertical direction upper end of a base portion toward the vehicle vertical direction lower end of a flat wall. The load-receiving portion is located between a rear wall and an intermediate beam. Thus, when the intermediate beam is moving toward the vehicle longitudinal direction front side during a rear collision, or the like, a front wall of the intermediate beam smashes against the load-receiving portion.
US08863874B2
A mounting structure for an in-wheel motor system is provided. The mounting structure includes the in-wheel motor system installed in a wheel of the vehicle, and a torsion beam axle (TBA) assembly to fix the in-wheel motor system to a vehicle body, wherein a rear portion of a motor housing includes a step portion formed in a stepped manner to have a decreased diameter, and a ring-shaped fastening face vertically arranged from the step portion, and the TBA assembly includes a trailing arm provided with a through hole to surround the step portion of the motor housing, a mount integrated with the trailing arm to fix the trailing arm to a vehicle body, and a plurality of fastening bolts to fix the motor housing to the trailing arm, wherein, when the step portion is fitted and coupled into the through hole, the fastening face closely contacts the trailing arm.
US08863873B2
An in-wheel motor system capable of maximizing the efficiency in using a wheel space by improving a mounting structure thereof, the in-wheel motor system installed at a wheel of a vehicle to transmit a rotational force including an axle installed at the wheel of the wheel and rotating together with the wheel, an in-wheel motor mounted inside the wheel and provided with a rotor and a stator that are used to generate a rotational force to drive the wheel, the rotor, and the stator disposed to face each other while having an accommodation space thereinbetween, a cycloid decelerator installed at a center of the in-wheel motor, and provided with an output shaft to transmit a rotational force at a reduced speed from the in-wheel motor to the axle and an input shaft that passes through the in-wheel motor and rotates together with the rotor, a disc installed at one end portion of the input shaft that protrudes by passing through the in-wheel motor, and a disc brake configured to provide a braking force by pressing the disc, wherein the in-wheel motor and the cycloid decelerator are disposed in a space formed inside the wheel.
US08863869B2
The metallic case of a power conversion apparatus includes a casing having a side wall, as well as an upper case and a lower case, a first area being formed between a cooling jacket provided at the inner periphery of the side wall and the lower case, the metal base plate dividing the first area between the cooling jacket and the upper case into a lower side second area and an upper side third area, first and second power modules being fastened to a top surface and a capacitor module being provided in the first area, driving circuits that drive inverter circuits of the power modules respectively being provided in the second area, and a control circuit that controls the driver circuits being provided in the third area.
US08863868B2
A cart comprising a platform configured to support something being transported. The cart has primary wheels including two or more rows of three or more non-swivelable wheels wherein the lower-most points of the wheels in a row form an arc. The wheels longitudinally span at least a portion of the platform.
US08863864B1
A superabrasive compact (e.g., a polycrystalline diamond compact) including a substrate and at least one feature for reducing the susceptibility of the substrate to liquid metal embrittlement during brazing operations is disclosed. The superabrasive compact may include a region between the substrate and a superabrasive table in which residual tensile stresses are located. The at least one feature may be disposed proximate to the region between the substrate and the superabrasive table in which residual tensile stresses are located.
US08863862B1
A lateral drilling system includes a device for drilling a first bore hole, preferably vertical or substantially vertical, and including a tool for boring a second bore hole in a direction transverse, preferably normal or substantially normal, to the first bore hole. The vertical boring tool may be any vertical boring device. A casing for the first bore hole may be used. The tool for boring the second bore hole includes a pipe launching section and a pipe receiving section. There is also a removable rack for holding a supply of pipe segments, each segment having a lead end of reduced diameter for fitting into a tail end of a preceding pipe segment, so that the segments form a conduit which may be used to treat surrounding ground. The tool includes a frame for holding the pipe receiving section, pipe launching section and pipe launching mechanism. The pipe launching mechanism includes a pushing arm and a power source to push each pipe segment one by one into the ground. A stabilizing mechanism may also be used to stabilize the device's frame.
US08863856B2
A multi-stage fire suppression system according to various aspects of the present invention is configured to deliver a fire suppressant material in response to multiple detections of a fire condition over time. In one embodiment, the multi-stage fire suppression system comprises at least two pressure tubes each having a different internal pressure. Each pressure tube is adapted to generate a pneumatic signal in response to exposure to a different trigger event. The pneumatic signal is used to activate a suppression system and release the fire suppressant material from a container. The multi-stage fire suppression system may also be configured to signal a secondary hazard detection system that a fire has been detected.
US08863850B2
A method of stimulating a subterranean formation using a tubular member with one or more burst disks therein.
US08863848B2
An apparatus for controlling the flow of downhole fluids comprises a body having a throughbore and at least one port extending through a sidewall of the body to enable fluid communication between the throughbore and an exterior of the body. The apparatus comprises a flow control device for controlling the flow of fluids through the port. The flow control device is arranged to change configuration between a closed configuration in which fluid flow through the port is restricted and an open configuration in which fluid flow through the port is permitted. The apparatus further comprises an actuator mechanism associated with the flow control device for selective actuation of the flow control device to change the configuration of the flow control device between the closed and open configurations. The apparatus further comprises a locking device to lock the configuration of the flow control device, and an unlocking mechanism to unlock the locking device and to permit the actuator mechanism to change the configuration of the flow control device.
US08863846B2
A jack system may provide subsea or surface operation. The jack system includes a top plate and a base plate with at least two pistons disposed between the base and top plate. The pistons are extendable to increase a separation distance between the base and top plate, and said pistons are retractable to decrease the separation distance between the base and top plate. The jack system also includes a bottom slip bowl assembly, a top slip bowl assembly, and rotary assembly. The top slip bowl and rotary assembly are rotatably coupled to the top plate wherein the rotary assembly and the top slip bowl assembly rotate relative to the top plate.
US08863840B2
Systems and methods for thermal recovery of shallow bitumen using increased permeability inclusions. A method of producing hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation includes the steps of: propagating at least one generally planar inclusion outward from a wellbore into the formation; injecting a fluid into the inclusion, thereby heating the hydrocarbons; and during the injecting step, producing the hydrocarbons from the wellbore. A well system includes at least one generally planar inclusion extending outward from a wellbore into a formation; a fluid injected into the inclusion, hydrocarbons being heated as a result of the injected fluid; and a tubular string through which the hydrocarbons are produced, the tubular string extending to a location in the wellbore below the inclusion, and the hydrocarbons being received into the tubular string at that location.
US08863839B2
Method for producing hydrocarbon fluids from an organic-rich rock formation include providing a plurality of in situ heat sources configured to generate heat within the formation so as to pyrolyze solid hydrocarbons into hydrocarbon fluids. Preferably, the organic-rich rock formation is heated to a temperature of at least 270° C. Heating of the organic-rich rock formation continues so that heat moves away from the respective heat sources and through the formation at a first value of effective thermal diffusivity, α1. Heating of the formation further continues in situ so that thermal fractures are caused to be formed in the formation or so that the permeability of the formation is otherwise increased. The method also includes injecting a fluid into the organic-rich rock formation. The purpose for injecting the fluid is to increase the value of thermal diffusivity within the subsurface formation to a second value, α2. The second value α2 is at least 50% greater than the first value α1 and, more preferably, is at least 100% greater than α1.
US08863837B2
A plunger lift control system for improving the output efficiency of an oil or gas well by a real-time reporting arrangement, the system comprising: a tubing string having an upper end and a lower end, the tubing string arranged within a well casing for receiving a plunger traveling therethrough, a plunger having a sound generating function therewith, so as to transmit a real-time lower-end location signal from the plunger to a signal sensor and processor arranged in communication with a system controller arranged at the upper end of the tubing.
US08863833B2
A system monitors and controls the injection of additives into formation fluids recovered through a well may include a plurality of nozzles that receive the injection fluid from an umbilical disposed in a well. Each nozzle may have an associated flow control element that is configured to affect a flow of the injection fluid ejected through the associated nozzle. The umbilical may include one or more filters positioned in a first of two parallel conduits formed along the umbilical. An occlusion member restricts in a second of the two conduits. The occlusion member permits flow in the second conduit after a predetermined pressure differential exists in the second conduit. The system may include a plurality of pressure sensors disposed along the umbilical, and an injector unit that dispenses fluid into the umbilical. A controller operatively coupled to the injector unit operates the injector in response to measurements from the pressure sensors.
US08863827B2
A jet pump and method of using the jet pump for removing fluids and solids from a conduit. The jet pump is adapted for use with a spoolable multi-string tubing system. The jet pump may be deployed rapidly and is suitable for temporary installation. The method may be used to reestablish flow in watered out and sanded off wells, or to test wells. The jet pump is adapted to remove wellbore fluid, which may be removed in combination with power fluid. The spoolable multi-string tubing system includes two or more substantially parallel conduits, allowing power fluid and return fluid to flow in separate conduits. Preferred embodiments provide additional functionality by inclusion of jetting elements, sensing elements, back-pressure valves, and auxiliary tubing strings or communication members in the spoolable multi-string tubing system.
US08863826B2
A top-mounted digital-control tower pumping unit includes a tower frame (1), a power system (2), a drive system, a control system (3), a balance weight box (4), a balance weight positioning cable (5), a driving cable (6), a plurality of cable hangers (7) and a guide wheel mechanism. The guide wheel mechanism is fixed on an operation platform by a rotating shaft, which is convenient for the operator to move the guide wheel mechanism aside during the oil well work-over. The control system, the power system, and the drive system are all mounted closely on an operating platform on the top of the tower frame. The top-mounted digital-control tower pumping unit of the present invention has the advantages of simple structure, convenient maintenance, low cost, stable operation and small noise.
US08863823B1
An underground hydro-slotting perforation system includes an adaptor connectable to a tubing, a tail part connected to the adaptor, a hydraulic block connected to the tail part, a return block connected with the hydraulic block, and a perforator connected with the return block and providing a hydro-slotting.
US08863822B2
A control line running system includes a control line storage unit and a guiding system having a guiding device and a guide rail for guiding a control line from the control line storage unit toward a well center. The system may also include a control line manipulator assembly for moving the control line toward a tubular and a control line clamp for attaching the control line to the tubular.
US08863818B2
The invention concerns a system for the thermoregulation of dies for die-casting, dies for chill casting and the like. It comprises a tank (11) containing a cooling fluid; a primary hydraulic circuit (12) for a circulation of the cooling fluid from the tank to the die to be cooled and from this to the tank through a heat exchanger (SC); a secondary pneumatic circuit (13) connected to the primary hydraulic circuit (12) for the circulation of an aeriform fluid in the die to be cooled both in alternative, and in a mixed form with the liquid cooling fluid; and a pre-heating hydraulic circuit (112) integrated with the primary hydraulic circuit (12) and assigned to the production and circulation of a hot liquid fluid for pre-heating the die to be thermoregulated.
US08863805B2
A pressing-on device for pressing fiber-reinforced thermoplastic materials onto a mold is described. The pressing-on device has a main body and a pressing-on layer provided on a surface of the main body. The pressing-on layer is implemented in this case using an inorganic material, preferably a ceramic material, and has a flexibility because of its structure which allows it to adapt itself to the contour of a mold. Increased heat resistance of the pressing-on device and improved properties of the processed fiber-reinforced thermoplastic material can be achieved.
US08863801B2
There is provided a pneumatic radial tire having favorable steering stability required as a high performance radial tire designed for high performance cars, durability and good cost performance. The pneumatic radial tire is framed by a carcass 1 toroidally extending between a pair of bead portions 11 and has at least two layers of crossing belt layers 2 (2a, 2b) formed by rubberizing steel cords and disposed around an outside of a crown portion thereof in a radial direction. The steel cord has a single strand structure or a core-single layer sheath structure composed of six to ten steel wires of 0.10 to 0.20 mm in diameter, a number of driven steel cords is 40 cords/50 mm or more and a distance between the adjacent steel cords within the belt layer is 0.3 mm or more.
US08863795B2
A vehicle wheel tire includes a tire tread having a circumferential center tread region in which block elements are arranged in a symmetric pattern on opposite sides of a tire circumferential equatorial centerplane. The tread has one or more circumferential grooves bounded by edges of opposing block elements, pairs of opposed block elements having a block edge facing the groove and an array of saw-teeth formed along the groove-facing edge of opposed block elements inclined in the radial direction. The saw-teeth on a block edge of one opposed block element incline in a direction opposite to the inclination direction of saw-teeth on opposite opposed block element. A block element on the center tread region side of the groove has multiple circumferentially spaced apart and laterally extending sipes extending across the block element. The sipes extend to and align with the array of saw-teeth along the groove-facing edge of the block element.
US08863780B2
A faucet includes an outer housing having a surface formed of a first material. The outer housing has an entry and an outlet, and a valve cartridge is positioned at least partly in the outer housing and is configured to control flow of water to the outlet. An insulator sleeve is positioned at least partly in the outer housing between a wall of the outer housing and the valve cartridge. A collar having a surface made of a second material different from the first material is at least partly nested within the insulator sleeve outside of the valve cartridge. The insulator sleeve is made of a material that acts to galvanically insulate the outer housing from the collar.
US08863779B2
The present invention discloses an integrated supplying apparatus for gas and sizing. It comprises a sizing barrel, a gas supply unit and a switching unit. The sizing barrel and the gas supply unit are both connected with the switching unit. When the switching unit is fixed in a first state by a safety component, the gas supply unit can only output high pressure gas through the switching unit. When the switching unit is converted into a second state by releasing the safety component, the gas supply unit in turn outputs some high pressure air into the sizing barrel through the switching unit, so that the sizing inside the sizing barrel is output under the action of the gas pressure and the gas inside the sizing barrel is then output when completing the output of the sizing.
US08863775B2
A flow path switching valve is disclosed that can be operated remotely simply by turning flow on and off. The switching valve may be incorporated into the body of a high pressure nozzle. In one embodiment a mid portion of the valve body has at least one passage therein leading from a central axial bore to first and second external ports. A poppet member received in the central axial bore directs fluid flow in a first position to the first external ports. The poppet member, when in a second position, closes the central axial bore through the outlet end of the valve body and permits fluid flow through the second set of external ports. Selection of the different flow paths is made by simply reducing flow through the valve below a predetermined fluid flow threshold and then increasing the flow rate above the threshold.
US08863772B2
The present invention generally relates to occluders and, in particular, to occluders for use in medical infusion systems. In one aspect, the occluder contains one or more tubes through which fluid can flow, and the occluder can be automatically controlled to allow or at least partially prevent fluid flow. In some cases, the occluder may be constructed and arranged to fail (e.g., due to loss of power) in a “closed” position, i.e., a position that at least partially prevents fluid flow. In addition, in one embodiment, the occluder may be manually overridden, even when in a failed state, by a user. For instance, in the event of a power failure, a user may be able to manually override the occluder to remove tubing from the occluder. Such occluders may find use, for example, in medical devices such as hemodialysis machines, medical infusion pumps, plasmapheresis devices, and the like.
US08863768B2
A packing mounting and removing device includes a packing mounting and removing rod, a rod support, a rod fixing nut, and a spiral line. The packing mounting and removing device includes a packing flange having a through hole, a gland bushing, a packing, and a lantern ring. A packing exchange method uses the same. By using the device it is not necessary to use any special equipment for removing the packing, and it is possible to mount and remove the packing without disassembling a driving section and a valve disc section. Therefore, it is possible to noticeably reduce time and cost required for the mounting and removing the packing.
US08863767B2
A valve assembly, including a seat and a flapper complementarily formed with respect to the seat for creating a seal at an interface therebetween. At least one shim is operatively disposed in the valve assembly for altering a position of the flapper relative to the seat in at least one direction for aligning the flapper and the seat at the interface. A method of aligning the flapper and seat of a valve assembly is also included.
US08863766B1
A canopy with removable blind for hunting tree stand. A bracket removably attaches to a tree with straps, and one or more supports extend upwards from the bracket to a roof, around whose outer edges a blind may removably hang. The roof folds for storage and transportation, and the bracket is composed of two bracket end plates joined by at least one bracket vertical member. The bracket may be easily assembled and disassembled for storage or transportation. Bolts or quick-remove pins attach the support(s) to the bracket and the roof. The canopy is designed for use with an existing tree stand mounted below the roof. When installed above an existing tree stand, the canopy protects the tree stand occupants from weather, and the blind hides the occupants from view.
US08863754B2
Strands of homogenized tobacco material include at least one aerosol former, An aerosol-generating substrate includes a plurality of those strands of homogenized tobacco material. A smoking article may further include the aerosol-generating substrate. Those strands of homogenized tobacco material preferably have a mass-to-surface-area ratio of at least about 0.09 mg/mm2 and an aerosol former content of between about 12% and about 25% by weight.
US08863750B2
A cigarillo includes a tobacco rod including a tobacco cut filler circumscribed by an inner binder, a filter adjacent to the tobacco rod, a band of tipping paper circumscribing the filter, and an outer wrapper of natural tobacco circumscribing the tobacco rod and a rod end portion of the band of tipping paper such that a mouth end portion of the band of tipping paper is visible. A method of making the cigarillo includes convoluting an inner binder around a tobacco cut filler to form a tobacco rod, axially aligning and abutting a filter with the tobacco rod, convoluting a band of tipping paper around the filter, and convoluting an outer wrapper of natural tobacco around the tobacco rod and a rod end portion of the band of tipping paper such that a mouth end portion of the tipping paper is visible.
US08863745B2
A respiratory mask assembly for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a frame and a headgear assembly which are adapted to being remove ably magnetically coupled to one another at a desired angular orientation therebetween.
US08863743B2
An emergency oxygen system for aircraft passengers includes a hermetically welded sealed oxygen cylinder of stainless steel, a welded metal diaphragm sealing a discharge port and an extended hermetically sealed capillary tube for charging the cylinder with pressurized oxygen. A hollow piston cutter is driven to pierce the metal diaphragm as part of a first passageway delivering oxygen to the passenger. A second passageway delivers any leaking oxygen to a release port when the piston cutter is in position. A method of filling the cylinder includes welding to the cylinder a member having a metal diaphragm of a predetermined rupturable characteristic and using the open capillary tube to fill oxygen in the cylinder and subsequently crimping a portion of the capillary tube to provide a hermetic seal. A pressure gauge can be hermetically sealed to the bottom of the oxygen cylinder.
US08863742B2
A control unit for controlling a ventilator that provides EMG controlled ventilation to a patient receives EMG signals from an esophageal catheter inserted into the patient and selects, dependent on the EMG signal, at least one signal for controlling the ventilator. A user interface unit operates by the control unit indicates the position of the catheter relative to the patient's diaphragm based on the selected signal. The position information may be presented in relation to signal curves representing the catheter signal or as an elongate vertical shape representing the catheter, the display unit being operated to indicate on the elongate vertical shape the position of the diaphragm.
US08863732B1
The projectile launcher with internal bow includes a riser base, an elongate barrel assembly attached to the riser base, a crank mechanism attached to the back of the barrel assembly, a trigger assembly, and an internal bow assembly mounted to the riser base. The crank assembly includes a rotatable crank for selective reciprocation of a cocking pawl carriage riding inside a rail system in the barrel assembly. A biased cocking pawl in the pawl carriage selectively engages a projectile stirrup carriage riding on top of the rail system to push the stirrup carriage into a cocked position. The internal bow assembly includes reversed and vertically spaced, upper and lower resilient bow arms and respective pulleys and cables interconnecting the bow arms and the stirrup carriage. Cocking of the stirrup carriage flexes the bow arms in preparation for placement and firing of a projectile.
US08863724B2
Engines and methods execute a high efficiency hybrid cycle, which is implemented in a volume within an engine. The cycle includes isochoric heat addition and over-expansion of the volume within the engine, wherein the volume is reduced in a compression portion of the cycle from a first quantity to a second quantity, the volume is held substantially constant at the second quantity during a heat addition portion of the cycle, and the volume is increased in an expansion portion of the cycle to a third quantity, the third quantity being larger than the first quantity.
US08863707B2
A camshaft adjuster (1) that has a spring (4) covered at least partially by a spring cover (5) is provided, with the spring cover (5) having spacer elements (6) that fix the spring ends (7) in the axial direction such that the spring windings of the spring (4) have, as much as possible, no axial contact with the peripheral components.
US08863699B2
A disposable pet garment adapted to trap loose hair and dander from the animal, whereafter the garment is readily disposable and replaceable. The garment comprises a body section providing coverage over a the pet's torso section, a plurality of sleeve projections that extend from the body section and along a majority of each leg, along with a removable line of attachment along the body section adapted to provide securement along the animal's back. The garment itself comprises a lightweight, disposable material that is provided in a form-fitting or loosely-fitted style that is easily deployed onto the pet and easily removed, wherein pet hair and dander is trapped within the garment and discarded after removal. A preferred embodiment utilizes a lightweight polypropylene material for construction, wherein a single formed sheet forms the body section and is sewn to the leg projections.
US08863692B2
A nectar feeder for hummingbirds is disclosed. The feeder includes a container configured and arranged to store nectar feed. The container has a top end and a bottom end. A spout depends from the bottom end of the container with an exit port defined thereon. A base tray positioned below the container. The base tray is further configured and arranged to contain nectar feed therein. A vertical member extends from the base tray. A float is positioned between the container and the base tray. The float engages the vertical member to prevent substantial independent lateral movement of the float within the base tray. The float carries a stopper with a substantially flush surface positioned below the spout. In operation, the nectar feed flows through the container and into the base tray until the float rises to a level where the stopper engages the exit port on the spout to prevent fluid from flowing into the base tray.
US08863685B2
A camera is used to take an image of an end surface of a honeycomb structure gripped by a hand. Based on the image, an initial rotation angle of the honeycomb structure around a vertical axis at a reference position where the image has been taken is recognized. An arm turning section is driven to convey the honeycomb structure gripped by the hand from the reference position to above a plugging mask. A rotation angle required to adjust the rotation angle of the honeycomb structure on the plugging mask to a desired final rotation angle is acquired based on the initial rotation angle recognized at the reference position and a rotation angle of the honeycomb structure around the vertical axis associated with the driving of the arm turning section from the reference position to above the plugging mask. The honeycomb structure is rotated based on the required rotation angle.
US08863677B2
A multi-needle sewing machine is disclosed that includes a needle-bar case that supports needle bars; a needle-bar case transfer mechanism that transfers the needle-bar case to place a predetermined needle bar to a needle drop position; a thread guide member that is movable up and down, the thread guide member being provided with thread guide sections spaced by a predetermined distance and that guide a plurality of threads; a plurality of thread inlets that are provided at the needle-bar case, each thread inlet being uniquely associated with one of the thread guide sections and that introduces the threads guided by the thread guide sections toward the needle bars; and a lifting/lowering mechanism that moves the thread guide member up and down during transfer of the needle-bar ease and the thread inlets such that the thread guide sections and the associated thread inlets maintain a constant distance therebetween.
US08863674B2
A pallet (10) including a deck (12), a frame (114A, 114B, 114C and 114D) and one or more elements (114H). The deck is for carrying cargo. The frame is about a perimeter of the pallet and is formed of horizontally extending tubular portions. The elements support the frame above a support surface to overlie one or more openings for receiving the tines of a lifting device. The tubular portions include lengthwise corrugations.
US08863664B2
An igniter assembly includes, an igniter body having an ignition portion and an electroconductive pin, a substantially cylindrical collar surrounding and retaining the igniter body, and a tubular holder disposed inside the collar and surrounding the electroconductive pin to connect the electroconductive pin to a connector. The igniter body, the collar, and the tubular holder are separate members, and are integrated by a resin (provided that the holder is not fitted by being inserted into the collar or a resin portion covering the collar). The tubular holder has a tubular body portion and a convex portion covered by the resin and formed on an outer circumferential surface of the tubular body portion in the diametrical direction or on an inner circumferential surface of the tubular body portion in the diametrical direction. A fitting portion is provided to the inner circumferential surface of the tubular body portion for fitting the connector.
US08863662B2
A device for guiding sheets in a sheet-fed rotary printing press or diecutter includes a sheet-guiding plate with openings and a cover plate disposed parallel thereto and being displaceable by an applied operating pressure. A flexible intermediate layer disposed between the sheet-guiding plate and the cover plate has passages with a cross section which is variable by the operating pressure. A sheet brake, a diecutter and a printing press having the sheet guiding device are also provided.
US08863660B2
A screen printing apparatus including two screen printers, each including a substrate introduction portion by which a substrate is introduced from an upstream side of a component mounting line, a printing portion which performs a screen printing to the introduced substrate, a substrate discharge portion by which the substrate is discharged to a downstream side, and a substrate moving stage which receives the substrate to position the substrate with respect to the printing portion and to move the substrate to the substrate discharge portion. The two substrate introduction portions, the two printing portions, and the two substrate discharge portions are arranged symmetrically to each other with respect to a perpendicular symmetrical plane extending in a transportation direction of the substrate in the component mounting line, respectively. Each printing portion is provided at a position further from the perpendicular symmetrical plane than the substrate discharge portion.
US08863657B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for processing a paper web having a low surface area density not exceeding 70 g/m2, in particular a cigarette paper web, comprising: an input side, over which the paper web is fed into the arrangement; an output side, over which the paper web leaves the arrangement, wherein the paper web passes the arrangement from input side to output side in a direction of conveyance; a device (5) downstream of the input side, in particular a printing unit, preferably a gravure printing unit, for applying a liquid printing medium to the paper web; a first drying station (7) following the applying station in direction of conveyance, in particular hot-air drying, for drying the printing medium applied to the paper web; a device (9) following the first drying in direction of conveyance for moistening the paper web and a second drying station (11) following the moistening device in direction of conveyance, by which the moistened paper web is dried.
US08863654B2
A cooking device has a casing 1, a heating chamber 8 provided in the casing 1, an exhaust tube 18 for guiding exhaust from inside of the heating chamber 8 through an electric component chamber 9 in the casing 1 to front face side, and a dew receiving container 4 that is provided on front face side of the casing 1 and that receives and diffuses the exhaust from the exhaust tube 18 to outside of the casing 1.
US08863651B1
The popcorn popper blowout stopper is an accessory unit of a round rimmed screen with an arm and a handle attached to be able to position the screen over the discharge outlet/heating chamber within the popper assembly. The screen will prevent kernels (but not the airflow) from leaving the popcorn popper burning pets, people/children and landing on the counters and floor. The accessory is important especially in the beginning and the end of the cycle when the output of popped corn is sparse and until the mass of popped corn pushes the accessory into the awaiting bowl. After the mass of popped corn subsides and the output is sparse, the accessory can then be placed again in the popcorn popper for blowout protection to the very end of the cycle. This accessory will fit the Presto, Orville Redenbacher, Conair, Great Northern and many other popcorn poppers.
US08863648B2
A beverage preparation machine that includes a housing, a pump which vibrates during use and which is mounted in the housing, and a dampener for preventing or reducing the transmission of vibrations from the pump to other machine parts. The damper includes a spring on which the pump is mounted in the housing.
US08863638B2
A cam pin system, includes a cam pin comprising a first cylindrical portion having a first length and a first diameter and a second cylindrical portion concentric with the first cylindrical portion and having a second diameter larger than the first diameter, the second cylindrical portion comprising a through-hole to accommodate the passage of a firing pin. The system includes an end plate detachably connected to the first cylindrical portion of the cam pin, a cylindrical bushing encircling the first cylindrical portion and having an outside diameter approximately equal to the second diameter and a bushing length approximately equal to the first length, and lubricant between the cylindrical bushing and the first cylindrical portion. The cam pin system is configured so that the cylindrical bushing can rotate freely about the first cylindrical portion.
US08863629B2
Embodiments provide various saw chain links which may be combined to form a utility saw chain. In various other embodiments, cutting system fixtures are disclosed which may facilitate the cutting of pipes and other materials from an axis point.
US08863624B2
A torque wrench with functional lock includes a hollow main shaft, a tool member, an adjustable grip, a torque-adjustment elastic member, a clutch device, and a functional lock. The locking ring axially moves along the main shaft between a locked position and an unlocked position. When the locking ring is in the locked position, the rotation of the adjustable grip against the hollow main shaft is limited. When the locking ring is in the unlocked position, the rotation of the adjustable grip against the hollow main shaft is allowed, whereby the torque is adjusted. Therein, a percussion sound is produced when the locking ring is switched between the locked position and the unlocked position.
US08863620B2
A hand tool with stripping and shearing functions includes a base, a handle set, a clamping element, an engaging blade set, a link rod set and a shearing blade set. The base includes a first body and a second body, and the first body has a first jaw section, and the second body has a second jaw section. The clamping element is corresponsive to the first jaw section. The engaging blade set is corresponsive to the second jaw section. The link rod set is pivotally coupled to the handle set, the clamping element, and the engaging blade set. The shearing blade set is coupled to a first knife body of the first body and a second knife body of the second body.
US08863619B2
Described herein are methods for training a machine learning-based predictor of affective response to stimuli. The methods involve receiving samples comprising temporal windows of token instances to which a user was exposed, and target values representing affective response annotations of the user in response to the temporal windows of token instances. This data is used for the training of the predictor along with values indicative of the number of the token instances in the temporal windows of token instances, which are used to compensate for non-linear effects resulting from saturation of the user.
US08863606B2
A robot wrist structure includes a first wrist arm rotatable about a first axis, a second wrist arm provided in a tip end portion of the first wrist arm and configured to swing about a second axis substantially intersecting the first axis, a wrist flange provided in a tip end portion of the second wrist arm and configured to rotate about a third axis in a skew position with respect to the second axis, an intermediate member fixed to the wrist flange, and a cable bundle connected to an end effector fixed to the intermediate member. The cable bundle extends through the second wrist arm, the wrist flange and the intermediate member and drawn out from the intermediate member to reach the end effector.
US08863603B2
The invention relates to a gearshifting device (1; 100; 200), which is intended for a transmission and comprises a selector lever (2) that can be moved in such a manner that different shift positions (P, R, N, D, S, M+, M−) can be selected in at least two gearshift gates (3, 4) and that it is possible to shift between one of the gearshift gates (3, 4) and the at least one other gearshift gate (4, 3), and comprises at least one lock (5), which is used to block the traversing path of the selector lever (2) with respect to one of the gearshift gates (3, 4), in order to shift from one of the shift positions (P, R, N, D, S) into another of the shift positions (P, R, N, D, S). According to the invention, at least one locking element (10; 110) is provided, which is mechanically coupled to the selector lever (2) and by means of which the shift lock (5) can be activated and/or deactivated in that with respect to the gearshift gate (3) that is to be blocked, the locking element (10; 110) can be moved into and out of the traversing path of the selector lever (2).
US08863599B2
A power steering apparatus including a rack gear and a pinion gear that are disposed within a housing and preloaded by a yoke assembly. The yoke assembly includes a bushing that is biased into engagement with the rack. A yoke plug extends through a yoke opening to provide a gear mesh load on the rack through the bushing assembly. The yoke body is axially assembled through a rack gear bore in the housing of the steering gear and a yoke assembly is inserted through a yoke bore to apply mesh preload to the bushing assembly. A method of making the yoke assembly by forming leaf springs that are over-molded to form a yoke body.
US08863598B2
A return passage that connects two points of a rolling passage to allow each ball that rolls in the rolling passage to endlessly circulate is formed in a ball screw nut by attaching a circulation member to fitting holes. A protrusion is formed on an outer surface of the circulation member at a position offset from a raceway of the balls that circulate in the return passage. The circulation member is fixed to the ball screw nut when the protrusion contacts an inner periphery of an inner ring of a second bearing.
US08863577B2
An absorption target for measuring power of high-intensity focused ultrasound, comprising a container and a cone target cluster. The cone target cluster includes basic units with the same geometrical shape. The upper part of each basic unit is a pyramid, and the lower part of each basic unit is a prismatic base. The vertexes of respective side surfaces of the pyramid converge at a perpendicular bisector of the prismatic base to form a cone vertex and the cross sections of the pyramid and the base are squares, regular triangles or regular hexagons. The bases of the basic units are seamlessly and tightly arrayed at the bottom in the container. Sound waves of an incident cone target cluster to escape into space outside the cone target cluster only in case of at least two reflections or scatterings. Open micropores are densely distributed inside the basic units of the cone target cluster.
US08863574B2
A yaw rate sensor having a substrate and a seismic mass is described, in which the seismic mass is excitable to a working oscillation relative to the substrate via a drive unit, and a Coriolis deflection of the seismic mass is detectable relative to the substrate, in which the yaw rate sensor furthermore has an interrupt interface, the drive unit being configured to reduce a frequency and/or an amplitude of the working oscillation if an interrupt signal is present at the interrupt interface.
US08863573B2
A method of dynamically balancing a shaft for multiple rotational speeds comprising: rotating the shaft in the balancer at a first rotational speed while measuring a first force and a first angle of a first shaft imbalance measurement; rotating the shaft at a predetermined second rotational speed while measuring a second force and a second angle of a second shaft imbalance measurement; comparing the first shaft imbalance measurement to a first predetermined imbalance specification and comparing the second shaft imbalance measurement to a second predetermined imbalance specification; if the first shaft imbalance does not meet the first predetermined imbalance specification or the second shaft imbalance does not meet the second predetermined imbalance specification, then calculating a composite correction based on the first and second shaft imbalance measurements; and applying a first weight to the shaft at a correction first angle based on the calculated composite correction.
US08863572B2
The invention provides a method for the protection of internal filters of a LTFT slurry bubble reactor. The method includes the step of activating an emergency back-flush procedure during low slurry level conditions and/or during increasing temperature of an internal filter.
US08863571B2
Filling level meter (4) for membrane gasometer (1), including at least one accumulation chamber (C1) arranged for containing a gas, and an impermeable flexible membrane (2) capable of moving between two positions corresponding to the chamber being totally full and totally empty, wherein the meter (4) includes: an instrument (12) associated with a fixed element (3, 9), arranged for generating a signal of measurement of a physical value that can be correlated to the quantity of gas contained in the chamber (C1); elements for processing and displaying (5) the value of the quantity of gas corresponding to the generated signal; a filiform, flexible element (6) for connecting the instrument (12) and the membrane (2); the filiform, flexible element (6) including at least one portion constituted by an elastic member (7).
US08863569B2
An apparatus for measuring temperature comprises a housing and an actuator pressure sealed to the housing and having a shaft. The actuator is configured to be in pressure communication with a volume of gas or liquid. Upon a change in pressure, the actuator is displaced at least partially in the axial direction. A sensor detects axial displacement of a magnetically encoded target upon the change in pressure in the volume. A device for measuring pressure and temperature in an engine cylinder comprises a valve in pressure communication with an engine cylinder. The valve stem has a magnetic coding located adjacent a sensor. Axial displacement of the stem under cylinder pressure and temperature changes are detected.
US08863566B2
The invention relates to an upper part V-belt drive (1) with a tool fastening device (10, 200, 300, 400) having at least one lateral surface (19), which can be provided with a tool, and the V-belt drive (1) has a slider element (2, 420) and a driver element (3, 430). According to the invention, the tool fastening device (10, 200, 300, 400) is fastened in a manner that enables it to be removed downward with regard to the upper part V-belt drive (1) when in the working position thereof. In a tool fastening device (10, 200, 300, 400) for a V-belt drive (1) with a slider element (2, 420) and with a driver element (3, 430), the tool fastening device (10, 200, 300, 400) comprises at least one lateral surface (19), which can be provided with a tool, and the tool fastening device (10, 200, 300, 400) has at least one connecting device (11, 14, 22, 213, 214, 215, 219, 313, 314, 316, 317, 318, 319, 408, 409, 410, 411, 414) for positively and or non-positively connecting with the slider and driver element.
US08863564B2
The present invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working which is capable of inhibiting generation of flaws on the surface of materials to be provided for hot metal working, and provides a method of hot metal working. The invention provides a lubricant composition for hot metal working comprising a plurality of glass frits respectively having different softening point from each other.
US08863557B2
A method for manufacturing a primary preform for an optical fiber wherein conditions are created in the reaction zone such that one or more glass layer packages made up of at least two separate glass layers are deposited on the interior of the substrate tube.
US08863553B2
A glass layer 3 is disposed between a glass member 4 and a thermal conductor 7 along a region to be fused. The glass layer 3 is formed by removing an organic solvent and a binder from the paste layer while using the thermal conductor 7 as a hotplate. Then, a laser beam L1 is emitted while using the thermal conductor 7 as a heatsink, so as to melt the glass layer 3, thereby burning and fixing the glass layer 3 onto the glass member 4. Thereafter, another glass member is overlaid on the glass member 4 having the glass layer 3 burned thereonto, such that the glass layer 3 is interposed therebetween. Then, the region to be fused is irradiated therealong with a laser beam, so as to fuse the glass members together.
US08863551B2
An heat exchanger for use in a vapor compression system is disclosed and includes a shell, a first tube bundle, a hood and a distributor. The first tube bundle includes a plurality of tubes extending substantially horizontally in the shell. The hood covers the first tube bundle. The distributor is configured and positioned to distribute fluid onto at least one tube of the plurality of tubes.
US08863546B2
This disclosure presents a stackable, multicompartment portable cooler with enhanced climate control and delivery features. The cooler may include adjustable vents for precisely controlling the temperature differential between adjacent compartments, a brochure receptor for including information about the delivery, and/or an automatic delivery flag for notification purposes. In addition, the cooler is modular and may be assembled/disassembled through the use of removable compartment dividers that subdivide the stacked main compartments into many subcompartments.
US08863543B2
A device for cooling a heat source of a motor vehicle is provided that includes a cooling body which has a plurality of feed flow channels and a plurality of return flow channels. At least a multiplicity of the feed flow channels and return flow channels are arranged adjacent to one another in an alternating fashion in the cooling body.
US08863540B2
An HVAC system to be installed in a vehicle comprises a battery management controller. The battery management controller comprises at least one connection for electrically coupling a first power source with a first voltage; at least one connection for electrically coupling a second power source with a second voltage; and a first memory storage device configured to record data collected by the battery management controller. The battery management controller is configured to run a temperature control system and to supply power to the temperature control system from a combination of the first and second power sources with a combined voltage, and wherein the second power source is disconnected when the combined voltage drops below a predetermined amount.
US08863539B2
A control apparatus, which controls a refrigerating apparatus including a compressor and a first circuit breaker that interrupts a current flowing through the compressor when the current, flowing from a power supply through the compressor to cause the compressor to work, becomes greater than a predetermined current and that is closed according to an operation by a user, includes: a voltage-measuring unit to measure a power-supply voltage a control unit to trip a second circuit breaker disposed in series with the first circuit breaker so that the current from the power supply flowing through the compressor is interrupted, when the measured power-supply voltage becomes lower than a predetermined voltage, and close the second circuit breaker after the power-supply voltage becomes higher than the predetermined voltage, the predetermined current corresponding to a current greater than the current flowing through the compressor when the power-supply voltage is equal to the predetermined voltage.
US08863537B2
A refrigeration appliance has a cabinet having a first compartment, a second separate compartment and a refrigeration system including a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser. The evaporator is associated with the first compartment to lower a temperature of the first compartment air. A heat exchanger is exposed to the temperature of the first compartment and has a surface area exposed to second compartment air. An air moving device is associated with the second compartment to direct a flow of second compartment air over the heat exchanger surface area and circulate the second compartment air within the second compartment. The cabinet, compartments and heat exchanger are configured such that first compartment air is completely isolated from second compartment air.
US08863536B1
Various thermostat embodiment are provided that includes at least a first sensor configured to communicate information indicative of the temperature within the space, and at least a second sensor configured to communicate information indicative of the humidity within the space. The thermostat further includes a controller in communication with the at least first and second sensors, for controlling the thermostat's operation. The controller is configured to operate in a first mode in which the controller operates the air conditioner when the sensed temperature of the space is above a temperature set-point or when the sensed humidity level is above the humidity set-point. The controller is further configured to operate in a second mode in which the controller operates the air conditioner when the sensed temperature is below a set-back temperature set-point, or when the sensed humidity is above a set-back humidity set-point.
US08863535B2
An air conditioning apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The air conditioning apparatus includes a first switch valve, a compressor, a decompression element, a second switch valve, a condenser, and an evaporator. The control method of an air conditioning apparatus includes steps of setting a preset temperature, measuring an indoor temperature, and comparing the preset temperature with the indoor temperature. When the indoor temperature is lower than the preset temperature, the first switch valve and the second switch valve are turned on and the compressor is turned off; and when the indoor temperature is higher than the preset temperature, the first switch valve and the second switch valve are turned off and the compressor is turned on.
US08863532B2
A system for use in freezing, storing and thawing biopharmaceutical materials includes a flexible sterile container means for holding biopharmaceutical material therein and a holder more rigid than said container means. The container means is received in a cavity of the holder and the holder extends along a perimeter of the container means. The holder is fixedly connected to the container means. The holder includes opposing sides defining an opening and the container means extends between the opposing sides of the holder defining the opening. The container means includes a substantially smooth exterior surface extending between the opposing sides.
US08863531B2
A cooling apparatus bifurcates and regulates cooling airflow provided to a mid-turbine frame. The cooling apparatus includes a flow metering tube and a metering plate. The flow metering tube includes a top portion and a tube portion, wherein the top portion includes a first central aperture that directs a first cooling airflow into the tube portion and a first plurality of apertures located circumferentially around the central aperture that directs a second cooling airflow to a portion outside the tube portion. The metering plate is located on the top portion of the flow metering tube, wherein the metering plate includes a second central aperture aligned with the central aperture of the flow metering tube and a second plurality of apertures located circumferentially around the central aperture, wherein a size of the second central aperture meters the first cooling airflow and a size and number of the second plurality of apertures meters the second cooling airflow.
US08863526B2
A fuel injector is provided and includes a first tube, having first and second opposing ends, which is supplied with fuel, and one or more second tubes disposed within the first tube, each of the one or more second tubes being supplied with air and having sidewalls defining injection holes through which the fuel enters the one or more second tubes to mix with the air, and an outlet end of the sidewalls corresponding to the second end of the first tube.
US08863523B2
A system for supplying a working fluid to a combustor includes a fuel nozzle, a combustion chamber downstream from the fuel nozzle, and a plurality of fuel injectors circumferentially arranged around the combustion chamber. The plurality of fuel injectors provide fluid communication into the combustion chamber, and a separate cap for each fuel injector defines a separate volume around a different fuel injector outside of the combustion chamber.
US08863522B2
Disclosed is an approach that uses an overload valve to operate a steam turbine reheat section. In one embodiment, the steam turbine reheat section receives a supply of reheated steam from a reheater at a first steam admission location via a reheat valve. The steam turbine reheat section is further adapted to receive a diverted portion of the reheated steam from the reheater at a second steam admission location via the overload valve.
US08863515B2
In a rotation drive device (10), each of rotating units (20) has a swing arm (23) which is supported so as to be swingable around a swing center axis (23A) provided in a support table (22), a weight (24) is provided at a position at which a length of an arm from the swing center axis (23A) of the swing arm (23) is longer, and a connection point in a fluid cylinder (25) side is provided at a position at which the length of the arm from the swing center axis (23A) is shorter.
US08863512B2
A shape memory alloy actuator system includes a shape memory alloy actuator, a mobile object, an elastic member, a first regulating member, and a second regulating member, a detecting section which detects a resistance value of the shape memory alloy wire, a calculating section which calculates an electric current applied, an output section, a control section which controls the detecting section, the calculating section, the output section. The calculating section calculates a first resistance value at which, a proportion of a resistance change with respect to a change in a unit temperature changes from a first proportion to a second proportion which differs from the first proportion, and the control section carries out a position control of the shape memory alloy actuator by the first resistance value, when the shape memory alloy wire is to be elongated.
US08863500B2
A method for operating an electromagnetically actuated metering valve, which is loaded with a pulse-width modulated metering signal, which stipulates the dosage of a reagent or a precursor of the reagent introduced into the exhaust gas region of an internal combustion engine and an apparatus for implementing the method are proposed. A clock signal is provided, whose cycle duration is smaller than the cycle duration of the pulse-width modulated metering signal. The cycle duration of the pulse-width modulated metering signal is set as a function of a metering request signal to multiples of the cycle durations of the clock signal. The procedural approach according to the invention allows for a rapid adaptation of the dosage to the metering demands.
US08863499B2
An exhaust gas treatment system for an internal combustion engine is provided having an exhaust gas conduit, a diesel exhaust fluid (“DEF”) source, a selective catalytic reduction (“SCR”) device, a NOx sensor, and a control module. The DEF source supplies a DEF having a quality factor. The NOx sensor is in fluid communication with the exhaust gas conduit. The NOx sensor is located downstream of the SCR device and is configured for detecting a NOx concentration value. The control module is in communication with the DEF source and the NOx sensor. The control module stores a diagnostic adaptation factor and an expected NOx value. The control module includes a dosing module for determining a controls adaptation factor that is based on a deviation between the NOx concentration value and the expected NOx value. The diagnostic adaptation factor is selectively updated with the controls adaptation factor.
US08863498B2
The present invention has for its subject to avoid a situation that condensed water stays around electrode terminals, in an electric heating type exhaust gas purification apparatus which is arranged in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine. In order to solve this subject, the present invention resides in an exhaust gas purification apparatus of an internal combustion engine which is provided with a catalyst carrier having electrodes, a case in which the catalyst carrier is accommodated, a mat member arranged between the catalyst carrier and the case, a space part extending from the catalyst carrier to the case while passing through the mat member, and electrode terminals accommodated in said space part for supplying electric power to the electrodes of the catalyst carrier, wherein exhaust gas and condensed water are kept from permeating into the space part through the mat member or the catalyst carrier, by the provision of a pressure supply unit which supplies a positive pressure to the space part.
US08863490B2
J strands form a core. K outer strands are wound around it in a helix with pitch PK, each having a cord with an L wire inner layer of diameter d1, and an M wire outer layer of diameter d2, wound around the inner layer in a helix with pitch p2; with (in mm): 0.10
US08863484B2
A tractor has hydraulically driven wheels at a cab end and castor wheels at an engine end. It can be driven cab forward in a working mode with a header on the forward end. It is rotated to engine forward in the transport position for more stable higher speed travel. There is provided a float module with adjustable and calibrated springs on the header which allows the header to float relative to the lift system on the tractor. The float force is adjusted by raising and lowering the lift system in dependence on an angle measurement of the lift position. The lift system includes a lift cylinder and tilt cylinder controlled to change cutter angle while maintaining a sight line to the cutter bar for the operator.
US08863481B2
Bag installation for bagging machines may include bag installation systems and/or methods that provide efficient, convenient, safe, and/or simplified means and/or steps for installing a bag on, and/or maintaining bag on, a bagging machine.
US08863477B2
A cold formed metal stud is provided for commercial and residential construction applications. The metal stud of the present invention is suitable for use in both composite and non-composite applications. The metal stud of the present invention includes an intermediate web, a first flange and a second flange. Each of the intermediate web, first flange and second flange can include a number of different features that can enhance the structural and heat transfer characteristics of the metal stud.
US08863473B2
Interconnectable panels having tongue-and-groove connections are mechanically connected to each other by first moving two panels into an intermediate position and then pivoting one panel with respect to the other. The underside of the tongue of one panel has a depression, while the groove of another panel has a protruding lower lip. The lower lip has a projection that fits in the depression when the two panels are in the intermediate position.
US08863472B2
A door facing is provided. The door facing includes a body portion, and male and female alignment members protruding from a main surface area of the body portion. Also provided are door assemblies including the door facing and methods of making the door facing and the door assembly.
US08863471B2
A method and a device serve for the installation of a false floor above a bare floor include false-floor supports that are placed in a regular grid pattern on the bare floor, on which floor panels are arranged alongside one another in rows. Mounting positions are determined for the false-floor supports and the false-floor supports to be installed are correspondingly positioned. Furthermore, a mounting plane lying at a mounting height is at least partially determined preferably by using laser devices. The false-floor supports to be installed are then positioned relative to the mounting plane. Pedestals, which are composed of solidifying pedestal material that is binding to the bare floor and which project beyond the mounting plane, are provided at the mounting positions before, during or after the positioning of the false-floor supports. The false-floor supports are then held each in the respective pedestal until the latter has solidified.
US08863470B2
A molding/trim quick release system reduces the work and materials involved to refinish walls, ceilings, or molding/trim without any of the issues previously associated with the process. The system of the present invention provides an easy way to attach and remove molding/trim so that walls, ceilings, molding/trim and the like can be refinished or renovated without issues for surrounding surfaces. Unlike conventional molding/trim, which is usually attached with nails or other fasteners and is difficult to remove, molding/trim attached with the system of the present invention may be readily removed and reattached.
US08863469B2
A thermal clip attachment apparatus and methods for using the thermal clip attachment with a masonry veneer anchor system are disclosed. The thermal clip attachment may be a composite piece that attaches to the part of a stud that protrudes from an inner structural supportive wall after the stud is advanced into the wall. The thermal clip attachment serves as a thermal break between the stud and an outer masonry veneer wall. Further, the thermal clip attachment also serves as an attachment point for a wire tie, which allows a positive lateral load connection to be established between the outer masonry veneer wall and the inner structural supportive wall.
US08863464B2
A multi-purpose interlocking masonry unit includes support members extending from its lower surface and port depressions formed in its upper surface. Each masonry unit can be placed on top of a previously placed masonry unit. The interlocking masonry unit allows for the rapid creation of a wall that is substantially straight and aligned while minimizing the need to perform precise measurements and make alignment adjustments during the creation process. Bonding material can be poured through the resultant wall ports, creating a matrix pattern of bonding material throughout the wall, which results in a stronger more durable construction.
US08863460B2
Thermally-isolating wall anchors and anchoring systems employing the same are disclosed. A thermally-isolating coating is applied to the wall anchor, which is interconnected with a wire formative veneer tie. The thermally-isolating coating is selected from a distinct grouping of materials, that are applied using a specific variety of methods, in one or more layers and cured and cross-linked to provide high-strength adhesion. The thermally-coated wall anchors provide an in-cavity thermal break that severs the thermal threads running throughout the cavity wall structure, reducing the U- and K-values of the anchoring system by thermally-isolating the metal components.
US08863453B2
An anchor for securing a metal door frame to a floor comprises a generally planar flange securable in an upright position to an interior surface of the door frame, and a generally planar base extending generally orthogonally with respect to the flange and securable to the floor adjacent the door frame. The base comprises a central portion comprising an inner end adjacent the flange and an opposed outer end defining an outer edge. At least a first tab extends outwardly from the outer end of the central portion and beyond the outer edge.
US08863452B1
A storm trim for holding a panel over a window for protection against impact of objects carried by wind during a storm. The storm trim includes a lineal cap and a lineal base. The base may be used with a window frame, incorporated into a window frame or be used in glazing surrounds or shutters. The base carries a stacked screw boss to receive and securely hold the anchoring screws that are needed to hold the panel over the window. The anchoring screws do not extend through the lineal base but remain within it. When the storm trim is not in use, the cap covers the lineal base.
US08863437B2
The present disclosure includes a shoot restraint for use with manufactured seeds comprising. In some embodiments, the shoot restraint includes a substantially porous material having a top surface and a bottom surface. The substantially porous material is formed to define a substantially cylindrical upper portion having an upper diameter; and a substantially cylindrical lower portion having a lower diameter. The upper diameter is larger than the lower diameter. A parabolic cavity extends from the top surface to the bottom surface through the upper portion and at least partially into the lower portion.
US08863421B1
A firearm for firing caseless ammunition, the firearm comprising a stock which is capable of receiving one or more magazines of caseless ammunition, a frame connected to the stock, one or more barrels, each barrel having a respective central axis and each of the barrels being connected to the frame, one firing chamber for each barrel in communication with each respective barrel, and one or more blocking plates wherein the one or more blocking plates each perform at least two functions, (1) it prevents more than one round of ammunition from being loaded into each respective firing chamber, and (2) at least one surface of the blocking plate is a surface of the firing chamber and wherein the blocking plate is movable in a plane orthogonal to each of the barrel central axes.
US08863400B2
A clothes dryer is provided. In the dryer, air flowing into a drying container is provided with heat from heat pump. The clothes dryer comprises a cabinet, a drying container rotationally mounted in the cabinet, a motor providing the container with rotational force, a first air path connected to a side of the container, a second air path connected to another side of the container and to the outside of the cabinet, a first heat exchanging member for the first air path, and a second heat exchanging member for the second air path. The first air path and the second air path are on the lower part of the cabinet.
US08863382B2
A wind turbine rotor blade and a wind turbine incorporating the rotor blade include a first and second composite skin. A first and a second spar pultrusion having a base and a plurality of integral ribs generally normal to base are attached to the inside surface of the first and second composite skins and extend the span of the rotor blade. At least one shear web connects a rib of the first spar pultrusion to a corresponding rib of the second spar pultrusion. The width of the spar pultrusions decreases in a step-wise fashion along the span of the rotor blade from the root to the tip. The leading or trailing edge of the rotor blade may be selectably opened for inspection and repair.
US08863373B2
An application and development apparatus has a plurality of vertically stacked blocks directed to coating film formation on a substrate. This plurality of blocks includes first processing units, a first substrate transportation region, and a first transportation unit for transporting substrates between the first processing units within the first transportation region. A development process block also is vertically stacked with the blocks directed to coating film formation to constitute a layered block as the process block. The development process block also includes second processing units and a second transportation unit for transporting substrates between the second processing units within the second transportation region. The application and development apparatus further has a shelf-type delivery stage group, a vertical transportation unit and a substrate inspection unit such that a substrate input into the inspection unit passes through the delivery stage group from the vertical transportation unit.
US08863371B2
A system for aligning and connecting components including a support structure and a measuring apparatus coupled to the support structure. The measuring apparatus is arranged to spatially analyze a first tubular component with respect to a second tubular component for determining an adjustment vector therebetween. An alignment apparatus is coupled to the support structure and in data communication with the measuring apparatus. The alignment apparatus includes a plurality of actuators operatively arranged in parallel for moving at least one of the first or second tubular components relative to the other for coaxially arranging the first and second tubular components in accordance with the adjustment vector. A connection apparatus is coupled to the support structure and operatively arranged for connecting the first and second tubular components together.
US08863365B2
An apparatus for dislodging stuck blades in a turbine engine. The apparatus includes a housing, cam structure, and impact structure. The housing is capable of being temporarily secured to a blade disc structure adjacent to a stuck blade to be dislodged. The cam structure is associated with the housing and is adapted to receive an input torque that rotates the cam structure, the cam structure capable of translating the input torque into an impact force, the impact force including a component in a desired direction. The impact structure is associated with the housing and is capable of receiving the impact force from the cam structure and exerting the impact force on a root area of the stuck blade for dislodging the stuck blade from the blade disc structure non-destructively.
US08863363B2
A method for fabricating a supercapacitor-like electronic battery includes forming a first current collectors on a substrate. A first electrode is formed on the first current collector. A first electrode is formed from a first solid state electrolyte and a first conductive material where the first conductive material is irreversible to the mobile ions contained in the first solid state electrolyte and the first conductive material exceeds the percolation limit. An electrolyte is formed on the first electrode. A second electrode is formed on the electrolyte. The second electrode is formed from a second solid state electrolyte and a second conductive material where the second conductive material is irreversible to the mobile ions contained in the second solid state electrolyte and the second conductive material exceeds the percolation limit. A second current collector is formed on the second electrode.
US08863362B2
A side squeeze buckle with a cavity formed in a central section of the male section of the buckle is disclosed. The cavity can have an LED light enclosed therein or can be left as an open cavity to store items. The female section of the buckle has two arms extending around a central opening. The central section of the male section fits into the central opening of the female section. The external surface of the cavity forms a substantial portion of the top surface of the buckle when the buckle is closed.
US08863359B1
A vehicle and a hinge assembly for a storage compartment of the vehicle are disclosed. The assembly includes a first component adapted to be attached to the vehicle and a second component. The second component includes a first end portion coupled to the first component and a second end portion spaced from the first end portion. The second component is movable relative to the first component between a first position and a second position such that the second end portion is disposed above the first component when in the second position. The assembly further includes a link coupled to the second component and movable with the second component as the second component moves between the first and second positions. The link extends away from the second component to a distal end. The assembly includes a guard attached to the link and covering at least a portion of the distal end.
US08863352B2
A surface cleaning apparatus comprises an air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet and a suction motor. The surface cleaning apparatus may also comprise a cyclone chamber provided in the air flow path. The cyclone chamber may comprise a cyclone air inlet, a cyclone air outlet and a dirt outlet. The surface cleaning apparatus may comprise a dirt collection chamber having a dirt inlet, a dirt collection chamber first end, an opposed dirt collection chamber second end and a longitudinally extending sidewall. The sidewall may comprise a portion that has a longitudinal length and extends away from the dirt inlet towards the opposed dirt collection chamber second end. A transverse cross sectional area of the dirt collection chamber may varies at least once along the length of the portion of the sidewall.
US08863350B2
A mop bucket comprises a bucket defining a first compartment and a second compartment. The bucket is rotatable between an upright position and a second position. A first fluid movement path is provided between the second compartment and the first compartment such that liquid in the second compartment drains to the first compartment under gravity when the bucket is in the upright position. A second fluid movement path is provided between the first compartment and the second compartment such that liquid in the first compartment drains to the second compartment under gravity when the bucket is in the second position. A method of operating the mop bucket is also provided.
US08863346B2
The hands-free dental appliance includes upper and lower tray members (12, 14) for receiving the teeth of the user, the tray members having teeth contact members such as bristles. A power assembly (28) moves the tray member in a reciprocal manner, resulting in cleaning of the surfaces of the teeth by the bristles. A grounding system (30) with bite portions (32, 34, 36) for biting contact whereby the user's teeth grounds the appliance to the user's mouth structure, reacting both static and dynamic forces, the grounding system being either separate from the tray members or flexibly connected to the tray members, allowing the tray members to move and clean the teeth without the user having to hold or otherwise manipulate the appliance.
US08863340B2
Flowable laundry treatment agents can be added in automatically metered dosages via a metering line to a laundry treatment process by means of an automatic metering system comprising a reservoir. Advantageously, a metering line of is flushed with a rinsing agent, particularly water, after adding a dose. In order to prevent the development of germs in the residues of the rinsing agents, comprising diluted residues of laundry treatment agents, when remaining in the fluid lines for a longer period of time, exemplary embodiments of the invention provide for the metering line to be flushed immediately before adding a dose.
US08863334B2
A pillow system includes a head pillow having a top end, a bottom end, and a connector disposed at the bottom end. A leg pillow has a top end, a bottom end, and sides extending between the top end and the bottom end. The leg pillow also includes a top connector at the top end, and a side connector at one of the sides. The connector of the head pillow is configured to be coupled to the top connector of the leg pillow. The pillow system also includes a torso pillow having a top end, a bottom end and two sides, and a connector disposed at one of the sides. The connector of the torso pillow is configured to be coupled to the side connector of the leg pillow.
US08863325B1
An undulating bed comprises a padded mattress. A bed frame support is positioned under the padded mattress. A mechanism within the bed frame support is for imparting an undulating/rocking motion to the padded mattress, to substantially simulate motion experienced on a boat as a sleep aid to a user lying on the padded mattress.
US08863312B1
A gamer's glove having finger and thumb tubes for the gamer's fingers and thumb to extend outwardly thereof, a palm portion defining at least a central aperture, whereby the glove being worn during grasping operation of a game controller flexes the palm portion causing air to communicate into and out of the glove for controlling perspiration.
US08869300B2
The present invention is directed towards methods and systems for redirecting an access request to an unsecure virtual machine. A computing device may execute a hypervisor hosting a secure virtual machine and an unsecure virtual machine. A control virtual machine, hosted by a hypervisor executing on the computing device, may intercept a request to access an unsecure resource. The unsecure resource may include one of: a file, an application and an uniform resource locator (URL). The control virtual machine may further determine that the request originates from a secure virtual machine executing on the computing device. The control virtual machine may redirect, responsive to the determination, the request to an unsecure virtual machine executing on the computing device, whereupon the unsecure virtual machine may provide access to the requested unsecure resource.
US08869290B2
A broadband gateway, which enables communication with a plurality of devices, handles at least one physical layer connection to at least one corresponding network access service provider. Security boundaries such as conditional access (CA) and/or digital right management (DRM) boundaries associated with the broadband gateway are identified based on security profiles associated with the plurality of devices and/or a service from networks. The identified security boundaries are utilized to determine or negotiate CA information for content access for the service. The received content may be distributed according to the determined CA information and the security profiles of the corresponding devices. The broadband gateway may be automatically and dynamically configured based on the identified security boundaries to secure content distribution to the devices. Content distribution security schemes, for example, super encryption, simul-crypt, IPSec and/or watermarking, may be selected by matching the CA information with corresponding device security profiles.
US08869289B2
Various embodiments for software application verification are disclosed. Software application verification applies digital rights management to applications that run protected content on a playback device. In this way, protected content may be provided to approved applications and withheld from applications that have not been approved to run the protected content.
US08869282B1
Technologies are described herein for anti-malware support within firmware. Through the utilization of the technologies and concepts presented herein, malicious software protection may be extended down to the firmware level. Detecting malicious firmware or software, removing it from firmware, and actively preventing it from exploiting known security vulnerabilities may be supported. Application level anti-malware software may interface with, and be supported by, one or more firmware level anti-malware modules. Firmware level anti-malware modules can actively prevent malicious software from affecting the system firmware. For example, the anti-malware modules may monitor or block access to the firmware. Anti-malware modules may be available at both boot-time and run-time. Thus, a wider range of malicious software attacks or infiltrations may be mitigated.
US08869270B2
Systems and methods for implementing content, streaming, and network security inside a chip or inside a computing device are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, a system comprises a communication chip and a second processor. The communication chip comprises a router and security instructions. The router is configured to intercept untrusted data between a network, and a first router. The second processor is configured to receive the untrusted data from the router, process the untrusted data with the security instructions to produce trusted data, and provide the trusted data to the router.
US08869268B1
A method and apparatus for securing a computer is described. The method and apparatus comprise detecting one or more hostile programs residing upon a computer using a command and control infrastructure library and disrupting a command and control infrastructure of the one or more hostile programs.
US08869261B1
A method is disclosed for adjusting a security interface display on an electronic device. The method comprises a user of an electronic device requesting a change in the display of an interface for entering security code information on the device. The device presents to the user a variety of options related to the manner in which the graphical elements of the security interface may be displayed. The user may select any one or more of the display options. The electronic device thereafter displays a security interface with graphical elements displayed according to the user's selection.
US08869260B2
A computer or microchip securely controlled through a private network including a connection to a network of computers including the Internet; a separate connection to at least a private network of computers located in a hardware protected area of said computer or microchip, a first microprocessor, core or processing unit configured to connect to the connection to the network of computers including the Internet; a master controlling device for the computer or microchip located in the hardware protected area; and a secure control bus configured to connect at least said master controlling device with said microprocessor, core or processing unit, and isolated from input from the network and components other than said master controlling device. The master controlling device securely controls an operation executed by the microprocessor, core or processing unit, with secure control being provided through the private network to the private network connection through the secure control bus.
US08869252B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for bootstrapping device and user authentication
An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a security certificate request from a remote device comprising a public key of the remote device and an authentication credential based upon a legacy authentication mechanism of the remote device. The processor may be further configured to validate the received authentication credential in accordance with the legacy authentication mechanism. The processor may be additionally configured to generate a security certificate for the public key. The processor may be further configured to provide the generated security certificate to the remote device.
US08869249B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, for a user, first user authentication information for a first authentication method and receiving, for the user, second user authentication information for a second authentication method. The second authentication method is different from the first authentication method. Upon authenticating the first user authentication information and the second user authentication information, the method moves a subset of data stored on a back-end storage device to a front-end storage device. The front-end storage device is directly connected to the user via a network and the back-end storage device not being directly connected to the network. The method then allows access to the subset of data for a period of time, wherein after the period of time expires, the subset of data is removed from the front-end storage device.
US08869242B2
The invention proposes a system for authenticating and authorizing network services comprising: a mobile device being adapted to, upon receipt of an information message indicating at least one network access type, determine the network access type, to create a start message containing at least a user identity, and to encapsulate the start message in an authentication message compatible with the access network identified in the information message, and an access controller for reading the encapsulated message from the mobile and forwarding the encapsulated message to an authentication server identified in the encapsulated message. The invention also proposes a corresponding method for authenticating and authorizing network services, and an access control device, a subscriber device and a router device.
US08869223B2
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a resonance restricting material in communication with a bypass line of a cable television tap. The bypass line generates resonances at a defined frequency in response to RF parameters in the tap and the resonances increase insertion losses at the defined frequency and precludes bandwidth of the tap being increased above the defined frequency. The resonance restricting material may attenuate the resonances generated by the bypass line at the defined frequency (e.g., approximately 1.2 GHz) and reduce insertion losses at the defined frequency and enable the bandwidth of the tap to be increased (e.g., from 1.0 GHz to 1.8 GHz).
US08869207B1
An integrated content delivery interface enables a user to access content from a multi-channel service provider (such as a cable television service) and over-the-top sources. The system displays a set of cable channels and over-the-top channels based on a combination of the user's subscription status for the various services, personalization criteria, and device type. The system may provide the user with a playlist of available videos for each channel. For videos from over-the-top sources, when a user selects the video for on-demand play the user's device will directly access the video as served by the over-the-top source. Before including any video in the playlist, the system will ensure that the video is available to the user based on subscription status and/or device type, and it will ensure that the over-the-top source serves the video in a format that is compatible with the user's device.
US08869200B2
A method and system to view a selection of thumbnails are described herein. A plurality of content channels, which are most recently tuned into by a user, are stored. Further, a display presents a selection array for a plurality of thumbnails that represent the plurality of content channels.
US08869198B2
A computer-assisted method for producing a space time summary for one or more original videos includes automatically recognizing a key element in an original video, extracting pixels related to the key element from a series of video frames of the original video, producing a video bit comprising a series of video frames comprising the pixels and audio information extracted from the original video, wherein at least one video frame of the video bit is formed by a subset of pixels of the corresponding video frame in the original video, automatically displaying a plurality of video bits in a user interface, wherein the plurality of video bits are extracted from one or more original videos, and provide a space time summary for the one or more original videos, and allowing two of the plurality of video bits to be played simultaneously with audio and motion in the user interface.
US08869196B2
A method may include receiving an identification of a device; receiving at least one of device information, which includes a location of the device or a viewing history for the device, or preference information, which includes preferences by a user or a third party, associated with the identification of the device from the device; identifying interactive content based on the at least one of the device information or the preference information; and receiving trigger information, which includes a time and a place for a trigger, the trigger information to identify an event relating to a provisioning of video content. The method may further include mapping the identification of the device and the identified interactive content with the trigger information; detecting that the event has occurred; and sending the identified interactive content based on the mapping and the trigger information.
US08869195B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller to receive a call request from a set top box that is remote from the server where the call request identifies a telephone number that is displayed in video content presented by the set top box where the telephone number was detected based on at least one of image pattern recognition and voice recognition and where the telephone number is associated with a marketing entity of the video content, establish a voice communication with a first telephone device associated with the set top box, and establish the voice communication with a second telephone device associated with the telephone number and the marketing entity if the first telephone device accepts the voice communication. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08869190B2
A device is enabled to display Internet TV by accessing a management server and receiving back from the server a user token and a service list of predefined content servers. A user can select a content server on the service list which causes the device to upload its user token to the management server, which in turn sends back the network path to the content server along with a content server-user-unique service token (SUIT) that the device uses to access the content on the content server, in some embodiments on per-title PPV access, per-content category PPV access, or per-service PPV access.
US08869176B2
Aspect methods, systems and devices may be configured to perform two-way and/or reverse procedure calls in a computing device or across a network to offload the bulk of processing operations from a general purpose processor to an auxiliary processor, while perform operations that require access to context information locally on the general purpose processor (e.g., application processor, CPU, etc.). The two-way and/or reverse procedure calls allow an auxiliary processor to perform operations that include subroutines that require access to an application processor's or a calling process's context information, without requiring the calling process to send the context information to the auxiliary processor (e.g., as part of the procedure call/method invocation, etc.).
US08869170B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide a local process integration component to facilitate process integration. The local process integration component may include an adapter, a process broker and a process broker handler. The process broker may collaborate with the business logic and adapter to perform business-centric integration logic. The architecture is based on is a toolkit and generator approach. For inbound communication, the adapter is responsible for control flow while the process broker handler provides generic services. For outbound communication, the process broker is responsible for control flow while the process broker handler provides generic services. The control flow orchestration is uniformed by code generation.
US08869166B2
A technique for managing read-copy update readers that have been preempted while executing in a read-copy update read-side critical section. A single blocked-tasks list is used to track preempted reader tasks that are blocking an asynchronous grace period, preempted reader tasks that are blocking an expedited grace period, and preempted reader tasks that require priority boosting. In example embodiments, a first pointer may be used to segregate the blocked-tasks list into preempted reader tasks that are and are not blocking a current asynchronous grace period. A second pointer may be used to segregate the blocked-tasks list into preempted reader tasks that are and are not blocking an expedited grace period. A third pointer may be used to segregate the blocked-tasks list into preempted reader tasks that do and do not require priority boosting.
US08869158B2
An energy-aware backfill scheduling method combines overestimation of job run-times and processor adjustments, such as dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, to balance overall schedule performance and energy consumption. Accordingly, some scheduled jobs are executed in a manner reducing energy consumption. A computer-implemented method comprises identifying job performance data for a plurality of representative jobs and running a simulation of backfill-based job scheduling of the jobs at various combinations of run-time over-estimation values and processor adjustment values. The simulation generates data including energy consumption and job delay. The method further identifies one of the combinations of values that optimizes the mathematical product of an energy consumption parameter and a job delay parameter using the simulation generated data for the plurality of jobs. Jobs submitted to a processor are then scheduled using the identified combination of a run-time over-estimation value and a processor adjustment value.
US08869156B2
Described embodiments provide for scheduling packets for transmission by a network processor. The network processor generates tasks corresponding to received packets associated with a data flow. A traffic manager of the network processor receives tasks provided by a processing module of the network processor and generates a tree scheduling hierarchy having one or more scheduling levels. Each received task is queued in a queue of the scheduling hierarchy associated with the received task, the queue having a corresponding parent scheduler in each level of the scheduling hierarchy, forming a branch of the scheduling hierarchy. A parent scheduler selects a child node to transmit a task. A task read module determines a thread corresponding to the selected child node to read corresponding packet data from a shared memory. The traffic manager forms one or more output tasks for transmission based on the packet data corresponding to the thread.
US08869152B1
A method for altering an operating frequency of a processor. The method includes monitoring a real-time performance indicator of a system, and determining a desired frequency in response to the indicator. The indicator may be an amount of idle time of a processor of the system. The method also includes selectively altering an operating frequency of the processor in response to a comparison of the desired frequency and the operating frequency, including increasing the operating frequency in response to the desired frequency being greater than the operating frequency, and decreasing the operating frequency only in response to the desired frequency being less than the operating frequency by more than a predetermined value.
US08869148B2
A system and method may be utilized to identify concurrency levels of processing stages in a distributed system, identify common resources and bottlenecks in the distributed system using the identified concurrency levels, and allocate resources in the distributed system using the identified concurrency levels.
US08869147B2
A multi-threaded processor is provided that internally reorders output threads thereby avoiding the need for an external output reorder buffer. The multi-threaded processor writes its thread results back to an internal memory buffer to guarantee that thread results are outputted in the same order in which the threads are received. A thread scheduler within the multi-threaded processor manages thread ordering control to avoid the need for an external reorder buffer. A compiler for the multi-threaded processor converts instructions that would normally send processed results directly to an external reorder buffer so that the processed thread results are instead sent to the internal memory buffer of the multi-threaded processor.
US08869145B1
Method and system is provided to correlate a virtual hard disk file or a pass through disk to a storage drive that is presented to a user via a virtual machine. A data structure is generated that associates a virtual hard disk path or a pass through disk identifier with a unique identifier of a virtual storage controller and a location of the drive as maintained by an operating system of a computing system where the virtual machine is executed. The unique identifier and the location are then used to correlate a storage drive to a virtual hard disk path or a pass through disk.
US08869137B2
An information processing apparatus includes a display device; a storage device storing a program that includes a main program and N subsequent programs, and a subsequent processing code; and a processor displaying a GUI screen on the display device in accordance with the programs and writing program termination information in the storage device. The processor (a) terminates the main program after displaying a first GUI screen in accordance with the main program and executing the subsequent processing code, (b) displays a second GUI screen in accordance with a first subsequent program that is specified by the subsequent processing code on the basis of the program termination information and that is executed after the main program, and (c) sequentially displays third and subsequent GUI screens, in accordance with N−1 subsequent programs subsequent to the second subsequent program that is executed after the first subsequent program, until a termination condition is satisfied.
US08869134B2
A system for updating firmware on electronic devices, including an electronic device including a processor, a storage for storing a current image of firmware that includes a baseline image of firmware, an update utility for updating the firmware stored in the storage, and a connector for connecting the electronic device to a jacket, and a jacket including a storage for storing a firmware difference image for updating the firmware in the electronic device to a newer version, and a port for connecting the electronic device connector thereto, wherein the update utility instructs the electronic device processor (i) to apply the firmware difference image to the baseline image of the firmware to generate a newer version image of the firmware, and (ii) to replace the current image of the firmware in the electronic device storage with the thus generated newer version image of the firmware.
US08869129B2
An apparatus and method for scheduling an instruction are provided. The apparatus includes an analyzer configured to analyze dependency of a plurality of recurrence loops and a scheduler configured to schedule the recurrence loops based the analyzed dependencies. When scheduling a plurality of recurrence loops, the apparatus first schedules a dominant loop whose loop head has no dependency on another loop among the recurrence loops.
US08869123B2
System and method for applying a sequence of operations code to program configurable logic circuitry
A method and system are provided for deriving a resultant software program from an originating software program that may include overlapping branch logic. The method may include deriving a plurality of software objects from a sequence of processor instructions; associating software objects in accordance with an original logic of the sequence of processor instructions; determining and resolving memory precedence conflicts within the associated plurality of software objects; de-overlapping the execution of the associated plurality of software objects by replacing all overlapping branch logic instructions of the associated series of software objects with equivalent and non-overlapping branch logic instructions; and/or applying the de-overlapped associated plurality of software objects in a programming operation by a parallel execution logic circuitry. The resultant software is more easily converted into programming reconfigurable logic than the originating software program, computers or processors, or by means of a computer or a communications network.
US08869120B2
The invention concerns a method, a computer, and software for analysis of software code that includes code written in multiple languages. A static analysis on source code of an embedded system that has source code written in a low-level language embedded within a high level language is accompanied by transforming the embedded low level language source code to a common high level representation for performing the static analysis. This transformation only retains sufficient semantic meaning of the low level source code necessary to perform the static analysis.
US08869116B2
An improved testing assessment tool and methodology maps the Testing Maturity Model (TMM) structure to individual test areas, thereby enabling comprehensive and targeted improvement. In this way, the present invention uses the five TMM maturity levels to assess individual areas, rather than merely assigning a single maturity level to the entire organization. Embodiments of the present invention include a quick assessment that includes a relatively small number of questions to be subjectively answered using the TMM hierarchy. Embodiments of the present invention further include a full assessment that includes a relatively large number of questions to be discretely answered, with these results being use to evaluate various testing areas using the TMM hierarchy.
US08869115B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for emotive healthcare software usability. A method to improve software usability is described, the method comprising presenting a software application to a user. The method also including logging activities of the user with respect to the software application, wherein the logging includes recording the user using the software application, and wherein the activities include user action with respect to the software application and mouse location on a user interface displaying the software application. The method also including interpreting user emotion from the recording, and tracking an emotive index based on a combination of user emotion and user action with respect to the software application and mouse location. The method also including providing feedback based on the emotive index.
US08869109B2
A method for disassembling an executable binary (binary). In one implementation, a plurality of potential address references may be identified based on the binary and a plurality of storage addresses containing the binary. A plurality of assembler source code instructions (instructions) may be generated by disassembling the binary. The binary may be disassembled at one or more sequential addresses starting at each of the plurality of potential address references.
US08869108B2
A framework is provided for enabling and managing customizations to an application. In one embodiment, techniques are provided that enable the customizability of an application to be controlled based upon hierarchical relations between elements of the application.
US08869105B2
In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may including selecting an existing business object for extension in an extensibility integrated development system; generating, in the extensibility integrated development system, a page highlighting one or more nodes of the existing business object to allow selection of the one or more nodes for modification; selecting, in the extensibility integrated development system, at least one of the one or more nodes, when highlighted; modifying, in the extensibility integrated development system, the selected one or more nodes by adding at least one attribute to the at least one of the selected one or more nodes; and storing, in a repository, the modified node including the added at least one attribute. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US08869102B2
A system, computer-readable medium, and method includes providing a control flow graph including at least one condition. An update control flow graph is automatically generated based on the provided control flow graph, where execution of the update control flow graph includes an evaluation of the condition. The update control flow graph and a value corresponding to the evaluated condition is stored. An output control flow graph based on the provided control flow graph is automatically generated, where execution of the output control flow graph is based on the stored value corresponding to the evaluated condition. A mode transition control flow graph configured to identify mode transitions for the control flow graph at one or more time intervals is automatically generated and the update control flow graph is re-executed based on the generated mode transition control flow graph.
US08869097B2
An online integrated development environment (IDE) providing code assist is described. A method for providing code assist within the online IDE comprises receiving a request from a client device to access a software development project, storing code assist information related to the software development project, and sending code assist information to the client device. The client device stores the received code assist information and uses it for local code assist operations at the client device. The client device can receive a subset of a database of code assist information stored at a server environment providing the online IDE. The client device accesses the online IDE via a web browser.
US08869094B2
A standard cell library is disclosed. The standard cell library contains cells wherein at least one transistor in at least one cell is annotated for gate length biasing. Gate length biasing includes the modification of the gate length, so as to change the speed or power consumption of the modified gate length. The standard cell library is one used in the manufacturing of semiconductor devices (e.g., that result as semiconductor chips), by way of fabricating features defined on one or more layouts of geometric shapes. The annotations serve to identify which ones of the transistor gate features are to be modified before using the geometric shapes for manufacturing the semiconductor device.
US08869085B2
Structure and methods for a semiconductor transistor design. The transistor structure comprises a field effect transistor having a multi-finger gate and three or more diffusion regions. Each diffusion region is identified as either a source region or a drain region, and each diffusion region is further identified as either an inner diffusion region or an outer diffusion region. Electrical contacts are established in the inner diffusion regions and the outer diffusion regions. There are approximately twice as many contacts in an inner source region as in the outer source region. There are approximately twice as many contacts in an inner drain region as in the outer drain region. The number and locations of contacts in each diffusion region are adjusted to reduce the difference among source node voltages of all fingers and the difference among drain node voltages of all fingers.
US08869079B2
A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of line features including at least one real feature which includes a gate electrode portion, and at least one dummy feature. Two of multiple ones of the dummy feature, and at least one of the line features interposed between the two dummy features and including the at least one real feature form parallel running line features which are evenly spaced. The parallel running line features have an identical width, and line end portions of the parallel running line features are substantially flush. Line end portion uniformization dummy features are formed on extensions of the line end portions of the parallel running line features. The line end portion uniformization dummy features include a plurality of linear features each having a same width as each of the line features and spaced at intervals equal to an interval between each adjacent pair of the line features.
US08869077B1
Methodologies and an apparatus enabling an improvement of a manufacturing yield of an IC design are disclosed. Embodiments include: determining a portion of a layout of an IC design, the portion including a first pattern including a plurality of design connections; determining a function performed by the first pattern based, at least in part, on the design connections; and selecting, by a processor, a second pattern based on the function.
US08869074B2
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are disclosed. In the mobile terminal, at least one second application executable in a second operating system different from a first operating system can be searched and provided among at least one first application executable in the first operating system. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a user interface for efficiently managing applications so as to be appropriate for various operating systems.
US08869073B2
Provided is a method of hand pose interaction. The method recognizes a user input related to selection of an object displayed on a computing device and displays a graphical user interface (GUI) corresponding to the object. The graphical user interface comprises at least one representation of a hand pose, wherein each representation of a hand pose corresponds to a unique function associated with the object. Upon recognition of a user hand pose corresponding to a hand pose representation in the graphical user interface, the function associated with the hand pose representation is executed.
US08869070B2
A method and system is provided for allowing a user of a multifunctional device to search information without going through several menu/button manipulations. More specifically, a multifunctional device comprises a user screen area including a touch sensitive layer to receive user input in order to initiate a search over several local and/or remote databases. The user is allowed to input a free-style handwriting query on a screen of a device to look up information, such as contact information, available applications, wallpapers, ringtones, photos, call logs, etc. After conducting a search, the device presents the search results to the user in such a way that the user can start an intended operation by selecting a search result, such as making a call, starting an application, etc.
US08869069B2
A computer-implemented method for selecting one or more functions for display is provided. The selection may be performed via an implementation guide that is a hierarchy comprising nodes. A node may represent one function. The method may comprise retrieving a first list of switches in response to selection of a function, extracting one or more switches from the first list such that the extracted switches include function switches and/or conflict switches, determining whether each of the extracted switch is an active conflict switch and, if yes, adding the active conflict switch to a second list of switches. After removing all switches from the first list or having added all of them to the second list, the method processes the second list to determine which functions can be executed on the processor without conflicts and presenting a function GUI element representing a function determined to be executable without conflicts.
US08869067B2
An operating device included in an control panel for an image forming apparatus, the operating device that includes multiple input keys to operate independently from each other, disposed on the control panel, surrounding a center portion; and at least one indicator comprising at least one of letters and marks representing a function of one at least of the multiple input keys, located in the center portion adjacent to the one of the multiple input keys.
US08869066B2
The invention generally relates to a universal, generic content collection method and system for collecting, storing, and sharing content on the Internet using computers, mobile and/or electronic devices. In one aspect, the invention relates to methods and systems for collecting multiple types of content using a user interface. The method includes activating the user interface associated with the content, wherein the user interface is configurable to be associated with at least two types of content; optionally, providing a list of one or more content collections services, wherein a first content collection service is configured to collect a first type of content and a second content collection service is configured to collect a second type of content; and directing the content to one or more content collection services. The user interface may be a virtual button on a webpage, browser or other screen device, or a physical button on a piece of hardware such as a PDA, mobile phone, watch, etc.
US08869065B2
A segment ring menu is provided that is used to easily access menu items. The segment ring menu includes a number of menus that are located equidistant from an initial mouse position from where the segment ring menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the sections of the segment ring menu displays the menu items hosted in that section. The segment ring menu layout is directed at making it easy for the user to reach any of the menu items with a small amount of mouse movement.
US08869061B1
A graphical user interface (GUI) capable of presenting a display that indicates that navigation controls can be used for navigating through results of a search using a search engine. The GUI highlights the GUI control that accepts text characters for indicating a search term such that the area contrasts with the display of an adjacent display area in response to entering the search term. Once the search is initiated, such as by actuating a search initiation control, the GUI may change to highlight navigation controls to indicate that those controls can be used to navigate between search result hits. Additional icons or controls may be displayed to further indicate the function of navigation controls and actions that may be taken to further modify the display of controls, such as collapsing some of the controls.
US08869052B2
A method is provided to display indicia of an object type for a service within a user interface of a software development system that runs on a computer, the method comprising: obtaining runtime context information that includes an identification of a respective service and an indication of a user role; providing a plurality of corresponding object types; using context dependent rules to determine which respective object types are within scope of a service; and generating a user interface that includes respective indicia of respective object types determined to be within the scope of the service.
US08869050B2
Methods, systems, and graphical user interfaces are provided for showing calendar events that are not visible on screen. Event objects are shown when an event is within a viewable time range, but the event object is partially drawn on screen (e.g. clipped) when the event is not within a viewable time range. The displayed parts of event objects indicating off-screen event can stack on top of each other to provide information about a number of off-screen events for a particular day. With the events clipped and stacked, a user has a visual indicator that there are events off screen for a particular day. As a user scrolls to the time of the event, the event can completely reveals itself.
US08869046B2
A system and method are provided for rating online electronic content. A compilation of information or other item of electronic content is presented to a user, along with comments. The comments may target discrete portions of the content item (e.g., a sentence, a statement, an assertion), the content as a whole, or another comment. A user is able to identify a specific portion of the content item as a target for a new comment, which will automatically be associated with that portion. Users may rate the content item, a portion of the item and/or other users' comments based on credibility and/or other traits (e.g., bias, accuracy, violence, enjoyability, prurience). Users' ratings are tallied to produce an overall rating for comments, commentators, portions of content item, entire content items, a program or series or other source of the content item, etc.
US08869043B2
The present invention is a system for accessing applications from even the most basic Instant Message (IM) enabled mobile device. The system utilizes the IM infrastructure of a mobile device to deliver application interfaces and manage the user experience. The invention is particularly applicable to applications with graphical user interfaces (GUI), even typical desktop or web applications. The system performs a direct transformation of application user interfaces into an IM messaging model with minimal functional distortions. The users own application knowledge and experience is leveraged, reducing application customization in the system architecture. The system also incorporates presence-driven mechanisms in the architecture.
US08869034B2
A network-management device includes a map storing unit and a map state storing unit. The map storing unit stores therein a map created based on information on network devices. The map state storing unit stores therein a creation state indicating that creation of the map is in process or completed in association with the map. When creation of the map is in process, disclosure of the map is prohibited, and all the network devices are notified that creation of the map is in process. When creation of the map is completed, it is checked whether all the network devices are laid out on the map. When all the network devices are laid out on the map, disclosure of the map is permitted.
US08869029B2
Ergonomic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying medical record information obtained from various sources within handheld devices are provided. A GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions. A list of patient names is displayed within the first portion of the GUI, along with medical facility location information, means for indicating when new clinical data for a patient is available, means for removing patient names from the displayed list, and means for sorting the displayed list of patient names. A plurality of ergonomically designed GUI controls are displayed within the second portion of the GUI. Each of these GUI controls has a width that is between about 15% and 75% of a width of the display, and a height that is between about 15% and 75% of a height of the display. According to embodiments, a GUI for display within a touch screen display of a handheld device includes adjacent first and second portions, wherein the second portion has a height that is between about 30% and 70% of a height of the GUI. Information for a respective patient is displayed within the first portion and includes patient identification and location information. At least some of the displayed information is responsive to user touching for displaying additional patient information. Various GUI controls are displayed within the second portion, and is responsive to user touching for performing various functions. Each of the GUI controls in the second portion has a width that is between about 15% and 75% of a width of the second portion, and a height that is between about 15% and 75% of a height of the second portion.
US08869028B2
Disclosed are embodiments of an interface structure and a method for automated data mining of a legacy system. A GUI is employed to navigate through the legacy system interface application and access a data field. Once the data field is displayed, the GUI can receive a tag from the user labeling the data field. Additionally, a screen tracing device can trace the sequence of events that ultimately results in the data field being displayed. The traced sequence and its corresponding tag are then stored in a data storage device. These processes can be repeated for multiple different data fields. Subsequently, a sequence applying device can retrieve one or more previously stored sequences in response to a request referencing the corresponding tag(s) and can apply the sequence(s) in order to access, for processing, data from the corresponding data field(s).
US08869027B2
A dashboard manager can be used to create, manage and deploy dashboards. Each dashboard can include one or more user interface elements (“widgets”). The dashboard manager can be invoked for providing a variety of management functions. In another aspect, dashboards, widgets and other content can be bundled together and distributed to users over a distribution channel. Users can created custom bundles using a tool that is provided for such purpose.
US08869026B2
A method for managing electronic documents (EDs), including obtaining an ED defining an overflowed textbox with a vertical justification, a paragraph for the overflowed textbox, and a horizontal justification of the paragraph, where the paragraph comprises a plurality of characters, generating, based on the ED, an intermediate document (ID) defining an enlarged textbox encapsulating the paragraph with the horizontal justification, calculating, using the layout engine and based on the ID, a plurality of positions of the plurality of characters within the enlarged textbox by generating an intermediate page including the enlarged textbox, calculating, based on a vertical justification of the overflowed textbox, a transformation between a point of interest (POI) associated with the enlarged textbox on the intermediate page and a reference point associated with the overflowed textbox, and generating a rendered page of the ED by applying the transformation to the plurality of positions of the plurality of characters.
US08869017B2
The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.
US08869007B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for operating a three dimensional (“3D”) memory device includes detecting, by a memory controller, a first error on the 3D memory device and detecting, by the memory controller, a second error in a first chip in a first rank of the 3D memory device, wherein the first chip has an associated first chip select. The method also includes powering up a second chip in a second rank, sending a command from the memory controller to the 3D memory device to replace the first chip in the first chip select with the second chip and correcting the first error using an error control code.
US08869006B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to correcting erasures in a storage array. A read stripe is received from a plurality of n storage devices. The read stripe includes an array of entries arranged in m rows and n columns with each column corresponding to one of the storage devices. The entries include data entries and mr+s parity entries. Each row contains at least r parity entries generated from the data entries according to a partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) code. It is determined that the read stripe includes at least one erased entry, at most mr+s erased entries and that no row has more than r+s erased entries. The erased entries are reconstructed from the non-erased entries, resulting in a recovered read stripe.
US08868994B2
Maintaining bandwidth in links between servers and storage arrays comprising a device. The device establishes the links. The device identifies a first link from the links. The first link has a high response time. The device transmits a plurality of data packets on the first link. Each data packet is associated with a corresponding acknowledgment (ACK). The transmission is performed without waiting for the corresponding ACK to be received. The device tracks the ACK received in response to each of the transmitted data packets. The device detects a failure of the first link. In response to the detection, the device identifies invalid data packets. The invalid data packets comprise data packets transmitted on the first link after the detected failure.
US08868986B2
Relevant alert delivery including determining, by an events listener associated with an event queue, whether one or more events in an events queue have not been assigned to any events pool by any event analyzer; and if one or more events in the events queue have not been assigned to any events pool, identifying by the events listener in dependence upon the event analysis rules one or more alerts; sending by the event listener to an alerts queue all the alerts identified by the event listener; the alerts queue having an associated alerts listener; determining whether one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alert pool; if one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alerts pool, and determining in dependence upon alert analysis rules whether to suppress the alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts.
US08868984B2
Relevant alert delivery including determining, by an events listener associated with an event queue, whether one or more events in an events queue have not been assigned to any events pool by any event analyzer; and if one or more events in the events queue have not been assigned to any events pool, identifying by the events listener in dependence upon the event analysis rules one or more alerts; sending by the event listener to an alerts queue all the alerts identified by the event listener; the alerts queue having an associated alerts listener; determining whether one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alert pool; if one or more alerts in the alerts queue have not been assigned to any alerts pool, and determining in dependence upon alert analysis rules whether to suppress the alerts; and transmitting the unsuppressed alerts.
US08868974B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating triggers within a hardware emulator. The system allows for dynamic reconfiguration of the trigger generation scheme during emulation. In one aspect, input probe signals are received on an address port to a memory from an integrated circuit within the emulator. The memory outputs from a data port, data, which is addressed, at least in part, by the input probe signals. The data output from the data port may be sent through further combinatorial logic or directly connected to a logic analyzer and represents trigger information. In another aspect, the trigger generation scheme may be reconfigured dynamically during emulation. For example, where the memory is a dual-port RAM, an emulation host can write to the memory to perform the reconfiguration.
US08868966B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are provided for failover responses to configuration node failures in SVC clusters. An SVC cluster manages a plurality of storage devices and includes a plurality of SVCs interconnected via a network, each SVC acting as a separate node. A storage device event log is saved, with an original configuration node. An entry is made in the storage device event log each time the original configuration node receives storage device events and setting the entry to a negative value indicating a storage device event has not been handled. The entry is set to a positive value indicating the storage device event has been handled after the original configuration node notifies respective subscribed clients about those of the storage device events the original configuration node receives. A new configuration node is activated in response to configuration node failures.
US08868960B2
A computer system is provided which includes a plurality of nodes, which include chips of different types. In each node, one of the chips is configured as a master chip, which is connected to one or more slave chips via two or more multi-drop nets (e.g., checkstop, clockrun). The master chip and the slave chips are connected to a reference clock, and event triggering information is transmitted via the multi-drop nets (checkstop, clockrun) to the slave chips. Event trigger commands are submitted by the master chip when it receives a request, and internal offset counters are used to adjust both the receiving cycle and the cycle when the command is propagated to the units on the chips. In operation, the offset counters are synchronized by a reference clock.
US08868949B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to limiting maximum power dissipation occurred in a processor. Therefore, when an application that requires excessive amounts of power is being executed, the execution of the application may be prevented to reduce dissipated or consumed power.
US08868945B2
Many computing device may now include two or more graphics subsystems. The multiple graphics subsystems may have different abilities, and may, for example, consume differing amount of electrical power, with one subsystem consuming more average power than the others. The higher power consuming graphics subsystem may be coupled to the device and used instead of, or in addition to, the lower power consuming graphics subsystem, resulting in higher performance or additional capabilities, but increased overall power consumption. By transitioning from the use of the higher power consuming graphics subsystem to the lower power consuming graphics subsystem, while placing the higher power consuming graphics subsystem in a lower power consumption mode, overall power consumption is reduced.
US08868941B2
An interconnect-power-manager (IPM) cooperates and communicates signals with an integrated-circuit-system-power-manager (SPM) in the integrated-circuit. The interconnect network (IN) is partitioned into multiple power domains and has hardware circuitry integrated into the IN to manage a quiescent state for all components in each power domain in the IN when a routing pathway for transactions in the IN spans across one or more power domain boundaries and causes interdependencies of power domains within the IN other than where the power domains of the initiator agent and final target agent of the transaction are located within. The SPM is configured to cooperate and communicate with the IPM to quiesce, to wake up, and any combination of the two, one or more of the multiple power domains within the IN.
US08868929B2
In one embodiment, a method for managing information in a large capacity UICC is provided comprising storing content of a file in a mass storage file system of the large capacity UICC, associating the file in the mass storage file system with a file in an ISO file system of the large capacity UICC, wherein the ISO file is associated with a security configuration defining security requirements for allowing its access; and hiding the content of the file in the mass storage file system in order to make it inaccessible. The method can further comprise requesting access from the mass storage file system to content of a file in the mass storage file system; and, if hidden, delivering security requirements to the ISO file system and determining whether the delivered security requirements agree with the security configuration of the file in the ISO file system associated with the file in the mass storage file system; and, if so, revealing the content to make it accessible.
US08868923B1
Detection and deterrence of spoofing of user authentication may be achieved by including a cryptographic fingerprint unit within a hardware device for authenticating a user of the hardware device. The cryptographic fingerprint unit includes an internal physically unclonable function (“PUF”) circuit disposed in or on the hardware device, which generates a PUF value. Combining logic is coupled to receive the PUF value, combines the PUF value with one or more other authentication factors to generate a multi-factor authentication value. A key generator is coupled to generate a private key and a public key based on the multi-factor authentication value while a decryptor is coupled to receive an authentication challenge posed to the hardware device and encrypted with the public key and coupled to output a response to the authentication challenge decrypted with the private key.
US08868911B2
The present invention provides a method for keys generation, member authentication and communication security in a dynamic group, which comprises steps: assigning each member an identification vector containing common group identification vector elements and an individual identification vector element, and generating an authentication vector and an access control vector for each member according to the identification vector; using the identification vector elements to generate public key elements and establish an authentication public key and an access control public key; and using a polynomial and the identification vector to generate a private key. The present invention uses these public keys and private keys, which are generated from the identification vectors, to implement serverless member authentication and data access control, whereby is protected privacy of members and promoted security of communication.
US08868907B2
A device, method, and system for processing communications for secure operation of industrial control system field devices, includes: a processing device to be placed in-line between a Master Telemetry Unit (MTU) and a field device. A software verified microkernel includes instructions for the processing device to provide a secure partitioning of memory between a communication network interface address space, a security cell address space, and a field device interface address space. The security cell address space includes instructions to: receive communication messages from the MTU via the communication network interface address space; authenticate a user identification of each communication message; verify that an operation requested in each message is authorized for the user identification; and send each communication message having an authenticated user identification and a verified operation to the field network interface address space for communication with the field device.
US08868901B2
A mobile terminal including a communication unit configured to communicate with at least one external terminal; a memory configure to store at least first and second operating systems including at least first and second modes, respectively; and a controller configured to execute the first operating system and to activate the first mode corresponding to the first operating system, to display a first information screen on a display unit corresponding to the activated first mode, to receive a switching signal indicating the first mode is to be switched to the second mode, to activate the second mode and deactivate the first mode, and to display a second information screen on the display unit corresponding to the second mode and that is different than the first information screen.
US08868898B1
A method for a covert communication system comprising a pair of flash memory devices having encrypted boot instructions and communication software thereon whereby the flash memory devices once plugged into a computer's USB ports and the computer is powered on, the flash memory boot load tests for the presence of a flash memory device dongle having an encrypted key that that once validated starts the encrypted communication software designed to create, edit, send and receive a report comprising data files forming a data package, which can only be transmitted by restarting the computer.
US08868896B2
A method and system for simulating a reset signal in a modeled system comprises a reset control module and a module to be reset. Operations of the system include emitting by a control thread of the control module a reset signal, receiving by the module to be reset the reset signal, waking up a thread of the module to be reset, and waiting for a reset signal. If the thread is woken up by the reset signal further operations include activating a reset exception by the thread, and if a reset exception is raised, making the thread wait for a reboot signal, transmitting the reboot signal by the control thread to the module to be reset, and after receiving the reboot signal, activating the thread which executes and waits for a reset signal.
US08868894B2
A method of manufacture of a computing system includes: executing a first application, active and implemented as hardware within a hardware component having of one or more of reconfigurable hardware devices; detecting a trigger event in a first microkernel; generating a first hardware descriptor based on the trigger event, the first hardware descriptor to configure a portion of the hardware component for the first application or a second application; and configuring the portion of the hardware component with the first hardware descriptor while the first application executes concurrently.
US08868887B2
Method, apparatus, and program means for a programmable event driven yield mechanism that may activate other threads. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a plurality of instructions and a monitor to detect a condition indicating a low level of progress. The monitor can disrupt processing of a program by transferring to a handler in response to detecting the condition indicating a low level of progress. In another embodiment, thread switch logic may be coupled to a plurality of event monitors which monitor events within the multithreading execution logic. The thread switch logic switches threads based at least partially on a programmable condition of one or more of the performance monitors.
US08868884B2
Methods and systems to intelligently cache content in a virtualization environment using virtualization software such as VMWare ESX or Citrix XenServer or Microsoft HyperV or Redhat KVM or their variants are disclosed. Storage IO operations (reads from and writes to disk) are analyzed (or characterized) for their overall value and pinned to cache if their value exceeds a certain defined threshold based on criteria specific to the New Technology File System (NTFS) file-system. Analysis/characterization of NTFS file systems for intelligent dynamic caching include analyzing storage block data associated with a Virtual Machine of interest in accordance with a pre-determined data model to determine the value of the block under analysis for long term or short term caching. Integer values assigned to different types of NTFS objects in a white list data structure called a catalog that can be used to analyze the storage block data.
US08868883B1
An apparatus comprising an arbiter circuit, a translation circuit and a controller circuit. The arbiter circuit may be configured to generate one or more first control signals and a data write signal in response to an input signal and a read data signal. The translation circuit may be configured to generate a one or more second control signals in response to the one or more first control signals and the write address signal. The controller circuit may be configured to generate an address signal in response to the one or more second control signals.
US08868880B2
A computing system includes virtualization software including a guest operating system (OS). A method maintains, by the virtualization software layer, a first shadow page table for use in a kernel mode and a second shadow page table for use in a user mode. The virtualization software switches between using the first shadow page table and the second shadow page table when the guest OS switches between operating in the kernel mode and the user mode.
US08868875B2
A mechanism is provided for enabling throttling on average write throughput instead of peak write throughput for solid-state storage devices. The mechanism assures an average write throughput within a range but allows excursions of high throughput with periods of low throughput offsetting against those of heavy usage. The mechanism periodically determines average throughput and determines whether average throughput exceeds a high throughput threshold for a certain amount of time without being offset by periods of low throughput.
US08868873B2
In a reconfigurable data strobe-based memory system, data strobes may be re-tasked in different modes of operation. For example, in one mode of operation a differential data strobe may be used as a timing reference for a given set of data signals. In a second mode of operation, one of the components of the differential data strobe may be used as a timing reference for a first portion of the set of data signals and the other component used as a timing reference for a second portion of the set of data signals. Different data mask-related schemes also may be invoked for different modes of operation. For example, in a first mode of operation a memory controller may generate a data mask signal to prevent a portion of a set of data from being written to a memory array. Then, in a second mode of operation the memory controller may invoke a coded value replacement scheme or a data strobe transition inhibition scheme to prevent a portion of a set of data from being written to a memory array.
US08868867B2
Systems and methods of storage device access are provided, where the operating system copies permission and mapping information to the storage array and/or to the application program's memory. The application program can then access the storage device without the operating system's intervention and the storage device will check whether the application has permission to access the data. As a result, in most cases, neither the operating system nor the file system needs to be invoked, and since both of them increase the amount of time required to access the data in the file system, considerable performance improvements are possible.
US08868862B2
A primary-backup replication capability is disclosed. A primary process and a backup process participate in a synchronization process configured to synchronize state information of the primary and backup processes. The synchronization process operates in periods of time referred to as epochs. During the current epoch, the primary process computes state update information representing changes to the state information of the primary process since a previous epoch, and also buffers output messages generated during the current epoch in an associated output buffer dedicated for use in the current epoch. The primary process initiates a new epoch independent of receiving, from the backup process, a state update acknowledgement for the previous epoch. The output messages buffered for the current epoch are released from the associated output buffer after the primary process receives a state update acknowledgment for the current epoch and all output buffers of all previous epochs are empty.
US08868861B2
In an information recording apparatus, when it is determined to perform a copy process, a copy processor copies content data cached in a first storage section to an information recording medium as copy destination. A process-result sender sends, to a copy-count management server, a result of the copy process. A cached-data abandoning unit abandons the content data cached in the first storage section if information regarding an allowable number of copies on which the result of the copy process has been reflected represents that a next copy process is disallowed.
US08868854B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for handling out of order reporting in a storage device.
US08868853B2
A data processing device has plural kinds of recording media and a data block management device. The data block management device classifies data blocks into plural groups and records each group on an appropriate recording medium. The data block management device has a memory unit, a group reconfiguration unit and a medium selection unit. Access trend information representing a trend of combinations of former groups and latter groups is stored in the memory unit. The group reconfiguration unit performs group reconfiguration processing by reference to the access trend information. Specifically, if a sequential access trend between two different groups is increased, they are integrated to generate a new group. If a sequential access trend within a certain group is decreased, the certain group is divided to generate a new group. The medium selection unit records the new group obtained as a result of the group reconfiguration on a corresponding recording medium.
US08868848B2
A computer system may comprise a computer platform and input-output devices. The computer platform may include a plurality of heterogeneous processors comprising a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a shared virtual memory supported by a physical private memory space of at least one heterogeneous processor or a physical shared memory shared by the heterogeneous processor. The CPU (producer) may create shared multi-version data and store such shared multi-version data in the physical private memory space or the physical shared memory. The GPU (consumer) may acquire or access the shared multi-version data.
US08868847B2
Systems, methods, and devices for reducing snoop traffic in a central processing unit are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, an electronic device includes a central processing unit having a plurality of cores. A cache memory management system may be associated with each core that includes a cache memory device configured to store a plurality of cache lines, a page status table configured to track pages of memory stored in the cache memory device and to indicate a status of each of the tracked pages of memory, and a cache controller configured to determine, upon a cache miss, whether to broadcast a snoop request based at least in part on the status of one of the tracked pages in the page status table.
US08868846B2
Disclosed is a coherent storage system. A network interface device (NIC) receives network storage commands from a host. The NIC may cache the data to/from the storage commands in a solid-state disk. The NIC may respond to future network storage command by supplying the data from the solid-state disk rather than initiating a network transaction. Other NIC's on other hosts may also cache network storage data. These NICs may respond to transactions from the first NIC by supplying data, or changing the state of data in their caches.
US08868843B2
A system and method for efficiently determining whether a requested memory location is in a large row-based memory of a computing system. A computing system includes a processing unit that generates memory requests on a first chip and a cache (LLC) on a second chip connected to the first chip. The processing unit includes an access filter that determines whether to access the cache. The cache is fabricated on top of the processing unit. The processing unit determines whether to access the access filter for a given memory request. The processing unit accesses the access filter to determine whether given data associated with a given memory request is stored within the cache. In response to determining the access filter indicates the given data is not stored within the cache, the processing unit generates a memory request to send to off-package memory.
US08868834B2
Some embodiments provide systems and methods for validating cached content based on changes in the content instead of an expiration interval. One method involves caching content and a first checksum in response to a first request for that content. The caching produces a cached instance of the content representative of a form of the content at the time of caching. The first checksum identifies the cached instance. In response to receiving a second request for the content, the method submits a request for a second checksum representing a current instance of the content and a request for the current instance. Upon receiving the second checksum, the method serves the cached instance of the content when the first checksum matches the second checksum and serves the current instance of the content upon completion of the transfer of the current instance when the first checksum does not match the second checksum.
US08868828B2
A method and controller for implementing storage adapter performance optimization with cache data and cache directory mirroring between dual adapters minimizing firmware operations, and a design structure on which the subject controller circuit resides are provided. One of the first controller or the second controller operates in a first initiator mode includes firmware to set up an initiator write operation building a data frame for transferring data and a respective cache line (CL) for each page index to the other controller operating in a second target mode. Respective initiator hardware engines transfers data, reading CLs from an initiator control store, and writing updated CLs to an initiator data store, and simultaneously sends data and updated CLs to the other controller. Respective target hardware engines write data and updated CLs to the target data store, eliminating firmware operations of the controller operating in the second target mode.
US08868819B2
A management system is coupled to a storage system group including a scale-out storage system (a virtual storage system). The management system has storage management information, which includes information denoting, for each storage system, whether or not a storage system is a component of a virtual storage system. The management system, based on the storage management information, determines whether or not a first storage system is a component of a virtual storage system, and in a case where the result of this determination is affirmative, identifies, based on the storage management information, a second storage system, which is a storage system other than the virtual storage system that includes the first storage system, and allows a user to perform a specific operation only with respect to this second storage system.
US08868816B2
An apparatus and method for operating a connector of a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a connector including a plurality of pins, a plug of a peripheral device, a display unit for displaying a menu for setting a connector mode, an input unit for receiving selection of one connector mode from the menu for setting a connector mode, a main processor for connecting with a switch unit through a data line, a sound line, a microphone line, and a control line, for receiving connector mode selection information from the input unit, and for transferring switching information through the control line, and the switch unit for connecting with a subset of the pins of the connector, and selectively connecting the subset of the pins to at least one of the data line, the sound line, and the microphone line.
US08868814B2
Fault tolerance is improved, a functional limitation at the time of start-up of an I/O system is avoided, and a start-up time is shortened. A downstream PCI Express bridge sets a PCI Express device connected to the downstream PCI Express bridge itself, among a plurality of single root-compatible PCI Express devices shared by a plurality of root complexes connected to a plurality of upstream PCI Express bridges that exchange data with the downstream PC Express bridge itself through a network, controls and monitors a state of a physical link with the PCI Express device connected to the downstream PCI Express bridge itself, and performs monitoring and notification of an error of the PCI Express device connected to the downstream PCI Express bridge itself.
US08868809B2
Described embodiments provide a media controller for servicing contexts corresponding to data transfer requests from host devices. The media controller includes a context generator for generating contexts corresponding to the data transfer requests and a buffer for storing one or more context pointers, each pointer corresponding to a context and an action by a system module associated with the context. A context processor is configured to complete a context when the action by a media controller module associated with the context is complete, remove each pointer from the buffer associated with the completed context, and determine whether an interrupt corresponds to the completed context and removed pointer. If no interrupt corresponds to the completed context, the completed context is cleared. If an interrupt corresponds to the completed context, the interrupt is provided to a master processor and a completed context recycler for recycling the completed context pointer to the context generator.
US08868806B2
Methods and structure for enhanced SAS expander functionality to store and forward buffered information transmitted from a SATA end device to an STP initiator device while managing use of Non-Zero Offset (“NZO”) field values in DMA Setup FISs transmitted by the SATA end device. The enhanced expander establishes a connection between an STP initiator and a SATA end device. The expander forwards a read command from the initiator to the end device. If NZO use is supported and enabled in the end device, the end device may return read data in any order by use of the NZO field values in multiple DMA Setup FISs. The expander is further adapted to store received data and the associated multiple DMA Setup FISs from the end device in its buffer and forwards the stored data to the initiator device. In another embodiment, use of NZO in the end device is disabled.
US08868803B2
Management of data communication between a peripheral device and host computer system is provided. A peripheral device exposes to a host computer system multiple interfaces for data communication between the peripheral device and the host computer system. The multiple interfaces are exposed over a single physical interface between the peripheral device and the host computer system, for communicating data between the peripheral device and multiple applications executing on the host computer system. The multiple interfaces can include a data collection interface facilitating collection of data from the peripheral device by an application of the multiple applications executing on the host computer system.
US08868801B2
A novel and efficient method is described that creates a monolithic high capacity Packet Engine (PE) by connecting N lower capacity Packet Engines (PEs) via a novel Chip-to-Chip (C2C) interface. The C2C interface is used to perform functions, such as memory bit slicing and to communicate shared information, and enqueue/dequeue operations between individual PEs.
US08868799B2
This invention controls data transmission from a data source to a sink. The data source buffers the data. The data source signaling to transmit data upon storing a burst amount of data. The data source may include a plurality of data sources. A merge unit merges data by receiving and retransmitting data from each data source which signals to transmit and inserting a source identity block each time the merged data is received from a different source.
US08868795B2
A data processing device with multiple hardware systems and a switching method thereof are provided. The device comprises a first hardware system, a second hardware system, a shared device and a switcher, wherein the first hardware system is connected to the shared device through the switcher, and includes a first inquiry module for inquiring information on applications currently executed in the first hardware system so as to obtain an inquiry result, a first control module for triggering the first inquiry module to perform inquiry when it is required to switch from the first hardware system to the second hardware system, and a first communication module for transmitting the inquiry result to the second hardware system; and the second hardware system includes a second communication module for receiving the inquiry result, a second control module for, in accordance with the inquiry result, activating corresponding applications in the second hardware system so as to generate a first message, and transmitting the first message to the first hardware system through the second communication module; wherein the first control module instructs the switcher to switch the shared device into connection with the second hardware system when the first message is received by the first hardware system through the first communication module.
US08868794B2
System and method for interfacing with a medical device having a host device and a communication module. The host device has a user interface configured to input and display information relating to the interfacing with the medical device. The communication module is locally coupled to the host device and configured to communicate wirelessly with the medical device. The system, implemented by the host device and the communication module, is configured to communicate with the medical device with functions. The system, implemented by at least one of the host device and the communication module, has a security condition. At least one of the functions is disabled, at least in part, from operating on the system based upon the security condition.
US08868792B2
USB extension devices that transmit USB 3.0 differential signaling over an extension medium that supports serial communication are provided. In some embodiments, an electrical idle or suspend is detected from a transmit conductor of a USB host or device, and a corresponding USB extension device is reconfigured to couple a receive conductor of the USB host or device to a null data source instead of an extension medium transceiver. Once the electrical idle or suspend state ceases, the receive conductor of the USB host or device is reconnected to the extension medium transceiver. In some embodiments, a transmit input of the extension medium transceiver is coupled to a null data source upon detection of electrical idle or suspend from the USB host or device.
US08868784B2
A method, apparatus, and machine readable storage medium is disclosed for handling Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) at a first DHCP server, assigning a priority to each of a plurality of subnets and assigning to a client, a previously assigned IP address if the previously assigned IP address is still available and if the previously assigned IP address is in a subnet having a highest priority.
US08868778B2
Storage and network transmission bandwidth requirements of a portable image capture device are reduced. An online service using at least one hardware server on a network provides action information for an image capture device, the action information corresponding to an action that can be performed on images by the online service. A captured image is received uploaded from the image capture device to the online service. A request is received from the image capture device to perform the action for the uploaded image. The request includes an image identifier assigned by the online service.
US08868774B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for integrating and managing information of mobile terminal which provide content in accordance with an efficiency of a mobile terminal. Method comprises the steps of A) adjusting whether a mobile terminal supports a user agent profile and requesting an information of the mobile terminal; B) deciding an approval on the information of the mobile terminal after identifying a registration content of the information of the mobile terminal; C) extracting a subscriber information and a device ID from a log file generated in the case that the mobile terminal accesses a wireless internet network, comparing the same with pre-stored data and updating the subscriber information and the device ID in accordance with the result of the comparison; D) inquiring and requesting the information of the mobile terminal from a content providing unit based on the subscriber information in the case that the mobile terminal accesses the content providing unit through the wireless internet network; and (E) transmitting an inquiring result of the information of the mobile terminal to the content providing unit.
US08868771B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting data in a data network using virtual containers, which are combined to form a virtual concatenated group by means of the Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme, LCAS. The virtual concatenated group is sub-divided on the send side into a first virtual concatenated group and a second virtual concatenated group. Data of a first type is inserted on the send side into the first virtual concatenated group and data of the second type is inserted into the second virtual concatenated group. Said data is then transmitted via the data network.
US08868770B2
Systems and methods are provided for protocol mapping. According to an embodiment of the application, the protocol mapping is based on a non-compiled editable file (e.g. XML file) that describes the protocol mapping. Therefore, the protocol mapping can be updated by updating the non-compiled editable file without updating any compiled software. This allows the protocol mapping to be updated to reflect any changes to communication protocols that may occur without having to update any compiled software. Difficulties traditionally associated with updating protocol mappings can be avoided by not having to update compiled software.
US08868768B2
A system may include a first network in which user device(s) and a HIP server are communicably coupled. The first network may include a secure data administrator, such as a medical data system, that stores secure data. In some implementations, at least one of the user devices may include a web module and communicate with a web server through a second network. At least one of the user device may be restricted from communicating with the secure data administrator, so the user device may request data stored in the secure data administrator through the HIP server. The user device may base the requests for the data on information received from the web server.
US08868767B2
A comprehensive platform for merchandising intellectual property (IP) and conducting IP transactions is disclosed. A standardized data collection method enables IP assets to be characterized, rated and valuated in a consistent manner. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between the IP Marketplace participants throughout the IP transaction process. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
US08868766B1
Techniques for provisioning computing resources utilize colorings of collections of resources. The collections may be networks of resources hosted by a computing resource provider that are operated under the direction of one or more customers of the resource provider. Colors may be applied to the collections of resources, such as by a customer of the resource provider. The same customer or another customer may request that resources be provisioned according to at least one relationship with one or more collections of resources having one or more colors. Resources may then be provisioned according to the request.
US08868762B1
In general, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for detecting proximity between computing devices. A first computing device may query a server device. Subsequent to querying, the first computing device may receive instructions from the server device to re-query the server device at a first specified time. The first computing device may re-query the server device at the first specified time. Subsequent to re-querying, the first computing device may receive an address associated with a second computing device and instructions from the server device to connect to the second computing device at a second specified time. The first computing device may connect with the second computing device at the second specified time based at least in part on the address associated with the second computing device.
US08868755B2
In a shared data system comprising one or more primary nodes and a plurality of secondary nodes, global lock manager on a primary node manages locks for shared resources by exchanging an abstract lock state with local lock managers on the secondary nodes. The abstract lock state includes a particular representation of all of the applications on the nodes that are requesting or are granted locks. The exchange of these particular lock states instead of individual requests improves performance by increasing concurrency and reducing off-machine communication. A global deadlock detector on a node detects and resolves global deadlocks, in conjunction with local deadlock detectors on the secondary nodes.
US08868744B2
A method and system are provided for transactional messaging support in connected messaging networks. A first messaging network is provided which does not support transactional processing and a second messaging network is provided which does support transactional processing. A proxy application is provided between the first and second messaging networks. The proxy application receives messages from a first application on the first messaging network, the messages including instructions regarding transactional processing of the messages, and forwards the messages to the second messaging network using a transactional processing supported by the second messaging network.
US08868742B2
The invention relates to a method for the communication of a terminal (10) with a server (14), the terminal including an application and computer software capable of communicating with the server (14). The method comprises: the step of sending (42) a request (RLoc) by the application (26) to the software (34), and the step of obtaining (44) by the software (34) and from the application (26) data (DAutor) necessary for the software (34) to communicate with the server (14) so that the request can be executed. This method enables access to GPS assistance servers to be limited only to users who have paid the localization service to the owner operator of the localization assistance server.
US08868740B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for injecting content into a webpage at or local to a network access gateway. For example, in an embodiment, a network access gateway is provided for accessing the internet. A user logs onto the internet through the network access gateway and request a webpage. The gateway requests the webpage from the webpage provider. Before the gateway delivers the webpage to the user, the gateway, or a content injection engine local to the gateway, injects content, such as, for example, advertisements or other useful information, into the webpage and then sends the altered webpage to the user.
US08868739B2
Systems and methods for the forming of user device groups are presented. First, logical relationship information can be recorded, the logical relationship information describing logical relationships between a first user and other users, the logical relationship information associated with a social networking service. Communications between the first user and the other users, the communications being of at least two different types of communications, may be monitored. A first user group in which to add the first user is determined based on the logical relationship information, a first factor and a second factor, the first factor corresponding to a first of the different types of communications and the second factor corresponding to a second of the different types of communications, the determining including applying a first time-varying function to the first factor and a second time-varying function to the second factor to represent an effect of passage of time, the first time-varying function being different than the second time-varying function.
US08868737B2
A content delivery system for providing content from a content delivery network to end users may include a plurality of delivery servers that host one or more content items and an inventory server having an inventory of content. The inventory of content can indicate which of the delivery servers host the content items. The inventory server may receive a request for a content item from an end user system and may access the inventory of content to determine one or more delivery servers that host the content item. In response to this determination, the inventory server may redirect the request for the content item to a selected one of the delivery servers. The selected delivery server can then serve the content item to the end user system.
US08868736B2
A method of estimating a level of severity of a network fault is provided. Performance parameters are monitored on upstream and downstream links to terminal network elements on a network to detect potential network faults. An alarm is raised with respect to a potential network fault automatically if at least one of the performance parameters as monitored crosses a preset threshold. After an alarm is raised, a level of severity is assigned to the alarm based on pre and post forward error correction (FEC) bit error rates (BER). In addition, the total number of terminal network elements that are impacted by the network fault is estimated and, when multiple alarms are raised of an equal level of severity, a higher priority is placed upon an alarm that affects service to a greatest number of terminal network elements.
US08868734B2
A method, performed by a computer device, may include scanning a network of digital cross connect devices to identify an open port and determining that the identified open port has been designated as unavailable in a provisioning database. The method may further include determining that the identified open port corresponds to a recoverable port and recovering the identified open port by designating the identified open port as available in the provisioning database, in response to determining that the identified open port corresponds to a recoverable port.
US08868733B2
Embodiments contemplate one or more socket application program interface (API) extensions that may provide one or more Internet Protocol Address lists. Embodiments may include determining a state (or status) of one or more available Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Further, embodiments may include communicating the state (or status) of the available Internet addresses to a Multi Connection Transport Protocol.
US08868730B2
A method is provided of managing workflow loads on a plurality of secondary data servers whose workflows are controlled by a primary control server. The method comprises initially directing workflow to only an active first data server of the plurality of secondary data servers, monitoring at least one server capacity factor associated with the active first data server, after a first predetermined minimum load level of work to the active first data server has been reached, continue directing work to only the active first data server until a first predetermined maximum load level of work to the active first data server is reached, determining if a minimum load level of work can be maintained on an idle second data server of the plurality of secondary data servers based upon the monitored capacity factor associated with the active first data server, and directing workflow to the idle second data server when a determination is made that the minimum load level of work can be maintained on the idle second data server.
US08868721B2
Systems and methods for managing software appliances using a broadcast mechanism, embodiments of which incorporate a centralized appliance monitor that collects software appliance state information from a community of clients having software appliance installations. Software appliances can include a reduced-component operating system combined with pre-configured application(s), for instance distributed via optical disc or Web download. When a software appliance instantiates on a client in the network or at other times, the identity and execution state of the application is broadcast to an appliance monitor. The appliance monitor aggregates the appliance state information for all clients in the network, and manages their deployment and execution on the network. The appliance monitor can for example transmit an appliance control instruction to a client to terminate or otherwise manage an uncertified or unapproved appliance, or take other network management action.
US08868720B1
Environment and/or file discovery operations are delegated by an information management service in a network to external computing resources. The external computing resource performs discovery operations to discover objects in the network, which may include discovering every object in the network, or discovering only new, changed, and/or deleted objects in the network. Discovery information identifying the discovered objects is reported back to the information management service. The information management service uses the discovery information to perform information management, including classification of discovered objects into categories, mapping categories to service level objectives that include one or more services, and orchestrating execution of the one or more services. Optionally, the information management service can delegate classification, service level management, and/or orchestration of services to one or more additional external computing resources.
US08868714B2
Known network management systems for managing traffic signals in a network store node/link parameter signals and traffic parameter signals and calculate solutions defining intermediate nodes/links situated between sources and destinations for transporting said traffic signals from said sources to said destinations via said intermediate nodes/links and calculate route information per solution. By storing node/link parameter signals and traffic parameter signals for several situations (like several predictions in the future) and calculating solutions for each situation and then selecting a solution per situation, the network management system will manage the network more advantageously, especially when solutions are compared with each other, and when a solution is selected per situation in dependence of comparison results (comprising similarities/differences between solutions of different situations). Said route information may comprise link load parameters and/or resource consumption parameters and/or fairness parameters and/or throughput parameters.
US08868710B2
Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage virtual network interface objects. A system may include resource instances and a network interface virtualization coordinator. Responsive to a record creation request, the coordinator creates an interface records that may include an IP address, subnet information and security properties. The coordinator may, in response to a request to attach the record to a resource instance, enable traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the resource instance. In response to a subsequent detach request, the traffic to the IP address may be disabled at the resource instance. The same interface record may be attached to another resource instance in response to another attach request, enabling traffic directed to the IP address to flow to the second resource instance.
US08868703B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for controlling sensor networks. A sensor network has a plurality of sensor nodes, which have sensors for monitoring operational parameters of devices within an application-specific system. A wireless communication module is provided for each node to enable the node to wirelessly communicate with other nodes of the network. A user defines various scripts for controlling the behavior of one or more nodes, and the network distributes the scripts, as appropriate, to various nodes thereby implementing the behavior defined by the scripts. Accordingly, a user can easily and dynamically configure or re-configure the behavior of any node without having to physically access the node that is being configured or re-configured.
US08868692B1
Systems and methods include receiving an indication of a hardware or software configuration of a client device. Content associated with a downloadable application is identified by matching installation requirements for the application to the hardware or software configuration of the device.
US08868688B2
Technologies are generally described for outputting content from multiple devices. In some examples, a method includes receiving content from a first content output device at a processor. In some examples, the method further includes recording at least a portion of the content by the processor. In some examples, the method further includes determining an identifier of the content by the processor based on the portion. In some examples, the method further includes determining a source of the content by the processor based on the identifier. In some examples, the method further includes requesting that the content be sent from the source to a second content output device.
US08868686B1
A method for storing data in an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) is disclosed. The method comprises: i) selecting a first user and a second user, which are not aliases; ii) analyzing first and second data sets associated with the first and second users respectively to identify common data elements in each of the first and second data sets, the first and second data sets being useable by a first application server within the IMS to satisfy service requests on behalf of the first and second users; iii) creating a data structure containing a single instance of the identified common data elements; and iv) storing the data structure in a home subscriber server (HSS) within the IMS.
US08868671B2
Disclosed is a method of selecting a master device for coexistence, the method comprising: identifying devices to be used in at least one network capable of coexisting without cooperation; selecting a master device among the identified devices; and controlling, by the master device, other network and device.
US08868667B2
A computing device receives instructions, from a user, to send an email message and determines if the email message includes an attachment. When the email message does not include an attachment, the computing device conducts a scan of text of the email message for implications that an attachment should be included. When the email message includes an attachment, the computing device conducts a scan of the email text for implications of a particular type of attachment. The computing device provides, to the user, a notification when there is a positive result from the scan of the email text for implications that an attachment should be included or from the scan of the email text for implications of a particular type of attachment.
US08868666B1
A media aggregator device includes a plurality of interfaces, at least one of which may be configured to couple to a local network and at least one processor coupled to the plurality of interfaces. The processor may be operable to access a first device coupled to the local network and catalog media content stored on the first device; access a second device and catalog media content stored on the second device; populate a media aggregator database with references to the media content cataloged in the first and second devices, and present contents of the populated media aggregator database to a client device to enable the client device to access any of the media content referred to in the media aggregator database, subject to appropriate access rights.
US08868662B2
Tracking content shared over a network is described. Content with a mailing identifier and a recipient identifier can be transmitted to a recipient. The mailing identifier and the content can be associated with the recipient identifier. A request from the recipient to provide an application with access to the content can be received. The request can include the mailing identifier and the recipient identifier. A web page can be generated. The web page can include the content and can be associated with a second recipient identifier and a link. The request and the second recipient identifier can be associated with the recipient identifier using a forward identifier. A request to access the web page by a recipient friend using the link and the application can be received. The request to access can be associated with the recipient identifier. Reports can be generated and outputted.
US08868661B2
A method includes receiving a message, determining at least one of a message importance level or a message delivery alert level based on one or more message characteristics associated with the message and generating metadata that indicates the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level with the message. The method further includes transmitting the message and the metadata toward a destination, receiving the message with the metadata, and providing notification and user interface indication corresponding to the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level or a storing of the message in an inbox folder corresponding to the at least one of the message importance level or the message delivery alert level.
US08868657B2
A method and apparatus for generating a collaboration timeline which illustrates application artifacts in context. A collaboration session includes a plurality of participants. Each participant collaborates via a corresponding processing device. Media streams associated with the plurality of participants are received during the collaboration session and a collaboration media stream based on the media streams is generated. A collaboration application generates an artifact during the collaboration session. A timeline entry is generated in a collaboration timeline, the timeline entry including time information identifying a time associated with the artifact, and a reference to the artifact.
US08868656B2
A pervasive realtime framework supports the execution of realtime software applications with high-level functions that significantly reduce the effort and time needed to develop realtime software applications in a new operating environment paradigm in which realtime connections between network nodes are pervasive. The pervasive realtime framework handles the complex tasks of connecting to communicants, virtual areas, and other network resources, as well as switching those connections in response to user inputs and thereby enables software application developers to focus on developing high-level realtime software application functionality.
US08868651B2
Populating users of a web community into groups. The users may be assigned to, or otherwise associated with, one or more groups in response to an event associated with the user, with another user, with a group, or other type of event. The users may also be removed from a group in response to an event. The population of users into groups can be controlled by a configurable set of rules. These rules can include criteria for associating a user with, or removing a user from, a group in response to an event. The criteria can include criteria based on user information and criteria based on group information. The users may be related to one another in a hierarchical structure.
US08868642B2
A local computing device determines that multiple mouse modes are supported by both the local computing device and a remote computing device with which the local computing device is connected. The mouse modes are connection protocols for a cursor connection, the connection protocols identifying when to send cursor messages between the local computing device and the remote computing device as well as what types of information to include in the cursor messages. The local computing device detects one or more parameters of the connection between the local computing device and the remote computing device. When the one or more parameters satisfy a first criterion, the local computing device sets a first mouse mode for a cursor connection between the local computing device and the remote computing device. When the one or more parameters fail to satisfy the first criterion, the local computing device sets a second mouse mode for the cursor connection.
US08868634B2
A method and apparatus are described for performing multiplication in a processor to generate a product. In one embodiment, a 64-bit multiplier and a 64-bit multiplicand may be multiplied together over four cycles by merging different partial product (PP) subsets, generated by a Booth encoder and a PP generator, with feedback sum and carry results. The logic inputs of a plurality of multiplexers may be selected on a cyclical basis to efficiently compress (i.e., merge) each PP subset with feedback sum and carry results. A pair of preliminary sum results stored during one cycle may be outputted during a subsequent cycle and processed by a logic gate (e.g., an XOR gate) to generate a feedback sum result that is merged with a feedback carry result and a PP subset. Final sum and carry results may be added to generate the product of the multiplier and the multiplicand.
US08868632B2
Methods and apparatus for predicting an underflow condition associated with a floating-point multiply-add operation are disclosed. An example apparatus obtains a first operand value and a second operand value. The example apparatus then determines if the second operand value subtracted from the first operand value is greater than a minimum value and determines if the first operand value is greater than a sum value associated with a minimum operand value. The example apparatus then asserts an output signal indicative of an absence of an underflow condition associated with a floating-point value based on conditions associated with determining whether the second operand value subtracted from the first operand value is greater than the minimum value and determining if the first operand value is greater than the sum value.
US08868629B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for communicating parameter of an inverter, the apparatus being connected to a plurality of inverters for communication, includes a communication unit for communicating with the inverter to transmit and receive parameter of the inverter; and a controller for storing parameter of the inverter in at least one of a storage address corresponding to an inherent identification number of the inverter, a user terminal and an external storage device according to an inputted command signal, or transferring parameter of the inverter to be transmitted, to the communication unit and then to at least one of the inverter, the user terminal and the external storage device.
US08868621B2
The Computer-implemented system, method or computer program that creates a data table of rows and columns from an HTML Web page or document independent of the HTML markup tags. Data embedded in the HTML is identified using clustering of text and extracted into a data table. The generation of data tables can be performed in real-time and is not subject to problems with malformed or poorly created HTML.
US08868612B1
Performing a user initiated search query is disclosed and comprises receiving user input comprising description details of at least one desired object, retrieving a plurality of objects from a database sharing one or more of the description details of the user input, constructing a tree data structure based on the description details of the plurality of objects, the tree data structure comprising one or more attributes related to each of the plurality of objects retrieved, displaying visual images associated with the retrieved plurality of objects, the visual images matching at least one of the attributes related to the plurality of objects, and receiving a user selection of one or more of the visual images.
US08868611B2
The present application is directed to a data management system. The data management system is implemented within a computer system that includes one or more processors, one or more electronic memories, and a memory-mapped file facility that electronically stores data. The data management system, implemented by data management system control routines that are executed by the one or more processors, retrieves a particular projection of a multi-level, multi-dimension data set stored within the ONP-tree data structure that contains the multi-level, multi-dimension data set.
US08868609B2
Tagging methods and apparatus, including computer program products, based on a structured data set. Classification models are created for respective nodes in the structured data set of an event. Public opinions on the event are acquired. The opinions are tagged to corresponding nodes of the structured data set using the created classification models. The tagging methods and apparatus provide well-ordered, focused public opinions for each event to users, and exhibit the evolution of the public opinions along with time.
US08868607B2
Methods and systems for monitoring privileged user access of a database using a computer having at least one processor are provided. The system monitors database transactions. If a transaction is made by a privileged user, the system records information relating to the transaction in an audit database and/or in an audit file. If a transaction is made by a terminated or otherwise unauthorized privileged user, the system can be adapted to alert management of a possible security breach.
US08868606B2
A lease system is described herein that allows clients to request a lease to a remote file, wherein the lease permits access to the file across multiple applications using multiple handles without extra round trips to a server. When multiple applications on the same client (or multiple components of the same application) request access to the same file, the client specifies the same lease identifier to the server for each open request or may handle the request from the cache based on the existing lease. Because the server identifies the client's cache at the client level rather than the individual file request level, the client receives fewer break notifications and is able to cache remote files in more circumstances. Thus, by providing the ability to cache data in more circumstances common with modern applications, the lease system reduces bandwidth, improves server scalability, and provides faster access to data.
US08868605B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for sharing tenant information utilizing a multi-tenant on-demand database service can allow automatic sharing of information owned by a first tenant with other tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service. In this way, collaboration among tenants of the multi-tenant on-demand database service may be enabled via the sharing of the tenant information.
US08868604B2
Disclosed is an improved approach for performing lock management. A semi-distributed Lock Management (SDLM) system is provided utilizing RDMA and an acyclic time-dependent dependency graph that can lead to higher system performance while maintaining higher flexibility and autonomy for each process at each compute node in the given cluster, in particular for distributed database applications.
US08868602B2
A database manager comprises: a detector detecting a connection of an external database which comprises media files, a database file system comprising a media identifier comprising a file or directory path name and an identification on the location of the media file on the external database, and metadata for each of the media files; a database synchronizer reading and storing, as a first step, part of the database file system and, as a second step, part of the metadata when the at least a portion of the database file system is read; and a search request processor processing a search request for a media file in parallel with the second step, wherein the search request processor provides a search result based on the media identifier from the database file system, even when the metadata for the media file is not yet read and stored in the second step.
US08868593B1
Described are techniques for performing a content view search. A hierarchical structure of content views is provided. The content views are registered with an application framework. Query terms are received. The application framework determines nodes in the hierarchical structure having an associated keyword matching the query terms, determines a first list of node identifiers identifying the nodes in the hierarchical structure matching the one or more query terms, and determines a second list of descriptions corresponding to node identifiers of the first list. The second list of descriptions is displayed. Responsive to a selection of a first description from the second list, a first node identifier is determined that corresponds to the selected first description. A first content view for the first node identifier is displayed.
US08868590B1
A method and system for developing a computer-executable query relating to a search request issued by a user includes determining whether a search term of the search request has a user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association based on an analysis of electronic content associated with the user and/or an analysis of interactions of the user with electronic content that is accessible to the user through one or more computing devices. If the search term has a user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association, the method and system can incorporate the user-specific meaning, connotation, context, or association into the search request and/or the computer-executable query.
US08868589B2
A method of transforming and canonicalizing semantically structured data includes obtaining data from a network of computers, applying text patterns to the obtained data and placing the data in a first data file, providing a second data file containing the obtained data in a uniform format, and generating interface specific sentences from the data in the second data file.
US08868582B2
In an aspect there is provided a method. The method may include providing, at a repository, storage for a plurality of tenants, providing a plurality of layers, and providing a plurality of versions; and separating, based on the plurality of layers and the plurality of versions, data for each of the plurality of tenants, wherein during runtime one of the plurality of tenants corresponds to the plurality of layers and one of the plurality of versions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08868579B2
The present invention is a method and system for searching for items on a computer network, such as the internet, based on a query and an exclusion specification comprising a specification of a characteristic of sources of the items, to create a list of identifiers of items relevant to the query that are not excluded by the exclusion specification. Such characteristics include measures of popularity of the sources of the items so that items from sources having popularity greater than the specified popularity may be excluded from the list.
US08868578B2
Source entities with initially predefined properties for service modeling are presented in a library for user selection as service modeling entities. An automated computer process expediter copies user selected ones of the source entities from the library into a computer readable storage medium providing a services layer. The copying generates instances in the services layer of the selected service modeling source entities, such that the services layer instances at least initially include the initially predefined properties of their respective source entities. The automated computer process expediter maintains the properties of the selected ones of the source entities, including maintaining the selected source entities' properties independently of changes made in a first change mode to the properties of the service modeling entity instances, which are in the services layer, so that the user may change the properties of the layer service modeling instances.
US08868572B2
In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method. The system and method includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information for the item by comparing the information to other item information for the category of items, weighting the information for the commercial item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the commercial item of interest, and presenting the information of the commercial item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.
US08868561B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for improved electronic discovery and custodian management. Embodiments herein disclosed provide for an enterprise wide e-discovery system that provides for data to be identified, located, retrieved, preserved, searched, reviewed and produced in an efficient and cost-effective manner across the entire enterprise system. In addition, by structuring management of e-discovery based on case/matter, custodian and data and providing for linkage between the same, further efficiencies are realized in terms of identifying, locating and retrieving data and leveraging results of previous e-discoveries with current requests.
US08868559B2
Systems and methods for indexing a representative document from a set of duplicate documents are disclosed. Disclosed systems and methods comprise selecting a first document in a plurality of documents on the basis that the first document is associated with a query independent score. Each respective document in the plurality of documents has a fingerprint that indicates that the respective document has substantially identical content to every other document in the plurality of documents. Disclosed systems and methods further comprise indexing, in accordance with the query independent score, the first document thereby producing an indexed first document. With respect to the plurality of documents, only the indexed first document is included in a document index.
US08868555B2
A MMR system for newspaper publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and sends it to one or more of the recognition units to identify a result including a document, the page and the location on the page. The MMR system also includes a quality predictor as a plug-in installed on the mobile device to filter images before they are included as part of a retrieval request or as part of the MMR matching unit. The quality predictor comprises an input for receiving recognition algorithm information, a vector calculator, a score generator and a scoring module. The quality predictor receives as inputs an image query, context information and device parameters, and generates an outputs a recognizability score. The present invention also includes a method for generating robustness features.
US08868551B2
In one embodiment, a search query is received. Information identifying a bookmark representing the search query is automatically stored in association with a set of bookmarks. Search results corresponding to the search query are automatically obtained and provided, where the search results identify one or more documents. When one of the documents is selected, a link to the selected one of the documents is automatically stored in association with the bookmark.
US08868548B2
Methods, systems and program products for identifying user intent from query patterns including, in one implementation, a method including identifying a current query including a query term, and obtaining search results responsive to the current query. Each search result identifying a document associated with a score indicating relevance. The method includes associating an intent with the session based on submission of a query containing a refining term, where each refining term was previously submitted with different unique queries. The method includes identifying prior sessions, where each prior session includes a query that matches the current query, and each prior session includes a query that contains the refining term. The method includes identifying a document selected more frequently in the prior sessions than by a general population and modifying the scores of the document in the search results. The method also includes ranking the search results based on the scores.
US08868545B2
Techniques for optimizing outer joins in database operations are provided. In an embodiment, a query having an outer join with a GROUP BY clause is rewritten and expanded to expand a first level partition of that GROUP BY clause to produce a modified query. In another situation, rows associated with processing a query are each row split and then hashed based at least in part on attributes of the outer join predicate. A left outer join is performed and a global aggregation processed to produce a spooled table to process the query.
US08868538B2
An information presentation system that identifies information of interest to a user based on identifying tasks that may be relevant to the user given the user's current context. The user may be presented with an option to select from among relevant tasks and/or goals of completing the task. For each selected task and goal, the system may generate one or more sets of items that are relevant to completing the task. The user may be presented with the option to select from among the sets of items or to navigate among the sets of items. Such a system may be used to provide an easy-to-use interface on a portable computing device to support shopping applications.
US08868531B2
In one embodiment, non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions for implementing a file system, which include operations for acquiring an exclusive lock on a first node in an ordered tree data-structure, and adding an identifier and index of the first node to a path data structure. If the value of the index in the first node is non-zero, then each exclusive lock acquired between the first node and the root of the tree data structure is released. In any case, the operation proceeds to a second node, which is addressed at the index on the first node. In one embodiment, operations further include acquiring an exclusive lock on the second node, and, if the second node is a leaf node, performing updates to the second node, and then releasing each exclusive lock in the data-structure.
US08868526B2
Documents and search terms may be received for which an index that supports both incremental document indexing and incremental term indexing is to be generated. From this information, an index may be generated, partitioned in a first dimension by documents to create master segments and in a second dimension by search terms to create slave segments. A request to update the index to include a new document or a new search term may be received. The new document or new search term may be added to the index without modifying the entire index. Further, document identifiers may be synchronized across all segments. Synchronization refers to maintaining consistency of document identifiers across segments, despite renumbering of document identifiers during certain operations such as merging segments.
US08868525B2
Processing a prepared update is disclosed. A prepared update associated with a request that has been used by the sender to update a local version of a data associated with the sender is received from a sender. Based at least in part on an identifier included in the prepared update, a selected data handler is selected among a plurality of data handlers. The selected data handler is used to update a centralized version of the data at least in part by using the received prepared update. The centralized version of the data has been previously updated using a plurality of prepared updates received from a plurality of senders. The updated centralized version of the data is sent to update the local version of the data associated with the sender.
US08868524B2
A method of merging different versions of a file within a software development system can include, within a first window, presenting a graphic object which indicates a difference between a base version of the file and at least one contributor version of the file. Responsive to a pointing device being located within a defined area surrounding the graphic object, the method can include displaying a floating window having a first section and at least a second section. The first section can include a portion of the base version and the second section can include a portion of the at least one contributor version, wherein the first and second sections of the floating window are selectable. The method also can include receiving a selection of one of the sections of the floating window and accepting the base version or the at least one contributor version according to the selection.
US08868513B1
A disaster recovery system, including a target datastore for replicating data written to source datastores, and a checkpoint engine (i) for transmitting, at multiple times, quiesce commands to a plurality of host computers, each quiesce command including a timeout period that is adjusted at each of the multiple times, (ii) for determining, at each of the multiple times, whether acknowledgements indicating that a host has successfully stopped writing enterprise data to the source datastores, have been received from each of the host computers within the timeout period, (iii) for marking, at each of the multiple times, a cross-host checkpoint in the target datastore and reducing the timeout period for the quiesce commands at the next time, if the determining is affirmative, and (iv) for increasing, at each of the multiple times, the timeout period for the quiesce commands transmitted at the next time, if the determining is not affirmative.
US08868510B2
System, method, computer program product embodiments and combinations and sub-combinations thereof for managing data storage as an in-memory database in a database management system (DBMS) are provided. In an embodiment, a specialized database type is provided as a parameter of a native DBMS command. A database hosted entirely in-memory of the DBMS is formed when the specialized database type is specified.
US08868502B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing data according to permissions. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of identifying a version of a data item to be stored; determining permissions associated with the version of the data item; and storing the version of the data item at a storage location that is based on the determined permissions.
US08868492B2
A method and system is provided for reducing delay to applications connected to a database server that guarantees no data loss during failure or disaster. After storing a log record persistently in a local primary log, the log writer returns control to the application which continues running concurrently with the database server sending the session's log records to a standby database. A separate back channel is used by the standby to communicate, out-of-band to the primary, the location of the last log record stored persistently to the standby log. An application waiting for a transaction to commit may wait until the transaction's commit record has been persisted. Also described is a technique for reducing application delay when there is contention between nodes of a multi-node cluster for updating the same block. The technique provides for an asynchronous ping protocol that guarantees zero data loss during failure or disaster.
US08868487B2
Approaches for processing an event in an objects store, such as an MySQL database management system or a memcached caching system, that are maintained on one or more solid state devices. A plurality of threads may be instantiated. Each of the threads may be configured to retrieve items from a queue of items. Each item in the queue of items may be associated with a particular event occurring within the object store. Each event is a message that indicates an activity requiring work has occurred within the object store. When a particular thread retrieves an item from the queue of items, the particular thread processes the particular event associated with the item retrieved by the particular thread. In this way, event handling in object stores such as MySQL and memcached may be performed more efficiently on a solid state device.
US08868486B2
A time-sensitive cube data system is disclosed in which time-sensitive and/or time-series data objects are output in response to a user's operations on a time-sensitive OLAP cube. The time-sensitive and/or time-series data objects output by the time-sensitive cube data system may be displayed to the user in any way that may be advantageous to the user's understanding. The time-series objects output by the time-sensitive cube data system are more helpful than a single snapshot, as a user is able to see data trends over time.
US08868485B2
Techniques are disclosed for cost modeling in a data flow model. In one embodiment, a data flow model is provided that includes multiple data flow objects, each data flow object including one or more data units. Each data flow object represents a respective information asset. Quality and cost components are assigned to each data unit of a first data flow object. A cost property is determined for each data unit of the first data flow object, based on the assigned components. An object cost property is also determined for the first data flow object. The determined cost properties may be used to identify information assets that are more cost-effective to upgrade, relative to other information assets.
US08868475B2
The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for manipulating soft data in a data processing system.
US08868473B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with decision making with analytically combined split conditions are provided. In one embodiment, a method for classifying data is provided. An input data sample is received for classification as belonging to one of two possible classes. The input data sample includes a set of attribute values. The method includes evaluating the set of attribute values with a tree function that defines a decision boundary of a classification tree. The tree function classifies an input data sample as belonging to one of the two possible classes based, at least in part, on the attribute values of the input data sample. In another embodiment parameters of the tree function are derived by applying a gradient descent parameter update rule to the training data samples.
US08868471B1
Embodiments of systems and methods can determine evaluations of the quality of task results provided by judges. Certain embodiments can determine the quality evaluations with relatively little overlap of judges (e.g., two or three judges). The quality evaluations may include determining an error rate or a confidence index for a judge or for a particular judgment made by the judge. Certain embodiments may determine the quality evaluations by intercomparing judging results from multiple judges without requiring human intervention, comparison to evaluation data known (or assumed) to be accurate, or input from an external judge review panel. In some implementations, task results can be combined with a confidence score (based at least in part on the quality evaluation of the judge who provided the task result), and this information can be used as training data to improve performance of machine learning algorithms.
US08868467B2
Methods, systems, computer data signals, recordable media and methods of doing business for wireless or wired network communication between network resources each having a unique telephone number associated therewith, including, among other feature, forming a primary number file (PNF) comprising a uniform telephone address (UTA) which has a telephone number associated with a network resource.User-friendly and seamless payment procedure is provided wherein payer or payee only need to know accordingly the payee or payer UTA number to allow transaction and seamless payment routing between payer and payee bank accounts. Unified approach is allowed wherein financial institution also are networking Targets having UTA numbers assigned for them and the financial institution can receive Fund Transfer Agreement or Deal Agreement from networking Targets, authenticate payer using particular Target UTA and apply the payment from this particular UTA bank account.Internet Settlement Architecture provides unique implementation of a clearing routes ranging by using cost command for EEP; and the ranging in turn allows the routing management by using cost and time user preferences, thus allowing operational cost management implementation for financial institutions and their respective customers using cost tracing command. On-line, multi-tier and multi-route clearing infrastructure and payment services provide seamless and transparent payment cost and payment routing management, enabling End-to-End payment Straight Through Processing (STP). Network specific identifiers (such as UTA, ZUTA and others) and the network specific software user interfaces (phone user interface and only numeric keyboards) may be used to navigate and manage the Internet Settlement Infrastructure enabling seamless payment addressing and clearing. Users are enabled to address payments without a need to know payee's banking details and payment routing information providing End-to-End account details resolution and Straight Through Processing for payment clearing services. Payment processing is diverted into online communication. Extensive use of the PKI trusted sources enables trusted financial account mappings allowing secure payment and clearing environment. The use of Attribute Certificates containing only payer network address mapped to its DCF network address allows filling in the DNS system database with the trusted mapping information avoiding the need to disclose the real banking details of the payee to a public. The use of existing DNS technology for resolution of trusted mapping information allows seamless gathering of banking routing information enabling on-line straight through processing.
US08868466B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods that facilitate the transfer rights associated with spectrum between parties. Access to spectrum for wireless communications may be transferred from a spectrum holder to a spectrum user while minimizing their role in submitting regulatory agency compliance filings. As a result, parties may transfer spectrum with relative ease, with faster transaction time and lower expense. This leads to more efficient use of the spectrum.
US08868462B2
A method for conducting PIN authorized EMV payments using an ordinary mobile phone. The credit card payment is conducted using a merchant's device comprising a card reader and a mobile phone a payment server and a buyer's mobile phone. A PIN entry request is sent from the merchant's device to the buyer's device via the payment server. A secure application in the buyer's device is executed and a PIN code may be entered securely. The entered PIN code is either verified, via the payment server, against the credit card in said merchant's device or against a bank server. Thus, secure credit card payments can be performed using an ordinary unsecure mobile device's.
US08868442B1
Methods for competitive pricing are implemented in software for commerce in an electronic marketplace. A vendor may identify rivals: competitors against which the vendor most directly competes by dint of having similar reputation and market positioning. Using specified pricing models applied to filtered price data periodically gathered by spider-crawling competitors on the Internet, a vendor may adjust product prices to match rivals while accounting for overall marketplace price trends.
US08868441B2
A change to a goal specified for an IT environment is to be made. Responsive to the changed goal, the IT environment is changed. This change is performed non-disruptively. Further, during the change, management to the existing goal is continued.
US08868438B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for automating the work order and specification processes for engineering projects. All documentation is generated, saved, and retrievable over the web according to an identifier. The application is accessible through the user's web browser and is thus available to authorized users irrespective of physical location. The method also consolidates two traditionally separate work order and specification processes.
US08868431B2
A recognition dictionary creation device identifies the language of a reading of an inputted text which is a target to be registered and adds a reading with phonemes in the language identified thereby to the target text to be registered, and also converts the reading of the target text to be registered from the phonemes in the language identified thereby to phonemes in a language to be recognized which is handled in voice recognition to create a recognition dictionary in which the converted reading of the target text to be registered is registered.
US08868428B2
A method, computer program product, and system are provided for performing a voice command on a client device. The method can include translating, using a first speech recognizer located on the client device, an audio stream of a voice command to a first machine-readable voice command and generating a first query result using the first machine-readable voice command to query a client database. In addition, the audio stream can be transmitted to a remote server device that translates the audio stream to a second machine-readable voice command using a second speech recognizer. Further, the method can include receiving a second query result from the remote server device, where the second query result is generated by the remote server device using the second machine-readable voice command and displaying the first query result and the second query result on the client device.
US08868425B2
A system and method for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources, e.g., functions and arguments, between network-connected servers and devices and their corresponding applications. In one aspect, a system for providing automatic and coordinated sharing of conversational resources includes a network having a first and second network device, the first and second network device each comprising a set of conversational resources, a dialog manager for managing a conversation and executing calls requesting a conversational service, and a communication stack for communicating messages over the network using conversational protocols, wherein the conversational protocols establish coordinated network communication between the dialog managers of the first and second network device to automatically share the set of conversational resources of the first and second network device, when necessary, to perform their respective requested conversational service.
US08868419B2
A text content summary is created from speech content. A focus more signal is issued by a user while receiving the speech content. The focus more signal is associated with a time window, and the time window is associated with a part of the speech content. It is determined whether to use the part of the speech content associated with the time window to generate a text content summary based on a number of the focus more signals that are associated with the time window. The user may express relative significance to different portions of speech content, so as to generate a personal text content summary.
US08868411B2
Despite many practical limitations imposed by mobile device platforms and application execution environments, vocal musical performances may be captured and continuously pitch-corrected for mixing and rendering with backing tracks in ways that create compelling user experiences. In some cases, the vocal performances of individual users are captured on mobile devices in the context of a karaoke-style presentation of lyrics in correspondence with audible renderings of a backing track. Such performances can be pitch-corrected in real-time at a portable computing device (such as a mobile phone, personal digital assistant, laptop computer, notebook computer, pad-type computer or netbook) in accord with pitch correction settings. In some cases, pitch correction settings include a score-coded melody and/or harmonies supplied with, or for association with, the lyrics and backing tracks. Harmonies notes or chords may be coded as explicit targets or relative to the score coded melody or even actual pitches sounded by a vocalist, if desired.
US08868407B2
A referring expression processor which uses a probabilistic model and in which referring expressions including descriptive, anaphoric and deictic expressions are understood and generated in the course of dialogue is provided. The referring expression processor according to the present invention includes: a referring expression processing section which performs at least one of understanding and generation of referring expressions using a probabilistic model constructed with a referring expression Bayesian network, each referring expression Bayesian network representing relationships between a reference domain (D) which is a set of possible referents, a referent (X) in the reference domain, a concept (C) concerning the referent and a word (W) which represents the concept; and a memory which stores data necessary for constructing the referring expression Bayesian network.
US08868404B1
A system, method, and computer-program product providing a customer-centric model of translation memory management including use of relevancy in an on-demand multi-tenant environment, and enabling selective multi-tenant searches for pre-existing translations.
US08868395B2
In a fast simulation technique, the output node of a power supply module of the integrated circuit can be designated as an ideal power node. At this point, the power supply module can be designated a fan-in block and any blocks connected to the power node can be designated fan-out blocks. Then, DC initialization and transient simulation for each time step can be performed for the circuit. During the transient simulation, any inter-relationship of the fan-out blocks can be determined and a sensitivity model can be calculated for each fan-out block. Because the power node is designated as an ideal power node, the results of the sensitivity model for each fan-out block can be added asynchronously to a total loadings of the power node. The total loadings can be loaded into a matrix, which is computed for the fan-in block, and a simulation waveform point can be output.
US08868394B2
A method for computer-aided simulation of operating parameters of a technical system including a plurality of modules which each contain one or more components is provided. Failure events with associated downtimes for each component are simulated in a predetermined operating period using a first probability distribution for the moment of failure of the components and a second probability distribution for the length of the failure of the components, and a third probability distribution for a degree of reliability of the modules is determined. Based upon the probability distributions for the degrees of reliability of the modules, operating parameters of the technical system are simulated for the predetermined operating period. The method is used for any technical facilities, in particular for energy generation facilities.
US08868393B2
Methods for generating a normalized expression signal for microarray data based on a theoretical distribution at the unit level to produce a normalized expression signal for the single microarray that is independent of other microarrays. The method typically includes receiving microarray data representing a plurality of probe pairs for a single microarray, determining, for each probe pair, differences between intensities of perfect match (PM) probes and intensities of mismatched (MM) probes, determining a difference signal, D, based on the determined differences, and scaling the difference signal, D, to produce an expression signal, DS. The method also typically includes normalizing the expression signal based on a theoretical distribution at the unit level to produce a normalized expression signal for the single microarray that is independent of other microarrays.
US08868392B2
Method for predicting the effect of microbes injected into an oil-bearing reservoir which is capable of being represented by a first computer-generated grid including a first plurality of grid blocks. Measurement data representing the effect of injecting the microbes into a multiple coreflood apparatus is received. The multiple coreflood apparatus has material samples indicative of a rock formation associated with the oil-bearing reservoir, the samples being capable of being represented by a second computer-generated grid having a second plurality of grid blocks, the samples being representative of different regions of the reservoir and being connected such that microbes injected into the first sample are able to flow to the second sample. Data received is input into a computer-implemented reservoir model which simulates the effect of microbe injected in relation to the second grid. The reservoir model generates data indicating the effect of injecting the microbes into the multiple coreflood apparatus.
US08868372B2
A position detecting system having a predicting unit for calculating a moving amount by which a detected object is predicted to move between a first time and a second time after a predetermined time from the first time, and for predicting at least one of a position and a direction of the detected object at the second time, and a control unit for controlling a position detecting unit based on the at least one of the position and the direction of the detected object at the second time predicted by the predicting unit.
US08868371B2
A method for determining test sets of operating parameter values for an electronic component, the method including: determining a first set of intermediate sets, each intermediate set containing a combination of a first number of operating parameters of the electronic component; determining a second set of reference sets, wherein the second set contains a union of sets, each set comprising all possible combinations of parameter values for the parameters of a respective intermediate set; selecting a third set with a second number of test sets out of a set of predefined sets, wherein each predefined set comprises a different combination of the parameter values for all parameters from the predefined parameter set, such that the second set is a subset of a union of a number of sets, each set comprising all possible combinations of the first number of parameter values for all parameters of a respective test set.
US08868370B2
The present invention is a sample analyzing system, including a sample analyzer and a management apparatus connected to the sample analyzer via a communication network. The management apparatus includes: a first memory that stores a computer program for the sample analyzer and manual data which corresponds to a version of the computer program; a first communication device; and a first controller configured to transmit, via the first communication device to the sample analyzer, the computer program and the manual data corresponding to the version of the computer program stored in the first memory. The sample analyzer includes: a second communication device; a second memory that stores the computer program and the manual data received by the second communication device; and a second controller configured to execute the computer program stored in the second memory.
US08868367B2
A method of compensating the measurement errors of a measuring machine deriving from the deformations of a machine bed of the machine caused by the load exerted by a mobile unit of the machine on said machine bed, said method being characterized by comprising a first acquisition step in which first data regarding the constraint conditions of a workpiece on the machine bed are acquired, a second acquisition step in which second data regarding the deformation of the machine bed as the position of the mobile unit of the machine varies are acquired, and a third calculation step in which correction values depending upon said first and second data are calculated.
US08868365B2
A system and a method of generating an external parameter value for a separately excited motor controller are disclosed, the system including: a digital signal processor to convert a received analog electrical signal into a digital signal and to scale the digital signal, so as to generate a parameter value in conformity with a data format of the system; an external parameter generating module to adjust the parameter value with a calibration coefficient to obtain the external parameter value; the calibration coefficient being generated by a calibration coefficient generating module and being pre-stored in a calibration coefficient storing module; and a calibration coefficient generating module to read the parameter value generated by the digital signal processor and obtain an actual measuring value as a reference parameter value, to calculate a difference value between the parameter value from the digital signal processor and the reference parameter value, and to generate the calibration coefficient from a ratio of the reference parameter value to the parameter value obtained from the digital signal processor if the difference value exceeds a preset value.
US08868355B2
An apparatus and method is provided for monitoring a condition of a structure using a passive wireless antenna sensor having a known resonant frequency when mounted on the structure. A series of radio frequency signals are transmitted with sweeping frequencies around the known resonant frequency to the passive wireless antenna sensor. The passive wireless antenna sensor includes a dielectric substrate disposed between an antenna pattern and a ground plane such that a change in the condition of the structure will cause a change in one or more characteristics of the passive wireless sensor. A signal is received from the passive wireless antenna sensor and a resonant frequency of the passive wireless antenna sensor is determined based on the received signal. The determined resonant frequency is then compared to the known resonant frequency, whereby a change in the resonant frequency indicates a change in the condition of the structure.
US08868351B2
This disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for estimating a volume of tissue directly influenced (VTDI) by optogenetic stimulation. The systems and methods can also enable a user to quantitatively predict the spread of stimulation (e.g., action potential) resulting from optical stimulation in a patient's tissue.
US08868350B2
A method of predicting serum phosphorus concentrations in a patient during hemodialysis includes measuring serum phosphorus concentrations of the patient over a hemodialysis treatment session time and an ultrafiltration rate calculated by a difference between pre- and post-dialytic body weight of the patient during an initial hemodialysis treatment session divided by a total treatment time of the treatment session and estimating a phosphorous mobilization clearance and a pre-dialysis distribution volume of phosphorus for the patient. Serum phosphorus concentrations of the patient can then be predicted at any time during any hemodialysis treatment session with the estimated phosphorous mobilization clearance and pre-dialysis distribution volume of phosphorus of the patient.
US08868348B2
A well constrained transverse variable height-velocity curve constructing method for seismic wave velocity field construction involves the steps of: a) calculating interval velocity of each stratum by a sonic logging curve, and calculating the conversion horizon velocity of each horizon; b) drawing a circle to collect well points; c) calculating the characteristic parameter values of the height-velocity curve by the interval velocity and the conversion interval velocity of each well; d) calculating the characteristic parameter values by Kriging interpolation.
US08868347B2
A method and computer-readable medium for determining a scattered wave particle velocity for a formation is disclosed. In aspects, the method may include: defining an embedded grid of the formation, and defining a contrast grid of the formation that includes a contrast feature of the formation; calculating a Green's function over the embedded grid; calculating a first scattering vector of the contrast feature for a first offset between the embedded grid and the contrast grid; determining the scattered wave particle velocity for the contrast feature at the first offset using the calculated Green's function and the first scattering vector; calculating a second scattering vector of the contrast feature for a second offset between the embedded grid and the contrast grid; and determining the scattered wave particle velocity for the contrast feature at the second offset is determined using the calculated Green's function and the second scattering vector.
US08868343B1
Techniques for locating places of lodging along a route and for displaying information relating to the places of lodging are described. A plurality of search points on a route are selected according to various selection techniques. Performance of a plurality of point searches is caused, where each point search of the plurality of point searches is associated with a respective search point of the plurality of search points and is a search for places of lodging near the respective search point. Search result information relating to at least some point searches of the plurality of point searches is displayed in association with route information relating to the route.
US08868337B2
Vehicle navigation systems and methods for presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of presenting information originating from a mobile device on a vehicle navigation system display of a vehicle includes receiving, by a vehicle navigation system, application data from an application operating on the mobile device, wherein the application data from the application represents an entity in proximity to the vehicle. The method further includes displaying an icon representing the application data from the application on a map presented on the vehicle navigation system display. The icon is positioned on the map according to a geographic location of the entity.
US08868328B1
A method comprising computer receiving at least one of time and location-referenced state data for an object of interest, determining present location of a vehicle within two presently overlapping fat paths, fat paths comprising homotopically distinct regions of travel, determining distance of vehicle from a point of divergence of fat paths, fat paths diverging to avoid object, the computer generating a decision boundary reachable prior in time to point of divergence wherein decision boundary is in advance of the present location of vehicle, computer generating a first second set of feasible headings for the vehicle, the first and second set respectively associated with a projected first and second crossing points of the decision boundary by vehicle wherein feasible headings promote positioning of vehicle in one of fat paths beyond point of divergence, and computer sending first and second sets of feasible headings to vehicle prior to vehicle reaching decision boundary.
US08868323B2
A method for collaborative navigation between two or more platforms is provided. The method comprises establishing a communication link between a first platform and a second platform, making a sensor measurement from the first platform, updating state and covariance elements of the first platform, and transmitting the updated state and covariance elements from the first platform to the second platform. A conditional update is performed on the second platform to compute a new estimate of state and covariance elements on the second platform, which takes into account the measurement from the first platform. The method further comprises making a sensor measurement from the second platform, updating state and covariance elements of the second platform, and transmitting the updated state and covariance elements from the second platform to the first platform. A conditional update is performed on the first platform to compute a new estimate of state and covariance elements on the first platform, which takes into account the measurement from the second platform.
US08868322B2
An airspace complexity reducing system is provided. The airspace complexity reducing system has a data storage device including data describing a multivariable model of an airspace complexity, the airspace complexity being a cumulative effect of factors that influence a system user's ability to manage aircraft in an associated airspace. The airspace complexity reducing system also has a selecting module configured to select a variable from a plurality of variables of the multivariable model and determine an amount by which to modify the selected variable to achieve a predetermined airspace complexity value. In addition, the airspace complexity reducing system has a suggestion module configured to determine a modification to the airspace that results in the determined variable modification and transmit the determined course of action to the system user.
US08868318B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine using externally supplied ignition, having a manually operable transmission, in which a torque produced by the internal combustion engine is able to be influenced via at least one control variable. An impending shifting process of the manual transmission and/or another operating situation of the internal combustion engine, during which a temporary lowering of the torque produced by the internal combustion engine is required and/or desired, is detected, and, as a function of the detection, the torque is lowered by changing at least one control variable of a fuel path.
US08868316B2
In a valve timing control apparatus configured to execute phase-control via a phase converter, a controller is configured to control a phase angle of a camshaft relative to a crankshaft during an engine stopping period to a target phase angle differing from a required phase angle suited for an engine operating condition. The controller is further configured to change the phase angle of the camshaft toward the required phase angle during a time period from a point of time when cranking starts to a point of time when detection of a rotational position of the camshaft initiates during an engine restarting period. The controller is still further configured to start feedback-control for the phase angle of the camshaft from the point of time of initiation of detection of the rotational position of the camshaft for bringing the phase angle of the camshaft closer to the required phase angle.
US08868314B2
By employing a heat source control section that controls the operating state of an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle, a necessary heat calculating section that calculates the engine coolant temperature needed by a heater core, which consumes the heat supplied from the engine through engine coolant water, and the time at which this engine coolant temperature becomes necessary, a heat supply estimating section that estimates engine coolant temperature at the aforementioned time in a case in which the engine is operated continuously in the current operating state, and a heat generation increase requesting section that requests the heat source control section to increase heat generation quantity of the engine when the engine coolant temperature estimated by the heat supply estimating section is less than the engine coolant temperature calculated by the necessary heat calculating section, the heat necessary for the heater core is supplied more efficiently and adequately.
US08868311B2
A method of controlling braking in an adaptive cruise control (ACC) of a vehicle. The method includes determining that braking is needed, including determining an amount of braking force needed, providing an indication to the brake system that braking is needed, filling the brake system with brake fluid at a predetermined rate to reduce pump noise, setting a delay equal to the amount of time needed to fill the brake system with fluid, applying a brake pad to a brake disc at the amount of braking force needed after waiting the delay, comparing the amount of braking force needed to the amount of braking force actually occurring, and reducing the delay to zero when the amount of braking force needed is less than or equal to the amount of braking force actually occurring.
US08868307B2
A shift control method of an automatic transmission may include detecting an end point of an inertia section during upshifting, momentarily reducing a hydraulic pressure applied to engagement side frictional elements at the detected end point of the inertia section, increasing the reduced hydraulic pressure with a predetermined gradient until reaching a synchronization point, and momentarily increasing the hydraulic pressure when the synchronization point may be reached.
US08868305B2
An apparatus for parking control of an automatic transmission vehicle may include a speed detector that provides a controller with a vehicle speed, a shift lever detector that provides the controller with a position of a shift lever, the controller that analyses the vehicle speed and the position of the shift lever, and supplies a predetermined hydraulic pressure to brake elements and clutch elements in order to create drag on a parking gear shaft in conversion into a parking mode, and an actuator that supplies the hydraulic pressure to the clutch elements and the brake elements or discharges the hydraulic pressure from the clutch elements and the brake elements according to the control of the controller.
US08868302B2
A control system is disclosed for use with a mobile loading machine operating at a first location and a plurality of mobile haul machines configured to move material received at the first location to a second location. The control system may have a plurality of control modules, each associated with one of the mobile loading machine and the plurality of mobile haul machines, and a worksite controller. The worksite controller may be configured to make a determination that a position of the mobile loading machine has changed, and to generate a new travel path for the plurality of mobile haul machines based on the determination. The worksite controller may also be configured to selectively communicate the new travel path to each of the plurality of control modules. The new travel path between the first and second locations may be automatically determined in accordance with at least one user-selected goal.
US08868301B2
A system and method for controlling a work machine system having a work machine and work tool. Operational characteristics of both the work machine and work tool are configured by a machine controller based upon the type of work tool attached to the work machine, the operating environment of the work machine, and the location of work site personnel or other observers relative to the machine or work tool. The operational characteristics of both the work machine and work tool may then be automatically altered during operation of the work machine system to limit or expand functions of the work machine system in response to changes in the operational environment or movement of personnel or observers relative to the work machine system.
US08868299B2
In a method and a device (12) for automatically actuating a closing element (1) of a vehicle (10), the closing element is actuated when a movement of an object corresponding to a predefined movement profile is registered in an area surrounding the vehicle and when at the same time a vehicle key assigned to the vehicle is registered. In this case, it is firstly possible for the movement of the object in the area around the vehicle (10) to be monitored by the interaction between a capacitive sensor (5) and an optical sensor (4, 7), or for the movement profile first to have an approach to the vehicle (10) and a subsequent movement away from the vehicle (10), so that the closing element (1) is only actuated after the movement away from the vehicle (10).
US08868288B2
Exception event recorders and analysis systems include: vehicle mounted sensors arranged as a vehicle event recorder to capture both discrete and non-discrete data; a discretization facility; a database; and an analysis server all coupled together as a computer network. Motor vehicles with video cameras and onboard diagnostic systems capture data when the vehicle is involved in a crash or other anomaly (an ‘event’). In station where interpretation of non-discrete data is rendered, i.e. a discretization facility, captured data is used as a basis for production of supplemental discrete data to further characterize the event. Such interpreted data is joined to captured data and inserted into a database in a structure which is searchable and which supports logical or mathematical analysis by automated machines. A coupled analysis server is arranged to test stored data for prescribed conditions and upon finding such, to initiate further actions appropriate for the detected condition.
US08868285B2
A wireless diagnostic module includes a connection port connected to a connector provided in a first appliance; a first signal transceiving unit to transceive a signal corresponding to a first communication protocol by making communication with the first appliance connected through the connection port; a signal converting unit to convert the signal corresponding to the first communication protocol transmitted through the first signal transceiving unit into a signal corresponding to a second communication protocol; and a second signal transceiving unit to transmit the signal corresponding to the second communication protocol, which is converted through the signal converting unit, to a second appliance, wherein the first communication protocol comprises at least one of ISO, KWP, PWM, CAN and VWP supported by the connector provided in the first appliance, and the second communication protocol comprises a wireless communication protocol for wireless communication between the first and second appliances.
US08868283B2
An oil-life monitoring system includes an engine revolution counter configured to provide an output corresponding to the rotation of a component of an engine, and a controller in communication with the engine revolution counter. The controller is configured to determine the composition/properties of a fuel being combusted by the engine, and select a fuel quality penalty factor from a table, with the fuel quality penalty factor corresponding to the determined composition/properties of the fuel. Additionally, the controller is configured to compute an adjusted revolution count by multiplying the rotations of the component of the engine by the fuel quality penalty factor, and aggregate the adjusted revolution count.
US08868281B2
Methods and systems are provided for assessing understeer for a vehicle having at least one rear wheel and at least one front wheel. Rear wheel speeds are measured from the rear wheels, and front wheel speeds are measured for the front wheels. A determination is made as to the understeer of the vehicle using a comparison of the front wheel speeds and the rear wheel speeds.
US08868268B2
System and method for navigating an unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) using three-dimensional acoustic reflectivity data sets and a beam steered downward looking sonar capturing sub-bottom features and creating three-dimensional representations to compare with the reflectivity data sets to general navigation corrections. Acoustically senses and exploits sub-bottom features for navigation of UUVs that can provide more reliable navigation than using surface features alone, since much of the sea floor is flat (e.g. on continental shelves and abyssal plains).
US08868267B2
The present disclosure is directed to a distributed control system for a locomotive. The distributed system may include a network and a plurality of electronic modules distributed within a locomotive. The plurality of electronic modules are communicatively coupled to the network in a standardized scalable architecture and implementing distributed control of the locomotive. A first electronic module of the plurality of electronic modules may include a first configurable controller and a memory that stores a configuration file received via the network. The first configurable controller may be reconfigurable based on the configuration file stored in the memory.
US08868252B2
A microprocessor driven two dimensional search engine examines transmission operating points within a plurality of search range spaces and assists in determining properties associated with the driveline at various operating points within the space. The size of the space is reduced by rearrangement of data.
US08868251B2
A hot water supply system including a water heater that includes a storage unit storing at least device information of another water heater, and performs hot water supply control by which the water heater cooperates with the other water heater, these water heaters being able to supply hot water according to a hot water supply request; one or a plurality of the other water heater that is connected to the water heater in parallel, and supplies hot water according to the hot water supply control by the water heater; communication connection means that communicably connects the water heater and the other water heater; water supply means that supplies water to the water heater and the other water heater; and hot water supply means that supplies hot water heated by the water heater and the other water heater to a hot water supply destination.
US08868233B2
A control apparatus in a substrate treating system with a substrate treating apparatus having a physical load port for receiving pods for storing substrates, and a carrier transport system for transporting the pods to and from the physical load port. The control apparatus includes a virtual load port control device for allotting a virtual load port to the physical load port, and instructing the carrier transport system to perform a transporting operation to and from the virtual load port on an assumption that the virtual load port really exists.
US08868228B2
When a numerical controller executes a tool-center-point control in which a path of a tool center point with respect to a workpiece is instructed, and the workpiece is machined along the instructed path based on a speed instruction, the numerical controller sets the speed instruction so that the speed instruction is a synthesis speed with respect to a synthesis distance of a relative moving distance between the workpiece and a tool center point and a tool-direction changing distance due to a relative change in a tool direction with respect to the workpiece by a rotary axis. The numerical controller interpolates a position of a linear axis and a position of a rotary axis by the tool-center-point control according to the synthesis speed and drives the linear axis and the rotary axis to the position of the linear axis and the position of the rotary axis created by the interpolation.
US08868221B1
A feed forward system includes an input device configured to receive a desired response of the mechanical system and a trainable system configured to generate a feed forward signal that drives the mechanical system based on the desired response. The trainable system is trained based on a plurality of measured responses of the mechanical system.
US08868207B2
An implantable electrical stimulation lead includes a plurality of conductors that extend along a lead body and that electrically couple electrodes to terminals. A first tissue coupler is electrically coupled to a first conductor of the plurality of conductors. The first tissue coupler includes a conductive first inner member, a non-conductive member disposed adjacent to at least a portion of the first inner member, and a conductive outer member disposed adjacent to at least a portion of the non-conductive member such that at least a portion of the non-conductive member is sandwiched between the first inner member and the outer member. The first inner member is electrically coupled to the first conductor. The outer member is disposed along a portion of an outer surface of the lead body such that the conductive outer member is exposed to patient tissue when the lead is implanted in a patient.
US08868197B2
A system for an neurostimulator coupled to electrodes. The system comprises a input device configured for generating directional control signals, and memory storing ideal multipole configurations. The system further comprises control circuitry configured for defining the ideal multipole configurations relative to the electrodes in response to the directional control signals, determining a spatial relationship between at least one of the defined ideal multipole configurations and the maximum extent of the electrodes, modifying the defined ideal multipole configurations based on the determined spatial relationship, such that the modified ideal multipole configurations are spatially within the maximum extent of the electrodes, generating stimulation parameter sets respectively corresponding to the modified ideal multipole configurations, each stimulation parameter set defining relative amplitude values for the electrodes that emulate the respective modified ideal multipole configuration, and instructing the neurostimulator to convey electrical energy to the electrodes in accordance with the stimulation parameter sets.
US08868192B2
Selective high-frequency spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, high-frequency modulation in the range of from about 1.5 KHz to about 50 KHz may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address low back pain without creating unwanted sensory and/or motor side effects. In other embodiments, modulation in accordance with similar parameters can be applied to other spinal or peripheral locations to address other indications.
US08868187B2
Systems and methods for determining depth of discharge for implantable device batteries are provided. One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for determining depth of discharge for a battery in an implantable medical device. Voltage recovery of the battery is measured subsequent to a predetermined event. Measured voltage recovery data is stored in a database adapted to store data for one or more devices. Measured voltage recovery data is compared with stored voltage recovery data to determine battery depth of discharge. According to various embodiments, battery capacity consumed is measured using a coulometer and using a capacity-by-voltage device. Measured battery capacity consumed is combined with measured voltage recovery data using a predetermined weighted average, and the combined data is stored in the database. The stored data is used to determine battery depth of discharge, according to an embodiment.
US08868184B2
A set of cardiogenic impedance signals are detected along different sensing vectors passing through the heart of the patient, particularly vectors passing through the ventricular myocardium. A measure of mechanical dyssynchrony is detected based on differences, if any, among the cardiogenic impedance signals detected along the different vectors. In particular, differences in peak magnitude delay times, peak velocity delay times, peak magnitudes, and waveform integrals of the cardiogenic impedance signals are quantified and compared to detect abnormally contracting segments, if any, within the heart of the patient. Warnings are generated upon detection of any significant increase in mechanical dyssynchrony. Diagnostic information is recorded for clinical review. Pacing therapies such as cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) can be activated or controlled in response to mechanical dyssynchrony to improve the hemodynamic output of the heart.
US08868181B2
An implantable cardiac electrostimulator includes an atrial sensing channel generating an atrial sense event signal upon detection of atrial activity, a ventricular sensing channel generating a ventricular sense event signal upon detection of ventricular activity, a VES detector detecting ventricular extrasystoles, atrial and ventricular stimulation pulse generators, and a stimulation control unit. The stimulation control unit determines scheduled delivery times of atrial stimulation pulses (T(A)) and/or ventricular stimulation pulses (T(V)), and triggers delivery if no atrial sense event signal arises before the end of an atrial escape interval (VAI) timing out at T(A), or if no ventricular sense event signal arises before the end of a ventricular escape interval (VEI) timing out at T(V). T(A) and T(V) depend upon detection of a ventricular extrasystole, and proper atrioventricular synchrony is maintained by setting a physiologically adequate A-V-delay between T(A) and T(V).
US08868176B2
An apparatus for treating the brain, comprises a first fluid delivery device including a distal end sized and shaped for placement at a first target site between a dura mater and a pia mater of the brain, the first fluid delivery device including a first fluid lumen extending to a first outlet port in the distal end to deliver fluids to a first target location and a first microelectrode mounted within the distal end of the first fluid delivery device for movement between an insertion position in which a first distal tip of the first microelectrode is received within the first fluid delivery device and a deployed position in which the first microelectrode extends out of the first fluid delivery device with the first distal tip thereof penetrating the pia mater to a first electrode target position in the cerebral cortex.
US08868173B2
Various embodiments concern sensing a LFP signal from one or more electrodes, measuring the amplitude of the signals over a period of time, and calculating a plurality of variance values from the amplitude, wherein each of the variance values correspond to the variance of the amplitude for a different interval of time of the period of time with respect to the other variance values. Such embodiments may further include assessing the relative level of neural activation of an area of the brain based on the variance values, wherein the area of the brain is assessed to have a relatively higher level of neural activation when the variance is relatively higher and the area of the brain is assessed to have a relatively lower level of neural activation when the variance is relatively lower.
US08868155B2
A system for the imaging, processing and evaluation of tissues provides prognostic and diagnostic details regarding diseased tissue. A set of quantitative measures were developed and integrated in an image-base analysis software tool designed for OCT images. The system and methods in this invention is significant because it allows assessing the optical properties and structure morphology differences between normal healthy subjects and diabetic patients with retinopathy up to ETDRS level 35 and without retinopathy.
US08868148B2
A physiological monitoring system may process a physiological signal such a photoplethysmograph signal from a subject. The system may determine physiological information, such as a physiological rate, from the physiological signal. The system may use search techniques and qualification techniques to determine one or more initialization parameters. The initialization parameters may be used to calculate and qualify a physiological rate. The system may use signal conditioning to reduce noise in the physiological signal and to improve the determination of physiological information. The system may use qualification techniques to confirm determined physiological parameters. The system may also use autocorrelation techniques, cross-correlation techniques, fast start techniques, and/or reference waveforms when processing the physiological signal.
US08868145B2
A portable computing device includes a radio frequency (RF) wired link, a core module, and a plurality of multi-mode RF units. When one or more of the multi-mode RF units are supporting a high-speed data communication, the core module is operable to detect a blocker that is adversely affecting the high-speed data communication. The core module is further operable to determine whether a radiation pattern alternative for the high-speed data communication will reduce the adverse affects on the high-speed data communication. When the radiation pattern alternative for the high-speed data communication will reduce the adverse affects on the high-speed data communication, the core module is further operable to enable the radiation pattern alternative. The one or more multi-mode RF units are operable to adjust at least one of transmission and reception of the high-speed data communication in accordance with the radiation pattern alternative.
