US07806262B2
A package has a rectangular parallelepiped container including vertical front and rear panel sections connected by a pair of vertical side panel sections, a top wall connected to the upper edge of the rear panel section and a bottom wall connected to the at least one of the lower edges of the vertical panels and a top cushion panel disposed beneath the top wall and rotatably connected to at least one upper edge of the side panel sections. A holder is disposed, in the container, for holding a plurality of glass syringes each of which is sealingly contained in a plastic bag.
US07806260B2
A display apparatus for displaying a portable electronic device comprises a curved shell, a gravity base, a seat and a transparent cover that covers the curved shell and the seat. The gravity base is formed on the bottom of the curved shell. The seat is lodged in the curved shell and the seat has interior space having a shape matching the predetermined shape of a portable electronic device. The assembled gravity base and the curved shell are integrally formed as a tumbler structure for keeping balance while facing external forces.
US07806253B2
An apparatus for steering a belt includes a steering roller supporting the belt, a rotatable element and a transmission. The steering roller is rotatable about a first axis and pivotable about a second axis, the second axis being substantial perpendicular to the first axis. The rotatable element is rotatable about a third axis, the third axis being parallel to the first axis. The transmission is arranged for converting a rotational motion of the rotatable element about the third axis into a pivoting motion of the steering roller about the second axis. The rotatable element is rotatable by a frictional force between a side portion of the belt and the rotatable element. A method for steering a belt in a steering mechanism includes such an apparatus.
US07806250B2
A packaging system utilizes two sides of a loading carousel, which reduces both the height and footprint of the packaging system. Mass and inertia are also reduced, allowing higher operational speeds. The loading carousel receives opened cartons on a first side and lowers them over product groups on a second side.
US07806245B2
A clutch system selectively transmitting torque in an automatic transmission according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may include: a rotation axis rotated by the torque; at least one plate disposed at an exterior of the rotation axis and moved along an axial direction of the rotation axis; at least one disk alternately disposed with the plate and moved along the axial direction of the rotation axis, the disk having at least one wave along a radial direction thereof; and a piston applying force to the disk and the plate along the axial direction of the rotation axis such that a frictional force is generated between the plate and the disk. Therefore, the clutch system of this invention has advantages of enhanced durability and operability.
US07806243B2
Vehicular brake rotor formed by powder metallurgy including metals such as titanium powder.
US07806239B2
An actuating system 1 for a wheel brake system of a motor vehicle, wherein the braking action is obtained by means of a rotatable cam element 2 fixed to the motor shaft 8 of an electric motor, with said rotatable cam element 2 abutting against an actuating member 4, so as to laterally displace said actuating member 4, resulting in the braking pads 5 being pressed against the friction element or brake disk. Recovery or adjustment of the backlash or gap arising due to the wear of the brake pads. The motor-cam group or assembly is displaced so as to keep the brake pads 5 in light contact with the friction element or disk but without exerting any unwanted braking action.
US07806232B2
A roof perimeter cable guard system has a main stanchion member supported at its lower end by an anchor bracket screwed to the roof perimeter. A main brace member extends outward and downward from the upper end portion of the main stanchion member and curves around and under the perimeter feature. The main brace has a lower sleeve receiving an adjustable wall-engaging member to provide bracing against the wall of the structure. In one configuration the wall-engaging member has an additional supporting extender member, which allows the wall-engaging member to engage the soffit of an overhang. An inward extender member and parapet engagement bracket allow for position attachment to a parapet feature. Pairs of barrier cable engagement brackets having barrier cable receiving slots are spaced along the inner side of the stanchion vertical members for easy insertion or removal of an equal number of barrier cables, normally three.
US07806224B2
A vehicle steering apparatus includes a steering member for rotational operation, and a support mechanism that supports the steering member so as to be movable between a housing position where the steering member is housed in a fixed frame of an instrument panel and a projection position where the steering member projects to an outside of the fixed frame. The steering member includes a main body supported by the support mechanism, a pair of grip sections which are movable between the housing position and the projection position together with the main body, and which are supported so as to be movable between a nonoperating position and an operating position by the main body, and a grip section drive actuator which is supported by the main body, and drives the pair of grip sections to the nonoperating position and the operating position.
US07806218B2
A running vehicle has front and rear driving wheels, and a sensor for measuring the acceleration of the running vehicle. The vehicle determines a distribution rate of torque to each of the driving wheels in accordance with the found acceleration, and changes driving torque to each of the front and rear driving wheels based on the found distribution rate to control driving motors.
US07806217B2
A motorcycle includes a front part having a steering mechanism with which a front wheel is steered based on the manipulation of the steering of a steering handle, and a swing mechanism extending from either a body frame and an engine for vertically movably supporting the steering mechanism. The steering mechanism is connected to the swing mechanism via a lower spherical bearing and an upper spherical bearing.
US07806210B2
A method of controlling a hybrid propulsion system of a vehicle, the hybrid propulsion system including an internal combustion engine and an alternate powertrain torque source capable of propelling the vehicle while the engine is turned off, the method comprising of detecting congestion by receiving and analyzing data that is external to the vehicle, and controlling a transition of the hybrid propulsion system between a first propulsion mode and a second propulsion mode based on said detecting of congestion.
US07806207B1
A method for transporting and relocating heavy equipment using a fluid to lift heavy equipment with a lift assembly with a rotatable motion gear assembly. The method can include disengaging a rod one of four walking assemblies secured to the lift assembly and extending a push pull travelling system to move equipment in a first direction using roller treads. The method can include raising one of the four walking assemblies with the lift assembly and pivoting one walking assembly in an opposite direction. The method can include retracting the push pull travelling system and rotating the walking assembly to orient in a second direction.
US07806197B2
A strip tillage implement includes a single, center-mounted arm located directly above the row area of a strip-till berm. Basket halves are rotatably connected to opposite sides of the arm in cantilever fashion to eliminate outer support arms. Residue flow encounters rolling baskets rather than fixed arms so that catching, flipping and twisting of residue is minimized and plugging in high residue conditions is reduced. A single, center-mounted bearing and simplified basket halves reduce the cost and complexity of the implement.
US07806191B2
A drill pipe includes a pin end connector, a box end connector, a first communication connector having a plurality of first communication contacts and a second communication connector having a plurality of second communication contacts. The pin end connector is received by the box end connector to join sections of a drill pipe together. When the drill pipe sections are joined by the pin end and box end connectors, a plurality of isolated communication connections is formed between the first communication contacts and the second communication contacts.
US07806190B2
A technique that prevents the tangling of communication lines routed along a contraction joint. The technique enables deployment of a well completion having a contraction joint with a plurality of communication lines routed along the contraction joint. A communication line organizer is positioned along the contraction joint to prevent tangling of the plurality of communication lines while enabling sufficient movement of the communication lines to accommodate expansion and contraction of the contraction joint.
US07806185B2
Methods comprising: providing an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer, and an antiflocculation additive; and introducing the treatment fluid into a subterranean formation. Methods of fracturing a subterranean formation comprising: providing an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer, and an antiflocculation additive; and introducing the treatment fluid into a well bore penetrating the subterranean formation at rate in the range of from about 30 barrels to about 250 barrels per minute so as to create or enhance one or more fractures in the subterranean formation. Aqueous treatment fluids comprising: an aqueous fluid, a friction reducing polymer in an amount sufficient to reduce friction without forming a gel, and an antiflocculation additive.
US07806180B2
Methods and systems are described for communicating with downhole locations and transmitting power to downhole locations. Use is made of a cable passing someway down into the well. This cable may be connected to a downhole sensor and may be used primarily for communicating with that sensor, but also used in the current techniques described herein. Electrical connection is achieved between the cable and the metallic structure of the well to allow signals to be transferred between the communications tool and the surface via the cable.
US07806179B2
Two subs are held in a fixed position relative to each other when assembled to a string and run into a wellbore. A reservoir of fluid is defined in a wall between the subs. The reservoir has one or more outlets connected by a short jumper line to an adjacent tool to be operated. At the appropriate time, set down weight breaks a shear pin to reduce the reservoir volume and create pressure in the exit lines. The exit lines can be connected to operating pistons in adjacent tools to actuate them or to perform other desired functions using a stream of pressurized fluid. The device can be set for one time or multiple cycles where fluid in the reservoir can be replenished and re-pressurized for multiple cycles of operation.
US07806173B2
A downhole tool configured for conveyance within a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation, the tool comprising an electronics system and a heat-dissipating apparatus. The electronics system includes a controller, a memory, and surface communicating means, at least one of which is a heat-generating source. The heat-dissipating apparatus includes: a chassis engaging the heat-generating source and having a fluid passageway allowing fluid flow therethrough; a radiator for further heat dissipation; a pump; sensors to measure temperature of the chassis and the wellbore; and a compensator to regulate the pressure of fluid in the passageway.
US07806168B2
A device, method, and system for a fluid cooled micro-scaled heat exchanger is disclosed. The fluid cooled micro-scaled heat exchanger utilizes a micro-scaled region and a spreader region with a highly thermally conductive material and sized to yield high heat dissipation and transfer area per unit volume from a heat source. The micro-scaled region preferably comprises microchannels.
US07806159B2
A window covering having a flexible panel and a first lift cord for raising the flexible panel. A second panel is at least partially coextensive with the flexible panel and a second lift cord is provided for raising the second panel. The flexible panel may have an upper edge and a lower edge where the upper edge is connected to a head rail and the lower edge is disposed below the head rail. The second lift cord may raise the upper edge of the second panel. In one embodiment a third panel at least partially coextensive with a portion of the flexible panel and a third lift cord for raising the top edge of the third panel are provided. The light blocking characteristic of the blind is changed by the placement of the panels.
US07806149B2
In order to make a small space requirement, a low energy requirement and therefore an increased weaving frequency possible in a shedding apparatus, a spring drive is proposed which is connected to magnetically acting holding means. The holding means are capable of holding the heddle frame in an upper shed position and in a lower shed position counter to the spring force. Furthermore, the heddle frame is connected to a linear motor. A heddle movement can be initiated by said linear motor. According to the invention, the spring drive is configured as a tension/compression spring which is designed in such a way that, during operation of the heddle frame at the resonant frequency of the spring drive the greater part of the kinetic energy can be obtained from the spring drive.
US07806145B1
There is provided a housing for a flow conditioner. The housing comprises a body having first and second pipe connections, a flow passage between the pipe connections, a carrier receiving cavity within the flow passage, and an opening corresponding to the carrier receiving cavity. A plate carrier has a sealing portion and a flow conditioner carrying portion. The sealing portion has a sealing surface for sealing the opening corresponding to the carrier receiving cavity, and the flow conditioner carrying portion depends from the sealing portion. The flow conditioner carrying portion is sized to be inserted through the opening and into the carrier receiving cavity, and has a plurality of set screw receiving apertures or a retaining lip for securing the flow conditioner. There is a connector for securing the plate carrier within the body such that the sealing surface seals against the body.
US07806139B2
The present invention is a fluid conduit coupling assembly for coupling a first fluid conduit to a second fluid conduit. The fluid conduit coupling assembly comprises a first coupler and a second coupler. The first coupler is for connecting to the first fluid conduit and comprises a first housing and a first valve. The first valve comprises a first lever arm. The second coupler is for connecting to the second fluid conduit and comprises a second housing and a second valve. The second valve comprises a second lever arm. When a force is applied to couple together the couplers, at least a portion of said force is communicated to each lever arm, thereby causing each valve to pivot from a closed position to an open position. The first valve and first lever arm are contained within the first housing, and the second valve and second lever arm are contained within the second housing.
US07806137B2
The present invention provides devices and methods for micro-scale simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB) for continuous preparation of analytic quantities of highly pure fractions of target molecules. The present apparatus and method of the invention is adapted in a preferred embodiment to separations by affinity chromatography involving three discontinuous liquid flow loops. An alternative embodiment of affinity chromatography utilizes standard SMB operating under isocratic conditions.
US07806129B2
The present invention is a device for cleaning a soiled paint roller. The device comprises a housing supported by at least two leg members. The housing includes an opened top, a plurality of sidewalls and a bottom wall. A spindle is interiorly mounted to the bottom wall of the container at a predetermined height, the spindle having means for circumferentially engaging the paint roller. An inlet port is mounted to a side wall and in fluid communication with a cleaning fluid source. At least one stationary sprayer is interiorly mounted to the bottom wall at a predetermined height and a predetermined distance from an end of the spindle. The at least one stationary sprayer is operationally coupled to the inlet port and is in fluid communication with the inlet port for providing a continuous stream of water directly onto the paint roller. At least one pivoting sprayer is interiorly mounted to the bottom portion at a predetermined height and a predetermined distance from the spindle. The at least one pivoting sprayer is in fluid communication with the inlet port for providing a continuous stream of water directly onto the paint roller. A control valve operationally connected to the inlet port. The control valve allows the user to selectively initiate and terminate the flow of cleaning fluid between the at least one stationary sprayer and the at least one pivoting sprayer. In an alternative embodiment, the device can be adapted with a reservoir for providing the cleaning fluid into the housing.
US07806124B2
A heatable hair curler includes an elongate casing, an interior cavity, and a heat absorbent material. The elongate casing is made of a flexible material and has an axial length of at least about 7.5 inches and a width of at least about 1.25 inches. The casing has opposite first and second ends that are attachable to each other. The interior cavity is located between the first and second ends and is separated from the first and second ends by first and second seams, respectively. The heat absorbent material substantially fills the cavity.
US07806105B2
When it is determined that an engine speed NE rapidly decreases (positive outcome at S210), a throttle increase amount TAu and a valve lift increase amount VLu are computed based on a decrease rate NEd of the engine speed NE (S220). Then, a target throttle opening degree TAt of a throttle valve and a target maximum valve lift VLt of an intake valve are increased by using the throttle increase amount TAu and the valve lift increase amount VLu (S230). As a result, a drop in the engine speed during idling is reliably suppressed.
US07806104B2
An engine ECU executes a program including the steps of: detecting an engine speed NE, engine load, and engine coolant temperature (S100, S110, S115); when determination is made of being in an idle region (YES at S120), determining whether in a cold idle region, a transitional region, or a warm idle region (S130); injecting fuel from an intake manifold injector alone when in the cold idle region (S140); injecting fuel from the intake manifold injector and injecting fuel from an in-cylinder injector at the feed pressure when in the transitional region (S150); and injecting fuel from the in-cylinder injector at the feed pressure when in the warm idle region (S160).
US07806094B2
An apparatus is provided for the ignition of a fuel/air mixture in the combustion chamber of a combustion machine, wherein the combustion chamber has at least one inlet valve and at least one outlet valve. There are further provided a laser light generating device for giving off laser light and a combustion chamber window for coupling the laser light into a combustion chamber of the combustion machine. There is provided at least one fluid feed means which is separate from the inlet valve or valves and with which a fluid can be caused to flow at least on to regions of the surface of the combustion chamber window or between the combustion chamber window and the focal point of the laser light.
US07806070B2
A vehicle direction indicator system is designed to alert surrounding drivers of the intentions of the vehicle operator to continue in a forward direction. The indicator system has a plurality of indicator light end points and each end point is powered by the vehicle's electrical system and includes a housing, a light source holder and a lens attached to the front portion of the housing, and a vibration feedback element to indicate to the driver when the signal is activated. The end points may be positioned in various locations such as the grill, spoiler, side markers and the like and may simultaneously emit a color when the vehicle driver actuates the indicator system within the vehicle. The system is preferably mounted onto the front portion of the vehicle and is capable of signaling to other drivers at a four way intersection an intention to continue in a straight direction.
US07806069B2
A system for securing a flexible cover to a boat is described. The system includes a flexible cover defining a peripheral edge and a flexible member attached to the flexible cover adjacent to the peripheral edge. An edge clip is adjustably disposed on the flexible member. The edge clip includes a body defining an inlet and an outlet. The flexible member extends from the inlet to the outlet. A retaining element is disposed within the body to discourage movement of the flexible member with respect to the inlet and the outlet. The system also includes a hook, connectible between the edge clip and the boat for securing the edge clip to the boat, thereby securing the flexible cover to the boat via the flexible member.
US07806065B1
A modular removable externally mountable diesel electric thruster system using azimuthing thrusters and a dynamic positioning system for positioning floating semi-submersible vessels with a ballasted waterline and at least one submerged pontoon.
US07806050B2
The invention provides an ink composition which includes a polymerization initiator, a polymerizable compound, a colorant, and a high molecular compound having a repeating unit represented by the following formula (I). In formula (I), n represents an integer of from 1 to 5.
US07806041B2
A cylinder body includes a first guide surface made up from first guide grooves and a first bulging portion, wherein a slide table is displaceably supported on the first guide surface via a guide mechanism. Additionally, guide members of a guide block that constitutes the guide mechanism are inserted into and fixed within the first guide grooves. Further, the cylinder body is equipped with a second guide surface, which is formed with substantially the same shape as the first guide surface. In the event that the first guide surface is oriented upwardly and the slide table is installed thereon, the second guide surface acts as a mounting surface, whereas, in the event that the second guide surface is oriented upwardly and the slide table is installed thereon, the first guide surface acts as the mounting surface.
US07806039B1
A firearm has a frame with a barrel connected to the frame and defining a barrel axis. The barrel has a rear end defining a chamber, and a bolt assembly reciprocates with respect to the chamber between a closed position adjacent the chamber, and an open position away from the chamber. A fire control assembly includes a trigger and a selector switch with a semi-automatic position and a fully-automatic position. The fire control assembly includes a bolt assembly sear operably engaging the bolt. The fire control assembly operates when the selector switch is in the semi-automatic position in response to pulling the trigger to discharge the firearm, to load a cartridge, and to position the bolt in the closed position. The fire control assembly operates when the selector switch is in the fully-automatic position in response to pulling the trigger to discharge the firearm, and to hold the bolt in the open position. The fire control may include a sub-frame connected to the frame and to the bolt assembly sear, and may include a safety sear that prevents firing out of battery when in either full-auto or semi-auto modes. The fire control system may include a facility that momentarily maintains the trigger in a firing position when it is released while the bolt is moving forward from the open position.
US07806033B2
A sabre saw blade, in particular for metal applications, with a serration that has at least one first tooth spacing and one second tooth spacing, characterized in that in at least a partial region with three first and three second tooth spacings which are always disposed in a directly alternating sequence, the serration has at least two tooth shapes, and at least one tooth is embodied as a roof-shaped tooth having a first tooth back portion with a first clearance angle and a second tooth back portion with a second clearance angle with said tooth back portions being arranged at an obtuse angle and one behind the other in a cutting movement direction, and at least one tooth is embodied as a standard tooth with a straight tooth back, arranged alternatingly, wherein the first tooth spacing is between 10% and 30% shorter and the second tooth spacing is between 10% and 30% wider than 1.81 mm.
US07806022B2
A bicycle component actuating device is provided with a base member, a first user operating member, a locking member and a second user operating member. The first user operating member rotates between first and second operating positions about a rotational axis in a first operating plane that intersects with the rotational axis. The locking member is moves between a locking position to lock the first user operating member in the second operating position and a releasing position to release the first operating member from the second operating position. The second user operating member moves from a non-releasing position to a releasing position for releasing the first user operating member. One of the locking member and the second user operating member is movably along an operating path that intersects with the first operating plane of the first user operating member.
US07806012B2
A drive unit includes a gear set driving a drive pulley that in turn drives a flexible drive member which is attached to a driven member by an attachment assembly that travels in a channel. The attachment assembly is attached to the flexible drive member by a coupler that has teeth that extend through respective windows of the flexible drive member. The coupler is disposed between side walls of a yoke and attached to a bridge wall of the yoke. An outer shoe engages each side wall of the yoke. The attachment assembly includes an optional spring to tension the flexible drive member and the shoes have optional flexible tapered fingers to stabilize the drive pulley. The flexible drive member and the spring are trapped between the coupler and the bridge wall of the yoke. In an alternate arrangement, the flexible drive member is trapped between the coupler and fingers of the shoes that extend behind the flexible drive member and through spaces between adjacent teeth of the coupler and into sockets of the other shoe. The flexible drive member may be a drive chain or a drive belt having spaced windows.
US07806008B2
A method and apparatus for analysis of a sample. The method includes an accessing operation for accessing a region of the sample via a tip of at least one probe mounted on a cantilever. A removing operation removes a sample material from the region that is accessed by the tip of the at least one probe mounted on the cantilever. A sensing operation senses a parameter associated to the removal of the sample material in the removing operation. The accessing, removing, and sensing operations are repeated to facilitate removal of at least one layer of the sample.
US07806007B2
A method and apparatus is provided for determining seat belt tension in a seat belt system. The apparatus includes webbing and a motor coupled to the webbing for retracting the webbing and generating a seat belt tension. When the seat belt apparatus is deployed to restrain an occupant, the tension on the seatbelt is monitored by applying a voltage to the motor to retract the webbing, measuring an electrical current during the application of the voltage, determining a maximum value of the electrical current and determining the seat belt tension based upon the maximum value.
US07806001B1
The present invention relates to a pressure sensor comprising multiple flexible diaphragms to which are affixed, within which are embedded, or which themselves constitute part of transducer elements that are connected together electrically, providing greater sensitivity and allowing the diaphragms to be made smaller, thereby increasing burst pressure to operating pressure ratio. This multi-diaphragm pressure sensor can therefore be used to accurately measure small changes in dynamic pressure in a fluid of overall high static pressure, for example, in a flow inventory control system as may be used in a fire suppression system, or for control of nuclear reactor systems.
US07805996B2
In a servo accelerometer, a support rod is formed integrally with a pole piece bottom, which is disposed between a magnetic yoke and a magnet. The support rod is extended to penetrate to the outside through a through-hole formed in a closure plate portion of the magnetic yokes. The sensing mechanism is connected via the support rod to a housing by fixing the support rod at the extended end thereof to the housing. The support rod may be formed integrally with the closure plate portion of the magnetic yoke, rather than the pole piece bottom.
US07805995B2
A vibrating gyroscope includes a tuning-fork vibrator having a base and legs. The vibrator is joined to a support plate by conductive adhesive members. The support plate includes an outer frame portion in which a joining portion is provided at a location near a longitudinal end of the outer frame portion. The joining portion is supported by a first support portion in the air gap portion. The width of the first support portion is less than the width of the joining portion. The vibrator is joined to the joining portion of the support plate.
US07805991B2
A liquid sensing apparatus includes a liquid sensing chamber 33 having a liquid inlet port that is in communication with an external liquid container in which a liquid is reserved, and a liquid outlet port that is in communication with a liquid consuming apparatus, a movable member 34 movable depending on a liquid level in the liquid sensing chamber 33, a recess portion 33b, 41a for cooperating with a wall surface of the movable member 34 to form a closed space when the movable member 34 is moved to a predetermined position depending the liquid level, and a piezoelectric sensing means 40 for applying a vibration to the recess portion and sensing a state of a free vibration following upon the vibration.
US07805984B2
A method of diagnosing a malfunction of a tuning valve of an intake manifold coupled to an internal combustion engine is provided. The method includes: commanding the tuning valve to at least one of a closed and an opened position; computing an average deviation of manifold absolute pressure; determining an average deviation threshold using fuzzy logic based on engine speed and airflow per cylinder; comparing the average deviation to the average deviation threshold; and diagnosing a malfunction of the tuning valve based on a comparison of the average deviation and the average deviation threshold.
US07805979B2
A method of estimating contamination of oil based mud filtrate in a hydrocarbon sample. The method comprising the steps of obtaining a hydrocarbon sample contaminated with oil based mud filtrate, then analyzing the contaminated hydrocarbon sample using two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC). The method further comprises identifying one or more unique component or tracer in the oil based mud filtrate in the contaminated hydrocarbon sample. Finally, the method comprises of summing the peak volumes of the one or more unique component or tracer, relative to the peak volumes of a clean hydrocarbon sample.
US07805974B2
Method, apparatus, and system are utilized for testing the performance of a gas monitor against predetermined monitor characteristics to determine if performance of the gas monitor is validated in a manner whereby testing gas is directly delivered to the gas sensor.
US07805972B2
A method and an apparatus for performing the method of inducing compressive residual stress in blading members integrally formed with a rotor. The method includes using a caliper-type burnishing tool such that the caliper arms of the tool are contoured and oriented for placing the burnishing elements on opposite sides of the blading member to be treated. The blading member is burnished to introduce a pre-determined pattern of residual compressive stresses in a selected area of the blade.
US07805966B1
A vehicle security system for securing a vehicle against theft. One system comprises a driving function disablement component having a first portion configured to substantially permanently affix to a moveable vehicle component, and a second component configured to removably attach to the first portion and disable the movable vehicle component.
US07805964B2
In a detergent supply apparatus of a drum-type washing machine according to the present invention, detergent supplying units and a softener supplying unit are partitioned and provided in a detergent box and the softener supplying unit is provided with a siphon tube, a siphon cap having an outlet path formed between the siphon tube and the siphon cap is provided with a softener supplying unit, and the softener injecting unit 286 is opened and closed by a softener lid, making it possible to prevent detergent from infiltrating into the inside of the softener supplying unit through the softener supplying unit.
US07805962B2
A device and a method for thermal pre-stressing lengthy hollow objects, in particular glass tubes, are disclosed. The device comprises a heating device, a fixture for receiving an object, and a coolant feed device comprising an outer coolant feed unit with a plurality of nozzles for feeding coolant against an outer surface of the object, and further comprising an inner coolant feed device for feeding coolant against an inner surface of the object.
US07805961B2
A supercooling apparatus of a simultaneous cooling and heating type multiple air conditioner comprises a liquid pipe header connected to outdoor heat exchangers, a plurality of branch liquid pipes branched from the liquid pipe header and connected to a plurality of indoor heat exchangers, respectively, and a supercooling mechanism mounted at least one of the branch liquid pipes for cooling refrigerant flowing to the indoor heat exchangers. The liquid refrigerant discharged from the heating-side indoor heat exchangers is supercooled by supercooling heat exchangers, and is then introduced into the cooling-side indoor heat exchangers. Consequently, noise generated from the cooling-side heat exchangers during the simultaneous cooling and heating operation is reduced, and cooling capacity of the multi air conditioner is improved.
US07805952B1
An apparatus for optimizing an efficiency of a refrigeration system, comprising means for measuring a refrigeration efficiency of an operating refrigeration system; means for altering a process variable of the refrigeration system during efficiency measurement; and a processor for calculating a process variable level which achieves an optimum efficiency. The process variables may include refrigerant charge and refrigerant oil concentration in evaporator.
US07805950B2
A thermal transfer device having a first substrate layer, a second substrate layer and first and second electrodes disposed between the first substrate layer and the second substrate layer. The thermal transfer device also includes a release layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and an actuator disposed adjacent the first and second electrodes. The actuator is adapted to separate the first and second electrodes from the release layer to open a thermotunneling gap between the first and second electrodes, and wherein the actuator is adapted to actively control the thermotunneling gap.
US07805946B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a combustor flow sleeve for a turbine engine. According to aspects of the invention, the flow sleeve can be attached to one of the components in the combustor head-end by a plurality of fasteners. In one embodiment, the flow sleeve can be attached directly to the combustor head-end component by a plurality of bolts. The bolted flow sleeve can reduce the time to install or remove the flow sleeve. In certain areas, it may not be possible to directly attach the flow sleeve to the combustor component. A flow sleeve according to aspects of the invention can be adapted to facilitate indirect attachment to the combustor head-end component. The flow sleeve can further be adapted to include thermal relief slots to accommodate any differential thermal expansion or contraction between the flow sleeve and the component to which the flow sleeve is attached.
US07805944B2
A combustor assembly comprising a combustor liner having an opening and a combustor chute, which is formed of a sheet material which is bent to form the desired chute. The chute allows the passage of cooling and dilution air into the combustor.
US07805942B2
This disclosure relates to a improved thermodynamic cycle with power unit and venturi, a method of producing a useful effect therewith using a greater pressure gradient created locally in a fluid using the venturi, and more particularly, the use of a first portion of the fluid in the thermodynamic cycle as driving force for a venturi, and the placement of the venturi nozzle in an exhaust area of the power unit to create a greater pressure gradient locally and collect a second portion of the fluid in the thermodynamic cycle.
US07805936B2
To provide a thermo-element having a simple structure, an improved durability and a good response characteristic, by improving heat conduction of wax and by improving a diaphragm. The wax is blended with small pieces of metal, and a low-melting point alloy having a melting point equal to or higher than a melting point of the wax, which are melted and mixed together in the wax, so as to improve the heat conduction and thus response characteristic of the wax. A thick sealing member comprises a piston insertion bore formed in a central portion thereof, a thick portion between the piston insertion bore and a sealing portion in an outer peripheral region the thick portion being easily deformable. The thick sealing member operates both as a diaphragm and as a gummy fluid in a prior art thermo-element. A thermo-element has a small number of components, a simple structure.
US07805933B2
The invention relates to a throttle arrangement for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine having a throttle valve for throttling a stream of exhaust gas flowing through a pipe and having a restoring spring which prestresses the throttle valve into a closed position. The throttle valve is pivotable about a pivot axis in the pipe between the closed position [and the open position] and the restoring spring is supported on the valve end on a lever fixedly connected to the throttle valve and is supported at the pipe end on a bearing for accommodating a shaft extending coaxially with the pivot axis. The restoring spring is adapted to support the spring forces on the pipe end in an essentially symmetrical manner with respect to a plane of symmetry that extends perpendicular to the pivot axis and is in the area of the support on the valve end.
US07805924B2
The present invention provides a mixer assembly including a mixer and a plurality of scoops attached around a circumference of the mixer element via a combination of sliding brackets and fixed brackets. The sliding brackets provide attachment and allow relative movement between the plurality of scoops and the mixer element while the fixed brackets provide only attachment between the mixer element and the plurality of scoops. The first sliding bracket includes a first flange that is fixedly mounted to the mixer element and a second flange that is biased against a surface of the scoop. A second sliding bracket is fixedly mounted to the mixer element and adjustably mounted to the scoop. The second sliding bracket includes an attachment hole and the scoop includes an adjustment slot. A fastener assembly including a spacer is received within the adjustment hole and the adjustment slot to allow relative movement between the mixer element and the scoop.
US07805919B2
A compact epicyclic drive includes a pinion rotatable about a ring gear and an eccentric element fixedly connected to the pinion so as to be rotated thereby, a knife head bearing supported on and extending around the eccentric element, and a knife head assembly connected to a sickle knife assembly. The knife head assembly is configured so as to translate rotation of the eccentric element into sideward reciprocating movements of the sickle knife assembly, and to transfer forces resulting from the movements to a housing supporting the drive. Two of the drives can be utilized for reciprocatingly driving two of the sickle knife assemblies in opposite directions, such that the transferred forces will at least partially cancel one another.
US07805915B2
A picker spindle bar includes spindles oriented on the bar to offset the spindle picking ends relative to each other. In an exemplary embodiment, adjacent spindle axes are rotated six degrees relative to each other about the upright spindle drive shaft axis so that the picking ends of adjacent spindles are offset and enter the doffing zone at different times to reduce peak loads on the harvester row unit. The angled spindle configurations also space picking ends fore-and-aft in the picking zone and improve harvesting efficiency, especially where green bolls are present. The staggered spindle ends reduces cotton pinching in the picking, doffing and spindle wiping areas to thereby reduce row unit plugging.
US07805909B2
A roofing shingle has low density granules adhered to at least a headlap region on a front surface of the roof shingle.
US07805906B2
An insulating concrete block adapted to be interlocked with other insulating concrete blocks to form an insulating concrete form for casting concrete. The insulating concrete block including a first foam panel and a second foam panel arranged in a spaced apart, parallel relationship to form a concrete receiving cavity. At least two web structures extending between the first foam panel and the second foam panel. Each web structure includes a pair of elongated end plates joined by a pair of web members. One of the end plates is embedded in the first foam panel and the other end plate is embedded in the second foam panel. Each of the end plates has at least one attachment element formed by providing a thickened area on the end plates.
US07805904B2
A suspended ceiling fixture for hanging items from a suspended ceiling that is adjustable in multiple degrees of freedom includes a body spanning a distance between adjacent frame members of a suspended ceiling. The fixture also includes brackets for hanging the body from the adjacent frame members. Additionally included is a hanger assembly for hanging an item from the fixture, where the hanger assembly is adjustable along the body of the fixture.
US07805897B2
A storm panel of high strength fabric is constructed, reinforced, and installed in such a way as to comply with the building codes as a large missile impact system. The panel includes a zippered opening for access through the panel when in use. When not in use, the fabric can be rolled and stored and placed in an attractive cover without disassembly.
US07805889B2
Apparatus and method for controlling flow of water from a roof valley into guttering comprising: a generally rectangular, generally planar piece of stock material having two substantially parallel side edges, a back end edge and a right-angle V-shaped front edge, an area of the material that is perforated with a plurality of open slots for allowing rainwater but not debris therethrough; and a front wall that extends downward at the front edge. Sidewalls with vertical slits extend downward at the side edges for raising the stock material above the roof surfaces. Pleats in the front wall enable a preferred installation method that laterally curves the stock material, depressing a longitudinal centerline below the side edges. The method further includes trimming the sidewalls to decrease in height front to back to allow inserting the back end under singles, and securing the front wall within an outward wall of the guttering.
US07805886B2
Plant pot arrangement comprising an over pot, an insert container positioned in the over pot and removable therefrom, for receiving a plant, the insert container defining a space for a plant, and being open at an upper container edge, and at least one handle being movable in a guided manner in a handle guide in a pull-out direction and being positioned in the region of the container edge (16; 16a), for removing the insert container from the over pot.
US07805885B2
A roof planter comprising a body capable of placement upon a roof, a pad in association with the body, growth medium, and vegetation in association with the growth medium. The pad is composed of a material that is compatible with the surface of the roof, and is positioned between the body and the roof, the body retaining the growth medium when the roof planter is placed upon a roof. The roof planters are configured so as to enable the nesting of one roof planter within another.
US07805881B2
A device made of a thermoplastic material having two portions connected together with a web or hinge. A first portion forms a main body and the second portion forms a lid or cover. When the lid is aligned and closed onto the main body, the shape of the unitary device may be spherical, elliptical or another shape. The main body allows for one or more lines or strings to rest within a channel formed in the main body parallel to a pivot axis of the hinge so that when the lid is closed into the main body the strings are trapped within the channel of the main body by the lid.
US07805876B1
The present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by providing a sighting device for a firearm having a handgrip with a front strap, a back strap, and a free end. The sighting device has a body including a sleeve defining a bore sized to closely encircle at least a portion of the handgrip. The sleeve has a front portion configured to wrap about at least a forward front strap portion of the firearm, and has a rear portion configured to wrap about at least a rear back strap portion of the firearm. A laser device is connected to the body. The body may be an integral element, and may have a switch on the front span. The body may have a removable lock device that engages an upper rear protrusion of the frame, and the device may attach to the firearm without any fasteners engaging the firearm.
US07805875B1
A device for holding a plurality of firearm magazines is disclosed. The device includes an upper plate, a lower plate, and a securing member. The upper plate is rotationally positioned about the securing member, and the lower plate is rotationally mounted to the securing member below the upper plate. Firearm magazines are placed between the upper plate and the lower plate, which together securely engage the magazines when tightened with the securing member. Multidirectional movements of the upper plate and the lower plate facilitate placement and securing of the magazines.
US07805873B2
A modular cheek rest assembly for a gunstock. The major members of the assembly are a low level cheek rest, a high level cheek rest, a storage container, a shotgun shell holder and a magazine holder. The low level cheek rest is the principal member that has engagement structure adjacent the bottom ends of its side walls for detachably securing the low level cheek rest to the butt stock of a firearm. There are attachment structure on the outer surface of the side walls of the low level cheek rest for disengageably attaching the other members. There is the ability to attach these members on either the right or left side depending on the preference of the user. If the high level cheek rest is needed, it nests over the top of the low level cheek rest.
US07805866B1
A float mechanism for movably attaching an implement to a vehicle has a mounting frame that connects onto the vehicle and a fixed frame that affixes to the implement. A pivot bracket pivotally attaches to one of the frames and is slidably connected to the other to accommodate a limited degree of translational motion. The pivot bracket can slidably connect to the frame by a pair of guides in combination with a pair of sleeves. Rotational motion between the fixed frame and the mounting frame can be limited by slots in one of the frames that are slidably engaged by a stabilizing element on the other frame. When the stabilizing element is a horizontal bar, it can engage a pair of vertical slots. To optionally eliminate the free motion between the frames, movable blocks can be employed to limit the motion of each stabilizing element in its slot.
US07805858B2
An insole is described that can be placed with an insole receiving area of a slipper. The insole can be prepared by compression molding a structure comprising a foam layer having a first foam side and a second foam side. The insole includes a heel region, an arch region, and a toe region. The heel region includes a heel cushioning portion and a heel perimeter portion. The heel perimeter portion includes a retaining wall that extends above the top surface of the heel cushioning portion. The arch region includes an arch cushioning portion and an arch perimeter portion. The arch perimeter portion includes an arch support that extends above the top surface of the arch cushioning portion. The toe region includes a toe cushioning portion and a toe perimeter portion. A slipper and a method for manufacturing a slipper are described.
US07805856B2
A device for drying laundry by means of a current of air includes a drum to accommodate the laundry and a ducting system to direct the current of air. The ducting system has a section arranged downstream of the drum in which a filter is arranged to capture lint from the current of air. A scraper is movably mounted over the filter. This filter is a channel arranged in an approximately horizontal manner and in the form of an inverted arch. The scraper has a foil resting on the filter in a sprung manner, the scraper being curved in accordance with the shape of the channel. Moving the scraper along the longitudinal axis of the filter scrapes lint off the filter and into a collection reservoir.
US07805851B2
The invention relates to a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for determining a measuring position of a probe. The CMM comprises an articulated arm having first and second ends and at least one joint between the first and the second end, the first end forming a base being positionable on a supporting surface, the second end being movable relative to the first end and having attached the probe. Further exists at least one sensing unit for measurement of an actual relative setting of said at least one joint and at least one computing unit for calculating a measuring position of the probe relative to the base, as well as for referencing the measuring position in an external coordinate system by using a provided base-position in the external coordinate system.
US07805849B1
A device and a method that aids in the leveling of intra-vascular catheters from the transducer to the patient for medical procedures takes the form of a small housing which encloses a strong resilient filament which is dispensed therefrom. A bubble level vial is fixedly mounted thereupon the housing. The device thereby provides a means to acquire the desired leveling pressure readings of the intra-vascular catheter with minimal amount of effort by attaching one (1) end of the filament there to the patient and the opposing end to the transducer. When finished, the filament is retracted and stored.
US07805846B2
A retractable razor assembly includes a foldable blade support for mounting a razor blade or cartridge, and a mounting assembly connected to the blade support that can extend and retract the blade support from a handle and can stabilize the foldable blade support when extended. The adjustment assembly, when extended from the handle, remains substantially stationary to promote stability of the blade or cartridge, and to thereby promote comfort and safety during use of the razor assembly. A packaging system for containing and for displaying operation of the retractable razor includes at least a portion that provides visual inspection of the razor assembly. The packaging system further enables a consumer to physically interact with the razor assembly while contained therein. The packaging system permits a consumer to actuate the adjustment assembly to display its extension and retraction, and to provide a demonstration of the different operating states of the razor assembly.
US07805843B2
A utensil for a manually impaired user includes a utensil insert, such as a fork, spoon, knife, tool or other object, and a handle for receiving the utensil insert so that a portion of the utensil insert extends outwardly from the handle. The handle has first and second handle sections that are removably connected together. The first handle section includes a first receptacle and a first projection spaced from the first receptacle while the second handle section includes a second receptacle and a second projection spaced from the second receptacle. The first receptacle is adapted to receive the second projection and the second receptacle is adapted to receive the first projection when the first and second handle sections are connected together.
US07805826B1
A method for fabricating a nanometer slot waveguide comprises applying a spacer layer to a first waveguide structure, wherein the first waveguide structure includes a waveguide layer and a substrate layer and the waveguide layer has a refractive index greater than the substrate layer. A second waveguide structure is applied to the spacer layer, wherein the second waveguide structure includes a waveguide layer and a substrate layer, and the waveguide layer has a refractive index greater than the substrate layer. The substrate layer of the second waveguide structure is removed to create an intermediate waveguide structure and portions of the intermediate waveguide structure are removed to create a nanometer slot waveguide structure.
US07805825B2
Method and apparatus for forming motor winding conductors rectangular conductor wire. The method comprises populating with hairpin shaped conductors, most of a forming fixture having a plurality of pockets distributed in equal number in one or more pairs of adjacent circles, each concentric with a center of the forming fixture, at least one member defining each of the pockets in one of each pair of adjacent circles being rotatable, at least through a limited angle, with respect to a member defining the pockets in the other of the respective pair of adjacent circles, the hairpin conductors each having first and second legs integrally joined by a loop at one end thereof, with one leg of each hairpin conductor in a respective one of the pockets in a pair of adjacent circles, and rotating in a first direction, relative to each other, the members defining the pockets in each pair of circles through a predetermined angle, to permanently separate the two legs of each hairpin conductor without substantial rotation of each leg of the hairpin conductors relative to its respective pocket. Various additional features are disclosed.
US07805819B2
A steamatory is used to prepare a body for burial. A stainless steel cylindrical vessel is supported by a brace, and has a door at a first end of the cylinder for entry and exit of the body. The vessel includes a chamber having dimensions of four feet in diameter by ten feet in length to accommodate a body weight up to 400 lbs. A plurality of wire mesh layers provide a support structure of the body. The plurality of wire mesh layers is disposed on rollers and capable of sliding independently in and out of the chamber through the door. The plurality of wire mesh layers has graduating sizes of mesh openings from 0.5 inches to 0.125 inches and 2.0 inches of clearance between each of the plurality of wire mesh layers.
US07805815B2
The present invention discloses a clip for attaching an object to a sheet having an aperture spaced apart from a leading edge of the sheet. The clip includes a base with a generally planar lower member, the lower member having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The base also has a generally planar upper member extending across the lower member, the upper member also having a leading edge, a trailing edge and an opening between the upper member leading edge and trailing edge. The trailing edge of the upper member is attached to and extends from the base proximate the trailing edge of the lower member. The upper member also includes a spring located proximate to the trailing edge of the upper member and extending into the opening in a generally leading edge direction. The finger spring is operable to apply a force in a generally leading edge direction onto a sheet edge of a sheet inserted and located between the lower member and the upper member. The upper member can include a catch stem located proximate to the leading edge of the upper member yet oppositely disposed across from the opening from the finger spring. The catch stem extends into the opening in a generally trailing edge direction and is operable to catch a sheet edge of the sheet bounding the aperture spaced apart from the leading edge of the sheet and thereby preventing removal of the clip from the sheet.
US07805814B2
Cable support hanger insulators are provided herein that generally have a ratchet locking mechanism to secure an electrical conductor to the insulator. Cable support hanger insulators are provided that have an insulator body, a locking base connected to the insulator body, and a retaining clamp pivotally connected to the insulator body. The insulator body has a seat adapted to receive a conductor cable, a front end, a back end, a first side, and a second side. The locking base has a front plate having a plurality of ratchet teeth. The retaining clamp comprising a first retaining arm, a second retaining arm, and a locking blade.
US07805813B1
A grip for use with a bail coupled to a container and including an elongate tubular body for extending along a portion of the bail. The body has first and second opposite end portions and a central portion. The central portion can be grasped by a human hand and has a diameter of at least one inch. The first and second end portions have respective first and second engagement surfaces for contacting the bail in spaced-apart positions. The bail extends free of the body between the first and second engagement surfaces.
US07805812B2
A grip body including a mounting portion, an inner piece supported by the mounting portion and at least a resin communication passage therebetween. The inner piece includes inner and outer surfaces, and a resin layer is integrally formed on the inner and outer surfaces of the inner piece by resin extending therebetween through the resin communication passage. The grip body also includes at least one plate having an insertion rod formed thereon, the plate being fixed to the inner piece by insertion engagement of the insertion rod into the resin communication passage. The plate is heated by providing a heating member attached at a position where the heating of temperature of a resin surface portion of the grip body is desired.
US07805811B2
A vehicle hinge assembly (10) for hanging a vehicle door on a vehicle body. The assembly (10) comprises a first hinge leaf (12) hingedly connected to a second hinge leaf (14) by a pivot pin (15). The pivot pin (15) is immovably mounted in one hinge leaf (14) and is rotatably mounted in, and axially withdrawable from, the other hinge leaf (12). Hinge pin retention means (35) is associated with the other hinge leaf (12) for preventing axial withdrawal of the hinge pin (15) therefrom. The hinge pin retention means (35) having hinge pin engagement means (38) movably mounted between first and second positions. The engagement means (38) in its first position engages with the hinge pin (15) to permit rotation of the hinge pin (15) but prevent its axial movement relative to the other hinge leaf (12). The engagement means (38) in its second position is spaced from the hinge pin (15) to permit its axial withdrawal from the other hinge leaf (12).
US07805808B2
A door assembly for pivotally securing a door to an animal enclosure or other enclosure. The door assembly comprises a pivot pin assembly integrally formed with the door and a hinge secured to the enclosure adjacent the opening. The pivot pin assembly preferably comprises a vertically oriented pivot pin integrally formed with upper and lower horizontal support members extending from upper and lower ends of the pivot pin across a portion of the door. The pivot pin is fitted within a hinge barrel formed within the hinge in a manner to permit the pivot pin to rotate within the barrel such that the door may be pivoted from an open to a closed position.
US07805807B2
An upright vacuum cleaner having dual cleaning motor and fan units is provided having a cleaning head engagable with a floor and a suction nozzle and a brush roller rotatably mounted therein. A first motor and fan unit is mounted in the vacuum cleaner for producing suction in the suction nozzle and is operatively connected to the brush roller for rotating it. An upright housing is connected to the cleaning head, the housing having a handle for moving the vacuum cleaner along the floor during floor cleaning use. Contained in the housing are a dirt storage container, a passageway leading from the suction nozzle in the cleaning head to the storage container and a second motor and fan unit operatively associate with the storage container for drawing dirt laden air from the cleaning head through the passageway and into the storage container simultaneously with operation of the first motor and fan unit.
US07805804B2
A steerable upright vacuum cleaner includes an upright section including a dirt collecting portion, a collar on which the upright section is mounted and base section to which the collar is attached. The upright section is mounted on the collar such that the upright section pivots around a first axis with respect to the collar. The base section is attached to the collar such that the collar pivots around a second axis with respect to the base section. The second axis is approximately perpendicular to the first axis. The base section includes a nozzle that communicates with the dirt collecting portion.
US07805802B2
A debris collection system for a floor cleaning machine includes a motorized cleaning head attached to a frame of the floor cleaning machine, a carriage attached to the frame, a debris tray, and a de-watering system. The debris tray is removably receivable within the carriage and is positioned to receive debris thrown from the motorized cleaning head. The de-watering system includes a liquid extracting component, a tray tubing section, a main tubing section, a waste recovery tank supported on the frame and a vacuum in vacuum communication with the main tubing section. The liquid extracting component is attached to the debris tray and is configured to extract liquid from within the debris tray. The tray tubing section has a first end that is coupled to the liquid extracting component and a second end that is mounted in fixed relation to the debris tray. The a main tubing section has a first end that is connected to the waste collection tank and a second end that is positioned to automatically couple to the second end of the tray tubing section upon installation of the debris tray.
US07805800B2
A wiper blade (10) comprising a rubber elastic wiper strip (12) into whose lateral longitudinal grooves resilient rails (18, 20) are inserted as support elements and laterally protrude from the longitudinal grooves, wherein the resilient rails (18, 20) are held together at their ends and are fixed relative to the wiper strip (12) in the longitudinal direction and support a terminal cap (24). It is proposed that the terminal caps (24) have detachable fixing means (34) that engage in a top strip (16) of the wiper strip (12), wherein the axial movability of the resilient rails (18, 20) relative to the wiper strip (24) is limited by the terminal caps.
US07805796B2
A manual toothbrush with a handle and a toothbrush head mounted on the handle. A pivot bearing for pivoting the toothbrush head relative to the handle is arranged between the toothbrush head and the handle.
US07805795B2
A brush roll is rotatably supported by bearings in a housing of a cleaning brush tool. One of the bearings is incorporated in a removable bearing arrangement that can be rotationally fastened and removed as needed on a cylindrical end of the housing. Preferably collar elements protruding cylindrically from the removable bearing arrangement form bayonet-type catch hooks that selectively engage with bayonet-type catch elements protruding radially outwardly from the cylindrical end sleeve of the housing. A detent on the housing engages a securing element on the removable bearing arrangement to secure the engaged bayonet-type fastening arrangement against rotational release thereof.
US07805790B2
A dual spring support structure for mattresses or other reflexive support structures employs a foam spring in combination with an innerspring or foam core, to provide a multi-mode and multi-structural support surface with a multiple, constant, or complimentary spring rate and support characteristics. Foam springs have geometric cross-sectional configurations with mechanical spring properties which work in concert with the spring properties of foam. Foam springs are used in one embodiment about the perimeter of a wire form innerspring or about the perimeter of a foam core. The foam springs may have a spring rate that is complimentary to, greater than or less than the spring rate of the innerspring or core. Foam springs of different configurations and spring rates can be combined with different types of cores, or used alone to provide a spring or cushioning structure.
US07805770B2
A nursing cover including a sheet with a stiffener pocket, a first strap, and a second strap disposed along the top edge of the sheet. The first strap and second strap are configured to detachably couple together. A stiffener comprised of a shape memory material comprising a material memory is housed within the stiffener pocket. The stiffener has a first end and a second end being formed as part of the stiffener. The first end and the second end have a substantially smooth surface to prevent abrading the stiffener pocket. The material memory in the stiffener assumes a pre-determined shape when force is not applied to the stiffener, temporarily deforms without breaking the stiffener when force is applied to the stiffener, and reassumes the pre-determined shape when force is removed from the stiffener.
US07805769B2
Disposable clothing articles for hunting and other outdoor activities are made of a low-cost, lightweight, breathable material, preferably a non-woven with particle barrier properties, and preferably include cinching elements for cinching closed with a good seal the hand and foot openings of the clothing to prevent the escape of human odors. The clothing articles are treated with one or more odor-reducing agents to absorb the human odors that pass through the clothing material. In an example method of making the clothing articles, a liquid odor-reducing agent is sprayed onto the clothing, one or two powder odor-reducing agents are sprinkled onto the inside and outside surfaces of the clothing, and the treated clothing article is stored in a sealable bag or other container.
US07810162B2
A method of playing back content based on digital rights management (DRM) between a portable storage and a device and a portable storage for the same are provided. The method includes requesting the portable storage to set a playback right for content protected through DRM, receiving an encrypted playback right for the content protected through DRM from the portable storage, and decrypting the encrypted playback right and playing back the content protected through DRM using the decrypted playback right.
US07810158B2
Methods of trapping electronic worms are provided. Pursuant to these methods, an electronic worm may be “trapped” such that its ability to spread is reduced or eliminated, while at the same time the worm is deceived such that it does not realize it has been trapped. In this manner, the probability that the worm enacts countermeasures that are harmful to the data and/or equipment of the infected computing devices may be reduced. Corresponding systems of trapping electronic worms are also provided.
US07810157B2
A method of managing alerts issued by intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c) of an information security system (1) including an alert management system (13), each alert being defined by an alert identifier and an alert content. Each of the alerts issued by the intrusion detection sensors (11a, 11b, 11c) is associated with a description including a conjunction of valued attributes belonging to attribute domains. The valued attributes belonging to each attribute domain are organized into a taxonomic structure defining generalization relationships between said valued attributes, the plurality of attribute domains thus forming a plurality of taxonomic structures. The description of each of said alerts is completed with sets of values induced by the taxonomic structures on the basis of the valued attributes of said alerts to form complete alerts. The complete alerts are stored in a logic file system (21) to enable them to be consulted.
US07810156B2
Evidence gathering and analysis from networked machines can be automated and made policy-based. In one embodiment, the present invention includes, a networked machine receiving an instruction from a server to execute a pre-recorded action sequence designed to capture evidence data. The machine can annotate the captured evidence data with meta-data, and send the annotated evidence data to the server. The server can then perform analysis on the collected evidence data and present the evidence data and the analysis to an administrator.
US07810155B1
Performance enhancement for signature based pattern matching may include one or more signature preprocessing steps. The signatures in the signature set may be preprocessed prior to performing pattern matching, including by breaking each signature broken down into one or more components. For at least one of the one or more components, boundary values as well as possible offsets of the boundary values may be identified and matched against a data stream to determine whether the data stream does not match a particular signature, thereby allowing a quick narrowing of the set of signatures to be applied fully to the data stream.
US07810150B2
Various aspects of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and software for selecting interconnectivity rules for a computer network environment and visualization on a display of a data processing system interconnectivity rules in an auto provisioning environment, including: selecting a network environment specification having characteristics describing the environment, the characteristics including: number of network security tiers, firewalls, and other network constraints; displaying a graphical representation of the selected network environment, including security tiers, and proposed firewalls, to a user on the display; selecting network objects for the selected network environment, the network objects being selected from a group of objects including: operating systems and other software applications having predefined or configurable characteristics including interconnectivity rules, and firewall rules; populating the displayed network environment with the selected objects; determining network interconnectivity requirements in the selected network environment for the selected objects from their characteristics; and displaying graphical visualizations of the selected objects and graphical visualizations of the network interconnectivity requirements of the objects in appropriate regions of the displayed network environment.
US07810140B1
A method, system, and computer readable medium for processing a message in a moving transport comprises receiving a message by a message gateway via a message receiver, receiving the message by a security module from the message gateway, validating the message by the security module, where the validating includes at least one of: determining an identity of a sender of the message, and determining that the message sender is allowed to send messages to the transport, receiving the message by a verification module from the security module, and verifying, by the verification module, that the message will be sent to a target module.
US07810132B2
Objects on application servers are distributed to one or more application servers; a user is allowed to declare in a list which objects residing on each application server are to be protected; the list is read by an interceptor; responsive to exportation of a Common Object Request Broker Architecture (“CORBA”) compliant Interoperable Object Reference (“IOR”) for a listed object, the interceptor associates one or more application server security flags with interfaces to the listed objects by tagging components of the IOR with one or more security flags; and one or more security operations are performed by an application server according to the security flags tagged to the IOR when a client accesses an application server-stored object, the security operations including an operation besides establishing secure communications between the client process and the server-stored object.
US07810128B2
An information processing apparatus, including a user-information analyzing unit which analyzes user information and calculates a variation in parameter. A procedure selecting unit classifies, based on the calculated amount, the user into a predetermined group, and acquires, from a procedure database, a procedure corresponding to the group of the user. A basic part producing unit records, in a product's ROM, various set values. Based on the result of analysis by the user-information analyzing unit, a unique part producing unit records an initial parameter value in the product's ROM. A system controller controls a storage unit to store a characteristic amount extracted by an image-characteristic-amount extracting unit and setting conditions on the image processing which are supplied from a remote control signal receiving circuit so that both are associated to each other. The present invention may apply to television receivers.
US07810127B2
An STB analysis system comprises an STB checker client and an STB analysis server. The STB checker client comprises an STB query interface to communicate with the STB analysis server to acquire information indicative of the operational status of an STB and to display the information graphically. A user requests data relating to a particular STB by entering the MAC address of an STB into a query field. The STB checker client interacts with an STB analysis server to acquire information relating to the subscriber associated with the STB MAC address, the services authorized for the STB, and data indicative of the status and performance of the STB. In addition, the STB analysis server interacts with the STB operating system to retrieve diagnostic data from the STB logs. The STB checker client further is adapted to permit remotely resetting the STB regardless of its current status.
US07810124B2
A method and apparatus for staggercasting a plurality of content representative signals includes encoding a first and a corresponding second signal representing each of the plurality of content representative signals. A composite signal is generated comprising the plurality of first and second encoded signals. In the composite signal, each respective second encoded signal is delayed with respect to the corresponding first encoded signal. The first and second encoded signal representing a selected one of the content representative signals is extracted to reproduce the selected content representative signal. The extracted first encoded signal is decoded if an error is detected in the extracted second encoded signal, otherwise the extracted second encoded signal is decoded. When a different content representative signal is newly selected, the first extracted encoded signal is decoded until the delayed second extracted encoded signal is available.
US07810120B2
A method and apparatus to manage recorded broadcasting programs, in which a list of each of the recorded programs is automatically generated using electronic program guide (EPG) information for more efficient management of the recorded programs. The method includes: (a) detecting information on a starting time and an ending time for recording when a recording mode is enabled; (b) extracting information on programs included between the starting time and the ending time, respectively, from electronic program guide (EPG) information, and (c) storing the information extracted in step (b) in a file allocation table (FAT) to be matched with information on recording time and locations of corresponding programs recorded in a recording unit.
US07810118B2
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus has a receiver to receive electronic program guide (EPG) data containing video data and character data associated with TV programs and a display controller to process the EPG data to display an EPG with at least the character data on a screen, displaying of the video data being depending on duration of each TV program. The display controller controls displaying such that only the character data is displayed for TV programs having duration shorter than a predetermined time whereas both of the character data and the video data are displayed for TV programs having duration equal to or longer than the predetermined time by adjusting a size of the video data in a direction of height or width in the EPG as an integer multiple of a size of the character data.
US07810113B2
A security device and a head end of a conditional access system (CAS), and a method for controlling illegal use of the conditional access system, capable of minimizing the number of entitlement management messages (EMMs) to be distributed from a head end to a user are provided. Update keys encrypted with user keys and channel management keys encrypted with the update keys are utilized.
US07810108B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for supporting service components written in non-native runtime code in a Service Component Architecture (“SCA”). A read module is included to read an implementation type definition having metadata identifying executable code that executes a new implementation type. A receive module is included to detect a dynamic service call to a service component having the new implementation type. The dynamic service call is defined in an SCA message from a calling SCA component. A passing module is included to pass the dynamic service call to a predefined SCA implementation handler associated with the new implementation type. The SCA implementation handler includes native runtime code and implementation logic for executing the dynamic service call by executing non-native runtime code that returns a result to the SCA implementation handler. A packaging module packages the result in an SCA return message to the calling SCA component.
US07810105B2
A method and wireless mobile device runs different types of applications and groups a set of common application interfaces (APIs) that are associated with an application type to produce an application container (902). The wireless mobile device and method translates calls between at least one of the linked or grouped common APIs of the application container and a shared API that is shared for example among applications of different types (904). If desired the method and device also groups a set of common application interfaces associated with another application type to produce another application container. The applications of different types use APIs from the multiple application containers. In one embodiment, the translating of calls is accomplished by employing a class loading structure using, for example, a class loader that looks at certain path locations to obtain resources.
US07810099B2
Methods and apparatus to optimize workflow execution by the intelligent dispatching of workflow tasks against a grid computing system or infrastructure are provided. For some embodiments, a grid task dispatcher may be configured to dispatch tasks in a manner that takes into account information about an entire workflow, rather than just an individual task. Utilizing information about the tasks (task metadata), such a workflow-scoped task dispatcher may more optimally assign work to compute resources available on the grid, leading to a decrease in workflow execution time and more efficient use of grid computing resources.
US07810096B2
A computer system having a plurality of operating systems and a module for switching the operating systems in view of priorities of tasks to be performed by each of the operating systems. Each of the operating systems performing a plurality of processes or threads in accordance with the priorities assigned to these processes or threads has a module for notifying the computer system of the priority of the currently executing process or thread. The computer system includes a module for translating the priorities sent from each operating system into priorities (normalized priorities) common-throughout the computer system, and a module for comparing the normalized priorities obtained by the priority translation module in order to select and execute preferentially the operating system having a common priority higher than that of any other operating system.
US07810085B2
A software transactional memory system is described which utilizes decomposed software transactional memory instructions as well as runtime optimizations to achieve efficient performance. The decomposed instructions allow a compiler with knowledge of the instruction semantics to perform optimizations which would be unavailable on traditional software transactional memory systems. Additionally, high-level software transactional memory optimizations are performed such as code movement around procedure calls, addition of operations to provide strong atomicity, removal of unnecessary read-to-update upgrades, and removal of operations for newly-allocated objects. During execution, multi-use header words for objects are extended to provide for per-object housekeeping, as well as fast snapshots which illustrate changes to objects. Additionally, entries to software transactional memory logs are filtered using an associative table during execution, preventing needless writes to the logs. Finally a garbage collector with knowledge of the software transactional memory system compacts software transactional memory logs during garbage collection.
US07810070B2
Systems and methods for evaluating the testing of a computer program wherein a test automator generates code to test the computer program with respect to predetermined testing criteria. A test results analyst reviews test results generated by applying the code to test the computer program. The environments of a test automator and a test analyst are separated, thereby relieving a test results analyst from being required to have knowledge of the code that was used to test the computer program.
US07810066B2
An irradiation pattern data generation method includes: a process for providing a design pattern having diagonal side portions that extend diagonally with respect to an X-axis direction and a Y-axis direction on an XY plane; a rectangular approximation process for approximating the design pattern to rectangles to generate a rectangular approximation pattern; a first correction process for shifting the side portions of the rectangular approximation pattern in the Y-axis direction to generate a first correction pattern; and a second correction process for enlarging the side portions of the first correction pattern in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction to generate an irradiation pattern.
US07810064B2
A method and a system for displaying hierarchical navigating, debugging and editing of selected hierarchical levels of design of a plurality of hierarchical levels of design in graphical hierarchical design applications, by assigning, from a schematic of the integrated circuit, a viewable scope of a block element desired for traversing. Opening the viewable scope of the block element, by using a mouse scrolling device to cause a cursor to highlight and roll in a downward direction over the highlighted block element, while holding down a predefined keyboard key. Then closing the viewable scope of the block element, by causing the cursor to be positioned in an empty area of the schematic, while holding down an other predefined keyboard key and rolling the mouse scrolling device in an upward direction.
US07810059B1
Methods of enabling the validation of an integrated circuit adapted to receive one of a plurality of configuration bitstreams for a circuit design is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing a plurality of implementations for the circuit design; determining minimum timing constraints based upon all of the implementations for the circuit design; generating a representative implementation, based upon the plurality of implementations, which meets the determined minimum timing constraints for all of the implementations of the circuit design; and outputting the representative implementation.
US07810056B1
A method and system for implementing context aware synthesis of assertions is disclosed. The method and system for assertion synthesis includes converting an assertion formula to sequence implication form using semantic preserving rewrite rules, performing optimizations on the resulting formula to reduce the number of state-bits in a final FSM (Finite State Machine), and synthesizing the resulting formula to the final FSM using context aware sequence synthesis.
US07810054B2
A method of optimizing power usage in an integrated circuit design analyzes multiple operating speed cut points that are expected to be produced by the integrated circuit design. The operating speed cut points are used to divide identically designed integrated circuit devices after manufacture into relatively slow integrated circuit devices and relatively fast integrated circuit devices. The method selects an initial operating speed cut point to minimize a maximum power consumption level of the relatively slow integrated circuit devices and the relatively fast identically designed integrated circuit devices. The method then manufactures the integrated circuit devices using the integrated circuit design and tests operating speeds and power consumption levels of the identically designed integrated circuit devices. Then, the method adjusts the initial operating speed cut point to a final operating speed cut point based on the testing, to minimize the maximum power consumption level of the relatively slow integrated circuit devices and the relatively fast integrated circuit devices.
US07810051B2
A layout method for a layout design of a circuit includes a simulation step carrying out a simulation of the circuit, a specifying step specifying a maximum current value to flow between terminals of each of elements of the circuit and specifying a shape of each of the elements, and a layout composing step automatically creating and completing a layout of the elements so as to satisfy an electro migration rule, based on the specified maximum current value and shape of each of the elements.
US07810050B2
A user interface system having an improved usability is provided. The user interface system comprises: an operation section (21) an operation section for receiving an instruction inputted by a user; a finger position detecting section (32) for detecting a group of first coordinate values, each indicating a current position of a fingertip, of a user, which is placed on an operation surface of the operation section; a component storing section (4) for storing component data representing a GUI (Graphical User Interface) component; an assignment section (34) for uniquely assigning the component data stored in the component storing section to each of the first coordinate values detected by the finger position detecting section (32); an image generating section (35) for generating a GUI image representing a user interface in which the GUI component represented by the component data stored in the component storing section (4) is uniquely associated with each of the first coordinate values detected by the finger position detecting section (32), in accordance with an assignment performed by the assignment section; and a display controlling section (36) for displaying the GUI image generated by the image generating section (35) on a display screen.
US07810047B2
A method of displaying list items is provided that includes defining a plurality of list items, defining a plurality of layouts, and linking each list item to a layout such that each layout can be linked to one or more list items. An electronic device is provided that includes a display and a user interface configured to display lists on the display, wherein the items of the lists are formatted based on a limited number of layout types such that the items having similar components share a common layout type. A user interface for an electronic device is also provided that includes a plurality of list items having properties defined by a layout, wherein each layout defines the properties for one or more list items and is stored in an object.
US07810046B2
An information processing apparatus includes a content detector portion and a controller portion. The content detector portion detects contents belonging to a same time range from different types of contents each including time information. The controller portion collects the contents belonging to the same time range and having been detected by the content detector portion and that graphically displays on a display portion along a time series, graphical information related to the contents of the respective contents collected in units of the respective time range used when collecting the respective contents.
US07810040B2
This invention enables storing and managing one document of respective parts as electronic data created by a plurality of applications regardless of the type of application program which creates each part of one document. For this purpose, a plurality of shared folders are set on a network, and attributes in printing are set for the shared folders. A hot folder program supervises the shared folders. When a document image data file scanned by a multifunction apparatus is stored in one of the shared folders, the hot folder program causes an action program to perform a process complying with the attributes set for the shared folder which stores the file, and a bookbinding application to import the file.
US07810023B2
A process for generating personalized digital directory pages for display with a navigator program including a personalization step including recording in a temporary memory of a client station a digital file corresponding to an HTML page comprising hypertext links for access to other pages and descriptors associated with pictograms and proceeding to a display of the page on the client station, recording in a temporary memory of the client station at least one personalization file comprising a link identifier and at least one personalization descriptor selected by the user, transmitting the content of the temporary memory to the server, and recording in a server memory the personalization file data linked with the user identifier and the link identifier in question.
US07810019B2
A dynamic power adjusting device for a Viterbi decoder is disclosed. The device includes a processing unit for receiving a plurality of data to be decoded, detecting whether the data to be decoded have any bit errors, and estimating a number of the bit errors of the data. The device further includes a control unit for receiving the bit errors and the number of the bit errors of the data detected by the processing unit, so as to enable the Viterbi decoder to perform decoding, and disable the Viterbi decoder after the Viterbi decoder has performed the decoding the number of times equivalent to the number of the bit errors. By way of the dynamic adjustment technique, coupled with the bit-error detection and estimation, workload of the Viterbi decoder in operation is capable of being adjusted according to bit error rate (BER) such that less power is consumed in a decoding process.
US07810015B2
A concatenated channel decoding method wherein the bits of a set of N1 bits decoded using a first iterative block decoding algorithm and intended to be decoded using a second block decoding algorithm, are sent in parallel in at least one subset of P bits to a buffer for temporary storage. The decoding method comprises receiving in parallel at least one subset of Q bits belonging to the set of N1 bits sent to the buffer, detecting errors with the help of the second decoding algorithm, based on the bits decoded using the first decoding algorithm, and correcting the bits stored in the buffer as a function of possible errors detected. Detecting errors and/or the correcting the stored bits comprise a parallel processing of the bits of each subset of Q bits received.
US07810013B2
In some embodiments, a chip includes a memory core, a write buffer, transmitters, receivers to receive groups of signals including write data signals and associated error detection signals, and circuitry to provide the error detection signals to the transmitters to be transmitted to another chip and to provide the write data signals to the write buffer. The write data signals are held in the write buffer at least until it is determined whether their associated transmitted error detection signals match corresponding error detection signals stored in the other chip. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07810011B2
A hardware random number generator (RNG) has a source of entropy for providing a bit stream (DIS) comprising successive bits of a first state and a second state. The RNG includes a first digital corrector circuit configured to provide from two successive bits in the bit stream an output bit of an output bit stream according to a first scheme to ensure that bits in the output bit stream are independent from one another. A serially connected second digital corrector circuit ensures that the bits in the output bit stream are also unbiased, so that the output bit stream is truly random. A Gaussian generator connected to an output of either the first corrector or the second corrector generates from the output bit stream words having standard Gaussian deviates.
US07810005B1
A system and method for reducing timing errors in automated test equipment (ATE) offering increased data rates for the testing of higher-speed integrated circuits. Embodiments provide an effective mechanism for increasing the data rate of an ATE system by delegating processing tasks to multiple test components, where the resulting data rate of the system may approach the sum of the data rates of the individual components. Each component is able to perform data-dependent timing error correction on data processed by the component, where the timing error may result from data processed by another component in the system. Embodiments enable timing error correction by making the component performing the correction aware of the data (e.g., processed by another component) causing the error. The data may be shared between components using existing timing interfaces, thereby saving the cost associated with the design, verification and manufacturing of new and/or additional hardware.
US07810003B2
A system and method of generating a test clock signal for scan testing of a main circuit in a semiconductor device includes receiving an external clock signal and a control signal and generating a gated clock signal by gating an internal clock signal based on the control signal. The internal clock signal has a frequency higher than a frequency of the external clock signal. One of the external clock signal and the gated clock signal is selectively output based on the control signal.
US07810002B2
A method for securing a scan chain architecture by performing an authentication operation through a trusted software layer to authorize use of a protected scan chain.
US07810000B2
An in-circuit timing monitor having a selectable-path ring oscillator circuit provides delay and performance measurements in an actual circuit environment. A test mode signal is applied to a digital circuit to de-select a given functional input signal applied to a functional logic block within the digital circuit and replace it with feedback coupled from an output of the functional logic block, when test mode operation is selected. The signal path from the de-selected input to the output is selected so that the signal path will oscillate, and a characteristic frequency or phase of the output signal is measured to determine the delay. Other inputs to the functional logic block are set to a predetermined set of logic values. The selection may be made at a register preceding the digital inputs or made in the first level of logic of the functional logic block.
US07809998B1
A memory circuit includes a memory interface. A first memory receives a first read address from the memory interface. A second memory stores addresses of defective memory locations found in the first memory, receives the first read address from the memory interface, compares the first read address to the addresses stored in the second memory, and, if a matching address is found, reads first data from the second memory. The first memory reads second data from a memory location in the first memory corresponding to the first read address. A multiplexer receives the second data and the first data from the first memory and the second memory, respectively, when the matching address is found, and selectively outputs one of the second data and the first data to the memory interface.
US07809997B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device, a unique ID of the semiconductor device and a method for verifying the unique ID. Thus, original data (bit string) having 127-bit length [126:0] is inputted at step S1. Then, it is determined whether the number of bits of “1” in the bit string [126:0] inputted at the step S1 is more than the half of the bits of the bit string (that is, not less than 64) or not at step S2. When the number is not less than 64, the process proceeds to step S3. At the step S3, the bit string [126:0] is inverted and an invert bit [127] is set to “1”. Then, the process proceeds to step S5. At the step S5, the fuse corresponding to the bit string [126:0] and the bit [127] are cut by LT.
US07809992B2
A monitoring device and method are provided to monitor a separate device for malfunctions and to control and restore the malfunctioning monitored device to a normal functioning state. A malfunction state includes the monitored device being powered off or in a standby power state. The monitoring device includes control logic operative to determine a malfunction state of the monitored device and to control a reapplication of power to the monitored device to reboot the monitored device based on the determined malfunction state of the monitored device. The method for monitoring and controlling the monitored device comprises the steps of: determining a malfunction state of the monitored device; and controlling a reapplication of power to the monitored device to reboot the monitored device based on the determined malfunction state of the monitored device.
US07809990B2
A memory data reader of a magnetic tape library device reads from a memory of a magnetic tape cartridge containing a magnetic tape, information pertaining to data read from or written to the magnetic tape by a magnetic tape drive device. A maintenance/replace determining unit determines whether the magnetic tape drive device needs maintenance or replacement from the read information.
US07809983B2
One or more switches are interposed between a controller portion and a storage device. When transmission of a command to a certain storage device fails, a command is transmitted starting from an upstream side to a downstream side of a path between the controller portion and the switch to which the certain storage device is connected, and when command transmission fails while transmitting a command from a kth switch (k is an integer of 0 or more) which is connected to a (k+1)th switch and is one level upstream of the (k+1)th switch or from any port of the controller portion, it is determined that a failure has occurred in a power source that supplies power to the (k+1)th switch.
US07809962B2
Methods and apparatus for enabling a power up process of a non-volatile memory to occur efficiently are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method for utilizing a memory system that has a non-volatile memory with at least one reserved memory area includes providing power to the memory system, initializing the non-volatile memory, and writing a first signature into the reserved memory area. The first signature is arranged to indicate that the memory system was successfully initialized. In one embodiment, the method also includes executing a power down process on the memory system, and writing a second signature into the reserved memory area which indicates that the power down process has been executed.
US07809961B2
An apparatus and method for controlling standby mode in an electronic device. In standby mode, power and clock signals are reduced or stopped to conserve power. The apparatus includes an initiator module coupled to a power and clock control module (PCCM). When the initiator module meets conditions for standby mode, the initiator module sends a standby signal to the PCCM and does not interact with other initiator, target, or interconnect modules. When the PCCM communicates a wait signal, the initiator module enters standby mode. When the initiator module detects a wakeup event, the standby signal is deactivated. In this state, the initiator module may process information but may not interact with other modules. When the PCCM deactivates the wait signal and returns power and clock signal to steady state levels, initiator module may resume normal operation.
US07809960B2
A network tap device that is configured for operation in a copper Gigabit Ethernet communications network using a power-over-Ethernet (“POE”) electrical supply is disclosed. In one embodiment, a network tap device powered by a POE supply is disclosed, comprising first and second network ports that are configured with receptacles for receiving communication cables. The communication cables are configured to carry both data signals and the POE supply to and from the network tap device. The network tap device further includes first and second tap ports that connect with additional communication cables to a monitoring device. The network tap device also includes control and regulation circuitry that is configured to receive the POE supply from the communication cables via the network ports and to enable components of the network tap device to be operated by the POE supply.
US07809951B2
System and method for automated border-crossing checks of a personal data recording device, a biometry data recording device, a personal data transmission device, a data storage device, a transit gate (10), an isolation device, a data reading device, an authenticity testing device, a data manipulation testing device, a device for opening of the entrance (12) of transit gate (10), a biometry data recording device, a comparison device, an alarm triggering device, a personal data transmission device and a device for opening the exit of the transit gate (10) and a method for automated border-crossing checks.
US07809950B2
Information handling system security is simplified and enhanced with user passwords configurable to restrict access to the overall system and separately to the hard disk drive. An administrative password overrides the BIOS password to allow administrative access to the information handling system. Upon creation of a hard disk drive password on a system having an administrative password, the hard disk drive password is saved to the hard disk drive and to the BIOS with access from the BIOS restricted by the administrative password. Upon entry of the administrative password at the BIOS, the hard disk drive password is automatically provided from the BIOS to the hard disk drive to allow access to the hard disk drive.
US07809949B2
In accordance with a broad aspect, a method is provided to securely configure a computing device. A configuration indication is received into the computing device, including receiving a digital signature generated based on the configuration indication. Generation of the digital signature accounts for a unique identifier nominally associated with the computing device. The received configuration indication is verified to be authentic including processing the unique identifier, the received configuration indication and the received digital signature. The computing device is operated or interoperated with in accordance with the received configuration indication. In one example, a service interoperates with the computing device. For example, the computing device may be a portable media player, and the service may provide media to the computing device based on a capacity indication of the configuration indication.
US07809948B2
A smart chip protection system contains a unique public/private identity key pair and uses a separate public/private signature key pair. The internally stored identity private key can not be read outside the chip. An issuing entity generates a descriptor containing the identity public key, attribute data, and a digital signature of the two, using a signature private key known only to the issuer. The authenticity of the descriptor is verified by decrypting the signature using the signature public key, and comparing the result to source data. An object's identity can be verified by requesting the smart chip to perform a data transformation using its identity private key, and performing the complement using the public key. An exemplary embodiment is a cellular telephone, in which a service provider verifies identity of the telephone and correct signature as a condition to providing service.
US07809937B2
A system and method for utilizing generic computer operating system software for computer hardware systems designed subsequent to the operating system software. The system and method of the present invention employs a separate modular software file called a System Enabler that has all patches, code, data and resources needed to make a particular computer system operational. The System Enabler file is matched to a particular hardware system and may be bundled with that hardware system. During computer system start up the System Enabler file modifies the generic operating system software for optimum operation with the particular computer hardware system.
US07809934B2
A system comprising processing logic adapted to determine a type of boot performed by the system and a storage coupled to the processing logic. The processing logic is configured to erase or invalidate a predetermined portion of the storage, and to activate or deactivate an interface by which the system is accessed, if the type of boot comprises a functional boot.
US07809933B2
A system and method for optimizing the branch logic of a processor to improve handling of hard to predict indirect branches are provided. The system and method leverage the observation that there will generally be only one move to the count register (mtctr) instruction that will be executed while a branch on count register (bcctr) instruction has been fetched and not executed. With the mechanisms of the illustrative embodiments, fetch logic detects that it has encountered a bcctr instruction that is hard to predict and, in response to this detection, blocks the target fetch from entering the instruction buffer of the processor. At this point, the fetch logic has fetched all the instructions up to and including the bcctr instruction but no target instructions. When the next mtctr instruction is executed, the branch logic of the processor grabs the data and starts fetching using that target address. Since there are no other target instructions that were fetched, no flush is needed if that target address is the correct address, i.e. the branch prediction is correct.
US07809930B2
A register renaming unit has mapping control circuitry which serves to suppress unnecessary mapping operations in dependence upon a detected current state of the data processing system. One example of circumstances which can be detected from the current state and in which mapping can be suppressed and the existing mapping reused are that in respect of the existing physically mapped register there are no pending writes, no pending reads and no pending requirement for that physically mapped register to be preserved as a recovery register. Another example of a current state in which a mapping can be reused is adjacent program instructions having mutually exclusive condition codes and sharing a destination register such that only one of those adjacent instructions will ever be executed.
US07809922B2
A node of a multiple-node system includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB), a cache, and a TLB snoop mechanism. The node shares memory with other nodes of the multiple-node systems, and is connected with the other nodes via a bus. The TLB snooping mechanism snoops inbound memory access requests and/or outbound memory access requests. Inbound requests are received from over the bus and are intended for the cache. However, the cache receives only the inbound requests that relate to memory addresses having associated entries within the TLB. Outbound requests are received from within the node and are intended for transmission over the bus. However, the bus coherently transmits only the outbound requests that relate to memory addresses that are part of memory pages having set shared-memory page memory flags. All other outbound memory access requests are sent over the bus non-coherently.
US07809919B2
An embodiment of a data misalignment correction method for a mass storage controller system that couples drives having large internal block sizes to a computer operating system having input/output data block requests, including automatically determining an amount of misalignment between a request of the input/output data block to the storage controller and the controller's current data alignment configuration and using the amount of misalignment to realign the mass storage controller system configuration to match the operating system's input/output requests for optimizing input/output performance with the attached drives.
US07809913B2
A memory module contains an interface for receiving memory access commands from an external source, in which a first portion of the interface receives memory access data at a first bus frequency and a second portion of the interface receives memory access data at a second different bus frequency. Preferably, the memory module contains a second interface for re-transmitting memory access data, also operating at dual frequency. The memory module is preferably used in a high-capacity memory subsystem organized in a tree configuration in which data accesses are interleaved. Preferably, the memory module has multiple-mode operation, one of which supports dual-speed buses for receiving and re-transmitting different parts of data access commands, and another of which supports conventional daisy-chaining.
US07809908B2
A disk snapshot acquisition method, which is applied in a server comprising a memory allocated with a kernel space and a hard disk, comprises the steps of allocating all chunks having data stored as a disk volume in said hard disk; allocating a first portion and a second portion in said hard disk; establishing a snapshot pointer in said kernel space, said snapshot pointer pointing to a starting address of said first portion in said hard disk; and when original data in one of said chunks of said disk volume is to be modified, duplicating said original data to a chunk in said second portion as backup data, then modifying said original data into modified data, and storing a piece of mapping information comprising an address of said modified data and an address of said backup data corresponding to said modified data to a copy-on-write table in said first portion.
US07809903B2
Provided is a method, system, and program for coordinating access to memory locations for hardware transactional memory transactions and software transactional memory transactions. A hardware transaction executing in hardware transactional memory initiates a request to access a memory location. A fault is returned to the hardware transaction request in response to an operation by one software transaction executing in a software transactional memory.
US07809900B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for delaying operations that reduce a lifetime of memory. In use, at least one aspect associated with a lifetime of memory is identified. To this end, at least one operation that reduces the lifetime of the memory is delayed, based on the aspect.
US07809899B2
An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate one or more command signals, a read data path control signal and one or more write data path control signals in response to an integrity protection control signal and one or more arbitration signals. The second circuit may be configured to write data to a memory and read data from the memory in response to the one or more command signals, the read data path control signal and the one or more write data path control signals. In a first mode, the data may be written and read without integrity protection. In a second mode the data may be written and read with integrity protection, and the integrity protection is written and read separately from the data.
US07809895B2
In one embodiment, a method is contemplated. Access to a hardware accelerator is requested by a user-privileged thread. Access to the hardware accelerator is granted to the user-privileged thread by a higher-privileged thread responsive to the requesting. One or more commands are communicated to the hardware accelerator by the user-privileged thread without intervention by higher-privileged threads and responsive to the grant of access. The one or more commands cause the hardware accelerator to perform one or more tasks. Computer readable media comprises instructions which, when executed, implement portions of the method are also contemplated in various embodiments, as is a hardware accelerator and a processor coupled to the hardware accelerator.
US07809889B2
A digital system is provided with a hierarchical memory system having at least a first and second level cache and a higher level memory. If a requested data item misses in both the first cache level and in the second cache level, a line of data containing the requested data is obtained from a higher level of the hierarchical memory system. The line of data is allocated to both the first cache level and to the second cache level simultaneously.
US07809879B1
A method and apparatus for providing stream linking in audio/video disk media is disclosed. The present invention sets-up an audio/video stream on a disk drive, uses read and write commands for accessing contiguous data and, given an established stream, establishes a linked stream by sending a linked stream request with the number of a primary stream to the drive. The new stream inherits the beginning and ending addresses of the primary stream. Passed pointer detection is enabled for linked stream pointers passing primary stream pointers.
US07809878B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for controlling a flash memory, more particularly, an apparatus and method for controlling flash memory that updates control information of a flash memory stored in a predetermined volatile memory when the type of flash memory is changed and controls the changed flash memory using the updated control information. The apparatus includes a flash memory storing its own control information, a first memory storing a programming code for controlling the flash memory, a control unit generating a control code for controlling the flash memory by assigning the control information to the programming code, and a transceiver transmitting the control code.
US07809874B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for arbitration between multiple pipelines over shared resources for an SMP computer system. The computer includes logic to defer arbitration until later in the pipeline to help reduce latency to each pipeline. Also, introduced is the concept of retry tags for better priority to avoid lock-out. The system also includes round-robin tokens to manage rejected requests to allow better fairness on conflicts. While the processing logic employed specifically applies to cross-interrogation, the logic can be extended to other common resources. The illustrated SMP computer system also has self-correcting logic to maintain good round-robin tokens.
US07809873B2
In one aspect, a method of transferring data over a plurality of communication lines is described. A first command is sent from a master device coupled with the communication lines to a first destination slave device coupled with the communication lines instructing the first destination slave device to listen to and write data from the communication lines starting at a first time. A second command is sent from the master device to a second source slave device coupled with the communication lines instructing the second source slave device to read and output first data onto the communication lines starting at or after the first time. In this way, the first data output from the second source slave device beginning at the first time is stored by the first destination slave device beginning at the first time without requiring first transferring the data to the master device or any other device.
US07809868B1
A storage system filter provides protocol aware filter operations that avoid I/O blocking or calling thread holding. A filter framework includes a filter controller that handles request and response calls to filters that are registered with the filter framework. Filters may be loaded and unloaded in a consistent state, and the filter framework provides services for the filters for common functions. Filters may operate in a user mode or a kernel mode and may be invoked in a synchronous, an asynchronous, or an asynchronous release mode. Filter registration may include registration for I/O resources, and may include tagging of I/O requests and responses to contribute to preventing conflicts.
US07809861B1
Methods and apparatus are provided optimizing system memory map decoder logic. A system is configured with multiple master and slave components. Using information known about the system configuration, optimized decoder logic can be configured. Critical path delay and system resource usage are reduced by optimizing decoder logic.
US07809859B2
A network switching device includes multiple ports, multiple switching processors, and a table manager. The switching processors respectively have an address table, a output port specification module, an update requirement determination module, and a table update module. The output port specification module refers to a destination address in received data and the address table and specifies a output port for sending the data among the multiple ports. The update requirement determination module determines requirement for update of the address table with regard to a source address in the data. The table manager has an update detail acquisition module and an update request module. Upon determination of the requirement for update of the address table, the update detail acquisition module obtains an update detail of the address table from one of the switching processors. The update request module sends an update request to the switching processors, based on the update detail.
US07809857B2
A method and a system perform geolocation activities relating to a network address. A database of network addresses, and associated geographic locations, is maintained. A query, including a network address, is received against the database for a geographic location associated with the network address. Information, concerning the query received against the database, is logged. Geolocation activities relating to at least the network address are modified based on the logged information.
US07809839B2
A method and system for a call set-up in a mobile communication terminal perform a call set-up using a binary Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message of short data burst, instead of using a general traffic channel, when a call is set up between the mobile communication terminals on the basis of the SIP. Consequently, it is possible to minimize a delay time required for the call set-up between the mobile communication terminals for providing an SIP signaling protocol service.
US07809834B2
Network communication is provided by communicatively coupling a first device with a second device using first and second communication mediums having different bandwidths associated therewith. A communication session is established between the first and the second device so as to transfer data between the first and second devices using the first and second communication mediums. Data is transferred over the first communication medium using a first data rate and data is transferred over the second communication medium using a second data rate that is different than the first data rate. The data is processed at one or both of the first and second devices to account for the difference between the first and second data rates.
US07809820B2
Optimization of encrypted traffic flowing over a WAN is provided by an arrangement in which WAN compression is distributed between endpoints (i.e., client machines or servers) in a subnet of a hub and branch network and a WAN compression server in the subnet. A client portion of the WAN compression running on each of one or more endpoints interfaces with a disposable local cache of data seen by endpoints in the subnet that is used for compressing and decompressing traffic using dictionary-based compression techniques. The local WAN compression server in a subnet stores a shared central database of all the WAN traffic in the subnet which is used to populate local disposable caches in the endpoints.
US07809819B2
A method, apparatus, and computer implemented instructions for processing a request in a data processing system. The request is received. In response to a first hash value being present within the request, the first hash value is compared to a second hash value that was computed locally, wherein the second hash value represents a current policy configuration for assigning a quality of service. In response to a match between the first hash value and the second hash value, other information in the request is used to establish a quality of service for packets associated with the request.
US07809810B2
A method and corresponding apparatus is provided for determining the location of a configuration server being connected to a totally symmetric network infrastructure that does not exhibit any symmetry breakers on network level. The configuration server reaches a decision to determine its network-wide unique configuration in order to be able to serve controllers. This decision depends on the plug position of the configuration server under consideration and the assumption of plugging rules governing a “good” network infrastructure. The controllers periodically send network packets that will be marked if they traverse specific connection elements in the network. The origin and the path of a network packet can be determined. The decision making is based on a majority function based on the packets received by the configuration server. If a decision cannot be made, then errors in the cabling structure can be detected.
US07809799B2
An approach for caching an electronic product generally involves the use of confirmation data that indicates that an electronic product was successfully provided from a cache to a user. A request to provide an electronic product to a user is received at a cache. In response to receiving the request to provide the electronic product to the user, the cache provides electronic product to the user. If the electronic product was successfully provided by the cache to the user, then the cache generates confirmation data that indicates that the electronic product was successfully provided by the cache to the user. The cache may also provide the confirmation data to a confirmation recipient. The confirmation data may also specify other information, such as an identity of the user, a location of the user and/or a time at which the cache provided the electronic product to the user.
US07809797B2
A parent defines friend rules for on-line association with their child. Upon a request of an on-line stranger to be a new friend of the child, stranger information about the on-line stranger is retrieved and compared to the friend rules to determine whether the stranger is allowed, blocked or restricted from being a friend with the child. Accordingly, the parent only has to use a minimal amount of time in establishing the friend rules to protect the parent's child from on-line strangers.
US07809796B1
A method and apparatus for controlling access to network resources referenced in electronic mail messages comprises the computer-implemented steps of receiving an electronic mail message that comprises one or more hyperlinks; determining sender information that identifies a sender of the electronic mail message; creating and storing a record that associates the sender information with each of the one or more hyperlinks; receiving a request to access a specified hyperlink among the one or more hyperlinks; retrieving, based on the specified hyperlink, the record; retrieving, based on the sender information associated with the specified hyperlink, sender reputation information associated with the sender; determining, based on the sender reputation information, a particular action among a plurality of allowed actions; and issuing a network request to access the specified hyperlink only when the particular action is allowing user access to the specified hyperlink.
US07809795B1
Nonsense words are removed from incoming emails and visually similar (look-alike) characters are replaced with the actual, corresponding characters, so that the emails can be more accurately analyzed to see if they are spam. More specifically, an incoming email stream is filtered, and the emails are normalized to enable more accurate spam detection. In some embodiments, the normalization comprises the removal of nonsense words and/or the replacement of look-alike characters according to a set of rules. In other embodiments, more and/or different normalization techniques are utilized. In some embodiments, the language in which an email is written is identified in order to aid in the normalization. Once incoming emails are normalized, they are then analyzed to detect spam or other forms of undesirable email, such as phishing emails.
US07809790B2
The invention is directed to a method of transmitting a file having an advertising portion and a requested portion different from the advertising portion. The method includes receiving a request to transmit the file, via a streaming protocol allowing non-sequential access, transmitting the advertising portion of the file, receiving a request to transmit a portion of the requested portion of the file prior to completing transmitting the advertising portion of the file, completing the transmission of the advertising portion of the file, and transmitting the requested portion of the file.
US07809789B2
A multi-user animation process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a modeled 3-D environment. Each user is represented by an avatar. The 3-D environment and avatar position/location data is provided to client workstations, which display a simulated environment visible to all participants. A text or speech-based bulletin board application is coupled to the animation process. The bulletin board application receives text or speech input from the multiple remote users and publishes the input in a public forum. The bulletin board application maintains multiple forums organized by topic. Access or participation to particular forums is coordinated with the animation process, such that each user may be permitted access to a forum only when the user's avatar is located within a designated room or region of the modeled 3-D environment.
US07809787B2
A service providing apparatus has an obtaining unit that obtains specific information to specify a service of which the apparatus has been notified by a client device, and a response unit that outputs response information on the basis of whether or not the service specified by the obtained specific information can be provided.
US07809784B2
Non-restoring radix-2 division and square rooting procedures are provided. The proposed procedures utilize a quotient/root digit set {−1, 0, +1} and a quotient/root prediction table (QRT/RPT). The i'th quotient/root digit is determined with reference to a partial remainder from (i−2)'th iterative operation and by the quotient/root prediction table. The present procedures generate the (i−1)'th correction term, which is to be applied in calculating the i'th partial remainder, simultaneously with the (i−2)'th correction term, and need not to perform an iterative operation to obtain the i'th partial remainder.
US07809778B2
Use and maintenance of an idempotent journal in a system having multiple metadata servers. A data modification operation is performed by a metadata server. A journal entry corresponding to the data modification operation is generated. The journal entry includes a file identifier and a journal sequence number corresponding to a data modification operation that created the file.
US07809771B2
In a business system, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundancy in the storage of data. One implementation includes a method of reducing a memory footprint of a database table having multiple rows and one or more columns, in which each of the one or more columns has a cardinality, and the cardinality is a total number of different values in the rows of each column. The method includes comparing the cardinality with a total number of possible values in the rows of at least one column based on a width of the column. The method also includes reducing the width of the column if the cardinality is less than a threshold based on the total number of possible values in the rows of the column.
US07809768B2
Systems and methods for accessing a relational database through an object-oriented querying interface are provided. A class of objects that are to be stored in the relational database are defined. One or more relational database tables are created and a mapping is produced that maps each data member of an object to one or more columns in a relational database table. Additionally, object-oriented paradigms like inheritance may be supported and the allocation of storage for array elements may be deferred until necessary.
US07809757B2
A method for XML based object-relationship mapping for different object types in a computer system is provided. The method includes creating a database schema in a database layer including a single table with specific database columns for storing known properties as well as customizable database columns for storing extended properties. The method also includes creating an object in an object layer that has specific methods for known properties and dynamic methods for extended properties, where the object types are variations of the object, the object includes fields for the properties, and the object supports reading and writing the properties to corresponding database columns in the table. The method further includes creating an XML file containing definitions for new object types and new properties, where the property definitions include database column names, and the XML file contains display information for GUI management. The method additionally includes outputting display information a GUI.
US07809753B2
The present invention relates to a system having an information image management server, an advertising agency terminal and a client computer connected with one another via a network, in which the information image management server extracted a client computer which meets a client specifying condition on the basis of client specifying condition information from the advertising agency terminal, then a message to carry out update or addition of an information image recorded in a management area of the extracted client computer is transmitted to the extracted client, and the client computer which has received the message carries out update or addition of an information image in accordance with the message.
US07809746B2
A system and method for viewing models and model variables within a sophisticated modeling environment is disclosed. The system provides varying levels of insight into a modeling infrastructure to help the user understand model and model variable dependencies, usage, distribution, and/or the like. The method includes storing model and model variable data within a relational database system, receiving a request from a user interfacing with the system via a web interface, extracting search criteria and presentation preferences from the request, formulating and executing one or more queries on the database to retrieve the required data, formatting the data in accordance with the request, and retuning the data to the requesting user in the form of a web page.
US07809742B2
Upon receiving a notification from a device that a content configuration changed, a management apparatus that manages one or more devices searches among contents possessed by the device in question for a content for which first identification information recorded in a second area and in a first area of attendant information of the content differ, and determines whether second identification information recorded in a second area of the attendant information of the retrieved content is unique among all contents in the system. When the management apparatus determines that second identification information of the attendant information is not unique, it updates the first identification information recorded in the second area of the attendant information with first identification information recorded in the first area of the attendant information and updates the second identification information with identification information that is unique in the system, to thereby update the attendant information of the content.
US07809734B2
A system and method for transcoding digital content (e.g. web content) by correctly employing one annotation for multiple digital contents. This can efficiently reduce the workloads required for the addition of annotation data during the transcoding process. A transcoding system comprises an annotation database system for storing annotation data to be used for the transcoding of contents, and a transcoder for transcoding the contents based on annotation data stored in the annotation database system. Upon receiving an inquiry from the transcoder, a correlation between elements in the contents and descriptions of the annotation data is checked to select one annotation that can be employed for transcoding the content. The correlation is specifically determined based on XPath information.
US07809732B2
To generating a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, an original image is divided into tiles and a material image having a characteristic similar to that of an image in each tile is applied to the tile. If more than one version of image data having different resolutions is provided as the image data for the material image, a low-resolution version of the image data is used to calculate a characteristic quantity of the image. Thus, the amount of time required to generate the mosaic image can be reduced.
US07809729B2
A model repository is provided for storing selected data models generated by a data mining application. The model repository may include one or more index data structures for storing attributes of the models within the model repository. A user may then search through the one or more indexes in order to find a model that suits his or her needs.
US07809724B2
A method for processing user input includes the step of receiving, during a session, via one of a plurality of media gateways, from a user, an expression having a semantic structure. The semantic structure of the expression is evaluated. An expression type is identified, responsive to the evaluation of the semantic structure. Based on the expression type, a response to the expression is generated. A determination is made as to whether to store the received expression, the response, and an identification of the user.
US07809723B2
A method and system for distributed training of a hierarchical classifier for classifying documents using a classification hierarchy is provided. A training system provides training data that includes the documents and classifications of the documents within the classification hierarchy. The training system distributes the training of the classifiers of the hierarchical classifier to various agents so that the classifiers can be trained in parallel. For each classifier, the training system identifies an agent that is to train the classifier. Each agent then trains its classifiers.
US07809716B2
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for establishing documents relationship based on user's operation upon search result. When a user uses search engine to search for documents with a query in repository, the search result may be a list of ranked documents, and these documents may contain a lot of relationship in term of the specific query. If the user clicks some search result further, and if the click and open operation meet certain conditions, for example exceed a period of time, the clicked document could be deemed as related to the search query. Furthermore it could be inferred that there is a strong relationship between different documents clicked by the user. The present invention records the relationship between documents and presents it to the user when necessary.
US07809709B1
A “Build-Your-Own-Search-Engine” system allows a user to define his own search algorithm(s) and deploy his own customized search engine using said custom algorithm. The system includes a ranking method whereby relevancy scores are assigned to ranked items according to user-submitted URLs, terms, and weights, thereby allowing a whole user community to maintain and further customize the search engine to reflect their own interests, opinions, and tastes. Revenue-sharing and other steps are also disclosed. Licensing information may be obtained through http://www.inventerprise.com.
US07809706B2
An apparatus receives meta-information from a plurality of external apparatuses, and caches the received meta-information per external apparatus that is the origin of the meta-information. Then, the meta-information cached per external apparatus is consolidated, and display of the meta-information is managed. Based on this display management, display management information corresponding to the meta-information cached per external apparatus is obtained, and the external apparatus to which a request for the meta-information is to be made is selected based on the display management information and the cache status of the meta-information per external apparatus. Then, the meta-information is requested from the selected external device.
US07809705B2
An improved system and method is provided for determining web page quality using collective inference based on local and global web page information. A classification engine may be provided for classifying a web page using local features of a seed set of web pages and global web graph information about the seed set of web pages. A dual algorithm based on graph regularization formulated as a well-formed optimization solution may be used in an embodiment for applying collective inference for binary classification of the web page using the local web page information and global web graph information of a web page, the local web page information and global web graph information of an authoritative set of web pages, and the local web page information and global web graph information of a non-authoritative set of web pages.
US07809701B2
A method and system to perform exact match searches for fixed- or variable-length keys stored in a search database. The method is implemented using a plurality of hash tables, each indexed using an independent hash function. A system implementing this method provides deterministic search time, independent of the number of keys in the search database. The method permits two basic implementations; one which minimizes memory storage, and another which minimizes search time. The latter requires only two memory accesses to locate a key.
US07809693B2
A technique is disclosed for restoring data of sparse volumes, where one or more block pointers within the file system structure are marked as ABSENT, and fetching the appropriate data from an alternate location on demand. Client data access requests to the local storage system initiate a restoration of the data from a backing store as required. A demand generator can also be used to restore the data as a background process by walking through the sparse volume and restoring the data of absent blocks. A pump module is also disclosed to regulate the access of the demand generator. Once all the data has been restored, the volume contains all data locally, and is no longer a sparse volume.
US07809689B2
System, method and computer program product for creating, managing, and accessing an information repository including a source database and an archive database. A source database and the archive database are defined to a same schema. A user terminal presents a common user interface for accessing the source database and the archive database. A timed archive agent, an end user archive agent, and a criteria based archive agent archive source data from the source database as archive data to the archive database. A criteria based restore agent and an end user restore agent are provided to restore archive data from the archive database as source data to the source database. An integrated functions agent assembles compiled data from source data and archive data and present the compiled data to the user interface.
US07809688B2
Systems and methods for generating incremental backups are provided. In one implementation a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view be displayed. The history view is displayed in response to the first user input, the history view including at least a first visual representation of an earlier version of the current view, the earlier version including a first element. A second user input is received while the history view is displayed. The second user input requests that the current view be modified according to the earlier version, at least with regard to the first element.
US07809668B1
An instability avoidance module that can be implemented in SISO PID control loops to automatically adjust the controller's tuning parameters when undesired oscillatory behavior is monitored. This module is a Fuzzy-based Supervisor composed of a dynamic parameter identification module that operates on-line, and a Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) with fuzzy rules to modify PID tuning. Tests in nonlinear process models were performed, demonstrating that this Fuzzy Supervisor—Type 1 (non-intrusive) provides the PID controller the ability to adapt its tuning to eliminate the observed oscillatory behavior.
US07809660B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for automatically selecting an optimal control cohort. Attributes are selected based on patient data. Treatment cohort records are clustered to form clustered treatment cohorts. Control cohort records are scored to form potential control cohort members. The optimal control cohort is selected by minimizing differences between the potential control cohort members and the clustered treatment cohorts.
US07809655B1
A method for scheduling and usage of satellite bandwidth wherein data is transmitted to an artificial intelligence model for analysis and assigned a ranking. An event resource allocation model analyzes the ranking and determines how to compress the associated video. The event resource allocation model also determines when to compress the remotely stored video and transmit via satellite to a central data center where the video may be reviewed.
US07809652B2
At each of a plurality of transit readers of a transit system, for each of a plurality of riders, where each rider seeks to conduct an access transaction with the transit system for access into the transit facility by using a payment device issued by an issuer in a payment system, data is read from the payment device. The data includes an encryption code that uniquely corresponds to the payment device and was created by the issuer using one or more encryption keys and a predetermined algorithm. A check will be performed, remotely and/or locally, of one or more lists of other encryption codes to determine if the encryption code is on the list. On the basis of whether the encryption code is on the list, the rider is permitted access to the facility of the transit system. The payment device need not be changed for the rider's fare. Decryption of the encryption code read from the payment device is not required to complete the access transaction.
US07809646B2
A system rewards users who offer to share the memory, storage, or bandwidth of their computing resource to third parties within a distributed network. Users share processing, storage, bandwidth or memory resources with third parties by permitting such third parties to access files stored in the memory of the users' computing devices. Users that offer files for upload are encouraged to register with a central authority, and receive value each time a third party accesses a resource from their computing devices. The value awarded to each such user is tracked by the central authority and is weighted.
US07809644B2
A digital work and data structure for use within a system for enforcing usage rights associated with digital content, including a description tree file including descriptor blocks organized in a hierarchical manner. The descriptor blocks include usage rights associated with the digital content, and specifying a manner of use of the digital content, a content identifier including a unique identifier of the digital content, and a usage rights portion including the usage rights. The digital content includes plural content portions, and the usage rights portion includes a rights code field including a code indicative of the manner of use of the digital content and a status information field including information relating to a state of the manner of use.
US07809640B1
Providing interest to clients' deposited funds without the legal limitation on the number of demand withdrawals from deposit accounts is accomplished by an administration system that keeps all of the records for the clients' deposits and withdrawals, calculates the total of the deposits and withdrawals for all clients, and uses the calculation to determine whether funds are deposited to or withdrawn from a single deposit account in which all clients' deposit funds are kept. Clients can make unlimited withdrawals, such as by check, credit card, debit card, or electronic transfer, through the administrator. By placing the administrator as the holder of a single account, legal exemptions to the limitation on earning interest in demand accounts is facilitated.
US07809637B2
A method determines that a first relationship between a holder of a portable consumer device and a first employer is terminated. In response to determining that the first relationship is terminated, the method also disassociates account information of the portable consumer device from the first employer while retaining an association between the portable consumer device and an issuer of the portable consumer device. In addition, the method establishes a second relationship between the employee and a second employer and links the account information of the portable consumer device with the second employer.
US07809636B1
A system and method for initiating multicurrency/multibank wire transfers and account reporting. Using a standard Internet browser, a customer of a financial institution accesses the funds transfer and information reporting system of the present invention. Access to the system is restricted based on the user's security profile and access rights. Once logged into the system, the user provides instructions to move funds from their accounts with the financial institution or funds from an account with any other financial institution. Furthermore, the customer is able to view the details of its accounts maintained at the financial institution or at any other financial institution in the same session. Wire transactions can be in the form of a pre-defined or free formatted instruction. Furthermore, the wire transactions can involve several banks and several different currencies. Once the multibank/multicurrency wire transactions are entered, they can be approved and released by the users with the appropriate security profile and access rights. Customers can retrieve balance and transaction reports from their demand deposit accounts, controlled disbursement accounts and lockbox accounts that they have with the financial institution and with other banks.
US07809633B2
A system is provided for generating pricing information regarding loans where each loan has loan level data and is associated with a borrower. The system includes a pricing engine for generating a price for each loan including an interest rate component and a credit risk component. The credit risk component is generated based on loan level data for the particular loan.
US07809628B1
A system and method for providing order queue position information are disclosed. In this application, market updates are received for a tradeable object from at least one exchange. To the extent that the market updates do not include enough details to compute the queue position of a trader's working orders, estimation may be used. As a result, an order queue is generated to approximate a trader's order position in an exchange price order queue. An interface may be used to display the generated order queue estimation to the trader which provides valuable trading information.
US07809618B2
An educational tuition securities system is provided. An educational institution can securitize tuition or course credits into tuition shares. Tuition shares in an educational institution can be purchased for a student and redeemed for payment of tuition credits or education costs at the educational institution. Tuition shares for an educational institution can be traded for tuition shares of another institution. Redeemed tuition shares can be used to pay for undergraduate and graduate education costs, or could be redeemed for cash. The invention provides a mechanism for paying future education costs, as well as for investing in educational institutions.
US07809617B1
A technique for making a payment to a payee on behalf of a payor by a payment service provider is provided. The service provider identifies one or more risk reduction techniques available for use in fulfilling a received payment request. The risk reduction techniques are identified based upon the received payment request. An identified technique is selected and payment is made according to that selected risk reduction technique.
US07809611B2
An automated auctioning method is disclosed having a multifunction (pre-auction) stage (501), an auction stage (502) and a fulfillment stage (503). During the multifunction stage it is possible to buy an element (507), make an offer (506) or place an auction bid (504). During the auction stage it is only possible to place an auction bid.
US07809604B1
A representative implementation of a method begins when a planner captures assumptions about products and components in an entity called a “scenario.” A scenario is the parameterization of all the demand, financial, and operational information for a portfolio of products and components across a set of time buckets (planning periods). The planner then specifies a component plan to be analyzed, which identifies the quantities of each resource that will be used or procured during each planning period. A request for analysis includes one or more analysis parameters that will be used in order to evaluate the performance and the risks associated with the component plan and scenario. The request for analysis is submitted to an analysis engine for calculation of risk indicators. The analytical engine calculates all the performance indicators and returns the results. The results are then typically stored in a database or other persistent storage system.
US07809603B2
A clearinghouse apparatus, system and method for content, including an ad generator, an ad generator interface by which a user can interact with the ad generator, wherein, in an interaction with the ad generator using the ad generator interface, at least one content item other than content owned by the user is requested for inclusion in a creative, a content provision rules engine having a plurality of rules asserted by the owner of the content to govern the inclusion of the content in the creative, including at least one upsell rule, and a content provision interface by which the owner of the content can interact with the content rules engine to assert the plurality of rules. The invention may additionally include an approval engine, wherein ones of the plurality of rules necessitate that the creative be reviewed and approved by the owner prior to the inclusion of the content, and an approval engine interface by which the owner can interact with the approval engine.
US07809602B2
According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for measuring and reporting business intelligence based on comments collected from web page users using software associated with accessed web pages includes: using a computer system, accessing a plurality of user comments collected from users of one or more web pages using feedback collection software that provides users who access a particular web page a viewable element through which to provide their comments regarding one or more aspects of a business associated with the particular web page; using a computer system, associating each of the plurality of collected user comments with one or more of a plurality of predefined business-related categories; and using a computer system, generating a report identifying, for each of the plurality of predefined business-related categories, one or more quantitative values derived from the collected user comments associated with that business-related category.
US07809601B2
Systems and methods of utilizing communications networks and multivariate analysis to predict or recommend optimal products from a predefined population of commercially available products are disclosed. The recommendations are based on intelligence contained in processing elements and subjective and/or objective product information received from consumers or input to the systems as part of their initial setup. The output of the systems comprise sets of products that they predict the consumer will prefer and/or perform well for the problem or concern identified by the consumer. The performance and preference predictions are a function of consumer problems and product responsiveness patterns. Objective product information is generally obtained with diagnostic instruments. Data measured with the diagnostic instruments may be communicated to the data processing portions of the invention via the Internet. The outputs of the data processing portion of the system may be presented to consumers via the Internet as well.
US07809594B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for the dynamic representation of the actual state of a task. The aim of the invention is to provide a clear and explicit representation of a task. To this end, the processing state is represented as the actual state of a task in such a way that the representation is carried out as a dynamic representation of the actual state in relation to a target state. The user is thus provided with a visual reference relating to, for example, a processing, producing and/or logistics target. The clarity can be further increased by associating additional information characterizing the state of the tasks to the actual states of the tasks.
US07809593B2
A method and a system keeps travel data consistent between a database of airline reservations storing passenger name records (PNR's) including travel segments, and a database of electronic tickets (E-tickets) including travel coupons, this latter database being independently controlled from a ticketing server. Whenever a travel segment is updated or added in one of the PNR's an electronic reconciliation service (ERS) receives images of updated PNR's. Corresponding E-ticket images are requested by ERS and received from the database of E-tickets. Then, ERS establishes a matrix of links between orphan PNR travel segments and orphan E-ticket travel coupons so that E-ticket orphan travel coupons are re-associated with matching PNR orphan travel segments. After E-ticket is updated it is revalidated or reissued. Optionally, a penalty generator calculates penalty fees on the basis of changes brought to the revalidated or reissued E-tickets. The penalty fees are then attached to the updated PNR's.
US07809590B2
A provider-patient encounter device delivers medical information and services by receiving content from context sponsors, linking the content to service codes and presenting the content to providers. The service codes represent medical procedure codes and medical diagnosis codes. Each service code includes a provider demographic code, a service priority code, and a supplemental service code. The provider-patient encounter device presents a selectable list of service codes and presents content from a context sponsor assigned to a service code when the provider selects the service code from the selectable list of service codes.
US07809587B2
A method of providing rapid business support of insured property using image analysis can include the step of receiving at least one digital image of damaged property. Damage can be automatically accessed for insurance purposes based upon the received images. An incident response can be automatically determined based at least in part upon the damage assessment. Incident responses can include, but are not limited to, tendering a claim payoff offer, referring a claim to a human agent, providing repair instructions, and/or arranging for a physical damage assessment of the damaged property.
US07809584B2
A method is provided for facilitating messaging upon a network involving a physician(s), a patient(s) and a workflow engine. Each physician and patient may operate a computer for receiving/sending messages upon the network. The workflow engine may also access the network for receiving/sending messages. The method may include using a first medical message wizard by the patient on a computer, a medical profiler process performed by the workflow engine and a second medical message wizard usable by a first physician on a computer. Additionally, a service provider(s) and a client(s) may operate a computer for receiving/sending messages upon the network and a service-flow engine may access the network for receiving/sending messages. The method may further include using a first service message interface by the client on a computer, a service profiler process performed by the service-flow engine and a second service message interface usable by a first service provider.
US07809580B2
An encoding device (1) for converting a first number (M) of input audio channels into a second, smaller number (N) of output audio channels comprises at least one conversion unit (12) for converting a first signal (Lf; Rf; Co) and a second signal (Lr; Rr; Le) into a third signal (L; R; C) and a fourth signal (Ls; Rs; Cs). The third, dominant signal contains most of the signal energy of the first and second signals, while the fourth, residual signal contains the remainder of said signal energy. The encoding device is arranged for using the third signal (L; R; C) to produce an output signal and for outputting the fourth signal (Ls; Rs; Cs). A decoding device (2) for converting a first number (N) of input audio channels into a second, larger number (M) or output audio channels comprises at least one conversion unit (24) for converting a first signal (L; R; C) and a second signal (Ld; Rd; Ld) into a third signal (Lf, Rf; Co) and a fourth signal (Lr; Rr; Le). The first, dominant signal contains most of the signal energy of the third and fourth signal, while the second, residual signal contains the remainder of said signal energy. The encoding device is arranged for receiving at least one-second signal (Ld; Rd; Cd).
US07809577B2
To eliminate a wrong recognition of speech and reduce processing load to be applied to a computer in a simulation apparatus. The simulation apparatus includes a speech recognition section for referring to dictionary data in which a plurality of phrase data are recorded to specify phrase data, a dictionary selection section for selecting the dictionary data to be referred to by the speech recognition section in response to a mode, and a monitor and a motor for being operated based on an operation of rider, speech and the phrase data. The speech recognition section confirms whether or not sound inputting is valid. If the sound inputting is valid, then a speech recognition mark is displayed on a screen. One of the dictionary data is selected based on the mode. Voice of the rider and the dictionary data are referred to for searching for phrase data conforming to the recognized speech.
US07809570B2
Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use of context, prior information, domain knowledge, and user specific profile data to achieve a natural environment for one or more users making queries or commands in multiple domains. Through this integrated approach, a complete speech-based natural language query and response environment can be created. The systems and methods creates, stores and uses extensive personal profile information for each user, thereby improving the reliability of determining the context and presenting the expected results for a particular question or command.
US07809563B2
Provided are a navigation system having a name search function based on voice recognition, and a method thereof. The navigation system having a map database in which names of topography features on map data are mapped to the map data, includes a voice recognizing unit, an initial sound extracting unit, and a controller. The voice recognizing unit receives a voice uttered by a user, recognizes the uttered voice, and converts the recognized voice into text data. The initial sound extracting unit extracts only an initial sound of each syllable from the text data. The controller receives the initial sound from the initial sound extracting unit, and searches the map database for a destination using an initial sound name search.
US07809557B2
A speech encoder includes an adaptive codebook that generates an adaptive codevector representing a pitch component, a random codebook that generates a random codevector representing a random component, and a synthesis filter that generates a synthetic speech signal by being excited by the adaptive codevector and the random codevector. The random codebook includes an input vector provider configured to provide an input vector, and an excitation vector generator configured to generate an excitation vector as the random codevector by dispersing the input vector by using a fixed pattern. A length of the fixed pattern is shorter than a length of a sub-frame.
US07809549B1
In an embodiment, a method of providing an on demand translation service is provided. A subscriber may be charged a reduced fee or no fee for use of the on demand translation service in exchange for displaying commercial messages to the subscriber, the commercial messages being selected based on subscriber information. A multimedia signal including information in a source language may be received. The information may be obtained as text in the source language from the multimedia signal. The text may be translated from the source language to a target language. Translated information, based on the translated text, may be transmitted to a processing device for presentation to the subscriber. The received multimedia signal may be sent to a multimedia device for viewing.
US07809545B2
A method of controlling the conditional execution of elements and subsystems in a block diagram is disclosed. Data structures known as Execution Contexts are created and associated with individual block diagram elements and subsystems. The Execution Contexts allow execution of the associated element or subsystem upon satisfaction of a specified pre-condition. The Execution Contexts may be inherited by other elements and subsystems in the block diagram and propagated programmatically throughout the block diagram. The use of the Execution Contexts allows for efficient code generation and block diagram execution, as well as supporting modular design concepts.
US07809539B2
A method for selecting node variables in a binary decision tree structure is provided. The binary decision tree is formed by mapping node variables to known outcome variables. The method calculates a statistical measure of the significance of each input variable in an input data set and then selects an appropriate node variable on which to base the structure of the binary decision tree using an averaged statistical measure of the input variable and any co-linear input variables of the data set.
US07809524B2
There is an apparatus for predicting wave propagation characteristic of a multiple antenna system, including: a transmission position calculator for calculating transmission positions of multiple transmitting antennas; a wave propagation path searcher for searching for a wave propagation path for each of a plurality of image antennas generated for each of said multiple transmitting antennas; a reflection electric field calculator for calculating a partial reflection electric field on the searched propagation path; and a received power calculator for calculating a received power based on the calculated partial reflection electric field.
US07809519B2
There is provided a system and method for automatically calibrating a temperature sensor. More specifically, there is provided a system made up of a temperature sensor which includes a first resistance configured to indicate a temperature of the temperature sensor and a second resistance, in series with the first resistor, wherein the second resistance is adjustable to calibrate the first resistance, and a calibration circuit, coupled to the temperature sensor and configured to automatically calibrate the first resistance.
US07809514B2
A flow rate measurement device (1) connected to a household gas supply pipe includes: a flow rate sensor (3) which measures a flow rate at predetermined time intervals; a computing unit (6) which differentiate the measured flow rate; a library (7); and an judging unit (8) which compares the differentiated flow rate against an activation threshold value stored in the library (7) and determines a change of the operation state of an appliance connected downstream of the flow rate sensor (3).
US07809511B2
A metabolic flux affecting substance production using cells is determined by 1) creating a stoichiometric matrix based on formulas of biochemical reactions from a substrate through a desired produced substance, 2) selecting the same number of independent metabolic fluxes from all metabolic fluxes as the degree of freedom of the stoichiometric matrix as free fluxes, 3) creating a sufficient number of random combinations of the free fluxes for a statistical analysis and calculating a metabolic flux distribution from each created combination based on the stoichiometric matrix, 4) obtaining a regression equation including a minimum number of free fluxes that shows a correlation with substance production from the calculated metabolic flux distributions by a multivariate statistical analysis, and 5) determining at least one metabolic flux affecting substance production based on a coefficient in the obtained regression equation.
US07809503B2
A navigation apparatus is obtained that can reduce as much as possible to blank interval during the navigation even when a route deviation has occurred. In order to structure a navigation apparatus that includes a guided vehicle position determining portion 3c that finds the position of a guided vehicle and a recommended route searching portion 3i that searches for a recommended route to a destination point, a problem condition identifying portion 3f is provided that identifies the presence or absence of a problem condition that makes the travel along the recommended route Ro difficult when viewed in terms of the current condition of the guided vehicle with respect to the recommended route Ro forward travel side of the position of the guided vehicle, and a route deviation plan portion 3h is provided that sets a point that the guided vehicle is anticipated to reach under the presence of the problem condition to the starting point, activates the recommended route searching portion 3i, and searches for a new recommended route Rn from the starting point to a destination point in the case in which the problem condition identifying portion 3f has identified that a problem condition is present.
US07809494B2
An engine control apparatus for controlling the amount of the air flowing into each cylinder in accordance with the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder at the time of starting the engine is disclosed. Further, at the engine starting time, the target amount of the air flowing into the cylinder is calculated and/or the amount of the air flowing into the cylinder is controlled, based on the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder. The amount of the fuel remaining in the neighborhood of the engine intake port or in the intake pipe is calculated by being separated into a balanced liquid film amount and unbalanced liquid film amount. Based on the unbalanced liquid film amount, the injection fuel amount is corrected so that the amount of the fuel flowing into the cylinder is controlled with high accuracy.
US07809483B2
A vehicle steering control device capable of executing automatic steering and manual steering includes: an automatic control amount-setting device that sets a target automatic control amount based on information about vehicle behavior and ambient environment; a steering control amount-setting device that sets a target steering amount based on a manual steering amount input by a driver and the set target automatic control amount; and a steering device that steers based on the set target steering amount. When the target automatic control amount contributes more in the setting of the target steering amount than the manual steering amount does, the steering control amount-setting device sets the target steering amount so as to better the responsiveness in the lateral shift of the vehicle relatively to the responsiveness in the turning of the vehicle, in comparison with when the target automatic amount does not contribute more than the manual steering amount.
US07809481B2
An engine control unit has a data memory for storing freeze frame data that is data indicating the operating status of vehicle equipment at the time when an abnormality of the vehicle equipment is detected. The engine control unit saves the freeze frame data stored in the data memory in a storage unit of a management station outside the vehicle through radio communication. The engine control unit determines the properness of the communication and performs a memory operation for erasing the relevant freeze frame data from the data memory based on a determination that the communication has been properly performed.
US07809477B2
A method for starting up a wind energy plant after an operation stoppage, wherein the wind energy plant has a gearbox in the drive train and an operation management which can control at least one operational variable significant for the strain of the gearbox B of the wind energy plant to a desired value BSoll, wherein after the operation stoppage, the desired value BSoll is limited by a maximum value BMax, which is preset depending on a measured temperature of a gearbox component and/or of a lubricant for the gearbox.
US07809476B2
A network tap device array capable of being powered by a power-over Ethernet (“POE”) supply is disclosed. The array enables data from multiple nodes in a communications network to be tapped and forwarded to a plurality of monitoring devices. In one embodiment the network tap device array includes a chassis that is configured to receive a plurality of network tap devices that are each powered by a POE supply. Each network tap device includes network ports for receiving and transmitting network data via communication cables and tap ports for forwarding the tapped network data to the monitoring device. In another embodiment, a sub-chassis includes a plurality of network tap devices and an aggregator that aggregates tapped data from each of the tap devices. The aggregator then forwards the aggregated data to the monitoring device. The sub-chassis can be included in a chassis that is configured to receive multiple populated chassis.
US07809471B2
An environmental apparatus control system assures a consistent temperature control for realizing a comfortable residential environment based upon demands from the residents, yet in an energy-saving manner. The system includes an apparatus for controlling a residential space, and an initializer which provides an initial target value for control of the residential space at the start of operating the system. Comfortableness demands from residents are analyzed in order modify the initial target value to a working target value. The initial target value is shifted in a direction of saving the energy such that the working target value can always approach from and settle on the energy-saving side as the demands from the residents are analyzed. The working target values within a past time period are weighted to give a corrected target value which replaces the initial target value for the start of next operation cycle of the system.
US07809462B2
A power saving method for rotating pulp and paper machinery includes a fiber quality measurement device, a control system and a variable speed drive. The power savings method is applied to either fiber refiners or pressurized screens. Pulp stock enters a rotating machine, which is driven by an electric motor. The electric motor receives electrical current from the variable speed drive to implement rotation. The variable speed drive changes a frequency of the electrical current according to input received by the control system. The control system includes a control algorithm to optimize the efficiency of the rotating machine. The control system receives inputs of pressures, flows, consistency and position. The control system also receives input from the pulp quality measurement device. The algorithm calculates the process values and input from the pulp quality measurement device to determine the appropriate electrical current frequency to output to the electric motor.
US07809458B2
A system and method for integrating a production line process control system (PCS) with production line machine controllers to record data about processes completed on a production line. The PCS receives data from line controllers regarding processes that are completed on each part. Process data including process order data is stored by the PCS and used to instruct line controllers on whether a particular part should be accepted for machining or handled in another way. Rejected parts are flagged electronically so when they arrive at a subsequent line controller, they are directed to a chute containing parts removed from the production process. The PCS and line controllers exchange data about each part and applicable processes as it proceeds through production. The PCS records the data to develop a complete part history. The PCS integrates with a plant quality and tracking system that records the historical data.
US07809457B2
A method for generation of a sequence of operations for a manufacturing process including modeling the manufacturing process through a finite state machine to create a sequence of operations generator operative to generate a list of sequences of operations for the manufacturing process and utilizing the sequence of operations generator to input process information and automatically generate a list of sequences of operations.
US07809453B2
For simulating a wave field synthesis system, an audio scene description defining a temporal sequence of audio objects is provided, an audio object having an audio file for a virtual source or a reference to the audio file and information on a source position of the virtual source. Furthermore, an output condition the wave field synthesis system is to satisfy is given. Furthermore, a simulator for simulating the behavior of the wave field synthesis system for the audio scene description, using the audio data and the source positions as well as information on the wave field synthesis system, is provided. Finally a checker performs a check to determine if the simulated behavior of the wave field synthesis system satisfies the output condition. This achieves more flexible audio scene description creation as well as flexible portability of an audio scene description developed for one system to another wave field synthesis system.
US07809450B2
A method and apparatus for process monitoring are provided. Process monitoring includes (i) generating a multivariate analysis reference model of a process environment from data corresponding to monitored parameters of the process environment; (ii) designating at least one of the monitored parameters as being correlated to maturation of the process environment; (iii) collecting current process data corresponding to the monitored parameters, including the at least one designated parameter; and (iv) scaling the multivariate reference model based on the current process data of the at least one designated parameter to account for maturation of the process environment. The method further includes generating one or more current multivariate analysis process metrics that represent a current state of the process environment from the current process data; and comparing the current process metrics to the scaled reference model to determine whether the current state of the process environment is acceptable.
US07809441B2
In an embodiment, the invention includes an implantable medical device with a pulse generator and a chemical sensor in communication with the pulse generator, the chemical sensor configured to detect an ion concentration in a bodily fluid. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method for providing cardiac arrhythmia therapy to a patient including sensing a physiological concentration of an analyte, communicating data regarding the physiological concentration of the analyte to an implanted pulse generator, and delivering therapy to the patient based in part on the physiological concentration of the ion. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method for monitoring diuretic therapy. In an embodiment, the invention includes a method for controlling delivery of an active agent into a human body. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07809440B2
AV synchronous, dual chamber pacing systems are disclosed having improved sensing of ectopic ventricular depolarizations or PVCs coincidentally occurring at or shortly following delivery of an A-PACE pulse. A first ventricular sense amplifier that is blanked during and following delivery of an A-PACE pulse is coupled to active and indifferent ventricular pace/sense electrodes defining a ventricular sense vector for sensing natural ventricular depolarizations and declaring a V-EVENT. A far field PVC sense amplifier coupled to a far field PVC sense electrode pair defining a PVC sense vector detects such PVCs while the ventricular sense amplifier is blanked. A PVC declared during the ventricular blanking period by the far field PVC sense amplifier is employed to deliver a VSP pulse upon time-out of a VSP delay, if the VSP function is provided and programmed ON, and/or to halt time-out of an AV delay.
US07809439B2
A method and apparatus for treating an arrhythmia is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) sensing at least one electrical signal from the patient's heart; (b) calculating a frequency spectrum of each electrical signal; (c) calculating a center frequency for each frequency spectrum; and (d) selecting an electro-therapy for delivery to the patient's heart based on the center frequency. The electro-therapy can be a pre-programmed anti-tachycardia pacing (ATP) therapy, a shock therapy, or no therapy at all. The method is performed through the use of an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). Also provided is a method of determining the optimal location to deliver the electro-therapy.
US07809426B2
A method of magnetic resonance imaging of anatomy that is subject to a movement cycle (e.g., the heart during a cardiac cycle), comprising: administering a magnetic resonance contrast agent; waiting a period of time until the contrast agent is effective to cause selected portions of the anatomy (e.g., macrotic cardiac tissue) to have a different T1 recovery rate from that of other portions (normal cardiac tissue); administering a plurality of inversion recovery pulses spaced in time; acquiring image data at a data acquisition time that is spaced in time by a known time interval following an inversion recovery pulse; varying the time within the movement cycle at which the inversion recovery pulses are administered so that the associated data acquisition times are at a plurality of phases of the movement cycle; processing image data acquired at a phase of the movement cycle to produce at least a portion of an image frame at that phase; and performing the processing for a plurality of phases of the movement cycle to produce a plurality of image frames corresponding to a plurality of phases
US07809420B2
A method for use and an improved oximeter sensor substrate that is conforming to the shape of the patient's forehead. In one embodiment, the present invention is an oximeter sensor, having a substrate with a shape similar to a shape of at least a portion of a patient's forehead and including a section adapted to substantially fit over a portion of a forehead of a patient; an emitter disposed on the substrate at a position located on the section; and a detector disposed on the substrate at a distance from the emitter. In one embodiment, the substrate includes a hat that holds the emitter and the detector in a spaced-part manner against the patient's forehead.
US07809406B2
A central portable communication device can display further information related to first information received in an associated local portable communication. The associated local portable communication device may receive and present the first information, and may send, in dependence of a selection made by a user, a request for displaying the further information in the central portable communication device via a local link. The central portable communication device may receive the request, automatically retrieve further information based on the request, and display the additional information on a display.
US07809405B1
The present invention is a method for reducing aviation voice communication confusion. The method includes receiving a first voice radio communication in a processing system. The method further includes receiving a second voice radio communication in the processing system. The method further includes comparing the first voice radio communication to the second voice radio communication. The method further includes providing an alert when the compared first voice radio communication and second voice radio communication are at least substantially inconsistent in content. The processing system implements speech recognition functionality when comparing the first voice radio communication to the second voice radio communication.
US07809389B2
To communicate in a press-to-talk (PTT) session, a message for requesting a right to talk in the PTT session is sent over a wireless link between a mobile station and a base station system. The message for requesting the right to talk in the PTT session is sent in wireless signaling over the wireless link. An acknowledgment of the wireless signaling carrying the message is received, with the acknowledgment sent by the base station system in response to the control signaling. An indication is provided at the mobile station of the right to talk in response to the acknowledgment.
US07809384B2
Data is synchronized between a mobile device and a computing device over a wireless link. Synchronization operations are scheduled according to a synchronization schedule that is based on a current time of day.
US07809381B2
A telephone system supports communication with user devices over both a cellular radio network as well as over an Internet Protocol (IP) network, and enables roaming and active call handoff between cellular and IP domains. Approaches to detecting presence of a user near a suitable IP network are used in controlling transitions between the domains, for example, enabling automatic transitions between domains, and delivery of calls to a mobile user to data network devices in the vicinity of the user.
US07809379B2
The present invention provides a multi-mode mobile terminal and method of triggering a communication service using position information thereof, by which the multi-mode mobile terminal triggers its optimal communication service in a communication environment where various kinds of communications systems co-exist. The present invention includes acquiring a position of a multi-mode mobile terminal configured to operate in a plurality of separate communication modes and operating the multi-mode mobile terminal in the communication mode based on its position.
US07809377B1
Improved approaches for monitoring status of articles being shipped are disclosed. The monitoring can produce notifications to interested parties. The notifications typically contain status information pertaining to the articles being shipped. Alternatively, interested parties can gain access to status information pertaining to the articles being shipped via a website. According to one embodiment, the status information includes at least position (location) information and shipping conditions information.
US07809376B2
An integrated system and method that provides an enhanced analogue of interactive voice response structures and features for mobile phones and similar handheld communications devices, comprised of customized kernel applications, for communicating with central control servers and optional ancillary control servers with pertinent databases, auxiliary coordination applications on network-enabled computers, and an optional website that facilitates the creation of IVR-like structures and functions, via reference codes which are predominantly formatted as telephone numbers, to present a parallel, yet more powerful utilization of this widely-implemented and well-known voice-only construct, applied as an abbreviated Internet URL replacement in the typing-challenged mobile space, giving mobile devices access to VoIP-class features that also off-loads voice-only PABX platforms, without requiring IVR equipment or an infrastructure overhaul, by making full use of wireless and landline multi-protocol (i.e. TCP/IP) gateways, to provide easy and primarily visual access to wealth of organized content, with the ability to manipulate, send and receive specific, context and time sensitive multimedia information in a well-coordinated, controlled and scalable manner.
US07809373B2
In a wireless mobile communications system, a method of transmitting and receiving radio access information that allows a faster and an efficient way of establishing a radio connection between a terminal and a target base station while performing a handover for the terminal to a cell of the target base station. The network transmits in advance, the radio access information and the like, to the terminal so that the terminal can be connected with the target cell in a faster manner which minimizes the total time for the handover process.
US07809371B2
A communication terminal apparatus that exhibits a shorter time period required until a start of communication and causes the throughput in the wireless communication system to be less reduced. In this apparatus, when the number, N, of retransmissions notified by a response determining part (107) is zero, a subchannel-to-be-used selecting part (108) selects a subchannel, among others, which exhibits the highest order one of the reception qualities of the subchannels notified by a reception quality determining part (106), and then notifies the selected subchannel to a subchannel allocating part (113). When the notified number, N, of retransmissions is one or more, the response determining part (107) selects a subchannel which exhibits the N-th lower order reception quality than the highest order reception quality, based on the reception qualities of the subchannels notified by the reception quality determining part (106) for a pilot signal received after a transmission of the latest access request signal, and then notifies the selected subchannel to the subchannel allocating part (113).
US07809366B2
A device client that supports customer care and distribution of update packages to electronic devices makes it possible to efficiently manage and update firmware and software in electronic devices. A terminal management/device management server employs extensions to an industry standard device management protocol to update configuration information, to provision the electronic device, and to manage the electronic device, for example. The electronic device may receive update packages, and update agent(s) in the electronic device may update the firmware and/or software of the electronic device. A diagnostic client in the electronic device facilitates remote diagnosis and a traps client facilitates setting traps and retrieving collected information. A terminal management server may remotely invoke control actions within the electronic device using management objects not supported by the industry standard device management protocol. A user of the electronic device may use a self-care portal to administer self-care and to conduct diagnostics. A subsequent customer-care call may use such information collected during self-care.
US07809363B2
In order to provide a mobile phone terminal which is capable, when changing over between an application program which is implemented as standard and a downloaded program which is not implemented as standard which have been started together, of restarting programs in an order which the user anticipate. An execution unit performs any of the procedures of execution, temporary suspension, and termination of programs by storing, in an execution state storage unit, information for programs which consist of static applets and downloaded applets. A management unit, when the activation of a static applet is requested in a situation that a downloaded applet is stored in the execution state storage unit as a program which is being executed, along with storing the downloaded applet in the execution state storage unit as being in a temporarily suspended state, and generating a dummy applet, also stores the dummy applet in the execution state storage unit as being in a temporarily suspended state, and next starts the static applet with the program execution unit.
US07809362B2
The present invention relates to method and apparatus for providing an arbitrary sound chosen by a called subscriber instead of ringback tone to a calling subscriber. In this present invention, if a call is received, a terminating exchanger requests a trunk connection to a sound db server based on the first information on whether or not to replace a ringback tone and the second information on a route to the sound db server that are received from a home location register (HLR), and provides a called subscriber identification for the sound server. Then, the sound db server searches its db for a sound specified by the called, and provides the found sound for the caller instead of a conventional ringback tone via the terminating exchanger connected through a trunk. Through this sequential procedure of network elements, a caller can hear a sound specified by a called instead of a dry ringback tone.
US07809361B2
A security enhancing system for creating temporary identification information used to mask actual identification in a wireless communication device. The temporary identification information conforms to a standard usable by at least one wireless communication medium, and may be used by other devices in communicating with the wireless communication device, however, only other devices possessing secret address component information may determine the actual identity of the masked wireless communication device. The temporary identification information may further be recompiled when a threshold condition is satisfied.
US07809360B2
Real-time optimization of one or more events in an electronic agenda, an electronic itinerary, an electronic calendar, or an electronic route plan, by receiving an electronic personal plan for a first user having wireless connectivity service need indications during event(s) of the plan; receiving electronic reports from devices operated by users other than the first user indicating actual historical availability conditions of the required wireless connectivity at a location associated with the event of the plan; analyzing the electronic historical reports to find an alternate time, location, route, or combination of time, location, and route, for an event responsive to determining the needed wireless connectivity would not likely meet a service quality preference according to the historical availability; modifying the electronic personal plan to reflect the alternate finding to the first user; and transmitting a communique to said first user containing said alternate findings.
US07809359B2
A technique and apparatus to provide status tracking of presence and/or location of a mobile, wireless device to a requesting entity even outside of a particular wireless system. This allows wireless service providers the ability to monitor and log changes in the status of mobile stations within and/or outside their networks. Embodiments are disclosed wherein presence and/or location information is provided to entities outside of a particular servicing wireless network using the mechanisms of call processing components of a mobile network (e.g., call setup procedures), and using standard mechanisms currently available to any appropriately conforming Mobile Switching Center (MSC) element. In one disclosed embodiment, a wireless chat tracking system is implemented which utilizes a change in mobile registration status to automatically notify a chat group system outside the wireless network of current status information activity regarding a relevant device, e.g., registration activity or inactivity timeout. In the wireless chat automatic status tracking system, a registration notification (REGNOT) message is either explicitly forwarded or copied to an external IP based application (e.g., to a mobile chat group system). The change in mobile registration is communicated via a suitable signaling link (e.g., SS7, TCP/IP, etc.) between a Home Location Register (HLR) and the chat group system. Therefore, instead of a conventionally closed system using SS7 messages, REGNOT messages are pushed out over TCP/IP connections to external applications (e.g., chat servers) to automatically notify the external system of the location of a particular user.
US07809357B2
A system and method for facilitating communications between a mobile device and a network application are provided. A mobile device transmits a request for data change information that includes a time out interval. The network application receives the request and measures a time elapsed since the receipt of the data change request. The network application transmits notification to the mobile device client that the time out interval has elapsed or a network specified time out occurs. As notifications are received or a network time out is detected, the mobile client device tunes the time out interval for subsequent data change requests.
US07809351B1
Methods and systems for differential billing of services used during a mobile data service user session are disclosed. A method includes identifying a mobile data service user session and identifying a mobile data service user that is associated with the identified mobile data service user session. One or more services used by the mobile data service user during the mobile data service user session are identified. A service usage report is generated for each of the one or more services used by the mobile data service user. The usage reports are based on a measure of service usage of each of the identified one or more services and a billing profile that is associated with the user. Access is provided to the user service usage reports for storage as a part of billing records.
US07809350B2
In one example, a first message center address associated with a home message center and a second message center address associated with an emergency message center are stored in memory of the mobile device. A user input request for communicating a short message is received through a user interface of the mobile device. If the user input request is identified as being for an emergency message, the second message center address is read from the memory and provided in a message center address field of the short message. The short message having the second message center address in the message center address field is then transmitted by the mobile device to the wireless network. The network identifies the second message center address in the message center address field and, in response, causes the short message to be sent to the emergency message center which is local to the network.
US07809344B2
Fractional carrier frequency offset estimators and related methods are disclosed. The invention may be particularly applied in WiMAX systems. The disclosed method of estimating fractional carrier frequency offset between a transmitter and a receiver includes calculating a first delay correlation based on a first and a second preamble repetitions included in a received signal, processing the phase of the first delay correlation to compensate for a phase rotation of the first delay correlation, and estimating the fractional carrier frequency offset by multiplying a processed phase value, generated after the step of processing the phase of the first delay correlation, by a predetermined value.
US07809341B2
A received low-frequency standard radio wave, which is an amplitude modulation signal, is converted to an intermediate frequency signal Sa, and is output to a detection circuit and an AGC circuit. The detection circuit and AGC circuit generates an RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 from the input intermediate frequency signal Sa, and controls an RF control circuit and IF control circuit by outputting the generated RF control signal Sf1 and IF control signal Sf2 to the RF control circuit and IF control circuit. By this a radio wave reception device can speed up AGC operation.
US07809337B2
An apparatus and method for adjusting transmission phasing in a point-to-point communication link is disclosed. The relative phases of the transmissions from each antenna are adjusted before transmission to give optimum gain when received by two or more antenna elements and a signal combining element. The signal includes a data component, consisting of a subset of the subcarriers modulated with the input data, which is common to transmissions from all antenna elements; and a phase reference component consisting of a subset of the subcarriers that are modulated with a predetermined phase. The signal combining element is operable to receive the components and extract phase information. A phase adjustment signaling device compares extracted phase information and signals the plurality of transmitting antenna elements to adjust the relative transmission phasing between the signals transmitted from a plurality of transmitting antenna elements to permit a receiver to receive the transmitted signals with a desired phase relationship.
US07809335B2
A technique includes based on a processing time that is available to a wireless device during an upcoming time interval, selectively enabling and disabling logging by the wireless device.
US07809329B2
A device includes a plurality of ICs and an RF bus structure. Each IC includes a plurality of circuit modules, a switching module, an RF bus transceiver, an antenna interface, and an antenna structure. The switching module provides controlled access to the RF bus transceiver, which communicates via the RF bus structure, among the plurality of circuit modules for external IC communications and provides connectivity among the circuit modules for internal IC communications.
US07809320B2
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a guide member 140 positioned so as to be above a blade 60 in a casing 9 of a cleaning section 6. The guide member 140 guides the toner 8, which has been scraped from an image carrier 1 with the blade 60, turned into powder smoke and moved to the upper side of the blade 60, to the apical surface 61 of the blade 60. The apparatus is capable of reducing the friction coefficient between the blade and the image carrier with its compact and simple structure.
US07809319B2
A fixing device for conducting fixing by heating and pressurizing a recording material conveyed between a fixing member and a belt, having therein a pressing section that presses the recording material against a fixing member through a belt, a pressure applying section that generates pressing force proceeding to the pressing section, and a pressing force transmission section that is positioned between the pressing section and the pressure applying section and that transmits the pressing force to the pressing section, wherein the pressing force transmission section has plural first elastic members arranged in the same direction as the longitudinal direction of the pressing section, and the first elastic members have a plurality of different elastic coefficients.
US07809313B2
A toner bottle unit detachable to an image forming apparatus includes an opening/closing device for making an opening of a toner bottle by removing a cap from the opening and closing the opening by attaching the cap. An opening/closing operation device is provided to swing from an open position, in which the opening/closing device makes the opening, to close position, in which the opening/closing device closes the opening. The opening/closing device is operated to make the opening in conjunction with swinging movement of the opening/closing operation device from the close position to the open position, and closes the opening in conjunction with the swinging movement of the opening/closing operation device from the open position to the close position. The opening/closing operation device is swung between the open and close positions substantially around the central axis.
US07809312B2
A toner supplying apparatus includes a toner tank to hold toner, a supplying part that protrudes into the toner tank to discharge the toner from the toner tank, and a toner agitating member to rotate within the toner tank to agitate the toner in almost an entire inner space of the toner tank, including a location on a top surface of the supplying part that projects into the toner tank.
US07809308B2
An apparatus of the present invention includes a first guide supported by a cover body in such a manner that the first guide can swing around a hinge with respect to the main body of the apparatus and a second guide provided on the apparatus main body. The first guide is supported in such a manner that it can move with respect to the cover body. When the cover body swings so as to open a sheet conveyance path, a site of the first guide on the side of the hinge swings with respect to the cover body in such a direction so as to separate from the second guide.
US07809302B2
A charging apparatus includes a charging member to charge a surface of a photoconductive medium, a power unit to supply an electric power as a bias voltage to the charging member, and a resistor unit to reduce a ripple on the surface of the charging member. Accordingly, a stability of the charging apparatus is secured without using a separate power device.
US07809299B2
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus which, when switching operation from color image forming operation to monochromatic image forming operation, forms a monochromatic image on each of a prescribed number of sheets by stopping a part of the functions of yellow, magenta and cyan image forming sections of the color image forming operation, and thereafter, forms a monochromatic image only with a black-only image forming section, thereby permitting extension of service life of the image forming sections, while improving the productivity.
US07809295B2
A color image forming apparatus includes, for each of liquid developers of plural colors, a photosensitive member, a developing roller, an agitating device that agitates a liquid developer having a viscosity characteristic dependent on a shearing force, and a developer supplying unit that supplies the liquid developer to the developing roller. In development, agitation start timing is varied depending on the color of the liquid developer.
US07809294B2
An image forming device includes an image forming arrangement including a medium passage and motor, and a temperature detecting unit. A supplying control unit allows supply of a recording medium in the medium passage responsive to an image-forming signal, and prevents supply of a recording medium in the passage responsive to a warm-up signal. A warm-up control unit controls the motor to drive, responsive to the warm-up signal, at a first speed if a detected temperature is least a first temperature, and a second speed lower than the first speed if the detected temperature detected is lower than the first temperature. An image forming control unit controls the motor to drive, responsive to the image-forming signal, at a third speed if the detected temperature is at least a second temperature, and a fourth speed lower than the third speed if the detected temperature is lower than the second temperature.
US07809292B2
A temperature detecting unit detects temperature of a fixing unit, and a control unit monitors temperatures detected by the temperature detecting unit. The control unit determines that the temperature detecting unit is abnormal when a first difference in temperatures in a first time period exceeds a first threshold.
US07809291B2
An image forming apparatus in which a predetermined image density can be obtained by correcting a toner density control target value without consuming toner. The output value Vt of the magnetic permeability sensor and the target output value Vtref are compared, and the toner density is controlled by controlling a powder pump on the basis of the comparative result thereof so that the output value Vt approximates the target output value Vtref. In addition, the target output value Vtref is corrected on the basis of the detected result of the image coverage ratio so as to maintain a predetermined development potential of the development apparatus. By virtue of this, even when image forming that involves a significant change in the toner replacement amount in the development apparatus is performed, for example, even when an image of high image coverage ratio is output, the toner density is adjusted to maintain the development capability at a constant, and a predetermined image density is ensured. Moreover, because the image coverage ratio can be detected without consuming toner, toner does not need to be consumed when the target output value Vtref is corrected.
US07809288B2
In a color laser printer, four toner cartridges are juxtaposed in a straight line in a process unit. When the process unit is withdrawn from the laser printer to a position at which the toner cartridge nearest the front of the laser printer can be removed, an out-of-toner sensor farthest from the front of the laser printer from among four out-of-toner sensors turns on. Side surfaces of a unit-accommodating section constituting the process unit block detection light from the other three out-of-toner sensors so that these out-of-toner sensors remain off. Since the farthest out-of-toner sensor switches from off to on, the CPU determines that the process unit has been withdrawn to a position at which the nearest toner cartridge can be removed.
US07809282B2
Improved dispersion compensating circuits for optical transmission systems are disclosed. According to the improved method, there is provided a compensation circuit comprising a varactor diode network. The network is preferably inserted between a source of laser modulating signal and the laser. A low pass filter constructs the network. The network preferably includes an inductance and a combined circuit, which includes varactors. The network preferably provides an amplitude dependent delay of the modulating signal applied to the laser. In a first embodiment, a fixed capacitor is in series with a varactor and connected to a DC bias through inductor. In a second embodiment, second varactor is in series with varactor instead with an opposite polarity of a fixed capacitor as used in the first embodiment. In a third embodiment, two varactors 301 and 302 are used in place of the fixed capacitor in parallel.
US07809278B2
A method of aligning optical data communication channels between system functions comprises: emitting an array of light beams from a corresponding array of data emitters in response to electrical data signals generated from a first system function; emitting light beams from two control emitters in response to electrical control signals generated from the first system function; receiving light beams from the data emitters by a corresponding array of data detectors to form an array of data optical communication channels; conducting electrical data signals reproduced from the received data emitter light beams to a second system function; receiving light beams from the two control emitters by two control detector sections to form two control optical communication channels; conducting electrical control signals reproduced from the received control emitter light beams to a second system function; monitoring a multiplicity of light detectors of each of the two control detector sections to determine an offset in optical channel alignment; and controlling the optical channel alignment based on the determined offset.
US07809277B1
Methods and systems for higher-order PMD compensation are implemented by developing an effective mathematical model and applying economical design techniques to the model. By assuming a constant precession rate for a narrow band of frequencies in an optical signal, a simplified model of a higher-order PMD compensator can be derived. The model can be used produce an economical compensator by making multiple uses of selected optical components.
US07809275B2
This disclosure concerns transceivers that include CDR bypass functionality. In one example, a 10 G XFP transceiver module includes integrated CDR functionality for reducing jitter. The 10 G XFP transceiver module also implements CDR bypass functionality so that the CDR can be bypassed at rate less than about 10 Gb/s, such as the Fibre Channel 8.5 Gb/s rate for example.
US07809272B2
The technology described herein provides a low-cost three-port reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer (ROADM) with an improved edge profile and add/drop flexibility. The technology described herein further provides a tunable spectral filter utilizing two sets of gratings and lenses and a two-axis micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror with a selectively shaped cut-out disposed within the middle of the collimated optical path.
US07809270B2
The present invention provides a remodulating channel selector for a wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system. The remodulating selector receives a WDM input signal, selects a particular optical channel from the WDM signal and places the information from the selected signal onto a newly-generated optical output signal. The wavelength of the output optical signal can be the same as or different from one of the optical channels which comprises the WDM input signal. When used in a WDM optical communication system with remodulators at the transmission input, the remodulating selectors provide complete control over the interfaces with optical transmitters and receivers, permitting use with a broad range of optical equipment.
US07809262B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for notifying and determining a location of a fiber cut. According to embodiments, a method for determining a location of a fiber cut in a passive optical network (PON) including a plurality of optical network terminations (ONTs) is provided. According to the method, a plurality of base signatures are generated prior to the fiber cut. Each of the base signatures correspond to a known configuration of the plurality of ONTs. In response to the fiber cut, a current signature corresponding to a current configuration of the plurality of ONTs is generated. Whether the current signature matches one of the base signatures is determined. In response to finding a matching base signature, the location of the fiber cut is determined based on the known configuration of the plurality of ONTs corresponding to the matching base signature.
US07809246B1
A formatter is provided and, when a code sequence which matches a part (‘00’) of the head of a predetermined code sequence detected by a start code prefix detection unit, is detected, the start code prefix detection unit detects the residual part (‘00’, ‘00’, ‘01’, ‘E0’) of the detected predetermined code sequence to detect a pattern of (‘00’, ‘00’, ‘00’), and the formatter outputs one (‘00’). After the boundary of packets is defined, amongst data which are not transferred to a decoding buffer, data corresponding to code sequences other than the code sequence (‘00’, ‘00’, ‘01’, ‘E0’) indicating that the packet boundary are output to the decoding buffer. Therefore, when separating a coded and multiplexed signal, control of an input buffer reading control circuit is simplified, and thereby the hardware scale is reduced, resulting in an inexpensive apparatus for reproducing a digital code sequence.
US07809242B2
Recording resource limitation resolution is described. In one implementation a time period is detected during which programs are designated to be recorded, and during which at least one of the designated programs cannot be recorded due to a recording resource limitation. All possible combinations to record the designated programs which will resolve the recording resource limitation can be determined using an iterative selection process. A recording conflict user interface is displayed, and any one of the possible combinations which will resolve the recording resource limitation can be selected via the recording conflict user interface. Other implementations are also described.
US07809239B2
In an electric appliance system, an electric appliance for performing designated functions and first and second remote controllers are included. The first remote controller is optionally triggered for controlling a first group of the designated functions, and the second remote controller is optionally triggered for controlling a second group of the designated functions. The second group includes at least one designated function included in the first group and at least one designated function excluded from the first group.
US07809232B2
A fiber distribution hub includes a frame within the enclosure, the frame having a swinging portion configured to pivot from a first position to a second position. The fiber distribution hub also includes a subscriber termination field mounted on the swinging portion; at least one optical splitter mounted on the frame; and a pigtail fiber routed from the optical splitter. The swinging portion swings from the first position to the second position without increasing a distance for routing the pigtail fiber from the optical splitter to a first front termination connection.
US07809227B2
An optical fiber, and an optical access network, a local area network and optical parts for communication, which uses the optical fiber, are disclosed. The optical fiber whose core diameter is 10 μm˜40 μm has at least two propagation modes in a wavelength over 1200 nm. The optical fiber according to the present invention can reduce packaging costs for optical components, since cross-sectional area of the core is large, compared with the prior art technique adopting a single mode optical fiber, and can transmit ultra-high speed data a relatively long distance, since the mode number and modal dispersion effect of the optical fiber is relatively small, compared with the prior art multimode optical fiber. Also, when using the optical fiber according to the present invention, the optical subscriber network and the local area network can be cost-effectively implemented. In addition, when adopting the optical fiber according to the present invention, productivity of optical components for communication can be improved, costs for an optical component can be reduced and quality of the optical component can be improved.
US07809217B2
In a polarization-independent light control element operable at low voltage, optical waveguides are provided in an X-cut first substrate and control electrodes are disposed thereabove. Optical waveguides are provided in a Z-cut second substrate and control electrodes are disposed thereabove. The control electrodes of the first and second substrates are connected in series to each other in the propagation direction of light. This allows a transverse electric component and a transverse magnetic component to be efficiently controlled because of the incorporation of high electro-optical effects of the optical waveguides of the first substrate on the transverse electric component and high electro-optical effects of the optical waveguides of the second substrate on the transverse magnetic component.
US07809209B2
An image display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a scene change detection unit that detects a change observed in a scene of the image; a brightness enhancement determination unit that determines a brightness enhancement level of the image based on a detection result of the scene change detection unit; and a brightness enhancement unit that subjects an image signal of the image to a brightness enhancement process in which, based on a determination result of the brightness enhancement determination unit, a brightness enhancement amount is set to 0 or a small value on a side largely observed with the change of the scene, and on a side scarcely observed with the change of the scene, the brightness enhancement amount is set to a large value.
US07809205B2
An image processing apparatus in which image data is transformed to spatial frequencies to obtain multiple frequency components, the obtained frequency components are processed, the processed frequency components are inversely transformed to image data, and the number of gray levels of the inversely transformed image data is decreased, and the image processing apparatus comprising a frequency component judgment section for comparing the absolute value of each of specific multiple frequency components in the multiple frequency components obtained after transformation to spatial frequencies with a predetermined value in terms of magnitude, a frequency component changing section for changing each of specific frequency components on the basis of the result of the comparison, and a noise addition section for adding a specific value to each of the specific frequency components having been changed and other frequency components.
US07809199B2
Image forming apparatus, which prevents the occurrence of displacement of the positions of pixels between image data items forming a synthetic image, and eliminates distortion of a character and color shift in character regions and non-character regions. An image size adjustment section obtains, when synthesizing a plurality of image data items to create one image, a remainder by dividing the number of vertical and horizontal pixels of input image data by a least common multiple of the ratio of resolutions of a plurality of image data items, for vertical and horizontal directions of the image. The input image data is processed by means of the result of computing the remainder, so that the remainder becomes 0 when obtaining the remainder by dividing the number of vertical and horizontal pixels of the input image data by the least common multiple of the ratio of the resolutions of the image data items.
US07809196B2
In an object recognition apparatus, a first division unit and a second division unit each partitions an image into a plurality of regions. A first calculation and a second calculation unit each derives, for each of the plurality of regions partitioned. A first comparison unit and a second comparison unit each compares the derived characteristic quantities in between at least two images, for each of the plurality of regions. A recognition unit recognizes a region where the object is located, based on the comparison result.
US07809192B2
An embodiment provides for enabling retrieval of a collection of captured images that form at least a portion of a library of images. For each image in the collection, a captured image may be analyzed to recognize information from image data contained in the captured image, and an index may be generated, where the index data is based on the recognized information. Using the index, functionality such as search and retrieval is enabled. Various recognition techniques, including those that use the face, clothing, apparel, and combinations of characteristics may be utilized. Recognition may be performed on, among other things, persons and text carried on objects.
US07809191B2
In order to increase the recognition rate of a shadow area contained in the image of an aerial photograph, a central control portion performs the processes of: comparing a shadow-produced angle with the angles of segments constituting the polygons generated by a polygon-generating portion to judge whether or not there are the segments coinciding with the shadow-produced angle, of the segments constituting the polygon; judging whether or not the ratio of the length of the segment constituting the shadow to the length of the segment constituting the feature coincides with a shadow-extended ratio; judging whether or not the color tone of the area surrounded by the segments constituting the shadow is darker than that of all the adjacent polygons; and identifying the area surrounded by the segments constituting the shadow as “shadow area.” The polygon of the identified shadow area is generated.
US07809188B1
Digital camera contrast enhancement with piecewise-linear transform with lower and upper cutoffs for the transform determined from histogram analysis with a green color conversion approximation for images and IIR parameter filtering for videos.
US07809182B2
A method for suppressing electromagnetic background radiation in the image according to a precharacterization, a device for carrying out the method according to a precharacterization, a measuring instrument, and a use of the device for identifying a laser signal as a mark for subsequent measuring processes as well as for identifying a source of a laser signal.
US07809178B2
A method is disclosed for enhancing a CT image composed of a plurality of elements, each having an intensity value indicative of a tissue type. The method comprises receiving (101) a first CT image, providing, by enhancement processing (103) based on said first CT image, a plurality of copies of said first CT image, and combining (104) said copies with said first CT image, whereby an enhanced CT image is provided. The combining is based on a classification with respect to intensity values of regions within said first and said copies of said first CT image. The enhancement processing (103) is performed with respect to predetermined intensity value ranges. The method may be implemented as a computer program product or as a device.
US07809163B2
A method for prohibiting a person with a facial mask to operate an automatic teller machine essentially includes the followings steps of: a) arranging a visual spectrum camera and an alarm unit approaching an automatic teller machine (ATM); b) capturing a facial picture of an experimental subject via the camera; c) judging if the picture performs generic facial features of a human face; if false, proceed Step g); d) if true, a facial temperature of the subject is detected to gain a measured temperature; e) comparing the measured temperature with a predetermined reference temperature; if the measured temperature is not within the reference temperature range, a spurious human face is determined and Step g) goes on; f) if the measured temperature is within the reference temperature range, a genuine human face is determined and the ATM is allowably operated without proceeding Step g); and g) activating the alarm unit to transmit a warning signal without operating the ATM.
US07809161B2
A method for processing data includes identifying a time signature of an infra-red (IR) beacon. Image data associated with the IR beacon is identified using the time signature.
US07809149B2
The present disclosure includes various methods and apparatus for controlling directionality of a hearing assistance device including a pair of directional microphones. In various examples, the hearing assistance device includes a pair of directional microphones and an omnidirectional microphone. In various examples, the hearing assistance device includes a directional microphone and an omnidirectional microphone. In examples with multiple directional microphones, various angles can be employed. For example, in some applications the first directional axis can be about ninety degrees offset of the second directional axis. The microphones are aligned with an intended direction of reception in some embodiments. In some examples the microphones are not aligned with an intended direction of reception. Other variations are possible without departing from the scope of the present subject matter.
US07809133B2
A cryptographically secure, computer hardware-implemented modular reduction method systematically underestimates and randomizes an approximate quotient used for computation of a remainder. The randomizing error injected into the approximate quotient is limited to a few bits, e.g. less than half a word. The computed remainder is congruent with but a small random multiple of the residue, which can be found by a final set of subtractions by the modulus. In addition to a computational unit and operations sequencer, the computing hardware also includes a random or pseudo-random number generator for producing the random error. The modular reduction method thus resists hardware cryptoanalysis attacks, such as timing and power analysis attacks.
US07809130B1
A system, method and computer program product for recovering a password including, for each possible password to be tested, generating a periodicity unit based on a number of symbols in the password and a size of a chunk used by a one-way function to encrypt the password. The periodicity unit is substantially shorter than an input string, that includes replicated actual password used to encrypt the password. Based on the periodicity unit, using the one-way function, generating a control value for the periodicity unit. The control value is tested for a match with a control value generated from the actual password. An indication of a match is provided to a user.
US07809129B2
A method (200) of cancelling echo in a duplex communication device (100). The method can include detecting a level of noise present on an uplink signal path (104), generating a noise classifier (194) based on the detected level of noise, detecting whether uplink audio is present on the uplink signal path (104) and detecting whether downlink audio is present on a downlink signal path (102). The method further can include generating a double talk flag (136) based at least on the noise classifier, whether uplink audio is present on the uplink signal path, and whether downlink audio is present on the downlink signal path. In addition, the double talk flag, the noise classifier and an uplink signal can be processed to generate an output signal (120) having reduced echo.
US07809119B2
A method includes setting an account value of an account to a first amount, wherein the first amount is associated with a specified level of authorized usage of a phone associated with the account. The method further includes blocking an incoming call intended for the phone when the account value is at a second amount that is at or lower than a predetermined threshold amount, wherein the second amount is associated with available usage of the phone. A data processing system includes a triggering module to generate a trigger signal when an account value of an account is at or lower than a predetermined reserve amount, greater than zero wherein the account value is associated with authorized usage of a phone associated with the account and a blocking module to block an incoming call to the phone in response to the trigger signal.
US07809115B2
A flash radiography diode includes a cathode and an anode. The cathode includes a frustum member with a bore extending through the frustum member. The anode is a tapered anode made of an electrically conductive material and oriented toward the cathode. The anode and the cathode are housed in a chamber with a gap between the anode and the cathode. The cathode is configured to emit electrons to the tapered anode, which electrons strike the anode and create an anode plasma. The anode plasma creates X rays which propagate from the anode.
US07809105B2
A vision measuring system includes a vision measuring apparatus. The apparatus includes a first body mechanism, a carrying stage movably mounted in the first mechanism for supporting an article thereon, a second body mechanism spanning the first mechanism, a third body mechanism movably mounted on the second mechanism, and an imaging device movably mounted to the third mechanism for picking up images of the article. Adjusting structures are installed on the apparatus for ensuring the device to be movable relative to the article in three directions perpendicular to one another. The system further includes a motion controller for controlling movements of the stage, the third mechanism, and the device, an input unit, a computer system for converting operating orders from the input unit into electronic signals and sending the electronic signals to the controller, and analyzing image data from the device, and an output unit for displaying analyzing results.
US07809099B2
A direct vessel injection (DVI) nozzle for minimum emergency core coolant (ECC) bypass is disclosed. The DVI nozzle is used in a pressurized light water reactor (PLWR) having a reactor vessel with a reactor coolant system in which a coolant flows into the reactor vessel through a cold leg and passes through a reactor core prior to being discharged to the outside of the reactor vessel through a hot leg. The DVI nozzle, provided to directly inject ECC into the reactor vessel to cool the reactor core during a break in the reactor coolant system, such as a cold leg break (CLB) that may occur in the PLWR, is placed on the reactor vessel at a position horizontally offset from the central axis of the hot leg at an angle of 10° to 30° and is involved within a region defined above the central axis of the hot leg by a distance of 1.5 times the sum of diameters of the hot leg and the DVI nozzle. Thus, the DVI nozzle efficiently injects ECC, and remarkably reduces the direct ECC bypass fraction to a broken cold leg and minimizes the amount of direct ECC bypass.
US07809095B2
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a wireless receiving apparatus including: antennas; antenna branches each capable of receiving a wireless signal; a demodulating unit demodulating a reception signal; an antenna selecting unit selecting a packet waiting antenna; a packet detecting unit detecting a packet; a power supply control unit stopping power to a packet non-waiting antenna branch except for the antenna branch connected to a packet waiting antenna until the packet is detected and supplying power to the antenna branches after the packet is detected; a calculating unit calculating a gain value of VGA unit based upon the reception signal via the packet waiting antenna; and a control unit controlling a gain of the VGA unit based upon the calculated gain value after the packet non-waiting antenna branch is initiated when power to the antenna branches is supplied.
US07809092B2
Aspects of a method and system for UMTS HSDPA Shared Control Channel processing may include calculating at a receiver, for each one of a plurality of control channels, a quality metric derived from at least one Viterbi Decoder state metric. A control channel may be selected on the basis of the quality metrics, where the quality metric is selected that provides maximum confidence. The selected control channel may be chosen if its corresponding 3GPP metric is greater than a specified threshold, where the threshold is a design parameter. A validity of a selected control channel may be determined based on consistency and a CRC, where the CRC may be derived from decoding a sub-frame. The calculating and selecting may be done for a first slot of a sub-frame for High-Speed Shared Control Channels.
US07809072B2
An apparatus and method are provided for transmitting high-speed data through a plurality of transmitter antennas using a relay network, receiving signals transmitted from the plurality of transmitter antennas, and removing interference in a mobile communication system. The received signals are despread on a transmitter antenna-by-transmitter antenna basis according to a preset spreading factor. The despread signals are divided into data signals and noise. The signals transmitted through the plurality of transmitter antennas are regenerated from recovered data signals. Data components and interference signal components are identified. The interference signal components are removed from the signals transmitted on the transmitter antenna-by-transmitter antenna basis.
US07809066B2
A software packet error system for a High Definition Television (HDTV) receiver. A data packet error signal is transferred from a forward error correcting Reed-Solomon decoder to a transport processor. In response to a segment sync signal, the transport processor generates an error signal which appears on a programmable output pin. The software packet error signal is synchronized with the outgoing data packet signal such that each data packet is bracketed or framed by its associating packet error signal. Precession of the start of the data packets forwarded on the transport but relative to the start of the data packets appearing at the output of the decoder occurs as a result of a training packet generated for every 312 data packets. The precession is reset at the beginning of every field and is predictable across the field duration with sufficient accuracy to make the software packet error mechanism feasible.
US07809049B2
An integrated circuit includes a baseband processing module, an RF section, and an interface module. The baseband processing module converts an outbound voice signal into an outbound voice symbol stream; converts an inbound voice symbol stream into an inbound voice signal; converts outbound data into an outbound data symbol stream; converts an inbound data symbol stream into inbound data; converts outbound image/video data into an outbound image/video symbol stream; and converts an inbound image/video symbol stream into inbound image/video data. The RF section converts an inbound RF voice signal into the inbound voice symbol stream; converts the outbound voice symbol stream into an outbound RF voice signal; converts an inbound RF data signal into the inbound data symbol stream; converts the outbound data symbol stream into an outbound RF data signal; converts an inbound RF image/video signal into the inbound image/video symbol stream; and converts the outbound image/video symbol stream into an outbound RF image/video signal. The interface module couples the baseband processing module to the RF section.
US07809047B2
Repeaters, event those having digital processing, exist. The significant drawback of these digital repeaters is that the computational complexity or the processing speed has to be very high in order to guarantee, particularly when compensating for echo, that the necessary delay does not excessively impair the performance. The aim of the invention is to provide a structure of the repeater in which the computational complexity is reduced without this reduction having a negative effect on the performance during signal filtering and/or suppression of natural oscillation. To this end, the invention provides that in order to carry out bandpass filtering, adaptive pre-equalization and suppression of the natural oscillation, the components of the repeater in the uplink branch and downlink branch are arranged in a designated sequence, whereby duplex filters are used for coupling both repeater branches to the antennes. In addition, only one reconfiguration in the modules at the user is necessary in order to adapt to user-specific requirements. The invention is used in the field of digital repeaters for data systems technology and telecommunications technology.
US07809044B2
A forward link power control mechanism measures the reverse link power control bits which are transmitted on the forward traffic channel. At the remote station, the reverse link power control bits from multiples base stations or multiple signal paths are measured, combined, and filtered to yield an improved measurement of the forward link signal quality. The reverse link power control bits which are deemed unreliable are omitted from use in the power control loop. The remote station generates a set of forward link power control bit in accordance with the measurements and transmits these bits to all base stations in communication with the remote station. Each base station adjusts its gain of the forward traffic channel in accordance to its measurement of the forward link power control bit.
US07809042B2
A two-wavelength semiconductor laser device includes a first semiconductor laser device including a first-conductivity type first cladding layer, a first guide layer made of AlGaAs mixed crystal, a first quantum well active layer having a barrier layer made of AlGaAs mixed crystal, a second guide layer made of AlGaAs mixed crystal, and a second-conductivity type second cladding layer, and a second semiconductor laser device including a first-conductivity type third cladding layer, a third guide layer made of AlGaInP mixed crystal, a second quantum well active layer having a barrier layer made of AlGaInP mixed crystal, a fourth guide layer made of AlGaInP mixed crystal, and a second-conductivity type fourth cladding layer. At least the barrier layer included in the first quantum well active layer, the first guide layer, and the second guide layer each have an Al molar ratio of more than 0.47 and 0.60 or less.
US07809040B2
A red surface emitting laser element includes a first reflector, a second reflector including a p-type semiconductor multilayer film, an active layer between the first reflector and the second reflector, and a p-type semiconductor spacer layer between the active layer and the second reflector, the p-type semiconductor spacer layer having a thickness of 100 nm or more and 350 nm or less.
US07809029B2
The invention relates to an article comprising a length of an optical fiber and a package, the optical fiber comprising a fiber Bragg grating dispersed over a FBG-section of the length of the optical fiber, the package comprising a carrier with a carrier surface for supporting at least a supported part of the optical fiber including the FBG-section. The invention further relates to an apparatus comprising the article, to its use and to a method of manufacturing such an article. The object of the present invention is to seek to provide an optimized (e.g. elongate) package having a relatively low sensitivity to mechanical vibrations from the environment. This is achieved by providing that the carrier surface for supporting the optical fiber comprising a fiber Bragg grating is convex in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber during use of the article. This has the advantage of providing a lowering of the influence of vibrations from acoustic sources (or other sources of mechanical vibration) in the environment compared to prior art solutions. In an embodiment, the carrier comprises two different materials, each adapted to provide a specific tuning of the wavelength selected by the fiber Bragg grating. The invention may e.g. be used for the fiber lasers for sensing, (low frequency/low phase noise fiber lasers) in wavelength tuneable fiber lasers, and in packaging of fiber lasers in general.
US07809019B2
In a method for bonding data fragments, data fragments are delayed in such a manner that a first transmission time for a direct transmission of data fragments between a master line card and a terminal connection via a first group of subscriber lines of a telephone line bundle corresponds to a second transmission time for an indirect transmission of data fragments between the master line card, an uplink card, and a further line card via a second group of subscriber lines of the line bundle.
US07809017B2
Bit-transparent muxing of an input signal for transport through an optical communications network is provided. A fixed length container of the optical communications network is defined, which includes an overhead and a payload. A stuffing ratio (α) is based on a line rate of the input signal and a data rate of the container. A number (NFS) of fixed stuffs is computed based on the stuffing ratio (α). The input signal and NFS fixed stuffs are inserted into the payload of the container, and the computed number NFS stored in the container's overhead.
US07809016B2
An efficient policer (210-1, . . . , 210-M) based weighted fairness bandwidth distribution system (200) is disclosed. The system (200) is based on a plurality of policers (210-1, . . . , 210-M) and at least one queue (220). To achieve fairness, the rate for queuing packets is adaptively controlled. Specifically, first the queue occupancy is determined and it then is used for computing an attenuation value (Attn). This value is multiplied by the excess information rate of each policer (210-1, . . . , 210-M) to get a new excess information rate to be enforced.
US07809014B2
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for communicating full-rate voice data under an ATM protocol. An exemplary device is configured to communicate voice data through a vocoder in a CDMA backbone network using an ATM Adaptation Layer 0 (AAL0) cell-generating system, which is configured to generate an AAL0 cell for each frame of full-rate voice data. In an exemplary embodiment, the device generates AAL0 cells that each comprise (a) 5 bytes of a Header field; (b) 1 byte of a Length field indicating a size of the voice data; (c) 24 bytes of a Voice-Data field containing the voice data; (d) 19 bytes of a Control-Data field containing information for controlling the voice data; (e) 1 byte of an Error-Detection field containing information for detecting an error of the voice data; and (f) 3 bytes of a PAD field for padding data used to exactly fit into the ATM cell.
US07809012B2
A system for optimizing the operation of a plurality of radio modules incorporated within a wireless communication device (WCD) connected as a slave on a low-power wireless network, wherein a low-power device is acting as the master of the wireless network. The timing of communication between master and slave may be established by the master, and as a result, the WCD may utilize a control strategy to allow substantially concurrent active communication in one or more of the plurality of radio modules while still operating under the parameters set forth by the low-power master device.
US07809007B2
The invention utilizes a separate queue per output port as implemented in the traditional simple queuing schemes of the prior art. Further, it also uses the information found in the packet header to determine the output port and the next output port. Based on this information, it utilizes queues dedicated to congested flows, or “Congested Flow” queues. When the switch determines that, based on the first output port and the second subsequent output port, a packet in the output queue is destined for a congested path, it sets the offending packet aside in a Congested Flow queue, thereby allowing other packets destined for the first output port to continue to be transmitted. In this way, the HOL blocking issue is addressed, without the need for a significantly increased number of output queues.
US07809001B2
Disclosed are an opened network connection control method, an opened network connection control system, a connection control unit and a recording medium, which allow only terminal units capable of securing security to be connected to an opened network, thereby improving the security level. The connection control unit acquires connection history information held by the terminal unit which has sent a request for connection to the opened network to a central unit, and assigns a logic identifier to the terminal unit and connects the terminal unit to the opened network when the contents of the acquired connection history information coincide with the contents of connection condition information record.
US07808994B1
Techniques are described that allow a network device, such as a router, to forward data packets received from a subscriber device to an Ethernet virtual local area network (VLAN) interface within the network device where the VLAN interface has been dynamically built based on a subscriber information string. For example, a primary VLAN sub-interface (PVS) and a subscriber VLAN sub-interface (SVS) may each be dynamically built over a statically built VLAN major interface. In particular, the network device comprises a forwarding controller, where the forwarding controller receives a data packet over an Ethernet port. The network device accesses upper-layer protocol information within the data packet to determine an SVS within the network device to which to forward the data packet based on the upper-layer protocol information.
US07808982B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a method of determining the existence of state synchronization between two redundant processing modules operating in a network switch that operates in a manner wherein ordinary network traffic stimuli are autonomously processed through interface and fabric modules, and extraordinary network stimuli are processed from the interface modules to the redundant processing modules, wherein one of the modules is operating actively in the switch and the other is operating in a standby condition whereby state latency exists between the two modules, comprising stopping processing of the extraordinary stimuli to the actively operating processing module, completing processing of stimuli previously received by the actively operating processing module, completing processing of stimuli previously received by the processing module operating in a standby condition, reading the state information of each of the two processing modules, and comparing the state information of said two processing modules to determine if their state information is synchronized, and resuming processing extraordinary stimuli by the actively operating processing module.
US07808981B1
A network device that allows packet relay across a public switched telephone network. The network device has a converter operable to convert a packet data stream to a public switched telephone network data stream. The converter may be a voice codec or a modem, as examples. The network device also includes a controller that can send signals in the public switched telephone network data stream identifying the network device as a packet device, receive signals indicating at least one other network devices are participating in a public switched transmission session with the network device, and then send the packet data stream across the public switched transmission network directly to the at least one other network device.
US07808979B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for aggregating packets combining connection-oriented and connection-less techniques. The methods and systems of packet aggregation utilize connection-oriented techniques to forward data from multiple clients to an access switch and utilize connection-less techniques to forward data from the access switch to the multiple clients. Advantageously, the methods and systems of the present invention combine connection-oriented and connection-less aggregation techniques in a packet aggregation platform to provide for a well-understood per-subscriber provisioning model, to maintain per-subscriber visibility, to allow layer 2 protocol internetworking, to remove connection count limitations imposed by adjacent equipment, and to maintain security aspects of connection-oriented aggregation techniques.
US07808969B2
A VoIP ready computer system includes a housing having an integrated audio communications device holder adapted to receive an audio communications device. The housing includes a portion adapted to contain processing circuitry operable to execute programs and a storage device coupled to the processing circuitry. The storage device stores a VoIP program and other general purpose programs for execution by the processing circuitry. An audio communications device is removably positioned in the audio communications device holder and is coupled to the processing circuitry. The audio communications device is operable to communicate audio signals during execution of the VoIP program.
US07808966B2
Multiple nodes communicate using repeating patterns of superframes, where each of the superframes includes a beacon period. A beacon slot in a first Media Access Slot (MAS) is reserved by the plurality of nodes. This reserved slot occurs in the beginning of the beacon period and is used for communicating information relating to the superframe configuration. This information may involve adjustments to the number of MASs reserved for beaconing.
US07808960B1
A system and method for integrating infrastructure and ad hoc wireless networks. In one example embodiment, a plurality of nodes and access points exchange beacons and route replies which are forwarded by intervening nodes. Nodes determine whether to switch access points based on cost values contained in the received beacons. Intervening nodes store routes with weights to the source node, such that the access points maintain weights to every node in their zones.
US07808950B2
A radio communication apparatus determines whether a reception signal is received normally. The apparatus measures strengths of the reception signal, assesses frequency channels using a result whether the reception signal is received normally and a strength of the reception signal, and decides that zero or more of the frequency channels as unusable channel in accordance with a result of an assessment of the frequency channels. The apparatus transmits a radio signal using one of the frequency channels sequentially without using the unusable channel.
US07808946B2
A wireless communication system (20) allows for using base station router devices (30, 32) for in building communications using a mobile station (22). Automatically registering a base station router device and automatically configuring at least an initial parameter for a frequency, transmit power and definition code of the base station router device facilitates easy installation of such devices. In one example, the initial parameters are determined by a communication server associated with a wireless communication network. In another disclosed example, at least one of the initial parameters is automatically determined by the base station router device.
US07808938B2
A very narrow band multipoint communication system suitable for use in an automatic meter reading (AMR) system having a communication protocol that divides each main channel of a frequency or digital code hopping system into multiple sub-channels and applies frequency division multiplexing among the sub-channels. Each sub-channel exhibits a very narrow band characteristic that allows gain increase to increase the transmission range of the meters. In addition, frequency division multiplexing among the sub-channels greatly increases the number of meters that can communicate on each main channel. The data collection device demodulates and decodes the multiplexed meter signals at an intermediate frequency with electronic circuitry. The resulting very narrow band AMR system exhibits greater transmission range, greater bandwidth and can accommodate a much larger number of meters per data collection device in comparison to a conventional narrow band AMR system.
US07808936B2
The present invention is related to methods and systems for reducing or canceling echoes during fax communications. In an embodiment, during a fax call, a first fax signal from a first fax device intended for a second fax device is detected. Based at least in part on detecting the first fax signal from the first fax device or on the termination of the first fax signal, an echo audio packet is muted, wherein the echo audio packet is at least partly the result of the first fax signal being transmitted over a network, the network including at least a data network.
US07808931B2
A method for communication includes configuring a plurality of ring nodes to communicate over a communication network that includes two or more overlapping communication rings, each ring including two unidirectional ringlets in mutually-opposite directions. A data packet including one or more header fields is accepted at an ingress ring node. An egress ring node to which the data packet is to be forwarded by the ingress ring node is determined. A subset of the rings including one or more common rings that are connected to both the ingress and egress ring nodes is identified. A ringlet of a ring among the one or more common rings is selected responsively to a respective value of at least one of the header fields of the packet. The data packet is forwarded from the ingress ring node to the egress ring node over the selected ringlet.
US07808925B2
Systems and methods that determine reverse DNS entries for IP addresses are described. In one embodiment, a first group of consecutive IP addresses is identified, a first configured IP address in the first group is determined, wherein the first configured IP address has an associated first domain name, a first non-configured IP address in the first group is determined, and the first domain name is associated with a set of IP addresses from the first configured IP address to the first non-configured IP address.
US07808924B2
An apparatus and method for preventing the disruption of Fiber Channel Fabrics caused by ReConfigure Fabric (RCF) messages is disclosed. The apparatus includes a storage area network and a plurality of Fiber Channel Switches arranged in a Fabric. Each of the plurality of Switches includes logic to selectively configure their Ports to either reject or accept RCF messages. When configured to reject RCF messages, the Switch Port that receives an RCF message will generate a reject message along with a reason code explanation “E_Port Isolated”, and then transition into an Isolated state. When the Switch that generated the RCF message receives the reject message, its Port also transition into the Isolated state. In accordance with the method of the present invention, either a Storage Service Provider or a client can access the Switches of the Fabric through either a command line interpreter or a management application. Once access to the Fabric is established, the logic of the Ports of the Switches can be selectively configured to reject or accept RCF messages as described above.
US07808920B2
Tandem-free vocoder operations (TFO) between non-compatible communication systems may be enabled through hardware modifications at communication elements within each system. In one aspect, each infrastructure entity in System 1 comprises an intra-system TFO Frame Generator G1, an intra-system TFO Frame Extractor E1, and a TFO Frame Extractor E2 of System 2, which is non-compatible to System 1. Each infrastructure entity in System 2 comprises an intra-system TFO Frame Generator G2, an intra-system TFO Frame Extractor E2, and a TFO Frame Extractor E1 of System 1.
US07808908B1
A method of adapting wireless transmission rates that includes the steps of determining at least a short-term loss ratio for wireless communication during a window of time, and adapting a transmission rate responsive to at least the short-term loss ratio, a maximum tolerable loss threshold for the communication during the window, and an opportunistic rate increase threshold for the communication during the window. A size of the window, the maximum tolerable loss threshold, and the opportunistic rate increase threshold are responsive to the transmission rate used for the communication. Preferably, the window is re-started if the transmission rate changes. Also, systems, devices, and memories that embody the foregoing.
US07808899B2
Methods, apparatuses and software programs which are used to facilitate the flow of information in terms of functionalities in the domain of at least one service provider, in particular of a multimedia message in the UMTS, this functionality having been requested by a subscriber (for example, reply charging or recall of the message), wherein the present invention proposes transmitting information which reveals whether implicated network units in the domain of service providers support the requested functionality and proposes limiting the maximum size of the reply messages for reply charging.
US07808898B2
A system for communication flow estimation and method therefore are described. The system comprises a filter array arranged to receive a packet, an index hash unit, a flow count array, and a global average counter. The index hash unit generates an index based on a received index set. The flow count array comprises one or more counters and updates a counter based on a received index. The global average counter updates an average count of received packets based on the received packet.
US07808896B2
Provides optimizing a data path and forwarding a data from a start node to an end node over a network, wherein the data is forwarded through the data path which is determined by a data path option having a minimum overall capacity regarding first capacity values. Provides a first capacity value for a specific first node and for a specific first node function including determining a number of second data path options for the second nodes of the specific first node to perform the specific first node function, for each second data path option, the second nodes having one or more assigned second node functions. Provides a second capacity values for each of the second nodes and for each of the assigned second node functions, and determines overall capacity values of the nodes and for each of the assigned second node functions.
US07808895B2
Various embodiments of the invention relate to apportioning a total memory bandwidth available for a time period amongst a plurality of bandwidth requests according to a power managed profile. In addition, isochronous data transmission may be appended together and transmitted according to a data transmission policy, wherein the policy may include transmitting the appended isochronous data during an opportunistic data transmission, or during a time identified for transmitting a combined isochronous data transmission, but prior to a time delay compliance limit for isochronous requirements.
US07808894B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing bursts of traffic. A counter, referred to herein as a “frequency counter,” is incremented during those time intervals an overload condition is detected and is decremented during those time intervals an overload condition is not detected. An overload condition may refer to when the number of out-of-dialog messages exceeds a threshold value corresponding to the maximum number of out-of-dialog messages that should be accepted and forwarded to an associated session server. If the count of the frequency counter exceeds some pre-configured value, then traffic that exceeds the threshold for the overload condition is stopped from being sent to the associated session server. Otherwise, traffic that exceeds the threshold for the overload condition is permitted to be sent to the associated session server. By managing bursts of traffic in such a manner, the effective utilization of session servers is improved.
US07808891B2
A system and method for streaming numerous video on demand (VOD) streams over a network, such as a local area medium sized network on a vehicle such as an aircraft. The system and method that provides redundant and restricted paths for streaming numerous VOD streams while providing maximum bandwidth for traffic from multiple sources with minimal packet loss due to contention.
US07808885B2
An OFDM transmitter includes, a data signal generator which generates a data signal by modulating a bit string obtained by channel coding, a pilot signal generator which generates a pilot signal, an allocation unit which allocates the pilot signal and data signal to a pilot subcarrier and a data subcarrier, a multiplier which multiples the first pilot signal and the first data signal by complex numbers for subcarrier group formed of specific pilot subcarrier of the pilot subcarriers and specific data subcarrier of the data subcarriers, a modulator which performs OFDM modulation on the second pilot signal and the second data signal to generate an OFDM signal, and a transmitting unit which transmits the OFDM signal.
US07808881B2
An optical recording medium includes a main-information area in which a metal reflection film is formed on a substrate where a row of pits is formed as main data, and a sub-information area in which is recorded medium identification information, which is used to identify the optical recording medium individually, by removing the metal reflection film partially and forming a plurality of reflection-film removed areas. Information is reproduced by irradiating the metal reflection film with a beam of light. In the sub-information area, a row of pits or a guide groove is formed on the substrate, and a track pitch of the row of pits or the guide groove is at least 0.24 μm wide and at most 0.45 μm wide.
US07808879B2
A small form factor optical disk drive is provided that incorporates a SIL/objective lens assembly. A laser for the small form factor optical disk drive has a coherence function having maxima spaced apart by intervals. The optical disk drive is configured such that a roundtrip optical path through the SIL/objective lens assembly is such that a coherence value for the laser is located in one of the intervals.
US07808871B2
A power control apparatus and method for an optical drive is disclosed. The power control apparatus estimates the temperature rising effect of a laser diode and performs a partial open-loop power control, achieving accurate write power control. Therefore, regarding to a high-speed, high-density optical disk recording medium combined with multi-pulse write waveforms, the invention can also achieve accurate write power control even though the response speed of a front photodiode is much slower than the modulation speed of recording pulses of the laser diode.
US07808863B2
An assembly structure and method for an integrated laser/detector device with a mirror at an angle to redirect the laser beam to a medium. The mirror is not attached to the circuit board with the laser/detector as in the prior art, but rather is mounted separately in the housing immediately above the circuit board. This allows the circuit board to be moved laterally toward and away from the mirror during assembly to adjust the reflected beam along a first direction so that it contacts the photodetector. A hologram lens is mounted above the mirror, and can be rotated to adjust the reflected beam to hit the photodetector along a second, orthogonal direction. In one embodiment, two laser beams are generated, and two hologram lenses are used to separately adjust the two beams.
US07808861B2
An expiration date system contains a time release mechanism for marking a predetermined interval of time in the range from six months to one year. The mechanism contains a vessel, in which there are brought together in any order a) water, b) a neutralizer, c) a source of oxygen, and d) a hydroquinone compound, such that the pH of the contents of the vessel is greater than 7.0 and the interval being marked begins when the last of items a), b), c) and d) is brought into the presence of the other items and the interval is a function of the pH and of the temperature.
US07808860B2
To make such that, in a case displaying the fact that a time code could not be normally received in an analog radio-controlled timepiece, by a simple constitution there is performed a display having no sense of discomfort for a user. In a case where there could not be normally received in a time code reception operation in the last time, a second hand is normally moved by 1 second. In a case where there failed in a reception, after the second hand was normally moved till a 55-second position, the second hand is stopped at the 55-second position till a second time instant becomes 59 seconds. When it became 59 seconds, by fast-forwarding the second hand till an exact second position, the fact that the time code could not be normally received is displayed by the display having no sense of discomfort for the user without using an exclusive display means, and the like.
US07808856B2
A structure and method to reduce leakage of a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) array, wherein the array is subdivided into a set of sub-arrays, whose supply voltages can be controlled independently using a single voltage regulation circuit dedicated to the entire SRAM array. A switch fabric enables independent switching of individual sub-arrays between a virtual ground level and a system ground level based on whether the sub-array is operating in power saving mode or a high performance mode to reduce leakage current when a sub-array is configured in a power saving mode.
US07808850B2
First and second data output circuits obtain corresponding parts of read data of a storage circuit to output to first and second input/output pads in a second test mode. First and second data input circuits obtain output data of the first and second data output circuits via the first and second input/output pads to output in the second test mode. A comparison object selection circuit selects output data of the first and second data input circuits to output in the second test mode. A judging circuit performs a test judgment by comparing output data of the comparison object selection circuit with expected value data and outputs a test result signal in the second test mode.
US07808849B2
Read leveling of memory units designed to receive access requests in a sequential chained topology writing a data pattern to the memory array. In an embodiment, a memory controller first writes a desired pattern into the memory array of a memory unit and then iteratively determines the accurate calibrated delay by setting a compensation delay to a test value, reading a data portion from the memory array based on the test value for the compensation delay, comparing the data portion with an expected data, determining that the test value is a calibrated compensation delay for the memory unit if the data portion equals the expected value.
US07808841B2
A data output circuit for a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a driver control signal generating unit that has a plurality of control signal generating units, each of which generates a driver unit control signal in response to a test signal during a test, and generates the driver unit control signal according to whether or not a fuse is cut after the test is completed, a first driver that has a plurality of driver units, each of which is activated in response to the driver unit control signal to drive a first data signal as an input signal and to output the driven first data signal to an output node, a signal combining unit that generates a first driver control signal in response to the driver unit control signal and an enable signal, and a second driver that has a plurality of driver units, each of which is activated in response to the first driver control signal to drive a second data signal as an input signal and to output the driven second data signal to the output node, and the number of driver units being two or more times as much as the number of driver units in the first driver. A voltage level on the output node is the voltage level of an output signal.
US07808839B2
A split gate NAND flash memory structure is formed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. The NAND structure comprises a first region of a second conductivity type in the substrate with a second region of the second conductivity type in the substrate, spaced apart from the first region. A continuous first channel region is defined between the first region and the second region. A plurality of floating gates are spaced apart from one another with each positioned over a separate portion of the channel region. A plurality of control gates are provided with each associated with and adjacent to a floating gate. Each control gate has two portions: a first portion over a portion of the channel region and a second portion over the associated floating gate and capacitively coupled thereto.
US07808836B2
A non-volatile memory device is accessed using voltages which are customized to the device, and/or to portions of the device, such as blocks or word lines of non-volatile storage elements. The accessing can include programming, verifying or reading. By customizing the voltages, performance can be optimized, including addressing changes in threshold voltage which are caused by program disturb. In one approach, different sets of storage elements in a memory device are programmed with random test data. A threshold voltage distribution is determined for the different sets of storage elements. A set of voltages is determined based on the threshold voltage distribution, and stored in a non-volatile storage location for subsequent use in accessing the different sets of storage elements. The set of voltages may be determined at the time of manufacture for subsequent use in accessing data by the end user.
US07808833B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method to operate an integrated circuit that includes a memory. The memory encompasses a first and a second threshold level. The invention further relates to integrated circuits including a memory with a first and a second threshold level and a method to determine an operating point of an integrated circuit.
US07808831B2
Read disturb is reduced in non-volatile storage. In one aspect, when a read command is received from a host for reading a selected word line, a word line which is not selected for reading is randomly chosen and its storage elements are sensed to determine optimized read compare levels for reading the selected word line. Or, a refresh operation may be indicated for the entire block based on an error correction metric obtained in reading the storage elements of the chosen word line. This is useful especially when the selected word line is repeatedly selected for reading, exposing the other word lines to additional read disturb. In another aspect, when multiple data states are stored, one read compare level is obtained from sensing, e.g., from a threshold voltage distribution, and other read compare levels are derived from a formula.
US07808830B2
A semiconductor device includes a first reference cell used for programming or reading non-volatile memory cells, and an adjustment circuit adjusting a first reference level of the first reference cell when the first reference level is changed.
US07808829B2
An erase operating time can be shortened and an erase operating characteristic can be improved in a flash memory device. The flash memory device includes a plurality of memory cell blocks, an operating voltage generator and a controller. Each of the plurality of memory cell blocks includes memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines. A voltage generator is configured to apply an erase voltage to a memory cell block selected for an erase operation, and change a level of the erase voltage if an attempt of the erase operation is not successful. A controller is configured to control the voltage generator to apply a first erase voltage to a memory cell block selected for an erase operation. The first erase voltage corresponds to a previous erase voltage that was used successfully in completing a previous erase operation. The first erase voltage is an erase voltage that is used in a first erase attempt for the erase operation.
US07808827B2
Systems and/or methods that facilitate discharging bit lines (BL) associated with memory arrays in nonvolatile memory at a controlled rate are presented. A discharge component facilitates discharging the BL at a desired rate thus preventing the “hot switching” phenomenon from occurring within a y-decoder component(s) associated with the nonvolatile memory. The discharge component can be comprised of, in part, a discharge transistor component that controls the rate of BL discharge wherein the gate voltage of the discharge transistor component can be controlled by a discharge controller component. The rate of BL discharge can be determined by the size of discharge transistor component used in the design, the strength and/or size of the y-decoder component, the number of erase errors that occur for a particular memory device, and/or other factors in order to facilitate preventing hot switching from occurring.
US07808826B2
A non-volatile storage having individually controllable shield plates between storage elements. The shield plates are formed by depositing a conductive material such as doped polysilicon between storage elements and their associated word lines, and providing contacts for the shield plates. The shield plates reduce electromagnetic coupling between floating gates of the storage elements, and can be used to optimize programming, read and erase operations. In one approach, the shield plates provide a field induced conductivity between storage elements in a NAND string during a sense operation so that source/drain implants are not needed in the substrate. In some control schemes, alternating high and low voltages are applied to the shield plates. In other control schemes, a common voltage is applied to the shield plates.
US07808824B2
An interleaved memory programming and verification method, device and system includes a memory array including first and second memory banks of memory cells. The memory device further includes a controller configured to concurrently program a first data into the first memory bank and a second data into the second memory bank using iterative programming and verification operations in each of the first and second memory banks with the programming and verification operations in the second memory bank being offset from the programming and verification operations in the first memory bank.
US07808813B2
There is provided a magnetic memory device capable of reading information even with a lower power supply voltage.The magnetic memory device is equipped with a plurality of storage cells laid out in two dimensions in (i+1) rows and (j+1) columns (where i, j are integers of one or higher). Two magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b are disposed in each of the storage cells 1, and each storage cell includes: a first stage circuit 41 that supplies currents Ib1, Ib2 for detecting resistances of magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b; an X-direction address decoder circuit 32 that supplies currents Iw1, Iw2 to the magnetoresistive effect revealing bodies 2a, 2b; and a current control circuit (constant current circuit 25n) that carries out control so that the total of the current Ib1 and the current Iw1 and the total of the current Iw2 and the current Ib2 are respectively constant.
US07808812B2
This invention discloses a static random access memory (SRAM) cell which comprises a pair of cross-coupled inverters having a first storage node, a first NMOS transistor having a source and a drain connected between the first storage node and a bit-line, a second NMOS transistor having a source and a drain connected between a gate of the first NMOS transistor and a word-line, the second NMOS transistor having a gate connected to a first column select line, and a third NMOS transistor having a source and a drain connected between a ground (VSS) and the gate of the first NMOS transistor, and a gate connected to a second column select line, the second column select line being complementary to the first column select line.
US07808807B2
A memory is configurable among a plurality of operational modes and types of interfaces. The operational modes may dictate the number of storage levels to be associated with each cell within the memory's storage matrix. Individual operational modes may be matched to individual interfaces, operated one at a time or in parallel.
US07808805B2
A column address control circuit comprises a control unit for outputting a control signal in response to a DDR mode signal and a first signal, and an address counting unit configured to receive a start column address and output a start column address in response to the control signal. The first signal is a burst read single write mode signal. The control signal is activated when the first signal is activated in a DDR mode. The control unit includes a first logic unit for performing an AND operation of the DDR mode signal and the first signal, and a second logic unit for performing an OR operation of an output signal of the first logic unit and a SDR mode signal.
US07808799B2
A wiring board having an excellent electrical property and reliability or the like. The wiring board includes a core board, a capacitor and a resin filler. The core board includes an accommodation hole therein and a core board main surface side conductor disposed on the core main surface thereof. A capacitor main surface side electrode is disposed on a capacitor main surface of the capacitor. A gap between the capacitor accommodated in the accommodation hole and the core board is filled with the resin filler so that the capacitor is fixed to the core board. Further, the resin filler has a main surface side wiring forming portion on which a main surface side connecting conductor, which is connected to an end portion of a via conductor, is disposed so as to connect the core board main surface side conductor to the capacitor main surface side electrode.
US07808798B2
An apparatus is described incorporating an interposer having a cavity for a portion of an antenna structure, having conductor through vias, a top Si part having interconnection wiring and having pads for electrically mounting an integrated circuit chip thereon, wherein the top Si part mates with the interposer electrically and mechanically. The interposer and top Si part may be scaled to provide an array of functional units. The invention overcomes the problem of combining a high efficient antenna with integrated circuit chips in a Si package with signal frequencies from 1 to 100 GHz and the problem of shielding components proximate to the antenna and reduces strain arising from mismatching of TCEs.
US07808793B2
A console apparatus includes a console portion, which is detachably provided and with which a server apparatus can be operated, and further includes a tray portion that is attached on a rack chassis for the server apparatus and is electrically coupled to the server apparatus.
US07808789B2
The present invention relates generally to heat removal from circuit board components and, more specifically, to improved thermal management for circuit board components mounted on electrical wiring boards. The structure comprises a heat sink; and an auxiliary heat sink positioned in thermal contact with the heat sink and a circuit board component on a wiring board, the auxiliary heat sink having a plurality of slots located in a central portion of the auxiliary heat sink, wherein the auxiliary heat sink is both mechanically compliant and thermally conductive with both the heat sink and the circuit board component.
US07808788B2
A thermal conduction structure is integrated into a multi-layer circuit board to thermally couple a power electronic device to a heatsink while electrically isolating the power electronic device from the heatsink. The thermal conduction structure includes a stack of alternatingly insulative and conductive layers, a first set of vertical vias that thermally and electrically join the power electronic device to a first set of conductive layers, and a second set of vertical vias that thermally and electrically join the heatsink to a second set of conductive layers that are interleaved with the first set of conductive layers.
US07808787B2
A heat spreader having at least two adjoining strips of pyrolytic graphite material is made by cutting a strip from a sheet of pyrolytic graphite in the z direction. Thermal conductivity in the xy plane of the graphite sheet is greater than in the z direction. The z direction cut provides strips which are then each individually oriented 90 degrees such that the thickness direction of the original pyrolytic graphite sheet becomes the width or length of the cut strip. A face on the side of a first strip adjoins a face on the side of a second strip. Due to the greater thermal conductivity in the xy plane of the strips as compared to in the z direction heat transfers more rapidly in the length and thickness direction of the strips than across adjoining sides of the oriented strips.
US07808775B2
A power distribution system for a work machine includes a power electronics module having a set of power connectors to receive electrical power. A module rack has an opening for slidably receiving the power electronics module. A power bus assembly is mounted to the module rack. The power bus assembly has a set of power bus connectors located to be mechanically engaged by the set of power connectors of the power electronics module when the power electronics module is installed in the module rack. A gasket is interposed in a sealing arrangement between the power electronics module and the power bus assembly. The gasket is configured to extend completely around all power connectors of the set of power connectors and is configured to extend completely around each individual power connector of the set of power connectors.
US07808770B2
In an LW-reverse-type monolithic ceramic capacitor including external terminal electrodes each including a resistance component, internal electrodes include nickel or a nickel alloy, and the external terminal electrodes each include a first layer, a second layer provided on the first layer, and a third layer provided on the second layer. The first layer has a wrap-around portion extending from an end surface to principal surfaces and side surfaces of a capacitor main body, and contains a glass component and a compound oxide that reacts with Ni or the Ni alloy. The second layer covers the first layer such that the edge of the wrap-around portion of the first layer remains exposed, and contains a metal. The third layer covers the edge of the wrap-around portion of the first layer and the second layer, and is formed by plating.
US07808769B2
A dielectric device has a first conductor and a dielectric disposed thereon. An intermediate region is formed between the first conductor and dielectric. In the intermediate region, an additive different from the first conductor and dielectric and the dielectric are mixed with each other. The additive contains at least one element of Si, Al, P, Mg, Mn, Y, V, Mo, Co, Nb, Fe, and Cr.
US07808758B2
A protection device for monitoring current in a power cable to an electrical device and for controlling a remotely located starter for the electrical device in response to a system controller. The device includes a transformer magnetically linked with the power cable to produce a voltage signal in response to the presence of a changing current within the power cable. An input circuit located in a single housing together with the transformer is electrically connected to the transformer so as to receive the voltage signal. The input circuit produces, in response to the voltage signal, either a first signal or a first circuit condition at the output terminal of the input circuit, representative of the changing current in the power cable. A switch circuit also in the same container with the transformer has a terminal for sensing either a second signal or a second circuit condition of the remotely located system controller. The switch circuit has a second terminal to provide either a third signal or a third circuit condition effective to control the starter, in response to sensing one of the second signal and the second circuit condition. All of the transformer, the input circuit, and the switch circuit are located in a single unitary package which is easily mounted and adjusted to a desired position.
US07808755B2
There is provided an electronic control unit including: input terminals connected to output terminals of a magneto generator driven by an engine; DC output terminals; a control power supply circuit that converts an AC voltage input between the input terminals into a DC voltage equal to a set value; and a microprocessor that controls electrical components of the engine, wherein the electronic control unit further includes an interruption signal generation circuit that compares an output voltage of the control power supply circuit with a certain abnormality determination voltage and generates an interruption signal when the output voltage of the control power supply circuit becomes the abnormality determination voltage or less, and an abnormality state storage unit for storing that an abnormality occurs in a power supply portion when the interruption signal is generated.
US07808751B2
A magnetic interface circuit for interfacing between the line side and the circuit side of a communication channel, such as an Ethernet port, includes a transformer having a primary winding connected to the line side of the channel and a secondary winding connected to the circuit side of the channel. The primary winding is fortified to provide differential mode electrical surge protection on the line side. The transformer design having parasitic L, C and R and, saturation during the surge event, acting to suppress the coupling of the electrical surge to the secondary winding. A voltage limiting device is connected in the circuit side of the channel to limit any voltage surges on the circuit side to a safe level. A pair of voltage limiting devices connected in series with the connection therebetween connected to ground may be used to also provide common mode surge protection.
US07808749B2
A magnetoresistance effect element which is used in a magnetic sensor is disclosed. The magnetoresistance effect element includes a soft layer whose magnetization easy direction is changed by a direction of an external magnetic field, and a magnetization fixing layer whose magnetization direction is fixed by having a magnetic layer and an anti-ferromagnetic layer. A magnetoresistance effect is generated by a change of electric conduction which is caused by a relative angle between the magnetization easy direction of the soft layer and the magnetization direction of the magnetization fixing layer. When the magnetic sensor includes two or more magnetoresistance effect elements for having two-axis or more vectors of the magnetization directions, the two or more magnetoresistance effect elements are adjacently disposed.
US07808738B2
A storage apparatus including a motor for rotating a medium and a head that has a heater. The clearance between the medium and the head is controlled by expansion of the head by the heater. Some embodiments could include a monitor configured to monitor atmospheric pressure, and a controller configured to control the heater in accordance with the atmospheric pressure so as to control the clearance. Some embodiments could include a monitor configured to monitor a driving current flowing through the motor, and a controller configured to control the heater in accordance with the driving current so as to control the clearance.
US07808727B2
A field changer device (4) comprising: a rotary magazine (5) of spherical general shape mounted so as to rotate about a rotation axis (R) coincident with an axis of symmetry of the magazine (5), which is inclined to a fixed principal optical axis (X); and at least three optical channels (A, B, C) provided in said magazine (5) and having concurrent respective optical axes (XA, XB, XC) inclined at the same angle (α) to the rotation axis (R), it being possible for said magazine (5) to rotate about its rotation axis (R) through predetermined rotation angles (β1, β2, β3) in order to place each of the optical channels (A, B, C) alternately along the principal optical axis (X), the optical channels (A, B, C) being arranged in the magazine (5) in such a way that at least two of the rotation angles (β1, β2, β3) of the magazine (5) are different.
US07808709B2
Disclosed are a microlens array, and a method of positioning and aligning the microlens array on another device. Generally, the microlens array comprises an array of injection molded microlens elements, and a supporting flange. Each of the microlens elements has a generally spheroid or spherical shape, and the supporting flange connects together the array of microlens elements to facilitate positioning that array of lenses on a printed circuit board, semiconductor package or wafer. This array is well suited for use with vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs); and, in particular, the preferred embodiment of the invention addresses the problem of VCSEL laser array alignment by using arrays of microlenses elements fabricated by injection molding.
US07808701B2
Diffracted light generated by a diffraction grating passes through a tube lens, reflected by a reflection mirror and forms illuminating light in a strip pattern on the surface of a sample. Thus, fluorescence generated by an objective lens from the sample passes through the objective lens, the reflection mirror and a tube lens, and forms an image of the sample on the diffraction grating. When the diffraction grating is removed from an optical system and a dichroic mirror is arranged, in instead of the reflection mirror, fluorescence from the sample passes through the dichroic mirror, and forms an image of the sample on an imaging surface of an imaging device by an imaging lens. Thus, a microscope which can be used by being switched from a normal fluorescent microscope and uses the diffracted light is provided.
US07808698B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor optical amplifier in which a photodetector is integrated without causing power loss at a low cost. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor optical waveguide, at least partly capable of functioning as a semiconductor optical amplifier, to guide signal light, and a photodetector provided in a region other than a region where the semiconductor optical waveguide is provided, wherein the semiconductor optical waveguide and the photodetector are integrated on the semiconductor substrate.
US07808687B2
A hologram reconstructing apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes: unnecessary light removing means for causing the imaging means to receive necessary light only included in the reconstruction light; driving means for operating the hologram recording medium or a reconstruction light optical system; light detecting means for detecting the state that reconstruction light is projected to the unnecessary light removing means of the light cut by the unnecessary light removing means; and control means for obtaining the displacement of the hologram recording medium based on the information on a specific part of the projection state information detected by the light detecting means and controlling the driving means to cancel the displacement and move the hologram recording medium or the optical system.
US07808683B2
An electrical appliance includes an upper and lower main bodies, in which the upper main body is pivotally movable about a side edge of the lower main body to selectively be in an open state in which the top surface of the lower main body is exposed and a closed state in which the upper main body is disposed above the lower main body. A liquid crystal display panel is disposed on the top surface of the lower main body in the vicinity of a side edge near the front surface thereof. A notched opening is formed in the upper main body so that the display surface of the liquid crystal display panel is visible when the upper main body is in the closed state.
US07808679B2
A printing system performing marginless printing. The system includes a host device operable to send image data, and a recording device performs marginless recording based on the image data received from the host device. The system includes a setting unit setting the width of the recording medium, a changing unit changing scaling ratio of the image data based on the width of the recording medium. Furthermore the system includes a recording unit recording the image on the recording medium based on the image data with the changed scaling ratio. An image is enlarged/reduced to the width of the roll paper sheet, thereby loss portions in the longitudinal direction are controlled to a minimum.
US07808660B2
Printer (1) is provided with a mode to edit and print forms without reference to or interruption of a host computer and with immediate printing of one or more of the forms. Page data for the forms is preferably stored in flash memory (21) in a high level printer language. Preferably, at initiation of the forms mode at least the first listed document is immediately prepared by the control data processor (17) of the printer in bit mapped form for printing. Documents can be listed on the control panel by name for ready selection for printing.
US07808655B2
A computer-controlled system automatically measures and records various physical characteristics of an elongated shaft or tube, such as a golf club shaft or other structural member. The characteristics measured include the principal planar oscillation plane, oscillation frequency, stiffness asymmetry, relative stiffness, torsional stiffness, shaft length, shaft straightness and tip angle.
US07808652B2
An explicit relationship is developed between the ratio of average interferometric modulation produced by diamond-like carbon (DLC)-coated magnetic-head surfaces and the thickness of the DLC layer. Accordingly, the thickness of the DLC layer is calculated in various manners from modulation data acquired for the system using object surfaces of known optical parameters.
US07808651B2
An endpoint detection system for detecting an endpoint of a process comprises a polychromatic light source which emits polychromatic light. The light is reflected from a substrate. A light wavelength selector receives the reflected polychromatic light and determines a wavelength of light at which a local intensity of the reflected light is maximized during the process. In one version, the wavelength selector comprises a diffraction grating to generate a plurality of light beams having different wavelengths from the reflected polychromatic light and a light detector to receive the light beams having different wavelengths and generate an intensity signal trace of the intensity of each wavelength of the polychromatic reflected light.
US07808647B2
A method for detecting shapes based on interferometric observation of an object surface subjected to narrow-band lighting. Movement of the interferometer (1) relative to the object surface (2) generates a measuring signal on a photo receiver, e.g., camera circuit (5), from which two extremely closely positioned signal frequencies (fo) and (fo+Δf) are extracted. The phase difference between the two signal components is used for determining the distance and/or the change in distance. The method has a large unambiguousness range, making it possible to have a large depth measurement range, and can be used for workpieces having offset areas on the surface, wherein the measurement is not disturbed along the edges and the offset areas. The method also allows examining strongly inclined surfaces having a steep inclination such that that traditional methods based on evaluating interference lines cannot be used because of a high density of the interference lines.
US07808644B2
A device is provided for optically measuring shapes and/or examining objects, comprising at least one camera, at least one lens, a scattering body and at least two light sources. The device is characterized in that the scattering body is opaque and that at least two light sources are disposed on the inside of the scattering body and illuminate the inside thereof, and that either only two light sources are used, which are disposed opposite from one another on an imaginary diameter line, or that the light sources are disposed at the corners of a—preferably equilateral—triangle or a cross.
US07808641B2
This disclosure relates generally to a sampling device, and, more particularly, a sampling device that facilitates spectroscopic measurements with a variable path length and the necessary software controlled algorithms, and methods for using such a device.
US07808638B2
Embodiments of the invention include a SCOL targeting groups configured to increase target to target separation and thereby increase target utility to simultaneous exposures to multiple illumination dots and associated inspection methodologies. The embodiments of the invention further relate to apparatus for projection simultaneous illumination dots onto different targets of the same targeting group on a wafer to conduct multiple simultaneous target inspections. Embodiments of the invention further relate to methods used to inspect SCOL targets using simultaneous illumination dots directed onto different targets of the same targeting group to conduct multiple simultaneous target inspections.
US07808631B2
A stirrer includes a vessel for holding a liquid to be stirred; and a sound wave generator that irradiates the liquid with a sound wave to stir the liquid by the sound wave. The sound wave generator includes a piezoelectric substrate, and a sound generating element provided on the piezoelectric substrate and arranged outside the vessel so as to be adjacent to the liquid across the vessel and the piezoelectric substrate to generate a sound wave for stirring the liquid.
US07808625B2
Disclosed is an aperture variable inspection optical system including a variable aperture unit 13 having a polygonal light transparent section and light collecting systems 12a, 12b for forming an irradiation spot U of light passing through the variable aperture unit 13 at the position of a sample S. The variable aperture unit 13 is capable of changing the shape/size of the polygon. The size of the irradiation spot U can be changed without rearranging the aperture unit.
US07808614B2
An immersion lithographic projection apparatus has a liquid confinement structure configured to at least partly confine liquid to a space between a projection system and a substrate, the confinement structure having a buffer surface, when in use, positioned in close proximity to a plane substantially comprising the upper surface of the substrate and of a substrate table holding the substrate, to define a passage having a flow resistance. A recess is provided in the buffer surface, the recess, when in use, being normally full of immersion liquid to enable rapid filling of a gap between the substrate and substrate table as the gap moves under the buffer surface. The recess may be annular or radial and a plurality of recesses may be provided.
US07808608B2
Disclosed herein is an LCD device having a drive area directly formed inside a non-pixel area of a substrate without an additional drive IC. The LCD device includes a first substrate having a pixel area and a non-pixel area disposed peripherally to the pixel area. The pixel area has a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode in each sub-pixel defined by gate and data lines crossing each other. A second substrate formed in opposition to the first substrate includes a color filter layer and a black matrix layer. A liquid crystal layer is formed between the first and second substrates. An opening in the black matrix layer reveals an alignment mark, which is disposed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US07808607B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a first substrate having a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing each other; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a first pattern spacer having an inverse tapered shape on an inner surface of the first substrate; a second pattern spacer having an inverse tapered shape on an inner surface of the second substrate; a seal pattern on a peripheral edge of the first and second substrates; and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates.
US07808606B2
A method for manufacturing a substrate, includes: coating the substrate with a first layer including a first metallic element by a dry deposition technique; coating the first layer with a photo resist layer; forming on the photo resist layer an exposure portion, a pair of non-exposure portions being in contact with the exposure portion and having a substantially parallel stripe-like plan shape, and a half exposure portion that is a part of an inner region of the non-exposure portions and an outer region of the non-exposure portions; removing the exposure portion and an upper portion of the half exposure portion, the upper portion having been exposed; forming an electrode portion and a wiring portion by etching the first layer exposed by removing the exposure portion; exposing the electrode portion and the wiring portion by removing the half exposure portion of which the upper portion has been removed, and forming a pair of banks by the pair of non-exposure portions; applying a treatment solution including a second metallic element on a recess portion formed by the wiring portion sandwiched between the pair of banks and the pair of banks by a droplet discharge technique; and forming a second layer including the second metallic element on the wiring portion by hardening the applied treatment solution to thicken the wiring portion.
US07808604B2
An in-plane switching mode liquid crystal display device includes upper and lower substrates, first and second ferroelectric liquid crystal layers, a nematic system crystal layer, and first and second electrodes. The electrodes and liquid crystal layers are located between the substrates, with the nematic liquid crystal layer between the ferroelectric liquid crystal layers. The ferroelectric liquid crystal layers have different spontaneous polarization directions. An electric field is applied to the liquid crystal layers using the electrodes. The ferroelectric liquid crystal layers react to different electric field to conduct an in-plane driving of liquid crystal molecules in the nematic liquid crystal layer.
US07808602B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealing member. The sealing member is sandwiched between the first and second substrates, and forms a perimeter encircling a display area of the LCD device. After delivery of at least one drop of liquid crystal, any excessive liquid crystal trapped within the perimeter is discharged through an opening broken in the sealing member. The opening is plugged to enclose an amount of liquid crystal within the perimeter.
US07808594B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus including a plurality of pixels, including a pair of substrates and a liquid crystal having a negative dielectric anisotropy inserted between the pair of substrates. First and second electrodes are formed on the pair of substrates, respectively. A first alignment control structure is formed linearly on one of the pair of substrates for controlling an alignment of the liquid crystal, and a second alignment control structure is formed linearly on the other of the pair of substrates for controlling an alignment of the liquid crystal. The first and second alignment control structures are bent in a zigzag fashion and extend parallel with each other, and at least one of the first and second alignment control structures includes a linear portion and a narrow portion having a width narrower than a width of the linear portion.
US07808591B2
A display device for displaying a three dimensional image such that different views are displayed according to the viewing angle. The display device includes a display panel having separately addressable pixels for displaying the image, where the pixels are grouped such that different pixels in a group correspond to different views. The display device further includes a retarder in optical association with the display panel. The retarder includes retarder pixels, where at least one retarder pixel is associated with each corresponding pixel in the display panel. Optical parameters of the retarder pixels are varied as function of the viewing angle associated with the corresponding pixel in the display panel.
US07808584B2
Disclosed are a polarizer, a method for fabricating the same, and a liquid crystal display having the same. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal panel and a polarizer attached to the liquid crystal panel. The polarizer includes a polarizing film, a first support film, and a second support film. The first support film has optical anisotropy and is attached to the polarizing film. The first support film has a first thickness. The second support film is attached to the polarizing film while facing the first support film and has a second thickness, which is greater than the first thickness. The polarizer is fabricated by evaporating a solvent from a solution including polymer resin to form an optical film and then elongating the optical film.
US07808568B2
The present invention concerns a liquid crystal display device including: a substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors each including a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; a gate line and a data line electrically connecting with the gate electrode and the source electrode, respectively; and a pixel electrode electrically connecting with the drain electrode, wherein overlapping widths between the gate electrode and the source and drain electrodes vary in accordance with the position of the thin film transistor.
US07808566B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an active matrix display device in which reliability of transistors in a pixel can be improved by reducing a voltage applied to the transistors. The active matrix display device includes a capacitor of a pixel provided for each pixel, storage capacitors provided for each pixel, a transistor in a first group, a transistor in a second group, and a data line. When the transistor in the first group is off and the transistor in the second group is on, the storage capacitors which store charge in accordance with a potential difference of a potential of the data line and a reference potential are connected in series and a voltage obtained by raising the potential difference is applied to the capacitor of the pixel and therefore, the voltage applied to the transistors can be reduced.
US07808565B2
An active matrix substrate is provided. The active matrix substrate includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, and pixel units. The scan lines, data lines, and pixel units are all disposed over the substrate. The pixel unit includes an active component, a pixel electrode, and an auxiliary electrode. The active components are electrically connected with the scan lines and data lines. The pixel electrode has openings extended from the edge of the pixel electrode to the interior of the pixel electrode. The auxiliary electrode is electrically connected with the pixel electrode controlled by a previous scan line and includes a body portion and extending portions disposed in the openings. The pixel electrode is electrically connected with the auxiliary electrode of a pixel unit controlled by a next scan line.
US07808559B2
A method and system for accumulating stillness characteristics is presented. The method and system generates field stillness characteristics for a current pixel of a current field. The field stillness characteristic is accumulated with an accumulated stillness characteristic that corresponds to a pixel location of the current pixel. The accumulated stillness characteristic includes stillness information regarding previous pixels of previous fields in the same pixel location as the current pixel.
US07808558B2
A superior Color Transient Improvement technique is adaptive to the local image features, so that more natural color edge transition improvement can be accomplished. A gain control function is provided that depends on the local image feature so that different regions of the image can be treated differently. Further, a correction signal is controlled in such a way (by the local image feature) that neither undershoot nor overshoot occurs, eliminating the need for post-processing for undershoot/overshoot removal.
US07808554B2
The present invention involves inserting a sequence of computer-like commands into a video signal stream (230) and which contain data processing instructions (401; 457; 500) and video test patterns (407; 452) in order to automate the integration, configuration, set up, adjustment, calibration and control of the components (131; 132; 133) in a video system, such as an HDTV, a studio video camera, or Telecine conversion of filmed content. The command source can be any video hardware signal source or any video program content, such as a DVD being played in a DVD player, a game console, game software, a Set Top Box or broadcast video.
US07808551B2
An imaging module includes a flexible printed circuit board which has a first area on which a first functional element is mounted, a second area on which a second functional element is mounted, and a third area which is formed between the first area and the second area, an electronic component which is mounted on the first area, and an imaging device which is mounted on the second area. The flexible printed circuit board is formed by an insulating layer which is integrated, spreading over the first area, the second area, and the third area. The flexible printed circuit board is formed such that the flexible printed circuit board can be bent at least in the third area.
US07808546B2
An image processing system for properly correcting brightness of a subject area and a background area of a captured image. The image processing system includes an image capturing apparatus, including: an image capturing instruction unit for generating a first instruction signal and a second instruction signal for instructing a capturing of the subject; and an image pick-up unit for capturing a first image of the subject in response to the first instruction signal, and a second image of the subject in response to the second instruction signal. The image processing system also includes an image processing apparatus, including: a backlight status detector for detecting backlight status based on the first image and the second image; and a correction unit for correcting the second image when the backlight status detector detects the backlight status.
US07808541B2
To enable to display a scale indicative of a reference length on a screen of a display at an accurate length even when exchanging the lens in an image pickup apparatus to any lens.In a case of mounting an exchange lens (4F, 4Z) to an image pickup apparatus main body (3) and displaying an image of an object picked up by an image sensor (2) and a scale (5) indicative of a reference length in juxtaposition on a screen of a display (6), a previously measured optical magnification or an actual magnification is outputted from optical magnification outputting means (8) provided to the exchange lens (4F, 4Z) is outputted, an actual magnification on the screen of the display (6) is calculated based on the optical magnification, the size for the image sensor and the screen size, and the size of the scale on the screen is set based on the actual magnification and the reference length of the scale by a scale setting means (17).
US07808537B2
To provide a configuration including a fully differential amplifier in which decrease in a reading speed can be suppressed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus according to the present invention includes a pixel area where a plurality of pixels are arranged; an amplifier configured to amplify a signal from the pixel area; a plurality of signal paths for transmitting the signals from the pixel area to the amplifier. The amplifier is a fully differential amplifier which includes a plurality of input terminals including a first input terminal and a second input terminal to which the signals from the plurality of signal paths are supplied and a plurality of output terminals including a first output terminal and a second output terminal and the input terminals and the output terminals have no feedback path provided therebetween.
US07808532B2
A flash-based strategy is used to separate foreground information from background information within image information. In this strategy, a first image is taken without the use of flash. A second image is taken of the same subject matter with the use of flash. The foreground information in the flash image is illuminated by the flash to a much greater extent than the background information. Based on this property, the strategy applies processing to extract the foreground information from the background information. The strategy supplements the flash information by also taking into consideration motion information and color information.
US07808528B2
A variable acuity imager incorporates an array of detection elements for light energy, in the visible, infrared, ultraviolet, or light energy in another region of the electromagnetic spectrum with a means to change the spatial configuration of the array to include “superpixels” by combining energy detected by adjacent elements, thus permitting any number of high-resolution “foveal” regions to be placed within the confines of the focal plane array and moved around at the frame rate of the imaging device. Detectors to measure the pitch, yaw and roll angle rates of background imagery using velocity-sensing circuitry are employed for variation of the foveal regions to accommodate motion of the array.
US07808522B2
The invention discloses a method for calling video communication service by video communication terminal. The method comprises the steps of: (a) a first video communication terminal launches a call to a multipoint control unit (MCU) and sends an conference information needed for convening a conference to the MCU through an In-Band channel established between both sides; (b) the MCU convenes the conference according to the conference information received. The invention also discloses a message data form for transferring information through an In-Band channel in a video communication service. The message data form comprises: a data starting mark field, a data type field, a data length field, a field for no less than one piece of sub-information, a data ending mark field and a cyclic redundancy check field.
US07808521B2
A technique is provided for recording and manipulating a multimedia conference. For example, an audio and/or video conference is conducted via computer and the audio data from a set of one or more participants in an audio conference is received and recorded and stored, and the audio data for each participant is recorded onto a separate track of a file.
US07808518B2
There is provided an ink sheet cartridge that includes a cartridge case having a case body disposed opposite to an upper surface of an ink sheet unit, driving sidewall portions rotatably supporting driving shafts of respective sheet supply and winding bobbins, and a supporting sidewall portion to rotatably support supporting shafts of respective sheet supply and winding bobbins. The ink sheet unit is detachably insertable in the case body, receives an ink sheet wound around the sheet supply bobbin, and includes a supply sheet case capable of drawing out the ink sheet therefrom at the time of receiving the ink sheet. The ink sheet cartridge enables replacement of the ink sheet unit such that the cartridge case is reusable and protects the replacement ink sheet from foreign objects and substances.
US07808503B2
A deferred shading graphics pipeline processor and method are provided encompassing numerous substructures. Embodiments of the processor and method may include one or more of deferred shading, a tiled frame buffer, and multiple?stage hidden surface removal processing. In the deferred shading graphics pipeline, hidden surface removal is completed before pixel coloring is done. The pipeline processor comprises a command fetch and decode unit, a geometry unit, a mode extraction unit, a sort unit, a setup unit, a cull unit, a mode injection unit, a fragment unit, a texture unit, a Phong lighting unit, a pixel unit, and a backend unit.
US07808496B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for supplying power source for providing certain voltage to a first display device and a second display device. The apparatus for supplying power source includes a boosting circuit, a boosted voltage detecting circuit and an output selecting circuit. The boosting circuit boosts a battery voltage. The boosted voltage detecting circuit detects the boosted battery voltage, and transmits the detection result to the boosting circuit. The output selecting circuit is coupled to the boosting circuit and the boosted voltage detecting circuit, and provides selectively the boosted battery voltage to a first display device and a second display device. The apparatus provides certain voltage to a first display device and/or a second display device, and thus the size of a dual panel apparatus employing the display devices may be reduced.
US07808493B2
A data line driving circuit includes a first buffer circuit configured to drive a data line, and a second buffer circuit configured to drive a data line. N first data lines (n is a natural number larger than 1), and m second data lines (m is a natural number larger than 1) are alternately arranged in units of data lines as a group. The data line driving circuit further includes a first switch circuit configured to select one of the n first data lines in a first ON period and to connect the selected first data line with the first buffer circuit, and a second switch circuit configured to select one of the m second data lines adjacent to the selected first data line in a second ON period and to connect the selected second data line with the second buffer circuit.
US07808481B2
An optical pointing device, which is to be disposed on a working surface, includes a casing, a light source, a light sensor, and an obstructing member. The casing has a light transmissible portion. The light source is mounted in the casing, and emits light that is directed through the light transmissible portion of the casing and that is reflected by the working surface back into the casing through the light transmissible portion. The light sensor is mounted in the casing, and detects the light reflected by the working surface. The obstructing member is disposed in the casing, and is capable of preventing the light sensor from detecting the light reflected by the working surface when the casing is moved beyond a predetermined distance above the working surface.
US07808480B2
A method and system for inputting a character string using a handheld input device, such as a mouse wheel or touchpad. Signals are grouped depending on a change in direction, depressing the mouse button as an interrupt, holding a mouse button down, etc., and the groupings are translated into symbols. Translation can be pre-determined or from a mapping file. Symbols can be appended into a character string and provided as a password, PIN, credit card, account number, or as other sensitive data.
US07808475B2
Backlight support is provided for flat panel displays through use of phospho-luminescent materials. Photo-luminescent materials are integrated into a flat panel display such as an LCD display as a back panel substrate or by embedding in display pixels. When ambient light levels exceed a predetermined threshold the material is activated allowing a reduction in active backlight power. The active backlight may be provided by an electrically supported system such as an ELP, a light pipe, an LED, etc. By reducing the power of the active backlight in an analog manner or through decreasing the duty cycle, an overall power savings is accomplished for the display. By embedding different photo-luminescent materials that operate at different wavelengths, color display may be enhanced while reducing power consumption. Display properties, such as transparency, contrast, etc., may be adjusted to affect phospho-luminescent backlight support.
US07808474B2
A light control circuit that makes it possible to, when the light intensity of the area surrounding a display screen varies in a relatively short time, prevent the brightness of a backlight from being erroneously adjusted as the result of the variation being detected is provided. The light control circuit controls the backlight of a display panel. This light control circuit is provided with functions of performing the following operation: detection signals from multiple optical sensors are taken into a common sampling means in a time division manner to acquire multiple sampling values temporally dispersed; a surrounding light intensity is determined by majority decision based on the multiple sampling values, and the result of determination is externally outputted.
US07808469B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display control device which can display pictures in a magnification mode by using only a memory having low-speed access and a low storage capacity. When a video signal has intermediate resolution or less, the enlargement processing is performed by a frame memory, a line memory and an enlargement processing control circuit. If the input operation and the output operation to and from the frame memory are synchronized with each other, it is sufficient for the frame memory to have a storage capacity of two lines. When the video signal has the same high resolution as a liquid crystal display panel, the video signal is output through a gate circuit to a display timing generating circuit, and it is displayed in a through mode. In this case, no processing is performed by the frame memory or the like.
US07808467B2
A method of driving an electro-optical device having a plurality of pixels which are formed to correspond to intersections between a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines and each of which exhibits a grayscale of output light corresponding to a data signal sampled and supplied to the corresponding data line when the corresponding scan line is selected is provided. The method includes: selecting the plurality of scan lines in a predetermined order; dividing a period of time, when one of the scan lines is selected, into a first period and a second period; selecting m (where m is an integer greater than or equal to 2) lines from one of an odd group and an even group consisting of odd-numbered and even-numbered data lines, respectively, in the first period; selecting m data lines from the other of the odd group and the even group of data lines in the second period; and sampling data signals supplied to m image signal lines and supplying the sampled data signals to the selected m data lines.
US07808455B2
Apparatus for compensating for a threshold voltage of a driver element having gate and drain electrodes which controls current flowing in a light emitting element effective in an on and off state. A capacitor is disposed between the gate electrode and a drain electrode when the light emitting element is in the on state emits light and when the light emitting element is in the off state, applying a voltage to the gate and the source of the driver element and a threshold voltage between the gate and drain electrodes is detected and stored in the capacitor, by writing a signal voltage closer to a potential which causes the driver element to turn off than the potential supplied to the gate electrode of the driver element when detecting a threshold value, the signal voltage being superimposed on the threshold voltage without losing the threshold voltage of the driver element.
US07808446B2
A display system, including an optical transmitter configured to optically transmit digital image information associated with an image to be displayed. The system also includes an active display including a decoder electrically coupled with a plurality of display elements that are configured to produce visible light in response to electrical stimulation. The decoder is configured to receive the digital image information and in response produce a control signal for each of the display elements, the control signals being usable to individually control visible light produced by the display elements so as to cause display of the image.
US07808443B2
The present invention relates to an antenna arrangement connectable to a transceiver for transmitting and receiving RF signals in at least two separate frequency bands. The antenna arrangement has at least two sets of antenna elements arranged on a reflector, and the antenna elements are arranged in an interleaved configuration along a single column. The two separate frequency bands are substantially non-overlapping but relatively close to each other, and the distance between adjacent antenna elements in said column is substantially the same along the column.
US07808436B2
In a communication terminal in which a first enclosure and a second enclosure are foldable, to provide the communication terminal with an antenna characteristic with a wide band performance in either when the enclosures are opened or folded. In a folding communication terminal comprising an upper enclosure 2 and a lower enclosure 3 which are foldable through a hinge, and an antenna 5 attached to the lower enclosure 3, the antenna 5 is arranged along the edge of the end face 3A on the upper side abutting on the hinge of the lower enclosure 3, a conductor is placed in the upper enclosure 2 not provided with the antenna, and a second printed board 31 is provided so that when the upper enclosure 2 and the lower enclosure 3 are opened, it is connected to the antenna 5 at a high frequency to operate as the antenna, thereby transmitting/receiving an electromagnetic wave.
US07808419B2
A digitizer includes an analog to digital converter (ADC), a sampling frequency generator, and a controller. The ADC samples an IF signal to generate a digital signal. The sampling frequency generator is connected to the ADC and provides a sampling clock of variable frequency to the ADC. The controller is connected to the sampling frequency generator and determines frequency of the sampling clock.
US07808414B2
An A/D conversion circuit includes a continuous-time filter that performs a filtering process on an input signal, an SCF that is provided in a subsequent stage of the continuous-time filter and performs a filtering process utilizing the continuous-time filter as a prefilter, a cut-off frequency of the SCF being variably set corresponding to a frequency band of the input signal, an A/D converter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the SCF and performs an A/D conversion operation utilizing the continuous-time filter and the SCF as prefilters, and a digital filter that is provided in a subsequent stage of the A/D converter and performs a digital filtering process utilizing the continuous-time filter and the SCF as prefilters, a cut-off frequency of the digital filter being variably set corresponding to the frequency band of the input signal.
US07808408B2
Skew between a first clock signal received by a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a second clock signal received by a second ADC is adjusted to minimize error. Each ADC has an ADC element that produces a respective first or second digital output signal in response to an analog input signal and a respective first or second clock signal. A correction signal is produced in response to the first and second digital output signals. The skew between the first and second clock signals is then adjusted in response to the correction signal.
US07808396B2
It is intended to provide a substrate processing apparatus capable of reliably informing a running state of the apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus 100 having a signal indicator for indicating the running state, including a signal indicator 306 capable of setting at least one operation condition under which the signal indicator 306 operates as well as of operating under any one of a plurality of operation conditions and a display unit 314 capable of displaying that a cause of the operation is any one of the operation conditions during the operation of the signal indicator 306.
US07808379B2
A selectable mode field transmitter is configurable to operate in one of a plurality of operating modes having different combinations of function, performance, and power consumption. The selectable mode field transmitter includes a housing, a sensor located within the housing, and transmitter circuitry for transmitting data provided by the sensor to a receiver external to the housing. The transmitter circuitry includes a controller that electrically configures the transmitter circuitry to one of a plurality of operational modes in response to mode selection data received from a source external to the housing. Therefore, the selectable mode field transmitter can be configured based on the needs or requirements of a particular application.
US07808374B2
An apparatus is provided for measuring wear-induced displacement of a brake lining with respect to an associated brake caliper, comprising a gear mechanism for converting the wear-induced displacement into a rotary movement, having a sensor for detecting the rotary movement, wherein a contact-free coupling is provided for transmitting the rotary movement to the sensor. The apparatus is designed in such a way that the sensor generates an analogue or pulse-width-modulated detection signal for determining the wear-induced displacement of the brake lining, wherein the detection signal corresponds to the respective displacement caused by the rotary movement. The invention also related to a corresponding method for measuring the wear-induced displacement of a brake lining with respect to an associated brake caliper.
US07808370B2
Systems and methods provide for the creation of vehicle sound fonts, for utilizing the vehicle sound fonts to augment the engine sounds of a vehicle, and for establishing a network for sharing and controlling the playback of vehicle sound fonts and other media. The systems install in automobiles and play simulated engine sounds of other recorded vehicles in a controlled manner synchronized with the engine spark frequency of the playback vehicle. Automobiles with these systems may network together to share media and to coordinate playback in a synchronized manner among all vehicles of the network.
US07808368B2
An appliance network comprising an appliance in communication with an audio communication accessory to effect communication therebetween.
US07808366B2
A refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. The refrigerator includes: tags attached to goods stored in a storage chamber; a reader, including a plurality of antennas having different identification distances, identifying the tags using the antennas; and a control unit detecting locations of the tags attached to goods stored in the storage chamber using the different identification distances of the antennas.
US07808361B1
A dual protection device includes a cover, a first protection unit, a second protection unit and a base. The first protection unit includes an elastic contact piece and a first conductive member. The elastic contact piece has a first end fixed to the cover and a second end including a first contact point. The first conductive member has a second contact point to contact with the first contact point. The elastic contact piece bends to separate the first contact point from the second contact point when overloaded. The second protection unit has a second conductive member, which is respectively connected with the first conductive member and a second terminal by fuse members. A biasing member is compressed between the second conductive member and the base so as to separate the second terminal from the second conductive member when the fuse members melt.
US07808354B2
A magnetic element includes a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, a fourth wire and a first single-strand wire. The first wire is disposed at a first side of the magnetic element, and has a first end and a second end. The second wire is disposed at the first side of the magnetic element, and has a third end and a fourth end. The third wire is disposed at a second side of the magnetic element, and has a fifth end and a sixth end. The fourth wire is disposed at the second side of the magnetic element, and has a seventh end an eighth end. The first single-strand wire has one terminal simultaneously connected to the second end and the fourth end.
US07808345B2
A dielectric resonator is constructed so as to have a substantially cruciform shape in cross section by including four plate components. A first set of opposed plate components have respective first principal center planes separated from each other and substantially parallel with each other. A second set of opposed plate components also have respective second principal center planes separated from each other and substantially parallel with each other. The first principal center planes are orthogonal to the second principal center planes. With this configuration, a TE01δy mode in which an electric-field vector rotates within the first set of opposed plate components and a TE01δz mode in which an electric-field vector rotates within the second set of opposed plate components are coupled.
US07808342B2
According to one exemplary embodiment, a switching module includes a first harmonic phase tuning filter coupled to a first input of an RF switch. The first harmonic phase tuning filter is configured to provide an output impedance that substantially matches an input impedance of the RF switch at approximately a fundamental frequency and to provide a low impedance at approximately a harmonic frequency generated by the RF switch. The first harmonic phase tuning filter includes an LC circuit coupled between an output terminal of the first harmonic phase tuning filter and a ground and tuned to provide the low impedance at approximately the harmonic frequency generated by the RF switch. The RF switching module further includes a second harmonic phase tuning filter coupled to a second input of the RF switch. The first and second harmonic phase tuning filters can be fabricated on a single semiconductor die.
US07808340B2
Described herein are systems and methods for a JXP-type plug-in device that may be inserted within existing transmission equipment, such as RF amplifiers and the like, to provide an appropriate amount of flat attenuation to the lower frequencies of signals being processed in the equipment while allowing desired peaking at high frequencies of the same signals to compensate for high-frequency roll-off.
US07808337B2
A junction for connecting two waveguides having substantially a 90-degree angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections. The junction has a first interface and a second interface for connecting the waveguides, and at least a first transformer section and a second transformer section, both having cross-sections of substantially rectangular shape, and both having the 90-degree angular offset between longitudinal symmetry axes of their cross-sections. The first and second transformer sections are connected such that a T-shape connection is formed and the first transformer section has a first protruded ridge on its broad wall and the second transformer section has a second protruded ridge on its broad wall. The broad wall with the second ridge is connected to the top narrow wall of the first transformer section and the ridges are located such that they overlap.
US07808327B2
Methods and systems to provide digitally controlled crystal oscillators are disclosed. One example method includes determining a state of an oscillator system and selecting a first output of a digitally controlled crystal oscillator or a second output of a second oscillator based on the determination. In an example implementation, the second oscillator is a ring oscillator.
US07808325B2
A system and method for frequency pushing/pulling compensation in phase-locked loops including a method for cancelling frequency push/pull in an oscillator of a transmitter. The method includes computing an error signal from a signal of a phase locked loop, wherein the error signal includes an aggressor signal. Transfer characteristics are computed for the aggressor signal. A transmitted signal is filtered using the transfer characteristics to produce a correction term. The correction term is applied to a frequency control word being provided to the oscillator.
US07808320B1
A buffer amplifier includes an input stage circuit, an output stage circuit and a bias circuit, providing a buffered output signal at an output terminal according to an input signal applied to a first input terminal. The input stage circuit generates four control signals in response to the input signal when the logic level of the buffered output signal is opposite to that of the input signal. The output stage circuit includes four output transistors, wherein the first and second output transistor of a first type are provided for discharge in response to a first control signal and a second control signal, and the third and fourth output transistor of a second type are provided for charge in response to a third control signal and a fourth control signal. The bias circuit is used for determining the first, second, third and fourth control signal.
US07808317B1
An electrical circuit includes an amplifier. The amplifier includes an input circuit in communication with an input of the amplifier. A start-up circuit is in communication with the input circuit. The start-up circuit is configured to generate a start-up signal to enable subsequent operation of the amplifier. The start-up circuit turns off when an output of the amplifier reaches a threshold voltage. An output circuit is in communication with each of the outputs of the amplifier, the input circuit, and the start-up circuit.
US07808316B2
Wideband differential amplifier including single-ended amplifiers coupled to a four-port transformer
A differential amplifier is formed from a first single-ended amplifier circuit, a second single-ended amplifier circuit, and a four-port transformer circuit coupled to the first and second single-ended amplifier circuits to form the differential amplifier.
US07808315B2
A method or corresponding apparatus relates to a mathematical approach to efficiently search for and localize regions in a multi-dimensional signal space to enable inversion of power amplifier nonlinearities with a significant reduction in computational complexity and an efficient hardware implementation. To linearize a wideband power amplifier, an example embodiment of the present invention may represent a response of the wideband power amplifier using coefficients in a cube coefficient subspace, and search over the full multi-dimensional subspace according to an optimization criterion in order to identify a vector of cube coefficient subspace coefficients. The vector of coefficient subspace coefficients may be used to linearize the wide-band power amplifier.
US07808314B2
The invention relates to a circuit for adjusting an impedance between two terminals, said impendance including the input impedance of the circuit. The aim of the invention is to enlarge the adjustment range and to stabilize—the operating behavior of such a circuit. For this purpose, the circuit comprises amplifiers, adjusting means with which amplification of at least one amplifier and/or the circuit can be changed in general and the impedance between the two terminals can be modified by influencing the one or more adjusting means.
US07808308B2
A voltage generating apparatus is disclosed. The voltage generating apparatus includes a first N-type transistor and an enhancement MOSFET transistor. The first N-type transistor has a first drain/source coupled to a first voltage, a second drain/source generating a first output voltage, and a gate coupled to a second voltage. The enhancement MOSFET transistor has a first drain/source coupled to the second drain/source of the first N-type transistor, and a second drain/source and a gate coupled to a second voltage. The first N-type transistor is a depletion metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET).
US07808305B2
A low-voltage band-gap reference voltage bias circuit is provided. In the low-voltage band-gap reference voltage bias circuit, a proportional-to-absolute temperature (PTAT) current is copied to two nodes, respectively, to generate a first voltage having a negative slope with respect to temperature variation, and a second voltage having a positive slope with respect to temperature variation, and first and second elements having high impedances are serially connected to each other between the two nodes, such that the sum of the negative slope of the first voltage and the positive slope of the second voltage is zero and an average voltage between the two nodes is extracted to output the extracted result as a reference voltage. Accordingly, a stable reference voltage of 1V or lower regardless of a power supply voltage and temperature variation can be supplied.
US07808301B2
A multiple-stage charge pump circuit includes first and second pump capacitors, a charge recycle circuit, and first and second transfer circuits. The charge recycle circuit includes first and second driving circuits and a switch circuit turning off to make a node floating and to couple first terminals of the first and second pump capacitors to the node in a first time period. The switch circuit and first and second driving circuits provide a specific voltage to the node and control voltages at the first terminals of the first and second pump capacitors in second and third time periods, respectively. The first and second transfer circuits provide a high voltage to a second terminal of the first pump capacitor in the second time period, and provide the voltage of the second terminal of the first pump capacitor to a second terminal of the second pump capacitor in the third time period.
US07808290B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a delay locked loop (DLL) control block configured to generate a buffer enable signal, the buffer enable signal being a pulse signal that is periodically enabled when a smart power down signal is enabled, and a DLL circuit configured to control a phase of an external clock signal in response to the buffer enable signal to generate an output clock signal.
US07808285B2
A power switch assembly for a capacitive load 10 which includes a common electrode 14 and first and second discrete electrodes 16, 18, includes a node n1 coupled to a voltage source Vcc for receiving power there from, a first switching device connected between the node n1 and ground, a second switching device connected between the node n1 and ground, and a dividing circuit connected between the node and ground. The dividing circuit includes an output terminal connected to the common electrode 14 of the capacitive load. The first switching device is coupled to the first electrode 16 of the capacitive load configured to control movement of the capacitive load 10 in a first direction. The second switching device is coupled to the second electrode 18 of the capacitive load configured to control movement of the capacitive load 10 in a second direction reverse to the first direction.
US07808282B2
Power-down mode is activated when equal voltages are detected on a pair of differential inputs. The voltage difference across the differential inputs is equalized by an equalizer and then applied to a multiplier and smoothed and filtered by a low-pass filter to produce an average signal. The average signal is compared to a reference voltage to detect when the voltage difference across the differential inputs is too small. A power-down signal is activated when the average signal is too small. The reference voltage compared can be generated by an equalizer, multiplier, and low-pass filter to match process, temperature, and supply-voltage variations in the primary signal path. The multipliers can be implemented with Gilbert cells. The equalizers can receive control signals to control attenuation of different frequency components.
US07808281B1
A differential CML driver includes an output stage, a control circuit and a reference circuit. The output stage includes a first loading component, a second loading component, a bias component, a first metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor and a second MOS transistor. The control circuit is coupled to the output stage and is for receiving a reference bias voltage, a first input signal and a second input signal to make one of the first and the second MOS transistor enter a cut-off region and the other of the first and the second MOS transistor enter a saturation region. The reference circuit is coupled to the output stage and the control circuit, and is for generating a common-mode voltage according to first and second output voltages of the output stage, and outputting the reference bias voltage to the control circuit according to the common-mode voltage.
US07808278B2
Described are amplifiers that facilitate high-speed communication with calibrated drive strength and termination impedance. Drivers and termination elements can be divided into a number N of parallel portions, one or more of which can be disabled and updated without interfering with signal (e.g., clock or data) transmission. Some embodiments identify inactive elements by examining incoming signals.
US07808276B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a chip-to-chip communication system including a transmitter and a receiver connected to receive respective transmitter and receiver clock signals. The transmitter includes precharge and evaluation blocks connected to each other and to a transmitter clock terminal. The receiver includes a precharge block connected to a receiver clock terminal. The precharge blocks precharge an output terminal of the transmitter and an input terminal of the receiver, respectively, to a value corresponding to a first voltage reference during a low phase of the transmitter clock signal.
US07808271B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for time-balanced switching of multiplexer circuits. An embodiment of the invention includes a transistor chain coupled to the output of the multiplexer circuit. The transistor chain preferably delays transitions that would otherwise occur relatively quickly, to match the timing of transitions that occur relatively slowly. The timing of relatively slow transitions is left unaltered. The invention advantageously allows all selector input transitions to yield a data output transition with a substantially constant delay.
US07808262B2
A method of making and testing a system on chip (SOC) comprises providing an integrated system test (IST) module in each one of a plurality of SOC components. At least one of the SOC components communicates with an external interface and at least one other of the SOC components. The method includes receiving test configuration data, transmitting test result data, and transmitting and receiving application data via the external interface. The method includes using at least one of the IST modules to receive the test configuration data and configure the IST modules to test the plurality of SOC components.
US07808259B2
A method or an apparatus for aligning a plurality of structures can include applying a first force in a first plane to a first structure. The method can also include constraining in the first plane the first structure with respect to a second structure such that the first structure is in a position with respect to the second structure that aligns first features on the first structure with second features on the second structures. The second feature can be in a second plane that is generally parallel to the first plane. The first and second structures can be first and second electronic components, which can be components of a probe card assembly.
US07808252B2
Provided is a test apparatus for testing the jitter tolerance of a device under test which receives a data signal and a strobe signal indicating the timing at which the data signal should be received, and acquires the data signal at the timing indicated by the strobe signal, including a signal generating section which generates the data signal and the strobe signal to be supplied to the device under test, a jitter applying section which applies a combinational jitter obtained by combining a data jitter which should be tolerated for the data signal and a strobe jitter which should be tolerated for the strobe signal to the data signal or the strobe signal, and a signal supplying section which supplies the data signal and the strobe signal, to one of which the combinational jitter has been applied, to the device under test.
US07808240B2
An MRI apparatus includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a magnet to impress a polarizing magnetic field, a plurality of gradient coils positioned about the bore of the magnet to impose a magnetic field gradient, and an RF transceiver system and an RF switch controlled by a pulse module to transmit RF pulses to an RF coil assembly and to acquire MR images, and a computer programmed to apply a plurality of RF pulses configured to control RF excitation by a transmit coil array such that a waveform shape of each of the plurality of RF pulses is based on optimizing a spatial spectrum.
US07808230B2
A voltage detection device that is connected to a DC circuit to which a DC voltage is applied and that detects the DC voltage applied to the DC circuit comprises a voltage conversion means for outputting a first voltage that increases as the DC voltage increases and a second voltage that decreases as the DC voltage increases, a voltage calculation means for inputting the first voltage and the second voltage outputted from the voltage conversion means and calculating the DC voltage based upon a difference between the inputted first voltage and the inputted second voltage, and a first failure judgment means for judging that failure has occurred if at least one of the first voltage and the second voltage is not inputted to the voltage calculation means.
US07808226B1
A method, device, and apparatus for tracing a conductive line and locating any concealed surveillance devices coupled to the line uses a signal generator to produce a test signal having a fundamental frequency which is coupled to the line under test. The test signal flowing through the line under test creates electromagnetic waves that propagate through the atmosphere away from the line. A portable locator probe is used to detect the radiated signal and thus the conductive line by detecting the magnitude of the radiated signal. As the locator probe is moved closer to the line, the amplitude of the detected signal increases. In addition, the portable locator probe detects harmonic signals radiated from nonlinear junctions coupled to the line at harmonic frequencies of the fundamental test signal. By examining the relative strengths of the second and third harmonic signals, a user can determine if the detected non-linear junction is being produced by a semiconductor or a corrosive/dissimilar metal type non-linear junction. A DC bias voltage can be used to improve the responses of any semiconductor based non-linear junctions. Any semiconductor junctions located with the probe are manually examined to determine the cause of the non-linear junction.
US07808223B1
An integrated circuit device for delivering power to a load includes a composite transistor and a composite schottky diode. The composite transistor is formed by a plurality of component transistors that have commonly coupled source terminals, commonly coupled drain terminals and commonly coupled gate terminals. The composite schottky diode is formed by a plurality of component schottky diodes that have anodes coupled in common and coupled to the source terminals of the plurality of component transistors, and for which drain terminals of the commonly coupled drain terminals constitute respective cathodes.
US07808220B2
According to one or more aspects of DC-to-DC voltage conversion as taught herein, a DC-to-DC converter selectively operates in a first mode wherein an included linear pass output circuit supplies the output power from the DC-to-DC converter, in a second mode wherein an included charge pump output circuit supplies the output power, and in a third mode wherein the linear pass and charge pump output circuits operate in parallel to supply the output power. With this third mode, also referred to as a “dual” mode, wherein the linear pass and charge pump output circuits operate in parallel, the DC-to-DC converter keeps the more efficient output circuit on after it has begun switching to operation with the less efficient output circuit. Such switchover may be performed dynamically in response to changing operating conditions. Detected operating conditions may include input voltages, output voltages, and output load conditions.
US07808219B2
An AC/DC power converter has, as its first stage, a capacitor divider and rectifier and, as the second stage, a switch mode power supply. This configuration may be suitable for low power low voltage aerospace applications. The benefits of the circuit may include small reactive component size; near sinusoidal input current, low EMI emissions resulting from low inrush current; intrinsic current limiting that may eliminate the need for short circuit protection; and low overall component count.
US07808206B2
An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
US07808205B2
A battery charger and method for communicating battery pack charging status information of a battery pack coupled to both the battery charger and an electronic device such as a radio is presented. An authenticity battery pack identifier and battery status information provided by the battery pack to the battery charger is read. The authenticity battery pack identifier and charging status information is transmitted over a wireless link from the battery charger to the radio. The charging status information is then processed by the radio when the authenticity battery pack identifier matches a currently coupled battery pack identifier stored on the radio. The currently coupled battery pack identifier identifies the battery pack that is coupled to the radio.
US07808201B2
A power converter circuit for providing maximum utilization of a DC bus voltage to a two-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) is disclosed. The circuit includes first, second, and third nodes, each node being the junction between series connected high and low side switches connected across a DC bus; a PMSM having first and second windings and a star point at which the first and second windings are coupled to each other, the first winding having a terminal connected to the first node, the second winding having a terminal connected to the second node, and the star point being connected to the third node; and a controller for performing a three-point Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) coupled to a gate of each switch.
