US09456586B1
An animal training apparatus is comprised of a leash connector attached to a chest portion of a harness. The harness is arranged to prevent the leash connector from shifting to the back of the animal. The harness is preferably comprised of a chest strap for positioning across the chest of the animal between the tops of the front legs, a withers strap for positioning across the withers of the animal behind the neck and between the shoulders, and a girth strap for positioning across the girth of the animal behind the front legs on the underside. The leash connector is attached to an intermediate position on the chest strap for pulling on the chest portion of the harness. The animal is prevented by the rotational force from pulling further.
US09456576B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH106414. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH106414, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH106414 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH106414.
US09456570B1
A novel maize variety designated X13F381 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X13F381 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13F381 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X13F381, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13F381. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13F381.
US09456562B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH432018. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH432018, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH432018 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH432018.
US09456561B2
The invention relates to alfalfa plants and lines having aluminum tolerance. The invention also relates to parts of alfalfa plants from lines having aluminum tolerance, including seeds capable of growing aluminum tolerant alfalfa plants. Methods for the use and breeding of aluminum tolerant alfalfa plants are also provided.
US09456559B2
An airborne vegetation trimming apparatus includes an apparatus housing, an elongated saw boom extending from the apparatus housing, a plurality of rotatable saw blades carried by the saw boom, a saw blade operating system drivingly engaging the saw blades, a rotatable tubing coupling carried by the apparatus housing and a tubing coupling rotation motor drivingly engaging the tubing coupling.
US09456553B1
A bale shredder apparatus may comprise a bale hopper defining a bale chamber configured to receive a bale to be shredded and including a perimeter formed of walls with a bale feed opening formed in the perimeter and a floor positioned toward a bottom of the bale chamber. A bale shredding assembly may include a shredding rotor having a plurality of flails positioned with respect to the bale chamber to contact a bale in the bale chamber through the bale feed opening. The apparatus may include a bale flipping assembly configured to engage a bale positioned in the bale chamber of the bale hopper and flip an orientation of the bale with respect to the hopper. Optionally, the apparatus may include a primary bale movement assembly positioned toward the chamber bottom to move a bale in the bale chamber toward the shredding rotor of the bale shredding assembly.
US09456540B2
A power take off coupling for connecting an engine (20, 21) to a site accessory (16, 14, 17), comprises a resilient power transmission component (3) within the coupling; a latching device (8, 46, 9) to mechanically latch the accessory to the engine (20, 21), with a manually operable release handle (13) to effect unlatching. A power output shaft of the engine (20, 21) carries one half (5) of a dog clutch with the other half (7) carried by the accessory (16, 14, 17). An alignment arrangement comprises a first annulus ring (18) attached coaxially to an output shaft assembly of the engine (20, 21), and a second annulus ring (19) attached coaxially to an input shaft assembly of the accessory, with the two rings (18, 19) being of different diameters, such that one ring is adapted to be engaged coaxially within the other ring with close tolerances, such that the external periphery of the smaller ring (18) engages at least parts of the internal periphery of the larger ring (19) to provide for accurate coaxial alignment of the power output shaft of the engine (20, 21) and the power input shaft of the accessory.
US09462733B2
A magnetic shielding apparatus includes: a passive shield; a correction target space that is defined in the interior of the passive shield; external coils as a first coil that corrects a magnetic field in the passive shield; a first magnetic sensor; a second magnetic sensor that is arranged more inside the passive shield than the first magnetic sensor; and a control unit. The first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor measure a magnetic field gradient in the passive shield. The control unit controls the external coils based on a result of the measurement performed by the first magnetic sensor and the second magnetic sensor.
US09462730B2
A shield member (1) includes a flexible main body part (11) surrounding electrical wire connected to a device in a shield case; and a flange part (12) provided at a shield-case-side terminal part of the main body part (11) so as to be integral with the main body part (11), facing a wall surface of the shield case. The stiffness of the flange part (12) is higher than that of the main body part (11).
US09462727B2
The LC filter includes a first AC reactor having a first core and a first coil whose terminal is connected to an AC power source, a second AC reactor having a second core and a second coil whose terminal is connected to a power convertor which converts AC to DC, a capacitor, a casing to house these components, a cooling air introduction portion which introduces cooling air into the casing, and a cooling air discharge portion which discharges the cooling air from the casing in a predetermined direction. The second AC reactor is positioned so as to provide a second gap between the outer periphery of the second coil and the casing, and so that the axial direction of the second coil coincides with the flow direction of the cooling air flowing along the second gap.
US09462725B2
A server rack and its server device are provided. The server device includes a chassis, a motherboard module, a power-supply module, a storage array module, and a plurality of input/output interface elements. The chassis is provided with a containing space, a first opening and a second opening in which the first opening and the second opening are located at two opposite ends of the containing space. The power-supply module and the motherboard module are both disposed in the containing space and are pluggable independently, are both capable of plugging in and out from the chassis via the first opening, and are electrically connected to each other. The input/output interface elements are fixed on the motherboard module, and all of them are disposed at the first opening. The storage array module is disposed in the containing space and is slidable.
US09462705B2
A USB memory assembly, and methods of forming same, are disclosed. The USB memory assembly includes a USB memory device within a carrier. The carrier may in turn be received within a connector shell and lid.
US09462697B2
The present invention relates to an electronic component embedded substrate including: a first insulating layer including a cavity; an electronic component inserted in the cavity; a first metal pattern formed on a lower surface of the first insulating layer to mount the electronic component thereon and including at least one guide hole for exposing a portion of the external electrode; a second insulating layer formed on the lower surface of the first insulating layer to cover the first metal pattern; a first circuit pattern formed on a lower surface of the second insulating layer; and a first via for electrically connecting the first external electrode exposed through the guide hole and the first circuit pattern, and can improve electrical connectivity between the external electrode and the via even when the size of the external electrode of the electronic component is reduced than before.
US09462696B2
The invention relates to a circuit module (10) having a circuit carrier (12), at least one circuit (14) mounted on the circuit carrier (12), encapsulated by a protective material (16), and at least one electrical/electronic component (18) encapsulated by a protective coating (20), protecting the at least one electrical/electronic component (18) from the protective material (16), and to a method for producing the circuit module (10). According to the invention, the protective coating (20) protecting the at least one electrical/electronic component (18) is only partially encapsulated by the protective material (16).
US09462695B2
A power semiconductor device comprising a first housing having a cutout with an opening, and a second housing. The device has a load element having external and internal sections, and a feedthrough section pressing through the opening. The feedthrough section has a first outer edge region which tapers laterally towards a first outer edge thereof and a second outer edge region which tapers laterally towards a second outer edge thereof. The first and second outer edge regions face away from one another. The first outer edge is near the lateral first end of the opening and the second outer edge is near the lateral second end of the opening. A first seal is positioned between the first housing and the feedthrough section and a second seal is positioned between the second housing and the feedthrough section. The seals contact one another laterally from the first and second outer edges.
US09462686B2
Provided is a printed circuit board, comprising: a supporting substrate including a first region and a second region extending to be bent from the first region; an insulating substrate above the supporting substrate; a bending portion bent between the first region and the second region; and an adhesive layer between the supporting substrate and the insulating substrate and except for the bending portion.
US09462685B2
Disclosed are a method and a structure of penetration and combination for a flexible circuit board with a hinge assembly. A pre-formed flexible circuit board is processed by taking a pre-folding line as a center line to fold a connection section of the flexible circuit board toward the terminal distribution section. Then, the connection section is rolled in a direction toward the terminal distribution section so as to make the connection section forming a rolled body. The rolled body is then put through the bore of the hinge assembly to have the rolled body completely extend through the bore of the hinge assembly so that the extension section of the flexible circuit board is positioned in the bore of the hinge assembly and the first end and the second end are respectively located at opposite sides of the bore of the hinge assembly.
US09462682B2
The disclosure provides a conductive structure body including a substrate; a conductive layer; and a darkening layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The conductive structure body prevents reflection by a conductive layer without affecting conductivity of the conductive layer, and improves a concealing property of the conductive layer by improving absorbance. Accordingly, a display panel having improved visibility is developed by using the conductive structure body.
US09462675B2
A method of improving electrical isolation between a first circuit and a second circuit sharing a common substrate having an effective dielectric constant greater than that of air. The first and second circuits are spaced apart and separated from one another by an intermediate portion of the substrate. The method includes removing a portion of the intermediate portion to replace the portion removed with air thereby reducing the effective dielectric constant of the intermediate portion. By reducing the effective dielectric constant of the intermediate portion, electrical isolation between the first and second circuits is improved thereby reducing crosstalk between the first and second circuits. In particular implementations, the method may be used to reduce alien crosstalk between adjacent communication outlets in a patch panel.
US09462672B2
Systems and methods for adjusting power and frequency based on three or more states are described. One of the methods includes receiving a pulsed signal having multiple states. The pulsed signal is received by multiple radio frequency (RF) generators. When the pulsed signal having a first state is received, an RF signal having a pre-set power level is generated by a first RF generator and an RF signal having a pre-set power level is generated by a second RF generator. Moreover, when the pulsed signal having a second state is received, RF signals having pre-set power levels are generated by the first and second RF generators. Furthermore, when the pulsed signal having a third state is received, RF signals having pre-set power levels are generated by the first and second RF generators.
US09462671B2
The invention relates to an electrode structure for plasma cutting torches, wherein a recess or borehole open at one side in the direction of a workpiece to be processed is formed in an electrode holder or in a holding element for receiving an emission insert, in which recess or borehole the inserted emission insert can be fastened in a force transmitting manner, in a shape-matching manner and/or with material continuity. At least one pressure equalization passage and/or an at least temporarily active pressure equalization passage is present between a hollow space formed in a recess or borehole and the emission insert and the environment through the emission insert and/or between an outer jacket surface region of the emission insert and the inner wall of the recess or borehole, which is formed in the holding element or in the electrode holder (7.1).
US09462670B2
A torch tip for a plasma arc torch includes a body having a first end, configured to attach to the torch, and a second end, where an end wall is disposed. A plasma exit orifice is formed in the end wall. At least two castellations are formed in the end wall. Each castellation has a castellation width defined by the distance between the sidewalls of that castellation. At least one slot is disposed between two castellations. Each slot has a slot width defined by a distance between the sidewalls of its adjacent castellations. The slot width can be at least twice the castellation width. Each slot also has a slot floor and an exterior shape. The slot floor can have slope that tapers toward the first end of the body in an outward radial direction and the exterior shape of the slot can have a generally V-shaped or U-shaped contour.
US09462663B2
An example of a lighting system includes intelligent lighting devices, each of which includes a light source, a communication interface and a processor coupled to control the light source. In such a system, at least one of the lighting devices includes a user input sensor to detect user activity related to user inputs without requiring physical contact of the user; and at least one of the lighting devices includes an output component to provide information output to the user. One or more of the processors in the intelligent lighting devices are further configured to process user inputs detected by the user input sensor, control lighting and control output to a user via the output component so as to implement an interactive user interface for the system, for example, to facilitate user control of lighting operations of the system and/or to act as a user interface portal for other services.
US09462659B2
A method for driving light adjustments, a device therefor and a light adjustable lamp thereof are disclosed. The method includes: connecting a light source driving circuit which supplies a light source and an MCU with electricity and then the light source driving circuit driving the light source to vary brightness; after disconnecting the light source driving circuit, a temporary power supplying circuit continuing to power the MCU; when the light source is varying brightness and at an instant of disconnecting the light source driving circuit, the MCU obtaining a brightness state of the light source and storing information about the brightness state; after the temporary power supplying circuit is drained, the information vanishing; if the light source driving circuit is connected before the vanishing, the light source working constantly according to the information; and if the light source driving circuit is connected after the vanishing, the light source varying brightness.
US09462651B2
A three-way solid-state light bulb is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide power supply circuitry that allows a solid-state lamp or light bulb to work in a manner similar to that of a common three-way incandescent light bulb. The power supply can selectively receive the input voltage, usually AC line voltage, on first and second input terminals. In some embodiments, a control circuit is operable to influence a feedback loop by diverting current and/or in some cases alter a current sense resistance in accordance with the selective presence of the voltage at the first and second inputs. The light output of the solid-state emitter or solid-state emitters in the bulb is set in accordance with a selective presence of the input voltage.
US09462650B2
A light emitting device, comprising at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) adapted for, in operation, emitting light with a first spectral distribution, a first light guide (4) comprising a first light input surface (41), which is arranged parallel to the main waveguiding direction of the first light guide (4), and a first light exit surface (42) extending in an angle different from zero in relation to the first light input surface (41), the first light guide being adapted for receiving the light with the first spectral distribution at the first light input surface, converting at least a part of the light with the first spectral distribution to light (14) with a second spectral distribution, guiding the light (14) with the second spectral distribution to the first light exit surface (42) and coupling the light (14) with the second spectral distribution out of the first light exit surface (42), the at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) being arranged at mutually different distances from the first light exit surface (42) of the first light guide (4), and a control device (90) adapted for dimming the light emitting device starting with the light source of the at least two light sources (21, 22, 23, 24) which is arranged at a largest distance from the first light exit surface (42) of the first light guide (4).
US09462648B2
Multiple LEDs connected in series are driven by DC voltage that is provided by a diode rectifier connected to a three-phase power source. In order to reduce ripple in the DC voltage, the series-connected LEDs can be divided into a first set and a second set, and a first constant current source is provided that drives the first set, and a second constant current source is provided that drives the second set. The first and second constant current sources are both connected across the outputs of the rectifier circuit, and operate to drive the respective sets of light emitting diodes in alternation. The capability for dimming can be provided, as well as back-up single phase operation. The light emitting diodes can be situated remote from said rectifier and connected thereto by a single phase power transmission system, formed by only two wires.
US09462644B2
A power supply device may include an insulating DC/DC converter unit including a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding, and inducing a voltage in the secondary winding in a first direction or a second direction, and a boosting unit. The boosting unit may comprise a first booster boosting the voltage induced in the secondary winding to supply power to a first light emitting diode module, in a first mode in which the voltage is induced in the secondary winding in the first direction, and a second booster boosting the voltage induced in the secondary winding to supply power to a second light emitting diode module, in a second mode in which the voltage is induced in the secondary winding in the second direction.
US09462641B2
Induction heating apparatus and methods are disclosed for selective workpiece heating such as strip heating, in which DC windings around one or more laminations proximate to a workpiece edge are selectively energized using DC electrical power for controlled partial or full saturation of the one laminations to control edge overheating in a transverse flux induction heating system, in which certain implementations further employ a copper shield between the induction heating coil and the strip workpiece proximate the edge of the workpiece to control the edge heating effect.
US09462622B2
Disclosed are a method for requesting device-to-device communication in a wireless access system that supports device-to-device communication and an apparatus for the method. More particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a first device, request information for requesting device-to-device communication with a second device; transmitting, to the second device, check information to inquire whether to accept device-to-device communication with the first device; receiving, from the second device, response information indicating that device-to-device communication is accepted; and, if the second device has accepted the device-to-device, transmitting resource allocation information for device-to-device communication to the first device and the second device.
US09462614B2
Group-based emergency notifications and acknowledgments are managed via a radio controller. A request to transmit an emergency notification with acknowledgment to an identified target group of subscriber devices is received at the radio controller from a requesting device. The radio controller identifies one or more base stations actively serving subscriber devices associated with the identified target group and identifies, for each of the identified one or more base stations, active channels including one or more of a control channel associated with the base station and active voice or data channels associated with the base station. The radio controller causes an emergency notification outbound signaling packet (OSP), requesting individual acknowledgment and identifying the target group of subscriber devices, to be broadcast on the identified active channels at the identified one or more base stations. Acknowledgments are forwarded back to one of the requesting device and a dispatch console.
US09462608B2
A method is provided for regulating transmission implemented by a station, having at least one packet to be transmitted via a communication network, and participating in at least one tournament composed of a succession of selection rounds. The method includes: obtaining by the station, for each selection round of a first tournament, a binary value assigned to the station, representative either of an authorization to transmit, or of a prohibition to transmit, transmitting, on completion of the first tournament, at least one packet by the station when the station determines, as a function of at least one of the binary values assigned to the station for the selection rounds of the first tournament, that the station is authorized to transmit. The at least one packet transmitted by the station includes data representative of the succession of binary values assigned to the station for the selection rounds.
US09462607B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of multi-user uplink transmission. For example, an apparatus may include a transmitter to transmit a multi-user (MU) downlink transmission to a plurality of wireless stations; a receiver to receive from the plurality of wireless stations a plurality of acknowledgement (ACK) frames, at least one ACK frame from at least one wireless station including an uplink scheduling request indicating uplink resources requested by the wireless station; and a scheduler to schedule an uplink transmission from the at least one wireless station based on the uplink scheduling request, the transmitter to transmit at least one scheduling frame including scheduling information of the scheduled uplink transmission.
US09462606B2
A system is provided for transmitting/receiving downlink resource allocation information in a communication system. In the system, a base station generates first information including downlink resource allocation information necessary for supporting a first mode supported by the base station, generates second information including length information of the first information, and transmits the first information and the second information. A mobile station notifies the base station of a second mode supported by the mobile station, receives, after the notification, the first information and the second information from the base station, and skips without decoding as much downlink resource allocation information as a length corresponding to the length information without decoding, if the first mode is different from the second mode.
US09462604B2
Methods and apparatus related to reporting transmission backlog information are described. A wireless communications device maintains and updates transmission backlog information corresponding to a plurality of different transmission request groups. Different request groups may correspond to different uplink traffic queues. For a request reporting opportunity, the communications device selects a request group from among the plurality of different transmission request groups as a function of: request group changes in backlog with respect to previously reported requests, the changes taking into consideration base station allocation of transmission resources; and request group priority information. A request report is generated conveying backlog information corresponding to the selected request group, and the generated report is transmitted over a wireless communications link.
US09462603B2
A telecommunications system is provided that includes a unit for communicating channelized digital baseband signals with remotely located units. The channelized digital baseband signals include call information for wireless communication. The unit includes a channelizer section and a transport section. The channelizer section can extract, per channel, the channelized digital baseband signals using channel filters and digital down-converters. The transport section can format the channelized digital baseband signals for transport together using a transport schedule unit for packetizing and packet scheduling the channelized digital baseband signals. A signal processing subsystem can control a gain of uplink digital baseband signals, independently, that are received from the remotely located units prior to summing the uplink digital baseband signals.
US09462600B2
A time period associated with each of a plurality of tasks included in a current instance of WWAN data capture/processing by a WLAN processor and a WWAN processor is determined. A total time period comprising the respective time periods of each task is compared to an overall time budget criterion to obtain a comparison outcome. A change in at least one of the tasks based on the comparison outcome is implemented. The change results in an adjustment of the total time period associated with a next instance of WWAN data capture/processing by the WLAN processor and the WWAN processor.
US09462597B2
Various methods for providing control signaling in a multi-radio access environment are provided. One example method includes implementing radio resource management and a general link layer jointly across at least two radio access technology modules, and selecting one of the radio access technology modules to perform control signaling in a multi-radio environment. Similar and related example methods and example apparatuses are also provided.
US09462593B2
A framework for enabling a user equipment (UE) to apply interference suppression processing during network conditions that are favorable to interference suppression or that are known is provided. The framework includes an interference suppression (IS) time and frequency (time/frequency) zone, which can be scheduled by a serving base station and signaled to the UE. In an embodiment, the serving base station coordinates with the interfering base station(s) to create a network condition favorable to interference suppression at the UE during the IS time/frequency zone. In another embodiment, the serving base station opportunistically schedules the IS time/frequency zone for the UE whenever it determines favorable transmission parameters being used or scheduled for use by the interfering base station(s). The UE applies interference suppression processing within the IS time/frequency zone, thereby improving receiver performance. Outside the time/frequency zone, the UE may disable interference suppression processing so as not to degrade receiver performance.
US09462591B2
A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices, including a core network part including plural infrastructure equipment, and a radio network part including plural base stations communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices. The mobile communications device communicates an indication of a relative type of data packets for communication via a communications bearer for supporting a communications session of the mobile communications device, the indication used to configure the communications bearer, and provides the communications bearer from the mobile communications device to one or more of the infrastructure equipment via the base stations in accordance with the indication and to control the communication of the data packets via the communications bearer in accordance with the indication communicated via the communications bearer, to control the communication of the data packets from the communications bearer differently to data packets communicated via other communications bearer having a higher priority.
US09462584B2
A method and base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, system information including information associated with a sub-frame configuration of multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) sub-frames, determining a transmission mode of the terminal, the transmission mode indicating one of a first transmission mode and a second transmission mode, transmitting, to the terminal, configuration information of the determined transmission mode of the terminal, transmitting, to the terminal, control information in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a first sub-frame of the MBSFN sub-frames and a second sub-frame of non-MBSFN sub-frames for the terminal, if the terminal is configured in the first transmission mode, and transmitting, to the terminal, the control information in the PDCCH in the second sub-frame of the non-MBSFN sub-frames, if the terminal is configured in the second transmission mode.
US09462575B2
A method includes generating a data packet at a source device for transmission via an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 802.11 wireless network. The data packet includes multiple data symbols that are duplicated in the data packet. At least a portion of a preamble of the data packet is not duplicated in the data packet. The portion of the preamble indicates that the packet is a low rate mode packet. The method also includes transmitting the data packet from the source device to a destination device via the wireless network.
US09462571B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for adaptive and selective bundling of downlink paging messages. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobility management entity (“MME”) can determine whether to delay a paging procedure to deliver a downlink paging message to a mobile device served by the MME. If the MME determines that the paging procedure to deliver the downlink paging message to the mobile device should be delayed, then the MME can store the downlink paging message in a bundling cache. If the MME determines that the paging procedure to deliver the downlink paging message to the mobile device should not be delayed, then the MME can initiate the paging procedure.
US09462570B1
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product selectively sends notifications to mobile devices. One or more processors receive a token authorization to provide notifications of mobile device events to a set of mobile devices operated by a user, and then determine that a push notification of a mobile device event is to be issued to one or more mobile devices from the set of mobile devices. The processor(s) receive a status of applications running on each of the set of mobile devices and an extent of user engagement for each of the applications. The processor(s) associate a content with the push notification, and parse and evaluate the content. The processor(s) select a mobile device from the set of mobile devices based on the status of the applications, the extent of user engagement, and the parsed evaluated content, and then transmit the push notification to that mobile device.
US09462568B2
Many indoor location services do not require precise knowledge of the position of a mobile device, but simply whether a mobile device is within a particular zone of an indoor area. Existing signals in an indoor space may provide enough information to distinguish between different zones of an indoor area, allowing a server to provide indoor location services without requiring the installation of new signal sources in the indoor area.
US09462560B2
Disclosed are a wireless communication method, a wireless communication base station device, and a wireless communication terminal device that dynamically switch the transmission slot of an SRS of each terminal within a cell while suppressing an increase in the number of signaling bits. A terminal (100) and a base station (200) are each provided with a table wherein FH flags for SRS and transmission power data of each slot are mapped to two-bit notification bits. In this table, transmission power data indicating SRS transmission by slot 1 and slot 2 and FH flags are mapped, and an FH flag is not mapped to transmission power data indicating SRS transmission by slot 1 or slot 2. The base station (200) notifies the terminal (100) of the FH flag data and the SRS transmission power data by means of transmitting scheduling data containing the notification bits to the terminal (100).
US09462559B2
Described herein are techniques for radio technology selection and power calibration in multi-RAT small cells. For example, the technique may involve determining, at an access point, path loss information for a circuit switched fallback failure location. The technique may involve building a path loss database over a time period from the path loss information and managing power or operation mode of a first RAT and a second RAT of the access point based on the path loss database.
US09462554B2
In order to suppress an increase in signal quantity attributed to repetition of transition to a “Preservation state” and return to an “Active state” when multiple applications are operated independently, a mobile station (UE) of the invention includes: a management unit (12) which manages a transmission timing for regular data not involving a user operation in each of multiple applications (#1 to #N); and a transmission unit (13) which transmits a “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” to a radio access network when the mobile station (UE) transitions from a “Preservation state” to an “Active state.” The transmission unit (13) is configured to adjust a transmission timing for the “RRC CONNECTION REQUEST” based on the transmission timings for the regular data not involving the user operation in the multiple applications (#1 to #N).
US09462552B1
Systems and methods for adaptive power control are provided. A minimum power level of a primary acoustic signal is estimated. The minimum power level may then be compared to at least one power threshold. Subsequently, a large power consuming system is controlled based on the comparison of the minimum power level to the power threshold.
US09462541B2
A method for enhanced access selection for a user equipment in a cellular telecommunications network includes: in a first step, a serving base station entity sending validation information to the user equipment, the validation information having either a positive value, indicating to apply a policy corresponding to a policy information data element, or a negative value, indicating not to apply the policy corresponding to the policy information data element; and in a second step, subsequent to the first step, the user equipment applying the policy corresponding to the policy information data element in case that the validation information has a positive value, and the user equipment terminating the data bearer or refraining from establishing the data bearer via the access point in case that the validation information has a negative value.
US09462532B2
A system includes a gateway that is configured to receive a message from a source for transmission to a destination and multiple communication channels on which to transmit the message to the destination, where the communication channels include different types of communication channels. The system includes a decision engine that is operably coupled to the gateway and the communication channels. The decision engine is configured to select a first communication channel from the communication channels to route the message for transmission to the destination. The decision engine is configured to select a second communication channel from the communication channels to route the message for transmission to the destination in response to a period of time expiring without receiving an acknowledgement from the destination via the first communication channel, where the second communication channel is a different type of communication channel than the first communication channel.
US09462530B2
A wireless base station includes a processor configured to detect whether a device that is a final destination of packets is a wireless device or a wired device, aggregate payloads in unit of byte, which are included in the packets comply with a TCP, so as to become a maximum length of data unit which is allowed for the data link layer in an wireless LAN, when a condition is satisfied in which the device is detected to be the wireless device, form a payload complying with a protocol of the data link layer in a wireless network based on the aggregated payloads when the condition is satisfied, and configure a packet that includes the formed payload complying with the protocol when the condition is satisfied and configure packets that include the payloads complying with the TCP when the condition is not satisfied.
US09462524B1
A method and system for performing cell change by a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the cell change is from a first group of cells of a first radio access technology, RAT, to a second group of cells of a second RAT. Performance of a cell change includes receiving a cell change command. In response to the cell change command, the wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with a first cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a first specified period of time. The wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with at least one remaining cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a second specified period of time ending after an end of the first specified period of time.
US09462523B2
User equipment for use in a wireless network, the wireless network including a first radio access network supporting communication using a first radio access technology in first service areas and a second radio access network supporting communication using a second radio access technology in second service areas, the user equipment having a capability to communicate using the first radio access technology, and a capability to communicate using the second radio access technology that may be disabled or enabled, wherein the user equipment is arranged to disable the capability to communicate using the second radio access technology in response to a determination that a preferred mode of voice communication cannot be provided using the second radio access technology in a said second service area, and wherein the user equipment is arranged to enable the capability to communicate using the second radio access technology, on the basis of communications, using the first radio access technology, in a selected one of said first service areas.
US09462507B2
A load balancing method and system is provided. When a terminal enters an idle, access or service state, and a base station determines that the terminal is in a multi-band covering section, load conditions of the bands in the section are recorded; and when determining that a preset idle or access or service state condition is met based on the recorded load conditions of the bands in the section, the base station performs load balancing control on the terminal. For the terminal in the idle, access or service state, load balancing for a multi-band network can be implemented.
US09462505B2
A wireless network interface device receives a packet, wherein the packet includes (i) a set of one or more flag bits, and (ii) a medium access control (MAC) header, and the MAC header contains at least (i) a first address field specifying a receiver address, and (ii) a second address field specifying a transmitter address. The wireless network interface device processes the packet to determine whether the packet is a multicast packet. When it is determined that the packet is a multicast packet, the wireless network interface device processes a third address field in the MAC header to determine a MAC multicast address for the packet.
US09462496B2
Field testing, performance monitoring, and resource management are performed via a communications device, automatically and autonomously, without user intervention. Abnormal conditions are automatically detected while the communications device is performing a service and adjustments are automatically made to network resources in order to improve service performance. Upon initiation of a request for service (e.g., IM, MMS, SMS, etc.), the communications device automatically begins to monitor the performance of the service session (e.g., send time, receive time, etc.). During or after the service session, the communications device stores the performance data associated with the performance of the service. The performance data is analyzed in accordance with a subscriber's user profile information, to detect any problems with the service. If problems are detected, necessary adjustments and/or reallocation of resources are made automatically and autonomously, without user intervention.
US09462494B2
A method for assessing the quality of a communication channel in a multi-domain network includes transmitting, from a device, a probe signal onto the communication channel. The transmitting coordinated with the transmission of at least one alien probe signal by another network node. Subsequently to the transmitting, receiving a mixed feedback signal. The mixed feedback signal including a first component corresponding to the probe signal and a second component corresponding to the at least one alien probe signal. The method further includes extracting the first component from the mixed feedback signal, and assessing the quality of the communication channel on the basis of the extracted first component. The probe signal and the at least one alien probe signal are designed to facilitate their separation after having been superimposed.
US09462486B2
A method and a device for classifying wireless data service are provided in the disclosure. The method comprises the following steps of: calculating Key Performance Indicators KPIs of the wireless call information, matching the calculated KPIs with the service model which is preset, and determining a service type of a call. The disclosure may quickly and accurately differentiate the actual IP service type of a user without increasing the system load at a base station or a core network, so that the quality of service of a wireless network is improved and the resource may be distributed reasonably.
US09462481B2
Methods and apparatus that enable and optimize the simultaneous operation of several wireless femtocells having overlapping coverage areas. In one embodiment of the invention, a resource allocation (e.g., time-frequency grid for an OFDM or TDMA based wireless network) governs the simultaneous operation of several femtocells with overlapping coverage areas by specifying uses for resources. A resource allocation unit (RAU) entity is disclosed for managing and modifying resource allocations for femtocells. The community of femtocells can flexibly share resources according to the time-frequency grid, thereby maximizing spectral efficiency without requiring substantial network overhead.
US09462476B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying and managing wireless devices that are performing tethering services are described. The system may include a database and server. The database stores records of services subscribed by wireless devices in a wireless network. The server may poll the database to generate a list of wireless devices that are not subscribed to a tethering service. In turn, the server receives notification messages from each wireless device that is tethering at least one other network element. The wireless devices are identified as unauthorized by the server when the notification message indicates existence of a configured network address translation table at the wireless device and the wireless device is located on the list of wireless devices that are not subscribed to the tethering service.
US09462468B2
A wireless local area network authentication method is provided that includes: automatically obtaining, by a mobile terminal, an access account and an access password; and automatically sending, by the mobile terminal, a web authentication request to a network server, where the web authentication request carries the access account and the access password. A corresponding mobile terminal is also provided. By applying the wireless local area network authentication method and the mobile terminal disclosed in the present invention, a mobile terminal can automatically complete web authentication of a wireless local area network, a user does not need to enter an account and a password, and a web authentication interface does not need to be displayed to the user either, thereby avoiding a complex and repetitive authentication operation and improving user experience.
US09462463B2
Disclosed are a verifier used in a mobile node and a method of controlling plural states of the mobile node. The verifier comprises a secret key receiving part configured to listen and receive at least one secret key from at least one secret key transmitter in an area limited Ad-hoc network; a secret key stamp generating part configured to perform calculation on the at least one secret key according to a predetermined verification rule so as to generate a secret key stamp; and a secret key stamp verifying part configured to compare the secret key stamp and a predetermined standard value, wherein, if the secret key stamp is equal to the predetermined standard value, then the secret key is determined as valid, otherwise, the secret key is determined as invalid.
US09462461B2
Systems and methods related to the provision of location based services via a mobile communications device. In some cases, a plurality of mobile communication devices can be tracked, based on a user's preferences, and data regarding the locations of that plurality of mobile communication devices can be sent to the user's device. In a particular aspect, for example, the user's device might display a map showing the locations of some or all of the plurality of mobile communication devices.
US09462460B2
An Access Point (“AP”) apparatus comprising one or more processors containing program code. The program code may be configured to: (i) cause the AP to broadcast a beacon containing a single SSID indentifying the AP; (ii) cause the AP to receive from the STA an query for network information for at least one network operator accessible through the AP; and (iii) cause the AP to send to the STA, for the at least one network operator, a network information description element, in response to the network information query. The AP providing the plural responses broadcasts only a single service set identification (“SSID”).
US09462455B2
Disclosed is a method, performed in a Body Area Network (BAN) enabled media experience device for enabling transmission of a media experience according to a stored, predefined user configuration associated with an identification data, userID, of a BAN enabled communication device, the method comprising: establishing a connection between the BAN enabled media experience device and the BAN enabled communication device by using BAN; retrieving the identification data, userID, of the BAN enabled communication device; retrieving the stored, predefined user configuration associated with the userID of the BAN enabled communication device; and initiating transmission of the media experience by the BAN enabled media experience device according to the stored, predefined user configuration.
US09462448B2
Methods and systems for adapting positioning reference signal (PRS) transmissions are disclosed. A server receives a request to support an emergency call associated with a user equipment (UE) and sends a first PRS schedule to a first base station, the first PRS schedule configured to enable the first base station to switch to a first emergency PRS mode and to transmit PRS signals according to the first PRS schedule. The base station establishes a PRS schedule, switches to an emergency PRS mode, and transmits PRS signals in accordance with the PRS schedule. A UE initiates an emergency call, receives positioning assistance data from a server, performs terrestrial radio location positioning measurements based on the received positioning assistance data, and provides the terrestrial radio location positioning measurements or a location computed from these measurements to the server.
US09462447B2
Methods and systems for allocating resources from component carriers to a public-safety mobile radio
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for allocating resources from component carriers to a public-safety mobile radio. An embodiment takes the form of a process that is carried out by carried out by a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Evolved Node B (eNodeB). The eNodeB makes a first determination to allocate resources to a given mobile radio. The eNodeB makes a second determination that the given mobile radio is a public-safety mobile radio. In response to making the first and second determinations, the eNodeB selects, based on one or more public-safety-communication criteria, a component carrier from among a plurality of component carriers managed by the eNodeB. The eNodeB allocates resources on the selected eNodeB component carrier to the given mobile radio.
US09462445B2
A mobile communication terminal and a system and a method for safety service using the terminal for checking the user's location and a situation of the surroundings of the user at the time of an emergency such as kidnapping, accident, and so on, are provided. The mobile communication terminal includes a camera, an angle-of-view changing unit which changes angle-of-view of the camera, and a controller which controls the angle-of-view changing unit to change the angle-of-view of the camera and controls the camera to capture the surroundings corresponding to the angle-of-view at the time of emergency mode.
US09462443B2
In a multi-access environment, applications with high priority can temporarily, when needed, occupy parts or even complete resources from at least one of the accesses in a certain geographical area radio access can be secured for such applications. An area consisting of a number of cells is created In such an area, an application having high priority can have guaranteed resources on one pre-determined access while other “ordinary” traffic is temporarily directed to the other access(es) even if that may result in a lower Quality of Service (QoS) in that particular area.
US09462440B2
Techniques are provided for delivering content to mobile communication devices related to interactions of members with a user community. The method involves detecting a communication session involving a mobile communication device; determining one or more context parameters associated with the communication session; and delivering content related to the context parameters to one or more mobile communication devices. Data is stored at a central computing entity that indicates association or membership of a plurality of mobile communication device users in a user community. The central computing entity detects when an action is taken by one mobile device user that is a member of the user community, and sends a notification to members of the social circle based on the detected action. These techniques allow individuals who are involved in a user community to maintain their interaction with the user community using their mobile communication devices.
US09462439B2
An aspect of the present invention enables users to avail specialized services using missed calls. In one embodiment, a missed call server on receiving an indication that a missed call has been placed by a user to a phone number, determines the specialized service corresponding to the phone number, and then sends a data to the service provider offering the determined service. The service provider then delivers the specialized service (sought to be availed) to the user. One of the specialized services is the delivery of content to the user. Thus, a user is enabled to access different contents by placing missed calls to the appropriate phone numbers.
US09462435B2
A system for routing short message service (SMS) messages to endpoints in a contact center includes a first node for receiving SMS message streams from multiple sources operating variant protocols and for multiplexing the multiple streams into a single message stream following a universal protocol, a media gateway server connected to the first node for receiving the single message stream and for forwarding individual ones of the messages therein to individual ones of a plurality of connected servers, and a router connected to at least one of the connected servers for routing individual messages represented therein to individual ones of a plurality of network-supported endpoint devices.
US09462430B2
A system, method, and computer program product for managing different types of messages, such as, but not limited to, voicemails and text messages, is presented. For example, in one embodiment, the method includes identifying a sender associated with a message for a recipient; and grouping all messages from the sender under a directory associated with the sender, wherein the directory includes different types of messages received from the sender.
US09462427B2
An embodiment method includes triggering, by a service orchestrator, creation of one or more container instances for a first service cluster. The method further includes creating, by a container manager, the one or more container instances and mapping the one or more container instances of the first service cluster to one or more first virtual machines belonging to a first virtual machine server group in accordance with a platform profile of the first virtual machine server group and the first service provided by the first service cluster. The method further includes mapping, by a virtual machine manager, the one or more first virtual machines to one or more first host virtual machines of a cloud network in accordance with the platform profile of the first virtual machine server group.
US09462425B2
Methods and devices are provided for implementing two types of sub-channel arrangements. A first type of sub-channel arrangement involves defining a first traffic portion and a second traffic portion of a transmission resource, transmitting broadcast traffic on at least one first antenna of a plurality of antennas in the first traffic portion using a first sub-channelization, transmitting multicast traffic on at least one second antenna of the plurality of antennas, the at least one second antenna being distinct from the at least one first antenna, in the first traffic portion using a second sub-channelization, and transmitting unicast traffic on at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas in the second traffic portion using a third sub-channelization. A second type of sub-channel arrangement involves defining a first traffic portion and a second traffic portion, wherein for a portion of the transmission resource, a portion of the first traffic portion overlaps with a portion of the second traffic portion. In the portion of the transmission resource in which a portion of the first traffic portion overlaps with a portion of the second traffic portion, the channel arrangement involves transmitting broadcast/multicast traffic on at least one first antenna of a plurality of antennas using a first sub-channelization and b) transmitting unicast traffic on at least one second antenna of the plurality of antennas, the at least one second antenna being distinct from the at least one first antenna, using a second sub-channelization. The first, second and third sub-channelizations may be based on either one of or a combination of FDM sub-channelization and TDM sub-channelization.
US09462415B2
A method of searching for a contact number by a host device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal for requesting vehicle data of a first mobile station and a location value of a second mobile station; receiving a location value and flag information of the first mobile station; determining the location value of the first mobile station based on the flag information; determining whether a difference between the determined location value of the first mobile station and the location value of the second mobile station is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold location value; extracting the vehicle data of the first mobile station based on the determination result as to whether the difference is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold location; and transmitting the extracted vehicle data of the first mobile station.
US09462406B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to facilitate spatial audio capture by utilizing multiple audio recording devices. In the context of a method, spatial characteristics of sound recorded by a first device are determined. The method also mapping, with a processor, sound recorded by a second device to a location and orientation of the first device. As such, the spatial characteristics of the sound recorded by the second device are modified to match the spatial characteristics of the sound recorded by the first device.
US09462403B1
A package-integrable high sound quality voice coil loudspeaker structure includes a metal shell, and a diaphragm, voice coil washer, magnet, T iron and PCB packed integrally inside the metal shell; the metal shell has a cylindrical side wall and bottom wall, and a sound output is opened on the bottom wall, with a lengthened cylinder in communication with the first sound output being projected outward integrally from the bottom face of the bottom wall. Therefore, the present invention utilizing the metal shell to pack all components integrally simplifies the assembly process, and has a good waterproof performance. In addition, the configuration of the lengthened cylinder improves the sound quality.
US09462400B2
A periodogram-based wireless microphone signal detection method, which solves the problem of incapability of distinguishing wireless microphone signal from narrow-band interference, includes: acquiring a time-domain digital signal for detection through antenna module, RF front-end module, ADC module and time-domain signal preprocessing module; and performing detection of microphone signal in frequency domain, that is, calculating an average value of periodogram of M segments of the time-domain digital signal for detection, shifting the average value to obtain a shifted vector, estimating a mean and a covariance matrix of the shifted vector, locating a maximum point of the vector, and taking several points on each side of the point as a center to form an information vector; calculating a decision statistical quantity of the information vector using the decision theory, simulating or calculating a threshold in a predefined method, and deciding the signal is narrow-band interference if the decision statistical quantity is less than the threshold, otherwise the signal is wireless microphone signal.
US09462392B2
A speaker device including a magnet formed in a ring shape; a yoke having a center pole portion inserted in the center of the magnet; a plate formed in a ring shape and arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the center pole portion of the yoke while being attached to the magnet; a coil bobbin formed in a cylindrical shape and movable in the axial direction of the center pole portion while being partially fitted on the center pole portion of the yoke; a voice coil wrapped around the outer circumferential surface of the coil bobbin, at least part of the voice coil being arranged in a magnetic gap formed between the plate and the center pole portion of the yoke; a diaphragm having its inner circumferential portion connected to the coil bobbin; and a magnetic fluid filled in the magnetic gap.
US09462384B2
An apparatus for receiving audio data from a nomadic device is provided. The apparatus comprises a first portable speaker for being operably coupled to the nomadic device. The nomadic device receives first information indicative of a first crossover frequency for the first portable speaker and determines the first crossover frequency based on the first information. The nomadic device transmits the audio data to the first portable speaker in accordance to the first crossover frequency. The first portable speaker is configured to playback the audio data at the first crossover frequency.
US09462381B2
A multi-band audio compressor that may provide not only better and brighter sound, but also speaker protection. The multi-band audio compressor breaks an input audio signal into different frequency bands. For each band signal, a volume re-mapper translates a user preference volume level to a converted volume level based on a programmable volume curve for the band signal. For each frequency band, the band signal is processed by a gain stage and a compressor. Each gain stage applies a signal gain to the band signal based on the converted volume level. Each compressor compresses the output of the gain stage. After compression, the different frequency band signals are re-combined and the combined audio signal may then be passed to a power amplifier that is driving a speaker. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09462379B2
A method for controlling the orientation of a virtual microphone, which is carried out on an electronic device, includes combining and processing signals from a microphone array to create a virtual microphone; receiving data from a sensor of the electronic device; determining, based on the received data, a mode in which the electronic device is being used; and based on the determined mode, directionally orienting the virtual microphone. Possible use modes include a) a stowed use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being substantially enclosed by surrounding material; b) a handset (alternately, private) use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being held proximate to a user; and c) a handheld (alternately, speakerphone) use mode, in which the criterion is the electronic device being held away from a user.
US09462378B2
An apparatus for deriving a directional information from a plurality of microphone signals or from a plurality of components of a microphone signal, wherein different effective microphone look directions are associated with the microphone signals or components, has a combiner configured to obtain a magnitude value from a microphone signal or a component of the microphone signal. The combiner is further configured to combine direction information items describing the effective microphone look directions, such that a direction information item describing a given effective microphone look direction is weighted in dependence on the magnitude value of the microphone signal, or of the component of the microphone signal, associated with the given effective microphone look direction, to derive the directional information.
US09462377B2
Methods and systems for optimizing and audio communication system, including detecting a surrounding noise profile, determining one or more states of one or more noise-related conditions corresponding to the surrounding noise profile, and associating the one or more states of the one or more noise-related conditions to the surrounding noise profile.
US09462371B2
The present invention provides an earphone and an implementation method of vibratile earphone. The earphone comprises: a low-frequency detection control circuit and a vibratile terminal connected to the low-frequency detection control circuit; the low-frequency detection control circuit is for sending a control signal to the vibratile terminal when detecting a signal of low-frequency below a specified frequency from earphone signals; the vibratile terminal produces vibration when receiving the control signal sent from the low-frequency detection control circuit. The solution of the invention can make the earphone produce vibration when the earphone signals contain low frequency signals and thus improve people's sense of shock when they are listening to voices or playing games with the earphone.
US09462367B2
A jack for preventing a headphone from inputting double audio sources includes: an audio jack set including a left audio jack and a right audio jack, which are respectively provided on bottoms of a left earpiece and a right earpiece of a headphone and for connecting an audio connector. The left audio jack includes a first common grounding contact, a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal. The right audio jack includes a second common grounding contact, a third conductive terminal and a fourth conductive terminal. Two audio jacks are provided for users to select. Simple mechanical switches are additionally provided, which only allow one inputted audio signal to input to a left earpiece and a right earpiece of the headphone for playing audio, and thus are capable of preventing users from inputting two different audio sources to the headphone simultaneously.
US09462363B2
A sound generator (1) for an exhaust system (2) of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle (3) includes a housing (4), with an electroacoustic converter (5) having a membrane (6) separating a housing rear volume (9) from a housing front volume (10). A connection pipe (11) connects the front volume (10) of the sound generator (1) to an exhaust gas-carrying exhaust gas line (12) fluidically and acoustically. To reduce the risk of damage to the membrane (6), for example, in case the housing (4) becomes flooded, a pressure equalization line (15) is connected by a proximal end (16) to the housing (4) on the outside and is connected fluidically with the rear volume (9) through an opening (18) in the housing. A distal end (17) of the pressure equalization line (15) is at a spaced location from the housing (4).
US09462359B2
In one embodiment, optical node includes an input port configured to receive an input optical frame and a first optical switch coupled to the input port, where the first optical switch is configured to remove the input optical frame to produce a removed input optical frame when an address of the input optical frame is a node address of the optical node and to pass the input optical frame to a second optical switch when an address of the input optical frame differs from the address of the optical node. The optical node also includes the second optical switch coupled to the first optical switch, where the second optical switch is configured to output the input optical frame to an output port when the address of the input optical frame is not the node address of the optical node and the address of the input optical frame is not an empty address.
US09462354B2
Techniques and systems for operating a video ad exchange includes controlling an ad server to receive ad requests from viewer devices, provide ad responses to viewer devices, generate an ad delivery data file that includes information about delivery of ads to the viewer devices, and transfer the ad delivery data file to a distributed computing cloud. The technique further includes controlling an ad data infrastructure mechanism to download the cloud-based ad delivery data file into a local memory, and process the copied ad delivery data file to generate billing data. An ad data infrastructure mechanism receives a configuration file from the ad server, verifies that all items in the configuration file from the ad server were used in the generation of the first billing data, and removes non-verifiable items from the first billing data to generate a final billing data.
US09462347B2
A processing resource detects that a subscriber entity subscribes to at least a first content service provider and a second content service provider. The processing resource receives a first message indicating content available to the subscriber entity for selective retrieval from the first content service provider. The processing resource receives a second message indicating content available to the subscriber entity for selective retrieval from the second content service provider. Based on at least the first message and the second message, the processing resource produces a content guide to include at least first content available to the subscriber entity for retrieval from the first service provider and second content available to the subscriber entity for retrieval from the second service provider. Via display of the content guide, a respective subscriber is able to view content available from multiple service providers.
US09462346B2
Methods and systems for providing a customizable channel guide, and more specifically, a personalized channel guide for a user, are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, indications of types of content for which the user has an interest are received. Information about content that is available for viewing is accessed. Personalized channels for the user are generated based on the received indications of the types of content for which the user has an interest and based on the information about content that is available for viewing. Each separate personalized channel provides the user with access to a separate type of content for which the user has an interest. A listing of at least some of the personalized channels is displayed to thereby enable the user to select one of the personalized channels.
US09462344B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate regulation of trickplay control during playback of streaming multimedia. Trickplay control can be regulated by associating a segment of a multimedia stream with a finite state automaton, associating a state of the finite state automaton with a flag, and controlling transitions from state to state within the finite state automaton by client interactions with the multimedia stream or predetermined time period.
US09462340B1
An enhanced form of edited interactive audio and video content delivered through a subscriber based network system and accessed by several unique multimedia interface devices. These unique multimedia interface devices can also create and edit both user generated audio and video content into this enhanced form of edited interactive audio and video content. The present invention will incorporate both voice and manual activation as an embedded technology into all multi-media and user generated audio/video content.
US09462338B2
Examples of the disclosure enable a set top box to be installed. In some examples, a remote control device, a computing device, and a set top box are provided. The computing device downloads configuration information for a location and receives input from an installer at the location. The set top box includes a remote control interface that receives commands from the remote control device, a local communications channel that transmits data to the computing device, an emulator that emulates the receipt of the commands by injecting remote control keypresses into the remote control interface to issue the commands, and a diagnostic feature activatable over the local communications channel by the computing device after the computing device receives the input to perform verification tests and to return results of the verification tests to the computing device to confirm to the installer that the set top box has been installed correctly.
US09462324B2
A system is disclosed for delivering targeted advertising data over a network including but not limited to a first video server processor interface for sending data for rotating one of the set of follow-on advertisements off of the on-screen picture in picture queue display to an off-screen storage; and a second video server processor interface for sending data rotating another one of the follow-on advertisements from the off-screen storage to the on screen picture in picture queue display.
US09462318B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to capture an image, and transmit the image to a system. The system can be operable to determine that the image corresponds to a media program, identify metadata associated with the media program, and transmit the metadata to a set-top box operable to display program information according to the metadata. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462311B2
A server for transmitting and receiving messages for a Signaling (S) layer in a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) Media Transport (MMT) is provided. The server includes a first sub-layer of the S layer for producing first messages to provide information used for the use of MPEG, a second sub-layer of the S layer for producing second messages to provide information used for delivering MPEG media, and a Delivery (D) layer for making external and internal deliveries of the first and the second messages, wherein each of the first and the second messages includes at least one field corresponding to each of the message type, version, length, extension field and payload.
US09462305B2
Embodiments include an overlay multicast network. The overlay multicast network may provide a set of features to ensure reliable and timely arrival of multicast data. The embodiments include a congestion control system that may prioritize designated layers of data within a data stream over other layers of the same data stream. Each data stream transmitted over the network may be given an equal share of the bandwidth. Addressing in routing tables maintained by routers may utilize summarized addressing based on the difference in location of the router and destination address. Summarization levels may be adjusted to minimize travel distances for packets in the network. Data from high priority data stream layers may also be retransmitted upon request from a destination machine to ensure reliable delivery of data.
US09462299B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a centralized broadband gateway for a wireless communication system, including a router/gateway module which receives encoded compressed audio/video (A/V) streams and distributes the encoded compressed audio/video A/V streams; multiple audio/video decoders which receive the encoded compressed A/V streams from the a router/gateway module, decode the encoded compressed A/V streams, and output uncompressed A/V streams; and an integrated Wireless High Definition Multimedia Interface (WHDMI) which receives the uncompressed A/V streams from the multiple audio/video decoders and transmits the uncompressed A/V streams wirelessly to media devices, without deploying individual media processors at each media device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09462295B2
The invention relates to manipulation of sub-pictures (303) in a picture such as a mosaic screen (301). An apparatus comprises a sub-picture generator (105) connected to a mosaic screen generator (107), which generates the mosaic screen (301) from the sub-pictures. The mosaic screen (301) is by a video compressor (111) divided into uncompressed picture blocks such that each block only comprise video data from one sub-picture. The picture blocks are compressed using a block compression scheme such as MPEG-2. The apparatus further comprises a video manipulation processor (113), which manipulates the sub-pictures by manipulating the association between control data in the video signal and the compressed picture blocks. The video data of the compressed picture blocks are not affected whereby de-compression and new compression is avoided.
US09462289B2
A system for decoding a video bitstream includes receiving a frame of the video that includes at least one slice and at least one tile and where each of the at least one slice and the at least one tile are not all aligned with one another.
US09462286B2
Methods and devices for reconstructing coefficient levels from a bitstream of encoded video data for a coefficient group in a transform unit. Greater-than-one flags are encoded by grouping them into tuples and by encoding a tuple-based value that is a function of the greater-than-one flags within that tuple. The tuple-based value may permit the decoder to infer the greater-than-one flags in some cases, in which case they are not encoded in the bitstream.
US09462275B2
A video decoding device receives an array of transform coefficients for a chroma component of video data. The video decoding device receives entropy encoded data representing the value of a split flag associated with the chroma component. The value of the split flag indicates whether the array of transform coefficients is divided into smaller transform blocks. The video decoding device determines a context for the entropy encoded data representing the split flag. The context is based on the value of a split flag associated with another component of video data. The video decoding device entropy decodes the data representing the value of the split flag based on the determined context using context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC). The luma and chroma components have independent residual quadtree (RQT) structures.
US09462271B2
When generating a prediction image of a color difference signal, an intra prediction unit 4 carries out an intra prediction process on a target block to be encoded of a color difference signal by using the same intra prediction parameter as that which the intra prediction unit 4 uses when carrying out an intra prediction process on a target block to be encoded of a luminance signal, or carries out the intra prediction process on the target block to be encoded of the color difference signal by applying an average prediction to the target block to be encoded. A variable length encoding unit 13 variable-length-encodes a flag showing whether the intra prediction unit 4 uses the same intra prediction parameter as that used for the luminance signal.
US09462268B2
Systems and methods may be provided for determining whether or not to output the “decoded pictures yet to be output” (DPYTBO) after decoding a random access point (RAP) picture of the second of two consecutive coded video sequences in a bitstream. The DPYTBO pictures may reside in a portion of memory coupled to a video decoder. The portion of memory may correspond to the Decoder Picture Buffer (DPB) of the video decoder. The picture resolution in the bitstream is allowed to change only at the start of a CVS. The first coded picture in a coded video sequence (CVS) may be a RAP picture. The second CVS may or may not have a picture resolution that is different from the picture resolution corresponding to the first CVS.
US09462267B2
A moving picture coding apparatus for performing inter-picture predictive coding for pictures constituting a moving picture is provided with a coding unit for performing predictive error coding for image data; a decoding unit for performing predictive error decoding for an output from the coding unit; a reference picture memory for holding output data from the decoding unit; and a motion vector detection unit for detecting motion vectors on the basis of the decoded image data stored in the memory. When coding a B picture as a target picture, information indicating whether or not the target picture should be used as a reference picture when coding another picture is added as header information. Therefore, in a decoding apparatus for decoding a bit stream Bs outputted from the moving picture coding apparatus, management of a memory for holding the reference picture can be facilitated on the basis of the header information.
US09462260B2
An object is to provide a three-dimensional display device capable of displaying bright images with low power consumption. The display device includes: an image display portion including a pixel portion provided with a plurality of pixels; a light-blocking portion including a first shutter and a second shutter; a signal source outputting the common potential; and a controller controlling transmittances of the first shutter and the second shutter and level of the common potential output from the signal source to bring the transmittances and the level into synchronism with supply of an image signal, display of a right-eye image, or display of a left-eye image performed in the pixel portion.
US09462255B1
A device includes a projection and camera system to create an augmented reality environment in which images are projected onto a scene and user movement within the scene is captured. The projection and camera system have a camera to image scattered IR light from the scene and compute time of flight values used in depth mapping of objects in the room. The system also has a projector to project the images onto the scene. The projected images and scattered IR light use a common optical path through the same lens. Additionally, an illumination system used to illuminate the scene with the IR light may also use the common optical path through the same lens. In one implementation, the projection and camera system are mounted in a movable head of a table lamp.
US09462254B2
An image sensor 2 includes: a photoelectric conversion layer 1d including a plurality of photosensitive cells; a reflective layer 1c that reflects light that has been transmitted through the photoelectric conversion layer 1d; a micro lens layer 1a that includes a plurality of micro lenses that are arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c; and a transmitted light controlling layer 1b that is arranged between the photoelectric conversion layer 1d and the reflective layer 1c and that is able to change optical transmittance in accordance with an instruction given by a controller. The micro lens layer 1a is arranged so that light that has been transmitted through one of the photosensitive cells and then reflected from the reflective layer 1c is incident on the same photosensitive cell again.
US09462253B2
An optical module, for use in a depth camera, includes a plurality of laser emitting elements, each of which emits a corresponding laser beam, and a micro-lens array (MLA) that includes a plurality of lenslets. Laser beams emitted by adjacent laser emitting elements at least partially overlap one another prior to being incident on the MLA For each lenslet of at least a majority of the lenslets of the MLA, the lenslet is at least partially filled by light corresponding to laser beams emitted by at least two of the laser emitting elements. The inclusion of the plurality of laser emitting elements is used to reduce speckle contrast. The overlap of the laser beams, and the at least partially filling of the lenslets of the MLA with light corresponding to laser beams emitted by multiple laser emitting elements, is used to reduce diffraction artifacts.
US09462251B2
A depth map aligning method and a system are provided. The depth map aligning method includes the following steps. A view warping is performed to a left-view image and a right-view image of a real-view image according to a corresponding depth map to obtain a right-virtual view image, a left hole information, and a right hole information thereof. A residual difference of pixel, which is not a hole, is obtained by pixel to pixel. If the residual difference of the pixel is larger than a first threshold value, a reverse warping is performed to obtain a coordinate of the pixel. The depth value of the pixel is aligned according to the depth value of one or more pixels in a vicinity of the obtained coordinate.
US09462228B2
A system and a method allowing simultaneous exchange of audio, video or data information between a plurality of units over a communication network, supported by a central unit, wherein the central unit is, based on knowledge regarding one or more of the units, adapted to instruct said one or more units to generate multimedia data streams adjusted to fit into certain restrictions to be presented on other units participating in a same session.
US09462213B2
A video display device includes a video display panel that displays video, a case that encloses an outer periphery of the video display panel, an audio device that is arranged in proximity to the outer periphery of the video display panel, the audio device being configured to linearly arrange a plurality of speakers, and a sound emitting hole that corresponds to an opening of the audio device, the sound emitting hole being provided to the case and emitting sound generated by the audio device.
US09462210B2
A software application and system that enables point-and-click interaction with a TV screen. The application determines geocode positioning information for a handheld device, and uses that data to create a virtual pointer for a television display or interactive device. Some embodiments utilize motion sensing and touchscreen input for gesture recognition interacting with video content or interactive device. Motion sensing can be coupled with positioning or localization techniques the user to calibrate the location of the interactive devices and the user location to establish and maintain virtual pointer connection relationships. The system may utilize wireless network infrastructure and cloud-based calculation and storage of position and orientation values to enable the handheld device in the TV viewing area to replace or surpass the functionality of the traditional TV remote control, and also interface directly with visual feedback on the TV screen.
US09462191B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image signal, a generating unit configured to perform enhancement processing on the image signal to generate a first image and a second image, a synthesizing unit configured to generate a synthetic image with the first image used in a region having a first brightness and the second image used in a region having a second brightness lower than the first brightness, and a recording unit configured to record the synthetic image on a recording medium, the generating unit being configured to perform the enhancement processing such that the second image is more enhanced than the first image.
US09462189B2
An image signal processor of a device, apparatus, or computing system that includes a camera capable of capturing image data may apply piecewise perspective transformations to image data received from the camera's image sensor. A scaling unit of an Image Signal Processor (ISP) may perform piecewise perspective transformations on a captured image to correct for rolling shutter artifacts and to provide video image stabilization. Image data may be divided into a series of horizontal slices and perspective transformations may be applied to each slice. The transformations may be based on motion data determined in any of various manners, such as by using gyroscopic data and/or optical-flow calculations. The piecewise perspective transforms may be encoded as Digital Difference Analyzer (DDA) steppers and may be implemented using separable scalar operations. The image signal processor may not write the received image data to system memory until after the transformations have been performed.
US09462187B2
An electronic device includes a camera module and an image module. The camera module captures a number of static images of an object. The image module includes a detecting unit and an image combining unit. The image module detects an edge response value of each image. The image combining unit selects and combines two images having maximum edge response values in turn according to a rate of the edge response values.
US09462182B2
During shooting, first encoded image data based on image data obtained by performing a simplified development process on RAW image data is recorded together with a RAW image, and afterward, second encoded image data based on image data obtained by performing a high-quality development process on the RAW image data is generated and recorded. By estimating the data amount of the second encoded image data during shooting and reflecting an area based on this data amount on management information of the recording medium as an area for recording the second encoded image data, the area in the recording medium is ensured.
US09462181B2
A digital camera for capturing an image containing the photographer, comprising: an image sensor; an optical system for forming an image of a scene on the image sensor; a processor for processing the output of the image sensor in order to detect the presence of one or more faces in a field of view of the digital camera; a feedback mechanism for providing feedback to the photographer while the photographer is included within the field of view, responsive to detecting at least one face in the field of view, and a means for initiating capture of a digital image of the scene containing the photographer.
US09462172B2
In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes computing a first set of tuning parameters indicative of a color correction associated with a media output component of an apparatus. Also, the method includes computing a second set of tuning parameters indicative of a color correction associated with a media capturing component of the apparatus. The first set of tuning parameters and the second set of tuning parameters are associated with the apparatus for facilitating color tuning of the apparatus.
US09462170B2
Illumination methods and apparatus are described. In some embodiments a lighting device includes one or more lighting modules. At least some but not necessarily all lighting modules include a light source, e.g., LED or bulb, a collimating lens positioned in front of said light source for generating a beam of light from light output by said light source and a beam flattening lens for flattening the beam of light in at least a first direction as it passes through the first beam flattening lens. In some but not necessarily all embodiments lighting modules are controlled based on which portion of a scene is being captured at a point in time thereby avoiding the need to illuminate the entire scene for the full duration of an image capture period. The lighting device may be used in combination with a rolling shutter and a sensor used to capture one or more images.
US09462159B2
A image processing device includes a nozzle ejection rate determination unit that determines a first nozzle ejection rate for each nozzle, a nozzle pattern determination unit that determines a nozzle pattern indicating by which of the plurality of nozzles individual pixels are to be recorded, a conversion unit that converts gradation values reflecting the first nozzle ejection rate on the gradation values of the individual pixels, and a halftone processing unit that performs halftone processing to an image converted by the conversion unit. The halftone processing unit performs the halftone processing using a second dither mask generated by threshold conversion reflecting a second nozzle ejection rate on a threshold of a first dither mask.
US09462157B2
In an operation panel of an image forming apparatus, a display section that displays an operation status and a near field communication section that obtains an operation instruction from a registered terminal by near field communication are arranged. In the image forming system, the registered terminal functions as an operation section of the image forming apparatus.
US09462153B2
An image processing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts identification information items from image information items of a document group that includes plural individual documents, each of the identification information items being included in a corresponding one of the individual documents, a corresponding information generating unit that generates corresponding information items that indicate corresponding relationships between the identification information items and the image information items of the individual documents, and an electronic document generating unit that rearranges an order of the identification information items on the basis of contents of the identification information items and generates an electronic document that includes the image information items of the document group, the corresponding information items, and the identification information items that have been sorted.
US09462141B2
An electronic device includes: a communication unit that performs communication with an external device; and a control unit that issues a command to the external device via the communication unit, on the basis of at least one of capacity of the external device, and capacity of the electronic device.
US09462139B2
An image processing system includes a vote adding portion, a vote reception portion, a vote determination portion, and a default registration portion. The vote adding portion adds a vote key indicating whether image data is good or bad, to the image data. The vote reception portion displays, of the vote key, a goodness key indicating that the image data is good, in a selectable manner, and receives selection of the goodness key. The vote determination portion counts the number of votes to the goodness key and determines whether or not the counted number of votes to the goodness key is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. When the number of votes is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the default registration portion automatically registers a setting condition for the image reading of the transmitted image data as an initial setting condition.
US09462127B2
A method, system and program product, the method comprising: obtaining for each call in one set of calls a respective pattern representing multiple different respective data fields; obtaining performance data for the respective patterns of the calls; obtaining performance data for the respective agents; determining agent performance sensitivity to call pattern performance for agents in a set of agents comprising the agent performance data correlated to call performance data for the calls the agent handles; and matching a respective one of the agents from the set of agents to one of the calls based at least in part on the performance data for the respective pattern of the one call and on the agent sensitivity to call performance for the respective one agent of the set of agents.
US09462126B2
A method for tracking the location of an individual can include selecting a first audio clip from a plurality of audio clips, wherein each audio clip comprises a different question for the individual and wherein a correct answer corresponds to each audio clip. The method can further include initiating a telephone call to a telephone of the individual at a desired location and playing the first audio clip for the individual via the telephone call. The method can further include receiving an oral response to the first audio clip from the individual via the telephone call and executing a speech recognition process upon the oral response. The method can further include comparing the oral response to a voice print of the individual and storing a record indicating that the individual is compliant if the oral response matches the correct answer and the oral response matches the voice print.
US09462114B2
A communication device is configured to switch from a normal mode of operation to an inconspicuous mode of operation in which a reduced set of information is presented on a home screen of a display of the device in comparison to a set of information presented on the home screen in the normal mode of operation. In addition, other display properties such as contrast and brightness may be adjusted to make them less conspicuous. The home screen in the inconspicuous mode of operation is less obtrusive or conspicuous to individuals than in the normal mode of operation. The device may enter the inconspicuous mode upon user request or by detecting at least one environmental condition using a sensor available to the mobile communication device. The environmental condition may be anything that the device can detect or sense in its surrounding environment such as ambient light or sound. The device may return to the normal mode of operation by user request or when the environmental condition is no longer present.
US09462112B2
A digital assistant operating on a device is configured to be engaged as an active participant in communications between local and remote parties by listening to voice and video calls and participating in messaging sessions. The digital assistant typically can be initiated by voice using a key word or phrase and then be requested to perform tasks, provide information and services, etc. using voice or gestures. The digital assistant can respond to the request and take appropriate actions. In voice and video calls, the interactions with the digital assistant (i.e., the request, response, and actions) can be heard by both parties to the call as if the digital assistant was a third party on the call. In a messaging session, messages are generated and displayed to each participant so that they can see the interactions with the digital assistant as if it was a participant.
US09462107B2
A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user's environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone's camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user's apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09462105B2
A method and system for managing incoming phone calls to a user device using a computer device coupled to a database are provided. The method includes storing in a memory, a plurality of category rules, the category rules associated with parameters of a phone call incoming to a user device, receiving an incoming phone call, comparing parameters of the incoming phone call with at least some of the category rules, assigning each incoming phone call to a category associated with one of the plurality category rules based on the comparison, and automatically, responding to the phone call based on an action specified by the category rules of the assigned category.
US09462101B2
Methods and apparatus to electronically tag a circuit pair are disclosed herein. Example methods include generating circuit identifying information to be included in a tag, transmitting the circuit identifying information to a first network element and to a portable circuit probe, and electronically tagging the circuit pair by applying a tone to the circuit pair at the first network element. In some examples, the tone is encoded to include the tag. Example methods additionally include notifying the portable circuit probe that the circuit pair has been electronically tagged. In some examples, the tag is transmitted to the first network element via the circuit pair and, if the first network element fails to acknowledge receipt of the circuit identifying information, via an out-of-band network.
US09462077B2
One or more parameters of a received data service request may be compared against a lookup table. Based on one or more priority values stored in the lookup table and associated with the one or more request parameters, the data service request may be assigned a priority level.
US09462076B2
The present invention provides an information dissemination system based on the integration of the broadcast network and the Internet, including: a terminal storage module, a regional storage module, a statistics-and-analysis module, a recommendation-and-analysis module, a media content management module and a network scheduling module. By two-level storing and playing of media contents, along with the statistics and analysis for on-demand behaviors of users, the intervention of the operator, and the recommendation and analysis performed by the recommendation-and-analysis module, the media contents are classified. Further, according to the classification, a media content is transmitted to the terminal storage module via the Internet; or, is transmitted to the terminal storage module via the Internet and pushed to the terminal storage module via the broadcast network; or, is pushed to the terminal storage module or the regional storage module at a predetermined time via the broadcast network. Thus, the respective advantages of the broadcast network and the Internet can be integrated and also the bandwidth pressure and the pressure of concurrent accesses on the Internet can be alleviated.
US09462075B2
An encrypted cached content system includes a user IHS, a content provider IHS, and a caching IHS. The caching IHS includes a caching engine that is configured to receive a content request from the user IHS. The caching engine generates a user-side key using content identifying information in the content request, and forwards the content request to the content provider IHS over a network as a content partial information request. In response to receiving a content partial information response from the content provider IHS over a network, the caching engine generates a content-provider-side key using header information in the content partial information response. The caching engine performs a hashing operation on the content request using a combination of the user-side key and the content-provider-side key to produce a hashed content request, and uses the hashed content request to retrieve content from the cache.
US09462073B2
Methods and systems that facilitate the downloading of media items to a first network device from a second network device are disclosed. A plurality of media items are identified Media item metadata associated with the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. Media item content data associate with a first subset of the plurality of media items is obtained from the second network device and stored on the first network device. In this manner, only media item metadata associate with a second subset of the plurality of media items is stored on the first network device.
US09462062B2
Provided are a portable terminal for displaying a local service based on context awareness technology, and an operation method of the portable terminal. The portable terminal may discover a plurality of local services available at a current position, verify a current context of a user, apply a predetermined weight to one or more local services corresponding to the verified current context among the plurality of local services, and thereby display the one or more local services based on the weight.
US09462055B1
A method, system, and program product for migrating data between clouds based on the performance characteristics of the clouds via a cloud router and a cloud migrator.
US09462054B2
Providing a user with an interactive user interface that may fully enable interactions regardless of connectivity status may be provided. In some embodiments, one or more content items may be selected by a user of the user devices and may be queued for upload to a content management system. The content items may be organized into one or more collections of content items with other content items already stored in a user account on the content management system, such as images having similar geo-temporal characteristics. A set of interactivity features may be available to the user for interacting with the queued content item. This may provide the user with the seamless feeling as if the content items have been uploaded to the content management system and the user may be interacting with the content items on the content management system, even if the upload has not been completed.
US09462050B2
A terminal device configured to support selection of a printer, the terminal device including: a first processor; and a first memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the terminal device to perform: registering area information which defines an area including a location of a printer and is for associating the area with the printer located in the area; acquiring the registered area information; acquiring terminal position information which represents the position of the terminal device; and specifying a candidate of a printer to be used based on the area information and the terminal position information, wherein the area is defined based on three or more positions.
US09462045B2
In an aspect, a client device detects a set of proximate client devices. The client device classifies, for each respective proximate client device in the set of proximate client devices, a relationship relative to an operator of the client device based on a local evaluation of one or more interactions between the client device and at least one proximate client device from the set of proximate client devices in response to the detecting. The client device determines whether to automatically trigger a communicative action with one or more proximate client devices from the set of proximate client devices based on the classifying.
US09462042B2
This invention generally relates to a process, system and computer code for identifying one or more data relationships that exist between and utilized by one or more applications; determining for each data relationship a respective rank based on specific data that associates the two or more user applications; finding applications based on the degree a respective rank has to one or more user applications; categorizing each relationship based on a criteria of the interaction; creating an application wall containing status updates and links to and from other applications related to the one of the one or more user applications; constructing a automation map from the links between the one or more user applications and other applications.
US09462040B2
In one embodiment, a router operating in a hierarchically routed computer network may receive collected data from one or more hierarchically lower devices in the network (e.g., hierarchically lower sensors or routers). The collected data may then be converted to aggregated metadata according to a dynamic schema, and the aggregated metadata is stored at the router. The aggregated metadata may also be transmitted to one or more hierarchically higher routers in the network. Queries may then be served by the router based on the aggregated metadata, accordingly.
US09462036B2
A method and apparatus turns a typical home telephone system into a platform for delivery of web based content and services. The preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a broadband enabled telephone system for the home and a series of web servers that collect, package, and deliver personalized content and services to all of the telephone handsets throughout the home. With this end-to-end solution, any information or services available via the web can be delivered through a broadband enabled telephone system. Through the web, each member of a family can build a profile which defines what information and services they want available through the handset. In addition, each handset can be dynamically personalized for any family member. The color screens on the handsets become windows through which an individual can view and interact with a broad range of content and services. The audio channels thus become an extension of the voice based services, such as messaging and voice chat.
US09462022B2
Technology is disclosed herein for migrating at least portions of computer applications to a server. According to at least one embodiment, a computing device identifies a service component of a computer application executed at the computing device. The service component does not directly interact with a user of the computing device. The computing device transfers an instance of the service component to a server so that the service component can be executed at the server. The computing device then receives from the server a result message generated by the instance of the service component executed at the server. The computing device feeds the result message to a user interface component of the computer application via a procedure call such that the user interface component retrieves the result message as if it were generated by an instance of the service component executed at the computing device.
US09462016B2
In a sharing session between a presenter and several attendees, the presenter can share any type of document quickly and without substantial prior preparation. The presenter's device identifies an active document-sharing window within the desktop sharing environment, and detects if there is a shared document in the active window. The presenter's device creates a framework for any detected shared document that is transmitted to each of the attendee devices. The framework contains information about the pages in the shared document, such that an attendee device can request a specific page in the shared document. At least the first page of the shared document is rendered to a page image and transmitted to the attendee devices. Upon request from an attendee device, page images of any of the remaining pages may be sent to the attendee device, allowing each attendee to view a different page than the presenter.
US09462000B2
Systems and methods are described for off-site user access control to communications services via a site-based communications network. Embodiments operate in context of sites, each having one or more site-based networks in communication with external networks via one or more on-site routers. User devices are provided with controlled access to those external networks via wired or wireless connections between those user devices and the site based networks. In some embodiments, on-site routers maintain route maps that indicate which user devices are authorized. Standard routing functions are used so that traffic from authorized devices is routed normally, while traffic from unauthorized devices is automatically forwarded to an off-site (e.g., cloud-based) authentication system. As devices become remotely authenticated, the off-site authentication system can remotely update route maps of the on-site routers to add those devices.
US09461997B2
A method is described that includes securing authorization for a control module to conduct a test using a plurality of test modules running on a plurality of virtual machines. The method further includes registering the plurality of test modules with the control module to conduct the test. Authorization of the control module is extended to the test modules by securely communicating authorization and instructions to a first set of the registered test modules to send test stimulus to a device under test. Similarly, the authorization is extended to the test modules by securely communicating authorization to and receiving test result data from a second set of the registered test modules, wherein the test result data is responsive to the test stimulus sent to the device under test. The first and second sets of registered test modules can overlap or be the same test modules.
US09461992B2
A suite of testing and evaluation tools that run in conjunction with a smartphone that can be used to both enroll, and for subsequent enrollees, to gain secure access so that the program may measure, track and report on tests, including activities, that may indicate general health and wellness status. Here, the word “smartphone” includes any handheld or mobile device containing at least one processor. The smartphone can be used as the platform for this suite of tools that can include applications that run independently on the smartphone device, but can also include sensors and other data acquisition tools that can be peripheral to the smartphone and connected by wire or wirelessly.
US09461983B2
Methods and systems are presented for defining criteria that indicate when authentication for an identified client device should be revoked based on rules associated with interested parties. Authentication information is stored that indicates that an identified client device is authenticated. Rules that are associated with a plurality of interested parties and include rules of different rule types may also be stored. Criteria may be defined based on the rules and the authentication information, the criteria indicating when authentication of the identified client device should be revoked. Authentication of the identified client device may be revoked based on the criteria.
US09461979B2
A method and apparatus for including network security information in a frame is disclosed. Network security information is included in a secure portion of overhead of a frame. The network security information is configured to facilitate network security. A network device configured to process a frame is also disclosed. The frame includes frame security information and network security information. The frame security information is configured to facilitate securing a portion of overhead of the frame, and the network security information is located in the secure portion of the overhead of the frame and is configured to facilitate network security.
US09461974B2
In a computer implemented method for data privacy in a distributed communication system, the method includes: storing a plurality of secret keys, each secret key for a respective one of a plurality of client terminals; identifying a mixer key; generating a plurality of key switch hints for the client terminals, each of the key switch hints generated for a respective client terminal of the client terminals, using the mixer key and a respective secret key for each respective client terminal; sending the key switch hints to a mixer; switching a first encrypted data stream received from a first client terminal of the client terminals to an encrypted output data stream using the key switch hints; and sending the encrypted output data stream to a receiving client terminal of the client terminals to be decrypted by the receiving client terminal.
US09461972B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling the efficient configuration of a User Interface (UI) for a user so that the configured UI represents the UI elements used most commonly by the user. In one embodiment, the invention may be used by the operator and users of a multi-tenant business data processing platform to permit each user to be associated with a specific configuration of UI elements and capabilities based on that user's typical or most common usage patterns. Further, in one embodiment, information or data that represents the UI configuration associated with a user may be encoded and provided to the multi-tenant business data processing platform in an efficient manner to enable the platform to present the desired UI to that user.
US09461967B2
Techniques for packet classification for network routing are disclosed. In some embodiments, packet classification for network routing includes receiving packets associated with a new flow at a security controller from a network device, in which the network device performs packet forwarding; classifying the flow; and determining an action for the flow based on a policy (e.g., a security policy). In some embodiments, the network device is a Software Defined Network (SDN) network device (e.g., a packet forwarding device that supports the OpenFlow protocol or another protocol).
US09461965B2
Techniques are presented herein for redirection between any number of network devices that are distributed to any number of sites. A first message of a flow is received from a network endpoint at a first network device. A relationship between the endpoint and the first network device is registered in a directory that maps endpoints for network devices. A state for the flow is stored at the first network device. A second message is received for the flow which is indicative of the first endpoint at a second network device. It is determined that the second network device does not store the flow state for the flow. Querying is performed to receive information indicative of the relationship between the endpoint and the first network device. The received information is stored in a cache at the second network device. Services are applied to the second message according to the stored information.
US09461960B2
For a network controller for managing hosts in a network, a method for configuring a host to resolve network addresses is described. The method configures an address resolution module in a host to resolve a network address. The method configures a managed forwarding element in the host to (1) avoid sending a request to resolve the network address to another host by using the address resolution module to resolve the network address and (2) forward packets using the resolved network address.
US09461958B1
A content distribution facilitation system is described comprising configured servers and a network interface configured to interface with a plurality of terminals in a client server relationship and optionally with a cloud-based storage system. A request from a first source for content comprising content criteria is received, the content criteria comprising content subject matter. At least a portion of the content request content criteria is transmitted to a selected content contributor. If recorded content is received from the first content contributor, the first source is provided with access to the received recorded content. The recorded content may be transmitted via one or more networks to one or more destination devices. Optionally, a voice analysis and/or facial recognition engine are utilized to determine if the recorded content is from the first content contributor.
US09461957B2
A system that transmits a request to initiate a communication session with a member device of a social network may include, for example, activating a speech capture element, maintaining activation of the speech capture element in accordance with a pattern of prior speech messages, detecting a speech message at the activated speech capture element, and transmitting the detected speech message, or a derivative thereof, to the member device of the social network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09461955B1
Implementations disclose transmission features for devices during low-bandwidth conditions. In some implementations, a method includes determining that a bandwidth on a network satisfies or will satisfy a low-bandwidth threshold and restricts or will restrict transmission of one or more information messages between the user and one or more entities associated with the one or more information messages. The method modifies transmission of the one or more information messages between the user and the one or more entities based on one or more social relationships between the user and the one or more entities.
US09461951B2
A method and system authenticate a transaction between a user and a payment system. The information of the transaction is transmitted through a secure communications from the user to the payment system, and the authentication message is sent from a payment system to the user via an authentication system. The authentication message is sent from the authentication system from one of multiplicity of addresses to the user, and the response to the message is received in that address. Additional security is achieved when the reply addresses are selected randomly.
US09461949B2
A sharer account of a content management system may share a link to a non-synchronized (i.e., read-only) version of a content item, with a recipient that already has access to a synchronized (i.e., read-write) version of the content item. This can possibly be due to the sharer forgetting that the recipient already has access to the synchronized version, the sharer finding it more convenient to share the link, and/or due to various other reasons. The present disclosure can determine that the recipient, with whom the link is shared, already has access to the synchronized version of the shared content item. The recipient can be notified that he already has access to the synchronized version and can be provided with an option to access the synchronized version (which can be stored locally at the recipient's device and/or stored online at the recipient's account with the content management system).
US09461943B2
A first addressing message is received at a first switch in a network fabric indicating that a first virtual machine has undergone migration from connection to a first virtual switch at a first server to connection to a second virtual switch at a second server. A route advertisement message is then transmitted from the first switch to at least a second switch in the network fabric. This route advertisement is configured to cause the second switch to transmit a second addressing message to a second virtual machine connected to the first virtual switch. The second addressing message provides the second virtual machine with updated addressing information for the first virtual machine. A third addressing message is also transmitted from the first switch to the first virtual machine to provide the first virtual machine with updated addressing information for the second virtual machine.
US09461940B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for providing data transmission speeds at or in excess of 10 gigabits per second between one or more source devices and one or more destination devices. According to one embodiment, the system of the present invention comprises a first and second media access control (MAC) interfaces to facilitate receipt and transmission of packets over an associated set of physical interfaces. The system also contemplates a first and second field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) coupled to the MAC interfaces and an associated first and second memory structures, the first and second FPGAs are configured to perform initial processing of packets received from the first and second MAC interfaces and to schedule the transmission of packets to the first and second MAC interface for transmission to one or more destination devices. The first and second FPGAs are further operative to dispatch and retrieve packets to and from the first and second memory structures. A third FPGA, coupled to the first and second memory structures and a backplane, is operative to retrieve and dispatch packets to and from the first and second memory structures, compute appropriate destinations for packets and organize packets for transmission. The third FPGA is further operative to receive and dispatch packets to and from the backplane.
US09461938B2
In one embodiment, a system includes at least one distributed line card (DLC) in electrical communication with at least one switch fabric coupler (SFC) and a meta-controller in electrical communication with the at least one DLC, the meta-controller including a processor for executing logic, logic configured for creating more than one virtual switch and a corresponding virtual control domain (VCD) associated with each virtual switch, wherein each virtual switch includes a plurality of physical ports of one or more of the at least one DLC, and logic configured for autonomously controlling the virtual switches, wherein the system appears to a device external of the system as a single cell switched domain. Other systems are described according to more embodiments.
US09461935B2
A system and method for managing dynamically allocated resources assigned to a service includes providing a service to be used by a plurality of sites in a federation. Usage information associated with the service is communicated to each of the plurality of sites. A disposition of the service is determined based on local policies and the usage information received from other sites by a service owner. The disposition of the service is updated across a plurality of sites in accordance with messages sent by the service owner to reduce resource usage.
US09461932B2
Visually depicting resource utilization in a cloud computing environment, including: identifying a plurality of resources available to a user in the cloud computing environment; identifying resource utilization values for each of the identified resources; assigning each resource to one or more axes of a coordinate system; mapping the resource utilization values for each of the identified resources on the coordinate system; and displaying the resource utilization values for each of the identified resources on the coordinate system.
US09461919B2
A switch is provided between a first network and a second network and an offloading determination unit determines whether or not to offload traffic for the first network, and configures an offload path to bypass the first network for the switch when the offloading is performed. When the traffic is offloaded, the switch forwards a packet to be offloaded to the offload path.
US09461918B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to perform load-balancing across a plurality of channels based upon a likelihood of a load imbalance occurring across the plurality of channels. Service flows can be configured to use one or more channels of a plurality of channels based upon determinations of a minimum and/or a maximum bandwidth potential of each of the plurality of channels.
US09461909B2
A method forward Ethernet frames at a node in a network supporting an implementation of shortest path bridging (SPB) protocol is disclosed. The method starts with a shortest path computation for the node (referred to as the computing node). The shortest path computation selects at least a shortest path to each destination node in the network, where a neighboring node on the shortest path to reach each node is recorded. Then it computes a downstream loop-free alternate (LFA) node for a destination node, where the LFA node is downstream of the computing node but not on the selected shortest path to the destination node from the computing node. Then when connectivity to the neighboring node on the computed shortest path is detected to be abnormal, the node forwards an Ethernet frame with a destination media access control (MAC) address corresponding to the destination node through the LFA node.
US09461905B2
Method for determining link characteristics of a network link including: selecting or configuring one or more existing network traffic packets with one or more requirements when necessary, wherein the one or more requirements include a receiving network node having knowledge about the packets it should receive; transmitting the selected one or more network traffic packets from a transmitting network node to the receiving network node; and examining the transmitted selected one or more network traffic packets to determine the link characteristics of a network link between the transmitting network node and the receiving network node, according to said knowledge about the packets.
US09461899B2
There is provided a communication control device including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a reception timing at which a second radio communication device receives a downlink signal from a base station performing radio communication with a first radio communication device or the second radio communication device, and a decision unit configured to decide a transmission timing at which the second radio communication device transmits a signal to the first radio communication device through inter-device communication based on the reception timing. The decided transmission timing is a timing later than a timing at which the second radio communication device transmits an uplink signal.
US09461883B2
A coupling device for connection of one of two servers at a time to a data transmission network as well as to a data transmission network having a coupling device. The device has a first and second terminal for connecting a first and second server and a third terminal for connection to the data transmission network. A switch device is provided having a first switching state where the third terminal is connected to the first terminal and disconnected from the second terminal, and a second switching state, where the third terminal is connected to the second terminal and disconnected from the first terminal. The switch device is adapted to assume a switching state, when it is provided with the energy signal by the power supply, and to assume another switching state, when it is not provided with the energy signal by the power supply.
US09461880B2
A method supporting network and intra-portal link (IPL) sharing in a link aggregation group at a network device is disclosed. The method starts with transmitting frames on the IPL at the network device, where the physical link or aggregation link of the link aggregation group is dedicated to the IPL. The network device determines that the network device is configured with a network and IPL sharing method that is consistent with the neighbor network device, the network and IPL sharing method including sharing by at least one of time, tag, and encapsulation, where the network and IPL sharing method indicates sharing of the physical link or link aggregation between frames for the IPL and frames for another IPL or a network link of the link aggregation group. Then the network device transmits the frames between the network device and the neighbor network device using the network and IPL sharing method.
US09461878B1
At least initially blocking client download of certain content and injecting a user verification step for such downloads is disclosed. In some embodiments, client download of a response from a server to a client request is blocked, and instead a notification page with options to accept or decline the server response is provided to the client.
US09461863B2
Systems and methods for decoding block and concatenated codes are provided. These include advanced iterative decoding techniques based on belief propagation algorithms, with particular advantages when applied to codes having higher density parity check matrices. Improvements are also provided for performing channel state information estimation including the use of optimum filter lengths based on channel selectivity and adaptive decision-directed channel estimation. These improvements enhance the performance of various communication systems and consumer electronics. Particular improvements are also provided for decoding HD Radio signals, including enhanced decoding of reference subcarriers based on soft-diversity combining, joint enhanced channel state information estimation, as well as iterative soft-input soft-output and list decoding of convolutional codes and Reed-Solomon codes. These and other improvements enhance the decoding of different logical channels in HD Radio systems.
US09461854B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for detecting a center frequency of an input signal, the input signal including a carrier signal modulated with a modulation signal. Detecting a frequency of a second signal. Determining a difference signal between the center frequency of the input signal and the frequency of the second signal. Modifying the frequency of the second signal based on the difference signal to provide the carrier signal. And, outputting the carrier signal.
US09461852B2
A signal demodulation apparatus includes: a clock generation device arranged to generate a clock signal according to an inputting modulation signal; and a demodulation device arranged to demodulate the inputting modulation signal to generate a demodulation signal according to the clock signal; wherein a signal edge of the clock signal substantially aligns to a turning point of the inputting modulation signal.
US09461850B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for parallel data processing. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for parallel data processing, comprising: receiving baseband data corresponding to multiple antennas from uplink data; converting the baseband data from time-domain signals to frequency-domain signals; processing the frequency-domain signals at least partially in parallel by multiple processing units in a general-purpose processor so as to restore transmitted code blocks; and constructing transmission block (TB) based on the transmitted code blocks. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for parallel data processing. By means of the method and apparatus of the present invention, the parallel data processing capacity of a general-purpose data processor may be used to process, in parallel as much as possible, data in uplink data transmission and further improve the receiver operation efficiency.
US09461829B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a present service charging session for charging service usage in a communication network. The method comprises receiving a first request for grant of a reservation service unit quota from a charging client, the first request including at least data identifying an account to charge for the service usage. A first granted service unit quota for the first request is determined and a first carry-over service units quota from a previous service charging session associated with the identified account is accessed. A first reservation service unit quota is determined by deducting the first carry-over service units quota from the first granted service unit quota. According to the method it is reserved for the first reservation service unit quota from the account and the first granted service unit quota is sent to the charging client.
US09461823B2
Approaches for limiting exploitable or potentially exploitable sub-components in software components are disclosed. In certain implementations, a first software component in the component creation environment may be identified. The first software component may include a first sub-component that provides a function that is exploitable or potentially exploitable to compromise the first software component. The first sub-component may be disabled such that the function provided by the first sub-component is not available via the first software component when the first software component is executed. The first software component may be placed in the component repository after the first sub-component is disabled such that the first software component is placed in the component repository without availability of the function provided by the first sub-component. In some implementations, disabling the first sub-component may comprise removing the first sub-component from the first software component.
US09461821B1
Encryption key(s) and/or other protected material are protected on devices. A secret splitting scheme is applied to a secret, S, that protects at least one data item to obtain a plurality of secret shares. At least one secret share is encrypted to provide at least one encrypted secret share using an encryption scheme that uses at least one other secret share as the encryption key. A subset of the plurality of secret shares and encrypted secret share(s) is required to reconstruct the secret, S. One or more secret shares and/or encrypted secret shares are provided to at least one device, for example, based on a corresponding key-release policy, to allow access to the data item(s) secured by the secret, S. The secret, S, comprises, for example, a secret key used to protect at least one content item and/or a key used to protect one or more of a content container and a vault storing one or more protected data items.
US09461820B1
A method and apparatus for accessing a computer resource, wherein, during a first access sequence, the computer resource receives credentials of a user from a device the user is using to access the computer resource, encrypts the credentials using at least a first credentials key stores the encrypted credentials, communicates the first credentials key to a connection broker or to the device, and purges the first credentials key. The computer resource, during a subsequent access sequence, receives the first credentials key, decrypts the encrypted credentials using the first credentials key, and purges the first credentials key. The computer resource authenticates the user using the credentials and purges the credentials after the user is authenticated and enables the device to access the computer resource following the authentication of the user.
US09461806B2
A wireless base station simultaneously transmits or receives wireless communications in different modes in different sectors of the wireless base station. The different modes may comprise a Time Division Duplex (TDD) mode and a non-TDD mode, and/or different air interfaces. Related methods and systems are described.
US09461799B2
Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an encoding ratio setting unit (122) sets the encoding ratio R′control of the control information which is time-multiplexed with user data, according to the encoding ratio Rdata of the user data, ΔPUSCHoffset as the PUSCH offset of each control information, and ΔRANKoffset as the rank offset based on the rank value of the data channel using Expression (1). R control ′ = O Q ′ = max ( O ⌈ O 10 - Δ offset PUSCH + Δ offset RANK 10 · R data ⌉ , O 4 · M sc ) ( 1 ) Where ┌x┐ is an integer not greater than x, and max(x,y) is the greater one among X and Y.
US09461790B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of coordinating a change from a first operating state to a second operating state of a selected cell in a system. The method includes changing to an intermediate state from the first operating state based on first signaling information exchanged between a serving cell of a user equipment (UE) and the selected cell in the first operating state and at least one signal received by the selected cell in the first operating state from the UE, the first operating state being a dormant state and operating in the intermediate state based on second signaling information between the serving cell and the selected cell, third signaling information between the serving cell and the UE and transmission information between the UE and the selected cell, the intermediate state being between the first operating state and the second operating state, the second operating state being an on state where the selected cell serves the UE.
US09461788B2
In a mobile communication system in which a plurality of base stations included in a CoMP cooperating set perform downlink CoMP communication with a user terminal, each of the plurality of base stations comprises: a first transmission unit that transmits first transmission data in each of a plurality of HARQ processes; and a retransmission unit that transmits retransmission data corresponding to the first transmission data in each of the plurality of HARQ processes, and a transmission interval of the first transmission data by the first transmission unit is set to a minimum odd number larger than a maximum HARQ retransmission number.
US09461787B2
A method includes transmitting a random access preamble, receiving a random access response as a response of the random access preamble, wherein the random access response comprises an uplink resource assignment and a request for transmission of a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI), and transmitting the CQI in the uplink resource assignment.
US09461770B2
A multi-channel transceiver using a floating frequency grid for multi-channel, optical communication is presented. Transmitter frequencies are permitted to drift, and a receiver is tuned to compensate for drifts in the transmitter frequencies.
US09461768B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a number of multi-channel optical transceivers mounted on the PCB, and a number of switch ports accessible from a front panel of the switch. The switch ports include a number of electrical interfaces that are electrically coupled to a switch chip mounted on the PCB, and a number of optical interfaces that are coupled to the switch chip via the multi-channel optical transceivers.
US09461764B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for transmitting data over a communication channel having at least one physical lane for transmitting data. The apparatus includes, for each physical lane, allocation circuitry configured for allocating data in logical lanes corresponding to the physical lane. The apparatus also includes, for each physical lane, a multiplexer configured for bit-interleaving the data from the logical lanes corresponding to the physical lane into interleaved data for transmission over the physical lane. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, for each physical lane, the allocation circuitry is configured for allocating the data such that the interleaved data for transmission over the physical lane has clusters of sequential bits of the same symbol. Thus, upon transmission and reception by a receiver, any correlated errors affecting sequential bits may affect fewer symbols. Also provided is an apparatus and method for receiving data in a complementary manner.
US09461754B2
A housing accommodates an optical waveguide substrate, plural signal light receiving elements, and a signal-light-level monitoring light receiving element. Signal light and locally oscillated light are input into optical waveguides in the optical waveguide substrate from a first end face of the optical waveguide substrate. The plural signal light receiving elements are disposed aligned on a side of a second end face opposite to a side of the first end face of the optical waveguide substrate. The signal-light-level monitoring light receiving element is disposed on a side of a third end face or a fourth end face between the first end face and the second end face of the optical waveguide substrate and at a position closer to the first end face than to the second end face.
US09461741B2
Provided are a signal transmission method and apparatus. In the signal transmission method, a terminal device obtains a signal to be sent; and the terminal device sends the signal through a visible light medium, wherein after being demodulated, the signal sent through the visible light medium is carried on a power line for transmission. By virtue of the solution, the problem in related technologies regarding the integration of the visible light communication as a wireless access manner with the power line communication technology is solved, the construction of the communication network can be more convenient and faster, and the advantages of the visible light communication and the power line communication technology are fully utilized.
US09461739B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication method, base station and system. The base station includes several LED lights and/or several VLC/IR receivers. The several LED lights are configured to send downlink signals in an OFDMA standard to a user terminal, and the several VLC/IR receivers are configured to receive uplink signals that are of an SC-FDMA standard and sent by the user terminal. The base station further includes a baseband signal processing unit configured to equate the several LED lights and/or the several VLC/IR receivers with radio remote units of an LTE mode to perform processing and resource management. The embodiments of the present invention are capable of reusing baseband signal processing and resource management manners in an existing LTE system, thereby simplifying resource management and baseband signal processing operations performed by the base station, and saving the base station resources.
US09461731B1
A bent-pipe relay communication system and method of using same. The bent-pipe relay communication system includes a plurality of bent-pipe relay channels, each channel having automatic gain control. Each channel of the plurality of bent-pipe relay channels includes a radio -frequency-to-intermediate-frequency demodulator, at least one programmable variable gain amplifier, and an intermediate-frequency-to-radio-frequency modulator. The communication system further includes at least one radio frequency power detector operably connected to the intermediate-frequency-to-radio-frequency modulator for each channel. The system also includes at least one controller communicating with the at least one radio frequency power detector and the at least one variable gain amplifier for the each channel to provide the automatic gain control.
US09461730B2
A technique for controlling suppression of self-interference in a relay node configured to transmit and receive simultaneously using the same frequency channel or using proximate frequency channels is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of actively cancelling a signal transmitted from the relay node that leaks back into a receiver of the relay node to suppress self-interference, determining whether an increase of an amount of self-interference suppression is needed or whether self-interference suppression can be decreased, and increasing or decreasing, depending on the result of the determination, at least one of the transmit power of the signal transmitted from the relay node and the receive power of the relay node.
US09461727B2
Technology to adaptively sectorize a spatial region for parallel multi-user transmissions is disclosed. In an example, a node (e.g., evolved Node B (eNB)) can include computer circuitry configured to: Generate a set of precoding matrices for a set of beam cones in the spatial region; and generate a beam cone for multi-user beamforming transmissions using system information for the beam cone. A precoding matrix in the set of precoding matrices can be used for each beam cone, and each beam cone can cover a beam cone spatial region that differs from another beam cone spatial region of another beam cone in the spatial region. Each beam cone can include system information that differs from the system information of the other beam cones in the spatial region.
US09461722B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US09461719B2
A method and system for supporting M1MO technologies which can require the transport of multiple spatial streams on a traditional Distributed Antenna System (DAS). According to the invention, at one end of the DAS, each spatial stream is shifted in frequency to a pre-assigned band (such as a band at a frequency lower than the native frequency) that does not overlap the band assigned to other spatial streams (or the band of any other services being carried by the DAS). Each of the spatial streams can be combined and transmitted as a combined signal over a common coaxial cable. At the other “end” of the DAS, the different streams are shifted back to their original (overlapping) frequencies but retain their individual “identities” by being radiated through physically separate antenna elements.
US09461715B1
A server and rack system includes at least one server rack; multiple server slots within the rack; multiple near field communication (NFC) tags; a server located within one of the server slots; an NFC reader within and powered by the server; and an entity that needs to receive locations of servers within racks of the system. Each of the multiple NFC tags is positioned on the rack so as to individually correspond, on a one-to-one basis, with each of the multiple server slots, and each of the NFC tags is programmed with an identifier of the specific rack and slot with which it corresponds, and the NFC reader is positioned such that, when power is supplied to the NFC reader by the server, the NFC reader will read the identifier that corresponds to the slot the server is located within and automatically communicate that identifier to the entity.
US09461714B2
A wireless power system includes a power source, power receiver, and components thereof. The system can also include a parasitic antenna that can improve the coupling to the power source in various modes. The antenna can have both a variable capacitor and a variable inductor, and both of those can be changed in order to change characteristics of the matching.
US09461710B2
A method of performing an operation related to a second device, performed by a first device, via near field wireless communication, and an apparatus therefore. When a signal for wireless communication is received from the second device, the method includes calibrating the strength of the received signal; comparing the strength of the calibrated signal with operation signal information that is a result of calibrating a range of strengths of signals which are for the wireless communication and which are received from the second device moving between a plurality of points set to be within a predetermined distance from the first device; and as a result of the comparison, selectively performing the operation related to the second device.
US09461707B1
In various embodiments, a power-line communication apparatus provides data over a power-line communication network by transmitting data symbols to endpoint circuits over a power line. The power-line communication apparatus includes a signal-processing circuit configured to combine a plurality of different data streams, each of the plurality of different data streams respectively formatted according to different communication schemes, to form a signal that represents a combination of the different data streams and corresponding communication schemes. Further, the power-line communication apparatus includes a pulse-modulation circuit configured to convert the signals, as combined, as a pulse-width modulated or a pulse-density modulated signal, the pulse-modulation circuit configured to switch at a frequency higher than frequencies of the different communication schemes. An output circuit can be configured to filter the switching frequency and to couple the data symbols to an injector transformer for presentation to the endpoint circuits.
US09461701B1
Systems and methods to provide fast time acquisition in a frequency-hopped communication link by taking advantage of the fact that a modem receive path has an instantaneous bandwidth that can span multiple discrete frequencies used by the frequency-hopped link. The systems and methods take advantage of the probabilistic frequency locality of time hypotheses to find a set of time hypotheses that can be searched simultaneously.
US09461699B2
In one disclosed embodiment, data information is stored in a buffer in a transmitter. The data information is transmitted on a shared channel and control information for recovering the associated data information is transmitted on a dedicated channel. The shared and dedicated channels can be, for example, different portions of the frequency band. The control information can include a spreading factor used to spread the data at the transmitter. For example, the spreading factor can be the length of the Walsh function orthogonal coding used to spread the data. The control information is received over the dedicated channel before the associated data information is received over the shared channel. The control information is then used to recover the associated data information. For example, knowing the spreading factor from the control information, the correct Walsh function can be selected to de-spread, i.e. to Walsh de-cover, the data information.
US09461698B2
A communications device may include a transmit path, a receive path operable simultaneously with the transmit path and at a same frequency as the transmit path, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to generate a baseband signal for the transmit path, generate a feedforward signal based upon the baseband signal, and use the feedforward signal to reduce self-interference in the receive path from the transmit path.
US09461694B2
A controller area network (CAN) circuit includes a first switch section circuit, a second switch section circuit, a reception section circuit, a transmission section circuit, a power supply circuit, a CAN-low (CANL) line and a CAN-high (CANH) line. The first switch section circuit is connected between the power supply circuit and the transmission section circuit and the second switch section circuit is connected between the power supply circuit and the reception section circuit.
US09461693B1
This disclosure relates to a devices and methods related to satellite information broadcasting. Example embodiments may include frequency shifting an intermediate frequency (IF) signal down-conversion from the microwave-band. As an example, down-conversion involving local oscillators may lead to frequency drift due to varying temperature and/or humidity conditions. Correcting for the frequency drift may provide an opportunity to remove or filter excess bandwidth. Further embodiments may include receiving, in a tuning request, information about a transponder type. A frequency translation module may be adjusted based, at least in part, on the transponder type related to the IF signal being input into the frequency translation module. Such frequency-shifting and transponder-specific filtering may allow Single-Wire Multiswitch (SWM) devices to provide output signals with narrower bandwidth, which may improve signal quality, cable run length, reduce power demands, etc.
US09461682B2
Provided are a method and a system for filtering out adjacent frequency band interference. The method includes that an RF MEMS switch control module receives a first transmitted coupling signal from a first frequency band RF module and a second received coupling signal from a second frequency band RF module; the RF MEMS switch control module determines whether interference exists between a first frequency band and a second frequency band according to the first transmitted coupling signal and the second received coupling signal; if interference exists, the RF MEMS switch control module filters out the interference by instructing a first frequency band RF MEMS radio frequency reconfigurable antenna working in the first frequency band to change a first antenna structure and/or by instructing a second frequency band RF MEMS radio frequency reconfigurable antenna working in the second frequency band to change a second antenna structure. By means of the disclosure, adjacent frequency bands can co-exist on hardware and mutual interference is effectively avoided.
US09461667B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a memory, a normalization engine, a lookup table, and an adder. The memory may be configured to store a floating-point number formatted in a floating-point format. The normalization engine may be configured to normalize at least a portion of the floating-point number to create a normalized number. The lookup table may be configured to generate an injection constant based upon a predefined set of rounding values specifically for converting a floating-point number to an integer number. The adder may be configured to create an integer result by adding the normalized number and the injection constant.
US09461666B2
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic power switching in current-steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs). A DAC circuit may be configured to apply digital-to-analog conversions based on current steering, and to particularly incorporate use of dynamic power switching during conversions. The DAC circuit may comprise a main section, which may connect a main supply voltage to a main current source. The main section may comprise a positive-side branch and a negative-side branch, which may be configured to steer positive-side and negative-side currents, such as in a differential manner, to effectuate the conversions. The dynamic power switching may be applied, for example, via a secondary section connecting a main current source in the DAC circuit to a secondary supply voltage. The secondary supply voltage may be configured such that it may be less than the main supply voltage used in driving the current steering in the DAC circuit.
US09461659B2
The invention concerns a micro-machined vapor cell comprising a central silicon element forming a cavity containing vapor cell reactants such as alkali metal or alkali metal azide, buffer gas(es), and/or anti relaxation coating(s); a first and a second glass caps sealing the cavity; and a solenoid arranged to provide a homogeneous magnetic field to said vapor cell. The solenoid is coiled directly on the central silicon element of the vapor cell. This invention is an improvement for the highly miniaturized atomic clocks developments.
US09461656B2
An injection-locked phase-locked loop (ILPLL) circuit includes a delay-locked loop (DLL) and an ILPLL. The DLL is configured to generate a DLL clock by performing a delay-locked operation on a reference clock. The ILPLL includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and is configured to generate an output clock by performing an injection synchronous phase-locked operation on the reference clock. The DLL clock is injected into the VCO as an injection clock of the VCO.
US09461650B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”). The configurable IC includes a set of configurable logic circuits for configurably performing a set of functions. The configurable IC also includes a set of configurable routing circuits for routing signals to and from the configurable circuits. During several operational cycles of the configurable IC, a set of data registers are defined by the configurable routing circuits. These data registers may be used wherever a flip-flop can be used.
US09461647B2
A semiconductor device may include a first channel provided in a first die. The semiconductor device may include a second channel provided in a second die and disposed adjacent to the first channel, and configured to exchange signals and data with the first channel. The first channel and the second channel may receive and output calibration-related signals from and to each other through bonding, and may share calibration start signals. The calibration start signal may be respectively generated in the first channel and the second channel.
US09461646B2
A semiconductor device suitable for low-voltage driving. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a power supply line, a circuit, and a memory circuit. The first transistor controls electrical continuity between the circuit and the power supply line. The memory circuit stores data for setting a gate potential of the first transistor. The second transistor controls electrical continuity between an output node of the memory circuit and a gate of the first transistor. The second transistor is a transistor with an ultralow off-state current, for example, an oxide semiconductor transistor. In a period for operating the circuit, a first potential is input to the power supply line and the second transistor is turned off. In a period for updating the gate potential of the first transistor, a second potential is input to the power supply line. The second potential is higher than the first potential.
US09461637B2
According to example embodiments, a method for controlling a gate voltage applied to a gate electrode of a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) may include measuring a voltage between a drain electrode and a source electrode of the HEMT, and adjusting a level of the gate voltage applied to the gate electrode of the HEMT according to the measured voltage. The level of the gate electrode may be adjusted if the voltage between the drain electrode and the source electrode is different than a set value.
US09461636B2
Techniques and architecture are disclosed for improving spurious performance in a signal generator/system. The disclosed techniques/architecture can be used, for example, to enhance/improve the wideband and/or narrowband spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) between a given carrier signal and spurious signals. In some example instances, wideband and/or narrowband SFDR may be improved to about −40 dBc or better. In some other example instances, wideband and/or narrowband SFDR may be improved to about −70 dBc or better. The disclosed techniques/architecture can be implemented in a wide variety of signal generators/systems, such as a direct digital synthesizer (DDS)-based system, and over a wide range of input clock frequencies (e.g., in the range of about 10 MHz to 40 GHz, or higher).
US09461635B2
In an integration mode, since a switch becomes OFF, a positive feedback path from an output terminal of an operational amplifier to a positive input terminal is blocked. Therefore, oscillation can be prevented even when a voltage of a signal line connected to a reference voltage supply point varies due to an impedance of the reference voltage supply point not being 0. In the integration mode, a resistor and a capacitor function as a noise filter. Further, in a reset mode, a switch becomes ON, and charge is accumulated in the capacitor depending on a reference voltage of the reference voltage supply point.
US09461630B1
An oscillator circuit operates to selectively charge and discharge a capacitance with a charging circuit. An inverting circuit includes a first transistor, second transistor, third transistor and fourth transistor having source-drain paths coupled in series. The second and third transistors are connected as an inverter with an input coupled to the capacitance and an output. A feedback loop couples the output of the inverter to an input of the charging circuit. A first shunting transistor is configured to selective shunt across the first transistor in response to a first logic state of a feedback signal in the feedback path. A second shunting transistor is configured to selective shunt across the fourth transistor in response to a second logic state of the feedback signal in the feedback path.
US09461628B2
Charge to voltage conversion integrator circuitry for data acquisition front-end and other applications to provide a single-ended up a voltage using an input bias capacitance and a switching circuit to selectively place an input transistor in a negative feedback configuration in a first mode to charge the input bias capacitance to a calibration voltage for compensating integrator amplifier bias circuitry, with the switching circuit connecting an input node and the input bias capacitance in a second mode to integrate the input current signal across a feedback capacitance to provide a single-ended output voltage with the input bias capacitance maintaining a zero voltage at the input node.
US09461626B2
Techniques for adjusting swing voltage for an I/O interface signal are described herein. In one embodiment, a device comprises an input/output (I/O) interface, and an I/O voltage controller. The I/O voltage controller is configured to determine a frequency or temperature of the I/O interface, and to adjust a swing voltage of the I/O interface based at least in part upon the determined frequency or temperature.
US09461624B2
In one example, a method includes, in response to a voltage level of an input signal satisfying an input voltage threshold, activating a first driver of a plurality of drivers configured to collectively generate an output signal. In this example, the method also include, in response to the voltage level of the input signal satisfying the input voltage threshold and a voltage level of the output signal satisfying an output voltage threshold, toggling activation of a second driver of the plurality of drivers, wherein the second driver is configured to switch more current when activated than the first driver, and wherein the first driver has a faster slew rate than the second driver.
US09461622B2
Capacitance multiplier circuitry provides an increased equivalent capacitance, and may be implemented using a desirably small footprint. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments, a capacitor provides a first capacitance across first and second plates, and capacitance multiplier circuitry operates with the capacitor to provide a second equivalent capacitance that is a multiple of the first capacitance. The capacitance multiplier circuitry includes a first circuit path having a first resistor between the first plate and a common terminal, and a second circuit path having a switch and a second resistor between the second plate and the common terminal. An amplifier has differential inputs respectively corresponding to the first and second circuit paths and provides the second equivalent capacitance by controlling operation of the switch based upon the differential inputs and the respective resistances provided by the resistors in the first and second circuit paths.
US09461616B2
A bulk wave resonator that includes an aluminum nitride film containing scandium on a substrate, a first electrode disposed on one surface of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium, and a second electrode disposed on the other surface of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium. The aluminum nitride film containing scandium includes a portion acoustically isolated from a top surface of the substrate. The first electrode overlaps the second electrode with the aluminum nitride film containing scandium interposed therebetween. The overlap forms a piezoelectric vibrating portion. The scandium content of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium is 5 atomic percent or more and 43 atomic percent or less when Sc and Al of the aluminum nitride film containing scandium constitute 100 atomic percent.
US09461602B2
Improvement in linearity is achieved at low costs in a power amplifier module employing an envelope tracking system. The power amplifier module includes a first power amplifier circuit that amplifies a radio frequency signal and that outputs a first amplified signal, a second power amplifier circuit that amplifies the first amplified signal on the basis of a source voltage varying depending on amplitude of the radio frequency signal and that outputs a second amplified signal, and a matching circuit that includes first and second capacitors connected in series between the first and second power amplifier circuit and an inductor connected between a node between the first and second capacitors and a ground and that decreases a gain of the first power amplifier circuit as the source voltage of the second power amplifier circuit increases.
US09461600B2
The present invention provides a power gain-boosting technique for an amplifier in order to compensate for the decrease of Gmag in a transistor at high frequencies. A power gain-boosting technique of the present invention comprises the steps of: finding the Maximum Unilateral Gain or Mason's Invariant U of a transistor; designing a linear, lossless, reciprocal network embedding the transistor so that the final equivalent S-, Y-, or Z-parameters satisfy the condition: S 21 S 12 = Y 2 1 Y 1 2 = Z 2 1 Z 1 2 = - [ ( 2 U - 1 ) + 2 U ( U - 1 ) ] ; embedding the transistor into the linear, lossless, reciprocal network; and constructing simultaneous conjugate matching.
US09461599B2
In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a power amplifier. The circuit further comprises a memory that stores bias current values corresponding to a plurality of frequencies across a frequency band for setting the bias of a power amplifier based on selected frequencies, and a controller configured to provide at least one bias current value corresponding to a selected frequency from the memory to the power amplifier in response to a frequency selection signal. The bias current value at each frequency may be selected to maximize power efficiency or minimize adjacent channel leakage-power ratio of the power amplifier at said frequency. In one embodiment, the memory further stores bias current values corresponding to the plurality of frequencies across the frequency band at a plurality of temperatures for setting the bias of a power amplifier based on a temperature of the power amplifier and on selected frequencies.
US09461591B2
A power divider may coherently divide an RF or microwave input signal into multiple instances of that signal. The power divider may include: an input port that receives the input signal; multiple output ports; and passive signal splitting circuitry that causes a different instance of the input signal to be delivered to each of the output ports all substantially in phase with one another and with substantially equal amplitude, but isolates any signal that is reflected back to one of the output ports from a device to which the output port is connected from any of the other output ports.
US09461587B2
A quadrature detector quadrature-detects an FM signal. An FM detector generates a detection signal by FM detecting an FM signal that has been quadrature-detected. An AFC unit generates a control signal for controlling a frequency of a local oscillation signal used for quadrature detection on the basis of the generated detection signal, and feeds back the control signal to a local oscillator that should output the local oscillation signal. A difference calculator generates a difference signal representing a difference from a reference value on the basis of the generated detection signal. An addition unit adds the generated difference signal and the generated detection signal.
US09461585B2
An oscillation circuit includes: an oscillation unit which includes a first terminal and a second terminal connected to a vibrator; a third terminal to which a ground potential is supplied; a fourth terminal which is electrically connected to the second terminal, and to which at least one of an AC voltage for driving the vibrator and a voltage for operating the oscillation unit is applied; and a first switching unit which switches modes of electrical connection between the first terminal and the third terminal.
US09461572B2
The invention is directed to a method for controlling a wind turbine connected to a three-phase electrical supply grid during an asymmetrical grid fault. The method is configured for wind turbines with a doubly-fed induction generator. The reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid in the negative phase-sequence system is generated by the line-side and the rotor-side converter in a coordinated manner and depends on the line voltage. The reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid is distributed among the rotor-side and line-side converters. As a result, even in the case of severely asymmetrical grid faults, the reactive current to be fed into the electrical supply grid can be provided and excessive loading of the rotor-side converter can be prevented using simple means. The invention is also directed to a wind turbine for performing the above method.
US09461569B2
A motor control device controls a motor using an angle data signal and a rotational speed signal output from a rotation detector detecting a rotation state of a rotating shaft of the motor. The motor control device includes a speed control unit that outputs a torque instruction signal corresponding to a difference between the rotational speed of the rotating shaft and a speed instruction using the speed instruction of the rotating shaft and the rotational speed signal, a limit value setting unit that sets a torque limit value indicating the maximum value of the torque applied to the rotating shaft, and a torque limit control unit that limits the torque of the rotating shaft driven by the torque instruction signal to the torque limit value or less.
US09461547B2
Disclosed is a DC-DC converter with a converter bridge, tank circuitry, and rectifier circuitry. In one embodiment, the converter bridge includes multiple switch circuits, which are formed with silicon carbide MOSFETs (metal on semiconductor field effect transistors), and are configured to provide a primary current. The tank circuitry includes a resonant capacitance, a resonant inductance, and a transformer with a primary, a first secondary, and a second secondary. The tank circuitry is configured to receive the primary current, and the transformer is associated with a magnetizing inductance. The resonant frequency of the tank circuitry is greater than about 225 kilohertz as essentially defined by the magnetizing inductance, the resonant capacitance, and the resonant inductance. The rectifier circuitry is coupled to the first secondary and the second secondary coil, and is adapted to provide a rectified output current.
US09461541B2
A control method for a power supply system having at least two power parts with power outputs connected in parallel, wherein each power part is actuated via a separate control and where at least one first power limit is specified for each control, where the control actuates the allocated power part up to the first power limit in a normal mode, a first drawdown value of the output voltage is specified for each control upon reaching the first power limit, and the respective control regulates the output voltage of the related power part to the first drawdown value upon reaching the first power limit so that the parallel connection of a plurality of power parts without a super-ordinate control is achieved.
US09461539B2
A voltage regulator includes a driving circuit, a feedback circuit, first and second control circuits and a resistor. The driving circuit is coupled to an input node and an output node and generates an output voltage at the output node from an input voltage at the input node. The feedback circuit is coupled to the output node and generates a feedback voltage based on the output voltage. The first control circuit is coupled to the feedback circuit and the driving circuit to control the output voltage based on the feedback voltage. The resistor has opposite first and second terminals. The first terminal of the resistor is coupled to the output node. The second control circuit is coupled to the second terminal of the output stage resistor and the feedback circuit to control the feedback voltage based on a regulated voltage at the second terminal of the resistor.
US09461530B2
An electromechanical generator for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy, the electromechanical generator comprising a housing, an electrically conductive coil assembly fixedly mounted in the housing, a magnetic core assembly movably mounted in the housing for linear vibrational motion along an axis, a first biasing device, mounted between the housing and the magnetic core assembly, adapted to apply a centering force acting to oppose movement of the magnetic core assembly away from a central position on the linear axis and a second magnetic biasing device adapted to provide a compensating force to compensate for variations in the centering force of the first biasing device due to temperature.
US09461528B2
The present device is applied to a linear driving unit which comprises: a linear electric motor (M) formed by a motor housing (C) which is electrically excited and affixed to a fixed structure (1), and by a magnetic armature (A) which is displaced in a reciprocating axial movement; and a helical resonant spring (50) having an end coupled to the fixed structure (1) and an opposite end coupled to the magnetic armature (A). The deformation control device (60) is mounted to contact a surface extension of the resonant spring (50), which is elastically and radially deformed, and to generate friction with said surface extension and/or an elastic deformation in the deformation control device (60), absorbing energy in a value sufficient to at least minimize said radial elastic deformation of the resonant spring (50).
US09461521B2
A window regulator motor assembly has an electric motor, a worm, a gear and a controller. The motor has an end face and an output shaft extending outwardly from the end face. The motor further includes a connector extending outwardly from the end face spaced from and generally parallel to the output shaft. The worm is on the output shaft and is driven by the motor. The gear is driven by the worm. The controller includes a circuit board positioned between the output shaft and the motor connector. A motor control connector extends from a first face of the circuit board and engages the motor connector. A speed sensor is on the second face of the circuit board and faces the output shaft.
US09461496B1
A method and system for recharging a solid state battery device. The method can include providing the solid state battery in a fully or partially discharged state. The solid state battery can be coupled to a pair of electrodes. An energy source coupled to the electrodes can be used to supply energy to the solid state battery. This supply of energy can use a first constant current recharge process followed by a constant voltage recharge process. This supply of energy can cause an increase of an energy level of the solid state battery to the maximum energy level within a predetermined amount of time. The predetermined amount of time can be determined as being less than a time period associated with recharging the solid state battery using solely a constant current recharge process.
US09461488B2
A vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter includes an outer housing having a positive terminal and a negative terminal located exterior to the outer housing; a battery located in the outer housing, the battery having a positive output and a negative output that together output a DC current, wherein the positive output is coupled to the positive terminal and the negative output is coupled to the negative terminal; a power inverter located in the outer housing, the power inverter having a DC input coupled to the positive and negative outputs of the battery, and an AC output; and an AC socket coupled to the AC output. A shell for a vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter, and a method of making a vehicle battery having an integrated power inverter are also described.
US09461479B2
A wireless power transmitter including a power supply unit configured to supply an input voltage; a power conversion unit configured to generate wireless power based on a driving signal, generated by the supplied input voltage and a first pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, and transfer the wireless power to a wireless power receiver; and a power transmission control unit configured to receive a voltage value of a battery charged with the wireless power through a wireless network, and generate the first PWM signal based on the voltage value of the battery.
US09461472B2
A method and system for controlling electrical power in a micro-grid, especially during islanding when the micro-grid is disconnected from a main grid is described. A potential load shedding for islanding is determined when the micro grid is connected to the main grid. The potential load shedding is performed when a grid switch that connects the micro-grid to a main grid opens. A frequency based load shedding and a frequency based control of power injections to the micro grid may also be performed. The frequency based load shedding is performed with a faster response than the power injection control during islanding. The frequency based power injection control is performed with a faster response than the frequency based load shedding when the micro grid is connected to the main grid. A load shedding controller, an energy storage controller and methods performed by the load shedding controller, and the energy storage controller, respectively, is also provided.
US09461469B2
A downhole electrical power grid electrically connects a string of downhole tools including at least a first power generating tool and a second power consuming tool. The power generating tool includes a power generator, an electric load, and a power management controller. The power management controller is configured to automatically electrically connect and disconnect the tool from the power grid. The power generating tool may include a rotary steerable tool having a power generator, an electric actuator, and the aforementioned power management controller.
US09461467B2
The invention relates to a system for supplying direct electric power to at least two loads from an alternating electric power source comprises a circulation bus for the alternating power adapted to be connected to the alternating power source and at least one converter for converting alternating power into direct power, connected to the circulation bus.The system further comprises at least two connection interfaces, each connection interface being connected to a corresponding converter and being adapted to be connected to at least one electric load to supply direct electric power for the or each corresponding load; and means for controlling the connection interfaces, the control means being capable of time-shifting the start-up moment for the supply of direct power from one interface to the other.
US09461463B2
Disclosed is a buck converter for converting a high voltage at the input of the buck converter to a low voltage at the output of the buck converter. The buck converter includes a control circuitry configured to control a duty cycle of a control switch, the control switch being interposed between the input and the output of the buck converter. A synchronous switch is interposed between the output and ground. The control switch and the synchronous switch comprise depletion-mode III-nitride transistors. In one embodiment, at least one of the control switch and the synchronous switches comprises a depletion-mode GaN HEMT. The buck converter further includes protection circuitry configured to disable current conduction through the control switch while the control circuitry is not powered up.
US09461456B2
A modular data center includes a first module that provides a first function of the mobile data center, a second module operable that provides a second function of the mobile data center, and an integrated switchboard having first and second protection devices and a switch. The integrated switchboard receives a high-capacity power feed, protects the high-capacity power feed from a first over-current condition with the first protection device to provide a load feed to a load associated with the first module, provides the high-capacity power feed to an input of the switch, and protects an output of the switch from a second over-current condition with the second protection device to provide a load feed to a load associated with the second module.
US09461454B2
A connection device 3 for connecting a battery 2 to an electric or hybrid motor vehicle, comprising at least one input 3a capable of being connected to a terminal of the battery and an output 3b capable of being connected to a first terminal of an electrical circuit of the vehicle. The device 3 also comprises an electrical-circuit cutoff device 8 mounted in series between the input 3a and the output 3b of the connection device 3. The cutoff device 8 comprises a pyrotechnic igniter connected to control terminals, the electrical opening of the cutoff device 8 being controlled by an electrical control signal applied to the said control terminals.
US09461445B2
A busbar adapter is provided with a first contact connection and a second contact connection for connecting two busbars, a fuse unit having a first fuse holder and a second fuse holder, and a housing structure for accommodating the fuse unit and the first and second contact connections. The first and the second fuse holders releasably retain a first and second fuse. A first supply lead of the first fuse and the first contact connection are connected after inserting the first fuse into the first fuse holder. A second supply lead of the second fuse and the second contact connection are connected after inserting the second fuse into the second fuse holder. The housing structure has insulating walls arranged such that a first current path of the first fuse is isolated from a second current path of the second fuse.
US09461432B2
A connection terminal includes a terminal main body which includes a bottom plate portion, a connecting spring portion integrally provided on one end side of the bottom plate portion, and a conductive connecting portion integrally provided on the other end side of the bottom plate portion; and a box portion which is integrally formed with the bottom plate portion from both edge portions of the bottom plate portion in a width direction of the connection terminal on the one end side by stereoscopic modeling and covers the connecting spring portion.
US09461431B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating and employing a magnetic grid array according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments may include engaging, via magnetic force of a magnet, magnetic contacts of a magnetic grid array to substrate lands of a package substrate of an integrated circuit package of a computing system, and disengaging, via a removal lever, the magnetic contacts from the substrate lands.
US09461420B2
It is aimed to provide a connector holder enabling a connector for connecting a coaxial cable and a connector for connecting a wire different in type from the coaxial cable to commonly use a panel hole. A connector holder (10) integrally includes a first fixing portion (20) to which a first connector (50) for connecting a coaxial cable (C) and second fixing portions (40) to which second connectors for connecting wires (W) different in type from the coaxial cable (C) are to be fixed. According to this configuration, the first connector (50) for connecting the coaxial cable (C) and the second connectors for connecting the wires (W) different in type from the coaxial cable (C) are fixed to one panel hole via one connector holder (10).
US09461419B2
A new and useful electrical connector is provided, that is designed to protect existing electrical outlets from trauma and destruction, by preventing them from being dislodged by movement of a patient support such as a hospital bed, or scraped off of the wall by passing (moving) machinery, hospital beds, equipment and vehicles during the normal use of the bed, the machinery, or equipment. In this application reference to an electrical plug component encompasses traditional 2 or 3 prong plugs that pima into grounded or ungrounded wall outlet sockets, as well as phone or laptop jacks that would plug into wall outlet sockets configured for such jacks. In addition, a new and useful coupling structure, for electrical couplings that need to be spaced from a wall socket, is provided.
US09461407B2
A manual unlocking structure arranged in a locking device for locking a power feeding plug to a power receiving connector arranged in a vehicle. The power feeding plug includes a hook. The locking device includes a fastening member capable of fastening the hook to the power receiving connector to lock the power feeding plug to the power receiving connector. The manual unlocking structure includes an operation member that is manually operable to move and separate the fastening member from the hook. A user operates the operation member to manually unlock the power feeding plug. An operation box is arranged in the vehicle and used to manually operate the operation member in the vehicle.
US09461403B2
Connector inserts and receptacles that are robust, easily manufactured, and provide an improved connector performance. One example may provide a connector receptacle having a power contact located in a ground surface. An insulating layer may be placed between the power contact and the ground surface. The ground surface may be curved or flat, or it may have other shapes. Another example may provide a robust connector insert. This connector insert may include a crimping piece that fits over a cable braiding and is crimped. The crimping piece may then be attached to an attraction plate. A cover or shell may be attached to provide further reinforcement. Another example may provide a connector system having a ground contact and a power contact, where the ground contact is a make-first-break-last contact.
US09461396B2
An indoor antenna has a base panel, a coax cable panel, a coax cable, a panel cover, and a hole cover. The coax cable panel is combined with the base panel. The coax cable is electrically connected with the coax cable panel and is connected with a plug. The panel cover is combined with the base panel, shelters the coax cable panel and has a cover through hole inserted through by the coax cable. The hole cover is mounted in the cover through hole of the panel cover and has a coax cable recess inserted through by the coax cable with the plug. Therefore, when the indoor antenna is assembled, the coax cable with the plug can be inserted through the cover through hole, and the indoor antenna can be assembled smoothly and modularized easily.
US09461395B2
A lever (30) is supported on a first housing (10) for rotation between an initial position and a connection position. A resiliently deflectable holding arm (35) is formed on a main body (31) of the lever (30) and is configured to be locked to the first housing (10) for holding the lever (30) at the initial position so that the lever (30) does not rotate toward the connection position (connecting direction B). The holding arm (35) is formed with a regulating projection (38). The main body (31) is formed with a stopper (39) configured to regulate a displacement in a hold releasing direction A of separating the holding arm (35) from the first housing (10) by locking the regulating projection (38) when the main body portion (31) is displaced in the connecting direction B with the holding arm (35) locked to the first housing (10).
US09461389B2
Embodiments include an electronic module having a chassis, a locking member rotatably connected to the chassis, and a bus bar system comprising a plurality of bus bars. The electronic module includes a plurality of power plug connectors configured such that each of the plurality of bus bars is connected to at least one power plug connector, wherein each of the power plug connectors is configured to receive at least a portion of a system bus thereby establishing an electrical connection between each of the plurality of bus bars and the system bus. The locking member is configured to connect the electronic module to the system bus such that the plurality of power plug connectors establish an electrical connection between the bus bar system and the system bus and wherein the locking member is configured to lock to the chassis once the electrical connection has been established.
US09461386B1
An electrical connector is disclosed that, in one exemplary configuration, includes a connection pin, a spring, an insulator, an outer casing, and a quick-release lever. The electrical connector is used to electrically connect a display device, like a watch, and a securing device, like a watch strap. The electrical connector may be used to create electrical and ground connections between the securing device and the display device from a single point of contact. The quick-release lever may be used for the improved attachment and release of the electrical connector from the display device.
US09461381B1
Electronic card connectors for receiving and electrically connecting with at least one electronic card are described. The electronic card connector includes a base having a plurality through holes, a frame, and a plurality of terminals which are adapted to pass through the through holes. The frame is configured to be assembled with the base to form a receiving recess. At least one of the plurality of terminals may include a plurality of metal pins. When the at least one electronic card is inserted into the receiving recess, one of the plurality of metal pins is electrically connected to the other one of the plurality of metal pins via a sensor unit.
US09461374B2
An electrical connector assembly and a connecting member thereof, the connecting member comprises: a base portion having an upper surface and a lower surface which are opposite. A first connecting portion comprising two first protruding ribs spaced apart from each other and protruding upwardly from the upper surface of the base portion and two first latching grooves respectively provided at opposite inner sides of the two first protruding ribs, and the two first latching grooves extends along a front-rear direction. A second connecting portion comprising four upright extending walls spaced apart from each other and extending downwardly out from the lower surface of the base portion and four first latching flanges respectively extending horizontally out from the four upright extending walls. A resilient latching arm extending out from one end of the base portion, having a first positioning portion provided to an upper surface thereof and a second positioning portion provided to a lower surface thereof. The connecting member can assemble two cable connector assemblies together and then fix them to an application device, which is convenient during assembling.
US09461367B2
An antenna, multi-band antenna system, and antenna apparatus for radio frequency communications are disclosed. The antenna includes a first antenna core, a multi-band antenna array located on the first antenna core, a second antenna core laminated to the first antenna core, an antenna ground plane located on the second core, and a plurality of feed networks interspersed on the first antenna core and the second antenna core. The first antenna core and the second antenna core form dielectric columns between the multi-band antenna array and the antenna ground plane. The antenna may also include a low noise block feed connection located on the first antenna core.
US09461363B2
An information processing system includes a reader/writer, a communication terminal, and a wireless IC tag. The communication terminal includes an electric field-type first antenna unit, a magnetic field-type second antenna unit, and a connection unit electrically connecting the first and second antenna units and to each other, and is housed within a pen housing. The first antenna unit is coupled to an antenna of the reader/writer through an electric field, and the second antenna unit is coupled to the wireless IC tag through a magnetic field. By causing the second antenna unit to be adjacent to the wireless IC tag, the reader/writer and the wireless IC tag communicate with each other.
US09461357B2
An antenna on a sapphire structure. The antenna includes a sapphire structure having a first side, and a second side positioned opposite the first side. The antenna also includes a first antenna trace positioned on the first side of the sapphire structure, and a second antenna trace positioned on the second side of the sapphire structure. Additionally, the antenna includes at least one via formed through the sapphire structure. The at least one via electrically connects the first antenna trace to the second antenna trace.
US09461355B2
A method apparatus and material are described for radio frequency passives and antennas. In one example, an electronic component has a synthesized magnetic nanocomposite material with aligned magnetic domains, a conductor embedded within the nanocomposite material, and contact pads extending through the nanocomposite material to connect to the conductor.
US09461347B2
A power storage device cell is configured such that a capacitor positive electrode and a lithium positive electrode are directly connected with each other; a second electrode layer is formed of a material including particles of phosphoric-acid-type lithium compound having an olivine-type structure; the third electrode layers are formed mainly of particles of lithium titanate; and a third collector foil is formed of an aluminum foil.
US09461341B2
A decrease in the capacity of a power storage device is inhibited by adjusting or reducing imbalance in the amount of inserted and extracted carrier ions between positive and negative electrodes, which is caused by decomposition of an electrolyte solution of the negative electrode. Further, the capacity of the power storage device can be restored. Furthermore, impurities in the electrolyte solution can be decomposed with the use of the third electrode. A power storage device including positive and negative electrodes, an electrolyte, and a third electrode is provided. The third electrode has an adequate electrostatic capacitance. The third electrode can include a material with a large surface area. In addition, a method for charging the power storage device including the steps of performing charging by applying a current between the positive and negative electrodes, and performing additional applying a current between the third electrode and the negative electrode is provided.
US09461340B2
A battery, a battery assembly, and a user equipment are disclosed. The battery includes a circuit board and a cell. The circuit board includes a first contact, a second contact, a third contact, a fourth contact, a battery management module, and a control switch. The first contact reports a capacity of the cell in the battery, or in the battery and a cascaded battery to an upper-level battery or an electricity load; the second contact receives and output the capacity of the cell in the cascaded battery; when the control switch is opened, the third contact is connected to the cell in the battery to charge or discharge the cell in the battery; when the control switch is closed, the fourth contact is connected to the third contact; and the battery management module triggers opening or closing of the control switch.
US09461339B2
A battery sleeve for extending the operational life of one or more batteries, the battery sleeve comprising a positive conductive electrode configured such that when the battery sleeve is coupled to at least one battery, the positive conductive electrode of the sleeve serves as the new positive terminal of the at least one battery.
US09461333B2
Disclosed is an electrolyte for a rechargeable lithium battery including an organic solvent; a lithium salt; a flame retardant; and at least one acrylate compound having a fluorinated alkyl group. The electrolyte for a rechargeable battery may provide a rechargeable lithium battery having flame-retardant characteristics without decrease of cycle-life and battery performance.
US09461327B2
Disclosed is a solid oxide fuel cell which includes an inner electrode, a solid electrolyte, and an outer electrode, each being sequentially laminated on the surface of a porous support. The porous support contains forsterite, and further has a strontium element concentration of 0.02 mass % to 1 mass % both inclusive in terms of SrO based on the mass of the forsterite.
US09461322B2
A hydrogen generation apparatus includes: a reformer configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by using a raw material; a hydrodesulfurizer configured to remove a sulfur compound from the raw material; a recycle passage through which the hydrogen-containing gas is supplied to the hydrodesulfurizer; a condenser provided on the recycle passage or on a gas passage upstream from the recycle passage; a drain passage through which water condensed in the condenser is drained; a heating medium passage through which a heating medium that recovers heat from the condenser flows; a delivery device configured to cause the heating medium to flow through the heating medium passage; and a controller configured to cause the delivery device to operate when the hydrogen-containing gas is not flowing through the recycle passage at at least one of start-up and stopping of the hydrogen generation apparatus.
US09461303B2
The problem of the present invention is to provide an electrode body in which electron conductivity of a coated active material improves and reaction resistance decreases. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing an electrode body comprising a coated active material having an oxide active material and a coat layer for coating the surface of the above-mentioned oxide active material, containing an oxide solid electrolyte material, and a sulfide solid electrolyte material contacting with the above-mentioned coated active material, characterized in that the above-mentioned coat layer contains a conductive assistant.
US09461298B2
A spiral-wound convection battery device has flow in and out of the ends with flow proceeding through flow-permeable electrodes. In the preferred configuration electrolyte flows, reverse flows, or pressure-pulse reverse flows between an electrode and counter electrode through a flow-permeable separator. The preferred configuration is as a novel stacked-cell spiral-wound battery.
US09461294B2
A battery pack including: a plurality of battery cells; a case configured to accommodate the battery cells spaced from one another at an interval; and at least one tab configured to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells, and a terminal coupling portion is formed at a side of the tab.
US09461293B2
A power source apparatus including batteries having positive and negative electrode regions, parallel blocks with batteries stacked together and electrically connected in parallel, multiple parallel-series connected blocks with the parallel blocks electrically connected in series, and bus-bars having a plurality of terminal insertion holes. Batteries in a parallel block are stacked together lining-up positive electrode regions on one side and negative electrode regions on the other side. Parallel blocks in a multiple parallel-series connected block are stacked so as to reverse the orientation of each block added to the stack. The bus-bars are integrated pieces that can electrically connect the batteries in a parallel block in parallel as well as electrically connect the parallel blocks in series.
US09461281B2
A battery retention system for a power tool having a motor, a drive mechanism coupled to the motor, and an output element coupled to the drive mechanism. The battery retention system includes a battery pack for powering the motor, the battery pack being removably coupled to the power tool. The battery retention mechanism also includes a first mating feature for coupling the battery pack to the power tool and a second mating feature for coupling the battery pack to the power tool independently from the first mating feature. The second mating feature is configured to couple the battery pack to the power tool when the first mating feature is disengaged.
US09461271B2
A light-emitting element has a layer including an organic material between a first electrode and a second electrode, and further has a layer including a metal oxide between the second electrode and the layer including the organic material, where these electrodes and layers are laminated so that the second electrode is formed later than the first electrode. The light-emitting element is suppressed damage caused to a layer including an organic material during deposition by sputtering and a phenomenon such as short circuit between electrodes.
US09461265B2
The present invention provides a display device substrate, a display device substrate manufacturing method, a display device, a liquid crystal display device, a liquid crystal display device manufacturing method and an organic electroluminescent display device that allow suppressing faults derived from occurrence of gas and/or bubbles in a pixel region. The present invention is a display device substrate that comprises: a photosensitive resin film; and a pixel electrode, in this order, from a side of an insulating substrate. The display device substrate has a gas-barrier insulating film, at a layer higher than the photosensitive resin film, for preventing advance of a gas generated from the photosensitive resin film, or has a gas-barrier insulating film, between the photosensitive resin film and the pixel electrode, for preventing advance of gas generated from the photosensitive resin film.
US09461258B2
It is an object to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device which can provide an image with excellent image quality. One of the present inventions is a light-emitting device including a plurality of light-emitting elements each exhibiting a different emission color. At least one of the plurality of light-emitting elements has n light-emitting layers (n is a natural number, n≧2) between a pair of electrodes. Further, at least one of the n light-emitting layers includes a substance which provides emission from a triplet excitation state. In a light-emitting device having such a structure, an image is displayed by combining emissions from the plurality of light-emitting elements.
US09461252B2
An object is to provide a novel organometallic complex that has a broader emission spectrum in the wavelength range of green to blue. Other objects are to provide a light-emitting element using the organometallic complex, and a light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each using the light-emitting element. Provided is an organometallic complex represented by a general formula (G1). Represented by the general formula (G1) is a novel organometallic complex that exhibits a broad emission spectrum in the wavelength range of green to blue. Further provided are a light-emitting element using the organometallic complex, and a light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each using the light-emitting element.
US09461249B2
The present invention relates to the improvement of organic electroluminescent devices, in particular blue-emitting devices, by using compounds of the formula (1) as dopants in the emitting layer.
US09461248B2
An anthracene derivative represented by a general formula (1) and an organic compound represented by a general formula (8) are provided. Further, by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1), a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency can be obtained. Furthermore, by use of the anthracene derivative represented by the general formula (1), a light-emitting element that emits blue light with high color purity can be obtained.
US09461237B2
A power generation switch includes: parallel beams including at least one magnetostrictive rod made of a beam-shaped magnetostrictive material; a coil wound around the rod; a first connecting part connecting two beams in the parallel beams together, at first ends of the parallel beams; a second connecting part connecting the two beams together at second ends of the parallel beams; a field part that produces magnetic flux to pass through the two beams in the same direction; and an operating part operable by a user. The first connecting part is a non-displaced fixed end. The second connecting part is a free end for free oscillation. The operating part applies external force to the second connecting part to cause free oscillation of the parallel beams, thereby causing a positive axial force in one of the two beams and a negative axial force in the other one of the two beams.
US09461233B2
A high-temperature superconducting film includes a SrTiO3 substrate, a single crystalline FeSe layer, and a protective layer with a layered crystal structure. The single crystalline FeSe layer is sandwiched between the SrTiO3 substrate and the protective layer via a layer-by-layer mode. An onset temperature of superconducting transition of the high-temperature superconducting film is greater than or equal to 54 K, and a critical current density of the high-temperature superconducting film is about 106 A/cm2 at 12 K.
US09461227B2
A thermoelectric material including a thermoelectric matrix; and nano-inclusions in the thermoelectric matrix, the nano-inclusions having an average particle diameter of about 10 nanometers to about 30 nanometers.
US09461226B2
A thermoelectric material including: a bismuth-tellurium (Bi—Te)-based thermoelectric material matrix; and a nano-metal component distributed in the Bi—Te-based thermoelectric material matrix, wherein a Lotgering degree of orientation in a c-axis direction is about 0.9 to about 1.
US09461205B2
A nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device includes a base layer, an insulating layer and a plurality of light emitting nanostructures. The base layer is formed of a first conductivity type semiconductor. The insulating layer is disposed on the base layer and has a plurality of openings through which regions of the base layer are exposed. Each of the light emitting nanostructures is disposed on the exposed regions of the base layer and includes nanocore formed of a first conductivity type semiconductor, and an active layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer sequentially disposed on side surfaces of the nanocore. Upper surfaces of the light emitting nanostructures are non-planar and contain portions free of the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer in order to prevent light emissions during device driving.
US09461193B2
The present disclosure relates to focusing luminescent concentrators wherein directional emission, obtained by placing an absorber/emitter within a microcavity or photonic crystal, may be oriented by a macroscopic concentrator and focused to a point or line for 3D or 2D concentration, respectively. The focusing luminescent concentrators disclosed herein may provide high concentration ratios without the need for tracking, and may reduce re-absorption losses associated with conventional concentrators. The present disclosure further relates to photovoltaic cells and/or optical detector devices comprising a focusing luminescent concentrator. The devices and methods presently disclosed are also useful, for example, in solar, thermal and thermophotovolatic applications.
US09461189B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a photovoltaic structure and a front-side metal grid situated above the photovoltaic structure. The front-side metal grid also includes one or more electroplated metal layers. The front-side metal grid includes one or more finger lines, and each end of a respective finger line is coupled to a corresponding end of an adjacent finger line via an additional metal line, thus ensuring that the respective finger line has no open end.
US09461183B2
A diode comprising a reduced surface field effect trench structure, the reduced surface field effect trench structure comprising at least two trenches formed in a substrate and separated from one another by a joining region of the substrate, the joining region comprising an electrical contact and a layer of p-doped semiconductor material.
US09461169B2
A device and method for inducing stress in a semiconductor layer includes providing a substrate having a dielectric layer formed between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer and processing the second semiconductor layer to form an amorphized material. A stress layer is deposited on the first semiconductor layer. The wafer is annealed to memorize stress in the second semiconductor layer by recrystallizing the amorphized material.
US09461162B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of word lines extending parallel to one another on the semiconductor substrate; a plurality of bit lines extending parallel to one another on the semiconductor substrate and arranged to intersect the word lines, thereby delimiting a plurality of crossing regions and a plurality of unit memory cells; a plurality of gate electrodes formed to control respective pairs of unit memory cells adjacent to each other with the word lines interposed therebetween and to contact corresponding word lines on one sides of the crossing regions; storage node contacts respectively formed in spaces of the unit memory cells; and a plurality of bit line contacts formed to contact the respective bit lines on one sides of the crossing regions.
US09461161B1
Integrated circuits with memory circuitry are provided. The memory circuitry may include memory cell transistors and associated pass transistors. The memory cell transistors and the pass transistors may be formed using multiple strips of oxide definition (OD) regions coupled in parallel. The multiple OD strips may have reduced widths. The ratio of the distance from adjacent OD strips to a given OD strip to the width of the given OD strip may be at least 0.5. Forming memory circuitry transistors using this multi-strip arrangement may provide increased levels of stress that improve transistor performance. Each OD strip may have a reduced width that still satisfies fabrication design rules. Forming OD regions having reduced width allows the pass transistors to be overdriven at higher voltage levels to further improve transistor performance.
US09461155B2
Memory devices and methods of making memory devices are shown. Methods and configurations as shown provide folded and vertical memory devices for increased memory density. Methods provided reduce a need for manufacturing methods such as deep dopant implants.
US09461152B2
A semiconductor device includes a first main electrode; a second main electrode; a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type; a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type arranged between the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region; and a depletion layer suppression region arranged inside of the third semiconductor region and being configured to suppress a spread of a depletion layer extending in the third semiconductor region when a reverse bias voltage is applied between the second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region includes a shortest region where a distance between a first boundary surface and a second boundary surface is shortest, and the shortest region includes a region where the depletion layer suppression region does not exist between the first boundary surface and the second boundary surface.
US09461147B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure, including a substrate, having a fin structure disposed thereon, a gate structure, crossing over parts of the fin structure. The top surface of the fin structure which is covered by the gate structure is defined as a first top surface, and the top surface of the fin structure which is not covered by the gate structure is defined as a second top surface. The first top surface is higher than the second top surface, and a spacer covers the sidewalls of the gate structure. The spacer includes an inner spacer and an outer spacer, and the outer pacer further contacts the second top surface of the fin structure directly.
US09461145B2
Enlarging the dummy electrode to the STI top width size by OPC cut mask correction and the resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include forming an STI region in a silicon substrate, the STI region having a top width; and forming a dummy electrode on the STI region and a gate electrode on the silicon substrate, the dummy electrode having a width greater than or equal to the STI region top width.
US09461137B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure include tungsten silicide nitride films and methods for depositing tungsten silicide nitride films. In some embodiments, a thin film microelectronic device includes a semiconductor substrate having a tungsten gate electrode stack comprising a tungsten silicide nitride film having a formula WxSiyNz, wherein x is about 19 to about 22 atomic percent, y is about 57 to about 61 atomic percent, and z is about 15 to about 20 atomic percent. In some embodiments, a method of processing a substrate disposed in physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber, includes: exposing a substrate having a gate insulating layer to a plasma formed from a first process gas comprising nitrogen and argon; sputtering silicon and tungsten material from a target disposed within a processing volume of the PVD chamber; depositing atop the gate insulating layer a tungsten silicide nitride layer as described above; and depositing a bulk tungsten layer atop the tungsten silicide nitride layer.
US09461136B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a process flow to form a gate structure of a memory device.
US09461116B2
A TI-IGBT, comprising a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate, and a first doped layer; a short circuit region and a collector region disposed in parallel are formed in the first semiconductor substrate; the short circuit region and the collector region have different doping types; the second semiconductor substrate is located on the upper surface of the first semiconductor substrate, and has the same doping type with the short circuit region; the first doped layer is located between the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, and covers at least the collector region; the first doped layer has the same doping type with the second semiconductor substrate, and has a doping concentration smaller than that of the second semiconductor substrate.
US09461104B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a high-voltage first resistive structure which extends along a spiral path above the substrate and is separated from the substrate by a first dielectric layer; and a conductive shielding structure, including a plurality of first shielding strips, which are arranged in sequence along respective portions of the first resistive structure and are separated from the first resistive structure by a second dielectric layer.
US09461094B2
An MRAM cell may include a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ). The MTJ includes a pin layer, a barrier layer, a free layer, and a capping layer. The MRAM cell further includes a bidirectional diode selector, directly coupled to an electrode of the MTJ, to enable access to the MTJ.
US09461086B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising forming an insulating member on a structure having a height difference, and forming openings in the insulating member, the forming openings including first etching under a condition with a microloading phenomenon and second etching under a condition with a reverse microloading phenomenon, wherein the first etching is stopped before an upper face of the structure is exposed and then the second etching is started.
US09461080B2
Variation in threshold voltages in a device operation is reduced.An insulator layer which is disposed to be opposed to a channel region 41 of a MOS transistor and is formed to have a laminated structure of a silicon nitride film 83 and a silicon oxide film 83 and an inverted signal input unit which inputs a signal obtained by inverting an input signal inputted into a source region 43 of a MOS transistor into a channel region 41 are provided and the inverted signal input unit includes another gate electrode 82 which is formed on an extended portion of the channel region 41 of the gate electrode 81 in a manner to be adjacent to the gate electrode 81 of the MOS transistor and a CMOS circuit 80 which inverts an input signal inputted into the source region 43 of the MOS transistor in accordance with an input value of the input signal and inputs a signal obtained through inversion in the CMOS circuit 80 into another gate electrode 82.
US09461079B2
An imager having a pixel cell having an associated strained silicon layer. The strained silicon layer increases charge transfer efficiency, decreases image lag, and improves blue response in imaging devices.
US09461076B2
The present invention provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof that can simplify manufacturing steps and enhance efficiency in the use of materials, and further, a manufacturing method that can enhance adhesiveness of a pattern. One feature of the invention is that at least one or more patterns needed for manufacturing a display panel, such as a conductive layer forming a wiring or an electrode or a mask for forming a desired pattern is/are formed by a method capable of selectively forming a pattern, thereby manufacturing a display panel.
US09461073B2
The embodiments of the invention provide an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device, relate to the field of display technology, and can reduce the color cast phenomenon of the display device, and improve the display effect. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units which are arranged in an array, each of the pixel units comprises a plurality of sub-pixel units, the width of each of the sub-pixel units is equal, each of the sub-pixel units corresponds to one first electrode, the first electrode comprises a plurality of strip-shaped structures which are arranged at an equal interval, and intervals of the strip-shaped structures of the first electrodes corresponding to different sub-pixel units in each of the pixel units are not completely equal; any of the sub-pixel units meets Q·W+(Q−1)D
US09461057B2
A semiconductor device may include semiconductor patterns. The semiconductor device may include insulating layers including first regions surrounding the semiconductor patterns and second regions isolated from each other by island-type first openings and connecting the first regions adjacent to each other. The semiconductor device may include metal layers interposed between the first regions of the stacked insulating layers surrounding the semiconductor patterns, and isolated from each other by line-type second openings overlapping the first openings and the second regions. The semiconductor device may include dielectric patterns partially interposed between the insulating layers and the metal layers and exposed through the second openings.
US09461047B2
Provided is a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be retained even when power is not supplied, and which does not have a limitation on the number of writing. The semiconductor device includes both a memory circuit including a transistor including an oxide semiconductor (in a broader sense, a transistor whose off-state current is sufficiently small), and a peripheral circuit such as a driver circuit including a transistor including a material other than an oxide semiconductor (that is, a transistor capable of operating at sufficiently high speed). Further, the peripheral circuit is provided in a lower portion and the memory circuit is provided in an upper portion, so that the area and size of the semiconductor device can be decreased.
US09461032B1
A bipolar ESD protection device includes a substrate having a p-type epi layer thereon including an epi region over an n-buried layer (NBL). An n-type isolation tank (iso tank) includes a deep n+ region and NBL for containing an isolated epi region of the epi region. An NPN transistor and an avalanche diode are formed in the isolated epi region. The NPN transistor includes an emitter within a base having a base contact and the collector is a top portion of NBL. The avalanche diode includes a p-type anode region including an anode contact and an n-type cathode region having a cathode contact. The anode region and base are resistively coupled through the epi region. A ground connection couples the emitter to the anode contact and a strike node connection couples the cathode contact to an n+ isolation contact.
US09461028B2
An LED circuit (40) comprises integrated circuit LEDs (50) each mounted over a respective LED control circuit (42). The LED control circuits (42) are electrically connected together to by the integrated circuit to define a string of LED control circuits, each having at least one control line (44) leading to the circuit. This provides a compact circuit of multiple LEDs with individual control of the LEDs.
US09461016B2
To improve reliability of signal transmission of an interposer which couples between semiconductor chips. A reference potential wiring and a reference potential wiring are provided on both neighboring sides of a signal wiring provided in a first wiring layer of an interposer. Also, a reference potential wiring and a reference potential wiring are provided on both neighboring sides of a signal wiring provided in a second wiring layer of the interposer. Further, the signal wiring and the signal wiring cross each other in plan view. The reference potential wirings of the first wiring layer, and the reference potential wirings of the second wiring layer are coupled to each other at the periphery of their crossing portion.
US09461009B1
A method of packaging a semiconductor device is described. The method includes: attaching a first surface of a semiconductor die to a carrier; forming one or more first stud bumps on the carrier; using bond wires, electrically connecting one or more locations on a second surface of the semiconductor die to one or more first stud bumps; molding the semiconductor die, the first stud bumps, and the bond wires in an encapsulation material; removing the carrier from the bottom side of the semiconductor package exposing a portion of the first stud bumps; and attaching one or more solder balls to the exposed portion of the first stud bumps.
US09461008B2
A solder on trace device includes a conductive trace on a semiconductor substrate surface. The conductive trace has a sidewall and a bonding surface. The solder on trace device also includes a passivation layer on at least one end of the conductive trace. The solder on trace device further includes a pre-solder material on the sidewall and the bonding surface of the conductive trace.
US09461007B2
A wafer-to-wafer bonding structure may include: a first wafer including a first insulating layer on a first substrate and on a first copper (Cu) pad that penetrates the first insulating layer and has portions protruding from an upper surface of the first insulating layer, and a first barrier metal layer on a lower surface and sides of the first Cu pad; a second wafer including a second insulating layer on a second substrate and on a second copper (Cu) pad that penetrates the second insulating layer, has portions protruding from an upper surface of the second insulating layer, and is bonded to the first Cu pad, and a second barrier metal layer on a lower surface and sides of the second Cu pad; and a polymer layer covering protruding sides of the first and second barrier metal layers and disposed between the first and second wafers.
US09461006B2
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, an apparatus includes: at least one functional circuit; and an electrically-conductive protective layer on a protected surface of the apparatus, where the protective layer is arranged to be substantially opaque to incident light, where at least one portion of the protective layer is electrically isolated from a remainder of the protective layer, where the at least one portion is a plate of a capacitor for coupling at least one signal to said at least one functional circuit.
US09461005B2
An RF package including: an RF circuit; a non-gaseous dielectric material coupled to the RF circuit, and having a thickness based on a magnetic field in the RF circuit; and an encapsulant material coupled to cover the RF circuit and non-gaseous dielectric material on at least one side of the RF circuit. A package manufacturing method, including: identifying an RF circuit; dispensing a non-gaseous dielectric material upon the RF circuit, wherein at least a portion of the non-gaseous dielectric material has a thickness based on a magnetic field in the RF circuit; and covering the RF circuit and non-gaseous dielectric material with an encapsulant material on at least one side of the RF circuit.
US09461002B2
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate mounted on a carrier. The semiconductor substrate includes a Schottky diode. The Schottky diode has an anode and a cathode. The semiconductor device also includes one or more bond wires connecting the cathode to a first electrically conductive portion of the carrier. The semiconductor device further includes one or more bond wires connecting the anode to a second electrically conductive portion of the carrier. The first electrically conductive portion of the carrier is electrically isolated from the second electrically conductive portion of the carrier. The first electrically conductive portion of the carrier is configured to provide shielding against electromagnetic interference associated with switching of the anode during operation of the device. Both the cathode and the first electrically conductive portion of the carrier are electrically isolated from a backside of the semiconductor substrate.
US09460995B2
In one embodiment, a method of forming a HEMT device may include plating a conductor or a plurality of conductors onto an insulator that overlies a plurality of current carrying electrodes of the HEMT device. The method may also include attaching a connector onto the conductor or attaching a plurality of connectors onto the plurality of conductors.
US09460989B2
A structure includes a substrate having a plurality of balls, a semiconductor chip, and an interposer electrically connecting the substrate and the semiconductor chip. The interposer includes a first side, a second side opposite the first side, at least one first exclusion zone extending through the interposer above each ball of the plurality of balls, at least one active through via extending from the first side of the interposer to the second side of the interposer, wherein the at least one active through via is formed outside the at least one first exclusion zone and wherein no active through vias are formed within the at least one first exclusion zone, and at least one dummy through via extending from the first side of the interposer to the second side of the interposer, wherein the at least one dummy through via is formed within the at least one first exclusion zone.
US09460986B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package substrate has a simplified process and an upper and lower pattern alignment problem is solved. A semiconductor package substrate is manufactured by the method. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor package substrate includes forming a first groove in one surface of a base substrate of a conductive material, filling the first groove with resin, and etching another surface of the base substrate to expose the resin filling the first groove.
US09460978B1
A 3D semiconductor device, including: a first layer including first transistors; a second layer overlying the first transistors and including second transistors; wherein the second layer includes a through layer via with a diameter of less than 150 nm; and a Phase-Lock-Loop (PLL) circuit, where the Phase-Lock-Loop (PLL) circuit is connected to at least one input structure, and where the least one input structure is designed to connect an input to the device from external devices.
US09460973B2
A system including an index assigning section estimating the thickness of a thin film based on the intensity of light reflected on a substrate and a theoretical formula expressing a relationship between the thickness of the thin film and the intensity of an interference light when the spectrum is obtained for the first time, and assigning indexes for each candidate value for the layer thickness; a layer thickness wide-range estimating section estimating the layer thickness within the range of the value of a layer thickness wide-range estimation width including the previously estimated value of the layer thickness based on the theoretical formula; a selecting section selecting an index from the indexes; a determining section determining a layer thickness wide-range estimation result; and a layer thickness determining section determining the thickness of the thin film based on the theoretical formula after calculating the layer thickness wide-range estimation result.
US09460969B1
A technique relates to fabricating a macro for measurements utilized in dual spacer, dual epitaxial transistor devices. The macro is fabricated according to a fabrication process. The macro is a test layout of a semiconductor structure having n-p bumps at junctions between NFET areas and PFET areas. Optical critical dimension (OCD) spectroscopy is performed to obtain the measurements of the n-p bumps on the macro. An amount of chemical mechanical polishing is determined to remove the n-p bumps on the macro based on the measurements of the n-p bumps on the macro. Chemical mechanical polishing is performed to remove the n-p bumps on the macro. The amount previously determined for the macro is utilized to perform chemical mechanical polishing for each of the dual spacer, dual epitaxial layer transistor devices having been fabricated under the fabrication process of the macro in which the fabrication process produced the n-p bumps.
US09460968B2
A fin field-effect transistor (finFET) and a method of forming are provided. A gate electrode is formed over one or more fins. Notches are formed in the ends of the gate electrode along a base of the gate electrode. Optionally, an underlying dielectric layer, such as a shallow trench isolation, may be recessed under the notch, thereby reducing gap fill issues.
US09460962B1
A semiconductor device with a deep trench has a dielectric liner formed on sidewalls and a bottom of the deep trench. A pre-etch deposition step of a two-step process forms a protective polymer on an existing top surface of the semiconductor device, and on the dielectric liner proximate to a top surface of the substrate. The pre-etch deposition step does not remove a significant amount of the dielectric liner from the bottom of the deep trench. A main etch step of the two-step process removes the dielectric liner at the bottom of the deep trench while maintaining the protective polymer at the top of the deep trench. The protective polymer is subsequently removed.
US09460960B2
A surface of a silicon substrate is coated with a silicon oxide layer. A manganese silicate layer is then deposited on the silicon oxide layer using a process of performing at least one step of dipping the substrate into a manganese amidinate solution. A copper layer is then deposited on the manganese silicate layer using a process of performing a step of dipping the substrate into a copper amidinate solution. An anneal is performed to stabilize one or both of the manganese silicate layer and copper layer.
US09460951B2
A method of making a wafer level chip scale package includes providing a temporary substrate, and forming a wafer level interconnect structure over the temporary substrate using wafer level processes. The wafer level processes include forming a first insulating layer in contact with an upper surface of the temporary substrate, and forming a first conductive layer in contact with an upper surface of the first passivation layer. A first semiconductor die is mounted over the wafer level interconnect structure such that an active surface of the first semiconductor die is in electrical contact with the first conductive layer, and a first encapsulant is deposited over the first semiconductor die. A second encapsulant is deposited over the first encapsulant, and the first and second encapsulants are cured simultaneously. The temporary substrate is removed to expose the first passivation layer.
US09460940B2
A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor and an organic resin film is manufactured in the following manner. Heat treatment is performed on a first substrate provided with an organic resin film over a transistor including an oxide semiconductor in a reduced pressure atmosphere; handling of the first substrate is performed in an atmosphere containing moisture as little as possible in an inert gas (e.g., nitrogen) atmosphere with a dew point of lower than or equal to −60° C., preferably with a dew point of lower than or equal to −75° C. without exposing the first substrate after the heat treatment to the air; and then, the first substrate is bonded to a second substrate that serves as an opposite substrate.
US09460933B1
A patterning method is provided. Mask structures including first mask layers and first photoresist layers are formed sequentially on a material layer. A second mask layer covering the mask structures is conformally formed on the material layer. First sacrificed layers are formed between the mask structures. Parts of the second mask layer are removed to expose the first photoresist layers and form first U-shape mask layers. The first photoresist layers and the first sacrificed layers are removed. A third mask layer having first surfaces and second surfaces lower than the first surfaces is conformally formed on the material layer. Second sacrificed layers are formed on the second surfaces. Parts of the third mask layer are removed to expose protrusions of the first U-shape mask layers and form second U-shape mask layers. The material layer is patterned by using protrusions of the second U-shape mask layers as masks.
US09460928B2
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes preparing a wafer having projections formed on a substrate. The projections project upward from a surface of the substrate and have a height measured from the surface of the substrate. The method further includes determining an interval distribution representing a distribution of intervals between neighboring projections and calculating an implantation angle based on the height and the interval distribution. The implantation angle is an angle between a normal direction of the substrate and an implantation direction. The method also includes implanting ions at the calculated implantation angle.
US09460924B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided including processing a wafer having a spacer layer and a structure layer, the spacer layer is over the structure layer. The method continues including forming a first sidewall spacer from the spacer layer, forming a structure strip from the structure layer below the first sidewall spacer, forming a masking structure over and intersecting the structure strip, and forming a vertical post from the structure strip below the masking structure.
US09460919B1
A manufacturing method of a two-dimensional transition-metal chalcogenide thin film includes providing a substrate, providing a reaction film, providing a source and providing a microwave. The substrate is made of material having dipole moments. The reaction film, disposed on the substrate, has a predefined thickness and includes a transition-metal compound. The source includes S, Se, or Te. The substrate is heated by the microwave to produce a heat energy to the reaction film and the source; thus a chemical reaction takes place and the two-dimensional transition-metal chalcogenide thin film is formed on the substrate. The two-dimensional transition-metal thin film includes a plurality of elements, and each of the elements aligns along a predefined direction by controlling a value of the predefined thickness.
US09460918B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to methods for forming silicon epitaxial layers on semiconductor devices. The methods include forming a silicon epitaxial layer on a substrate at increased pressure and reduced temperature. The silicon epitaxial layer has a phosphorus concentration of about 1×1021 atoms per cubic centimeter or greater, and is formed without the addition of carbon. A phosphorus concentration of about 1×1021 atoms per cubic centimeter or greater increases the tensile strain of the deposited layer, and thus, improves channel mobility. Since the epitaxial layer is substantially free of carbon, the epitaxial layer does not suffer from film formation and quality issues commonly associated with carbon-containing epitaxial layers.
US09460917B2
A method of growing III-N semiconducting material on a silicon substrate including the steps of growing a layer of epitaxial rare earth oxide on a single crystal silicon substrate and modifying the surface of the layer of epitaxial rare earth oxide with nitrogen plasma. The method further includes the steps of growing a layer of low temperature epitaxial gallium nitride on the modified surface of the layer of epitaxial rare earth oxide and growing a layer of bulk epitaxial III-N semiconductive material on the layer of low temperature epitaxial gallium nitride.
US09460909B2
A system and method for anti-reflective layers is provided. In an embodiment the anti-reflective layer comprises a floating component in order to form a floating region along a top surface of the anti-reflective layer after the anti-reflective layer has dispersed. The floating component may be a floating cross-linking agent, a floating polymer resin, or a floating catalyst. The floating cross-linking agent, the floating polymer resin, or the floating catalyst may comprise a fluorine atom. The anti-reflective layers are removed using a fluid.
US09460908B2
A method for slicing a crystalline material ingot includes providing a crystalline material boule characterized by a cropped structure including a first end-face, a second end-face, and a length along an axis in a first crystallographic direction extending from the first end-face to the second end-face. The method also includes cutting the crystalline material boule substantially through a first crystallographic plane in parallel to the axis to separate the crystalline material boule into a first portion with a first surface and a second portion with a second surface. The first surface and the second surface are planar surfaces substantially along the first crystallographic plane. The method further includes exposing either the first surface of the first portion or the second surface of the second portion, and performing a layer transfer process to form a crystalline material sheet from either the first surface of the first portion or from the second surface of the second portion.
US09460901B2
In processing chromatographic data, collected by performing a measurement for each of the segments which respectively define time ranges, a system determines whether there is any boundary sandwiched between two temporally continuous segments whose measurement modes are the same and which has the same m/z value designated by an operator to be displayed. If such a boundary exists, the measurement mode common to the two neighboring segments across that boundary is identified, and the system determines whether the parameter values corresponding to that measurement mode are the same. If they are the same, the partial chromatograms corresponding to the two segments show a temporal change in the intensity of the same kind of ion. Accordingly, the two neighboring measurement points across the boundary are connected by interpolation to create a chromatogram with no missing portion.
US09460897B2
Provided is a plasma etching method of etching OCOC film in which HTO films and carbon films are alternately laminated by plasma of mixed gas containing first CF-based gas or second CF-based gas and oxygen gas using a silicon film formed on OCOC film as a mask. The etching of OCOC film includes a first etching process of etching a region spanning from the top surface to the middle of OCOC film by plasma of mixed gas containing first CF-based gas having a predetermined ratio of content of carbon to content of fluorine and oxygen gas and a second etching process of etching a region spanning from the middle of OCOC film to the lowest layer by plasma of mixed gas containing second CF-based gas having a ratio of content of carbon to content of fluorine, which is higher than the predetermined ratio of first CF-based gas, and oxygen gas.
US09460894B2
Systems and methods controlling ion energy within a plasma chamber are described. One of the systems includes an upper electrode coupled to a sinusoidal RF generator for receiving a sinusoidal signal and a nonsinusoidal RF generator for generating a nonsinusoidal signal. The system further includes a power amplifier coupled to the nonsinusoidal RF generator. The power amplifier is used for amplifying the nonsinusoidal signal to generate an amplified signal. The system includes a filter coupled to the power amplifier. The filter is used for filtering the amplified signal using a filtering signal to generate a filtered signal. The system includes a chuck coupled to the filter. The chuck faces at least a portion of the upper electrode and includes a lower electrode. The lower electrode is used for receiving the filtered signal to facilitate achieving ion energy at the chuck to be between a lower threshold and an upper threshold.
US09460882B2
A compact, high breaking capacity fuse that includes a top insulative layer, at least one intermediate insulative layer, and a bottom insulative layer arranged in a vertically stacked configuration. The at least one intermediate layer may have a hole formed therethrough that defines an air gap within the fuse. A first conductive terminal may be formed on a first end of the fuse and a second conductive terminal may be formed on a second end of the fuse. At least one fusible element may connect the first terminal to the second terminal, thus providing an electrically conductive pathway therebetween. A portion of the at least one fusible element may pass through the air gap defined by the hole in the at least one intermediate insulative layer.
US09460881B1
Circuit breakers with cooperating plug and socket assemblies which are configured as separate spaced apart components, with plugs and sockets held spaced apart from the circuit breaker body, typically above the top of the circuit breaker body. The plug assembly can have a short compact profile and can include pairs of plugs held by an insulated support with a compact spacing between adjacent pairs and upper and lower plugs of each plug pair. The plug assembly can be attached to a racking frame to allow the plug assembly to be retracted during a rack-out action of the unit from a motor control center.
US09460879B2
A circuit breaker assembly includes a plurality of controllable circuit breakers. Each of the controllable circuit breakers includes separable contacts, an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts, a trip mechanism cooperating with the operating mechanism to trip open the separable contacts, a first line terminal, a second load terminal, and at least a third terminal. The trip mechanism is structured to trip open the separable contacts responsive to a signal from the third terminal. The circuit breaker assembly also includes a toggle electrical switching apparatus that includes separable contacts electrically connected between the third terminal and ground, and a toggle operating member structured to open and close the separable contacts of the toggle electrical switching apparatus.
US09460876B2
A breaker is provided with: a movable piece (4) that has an elastically deformable elastic portion (43) and a movable contact on the tip of the elastic portion (43) and that presses the movable contact into contact with a fixed contact; a thermal actuator element (5) that is formed into a shape with a convex surface and is deformed by a change in temperature, thereby actuating the movable piece (4) so that the movable contact separates from the fixed contact; and a resin case (7) which houses the movable piece (4) and the thermal actuator element (5). The bottom surface of the base end (42a) of the movable piece (4) is positioned lower than the top (5a) of the upper surface of the thermal actuator element (5) by a distance (D). Thereby, a stable temperature adjustability and a resistance value are ensured in a breaker used as a protection device for a secondary battery with miniturization brought into realty.
US09460848B2
Disclosed is an antenna for inter-chip wireless power transmission in a 3D-wireless chip package, wherein the 3D-wireless chip package includes: a first chip transmitting AC power through a transmitting antenna; and a plurality of second chips sequentially stacked on or under the first chip and receiving the AC power from the first chip through receiving antennas, respectively, and the receiving antennas are individually formed on the second chips, respectively, and positioned without vertically overlapping each other over or under the transmitting antenna.
US09460844B2
A planar intrinsically safe transducer having a vertical extension and a horizontal extension having a layer structure with a plurality of circuits, wherein a first circuit and a second circuit are galvanically isolated from one another. Further, the transducer has a magnetic core 4, which at least partially encompasses the layer structure and acts at least on the first circuit and on the second circuit, wherein the first circuit and the second circuit lie in one plane and form a layer of the layer structure.
US09460840B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing inductance are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing an inductor includes forming an electrical circuit on a substrate, forming a seal ring around the perimeter of the electrical circuit, providing a break in at least one layer of the seal ring, and electrically connecting the seal ring such that the seal ring operates as an inductor.
US09460832B2
Sleeve (1) for a high- or medium-voltage power cable (120) having an inner conductor (130). The sleeve comprises (i) a tubular sleeve body (10) having an electrically conductive or semiconductive first axial electrode section (60), and (ii) a circuit board (30). The sleeve is radially expandable or shrinkable. It can be arranged radially outward of the inner conductor, such hat the first axial electrode section is radially separated from the inner conductor by at least an electrically insulating spacer layer (140). The circuit board is at least partially arranged radially outward of the sleeve body and comprises an electrical contact (100) which is electrically connected with the first axial electrode section.
US09460825B2
Disclosed is a Cu—Co—Si-based copper alloy for electronic materials, which is capable of achieving high levels of strength, electrical conductivity, and also anti-setting property; and contains 0.5 to 3.0% by mass of Co, 0.1 to 1.0% by mass of Si, and the balance of Cu and inevitable impurities; wherein out of second phase particles precipitated in the matrix a number density of the particles having particle size of 5 nm or larger and 50 nm or smaller is 1×1012 to 1×1014 particles/mm3, and a ratio of the number density of particles having particle size of 5 nm or larger and smaller than 10 nm relative to the number density of particles having particle size of 10 nm or larger and 50 nm or smaller is 3 to 6.
US09460821B2
A system for receiving and storing high level radioactive waste comprising: an enclosure comprising walls having inlet ventilation ducts, a roof comprising an array of holes, and a floor; an array of metal shells located in an internal space of the enclosure, the array of metal shells being co-axial with the array of holes in the roof so that containers holding high level radioactive waste can be lowered through the array of holes in the roof and into the array of metal shells; the array of metal shells acting as load bearing columns for the roof; and each of the metal shells comprising (i) an expansion joint for accommodating thermal expansion and/or contraction of the metal shells; and (ii) one or more holes at a bottom portion of the metal shell.
US09460813B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a memory system that is connected to a host apparatus. The memory system includes a transmitting port and a controller. The transmitting port transmits a transmission signal to the host apparatus. The controller includes a first output interface that is connected to the transmitting port and a second output interface that is connected to the transmitting port. The memory system is configured such that a drivability of an output from the first output interface is larger than a drivability of an output from the second output interface in a first mode.
US09460810B2
A method for evaluating a chip manufacturing process is described comprising measuring, for each of a plurality of chips manufactured in a chip manufacturing process, a bit failure rate of the chip, determining a distribution of bit failure rates from the measured bit failure rates; determining a maximum allowed bit failure rate from a given chip failure rate limit, determining a value representing the probability that a chip manufactured in the chip manufacturing process is below the maximum allowed bit failure rate and determining, based on the value, whether the chip manufacturing process is suitable for the chip failure rate limit.
US09460800B2
A memory system including non-volatile memory devices and a corresponding refresh method are disclosed. The method groups memory blocks of the non-volatile memory devices into memory groups, determines a refresh sequence for the memory groups, and refreshes the memory groups in accordance with the refresh sequence.
US09460790B2
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a floating gate or trapping layer for storing data as non-volatile memory, the device operating as volatile memory when power is applied to the device, and the device storing data from the volatile memory as non-volatile memory when power to the device is interrupted.
US09460783B2
The present application includes apparatuses and methods for determining soft data. A number of embodiments include determining soft data associated with a data state of a memory cell. In a number of embodiments, the soft data may be determined by performing a single stepped sense operation on the memory cell.
US09460778B2
A static random access memory includes a memory cell array, a control logic configured to generate a first write clock signal and a second write clock signal each of which having a pulse width shorter than a pulse width of a clock signal in response to the clock signal, a row decoder configured to select a word line in response to the second write clock signal during a write operation, a column selector configured to select a bit line and an inverted bit line, a sense amplifier configured to sense states of the selected bit line and the selected inverted bit line during a read operation and a write driver configured to bias the selected bit line and the selected inverted bit line in response to the first write clock signal during the write operation.
US09460759B2
A sense amplifier of a memory cell having a sense voltage generating circuit configured to generate a sense voltage; and a sensing circuit configured to compare a bitline voltage of the memory cell with the sense voltage, and to output a digital output signal indicating a content of the memory cell, wherein during a sense phase, the sensing circuit is decoupled from a voltage supply which charges a bitline capacitance during a precharge phase, and is coupled to and supplied by the bitline capacitance. The sense voltage generating circuit may be further configured to generate a sense voltage that during a precharge phase is dependent on the voltage supply and during a sense phase is independent of the voltage supply.
US09460757B2
A flexible printed circuit (FPC) may have reduced-tolerance electrical connection pads that comprise a connection portion and an adjacent window portion, where the position of a component that is mechanically and electrically connected to the FPC is limited by the geometry of the connection portion of the respective connection pads. The window portion includes an area void of conductive material and bounded by the connection portion on one side and may be bounded by peripheral portions on the other sides, where the peripheral portions are significantly narrower than the connection portion. A portion of the peripheral portions extending from the connection portion may be tucked under a portion of the FPC cover layer to prevent peeling of the peripheral portions.
US09460754B2
Methods, computer program products and systems for providing video tracking. The method includes receiving a first signal from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. A location of the RFID tag is determined in response to the first signal. An image that includes the location of the RFID tag is recorded. The location of the RFID tag is marked on the image, resulting in a marked image.
US09460742B1
A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a position error signal (PES) of a read/write head controlled by a currently-used controller is determined. A plurality of predicted PES spectra are determined based on the DFT of the PES and a plurality of sensitivity functions associated with a plurality of controllers. One of the plurality of controllers is selected based on respective deviation metrics of the plurality of PES spectra. Servo control of the read/write head changes to use the selected controller.
US09460741B1
Two or more reader sensors are commonly mounted on a read/write head that is configured to read data from a heat-assisted recording medium. For a region of the recording medium, a separation is determined for the reader sensors. A track spacing that provides a target areal density for the region is determined. The track spacing for the region is adjusted to approach a predetermined ratio of the separation.
US09460740B1
A thermally assisted magnetic recording head is disclosed having a spot size converter with at least one secondary waveguide adjoining a top or bottom surface of a primary waveguide. Each waveguide has tapered sides but the secondary waveguide is tapered at a greater angle over a shorter taper distance in order to couple propagated light into the primary waveguide before the front end of the taper. The secondary waveguide terminates in a ridge with a fixed width w3 of about 50-170 nm that is between the front end of the taper and the air bearing surface (ABS). The ridge enables transverse magnetic (TM) transmission mode efficiency above 90% even with a typical process misalignment in the cross-track and height directions. The primary waveguide has a front section with width w2 between an end of its tapered sides and the ABS where w2 is substantially larger than w3.
US09460738B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a method for forming a HAMR head. The method includes depositing a drop-on-demand mask on a portion of a surface of a slider using a drop-on-demand tool. The surface of the slider includes at least a portion of an NFT. A first protective layer is deposited over a remaining portion of the surface of the slider and over the drop-on-demand mask. The drop-on-demand mask and a portion of the first protective layer disposed on the drop-on-demand mask are removed, exposing at least the portion of the NFT. A second protective layer is deposited on the first protective layer and at least the exposed portion of the NFT. By using the drop-on-demand tool to deposit the drop-on-demand mask, the alignment between the drop-on-demand mask and the portion of the NFT is less stringent, and the drop-on-demand mask can be easily removed using a wiping tool.
US09460733B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for extending a bandwidth of a sound signal. The apparatus includes a database that stores predetermined training information as a result of at least one of Gaussian mixture model (GMM) training and hidden Markov model (HMM) training; a modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) transformer that transforms a first band signal through MDCT, a feature extractor that extracts a feature parameter of the first band signal from an MDCT coefficient output from the MDCT transformer; an extender that provides an extended MDCT coefficient for a second band signal based on the MDCT coefficient of the first band signal output from the MDCT transformer, a subband energy estimator that estimates subband energy of the second band signal with reference to information stored in the database based on the feature parameter.
US09460731B2
A noise estimation apparatus includes a correlation calculator configured to calculate a correlation value of a spectrum between a plurality of frames in sound information obtained using one or more microphones, a power calculator configured to calculate a power value indicating a sound level of one target frame among the plurality of frames, an update determiner configured to determine an update degree indicating a degree to which the sound information of the target frame is to be reflected in a noise model stored in a storage, or determine whether or not the noise model is to be updated to another noise model, based on the power value of the target frame and the correlation value, and an updater configured to generate the other noise model based on a determined result, the sound information of the target frame, and the noise model.
US09460716B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for acoustic model generation. One of the methods includes identifying one or more demographic characteristics for a user of a social networking site. The method includes receiving speech data from the user, the speech data associated with a user device. The method includes storing the speech data associated with demographic characteristics of the user and the user device.
US09460706B1
A computer-implemented method to execute anti-theft procedures for a device is described. Receipt of a first audio file is detected. The first audio file is converted to a first text file. The first text file is analyzed to identify an anti-theft command. The anti-theft command is executed based at least in part on the analysis.
US09460704B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing a representation based on structured data in resources. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of receiving target acoustic features output from a neural network that has been trained to predict acoustic features given linguistic features. Additional actions include determining a distance between the target acoustic features and acoustic features of a stored acoustic sample. Further actions include selecting the acoustic sample to be used in speech synthesis based at least on the determined distance and synthesizing speech based on the selected acoustic sample.
US09460703B2
Systems and methods for providing synthesized speech in a manner that takes into account the environment where the speech is presented. A method embodiment includes, based on a listening environment and at least one other parameter associated with at least one other parameter, selecting an approach from the plurality of approaches for presenting synthesized speech in a listening environment, presenting synthesized speech according to the selected approach and based on natural language input received from a user indicating that an inability to understand the presented synthesized speech, selecting a second approach from the plurality of approaches and presenting subsequent synthesized speech using the second approach.
US09460684B2
A method for illuminating a connector port of an electronic device. The method comprising presenting information associated with the connector port on a user interface; and illuminating the connector port on the electronic device in response to a user selecting the connector port via the user interface.
US09460677B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including, a pixel section, a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, and a driving circuit.
US09460672B2
The present invention provides a method for driving a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display so that the power consumption for driving a 3D liquid crystal display panel can be reduced. The method includes steps of: determining that it is needed to input data to the black matrix sub-pixels when displaying a 3D image; and inputting a control signal to a 3D black screen data control module, the 3D black screen data control module, based on the received control signal, makes two data lines which are connected therewith and are of opposite polarities be electrically conducted.
US09460664B2
A display apparatus includes: a light emitting unit having a plurality of light sources; a display unit; a determination unit configured to determine, for each light source, a target brightness on the basis of a display image data in region corresponding to the light source; and a control unit configured to control the emission brightness of each light source to the target brightness, wherein when a brightness-insufficient light source is present, the determination unit adjusts the target brightness of light sources around the brightness-insufficient light source, to a value higher than a value corresponding to the display image data in regions corresponding to the light sources around the brightness-insufficient light source.
US09460662B2
A pixel and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display having the same are disclosed. In one aspect, a pixel includes an OLED including an anode and a cathode and configured to emit light corresponding to data signals applied during first and second frame periods. Each of the first and second frame periods includes a first discharge period and a light-emitting period subsequent to the first discharge period. The pixel also includes a pixel circuit configured to control light emission of the OLED, apply a first voltage to the anode during the light-emitting period, apply a second voltage to the cathode, the second voltage having a voltage level less than that of the first voltage, and apply a third voltage to the anode so as to discharge the anode during the first discharge period. The second voltage has different voltage levels during the first and second frame periods.
US09460659B2
A flexible display apparatus includes: a light-emitting pixel including a driving unit configured to output a driving current corresponding to a data signal and a light-emitting device configured to emit light according to the driving current; a repair line connectable to the light-emitting pixel; a first control line extending in a first direction and a second control line extending in a second direction; a switching unit that is coupled to the first control line and the second control line and configured to control a connection between the repair line and the light-emitting pixel according to at least one of a first control signal applied through the first control line or a second control signal applied through the second control line; and a dummy pixel coupled to the repair line, and coupled to the light-emitting pixel via the switching unit.
US09460654B2
A self-luminous display panel driving method for driving a self-luminous display panel of the active matrix driving type, includes the step of executing threshold value correction operation for a driving transistor divisionally in a plurality of periods within at least one of which, after a point of time of an end of a preceding correction period till a point of time of a start of a succeeding correction period, a potential to be applied to the drain electrode of the driving transistor is controlled to an intermediate potential between a first potential for lighting driving of the driving transistor and a second potential for initialization applied within a preparation period of the first one of the correction periods.
US09460652B2
According to one embodiment, a display device displays an n−1th frame (n is an integer which is greater than or equal 2) and an nth frame in this order. The display device includes a display panel, calculator, adjuster, and controller. The calculator calculates power consumption of the n−1th frame. The adjuster determines whether or not the nth frame is brighter than the n−1th frame, and adjusts brightness of the nth frame based on a brightness adjustment magnification of the nth frame calculated based on the power consumption of the n−1th frame and a decreasing function, when the nth frame is not brighter than the n−1th frame. The controller stops light emission with an arbitrary timing when the nth frame is displayed, when the nth frame is brighter than the n−1th frame.
US09460650B2
An organic light-emitting display includes first sub-pixels of a first color and second sub-pixels of a second color. Pairs of the first sub-pixels are consecutively arranged in different rows, and pairs of the second sub-pixels are consecutively arranged in different rows. The pairs of first sub-pixels and the pairs of second sub-pixels arranged alternately in a first column, and third sub-pixels are in a second column adjacent to the first column. When one sub-pixel is defective, a control circuit provides current another sub-pixel of the same color.
US09460649B2
A timing controller for a panel display system includes: an image signal receiver that receives an image signal; an overdrive circuit that receives and converts the image signal from the image signal receiver according to successive first frame data and second frame data in the image signal; an image signal transmitter that receives the converted image signal from the overdrive circuit and transmits the same to a display panel; a memory; and a memory interface unit. In a normal read/write period, the memory interface unit receives the first frame data from the overdrive circuit and stores the same in the memory, and fetches the first frame data from the memory when the overdrive circuit receives the second frame data in the image signal and transmits the same to the overdrive circuit. The memory interface unit further obtains sampling results to generate a preferred delay phase.
US09460647B2
An image display apparatus, including: a light source which emits coherent light; a spatial modulation element which diffracts the coherent light by displaying a diffraction grating pattern corresponding to an input image and which displays a virtual image by the diffracted light; and a control unit which calculates a total brightness representing a sum total of brightnesses of all pixels of the input image, and controls at least one of the light source and the spatial modulation element in such a manner that, if the total brightness has decreased, the virtual image is displayed at a lower brightness than a reference virtual image displayed when the input image is used directly.
US09460636B2
Power frequency parameter simulation system for a power transmission line and control method thereof
A power frequency parameter simulation system for a power transmission line and a control method thereof, the system includes a simulation main circuit (1), an interference power supply (2) and a procedure controller (3). In the system, a power frequency parameter of a 10 to 100 kilometers of 500 kV power transmission line is simulated in a lumped parameter manner; and the control method includes the following steps of: a step to detect the automatically zeroing during starting up, a step to control the reduction of the length of a simulation line and a step to control a simulation interference voltage. A long-distance power transmission line is realized to be moved into a room and be tested by means of the power frequency parameter test system, so the various inconveniences of on-site measurement are avoided.
US09460634B2
Systems and methods of digitally recording and reproducing tactile drawings are disclosed. The method includes moving a stylus over a path on the first tactile drawing medium to form a tactile feature thereon, and digitally recording the path of the moving stylus to generate digital path data. The method also include reproducing the tactile feature on a second tactile drawing medium operably disposed in a tactile printer based on the digital path data. The systems and methods include forming tactile drawings based on a digital graphics file, including filtering the digital graphics file to form a .RLD file suitable for forming a tactile drawing having features capable of being tactilely sensed.
US09460614B2
To ascertain traffic status data, a speed of a vehicle is acquired multiple times at predefined time intervals. The respective acquired speed is assigned to a first speed range when the respective acquired speed of the vehicle is greater than at least one predefined speed threshold. Furthermore, a first count is increased when the respective acquired speed is assigned to the first speed range. The respective acquired speed is assigned to a second speed range when the respective acquired speed of the vehicle is less than the at least one speed threshold, and a second count is increased when the respective acquired speed is assigned to the second speed range, wherein a holding phase is recognized while the respective acquired speed has a speed value in a predefined range around the value zero once or multiple times in succession. During the recognized holding phase, the acquired speeds having the speed value in the predefined range around the value zero are not taken into consideration for a predefined non-consideration number of speed acquisition periods with respect to the adaptation of the second count.
US09460612B2
A tamper alert band includes a housing, a latch, and a latch-blocking member. The latch is configured to move between at least an unsecured position and a secured position, in the unsecured position first and second housing elements are movable with respect to each other and in the secured position the latch secured the first housing element with the second housing element. The latch-blocking member is controllably moveable between at least a first position and a second position, the blocking member being moveable to the first position when the latch is in the secured position to thereafter obstruct movement of the latch to the unsecured position.
US09460609B2
A method and an apparatus for preventing the loss of an electronic device are provided. The method includes establishing a communication link between a first electronic device and a second electronic device through activation of wireless communication at the first electronic device, collecting, upon detection of movement of the first electronic device, sensing information of the first electronic device, receiving sensing information from the second electronic device through the communication link, comparing the sensing information of the first electronic device with the sensing information of the second electronic device, and checking whether a loss incident has occurred on the basis of the comparison result.
US09460601B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle telematics device for driver monitoring for accident avoidance for drowsiness and distraction conditions. The distraction and drowsiness is detected by facial processing of driver's face and pose tracking as a function of speed and maximum allowed travel distance, and issuing a driver alert when a drowsiness or distraction condition is detected. The mitigation includes audible alert, as well as other methods such as dim blue night to perk up the driver. Adaptation center of driver's gaze direction and allowed maximum time for a given driver and camera angle offset as well as temporary offset for cornering for shift of vanishing point and other conditions is also performed.
US09460598B2
Facial recognition in controlled access areas utilizing electronic article surveillance (EAS) system
Method for performing electronic article surveillance includes generating image data using at least one imaging device. The image data is processed in a computer processing device associated with an electronic article surveillance (EAS) pedestal to recognize the presence of a facial image. Based on such processing, data representative of the facial image is selectively communicated to a server at a location remote from the EAS pedestal. Subsequently, a notification is received from the server. The notification is based on an identification analysis involving actions performed at the server to identify a particular person using the facial image data. Thereafter, at least one EAS operation is selectively controlled at the EAS pedestal based on a content of the notification.
US09460590B2
A method is disclosed for providing notifications and other communications to a customer based on the customer's proximity to a checkout register at a store. A mobile electronic device with mobile self checkout software thereon may record and analyze ambient noise to determine when a customer is in a checkout line as well as to track the customer's progress through the checkout line. The mobile self checkout software may present information to the customer according to the customer's position in the checkout line. The type and nature of the information presented to the customer may be changed according to the customer's distance from the checkout terminal as well as how quickly the customer is approaching the terminal.
US09460573B1
A radio frequency identity (RFID) tag. The tag comprises a processor, a memory, wherein the memory stores private information and public information, and a radio transceiver configured to receive a request for information from an RFID reader and to transmit a reply to the request for information. The tag further comprises an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, parses a request for information from the RFID reader received by the radio transceiver, and determines whether the RFID reader is authorized to receive the private information. When the RFID reader is determined to be authorized, the application reads the private information from the memory and sends the private information to the radio transceiver to transmit; when the RFID reader is determined to not be authorized, the application reads the public information and sends the public information to the radio transceiver to transmit.
US09460570B2
A door lock control system according to an embodiment includes, as one example, a receiving unit and a determination unit. The receiving unit is provided in a side edge portion extending between an upper edge portion and a lower edge portion of a window of a vehicle door, and receives a signal by near field communication. The determination unit determines whether to unlock or lock the door based on first data included in the signal received by the receiving unit and held second data.
US09460569B2
A vehicular electronic control apparatus includes a non-volatile memory, a storing portion, and a determination unit. The non-volatile memory is capable of storing a permanent diagnostic trouble code of a vehicle. The storing portion stores a real-time destination value indicating a currently set destination of the vehicle. The determination unit determines, based on the real-time destination value stored in the storing portion, whether the permanent diagnostic trouble code is a target permanent diagnostic trouble code to be stored in the non-volatile memory.
US09460567B2
A vehicle diagnostic communication system and a method of establishing a secure diagnostic session at a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a seed value from an electronic control unit (ECU) to a vehicle diagnostics tool; determining a first challenge response at the diagnostics tool, a remote server coupled to the diagnostics tool, or both, wherein the first challenge response is calculated using the seed value and one or more iterations of a key derivation function; providing the first challenge response to the ECU; and if the first challenge response is validated at the ECU, conducting a diagnostic session between the diagnostics tool and the ECU.
US09460565B2
A system for the diagnosis of a component of a motor vehicle includes a sever configured to provide at least one test sequence for diagnosing the component and at least one execution parameter allocated to the test sequence. The system also includes a diagnostic device configured to receive at least one test sequence and the at least one execution parameter, and to convert it into a runtime script and execute the runtime script according to the execution parameters. A script generation device is configured to generate the test sequences as OTX script or as ETX script.
US09460561B1
In one embodiment, a two-dimensional (2-D) drawing is shown in an augmented reality view on a display screen of an electronic device. A three-dimensional (3-D) model is imposed within a view of the physical structure captured by a camera. The 2-D drawing is also imposed within the view of the physical structure. A portion of the 2-D drawing whose details correspond to internal features of the physical structure may be shown by sliding the 2-D drawing from a particular position to a different position, or by displaying the 2-D drawing within context of the 3-D model, which is in turn displayed within context of the view of the physical structure.
US09460558B2
A computer-implemented method for manipulating three-dimensional modeled objects of an assembly in a three-dimensional scene, comprising the steps of: determining at least a first set of at least one object and a second set of at least one object among said three-dimensional modeled objects of the assembly; grouping the at least one object of the first set in a first three-dimensional bounding box (BB) and the at least one object of the second set in a second three-dimensional bounding box (BB); and relatively reorganizing the bounding boxes (BB).
US09460542B2
A system for collaborative three-dimensional (3D) modeling in a browser application is stored as instructions on a computer-readable medium. The instructions include a browser interface module that executes on the one or more processors to receive user commands from the browser application for modifying a 3D model and cause a rendering of the 3D model to be displayed in a window controlled by the browser application. The instructions further include a modeling engine module that executes on the one or more processors to interpret model data corresponding to the 3D model to generate the rendering of the 3D model, and modify the model data in accordance with the received user commands. Still further, the instructions include a collaboration module that executes on the one or more processors to cause the modified 3D model to be synchronized in real time.
US09460538B2
Spatial relationships are conveyed in multi-planar reconstruction (MPR). A 3D MPR display indicates relative position of MPR imaging planes to each other and/or anatomy at a given time. To better assist user understanding of the location of the MPR planes relative to each other and/or anatomy in transitioning to different relative locations, the transition is animated. The shift in planar position occurs gradually in the 3D MPR display despite user indication of a jump to another arrangement.
US09460524B1
Imaging data regarding an interior portion of a storage vessel may be obtained from an imaging device (e.g., a digital camera or depth sensor) and interpreted in order to identify an available volume within the storage vessel. Where the imaging data includes an image of an interior of the storage vessel, an area of one or more contiguous spaces of a rear face of the storage vessel may be identified from the image and multiplied by a depth of the storage vessel in order to estimate the available volume. Where the imaging data includes a depth profile of the interior, the depth profile may be processed in order to estimate the available volume. Once an available volume has been estimated, the capacity of the available volume to accommodate one or more additional items may be determined, and information regarding the capacity may be provided to a user.
US09460519B2
A method that may include calculating multiple costs associated with multiple intermediate allocations and selecting an intermediate allocation of the multiple intermediate allocations in response to the multiple costs thereby providing a selected cut. The calculating may include repetitively executing the following steps: (a) Calculating an intermediate allocation of the multiple faces between to different intermediate parts of the mesh thereby defining an intermediate cut. The intermediate allocation differs from a previous intermediate allocation by a change in an allocation of at least one border face of the multiple faces. (b) Calculating, using a cost function, a cost of the intermediate allocation that is responsive to a length of the intermediate cut, and a difference between areas of the different intermediate parts. (c) Determining, based upon a comparison between a cost associated with the previous intermediate allocation and the cost of the intermediate allocation whether to accept the change in the allocation of the at least one border face.
US09460517B2
The inventions herein relate generally to improvements in photogrammetry and devices suitable for obtaining such improvements. Some embodiments use only a single passive image-capture device to obtain overlapping 2D images, where such images at least partially overlap with regard to at least one object of interest in a scene. Such images can be processed using methods incorporating structure from motion algorithms. Accurate 3D digital representations of the at least one object of interest can be obtained. Substantially accurate measurements and other useful information regarding the at least one object of interest are obtainable from the methodology herein.
US09460515B2
Light field images of a three-dimensional scene are transformed from an (image,view) domain to an (image,scale,depth) domain. Processing then occurs in the (image,scale,depth) domain.
US09460490B2
A system for determining a high resolution output image that includes receiving a low resolution image and determining an intermediate high resolution image. The system detects semantic features based upon the input image and selects corresponding semantic components from a database based upon the detected semantic features. The first intermediate high resolution image is modified based upon information from the corresponding semantic components to determine the high resolution output image.
US09460486B2
Links are set among three hierarchical data and one moving image data. When a display area overlaps with a first link area while an image is being displayed by using first hierarchical data, switching to display by use of the 0-th hierarchical level of the second hierarchical data is made. When the display area overlaps with a second link area while an image is being displayed by using the second hierarchical data, switching to display by use of the 0-th hierarchical level of the third hierarchical data is made. The link destination of another link area is the moving image data and moving image reproduction is started as a result of zoom-up of this area. The hierarchical data are held on the client terminal side and the data existing on the other side of a switching boundary are transmitted to the client terminal in a data stream format.
US09460478B2
Systems and methods for managing electricity of an electrical supply grid electrically connected to a wind farm are disclosed. Some systems and methods may include identifying relationships among a plurality of turbines in the wind farm with a minimum spanning tree, calculating a power output relationship among the plurality of turbines with the minimum spanning tree, creating a finite state space Markov chain forecast model for the plurality of turbines in the wind farm, predicting a power output of the wind farm with the finite state space Markov chain forecast model, and modifying at least one of a generation of electricity and a distribution of electricity based on the predicted power output of the wind farm. Also disclosed are systems and methods for predicting the power output of a wind farm.
US09460473B2
Methods and systems may provide for receiving a message, determining a mood condition for the message, and generating a message notification icon based on the mood condition. In one example, the mood condition estimates one or more of a mood of the sender of the message and a mood impact of the message on a recipient of the message. Moreover, one or more additional messages may be received, wherein one or more additional mood conditions are determined for the additional messages, and the mood conditions are combined to form an aggregate mood condition. The message notification icon may be further generated based on the aggregate mood condition.
US09460471B2
An automated validation system validates whether a property of a policyholder receiving at least one insurance benefit is currently receiving remote monitoring services, as represented by the policyholder. The system includes an application server, a trusted third party server, and a business logic computer. The application server requests the trusted third party server to validate whether the property of the policyholder is presently receiving remote monitoring services from a service provider. A business logic computer can adjust the policyholder's insurance policy based on the received validation results.
US09460468B2
A system for moving money between accounts of traders by a central counterparty to facilitate payments, i.e. the movement of funds, there between is disclosed which provides a flexible mechanism which supports simpler accounting, new types of derivatives contracts as well new types fees. The disclosed futures contract, referred to as a “payer” contract, comprises a “no-uncertainty” futures contract, i.e. the initial value and settlement value parameters are defined, that leverages the mechanisms of the clearing system to, for example, accommodate related payments. Accordingly, a 1-to-many relationship between contracts and prices is provided whereby each price component may be assigned its own payer contract. The function of the payer contract may be to guarantee the movement of money from related positions. In one embodiment, payer contracts are dynamically created whenever a payment is needed.
US09460460B2
Methods and a system for automated onsite customer assistance are provided. A customer operating a Self-Service Terminal (SST) onsite of an enterprise establishes a communication session with a host system. Information passed between the SST and the host system is relayed to a device operated by a clerk that is also onsite. A real-time determination is made as to whether the customer is in need of assistance of the clerk during the communication session.
US09460459B2
A method of presentation in a network for the display of virtual content by a server computer comprising steps of hosting content hosts or websites on the network, wherein each content host is flexibly configured to enable another content host to be virtually incorporated into any other content host while preserving the composition of the content and the behavior of display of the content that is virtually displayed.
US09460457B1
Methods and systems for providing content for display including receiving a first content item, receiving a second content item, automatically annotating the first content item and the second content item with an entity, comparing the entity annotation of the first content item and the entity annotation of the second content item, and, based on the comparison, displaying the annotated first content item with the second content item to a user.
US09460453B2
Embodiments for providing intelligent location-based signage services are generally described herein. An intelligent signage device may include a proximity module arranged to receive a notification that a personal device is within an area of the intelligent signage device. The signage may also include a transceiver arranged to establish a connection from the intelligent signage device to the personal device and receive user data from the personal device via the connection. An offer-customization module of the digital signal may be arranged to determine a set of display options based on the user data, a member of the set of display options corresponding to an offer for a product and a presentation module of the digital signage may be arranged to display the member of the set of display options on the intelligent signage device.
US09460433B2
A system, methods, and apparatuses are provided for valuation and exchange of stored value assets, information of value, and the transfer of value to or among individuals. The exchanged assets may be of a similar nature, e.g., music files exchanged for other music files, and exchange or trade of information such as rewards value or a restaurant coupon. The exchanged assets may also be other dissimilar assets exchanged between individuals and/or entities. The exchange may be initiated in numerous ways such as after completing a review, exchanging or trading a gift card, a prepaid card, a reward card, a coupon, a ticket, a pass, and/or the like when in proximity to a specific location or a location of some type or category, and/or exchanging or trading of other assets between individuals based on one or more constraints such as time, location, need, desire for the assets, and/or proximity.
US09460430B1
Embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems and apparatuses for conducting secure transactions over a call. Users can initiate a secure transaction over a call, such as a telephone call, in which the identities of up to all participants can be validated prior to sending or receiving of payment, financial or other sensitive information. A transaction module collects and verifies all necessary transaction information and resources. User can be prompted to confirm or approve the transaction prior to completion of the transaction. Summaries of the transaction can be sent to users or stored in record keeping.
US09460429B2
An automatic toll collection system includes a mobile app that receives a plurality of toll gantry information from a database, reads GPS location data received from the mobile device hosting the app, and creates a plurality of trip segments using the GPS location data and time stamp. The system then determines whether the mobile device is travelling on a road where toll ought to be collected by comparing the trip segments with the toll gantry information. If the vehicle is passing through a gantry or toll road, the system will then calculate toll charges based on the trip segments and gantry information, generate a toll charge transaction, and notify the mobile user of the toll charge.
US09460423B2
A computer identifies a location that is associated with a task, included in a first list of tasks, based on a first information. The computer determines a first travel time from a second location that is associated with a mobile device to the first location based on a second information. The second information indicates an amount of travel time that is associated with a route from the second location to the first location. The computer generates a plurality of permutations of the tasks included in the first list of tasks. The computer selects a permutation from the plurality of permutations based on the first travel time. The computer generates a second list of tasks using the selected permutation. The organization of the tasks included in the second list of tasks reduces the travel time that is required to complete those tasks.
US09460421B2
Processing a notification intended for delivery to multiple recipients associated with a broadcast list. Software executes within an alerts service environment to receive a notification addressed to a broadcast alias, determine a list of recipients associated with the broadcast alias to receive the notification, and broadcast the received notification to each recipient in the determined list.
US09460420B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for business object integration with messaging. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for messaging integration of a business object can be provided. The method can include embedding a business object in message text in a messaging session provided by a messenger, and applying an action to the business object from within the messaging session of the messenger. The method further can include identifying a pronoun in the message text referencing the business object and visually distinguishing the identified pronoun in the message text to draw a correlation between the business object and the pronoun.
US09460406B1
A method of generating an event reminder notification includes obtaining scheduling data for a future event. The scheduling data includes an initial time at which an event reminder notification for the future event is to be generated. A conflicting event that will conflict with providing the event reminder notification to a user at the initial time is identified. An adjusted time is determined at which the event reminder notification for the future event is to be generated before occurrence of the conflicting event. The event reminder notification is generated based on the adjusted time. Related computer systems and computer program products are disclosed.
US09460400B2
A medical digital expert system to predict a patient's response to a variety of treatments (using pre-treatment information) is described. The system utilizes data fusion, advanced signal/information processing and machine learning/inference methodologies and technologies to integrate and explore diverse sets of attributes, parameters and information that are available to select the optimal treatment choice for an individual or for a subset of individuals suffering from any illness or disease including psychiatric, mental or neurological disorders and illnesses. The methodology and system can also be used to determine or confirm medical diagnosis, estimate the level, index, severity or critical medical parameters of the illness or condition, or provide a list of likely diagnoses for an individual suffering/experiencing any illness, disorder or condition.
US09460391B2
Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles.
US09460387B2
Event-based updates in artificial neuron networks may be implemented. An internal event may be defined in order to update incoming connections of a neuron. The internal event may be triggered by an external signal and/or internally by the neuron. A reinforcement signal may be used to trigger an internal event of a neuron in order to perform synaptic updates without necessitating post-synaptic response. An external event may be defined in order to deliver response of the neuron to desired targets. The external and internal events may be combined into a composite event configured to effectuate connection update and spike delivery to post-synaptic target. The scope of the internal event may comprise the respective neuron and does not extend to other neurons of the network. Conversely, the scope of the external event may extend to other neurons of the network via, for example, post-synaptic spike delivery.
US09460381B2
A universal IC tag comprises a metal sheet M1 having a hollow slot functioning as an antenna; plastic sheets laminated on the front and the rear surfaces of the metal sheet M1; an IC arranged in the hollow slot, and a metal sheet M2 laminated on the rear plastic sheet having a reflecting amplifying function. Such universal IC tag can transmits/receive maximum energy by matching IC impedance with slot impedance and by attaining resonance between an IC capacitor and a slot inductance.
US09460379B2
An RF tag includes a resonant circuit structure and an RF device. The resonant circuit structure includes: a first conducting layer; a second conducting layer spaced apart from the first conducting layer; at least one conducting base portion connecting one end of the first conducting layer and one end of the second conducting layer; and a layer of dielectric material inserted between the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer. Impedance of the resonant circuit structure is in match with impedance of the RF device. A slit is formed on the first conducting layer. The RF device is electrically coupled to the first conducting layer and disposed over the slit.
US09460362B2
A computer implemented method and apparatus for identifying a desired object of an image by using a suggestive marking. The method comprises receiving a first marking to an image, the first marking suggesting a desired object of the image and the desired object being defined by a boundary; generating, based on the first marking, a plurality of output images, wherein each image of the plurality of output images indicates a computer-identified object; and displaying the plurality of output images.
US09460354B2
Objects are detected in real-time at full VGA 30 frame per second resolution. A preprocessor performs run-length encoding (RLE) and generates a summed area table (SAT) of an image. The RLE and SAT are used to identify candidate objects and to iteratively refine their boundaries. A histogram of gradients (HoG) and support vector machine (SVM) then reliably classify the object. The method may be part of an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS).
US09460348B1
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for identifying a photo that lacks location metadata indicating where the photo was captured and determining a photo location to associate with the photo. In some implementations, a photo associated with a user is identified that includes metadata indicating a date and/or time it was captured, but lacks location data indicating where the photo was captured. In some versions of those implementations, a relationship of the metadata of the photo to at least one of a location date and a location time associated with a visit location of the user is determined. A photo location may be determined based on the visit location and associated with the photo. In some implementations, the visit location of the user may be determined independent of any location sensor.
US09460346B2
A device for capturing rendered text is described. The device incorporates one or more visual sensors that receive visual information as a part of capturing rendered text. The visual sensors are collectively capable of capturing both text that is permanently printed on a page, and text that is displayed transitorily on a dynamic device. The device further incorporates a visual information disposition subsystem for disposing of visual information received by the visual sensors. The device further incorporates a package that bears the visual sensors and the visual information disposition subsystem, and is suitable to be held in a human hand.
US09460341B2
A method determining a position of an animal part in an animal space in at least one direction, including: obtaining a two-dimensional image containing depth information; preprocessing the image according to first and second preprocessing modes, to provide respective first and second preprocessed images; comparing the first preprocessed image and the second preprocessed image to obtain at least one image difference; if the at least one image difference is below or equal to a respective predetermined threshold, processing the first preprocessed image according to a first position determining mode, and if the at least one image difference is above the predetermined threshold, processing the second preprocessed image according to a second position determining mode, to provide the position of the animal part. If a fast but not very accurate processing mode, and a slower but more accurate mode, are available, the method can suitably select one of these modes.
US09460340B2
Implementations relate to self-initiated changing of appearance of subjects in video and images. In some implementations, a method includes receiving at least one captured image, the image depicting a physical scene. The method determines that an input command provided by one or more subjects depicted in the image has been received. The input command instructs a change in visual appearance of at least a portion of the subjects in the image. The method changes the visual appearance in the image of the at least a portion of the subjects in accordance with the input command.
US09460339B2
A method for image processing includes receiving a depth image of a scene containing a human subject and receiving a color image of the scene containing the human subject. A part of a body of the subject is identified in at least one of the images. A quality of both the depth image and the color image is evaluated, and responsively to the quality, one of the images is selected to be dominant in processing of the part of the body in the images. The identified part is localized in the dominant one of the images, while using supporting data from the other one of the images.
US09460337B2
An image storage section 48 stores shot image data with a plurality of resolutions transmitted from an imaging device. Depth images 152 with a plurality of resolutions are generated using stereo images with a plurality of resolution levels from the shot image data (S10). Next, template matching is performed using a reference template image 154 that represents a desired shape and size, thus extracting a candidate area for a target picture having the shape and size for each distance range associated with one of the resolutions (S12). A more detailed analysis is performed on the extracted candidate areas using the shot image stored in the image storage section 48 (S14). In some cases, a further image analysis is performed based on the analysis result using a shot image with a higher resolution level (S16a and S16b).
US09460330B2
A display device and a method of controlling therefor are disclosed. A display device includes a main display unit configured to receive an input of at least one fingerprint and display information, a sub display unit configured to be exposed from a stored position and a controller configured to set a mode based on the inputted at least one fingerprint. If an inputted first fingerprint is matched with a fingerprint of a group of registered fingerprints, the controller is configured to set a first mode. If an inputted first fingerprint and a second fingerprint are matched with fingerprints of the group of the registered fingerprints, the controller is configured to set a second mode.
US09460326B2
According to an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of managing inventory performed by a processor includes receiving in a digital or analog format, from a first computing device, a first request for first radio frequency identification (RFID) tag data associated with a first plurality of RFID tags and receiving in a digital or analog format, from a second computing device, a second request for second RFID tag data associated with a second plurality of RFID tags. In response to the first request and the second request, the method further includes automatically selecting a selected one of a first interrogation mode and a second interrogation mode based on the first request and the second request, and automatically transmitting configuration information to an RFID reader to operate in the selected interrogation mode.
US09460318B2
Various embodiments relate to an apparatus and associated method for a contactless front-end (CLF) managing a secure element (SE). When the SE receives a low power, a monitoring circuit in the CLF may monitor a power supplied to the SE. Upon detection of an under-voltage condition, the monitoring circuit may cause a management module in the CLF to react to the detected under-voltage condition with an SE management technique. The management module may enact the SE management technique through a separate communications interface connected to the SE. In some embodiments, the CLF may further comprise a register that maintains an under-voltage flag that is triggered when the monitoring circuit detects an under-voltage condition. The management module may reset the under-voltage flag and may use the triggering of the under-voltage flag one or more times to determine whether to react through use of a SE management technique.
US09460310B2
In some embodiments, a system includes a software program capable of performing an aliasing function on the personally identifiable information (“PII”) of a subject. The software can associate the alias with the PII, and output the alias rather than the PII.
US09460308B2
An multi-level privacy evaluation technology is described for increasing the performance of applications or services that experience high volumes of queries for data with privacy attributes. The multi-level privacy evaluation technology evaluates data using a subset of privacy policy rules and privacy information determined for the data at a backend server and thereby reduces the volume of data that need to be filtered at a frontend server. The multi-level privacy evaluation technology first applies an initial privacy check on a large data set at the backend to authoritatively filter out any data that a viewing user is not permitted to view or access and return as results a smaller data set that the viewing user may be permitted to view or access. A full privacy check is then performed at the frontend on the smaller data set, resulting in reduction in the overall cost of performing privacy checks and reducing latency in displaying data to the viewing user.
US09460304B1
A system for generation of a RESTful data service comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to: receive a business process model; read the business process model to determine one or more inputs and one or more outputs; generate code for a RESTful data service to invoke the business process model that provides the input data and processes the output data; and generate a URL for the RESTful data service, wherein the URL represents the business process as an addressable resource. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US09460297B2
An information processing apparatus includes a volatile storage unit, nonvolatile storage unit, and control unit configured, in a case where a factor to shift the information processing apparatus to a state in which power supply to the volatile storage unit is stopped exists, to encrypt and store information, stored in a specific region in the volatile storage unit, in the nonvolatile storage unit, and to store, in the nonvolatile storage unit in unencrypted form, information stored in a region other than the specific region, and configured, in a case where a factor to shift the information processing apparatus to a state in which power is supplied to the volatile storage unit exists, to decrypt and store the encrypted information, stored in the nonvolatile storage unit, in the volatile storage unit, and to store, in the volatile storage unit, the unencrypted information stored in the nonvolatile storage unit.
US09460296B2
Systems, methods and media are provided for selective decryption of files. One method includes monitoring a secure file storage area including at least one file using a selective decryption process associated with the secure file storage area. Content of each of the at least one file is protected with an encryption. The method also includes detecting a request by an application program for one of the at least one file. The method further includes determining whether the application program needs to access the content of the requested file. The method also includes, when it is determined that the application program does not need to access the content of the requested file, allowing the application program to access the file content without decrypting the encryption.
US09460289B2
Securing a virtual environment includes: in a host device, intercepting a packet addressed to a virtual machine implemented by the host device; redirecting the packet to a security device external to the host device through an egress tunnel; and delivering the packet to the virtual machine if the host device receives an indication from the security device that the packet is approved.
US09460288B2
A coupled set of servers in a server system protect an application programming interface (“API”) from unwanted automation facilitated by unauthorized reverse engineering of an endpoint app or communications channel used by the endpoint app. The server system comprises at least one secure app update server that transforms an app code object received from an enterprise app server into a transferred app code object, and at least one secure application programming interface (“API”) server that interacts with an endpoint device that executes the transformed app code object. The secure API is adapted to convert API requests made by the transformed app code object into renormalized API requests formatted for processing by an enterprise API server. The transforming of the app code object results in API requests from the client that would constitute invalid API requests if presented to the enterprise API server without renormalization.
US09460287B2
Circuits and methods are provided for detecting, identifying and/or removing undesired content. According to one embodiment, a processor maintains a page directory and a page table within a system memory that contain information for translating virtual addresses to physical addresses. Virus processing of a content object is offloaded to a hardware accelerator coupled to the processor by storing scanning parameters, including the content object and a type of the content object, to the memory using one or more virtual addresses and indicating to the hardware accelerator that the content object is available for processing. Responsive thereto, the hardware accelerator: (i) translates the virtual addresses to corresponding physical addresses based on the page directory and the page table; (ii) accesses the scanning parameters based on the physical addresses; (iii) scans the content object for viruses by applying multiple virus signatures; and (iv) returns a result of the scanning to the processor.
US09460283B2
Portable information handling systems dynamically allocate resources to anti-malware functions based upon available resources and threat status. Dynamic allocation of resources to anti-malware functions provides a timely and targeted response to specific threats with resources dedicated based upon availability and the impact on other information handling system functions. An adaptive mobile integrity validation system interfaces with plural portable information handling systems to selectively update anti-malware settings as threats emerge.
US09460278B2
A PIN is automatically generated based on at least one rule when the user enters a password through a user device. In one example, the PIN is a truncated version of the password where each character in the truncated version is mapped onto a number. The mapping can be a truncation at the beginning or end of the password, or the mapping can be with any pattern or sequence of characters in the password. This PIN generation may be transparent to the user, such that the user may not even know the PIN was generated when the password was entered. When the user attempts to access restricted content, the user may enter the PIN instead of the password, where the user may be notified of the rule used to generate the PIN so that the user will know the PIN by knowing the password.
US09460272B2
Methods and systems for group licensing of homogeneous and heterogeneous devices features are disclosed. Licensing servers manage the generation and distribution of licenses to devices, and enforce validation rules that prevent granting devices licenses that do not comply with group licensing limits.
US09460266B2
A method for scoring one or more functional abilities of a patient that comprises exercising a patient according to an exercising pattern, using at least one sensor for sensing one or more manipulations of the patient during the exercising, and scoring the one or more functional abilities according to the sensed manipulations. The scoring is performed according to a visual rehabilitation evaluation scale for scoring the one or more functional abilities.
US09460264B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods, devices, and computer systems thereof for automated data collection from a subject. In certain embodiments, one or more characteristics of a subject are sensed, and the subject is given a queue status indicator based on a comparison of the subject's one or more sensed characteristics with corresponding sensed characteristics from other subjects. In one embodiment, the subject is a healthcare worker and the system, methods, and devices are utilized to evaluate the overall health of the worker as part of the check-in process for work.
US09460262B2
The present invention is directed to systems, devices, and methods of monitoring at-risk individuals for the occurrence of sentinel events in a custodial care setting. In particular, the present invention is directed to monitoring for events such as suicide, and allowing monitoring personnel to actively respond to the event and prevent its success from occurring.
US09460259B2
Methods of generating an integrated circuit layout include forming a standard cell by providing a first active area adjacent to a first cell boundary line. The first active area is spaced apart from the first cell boundary line by a first distance. A second active area is provided adjacent to a second cell boundary line. The second cell boundary line opposes the first cell boundary line. The second active area is spaced apart from the second cell boundary line by a second distance. Fins are formed on the first and second active areas. The fins extend in a first direction and parallel to one another in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The first cell boundary line is parallel to the fins. The first distance and the second distance remain constant when a number of the fins on the first and second active areas is changed.
US09460256B1
In one aspect, a method for providing design point recommendations for an integrated circuit (IC) design is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an IC design along with a reference PPA (power, performance, area) metric at a reference design point, and a target PPA metric. The method also comprises estimating trial PPA metrics for the IC design at multiple design points, wherein estimating trial PPA metric at each design point includes accessing a PPA database containing PPA metrics for multiple test components, determining scale factors from the reference design point to the trial design point for test components equivalent to components of the IC design, and applying the scale factors to the reference PPA metric to determine the trial PPA metric for the trial design point. The method further comprises recommending a trial design point based on the estimated trial PPA metric and the received target PPA metric.
US09460243B2
Selective importance sampling includes: first phase importance sampling of a plurality of data points to form a first subset of data points; determining a center of gravity of the first subset; determining, based upon the center of gravity, an orthogonal hyperplane; and a second phase importance sampling comprising: determining, for each point in the first subset, whether each point is above the hyperplane; and forming a second subset of data points, wherein the second subset is a subset of the first subset and wherein the second subset excludes each point of the first subset that has been determined to be above the hyperplane. The second subset also excludes all points within an ellipse below the hyperplane. Critical radial distances are determined from binary search or projection of first phase samples onto center of gravity direction as well as the maximal radius of the first subset around the center of gravity.
US09460237B2
A system predicts the intent of a user and proactively offers to perform a query that satisfies that intent. Upon the user's acceptance of the offer, the system begins a search for related information. The system examines such factors as search terms typed or spoken by said user, historical attributes of said user, historical journey attributes of said user, current journey attributes of said user, user location, user movement, current time, user profile, user calendar, user information stored on, or associated with, a device within the user's possession. The system then makes a prediction of any of the user's intent, query category, and issue category. Based upon the results of the system's prediction, a query that is relevant to the user's intent and/or issue categories is presented and, upon the user's command, the results of the search are returned to the user.
US09460232B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching for elements of a document based on an order priority of attributes of a query expression. According to one embodiment, a method of searching a plurality of objects of a document, such as elements of a DOM document, can comprise generating a query expression with attributes related to a target object of the document. For example, the expression can comprise an XPath expression. The attributes of the query expression can be parsed into one or more attribute groups, each comprising at least one attribute, based on logical operators between the attributes. Each one or more attribute groups of each expression can be weighted and a search can be performed for the target object in the document based on the weighted one or more attribute groups of the query expression.
US09460224B2
An element in a fetched file (a file received from the web server in response to an HTTP request) can be mapped to the source code that generated it and vice versa. When code is compiled at the web server, calls can be executed that emit HTML that includes metadata that maps a snippet of code back to a particular source file and to a particular location in the source file. The HTML can include injected symbols that specify that the information from a particular start position for a particular character length in the HTML comes from a particular start position to a particular end position in the source file.
US09460221B2
A user device for presenting eBooks generates a navigation history that allows a user to easily navigate to previously accessed positions within the eBook. The navigation history can be stored on an eBook server and shared with other user devices used by the same user. The navigation history may be generated by receiving actions regarding navigation within the eBook, an action navigating from a current reading position within the eBook to a corresponding navigation position in the eBook; filtering the received actions and the corresponding navigation positions to produce a filtered list of navigation positions; storing the filtered list of navigation positions in a navigation history; presenting the navigation history to the user; receiving a request from the user to navigate to a selected one of the navigation positions from the navigation history; and presenting a portion of the eBook at the selected navigation position.
US09460220B1
Various features are described for providing or recommending network-accessible content to users based partly on characteristics of user computing devices. The features are particularly useful for recommending network resources such as content pages to users, where the recommended network resources are determined to be popular or otherwise of interest to the users, and where the recommended network resources provide a satisfactory user experience on devices which share one or more characteristics with the user computing devices. Device characteristic data reported by the user computing devices can be used to make such assessments. Additional features include obtaining and transmitting versions of requested content that are determined to provide a satisfactory user experience on devices which share one or more characteristics with the user computing devices.
US09460217B2
Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to receive one or more keywords topically relevant to a content of a web page, request from a search engine a first metric comprising a quantity of times the keywords have appeared in a search query with one or more question keywords during a time period and a second metric comprising a probability of receiving a high rank associated with the one or more keywords and the one or more question keywords, receive, from the search engine, the first metric and the second metric, calculate a keyword effectiveness index from the first metric and the second metric, and generate and transmit to a client computer one or more recommendations to include a high ranked suggested content on the web page according to the keyword effectiveness index.
US09460212B2
A system and method for personalized search. The system includes a search engine that receives search input from a user and a user identification and generates a search result based on the search input; and a profiling engine to gather profile data, generate a user profile associated with a user, and rank the search result personalized to the specific user using the user profile.
US09460210B2
A content management system enriches contact records obtained from a client device using user records stored on the content management system. The content management system receives contact records from a client device authorized on a user account of the content management system. The content management system compares contact records with user profiles stored on the content management system. The content management system matches contact records with user profiles of user accounts with which at least one sharing event occurred between the user account and the user account on which the client device is authorized. The content management system identifies a matching user profile corresponding to the contact record. The content management system determines modification information for modifying the contact record based upon the matching user profile.
US09460207B2
Technologies pertaining to fact lookup queries are described herein. A relational database is automatically built by extracting attribute identities and attribute values from a one dimensional table, wherein the one dimensional table does not include an entity identity that corresponds to the attribute identity and the attribute value. The entity identity is inferred, and the attribute value is indexed in a relational database by the entity identity and the attribute identity. When a query is issued by a user that includes the entity identity and the attribute identity, the corresponding attribute value in the relational database is returned to the user.
US09460199B2
A computer identifies a first source of information that includes unstructured text and one or more keywords associated with an object. The computer retrieves the unstructured text included in the first source. The computer identifies provenance information of the object that is included in one or more segments of the unstructured text. The computer adds the identified provenance information of the object to a timeline.
US09460198B1
A process for serializing and deserializing instance data from a schema is disclosed. A schema can be used to automatically and dynamically generate classes and methods. First, the raw schema may be parsed into an intermediate data structure consisting of
US09460184B2
Systems and methods are described herein for creating, maintaining and applying a dataset that can be used to synchronize multiple instances of a data store. The dataset includes a sequentially-ordered sequence of change sets associated with the data store, wherein each change set includes zero or more entries that specify how the state of certain entities in the data store have changed since state changes represented by a previous change set in the sequence were applied to the data store. When a new change set is added to the dataset, any entries in any previously-added change sets dealing with the entities identified in the new change set are removed. Consequently, the dataset provides a concise and complete representation of all the state changes that have occurred to the data store since a known origin state.
US09460180B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for data pulls. In some implementations, a method may be provided which includes accessing an object to determine whether a prior pull request is at least one of an a restricted type or an unrestricted type; generating, when the prior pull request is determined to be of the unrestricted type and successful, a pull request including a time stamp obtained from the object; generating, when the prior pull request is determined to be at least one of the restricted type or unsuccessful, a pull request including at least one of a selection criteria and another time stamp obtained from the object, the other time stamp representing a prior successful pull request; sending, by a first processor, the generated pull request to a second processor having master data to obtain an update to data at the first processor.
US09460177B1
A method is used in managing updating of metadata of file systems. A reference to a change to metadata of a file of a file system is stored in a global sync list configured to store changes to metadata of a plurality of files of a plurality of file systems. The change to the metadata of the file is stored in a journal upon receiving an I/O request for the file of the file system. The journal includes metadata transactions upon the plurality of files of the plurality of the file system. The change to the metadata of the file of the file system is applied to metadata of the file system organized on a storage device using the reference to the change stored in the global sync list.
US09460175B1
Example embodiments described herein pertain to a geographic information system (GIS), configured to obtain geospatial data representing a geographic area, assign a projection and coordinate system to the geospatial data, apply a transformation to the geospatial data, and generate a tile cache based on the transformed geospatial data, the tile cache including the determined projection and coordinate system.
US09460174B2
A method for transporting relational data from one relational database to another such database. The data transported may be a subset of data in the entire database and the relations between the root of this data and other data entities are preserved in a way allowing their reconstruction in the target database. This preservation, itself further directed through configuration, is able to recreate new data identifiers without collision, yet also without requiring maintenance of the original identifiers.
US09460172B2
Various embodiments are directed to techniques for providing one or more reduced-size rule cubes indicating cell rules. A computer-program product embodied in a machine-readable storage medium includes instructions to cause a computing device to select a cell rule to include in a rule cube based on applicability of the cell rule to a selected portion of a data cube; analyze the cell rule to identify a wildcarded dimension in a specification of cells of the data cube that are subject to the cell rule; and generate the rule cube indicating applicability of the cell rule to the selected portion of the data cube, wherein a cell of the rule cube corresponds to multiple cells of the data cube, and wherein the wildcarded dimension of the rule cube is reduced in length in comparison to a length of the wildcarded dimension of the data cube. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09460167B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing search results. In one aspect, a transition from a first search result environment to a second, different search result environment is done in a manner that preserves the user experience of focusing on a selected search result. The transition can be facilitated by an intermediate search result environment that appears during the transition from the first search result environment to the second search result environment. The intermediate search result environment displays search result data of a search result that was selected in the first search result environment. The search result data that is displayed is, for example, data that was provided for display in the first search result environment. For example, in the case of image search results, the search result data that is displayed is a thumbnail image of the image search result.
US09460151B2
Systems and methods to configure a query language using an operator dictionary are described. The system receives, from a first user, a search query to search for document information in a database. The system determines that terms of the search query from the first user are in accordance with dictionary information that corresponds to the first user. The dictionary information includes a first list of compatible query operators. The system applies the search query to the index data structure in the database to identify the document information. The system sends an electronic interface to the first user that includes the document information.
US09460150B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives an access request for data from one of a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a distributed processing system in which the information processing apparatuses execute a process in a distributed manner, a query issuing unit that issues, when the access request for the data is received by the receiving unit, a query to each of the information processing apparatuses as to whether the data is stored in a page cache managed by an operating system on each of the information processing apparatuses, and a responding unit that makes a response to the access request, the response specifying, as an access destination, an information processing apparatus that has responded to the query issued by the query issuing unit.
US09460149B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems for dynamic validation of selectable data are provided. This may be accomplished by referencing search engine session data of a user. The search engine session data includes a plurality of search queries each having an entered-attribute and a resolved-attribute. A variation between the entered-attribute and the resolved-attribute, for each of the plurality of search queries, is determined based on analyzing the entered-attribute and the resolved-attribute. The entered-attribute is an input of the user and the resolved-attribute is a resolved-input for executing the search query. An input-precision score is generated for the user based on the variation between the entered-attribute and the resolved-attribute, for each of the plurality of search queries.
US09460144B2
A method for locking resources, including: receiving, by an accelerator, a first request from a first client to lock a first resource; evaluating, by a computer processor of a server, a hash function using an identifier of the first resource as an input to the hash function; identifying, by the computer processor and based on evaluating the hash function, a first hash bucket in a shared memory residing in a physical memory of the server; detecting that the first hash bucket is occupied; and sending the first request to a master lock monitor residing in a user space of the server based at least on detecting that the first hash bucket is occupied.
US09460140B2
An automated researching component is invited to contribute content to a collection of research material. The automated research component can be set to continue to add content at a given pace, or for a given duration of time. The automatically added content is added to the collection, along with manually added content.
US09460136B1
There is disclosed a method for use in managing databases in data storage systems comprising a plurality of nodes. A request is received to provision storage for a specified application intending to use a database. Based on application-awareness, the storage system is provisioned for storing the database in response to receiving the request. Database tables are distributed across the nodes based on a forecasted first I/O profile between application and database. Information is captured in connection with the activity between the application and database. A second I/O profile is determined based on the captured information. The second I/O profile is an actual in-running I/O profile between application and database. The first I/O profile and second I/O profile are compared. The database tables are re-organized on the nodes based on the comparison identifying a discrepancy between first and second I/O profiles such that storage system is rebalanced.
US09460128B1
This disclosure relates to populating an aggregated sliding window view group comprising one or more internal views, and each of the internal views in group has its own interval. In some implementations of this disclosure, the aggregated sliding window view group can store the history of previous view results and each row in a view inside the aggregated sliding window view group can correspond to a fixed interval of time. In various implementations, a view inside the aggregated sliding window view group can be populated from lower-level sliding window views based on a relationship between the aggregated sliding window view and the lower-level sliding window views. In some implementations, a sliding window view can store a constant number of view results. The aggregated sliding window view group can provide a user with a convenient and efficient means for displaying multiple data aggregates associated with multiple periods of time simultaneously.
US09460127B2
Technologies and implementations for allocating datacenter resources are generally disclosed.
US09460126B1
A distributed database management system may comprise a group of partitions that includes a master writeable partition and one or more additional partitions that act as read-only replicas of the master. A rotational mechanism for performing maintenance operations on non-master partitions may be employed to transition a second partition, selected for undergoing maintenance, into a role as the new master following performance of the maintenance operation.
US09460125B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for digital photography. In use, a method and apparatus are provided for receiving, at least part of, a partially populated dynamic image object (DIO). Next, a first image is identified in the DIO. Then, a second image is identified in the DIO. Further, a synthetic image is generated based on the first image and the second image. Lastly, the synthetic image is stored in an object for use with a viewing parameter. Additional systems, methods, and computer program products are also presented.
US09460113B2
According to exemplary embodiments of the invention, a location-based keyword recommending system and method are provided. The location-based keyword recommending system may include a keyword collecting unit to store location information regarding a location where a keyword is input, a region setting unit to set a virtual region by performing clustering of the location information with reference to the keyword, a region combining unit to combine virtual regions overlapping each other into one virtual region, and a keyword recommending unit to provide a location-based keyword based on the keyword related to the location information of the virtual region.
US09460105B2
A file system is disclosed that includes an application wide name space instantiated in a global index (Gindex) that is used for accessing objects related to an application. Summary workload statistics are monitored and calculated via a calibrated hierarchical service level agreement (SLA) in a method of operation that includes: establishing a tenant wide name space used for accessing objects of an application stored in physical file systems across one or more appliances, each defining a storage cluster, in association with a tenant logically spanning across the appliances; and monitoring a performance statistic for the application across the tenant.
US09460103B2
A file synchronization method may comprise establishing a connection with a second electronic device and performing a first synchronization operation and/or a second synchronization operation. The first synchronization operation may comprise interacting with the second electronic device to synchronize a first synchronization file from the second electronic device to the first electronic device, and to record a first piece of file source information for the first synchronization file, wherein the first piece of file source information is to identify that the first synchronization file comes from the second electronic device. The second synchronization operation may comprise selecting a second synchronization file from the first electronic device, and interacting with the second electronic device to synchronize the second synchronization file to the second electronic device, wherein the second synchronization file includes a second piece of file source information to identify that the second synchronization file corresponds to the second electronic device.
US09460102B1
A method is used in managing data deduplication in storage systems based on I/O activities. I/O activity of first and second data objects is evaluated. The first and second data objects are selected for applying a deduplicating technique. Based on the evaluation, the deduplicating technique is applied to the first and second data objects.
US09460100B2
A system that allows consumers to manage content and create audio/video presentations in a small portable media device, and to share media files with other users of small portable media devices, without requiring access to a computer.
US09460095B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the quick capture and management of task list (i.e., “to-do”) items are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing device to access a persistently and ubiquitously executing stand-alone application that facilitates a capture solution that supports multiple input modalities—voice, image, video, handwriting and text. This allows the quick capture and creation of to-do's anytime and anywhere. Once captured, the device may use a combination of natural language processing with the power of an internet search engine to identify, organize, and surface relevant content and context for a user as a reminder of such captured to-do's.
US09460094B1
A system and method are provided for determining a nearest network resource using GPS coordinates. A GPS enabled computer device may obtain its location by requesting its GPS location. A list of network servers storing the desired data may be obtained by the computer system and the distance between each of the servers and the computer device may be calculated. The system then connects to the resource having the shortest distance without requiring a user to know and decide which server is closest to their location.
US09460079B2
A method of providing a dictionary service may include configuring a first area of a display to receive a keyword as an input thereto and a second area of the display to display a dictionary search result of the keyword when the user terminal is operating in a dictionary mode; switching from the dictionary mode to a translation mode in response to the keyword input into the first area being greater than or equal to a threshold length; and setting the extended keyword as a source text to translate and display in a third area of the display.
US09460070B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The present invention includes a touchscreen, a wireless communication unit configured to perform a wireless communication with at least one or more external terminals including a 1st external terminal, and a controller controlling a 1st image message including an image received from the 1st external terminal to be displayed on the touchscreen together with at least one of a previously saved transmitted message and a previously saved received message, the controller, if a 1st user command is inputted in the course of displaying the 1st image message, controlling a 1st memo to be written on the image of the received 1st image message.
US09460068B2
A computer system for a narrational media organizer for transforming digital media into a personal, memorable story with minimal user input having a processor and storage with instructions for creating a narrational media organizer (NMO) environment, where a user can annotate one or more than one digital media file or graphical representations of the digital media files using a user interface; and an NMO data structure for storing the digital media and annotations of the NMO environment.
US09460066B2
Systems and methods for character error correction are provided, useful for a user of mobile appliances to produce written text with reduced errors. The system includes an interface, a word prediction engine, a statistical engine, an editing distance calculator, and a selector. A string of characters, known as the inputted word, may be entered into the mobile device via the interface. The word prediction engine may then generate word candidates similar to the inputted word using fuzzy logic and user preferences generated from past user behavior. The statistical engine may then generate variable is error costs determined by the probability of erroneously inputting any given character. The editing distance calculator may then determine the editing distance between the inputted word and each of the word candidates by grid comparison using the variable error costs. The selector may choose one or more preferred candidates from the word candidates using the editing distances.
US09460056B2
A method of determining a layout of a structural document may include receiving a plurality of images, determining a design associated with a structural document, determining a number of facets associated with the structural document based on the determined design, determining an image area associated with the structural document, and determining a layout associated with the structural document based on the determined image area. The method may include determining an image aspect ratio associated with each of the plurality of received images, determining an area aspect ratio associated with each of the one or more areas, assigning each received image to one of the one or more areas based on the determined aspect ratio associated with the image and the determined area aspect ratio associated with the area, and causing a graphical representation of the structural document to be displayed.
US09460054B2
A method for detecting electromagnetic property of oriented silicon steel, the method comprises: measuring Euler angles of each of crystal grains in a specimen by use of metallographic etch-pit method; calculating orientation deviation angle θi (degree) of the crystal grain; combining area Si (mm2) of the crystal grain and correction coefficient X of element Si (X=0.1˜10 T/degree); correcting on the basis of the magnetic property B0 (saturation magnetic induction, T) of single-crystal material by using these parameters (θi, Si, X), formula for correcting is B 8 = - 0.015 × X × ∑ n = 1 i S i θ i ∑ n = 1 i S i + ( B 0 - 0.04 ) ( 1 ) obtaining electromagnetic property B8 of the oriented silicon steel by the above calculations. The present invention can implement detection of electromagnetic property of a specimen under the circumstances that there is no magnetizm measuring device or that magnetizm measuring devices cannot be used due to reasons such as weight and size of the specimen being too small or surface quality of the specimen being poor.
US09460050B2
A portable unit usable by a person when carrying out an exercise. The unit is programmable with details of a virtual athlete and their performance in a specific race, to enable the user to race against the virtual athlete. The unit informs the user through headphones of the progress of the virtual athlete during a race being carried out by a user. The unit may also be programmable with periodic encouragement messages for a user.
US09460043B2
A flash drive includes a storage module, a switching module, and a transforming mechanism. The storage module has a storage unit and a first interface electrically connected to each other. The switching module has a second interface and a third interface which are in different types but are electrically connected to each other, and the first interface corresponds to the second interface. The transforming mechanism is located at a first position or a second position relative to the storage module, and the switching module is located in the transforming mechanism. When the transforming mechanism is located at the first position, the first interface is electrically connected to the second interface, so that the storage unit is electrically connected to a host through the third interface. When the transforming mechanism is located at the second position, the first interface of the storage unit is electrically connected to the host.
US09460040B2
Techniques and mechanisms for managing resources of an aggregate device which spans multiple physical devices of a computer platform. In an embodiment, an aggregation device coupled to a host bus of the computer platform receives resource information generated by a pre-boot software process of the computer platform. In another embodiment, the aggregation device, based on the received resource information, represents a resource in a first input/output (I/O) device to a host operating system (OS) as residing in the aggregation device, the first I/O device coupled to the aggregation device via a host bus for exchanging communications referencing a shared address space.
US09460037B2
A system which is configured to enable a vehicle's embedded USB Host system to connect to multiple mobile devices through a USB Hub, regardless of whether the mobile devices are configured to act as USB Hosts or USB Devices, without the need to add or provide OTG controllers in the system or additional vehicle wiring, or inhibiting the functionality of any consumer devices operating in USB Device mode connected to a vehicle system Hub while another consumer device connected to the same Hub operates in USB Host mode. Preferably, the system is configured to provide that no additional cabling is required, and no hardware changes are required to be made to the HU. The system can be employed between a vehicle's embedded USB Host, USB Hub and at least one consumer accessible USB port. In the case where the consumer device is acting as a USB Host, signals between the consumer device and the vehicle's embedded USB Host are processed through a bridge, thereby rendering the consumer device compatible with the vehicle's embedded USB Host.
