US09307579B2
A transparent window (1) has an electrically heatable coating, which extends over a substantial part of the area of the window (1), in particular over its viewing area (A). In addition, the coating is electrically connected to at least two mutually opposite low-impedance bus bars in such a way that, after an electrical feed voltage has been applied to the bus bars, a current flows between them over a heating area (21) formed by the coating. In this arrangement, there is between the bus bars and the heating area (21) at least one at least partially light-transmitting transitional region (15), the effective surface resistance of which is lower than the surface resistance of the coating. In order to obtain a transitional region (15) having the visual appearance of a band filter, it is proposed that the surface resistance in the at least one transitional region (15) increases in the direction from the assigned bus bar to the heating area (21).
US09307563B2
Evolved packet core less direct mode communication system and communication attaching method thereof
An evolved packet core less direct-mode communication system and a communication attaching method thereof are provided. The evolved packet core less direct-mode communication system comprises a client direct-mode communication apparatus and a server direct-mode communication apparatus. The server direct-mode communication apparatus transmits a synchronization signal to the client direct-mode communication apparatus. The client direct-mode communication apparatus synchronizes to the server direct-mode communication apparatus according to the synchronization signal and establishes a communication connection with the evolved packet core less direct-mode communication system after synchronization.
US09307561B2
An evolved node B receives a random access preamble from a mobile device and determines if utilization exceeds a threshold. Upon determining utilization exceeds the threshold, the eNodeB sends a random access response including a backoff indicator and a modified uplink grant indicating that the mobile device can override the backoff indicator if the connection request is part of a voice over long term evolution call.
US09307558B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for transmitting data in a listen before talk (LBT) wireless transmission regime. A digital radio receiver is configured to simultaneously receive and decode digital data transmissions from multiple radio channels. A digital radio transmitter is configured to listen to the multiple radio channels prior to transmitting digital data on a selected one of the multiple channels, based on locally determined channel occupancy. Optimal LBT efficiency is achieved within the set of multiple channels, thereby improving overall transmission efficiency between the transmitter and the receiver.
US09307557B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting a data frame using channel bonding in a wireless local area network in which high throughput (HT) stations and legacy systems coexist. The method includes adding a legacy format physical layer header including information, which indicates that a medium is being used while a frame exchange sequence is performed with respect to the HT format data frame, to the HT format data frame, transmitting the HT format data frame with the physical layer header by using channel bonding, and broadcasting the legacy format CF-End frame through a plurality of channels used in the channel bonding. Accordingly, after a frame exchange sequence is completed, the legacy stations which use channels used in the channel bonding can participate in a fair contention for medium access.
US09307550B2
Device-to-device (D2D) communication is one alternative to communication between devices through a radio access network. One interesting D2D communication method is reuse-mode D2D, where D2D nodes communicate with each other using the same uplink (UL) radio resource that is being used by some other cellular user equipment(s) (UEs). In other words, the UL cellular resources occupied by cellular UEs are reused by D2D nodes in their short-range communications. Centralized control of D2D communication can be performed by appropriate signaling between a D2D-capable UE and an evolved Node B (eNB).
US09307544B2
Apparatuses and methodologies are described that enhance performance in a wireless communication system using beamforming transmissions. According to one aspect, the channel quality is monitored. Channel quality indicators can be used to select a scheduling technique, such as space division multiplexing (SDM), multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmission and opportunistic beamforming for one or more user devices. In addition, the CQI can be used to determine the appropriate beam assignment or to update the beam pattern.
US09307542B2
The present invention provides a unified, rank independent mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs. Each antenna port is uniquely associated with one code division multiplexing (CDM) group and one orthogonal cover code (OCC). The mapping between antenna ports and group/code pairs is chosen such that, for a given antenna port, the CDM group and OCC will be the same for every transmission rank.
US09307541B1
A wireless station (STA) and a method are disclosed that allow the STA to determine suitable characteristics for wireless transmissions from the STA. The STA may receive frames from a number of access points (APs), each frame including a country code indicating a country in which the corresponding AP is located, determine a popularity of each country code by polling the received country codes, determine in which country the STA is currently located based, at least in part, on the determined popularities of the country codes, and select a wireless channel and a transmit power level based, at least in part, on the determined country.
US09307540B2
A method and apparatus for radio resource management in a wireless device is provided. A type of data connection to be established between the wireless device and a network is determined. A radio resource capability mode for the data connection based on resource requirements of the determined type of data connection is dynamically determined wherein the radio resource capability mode is selected from a plurality of radio resource capability modes operable by the wireless device within wireless technologies supported by the network. The determined radio resource capability mode is conveyed to the network during connection establishment between the wireless device and the network, wherein the radio resource capability mode is used by the network to determine radio resources to be allocated to the wireless device for the connection.
US09307537B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for allocating multiple subscriptions to a single mobile terminal thereby allowing concurrent termination of multiple calls at the mobile terminal are provided. A mobile terminal adapted to terminate multiple concurrent calls is described. In one implementation, a network need not have any configuration data regarding the multi-line capabilities of the mobile terminal. In other implementations, network-centric mechanisms are provided for allowing multiple concurrent calls to be terminated by a mobile terminal. Multiple concurrent calls may be terminated at a mobile terminal on separate carrier frequencies or alternatively may be terminated on a common carrier frequency.
US09307529B2
A method is described for receiving a physical signal by a communication apparatus in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation of a first component carrier and a second component carrier. The communication apparatus receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) signal on the first component carrier. The communication apparatus also receives a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) signal corresponding to the PDCCH signal on the second component carrier. The first component carrier is different from the second component carrier. A starting orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for receiving the PDSCH signal is determined according to information received via a radio resource control (RRC) signal.
US09307525B2
In the present invention, when a user equipment (UE) transmits ACK/NACK information of multiple CCs to a base station (BS), ACK/NACK responses of one CC detected in the order of [ACK, ACK, ACK, ACK], and other ACK/NACK responses of the CC detected in the order of [ACK, DTX, DTX, DTX] are treated to be the same. According to the present invention, control information can be effectively transmitted in a wireless system.
US09307524B2
The present invention relates to a method for communicating from a primary station to a plurality of secondary station, comprising the step of at the primary station allocating a resource to the secondary stations over the time on the basis of a hash function, wherein the hash function is such that the probability that two secondary stations are allocated common resources in two subframes substantially equals the product of the probability that the two secondary stations are allocated a common resource in the first subframe and the probability that the two secondary stations are allocated a common resource in the second subframe.
US09307514B1
In general, the subject matter described in this specification is embodied in methods, systems, and program products for identifying a location of a mobile computing device. A first location estimate of a mobile computing device and an accuracy of the first location estimate is determined at a mobile computing device based on wireless signals received from one or more beacons. A time period based on the accuracy of the first location estimate is determined. One or more subsequent location estimates of the mobile computing device and respective accuracies are determined. The determination of the subsequent location estimates is stopped at an end of the time period. A preferred location estimate from the determined location estimates is determined at the mobile computing device.
US09307509B1
Disclosed is a simulcast approach to broadcasting a message from each device, or node, of a network. A source device, such as a wall switch, may broadcast a message that may be received by a plurality of devices, such as light bulbs, in a network. Each of the plurality of devices may receive the message at substantially the same time. In response to the message, the receiving devices may determine if the message is to be retransmitted. If the message is to be retransmitted, it may generate a modified message. Each of the plurality of devices may transmit the modified message substantially simultaneously. To maintain timing to the source device between the devices in the network, the message may be configured to facilitate synchronization of the clocks to a timing signal in the message.
US09307505B2
A system, method and device for adjusting a communication parameter for a network communicating with a communication device are provided. The method comprises: monitoring for a condition relating to a first network that has been in communication with the communication device; and determining whether an adjustment is to be implemented on a communication parameter of a second communication network that has been in communication with the communication device based on the condition and if so, implementing the adjustment to the communication parameter for the second communication network.
US09307504B2
A power control scheme for an enhanced Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is disclosed. In a first embodiment, when an uplink grant is configured for accumulation commands, the wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) combines the accumulation commands received in both the scheduling grant and the transmit power control physical downlink control channel. In a second embodiment, when an uplink grant is configured for absolute commands, the WTRU resets the accumulation control function immediately after receiving each absolute transmit power control command and then combines the absolute power control with the accumulation power control.
US09307501B2
A user equipment includes a plurality of antennas to receive downlink signals from a base station, a plurality of receiver circuits each coupled to a respective one of the plurality of antennas to process the received downlink signals, an SIR estimation unit to estimate a quality of the received downlink signals, a power loop controller to generate transmit power control commands based on the estimated quality of the received downlink signals, the transmit power control commands being directed to the base station to adjust a power of the downlink signals and a diversity controller to selectively activate and deactivate one or more of the receiver circuits depending on the estimated quality of the received downlink signals.
US09307487B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication are provided. In an embodiment, a method of wireless communication includes receiving, at an access point, a probe request, decoding the probe request to determine shared wireless device state information, storing the shared wireless device state information for at least a timeout period, transmitting a probe response indicating the timeout period; and receiving an association request omitting the wireless device state information within the timeout period.
US09307483B2
Methods, devices, and computer program products for transmitting and receiving discovery and paging messages are described herein. In one aspect, an apparatus operable in a wireless communication system includes a receiver and transmitter. The receiver receives a registration packet from a first device. The registration packet indicates interest in a service provided by another device in a wireless communications network. The receiver further receives a discovery packet from a second device during a first discovery interval of a plurality of discovery intervals. The discovery packet advertises a service provided by the second device, and the plurality of discovery intervals include recurring time intervals when a plurality of devices are configured to transmit and receive discovery packets in the wireless communications network. The transmitter transmits a notification packet configured to enable the first device and the second device to communicate directly.
US09307480B2
A mobile communication system includes a control device and a base station device. Data communication between the control device and the base station device is conducted using a fixed-length data size and a variable-length data size. The control device transmits information indicating whether a data size of the data communication has a fixed length or a variable length. The base station device receives the information from the control device.
US09307478B2
The present invention provides a method and system for controlling access of a terminal device to a wireless network. The method includes: receiving, by an access point device, a first wireless network access request message sent by a first terminal device; receiving, by the access point device, feedback information of one or more directional devices within a predetermined area; judging, by the access point device according to the received feedback information, whether N directional devices within the predetermined area all find the first wireless network access request message by monitoring; and if yes, enabling the first terminal device to access the wireless network, where the N is the number of the directional devices within the predetermined area.
US09307475B2
Appropriate “idle mode cell reselection” is achieved by changing a threshold used to perform “idle mode cell reselection” between a case of performing RSRQ measurement in six resource blocks and a case of performing “Wideband RSRQ measurement.” A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of causing a radio base station eNB or a radio network controller RNC to broadcast not only existing parameters used to perform cell reselection processing based on a result of the RSRQ measurement in six resource blocks, but also wideband parameters used to perform “idle mode cell reselection” based on a measurement result of “Wideband RSRQ measurement.”
US09307474B1
In systems and method of frequency band selection, a mobility and an application requirement of an application running on a wireless device are determined for a wireless device in communication with an access node over a first frequency band using a first radio access technology. When it is detecting that a signal level of the first frequency band meets a handover criteria, a message is sent to the wireless device comprising information of a second frequency band and a third frequency band, wherein the second and third frequency bands use a second radio access technology. The wireless device is instructed to communicate with the access node using one of the second and third frequency bands based on the determined mobility and application requirement.
US09307469B2
A method is provided for bi-casting real time data packets in a mobile system that includes a first Node-B and a second Node-B for communication with a user equipment. The method includes associating a first sequence number with a first real time data packet when sending the first real time data packet to the first Node-B and transmitting the first real time data packet associated with the first sequence number to the first Node-B. The method also includes associating a second sequence number with a second real time data packet when sending the first real time data packet to the second Node-B. wherein the second sequence number is different from the first sequence number and transmitting the first real time data packet associated with the second sequence number to the second Node-B.
US09307466B2
A telecommunications device is operable to perform in-call handoff between a cellular network and a packet-switched network. The telecommunications device includes interfaces connecting the telecommunications device with a circuit-switched network and a packet-switched network. The telecommunications device is operable to receive a request from a multi-mode device to handoff an existing call over a cellular network to the packet-switched network. The existing call is between the multi-mode device and a remote party and was established without the telecommunications device. In response to receiving the request, the telecommunications device establishes a first call leg in the packet-switched network with the multi-mode device. The multi-mode device sends a transfer signal to a call server in the cellular network requesting the transfer of the on-going voice session from itself to the telecommunication device. A second call leg is setup between the telecommunication device and a remote party. The telecommunication device helps to bridge the first call and second call leg, and then the multi-mode device can continue the voice session in packet switched network.
US09307458B1
Controlling reverse-direction neighbor reports based on the characteristics of queued bearer traffic
A wireless communication device (WCD) may determine that the WCD has bearer traffic queued for transmission to a radio access network (RAN). The WCD may be configured to transmit the bearer traffic and neighbor reports over a reverse-direction channel of the RAN. The neighbor reports may contain information related to wireless coverage areas. One or more characteristics of the bearer traffic may also be determined. Based on the one or more characteristics of the bearer traffic, the neighbor reports may be scheduled to be transmitted over the reverse-direction channel at a particular rate. The WCD may transmit the neighbor reports over the reverse-direction channel at the particular rate.
US09307454B2
Techniques for maintaining location continuity for a user equipment (UE) following handover are described. The UE communicates with a first radio access network (RAN) and is served by a source serving node and a source location server prior to handover. The UE communicates with a second RAN and is served by a target serving node and a target location server after the handover. In an aspect, location continuity may be maintained for the UE by transferring an identity of the target serving node to a location server during handover of the UE. In one design, the target serving node sends its identity to the target location server, which updates a Location and Routing Function (LRF) serving the UE. In another design, for handover from packet-switched domain to circuit-switched domain, the source serving node sends the target serving node identity to the source location server, which updates the LRF.
US09307451B1
Methods and arrangements for according access of a mobile device to an enterprise network. the presence of a mobile device relative to an enterprise network is detected, the enterprise network including a plurality of defined zones, wherein each zone is associated with a security level and with one or more resources. An agent of the mobile device is negotiated with to accord access to at least one of the defined zones. The negotiating includes: assessing at least one security constraint relative to the mobile device; and thereupon designating at least one zone to be accessible to the mobile device. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09307441B1
In systems and methods of transferring information to a wireless device, a first portion of information is received and stored in a memory of the wireless device, and the first portion is presented while a second portion of the information is received. A presentation rate at which the first portion is presented is determined, and a time until the first portion is completely presented is determined based on the presentation rate and a size of the first portion. A number of times that a packet retransmission criteria is met is determined, and a maximum permitted number of packet retransmissions is adjusted based on the time until the first portion is completely presented and the number of times that the packet retransmission criteria is met.
US09307437B2
Disclosed are a method for measuring a cell in a wireless access system and a device therefor. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a pattern for reference signal received power (RSRP)/reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement; measuring a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) from a plurality of subframes included in the pattern for the RSRP/RSRQ measurement; extracting almost blank subframes (ABSs) from the plurality of subframes included in the pattern for the RSRP/RSRQ measurement by using the measured RSSI; and measuring the RSRP/RSRQ from the plurality of subframes included in the pattern for the RSRP/RSRQ measurement in consideration of the extracted ABSs.
US09307431B2
Rank indicator and channel quality indicator (CQI) estimation and reporting functionalities are discussed with regard to heterogeneous networks to reduce the number of inconsistent CQI estimates transmitted to an evolved node B (eNB), where the CQI is defined as inconsistent when the rank indicator, on which the CQI is conditioned, is from a different subframe type than the subframe on which the CQI is to be estimated.
US09307427B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving packet communication in a broadcast D2D communication system. In an example, a communications device is equipped to receive a first packet during a first timeslot from a broadcast transmitter, measure a power level of a NACK received during the first timeslot, receive the first packet during a second timeslot, and determine whether to transmit the first packet during the second timeslot based on the measured power level of the NACK. In such an aspect in which the communications device determines that the measured power level of the NACK is above a threshold power level, the communications device may act as a relay and transmit the first packet during the second timeslot.
US09307418B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example method comprises determining, with a processor, whether a device is communicatively coupled to a WiFi network, the WiFi network identified by a Service Set Identifier. Whether proxy settings are configured on the device in association with the WiFi network is identified. Registration information is transmitted from the device to a registrar if the proxy settings are not configured, the registration information comprising a classification of the WiFi network and the Service Set Identifier. The proxy settings of the WiFi network are configured based on instructions received from the registrar, the instructions to cause the device to transmit network communications using the proxy settings when communicatively coupled to the WiFi network.
US09307415B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating a downlink synchronization group utilized during a discontinuous transmission in an unlicensed band. A method and apparatus may determine a carrier(s) providing a signal(s) enabling timing and frequency tracking a downlink carrier(s) within a downlink synchronization group to devices responsive to discontinuous transmission via a medium(s) of an unlicensed band on a secondary component carrier. The medium(s) previously utilized to provide content to a device(s). The method and apparatus may also provide an indication of the carrier(s) to the device notifying the device that information of the signal is receivable via the carrier on the unlicensed band. The method and apparatus may also send the signal(s) to the device via the carrier enabling the device to obtain timing and frequency information.
US09307407B1
User generated and processed Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) or fingerprint signal is used for authentication of a mobile device. A touch screen generated processed control signal is used for control of mobile device operated in a cellular system and a Wi-Fi network. The mobile device receives, demodulates and processes a location finder signal and provides processed location finder signal to an interface unit of mobile device. From a cellular base station the mobile device receives, demodulates and processes a modulated spread spectrum signal into a received, demodulated and processed baseband spread spectrum signal and processes, modulates and transmits in cascade the processed spread spectrum signal in a Wi-Fi system. The mobile device operates in a repeater mode. In one of the embodiments the spread spectrum signal uses a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulated signal and the Wi-Fi system uses OFDM modulated signal. The mobile device comprises step of processing a video signal into baseband in-phase and a quadrature-phase cross-correlated spread spectrum or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) signal. The video TDMA signal is modulated and transmitted as a Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) modulated signal in said cellular system and wherein said video signal comprises a three dimensional (3D) image.
US09307405B2
An agent device is registered in a first device registry maintained by a first registry apparatus for authenticating agent devices for communicating with application providing apparatuses. The agent device can be assigned to a second device registry maintained by second registry apparatus. The method of assignment comprises the first registry apparatus receiving from a requestor device a device assignment request. In response to the device assignment request, the first registry apparatus checks whether the agent device is allowed to be assigned to the second device registry, and if so, the agent device transmits second authentication information for authenticating the identity of the agent device to the second registry apparatus which registers this in the second device registry.
US09307403B2
A reader device may generate a first identifier. The reader device may transmit the first identifier to a mobile device. The reader device may receive encrypted data and unencrypted data from the mobile device in which the encrypted data includes a second identifier. The reader device may evaluate whether the first identifier and the second identifier correspond to one another.
US09307402B2
A method of protecting an identity of a mobile station in a communications network is provided, where the communications network includes an access node and a gateway node. The method includes receiving a first mobile station identifier value at the access node, storing the first value in the access node, receiving a second mobile station identifier value, correlating the second identifier value with the first identifier value in the access node, sending the first and second identifier values from the access node to the gateway node over an interface, storing the first identifier value and the second identifier value in the gateway node, and correlating the second identifier value with the first identifier value in the gateway node.
US09307401B2
Embodiments of the present invention include methods and arrangements to detect an end-to-end call on a AMR-WB capable network involving at least one monitored identity. According to an embodiment of the invention, call events related to the at least one monitored identity through at least one intercepting control element in a telecommunication network is monitored. A start notification message by the at least one intercepting control element is delivered whenever an AMR-WB codec is chosen in the telecommunication network as a selected codec for an end-to-end call between the at least one monitored identity and another identity.
US09307400B1
A mobile communication device. The device comprises a memory and a processor. The device further comprises an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor at initial set-up of the mobile communication device, responsive to no existing dynamic portion of the animation for the network brand identity, downloads the dynamic portion of the animation from a server through an internet protocol (IP) address link stored in the memory, wherein the dynamic portion is in the form of scalable vector graphics (SVG) and comprises vector transformation information of changing portions of the animation from frame to frame, wherein the dynamic portion of the animation comprises network brand specific objects of the animation and configuration parameters to change the background of the static portion based on the network brand identity of the mobile communication device.
US09307394B2
Access terminals capable of employing multiple subscriptions are adapted to prevent out-of-service periods for one or more subscriptions. According to one example, an access terminal can establish a data communication on a first subscription utilizing a first network, and an idle mode connection on a second subscription utilizing a second network. A determination can be made that the first subscription is indicating data transfer. In response to such a determination, the second subscription can attempt a change from a radio access technology associated with the second network to a different radio access technology. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US09307389B2
Disclosed is a method for mobility management of group terminals, where a mobility management platform sends a request for calling a service to a terminal of a group, and determines a terminal responding to the request for calling the service as a service center of the service; and the service center of the service configures a terminal environment according to the request for calling the service to which the service center of the service responds, and uploads information on the configured terminal environment to the mobility management platform. Also disclosed are a system and equipments for mobility management of group terminals. With a solution of the disclosure, in the case of multiple services, it is possible to select, from different terminals, a terminal as a service center according to the service, thereby avoiding a ping-pong effect, increasing utilization efficiency of network resources, enhancing optimal user experience of QoS, and meeting a management requirement in parallel transmission of multiple service flows in a ubiquitous network.
US09307388B2
Methods are provided for supporting mobility of a UE in a system without an HeNB GW. An S1 setup request message is sent to an MME by an HeNB. The S1 setup request message includes version information of the HeNB. An RRC connection is established between the UE and the HeNB. An initial UE message is sent from the HeNB to the MME. An NAS message is sent from the UE to the MME. An establish bearer request message is sent from the MME to a corresponding SGW based on an IP address of an LGW. The IP address of the LGW is obtained by the MME through the S1 setup request message. An establish bearer response message is sent from the LGW to the SGW in response to the establish bearer request message. The establish bearer response message is sent from the SGW to the MME.
US09307386B2
A communication device and system are disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. The device can be restricted to communicating only using an internet protocol so as to restrict the device communication to an internal intranet. Wireless access points may be disposed throughout the environment to route calls and data between the device and a central processing center. By converting a protocol of the communications received from the device to a protocol used by the central processing center, minimal modifications to the central processing center are needed to support a wireless communication infrastructure. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the phone and system in order to prevent improper use.
US09307380B1
A system and method for unified synchronization of relationship connections across multiple social network databases is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes logging in a first user to a first user account through a first wireless mobile device controlled by the first user, wherein the first user account comprises a logical connection to a plurality of the first user's social network accounts. The method further includes discovering a second wireless mobile device or account associated with a second user. The method further includes selecting more than one of the first user's social network accounts via input from the first user, and generating an invitation to connect to the second user's account, wherein the invitation comprises a connection invitation for the second user to connect to at least one of the selected social network accounts of the first user.
US09307375B2
A devices connecting method for connecting wirelessly connecting a first device to a second device. A first connection message transmitted from the second device is received, and the first connection message includes a first connection identifier. A second connection message transmitted from the second device is received, and the second connection message includes a second connection identifier. It is determined whether the second connection identifier is the same as the first connection identifier, and a corresponding determination result is provided. The second connection message is processed according to the determination result to establish the wireless connection between the first device and the second device.
US09307370B1
A communication system is provided that sets up a group call, originated in a first originating network, in a second originating network when insufficient resources are available in the first originating network, wherein the first originating network is one of a narrowband network and a broadband network and the second originating network is the other network of the narrowband and broadband networks. An infrastructure device of the first originating network receives a first group call request from an originating mobile device and, in response to receiving the request, determines that insufficient resources are available in the first originating network for allocation to the mobile device for the group call. In response to determining that insufficient network resources are available, the infrastructure device arranges to set up an originating leg of the group call for the originating mobile device in the second originating network.
US09307369B2
A wireless position detection apparatus specifies, on a road, a target point corresponding to a current position correspondence point of a moving object and calculates a positioning coordinate of the target point as current position information of the moving object based on (i) position information of the current position correspondence point of the moving object on the coverage map, (ii) the position information of the auxiliary points positioned immediately prior to and immediately posterior to the current position correspondence point on the coverage, and (iii) the position data of the map objects corresponding to the auxiliary points positioned immediately prior to and immediately posterior to the current position correspondence point on the coverage map.
US09307364B2
Provided is a mobile device including: an audio output unit; an audio source unit which provides music information to the audio output unit; an adjustment unit which adjusts the audio volume of the audio output unit; an announcement information generation unit which provides announcement information to the audio output unit; and a control unit which forcibly selects a predetermined audio volume regardless of the adjustment made by the adjustment unit when announcing information by the announcement information generation unit from the audio output unit.
US09307363B2
A method to determine whether a target device is collocated with at least one other device within a plurality of devices associated with a user's contact list is provided. The method may include determining location information for each of the plurality of mobile devices associated with the user's contact list. The method may also include selecting a target device within the plurality of devices. The method may further include determining, based on the location information, whether the selected target device is collocated with the at least one other device within the plurality of devices. Additionally, the method may include displaying the at least one other collocated device to the user. The method may also include determining if the at least one other collocated device is selected by the user. The method may include connecting the target device and the selected at least one other collocated device to the user's device.
US09307362B2
Systems and methods are provided for timing message notifications to be provided to mobile device users based on their respective geographic locations with respect to a targeted content area. The timing of message notifications may be controlled in order to optimize the chances of delivering targeted content to a mobile device user based on the current geographic location of the user's device relative to a targeted content area. As the particular client application may not be actively executing at a time when the user's device happen to be located within a targeted content area, a general message notification sent to the user's device, which may be displayed at any time, may increase the likelihood that the user will launch the client application when it is not already executing at the device and thereby, allow targeted content to be delivered to the user's mobile device at the appropriate time and location.
US09307353B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing a location input that specifies one or more geographically definable locations for input to individual ones of a plurality of social media or other content providers that have different input formats for specifying locations. A geo-location input may be normalized to an input format that conforms to a particular content provider, which may use a format for the geo-location input that is different that a format used by another content provider. The formatted geo-location input may be communicated to the particular content provider to obtain content from the content provider. The formatting may result in artifacts such as over-inclusive results having excess content and/or under-inclusive results that omit content that should have been provided. The obtained content obtained may corrected based on a determination of whether the content is over-inclusive and/or under-inclusive by removing obtained content and/or adding new content.
US09307352B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; an near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive, from an external RF reader, a command RF signal in 13.56 MHz and further configured to transmit, to the external RF reader, a responsive RF signal in 13.56 MHz.
US09307345B2
Disclosed is a snake robot for exploration and disclosed is a separable module type snake robot that configures an ad-hoc mesh network by separating a body part into multiple mobile relay modules according to a propagation situation to seamlessly transmit image information to a remote control center.
US09307337B2
Devices and methods for scoring viewer's interactions with content broadcast on a presentation device by processing at least one audio signal received by a microphone proximate the viewer and the presentation device, to generate at least one audio signature, which is compared to at least two different reference audio signatures.
US09307336B2
An audio output circuit applied in an electronic device includes a filter capacitor and a transistor. A base of the transistor is connected to an audio processing unit, an emitter of the transistor is connected to a voltage port, a processor and an earphone detecting unit of the electronic device is electrically connected to a collector of the transistor. The filter capacitor is connected between the base of the transistor and the ground. The filter capacitor filters the audio signals generated by the audio processing unit, to ensure that and the transistor is always turned on.
US09307335B2
An object position estimating apparatus which estimates positions of M objects in real space (M being an integer not less than 2), including: a characteristic vector generating unit operable to generate, for each of M objects, a characteristic vector, the characteristic vector including as its components measurements of the object measured on N scales (N being an integer not less than 3), each of N scales measuring closeness to each of N reference points in the real space; a dissimilarity matrix deriving unit operable to calculate a norm between the characteristic vectors of two objects for every pair from among M objects and to derive a dissimilarity matrix with M rows and M columns, the dissimilarity matrix including as its elements the calculated norms; and an estimation unit operable to estimate positions of M objects in the real space based on the dissimilarity matrix and to output an estimation result.
US09307330B2
An exemplary stapedius reflex measurement safety system includes a stimulation management facility configured to direct a cochlear implant system to apply an electrical stimulus to an auditory pathway of a patient and a detection facility configured to determine that a change in acoustic immittance that occurs as the electrical stimulus is being applied by the cochlear implant system is likely representative of a rise time phase associated with an occurrence of a stapedius reflex within the patient. The stimulation management facility is further configured to direct, in response to the determination, the cochlear implant system to cease applying the electrical stimulus.
US09307329B2
There is provided a control device (220) for an induction loop system configured to: generate a calibration signal (202) having a known amplitude and frequency; feed the calibration signal (202) to an induction loop amplifier (106); detect level of electric current at the output of the induction loop amplifier (106); and determine an adjustment model (400) on the basis of the detected level of electric current and the known amplitude and frequency, wherein the adjustment model (400) is for adjusting the amplitude of a to-be-fed output signal (200) based on the frequency of a to-be-received input electrical audio signal (105) such that the level of the electric current at the output of the induction loop amplifier (106) is within predetermined limits.
US09307319B2
A read out circuit for a sensor uses a feedback loop to bias the sensor to a desired operating point, such as the maximal possible sensitivity, but without the problem of an instable sensor position as known for the conventional read-out with constant charge. The reference bias to which the circuit is controlled is also varied using feedback control, but with a slower response than the main bias control feedback loop.
US09307318B2
In one form, an audio processor circuit includes a first digital signal processing circuit, a second digital signal processing circuit, and an interleaver. The first digital signal processing circuit has an input for receiving a far-end audio signal, and an output. The second digital signal processing circuit has an input for receiving a digital near-end audio signal, and an output. The interleaver has a first input coupled to the output of the first digital signal processing circuit, a second input coupled to the output of the second digital signal processing circuit, and an output for alternatively providing signals received from the first and second inputs to the output.
US09307316B2
In a device including a headset jack having an external microphone contact, and an external microphone signal path connected to the external microphone contact, a method including detecting whether a headset plug is plugged into the headset jack and, if the headset plug is detected, selecting an audio signal received from the external microphone signal path, recording the selected audio signal, to produce a recorded audio signal, and determining if an external microphone is connected to the external microphone contact based on the recorded audio signal.
US09307315B2
A portable and waterproof audio reproduction device is provided, comprising a case having a base and a lid defining an internal volume, and further including a seal between the base and the lid sufficient to prevent water from entering the internal volume when the lid is closed onto the base. The case includes control electronics within the internal volume, wherein the control electronics are adapted to receive an audio signal from an audio device located either inside the case or outside the case. The case also includes a battery, electrically connected to the control electronics. Surface transducers are electrically connected to the control electronics and operatively attached to an internal surface of the case, wherein the surface transducers are capable of receiving the audio signal from the audio device and causing vibration of the internal surface in response to the audio signal.
US09307306B2
Disclosed is a micro loudspeaker. The casing of the micro loudspeaker comprises an upper side surface and a lower side surface. An electric connecting piece comprises a first deformation part located on one side of the upper side surface of the casing and side bent upwards, a second deformation part located on one side of the lower side surface and side bent downwards, a connecting part electrically connecting the first deformation part and the second deformation part. The top end of the first deformation part and the bottom end of the second deformation part are respectively provided with a first conducting part and a second conducting part. An electronic device comprises a micro loudspeaker mentioned above, a shell, a first sound hole and a circuit board, wherein a first conducting part or a second conducting part of the micro loudspeaker is electrically connected to the circuit board.
US09307292B2
In one embodiment, a method receiving a request for a media program from a user device. The method then determines a set of visual representations of captions for the media program and determines video information for the media program. Visual representations from the set of visual representations of captions are sent with the video information over a network to the user device where text for the captions has been pre-rendered in the sent visual representations before sending of the visual representations to the user device. Also, the user device is configured to directly render and overlay a visual representation of a caption from the visual representations over a portion of the video information without rendering of the text for caption on the portion of the video information at the user device.
US09307288B2
Systems and methods according to the present invention provide sign on systems for devices, e.g., televisions, which balance ease of use with security and access control that is amenable to, e.g., household usage.
US09307268B2
A system for providing Video-on-Demand (VOD) service in a network includes a plurality of user devices and a server. Activation of an allowed transmission mode or a peer-to-peer transmission mode is dependent on whether a peer-to-peer transmission function of a first user device of the user devices is limited or not. The first user device calculates respective transmission rates of the two transmission modes to determine their respective download ranges. The transmission mode having a higher transmission speed downloads data close to a start of the target data and another transmission mode having a lower transmission speed downloads data close to an end of the target data. Based on the target data temporarily stored in other user devices, the first user device assigns each of the two transmission modes a download sequence of a plurality of clips of the target data to download the clips of the target data.
US09307266B2
Methods and apparatus intelligently switching between line coding schemes based on context. In one exemplary embodiment, an High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) system is configured to transmit control and video data according to an 8B/10B line coding protocol, and data island data according to TERC4 (TMDS (Transition Minimized Differential Signaling) Error Reduction Coding 4-bit). Various elements of the disclosed HDMI devices are configured to determine when a context switch occurs, and thereafter seamlessly transition between the appropriate line code protocol.
US09307261B2
In one embodiment, a method receives a video at a partial encoder. The partial encoder determines characteristics of the video by performing a portion of an encoding process of the video. The method analyzes the characteristics of the video to determine splice points in the video to splice the video into multiple parts. The video is spliced into a plurality of parts based on the splice points and the plurality of parts are sent to a plurality of encoders. The plurality of encoders encode the plurality of parts substantially in parallel, the encoded plurality of parts are combined to form an encoded version of the video, and the partial encoder does not encode any of the encoded plurality of parts in the encoded version of the video.
US09307255B2
The present disclosure relates to technology for generating an efficient predicted image by using a correlation between color planes in encoding of a multi-plane video. An apparatus for encoding a multi-plane video including two or more color planes by using a bi-prediction includes: an intra-predictor for generating a first predicted block by performing an intra-prediction on a current block of a current plane; an inter-plane predictor for generating a second predicted block by performing an inter-plane prediction; a dual-plane predictor for generating a third predicted block based on the first predicted block and the second predicted block; an optimum mode determiner for selecting one optimum predicted block having a highest encoding efficiency from the first to third predicted blocks; and an encoder or a decoder for encoding or decoding the current block based on a selected optimum predicted block.
US09307253B2
The present invention relates to a method for encoding digital video data corresponding to a sequence of digital source images using a cache memory, each of the digital source images having an equal source image width corresponding to a first number of blocks, the cache memory having a cache width corresponding to a second number of blocks, wherein the second number of blocks is smaller than the first number of blocks.
US09307252B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to providing a view synthesis distortion model (VSDM) for multiview video coding (MVC). The disclosed VSDM can facilitate determining quantization values and rate values based on model parameters for encoding depth information. Further, the VSDM can facilitate compression of depth information based on the determined quantization values and rate values. Compression of depth information can provide for reduces bandwidth consumption for dissemination of encoded multiview content for applications such as 3D video, freepoint TV, etc. Further, a feedback element can be employed to update the VSDM based on a comparison of a reconstituted version of the content, from coded depth information, against reference version of the content, from reference depth information.
US09307250B2
In video coding, selecting an optimal intra block size based on minimal activity directions and strengths. The method is directed to simplifying the procedure of choosing the best subdivision of a texture block into intra blocks.
US09307243B2
A video transport system is provided for transporting as 8B/10B coded video stream across a 64B/66B coded link, wherein forward error correction is provided without the overhead of the prior art. The system also provides a system with the ability to recover 64B/66B Encoded blocks that have corrupt Sync bits.
US09307240B2
A fade state determination unit (5) determines that the target picture is in a fade state when a feature value A is equal to or larger than a threshold value TH_A. If the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state, a fade-in determination unit (6) determines that the target picture is of a fade-in type when a feature value B is equal to or larger than a threshold value TH_B1 and a feature value C is less than a threshold value TH_C. If the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state, a fade-out determination unit (7) determines that the target picture is of a fade-out type when the feature value B is less than a threshold value TH_B2 that is smaller than the threshold value TH_B1. A cross-fade determination unit (8) determines that the target picture is of a cross-fade type when the target picture has been determined to be in the fade state and be not of the fade-in type nor of the fade-out type.
US09307239B2
An apparatus and method for deriving a motion vector predictor are disclosed. A search set comprising of multiple (spatial, or temporal) search MVs with priority is determined, wherein the search MVs for multiple neighboring reference block or one or more co-located reference blocks are configured into multiple search MV groups. In order to improve coding efficiency, embodiments according to the present invention, perform redundancy check every time after a search MV group is searched to determine whether an available search MV found. If an available search MV is found and the available search MV is not the same as a previously derived motion vector predictor (MVP), the available search MV is used as the MVP and the MVP derivation process terminates. Otherwise, the MVP derivation process moves to the next reference block. The search MV group can be configured to include different search MV(s) associated with reference blocks.
US09307232B1
An apparatus is disclosed which may serve as a target for calibrating a camera. The apparatus includes a hollow body having an interior surface, an exterior surface and at least one window formed in the hollow body through which the interior surface is visible. A plurality of distinguishable fiducial markers are arranged in a predetermined pattern along the interior and exterior surface of the hollow body. The fiducial markers can be distinguishable such that, for any given image of the target captured by a camera, there is only one position, rotation, distortion value, and focal length for the camera of interest.
US09307230B2
Optical characteristics of an optical component for a high volume manufacture consumer electronics device can be tested using a test chart composed of a superposition of two or more groups of parallel line pairs, wherein all the groups of parallel line pairs are oriented at a different inclination. The groups of line pairs could be oriented so that they are perpendicular to each other. A test system can quickly and objectively assess for example the sharpness of the optical component in different directions across a full image field of view of an imaging system that is capturing a digital image of the chart using the optical component for through-the-lens imaging. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09307229B2
A stereoscopic image display and a method for compensating for a crosstalk of the stereoscopic image display are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes a crosstalk compensation circuit and a display element. The crosstalk compensation circuit detects an input frame frequency, performs over driving control (ODC) modulation on 3D data to firstly compensate for a crosstalk of the 3D data, and multiplies the firstly compensated 3D data by a constant value, which is previously determined depending on the detected input frame frequency and is greater than zero and equal to or less than 1, to finally compensate for the crosstalk of the 3D data. The display element displays left eye image data and right eye image data included in the finally compensated 3D data in a time division manner.
US09307226B2
The present invention discloses a method of transmitting three dimensional information. The method includes providing a remote server having a three dimensional image database, and a local terminal device coupled to the remote server via network, wherein the local terminal device includes a stereo image display. The local terminal device transmits a request command for three dimensional images to the remote server through the network, followed by sending the desired three dimensional images to the local terminal device through the network.
US09307223B2
A method and system are provided in which a video processor may select a 2D video output format or a 3D video output format. The video processor may generate composited video data by combining video data from a video source, and one or both of video data from additional video sources and graphics data from graphics source(s). The video processor may select the order in which such combination is to occur. The video data from the various video sources may comprise one or both of 2D video data and 3D video data. The graphics data from the graphics sources may comprise one or both of 2D graphics data and 3D graphics data. The video processor may perform 2D-to-3D and/or 3D-to-2D format conversion when appropriate to generate the composited video data in accordance with the selected output video format.
US09307220B2
An image display device includes region of interest extraction unit, parallax image generation unit and 3D image display unit. Region of interest extraction unit generates depth image signal by depth image conversion employing depth threshold, depth image signal including information on distance in three-dimensional space between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image including region of interest desired to be noted by observer, depth image conversion being such that depth value indicating distance between viewpoint and each pixel of two-dimensional image is converted to depth value for 2D display when depth value is equal to or larger than depth threshold. Parallax image generation unit generates both-eye parallax image having parallax in region of interest alone, from two-dimensional image and image obtained by conversion of region of interest image representing region of interest at each of both-eye viewpoints, based on two-dimensional image and depth image signal. 3D image display unit displays both eye parallax image.
US09307212B2
A technique is provided for generating sharp, well-exposed, color images front low-light images. A series of under-exposed images is acquired. A mean image is computed and a sum image is generated each based on the series of under-exposed images. Chrominance variables of pixels of the mean image are mapped to chrominance variables of pixels of the sum image. Chrominance values of pixels within the series of under-exposed images are replaced with chrominance values of the sum image. A set of sharp, well-exposed, color images is generated based on the series of under-exposed images with replaced chrominance values.
US09307204B1
Described herein are systems and methods to facilitate and enhance compatibility between a source device, such as a set-top box, and a sink device, such as a television or audio system. The source device is configured to recognize extended display identification data (“EDID”) associated with sink devices which have been determined to provide incorrect EDID data. A replacement EDID is used by the source to provide operability. Likewise, commands from the source which are incompatible with, or produce undesired results in the sink may be removed or replaced with replacement commands.
US09307192B2
In a video conferencing application, a user viewing a scene can performing zooming by selecting an area in the scene, then dynamically switching a video feed of the scene to the selected area of the scene. The hardware and software of the video conferencing application can limit the video transmitted to the user to include only the selected area of the scene. Transmitting only the selected area of the scene, and excluding the non-selected area of the scene from transmission, can more efficiently use the available bandwidth of the video conferencing application.
US09307179B1
A method and system for protecting content in graphics memory are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of storing a first privilege level in a privilege map with restricted access, wherein the first privilege level is associated with a memory page used to store the content; and determining whether to permit a request to access the memory page based on the first privilege level.
US09307156B1
A neutral density (ND) filter made of an LWIR-transmissive, heat-resistant material is interposed between a longwave infrared (LWIR) imager and an entity that is highly emanative of both light and heat. According to exemplary inventive practice, the ND filter is a thermoplastic (e.g., polystyrene) sheet characterized by a thickness in the 1-2 mm range and a thermal conductivity≦0.13 W/m-K. Important parameters of the ND filter include LWIR transmittance (which depends on material and thickness) and thermal conductivity (which depends on material). The quality of the image taken of the entity is affected by the respective degrees of LWIR attenuation by, and heating up of, the ND filter. Accordingly, the material and the thickness of the ND filter are selected to optimize the image, in particular so as to avoid saturation and/or whiting-out of the image due to insufficient LWIR attenuation and/or excessive ND filter temperature.
US09307126B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, a bending optical element and an image sensor; an inclination adjusting plate which mounts the image sensor onto a housing with a pair of opposed sides of the image sensor extending in a direction orthogonal to a pre-bending optical axis, of the imaging optical system; a pair of end portions formed on the inclination adjusting plate and positioned outside the pair of opposed sides of the image sensor; a swing fulcrum formed between an inner end portion, which is closest to the pre-bending optical axis, and the housing; and an inclination adjuster provided between an outer end portion, which is farthest from the pre-bending optical axis out, and the housing, to make the inclination adjustment plate swing about the swing fulcrum to adjust the inclination adjustment plate.
US09307124B2
A wall stand is provided. The wall stand comprises a stand body and a bottom plate. The stand body includes a base, a pressing component and a pressing component. The base has an opening. The pressing component comprises a pressing portion disposed corresponding to the opening. The pressing component is disposed on the base. The bottom plate is configured for being mounted on a wall. The bottom plate includes an elastic component and at least one supporting portion. The elastic component is disposed corresponding to the pressing component for being engaged with the pressing component and disengaged from the pressing component by a force from the pressing component. The at least one supporting portion is configured for correspondingly supporting the at least one fixing component. A method for using the wall stand for an IP camera is also provided.
US09307122B2
An apparatus for providing motion estimation for video encoding includes a selection element and a processing element. The selection element is configured to select a subset including less than all of candidate pixel locations from among a plurality of candidate pixel locations used for motion vector determination based on a relationship between a best candidate pixel location of a first level of accuracy and a best candidate pixel location of a second level of accuracy. The processing element is configured to process an input video sequence to determine a motion vector at the first level of accuracy, to refine the motion vector at the second level of accuracy, and to determine the motion vector at a third level of accuracy using only the subset of candidate pixel locations.
US09307120B1
An image processing system adaptable to a dual-mode image device includes an adaptive color correction system coupled to receive an image, and configured to adaptively correct for color distortion according to a chief ray angle (CRA) of a pixel of the image and an IR signal from the dual-mode image device associated with a light source.
US09307118B2
A color conversion lookup table generation method includes the processes of (i) acquiring a set of parameter values which represents a specific color; (ii) acquiring a plurality of ink value set candidates which corresponds to the set of parameter values, and evaluated values each associated with a result of printing based on a corresponding one of the plurality of ink amount set candidates; (iii) allowing a user to input a preference characteristic of the user; and (iv) applying a color conversion lookup table which converts the set of parameters into a set of ink amounts which is determined on the basis the preference characteristic and the evaluated values.
US09307105B2
An image forming apparatus combines a plurality of sub-movies representing operation procedures to be performed to perform maintenance on the image forming apparatus and plays the combined sub-movies sequentially as one movie. In response to stopping the movie being played, the image forming apparatus displays a replay mark for use to issue a command to replay the movie from the beginning of a sub-movie corresponding to a position where the movie is stopped.
US09307093B2
A system for determining a communication charge comprising a charging equation determiner, an inflection point determiner, and a charge determiner. The charging equation determiner for determining a charging equation based at least in part on a normalized set of inputs. The inflection point determiner for determining an inflection point based at least in part on a charging structure database. The charge determiner for determining a communication charge based at least in part on the charging equation and the inflection point.
US09307089B2
A conference call may be implemented between multiple user devices via a conference call server. A user may use a graphical interface of the user device to communicate with the conference call server and control the conference call in various ways. For instance, the user may add a user device to the conference call, drop a user device from the conference call, organize the user devices into conference call groups, record one or more user devices within the conference call, prevent a user device from hearing the audio input of another user device, filter out background noise from the conference call, and receive a call from outside the conference call without having to leave the conference call.
US09307086B2
A web-based hosted solution through which business entities create and manage communications campaigns is described. To reduce latency of customer-to-agent connections, the system implements an agent stay-on-line function by which a persistent telephony connection is established and maintained between the system infrastructure and an available agent. In this manner, the agent may handle multiple customers while avoiding an ACD hold queue. In addition, preferably a service-side hold queue also is established and maintained on the service-side of the infrastructure. This hold queue maintains calls that are waiting to be connected to available agents. It ensures that any customer abandons do not impair the connections being established and maintained to the agents.
US09307083B2
Methods and apparatus for improving a contact with a customer in a contact handling system by enabling parallel communication via more than one media during a contact are disclosed. The method can include establishing a first connection path with the customer and communicating a first communication with the customer over the first connection path via a first media. The method can include establishing a second connection path with the customer and communicating a second communication with the customer over the second connection path while the first connection path is open over the second communication path via the second media.
US09307079B2
In order to efficiently handle the switch between user media and announcement media, a basic step is to first determine a configuration of the user media. Next, a configuration of the announcement media to be presented is determined based on the determined user media configuration. Subsequently, the announcement media is configured according to the announcement media configuration, and the configured announcement media is finally sent to the intended user. In this way, the overall appearance or sound of the announcement will be virtually the same as or at least similar to the overall appearance or sound of the user media, preferably without distortions. This allows the user to perceive the announcement as clearly as possible.
US09307068B2
An information processing apparatus including a first communication interface for individually communicating with a plurality of communication terminals without involvement of a public network and a second communication interface for communicating with involvement of a public network, wherein the apparatus provides services, via the first communication interface or via the first communication interface and the second communication interface, to a plurality of communication terminals that perform communication via the first communication interface, manages information regarding a communication interface used by each service and information regarding the service provided, and controls communication performed with the first and the second communication interfaces based on the managed information. When disconnection of communication performed with either one of the first and the second communication interfaces has been detected, the apparatus performs control relating to disconnection of communication performed with the communication interface in which disconnection was not detected based on the managed information.
US09307067B2
A method includes a first wireless device initiating a wireless connection to a second wireless device and monitoring at least one context associated with one of the wireless connection and the second device. When contextual data is received that indicates a condition, the method further includes determining, based on a search of a firmware update service (FUS) database, whether a firmware update for the second wireless device is available within the FUS database. And when an available firmware update is received from the FUS database, the method includes triggering the first device to initiate the firmware update for the second device. The triggering of the first device to initiate the firmware update includes: transmitting a command to place the second device in firmware update mode; and forwarding the firmware update to the second device, such that the first device controls and/or initiates the firmware upgrade of the second device.
US09307055B1
The traditional web based computing system did no support user space multitasking. Therefore, if a task is submitted by a user from a web browser window, the user has to wait the task to be completed before the user can submit another task. Thus a problem associated with the issue of lack of web based user space multitasking will be escalated and become apparent to the user in many instances. For example the web browser window will experience being blocked or hanged and the user can not do anything but wait. A method is disclosed herein for controlling each user initiated task to be run in background of the web based computing system and causing display of the UI again for the user to not wait the completion of said task.
US09307035B1
An administrator can use a portal platform to manage social equity for social collaboration features of the web sites. A goal is to encourage users to contribute to an on-line community's social activities such as its blogs, message boards, and wiki pages. The portal platform supports social equity features, where users can earn points for their participation. The administrator can specify a counter period, where the points accumulated during the last period are reset. This feature can be used to encourage continual participation by the users.
US09307028B2
There is provided an electronic pen device configured to be used with a remote secure server for registering handwritten signatures, the secure server comprising an authentication database storing authentication information in connection with pre-registered users and a signature registration database for registering handwritten signatures, the electronic pen device comprising: an input/output (I/O) interface; a memory; a tip and capturing means connected thereto for capturing handwritten signatures; a network interface adapted to be connected to a data network, and a processing unit connected to the I/O interface, to the capturing means, to the memory and to the network interface. As another aspect of the invention, there is further provided a system for registering handwritten signatures. As another another aspect of the invention, there is further provided a method of authenticating handwritten signatures. As a further aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of signing a document by a plurality of contracting user. As a further further aspect of the invention, there is provided an electronic pen device configured to be used with a remote server for archiving handwritten information.
US09307025B1
The file creation on remote data storage accessible via a WAN can be optimized by creating temporary files in advance on a remote data storage. The file handles or other file access parameters for these temporary files are cached at a client network location. A file creation request from a client is intercepted at the client network location and one of the cached file handle is returned to the client. This enables the client to immediately write data to the corresponding temporary file, avoiding the delay incurred by communicating the file creation request and its response over a WAN. One or more storage commands are sent to the remote data storage to change the attributes of the temporary file to match those requested by the client, such as the file name, directory, and/or file permissions. File creation requests may be selectively optimized according to rules or criteria specified by users.
US09307022B2
A method and a first device for determining a group owner during establishment of a local-wireless communication connection are provided. The method includes searching for a second device that supports the local-wireless communication connection; searching, if the second device is found, for services supportable by the second device; determining an intent value of the first device corresponding to a group owner authority with respect to a service to be connected among the found supportable services; transmitting, to the second device, a negotiation message including the determined intent value of the first device; receiving, from the second device, a negotiation message including an intent value of the second device; and determining, from among the first device and the second device, a device having the group owner authority by comparing the determined intent value of the first device with the intent value of the second device.
US09307019B2
Embodiments of apparatus, systems and methods facilitate the running a distributed computing application on at least one of a plurality of cloud infrastructures. In some embodiments, the processor implemented method comprises: deriving an infrastructure independent representation of the distributed computing application; and running the distributed computing application on one of a plurality of cloud infrastructures by utilizing a cloud-specific implementation of the infrastructure independent representation of the distributed computing application. The cloud-specific implementation of the infrastructure independent representation corresponds to the cloud infrastructure on which the distributed application is run.
US09307016B2
A method is implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions. The programming instructions are operable to manage workload for cloud computing by transferring workload to at least one mobile device using Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
US09307009B2
In one example, a mobile device includes one or more processors configured to issue a request to access a resource maintained by a remote computing device, wherein the request causes the remote computing device to: execute an application to access the resource; receive, via the network interface, information corresponding to graphical output resulting from execution of the application, wherein the graphical output corresponds to a format specific to the remote computing device; present a graphical representation of the received information in an output format optimized for the mobile device; receive an input command in an input format specific to the mobile device, wherein the input command comprises a command for interacting with the application; translate the input command to a format specific to the application executed by the remote computing device; and send the translated command to the remote computing device.
US09307001B2
A method for positioning video feeds of a video conference on an electronic display. The method includes selecting a first property of the plurality of video feeds used to position the plurality of video feeds on the electronic display. A first and second value of the first property is received from a respective first and second video feed. A request for a layout style of the plurality of video feeds on the electronic display is received. The layout style has a plurality of positions for the plurality of video feeds. Each of the plurality of positions has a criteria of the first property. The first and second video feed belong is positioned on the layout. The positioning is based on a relationship of the criteria of each of the plurality of positions to the first and second values.
US09306999B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for sessions with participants and providers. For example, in one embodiment, a provider can interact with multiple participants to conduct interactive treatment sessions. Further, a participant can interact with multiple providers to conduct interactive treatment sessions. For the interactive treatment sessions, motion data and video data of the participant can be simultaneously displayed to the provider.
US09306986B2
Disclosed is a method for masking media flows against a discovery procedure for inter-UE transfer. According to the method, when a Service Centralization and Continuity Application Server (SCC AS) establishes a session, an User Equipment (UE) is able to indicate to the network that some or all of the media flow composing a session are not discoverable from other UEs. Therefore, when the SCC AS receives the request for discovery for discovery of the ongoing session on any UE, the SCC AS identifies which media flows in the ongoing session of the UE are indicated as indiscoverable, and does not send information about theses media flows to the other UEs.
US09306985B1
In one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a data server, a VoIP server, and a processing circuit. The VoIP server routes VoIP calls to and from a plurality of telecommunication devices associated with respective user accounts. The VoIP server stores data generated by the plurality of telecommunication devices on the data server. The user accounts each have a settings file associated with the user account. In response to a set of criteria indicated in the settings file of one of the user accounts being satisfied, the processing circuit logs into a data server remote to the VoIP server using login credentials included in the settings file. In further response to the set of criteria being satisfied, the processing circuit copies one or more data files associated with the user account from the data server to the remote data server.
US09306984B2
Provided are a continuous contents reproduction service providing server, a user device, and a method of providing a continuous contents reproduction service for continuously providing contents to a plurality of devices. The server may include: a device management unit to store identification information of a first device and a second device; a service interruption monitoring unit to determine whether reproducing of contents in the first device is interrupted; a continuous reproduction information message transceiving unit to generate a continuous reproduction information message when the reproducing of the contents is interrupted, and to transmit the generated continuous reproduction information message to the second device; a continuous reproduction management unit to receive a request for a continuous reproduction service and to determine whether to continuously provide the contents to the second device; and a contents providing unit to provide the contents to the second device based on the determination.
US09306983B2
A vehicle-based computing apparatus includes a computer processor in communication with persistent and non-persistent memory. The apparatus also includes a local wireless transceiver in communication with the computer processor and configured to communicate wirelessly with a wireless device located at the vehicle. The processor is operable to receive, through the wireless transceiver, a connection request sent from a nomadic wireless device, the connection request including at least a name of an application seeking to communicate with the processor. The processor is further operable to receive at least one secondary communication from the nomadic device, once the connection request has been processed. The secondary communication is at least one of a speak alert command, a display text command, a create phrase command, and a prompt and listen command.
US09306980B2
An image processing apparatus which enables a user to change the user mode while maintaining the state compliant with the information security policy. A network communication section receives security policy data in which information security policy is described from an external apparatus. A CPU identifies an operation mode of the image processing apparatus based on the received security policy. The CPU configures the identified operation mode such that the information security policy is satisfied.
US09306973B2
In one example the opening of a primary browser to a URL may be detected, a reference browser may then be opened to the same URL, data input to respective data fields on the primary browser may be copied to respectively corresponding data fields on the reference browser, and security on the primary browser may be evaluated based on, at least, the data copied to the reference browser.
US09306971B2
Malware detection techniques that detect malware by identifying the C&C communication between the malware and the remote host, and distinguish between communication transactions that carry C&C communication and transactions of innocent traffic. The system distinguishes between malware transactions and innocent transactions using malware identification models, which it adapts using machine learning algorithms. However, the number and variety of malicious transactions that can be obtained from the protected network are often too limited for effectively training the machine learning algorithms. Therefore, the system obtains additional malicious transactions from another computer network that is known to be relatively rich in malicious activity. The system is thus able to adapt the malware identification models based on a large number of positive examples—The malicious transactions obtained from both the protected network and the infected network. As a result, the malware identification models are adapted with high speed and accuracy.
US09306970B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting security threats in a network environment. A local workstation is used to inspect an item and submit a request for assistance to determine whether the item raises a security threat. A server receives the request for assistance from the local workstation over a network and retrieves a dialing plan associated with the origin of the request. The server utilizes the dialing plan to route the request to expert groups assigned to the dialing group. In response to the request being accepted by a remote expert device in one of the expert groups, the server establishes a connection between the local workstation and the remote expert device that accepted the request.
US09306961B1
An improved technique involves providing a tool that connects standardized content bundles in order to carry out an arbitrarily complex investigation. An investigation server makes content bundles, which perform a standardized set of investigative actions based on a set of inputs, available to an investigation analyst. The investigation analyst selects particular content bundles based on a specified set of input parameters and a desired set of output parameters defining the investigation. The investigation analyst then connects the particular content bundles to form a single, complex workflow configured to produce the desired set of output parameters from the specified set of input parameters as a result of the investigation.
US09306958B2
A non-transitory processor-readable medium is provided that stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor to receive data associated with access by a first plurality of entities to a first website location and to receive data associated with access by a second plurality of entities to a second website location. The processor is also caused to define a co-visitation factor for each of the first website location and the second website location based on the received data. The processor is also caused to, if the co-visitation factor of the first website location and/or the co-visitation factor of the second website location is over a predefined threshold, select the first website location and/or the second website location as target website locations. The processor is caused to send a signal to set a flag associated with each target website location indicating the target website location as a suspicious website location.
US09306956B2
Immediately upon identifying a potential breach to a file system, a read-only snapshot of one or more file sets of data stored on a storage volume of the file system is created, and one or more file system protection commands are invoked that restrict access to the snapshot of the file set. Generating the snapshot and restricting access to the snapshot data may include immediately opening an administrative shell for the file-system in response to identifying a potential breach, and executing administrative shell commands that invoke creation of snapshot and limit access of the snapshot data to an administrator or super user.
US09306947B2
Active memory for managing network telemetry information, or other types of information stored as objects, has objects partially-serialized to allow greater amounts of information to store in a memory of a given size with slightly increased retrieval times. Storing additional information in an active memory provides an overall increase in network security platform responsiveness by allowing a greater amount of information to be accessible from the active memory instead of archive.
US09306937B2
A processing device is to determine that a module, executed from a memory by the processing device, is initialized from opening a first database. The processing device is to identify a second database to be opened from a request from an application to access data that is stored in the second database. The processing device is to create, a slot, via the initialized module, to open the second database using the initialized module.
US09306928B2
There is presented a system and method for associating a domain transcendent identification (ID) of a user and a domain specific ID of the user, the system comprising an ID association server accessible by a plurality of secure domains over a network. The system also includes an ID associator application that when executed by ID association server is configured to receive a domain specific ID that associates the user to the secure domain, enter the domain specific ID in a domain transcendent ID record created for the user, generate a unique data associated with the domain transcendent ID record and identify a network location for submission of the unique data, send the unique data and the network location to the user, and associate the domain transcendent ID and the domain specific ID.
US09306920B2
A secure content delivery or access method may include coordination among three devices such as servers—a content management server, a delivery server, and an authorization server. A request for content may originate from an authorization server application, and may involve the application obtaining two digitally signed tokens for the request. The first token may be from the authorization server, and may include a content management server identifier for the requested content. The second token may include two identifiers for the content: the first identifier being the content management server identifier, and the second being a delivery server identifier. The first and second tokens may be signed by the authorization server and content management server, respectively, and may be delivered to the delivery server for validation. Successful validation may result in the delivery server providing a content decryption key for the requested content to a device requesting the content.
US09306914B2
A system for backing up a profile includes: a management server that stores and manages received information and a terminal that generates a plurality of division profiles by dividing a profile that is stored at an embedded authentication module and that transmits backup request information including the plurality of division profiles to the management server, wherein the management server stores the plurality of division profiles based on the backup request information.
US09306909B2
A controller of a network control system for configuring several middlebox instances is described. The middlebox instances implement a middlebox in a distributed manner in several hosts. The controller assigns a first set of identifiers to a first middlebox instance that associates an identifier in the first set with a first packet. The controller assigns a second set of identifiers to a second middlebox instance that associates an identifier in the second set with a second packet.
US09306907B1
A method for balancing load among firewall security devices in a network is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a switch causes firewall security devices (FSDs) of a cluster to enter into a load balancing mode. Responsive to receiving a heartbeat signal from an FSD, information regarding the FSD and the port on which the heartbeat signal was received are added to a table maintained by the switch that maps outputs of a load balancing function to ports of the switch. A received packet is forwarded to an FSD of the cluster by: (i) extracting a configurable number of bit values from a configurable set of bit positions within the packet; (ii) determining the output of the load balancing function; (iii) identifying the port to which the FSD is coupled based on the output and the table; and (iv) transmitting the packet to the FSD via the identified port.
US09306905B2
A computer implemented system and method for providing users with secured access to application servers have been disclosed. The system and method envisaged by the present disclosure are not restricted to providing users with secured access to application servers. The system and the method also ensure that transactions performed by the users through the application servers remain secured and hack-resistant. The present disclosure envisages a system that acts as a secured, trusted gateway between the users and the application servers associated with providers of sensitive services such as banking and financial institutions. In case of the system envisaged by the present disclosure, rather than directly accessing an application server, users are made to contact the system of the disclosure and upon verification of their respective identities, are allowed to access the application servers associated with providers of sensitive services.
US09306894B1
Managing computer resource allocation includes detecting, by one computer amongst a plurality of computers, generation of an allocation request, wherein the allocation request requests exclusive access, by the one computer, to a computer resource shared between the plurality of computers; determining a period of time that has elapsed since detection of the generation of the allocation request; determining that a delay has occurred when the period of time has exceeded a predetermined threshold; and then, transmitting, by the one computer, a delay message based on the delay to each of the plurality of computers.
US09306874B2
A port switch of type A has a distribution mode for maintaining a backward compatibility with a port switch of type B. A distribution identifier calculating unit performs a logical operation with the same operational expression to the same bit region as the type B in a header contained in a frame, thereby calculating a k-bit (k>j) distribution identifier partly containing the same j-bit bit region as the type B. A distribution table indicates a correspondence relation between three sub-links and the k-bit distribution identifier, and has contents in which the j-bit distribution identifier in the distribution table of the type B is replaced with the k-bit distribution identifier partly containing the same j-bit value as that of the j-bit distribution identifier.
US09306871B2
The present invention sets forth a methodology that allows involved processes to partition among themselves a pre-defined set of multi-type resources in a way that all processes end up satisfied with the outcome of the partitioning, and no central mediation for such partitioning is required. One exemplary embodiment of the invention sets forth a method of allocating multiple type resources among a distributed set of processes that includes the steps of selecting a process from the set of processes for partitioning the resources; partitioning the resources at the selected process; sharing results of the partitioning with others of the set of processes, wherein said other processes select a partition from the partitioned resources; the selected process being able to select a partition subsequent to the other processes having selected a partition. The method also repeats the above steps until all currently involved processes are satisfied by a selected partition of available resources. Additionally, if more than one process contends for the same partition, a next-in-line process not having been allocated resources repartitions remaining resources for selection by currently unsatisfied processes.
US09306868B2
Systems and methods for cross-cloud computing resource usage tracking. An example method comprises: receiving a request comprising an operational specification of a computing resource; selecting a first provisioning cloud in view of the operational specification; receiving an updated operational specification of the computing resource; receiving a first provisioning offer from the first provisioning cloud and a second provisioning offer from a second provisioning cloud responsive to the updated operational specification; selecting the second provisioning cloud in view of the first and second provisioning offers; providing an interface between the first computing resource and a second computing resource residing in a second provisioning cloud; and tracking resource usage data of the first computing resource across the provisioning clouds.
US09306864B2
A controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network is described. The controller includes an interface for receiving input logical forwarding plane data in terms of input events data. The controller includes a converter for converting the input logical forwarding plane data to output physical control plane data by processing the input events data. The physical control plane data is for subsequent translation into physical forwarding plane data. The controller includes an input scheduler for (1) categorizing the input events data into different groups based on certain criteria and (2) supplying the input events data into the converter in a manner that each different group of input events data is processed separately by the converter.
US09306862B2
Explicit discard indications are used that allows a radio network controller, when operating in a multi-point High Speed Downlink Packet Access, HSDPA, scenario, to send data to a user equipment via plural radio base stations while reducing the risk for unnecessary duplicate data to be sent over the Uu interface between the radio base stations and the user equipment.
US09306860B2
A congestion control system and method for dynamically maximizing a communication link throughput is presented. The method involves monitoring and managing a variable number of streams from one or more URLs and their respective download fragment size in order to maximize the changing link capacity. The number of participating streams is adjusted according to total link congestion status.
US09306854B2
A methodology is described for providing a dedicated interface-level oversubscription diagnostics queue that would store header data and timestamps for ingress frames which would otherwise be dropped due to the input FIFO queue being full. When the microburst is over, the data may be transmitted to the main CPU to analyze the cause of oversubscription as well as affected traffic.
US09306851B1
The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to processing of network communications. According to an aspect of the described systems and techniques, a network device includes a random access memory (RAM); a buffer coupled with the RAM; circuitry configured to copy data from a location in the RAM to the buffer responsive to a received identifier corresponding to a search key corresponding to a received packet; and circuitry configured to compare the data copied to the buffer with the search key to provide a result for use in forwarding of the packet, wherein don't care bits for the comparison are determined from a count of don't care bits encoded in a portion of the location in the RAM indicated by the identifier.
US09306841B2
In one embodiment, a device determines a set of sources and used destinations for traffic in a computer network, where nodes of the network are configured to send all traffic to the used destinations through a root node of the computer network according to a directed acyclic graph (DAG). The device may then also determine a set of capable nodes as common ancestors to source-destination pairs that provide a more optimal path between the source-destination pairs than traversing the root node, and instructs the set of capable nodes to store downward routes to forward traffic for one or more of the used destinations according to the stored downward route rather than through the root node.
US09306840B2
A flow deflection capability is provided for deflecting data flows within a Software Defined Network (SDN) in order to provide security for the SDN. A flow forwarding rule is generated for a first network element of the SDN based on detection of a condition (e.g., TCAM utilization condition, CPU utilization condition, or the like) associated with the first network element. The flow forwarding rule is generated by a control element of the SDN or the first network element of the SDN. The flow forwarding rule is indicative that at least a portion of new flow requests received at the first network element are to be forwarded from the first network element to a second network element of the SDN. The flow forwarding rule may specify full flow deflection or selective flow deflection.
US09306832B2
A method for operating a virtualized network that communicatively connects between a plurality of communication ports, instantiated for a plurality of guest operating systems executed over a plurality of hosts. The method comprises instantiating a communication port for each of the plurality of guests; performing a discovery media access control (MAC) address process of at least one destination guest of the plurality of guests by a source guest; sending a ping request from the source request to the at least one destination guest; and creating the virtualized network to allow communication between the source guest with the at least one destination guest, wherein the virtualized network is created over the physical network.
US09306827B2
An end user network access point monitors and collects usage statistics associated with all content accessed by the end user devices through the access point. One or more external control servers collect the usage statistics from each access point, thereby compiling macro-level statistics related to content accessed by the end user devices. The one or more external control servers can be co-located with the network equipment of the broadband infrastructure provider, or the one or more external control servers can be independent of the broadband infrastructure.
US09306822B2
A system and method for performing a first diagnostic test on a first class of service on a network link during a current measurement period, performing at least one further diagnostic test on a second class of service on the network link during the current measurement period, determining whether an alert was present during a previous measurement period and generating a current failure alert based on results of the first and the at least one further diagnostic tests if an alert was present during the previous measurement period.
US09306820B2
A method and apparatus are provided that evaluate a number of different sources of presence information to determine a presence status of a user. The presence status of a user is determined by obtaining presence information from a plurality of presence data stores; translating the obtained presence information from at least one of the presence data stores into a standard format; and determining the presence status of the user based on the obtained presence information. Presence information can also be based on user-specified rules. Presence information is obtained from a number of presence data stores and the presence status of a user is determined based on one or more rules that are applied to the obtained presence information. The rules may include, for example, aggregation rules that determines the presence status based on one or more of the obtained presence information or filter rules that determine who may receive the presence status.
US09306809B2
An integrated security system integrates broadband and mobile access and control with conventional security systems and premise devices to provide a tri-mode security network that with remote connectivity and access. The integrated security system includes a touchscreen providing security keypad functionality as well as content management and presentation, and is used as a security system interface and an interface for interacting with a network. The integrated security system delivers remote premise monitoring and control functionality to conventional monitored premise protection and complements existing premise protection equipment. The integrated security system integrates into the premise network and couples wirelessly with the conventional security panel, enabling broadband access to premise security systems. Automation devices can be added, enabling users to remotely see live video or pictures and control home devices via a personal web portal, mobile phone, or other client device. Users can receive notifications of detected events via electronic message.
US09306807B2
A method for selection of an initialization technique and protocol for a communications device is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, selecting a primary initialization technique from a set list of initialization techniques, implementing the primary initialization technique to initialize and move the communications device, and determining if the communications device has been initialized and moved. If the communications device has not been initialized and moved upon implementing the primary initialization technique, an additional initialization technique is selected from the set list of initialization techniques and implemented to initialize and move the communications device.
US09306804B2
A method for performing an in-service software update in a MLAG domain. The method includes restarting the first switch using a second version of software, detecting by a second switch that the first switch is restarting and, in response to the detection, SSO. After restarting the first switch, prior to the first switch performing graceful reinsertion into the MLAG domain, setting all non-peer ports on the first switch to an error-disabled state and selecting a common MLAG protocol version supported by the first switch and the second switch and performing graceful reinsertion, which includes reestablishing a peering relationship between the first switch and the second switch using the common MLAG protocol, and after reestablishing the peering relationship, synchronizing a control plane state of the first switch with the control plane state of the second switch and setting all non-peer ports on the first switch to an active state.
US09306802B2
A method of displaying fault tolerant Ethernet (FTE) cable status in a process control system having FTE devices in an Enhanced Universal Control Network (EUCN) including an Enhanced Network Interface Module (ENIM) on a UCN status display. Updated FTE cable status is obtained from each of the FTE devices during operation of the process control system. The updated FTE cable status from each of the FTE devices is stored in a memory. A UCN cable status word (CSW) including cable status bits allocated for representing the updated FTE cable status is compiled for each of the FTE devices, wherein locations for the cable status bits in the UCN CSW are used by the UCN status display to show changes in cable status. The UCN CSWs are read at a node having the UCN status display, and the updated FTE cable status is displayed on the UCN status display.
US09306801B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a non-transitory computer readable medium for improving the scalability and redundancy of a wireless communications network. One embodiment of the non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that configure a first controller, of a plurality of controllers, as a primary controller for maintaining data associated with each particular device of a plurality of devices, for each particular device of the plurality of devices, select a respective secondary controller, from the plurality of controllers, for maintaining data associated with that particular device based on a respective identifier associated with that particular device, subsequent to selecting the secondary controller for each particular device of the plurality of devices, detect an error associated with the first controller, and responsive to detecting the error associated with the first controller, establish the secondary controller selected for each particular device, based on the respective identifier, as the primary controller for that particular device.
US09306795B2
Techniques for transmitting traffic data and control information in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, traffic data and control information may be multiplexed at a coded data level. A user equipment (UE) may encode traffic data to obtain coded traffic data, encode control information to obtain coded control data, multiplex the coded traffic data and the coded control data, modulate the multiplexed data, and generate SC-FDMA symbols. In another aspect, traffic data and control information may be multiplexed at a modulation symbol level. The UE may encode and modulate traffic data to obtain data modulation symbols, encode and modulate control information to obtain control modulation symbols, multiplex the data and control modulation symbols, and generate SC-FDMA symbols. The UE may perform rate matching for traffic data to account for control information. The UE may also perform multiplexing and puncturing for different types of control information.
US09306776B2
A method for filtering a data signal includes transmitting the data signal from a transmitter to a receiver across a conductor disposed in an interposer, which interconnects the receiver and the transmitter. The data signal is low-passed with a filter, which includes a passive resistive element disposed within the interposer and coupled in series electrically with a passive inductive element. In relation thereto, the interposer is disposed in a position within the interposer, or upon a surface thereof. The filter is coupled to the conductor in a shunt configuration with respect to ground.
US09306774B2
A communication apparatus encodes a transmission target data according to a PAM5 mode to generate PAM signals, applies a pulse shaping to the generated PAM signals with a pulse shaping filter to provide pulse-shaped PAM signals, and inputs the pulse-shaped PAM signals into a digital-analog converter. The pulse shaping filter designates a transfer function G(z) as G1(z)=0.667+0.333z^−1 that is approximated to G0(z)=(⅔)+(⅓)z^−1.
US09306769B2
A method for communication includes receiving a packet at a first node for transmission over a link to a second node. The data in the packet is divided into a sequence of cells of a predetermined data size. The cells have respective sequence numbers. The cells are transmitted in sequence over the link, while storing the transmitted cells in a buffer at the first node. The first node receives acknowledgments indicating the respective sequence numbers of the transmitted cells that were received at the second node. Upon receiving an indication at the first node that a transmitted cell having a given sequence number was not properly received at the second node, the stored cells are retransmitted from the buffer starting from the cell with the given sequence number.
US09306765B2
Advertisements or other types of targeted information are delivered to set-top boxes or other user interface devices of a signal distribution system. In one aspect of the invention, an access node sends a message to the user interface device directing the user interface device to switch from a content stream to a targeted information stream at a specified time. Responsive to the message, the access node receives a request from the user interface device to join a targeted multicast group associated with the targeted information stream. Without requiring receipt of a subsequent request from the user interface device to leave a content multicast group associated with a content stream, the access node causes the user interface device to be dropped from the content multicast group prior to the specified time. The access node then delivers the targeted information stream to the user interface device via the targeted multicast group.
US09306764B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide root re-selection in a spanning tree protocol are disclosed. An example method includes transmitting, from a current root device on a playback network, a query message to a router on the playback network. The example method includes evaluating a response received from at least one intermediate device between the current root and the router, the at least one intermediate device relaying the query message from the root to the router and transmitting a response back to the current root device indicating a root path cost associated with that intermediate device. The example method includes determining, based on the received root path cost(s), an updated designation of a new root device for the playback network. The example method includes, if the new root device is different from the current root device, exchanging bridge priority between the current root and the new root.
US09306747B2
As individuals increasingly engage in different types of transactions they face a growing threat from, possibly among other things, identity theft, financial fraud, information misuse, etc. and the serious consequences or repercussions of same. Leveraging the ubiquitous nature of wireless devices and the popularity of (Short Message Service, Multimedia Message Service, etc.) messaging, an infrastructure that enhances the security of the different types of transactions within which a wireless device user may participate through a Second Factor Authentication facility. The infrastructure may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.
US09306745B2
According to one embodiment, a method for implementing secure key management is provided. The method includes populating a section of information associated with a key, the section being populated with information relating to how the key was created. The method also includes populating the section with information relating to how the key was acquired by a secure module; and binding the section to the key, wherein the key is encrypted.
US09306741B1
A method is used in updating keys for use in authentication. A cryptographic operation is performed based on a stored representation of a higher-level key. The cryptographic operation results in a derived key. The derived key is used for authentication. A key update operation is applied to replace the derived key after authentication.
US09306737B2
The methods and systems described herein provide for secure implementation of external storage providers in an enterprise setting. Specifically, the present invention provides for allowing the secure use of processes that may transmit files to external storage providers or access files from an external storage provider. In some arrangements, process, such as an untrusted process, may request access to a file. A security agent may intercept the request and encrypt the file. The file can then be transmitted to the external storage provider. A user may subsequently request access to the file. A security agent may intercept a message in connection with this request, determine whether the user is authorized to access the file, and decrypt the file.
US09306735B2
An electronic key registration system includes an electronic key device having a key ID. A controller having a first piece of information is arranged in a communication subject. A registration tool having a second piece of information is configured to write the key ID to the controller. The controller compares, before electronic key registration, the first piece of information and the second piece of information. The controller permits electronic key registration when the comparison indicates that the first piece of information and the second piece of information conform to each other and prohibits the electronic key registration when the comparison indicates that the first piece of information and the second piece of information do not conform to each other.
US09306725B2
Methods and apparatus of a base station or a User Equipment (UE) in communication with each other are provided. The UE is configured by the base station for operation with an adapted Time Division Duplex (TDD) UpLink-DownLink (UL-DL) configuration. A process enabling the base station to configure a UE with resources for obtaining channel and interference measurements in two sets of Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) and a process for the UE to obtain a Channel State Information (CSI) from the channel and interference measurements in the two sets of TTIs are provided.
US09306724B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for avoiding signal interference between access points (APs) in a non-license band, and more particularly, an interference avoidance apparatus and method between access points (APs) that avoid interference based on whether an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) is present, whether an overlapping operation channel between adjacent APs is used, whether it is possible to select a non-overlapping operation channel between adjacent APs, and the like.
US09306720B2
The present invention is designed to flexibly report aperiodic channel state information to a plurality of radio base station apparatuses to be coordinated, even when coordinated multiple-point (CoMP) transmission/reception is performed.A radio communication system includes: a radio base station apparatus that transmits an uplink scheduling grant, which includes a request field that requests reporting of channel state information from a user terminal, and an identification field that identifies a radio base station apparatus to which aperiodic channel state information should be reported, among a plurality of radio base station apparatuses that perform coordinated multiple-point transmission/reception, to the user terminal, via a downlink control channel; and a user terminal that estimates a channel state with respect to a radio base station apparatus that is designated by a combination of the request field and the identification field, and reports the channel state information to the radio base station apparatus via an uplink shared channel.
US09306708B2
A method comprising: receiving a scalable video coding (SVC) encoded video data from a source of digital video data, the SVC-encoded video data carrying a video content, the SVC-encoded video data including a network abstraction layer (NAL) extension header, a first layer for the video content, and a second layer for the video content, the first layer including first video data utilized to retrieve the video content in basic quality from the SVC-encoded video data, the second layer including second video data utilized along with the first video data to retrieve the video content in enhanced quality from the SVC-encoded video data; parsing the NAL extension header to identify the first and second video data; assigning a higher priority to the first video data for retransmission relative to the second video data; caching the first and second video data with the assigned priority in a buffer memory; monitoring a digital data network to collect first network transport conditions, the digital data network being connected in signal communication with a receiver, the digital data network involving first and second data transport protocols, the first protocol being less reliable than the second protocol; receiving a retransmission request transmitted on the second protocol from the receiver, the retransmission request including data indicating second network transport conditions of the digital data network determined at the receiver, the second network transport conditions including at least one of an end-to-end packet loss rate, an available bandwidth of the digital data network, and a round-trip delay; and determining whether to recover at least one of the first and second video data from the buffer memory and transmit the recovered video data to the receiver on the second protocol via the digital data network in accordance with the assigned priority in view of the first and second network transport conditions in response to the retransmission request.
US09306703B2
A protocol for optimizing the use of coded transmissions such as over wireless links. In this technique, interframes are split into segments selected to be an optimum size according to transmission characteristics of the radio channel. The inverse process is applied at the receiver. Using this scheme, segments containing erroneous data may be resent.
US09306698B2
A multi-mode configuration module for managing switching for an EPS, OCS, and OCS mode is provided. The multi-mode configuration module may include a multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said multi-mode configuration processor receives configuration information for an EPS, OCS, or OBS mode. The module may also provide an optical configuration processor coupled to said multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said optical configuration processor manages wavelength routing of an optical switching fabric; and an electronic configuration processor coupled to said multi-mode configuration processor, wherein said electronic configuration processor manages routing of an electronic switching fabric.
US09306694B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed for clock signal synchronization among computers in a network, including designating, as a primary clock signal for all the computers in a network, a clock signal from one of the computers in the network; providing the primary clock signal, simultaneously and in parallel, from the computer whose clock signal is designated as the primary clock signal to all the other computers in the network; and providing the primary clock signal, simultaneously and in parallel, from each computer in the network to all computers in the network through multiplexers and phase locked loops, with the primary clock signal locked in phase across all the computers by a phase locked loop on each computer.
US09306683B2
A compact and versatile power meter is created through the use of a discrete component network providing for phased splitting and combining of signals obtained at taps along a transmission conduit having a predefined phase separation. The use of the discrete component network eliminates the need for bulky waveguides or microstrip antenna designs, the latter providing phase shift through their physical dimensions.
US09306682B2
Systems and methods for a self-optimizing distributed antenna system are provided. In certain embodiments, a distributed antenna system comprises a host unit configured to control the operation of the distributed antenna system; and a plurality of remote units coupled to the host unit. In at least one embodiment, a remote unit in the plurality of remote antenna units comprises a scanning receiver configured to receive signals in a plurality of frequency bands; at least one transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in a frequency band in the plurality of frequency bands; and a remote unit controller configured to control an uplink gain level of the at least one transceiver and tune the scanning receiver to a frequency band in the plurality of frequency bands.
US09306678B2
Methods and systems for providing and processing data are disclosed. An example method can comprise determining a first weighted probability based on a probability of occurrence of a noise signal and a first likelihood ratio. The first likelihood ratio is based on a frequency distribution of the noise signal. An example method can comprise determining a second weighted probability based on a probability of non-occurrence of the noise signal and a second likelihood ratio. An example method can comprise determining a combination of the first weighted probability and the second weighted probability, and providing the combination to a decoder configured to decode a value based on the combination.
US09306676B1
A receiver architecture and method recovers data received over an optical fiber channel in the presence of cycle slips. In a first cycle slip recovery architecture, a receiver detects and corrects cycle slips based on pilot symbols inserted in the transmitted data. In a second cycle slip recovery architecture, a coarse cycle slip detection is performed based on pilot symbols and a cycle slip position estimation is then performed based on carrier phase noise. The receiver compensates for cycle slips based on the position estimation.
US09306667B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided. The apparatus obtains a message for communication using visible light communication (VLC) through a light emitting diode (LED) luminary device and formats the message using a synchronization signal followed by one or more data signals. The synchronization signal and/or the one or more data signals are modulated using a Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) modulation scheme. The apparatus further receives a dimming level value associated with a brightness of light to be emitted from the LED luminary device, generates a waveform with frequencies based on the formatted message and a duty cycle for the LED luminary device based on the dimming level value, and sends the generated waveform to the LED luminary device for communication using VLC.
US09306661B2
In a mobile communication system that employs a FDD scheme, a HeNB (100-1) and a UE (200-1) use a pair of a UL CC and a DL CC for radio communication. The HeNB (100-1) and the UE (200-1) change the UL CC of the pair of the UL CC and the DL CC to another CC while maintaining the DL CC during execution of the radio communication.
US09306660B2
A system of short-range communication devices identify specific regions of interest within an area. In addition, a set of ranges or zones is defined for each of the short-range communication devices and conditions and actions are assigned to the zones. A client device senses a short-range communications device and associates conditions and actions to the client device. The client device determines its zone, analyzes the conditions and, if at least one condition is met, triggers the action(s). The history or context of the client device within the area may be analyzed to generate additional conditions and/or actions, or to modify existing conditions and/or actions associated with the specific zones.
US09306638B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for backhaul enhancements for cooperative multi-point (CoMP) operations. An aggressor node may take pre-scheduling decisions in advance of beamformed data transmissions based on the pre-scheduling decisions. The aggressor node may communicate the pre-scheduling decisions to one or more victim nodes, for example, via a backhaul link between the aggressor node and the one or more victim nodes. A victim node may take scheduling decisions based at least on the pre-scheduling decisions of the aggressor node to coordinate beamformed transmissions from the victim node with the beamformed transmissions from the aggressor node.
US09306636B2
A method and apparatus for excluding a cross-connected wireless power receiver in a wireless power transmitter is provided. The method includes determining transmission power while the wireless power transmitter is connected to the wireless power receiver; transferring the determined transmission power to the wireless power receiver; receiving a report indicating a power-receiving state from the wireless power receiver; determining whether the power-receiving state indicated by the report is within a valid range corresponding to the transmission power; and terminating the connection to the wireless power receiver if the power-receiving state is outside of the valid range.
US09306634B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for waking a wireless power transmitter from beacon mode. In one aspect a wireless power receiver apparatus is provided. The wireless power receiver apparatus includes a receive circuit comprising a receive coil. This receive circuit is coupled to a load. The receive circuit is configured to wirelessly receive power from a transmitter device at a first power level to power the load. The wireless power receiver apparatus further includes an adjustment circuit configured to be powered by using the wirelessly received power. The adjustment circuit is further configured to adjust a characteristic of the load using the wirelessly received power for a period of time to cause a detectable change in an operating characteristic of the transmitter device for the period of time.
US09306626B2
An apparatus and system are provided for interpreting the gestural path of a first NFC device within NFC range of a second NFC device, or the gestural path of the second NFC device within range of the first NFC device, to determine context for a pre-determined function. The second NFC device includes a plurality of inductive coupling elements, each element configured to output a signal when within range of the first NFC device. A controller module receives the signal from each element when the first NFC device is within range and determines a path of the first NFC device across the second NFC device based on a time difference of receipt at the controller of the signals. The plurality of inductive coupling elements may be active or passive, and interact with the first NFC device in a peer-to-peer mode or read/write mode, depending on the configuration of each device.
US09306614B2
An apparatus includes first and second oscillator circuits. A transformer has a primary winding coupling the first oscillator circuit to the second oscillator circuit and a secondary winding. A first outgoing communications circuit is coupled to the second oscillator circuit and drives an amplitude modulated data signal thereto. A first incoming communications circuit is coupled to the primary winding of the transformer. A second outgoing communications circuit is coupled to the secondary winding drives an amplitude modulated data signal thereto. A second incoming communications circuit is coupled to the secondary winding. The secondary winding is magnetically coupled with the primary winding so the secondary winding receives an output power and an incoming data transmission based upon the amplitude modulated data signal, and so the primary winding receives an incoming high speed data transmission based upon the amplitude modulated data signal.
US09306610B2
An active antenna array for a mobile communications network and a method for receiving radio signals is disclosed. The active antenna array has a plurality of antenna elements for relaying radio signals, a plurality of first amplifiers for amplifying a plurality of individual receive signals a plurality of first analog-to-digital converters and a plurality of first gain switches located between one of the plurality of first analog-to-digital converters and the plurality of first amplifiers. A digital signal processor is connected to outputs of the plurality of first analog-to-digital converters and has a common gain switch control line connected to at least two of the plurality of first switches for controlling the gain of the first gain switches.
US09306600B2
Apparatuses and methods for soft read threshold location calibration are provided. One example method can include selecting read threshold sets (RTSs), and determining log-likelihood-ratios (LLRs) based on a number of decisions that correspond to each bin associated with the selected RTSs. Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codewords are decoded using the determined LLRs, and a RTS of the RTSs yielding a least number of failed codewords decoded using the determined LLRs is identified.
US09306589B1
An analog-digital conversion system includes an analog-digital converter; and a preamplifier circuit which is provided in the previous stage of the analog-digital converter and differentially amplifies an input analog signal. In the preamplifier circuit, an offset voltage and/or a noise occurs and/or is mixed. The preamplifier circuit outputs two types of analog amplified differential signals where a phase is inverted only with respect to the offset voltage and/or the noise. The analog-digital converter has an averaging circuit which averages the two types of analog amplified differential signals for each clock cycle of sampling preceding an analog-digital conversion and outputs a digital signal based on the differential signal averaged by the averaging circuit.
US09306583B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) is provided. The DLL includes a delay line, a phase detector, a delay line control unit, and a DLL controller. The delay line outputs an output clock by delaying an input clock by a first time on the basis of a select value. The phase detector detects a phase of the output clock. The delay line control unit determines a select value so that the first time corresponds to n periods of the input clock on the basis of the detected phase and an initial select value. The DLL controller provides the initial select value to the delay line control unit. The DLL controller updates the initial select value according to a change of a frequency of the input clock, and to provide the updated initial select value to the delay line control unit.
US09306582B2
An output control circuit may include a period setting signal generation unit configured to output a setup signal enabled during a designated period, in response to a delayed locked loop (DLL) locking signal and an output enable reset signal. The output control circuit may also include a clock division unit configured to divide an internal clock at a preset division ratio in response to the setup signal, and output a divided clock. In addition, the output control circuit may include a shift unit configured to shift the setup signal by a preset first time in response to the divided clock, and output a first delayed setup signal. Further, the output control circuit may include an output unit configured to receive and process the first delayed setup signal in response to the divided clock, and output the output enable reset signal.
US09306580B2
An oscillation circuit includes a circuit for frequency adjustment, a variable capacity control circuit in which a voltage to be output therefrom is controlled with either a voltage which is input from a terminal T1 or a voltage other than the voltage which is input from the terminal T1, a circuit for oscillation which is provided with a varactor and to which a signal from the circuit for frequency adjustment and a signal from the variable capacity control circuit are input, and a three-terminal switch which outputs the voltage which is input from the terminal T1 to either the circuit for frequency adjustment or the variable capacity control circuit.
US09306571B2
A device includes a first level shifter, a switch, and a control circuit. The first level shifter is electrically connected to a pad. The switch has an input terminal electrically connected to an input terminal of the first level shifter, and an output terminal electrically connected to an output terminal of the first level shifter. The control circuit is electrically connected to a control terminal of the switch.
US09306560B2
In one embodiment, a method includes modifying a voltage at a capacitance of a touch sensor to a first voltage level. The method also includes modifying the voltage at the capacitance to a second voltage level, resulting in a first current. The method also includes modifying a voltage at an integration capacitor to a charging-voltage level based on the first current. The method also includes determining whether a touch input to the touch sensor has occurred based on the charging-voltage level.
US09306558B2
This FET includes: a source electrode pad, which is formed on a source electrode and which is electrically connected to the source electrode; and/or a drain electrode pad, which is formed on the drain electrode and which is electrically connected to the drain electrode. The source electrode pad has a cutout for reducing a parasitic capacitance between the source electrode pad and the drain electrode, and the drain electrode pad has a cutout for reducing a parasitic capacitance between the drain electrode pad and the source electrode.
US09306557B2
The present invention is related to a circuit arrangement of a gate side fan out area. The circuit arrangement comprises: a first circuit module (T1), which the gate is coupled to a first input end (A), the drain and the source are respectively coupled to a second input end (B) and a Nth gate scan line (N); a first end (1) of the first circuit module is coupled to the first input end, a second end (2) is coupled to the second input end, and a third end (3) is coupled to the N+1th gate scan line (N+1); a first end (1) and a second end (2) of the second circuit module are coupled to the second input end (B), and a third end (3) is coupled to the Nth gate scan line (N); a first end (1) and a second end (2) of the third circuit module are coupled to the second input end (B), and a third end (3) is coupled to the N+1th gate scan line (N+1); a periodic square wave is inputted to the first input end (A), and a gate scanning signal is inputted to the second input end (B). The present invention is capable of enormously reducing the cost of a G-COF.
US09306552B1
A maximum voltage selection circuit may include multiple inputs, each for receiving a different input voltage, an output for delivering the highest of the input voltages, and a voltage selection circuit. The voltage selection circuit may automatically select the input having the largest voltage magnitude, automatically deliver the voltage at the selected input to the output, and not draw quiescent operating current from any of the inputs. For each and every unique combination of two of the multiple inputs, the voltage selection circuit may include an enhancement mode FET with a channel connected in series between a first input of the unique combination of the two inputs and the output; a connection between the gate of the enhancement mode FET and the second input of the unique combination of the two inputs through the channel of a depletion mode FET; an additional enhancement mode FET with a channel connected in series between the second of the unique combination of the two inputs and the output; and a connection between the gate of the additional enhancement mode FET and the first of the unique combination of the two inputs through the channel of an additional depletion mode FET.
US09306549B2
Circuitry for generating voltage levels operative to perform data operations on non-volatile re-writeable memory arrays are disclosed. In some embodiments an integrated circuit includes a substrate and a base layer formed on the substrate to include active devices configured to operate within a first voltage range. Further, the integrated circuit can include a cross-point memory array formed above the base layer and including re-writable two-terminal memory cells that are configured to operate, for example, within a second voltage range that is greater than the first voltage range. Conductive array lines in the cross-point memory array are electrically coupled with the active devices in the base layer. The integrated circuit also can include X-line decoders and Y-line decoders that include devices that operate in the first voltage range. The active devices can include other active circuitry such as sense amps for reading data from the memory cells, for example.
US09306542B2
An RF front-end with on-chip transmitter/receiver isolation using a gyrator is presented herein. The RF front end is configured to support full-duplex communication and includes a gyrator and a transformer. The gyrator includes two transistors that are configured to isolate the input of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) from the output of a power amplifier (PA). The gyrator is further configured to isolate the output of the PA from the input of the LNA. The gyrator is at least partially or fully capable of being integrated on silicon-based substrate.
US09306541B2
In an integrated circuit having a feedback amplifier circuit composed of the feedback which feedbacks a part of the output signal to the input side in the first stage, a semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention can suppress the occurrence of the data signal distortion and the gain peaking of the frequency characteristic generated by inter-stage wiring between the first stage and the latter stage.A semiconductor integrated circuit of the present invention includes the first circuit and the second circuit having the first output connected to the first circuit, and the second output that is a signal similar to said first output is outputted from between said first circuit and said second circuit. In addition, a semiconductor integrated circuits of the present invention has the feature that the output impedance pulled out from between said first circuit and said second circuit, the input impedance of the circuit connected to the latter stage of said second circuit and the characteristic impedance of the wiring which connects said second output with a circuit connected to the latter stage of said second circuit are equal to each other.
US09306534B2
Disclosed are an impedance matching apparatus and an impedance matching method thereof. The impedance matching apparatus performs impedance matching between a front end module and an antenna. The impedance matching apparatus includes a switching unit to selectively select multiple-band RF input signals, a power amplifying unit to amplify the RF input signal selected from the switching unit, a reflected power measuring unit to measure a reflection coefficient for the RF input signal, a matching unit to adjust a variable device so that the reflection coefficient is minimized, and a controller to provide a variable device value allowing the minimum reflection coefficient based on the amplified RF input signal and the reflection coefficient.
US09306531B2
A tunable and trimmable analog filter may include a tunable analog filter and a trimming circuit. The tunable analog filter may set the frequency of a characteristic of the tunable analog filter based on a digital tuning signal that is indicative of a desired frequency of the characteristic. However, the tunable analog filter may contain components having values that deviate from specified values due to var during manufacture of the tunable analog filter. The value deviations can cause the frequency of the characteristic not to precisely match the frequency indicated by the digital tuning signal. The trimming circuit may include a non-volatile memory that contains data. The trimming circuit may receive tuning information indicative of a desired frequency for the characteristic of the tunable analog filter. The trimming circuit may generate the digital tuning signal by trimming the tuning information to compensate for the deviations in component value and by using the data contained within the non-volatile digital memory.
US09306521B2
A vehicular audio processing unit includes a receiver that receives voice data by wirelessly communicating with audio equipment, an audio processor that applies predetermined audio processing to the voice data received by the receiver, a transmitter that transmits the voice data to which the audio processor applies the predetermined audio processing by wirelessly communicating with an audio output device that can output a sound, and a sensor that detects an operational status of a vehicle with which the unit is provided. The audio processor automatically modifies the predetermined audio processing based on the operational status detected by the operational status detector to the voice data received by the receive, thereby the user is not required to perform any operation for varying the voice output according to an operational status of the vehicle.
US09306520B2
Techniques for preventing reverse current in applications wherein a tracking supply voltage is placed in parallel with a switching power stage. The tracking supply voltage may be boosted to a level higher than a battery supply voltage using, e.g., a boost converter. In an aspect, a negative current detection block is provided to detect negative current flow from the boosted tracking supply voltage to the battery supply voltage. A high-side switch of the switching power stage may be disabled in response to detecting the negative current. To prevent false tripping, the tracking supply voltage may be further compared with the battery supply voltage, and a latch may be provided to further control the high-side switch.
US09306509B2
In one embodiment, a differential amplifier is provided. Gates of a first differential pair of transistors, of a first conductivity type, and a second pair or transistors, of a second conductivity type are coupled to first and second input terminals of the differential amplifier. A first pair of adjustable current sources are configured to adjust respective tail currents of the first differential pair of transistors in response to a first bias current control signal. A second pair of adjustable current sources are configured to adjust respective tail currents of the second differential pair of transistors in response to the first bias current control signal. A third pair of adjustable current sources are configured to adjust respective currents through the second differential pair of transistors in response to a second bias current control signal.
US09306504B2
Techniques for applying waveform shaping to DC-to-DC level transitions in an audio amplifier. In an aspect, a waveform shaping block may utilize a non-linear shaping waveform such as a Gaussian waveform, raised-cosine waveform, root-raised cosine waveform, etc., to shape the transition between two DC levels in an audio amplifier output. The waveform shaping techniques may be utilized, e.g., during power-up or power-down of the amplifier, or in an impedance measurement mode, to reduce audio artifacts associated with the transition while minimizing overall transition time.
US09306491B2
The present invention relates to electrical test apparatuses for photovoltaic components and methods of testing photovoltaic components.
US09306487B2
A motor drive device driven by a three-phase AC, which drives a motor by an AC/DC converter and DC/AC converter controlled by a controller, and which has an electromagnetic contractor without an auxiliary contact in an input power circuit, which motor control device is provided at the controller with an off circuit of the electromagnetic contactor and a partial controller of the three-phase bridge circuit at the AC/DC converter, turns on an upper arm of a predetermined phase of the three-phase bridge circuit and turns on the lower arms of other phases in the state where the electromagnetic contactor is turned off, judges the presence of current in this state by the current detector, and, when the current detector detects current, uses a contact fusion detector to detecte contact fusion in the electromagnetic contactor and thereby can detect fusion of a contact in the electromagnetic contactor without an additional circuit.
US09306486B2
Linear compressor comprising a resonant linear motor (4) having a stator (9) and a linear displacer (3), the linear motor (4) cooperating with a resonant spring (2) that is driven by the linear displacer (3) at one of the ends of the resonant spring (2) with the opposite end of the resonant spring (2) cooperating with a mechanical actuation element (1). A variation sensor of magnetic flux (5) cooperates with the resonant spring (2). Said variation sensor of magnetic flux (5) comprising a fixed part (7) and a movable part (6), the movable part (6) coupled to the end of the resonant spring (2) opposite to the end cooperating with the linear displacer (3). The variation sensor of magnetic flux (5) is the sole means required to determine the displacement amplitude and the frequency of oscillation of the displacer (3) of the linear motor (4). Corresponding method for controlling the stroke in such a linear compressor.
US09306482B2
A method and a device for establishing the rotor angle of a synchronous machine. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of feeding at least one initial voltage pulse of predefinable pulse length and pulse height into the stator of the synchronous machine, detecting the respective current response to the at least one initial voltage pulse, determining the respective phase difference on the basis of the respective detected current response, establishing at least one first estimated value by comparing the current response with a current response characteristic curve of the synchronous machine, establishing at least one second estimated value by comparing the phase difference with a phase difference characteristic curve of the synchronous machine, forming a multiplicity of differences between each of the first estimated values and each of the second estimated values, and determining an initial estimated value for the rotor angle of the synchronous machine on the basis of the determined difference having the lowest value.
US09306477B2
In a hybrid vehicle that selects a series mode in which an engine drives a motor generator to generate electric power and a driving motor drives drive wheels, fuel supply to the engine is stopped and motoring in which the motor generator forcedly drives the engine can be performed, failure determination of a front O2 sensor and a rear O2 sensor provided in an exhaust passage of the engine can be performed based on a change in a detection value of the sensors when the fuel supply is stopped, and a throttle valve of the engine is forcedly opened in the motoring.
US09306474B2
A power conversion system mainly includes an input capacitor bank, a first conversion circuit, a second conversion circuit, and a control circuit. The input capacitor bank has a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected to a neutral point and receive a DC input voltage. The first conversion circuit is connected in parallel to the input capacitor bank, and has a first branch, a second branch, and a first auxiliary branch. The second conversion circuit is connected in parallel to the input capacitor bank, and has a third branch, a fourth branch, and a second auxiliary branch. The control circuit produces a plurality of control signals to correspondingly control the first conversion circuit and the second conversion circuit so as to reduce leakage current caused by parasitic capacitance voltage.
US09306468B2
In an AC-AC converter comprising a primary side, a secondary side and a regulator, wherein the regulator comprises a voltage regulation circuit configured to determine an error voltage based on an at least partially alternating feedback voltage fed into the regulator from the secondary side of the AC-AC converter and to supply this error voltage and/or an information about this error voltage to the primary side of the AC-AC converter, the regulator comprises an averaging circuit configured to determine an average DC voltage based on the feedback voltage.
US09306464B2
A synchronous rectifying control circuit of a power converter is provided. The synchronous rectifying control circuit comprises a synchronous rectifying driver, a charge pump capacitor, and a capacitor. The synchronous rectifying driver is coupled to a transformer for generating a control signal to switch a transistor. The charge pump capacitor is coupled to a power source for generating a charge pump voltage. The capacitor is coupled to store the charge pump voltage. The transistor is coupled to the transformer and operated as a synchronous rectifier. The charge pump voltage is coupled to guarantee a sufficient driving capability for the control signal.
US09306463B2
A full-bridge quasi-resonant DC-DC converter is provided, including a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a full-bridge converting circuit electrically connected with the primary winding of the transformer, a resonant capacitor provided between the full-bridge converting circuit and the primary winding, a rectifier circuit electrically connected with the secondary winding of the transformer, and a resonant inductor connected in series with the rectifier circuit. Therefore, the full-bridge quasi-resonant DC-DC converter reduces the switching losses of the switching elements and effectively reduces the size of the converter, while increases the conversion efficiency.
US09306461B2
A power converter reduces output ripple without using an electrolytic primary-side capacitor that can reduce product lifetime. Primary-Side Regulation (PSR) using an auxiliary winding provides a regulated secondary voltage with some low-frequency ripple on a secondary winding of a transformer. A smaller secondary capacitor that is not an electrolytic capacitor filters the output of the secondary side. A bang-bang controller controls the secondary side current to reduce current ripple despite voltage ripple. The bang-bang controller has a series resistor and inductor in series with a load such as an LED. A voltage drop across the series resistor increases when a switch turns on. This increasing voltage drop toggles the switch off once an upper limit voltage is reached. The voltage drop then decreases as inductor current is shunted by a diode, until the voltage drop reaches a lower limit voltage and the switch toggles on again.
US09306449B2
An adjustable charge pump system. The system includes a voltage regulator, a clock circuit, a voltage adjustment circuit, and a charge pump. The voltage regulator is configured to receive an input voltage and output a regulated voltage. The clock circuit is coupled to the voltage regulator and receives the regulated voltage. The voltage adjustment circuit is coupled to the voltage regulator and is configured to receive the regulated voltage and to output a driver voltage. The charge pump includes a plurality of stages. The output of the adjustable charge pump system is adjusted by disabling one or more stages of the first stage and the plurality of subsequent stages.
US09306446B2
A fault protection and correction circuit for the control of a power converter is disclosed. An example circuit generates a waveform that drives a switch on or off and controls the power converter. The controller circuit in addition to power factor correction (PFC) circuitry includes a first and a second shut down mode modules, both of them cause the switching to stop. The circuit includes a module for receiving fault events. When a fault occurs, the controller enters the second shut down mode. The controller stays in the second shut down mode if the required current for this mode can be provided by the outside circuitry. Otherwise, the controller enters the first shut down mode that requires less current and subsequently restarts the controller. By modifying the outside circuitry the controller can respond differently to fault events.
US09306436B2
Method for fabricating an electric miniature motor, substantially comprising a housing assembly, a rotor assembly, a power transmission and bearing assembly and a second bearing assembly, wherein the housing assembly comprises a housing tube having a division extending in the axial direction over an entire length of the housing tube, comprising the following steps of a) inserting a cylindrical core having a defined outer diameter into the housing assembly; b) adjusting an inner diameter of the housing assembly to an outer diameter of the core; c) fixing the inner diameter of the housing assembly by fixing the housing tube in an area of the division; and d) removing the cylindrical core.
US09306434B2
A joint of a robot includes a driving motor, a speed reducer that reduces rotation of an output shaft of the motor, and an arm connected to the speed reducer. The joint includes an input encoder that detects a rotational position of the motor and an output encoder that detects a rotational position of the arm. A controller controls the motor based on data indicating the rotational positions of the motor and the arm detected by the input encoder and the output encoder, respectively. The input encoder is arranged with a register that latches and retains an input EC value. The output encoder includes a register that latches and retains an output EC value, and an edge pulse output section that outputs an edge pulse to both registers every time the output EC value changes. In response to the edge pulse, both registers concurrently output EC values to the controller.
US09306417B2
A power system includes one or more notification circuits for powering notification devices, a backup power source, and a plurality of primary power supplies. The primary power supplies are configured to provide a combined current to the notification circuits. Each primary power supply regulates its output current to equal a highest output current provided by one of the primary power supplies so that each contributes approximately the same current to the load. The primary power supplies also include boost regulator circuits for boosting the voltage of the backup power supply.
US09306409B2
A battery system comprising a battery management system (BMS) is disclosed. The BMS has a hierarchical structure including an upper layer master BMS and a lower layer slave BMS. The master transmits a request signal to the slave wirelessly, and the slave transmits a response signal based on the request signal wirelessly to the master.
US09306406B2
Disclosed herein is a charging device. In one embodiment, the device includes a base unit that forms bottom and side surfaces, a top unit that forms a top surface of the apparatus, the top unit including a user-removable insert, the user-removable insert comprising a substantially transparent portion and a substantially opaque portion, one or more light emitters positioned within the base unit and configured for emitting light through the substantially transparent portion of the user-removable insert, a first male electrical plug protruding from the base unit and configured to couple to a first external device, a first female electrical receptacle recessed substantially within the base unit and configured to couple to an external power source, and power electronics coupled to the one or more light emitters, the first male electrical plug, and the first female electrical receptacle, the power electronics being configured to deliver electricity from the external power source to the first external device and the one or more light emitters.
US09306404B2
An electronic device. The electronic device may include a battery, and a charging system in electronic communication with the battery. The charging system may be configured to charge at least a partially-depleted battery to a threshold charge value, discontinue the charging in response to the battery being charged to the threshold charge value, and monitor the function of the electronic device to detect at least one of an anticipated event, and an unanticipated event of the electronic device. Additionally the charging system may be configured to recharge the battery in response to detecting one of: the anticipated event occurring a predetermined time subsequent to the recharging of the battery, or the unanticipated event occurring immediately before the recharging of the battery.
US09306394B2
A distributed load current sensing system being connected to a power input terminal that is connected to a main power trunk that has one or multiple load branches connected thereto is disclosed to include a power bus connected to the main power trunk, an active power filter connected to the power bus and a load current sensor device coupled with each load branch for sensing the load current of each load branch and providing the sensed signal to the active power filter so that the active power filter can generate a compensation signal accurately.
US09306390B2
An on-package interface. A first set of single-ended transmitter circuits on a first die. A first set of single-ended receiver circuits on a second die. The receiver circuits have a termination circuit comprising an inverter and a resistive feedback element. A plurality of conductive lines couple the first set of transmitter circuits and the first set of receiver circuits. The lengths of the plurality of conductive lines are matched.
US09306386B2
An electromagnetic direct current (DC) power system includes a plurality of pulse forming networks (PFN) modules. Each pulse forming network (PFN) module includes a PFN circuit, a fault current limiting (FCL) circuit and a cooling system. The pulse PFN circuit is configured to generate a pulsed DC output power. The PFN circuit further includes at least one energy storage inductor with primary winding having a primary winding inductance that controls a primary impedance of the PFN circuit. The FCL circuit includes a secondary winding that electrically communicates with the primary winding. The FCL circuit is configured to receive fault energy existing in the PFN circuit during a fault event. The cooling system is configured to cool at least one of the primary winding and the secondary winding, and remove a portion of the fault energy.
US09306381B2
An electrical device according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a frame, a conductor having a conductive element and an electrically insulating cover disposed about at least a portion of the conductive element, and a busbar mounted to the frame. The busbar includes a busbar body and a weld crimp. The weld crimp has a base, which extends from the busbar body, and a cross-member that is coupled to the base on a side of the base that is opposite the busbar body. The cross-member has a weld portion and a crimp portion. The weld portion intersects the base. The crimp portion intersects the weld portion and has a crimp member that receives the conductor. The crimp member is permanently deformed about the conductor so as to apply a clamping force to the conductor. The conductive element is welded to the weld portion.
US09306378B2
A method for producing a wire harness includes hot pressing a first portion including an edge portion of a nonwoven material, and curing the first portion of the nonwoven material, and thereafter partially overlapping the first portion and a second portion that is softer than the first portion and is the portion of the nonwoven material other than the first portion, so that a wire bundle is covered by the first portion and the second portion.
US09306368B2
This invention provides a solution for operating a mode-locking and cavity dumping laser apparatus using a single electro-optical switch or modulator, such as a Pockels cell, without the need of multiplexing between two sources of voltage. The complex waveform of electrical signal, which controls the Pockels Cell is achieved by employing the phenomena, called LC circuit ringing, where the LC circuit is formed from an inductive element and a capacitor, where the Pockels Cell works as a capacitor itself. The ringing frequency should be calculated such that the period of oscillations is preferably two times longer than the round-trip time of a light pulse inside the optical cavity. As a result, optical losses are created inside the cavity with a period, which coincides with the travel of a light pulse, thus the pulse build-up is consistent and stable.
US09306365B2
A pump device for pumping an amplifying laser medium (1), having a radiation source (13) with a plurality of laser diodes (15, 16) that emit laser beams (17) which have parallel beam axes (a) extending in the direction of a z axis and which diverge at least twice as much in the direction of an x axis perpendicular to the z axis as in the direction of a y axis perpendicular to the z axis and to the x axis. The pump device also has at least one optical component (22, 22′, 22″) with at least one cylinder surface (23), with which at least some of the laser beams (17) emitted by the laser diodes (15, 16) interact. The cylinder surface (23) lies parallel to the x axis and is curved on a plane perpendicular to the x axis.
US09306355B2
[Technical Problem]To provide a connection method between a braided shield layer of a shield wire and a drain wire, and a connection structure of the same enabling an easy and reliable connection, using no skilled operation such as soldering, and without an increase of non-shield area which is a problem when the braided shield layer is pulled out and a ground terminal is directly crimped onto the braided shield layer.[Solution to Problem]A connection method between a braided shield layer of a shield wire and a drain wire sequentially including the steps of a shield terminal insertion step; a shield layer folding and overlapping step; a drain wire overlapping step; a shield ring inserting step; and a crimping step.
US09306353B2
An improved slip-ring has a stator and a rotor, and includes a brush having a proximal end mounted on one of the stator and rotor and having a distal end engaging the other of the stator and rotor. The brush is adapted to convey electrical signals across the interface between the stator and rotor. The improvement includes: the rotor including a support member (1); and a track provided on the other of the stator and rotor, the track being arranged for sliding contact with the brush distal end; and a thermal element (3 or 6) arranged within the support member for selectively affecting the temperature of the rotor; whereby the temperature operating range of the slip-ring may be increased.
US09306340B2
An electrical connector includes a first cable termination chamber configured to receive a first power cable having at least a first conductor sheathed at least in part by a first insulating layer and a first insulation screen layer. Also, the electrical connector includes a first non-linear resistive layer configured to be coupled to a portion of the first conductor unsheathed by at least the first insulation screen layer and configured to control a direct current electric field generated in the first cable termination chamber. In addition, the electrical connector includes a first deflector configured to be coupled to the first power cable and control an alternating current electric field generated in the first cable termination chamber.
US09306333B2
An electrical connector system includes mating pin and socket connectors each designed for increased contact density to improve performance of high-speed data transfer. The connectors include features for retaining a plurality of pin or socket contacts in a ganged, co-aligned configuration and for shielding groups of contacts from one another to reduce interference and crosstalk. The connectors further include features for providing strain relief to the internal wires and/or cables. The electrical connectors further include an electrically conductive grounding contact to latch various internal components of the electrical connector together for improved mechanical connection and shielding properties.
US09306331B2
A self-aligning connector for data and/or power transmission includes a base plate, a plurality of data and/or power contact elements arranged on the base plate, first and second positioning means attached to the base plate, a mounting means and a frame assembly connecting the base plate to the mounting means and comprising a plurality of frames. Each frame is directly connected to exactly two elements selected from a group consisting of the plurality of frames, the mounting means and the base plate. Each frame is tiltable at least about one axis and/or displaceable in at least one direction with respect to each element it is directly connected to. A connector assembly includes a first self-aligning connector and a second connector. A vehicle includes a first compartment and a second compartment separated by a wall, a bellows assembly and the connector assembly.
US09306323B2
A cable connector device for an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a connector port disposed in the electronic device, one or more magnet coupling parts, each of the one or more magnet coupling parts which is disposed around the connector port, a cable connector device removably coupled to the connector port, and one or more magnet coupling bodies, each of the one or more magnet coupling bodies which is installed in the cable connector device and has the same polarity as that of each of the one or more magnet coupling parts, wherein each of the one or more magnet coupling parts and each of one or more magnet coupling bodies are disposed in positions where they are pushed by repulsive force when the cable connector device is mounted in a reverse direction.
US09306320B2
Terminal fittings (110) connected to end parts of wires (200) are inserted into cavities (16) of a housing (11). A seal (60) is arranged on a rear surface side of the housing (11), and a holder (40) is arranged on a rear side of the seal (60). A wire cover (70) is arranged rotatably from an open position to a closed position on a rear side of the holder (40). The wire cover (70) includes cover-side rotation center portions (76). The holder (40) includes holder-side rotation center portions (47) configured to support the cover-side rotation center portions (76) and constituting a center of rotation of the wire cover (70).
US09306308B2
Provided is a surface-mount type electric connecting terminal which is disposed between opposing conductive objects and is configured to electrically connecting the objects while easily adjusting pressing force and recovery force. The electric connecting terminal includes a cylindrical fixed member which is made from a metallic material; a cylindrical movable member which is slidably inserted in the fixed member and is made from a metallic material; and an electrical conductive spring which is accommodated in the fixed member and whose one end contacts with the bottom of the fixed member and the other end contacts with the bottom of the movable member for thereby allowing the movable member to elastically slide against the fixed member.
US09306304B2
Methods and apparatuses may provide for a grounding between a shield on a flat flexible cable and a printed circuit board. According to one embodiment, the pins of a connector include ground pins that contact both ground traces on the flat flexible cable and a shield on the flat flexible cable, further connecting the cable to a ground plane.
US09306294B2
A smart antenna apparatus includes a casing, which supports an omnidirectional antenna array; a plurality of transceivers electrically connected with the antenna array; and a format converter and booster device electrically connected between the plurality of transceivers and a network port, said format converter and booster device comprising a multiplexer/de-multiplexer circuit for encoding plural USB signals from the plurality of transceivers to the network port and for decoding plural USB signals from the network port to the plurality of transceivers.
US09306292B2
The present disclosure relates to a portable terminal having antennas for transmitting or receiving wireless signals. The portable terminal includes a terminal body, a first antenna mounted in the terminal body to transmit or receive a wireless signal, a second antenna disposed with being spaced apart from the first antenna and set to transmit or receive a wireless signal at a frequency band different from the first antenna, and a connection unit configured to electrically connect the first and second antennas to reduce a frequency interference between the first and second antennas, at least part of the connection unit being formed along an edge of the terminal body.
US09306287B2
In an antenna structure having a serial connected capacitance effect, mainly a metallic planar antenna is provided thereon at least with a first metallic plane board, and a second metallic plane board being close to but not connected to the first metallic plane board to form the effect of capacitance in serial connecting. And more, the antenna structure further has an extension arm made from a microstrip extended from the antenna or the second metallic plane board, and can be optionally grounded or not grounded, for the purpose of adjusting the impedance value of the antenna structure.
US09306285B2
An antenna including a radiation portion is provided. The radiation portion includes a feed terminal and three conductor branch paths directly extending from the feed terminal. The three conductor branch paths are located on the same side of the feed terminal, and each has an initial direction, and any two of the three initial directions have an acute angle therebetween. A method for manufacturing an antenna having three operating frequency bands is also provided.
US09306275B2
A passive element has an electrical length such that a resonance mode thereof is in a target frequency band, and first and second feed elements, each of which has an electrical length such that a resonance mode thereof is not in the target frequency band. The first feed element has a first coupling conductive part, and a first connecting conductive part, which has a continuous shape with the first coupling conductive part. The second feed element has a second coupling conductive part, and a second connecting conductive part, which has a continuous shape with the second coupling conductive part. The first coupling conductive part is disposed parallel and adjacent to the passive element. The second coupling conductive part is disposed parallel and adjacent to the passive element. The first connecting conductive part and the second connecting conductive part are disposed adjacent and parallel to each other.
US09306265B1
A photonically controlled microwave device having a photosensitive substrate having an interior region comprising a high radio frequency (“RF”) field for a resonant RF mode. An RF resonator is patterned on a surface of the substrate, the pattern includes an aperture in the resonator positioned to direct light received from a light source to the interior region. The light source may have a wavelength that enables illumination of the interior region to generate free carriers or other photo-induced changes in RF permittivity. An optical boundary may be provided that recirculates the unabsorbed optical power inside the high RF field region until it is fully absorbed.
US09306264B2
A transition (100, 300) from microstrip to waveguide, the waveguide comprising first (120) and second (105, 105′, 105″) interior surfaces connected by side walls (115, 116) whose height (h1, h2, h3) is the shortest distance between said interior surfaces, and a microstrip structure (130, 135, 110) extending into the closed waveguide (105). The microstrip structure comprises a microstrip conductor (130, 135) on a dielectric layer arranged on said first interior surface. The microstrip conductor (130, 135) comprises and is terminated inside the closed waveguide by a patch (135). The height (h1) of the side walls (115, 116) along the distance that the microstrip conductor (130, 135) extends into the closed waveguide (105) being less than half of the greatest height (h3) beyond the microstrip structure's protrusion into the closed waveguide (105).
US09306263B2
An electronic device has a multilayer substrate that has an interface surface configured for interfacing to a dielectric waveguide. A conductive layer on the substrate is etched to form a dipole antenna disposed adjacent the interface surface to provide coupling to the dielectric waveguide. A reflector structure is formed in the substrate adjacent the dipole antenna opposite from the interface surface.
US09306260B2
According to one embodiment, a coupler for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave by electromagnetic coupling between the coupler and another, includes a line-shaped coupling element including a first open end and a second open end, a ground plane, a feeding element connecting the coupling element and a feed point, and a short circuiting element connecting the feeding element and the ground plane. The feeding element includes a first end connected to an intermediate portion between the first open end and the second open end of the coupling element, and a second end connected to the feed point. The short circuiting element includes a third end arranged between the first end of the feeding element and the second end of the feeding element, and a fourth end connected to the ground plane.
US09306256B2
A phase shifting device is disclosed. The phase shifting device comprises an input operable to receive an input signal to be adjusted; a coupling device coupled with the input and with an output; and at least one lumped equivalent impedance transformer circuit coupled with the coupling device to receive the input signal, the lumped equivalent impedance transformer circuit having liquid crystal variable capacitors operable to adjust the input signal in response to a bias voltage applied thereto and to provide the adjusted input signal to the coupling device as an output signal. Rather than using a microstrip structure, a lumped element equivalent is instead used, which makes it possible to exploit the advantages of a liquid crystal structure but in a more compact form.
US09306248B2
A battery pack and a liquid leakage detection method thereof are provided. The battery pack comprises a plurality of battery cells, a isolated liquid and a battery box containing the isolated liquid. The battery cells are soaked in the isolated liquid. The battery box comprising a box body and a cover plate. The isolated liquid is a fire-retardant and insulating liquid that has a specific gravity smaller than an electrolyte and is insoluble in the electrolyte. A collection portion is disposed at the bottom of the battery box, and a detection component is disposed in the collection portion. The present disclosure encloses the leaked electrolyte in the fire-retardant isolated liquid and uses the detection component to detect a resistance value of the isolated liquid so as to improve the safety of the box body.
US09306245B2
A battery includes: battery cell groups, each of which is obtained by connecting battery cells in series to each other; a battery casing storing the battery cells; a bus-bar connecting positive electrodes of the respective battery cell groups; a bus-bar connecting negative electrodes of the respective battery cell groups; and a first line connecting the positive electrode and the bus-bar, a second line connecting the negative electrode and the bus-bar, and a third line connecting the battery cells included in each of the battery cell groups. The first line and the second line are drawn to the outside of the battery casing and connected to the bus-bar, and the corresponding first and second lines are bent at the outside of the battery casing according to a position of the battery cell group in the battery casing and are connected to the bus-bar.
US09306234B2
A polymer comprising a first repeating unit represented by Formula 1: wherein R1 to R13 and Ar1 in Formula 1 are defined in the specification.
US09306232B2
A filtration device for a fuel cell system is provided. The filtration device includes a filter adapted to receive a reactant for a fuel cell. The filter includes a molecular sieve material adapted to separate a contaminant from the reactant supplied to the fuel cell. A membrane electrode assembly having the filter integrally formed therewith, and a fuel cell stack having the filter disposed adjacent at least one of the end plates of the fuel cell stack, are also provided.
US09306230B2
A method for estimating cathode inlet and cathode outlet relative humidity (RH) of a fuel cell stack. The method uses a model to estimate the high frequency resistance (HFR) of the fuel cell stack based on water specie balance, and also measures stack HFR. The HFR values from the estimated HFR and the measured HFR are compared, and an error between the HFR values is determined. An online regression algorithm is then utilized to minimize the error and the solution of the regression is the RH profile in the stack including the cathode inlet and outlet relative humidities.
US09306226B2
Disclosed is a fuel cell with a porous material-gasket integrated structure, which can facilitate the flow of gas and water by stacking a porous material-gasket integrated structure, in which a porous material and a gasket are integrally molded, on a separator. In particular, the present invention provides a fuel cell with a porous material-gasket integrated structure, in which a porous material and a gasket are integrally molded and stacked on a separator such that the porous material is located between a manifold, through which gas is supplied, and a reaction surface, where an electrochemical reaction takes place, so as to serve as a diffuser for gas fed through the manifold.
US09306225B2
A bipolar separator assembly for use with a fuel cell comprising: a plate member having opposing first and second surfaces compatible with fuel gas and oxidant gas, respectively, the plate member having first and second opposing end segments and third and fourth opposing end segments which are transverse to the first and second opposing end segments; first and second pocket members situated adjacent the first and second end segments and extending outward of the first surface, the first and second pocket members being adapted to enclose opposing ends of an anode current collector, and third and fourth pocket members situated adjacent the third and fourth end segments and extending outward of the second surface, the third and fourth pocket members being adapted to enclose opposing ends of a cathode current collector, wherein at least a portion of each of the first, second, third and fourth pocket members is formed separately from the plate member and is releasably positioned relative to the plate member.
US09306224B2
The invention relates to method for the manufacture of a cooling module in the form of a body having an inner space for the reception of battery cells, wherein the body has one or more cooling passages extending in parallel to one another between an inlet region and an outlet region and is formed at least partly from a length or from a plurality of lengths of a hollow section.
US09306221B2
A fuel electrode for a solid oxide electrochemical cell includes: an electrode layer constituted of a mixed phase including an oxide having mixed conductivity and another oxide selected from the group including an aluminum-based oxide and a magnesium-based composite oxide, said another oxide having, supported on a surface part thereof, particles of at least one member selected from nickel, cobalt, and nickel-cobalt alloys.
US09306220B2
To provide a lithium ion secondary battery electrode in which a coated layer is held on a surface of an active material layer over a long period of time to suppress decomposition of the electrolysis solution and to enhance the cyclability, a manufacturing process for the same, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the electrode.A lithium ion secondary battery electrode includes a current collector, an active material layer containing a binder formed on a surface of the current collector, and a coated layer formed on the surface of at least a part of the active material layer, wherein the coated layer contains a silicone-acrylic graft copolymer cured substance including an acrylic type main chain having a functional group and a side chain having a silicone graft-polymerized to the acrylic type main chain, and the coated layer is chemically bonded with the binder.
US09306215B2
A nickel-metal hydride secondary cell holds therein an electrode group and an alkaline electrolyte solution containing NaOH as a main constituent of its solute. The electrode group has positive and negative electrodes lapped one over the other with a separator therebetween. The negative electrode contains a hydrogen absorbing alloy having a composition represented by the general formula: (RE1-xTx)1-yMgyNiz-aAla (where RE is at least one element selected from among Y, Sc and rare-earth elements, T is at least one element selected from among Zr, V and Ca, and subscripts x, y, z and a are values respectively satisfying 0≦x, 0.05≦y≦0.35, 2.8≦z≦3.9, and 0.10≦a≦0.25), the hydrogen absorbing alloy has a crystal structure in which an AB2 subunit and an AB5 subunit are superimposed one upon the other, and Cr is substituted for part of the Ni.
US09306207B2
Disclosed is method of fabricating sulfur-infiltrated mesoporous conductive nanocomposites for a cathode of a lithium-sulfur secondary battery, whereby a cathode material having a relatively high content of sulfur is fabricated and a high energy density in a lithium-sulfur secondary battery is realized, including: a) performing thermal treatment on sulfur particles in a reactor at a high temperature to melt the sulfur particles; b) adding a mesoporous conductive material in macroscale to a sulfur solution in the reactor; c) pressurizing the mesoporous conductive material in macroscale in the reactor so that the mesoporous conductive material in macroscale is completely immersed in the sulfur solution, and then maintaining the pressurized and molten state; d) cooling the sulfur particles and the mesoporous conductive material in macroscale so that sulfur within pores of the mesoporous conductive material in macroscale is crystallized; and e) grinding sulfur-infiltrated mesoporous conductive composites to fabricate sulfur-infiltrated mesoporous conductive nanocomposites.
US09306199B2
A battery module and a method for assembling the battery module are provided. The battery module includes a first end plate, a second end plate, a frame member, a first battery cell disposed between the first end plate and the frame member, and a second battery cell disposed between the second end plate and the frame member. The battery module further includes a first shoulder bolt having a first head portion, a first shaft portion, a first shoulder portion, and a first threaded portion. The first shoulder bolt is disposed such that the first head portion is disposed against the first end plate and the first shaft portion extends through a first aperture of the first end plate and a first aperture of the frame member, and the first shoulder portion is disposed against the second end plate.
US09306197B2
A rechargeable battery includes a case, a first electrode coupled to the case, a second electrode coupled to the case and the second electrode having a portion extending outside of the case, a short bar electrically coupled to the portion of the second electrode, and an extensible member extending from the case and at least a portion of the short bar being on the extensible member with a gap therebetween. The extensible member is configured to couple the short bar electrically to the first electrode in response to an overcharging condition of the rechargeable battery, thereby short-circuiting the first and second electrodes via the short bar.
US09306193B2
An organic electroluminescent (EL) display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The organic electroluminescent display device includes a rear substrate, a organic EL portion formed on one surface of the rear substrate with a first electrode, an organic layer and a second electrode sequentially laminated. The front substrate is coupled to the rear substrate to seal an internal space in which the organic EL portion is accommodated, for isolating the organic EL portion from the outside. The front substrate further has a transparent moisture-absorbing layer coated on its internal surface.
US09306188B2
An organic light emitting diode display having a flat region having a flat surface, and curved regions disposed at left and right sides of the flat region and formed in curved surfaces, having a display panel including a substrate, which maintains a flat surface in the flat region, and is formed in curved surfaces in the curved regions, and organic light emitting diodes disposed on the substrate, a window disposed in the flat region and the curved regions on the display panel, and a cover member disposed under the display panel, in which the cover member includes a flat cover member disposed in the flat region and curved cover members disposed in the curved regions, and the flat cover member and the curved cover member are formed of different materials or have different thicknesses.
US09306184B2
An ordered multilayer crystalline organic thin film structure is formed by depositing at least two layers of thin film crystalline organic materials successively wherein the at least two thin film layers are selected to have their surface energies within ±50% of each other, and preferably within ±15% of each other, whereby every thin film layer within the multilayer crystalline organic thin film structure exhibit a quasi-epitaxial relationship with the adjacent crystalline organic thin film.
US09306174B2
A high-efficiency, high-durability organic electroluminescent device, particularly a phosphorescent organic electroluminescent device is provided by using an organic compound of excellent characteristics that exhibits excellent hole-injecting/transporting performance and has high triplet exciton confining capability with an electron blocking ability, and that has high stability in the thin-film state and high luminous efficiency.The organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes, and a plurality of organic layers sandwiched between the pair of electrodes and including a light emitting layer and an electron blocking layer, wherein a compound of the following general formula (1) having a carbazole ring structure is used as a constituent material of the electron blocking layer and the light emitting layer.
US09306171B2
A material for organic electroluminescence device having a specific central skeleton to which a cyano-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon group or a cyano-substituted heterocyclic group is bonded at its specific position is described. Further described is an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer between an anode and a cathode. The organic thin film layer include an light emitting layer and at least one layer of the organic thin film layer contains the material for organic electroluminescence device. The material for organic electroluminescence device realizes an organic electroluminescence device with good emission efficiency.
US09306169B2
An electronic device that serves as a high-brightness electroluminescent device includes a layer containing a polymer compound having one or more structural units selected from a structural unit represented by formula (1) and a structural unit represented by formula (7) as a charge injection layer and/or a charge transport layer: Wherein R1, R2, R6 and R7 represent certain groups; m1 and m5 represent an integer of 0 or more; when R2 and R7 are plurally present, they may be the same or different; and a hydrogen atom in formula (1) or (7) may be replaced with a substituent other than the certain groups.
US09306168B2
Provided are thermo-sensitive and light-sensitive polymer compositions including poly(4-vinyl pyridine) and poly(4-vinyl pyridine-co-butyl methacrylate).
US09306167B2
A field-emission device is disclosed. The device comprises a solid state structure formed of a crystalline material and an amorphous material, wherein an outer surface of the solid state structure is substantially devoid of the amorphous material, and wherein a p-type conductivity of the crystalline material is higher at or near the outer surface than far from the outer surface.
US09306166B1
A fabrication method of a resistance variable memory apparatus includes forming an amorphous phase-change material layer on a semiconductor substrate in which a bottom structure is formed, and performing crystallization on the amorphous phase-change material layer through a low-temperature plasma treatment process.
US09306163B2
An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, a resistance variable element interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a conductor arranged at least one of a first side and a second side of the resistance variable element to apply an electric field to the resistance variable element while being spaced apart from the resistance variable element, the first side facing the second side.
US09306160B2
A memory device includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer, a metal oxide layer disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and at least one oxygen control layer disposed between the metal oxide layer and at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The at least one oxygen control layer has a graded oxygen content.
US09306159B2
Memory devices and methods for fabricating memory devices have been disclosed. One such method includes forming the memory stack out of a plurality of elements. An adhesion species is formed on at least one sidewall of the memory stack wherein the adhesion species has a gradient structure that results in the adhesion species intermixing with an element of the memory stack to terminate unsatisfied atomic bonds of the element. The gradient structure further comprises a film of the adhesion species on an outer surface of the at least one sidewall. A dielectric material is implanted into the film of the adhesion species to form a sidewall liner.
US09306157B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive-based device using a plurality of hard masks. The magnetoresistive-based device includes magnetic material layers formed between a first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer, the magnetic materials layers including a tunnel barrier layer formed between a first magnetic materials layer and a second magnetic materials layer. In one embodiment, the method may include removing the first electrically conductive layer and the first magnetic materials layer unprotected by a first hard mask, to form a first electrode and a first magnetic materials, respectively, and removing the tunnel barrier layer and the second magnetic materials layer unprotected by a second hard mask to form a tunnel barrier and second magnetic materials, and the second electrically conductive layer unprotected by the second hard mask to form, and a second electrode.
US09306152B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory is disclosed. The magnetic memory includes an underlying structure having conductivity provided on the substrate and including a first layer with a polycrystalline structure and a second layer with an amorphous structure, and a magnetoresistive element provide on the underlying layer. The magnetoresistive element includes a first magnetic layer provided on the underlying layer, a non-magnetic layer provided on the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer provided on the non-magnetic layer.
US09306150B2
There is provided a piezoelectric material not containing any lead component, having stable piezoelectric characteristics in an operating temperature range, a high mechanical quality factor, and satisfactory piezoelectric characteristics. The piezoelectric material according to the present invention includes a main component containing a perovskite-type metal oxide that can be expressed using the following general formula (1), and subcomponents containing Mn, Li, and Bi. When the metal oxide is 100 parts by weight, the content of Mn on a metal basis is not less than 0.04 parts by weight and is not greater than 0.36 parts by weight, content α of Li on a metal basis is equal to or less than 0.0012 parts by weight (including 0 parts by weight), and content β of Bi on a metal basis is not less than 0.042 parts by weight and is not greater than 0.850 parts by weight (Ba1-xCax)a(Ti1-y-zZrySnz)O3 (1) (in the formula (1), 0.09≦x≦0.30, 0.025≦y≦0.085, 0≦z≦0.02, and 0.986≦a≦1.02).
US09306144B2
An exemplary thermoelectric generator disclosed herein includes: a first electrode and a second electrode opposing each other; and a stacked body having a first end face and a second end face. The stacked body is structured so that first layers made of a first material and second layers made of a second material are alternately stacked, the first material containing a metal and particles having a lower thermal conductivity than that of the metal, the particles being dispersed in the metal, and the second material having a higher Seebeck coefficient and a lower thermal conductivity than those of the first material. Planes of stacking between the first layers and the second layers are inclined with respect to a direction in which the first electrode and the second electrode oppose each other.
US09306143B2
A thermoelectric power generating system is provided that includes at least one thermoelectric assembly. The at least one thermoelectric assembly includes at least one first heat exchanger in thermal communication with at least a first portion of a first working fluid. The first portion of the first working fluid flows through the at least one thermoelectric assembly. The at least one thermoelectric assembly includes a plurality of thermoelectric elements in thermal communication with the at least one first heat exchanger. The at least one thermoelectric assembly further includes at least one second heat exchanger in thermal communication with the plurality of thermoelectric elements and with a second working fluid flowing through the at least one thermoelectric assembly. The second working fluid is cooler than the first working fluid. The thermoelectric power generating system further includes at least one heat exchanger portion configured to have at least some of the first portion of the first working fluid flow through the at least one heat exchanger portion after having flowed through the at least one thermoelectric assembly. The at least one heat exchanger portion is configured to recover heat from the at least some of the first portion of the first working fluid.
US09306141B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor layer including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a light emitting layer; a p-side electrode provided on the second surface of the semiconductor layer in a region including the light emitting layer; an n-side electrode provided on the second surface of the semiconductor layer in a region not including the light emitting layer; an insulating film being more flexible than the semiconductor layer, the insulating film provided on the second surface and a side surface of the semiconductor layer, and the insulating film having a first opening reaching the p-side electrode and a second opening reaching the n-side electrode; a p-side interconnection layer provided on the insulating film and connected to the p-side electrode; and an n-side interconnection layer provided on the insulating film and connected to the n-side electrode.
US09306139B2
A light emitting device according to an embodiment includes a body including first and second side walls which correspond to each other, third and fourth side walls which have lengths longer than lengths of the first and second side walls, and a concave portion; a first lead frame under the concave portion and the third side wall; a second lead frame under the concave portion and the fourth side wall; a light emitting chip on at least one of the first and second lead frames; a molding member on the concave portion; a first recess portion recessed from the first side wall toward the second side wall and connected to a bottom of the body; and a second recess portion recessed from the second side wall toward the first side wall and connected to the bottom of the body.
US09306129B2
A light-emitting element unit which can improve color purity of light emitted from a color filter is provided. A display device with high color purity and high color reproducibility is provided. The light-emitting element unit includes a wiring board, a light-emitting element chip provided over the wiring board, a micro optical resonator provided over the wiring board and at the periphery of the light-emitting element chip, and a phosphor layer covering the light-emitting element chip and the micro optical resonator. The display device includes a display panel having a coloring layer and a backlight module having the light-emitting element unit. Examples of the display panel include: a liquid crystal panel; and a display panel including an opening portion provided over a first substrate, MEMS moving over the opening portion in the lateral direction, and a second substrate provided with a coloring layer in a portion corresponding to the opening portion.
US09306115B1
A light-emitting device, comprises: a substrate; and an active structure on the substrate and comprising a well layer and a barrier layer, wherein the well layer comprises multiple different elements of group VA; wherein the well layer and the barrier layer each has a residual compressive stress, and the residual compressive stress of the well layer is larger than the residual compressive stress of the barrier layer.
US09306114B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor body includes a semiconductor layer sequence having an active region that generates radiation, a first barrier region and a second barrier region, wherein the active region is arranged between the first barrier region and the second barrier region; and at least one charge carrier barrier layer is arranged in the first barrier region, said at least one charge carrier barrier layer being tensile-strained.
US09306112B2
A photoconductive antenna is adapted to generate terahertz waves when irradiated by pulsed light. The photoconductive antenna includes first and second conductive layers, a semiconductor layer positioned between the first and second conductive layers, first and second electrodes, and a dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer is made of a semiconductor material having a carrier density that is lower than a carrier density of the semiconductor material of the first conductive layer or the second conducive layer. The first and second electrodes are electrically connected to the first and second conductive layers, respectively. The second electrode has an aperture through which the pulsed light passes. The dielectric layer is made of a dielectric material, and is in contact with a surface of the semiconductor layer having a normal direction extending orthogonal to a lamination direction of the first conductive layer, the semiconductor layer, and the second conductive layer.
US09306110B2
Apparatuses and methods for synthesizing nanoscale materials are provided, including semiconductor nanowires. Precursor solutions include mixed reagent precursor solutions of metal and chalcogenide precursors and a catalyst, where such solutions are liquid at room temperature. The precursor solutions are mixed by dividing a solution flow into multiple paths and converging the paths to form a uniform solution. A thermally controlled reactor receives the uniform solution to form semiconductor nanowires. Various electronic, optical, and sensory devices may employ the semiconductor nanowires described herein, for example.
US09306109B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method is provided. The method includes forming a first, second and third films, forming a first mask pattern on the third film, forming a gate electrode by using the first mask pattern, forming a second mask pattern having an opening above a portion of the first mask pattern and a region adjacent to the gate electrode, and performing ion implantation by using the first and second mask patterns. The gate electrode formation includes etching the third film, etching the second film and overetching the second film by using a first, second and third processing gases. A first, second and third depositions formed on the sidewalls of the gate electrode in the third and second films etching and overetching, contain at least one of chlorine or bromine and do not contain fluorine.
US09306106B2
A method for fabricating a device with integrated photovoltaic cells includes supporting a semiconductor substrate on a first handle substrate and doping the semiconductor substrate to form doped alternating regions with opposite conductivity. A doped layer is formed over a first side the semiconductor substrate. A conductive material is patterned over the doped layer to form conductive islands such that the conductive islands are aligned with the alternating regions to define a plurality of photovoltaic cells connected in series on a monolithic structure.
US09306102B2
A back contact solar module and an electrode soldering method therefor are disclosed. The back contact solar module includes a substrate, two solar cells formed on the substrate, and a curved solder part. The curved solder part is soldered onto an electrode solder pad of each solar cell. The curved solder part has a curved portion between the two solder pads. The curved portion curves parallel to the substrate. Therefore, the invention utilizes the elasticity in structure or the allowable deformation of the curved portion to release the internal stress induced by the soldering on the electrode pads or by a following lamination packaging, which solves the problem in the prior art that the internal residual stress in an electrode solder part harmfully affects the electrical connection between solar cells.
US09306100B2
Provided is a solar cell module wherein solar cells and a sealing material, which is sealing the solar cells, are not easily peeled from each other. A solar cell module is provided with solar cells, a wiring material, and a sealing material. Each of the solar cells has first and second main surfaces. The wiring material is electrically connected to each of the solar cells on the first main surface. The sealing material seals the solar cells. The sealing material has a first sealing section and a second sealing section. The first sealing section contains a non-bridging resin. The first sealing section is positioned on the first main surface side of the solar cells. The second sealing section contains a bridging resin and pigment. The second sealing section is positioned on the second main surface side of the solar cells.
US09306092B2
Provided are a solar cell and a method of fabricating the same. The solar cell includes: a substrate; a back electrode layer on the substrate; a light absorbing layer on the rear electrode layer; a window layer on the light absorbing layer; a plurality of beads in the light absorbing layer; and a trap layer on each surface of the plurality of beads.
US09306083B2
A method of manufacturing a polyester film, including: preparing a polyester film substrate having an amount of a terminal carboxylic acid group (AV) of from 3 eq/ton to 20 eq/ton, by using a polyester resin having a temperature distribution of a pre-melting peak (Tm′) of from 1° C. to 10° C.; providing a coating layer on at least one surface of the polyester film substrate; and stretching the polyester film substrate provided with the coating layer at least once.
US09306075B2
A thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode provided over a substrate, a gate insulating film provided over the gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor film provided over the gate electrode and on the gate insulating film, a metal oxide film provided on the oxide semiconductor film, and a metal film provided on the metal oxide film. The oxide semiconductor film is in contact with the metal oxide film, and includes a region whose concentration of metal is higher than that of any other region in the oxide semiconductor film (a high metal concentration region). In the high metal concentration region, the metal contained in the oxide semiconductor film may be present as a crystal grain or a microcrystal.
US09306072B2
An object is to provide an oxide semiconductor layer having a novel structure which is preferably used for a semiconductor device. Alternatively, another object is to provide a semiconductor device using an oxide semiconductor layer having the novel structure. An oxide semiconductor layer includes an amorphous region which is mainly amorphous and a crystal region containing crystal grains of In2Ga2ZnO7 in a vicinity of a surface, in which the crystal grains are oriented so that the c-axis is almost vertical with respect to the surface. Alternatively, a semiconductor device uses such an oxide semiconductor layer.
US09306067B2
A nonplanar circuit device having a strain-producing structure disposed under the channel region is provided. In an exemplary embodiment, the integrated circuit device includes a substrate with a first fin structure and a second fin structure disposed on the substrate. An isolation feature trench is defined between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The circuit device also includes a strain feature disposed on a horizontal surface of the substrate within the isolation feature trench. The strain feature may be configured to produce a strain on a channel region of a transistor formed on the first fin structure. The circuit device also includes a fill dielectric disposed on the strain feature within the isolation feature trench. In some such embodiments, the strain feature is further disposed on a vertical surface of the first fin structure and on a vertical surface of the second fin structure.
US09306063B2
Vertical transistor devices are described. For example, in one embodiment, a vertical transistor device includes an epitaxial source semiconductor region disposed on a substrate, an epitaxial channel semiconductor region disposed on the source semiconductor region, an epitaxial drain semiconductor region disposed on the channel semiconductor region, and a gate electrode region surrounding sidewalls of the semiconductor channel region. A composition of at least one of the semiconductor regions varies along a longitudinal axis that is perpendicular with respect to a surface of the substrate.
US09306061B2
A transistor device includes a first conductivity type drift layer, a second conductivity type first region in the drift layer, a body layer having the second conductivity type on the drift layer including the first region, a source layer on the body layer, and a body contact region that extends through the source layer and the body layer and into the first region. The transistor device further includes a trench through the source layer and the body layer and extending into the drift layer adjacent the first region. The trench has an inner sidewall facing away from the first region. A gate insulator is on the inner sidewall of the trench, and a gate contact is on the gate insulator.
US09306059B2
A slotted gate power transistor is a lateral power device including a substrate, a gate dielectric formed over the substrate, a channel region in the substrate below the gate dielectric and gate electrode layer formed over the gate dielectric. The gate electrode layer overlaps the gate dielectric above the channel region, an accumulation region, and a drift region below an oxide filled shallow trench isolation (or STI) or locally oxidized silicon (LOCOS) region. The slotted gate power transistor includes one or more slots or openings on the gate electrode layer over the accumulation region. Electrical connectivity is maintained over the entire gate electrode layer without external wiring.
US09306053B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes a first step of forming a fin-shaped silicon layer on a silicon substrate using a first resist and forming a first insulating film therearound; and a second step of forming a second insulating film around the fin-shaped silicon layer and etching the second insulating film so as to be left on a side wall of the fin-shaped silicon layer, depositing a third insulating film on the first and second insulating films and the fin-shaped silicon layer, depositing a polysilicon thereon, planarizing a surface thereof, and etching back the polysilicon to expose the third insulating film, forming a second resist, etching the second and third insulating films and then etching the fin-shaped silicon layer and the polysilicon, and removing the second insulating film to form a pillar-shaped silicon layer and a dummy gate formed of the polysilicon.
US09306049B2
Hetero junction field effect transistors and methods of fabricating such transistors are disclosed wherein: a first compound semiconductor layer is provided on a substrate; a second compound semiconductor layer is provided on the first compound semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer is provided on the second compound semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode is provided on the gate insulating layer such that the gate insulating layer penetrates the second compound semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with the first compound semiconductor layer.
US09306043B2
A bipolar junction transistor and an operating method and a manufacturing method for the same are provided. The bipolar junction transistor comprises a first doped region, a second doped region and a third doped region. The first doped region has a first type conductivity. The second doped region comprises well regions formed in the first doped region, having a second type conductivity opposite to the first type conductivity, and separated from each other by the first doped region. The third doped region has the first type conductivity. The third doped region is formed in the well regions or in the first doped region between the well regions.
US09306042B2
A method for forming a bipolar junction transistor includes forming a collector intrinsic region, an emitter intrinsic region and an intrinsic base region between the collector intrinsic region and the emitter intrinsic region. A collector extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the collector intrinsic region; an emitter extrinsic contact region is formed on the emitter intrinsic region and a base extrinsic contact region is formed in direct contact with the intrinsic base region. Carbon is introduced into at least one of the collector extrinsic contact region, the emitter extrinsic contact region and the base extrinsic contact region to suppress diffusion of dopants into the junction region.
US09306041B2
A vertical type semiconductor device includes first and second word line structures that include first and second word lines. The word lines surround a plurality of pillar structures, which are provided to connect the word lines to corresponding string select lines. Connecting patterns electrically connect pairs of adjacent first and second word lines in a same plane. The device may be a nonvolatile memory device or a different type of device.
US09306037B2
The disclosure relates to a dummy gate electrode of a semiconductor device. An embodiment comprises a substrate comprising a first surface; an insulation region covering a portion of the first surface, wherein the top of the insulation region defines a second surface; and a dummy gate electrode over the second surface, wherein the dummy gate electrode comprises a bottom and a base broader than the bottom, wherein a ratio of a width of the bottom to a width of the base is from about 0.5 to about 0.9.
US09306034B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a substrate having a first conductivity type. The device further includes a drain region, a source region, and a well region disposed in the substrate. The well region is disposed between the drain region and the source region and having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The device further includes a plurality of doped regions disposed within the well region. The doped regions are vertically and horizontally offset from each other. Each of the doped regions includes a lower portion having the first conductivity type, and an upper portion stacked on the lower region and having the second conductivity type.
US09306024B2
A semiconductor device and methods of formation are provided. A semiconductor device includes a dielectric film over a dielectric layer. The dielectric film includes a crystalline structure having a substantially uniform composition of zirconium, nitrogen and oxygen. The dielectric film is formed through in situ nitrogen plasma doping of a zirconium layer. The dielectric film functions as a gate dielectric. The dielectric film has a high dielectric constant between about 28-29 and has a low leakage current density of about 4.79×10−5 A/cm2. The substantially uniform distribution of nitrogen throughout the zirconium oxide of the dielectric film increases the k value of the dielectric film by between about 15% to about 17% as compared to a dielectric film that has a non-uniform distribution of nitrogen through a zirconium oxide layer.
US09306023B2
Embodiments of mechanisms for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a first gate stack. The first gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a first work function metal layer and a second work function metal layer directly on the first work function metal layer. The second work function metal layer and the first work function metal layer have the same metal element. The semiconductor device also includes a second gate stack. The second gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer, a barrier layer and a second work function metal layer. The second work function metal layer and the barrier layer do not have the same metal element. A first thickness of the second work function metal layer of the first gate stack is larger than a second thickness of the second work function metal layer of the second gate stack.
US09306015B2
A semiconductor device includes a channel layer on a substrate; cell trench patterns in the channel layer; and a source pattern on the cell trench patterns. The source pattern includes: grooves, each having inclined sidewalls and bottom that extends in a horizontal direction in a portion of the channel layer between the cell trench patterns, source regions at the inclined sidewalls of the grooves, source isolation regions at the bottoms of the grooves, and a source electrode at interior regions of the grooves and that has a planar upper surface.
US09306010B2
A first semiconductor zone of a first conduction type is formed from a semiconductor base material doped with first and second dopants. The first and second dopants are different substances and also different from the semiconductor base material. The first dopant is electrically active and causes a doping of the first conduction type in the semiconductor base material, and causes either a decrease or an increase of a lattice constant of the pure, undoped first semiconductor zone. The second dopant may be electrically active, and may be of the same doping type as the first dopant, causes one or both of: a hardening of the first semiconductor zone; an increase of the lattice constant of the pure, undoped first semiconductor zone if the first dopant causes a decrease, and a decrease of the lattice constant of the pure, undoped first semiconductor zone if the first dopant causes an increase, respectively.
US09306009B2
Embodiments of a semi-insulating Group III nitride and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semi-insulating Group III nitride layer includes a first doped portion that is doped with a first dopant and a second doped portion that is doped with a second dopant that is different than the first dopant. The first doped portion extends to a first thickness of the semi-insulating Group III nitride layer. The second doped portion extends from approximately the first thickness of the semi-insulating Group III nitride layer to a second thickness of the semi-insulating Group III nitride layer. In one embodiment, the first dopant is Iron (Fe), and the second dopant is Carbon (C). In another embodiment, the semi-insulating Group III nitride layer is a semi-insulating Gallium Nitride (GaN) layer, the first dopant is Fe, and the second dopant is C.
US09306000B2
A semiconductor device includes an n-type drain layer, an n-type base layer provided on the n-type drain layer, a p-type base layer and an n-type source layer partially formed in surface layer portions of the n-type base layer and the p-type base layer, respectively, a gate insulation film formed on a surface of the p-type base layer between the n-type source layer and the n-type base layer, a gate electrode formed on the gate insulation film facing the p-type base layer across the gate insulation film, a p-type column layer formed within the n-type base layer to extend from the p-type base layer toward the n-type drain layer, a depletion layer alleviation region arranged between the p-type column layer and the n-type drain layer and including first baryons converted to donors, a source electrode connected to the n-type source layer, and a drain electrode connected to the n-type drain layer.
US09305995B1
Methods of forming F-RAM cells are described. The method includes forming a contact extending through a first dielectric layer on a surface of a substrate. A barrier structure is formed over the contact by depositing and patterning a barrier layer. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the patterned barrier layer and planarized to expose a top surface of the barrier structure. A ferro-stack is deposited and patterned over the barrier structure to form a ferroelectric capacitor. A bottom electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor is electrically coupled to the diffusion region of the MOS transistor through the barrier structure. The barrier layer is conductive so that a bottom electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor is electrically coupled to the contact through the barrier structure. In one embodiment, patterning barrier layer comprises concurrently forming a local interconnect (LI) on a top surface of the first dielectric layer.
US09305986B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a first electrode around a center point of a virtual square; second electrodes around a first vertex and a second vertex diagonal to the first vertex of the virtual square, the second electrodes being separated from each other and with the center point of the virtual square interposed therebetween; third electrodes around a third vertex and a fourth vertex of the virtual square, the third electrodes being separated from each other and with the center point of the virtual square interposed therebetween; a pixel defining layer partially on the first electrode, the second electrodes, and the third electrodes, and partially exposing the first electrode, the second electrodes, and the third electrodes; and four spacers disposed as islands on the pixel defining layer and corresponding to four sides of the virtual square.
US09305983B2
An organic light emitting display panel according to an aspect of the present invention includes a planarization layer positioned on a substrate including a plurality of pixels, and a first opening portion formed in a non-emission area of the pixel, a first electrode formed on a portion exposed through the first opening portion and the planarization layer, a bank including a portion overlapping an edge of the first electrode, and exposing a portion corresponding to an emission area of the pixel on the first electrode, an organic layer formed on the portion corresponding to the emission area of the pixel on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the bank and the organic layer.
US09305980B2
A flexible display device includes a substrate including a bending area that is bent and a flat area that is not bent; a device/wiring layer including a thin film transistor, the device/wiring layer being on the substrate; first pixel units on the flat area on the device/wiring layer; and second pixel units on the bending area on the device/wiring layer, an inter-pixel interval of the first pixel units being different from an inter-pixel interval of the second pixel units.
US09305979B2
An OLED display device includes a substrate; pixel regions defined by gate and data lines, each pixel region including red, green, first blue and second blue sub-pixels; a TFT in each pixel region; a first electrode connected to the thin film transistor; an insulating layer exposing the first electrode; hole injecting and hole transporting layers stacked on the first electrode; red, green and blue emitting layer on the hole transporting layer, the red and green emitting layers respectively being in the red and green sub-pixels, and the blue emitting layer being in the first and second blue sub-pixels; electron transporting and electron injecting layers stacked on the red, green and blue emitting layers; and a second electrode on the insulating layer and the electron injecting layer, wherein the first electrode in the second blue sub-pixel has a multi-layered structure of the first electrode layer and at least one metal layer.
US09305978B2
A method of making organic light emitting diode array includes following steps. A base having a number of first electrodes on a surface of the base is provided. A first organic layer is located on the surface of the base to cover the number of first electrodes. A first organic light emitting layer is applied on the first organic layer. A template with a first patterned surface with a number of grooves with different depths is provided. The template is attached on the first organic light emitting layer and separated from each other, wherein a number of protruding structures with different heights is formed. A second organic light emitting layer is deposited on a part of the plurality of protruding structures. A second organic layer is located on the organic light emitting layer. A second electrode is applied to electrically connect to the second organic layer.
US09305974B1
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) structure is formed on a supporting substrate and includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is made of a silicided fin on the supporting substrate and a first metal liner layer covering the silicided fin. A layer of dielectric material having a configurable resistive property covers at least a portion of the first metal liner. The second electrode is made of a second metal liner layer covering the layer of dielectric material and a metal fill in contact with the second metal liner layer. A non-volatile memory cell includes the RRAM structure electrically connected between an access transistor and a bit line.
US09305967B1
Described herein are methods for fabricating a plurality of optoelectronic devices, and the optoelectronic devices resulting from such methods. One such method includes performing through silicon via (TSV) processing on a wafer, which includes a plurality of light detector sensor regions, to thereby form a plurality of vias, and then tenting and plating the vias and performing wafer back metallization. Thereafter, plurality of light source dies are attached to a top surface of the wafer, and a light transmissive material is then molded to encapsulate the light detector sensor regions and the light sensor dies therein. Additionally, opaque barriers including opaque optical crosstalk barriers are fabricated. Further, solder balls or other electrical connectors are attached to the bottom of the wafer. The wafer is eventually diced to separate the wafer into a plurality of optoelectronic devices.
US09305952B2
An image sensor with an array of image sensor pixels is provided. Each pixel may include a photodiode and associated pixel circuits formed in a semiconductor substrate. Buried light shields may be formed on the substrate to present pixel circuitry that is formed in the substrate between two adjacent photodiodes from being exposed to incoming light. Metal interconnect muting structures may be formed over the buried light shields. In one embodiment, light blocking structures may be formed to completely seal the interconnect routing structures. The light blocking structures may be formed on top of the buried light shields or on the surface of the substrate. In another embodiment, planar light blocking structures that are parallel to the surface of the substrate may be formed between metal routing layers to help absorb stray light. Light blocking structures formed in these ways can help reduce optical crosstalk and enhance global shutter efficiency.
US09305945B2
According to embodiments of the invention, a TFT array substrate, a manufacturing method of the TFT array substrate and a display device are provided. The method comprises: depositing a metal film on a substrate, and forming a gate electrode and a gate line; forming a gate insulating layer and a passivation layer on the substrate; depositing a transparent conductive layer, a first source/drain metal layer and a first ohmic contact layer, and forming a drain electrode, a pixel electrode, a data line, and a first ohmic contact layer pattern provided on the drain electrode; and depositing a semiconductor layer, a second ohmic contact layer and a second source/drain metal layer, and forming a source electrode, a second ohmic contact layer pattern provided below the source electrode, and a semiconductor channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09305941B2
Devices and methods for increasing the aperture ratio and providing more precise gray level control to pixels in an active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) display are provided. By way of example, one embodiment includes disposing a gate insulator and an interlayer dielectric material between a gate electrode of a thin-film transistor of a driving circuit and a channel of the thin-film transistor. The improved structure of the driving circuit facilitates a higher voltage range for controlling the gray level of the pixels, and may increase the aperture ratio of the pixels.
US09305937B1
A method of minimizing an overetch or damage to a semiconductor surface underneath a memory opening is provided. A first blocking dielectric layer is formed in a memory opening through a stack of an alternating plurality of material layers and insulator layers. A sacrificial liner is formed over the first blocking dielectric layer. An opening is formed through a horizontal portion of the sacrificial liner. A horizontal portion of the first blocking dielectric layer at a bottom of the memory opening can be etched through the opening in the sacrificial liner. A semiconductor surface of the substrate can be physically exposed at a bottom of the memory opening with minimal overetch and/or surface damage. A second blocking dielectric layer can be formed, before or after formation of the sacrificial liner, to provide a multilayer blocking dielectric.
US09305918B2
The present disclosure provides methods to fabricate a semiconductor structure that includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a shallow trench isolation (STI) feature formed in the semiconductor substrate. The STI feature includes a first portion disposed in the first region and having a first thickness T1 and a second portion disposed in the second region and having a second thickness T2 greater than the first depth, the first portion of the STI feature being recessed from the second portion of the STI feature. The semiconductor structure also includes a plurality of fin active regions on the semiconductor substrate; and a plurality of conductive features disposed on the fin active regions and the STI feature, wherein one of the conductive features covers the first portion of the STI feature in the first region.
US09305912B2
A stack package includes a cover film, a first package having a first semiconductor chip which is attached to the cover film, a first adhesive member which is formed to seal the first semiconductor chip and a surface of the cover film, and a first circuit pattern which is disposed over the first adhesive member and electrically connected with the first semiconductor chip; a second package disposed over the first package, having a second semiconductor chip which is electrically connected with the first circuit pattern, a second adhesive member which is formed to seal the second semiconductor chip, and a second circuit pattern which is formed over the second adhesive member, and a via formed to pass through the second circuit pattern and the second adhesive member and to be electrically connected with the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern.
US09305890B2
An embodiment package includes a conductive pillar mounted on an integrated circuit chip, the conductive pillar having a stepper shape, a metal trace partially embedded in a substrate, the metal trace having a bonding pad portion protruding from the substrate, and a solder feature electrically coupling the conductive pillar to the bonding pad portion of the metal trace.
US09305885B2
A multi-chip package structure is provided, including a substrate having a grounding structure; two semiconductor elements disposed on and electrically connected to the substrate; an encapsulant formed on the substrate and encapsulating semiconductor elements, wherein the encapsulant has a plurality of round holes formed between the semiconductor elements; and an electromagnetic shielding structure formed in each of the round holes and connected to the grounding structure to achieve electromagnetic shielding effects. A method for forming the multi-chip package is also provided.
US09305880B2
A semiconductor substructure with improved performance and a method of forming the same is described. The method includes providing a semiconductor dielectric layer having a recess formed therein; forming an interconnect structure with a metal liner and a conductive fill within the recess; and applying an electron beam treatment to the substructure.
US09305878B2
Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a metal contact structure, an electrically conductive capping layer formed on the metal contact structure, and a conductive via electrically connected to the metal contact structure through the electrically conductive capping layer.
US09305862B2
Stacked die assemblies are electrically connected to connection sites on any support, without electrical connection to any interposed substrate or leadframe, and without solder.
US09305858B2
An array of through-silicon vias (TSVs) are formed in a silicone substrate. The vias can be tapered such that the diameter of the via at the surface of the substrate is larger than the diameter of the via at its bottom, with the diameter varying continuously along its depth. After the via is formed, it is seeded with a thin layer of nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) particles, and a NCD film is grown on the bottom and along the sidewalls of the via. The presence of the diamond-filled vias provides improved thermal management to semiconductor devices formed on the silicon substrate.
US09305854B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die and first insulating layer formed over the semiconductor die. A patterned trench is formed in the first insulating layer. A conductive ink is deposited in the patterned trench by disposing a stencil over the first insulating layer with an opening aligned with the patterned trench and depositing the conductive ink through the opening in the stencil into the patterned trench.Alternatively, the conductive ink is deposited by dispensing the conductive ink through a nozzle into the patterned trench. The conductive ink is cured by ultraviolet light at room temperature. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer and conductive ink. An interconnect structure is formed over the conductive ink. An encapsulant can be deposited around the semiconductor die. The patterned trench is formed in the encapsulant and the conductive ink is deposited in the patterned trench in the encapsulant.
US09305846B2
Embodiments herein provide approaches for device isolation in a complimentary metal-oxide fin field effect transistor. Specifically, a semiconductor device is formed with a retrograde doped layer over a substrate to minimize a source to drain punch-through leakage. A set of replacement fins is formed over the retrograde doped layer, each of the set of replacement fins comprising a high mobility channel material (e.g., silicon, or silicon-germanium). The retrograde doped layer may be formed using an in situ doping process or a counter dopant retrograde implant. The device may further include a carbon liner positioned between the retrograde doped layer and the set of replacement fins to prevent carrier spill-out to the replacement fins.
US09305842B2
A chip package and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The chip package includes a semiconductor substrate, having a first surface and an opposing second surface. A spacer is disposed under the second surface of the semiconductor substrate and a cover plate is disposed under the spacer. A recessed portion is formed adjacent to a sidewall of the semiconductor substrate, extending from the first surface of the semiconductor substrate to at least the spacer. Then, a protection layer is disposed over the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and in the recessed portion.
US09305839B2
A method includes exposing and developing a negative photo resist, and performing a treatment on the negative photo resist using an electron beam. After the treatment, a layer underlying the photo resist is etched using the negative photo resist as an etching mask.
US09305827B2
A composite substrate for a semiconductor includes a handle substrate 11 and a donor substrate bonded to a surface of the handle substrate 11 directly or through a bonding layer. The handle substrate 11 is composed of an insulating polycrystalline material, a surface 15 of the handle substrate 11 has a microscopic central line average surface roughness Ra of 5 nm or smaller, and recesses 6 are formed on the surface of the handle substrate.
US09305820B2
A stable and highly reliable device for detecting damage or contact failures of respective parts is provided. The device includes a processing chamber for processing a substrate; a heater for heating the substrate; a substrate support accommodating the heater and installed inside the processing chamber; a shaft for supporting the substrate support; a wire inserted through the shaft; a supporting unit for holding the wire; and a temperature detector connected to the supporting unit.
US09305813B2
This invention relates to a pressure transmission apparatus for bonding a plurality of chips to a substrate. The pressure transmission apparatus includes a pressure body for applying a bonding force which acts in the bonding direction (B) to the chip. The pressure body has a first pressure side and an opposite second pressure side, both oriented to be transverse to the bonding direction (B). Fixing means are provided to attach to the periphery of the pressure transmission apparatus for fixing of the pressure transmission apparatus on a retaining body in the bonding direction (B). A sliding layer is provided for sliding motion of the pressure body transversely to the bonding direction (B).
US09305806B2
Provided are novel chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry compositions for polishing copper substrates and method of using the CMP compositions. The CMP slurry compositions deliver superior planarization with high and tunable removal rates and low defects when polishing bulk copper layers of the nanostructures of IC chips. The CMP slurry compositions also offer the high selectivity for polishing copper relative to the other materials (such as Ti, TiN, Ta, TaN, and Si), suitable for through-silicon via (TSV) CMP process which demands high copper film removal rates.
US09305804B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to semiconductor manufacturing and more particularly to the process of plasma etching an amorphous carbon layer. In one implementation, a method of etching a feature in an amorphous carbon layer is provided. The method comprises transferring a substrate including a patterned photoresist layer disposed above the amorphous carbon layer into an etching chamber, exposing the amorphous carbon layer to a fluorine-free etchant gas mixture including a fluorine-free halogen source gas and a passivation source gas and etching the amorphous carbon layer with a plasma of the fluorine-free etchant gas mixture. It has been found that plasma etching with a fluorine-free halogen based gas mixture reduces the formation of top critical dimension clogging oxides.
US09305797B2
Methods of polysilicon over-etch using hydrogen diluted plasma for three-dimensional gate etch are described. In an example, a method of forming a three-dimensional gate structure includes performing a main plasma etch on a masked polysilicon layer formed over a semiconductor fin. The method also includes, subsequently, performing a plasma over etch on the masked polysilicon layer based on a plasma generated from gaseous composition including hydrogen gas (H2).
US09305793B2
A wafer processing method for forming a via hole in a wafer. The wafer processing method includes a filament forming step of applying a pulsed laser beam to the wafer, the pulsed laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the wafer, in the condition where the focal point of the pulsed laser beam is set inside the wafer in a subject area where the via hole is to be formed, thereby forming an amorphous filament inside the wafer in the subject area, and an etching step of etching the amorphous filament formed inside the wafer by using an etching agent to thereby form the via hole inside the wafer.
US09305788B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a metal layer containing Al; forming an insulating film on the metal layer; forming an opening pattern to the insulating film, the metal layer being exposed in the opening pattern; and forming a wiring layer in the opening pattern, a first portion being disposed between an edge of the wiring layer and an edge of the opening pattern, a width of the first portion being 1 μm or less, and the metal layer being exposed in the first portion.
US09305787B2
A method of manufacturing an electric component disclosed. A first electrically conducting layer including a first electrode of the electric component is formed on a substrate. An interlayer of a dielectric material is formed on the first electrically conducting layer, the dielectric material including an electrically insulating material. A further layer of a dielectric material is deposited on the interlayer of dielectric material, the further layer including a photo-patternable electrically insulating material. Both the further layer and said interlayer are structured, wherein the further layer of the dielectric material is used as a mask for the interlayer. A second electrically conducting layer including a second electrode of the electric component is then formed.
US09305785B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved structure and method of contact formation. A cap nitride is removed from a gate in a region that is distanced from a fin. This facilitates reduced process steps, allowing the gate and the source/drain regions to be opened in the same process step. Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) may be used to pattern the resist to form the contacts.
US09305780B2
Methods for depositing silicon on a semiconductor or metallic surface include cycling dosing of silane and chlorosilane precursors at a temperature between 50° C. and 300° C., and continuing cycling between three and twenty three cycles until the deposition self-limits via termination of surface sites with Si—H groups. Methods of layer formation include depositing a chlorosilane onto a substrate to form a first layer, wherein the substrate is selected from the group consisting of InxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xSb, InxGa1-xN, SiGe, and Ge, wherein X is between 0.1 and 0.99. The methods may include pulsing a silane to form a silicon monolayer and cycling dosing of the chlorosilane and the silane. Layered compositions include a first layer selected from the group consisting of InxGa1-xAs, InxGa1-xSb, InxGa1-xN, SiGe, and Ge, wherein X is between 0.1 and 0.99, and a second layer, wherein the second layer comprises Si—H and Si—OH.
US09305777B2
The present invention discloses novel one dimensional, direct nano-heterojunctions of vertically aligned silicon nanowires (SiNW)-carbon nano tube (CNT) arrays with ultra-low turn-on field useful in single electronic devices. The invention further discloses catalyst free chemical vapor deposition (CVD) route for synthesis of one dimensional, direct nano-heterojunctions of vertically aligned SiNW-CNT arrays.
US09305772B2
The present invention discloses an electronic device using a group III nitride substrate fabricated via the ammonothermal method. By utilizing the high-electron concentration of ammonothermally grown substrates having the dislocation density less than 105 cm−2, combined with a high-purity active layer of Ga1-x-yAlxInyN (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1) grown by a vapor phase method, the device can attain high level of breakdown voltage as well as low on-resistance. To realize a good matching between the ammonothermally grown substrate and the high-purity active layer, a transition layer is optionally introduced. The active layer is thicker than a depletion region created by a device structure in the active layer.
US09305771B2
An embodiment includes a method comprising: etching a material to expose a metal component in a metal layer, which is located on a substrate, while the substrate is in an etch chamber that is under vacuum; and performing an ash process on the metal component while the substrate is still in the etch chamber that is still under vacuum; wherein the material includes at least one of a dielectric and a mask and the metal component includes at least one of an interconnect, a via, and a contact. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09305770B2
An apparatus for treating a wafer-shaped article, comprises a spin chuck for holding a wafer-shaped article in a predetermined orientation, a liquid dispenser for dispensing a treatment liquid onto a downwardly facing surface of a wafer-shaped article when positioned on the spin chuck, and a gas dispenser for dispensing a gas within a gap defined between the downwardly-facing surface of the wafer-shaped article and an upper surface of the spin chuck.
US09305768B2
A method for processing flat articles with acoustical energy. The inventive system method can remove particles from both sides of a wafer more efficiently and effectively. In one aspect, the invention is a method for processing flat articles wherein a liquid is applied to both major surfaces of the flat article. A first transducer assembly is positioned adjacent to a first of the major surfaces of the flat article and a second member is positioned adjacent to a second of the major surfaces. The first transducer assembly generates and transmits acoustical energy to the first major surface of the flat article while the second member either: (1) reflects the acoustical energy generated by the first transducer assembly back to the second major surface of the flat article; and/or (2) generates and transmits acoustical energy to the second major surface of the flat article.
US09305756B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods useful for preparing and analyzing a sample on a substrate by matrix assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS). In some embodiments, compositions provided herein comprise a substrate, matrix and nanoparticles, and sometimes comprise one or more additives and sometimes an analyte. Compositions provided herein sometimes comprise nanoparticles that include or are made up of silicon dioxide.
US09305752B2
A method for operating a substrate processing apparatus is provided which can contain generation of particles by generating plasma in a stable manner. After a substrate is disposed in an evacuated vacuum chamber, a rare gas is initially supplied into the vacuum chamber, a voltage is applied to a plasma generating means, and plasma of the rare gas is generated. Subsequently, a reaction gas is supplied into the vacuum chamber, the reaction gas is brought into contact with the plasma of the rare gas, and plasma of the reaction gas is generated. The plasma of the reaction gas is brought into contact with the substrate; and the substrate is processed. Plasma is stably generated not by turning the reaction gas into plasma but by first turning the rare gas into plasma by the plasma generating means, and generation of particles is subsequently suppressed.
US09305749B2
A plasma source includes a plasma vessel that includes a dielectric material that encloses a cavity of a toroidal shape. The toroidal shape defines a toroidal axis therethrough. The vessel forms input and output connections, each of the input and output connections being in fluid communication with the cavity. One or more metal plates are disposed adjacent to the plasma vessel for cooling the plasma vessel. A magnetic core is disposed along the toroidal axis such that respective first and second ends of the magnetic core extend beyond axially opposed sides of the plasma vessel. First and second induction coils are wound about the respective first and second ends of the magnetic core. A plasma is generated in the cavity when an input gas is supplied through the input connection and an oscillating electrical current is supplied to the first and second induction coils.
US09305748B2
Etch rate distributions are captured at a succession of hardware tilt angles of the RF source power applicator relative to the workpiece and their non-uniformities computed, and the behavior is modeled as a non-uniformity function for each one of at least two plasma reactors. An offset Δα in tilt angle α between the non-uniformity functions of the two plasma reactors is detected. The two plasma reactors are then matched by performing a hardware tilt in one of them through a tilt angle equal to the offset Δα.
US09305743B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a marking apparatus includes a charged particle beam device and a marking unit. The charged particle beam device generates a charged particle beam, irradiates a sample including a laminated body with the charged particle beam, detects secondary charged particles generated from the sample, and acquires a sample image. The marking unit bores a hole reaching at least a second layer from a surface layer in the laminated body in a viewing field of the charged particle beam device.
US09305741B2
A wide range tunable magnetic lens for the desktop electron microscope is provided. The wired range tunable magnetic lens comprises a coil support, an inner pole piece, a permanent-magnet, a first outer pole piece and a second outer pole piece. The inner pole piece covers the coil support and forms a first magnetic-circuit gap. The permanent-magnet forms a ring structure according to the central axis and is disposed at the outer side of the inner pole piece away from the central axis. The first outer pole piece is adjacently disposed at the upper-side of the permanent-magnet and extends to the central hole of the coil support. The second outer pole piece is adjacently disposed at the under-side of the permanent-magnet and extends to the central hole of the coil support, wherein the first outer pole piece and the second outer pole piece forms a second magnetic-circuit gap.
US09305740B2
A charged particle beam device is described. In one aspect, the charged particle beam device includes a charged particle beam source, and a switchable multi-aperture for generating two or more beam bundles from a charged particle beam which includes: two or more aperture openings, wherein each of the two or more aperture openings is provided for generating a corresponding beam bundle of the two or more beam bundles; a beam blanker arrangement configured for individually blanking the two or more beam bundles; and a stopping aperture for blocking beam bundles. The device further includes a control unit configured to control the individual blanking of the two or more beam bundles for switching of the switchable multi-aperture and an objective lens configured for focusing the two or more beam bundles on a specimen or wafer.
US09305733B2
The use of the electride form of 12CaO-7Al2O3, or C12A7, as a low work function electron emitter in a hollow cathode discharge apparatus is described. No heater is required to initiate operation of the present cathode, as is necessary for traditional hollow cathode devices. Because C12A7 has a fully oxidized lattice structure, exposure to oxygen does not degrade the electride. The electride was surrounded by a graphite liner since it was found that the C12A7 electride converts to it's eutectic (CA+C3A) form when heated (through natural hollow cathode operation) in a metal tube.
US09305732B2
A main body of an electronic part is supported by terminals at a position above and separated from a board surface of a printed board. Each of the terminals is composed of a supporting member made of electrically insulating material and a wiring member. Each of the wiring member has an electrode-connected portion electrically connected to an electrode formed on the main body and a land-connected portion electrically connected to a land formed in the printed board. One of the wiring members is composed of a fuse wiring member having a cut-off portion, which is melted down when excess current flows. The wiring member is outwardly expanded in a direction opposite to the main body.
US09305725B2
Provided are: a vacuum interrupter having a fixed contact and a movable contact; a fixed side mounting plate which supports a fixed side conductor; and an operating mechanism which is coupled to a movable side conductor and performs opening and closing operation of both the contacts. The fixed side mounting plate is configured such that a plurality of plate-like members are overlapped; an exposed portion of the fixed side conductor is attached with a divided terminal which has a fitting hole to be fitted to the exposed portion and is formed with a slit in a radial direction from the fitting hole; and the divided terminal is fixed to the fixed side mounting plate and the fixed side conductor is supported by the fixed side mounting plate via the divided terminal.
US09305716B2
A rechargeable energy storage device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment the energy storage device includes an air electrode providing an electrochemical process comprising reduction and evolution of oxygen and a capacitive electrode enables an electrode process consisting of non-faradic reactions based on ion absorption/desorption and/or faradic reactions. This rechargeable energy storage device is a hybrid system of fuel cells and ultracapacitors, pseudocapacitors, and/or secondary batteries.
US09305714B2
A photovoltaic cell including: (a) a housing including an at least partially transparent cell wall having an interior surface; (b) an electrolyte, disposed within the cell wall, and containing an iodide based species; (c) a transparent electrically conductive coating disposed on the interior surface; (d) an anode disposed on the conductive coating, the anode including: (i) a porous film containing titania, the porous film adapted to make intimate contact with the iodide based species, and (ii) a dye, absorbed on a surface of the porous film, the dye and the porous film adapted to convert photons to electrons; (e) a cathode disposed on an interior surface of the housing, and disposed substantially opposite the anode; (f) electrically-conductive metallic wires, disposed at least partially within the cell, the wires electrically contacting the anode and the electrically conductive coating, and (g) a second electrically conductive coating including an inorganic binder and an inorganic electrically conductive filler, the second coating bridging between and electrically communicating between each of the wires and the transparent coating, the wires adapted to boost collection of a current generated by the cell.
US09305704B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including, a ceramic body having a plurality dielectric layers stacked therein and a groove portion recessed inwardly in a lower surface thereof in a width direction, a plurality of first and second internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body to be alternately exposed through both end surfaces of the ceramic body, having the dielectric layers therebetween, and first and second external electrodes respectively formed on both end portions of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively.
US09305702B2
[Technical Problem]This invention provides a surface-mount inductor that is capable of positioning a coil in a predetermined position in a mold, thereby to position the coil in a predetermined position of a core and to prevent led-out ends from being buried in the core.[Solution to the Problem]A surface-mount inductor of the present invention comprises: a coil formed by winding a winding wire; and a core containing a magnetic powder and including the coil therein. The coil has opposite led-out ends, each of which is exposed on respective ones of opposed side surfaces of the core. Each of the led-out ends of the coil is connected to an external electrode formed on the core.
US09305696B2
A stacked inductor is provided with a conductive frame including a top surface, two side surfaces depending downward from the top surface, two spaced bottom surfaces each inward bending from a bottom of either side surface, an upper space defined by the top surface, the side surfaces, and the bottom surfaces, two vertical legs each depending downward from either bottom surface, two supports each inward bending from a bottom of either leg, and a lower space defined by the bottom surfaces, the legs, and the supports; an upper core including a bottom groove; an intermediate core; and a lower core including a top groove. The bottom groove is on the top surface, the intermediate core is in the upper space, the lower core is in the lower space and supported by the supports. The upper, intermediate, and lower cores are magnetically connected together.
US09305691B2
According to one embodiment, a superconducting magnet apparatus includes: a first superconducting coil and a second superconducting coil respectively arranged in a vacuum container; a first cooling unit configured to cool the first superconducting coil; and a second cooling unit configured to cool the second superconducting coil and controlled independently from the first cooling unit by a cooling method different from the cooling method of the first cooling unit.
US09305683B1
A process and system for printing sequences of alpha-numeric characters on segments of wire or cable during production. In one embodiment, the process and system comprises printing a sequence of alpha-numeric values onto a first segment of wire up to an input target value. The process and system further comprises printing a sequence of alpha-numeric values onto a second segment of wire up to a second input target value. In one embodiment, the process and system is capable of printing sequences on segments of wire or cable up to variable target values without requiring a shutdown of the production process, and without requiring lag time between printing on subsequent wire or cable segments.
US09305676B2
A composite material includes a metal matrix of a metal and a reducing agent. The reducing agent is dispersed in the metal matrix and is capable of reducing an oxide of the metal at room temperature. Even when the oxide of the metal is generated on a surface of the composite material, the reducing agent reduces the oxide of the metal to the metal
US09305669B2
Exemplary embodiments provide automated nuclear fission reactors and methods for their operation. Exemplary embodiments and aspects include, without limitation, re-use of nuclear fission fuel, alternate fuels and fuel geometries, modular fuel cores, fast fluid cooling, variable burn-up, programmable nuclear thermostats, fast flux irradiation, temperature-driven surface area/volume ratio neutron absorption, low coolant temperature cores, refueling, and the like.
US09305664B2
An integrated circuit includes a set of non-volatile bits that may be programmed during multiprobe testing of the integrated circuit (IC). A defective portion of the IC is identified by testing the IC during multiprobe testing prior to packaging the IC. The IC is scrapped if the defective portion of IC does not meet repair criteria. A defect category is selected that is indicative of the defective portion, wherein the defect category is selected from a set of defect categories. The defective portion is replaced with a standby repair portion by modifying circuitry on the IC. The selected defect category is recorded in a plurality of non-volatile bits on the IC. The non-volatile bits may be read after extended testing or after end-user deployment in order to track failure rate of repaired ICs based on the defect category.
US09305662B2
An identification technique for physically damaged blocks of a flash memory of a data storage device. In the data storage device, a controller coupled to the flash memory writes data into the flash memory with at least one time stamp corresponding to the data. The time stamp is taken into consideration by the controller to identify the physically damaged blocks of the flash memory, and thereby it is prevented from erroneously identifying a physically undamaged block as bad. Thus, the flash memory is prevented from being erroneously regarded as a write protected memory. The lifespan of the flash memory is effectively prolonged.
US09305647B2
A write operation method for a phase change memory (PCM) is disclosed. The method includes when a PCM performs a write operation, generating a corresponding voltage pulse signal according to to-be-written data, and applying the voltage pulse signal to a phase change material included in a phase change storage unit corresponding to the to-be-written data and applying the voltage pulse signal to a voltage divider resistor serially connected to the phase change material; comparing voltage values at both ends of a sampling resistor with a threshold voltage to generate an indicator value; determining, according to the indicator value, whether data that is stored in the phase change storage unit and is corresponding to the indicator value is the same as the to-be-written data; and skipping writing if the same; or writing if different, thus reducing the delay time of writing data into the phase change storage unit.
US09305637B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having nonvolatile memory cells in which one of multiple values is programmable therein by setting one of a plurality of threshold values therein and a control circuit that performs a writing operation on the memory cells. The writing operation performed by the control circuit includes a pre-programming verification operation to determine a threshold level of a memory cell in an erasure state, and a program operation in which a program voltage is selected from a plurality of program voltages on the basis of a determination result of the pre-programming verification operation.
US09305622B1
A method and apparatus for performing a data strobe-to-data delay calibration is disclosed. In one embodiment, a data strobe signal, along with data, is conveyed from a memory controller to a memory. An initial delay calibration procedure may be performed to align the data and the data strobe signals at the memory, with subsequent calibrations performed there between in order to compensate for changes due to various factors such as voltage and temperature. In the calibrations performed between the delay calibration procedures, a calibrated delay value may be multiplied by a first scaling factor and a second scaling factor to generate a scaled code. A DLL configured to convey the data strobe signal may then be programmed based on this code.
US09305620B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for reducing a rate of data transfer to at least a portion of memory. In operation, a rate of degradation of at least a portion of memory associated with a drive is determined. Furthermore, a rate of data transfer to the at least a portion of the memory is reduced, based on the determined rate of degradation.
US09305619B2
A method, system and memory controller are provided for implementing simultaneous read and write operations in a memory subsystem utilizing a dual port Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) configuration. A DRAM includes a first partition and a second partition. A memory controller determines if memory requirements are above or below a usage threshold. If the memory requirements are below the usage threshold, the memory is partitioned into a read buffer and a write buffer, with writes going to the write buffer and reads coming from the read buffer, data being transferred from the write buffer to the read buffer through an Error Correction Code (ECC) engine. If the memory requirements are above the usage threshold, the entire memory is used for reads and writes.
US09305617B2
Write-leveling, a write-leveling control unit (250) adjusts the delay amounts of DQS control unit (242) and a DQ control unit (244), at first, within a range of less than one clock cycle. Then, with respect to each SDRAM (282), a read-data row acquired by performing a read after a write of an expected value data row is compared value data row, and depending upon the comparison result, the delay amounts of the DQS control unit (242) and the DQ control unit (244) are adjusted in clock-cycle units. At the above write-time, control is performed so that the DQS control unit (242) outputs a data strobe signal (DQS) which is 2×M clock cycles longer than a burst length defined according to a specification, and the DQ control unit (244) adds M units each of data before and after a number of units of expected value data rows that match the burst length in order to output the data.
US09305611B2
A sense amplifier comprises a cell current generator, a reference current generator, a first and a second charge/discharge elements, a first and a second voltage trigger circuits, and a data holder. The cell current generator is used to output a cell current of a memory cell. The reference current generator is used to output a duplicated reference current. The first and the second charge/discharge elements are used to convert the cell current and the duplicated reference current to voltage signals respectively. The first voltage trigger circuit is used to output a data signal according to a voltage signal outputted from the first charge/discharge element. The second voltage trigger circuit is used to output a hold control signal according to a voltage signal outputted from the second charge/discharge element. The data holder is used to hold a voltage level of the data signal according to the hold control signal.
US09305610B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for power reduction management. The method includes determining that a power source has failed to supply electric power above a predefined threshold. The method includes terminating one or more non-essential in-process operations on a nonvolatile memory device during a power hold-up time. The method includes executing one or more essential in-process operations on the nonvolatile memory device within the power hold-up time.
US09305604B2
The present invention discloses a discrete three-dimensional vertical memory (3D-MV). It comprises at least a 3D-array die and at least an A/D-translator die. The 3D-array die comprises a plurality of vertical memory strings. At least an address/data (A/D)-translator for the 3D-array die is located on the A/D-translator die instead of the 3D-array die. The 3D-array die and the A/D-translator die have substantially different back-end-of-line (BEOL) structures.
US09305600B2
The invention provides a method and system for the automated post production of a single video file, the method comprising the steps of gathering video data from a plurality of camera sources; gathering audio data from a plurality of microphone sources; using an automated tracking offline algorithm to track a sound emitting from a moving target object in a 3D space, to provide localization data of said target object to identify an optimum camera source to provide video data of said target object; and composing a composite video sequence of said moving target from a plurality of identified optimum camera sources in a single video file. The algorithm relies on both video data from multiple camera views and audio data from multiple microphone arrays to infer the 3D position of the active speaker over the duration of the captured presentation.
US09305598B2
A package assembly including a first layer having a bottom surface and a top surface, and at least two panels coupled to the top surface of the first layer such that a first panel is disposed along a right edge of the first layer and the second panel is disposed along a left edge of the first layer, the first panel being pivotally engaged to the second panel along an axis, the at least two panels having formed therein a recess.
US09305596B2
Apparatus and method for detecting media defects using a multi-sensor transducer. In some embodiments, a first pattern is written to a first track on a rotatable storage media and a second pattern is written to a second track on the media. A first read sensor of a multi-sensor transducer senses the first pattern from the first track and a second read sensor of the multi-sensor transducer concurrently senses the second pattern from the second track. At least one storage media defect is detected responsive to the sensed first and second patterns.
US09305586B2
A magnetic head, according to one embodiment, includes a magnetized high-speed rotor placed in the vicinity of a main magnetic pole, wherein the main magnetic pole generates a magnetized rotating magnetic field, wherein information is recorded by generating a high-frequency magnetic field from the magnetized high-speed rotor and switching the magnetic head between a magnetic resonance state and a magnetization state, and wherein the magnetic head has a structure such that leaking is reduced for magnetic fields applied parallel to a magnetized rotating surface of the magnetized high-speed rotor from the main magnetic pole. Additional systems and methods are also presented.
US09305580B2
A tape head assembly includes a set of data readers configured to simultaneously read data from a set of adjacent data tracks of a tape storage medium, each data track having a width; wherein the width of each data reader of the set along a lateral extension of the tape head assembly is equal to or less than the width of a data track wherein the lateral extension of the tape head assembly is orthogonal to a longitudinal extension of the tape storage medium when arranged in a tape drive containing the tape head assembly spanning at least the set of data tracks during reading; and a servo reader arrangement containing at least one servo reader arranged laterally offset from one of the data readers by less than the width of a data track.
US09305577B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium, a trailing shield opposed to the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a high-frequency oscillator between the main pole and the trailing shield in a range of a width of the main pole in a track width direction, and configured to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The high-frequency oscillator includes a spin injection layer, an intermediate layer, and an oscillation layer, and at least the oscillation layer comprises divided oscillation regions.
US09305567B2
A method for signal level matching by an electronic device is described. The method includes capturing a plurality of audio signals from a plurality of microphones. The method also includes determining a difference signal based on an inter-microphone subtraction. The difference signal includes multiple harmonics. The method also includes determining whether a harmonicity of the difference signal exceeds a harmonicity threshold. The method also includes preserving the harmonics to determine an envelope. The method further applies the envelope to a noise-suppressed signal.
US09305565B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving speech data correlated to one or more words spoken by a particular party, receiving adaptation data that is at least partly based on at least one speech interaction of a particular party that is discrete from the received speech data, wherein at least a portion of the adaptation data has been stored on a particular device associated with the particular party, obtaining target data regarding a target configured to process at least a portion of the received speech data, and determining whether to apply the adaptation data for processing at least a portion of the received speech data, at least partly based on the acquired target data. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09305564B2
An apparatus for reproducing an audio signal includes a first reproducer configured to reproduce a first portion of the audio signal in a first frequency band based on the first data. A provider is configured to provide a patch signal in a second frequency band, wherein the patch signal is at least partially uncorrelated with respect to the first portion of the audio signal or is at least partially a decorrelated version of the first portion of the audio signal, which has been shifted to the second frequency band. A second reproducer is configured to reproduce a second portion of the audio signal in the second frequency band based on second data and the patch signal. A combiner is configured to combine the reproduced first portion of the audio signal and the patch signal.
US09305551B1
A scribe system is provided. The scribe system includes a server operating a software product and a plurality of recording devices for recording speech of a user into a recorded audio file. The scribe system also includes a network connection between the server and the plurality of recording devices. Each recording device transfers the recorded audio file to the server through the network connection in response to completion of recording the audio file. The server confirms successful transmission to the recording device in response to operation of the software product.
US09305548B2
A system and method for an integrated, multi-modal, multi-device natural language voice services environment may be provided. In particular, the environment may include a plurality of voice-enabled devices each having intent determination capabilities for processing multi-modal natural language inputs in addition to knowledge of the intent determination capabilities of other devices in the environment. Further, the environment may be arranged in a centralized manner, a distributed peer-to-peer manner, or various combinations thereof. As such, the various devices may cooperate to determine intent of multi-modal natural language inputs, and commands, queries, or other requests may be routed to one or more of the devices best suited to take action in response thereto.
US09305546B2
Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and tangible computer-readable media for handling missing speech data. The computer-implemented method includes receiving speech with a missing segment, generating a plurality of hypotheses for the missing segment, identifying a best hypothesis for the missing segment, and recognizing the received speech by inserting the identified best hypothesis for the missing segment. In another method embodiment, the final step is replaced with synthesizing the received speech by inserting the identified best hypothesis for the missing segment. In one aspect, the method further includes identifying a duration for the missing segment and generating the plurality of hypotheses of the identified duration for the missing segment. The step of identifying the best hypothesis for the missing segment can be based on speech context, a pronouncing lexicon, and/or a language model. Each hypothesis can have an identical acoustic score.
US09305543B2
Techniques for improved text-to-speech processing are disclosed. The improved text-to-speech processing can convert text from an electronic document into an audio output that includes speech associated with the text as well as audio contextual cues. One aspect provides audio contextual cues to the listener when outputting speech (spoken text) pertaining to a document. The audio contextual cues can be based on an analysis of a document prior to a text-to-speech conversion. Another aspect can produce an audio summary for a file. The audio summary for a document can thereafter be presented to a user so that the user can hear a summary of the document without having to process the document to produce its spoken text via text-to-speech conversion.
US09305541B2
A noise treatment device (D) comprising at least one local noise sound sensor (30) and at least one sound system having a support (11, 12) and at least one sound actuator (21, 22, 21′, 22′). The device also includes a position sensor for determining the position of a person's head, at least one treatment unit (40, 40′) connected to the local noise sound sensor to receive a local noise signal and configured to deliver a control signal to each sound actuator (21, 22, 21′, 22′), the control signal being a function of the local noise signal and of at least one transfer function per ear, and active matching means (70) co-operating with the position sensor in order to keep each transfer function used in preparing each control signal representative of the path to be traveled by the anti-noise.
US09305533B2
Disclosed is a system and method for remotely generating sound from a musical instrument. In one embodiment, the system includes an input configured to receive a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, an exciter for converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and a coupling interface for coupling the mechanical vibrations into a second musical instrument. The method for remotely generating sound includes the steps of generating a signal representative of the sound of a first musical instrument, transmitting the signal, receiving the signal at an input, converting the signal to mechanical vibrations, and coupling the mechanical vibrations to a second musical instrument capable of producing sound waves.
US09305517B2
An apparatus and method for enhancing photorealism of a computer graphic (CG) image. Since color distribution maps of the CG image and a realistic image are extractable, a color distribution map of an input CG image may be adjusted, thereby enhancing photorealism of the CG image.
US09305508B2
A substantially rectangular display panel includes a first edge extending in a first major axis direction of the rectangular shape and a second edge extending in a second major axis direction of the rectangular shape, the second direction being different from the first direction. The display panel includes: a plurality of gate lines extending in the first direction; and a gate lines driver including a plurality of main stages sequentially connected to each other and configured for outputting gate signals to the gate lines, where the plurality of stages further includes one or more dummy stages arranged in a row along the second edge and not connected to the plurality of gate lines, and where a layout arrangement of a plurality of thin film transistors included in the main stage is different from a corresponding layout arrangement of corresponding thin film transistors included in the at least one dummy stage.
US09305500B2
A projector includes a light source unit that supplies light, and a spatial light modulator that modulates light supplied from the light source unit according to an image signal. The spatial light modulator is driven by an applied voltage whose polarity is reversed according to a polarity-reversing frequency which is specific to the spatial light modulator. The light source unit supplies light which is modulated according to pulse width modulation for which fundamental frequency is set based on the polarity-reversing frequency.
US09305494B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixels, each pixel connected to a data line, a gate line group and a reference line, each pixel further including: an organic light emitting device; a driving transistor controlling a current flowing in the organic light emitting device and including first and second gate electrodes overlapped with each other, with a semiconductor layer provided therebetween; a first switching transistor selectively supplying a data voltage supplied to the data line to a first node connected to the first gate electrode; a second switching transistor selectively supplying a sensing voltage to the second gate electrode; a third switching transistor selectively connecting a second node connected to a source electrode of the driving transistor to the first node; a fourth switching transistor selectively connecting the reference line to the second node; a first capacitor connected between the second gate electrode and the second node, the first capacitor storing a threshold voltage of the driving transistor; and a second capacitor connected between the first and second nodes, the second capacitor storing a difference voltage of the first and second nodes.
US09305493B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an organic light emitting diode pixel circuit and a display device so as to address such a problem of non-uniform display of an image on the entire display panel due to different threshold voltages of drive transistors in different pixel elements in a traditional organic light emitting diode pixel circuit. A drive signal generation module in the organic light emitting diode pixel circuit according to an embodiment of the invention reads and stores the threshold voltage of a drive transistor in a threshold voltage reading phase, and in a signal loading phase, receives an image data signal and generates a drive signal from the received image data signal and the threshold voltage of the drive transistor stored in the threshold voltage reading phase so that the drive signal is dependent upon the threshold voltage of the drive transistor.
US09305468B2
Architectural signage and the providing of systems and methods for adjustable signage suitable for operation with one hand. A signage assembly may include a slider panel assembly having a back plate and a plurality of slider portions, where each of the slider portions may include a guidance tongue formed from a portion of the back plate. The guidance tongue may include a lock button extending from a front face of the guidance tongue, wherein the guidance tongue is configured to flex in a direction perpendicular to or from a front face of the back plate to allow insertion of a slidable tab with reduced interference from the lock button, and wherein the lock button is configured to mate with a lock pocket of a slidable tab when the slidable tab is fully extended.
US09305461B2
A system includes a processor configured to detect a primary vehicle emergency-state. The processor is also configured to determine that emergency-services communication through an on-board device is not possible. Further, the processor is configured to search for a secondary vehicle having vehicle-to-vehicle communication capabilities. The processor is additionally configured to send an emergency-services request to the secondary vehicle to establish communication with the secondary vehicle and send prioritized emergency data to the secondary vehicle.
US09305459B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an automated system may be implemented in which alerts to drivers are automatically distributed and implemented at the driver's vehicle. Thus, in some embodiments, no involvement by the driver is needed and everything may be done in an automated fashion including filtering alerts and responding to alerts. In some embodiments, each vehicle need not provide its current location to the Amber Alert System, providing greater privacy in some cases.
US09305455B2
A switch module is designed to facilitate user definition of a group of switch modules that control the same lamp. A lamp unit (12) containing the lamp responds selectively to messages from the switch modules (10, 10′) when the messages comprise ID information matching with ID information stored in the lamp unit (12). A group is formed by detecting user control operation of sensors (100) in the switch modules (10, 10′), transmitting messages from the switch modules (10, 10′) in response and determining from the messages whether the switch modules (10′) have both been operated within a time interval with a duration of less than a predetermined threshold. If so, the ID information value in memories (104) of the switch module (10) and/or the further switch module (10′) are set to matching ID values, for use in the messages to control the lamp unit.
US09305452B2
A battery protection system applicable to an electronic device includes a battery, a control module, a message generating module and an input interface. The control module is electrically connected to the battery for detecting if the battery is in an abnormal state. The message generating module is electrically connected to the control module for generating a battery-error warning message when the control module detects that the battery is in the abnormal state. The input interface is electrically connected to the control module for transmitting a user command to the control module after the battery-error warning message is generated, thereby enabling the control module to release the abnormal state of the battery according to the user command. A battery protection method is also provided.
US09305444B2
A security device for an item of merchandise is provided. The security device includes a non-programmable locking mechanism comprising a mechanical lock and a programmable locking mechanism comprising a monitoring circuit operatively coupled to an alarm. The security device is configured to secure an item of merchandise from theft or removal when the mechanical lock is locked and to be separated from the item of merchandise when the mechanical lock is unlocked. The alarm is configured to provide an alarm signal if the security device is separated from the item of merchandise while the monitoring circuit is armed.
US09305434B2
A gaming system including at least one gaming machine enabling a player to select at least one of a plurality of different selectable side bets. A side bet controller maintaining at least one side bet. A side bet revenue manager configured to communicate with the gaming machine and side bet controller to accept and track fund data associated with a side bet from the gaming machine; transfer fund data to the side bet controller; accept and track fund data from the side bet controller; and transfer fund data to the gaming device.
US09305433B2
Gaming devices, gaming systems, methods of conducting wagering games, and computer programs for executing wagering games are disclosed. A gaming system for playing a wagering game is disclosed which includes a processor(s) and a memory device(s) storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the processors, cause the gaming system to: display, via a display device(s), a randomly determined outcome of the wagering game; responsive to a triggering event, transmit an offer to participate in a competitive gaming feature to a second player(s); randomly determine a first final outcome of the competitive gaming feature for the first player; randomly determine a second final outcome of the competitive gaming feature for the second player; and, in response to a valuation of the first final outcome being better than a valuation of the second final outcome, award a competitive gaming feature award to the first player.
US09305432B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems, devices, and methods, which may receive wagers on one or more paylines. The systems, devices, and methods may determine a winning outcome and/or a losing outcome. The systems, devices, and methods may determine one or more key values. The systems and methods may determine a scripted scenario based on the determined one or more key values. The systems and methods may display one or more presentations based on the determined scripted scenario. The scripted scenario may utilize symbols, characters, and/or other gaming objects.
US09305429B2
A system is provided that, in some aspects, determines a user's intent to place a wager or redeem a wager based on bar codes generated by a client device operated by the user.
US09305427B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a plurality of outcomes are generated and used to create a video presentation of representative outcomes. The video presentation is recorded onto a tangible medium (e.g., DVD or CD-ROM) or otherwise provided to a player (e.g., player may access the video presentation online). This allows a player to purchase a video presentation of (e.g., predetermined) outcomes in a jurisdiction in which gambling is legal yet view the presentation at the player's convenience (e.g., from any jurisdiction and at any time). A player who purchases such a video presentation may subsequently redeem it for a redemption value associated therewith.
US09305418B2
A vending machine for scrubs may include a housing configured to store different sized scrubs. The vending machine also may include a scrub dispenser, a labeler, and a controller carried by the housing. The controller may be configured to cooperate with the scrub dispenser to dispense a selected sized scrub. The controller may also be configured to cooperate with the labeler to generate a time expiring badge for the selected sized scrub.
US09305416B2
Banknotes are taken into a banknote recognition and counting machine (10), a recognition and counting process for the banknotes is performed by a recognition and counting unit (24), judgment for the banknotes is performed by using a first judgment threshold value, based on the recognition result on each banknote recognized by the recognition and counting unit (24), and then the banknotes are fed, selectively, to a stacking unit (26) or reject unit (30), based on the judgment result on each banknote. Then the banknotes, respectively fed to the reject unit (30), are taken again into the banknote recognition and counting machine (10), the recognition and counting process for such banknotes is performed by the recognition and counting unit (24), and then the judgment for the banknotes is performed, by using a second judgment threshold value set smaller than the first judgment threshold value, based on the recognition result on each banknote recognized by the recognition and counting unit (24). Thereafter, information, which relates to the total sum of a count result on the banknotes, respectively judged to be true upon the judgment for the banknotes by using the first judgment threshold value and another count result on the banknotes, respectively judged to be true upon the judgment for the banknotes by using the second judgment threshold value, is output.
US09305412B2
Apparatus, system and method for authenticating access to a vehicle, where vehicle events, such as a door lock condition or an operating condition of the vehicle, are reported to an authentication network. Vehicle events are compared to a vehicle schedule to determine if the vehicle events comply with the schedule using authentication rules. If the events are not compliant, an authentication request signal, requiring a predetermined authentication response, is transmitted to the vehicle. Access to the vehicle may be denied until a match to the predetermined authentication response is received. Authentication may include the use of a portable device, which may act as an intermediary between the vehicle and the authentication system. Vehicle events may further be reported to the portable device. Authentication rules may be updated automatically based on further incoming vehicle events, or may be updated manually using a computer.
US09305405B2
A fuel tax measuring and reporting tool is provided for a mobile refrigeration unit that is capable of providing state-by-state fuel tax reporting, automatically, relating to fuel consumed by a mobile refrigeration unit. Fuel use of an engine powering the refrigeration unit is measured based on either power consumption by, or fuel flow to, the engine. Processing of this data locally or remotely allows accurate fuel tax reporting in connection with transmission of this data from the site of the mobile refrigeration unit.
US09305402B2
A device can receive live video of a real-world, physical environment on a touch sensitive surface. One or more objects can be identified in the live video. An information layer can be generated related to the objects. In some implementations, the information layer can include annotations made by a user through the touch sensitive surface. The information layer and live video can be combined in a display of the device. Data can be received from one or more onboard sensors indicating that the device is in motion. The sensor data can be used to synchronize the live video and the information layer as the perspective of video camera view changes due to the motion. The live video and information layer can be shared with other devices over a communication link.
US09305401B1
An image analysis technology that enables real-time fully 3-dimensionally integrated reconstruction of the live video-data derived from CCTV system's multiple camera observations of a spatially connected surveillance scene.
US09305398B2
A trajectory is drawn on a digital canvas with a pointing device, wherein the trajectory comprises a plurality of spaced points, and each spaced point has a plurality of characteristics, including a geometric profile, a depth, and a color if a color trajectory or an intensity if a monochromatic trajectory. One or more of the plurality of characteristics is adjusted by manually controlling a speed of the drawing, and a faster drawing speed results in spacing between two successive points that is greater than that resulting from a slower speed. A line is generated by interpolating the space between the points. A picture is created with a number of trajectories and/or lines. A three-dimensional image may be created from the picture by creating, then integrating a set of multi-view images from the picture. The picture in progress and/or as completed may be displayed, for example, on a three-dimensional display.
US09305396B2
A polygonal mesh is received and the edges and vertices of the polygonal mesh are analyzed. A positive (e.g., convex or protruding) feature may be identified where the positive feature is bound by a non-concave edge (e.g., a convex edge or a planar edge). A negative (e.g., concave or receding) feature may also be identified where the negative feature is bound by a non-convex edge (e.g., a concave edge or a planar edge).
US09305389B2
Embodiments of the present invention include techniques for reducing artifacts in rendered images. In one embodiment, a dual UV engine generates a dual of the graph defined by an initial UV set associated with a 3D model. The dual UV engine then uses existing flattening and layout engines to generate a dual UV set from this dual graph. Using the dual graph to define the dual UV set ensures that the seams corresponding to the initial UV set and the dual UV set minimally intersect.
US09305386B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a view of a three-dimensional computer animation model, the view including one or more objects, wherein each of the one or more objects is associated with a respective animation setting for adjusting a respective three-dimensional motion trajectory interpolation of the object in the computer animation model between a first and a different second key frame; receiving data describing a user interaction with a visual representation of the animation setting in the view for a first object of the one or more objects, the user interaction being an adjustment of the respective animation setting of the first object; and based on the receiving, adjusting the motion trajectory interpolation of the first object between the particular first and second key frames.
US09305383B2
A method of charting event occurrence counts includes processing event occurrence data recorded during operation of an industrial process to generate a chart having chart entries representing occurrence counts and chart positioning information. The chart positioning information includes an x-axis with a first time interval between x-positions and a y-axis with a second time interval between y-positions. Respective ones of the chart entries are positioned at intersections between the x-positions and y-positions by placing an element at the intersections having first feature attribute which indicates a relative magnitude of its event count. Time division count sums are computed to indicate a relative magnitude of a count sum across the x-positions and y-positions. The time division count sums are represented with a second feature attribute. The time division count sums are positioned for the x-positions adjacent to the second ending time and for the y-positions adjacent to the first ending time.
US09305382B2
Methods for providing drawing assistance to a user sketching an image include geometrically correcting and parametrically adjusting user strokes to improve their placement and appearance. As a user draws a stroke, the stroke is geometrically corrected by moving the stroke toward a feature of the image the user is intending to draw. To further improve the user strokes, parametric adjustments are made to the geometrically-corrected stroke to emphasize “correctly” drawn lines and de-emphasize “incorrectly” drawn lines.
US09305378B1
Systems and methods which combine standard image reconstruction and beam-control techniques with tomographic estimation of three-dimensional atmospheric turbulence to enable high-quality anisoplanatic imaging of distant objects at long range through the atmosphere over an extended field-of-view using a large aperture. More specifically, the systems and methods combine the concepts of atmospheric tomography, forward-model image reconstruction and tip, tilt, beam-walk, and focus control techniques to produce image reconstructions of high quality for large objects that move rapidly as viewed by large apertures in weak or strong extended atmospheric turbulence.
US09305372B2
Embodiments provide a method for processing a first image based on a second image, wherein each pixel in the first image has a plurality of color components and has a corresponding pixel in the second image, and wherein each value of a color component in the first image corresponds to a value of a color component in the second image. The method may include deciding, for each color component of a pixel in the first image, whether to modify the value of the color component dependent on a predetermined criterion. The method may further include determining a similarity index between the pixel in the first image and the corresponding pixel in the second image based on, for each color component of the pixel, the value of the color component of the pixel, or if it is decided that the value of the color component of the pixel is to be modified, the corresponding value of the color component in the second image.
US09305361B2
A homography between two captured images of a planar object is decomposed into at least one possible solution, and typically at least two ambiguous solutions. The ambiguity between the two solutions is removed, or a single solution validated, using measurements from orientation sensors. The measurements from orientation sensors may be used by comparing at least one of the yaw, pitch, and/or roll angles derived from a relative rotation matrix for the one or more solutions to a corresponding at least one of the yaw, pitch, and/or roll angles derived from the measurements from the orientation sensors.
US09305355B2
A photo localization application is configured to determine the location that an image depicts relative to a 3D representation of a structure. The 3D representation may be a 3D model, color range scan, or gray scale range scan of the structure. The image depicts a particular section of the structure. The photo localization application extracts and stores features from the 3D representation in a database. The photo localization application then extracts features from the image and compares those features against the database to identify matching features. The matching features form a location fingerprint, from which the photo localization application determines the location that the image depicts, relative to the 3D representation. The location allows the user to better understand and communicate information captured by the image.
US09305354B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for mapping a three-dimensional space in medical applications for diagnostic, surgical or interventional medicine purposes. The apparatus and the method according to the invention use acquisition means, capable of recording two-dimensional images of said three-dimensional space from at least a first recording position and from a second recording position, and a reference target, comprising a plurality of marker elements and movable between a first target point and a second target point of said three-dimensional space. A processing unit, adapted to receive data indicative of a first image and of a second image of said three-dimensional space, comprises computerized means adapted to calculate registration data to register the two-dimensional reference systems, used to express the coordinates of the points of said first image and of said second image, with the three-dimensional reference system, defined by the marker elements of said reference target.
US09305352B2
Deformable, anatomical trees represented by scan data from different times are matched. Coherent point drift (CPD) solved using expectation maximization is enhanced with tangent or other curve information. By including point-curve information, another characteristic than GMM-based probabilities are included in the cost function for matching. The angle information provided by the tangent, normal, or other point-curve measure may more likely match points in one set representing a tree to points in another set representing the tree.
US09305347B2
Systems and methods for inspecting data generated during a scan of an object. One system includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive projection data generated by a CT scan of an object, generate a three-dimensional, volumetric data set based on the projection data, and automatically generate a plurality of cinematic frames of a cinematic sequence based on the three-dimensional, volumetric data set. Each of the plurality of cinematic frames has a different value for at least one parameter. The processor is also configured to automatically generate a signal to display the cinematic sequence in a frame-by-frame manner. In some embodiments, the processor continuously displays the cinematic sequence until a user accepts the three-dimensional, volumetric data set or stops the cinematic sequence (e.g., to perform a manual inspection of the three-dimensional, volumetric data set and/or re-initiate a scan of the object).
US09305346B2
A method of inspecting fabricated articles includes receiving a fabricated article to be inspected for defects, the fabricated article having a pattern thereon, and the pattern being based on a pattern design and creating a rule set for defining critical regions of the pattern as represented in the pattern design, the critical regions being regions in which defects are more likely to be found during inspection. The method also includes applying the rule set to the pattern design to identify a critical region of the pattern on the fabricated article and a non-critical region of the pattern on the fabricated article. Further, the method includes inspecting the non-critical region of the pattern on the fabricated article for defects at first resolution and inspecting the critical region of the pattern on the fabricated article for defects at a second resolution higher than the first resolution.
US09305342B2
The present invention provides a method for acquiring a boundary line of an alignment film, including the steps of: processing an edge of an image and determining the boundary line of the alignment film; conducting a first screen over the determined boundary line, and excluding a straight boundary line; and conducting a second screen toward the firstly-screened boundary line, and selecting the outmost boundary line as the actual boundary line of the alignment film. The present invention further provides a method for inspecting an alignment film. According to the method for acquiring a boundary line of an alignment film and the method for inspecting the alignment film provided the present invention, not only the actual boundary line of the alignment film could be acquired quickly and accurately by screening the determined boundary line, but also the error rate of determining the boundary line of the alignment film could be lowered, so as to facilitate the control and prevention of the alignment film; and the method is simple and easy to operate.
US09305331B2
An image processor and an image combination method thereof are provided. The image processor includes a processing unit for performing the image combination method, and a storing unit for storing an original image and an output image. The image combination method includes the following steps. First, the original image is received from the storing unit. A first processing procedure scales down the original image to generate a first image. A second processing procedure crops the original image to generate a second image. The first image and the second image are combined to form and then be outputted the output image. Accordingly, the image processor and the image combination method are capable of providing the overview and local detailed content of the original image at the same time.
US09305324B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for tiled deferred shading. In operation, a plurality of photons associated with at least one scene are identified. Further, a plurality of screen-space tiles associated with the at least one scene are identified. Additionally, each of the plurality of screen-space tiles capable of being affected by a projection of an effect sphere for each of the plurality of photons are identified. Furthermore, at least a subset of photons associated with each of the screen-space tiles from which to compute shading are selected. Moreover, shading for the at least one scene is computed utilizing the selected at least a subset of photons.
US09305323B2
A communication system (200) comprises a radio communication device (100) comprising a controller (102) having law enforcement information (110) stored therein and a data acquisition device (108) for capturing area conditions surrounding a law enforcement vehicle or law enforcement personnel. The controller (102) detects violations of the law enforcement information based on variety of detection devices, such as video analytics. In response to a detection of a law violation by an offending vehicle, a transmitter (104) within communication device 100 generates an alert to similarly formed secondary devices (220) mounted and/or worn within the network. The system (200) provides an automated response through devices (220) by gathering additional data pertaining to the offending vehicle to detect for additional violations of the law, even across state lines. The system (200) may further facilitate apprehension of an offending vehicle through automated roadblocks.
US09305321B2
A social networking system provides access to personas comprising information, for example, web pages describing users or entities. The information may be suggested by the social networking system or requested by the user, for example, via search. The social networking system authenticates the personas so that only authentic personas are suggested to users or returned when a user is searching for information. The authenticity of a persona is determined based on the connections and/or likes coming from other personas, user accounts, or other entities represented within the social networking system that have been previously authenticated. The authenticity of the persona is also determined based on external links to the persona, for example, external websites referring to the persona or the rate at which external systems such as search engines direct web traffic to the persona.
US09305316B2
A behavior sets system facilitates the dynamic generation of field and rule behavior sets for an insurance policy and claims processing computer system. The behavior sets system includes various modules and graphical user interfaces that provide a streamlined mechanism for creating new behavior sets of field and rule behaviors for the insurance processing architecture. The behavior sets system may include various levels of usability that distinguish between an advanced user of the behavior sets system and basic user that uses the generated field and rule behavior sets. The behavior sets system may also include graphical user interfaces directed to adding, editing, removing, or maintaining the behavior of fields and rules for the insurance policy and claims processing computer system.
US09305312B2
A grocery store or retail establishment easy-pass (E-Z) lane system for enabling express non-contact payment of a plurality of items is presented including an E-Z pass express checkout lane having at least a scanner for scanning the plurality of items and provided exclusively to preferred members pre-registered with the grocery store or retail establishment. The system includes an RFID antenna positioned about the E-Z pass express checkout lane for communicating with an RFID transponder issued to a preferred member when the RFID transponder is in close proximity to the RFID antenna. The E-Z pass checkout lane is activated thereafter for use by the preferred member for express checkout without the preferred member furnishing direct payment at the E-Z pass express checkout lane via a personal payment account that is separate and distinct from a prepaid vendor-established and maintained purchasing account.
US09305303B2
A sentiment analysis computing system includes a storage medium and a processing system. Sentiment input is received from audience members viewing a streamed/webcasted event. The received input is stored to the storage medium. A time slice of the webcasted event is determined and sentiment inputs that are within that time slice are obtained. A sentiment value is calculated for the determined time slice based on aggregated sentiment values. The calculated sentiment value for the time slice is then output by the sentiment analysis computing system.
US09305298B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for location-aware authentication. For example, one embodiment of a location-aware method for user authentication comprises: determining a current location of a mobile device; identifying a location class corresponding to the current location; selecting a set of one or more authentication techniques to provide a sufficient level of user authentication for a current transaction based on the identified location class.
US09305289B2
Caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an electronic mail message
Technologies are described herein for caching and exposing pre-send data relating to the sender or recipient of an e-mail message. A mail client program is configured to cache recipient and configuration mail tips at a client computer. The configuration mail tips may be retrieved from a server computer and cached when the mail client program is started. Recipient mail tips may be retrieved and cached as each recipient of an e-mail message is identified. When subsequent e-mail messages are created, cached mail tips for an e-mail recipient are utilized instead of retrieving the mail tips from the server computer. The cached mail tips may be updated after a predefined period of time has elapsed. The cached mail tips may also be utilized when the client program is offline or unable to establish a connection to the server computer.
US09305277B2
The present disclosure relates to a tool for increasing efficiency of development and upskilling of developers of software. The system may be configured to identify minimum skills for development of a software tool, identify elements of the software tool to be provided, establish a maximum timeline for completion of the elements of the software tool, based on the elements identified, and determine a proficiency status level appropriate to complete the development of the software tool based on both the identified skills and the elements.
US09305275B2
Various embodiments are directed towards a platform for rapid development of applications. A data processing application may be generated by applying templates, work streams, change entries, and user modifications to generate data processing applications. In at least one of the various embodiments, the applications may be generated based project initial instructions and by receiving and processing example data in combination with templates, change entries, and work streams. Further, in at least one of the various embodiments, modifications made to the generated applications may be preserved as change entries associated with a work stream. In at least one of the various embodiments, separate applications may be generated based on the work streams and/or change streams of other applications. In at least one of the various embodiments, if a generated application may be modified a new revision number may be associated with the modified version of the application.
US09305272B2
A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface.
US09305268B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for monitoring and replaying user interactions with one or more interactive electronic documents. The methods generally include identifying an event comprising an interaction between a user and an interactive electronic document, determining to record the event, identifying for the event a user action, a target element, and a set of element features, and recording data for recreating the event. Generally, the methods and systems monitor a training user's interactions with a document and generate an automated replay agent capable of replaying or recreating those interactions on the document or on similar documents. In some embodiments, the replay agent is able to place a document in a desired state and extract information from the document in the desired state. In some embodiments, the replay agent is trained to recognize elements, or types of elements, in the document.
US09305267B2
An algorithm according to an embodiment of the present invention provides for latent signal detection of adverse events. Embodiments infer the presence of adverse drug events from large observational databases housed by the FDA, WHO, and other governmental organizations. The disclosed algorithms do not require the adverse event to be reported explicitly. Instead, the algorithms infer the presence of adverse events through more common secondary effects. In an embodiment, machine learning techniques are used for this purpose.
US09305264B2
Method, system and computer program for determining matching between two time series. They use an improved algorithm partially based in Dynamic Time Warping and Information Retrieval techniques, but solving the problems (as computational complexity, memory requirements . . . ) observed in these matching techniques.
US09305263B2
Methods are described for ideally joining human and machine computing resources to solve tasks, based on the construction of predictive models from case libraries of data about the abilities of people and machines and their collaboration. Predictive models include methods for folding together human contributions, such as voting, with machine computation, such as automated visual analyses, as well as the routing of tasks to people based on prior performance and interests. An optimal distribution of tasks to selected participants of the plurality of participants is determined according to a model that considers the demonstrated competencies of people based on a value of information analysis that considers the value of human computation and the ideal people for providing a contribution.
US09305262B1
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and techniques for using collective intelligence to improve a customer's experience when using network-based services. Data generated as a byproduct of one or more customer interactions with the network-based service may be repeatedly gathered, optionally stored, and analyzed to generate collective intelligence information. This collective intelligence information may be compared to various assessed parameters associated with a characteristic (i.e., a type and/or a configuration) of a computer resource(s), parameters associated with a state of the network-based service provider environment, and/or a customer experience criterion specified by the customer.
US09305257B2
It is determined that a population of candidate solutions for an optimization problem has prematurely converged during a metaheuristic optimization run. A cause for premature convergence of the population is determined based, at least in part, on an analysis of the metaheuristic optimization run. A first cataclysm strategy of a plurality of cataclysm strategies is selected based, at least in part, on one of the cause of the premature convergence and a history of the metaheuristic optimization run. A cataclysm is simulated based, at least in part, on the first cataclysm strategy.
US09305254B2
A method of manufacturing a card (3) of small format (8) and small thickness (5), detachable from a plate (1) of large thickness (6), includes the following steps: providing in the plate (1) of large thickness (6) at least one hole (4) opposite with a cumulative depth (7) equal to the difference between the large thickness (6) and the small thickness (5), pre-cutting of the card (3) of small format (8) in the at least one hole (4). The product obtained by such a method is also described.
US09305253B2
A memory card includes a memory that stores data, a driver that transmits the data received from the memory, and at least one transmitter that transmits the data received from the driver to a receiver provided in an external main unit. The driver and the at least one transmitter are provided in a single IC (integrated circuit) chip and are not overlapped with each other in a planar view.
US09305250B2
Image processing apparatus and image processing method including location information identification
An image processing apparatus includes an image-area separator that separates a character area from monochrome document data scanned by a scanner, a character pixel detecting unit that counts the number of pixels of a character in the main scanning direction and the sub-scanning direction included in a controller, a bolded character identifying unit that identifies a character as a bolded character in case the count result is larger than a predefined threshold value, and a color converter that converts the bolded character into color data.
US09305244B2
An apparatus and a method are disclosed for tracking a plurality of targets (e.g. land-based vehicles) The method can include: for a first time-step, estimating a state of each target; at a second time-step, measuring values for a state of a target; for the second time-step, estimating a state of each target using the estimated target states for the first time-step; updating the estimated target states for the second time-step using the measured values; and performing an identity management process to estimate a probability that a particular state measurement corresponds to a particular target by providing a mixing matrix, wherein an element of the mixing matrix is based on an overlap between the updated estimated target states of targets in an underlying state space of the estimated target states.
US09305235B1
A system and method for identifying and locating instances of a shape under large variations in linear degrees of freedom is provided. The invention extracts boundary segments from an image and generates potential match candidates for boundary models based on the extracted boundary segments. The invention also extracts skeletal segments from the obtained image. Potential match candidates are then generated for skeletal models based on the extracted skeletal segments. Once the match candidates for the boundary models and skeletal models have been generated, the present invention then corresponds the various boundary segments and outputs a best correspondence. The output from the present invention may be utilized by a user to signify acceptance of the various correspondences located by the present invention. These correspondences may then be utilized to train a machine vision system.
US09305232B2
A method for controlling an orientation of a display of a wireless device using a combination of accelerometer-determined orientation and camera-determined orientation, the camera being a frontal camera used to confirm or reverse the orientation found by the accelerometer.
US09305230B2
A system and a method for conducting credit card transactions through a mobile device of a user. The mobile device comprises an image acquisition unit and a mobile application operated by the mobile device. The system enables acquiring an image of a client's credit card, using the image acquisition unit; analyzing data of the image; outputting details of the credit card from the analysis; verifying the output details, wherein the verification is further carried out through the mobile application; verifying authorization of inputted monetary transaction, wherein the mobile application enables verifying the authorization by communicating with the billing center, associated with at least one credit company associated with the credit card over at least one communication network, wherein the communication is carried out by the mobile application using the mobile device; and conducting monetary transactions using the verified credit card details.
US09305229B2
System and method which allow a user to interface with a machine/computer using an image capturing device (e.g. camera) instead of conventional physical interfaces e.g. keyboard, mouse. The system allows the user to interface from any physical and non-physical location within the POV of the camera at a distance that is determined by the resolution of the camera. Using images of the hand, the system may detect a change of hand states. If the new state is a known state that represents a hit state, the system would map the change of state to a key hit in a row and column of the keyboard and sends the function associated with that key for execution. In an embodiment, the system determines the row based on the rotation of the wrist and/or position of the hand.
US09305227B1
Embodiments of the subject technology provide for a hybrid OCR approach which combines server and device side processing that can offset disadvantages of performing OCR solely on the server side or the device side. More specifically, the subject technology utilizes image characteristics such as glyph details and image quality measurements to opportunistically schedule OCR processing on the mobile device and/or server. In this regard, text extracted by a “faster” OCR engine (e.g., one with less latency) is displayed to a user, which is then updated by the result of a more accurate OCR engine (e.g., an OCR engine provided by the server). This approach allows factoring in additional parameters such as network latency and user preference for making scheduling decisions. Thus, the subject technology may provide significant gains in terms of reduced latency and increased accuracy by implementing one or more techniques associated with this hybrid OCR approach.
US09305226B1
The accuracy of a text recognition process can be improved using a set of semantic boosting rules, as may be contained in a sequence or other such arrangement. When text is output from a text recognition process, that text can have alternatives and confidence values for different characters or portions of the string. In order to improve the accuracy, this data can be processed using the organized rules, where rules are applied as long as any preconditions for that rule are satisfied, and each rule has the ability to modify the confidence values or modify one or more of the alternatives. When a result it produced with a minimum confidence level, or all applicable rules have been applied, the result can be provided as a refined text output of the recognition process.
US09305222B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus and an image processing method includes a dictionary generation unit, a processed image generation unit, and a detection unit. The dictionary generation unit generates a single dictionary using a plurality of images of a detection target object picked up by a camera. The plurality of images is obtained by arranging the detection target object at a corresponding plurality of positions in a predetermined range such that a predetermined visual axis of the camera is parallel with a normal-line direction of a detection target surface of the detection target object. The processed image generation unit generates a processed image having the predetermined visual axis as a normal-line direction, based on an image picked up by the camera after generation of the dictionary. The detection unit detects the detection target object included in the processed image by determining a feature value using the dictionary.
US09305208B2
According to one aspect, a method for categorizing at least one image includes obtaining the at least one image and mapping the at least one image to at least a first grid. The first grid is a two-dimensional grid that includes a plurality of cells. The method also includes characterizing the first grid, wherein categorizing the first grid includes determining whether the first grid is indicative of an offensive characteristic, and identifying the at least one image as offensive when it is determined that the first grid is indicative of the offensive characteristic. When it is determined that the first grid is not indicative of the offensive characteristic, the at least one image is identified as not offensive.
US09305203B2
A method for registering a fingerprint image is provided. The method comprises steps of: establishing an orientation field template base according to M training fingerprints, wherein M is a positive integer larger than one; receiving a fingerprint image to be registered; obtaining an initial orientation field of the fingerprint image; obtaining an estimated position and an estimated direction of the fingerprint image according to the initial orientation field and the orientation field template base; and registering the fingerprint image according to a preset position, a preset direction, the estimated position and the estimated direction.
US09305200B2
The imager and controller of an information apparatus images the back face of another information apparatus to acquire the manufacturing number of the other information apparatus corresponding to the two-dimensional bar code provided on the back face of the other information apparatus and acquire visible light information corresponding to blinking of light emitted by the light emitter arranged on the back face of the other information apparatus. Furthermore, the controller controls the imager so as to be able to image the two-dimensional bar code and the light emitted by the light emitter.
US09305185B1
Circuitry and methods prevent unauthorized programming, or reprogramming, of a programmable device, by requiring a signature in the configuration data to match a signature previously stored in the programmable device. A programmable integrated circuit device includes an input for configuration data, and programming control circuitry operable to derive a current signature from the configuration data, examine a first bit stored in the programmable integrated circuit device, and when the first bit is in a first state, compare the current signature to a first predetermined signature stored in the programmable integrated circuit device and configure the programmable integrated circuit device according to the configuration data only when the current signature matches the first predetermined signature, and when the first bit is in a second state, configure the programmable integrated circuit device according to the configuration data without comparing the current signature to the first predetermined signature.
US09305168B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for analyzing source code of an application. In some implementations, actions include determining, for at least one procedure invoked by the source code, a procedure specification specifying one or more conditions under which one or more parameters of the procedure are exploitable according to a parameter security specification; performing static application security testing on the source code by using the procedure specification on reaching an invocation of the procedure in the source code, including: comparing one or more invoking parameters of the invocation of the procedure to the conditions of the procedure specification; and determining whether the invocation of the procedure is exploitable.
US09305167B2
Described systems and methods allow protecting a host computer system from malware, such as return-oriented programming (ROP) and jump-oriented programming (JOP) exploits. In some embodiments, a processor of the host system is endowed with two counters configured to store a count of branch instructions and a count of inter-branch instructions, respectively, occurring within a stream of instructions fetched by the processor for execution. Exemplary counted branch instructions include indirect JMP, indirect CALL, and RET on x86 platforms, while inter-branch instructions consist of instructions executed between two consecutive counted branch instructions. The processor may be further configured to generate a processor event, such as an exception, when a value stored in a counter exceeds a predetermined threshold. Such events may be used as triggers for launching a malware analysis to determine whether the host system is subject to a code reuse attack.
US09305164B1
The effects on networking systems of attacks on vulnerabilities, such as vulnerable modules in a webserver, SYN flooding, etc, can be devastating to a network environment. In various embodiments, a first, quick, or inexpensive analysis is performed on incoming network flows. If an intrusion issue or other problem is suspected based on the first, rapid, or an inexpensive analysis, then the flow can be flagged for redirection to another process, virtual machine, or physical computer module that will perform a deeper, more expensive analysis on the network flow. If there are no issues detected in the second, deeper analysis, then the network flow can be forwarded to its intended recipient. If an issue is detected in the second, deeper analysis, then the network flow can be throttled, quarantined, ignored, sent to an un-trusted portion of the system, sent for more analysis, or otherwise handled or flagged.
US09305163B2
An application executing on a device is authenticated by an enterprise gateway components. This authentication is done in addition to authenticating the device and user. This includes authenticating apps that are being used on the device. The enterprise, by virtue of the gateway component, can authenticate details about specific app usage. The enterprise gateway component establishes a dedicated link coupling the gateway device and a specific executing app. Prior to this app-specific link being established, the gateway device collects information and stores it in a database, including information about the user, device, and the specific application. Authentication is performed at each level.
US09305156B2
Systems, methods, and technologies for configuring a conventional smart card and client machine, and for performing a smart card authorization using the configured smart card and client. Further, the combination of methods provides for mutual authentication—authentication of the client to the user, and authentication of the user to the client. The authentication methods include presenting a specified token to the user sufficient to authenticate the client to the user and thus protect the user-provided PIN. Security is strengthened by using an integrity key based on approved client system configurations. Security is further strengthened by calculating a PIN′ value based on a user-specified PIN and a modifier and using the PIN′ value for unlocking the smart card.
US09305154B2
A device may request, and a server may provide, access to information associated with an image based on trusted face recognition. The server may receive a first image, registration, and associated information from a first device. The first image may include feature data, which the server may extract to create a first feature template. The server may store, and correlate, the first feature template, registration and associated information for the first image. A second device may extract feature data from a second image, create, and provide to the server, a second feature template. The server may authenticate the second device. The server may compare the second feature template with stored feature templates to identify a match. The server may determine whether to share associated information for a match with, and return an access indication to, the second device based, in part, on the authentication.
US09305147B1
Some embodiments include a method of preventing software licensing exploitation in a virtual environment. The method includes: retrieving, by a first instance of a licensed application running on an original virtual machine as permitted by an original software license, an original unique identifier from a virtual device in the original virtual machine; creating, by a hypervisor of the virtual environment, a cloned virtual machine instance as a copy of the original virtual machine; retrieving, by a second instance of the licensed application running on the cloned virtual machine instance, a new unique identifier from a virtual device in the cloned virtual machine instance; and determining, by the second instance of the licensed application running on the cloned virtual machine instance, that the original software license does not apply to the cloned virtual machine instance because the new unique identifier is different from the original unique identifier.
US09305146B2
A license management device causes a wireless device to enter a state in which all functions are restricted by overwriting key information of the wireless device with a default key specific to the wireless device. A key generating device generates an upgrade key specific to the wireless device, and transmits the update key to the license management device. The license management device can release a restriction of a function in the wireless device by applying the upgrade key to the key information of the wireless device overwritten with the default key.
US09305139B2
Disclosed herein is a radiation treatment planning apparatus and method thereof. A radiation treatment planning apparatus comprising: a processor configured to: generate a statistical model for a change in radiation therapy plan (RTP) data based on change data of RTP data collected in association with radiation therapy results data; set first RTP data based on a medical image of a region of interest of a patient; acquire radiation therapy results data based on the first RTP data; acquire statistical data corresponding to the first RTP data and the radiation therapy results data from the statistical model; and generate second RTP data using the statistical data.
US09305138B2
A device adapted to determine an analyte concentration of a fluid sample using a test sensor. The device comprises a display adapted to display information to a user. The device further comprises at least one user-interface mechanism adapted to allow the user to interact with the device. The device further comprises a body portion including at least one opening formed therein, the at least one opening being of sufficient size to receive the test sensor. The device further comprises a memory adapted to store a plurality of stored analyte concentrations. The device further comprises a processing feature adapted to inhibit the stored analyte concentrations from being displayed on the display.
US09305135B2
A method includes generating a first set of configurations of a layout of semiconductor components. The configurations of the first set of configurations each satisfy a first sub-set of a set of design rules. The method also includes generating a second set of configurations of the layout of semiconductor components. The second set of configurations are generated by eliminating one or more configurations of the first set of configurations based on a determination that the eliminated one or more configurations of the first set of configurations fail to satisfy a second sub-set of the set of design rules. The method further includes manufacturing a semiconductor device having semiconductor components arranged based on one of the configurations of the second set of configurations.
US09305134B2
A semiconductor device design method includes extracting voltage data associated with at least one electrical component in a layout of a semiconductor device and based on a result of a simulation of an operation of the semiconductor device. Based on location data of the at least one electrical component, the extracted voltage data is incorporated in the layout to generate a modified layout of the semiconductor device. One or more operations of the method are performed by at least one processor.
US09305129B2
Clock networks constructed with variable drive strength clock drivers are prepared for tuning. The clock drivers are built from a smaller set of base standard cells. Locations of the input and output netlists of the macrocells are marked and reserved even through the extraction process. The macrocells are able to be flattened, generating a netlist with the base cells, and recombined during circuit simulation, thereby reducing the number of iterations, making the tuning flow more efficient. The clock network is initially tuned by adding or removing cross-links in the mesh to balance capacitive loads on each driver of the clock mesh.
US09305128B2
In an integrated circuit device, a power circuit for maintaining asserted values on an input output pin of the device when a functional block of the device is placed in a sleep mode. The device includes a power circuit disposed along the periphery of the device, the power circuit configured to maintain power when the device is placed in a low-power mode. A plurality of input output blocks are included in the device and are for receiving external inputs for the integrated circuit device and for providing outputs from the integrated circuit device. The power circuit is coupled to provide power to at least one of the input output blocks to maintain state when the integrated circuit device is in the low-power mode.
US09305125B2
An EDA tool for validating predefined timing paths having corresponding timing constraints in an integrated circuit (IC) design has a processor that performs a static-timing-analysis (STA) of the IC design and generates a STA report that includes the first set of timing constraints, which include a first number of clock cycles required for propagating the first multi-cycle timing path. A simulation-based checker based on a STA that counts a second number of clock cycles that is actually required by the first multi-cycle timing path to propagate is generated while performing a unit-delay, gate-level netlist simulation of the first-multiple cycle timing path. The first set of timing constraints then are modified so that the first multi-cycle timing path is redefined to require the second number of clock cycles to propagate.
US09305115B1
A method and apparatus for comparing a search key with a plurality of rules of an access control list (ACL) stored in a plurality of content addressable memory (CAM) blocks of a content search system are disclosed. The search key is compared with a plurality of covering prefix entries stored in a covering prefix table, wherein a respective covering prefix entry includes first and second common prefix values. The first common prefix value is shared by all of the rules stored in a first of the CAM blocks, and the second common prefix value is shared by all of the rules stored in a second of the CAM blocks. A bitmap associated with a matching covering prefix entry selectively enables a subset of the CAM blocks for comparison with the search key to determine the highest priority matching rule.
US09305108B2
Computer-implemented methods for proposing actions to a user to select based on the user's predicted purpose for selecting content are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an identifier of a referent entity associated with user-selectable content, identifying, based on a prediction of a purpose in selecting the content, at least one action to be executed that is associated with the entity, and providing, for display, at least one identifier of the at least one action to the device for selection by a user. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
US09305107B2
A computer-implemented method and system for pre-fetching place page data from a remote mapping system for display on a client computing device is disclosed. User preference data collected from various data sources including applications executing on the client device, online or local user profiles, and other sources may be analyzed to generate a request for place page data from the remote mapping system. The user preference data may indicate a map feature such as a place of business, park, or historic landmark having the characteristics of both a user's preferred geographic location and the user's personal interests. For example, where the user indicates a geographic preference for “Boston” and a personal interest for “home brewing” the system and method may request place page data for all home brewing or craft beer-related map features near Boston.
US09305101B2
Techniques and systems for facilitating searching of digital media assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user can be assisted in entering search strings for searching a media repository (e.g., online media store) having a plurality of digital media assets that are available, e.g., available for purchase. When the user enters a search character, a list of possible complete search strings corresponding to digital media assets available in the media repository can be obtained over a network and presented to the user. The list of possible search strings can be filtered based on whether a client device supports a media type associated with a word or based on a location of the client device.
US09305100B2
An object oriented search mechanism extracts structural metadata and data based on type of document contents and data sources connected to the documents. Relationships between textual and non-textual elements within documents as well as metadata associated with the elements and data sources are utilized to generate a unified object model with the addition of semantic information derived from metadata and taxonomy, which are used to enhance search indexing, ranking of search results, and dynamic adjustment of result rendering user interface with fine tuned relevancy. Additional data from data sources connected to the documents may also be used to unlock hidden data such as data that has been filtered out in an original document.
US09305089B2
A search engine is operable to receive keyword information and semantic information that gives meaning and context to the keyword information. The search engine searches a keyword database with the keyword information to determine a set of links to web pages. The search engine also searches a semantic database with the semantic information, and ranks the set of web links based on the search.
US09305087B2
A server [115] or client-based content storage unit includes a communication device [300] to receive data corresponding to a transfer of at least one of media content and a link to the media content, from a first user [120] to a second user [125]. The communication device [300] also receives data corresponding to usage of the media content by the second user [125], and transmits some representation of a content capital to the first user [120]. A content usage aggregator [315] receives information corresponding to the usage of the media content by the second user [125]. A content usage evaluator [310] determines the content capital based on an aggregation of monitored use of the media content by the second user [125].
US09305084B1
Content object tags at a content hosting service are used to classify stored content objects. Tags and clusters of tags (groups of one or more associated tags) can be recommended to a user of the content hosting service based on a user context, such as the browsing, viewing, uploading, or searching of content objects. Tags are scored based on content objects tagged with the tags in a targeted subset of content objects and a baseline subset of content objects, and based on the relevance of the content objects tagged with the tags. These tag scores can be weighted, and one or more tags can be selected for recommendation based on the weighted tag scores. Tag clusters can be selected for recommendation using a cluster hierarchy and determining whether a targeted subset of tags occur within a maximum number of tag clusters at a particular hierarchy level.
US09305081B2
An information processing device 900 is equipped with an attribute value estimating part 901 configured to, based on at attribute value associated with a connection object that is an object connected to an estimation target object that is one object in a universal set including a plurality of objects associated with an attribute value that is a value representing the possession or absence of an attribute, estimate an attribute value associated with the estimation target object.
US09305071B1
A technique provides virtual storage processor (VSP) mobility with induced file system format migration. The technique involves receiving a command specifying (i) a source VSP which includes source file systems which store data in a source file system format, (ii) a destination, and (iii) a destination file system format. The technique further involves forming, in response to the command, a destination VSP which includes destination file systems. The technique further involves copying, while the source VSP is accessed by a set of host computers, data from the source file systems of the source VSP to the destination file systems of the destination VSP. The destination file systems store the copied data in the destination file system format. The technique further involves synchronizing, after the data is copied from the source file systems to the destination file systems, state changes between the source VSP and the destination VSP.
US09305068B1
Methods and apparatus are provided for database virtualization. A virtualized database is designed by receiving a user selection of one or more existing databases for virtualization; receiving a user selection of a target virtualization platform host profile for the virtualized database; receiving a user selection of a target virtualization storage profile for the virtualized database; and providing the user with a comparison of an actual performance of the selected existing database and a projected performance of the existing database on the selected target virtualization platform host. A user can specify a backup and recovery profile for the virtualized database. Metadata affinity can optionally be analyzed for a plurality of the selected existing databases to identify an affinity correlation across the selected existing databases. Templates and/or configuration files can be generated for the selected target virtualization environment (optionally based on rule-based best practices).
US09305060B2
A request is received from a user to perform a contextual search based on a media file or metadata for the media file. A type of the media file is determined. A contextual search menu is presented to the user. A selected contextual search query type selected from the contextual search menu is received from the user. One or more search modules each associated with one or more content sources are queried to determine which one or more search modules can perform the selected contextual search query type. A request is generated for one or more search modules that can perform the selected contextual search query type to perform the selected contextual search query type against one or more selected content sources associated with the one or more search modules. Search results are received from the one or more search modules, wherein the search results include links to one or more files associated with the one or more content sources. The search results are displayed to the user.
US09305057B2
A framework or infrastructure (extensibility framework/infrastructure) for extending the indexing capabilities of an event processing system. The capabilities of an event processing system may be extended to support indexing schemes, including related data types and operations, which are not natively supported by the event processing system. The extensibility is enabled by one or more plug-in extension components called data cartridges.
US09305056B1
Embodiments may include storing a query result in a results set cache with the query result being generated from execution of a particular query on a plurality of data records. One or more probabilistic data structures may be generated based, at least in part, on a subset of the data records that is reflected in the query result. An indication may be received that the plurality of data records has been modified. It may then be determined whether to invalidate the query result in the results set cache based, at least in part, on the one or more probabilistic data structures and a representation of modified plurality of data records.
US09305055B2
A method is disclosed for extracting a data packet including metadata and useful data from a datastream. The metadata and useful data are stored in a first and second memory area, with an association being maintained. A transaction number is formed based upon a signature of the data packet. The useful data or partially reconstructed network sessions may be searched for at least one search term, and at least one successful search may be recorded in the metadata. If the data packet is currently not being processed, the associated useful data may be read from the buffer store and a flag may be set in the metadata which indicates that this data packet is now being processed. If all the metadata and the useful data from a network session have been read and the search for the search term was successful, the network session is then reconstructed.
US09305053B2
The subject technology provides configurations for providing aggregated analytics tracking data associated with a dynamically generated session in response to a query for analytics tracking data. A query for analytics tracking data associated with a period of time is received in which the analytics tracking data includes data for tracking activity associated with a web site or application. The subject technology determines analytics tracking data for aggregating according to the period of time in order to associate the aggregated analytics tracking data with a dynamically generated session. The aggregated analytics tracking data associated with the dynamically generated session is then provided in response to the query.
US09305051B2
An optimization-based framework is utilized to extract broad query aspects from query reformulations performed by users in historical user session logs. Objective functions are optimized to yield query aspects. At run-time, the best broad but unspecified query aspects relevant to any user query are presented along with the results of the run time query.
US09305047B2
A request from previous coordinator node to assume control of a two-phase commit distributed transaction is received. The previous coordinator node has sent a commit query to multiple participants of the two-phase commit distributed transaction. Each participant can respond with one of a commit message, an abort message, or a read-only message. A read-only message is received from all but one participant. A one-phase commit distributed transaction is initiated for the one participant that did not respond with a read-only message.
US09305044B2
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for receiving and aggregating anonymized data reports about when prescribers provide wireless device applications to patients. The disclosure discusses ways of analyzing the data reports in combination with other electronic medical information to generate useful conclusions about scenarios in the health care process.
US09305043B2
The present invention is a stream data anomaly detection method for detecting an anomaly in input data received by a computer. The computer has: an input module for receiving the input data; an anomaly detection unit for detecting an anomaly in the input data; and an index management unit for calculating an index for the detection of an anomaly in the input data. The anomaly detection unit compares the received input data with the index and detects an anomaly in the input data when the difference between the value of the input data and the index satisfies a predetermined condition. The index management unit determines whether or not the index should be recalculated, and, when the index is determined to be recalculated, the index management unit recalculates a new index on the basis of the input data and substitutes the index with the calculated index.
US09305041B2
B-Tree data is serialized to existing data for all types of workloads. The serialized B-Tree data, that has been split, sorted and classified into identified data ranges, is then compressed.
US09305036B2
A data set is stored in a linear data structure. A memory manager receives multiple change requests for the data set. In response to receiving, for example, a read request for the data set, the memory manager batch processes the change requests by first moving the data set into a non-linear data structure. The non-linear data structure consumes more memory resources than the linear data structure but may provide for faster processing of the change requests while eliminating duplicate data elements. The updated data set is then returned to the more memory-efficient linear data structure.
