US09883750B2
A frame height adjusting mechanism is adapted for a frame including an inner pipe and an outer pipe sheathing on the inner pipe. A fixing hole is formed on one of the inner pipe and the outer pipe. A plurality of positioning holes is formed on the other one of the inner pipe and the outer pipe. The frame height adjusting mechanism includes a driving member which is slidably disposed on the inner pipe or the outer pipe where the fixing hole is formed and includes at least one first inclined surface, and at least one engaging member which is slidably disposed on the driving member and passing through the fixing hole to insert into one of the plurality of positioning holes. The at least one first inclined surface pushes the at least one engaging member to disengage from the corresponded positioning hole when the driving member slides upwardly.
US09883749B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a convertible children's high chair. According to various embodiments, the convertible high chair generally comprises a first child seat supported above a floor by a high chair frame, and a second child seat configured for being removably coupled to first child seat. The second child seat is configured such that, when detached from the high chair's first child seat, it can be used apart from the high chair as a booster seat (e.g., secured to the seating surface of a standard chair or another support surface). In certain embodiments, the second child seat includes a base surface configured to stably support the second child seat on a separate support surface (e.g., without the need to be attached to or mounted on a separate base or support member).
US09883748B2
A seating device includes a training device connected to a component of the base of the seating device. The training device is configured to tilt the seating device to help a user learn how to use the seating device to help the user avoid losing the user's balance while sitting or leaning on the seat of the seating device when the user initially starts to use the seating device. The training device can be releasable from the base of the seating device after the user has learned how to balance on the seating device. The training device can also be reattachable to the seating device to facilitate the training of other users.
US09883747B2
A furniture cover assembly comprising side portions interconnected to define an interior area, wherein at least one side portion has an edge portion adjacent to an access opening to the interior area. The edge portion has a belt tunnel with opposing first and second open ends. An adjustment member is adjacent to the first open end, and a belt is slideably disposed in the belt tunnel. The belt has first and second free end portions projecting from and exterior of the belt tunnel. The belt's first free end portion is adjustably connected to the adjustment member and forms a first adjustable loop exterior of the belt tunnel and is configured to connect to a support structure of a furniture unit when positioned in the interior area. The belt's second free end portion forms a second loop exterior of the belt tunnel adjacent to the second open end and is configured to connect to a second support structure of the furniture unit with the belt tunnel extending between the first and second support structures.
US09883744B2
A self stabilizing system which has an incompressible coil at least partially encompassed in a housing, and which controls a foot of a device to be stabilized. The coil abuts a plunger, which plunger is for allowing a user to selectably lock the elevation by use of a pin which fits within a plurality of annular grooves on the plunger. In a first embodiment, a pair of coils surround the plunger on either side and control a pair of feet, thus allowing automatic stabilization on an uneven surface. In a second embodiment, a single coil is controlled by a spring which abuts the plunger allowing a spring-loaded system for selecting an elevation to lock the plunger.
US09883737B2
A height-adjustable table includes a first tabletop and a second tabletop. A first height adjustment mechanism is configured to vertically shift the first tabletop relative to a support surface on which the table is supported. A second height adjustment mechanism is configured to vertically shift the second tabletop relative to the support surface. The table also includes a base in direct contact with the support surface. Each of the first and second height adjustment mechanisms is directly coupled to the base.
US09883731B2
An adjustable bending force assembly is described for use with components that are securable to objects via applied bending force. In implementations, the adjustable bending force assembly is formed as part of a band that exerts bending force upon objects inserted within the band (e.g., between the ends of the band). The adjustable bending force assembly includes one or more stiffener elements that are adjustably positionable at multiple different positions along a length of the band to vary the amount of bending force. In one approach, the stiffener elements are configured as plates that slide into different positions to adjust the bending force. The adjustable bending force assembly may be included as an integrated component of a wearable device, such as a watch or headband. Alternatively, a band can be configured as a separate component to which a device can readily be attached and detached through manual force.
US09883728B2
A case (1) for a stick of material to be applied by friction, in particular a stick of lipstick, including: a hollow cylindrical inner body (2), having a main axis (X), open at a proximal end (5), capable of receiving the stick of material; a hollow cylindrical outer body (7), having a main axis (X), open at a proximal end (10), into which the inner body (2) is inserted such as to pivot relative to the outer body (7) about the main axis (X), an outer cylindrical surface (4) of the inner body (2) facing a cylindrical inner surface (8) of the outer body (7); the case also including one flexible lip (34) for controlling the rotation torque about the main axis (X) of the inner body (2) inside the outer body (7).
US09883726B2
A hair dryer includes a main body and an outlet unit. The outlet unit is provided therein with an air-guiding member, which can convert a linearly ongoing air current into a rotationally ongoing air current. Furthermore, the outlet define a plurality of air holes, through which outside air can be drawn into the outlet unit to mix with the air current flowing out of the exit of the main body, to increase air speed, uniformity and penetration and to reduce noise.
US09883724B2
The present invention is a solid insert device for use inside a suitcase, especially a soft shell suitcase. By filling it sized to the suitcase, maximum use of the suitcase insert is achieved.
US09883719B2
A fixturing apparatus that includes a housing defining an interior space and having a trapezoidal cross-section, a first end, and an opposing second end, and is formed to include an aperture extending therethrough from the first end to said second end.
US09883717B2
Various articles, such as footwear, apparel, athletic equipment, watchbands, and the like, and methods of forming those articles are presented. The articles are generally formed, in whole or in part, using rapid manufacturing techniques, such as laser sintering, stereolithography, solid deposition modeling, and the like. The use of rapid manufacturing allows for relatively economical and time efficient manufacture of customized articles. The articles may include one or more reinforcements configured to provide added durability to various regions of the articles. In addition, the articles may be formed from two or more materials in a single rapid manufacturing process. The rapid manufacturing additive fabrication technique may also include using of varying intensities of the laser to fuse material to form the articles.
US09883716B2
A shoe sole having a bottom surface with a plurality of stud clusters extending therefrom is provided, each stud cluster comprising at least two studs connected via one or more connection elements, wherein, to optimise the manner in which the stud clusters deal with forces applied to them during ground contact, each stud cluster is oriented in accordance with a predetermined direction of gross shear motion of the stud cluster and each stud cluster is dimensioned in accordance with the distribution of forces applied to the sole during ground contact.
US09883708B2
The invention relates to a head covering such as a tiara having a display element attached thereon which may be easily interchanged by the user to increase the versatility of the head covering and allow the user to switch in display elements having varying shapes and sizes. The head coverings may be used by adults at sporting events and/or by children playing dress-up, for example.
US09883702B2
A portion of a bra, such as a bra wing or bra cup, includes a double-faced fabric made with a polyurethane-based elastomer yarn. A silicone pattern is printed on a first face of the fabric, and at least partially penetrates the first face. In a first zone on the first face of the fabric, the printed silicone pattern has a first surface density, and in a second zone it has a second surface density. The first surface density imparts a first elastic modulus to the fabric in the first zone, while the second surface density imparts a second elastic modulus to the fabric in the second zone that is different than the first elastic modulus. A plurality of zones can be provided in order to provide a smoothing and/or support effect to the portion of the bra.
US09883698B2
The present disclosure relates to a replaceable vaporizer assembly and an electronic cigarette having the replaceable vaporizer assembly. In certain embodiments, the electronic cigarette may include an electronic cigarette body, and a replaceable vaporizer assembly. The electronic cigarette body may include a mouthpiece installed in a mouthpiece base, a connector base, a mounting base, an E-liquid storage tank, and a connector. The mounting base and the connector base are threadedly connected through a first internal thread of the mounting base and an external thread of the connector base to form an air chamber inside of the mounting base and the connector base. When in operation, outside air enters the air chamber through the multiple air intake openings and is vaporized by the replaceable vaporizer assembly, goes up through multiple air gaps between the mounting base and the connector base, and exits the electronic cigarette body through the mouthpiece.
US09883697B2
A portable, personal storage and carrying case for an e-liquid e-cigarette PV which is operable to re-fill the PV with e-liquid if the PV is inserted, fully or in part, into the case, while maintaining the PV whole and intact. The case includes an electrical power source recharging a battery in the PV, a user-replaceable reservoir for the e-liquid, and an electrical or electronic pump delivering a predefined or variable quantity of e-liquid from the cartridge.
US09883696B2
A battery rod assembly and an electronic cigarette are provided. The battery rod assembly includes a battery rod assembly body. The battery rod assembly body includes a suction end, a battery for supplying power to an atomizing assembly of the electronic cigarette and an aerosol passage communicating with the suction end. The battery and the aerosol passage are separated from each other inside the battery rod assembly body. Since the battery rod assembly body is provided with a separated and sealed aerosol passage, components inside the battery rod assembly may not be immersed by aerosol generated from atomization, thereby ensuring a long service life of the battery rod assembly. The user is avoided from inhaling the cigarette liquid with the electronic cigarette including the battery rod assembly.
US09883692B2
An infant and/or toddler nutrition comprising non-viable Bifidobacterium breve and a non-digestible oligosaccharide and its use are disclosed.
US09883688B1
Disclosed are improved citrus fruit juice powders and methods of providing the improved citrus fruit juice powders. The citrus fruit juice powders are neutralized and are free of fillers, such as maltodextrin. Also disclosed are meat marinades that include the improved citrus fruit juice powder.
US09883687B2
A vegetable food product and a method of making a dehydrated vegetable food product are provided. A quantity of vegetables is cut to a predetermined size. The quantity of cut vegetables is cooked. The quantity of cut vegetables has surface moisture removed. A flavoring material is imparted into the quantity of vegetables. The quantity of cut vegetables is substantially dehydrated, wherein each of the cut vegetables has a jerky-like texture, whereby shearing through the jerky-like texture requires a force of at least 30 N until a 95% strain is achieved utilizing a TA-HD Plus Texture Analyzer Device. The quantity of vegetable may include a quantity of potatoes.
US09883685B2
Fused deposition model printer system. The system prints cold slurry substances and includes a source of a cold slurry substance with a print platform supported for at least three axes of motion under computer control. An extruder head system including a nozzle extrudes a stream of the cold slurry substance from the source onto the print platform, the extruder head including a heater. A cryogen line is provided having a perforated section for surrounding the continuous stream of the cold slurry substance to spray a cryogen onto the cold slurry substance to cool it upon extrusion. A chilled compartment or freezer is provided in which the print platform, extruder head system, and cryogen line are contained to maintain those components at a selected temperature whereby the cold slurry substance is printed to form a desired three dimensional shape.
US09883683B2
The present invention relates to a composition for making a coffee beverage, the composition having roast and ground coffee having a X50 of from 700 to 1250 μm; and a milk powder with a X50 of from 50 μm to 3 mm; wherein the ratio by weight of the roast and ground coffee to the milk powder is from 4:1 to 2:3.
US09883682B2
Radio frequency (RF) energy is used to quickly heat the yolk portion of a shell egg. An anode and corresponding cathode are applied to each individual egg. As the egg is selectively and systematically rotated, RF energy and a stream of cooling fluid (preferably water) are simultaneously applied to the egg. This initiates pasteurization of the egg yolk while maintaining a low temperature in the heat-sensitive albumen (egg white) thus preventing denaturation of the albumen. Immediately after the RF yolk heating process, the egg is placed in a hot water bath designed to rapidly pasteurize the albumen as well as to minimize heat loss from the yolk and pasteurize any portion of the yolk that is not already pasteurized through the RF yolk heating process.
US09883664B2
A fishing rig may include a first fastener mechanism configured to attach to a fishing line. A second fastener mechanism may be configured to attach to at least one a balloon and a bobber. A button may cooperate with the first or second fastener mechanism to release and lock the fishing line or balloon.
US09883662B2
The disclosure illustrates a fish lure vocalization device which includes a main body defining an enclosed chamber inside. A vocalization module, a control module and a battery are disposed in the chamber. The vocalization module has a box in which an electromagnet and a metal diaphragm are disposed. The control module is used to control the electromagnet. A magnet is disposed on the metal diaphragm. The magnet is attracted by the electromagnet after the magnetic force is produced by electrifying the electromagnet, to deform the metal diaphragm to make sound. Thereby, the purpose of luring the fish to take the bait may be achieved.
US09883661B2
A multi-path aquarium filtration system having multiple chambers adapted to receive different types of treatment systems, and having a bypass gate assembly whereby the flow volume between certain chambers is adjustable.
US09883659B2
A chick feeding station having an elongate trough for holding poultry feed, a conveyor which is placed in the trough and moves feed in the longitudinal direction of the trough, and deflectors and supports that provide chick safety. The conveyor is a chain conveyor with flights. The deflectors are mounted on the chick feeding station such that they extend from just above the conveyor flights and obliquely upward in the direction of travel of the conveyor, to move a chick to an upper level of the trough. A support for each deflector is also provided in the trough, the supports extending above the flights in the longitudinal direction of the trough, all the way to and through the deflectors.
US09883657B2
A collar for conditioning behavior in an animal and system and method for same are disclosed. The collar includes a main body configured to generate electric stimuli. A pair of conductive polymer multi-ridge electrodes extends outward in a concave configuration from base portion of main body at first end and second end of base portion such that electrodes and base portion form a unitary component. The pair of electrodes is configured to have inner and outer indentations integrally formed with base portion such that inner indentations are suitable for receiving smaller animals and outer indentations are suitable for receiving larger animals. A housing receives main body and is integrally formed with a pair of elongated planar members extending orthogonally from band portion of collar at first end and second end of housing such that collar is positioned around animal neck while inserted to main body for support.
US09883656B1
An improved house training harness for a puppy or a dog that detects canine urination, defecation, and territory marking body positions. If any of these forbidden body positions are detected inside the house, the dog receives an immediate inhibiting rib vibration that prevents liquid or solid elimination or marking and the owner is notified that the dog needs to go outside.
US09883652B2
A system for cleaning a dairy animal milker unit and applying dip to a dairy animal, the system includes a main control, an air supply, a water supply, a backflush fluid supply, a dip supply, a stall control for receiving the air, water, backflush fluid and dip supplies, and a safety valve that is adjacent to a downstream portion of the milker unit to control backflush and dip fluids being fed to the milker unit.
US09883644B2
A novel sweet corn hybrid plant, designated HMX4372BS is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of sweet corn hybrid HMX4372BS, to the plants and plant parts of sweet corn hybrid HMX4372BS, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant by crossing the sweet corn hybrid HMX4372BS with itself or another sweet corn plant. The invention further relates to methods for producing a sweet corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other sweet corn plants derived from the sweet corn hybrid plant HMX4372BS.
US09883640B2
Methods and apparatus for transporting or delivering elastomeric emitters and inserting elastomeric emitters into drip line are disclosed herein, and more particularly, to methods and apparatus for manufacturing drip line to form an irrigation assembly or system. In one form, the apparatus comprises a feeder, conveyor, emitter drive mechanism and guide bar for insertion into an extruder to bond the elastomeric emitter to an inner surface of the extruded tube. Friction reducing apparatus and methods are further disclosed as well.
US09883625B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for selecting an agricultural input. First and second seed meters selectively meter seed from first and second sources, respectively, into a common planting trench. In some embodiments the seed meters are selectively operated by electric motors controlled with reference to a seed type prescription. In some embodiments the first and second seed meters deposit seeds along a common plane.
US09888616B2
The instant disclosure relates to a chassis structure for industrial uninterruptible power supply system including: a chassis having a frame and a front side panel, left side panel, right side panel, rear side panel and top panel installed on the frame; the chassis has a plurality of spacer on the bottom thereof for lifting the chassis from the ground for a distance to forming a gas-intake space; a plurality of protective plates disposed around the gas-intake space, each protective plate has a plurality of gas-intake hole; a bottom plate structure disposed between the bottom of the chassis and the gas-intake space and has at least a gas-intake gap; at least a venting hole disposed on the top panel of the chassis, each venting hole has at least an exhaust fan for outputting a gas from the chassis.
US09888604B2
A support rack configured for an aircraft including: a rectangular frame including four substantially straight segments and four feet, wherein upper surfaces of each of the substantially straight segments and the four feet are substantially aligned with a upper plane of the rectangular frame; a first set of attachment holes configured to attach at least one item of aviation electronic equipment, wherein the first set of holes are in the upper surfaces of the straight segments or the, and a second set of attachment holes configured to receive anchoring elements that anchor to a structure of the aircraft, wherein the second set of attachment holes are at a surface of the rack out of the substantially upper planar.
US09888598B2
A connector apparatus a display apparatus including the connector are provided. The connector apparatus includes: a pair of connectors configured to be coupled to apparatuses; and a cable connecting the pair of connectors, wherein each connector of the pair of connectors includes a signal line part including a plurality of signal pins and a power line part including first and second terminals.
US09888587B2
The curvature remotely adjustable curved-surface display device of the present invention has a remotely controllable motor, an active rod, and a slave rod deployed therein. The active rod has a gear and the first slave rod has a rack bar. When receiving a remote control signal transmitted from a remote terminal, the remotely controllable motor can actuate the gear on the active rod to rotate such that the active rod and the first slave rod move close to each other or away from each other. Such a process applies forces to the display panel, thereby carrying out remotely controlling the curvature of the display panel.
US09888585B2
Adhesion of an underlying diffusion barrier metal film and an electroless copper plating film with respect to an insulating film can be improved. A method for manufacturing a wiring structure includes a process of forming the underlying diffusion barrier metal film 5, including a base metal with respect to copper, on the insulating film 1; and a process of forming the electroless copper plating film 6 on the underlying diffusion barrier metal film 5 by performing an electroless copper displacement plating process with a copper displacement plating solution. The copper displacement plating solution is an acidic copper displacement plating solution of pH1 to pH4, in which copper ions are contained but a reducing agent for reducing the copper ions is not contained.
US09888582B2
A display device including a flexible substrate that includes a display part to display an image; a driving integrated chip (IC) that supplies a driving voltage to the display part; a flexible printed circuit (FPC) attached to an outer side portion of the substrate; and a printed circuit board (PCB) attached to the FPC, the PCB transferring the driving voltage to the driving IC through the FPC, wherein the FPC includes attachment parts at ends thereof, the attachment parts of the FPC being attached to pad parts at the outer side portion of the substrate and to pad parts of the PCB, and the attachment parts include slits therein.
US09888565B2
A memory module includes a module board extending in one direction, a plurality of electronic elements mounted on the module board, and at least one stress detection pattern in a position between the electronic elements or adjacent to one or more of the electronic elements on the module board and including a plurality of strips configured to indicate a stress level generated in the position by an external force applied to the module board.
US09888549B2
An LED based illumination device includes an and a LED based light engine and a light control and communications gateway (LCCG). An LED driver in the LCCG receives a light control command via a lighting control network interface and in response provides an electrical current that controls the amount of light produced by the LED based light engine. The lighting control network interface of the LCCG is communicatively coupled to a lighting control network. The LCCG additionally includes a building management network interface that is communicatively coupled to a building management network. Identification and operational data for a plurality of LED based illumination devices communicatively coupled to the lighting control network is stored in memory, and operational data is communicated from the LCCG over the building management network interface to a building management system communicatively coupled to the LCCG over the building management network.
US09888544B2
A method for powering a load by a light source driving circuit is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring a first sensing signal indicative of an average current flowing through the load; generating a first temperature detecting signal indicative of an ambient temperature of the light source driving circuit; and adjusting the average current flowing through the load based on the first temperature detecting signal and the first sensing signal to make the average current flowing through the load to be inversely proportional to the ambient temperature of the light source driving circuit if the ambient temperature of the light source driving circuit is between a first temperature threshold and a second temperature threshold.
US09888540B2
A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load is able to operate in a normal mode and a burst mode. The load control device may comprise a control circuit that activates an inverter circuit during active state periods and deactivates the inverter circuit during inactive state periods. The control circuit may operate in the normal mode to regulate an average magnitude of a load current conducted through the electrical load to be above a minimum rated current. The control circuit may operate in the burst mode to adjust the average magnitude of the load current to be below the minimum rated current. The control circuit may adjust the average magnitude of the load current by adjusting the length of the inactive state periods while holding the length of the active state periods constant.
US09888521B2
A method includes a wireless mobile device communicating with a wireless network via an evolved high rate packet data (eHRPD) interface. The wireless mobile device may receive a vendor specific network control protocol (VSNCP) packet such as a terminate-request packet, for example, that indicates the wireless network has requested a PDN disconnection. The VSNCP packet includes a cause code that indicates a reason for the PDN disconnection request. The wireless device may use the cause code to determine the reason for the PDN disconnection request. Accordingly, in response to receiving the VSNCP packet, the wireless mobile device may perform one or more operations in an effort to resolve any issues that may have caused the PDN disconnection request.
US09888516B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for EM communications. One of the apparatus includes a first device comprising: a first contactless connector and a second contactless connector, and a first controller configured to test the first contactless connector and the second contactless connector to determine a primary connector and a redundant connector, wherein the primary connector is configured to establish a communication link with a connector of another device.
US09888509B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for performing a RA procedure for at least a first D2D communication session and a second D2D communication session in a wireless communication system. The method includes a UE transmitting a first message to a network, wherein the first message is a preamble. The method also includes the UE receiving a second message from the network after transmission of the first message, wherein the second message contains a first UL resource. The method further includes the UE using the first UL resource to transmit a third message to the network after reception of the second message, wherein the third message includes at least a BSR MAC CE. In addition, the method includes the UE determining that the RA procedure is successful if the UE receives a fourth message, wherein the fourth message contains either a second UL resource or at least a D2D resource depending on whether or not the BSR MAC CE is associated with the first D2D communication session and the second D2D communication session.
US09888508B2
An evolved Node-B (eNB), user equipment (UE) and method for handling overlapping resource pools for device-to-device (D2D) transmission are generally described. Resources for D2D communication with at least one other UE may be requested by the UE. The allocated pools may overlap. The overlapping pools may comprise pools of the same type or different types. The types of pools may include a discovery pool, a Scheduling Assignment (SA) pool and a Mode-2 data pool. The eNB may resolve conflict among the pools by transmitting an indication of allocation of only one of the pools or may permit the UE to determine which pool to use for transmission. The pool may be selected based on at least one of usage index, configuration identity, and usage priority. The usage index may include traffic types, mode switching, L2 control, UE classification, data rate, real-time/non-real time, latency, and Quality of Service (QoS).
US09888503B2
A method for fast initial link setup (FILS) for use in a wireless station, is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a FILS discovery (FD) frame from an access point (AP). The FD frame comprises an FD frame control field and FD frame contents. The FD frame control field comprises a service set identifier (SSID) indicator, indicating whether an SSID field in the FD frame contents contains a full SSID or a short SSID and an SSID length field, indicating a size of the full SSID or the short SSID contained in the SSID field in the FD frame contents. The method further comprises determining whether to associate with the AP based on the received FD frame; and on a condition the determination is positive, the method further comprises transmitting an association request frame to the AP. A wireless station is also disclosed.
US09888493B2
A method for performing multi-point coordination for receiving uplink data by a serving point in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: scheduling physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission of a served terminal by the serving point; transmitting a message including at least a part of a scheduling result of the PUSCH transmission to a coordinated point; and after transmission of the message, transmitting downlink control information including the scheduling result of the PUSCH transmission to the terminal, wherein the PUSCH of the terminal scheduled by the serving point is received by the coordinated point which has obtained the message.
US09888492B2
Techniques to support operation in a compressed mode and/or a continuous packet connectivity (CPC) mode are described. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an assignment of enabled subframes for the CPC mode and an assignment of transmission gaps for the compressed mode. The transmission gaps may be aligned with idle times between the enabled subframes. The UE may exchange data during enabled subframes not overlapping the transmission gaps and may skip data exchanges during enabled subframes overlapping the transmission gaps. The UE may make cell measurements during the transmission gaps. In another aspect, the UE may obtain enabled subframes and skipped subframes, exchange data during enabled subframes not corresponding to the skipped subframes, and skip data exchanges during the skipped subframes. In yet another aspect, the UE may receive orders on a shared control channel to quickly enable and disable the compressed mode.
US09888477B2
A scheduling apparatus and a scheduling method, wherein the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced while maintaining system throughput performance. In a base station apparatus (100), a scheduling section (113) allocates frequency resources to frequency allocation target terminals based on set frequency allocation units, and a frequency allocation parameter setting section (112) adjusts the set frequency allocation units set in the scheduling section (113) based on cluster numbers. Due to this, in each cluster number, frequency resources can be allocated based on the most suitable frequency allocation units with respect to the signaling bit number. As a result, the amount of signaling for frequency resource allocation information can be reduced. Further, system throughput can be maintained by making the cluster number, which is a parameter having little effect on system throughput, a setting parameter for frequency allocation units.
US09888474B2
The present invention proposes a method for activating secondary carriers in addition to the primary carrier in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation technology. Through the present invention, the UE sorts the operations for activating an SCell into two groups that are executed at different timings, thereby facilitating communication without malfunctioning.
US09888469B2
In a wireless communications system including a first transmission point and a second transmission point, a wireless communications method implemented in the first transmission point supporting coordinated multi-point transmission and reception (CoMP) is disclosed. The wireless communications method comprises transmitting to the second transmission point one or more CoMP hypothesis sets, and transmitting to the second transmission point a benefit metric corresponding to each CoMP hypothesis set, wherein the benefit metric can be a negative value. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
US09888464B2
A mobile communications system is proposed in which mobile communications devices are arranged to transmit signals to and to receive signals from a base station using one or a subset of available sub-bands, with the base station being configured to move the mobile communications devices between the sub-bands. An anchor sub-band is also provided on which idle mobile communications devices camp until they are moved to one or more other sub-bands in addition to or instead of the anchor sub-band.
US09888457B2
Single-frequency network (SFN) operation for machine-type communications (MTC) coverage enhancements
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to techniques for single-frequency network (SFN) operation for machine-type communications (MTC) coverage enhancements. A method is provided for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes detecting a synchronization signal transmitted from at least one of a plurality of transmission points, wherein each of the plurality of transmission points transmits a synchronization signal at a different offset time relative to a subframe boundary in a synchronized network, determining a subframe occurring a fixed time after detecting the synchronization signal to monitor for system information transmitted from at least one of the plurality of transmission points, and monitoring for a system information block during the determined subframe.
US09888445B2
An enhanced NodeB (eNB), user equipment (UE) and communication methods therebetween using an unlicensed channel of an unlicensed band are generally described. The eNB measures an interference power level (IPL) of the unlicensed channel at the eNB and determine a transmit power level (TPL) for a downlink transmission based on the IPL, the TPL decreasing with increasing IPL. Feedback including unlicensed channel conditions measured by the UE is used by the eNB to determine the UE-eNB proximity. The eNB determines whether to transmit the downlink transmission to the UE based on the IPL and the proximity; as the IPL increases, the eNB services increasingly proximate UEs until, when the IPL exceeds a predetermined threshold, the eNB does not service any UE using the unlicensed channel. The eNB schedules and transmits the downlink transmission to the UE using the transmit power level.
US09888441B2
A method for managing power usage is perform at a mobile terminal having one or more processors and memory storing programs executed by the one or more processors. The mobile terminal collects its operating environment information while the mobile terminal is in a first operating mode. The mobile terminal compares the collected operating environment information with a plurality of power usage switch conditions, each power usage switch condition having an associated operating mode, to determine whether the collected operating environment information matches one of the plurality of power usage switch conditions. When this happens, the mobile terminal determines its current working status and switches from the first operating mode to the second operating mode when there is no conflict between the mobile terminal's current working status and the second operating mode associated with the matched power usage switch condition.
US09888440B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting dynamically re-configurable and adaptable network devices in a communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things).
US09888439B2
A communication method based on identifying information assignment in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, performed by a station (STA), is provided. The method includes receiving an identifier assignment message from an access point (AP), wherein the identifier assignment message comprises identifying information for the STA, and TIM offset information for a time point at which at least one traffic indication map (TIM) element for the STA starts to be transmitted; receiving a first TIM element from the AP at a time point indicated by the TIM offset information; determining whether the first TIM element comprises the identifying information; and receiving a first data frame from the AP if the first TIM element contains the identifying information.
US09888430B2
Embodiments allow selection of a Discovery signal (DS) used to identify an eNB to a UE receiving the DS. The DS allows the UE to ascertain the existence and/or cell identifier of the eNB. DS comprise a plurality of other signals such as a Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), a Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), a Cell Specific Reference Signal (CRS) and/or a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS). A DS occasion comprises a number of subframes where the selected signals that comprise the DS are transmitted. The signals selected for the DS, their characteristics and properties allow a UE to decode the cell identifier. The DS occasion occurs with a designated periodicity.
US09888417B2
A method and apparatus for switching a connection in a wireless communication system is provided. A source cell decides radio resource control (RRC) connection switching to a target cell, transmits an aggregated user equipment (UE) context transfer message to the target cell, and transmits an RRC connection switching message to a UE in coverage of the source cell. The RRC connection switching message includes information on an identity of the target cell and a period during which the UE should finish the RRC connection switching to the target cell.
US09888406B2
According to some embodiments, a method of adapting reference signals of a wireless network comprises establishing a first wireless connection with a first user equipment. The first wireless connection is associated with one or more references signals and each of the one or more reference signals is associated with one or more antenna ports. The method further comprises mapping one of the one or more reference signals associated with one or more antenna ports to at least two antenna port reference signal resources (APRSR) for the first user equipment, wherein the APRSR comprises a pair of consecutive time-frequency resource elements of a radio subframe of the first wireless connection.
US09888397B1
Techniques described herein may be used to implement an intelligent network analytics architecture (INAA) capable of monitoring a network in real-time and detecting faults occurring in the network. The INAA may develop and implement solutions to the problems, and subsequently verify that the solutions actually fixed the problems. The INAA may cause the solutions to be implemented throughout the network (and not just at the source of the initial problem). The INAA may identify other aspects of the network that are likely to experience similar (though not the same) problems in the future, develop solutions to those problems, and implement the solutions throughout the network. The INAA may enable an operator to participate in this process by providing a complete explanation of, and proposed solution to, a particular problem, and enabling the operator to approve, prevent, modify, postpone, etc., the implementation of the solution.
US09888394B2
A method includes receiving, at route recommendation server device, travel data associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The method includes indexing segments of a plurality of routes based on a corresponding number of users of each of the plurality of segments, and receiving a recommendation request from a particular mobile device. The recommendation request includes a starting point and a destination for a trip. The method also includes identifying a plurality of routes between the starting point and the destination based on the travel data, and providing at least one recommendation for a recommended route based on a relative popularity of the recommended route among a number of users that use each of the plurality of routes.
US09888391B2
An ultra wideband active antenna platform can be deployed globally. A plug-and-play radio unit is removably attached to an outside of the active antenna. The PAPR can be removably plugged into a docking station to provide different technology or frequency bands specific for customers in different regions without the costly replacement of the whole antenna. In addition, the heat-generating sources (power amplifiers) with heavy heatsink structures are separated from the main antenna body, so that the whole active antenna can be installed separately since the installation weight of the antenna would be reduced.
US09888388B2
The disclosure is directed to a signaling method for sharing an unlicensed spectrum between different radio access technologies used by a base station and a multi-mode wireless device, a multi-mode wireless device using the same method, and a base station using the same method. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to a signaling method for sharing an unlicensed spectrum between different radio access technologies used by a base station. The method may include not limited to receiving a first transmission via a receiver of a first radio access technology over an unlicensed spectrum, calculating a channel information of the first transmission in response to receiving the first transmission, configuring a second transmission based on the first channel information of the first transmission, and transmitting the second transmission via a transmitter of a second radio access technology over the unlicensed spectrum.
US09888384B2
A master beacon device emits a data packet that is received and retransmitted by servant beacon devices in a wireless mesh network that enables the beacon devices to detect the received signal strength indicator (“RSSI”) of beacon devices in proximity. Each servant beacon device transmits survey data packets comprising the RSSIs and hardware identifiers of proximate beacon devices to the master beacon device, which constructs a first virtual map of the mesh network. At a later time, each servant beacon device transmits authentication data packets, which are retransmitted, each retransmitting beacon inserting an RSSI and hardware identifier of the beacon device from which the authentication data packet was received, until they reach the master beacon device, which constructs a second virtual map of the mesh network. The master beacon device compares the first virtual map to the second virtual map to determine if the network is secure.
US09888382B2
A mobile App using biometric encryption and decryption for privacy and security having both authentication and recognition functions. It utilizes the built-in camera of the mobile device to provide facial images for authentication purposes. It further includes a secured data communication system for conveniently sending and receiving data on the mobile devices. The secured data communication system also utilizes biometric encryption and decryption technology for granting permissions to access the data communication system. The biometric encryption is implemented by using a selective biometric feature and optimized biometric feature detection and tracking methods. Different biometric feature authentication methods are optimized for use on various mobile platforms, such as, Android, iOS, Windows and others. Data encryption and decryption are achieved by using selected biometric feature vectors as cryptographic keys. The biometric data encryption system further includes liveness detection module with anti-spoofing features to ensure the encryption and decryption processes only accept biometric features from a live person conveniently without the user's intervention. Alternative authentication method is provided if the biometric feature authentication module fails to recognize the valid user, or fails in the liveness detection module in order to maintain privacy and security of the data in the mobile device.
US09888379B2
Techniques described herein may provide for affiliation and disaffiliation of devices, such as office communication devices, associated with a user. The affiliation/disaffiliation may be performed using a mobile device (e.g., a smart phone). In one implementation, a method may include receiving a request to affiliate a user with one or more office devices; and receiving context data, from a mobile device, relating to a current context of the mobile device. The method may further include determining, based on the context data, to authorize the affiliation of the user with the one or more office devices; and provisioning, based on the determination to authorize the affiliation, the one or more office devices to customize the one or more office devices for the user.
US09888376B2
Embodiments allow one or more eNBs that become isolated from core network entities (e.g., evolved packet core entities such as mobility management entity, serving gate way, packet data network gateway, and so forth) to form a resilient mode network. Such a network can function in a limited fashion and provide for UE to UE communications within the resilient mode network coverage area. One or more of the eNBs function as an autonomous eNB and provide a subset of core network functions that allow UE to UE communications within the resilient mode network coverage area. Embodiments disclosed herein select which eNB functions as the autonomous eNB and then the other eNBs establish an S1-MME and/or S1-U interface with the autonomous eNB.
US09888372B2
The present invention relates to a communication method of an in-vehicle communication apparatus in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus therefor. One embodiment of the present invention comprises: establishing, by a communication apparatus, a connection with a base station; allocating, by the base station, an uplink resource for use in transmission of location information of a vehicle before the location information is transmitted; and if the communication apparatus is required to transmit an emergency signal to the base station, transmitting the emergency signal using the allocated uplink resource.
US09888366B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Peer to Peer communication. For example, a device may include a controller to generate a Peer to Peer discovery frame including at least one Multicast attribute, the Multicast Attribute including an address field and one or more attribute fields, the address field to indicate a plurality of devices; and a radio to transmit the Peer to Peer discovery frame, and to transmit multicast traffic to the plurality of devices according to the one or more attribute fields.
US09888364B2
A method and apparatus for localizing a smartphone is disclosed. A plurality of lateral position samples of the smartphone based at least in part on a plurality of location coordinates, lane marking information and accuracy factors of the plurality of location coordinates are collected at a plurality of time instances. Lateral position of the smartphone in the moving vehicle based at least on the plurality of lateral position samples collected at the plurality of time instances is determined. One or more correlations between a vertical acceleration pattern associated with at least one front wheel and a vertical acceleration pattern associated with at least one rear wheel of the moving vehicle passing over one or more road discontinuities as computed from an accelerometer sensor present in the smartphone are determined. Longitudinal position of the smartphone in the moving vehicle based at least on the one or more correlations is determined.
US09888359B2
In some embodiments, a server establishes communication with user devices; the server receives location data identifying a location of each user device; the server determines a geographical region based on the location of each user device, each geographical region being different for user devices not at the same location; the server receives an audio stream from the first of the user devices; the server determines which of the other user devices are within the geographical region of the first user device; and the server transmits the audio stream to the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device. In some embodiments, the server creates altered audio streams based on the distances between user devices. In some embodiments, the server changes the number of the other user devices that are within the geographical region of the first user device.
US09888353B2
A mobile wireless network and a method of operation provide a hierarchical selection from among various location methods in populating a user location database. A digital signature technique is used to determine a location of a mobile wireless communications device. The location is compared with received signal-strength indication (RSSI) measurements to determine if the location provided by the digital signature technique is reasonable, and if so, the digital signal measurement location result is stored in the database. Otherwise, the user location database controller computes the location in conformity with the RSSI measurements. Triangulation measurements in combination with the RSSI measurements may be used to compute a prospective location that is used if the digital signature-determined location is unreasonable and also tested for validity by comparison to the RSSI measurements. The prospective location can also be tested for reasonableness by comparing the RSSI measurements.
US09888351B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for electronic devices configured to be worn, and further configured to pair wirelessly to similar devices. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may include a first wearable device. The first wearable device may include an attachment mechanism configured to enable the first wearable device to be worn, a receiver configured to detect wireless signals, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to monitor for a signal from a second wearable device paired to the first wearable device, and to generate an indicator based on a proximity of the second wearable device to the first wearable device.
US09888350B2
The disclosure relates to time-of-flight (TOF) positioning and device location within a wireless networks using a hybrid combination of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Wi-Fi signaling. In one exemplary embodiment, a hybrid responder engages in BLE discovery and negotiation with a mobile device seeking its location. The hybrid responder may engage its WiFi platform only to conduct the FTM procedure. By keeping the WiFi platform in deep sleep or Off mode, the hybrid responder can gain significant power savings.
US09888347B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for resolving location criteria using user location data. One of the methods includes receiving data identifying an action to be performed in response to received user requests and data identifying location criteria for performing the action; determining a cover sets for possible confidence radii; receiving a plurality of requests, each request being associated with a respective location and a confidence radius for the location; determining, for each of the plurality of requests, whether the location associated with the request is in the cover set corresponding to the confidence radius for the location associated with the request; and for each request for which the location associated with the request is in the cover set for the confidence radius corresponding to the location associated with the request, determining that the location criteria for performing the action are satisfied.
US09888340B2
Provided are techniques for controlling message delivery corresponding to a near field communication (NFC) device, comprising establishing, on a mobile computing device, a rule-based session corresponding to a NFC device; executing an application, corresponding to the NFC device, in conjunction with the session; and responsive to detecting a condition meeting a criterion corresponding to the rule-based session, limiting execution of the application on the mobile computing device in conformity with the criterion.
US09888336B1
A configured mode of operation of a wireless sensor node unit can selectively activate a first subset of sensor channels of data and selectively deactivate a second subset of sensor channels of data. The configured mode of operation customizes the sensor functionality in the wireless sensor node unit in support of the delivery of data streams to customers.
US09888329B2
The present invention relates to a percutaneous implant abutment for bone anchored implant devices adapted to be anchored in the craniofacial region of a person, such as bone anchored hearing aids. The abutment comprises a skin penetration body having a skin contacting surface. The skin contacting surface has been modified.
US09888327B2
A hearing aid device has an antenna device. The antenna device is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic waves of a predetermined wavelength lambda. The antenna device has an energy coupling device which is configured to supply or to draw electrical energy to or from the antenna device. The antenna device has a first conductor and a second conductor, which are in energy exchange with the energy coupling device, extend away from the energy coupling device in different directions and are arranged a short distance from a third conductor. A first ohmic connection between the first conductor and the third conductor and a second ohmic connection between the second conductor and the third conductor are arranged at a predefined distance from the energy coupling device.
US09888318B2
A device includes an audio unit to provide a left audio channel, a right audio channel and a microphone channel to a headset plug. The device also includes a headset jack to form an electrical connection with the headset plug, and a swap switch configurable to swap connections of a ground terminal and a microphone terminal of the headset plug to the audio unit. The audio unit further includes: a first crosstalk cancellation circuit to subtract an estimated right-to-left crosstalk from a left digital path of the left audio channel, and to subtract an estimated left-to-right crosstalk from a right digital path of the right audio channel; and a second crosstalk cancellation circuit to subtract an estimated left-to-microphone crosstalk and an estimated right-to-microphone crosstalk from a microphone digital path of the microphone channel.
US09888316B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may include determining a signal parameter of a first microphone and a second microphone associated with a computing device. Embodiments may include generating a reference parameter based upon at least one of the parameter of the first microphone and the parameter of the second microphone. Embodiments may include adjusting a tolerance of at least one of the first microphone and the second microphone, based upon the reference parameter. Embodiments may include receiving, at the first microphone, a first speech signal, the first speech signal having a first speech signal magnitude and receiving, at the second microphone, a second speech signal, the second speech signal having a second speech signal magnitude. Embodiments may include comparing at least one of the first speech signal magnitude and the second speech signal magnitude with a third speech signal magnitude and detecting an obstructed microphone based upon the comparison.
US09888310B2
There is provided audio equipment capable of being miniaturized by sharing a plurality of types of input terminals and output terminals and reducing footprints of the terminals.The audio equipment has a CPU, ROM, RAM, a USB connector, an SD card, a DAC (D/A converter), a changeover section, an amplifier, a PHONE (headphone) terminal, a DIGITAL I/O LINE-IN terminal, a switch, and a display section. The DIGITAL I/O LINE-IN terminal is a terminal which shares a digital audio optical input terminal, a digital audio coaxial input terminal, a digital audio coaxial output terminal, and an analog audio input terminal. The switch sets the terminal by switching.
US09888309B2
An audio device worn in a piercing in an ear of a user. The audio device extends through the piercing and includes a wireless communications unit disposed at a first end and a sound-production unit coupled to an opposite second end thereof. The signal path from a master device to the sound-production unit for producing audio outputs thus passes through the pinna of the ear. The sound-production unit may include an ornamental cover such that the device can be worn as jewelry. The speaker and the wireless communications unit may be removable from a body of the device to enable the body to be worn alone as jewelry and to allow replacement of the wireless communications unit with a wired connection. The device may include a control surface useable to provide inputs to the master device coupled to the device.
US09888307B2
An electronic device having a microphone behind a water resistant, air-impermeable membrane is disclosed. Embodiments include a trapped volume of air between the membrane and the microphone. A barometric equalization element may define an acoustic leak path, e.g., a tortuous leak path, between the trapped volume of air and an encased space within a casing of the electronic device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09888301B2
The present invention discloses an optical signal control method and apparatus, and an optical switch matrix control method and apparatus. A first optical coupler performs optical coupling processing on an optical signal input from an input port, to split the optical signal into two paths of optical signals; a phase shifter performs phase processing on the two paths of optical signals, so that a phase difference exists between the two paths of optical signals on which phase processing has been performed; and a second optical coupler performs optical coupling processing on the two paths of optical signals between which the phase difference exists, to output an optical signal from a first output port and/or a second output port. In this way, a problem of a low reaction speed of an existing optical switch cell that exists when the optical switch cell implements optical signal broadcast can be resolved.
US09888291B2
A method and system for self-broadcasting content during an ongoing content viewing activity. The method receives a request from a first user to broadcast the content and determines whether the first user is authorized to broadcast the content, and publishes the availability of the broadcasting content for viewing activity. Additionally, the method receives a request from one or more second users to view the broadcasted content along with criteria associated with the ongoing content viewing activity. The method determines whether one or more second users are authorized to view the broadcasted content. Further, the method creates a list of broadcasted content based on the criteria and sends the list of the broadcasted content to the first user.
US09888282B2
This invention is new to the field in two ways: [1] it sends audio/video signals wirelessly between tablet computing devices and smartphones to projection devices instead of using attached cables, and [2] it does not require an app, a second computing device, a driver, a download, or a “jailbreak” of the computing device to function properly.
US09888279B2
A method receives video content and metadata associated with video content. The method then extracts features of the video content based on the metadata. Portions of the visual, audio, and textual features are fused into composite features that include multiple features from the visual, audio, and textual features. A set of video segments of the video content is identified based on the composite features of the video content. Also, the segments may be identified based on a user query.
US09888278B2
An Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Quality of Experience (QoE) Management Unit manages bandwidth usage and QoE at a customer premises where multiple client devices independently download content from multiple providers. An overall virtual pipe to the premises includes a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) inner pipe, a non-HTTP inner pipe, an ABR inner pipe, and a non-ABR inner pipe. The Unit determines a data cap for a current billing cycle; and determines, based on policy management settings and the data cap for the current billing cycle, at least one of: a bandwidth cap for the overall virtual pipe, a bandwidth cap for the HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the non-HTTP inner pipe, a bandwidth cap for the ABR inner pipe, and a bandwidth cap for the non-ABR inner pipe. Responsive to the determination of the bandwidth caps, the Unit throttles traffic within at least one of the inner pipes.
US09888271B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. A method for transmitting a broadcast signal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating service guide information, which includes information for accessing a broadcast service, and content data, wherein the service guide information includes a service fragment which displays information related to the broadcast service; encoding the service guide information and the content data which have been generated; and transmitting the service guide information and the content data which have been encoded.
US09888269B2
Disclosed are a device and method for displaying a video over a network, the method includes: determining a first resolution of a target video frame input over network, and comparing the first resolution with a screen resolution of a mobile terminal, and the first resolution with a resolution of a video frame displayed by the mobile terminal; if the first resolution is different from the screen resolution of the mobile terminal, determining a first ratio of a row resolution of the screen resolution to a row resolution of the first resolution, and a second ratio of a column resolution of the screen resolution to a column resolution of the first resolution; determining the size of a display window according to the smaller one of the first ratio and the second ratio, which is a display scale, and the first resolution; and displaying the target video frame in the display window.
US09888262B2
Methods and apparatuses for arithmetic encoding/decoding of video data. The arithmetic decoding method includes arithmetically decoding prefix bit strings representing a two-dimensional location of a last significant coefficient in a block sequentially by using a context model, arithmetically decoding suffix bit strings in a bypass mode, and performing inverse binarization on the arithmetically decoded prefix bit strings and suffix bit strings to acquire the location of the last significant coefficient in the block.
US09888256B2
Methods and apparatus that allow encoding of video data in pipelined encoder architectures with reduced encoding performance penalty. The methods and apparatus encode video data without the need to flush the data pipeline and re-encode macroblocks, thus saving time and resulting in an increase in the encoder's throughput. In one embodiment, macroblocks are encoded in a data pipeline to form a first video slice of a plurality of video slices. Once a macroblock overshoot condition occurs, the overshooting macroblock is determined and a second video slice is formed that includes at least one of the overshooting macroblock and the encoded macroblocks without re-encoding the included overshooting macroblock and encoded macroblocks. For example, a second video slice may be formed from the overshooting macroblock, and any remaining encoded macroblocks, that do not form the first video slice.
US09888252B2
A video encoding method and apparatus to select one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US09888250B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for reducing processing and/or storage resource requirements for retrieving an image from an image bitstream. A device to display compressed images includes a parsing component to parse a comment block of stream data to locate an entry associated with an image of multiple images, the stream data comprising an image bitstream of the multiple images, and the entry comprising a pointer to a location within the image bitstream at which a block of coefficients of a minimum coded unit (MCU) of the image begins and an indication of a coefficient of the block of coefficients; and a decoding component to retrieve the MCU from the image bitstream and employ the indication to decode the block of coefficients. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09888246B2
A scalable video encoding method includes splitting a lower-layer image into a maximum coding unit, and encoding the lower-layer image based on coding units having a tree structure obtained by hierarchically splitting the maximum coding unit; splitting a maximum coding unit of an upper-layer image corresponding to the maximum coding unit of the lower-layer image into coding units having the tree structure, based on a split structure of the maximum coding unit of the lower-layer image; determining a structure of a prediction unit included in the coding units of the upper-layer image corresponding to the coding units of the lower-layer image, based on structure information indicating a structure of the prediction unit included in the coding units of the lower-layer image; and determining whether to split the prediction unit included in the coding units of the upper-layer image by comparing a first cost to a second cost.
US09888240B2
Video coding systems and methods are provided that protect against various artifacts (e.g., banding artifacts) in decoded frame content. The embodiments to protect against introducing artifacts include pre-processing the input video frame, controlling the encoding parameters and/or post-processing the decoded video frame. A method for encoding a frame may include calculating a dark-scene score for the frame based on measured statistics of the frame. The dark-scene score may be compared to a threshold to determine if the banding artifacts may be present in the frame. Based on the comparison, filtering parameters for the frame may be altered to reduce the amount of noise filtered from the frame. The frame may be filtered based on the altered filtering parameters and encoded.
US09888232B2
The present invention relates to a 3D picture processing device comprising an input unit for receiving a video signal, an output unit for providing a video signal for a 2D display device, preferably a TV set, and a 3D shutter glasses driver unit for generating a driving signal to control 3D shutter glasses. A delay compensation unit is coupled to the driver unit and adapted to compensate for the processing delay present in the display device, preferably the TV set.
US09888224B2
Systems, devices and methods are described including determining a display type and a display mode, preparing stereoscopic image content in response to the display mode, where preparing the stereoscopic image content includes storing a full resolution left image and a full resolution right image in memory, and determining a display refresh rate in response to at least a content frame rate of the stereoscopic image content. The stereoscopic image content may then be processed for display according to the display type, the display refresh rate, and a power policy.
US09888220B2
A light source device capable of improve energy efficiency is provided. A light source device includes a yellow phosphor that emits yellow fluorescence excited by exciting light, a red laser light source that emits red laser light, a first light combining unit that generates first composite light by combining the emitted yellow fluorescence with the emitted red laser light, a blue laser light source that emits blue laser light, and a second light combining unit that generates second composite light by combining the combined first composite light with the emitted blue laser light.
US09888212B2
A method of providing programming content from a video server to a client coupled to the video server by a video content network includes the steps of sending, to the client, a playlist describing an interrelationship between at least one program segment and at least one related segment; sending, from the video server to the client over the video content network, video content comprising the at least one program segment and the at least one related segment; and modifying the playlist via communication to the client. The steps of sending the playlist, sending the content, and modifying the playlist are all accomplished within a single video-on-demand session per user.
US09888208B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for exchanging endpoint information, and a telepresence endpoint. According to the method, telepresence indicator information is exchanged between telepresence endpoints, so that endpoints in a telepresence system can obtain capability characteristics from each other. By means of the technical solution, the problems in the related art that requirements of the telepresence system cannot be supported and the compatibility between the telepresence system and a traditional video conference system cannot be realized are solved, unnecessary exchange between the endpoints is avoided, and the effects of meeting new demands of the telepresence system and improving the efficiency of media stream transport between the endpoints are further achieved.
US09888207B2
Various embodiments enable a video messaging experience which permits the exchange of short video messages in an asynchronous manner. The video messaging experience preserves the video intimacy and experience of synchronous-type video communications, while at the same time provides the convenience of SMS-type message exchange.
US09888202B2
A device may receive a numeric code representing an alphanumeric character; and determine one or more programming channel names including the alphanumeric character represented by the numeric code. Each of the one or more channel names may be associated with a television broadcast network. The device may the one or more programming channel names; receive a selection of a particular programming channel, of the one or more programming channels; and present content associated with the selected programming channel.
US09888201B2
An image processing apparatus having a plurality of Bayer arrays each including 4 pixels sharing a common electrode connected to a vertical signal line wherein: each of the pixels has a pixel electrode connected to a horizontal signal line; and the location of each of the horizontal signal lines and the location of each of the pixel electrodes each connected to one of the horizontal signal lines are determined so that the locations in a neighboring Bayer array are a mirror image of counterpart locations in another Bayer array adjacent to the neighboring Bayer array.
US09888199B2
This solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which have circuit elements constituting pixels disposed therein are electrically connected to each other. The pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element disposed in the first substrate; an amplifier circuit that amplifies a signal generated in the photoelectric conversion element to output the amplified signal; a signal accumulation circuit which is disposed in the second substrate and accumulates the amplified signal which is output from the amplifier circuit; and an output circuit that outputs the amplified signal accumulated in the signal accumulation circuit from the pixel.
US09888197B1
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for an image sensor. The image sensor may be configured as a stacked image sensor with two or more chips stacked vertically. The image sensor may comprise a plurality of pixel circuits, wherein portions of the pixel circuit are arranged on separate chips. Each pixel circuit may comprise an amplifier with a first feedback network to increase the sensor sensitivity, to reduce noise in the pixel signal, and to reduce the voltage swing on the FD node. Each pixel circuit may further comprise a second feedback network to stabilize the common-mode voltage of the pixel signal amplifier.
US09888185B1
A pixel circuit includes a transfer transistor coupled between a photodiode and a floating diffusion to transfer image charge to the floating diffusion. A precharge offset signal is representative of a difference between a row that includes the transfer transistor and a different row that is being read out. The selection circuit is coupled to select between first and second transfer control signals to control the transfer transistor. The selection circuit is coupled to output the first transfer control signal in response to a precharge enable signal during a read out operation of the different row. The precharge enable signal is generated in response to a comparison of a precharge offset signal and an exposure value signal. The selection circuit is coupled to output the second transfer control signal in response to a sample enable signal during a read out operation of the row that includes the transfer transistor.
US09888179B1
The disclosed technology includes techniques for providing improved video stabilization on a mobile device. Using gyroscope data of the mobile device, the physical camera orientation of the mobile device may be estimated over time. Using the physical camera orientation and historical data, corresponding virtual camera orientations representing a camera orientation with undesired rotational movement removed may be modeled using a non-linear filter to provide for mapping of a real image to a stabilized virtual image. The virtual camera orientation may be modified to prevent undefined pixels from appearing in the output image.
US09888177B2
An imaging device includes a first image sensor that is placed to intersect the optical axis of an imaging lens, a second image sensor that is placed to intersect the optical axis of the imaging lens so as to be situated at a given distance from the first image sensor, and receives light that has passed through the first image sensor, and a processor including hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement a brightness correction process that amplifies the pixel value of the second image captured by the second image sensor using a gain set based on the light transmittance of a light-receiving section of the first image sensor, and an object distance calculation process that performs a depth-from-defocus (DFD) process based on the pixel value of the first image and the pixel value of the second image subjected to the brightness correction process to calculate an object distance.
US09888174B2
An omnidirectional camera is presented. The camera comprises: at least one lens coupled to an image sensor, a controller coupled to the image sensor, and a movement detection element coupled to the controller. The movement detection element is configured to detect a speed and direction of movement of the camera, the camera is configured to capture images via the at least one lens coupled to the image sensor, and the controller is configured to select a digital viewpoint in the captured images. A central point of the digital viewpoint is selected on the basis of direction of movement, and a field of view of the digital viewpoint is based on the speed of movement. A system and method are also presented.
US09888171B2
By grading preview images of original images for the purpose of filtering eye blink patterns off and/or introducing face smile patterns, a result image can be generated with least eye blink patterns and most face smile patterns for satisfying image quality.
US09888163B2
Provided is an imaging device, including: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of images having different focal positions; an orientation acquisition unit for acquiring orientation information of the image acquisition unit; and an image processing unit for generating, from the plurality of images, an image having a depth of field which is enlarged compared to a depth of field of one of the plurality of images, in which a focal position setting value by which the focal position is determined is provided, and the focal position setting value is corrected based on the orientation information.
US09888158B2
A night vision device, comprising a first light-sensitive chip, a first lens group (101), a first display screen, an image processing system and a control system for adjusting an imaging range of the first light-sensitive chip by adjusting times of optical zooming of the first lens group and/or digital zooming of the image processing system. The night vision device further comprises an auxiliary illumination module (103), which comprises an auxiliary light source and a light guiding cavity; the auxiliary light source at least can emit infrared light; a light ray emitted by the auxiliary light source is emitted via the light guiding cavity; the light guiding cavity has a movable adjustment component for adjusting an irradiation range of the emitted light ray in a manual manner or by means of automatic control by the control system; and the irradiation range is adapted to the imaging range of the first light-sensitive chip. The night vision device according to the present invention can improve a night visual range and imaging quality without changing the level of hardware.
US09888156B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit having a light incident surface and including: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed further toward the light incident surface; and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. The photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a member in contact with the photoelectric conversion layer and constituting a light guide together with the layer. An area of a first surface parallel to the light incident surface at a portion of the photoelectric conversion layer surrounded by the member is smaller than an area of a second surface disposed between the first surface and the second electrode at a portion of the photoelectric conversion layer surrounded by the member, and an area of orthogonal projection to the light incident surface of the first electrode is smaller than an area of orthogonal projection to the light incident surface of the second surface.
US09888153B2
A method for color correcting an input color image having input color values adapted for display on a reference display device having a plurality of input color primaries to account to provide reduced observer metemaric failure on a narrow-band display device. A metamerism correction transform is applied to the input color image to determine an output color image having output color values in an output color space appropriate for display on the narrow-band display device. The metamerism correction transform modifies colorimetry associated with the input colors to provide output color values such that an average observer metameric failure is reduced for a distribution of target observers.
US09888143B1
Methods, systems and computer program products for timed deletion of images from a personal electronic device are provided. Aspects include receiving, by a processing unit of the personal electronic device, an image from a camera of the personal electronic device. Aspects also include storing, by the processing unit, the image in a first location in a memory of the personal electronic device. Aspects further include storing, by the processing unit, an indication of an expiration time for the image in the memory of the personal electronic device. Aspects also include removing, by the processing unit, the image from the first location in the memory based on a determination that a current time has passed the expiration time.
US09888135B2
A computing device supports pull printing by using a mobile terminal. The computing device may include a user interface unit configured to receive an input selecting a print job and a printing method; a communication unit configured to transmit or receive data; a mobile search management unit configured to search for an available mobile terminal if pull printing by using a mobile terminal is selected as the printing method; a printer driver configured to render print data corresponding to the selected print job into a printable format file; a data transmission management unit configured to transmit the rendered print data to a found mobile terminal by using the communication unit; and a controller.
US09888131B2
An image processing apparatus includes a memory that stores configuration information indicating one or more conditions for automatically setting a preregistered destination as a transmission destination of the image data, circuitry that, in response to receiving a user instruction for transmitting image data to a destination configured by a user, determines whether or not the configured destination satisfies at least one of the conditions indicated by the configuration information and configures the preregistered destination as a transmission destination of the image data in addition to the configured destination based on a determination indicating that the configured destination satisfies the predetermined condition, the preregistered destination being prohibited from modification by the user, and a transmitter that transmits the image data to the configured destination and the preregistered destination.
US09888125B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing an event scheduling request in a telephony system. According to certain embodiments, a call between a first communication device and a second communication device is established. Upon authenticating a user identity associated with the second communication device, an event scheduling request is determined based on one or more attributes provided to the first communication device. A notification is provided to the second communication device based on the event scheduling request.
US09888123B2
A system and method include a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to allocate interactions to a server based on a function of a criteria over time, where the server can only handle a determined number of interactions at a time.
US09888119B2
In one implementation, a cloud service server supplements one or more call centers or data centers. The cloud service server receives a customer identification value from a call center, which may include a phone number or an address for the customer. The cloud service server generates a profile request for one or more social networking services for profile information based on the customer identification value and sends the profile information to the call center. The call center returns customer context data from the call center associated with the customer. The cloud service server stores the customer context data and the profile information in associated with the customer identification value.
US09888116B2
The present disclosure according to various embodiments provides a method and device including: a communication interface; a display; a memory; and a processor electrically connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured to detect a communication event, search a one or more user accounts for a user account corresponding to the detected communication event, and when the user account corresponding to the detected communication event is in a logged-off state, background process the communication event, and when the corresponding user account is in a logged-on state, foreground process the communication event. In addition, other embodiments are also possible.
US09888109B2
To provide a mobile phone which can be used without hampering convenience in a condition where functions of the mobile phone are switched and can improve operability. The mobile phone includes an optical sensor, a display element, a pixel circuit portion where a plurality of pixels having a plurality of transistors are arranged in matrix, an optical sensor control circuit which is connected to an optical sensor driver circuit for driving the optical sensor and reads a signal from the optical sensor, a display portion control circuit which is connected to a display element driver circuit for driving the display element and outputs an image signal for displaying an image on a display portion, a gradient detection portion for outputting a signal in accordance with a gradient of the mobile phone, and an arithmetic circuit for performing display in the pixel circuit portion by switching image signals output to the display portion control circuit with a signal from the gradient detection portion.
US09888108B2
A communication device and system are disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. The device can be restricted to communicating only using an internet protocol so as to restrict the device communication to an internal intranet. Wireless access points may be disposed throughout the environment to route calls and data between the device and a central processing center. By converting a protocol of the communications received from the device to a protocol used b r central processing center, minimal modifications to the central processing center are needed to support a wireless communication infrastructure. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the phone and system in order to prevent improper use.
US09888100B2
The present disclosure relates to a foldable display device, including: first and second housings, which are hinged through a first shaft and have first and second closed surfaces respectively and which are capable of rotating about the first shaft to be open or closed; and a touch screen covering the first and second closed surfaces. The touch screen has a bendable region corresponding to a connection region for the first and second housings, the bendable region presenting a planar structure when the first and second housings are open and presenting a smooth curved structure when the first and second housings are closed. A first groove is defined in an end of the first housing neighboring the second housing, and a second groove is defined in an end of the second housing neighboring the first housing. The first and second grooves together define an accommodation space for accommodating the bendable region.
US09888097B2
Methods and systems for implementing private allocated networks in a virtual infrastructure are presented. One method operation creates virtual switches in one or more hosts in the virtual infrastructure. Each port in the virtual switches is associated with a private allocated network (PAN) from a group of possible PANs. In one embodiment, one or more PANs share the same physical media for data transmission. The intranet traffic within each PAN is not visible to nodes that are not connected to the each PAN. In another operation, the method defines addressing mode tables for the intranet traffic within each PAN. The entries in the addressing mode tables define addressing functions for routing the intranet traffic between the virtual switches, and different types of addressing functions are supported by the virtual switches.
US09888095B2
A smart NIC (Network Interface Card) is provided with features to enable the smart NIC to operate as an in-line NIC between a host's NIC and a network. The smart NIC provides pass-through transmission of network flows for the host. Packets sent to and from the host pass through the smart NIC. As a pass-through point, the smart NIC is able to accelerate the performance of the pass-through network flows by analyzing packets, inserting packets, dropping packets, inserting or recognizing congestion information, and so forth. In addition, the smart NIC provides a lightweight transport protocol (LTP) module that enables it to establish connections with other smart NICs. The LTP connections allow the smart NICs to exchange data without passing network traffic through their respective hosts.
US09888091B2
A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user configures a presentation environment into one or more sub-environments, restricts access to one or more devices of a presentation sub-environment, or schedules one or more resources within a presentation sub-environment.
US09888089B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for client-side cache management are provided. A client request for content is returned that includes executable code for generating a request for preload information. Based on processing the executable code, a client computing device requests preload information from a content delivery service provider. The content delivery service provider provides an identification of content based on resource requests previously served by the content delivery service provider. The client computing device processes the preload information and generates and obtains identified resources for maintenance in a client computing device memory, such as cache.
US09888083B2
A system, methods, nodes, and computer programs for transcribing of a communication session in a communication network are described. The communication network includes a control server for controlling the communication session, wherein the communication session is established between a user equipment and a remote end. The method includes that the control server receives a service indication indicating that a transcript of the communication session is requested and sends a transcription request for the communication session to a policy controller of the communication network. The policy controller determines at least one policy rule corresponding to the received transcription request and sends the determined at least one policy rule to a packet gateway node of the communication network. The packet gateway node provides, based on the at least one policy rule, a transcription or transcript chunk of at least one speech stream related to the communication session.
US09888080B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses for detecting the use of a mobile communications device while driving a vehicle. Data from a vehicle is correlated with data on the use of a mobile communications device to determine if the mobile communications device was used at the same time as the vehicle was in operation. The respective locations of the mobile communications device and vehicle are correlated to determine if the mobile communications device was in the same location as the vehicle.
US09888068B2
The present application is directed towards systems and methods for managing ownership of one or more SSL sessions. A cluster of nodes intermediary between at least one client server may maintain a succession list for at least one session of a first client from the at least one client. The succession list may include a list of nodes within the cluster and an order of succession for the nodes to transfer ownership of the at least one session. A first node of the cluster may enter an operational state for managing one or more sessions between the at least one client and the at least one server. A second node of the cluster may initiate, based on the succession list and responsive to the first node entering the operational state, a transfer of ownership of the at least one session from the second node to the first node.
US09888065B2
Defragmenting a cluster service to service additional capacity requests on the service. A method includes determining an amount of server resources needed for an additional deployment reservation request for a new deployment or increasing reservation of resources of an existing deployment. The method further includes determining a server that currently does not have capacity to service the additional deployment reservation request. The method further includes determining how resources on the server can be freed up by moving other replicas of other deployments on the server to other servers to allow the server to service the additional deployment reservation request.
US09888064B2
A computer-implemented method for load-balancing client input/output (I/O) requests in a clustered storage system may include receiving a request by a first node of a clustered storage system from a client to initiate a session between the client and the first node. The request may specify a multi-channel communication session. In response to receiving the request, an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first and at least a second node may be transmitted to the client. The multi-channel communication session may be established between the client and the first and second nodes in which the client communicates with the first node using a first communication channel and communicates with the second node using a second communication channel. The first node may transmit to the second node session data determined at the first node. The second node may transmit to the first node session data determined at the second node.
US09888063B2
A method that provides for the grouping under a same workload of both application instances in an application tier, and data sharing members in a data tier. This grouping enables a workload manager to make recommendations (to load balancer appliances) about how to distribute workload connections, e.g., based on metrics gathered from both the application and data tiers. In this approach, both applications and data sources are grouped into a workload grouping, and health, status and capacity information about both of these tiers (application and data) is then used to determine an overall distribution policy for the workload. These different tiers can reside on the same or different operating system environments.
US09888061B2
An electronic device and a method for constructing a home screen thereof are provided. the method includes recognizing an editing gesture input with regard to a selected application icon, activating an editing mode in response to the editing gesture input, displaying an application list corresponding to the selected application icon in the editing mode, recognizing a selection of at least one of graphical components including widgets and icons, arranged in the displayed application list, and displaying the at least one selected graphical component on at least one page of the home screen.
US09888052B2
As one example, a method includes analyzing profile metadata for each of a plurality of ABR program streams within a lookahead window from a current chunk boundary to identify at least one target event at a chunk boundary. ABR profiles for chunks at the target event chunk boundary are allocated to fit within the channel bandwidth and achieve a predetermined target quality level for the chunks at the target event chunk boundary. In response to each target event, ABR profiles for each of the unallocated chunks within the lookahead window are selected by adjusting the ABR profiles for each of the unallocated chunks to fit within the predetermined bandwidth constrained by the ABR profiles allocated for the chunks at the target event chunk boundary. An ABR profile for a given chunk at the current chunk boundary is allocated based on the selected ABR profiles.
US09888051B1
A system including one or more cloud computing units and a ground unit. The one or more cloud computing units may be configured to process video content. The ground unit may be configured to pre-process the video content and deliver the video content to the one or more cloud computing units.
US09888043B2
An apparatus and a method for providing a voice communication service using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in an electronic device are provided. A method includes providing a first Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service in a first LTE area, handing over to a second LTE area during the first VoLTE service, when the first VoLTE service ends, determining whether the second LTE area provides a VoLTE service, and when the second VoLTE area does not provide the VoLTE service, limiting the VoLTE service of the electronic device.
US09888028B2
A method for remote triggered black hole filtering can include advertising a first modified next hop address for a destination address of network traffic, and advertising a second modified next hop address for a source address of network traffic. The first next hop address of the destination address might be overwritten with the first modified next hop address. Filtered traffic then can be forwarded to the first modified next hop address, wherein filtered traffic comprises only network traffic addressed to the destination address or from the source address. In some cases, the filtered traffic is transported and received via a sinkhole tunnel. A second next hop address of the source address can be overwritten to a second modified next hop address. The attack traffic, which can be filtered traffic that is both addressed to the destination address and from the source address, might be forwarded to a discard interface.
US09888027B2
A method comprising: receiving an identification of the target assets at risk of being attacked and of the technology layers of the organization, wherein each of the target assets may instantiate in multiple ones of the technology layers; constructing multiple attack vectors for each of at least a portion of said target assets, by determining for each attack vector three target dimensions, each of a category of: method of achieving a malicious objective, method of attack enablement and method of initial penetration; and estimating the security risk of each of said multiple attack vectors, wherein the estimating of the security risk of an attack vector of said multiple attack vectors is based on probabilities of success of the combinations of a technology layer and an attack method characterizing each of the target dimensions of the attack vector.
US09888026B2
In one aspect, the disclosure provides: A method comprising: inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation and sufficient skills to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test; validating a report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher; determining and providing an award to the particular researcher in response to successfully validating the report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher.
US09888023B2
Methods and systems for extracting, processing, displaying, and analyzing events that are associated with one or more threats are provided. According to one embodiment, threat information, including information from one or more of firewall logs and historical threat logs, is maintained in a database. Information regarding threat filtering parameters is received. Information regarding threats matching the threat filtering parameters are extracted from the database and is presented in a form of an interactive historical graph. Responsive to receiving from an administrator an indication regarding a selected subset of time in which to zoom into for further details, a list of threats within the selected subset is presented in tabular form.
US09888001B2
According to one method, the method occurs at a Diameter relay agent including at least one processor and a memory. The method includes receiving first Diameter capabilities information associated with a first Diameter node. The method also includes sending, to at least a second Diameter node, the first Diameter capabilities information.
US09887992B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for site codes for website authentication are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, a request to start a new authenticated session of the web page on the client device. The method includes generating an optical machine-readable code and a security image. The method includes transmitting (i) the security image, (ii) the optical machine-readable code, and (iii) instructions for the server to provide the security image and the optical machine-readable code for simultaneous display. The method includes receiving extracted data that the mobile device extracted from the optical machine-readable code in response to the mobile device optically detecting the optical machine-readable code using a camera of the mobile device. The method includes verifying an identity of the user based on a comparison of the extracted data and data corresponding to the optical machine-readable code.
US09887991B2
As provided herein, a first device may be registered as authorized to authenticate a user login into a service from a second device (e.g., a smart phone may be used to log the user into a webmail service on a computer without the user having to enter a password through the computer). Responsive to the user attempting to access the service through the second device, a login interface may be displayed on the first device. The user may confirm or deny that the user wants to log into the service on the second device, thus allowing the user to seamlessly log into the service on the second device (e.g., without entering a password) while mitigating unauthorized logins into the service from unknown devices. Further, the user may use the first device to delegate the authority to authenticate the user login into the service to one or more other devices.
US09887983B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for implementing a composite authenticator. For example, an apparatus in accordance with one embodiment comprises: an authenticator for authenticating a user of the apparatus with a relying party, the authenticator comprising a plurality of authentication components; and component authentication logic to attest to the model and/or integrity of at least one authentication component to one or more of the other authentication components prior to allowing the authentication components to form the authenticator.
US09887979B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for enabling users to launch applications without entering authentication credentials may include (1) receiving, at a server that hosts an application that requests authentication credentials from users before allowing the users to access the application, a request from an endpoint device to download the application, the request including a user token that identifies a user of the endpoint device, (2) in response to receiving the request, authenticating the user token within the request, (3) creating an authenticated version of the application by adding, to the application, an indication that the user token has been authenticated, (4) distributing the authenticated version of the application to the endpoint device, where the endpoint device (A) identifies, within the authenticated version of the application, the indication that the user token has been authenticated and (B) launches the authenticated version of the application without requiring the user to enter authentication credentials.
US09887978B2
A system and method for efficiently obtaining user configuration information for a given device. Multiple devices are deployed in an environment and may be storage appliances. A directory service and an authentication service may be used to determine whether a login session attempt on a deployed device is successful. An identity and access manager (IAM) is used to for this determination and to communicate with the directory service and the authentication service. A device of the one or more of the deployed devices does not store user configuration information. Responsive to an attempted login by a user, the device mimics the existence of the user and generates a request for directory lookup and authentication for the user which is conveyed to an external device. If a positive response is received in response to the request, the user is permitted to login to the device and a session is created for the user.
US09887966B2
A method of mediating communications between a first computing device and a second computing device, by an intermediary computing device, comprising establishing a communications link to each of the first and second computing devices, receiving a first message from the first computing device, the content of the first message comprising information in a protected format, converting at least part of the information in the protected format to an unprotected format, and transmitting a second message to the second computing device, the content of the second message comprising at least part of the information in the unprotected format.
US09887965B2
A browser application programming interface is exposed to a web application to verify an identify of a user using user-specific identity information stored by the browser. Cryptographic information associated with the user is transmitted from the browser application programming interface to the web application. User-specific content is provided to the user through the web application if the web application verifies an identify of the user via the browser application programming interface using the cryptographic information.
US09887963B2
A method, and associated system, for security processing of a request for a resource in a network security system. The request for the resource is received from a client device. A duplicate of the received request is created. The received request and its duplicate are forwarded to a first proxy server and a second proxy server, respectively. A first output including the received request, and a second output including the duplicate of the received request, are received from first proxy server and the second proxy server, respectively. A determination is made of whether the first output and the second output differ; if not the received request or the duplicate of the received request is transmitted to a web server for satisfying the request; if so a first alarm is generated and transmission to the web server of the received request and the duplicate of the received request is blocked.
US09887960B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages several logical networks. The method receives a specification of a logical network that includes at least one logical forwarding element attached to a logical service (e.g., DHCP). The method selects at least one host machine to host the specified logical service from several host machines designated for hosting logical services. The method generates logical service configuration information for distribution to the selected host machine. In some embodiments, the method selects a master host machine and a backup host machine for hosting logical service. In some embodiments, a particular one of the designated host machines hosts at least two DHCP services for two different logical networks as separate processes operating on the particular host machine.
US09887957B2
Methods and systems for providing sourcing Internet access requests from ISP subscribers serviced by a gateway not physically located near the subscribers. As the localization needs of all subscribers are not necessarily the same, the gateway determines an appropriate source IP address to use to ensure that the IP protocol localization features work efficiently. In addition, the gateway can help enforce rules related to the governing law of the geographic area of the subscriber and/or rules based on the content providers licensing. Through determination of the context of a request, the gateway may also determine whether localized sourcing of a request is necessary based on the type of content being requested.
US09887948B2
A method for augmenting social media posts with location information includes a processor generating a social media message without location information marking. Scanning is performed for one or more electronic devices within vicinity of the processor. Location of the electronic device is determined. The social media message is marked with location information.
US09887945B2
An approach for unfiltering a filtered electronic communication is provided. In one aspect, a computer system receives filtered electronic communication, wherein the filtered electronic communication is a status message. Moreover, the computer system determines a requestor of the filtered electronic communication. The computer system also detects an attempt made to communicate with the requestor. Furthermore, the computer system unfilters, in response to the attempt, the filtered electronic communication.
US09887920B2
A terminal communicating with a network including a forwarding device for forwarding a packet and a control device for controlling the forwarding device in accordance with a request from the forwarding device, includes a communication unit that receives a processing rule indicating that a packet for communicating with a first destination is changed so as to communicate with a second destination, from the control device, a storage unit that stores the received processing rule, and a processing unit that in a case of communicating with the network, changes a destination of a packet in accordance with a processing rule that corresponds to the packet by referring to the processing rule stored in the storage unit.
US09887918B1
Intelligent packet data register file that stalls picoengine and retrieves data from a larger buffer
A multi-processor includes a pool of processors and a common packet buffer memory. Bytes of packet data of a packet are stored in the packet buffer memory. Each of the processors has an intelligent packet data register file. One processor is tasked with processing the packet data, and its packet data register file caches a subset of the bytes of packet data. Some instructions when executed require that the packet data register file supply the execute stage of the processor with certain bytes of the packet data. If during instruction execution the intelligent packet data register file determines that it does not store some of the necessary bytes, then the register file asserts a stall signal thereby stalling the processor, and retrieves the bytes from the packet buffer memory, and then supplies the retrieved bytes to the execute stage, and de-asserts the stall signal to unstall the processor.
US09887908B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present description, a node of the distributed computing system has multiple communication paths to a data processing resource lock which controls access to shared resources, for example. In this manner, at least one redundant communication path is provided between a node and a data processing resource lock to facilitate reliable transmission of data processing resource lock signals between the node and the data processing resource lock. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US09887898B2
An interfacing device is configured to process one or more rules, based on sensor data, to perform a predetermined action. During operation, the device can detect a rule-triggering event, and can search a rule repository to obtain a set of rules whose action criteria is satisfied by the rule-triggering event. If the set of rules include a plurality of rules that are simultaneously triggered by the rule-triggered event, the local interfacing device may process the plurality of rules in a user-defined sequence.
US09887895B2
Embodiments enable data usage plans and data usage statistics to be shared among user computing devices. In some embodiments, a web service receives a schema populated with data describing the data usage plan from a mobile operator. The web service distributes the populated schema to the user computing devices, and subsequently distributes updated portions of the schema as the data usage plan is updated by the mobile operator. The web service may also collect the data usage statistics from the user computing devices and the mobile operator, reconcile any differences, and send synchronization notifications to the user computing devices based on the reconciliation. In some embodiments, users are able to view bandwidth consumption by a plurality of user computing devices sharing the same data usage plan.
US09887894B2
Embodiments profile users based on data usage of installed applications and provide recommendations for reducing data usage. A computing device or cloud service determines a plurality of applications installed on the computing device. Data usage patterns associated with each of the determined plurality of applications are identified. The data usage patterns describe data usage over a network for at least one of the determined plurality of applications. One or more recommendations for reducing data usage are defined based on the identified data usage patterns. Some embodiments recommend switching applications, uninstalling applications, or disabling particular network connections.
US09887882B2
A network functions virtualization (NFV) network can be configured to operate according to NFV protocols that decouple software functionality from specific hardware elements. A referent system can be provided that identifies a precise physical location of devices associated with the NFV network relative to other equipment or devices associated with the NFV network.
US09887881B2
Techniques are disclosed for classifying a network flow based on a domain name system (DNS) request. Embodiments receive a first DNS request associated with establishing a network flow with a remote service. Here, the first DNS request specifies a domain name associated with the remote service. The domain name is analyzed in order to determine a first classification for the remote service. The first classification is selected from a plurality of classifications. Embodiments then determine a network management policy to apply to the network flow, based on the determined first classification.
US09887879B2
A management server receives selection of a setting item to be a monitoring target from setting information that can be set for a device, extracts, as monitoring data, setting information corresponding to the selected setting item, generates a monitoring task in which a device to be a monitoring target using the monitoring data, a monitoring setting, and a monitoring schedule are set, and saves the monitoring data corresponding to the monitoring task. Meanwhile, when the setting of a device is monitored using a security policy, not monitoring data but a policy version corresponding to setting information for use in monitoring is selected to generate a monitoring task.
US09887878B2
The techniques and/or systems described herein are configured to determine a set of update operations to transition a network from an observed network state to a target network state and to generate an update dependency graph used to dynamically schedule the set of update operations based on constraint(s) defined to ensure reliability of the network during the transition. The techniques and/or systems dynamically schedule the set of update operations based on feedback. For example, the feedback may include an indication that a previously scheduled update operation has been delayed, has failed, or has been successfully completed.
US09887868B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to determine a first frequency offset for a first band of communication based on one or more packets communicated by a first transceiver, determine a second frequency offset for a second band of communication based on the first frequency offset, and process one or more packets of information communicated on the second band of communication via a second transceiver based on the second frequency offset.
US09887867B2
A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) receiver includes circuitry to receive a MIMO transmission through a plurality of antennas over a channel comprising two or more 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. The MIMO transmission comprises a plurality of streams, each transmitted over a corresponding spatial channel and configured for reception by multiple user stations. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to simultaneously accumulate signal information within at least two or more of the 20 MHz portions of bandwidth. Each 20 MHz portion comprises a plurality of OFDM subcarriers. The MIMO receiver also includes circuitry to demodulate at least one of the steams using receive beamforming techniques. In this way, multi-user protocol data units can be received.
US09887862B2
Full duplex transceivers are provided, the transceivers comprising: a transmitter section that includes an analog portion having analog baseband signals and a digital portion having digital baseband signals; a receiver section that includes an analog portion having analog baseband signals and a digital portion having digital baseband signals; an analog self-interference canceller that, in response to the analog baseband signals in the analog portion of the transmitter section, produces analog cancellation signals that cancel first self-interference in the analog baseband signals in the analog portion of the receiver section; and a digital self-interference canceller that, in response to the digital baseband signals in the digital portion of the transmitter section, produces digital cancellation signals that cancel second self-interference in the digital baseband signals in the digital portion of the receiver section.
US09887861B2
The present invention describes a method and system for simultaneous transmission of data to coherent and non-coherent receivers. The method at the transmitter includes retrieving a base ternary sequence having a pre-defined length, obtaining one or more ternary sequences corresponding to data to be transmitted and transmitting the obtained one or more ternary sequences by the transmitter. The method steps at the receiver includes receiving one or more ternary sequences corresponding to the data transmitted, demodulating each of the received ternary sequences by correlating with all cyclic shifts of the base ternary sequence by the receiver if the receiver is a coherent receiver, demodulating each of the received ternary sequences by correlating with all cyclic shifts of the absolute of the base ternary sequence by the receiver if the receiver is a non-coherent receiver and detecting the transmitted data based on the cyclic shifts corresponding to maximum correlation values.
US09887855B2
A virtual converged cable access platform (CCAP) system and method for hybrid fiber CATV (HFC) cable networks. The system uses a new type of digital optical fiber node configured to receive optical fiber data packets, and reconstitute the optical data packets into RF waveforms suitable for injection into the system's CATV cable. The system replaces the legacy HFC head end with a simplified “virtual head end”. The system's virtual head end operates using a new type of virtual CCAP controller and virtual CCAP software that in turn controls high performance edge routers. Much of the intelligence of running the HFC cable system is managed by the controller software, while the edge router manages the interface between the CATV portion of the system and outside networks. The system can handle even legacy CATV RF signals by appropriate conversion operations, while reducing power and space needs, and improving operational flexibility.
US09887854B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and an apparatus for dynamically changing a group control mode for operating a plurality of devices based on user intervention information according to a user's need are provided. A method of changing a group control mode using user intervention information by a home gateway includes executing the group control mode for controlling functions of a group of devices according to a predetermined setting, determining whether a user intervention condition is met, and, when the user intervention condition is met, suggesting a change to the group control mode based on pre-stored user intervention information and external environment data to a user.
US09887848B2
A client device for hearing device communication, includes: a processing unit; a memory unit; and an interface; wherein the memory unit has a client device key and a client device certificate stored therein; and wherein the processing unit is configured to receive a connection response comprising a hearing device identifier via the interface, generate one or more keys including a certificate key based on the hearing device identifier and the client device key, and obtain an authentication message based on the certificate key and the client device certificate; wherein the processing unit is configured to obtain the authentication message by encrypting the client device certificate with the certificate key to obtain an encrypted client device certificate, and including the encrypted client device certificate in the authentication message; and wherein the interface is configured to transmit the authentication message.
US09887847B2
A conductor on glass security layer may be located within a printed circuit board (PCB) of a crypto adapter card or within a daughter card upon the crypto adapter card. The conductor on glass security layer includes a glass dielectric layer that remains intact in the absence of point force loading and shatters when a point load punctures or otherwise contacts the glass dielectric layer. The conductor on glass security layer also includes a conductive security trace upon the glass dielectric layer. A physical access attempt shatters a majority of the glass dielectric layer, which in turn fractures the security trace. A monitoring circuit that monitors the resistance of the conductive security trace detects the resultant open circuit or change in security trace resistance and initiates a tamper signal that which may be received by one or more computer system devices to respond to the unauthorized attempt of physical access.
US09887840B2
A bus communicates bits in parallel between a transmitter and receiver. A selected set of bits has its bits scrambled. Scrambling the bits includes assigning two or more bits of the selected set of bits to atypical lanes of the bus. By scrambling the bits, the order in which the bits of the selected set of bits are ready by a processer are obscured. The set of bits is transmitted to the receiver with one or more delays. The delays are on one or more of the lanes of the bus. The delays indicate the order of the bits. The receiver is configured to use the delays to identify the order of the bits and unscramble the set of bits.
US09887837B2
Systems and methods for synchronized key derivation across multiple conditional access servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for synchronized key derivation to provide playback devices with derived keys for decrypting content includes receiving a request for a first derived key that includes a first asset identifier than identifies a piece of content and a first playback position within the content, determining a first content key starting position and first derived key starting position within the content using the first playback position, where the key starting positions precede the first playback position, determining whether a first content key associated with the first asset identifier and first content key starting position is stored, retrieving the first content key using the first asset identifier and first content key starting position, generating a first derived key using the first content key and first derived key starting position, and sending the derived key.
US09887836B1
A cryptography service allows for management of cryptographic keys in multiple environments. The service allows for specification of policies applicable to cryptographic keys, such as what cryptographic algorithms should be used in which contexts. In some contexts, the cryptography service, upon receiving a request for a key, provides a referral to another system to obtain the key.
US09887831B2
A clock data recovery circuit may include: a phase comparison unit suitable for comparing input data with a phase of a multi-phase clock, and for generating an up/down signal corresponding to the comparison result; a filtering unit suitable for counting the up/down signal based on an upper threshold value and a lower threshold value, for setting, when an overflow occurs, the lower threshold value to an initial value for the count of the up/down signal, or when a underflow occurs, the upper threshold value to the initial value for the count of the up/down signal, and for generating a control code corresponding to one of the underflow and the overflow; and a phase rotating unit suitable for adjusting the phase of the multi-phase clock in response to the control code outputted from the filtering unit.
US09887826B2
The present invention has an object to provide a communication system capable of minimizing effects due to a delay among a plurality of base station devices as much as possible in scheduling for communication with a terminal device in cooperation among the plurality of base station devices. Cells1 to 3 can each perform scheduling without using information for scheduling notified from one or a plurality of cells among pieces of information for scheduling notified from other cells. For example, in a case where an interface between the cell1 and cell3 has a large delay amount, the cell1 performs scheduling without using information S13 notified to the cell1 by the cell3, and the cell3 performs scheduling without using information S11 notified to the cell3 by the cell1.
US09887823B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals between devices in a wireless communication system, the signal transmission and reception method comprising the steps of: receiving, by a first device, a signal from a second device; and transmitting, by the first device, a reception confirmation response to the signal, wherein a resource region in which the reception confirmation response is transmitted is differentiated according to whether the reception confirmation response is ACKnowledgement (ACK) or Negative ACKnowledgement (NACK), and the resource region in which the reception confirmation response is transmitted is commonly used for devices which have received the signal.
US09887822B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between a user equipment (UE) and an evolved Node B (eNB). An eNB may allocated uplink and downlink regions associated with machine-type communication (MTC) to a UE. The allocation of uplink and downlink regions may be asymmetric. The eNB may identify parameters based on this asymmetric region allocation to avoid resource collision during communication of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) or negative acknowledgement (NACK) feedback between the eNB and the UE. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09887821B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, in particular, to a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a feedback trigger frame in a wireless LAN system. The method for transmitting a feedback trigger frame by means of a request station (STA) in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: transmitting the feedback trigger frame including an acknowledgement (ACK) indication field to a response STA; and receiving a feedback frame from the response STA, wherein the ACK indication field can be set as a value indicating a first type associated with ACK, a second type associated with block ACK (BA), a third type associated with no ACK, or a fourth type associated with an ACK other than those of the first, second, and third types.
US09887819B2
A user equipment (UE) is provided for transmitting an uplink signal in a wireless communication system The UE sets up a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration for a first serving cell that includes information for an SRS transmission, and determines an SRS subframe in which an SRS and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) for the first serving cell are simultaneously triggered according to the SRS configuration. If a SRS transmission on the SRS subframe for the first serving cell is overlapped with an uplink transmission for a second serving cell, the UE transmits the SRS in the SRS subframe if a total uplink transmission power does not exceeds the UE's maximum transmit power on the overlapped portion. If the SRS is triggered by the SRS configuration and timing advance groups are configured to the UE, the UE transmits the PUSCH on the SRS subframe for the first serving cell.
US09887811B2
A data communication framing scheme of a bit stream that is divided among a plurality of discrete physical frames, each physical frame is of a definite number of symbols in duration, each symbol is associated with at least one sub-carrier in a plurality of sub-carriers, the physical frame is partitioned in time into at least an uplink zone and a downlink zone, the data framing scheme comprising a logical frame having a logical frame start position that is offset by a rational number of said symbols from a reference symbol, said reference symbol is selected from said definite number of symbols, wherein said logical frame extends in time to coincide with at least part of the duration of said physical frame and at least part of the duration of another physical frame in said plurality of discrete physical frames.
US09887810B2
A terminal includes a transmission unit which transmits HARQ response information to transmission of a downlink-shared channel in one or more predetermined subframes based on resources of one or more uplink control channels. When a certain subframe in the predetermined subframes is a first subframe, a resource of an uplink control channel is given by an arithmetic operation using at least an initial value of a control channel element for use in transmitting a physical downlink control channel in the certain subframe and a first value configured by a higher layer. When a certain subframe in the predetermined subframes is a second subframe, a resource of an uplink control channel is given by an arithmetic operation using at least an initial value of a control channel element for use in transmitting a physical downlink control channel in the certain subframe and a second value configured by a higher layer.
US09887805B2
A device, system and method for decoding. A noisy version of an error correction codeword may be received, for example, over a noisy communication channel or retrieved from a memory device (e.g. a flash memory device). One or more symbol probabilities may be transformed, from an initial domain to a transformed domain, the symbol probabilities being one or more individual symbols of the received error correction codeword were transmitted as one or more symbols in candidate transmitted error correction codewords. In the transformed domain, a plurality of the transformed symbol probabilities may be composed to generate a combined coset probability defining the likelihood that the transmitted error correction codeword is associated with the individual symbols belongs to a particular one of a plurality of candidate cosets. A plurality of the coset probabilities for the plurality of respective cosets may be inverse transformed from the transformed domain to the initial domain.
US09887803B2
Improved adaptation to a frequency band comprising sub-bands is provided by receiving a coding rate of an error correction coding scheme for encoding modulation symbols to be transmitted on sub-bands of a frequency band in radio communications, determining relative radio channel qualities of the sub-bands of the frequency band, and allocating transmission power between the sub-bands at least on the basis of the relative radio channel qualities of the sub-bands and the received coding rate.
US09887802B2
Method and apparatus for controlling a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission rate of a physical layer in a first terminal are provided. The method includes: obtaining a media access control protocol data unit (MPDU) retransmission frequency of the first terminal in a first period, where the first terminal is a station or an access point in a wireless network; if the MPDU retransmission frequency is less than a frequency threshold, promoting the PPDU transmission rate in a second period; and else, suppressing the PPDU transmission rate in the second period, where the second period is following and adjacent to the first period along a time axis. The PPDU transmission rate may be adjusted adaptively according to a channel's practical transmission state, the physical layer rate may be prevented from decreasing continuously in noisy channel environment, and a throughput rate may be improved in real time.
US09887800B2
The present subject matter is directed to an apparatus and methodology for monitoring for the occurrence of use of unauthorized telecommunications equipment within a designated area. The present subject matter has particular utility to the corrections environment in that it discloses a methodology for detecting and reporting the unauthorized operation of cellular telephones within a corrections facility. The present technology may be used advantageously in combination with inmate telephone systems to transmit information to appropriate personnel in the form of email messages and/or voice communications by way of telephone local or corrections facility external telephone lines. The present technology also provides for recordation and storage of time, date and location information for detected events.
US09887787B1
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to verify radio station watermarking with software defined radios are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to verify watermarking of radio station broadcasts include calibrating a notch filter to attenuate a first radio station broadcast signal. Disclosed example methods also include tuning a software defined radio to demodulate a second radio station broadcast signal from an output of the notch filter, the second radio station broadcast signal different from the first radio station broadcast signal. Disclosed example methods further include processing, with a watermark decoder, audio data resulting from the tuning of the software defined radio to verify watermarking of the second radio station broadcast signal.
US09887786B2
A method for performing a measurement in a wireless communication system is provided. A terminal selects one of a plurality of measurement configurations, and performs a measurement according to the selected measurement configuration. Signaling overhead caused by frequently transferring measurement configurations can be reduced.
US09887785B1
A receiver and method for using the same to generate phase spectra that are independent of the starting time of the sequence of digital measurements used to generate the phase spectra are disclosed. The receiver includes a first signal port adapted to receive a first test signal that includes a plurality of tones and a first ADC that generates one digital value from the first test signal in response to each clock pulse from an ADC clock. The first receiver also includes a phase clock register that includes a time stamp value that is incremented on each clock pulse from the ADC clock, and a processor that records a sequence of the digital values starting at a first time and the time stamp value at the first time.
US09887783B2
An optical coupling system to couple a collimated beam with a waveguide made of semiconductor materials is disclosed. The waveguide is implemented in an optical modulator and/or an optical hybrid, and has a core with a restricted cross section because of the enhanced refractive index of the semiconductor materials. The collimated beam is focused on the core by the two-lens system including first and second lenses. The first lens, having a focal length shorter than a focal length of the second lens, is first aligned with the core, then, the second lens is aligned with the core as compensating deviations of the first lens induced during the fixation thereof.
US09887778B2
An optical amplifier includes: an amplification section includes a plurality of routes; a determination section that selects a passage route, through which the multi-wavelength optical signal passes, among the plurality of routes; an input-side detector that detects input power of the multi-wavelength optical signal input to the amplification section; a variable optical attenuator that attenuates the multi-wavelength optical signal that is amplified through passing through the passage route determined by the determination section; an output-side detector that detects output power of the multi-wavelength optical signal attenuated by the variable optical attenuator; a controller that controls the amplification section based on the input power detected by the input-side detector and the output power detected by the output-side detector such that a gain of the amplification section is steady; and an adjuster that adjusts an attenuation of the variable optical attenuator in accordance with the input power detected by the input-side detector.
US09887775B2
A synchronized infrared beacon/infrared detector system. The system may include (A) an infrared beacon module configured to generate a time-varying encoded infrared signal, (B) an infrared detector module configured to capture the encoded infrared signal generated by the beacon module, (C) a synchronizer configured to generate a synchronization signal that controls timing of the beacon module and the detector module, and (D) a processor, in communication with the detector module, configured to analyze the infrared signal captured by the detector module. The infrared signal may be modulated at frequencies undetectable by human vision. The synchronizer signal may be produced independent of the capture of, and without input from, the infrared signal.
US09887771B2
A bandwidth throttling method is provided. The method includes receiving by a receiver from a QD Vcel cannon, a plurality of multi-frequency light pulses via a plurality of channels. The receiver determines that the plurality of multi-frequency light pulses comprises an out of band (OOB) signal transmitted over a first channel of the plurality of channels. The receiver receives from a first laser device of the QD Vcel cannon, a first light pulse of the plurality of multi-frequency light pulses. The first light pulse includes a first frequency for testing a visibility of the first light pulse at the receiver. The receiver determines if the first light pulse is visible at the receiver.
US09887768B1
The present invention is a method for tactical spectrum harvesting via a cognitive communication device. The method may include monitoring a wireless communication frequency spectrum. The method may further include detecting active net communication transmissions. The active net communication transmissions may be transmitted via the monitored communication frequency spectrum by a plurality of active transmitting nets. The method may further include determining an identity of/identifying at least one active transmitting net included in the plurality of active transmitting nets. The method may further include synchronizing an internal time reference of the cognitive communication device with a time reference(s) of the identified active transmitting net(s). The method may further include determining an estimated future spectral occupancy for the identified active transmitting net(s) based on time data for the active net communication transmissions, cryptographic key data for the active transmitting nets, and algorithm data for the active transmitting nets.
US09887766B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing layer-2 extension services through a non-routed ground segment network, are described. The method includes providing a Layer-2 (L2) interface between a node of the non-routed ground segment network and a service provider, assigning a virtual tagging tuple to the service provider and receiving service provider traffic at a node of the non-routed ground segment network. The method further includes tagging the service provider traffic with the virtual tagging tuple, and switching the tagged service provider traffic through the non-routed ground segment network according to the virtual tagging tuple.
US09887765B1
A request from a client to generate a beam plan for a satellite may be received. In response to receiving a request from the client to generate the beam plan for the satellite, a beam plan for the satellite that satisfies the request may be obtained. The beam plan may be provided to a protection module. The beam plan may be determined to satisfy the protection module. In response to determining that the beam plan satisfies the protection module, the beam plan may be transmitted to the satellite.
US09887764B1
A system for obtaining data files from a plurality of third party servers and transmitting the data files to a plurality of users is disclosed. The system includes at least one server, at least one satellite, and a plurality of local storage devices. The server is configured to download and save data files from a plurality of third party servers via an Internet connection and then directly communicate the data files to the satellite, which is configured to then relay the data files as radio frequency signals to the local storage devices. Each local storage device is configured to (i) receive and decode the radio frequency signals, (ii) store decoded radio frequency signals as transmitted data files, and (iii) render the transmitted data files accessible to at least one user computing device through a wireless network connection.
US09887755B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of beam tracking For example, an apparatus may include a transmitter to transmit data to a wireless communication device via a first beam direction of a plurality of beam directions, and to transmit one or more pilot signals via one or more other beam directions of the plurality of beam directions; and a receiver to receive from the wireless communication device a feedback indicating a second beam direction of the plurality of beam directions, the second beam direction being one of the one or more other beam directions, wherein the transmitter is to switch to the second beam direction to communicate with the wireless communication device.
US09887748B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference suppression method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a precoding matrix according to a channel fading matrix, where the channel fading matrix is an N×M matrix, M is a quantity of antennas of a transmit end candidate device, N is a quantity of antennas of a receive end device, and each element in the channel fading matrix represents channel fading that occurs when each antenna of the transmit end candidate device transmits a signal to each antenna of the receive end device; acquiring a receiving base vector according to the precoding matrix, signal power of the transmit end candidate device, and a channel fading matrix from a signal to the receive end device; and determining receiving subspace according to the receiving base vector and receiving, in the receiving subspace, a signal sent by a transmit end selected device.
US09887743B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with enabling a NFC-enabled device to discover and/or communicate with a TTF device. In one example, a NFC enabled device is equipped to initiate a RF field that is not modulated by the NFC-enabled device as part of a technology detection process, monitor the RF field for at least a portion of a wait duration, determine whether, during the wait duration, the RF field is modulated in a manner consistent with modulation characteristics of a NFC technology, and terminate the technology detection process upon the determination that the RF field is modulated a manner consistent with modulation characteristics of the NFC technology.
US09887738B2
This invention relates to an electrical system which enables peripheral devices to communicate exclusively of other AC and power transceivers which provide to the electrical system and receive from the electrical system power and signals. The invention is an electrical system that comprises network channels (1000, 2000) connected by circuits (100, 200). Peripheral devices plugged into the network channels communicate with each other. AC and power transceivers connected to the circuits communicate with each other and distribute power through the network channels.
US09887733B2
A method that calibrates a device for echo cancellation and a device with calibration for echo cancellation are provided. Devices may be calibrated such that the echo residual error is less than a threshold determined by the calibration accuracy. Non-ideal factors such as mismatch may be eliminated during calibration.
US09887731B2
Detection of a confusion caused by scrambling code reuse is provided herein. Timing measurements, as observed by a mobile device, and an identification of primary scrambling codes associated with the timing measurements are captured. The timing measurements are identified by the primary scrambling codes for the particular radio measured. The mobile device also reports its location information. Radios for which timing measurements have been received are paired. Based on the paired radios and a history of observed time difference reference values for radio pairs, comparisons are made between paired radios having at least one common radio. Radios, exhibiting a set of values that is near an expected range, are removed from the analysis. Radios, exhibiting two sets of values that are distinct, are isolated in order to identify the radio that is causing the scrambling code confusion.
US09887723B2
A communications device mounting assembly (40). The assembly (40) includes a first mounting part (42), a second mounting part (44) and a pivotable connection (46, 48). The first mounting part (42) is adapted for magnetic engagement with a magnetically attractable part (162) affixed to, or forming part of, a communications device (160). The second mounting part (44) is adapted for magnetic engagement with a surface or component (60) affixed to, or forming part of, the surface or component (60). The pivotable connection (46, 48) between the first mounting part (42) and the second mounting part (44) is adapted to allow the first mounting part (42) to be angularly moveable relative to the second mounting part (44). The strength of magnetic engagement between the first mounting part (42) and the magnetically attractable part (162) is less than the strength of magnetic engagement between the second mounting part (44) and the surface or component (60), such that during the application of a sufficiently large separating force between the magnetically attractable part (162) and the surface or component (60), the magnetic engagement between the first mounting part (42) and the magnetically attractable part (162) will release preferentially ahead of the engagement between the second mounting part (44) and the surface or component (60).
US09887721B2
An integrated circuit includes an antenna, a die manufactured from a semiconducting material, an RF energy collection and processing means disposed on or within said die and including at least a receiver and a processing means, an input configured to supply power to said RF energy collection and processing means and an output for operative communication by said RF energy collection and processing means. The integrated circuit is configurable and operable to provide at least one of electromagnetic emission anomaly detection, tamper detection, anti-tamper monitoring, degradation monitoring, health monitoring, counterfeit detection, software changes monitoring, firmware changes monitoring and monitoring of other RF energy anomalies.
US09887715B2
Systems and methods are described using a Hermetic Transform, as well as related transforms, for applications such as directional reception and/or transmit of signals using phased-array devices and systems. The systems and methods an include identifying a direction of arrival for a mobile communicating device. The systems and methods also include the use of a noise conditioning matrix.
US09887687B2
A method of trimming a component is provided in which the component is protected from oxidation or changes in stress after trimming. As part of the method, a protective glass cover is bonded to the surface of a semiconductor substrate prior to trimming (e.g., laser trimming) of a component. This can protect the component from oxidation after trimming, which may change its value or a parameter of the component. It can also protect the component from changes in stress acting on it or on the die adjacent it during packaging, which may also change a value or parameter of the component.
US09887680B2
A dual-mode driver includes a transition stage and a static stage. The transition stage switches a bias voltage or an RF ground potential to an output pad to change the state of an RF actuator device connected at the output pad. After waiting a predetermined period of time for the RF actuator device to change state, the transition stage of the driver is disabled. A high-side or low-side static stage transistor maintains the driver output state through an isolation resistor. The isolation resistor and a capacitor formed at the driver output pad form an RC low-pass filter to block spurious noise generated at the driver. The RC filter also blocks RF energy that might otherwise enter the actuator driver from the actuator. Some embodiments also include a second RC filter located proximate to the output pad to prevent RF energy generated in the RF actuator from entering the driver.
US09887678B2
A linear low noise amplifier is disclosed. In at least one exemplary embodiment, the linear low noise amplifier may include a first metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) configured to operate in a triode mode coupled to a second MOSFET configured to operate in a saturation mode. Linearity of the low noise amplifier may be determined, at least in part, by a transconductance associated with the second MOSFET and a channel resistance associated the first MOSFET.
US09887677B2
A high efficiency voltage mode class D amplifier and energy transfer system is provided. The amplifier and system includes a pair of transistors connected in series between a voltage source and a ground connection. Further, a ramp current tank circuit is coupled in parallel with one of the pair of transistors and a resonant tuned load circuit is coupled to the ramp current tank circuit. The ramp current tank circuit can include an inductor that absorbs an output capacitance COSS of the pair of transistors and a capacitor the provides DC blocking.
US09887672B1
A distortion compensation method for a class-D audio amplifier has the steps of connecting a compensation circuit to the class-D audio amplifier; providing a feed-forward signal from the compensation circuit to the loop filter, wherein the feed-forward signal contains replicate high-frequency components replicated from original high-frequency components of the class-D audio amplifier; and adding the feed-forward signal to those of the class-D audio amplifier. By adding the feed-forward signal, PWM-intermodulated distortion resulted from the high-frequency components is reduced. The class-D audio amplifier still maintains loop stability without affecting its phase margin.
US09887671B2
A reconfigurable load modulation amplifier having a carrier amplifier and a peak amplifier that are coupled in parallel is disclosed. The peak amplifier provides additional power amplification when the carrier amplifier is driven into saturation. A quadrature coupler coupled between the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier is configured to combine power from both the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier for output through an output load terminal. The reconfigurable load modulation amplifier further includes control circuitry coupled to an isolation port of the quadrature coupler and configured to provide adjustable impedance at the isolation port of the quadrature coupler. As such, impedance at the isolation port of the quadrature coupler is tunable such that at least a carrier or peak amplifier is presented with a quadrature coupler load impedance that ranges from around about half an output load termination impedance to around about twice the output load termination impedance.
US09887670B2
A power supply circuit (10) includes: a linear amplifier (11) for generating a linear amplification signal based on an input signal; a first switching amplifier (12) for generating a first switching amplification signal of a first frequency band based on the linear amplification signal; a second switching amplifier (13) for generating a second switching amplification signal of a second frequency band based on the first switching amplification signal; and a power supply unit (14) for supplying a combined signal in which the linear amplification signal and the first and second switching amplification signals are combined to an external circuit as a power supply. It is therefore possible to improve the power efficiency.
US09887667B2
There is disclosed herein clock generation circuitry, in particular rotary travelling wave oscillator circuitry. Such circuitry comprises a pair of signal lines connected together to form a closed loop and arranged such that they define at least one transition section where both said lines in a first portion of the pair cross from one lateral side of both said lines in a second portion of the pair to the other lateral side of both said lines in the second portion of the pair.
US09887659B2
A safety system has higher user design flexibility. Motor controllers (20, 30) include a motor drive circuit (207) that outputs a motor voltage command signal for driving motors (90, 100) in accordance with a motor drive command value, an inverter (211) that supplies power for driving the motors (90, 100) by switching based on the motor voltage command signal, a safety control unit that outputs a drive permission signal for driving the motors (90, 100) in accordance with communication data received through a communication circuit (213), a cut-off circuit (209) that receives the drive permission signal and the voltage drive command signal and cuts off the voltage drive command signal to an inverter (211) when receiving no drive permission signal, and a safety input unit (205) that receives redundant safety input signals. The cut-off circuit (207) receives a logical AND of the safety input signal and the drive permission signal.
US09887656B2
A current command value calculating unit (174) calculates current command values for a rotor winding (30) and current command values for a stator winding (20) with respect to a torque command value between a first rotor (28) and a second rotor (18) and a torque command value between a stator (16) and the second rotor (18) based on an evaluation function representing a total copper loss of the rotor winding (30) and the stator winding (20) and using first and second magnetic interference models. The first magnetic interference model represents a relationship of a linkage magnetic flux Φin of the rotor winding (30) with respect to a current Iin in the rotor winding (30) and a current Iout in the stator winding (20). The second magnetic interference model represents a relationship of a linkage magnetic flux Φout of the stator winding (20) with respect to the current Iin, Iout.
US09887651B2
A method and apparatus for driving motor and appliance. When a rotor of a motor rotates, a current angle of the rotor is detected at a current moment by using a Hall sensor; a back electromotive force and a phase current of the motor is detected at the current moment; a target torque coefficient is detected by using a relational model for a back electromotive force and a torque coefficient according to the back electromotive force; a current torque coefficient is detected by using a relational model for a phase current and a torque coefficient according to the detected phase current; and a compensation angle is detected according to a rotor angle compensation model and the current angle is compensated by using the compensation angle, to obtain an adjustment angle; and power supply to the motor is adjusted according to the adjustment angle by using a field orientation technology.
US09887647B2
A method for checking an out-of-step of a synchronous motor includes detecting three-phase currents of the synchronous motor; determining whether a relationship between the three-phase currents satisfies a preset requirement; and if no, determining that the synchronous motor is out of step. It is determined that the synchronous motor is out of step when amplitudes of each current of the three-phase currents are not equal or when the phase difference between the three-phase currents is not 120°.
US09887646B2
A method for checking an out-of-step of a synchronous motor includes detecting electric degrees of the synchronous motor, in which the electric degrees comprise at least a first electric degree and a second electric degree detected at a preset interval, and the second electric degree is detected after the first electric degree; comparing the first electric degree with the second electric degree to obtain a comparing result; and determining that the synchronous motor is out of step when the comparing result satisfies a preset requirement. It is determined that the synchronous motor is out of step when the electric degree keeps unchanged or decreases progressively, or an increment of the electric degree is very small.
US09887644B2
Disclosed herein are a stretchable triboelectric generator, a stretchable electricity storage device and a wearable electronic device. The stretchable triboelectric generator comprises a first stretchable triboelectric generation part comprising a first fabric layer and a first friction layer on the first fabric layer and a second stretchable triboelectric generation part comprising a second fabric layer and a second friction layer on the second fabric layer. The stretchable electricity storage device comprises at least one of a stretchable battery or a stretchable supercapacitor. The stretchable electricity storage device may be connected to the stretchable triboelectric generator and may store electricity generated by the stretchable triboelectric generator. The wearable electronic device comprises the stretchable triboelectric generator, the stretchable electricity storage device and a sensor connected electrically to at least one of the stretchable triboelectric generator or the stretchable electricity storage device to sense vital signs, bio signals, or body's movement changes.
US09887641B2
A power converter includes: a plurality of external terminals; a grounded earth terminal; a power conversion circuit; a ground conductor; and a plurality of inductors. A plurality of nodes of the power conversion circuit are connected to the respective plurality of external terminals. The power conversion circuit performs power conversion by switching received power. A plurality of inductors are inserted between the plurality of external terminals and the plurality of nodes. Further, another inductor is inserted between the ground conductor and the earth terminal. In this way, there can be provided a power converter that provides a sufficient noise reduction effect also in a high frequency region.
US09887634B2
A resonant converter includes a primary stage having first and second switches coupled in series, a controller coupled to the first switch and the second switch to control operation thereof, a first transformer comprising a primary coil coupled to a node between the first and second switches, and a resonant inductor coupled to the primary coil of the first transformer. The resonant converter also includes a secondary stage having a second transformer formed of a primary coil coupled to the resonant inductor and a secondary coil comprising first and second coil sections, a third switch coupled to the first coil section of the secondary coil, and a fourth switch coupled to the second coil section of the secondary coil. A switch drive circuit is provided to drive the third and fourth switches for synchronous rectification, with the switch drive circuit comprising a secondary coil of the first transformer.
US09887627B2
The disclosed embodiments and principles provide a way to integrate high-efficiency, low-profile power electronics with localized maximum power point tracking (MPPT) into a rooftop shingle-based photovoltaic power system. DC-DC power converters having a height, or profile, as low as ¼ inch for a 200 W power output, are able to be included in a building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) roof shingle. The DC-DC power converters increase the relatively low voltage produced by two rows of series-connected photovoltaic shingles, each including photovoltaic cells, to a high voltage used by a DC-AC inverter. For example, DC-DC power converter increases the voltage produced by two rows of series-connected photovoltaic shingles from several tens of volts to approximately 400 volts. Thus, the DC-DC power converters provide a large voltage step-up using a low profile and with very high efficiency.
US09887621B2
The present examples relate to a power factor correction device, a power factor correction method, and a corresponding converter, in which when an input signal inputted into the converter is changed, a reference signal is also changed to fit to the input signal in consideration of only the frequency and the phase of the input signal. Thus, even without a specifically designated control circuit, examples make it possible to improve power factor correction and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and to reduce the size of a semiconductor chip, and examples are potentially used for a device receiving waveforms other than a sine wave.
US09887613B2
A lithography device includes an eddy-current brake for damping the movement of a structural element of the lithography device. The eddy-current brake includes a plurality of magnets disposed in an arc-shaped arrangement, and a plurality of electrically conductive sheets arranged respectively between adjacent ones of the magnets. A relative movement between the magnets and the electrically conductive sheets in a direction to be damped inducing eddy currents in the electrically conductive sheets.
US09887608B2
A rotor with four axially stacked rotor cores, and a plurality of field magnets interposed between them. Each rotor core includes a rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole. Each rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles are respectively extending from and formed on each rotor core at equal angle intervals. Tip end surfaces of the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic pole abut against or are closely opposed to each other axially. Tip end surfaces of the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles abut against or are closely opposed to each other in the axial direction. The plurality of field magnets are magnetized in the axial direction such that the field magnets causes the first and third rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as first magnetic poles, and cause the second and fourth rotor-side claw-shaped magnetic poles to function as second magnetic poles.
US09887607B2
A method of forming an insulated conductor, includes forming an insulated conductor to modify a cross sectional shape thereof. Heating at least a portion of the insulated conductor to a selected temperature range. Maintaining the selected temperature range for at least a selected period of time thereby annealing the conductor. Forming the insulated conductor into a plurality of gable shaped loops; and maintaining insulating properties of an insulation layer of the insulated conductor. Also included is a method of annealing an insulated conductor.
US09887599B2
A stator winding includes forty-eight winding bodies 22 that are each produced by winding a jointless continuous conductor wire that is coated with insulation, and that are arranged at a pitch of one slot in a circumferential direction so as to be mounted into a first slot 131, a second slot 132, and a third slot 133 that are circumferentially consecutive at an angular spacing of six slots. The winding bodies 22 are configured into a δ-shaped coil pattern that is formed by inserting the conductor wire 19 sequentially into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, the third slot 133, and the second slot 132, so as to alternate an axial direction of insertion into the first slot 131, the second slot 132, and the third slot 133.
US09887598B2
A motor comprises a stator comprising at least one core; a coil wound on the at least one core of the stator; a rotor having a rotor pole and being rotatably mounted relative to the stator; and at least one magnet disposed between the rotor and the stator. The at least one core comprises a composite material defined by iron-containing particles having an alumina layer disposed thereon.
US09887595B2
It is designed for traction motors in motor-in-wheels, fans, and direct driving electric machines. The inner stator (1) consists of pole elements (13) comprising external periphery (14), core (15), part of yoke (16), externally wound bobbin (3). The pole elements (13) on inner aluminum housing (4) are stationary fit. In housing (4) on bearings in end bells outer rotor (8) carrying motor-in-wheel (6) or another operating mechanism is sustained. The inner housing (4) is a carrier of the electrical machine and the operating mechanism, laterally closing side plate-carrier of electronic control device.
US09887589B2
Systems and methods for improvement in transmission antenna design and, more particularly, for rapid determine phase determination of incoming signals are described herein. In some embodiments, a phase detection system is described. The phase detection system includes a phase detection apparatus and a control system. The phase detection apparatus includes a phase shifting element and a phase detector element. The phase shifting element is configured to phase-shift a reference signal multiple times per detection cycle. The phase detector element is configured to compare an incoming signal to multiple phases of the phase-shifted reference signal during the detection cycle, and generate an output indicating a relative phase difference between the incoming signal and the phase-shifted reference signal for each of the multiple phases. The control system is configured to determine a relative phase of the incoming signal based, at least in part, on the outputs.
US09887586B2
A floor system for a vehicle is provided. The floor system includes at least one floor panel having a top surface, a bottom surface and a first recess extending through the top surface, at least one primary coil device having at least one primary coil and a connection line, and at least one cover plate. The at least one primary coil device is positioned inside the first recess and the at least one cover plate is located in the recess above the at least one primary coil device so as to close the first recess flush with the top surface. It is possible to provide the at least one floor panel made from a carbon fiber reinforced material as it cannot electrically shield the at least one primary coil to a space above the top surface, when the at least one cover plate is made from a non-conductive material.
US09887579B2
A current control circuit (208) for a power converter (200) to control the switching thereof, wherein the current control circuit comprises a digital controller (210) using a logical input signal (226) to produce a logical control signal (212) with a fixed fundamental frequency for the power converter.
US09887576B2
A wireless charging system for charging a tool includes a tool holder and charging module. The tool holder includes a mounting interface, a holding portion extending from the mounting interface, and at least one surface t configured to mount the tool holder onto a support surface, such as of a mobile structure. The charging module is mounted in the mounting interface, and includes an inductive charging device that wirelessly charges a tool resting on the charging module. The holding portion is configured to at least partially engage the tool and act as a transverse support relative to the mounting interface. The at least one surface can include a base of the tool holder for horizontal mounting, a side of the tool holder for vertical mounting, or two opposite sides of the tool holder for mounting on a mounting rail.
US09887575B2
Provided are wireless charging equipment, a terminal, a wireless charging system comprising the same, a control method thereof, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program recorded thereon. That is, the present invention can easily implement the present invention without a separate BLE beacon device by using the wireless charging infrastructure and improve operation efficiency of the entire wireless charging system by transmitting additional information (alternatively, specific information) to the peripheral BLE terminal for a time where the charging signal is not transmitted in the corresponding BLE by using the BLE of the resonance scheme wireless charging equipment.
US09887574B2
A wireless charger for automatically tuning an optimum frequency to inductively charge a rechargeable battery of an implantable pulse generator (IPG) that generates spinal cord stimulation signals for a human body is provided. The charging coil in the charger is wirelessly coupled to a receiving coil of the IPG to charge the rechargeable battery. An optimization circuit detects a reflected impedance of the charging coil through a reflected impedance sensor, and select an optimum frequency of a charging signal supplied to the charging coil based on the detected reflected impedances of a plurality of charging frequencies in a selected frequency range. Advantageously, the optimum charging frequency provides a more efficient way to charge the IPG's rechargeable battery.
US09887569B2
A semiconductor device includes a first electrical current source connected to an assembled battery through a power source terminal; and a second electrical current source connected to an input terminal to which an external electrical current is input. The first electrical current source is configured to generate a first electrical current according to a reference voltage based on a power source electrical current input into the power source terminal, and to output the first electrical current to an output terminal. The second electrical current source is configured to generate a second electrical current according to the reference voltage based on the external electrical current, and to output the second electrical current to the output terminal.
US09887561B2
A low voltage DC distribution system to provide power to power or charge passenger electronic devices. Cable assemblies pass high voltage power down in daisy chain fashion to various seat groups. Connector elements contain current limiting circuitry which provides low voltage power for distribution to seat electronic components via small gauge wire. Compared to previous systems, embodiments may have a marked reduction in installed weight, encroachment on passenger space, easier installation and reduced impact on seat structures.
US09887551B2
A method for operating a first energy generator in an electric power supply system to which a plurality of electric consumers and at least the first energy generator, which is embodied as a regenerative energy generator, are connected via respectively one grid connection point each assigned thereto, wherein at least the first energy generator has an inverter of predetermined power rating, the AC voltage output of which is electrically connected to a first grid connection point assigned thereto, and wherein the operating control of the inverter regarding its reactive power feed and/or its reactive power draw into or out of the electric power supply system takes place depending on a continuously measured mains voltage value. The reactive power control in the energy grid is improved in that the mains voltage value is measured at a second grid connection point, which is different from the first grid connection point of the energy generator.
US09887548B2
A power management apparatus (EMS 200) activates an acquisition function when it is determined at each time point in a predetermined period that an integral power consumption exceeds a predetermined power consumption.
US09887536B2
In the coupling of bi-directional, non-freewheeling-type DC motors (24,25) to the pulling spool (23) of a canopy (11) deployment strap (21,22) and to a take-up roller (15), ratchet gears (26,27) assure automatic alignment and synchronization of the deployment and retraction mechanisms. The reverse direction rotation of the unwinding motor can be uninhibited through the slipping of its ratchet gear when the winding motor is slow to take up the pulling strap or the tarp (11) being wound thereon. The slipping provides sufficient slack to accommodate changes of spool and roller diameters as more material is successively wound thereon. A friction brake acting against a flange of die spool keeps it from spinning freely when not engaged by the motor. Winding motors can be protected against excessive power use by measuring the level of drawn current with a digital ammeter. If the current exceeds a threshold level of operation, a timer is started. As soon as a given absolute safe period of operation is surpassed, a breaker switch is tripped interrupting the motor power supply. A plural number of trip points can be programmed into the device.
US09887524B1
A depth-adjustable electrical box assembly for mounting of a fan or fixture on a ceiling including a fan/fixture box and a depth adjustment screw that is always accessible for adjusting the depth of the electrical box with respect to the ceiling. Bracket mounting screws are held captive with the assembly. A slide plate on the fan/fixture box is slideable with respect to the box. A base plate integral with the slide plate includes apertures therein for accepting the bracket mounting screws. A screw retainer, held securely to the fan/fixture box by a bracket, retains the end of the adjustment with respect to the box. Straps on the slide plate provide threaded engagement with the depth adjustment screw and enables the slide plate to slide with respect to the electrical box in response to rotation of the adjustment screw.
US09887518B2
In a spark plug, at a cross section of a ground electrode which is orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of an electrode base material and passes an axis of an electrode tip, a surface of the base material is exposed, and the following conditions are satisfied: 1.2E≦F≦1.9E; 0.05 mm≦Da≦0.30 mm; 0.05 mm≦Db≦0.30 mm; and 0.20 mm≦J≦0.70 mm2.
US09887514B2
A first calculation unit calculates an acceleration factor of lifetime consumption of the light source with as case of a standard temperature and standard drive condition as a reference, a second calculation unit calculates a whole lifetime or remaining lifetime of individual light sources relative to a performance index of the individual light sources or a change rate of the performance index, a computation unit obtains an effective cumulative driving time at which the magnitude of influence imparted on the lifetime is equivalent with a case of driving at the standard temperature and standard drive condition, by calculating a time integral of the acceleration factor, and a recording unit records the effective cumulative driving time and the whole lifetime or remaining lifetime together with an optical output characteristic of the light source.
US09887508B2
Method for electrically conductively connecting the electrical conductors of two high voltage cables
A method for electrically conductively connecting the electrical conductors (3, 4) of two high voltage cables (1, 2) is provided. The conductors (3, 4) are exposed at their ends by removing the respective casing and they are then inserted from different sides into a pipe piece (5) in such a way that they rest against each other with their end faces extending perpendicular to their axis and level with the central throughholes. The conductors (3, 4) are then secured by means of the securing screws (6) in the pipe piece 5 and bores extending in radial direction are made through the throughholes into which the two conductors (3, 4) project in the area of their end faces. Finally, the contact screws of an electrically well conductive metal are screwed into the central throughholes and further into the bores.
US09887504B1
Disclosed is a four-pin AC parallel connector and a male and a female thereof. The male is composed of a male body, a four-pin male conductor, a retainer, an inner housing, a sleeve, an outer housing and an AC four-pin lead; and the female is composed of a female body, an inner housing, a sleeve, an outer housing, an AC four-pin lead and a four-pin female conductor. The four-pin AC parallel connector and the male and the female thereof of the invention is simple in mounting and dismounting operations, small in volumes and good in sealing property, the working stability is improved, and the service lives are prolonged.
US09887493B2
The present invention relates to an electric plug comprising: a body part including a reception part; a pin inserted in and fixed to one surface of the body part; and a detachment part included in the reception part, wherein the detachment part comprises a gear stick and a handle part rotating while being engaged with the gear stick. Therefore, the present invention enables a user to separate an electric plug tightly plugged in an outlet from the outlet even by tiny force.
US09887488B2
An electrical connector, which may be a multi-pin connector, includes magnetic elements and mechanical alignment elements which provide connective forces and precision alignment and orientation. The magnetic elements permit a user to bring male and female connector portions only into “rough” alignment before magnetic forces bring the portions into the correct position. Pin contacts on the connector portions extend only a small amount beyond respective protective annular openings and are thereby protected. Spring-biased pin elements may be included on one of the connector portions to bias the contact pins into engagement and create conductive paths when the portions are in a connected position. Paramagnetic or non-magnetic sheaths may surround the magnetic elements to focus, or distribute, magnetic forces.
US09887482B2
A connector structure adapted to an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing with an open slot. The connector structure comprises a tongue-shaped portion, a covering component, and a connecting member. The tongue-shaped portion is pivotally connected to the housing and disposed in the open slot. The covering component is pivotally connected to the housing and for covering the open slot. The connecting member is disposed inside the open slot and connecting the tongue-shaped portion and the covering component. When the covering component drives the tongue-shaped portion to rotate simultaneously via the connecting member, a gap is formed between the tongue-shaped portion and the covering component to expose the open slot.
US09887481B2
An abutting portion is provided as a portion of an edge portion of an upper wall portion, and abuts against an edge portion of a first side wall portion when the upper wall portion bends toward the inside of a tubular wall portion. The projection portion projects from the upper wall portion, and restricts insertion of the tubular wall portion toward the back of the housing by abutting against the housing when the tubular wall portion is inserted into the housing in an orientation different from a predetermined insertion orientation. The engaging portion is configured to be able to engage with an engaged portion provided on an inner side of the housing. The engaging portion is provided on the tubular wall portion at a position that shifted from or separated from the projection portion in the longitudinal direction of the tubular wall portion.
US09887464B2
Provided is a compact dipole antenna for a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The antenna includes a substrate, a dipole radiator including a first dipole element and a second dipole element, in each of which a first meander line formed in a meandering shape and an arm configured of a triangular pattern which is an end connected to the first meander line, are arranged to face each other, wherein the first and second dipole elements are arranged on the substrate to be perpendicular to each other, and an impedance matcher, which includes a second meander line formed in a meandering shape, is formed at a point at which the first and second dipole elements are perpendicular to each other, and performs an impedance matching between the antenna and an RFID tag chip through the second meander line.
US09887462B2
An antenna (100) with an embedded wideband matching substrate (102) is provided. The substrate (102) comprises impedance matching circuitry (300) providing a low frequency (LF) matching circuit (330) and a high frequency (HF) matching circuit (340) for tri-band operation. A stripline (314) having a stripline ground (324) is disposed on the substrate. The stripline (314) provides a matching element and the stripline ground (324) provides a common ground (324) for both the HF and LF matching circuits. The substrate (102) is shaped with a tabular portion (106) which facilitates encasing the substrate (102) within a casing (118). The tabular portion (106) further provides an alignment feature for wrapping of a flexible radiating element about the casing and flexible antenna rod (126) to complete the antenna structure (100).
US09887456B2
An apparatus is disclosed herein for a cylindrically fed antenna and method for using the same. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave and a tunable slotted array coupled to the antenna feed.
US09887455B2
A method and apparatus for aperture segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the antenna comprises an antenna feed to input a cylindrical feed wave and a physical antenna aperture coupled to the antenna feed and comprising a plurality of segments having antenna elements that form a plurality of closed concentric rings of antenna elements when combined, where the plurality of concentric rings are concentric with respect to the antenna feed.
US09887453B2
A ballistic radome is provided and includes a flattened radome portion disposable in a primary field of view (FOV) of an antenna and a curved radome portion configured to define an extended FOV of the antenna about the primary FOV.
US09887452B2
An artificial satellite includes at least one hatch formed in a wall of the artificial satellite coming in contact with dead space of the artificial satellite, and a hatch opening and closing mechanism which opens the hatch, and the antenna is attached to the hatch.
US09887443B2
Provided is a channel filter for a communication apparatus. The channel filter includes a first resonator, a coupling element having a first longitudinal section and a second longitudinal section, and a first adjusting element. The coupling element is designed to couple the first resonator at least indirectly with an input or output of the channel filter. The first longitudinal section has a greater width than the second longitudinal section. The first adjusting element is disposed at least partially in the first longitudinal section and at least partially in the second longitudinal section.
US09887437B2
A heat exchanger for a battery unit having at least a first battery module and a second battery module is disclosed wherein the first and second battery modules each include a plurality of battery cell containers each housing at least one battery cell. The first and second battery modules are spaced apart from each other with the heat exchanger being arranged between the spaced apart first and second battery modules. The heat exchanger is a laminated plate structure defining a plurality of fluid flow chambers each located within a respective fluid flow region for transmitting a heat exchanger fluid. Each of the fluid flow regions is dimensionally compliant independent of the other fluid flow regions to conform to the spacing of the respective battery cell containers in the first and second modules between which the specific fluid flow region is positioned when arranged between the first and second battery modules.
US09887434B2
Electrolyte solutions including additives or combinations of additives that provide low temperature performance and high temperature stability in lithium ion battery cells.
US09887432B2
A thin layer lithium-ion type battery comprising, on a substrate (20, 30), a cathode current collector layer (22, 36) and an active portion constituted by a stack of a cathode layer (23, 35) made of material suitable for inserting lithium ions, an electrolyte layer (24, 34), and an anode layer (25, 33), wherein the cathode layer presents, across its thickness, porosity that varies between its interface with the cathode current collector layer and its interface with the electrolyte layer, the variation in the porosity being non-zero so as to improve cohesion at both interfaces.
US09887428B2
A binary alloy catalyst comprising platinum and tantalum, wherein the tantalum is present in the alloy at 15 to 50 atomic % and a phosphoric acid fuel cell comprising such a catalyst is disclosed. The catalyst provides a better CO tolerance.
US09887421B2
A process is provided for synthesizing a lithium, nickel, manganese and oxygen composition, LiwNixMnyOz, where w is from about 0.8 to about 1.2, x is from about 0.3 to about 0.8, y is from about 1.3 to about 1.8, and z is from about 3.8 to about 4.2. The composition has a lattice parameter “a” value and wt % crystalline spinel value within the bounds defined by the following lattice parameter “a” and wt % crystalline spinel coordinate values of about (8.1690 Å, 98.5%), about (8.1765 Å, 98.5%), about (8.1810 Å, 96.2%), about (8.1810 Å, 93.4%), about (8.1771 Å, 93.4%), and about (8.1690 Å, 97.6%).
US09887416B2
Provided are a negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery, which has sufficiently high discharge capacity at a high rate. The negative electrode active material containing silicon and silicon oxide includes primary particles having two phases of different compositions therein. One of the two phases has a higher silicon element concentration than the other phase, and is a fibrous phase forming a network structure in a cross section of the primary particle. Use of the negative electrode active material enables a sufficient increase in discharge capacity at a high rate.
US09887414B2
In accordance with the present invention, deposition of LiCoO2 layers in a pulsed-dc physical vapor deposition process is presented. Such a deposition can provide a low-temperature, high deposition rate deposition of a crystalline layer of LiCoO2 with a desired <101> or <003> orientation. Some embodiments of the deposition address the need for high rate deposition of LiCoO2 films, which can be utilized as the cathode layer in a solid state rechargeable Li battery. Embodiments of the process according to the present invention can eliminate the high temperature (>700° C.) anneal step that is conventionally needed to crystallize the LiCoO2 layer.
US09887409B2
The present disclosure includes a battery module having a first electrochemical cell with a first terminal and a second electrochemical cell having a second terminal. The battery module also includes a bus bar connection electrically connecting the first and second electrochemical cells. The bus bar connection includes a first adapter covering at least a portion of the first terminal of the first electrochemical cell, where the first adapter includes a first recess positioned proximate to the first terminal, and a second adapter covering at least a portion of the second terminal of the second electrochemical cell, where the second adapter includes a second recess positioned proximate to and at least partially aligned with the first recess. Further, the bus bar connection includes a bus bar that spans between the first recess of the first adapter and the second recess of the second adapter to create an electrical path.
US09887402B2
A battery has at least one fluid connection (15) and at least one holder (12) for fastening the battery (1) to a supporting structure. To reduce unwanted damage to the battery, the fluid connection (15) is combined with the holder (12) so that the holder (12) protects the fluid connection (15) from mechanical damage.
US09887395B2
This secondary battery includes a tubular battery body and a cover member containing the battery body. The cover member includes a tubular body at least covering a side surface of the battery body and a bottom which at least part of a bottom surface of the battery body contacts. The bottom includes an expansion expanded in a direction away from the bottom surface of the battery body, and an end surface of the expansion contacts the insulating plate. The area of the end surface of the expansion is smaller than the area of the bottom surface of the battery body.
US09887389B2
An organic light emitting device is provided. The organic light emitting device has a mixed light extraction layer, a base substrate, a first light extraction layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second light extraction layer; the first light extraction layer is configured to transmit the light emitted from the light-emitting layer to the base substrate; and the mixed light extraction layer is configured to transmit the emitting light outputted from the base substrate to an air area on the mixed light extraction layer, so as to increase a light utilization of the light-emitting layer.
US09887383B2
An encapsulating structure for encapsulating a flexible OLED device includes a flexible substrate, a first flexible thin film encapsulating layer, a TFT array, an OLED device, a second flexible thin film encapsulating layer, an adhesion layer, a third flexible thin film encapsulating layer, and a polarizer layered in order. One or more barrier layers are arranged on the TFT array disposed on lateral sides of the OLED device, and the second flexible thin film encapsulating layer covers the OLED device and the one or more barrier layers. The present invention also proposes a display device having the encapsulating structure.
US09887378B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate comprising pixels, each of which comprises a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel, and a plurality of pixel electrodes independently formed for respective sub-pixels; a first common layer commonly formed on the pixels; first lines covering first sub-pixels arranged in a first direction, wherein the first lines comprise a first organic light-emitting layer; a plurality of second lines covering second sub-pixels arranged in the first direction, wherein the second lines comprise a second organic light-emitting layer differing from the first organic light-emitting layer; a second common layer commonly formed on the plurality of pixels, wherein the second common layer comprises a third organic light-emitting layer differing from the first organic light-emitting layer and the second organic light-emitting layer; a third common layer commonly formed on the pixels; and an opposite electrode commonly formed on the pixels.
US09887372B2
According to one or more embodiments, an organic light-emitting device may include: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the organic layer includes an amine-based compound represented by Formula 1:
US09887371B2
An organic electroluminescent element comprising a substrate; a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate; and at least one organic layer including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, wherein the light emitting layer includes a compound represented by the following general formula: wherein: R1, R2, and R19; R11 to R18; A1 to A4 are as defined in the specification.
US09887370B2
A compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic photoelectric device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other and an active layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an image sensor and an electronic device include the organic photoelectric device.
US09887366B2
An organic light-emitting diode including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layerincludes an emission layer with at least one light-emitting material, and a region between the first electrode and the emission layer with at least one hole transport material. The light-emitting material is represented by Formula 1 and the hole transport material is represented by one of Formulae 2 to 4:
US09887364B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The organic layer including an emission layer. The emission layer includes a first host represented by Formula 1 and a second host represented by Formula 2. A volume ratio of the first host to the second host is in a range of about 94:3 to about 77:20: where R11 to R14, R21, R23 to R26, L11, L21, L23, X21, a11, a21, a23, b11 to b14, b21, and b23 to b26 are as defined in the specification.
US09887362B2
The present invention discloses an active layer and a method for preparing the same, an organic field-effect transistor and an array substrate. In the method for preparing an active layer according to the invention, the active layer is pentacene layer, wherein the pentacene layer is prepared by a compound of the following Formula I as a precursor of pentacene. The active layer of the invention is prepared by the preparation method of the invention; the organic field-effect transistor of the invention includes the active layer of the invention; and the array substrate of the invention includes the organic field-effect transistor according to the invention.
US09887358B2
Disclosed are an organic thin film transistor and a method for preparing the same, an array substrate and a display device. An organic semiconductor layer of the organic thin film transistor is formed on an anisotropic insulating layer, this guarantees that the organic semiconductor layer has a crystallization direction with a high degree of order and the organic semiconductor layer has a specific alignment, thus carrier mobility can be improved, so that the performance of the organic thin film transistor can be upgraded. Moreover, the process of preparing the insulating layer has advantages of simple process, large area and low cost, etc., and the thickness of the anisotropic insulating layer manufactured is small; since there exists no mechanical friction, there exists no badness caused by particles generated by friction.
US09887357B2
The primary objective of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing organic layers of organic light-emitting device by using deposition machine, which mainly uses the way of premixing organic materials to dissolving and mixing multi kinds of organic materials; moreover, after completing the vacuum drying process to the mixed organic materials, the method is then proceeded for depositing the mixed organic materials on a substrate in single vapor deposition process; after then, the method is proceeded for ended the deposition process to the material carrier and repeatedly operating deposition process to another material container, so as to produce multi-layers structure on the substrate; wherein method proposed by the present invention can replace the conventional manufacturing process and can avoid the disadvantages thereof.
US09887350B2
A hard mask stack for etching a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) structure is described. An electrode layer is deposited on a stack of MTJ layers on a bottom electrode. A photoresist mask is formed on the electrode layer. The electrode layer is etched away where it is not covered by the photoresist mask to form a metal hard mask. The metal hard mask is passivated during or after etching to form a smooth hard mask profile. Thereafter, the photoresist mask is removed and the MTJ structure is etched using the metal hard mask wherein the metal hard mask remaining acts as a top electrode. The resulting MTJ device has smooth sidewalls and uniform device shape.
US09887349B2
A coating method for producing a function layer on mechanically loaded components or surfaces includes providing or applying a first material layer of a first material or substrate matrix having a mechanical flexibility higher than that of a second material on a substrate constituting the component or the surface, respectively, structuring the first material layer such that the material layer surface of the first material layer, which is opposite to the substrate, obtains a three-dimensionally molded basic structure with projections and recesses, and coating the material layer surface of the first material layer with a second material layer of the second material in such a way that the second material layer adopts substantially the basic structure of the material layer surface with the projections and recesses. Also, surface layer structures can be produced by this method.
US09887337B2
A manufacturing method of a light emitting device includes preparing a wafer that is provided by arranging a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements including semiconductor stacks and electrodes provided on first surfaces of the semiconductor stacks. A metal wire is wired in an arc shape between the electrodes of the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements that are arranged in one direction on the wafer so as to connect each of the electrodes and the metal wire. A resin layer is provided on a side of the first surfaces of the semiconductor stacks in such a way that the metal wire is accommodated inside the resin layer. The wafer is cut along a boundary line to segment the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements so as to singulate the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements.
US09887336B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component includes a carrier having a carrier top side and an opposing carrier underside, wherein the carrier top sides each have a larger area than the associated carrier undersides, the carrier parts fixedly connect to one another via at least one potting body and the potting body together with the carrier parts represents a bearing component of the semiconductor component so that all carrier undersides end flush with the potting body, the light-emitting semiconductor chips electrically connect in series, the metal layer on the carrier top side is structured into conductor tracks and into electrical connection surfaces, and the electrical connection surfaces on the carrier top side are electrically insulated from the associated carrier underside so that the carrier underside of the carrier part the semiconductor chips are arranged on is potential-free and is completely covered with the metal layer.
US09887327B2
LED packages are disclosed that are compact and efficiently emit light, and can comprise encapsulants with curved and planar surfaces. The packages can comprise a submount with a one or a plurality of LEDs, and in those with a plurality of LEDs each of the LEDs can emit the same or different wavelengths of light than the others. A blanket conversion material layer can be included on at least some of the LEDs and the submount. The encapsulant can be on the submount, over at least some of the LEDs, with each of the planar surfaces being vertical and aligned with one of the edges of the submount. The encapsulant can also have a upper curved surface with a relatively large radius of curvature, with the combination of curved and planar surfaces resulting in efficient emission of light with a relatively narrow emission profile.
US09887313B2
The present invention relates to a liquid-phase method for doping a semiconductor substrate, characterized in that a first composition containing at least one first dopant is applied to one or more regions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate, in order to create one or more region(s) of the surface of the semiconductor substrate coated with the first composition; a second composition containing at least one second dopant is applied to one or more regions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate, in order to create one or more region(s) of the surface of the semiconductor substrate coated with the second composition, where the one or more region(s) coated with the first composition and the one or more region(s) coated with the second composition are different and do not overlap significantly and where the first dopant is an n-type dopant and the second dopant is a p-type dopant or vice versa; the regions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate coated with the first composition and with the second composition are each fully or partly activated; optionally, the unactivated regions of the surface of the semiconductor substrate coated with the first composition and with the second composition are each oxidized; and the semiconductor substrate is heated to a temperature at which the dopants diffuse out of the coating into the semiconductor substrate. The invention further relates to the semiconductor obtainable by the method and to the use thereof, especially in the production of solar cells.
US09887308B2
A solar cell unit having a semiconductor body formed as a solar cell, whereby the semiconductor body has a front side and a back side, and the solar cell unit has a carrier with a top side and a bottom side, whereby a first contact surface and a second contact surface are formed on the top side, and the first contact surface is spaced apart from the second contact surface and the contact surfaces are metallically conductive and the back side of the semiconductor body is non-positively connected to the top side of the carrier. The solar cell unit has a secondary optical element to guide light to the front side of the semiconductor body, whereby the secondary optical element has a bottom side and the bottom side is non-positively connected to the front side of the semiconductor body.
US09887305B2
Disclosed are an aggregated precursor for manufacturing a light absorption layer of solar cells comprising a first phase comprising a copper (Cu)-containing chalcogenide and a second phase comprising an indium (In) and/or gallium (Ga)-containing chalcogenide wherein 30% or more aggregated precursors based on the total amount of precursors are divided into particle aggregates comprising first phases and/or second phases, or independent particles having first phases or second phases, in an ink solvent for manufacturing the light absorption layer, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US09887301B2
Performances of a semiconductor device are improved. The semiconductor device has: a gate electrode formed on an SOI layer of an SOI substrate via a gate insulating film having a charge storage film therein; an n-type semiconductor region and a p-type semiconductor region respectively formed on SOI layers on both sides of the gate electrode. A memory cell MC serving as a non-volatile memory cell is formed of the gate insulating film, the gate electrode, the n-type semiconductor region and the p-type semiconductor region.
US09887288B2
A laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device includes a substrate having a p-epi layer thereon, a p-body region in the p-epi layer and an ndrift (NDRIFT) region within the p-body to provide a drain extension region. A gate stack includes a gate dielectric layer over a channel region in the p-body region adjacent to and on respective sides of a junction with the NDRIFT region. A patterned gate electrode is on the gate dielectric. A DWELL region is within the p-body region. A source region is within the DWELL region, and a drain region is within the NDRIFT region. An effective channel length (Leff) for the LDMOS device is 75 nm to 150 nm which evidences a DWELL implant that utilized an edge of the gate electrode to delineate an edge of a DWELL ion implant so that the DWELL region is self-aligned to the gate electrode.
US09887264B2
A semiconductor structure includes a plurality of semiconductor fins located on a semiconductor substrate, in which each of the semiconductor fins comprises a sequential stack of a buffered layer including a III-V semiconductor material and a channel layer including a III-V semiconductor material. The semiconductor structure further includes a gap filler material surrounding the semiconductor fins and including a plurality of trenches therein. The released portions of the channel layers of the semiconductor fins located in the trenches constitute nanowire channels of the semiconductor structure, and opposing end portions of the channel layers of the semiconductor fins located outside of the trenches constitute a source region and a drain region of the semiconductor structure, respectively. In addition, the semiconductor structure further includes a plurality of gates structures located within the trenches that surround the nanowire channels in a gate all around configuration.
US09887260B2
A first parallel pn layer in which first n-type regions and first p-type regions are disposed in a plan view layout of stripes in an element active portion. A second parallel pn layer has a plan view layout of stripes oriented in the same direction as that of the stripes of the first parallel pn layer in a breakdown voltage structure portion. Corner portions of the first parallel pn layer has a plan view shape where stepped regions formed by shortening the length of the first n-type and p-type regions in steps are disposed in a stepwise arrangement. The stepped regions continue with a second parallel pn layer via an intermediate region lower in average impurity concentration than the first parallel pn layer.
US09887250B2
An organic EL display panel that includes light-reflective electrodes, a red light-emitting layer, a green light-emitting layer, a first blue light-emitting layer, a charge generating layer, a second blue light-emitting layer, and a light-transmissive electrode. In a red sub-pixel region, a first optical length is from 20 nm to 50 nm, and a second optical length is from 210 nm to 230 nm. In a green sub-pixel region, the first optical length is from 20 nm to 50 nm, and the second optical length is from 240 nm to 295 nm. In a blue sub-pixel region, the first optical length is from 20 nm to 60 nm, and the second optical length is from 195 nm to 205 nm.
US09887244B2
An organic light-emitting device that includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer is presented. The emission layer includes a first compound represented by Formula 1, and the hole transport region includes a second compound represented by Formula 2:
US09887230B2
The present invention introduces a separation type unit pixel of an image sensor having a three-dimensional (3D) structure, which is capable of maximizing transmission efficient of a charge generated through a photodiode to a floating diffusion area. The separation type unit pixel may include a first wafer on which a photodiode and a transmission transistor are formed and a second wafer on which a reset transistor and a source follower transistor are formed. In particular, the photodiode has a positive region to which an N_ground voltage is applied, the N_ground voltage having a lower voltage level than a ground voltage used in the second wafer.
US09887224B2
A detection apparatus includes a plurality of conversion elements, an interlayer insulating layer, and a covering layer. Each of the plurality of conversion elements includes an electrode electrically connected to a corresponding one of a plurality of switching elements and a semiconductor layer disposed on the electrode. The interlayer insulating layer is disposed so as to cover the plurality of switching elements and composed of an organic material, and has a surface including a first region and a second region located outside the first region. The electrodes are disposed on the surface of the interlayer insulating layer in the first region. The covering layer is disposed on the surface of the interlayer insulating layer in the second region and composed of an inorganic material.
US09887223B2
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device including: a solid-state imaging element which outputs an image signal according to an amount of light sensed on a light sensing surface; a semiconductor element which performs signal processing with respect to the image signal output from the solid-state imaging element; and a substrate which is electrically connected to the solid-state imaging element and the semiconductor element, in which the semiconductor element is sealed by a molding resin in a state of being accommodated in an accommodation area which is provided on the substrate, and in which the solid-state imaging element is layered on the semiconductor element via the molding resin.
US09887221B2
Optical modules are made using customizable spacers to reduce variations in the focal lengths of the optical channels, to reduce the occurrence of tilt of the optical channels, and/or prevent adhesive from migrating to active portions of an image sensor.
US09887217B2
Pixels of image sensors are provided. The pixels may include a photo diode configured to accumulate photocharges generated therein corresponding to incident light during a first period, a storage diode configured to store photocharges accumulated in the photo diode and a storage gate configured to control transfer of the photocharges accumulated in the photo diode to the storage diode. The storage gate may include a vertical gate structure extending toward the photo diode.
US09887214B2
An array substrate, a method for repairing disconnection of the data line and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate is divided into a plurality of pixel regions by data lines and gate lines, each pixel region is provided with a thin-film transistor and a pixel electrode, a gate of the thin-film transistor is connected to the gate line, a source is connected to the data line, a drain is connected to the pixel electrode. The array substrate further comprises a common electrode line, which includes a common electrode line mainbody disposed in parallel to the gate line, common electrode line branches extending along a direction of the data line and disposed at both sides of the data line, and common electrode line bridges between the common electrode line branches, the common electrode line bridges and the data line intersect each other and are insulated from each other.
US09887207B2
A monolithic three dimensional NAND string includes a plurality of control gate electrodes extending substantially parallel to a major surface of a substrate, a memory opening extending substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate and filled with a memory opening material including a memory film, and a dummy opening extending substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate and filled with a dummy channel material which is different from the memory opening material. The dummy channel material has a higher Young's modulus than the memory opening material to offset warpage of the substrate due to the one of compressive and tensile stress imposed by the plurality of control gate electrodes on the substrate.
US09887204B2
A memory cell includes a select device and a capacitor electrically coupled in series with the select device. The capacitor includes two conductive capacitor electrodes having ferroelectric material there-between. The capacitor has an intrinsic current leakage path from one of the capacitor electrodes to the other through the ferroelectric material. There is a parallel current leakage path from the one capacitor electrode to the other. The parallel current leakage path is circuit-parallel the intrinsic path and of lower total resistance than the intrinsic path. Other aspects are disclosed.
US09887197B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a substrate comprising a first semiconductor material having a first crystallographic orientation and a first device region and a second device region. First vertically stacked and suspended nanosheets of semiconductor channel material of the first crystallographic orientation are located above the substrate and within the first device region. Second vertically stacked and suspended nanosheets of semiconductor channel material of a second crystallographic orientation are located above the substrate and within the second device region. In accordance with the present application, the second crystallographic orientation is different from the first crystallographic orientation.
US09887196B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a bulk substrate layer that extends along a first axis to define a width and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis to define a height. A plurality of hetero semiconductor fins includes an epitaxial material formed on a first region of the bulk substrate layer. A plurality of non-hetero semiconductor fins is formed on a second region of the bulk substrate layer different from the first region. The non-hetero semiconductor fins are integrally formed from the bulk substrate layer such that the material of the non-hetero semiconductor fins is different from the epitaxial material.
US09887194B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a fin which comprises long sides and a first short side, a first trench which is immediately adjacent the first short side of the fin and has a first depth, a second trench which is immediately adjacent the first trench and has a second depth greater than the first depth, a first protrusion structure which protrudes from a bottom of the first trench and extends side by side with the first short side, and a gate which is formed on the first protrusion structure to extend side by side with the first short side.
US09887191B2
The re-combination center introduction region has re-combination centers introduced therein so that a density of the re-combination centers in the re-combination center introduction region is higher than a density of re-combination centers in a periphery of the re-combination center introduction region. The re-combination center introduction region continuously extends from the diode region to the peripheral region along a longitudinal direction of the diode region.
US09887189B2
An integrated circuit includes transistor and resistor. The transistor includes a gate stack. The gate stack includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive layer over the first dielectric layer, a second conductive layer over the first conductive layer, and a second dielectric layer over the second conductive layer. The transistor also includes source/drain (S/D) regions adjacent to the gate stack. The resistor adjacent to the transistor, and includes a third dielectric layer.
US09887181B2
A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element having a first front surface and a first lateral surface, and a second light emitting element having a second front surface and a second lateral surface. A substrate includes a substrate front surface in which an intermediate wiring is provided. The light reflective covering member is provided on the substrate front surface to cover the first lateral surface and the second lateral surface. The light reflective covering member includes an external surface opposite to a substrate front surface in the front-back direction and a first recess having a recess opening on the external surface and a recess bottom opposite to the recess opening in the front-back direction. The recess bottom is positioned between the intermediate wiring and both of the first front surface and the second front surface in the front-back direction.
US09887179B2
A light emitting diode device including a substrate, a plurality of light emitting elements, and an encapsulant. The substrate has a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface. The substrate includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a plurality of light-penetrating holes. The second portion is separated from the first portion. The light emitting elements are disposed adjacent to the light-penetrating holes and on the front surface of the first portion. The encapsulant is disposed on the front surface of the substrate, and covers the light emitting elements.
US09887178B2
An example method includes disposing a semiconductor element on a first surface of a substrate. The substrate includes multiple solder balls mounted on a second surface of the substrate that is opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor element includes a bottom surface adjacent to the first surface of the substrate, a top surface, and multiple side surfaces. The example method includes forming a first molding portion to entirely enclose the multiple side surfaces and the top surface of the semiconductor element. The example method includes removing a second molding portion from the first molding portion to expose all of the top surface of the semiconductor element, leaving a third molding portion entirely enclosing the multiple sides surfaces of the semiconductor element, and coupling the semiconductor element to the first surface of the substrate by forming electrical connection between the semiconductor element and a first of the multiple solder balls.
US09887166B2
An assembly with modules (110, 1310) containing integrated circuits and attached to a wiring substrate (120) is reinforced by one or more reinforcement frames (410) attached to the wiring substrate. The modules are located in openings (e.g. cavities and/or through-holes 414) in the reinforcement frame. Other features are also provided.
US09887161B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming interconnects in porous dielectric materials. In accordance with some embodiments, the porosity of a host dielectric layer may be reduced temporarily by stuffing its pores with a sacrificial pore-stuffing material, such as titanium nitride (TiN), titanium dioxide (TiO2), or other suitable sacrificial material having a high etch selectivity compared to the metallization and dielectric material of the interconnect. After interconnect formation within the stuffed dielectric layer, the sacrificial pore-stuffing material can be removed from the pores of the host dielectric. In some cases, removal and curing can be performed with minimal or otherwise negligible effect on the dielectric constant (κ-value), leakage performance, and/or time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) properties of the host dielectric layer. Some embodiments can be utilized, for example, in processes involving atomic layer deposition (ALD)-based and/or chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-based backend metallization of highly porous, ultra-low-κ (ULK) dielectric materials.
US09887160B2
A method of making an interconnect structure includes forming an opening within a dielectric material layer disposed on a substrate including a conductive material, the opening extending from a first surface to a second surface of the dielectric material layer and being in contact with a portion of the substrate; performing a plasma treatment process to chemically enrich exposed surfaces of the dielectric material that line the opening to form a chemically-enriched dielectric surface layer that included an element in a higher concentration than a remaining portion of the dielectric material layer; performing a chemical treatment process to remove a metal contact product from the portion of the substrate that is in contact with the opening; and disposing a conductive material in the opening to substantially fill the opening and form the interconnect structure.
US09887159B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first semiconductor layer, an insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer; forming an active device on the substrate; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the substrate and the active device; forming a mask layer on the ILD layer; removing part of the mask layer, part of the ILD layer, and part of the insulating layer to form a first contact hole; forming a patterned mask on the mask layer and into the first contact hole; and removing part of the mask layer and part of the ILD layer to form a second contact hole exposing part of the active device.
US09887156B2
A back-side device structure with a silicon-on-insulator substrate that includes a device layer, a buried insulator layer, a trench that extends through the device layer and that partially extends through the buried insulator layer, at least one dielectric layer that is formed on the device layer and includes a first opening that communicates with the trench and a contact plug that fills the trench. A final substrate is connected to the buried insulator layer such that the contact plug contacts metallization of the final substrate. The contact plug is externally connected with a source to provide signals to the back-side device structure through a wire formed in the at least one dielectric layer.
US09887152B2
A method for manufacturing semiconductor devices is disclosed. In one embodiment a semiconductor substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface and a plurality of semiconductor components is provided. The semiconductor substrate has a device thickness. At least one metallisation layer is formed on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate. The metallisation layer has a thickness which is greater than the device thickness.
US09887151B2
To improve the reliability of a semiconductor device. A chip mounting portion TAB5 is arranged to be shifted to the +x direction side. Further, a gate electrode pad of a semiconductor chip CHP1 (LV) and a pad of a semiconductor chip CHP3 are electrically coupled by a wire W1a and a wire W1b through a relay lead RL1. Likewise, a gate electrode pad of a semiconductor chip CHP1 (LW) and the pad of the semiconductor chip CHP3 are electrically coupled by a wire W1c and a wire W1d through a relay lead RL2. At this time, the structures of parts of the relay leads RL1 and RL2, which are exposed from a sealing body MR are different from the structures of respective parts exposed from the sealing body MR, of a plurality of leads LD1 and LD2 which function as external terminals.
US09887148B1
A fan-out semiconductor package includes a layer of adhesive covering a temporary carrier, a first redistribution layer disposed on the layer of adhesive, the first redistribution layer including a first metal layer having recessed areas. Metal pillars are plated to a first group of the recessed areas in the first metal layer. A semiconductor chip next is bonded to a second group of the recessed areas and a molding compound covers the semiconductor chip. The molding compound is then ground to expose tops of the metal pillars. A second redistribution layer including a second passivation layer adhering to the molding compound and a second metal layer covering openings exposing the tops of the metal pillars are then added.
US09887147B2
A thin stacked semiconductor device has a plurality of circuits that are laminated and formed sequentially in a specified pattern to form a multilayer wiring part. At the stage for forming the multilayer wiring part, a filling electrode is formed on the semiconductor substrate such that the surface is covered with an insulating film, a post electrode is formed on specified wiring at the multilayer wiring part, a first insulating layer is formed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate, the surface of the first insulating layer is removed by a specified thickness to expose the post electrode, and the other surface of the semiconductor substrate is ground to expose the filling electrode and to form a through-type electrode. A second insulating layer is formed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate while exposing the forward end of the through-type electrode, and bump electrodes are formed on both electrodes.
US09887144B2
A ring structure for chip packaging comprises a frame portion adaptable to bond to a substrate and at least one corner portion. The frame portion surrounds a semiconductor chip and defines an inside opening, and the inside opening exposes a portion of a surface of the substrate. The at least one corner portion extends from a corner of the frame portion toward the chip, and the corner portion is free of a sharp corner.
US09887119B1
Methods of bonding chips to a substrate and transfer wafers used for such bonding include bonding chips to a first support wafer by a first adhesive layer. The chips are bonded to a second support wafer by a second adhesive layer. Regions of the first adhesive layer are selectively weakened to decrease an adhesive strength in weakened regions. The weakened regions correspond to a subset of chips. The second support wafer is separated from the first wafer, such that the subset of chips in the weakened regions debond from the first support wafer. The subset of chips are bonded to a target substrate.
US09887117B2
An electrostatic chuck includes a base plate including a penetration hole, a placing table arranged on the base plate, and including an electrode at a position corresponding to the penetration hole, a first cylindrical insulating component arranged on an upper side inside the penetration hole of the base plate, a second cylindrical insulating component arranged on the first cylindrical insulating component, a third cylindrical insulating component arranged under the first cylindrical insulating component, and having an inner diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the first cylindrical insulating component, a connector arranged in the penetration hole, a cylindrical member included in the connector, and including an elastic body in an inner part, and a power feeding terminal included in the connector, and connected to the elastic body. The power feeding terminal touches the electrode of the placing table.
US09887112B2
An inkjet coating device comprises a support board and a sprinkler head. The support board is provided for placing the glass plate, the sprinkler head comprises a plurality of spray nozzles, wherein, the spray nozzles comprise an ink entrance port and an ink exit port, the ink is poured from the ink entrance port and poured onto the glass plate from the ink exit port, the internal diameter of the ink entrance port is larger than that of the ink exit port. The inkjet coating device comprises a trumpet-shaped spray nozzle which are closed together without gap, so as to not only increase the spraying capacity, but also make the trumpet-shaped ink drop more disperse in each coating interval belt uniformly to form an ink coating layers with uniform thickness.
US09887107B2
Rinsing methodologies and components to accomplish rinsing of tool surfaces in tools that are used to process one or more microelectronic workpieces. The invention can be used to rinse structures that overlie a workpiece being treated in such a manner to function in part as a lid over the process chamber while also defining a tapering flow channel over the workpiece. Rather than spray rinsing liquid onto the surface in a manner that generates undue splashing, droplet, or mist generation, a swirling flow of rinse liquid is generated on a surface of at least one fluid passage upstream from the surface to be rinsed. The swirling flow then provides smooth, uniform wetting and sheeting action to accomplish rinsing with a significantly reduced risk of generating particle contamination.
US09887089B2
A semiconductor structure having a T-shaped electrode. The electrode has a top portion and a narrower stem portion extending from the top portion to a surface of a substrate. A solid dielectric layer has side portions juxtaposed and abutting sidewalls of a lower portion of the stem of electrode. A bottom surface of the top portion is spaced from an upper surface portion by a non-solid dielectric, such as air.
US09887088B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a memory region defined thereon; forming a trench in the substrate; forming a barrier layer in the trench; forming a conductive layer on the barrier layer; performing a first etching process to remove part of the conductive layer; and performing a second etching process to remove part of the barrier layer. Preferably, the second etching process comprises a non-plasma etching process.
US09887085B2
A photoresist is exposed to light under a condition that sensitivity of a second portion of the photoresist on a recessed portion of a base layer is higher than sensitivity of a first portion of the photoresist on a projecting portion of the base layer.
US09887079B2
Provided are a supply apparatus and a supply method for supplying fluid carbon dioxide that are energy-saving and efficient. The supply apparatus for supplying fluid carbon dioxide includes: a circulation system including a purifying unit that removes impurities and contaminants from the carbon dioxide, a storage unit that includes a condenser for changing gaseous carbon dioxide passed through the purifying unit into liquid carbon dioxide, a supply unit that includes a first pump for supplying the liquid carbon dioxide in the storage unit to a use point, and a return line through which excess carbon dioxide supplied from the supply unit but not used at the use point is returned to the storage unit; and a carbon dioxide introduction unit that introduces carbon dioxide, as a starting material or recovered gas, to the circulation system. The carbon dioxide introduction unit includes a second pump for increasing the pressure of the carbon dioxide and the second pump introduces the carbon dioxide to the circulation system.
US09887073B2
A physical vapor deposition system includes a chamber, a cover plate, a pedestal, and a collimator. The cover plate is disposed on the chamber for holding a target. The pedestal is disposed in the chamber for supporting a wafer. The collimator is mounted between the cover plate and the pedestal. The collimator includes a plurality of sidewall sheets together forming a plurality of passages. At least one of the passages has an entrance and an exit opposite to the entrance. The entrance faces the cover plate, and the exit faces the pedestal. A thickness of one of the sidewall sheets at the entrance is thinner than a thickness of the sidewall sheet at the exit.
US09887068B2
A plasma process apparatus that utilizes plasma so as to perform a predetermined process on a substrate, and includes a process chamber that houses a substrate subjected to the predetermined plasma process; a microwave generator; a dielectric window attached to the process chamber and provided with a concave portion provided at an outer surface of the dielectric window opposite to the process chamber and a through hole penetrating the dielectric window to the process chamber; a microwave transmission line; and a first process gas supplying portion including a gas conduit including a first portion provided at a front end and a second portion having a larger diameter than the first portion, the gas conduit being inserted from outside of the process chamber such that the first portion is inserted in the through hole and the second portion is inserted in the concave portion.
US09887049B2
A modular assembly set system for use in modular constructions suitable for behavioral research made of a polycarbonate, acrylic or other material walls with magnetic edges, joints and parts with a support base (floor) made of magnetically active metal sheet glued over a plastic inert polymer surface (or one of similar inert properties). The system comprises a multi-piece set that allows the building of different mazes or structures for use in behavioral, memory and health sciences studies. The magnetic edges of the walls along with joints and other pieces attaches to the metal base (floor) and permits to modularly build any configuration. The use of this device can be extended to virtually any kind of modular construction (toys, provisional constructions, stands and other low weight assemblies). The walls and floor set can be used many times, and assemble and disassemble as required.
US09887047B2
The described embodiments provide an energy storage device that includes a positive electrode including an active material that can store and release ions, a negative electrode including an active material that is a lithiated nano-architectured active material including tin and at least one stress-buffer component, and a non-aqueous electrolyte including lithium. The negative electrode active material is nano-architectured before lithiation.
US09887042B1
A dielectric comprises a matrix and a plurality of isolated, ionomeric domains, defined as micelles herein, distributed within the matrix. A capacitor is comprised of the dielectric and two electrodes. A method incorporates the capacitor into a circuit for an energy storage device, especially for applications requiring both high energy density and high power density. The method includes both rapid charging and rapid discharging of the energy storage device.
US09887038B2
A blanking die apparatus includes a lower die in which a plurality of working stations are arranged, and an upper the which moves upward and downward with respect to the lower die. A progressively fed sheet is sequentially blanked or stamped out respectively in the working stations to form iron core pieces, and then to laminate the iron core pieces to form a laminated iron core. The lower die includes a lifter part which lifts the sheet from the lower die when the sheet is progressively fed. The lifter part first lifters installed in an outer peripheral area in each of the working stations, and second lifters installed on an upper surface of a blank die which has a blanking hole formed for blanking the iron core pieces in an external form, or on an upper surface of a blank die holder.
US09887025B2
A system for bundling a plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes into a flexible cable, includes a first alignment device for receiving and guiding there through the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes, each of the tapes arranged with a wide surface oriented at a first angle. There is a second alignment device for receiving and guiding there through the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes, each of said tapes arranged with the wide surface oriented at a second angle. The first angle is transverse to the second angle and plastically deforms the tapes to impart a twist pitch in the tapes. There is a forming member spaced from the second alignment device for receiving the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes with the imparted twist pitch and forming them into a bundle of high temperature superconductor tapes of the high temperature superconductor tapes with the imparted twist pitch.
US09887022B2
A stranded conductor contains a number of individual wires. The multiple identically designed individual wires are arranged about a central inner wire as outer wires. The individual wires form a composite which is encased by insulation, and the outer wires are uncompressed and have a non-round cross-section such that when seen in cross-section, the outer wires expand radially outwards starting from the inner wire. The composite of individual wires is not compressed such that the composite has a high alternate bending strength.
US09887019B2
Systems and methods for eliminating multi-path errors from atomic inertial sensors are provided. In certain embodiments, a system for performing atom interferometry includes a vacuum cell containing multiple atoms and a first plurality of lasers configured to trap the atoms within the vacuum cell. The system further includes a second plurality of lasers configured to impart momentum to the atoms and direct the atoms down multiple paths, wherein a primary path in the multiple paths has a first and second component that converge at a converging point, wherein a diverging part of the primary path in which the first and second components are diverging is asymmetrical with respect to a converging part of the primary path in which the first and second components are converging, such that only the first and second components converge at the converging point wherein other paths do not converge at the converging point.
US09887018B2
A device for producing electricity. The device comprises an indium gallium phosphide semiconductor material comprising a plurality of indium gallium phosphide material layers each layer having different dopant concentrations and doped with either n-type dopants or p-type dopants, a first terminal on a first surface of the semiconductor material, a beta particle source proximate the first surface for emitting beta particles that penetrate into the semiconductor material, and a second terminal on a second surface of the semiconductor material; the semiconductor material for producing current between the first and second terminals responsive to the beta particles penetrating into the semiconductor material.
US09887007B1
A variable-resistance memory and a writing method thereof are provided. The variable-resistance memory includes a variable-resistance memory cell, a voltage-signal-generation circuit, a switch circuit, a detection circuit, and a controller. The variable-resistance memory cell includes a variable-resistance component and a transistor. The voltage-signal-generation circuit is coupled to the control terminal of the transistor. The switch circuit is coupled to the variable-resistance component and transistor. The detection circuit is coupled to a voltage source and the switch circuit. The controller is coupled to the voltage-signal-generation circuit, switch circuit, and detection circuit. When the controller performs a writing operation on the variable-resistance memory cell, the voltage-signal-generation circuit provides a voltage signal to the transistor, and the detection circuit continuously detects whether the variable-resistance component performs a resistance conversion. If the resistance conversion occurs, then the controller stops the writing operation.
US09887006B1
A nonvolatile memory device having a first resistive element coupled between a common node and a bit line; a second resistive element coupled between the common node and a word line, wherein the first and second resistive elements are coupled between different metal layers; and a pass transistor having a gate coupled to the common node, a first node coupled to a reference voltage, and a second node coupled to an output, wherein the word line is orthogonal to the bit line.
US09886997B2
A semiconductor device for reducing an instantaneous voltage drop is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first power line configured to provide a first power supply voltage and a first power transistor connected between the first power line and a first logic transistor. The first power transistor includes a first source or drain connected to the first power line, a gate receiving a power gating control signal, and a second source or drain connected to a first source or drain of the first logic transistor using a shared semiconductor junction.
US09886996B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a static random access memory (SRAM) device. The SRAM device includes a plurality of SRAM cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein respective SRAM cells include respective pairs of complementary data storage nodes to store respective data states. A first pair of access transistors is coupled to the complementary data storage nodes of an SRAM cell and is configured to selectively couple the complementary data storage nodes to a first pair of complementary bitlines, respectively. A second pair of access transistors is coupled to the complementary data storage nodes of the SRAM cell and is configured to selectively couple the complementary data storage nodes to a second pair of complementary bitlines, respectively.
US09886994B2
One semiconductor device includes a command receiver receiving the command signal to generate a first internal command signal, and a latency control circuit activating a second internal chip select signal after elapse of first cycles of a clock signal since a first internal chip select signal is activated. The latency control circuit activates a second control signal when the chip select signal is maintained in an inactive state during second cycles of the clock signal that is larger than the first cycles. The command receiver is activated based on a first control signal. The first control signal is activated in response to the first internal chip select signal. The first control signal is deactivated in response to the second control signal.
US09886989B2
The present disclosure concerns a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell suitable for performing a thermally assisted write operation or a spin torque transfer (STT) based write operation, comprising a magnetic tunnel junction comprising a top electrode; a tunnel barrier layer comprised between a first ferromagnetic layer having a first magnetization direction, and a second ferromagnetic layer having a second magnetization direction adjustable with respect to the first magnetization direction; a front-end layer; and a magnetic or metallic layer on which the second ferromagnetic layer is deposited; the second ferromagnetic layer being comprised between the front-end layer and the tunnel barrier layer and having a thickness comprised between about 0.5 nm and about 2 nm, such that magnetic tunnel junction has a magnetoresistance larger than about 100%. The MRAM cell disclosed herein has lower power consumption compared to conventional MRAM cells.
US09886987B1
A system and method providing timing alignment of a data mask (DM) signal with respect to a data strobe (DQS) signal for memory devices not designed for adjusting such alignment is provided. Alignment between data signals (DQ) and a DQS signal is first achieved during a first write training procedure where a data delay value is optimized for one of the DQS or DQ signals. Subsequently, using the optimum delay value from the first write training procedure, a second write training procedure is initiated. In the second write training procedure, timing alignment between the DM signal and the DQ signals is achieved by determining an optimal delay value of the DM signal relative to the DQS signal.
US09886985B1
According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a housing and a sealing board fixed to a base of the housing. The base includes a through-hole and an installation surface formed around the through-hole. One of a first principal surface of the sealing board and the installation surface includes a projection formed therein. The sealing board is fixed to the installation surface by an adhesive material provided on an outer side of the projection with respect to the through-hole with the first principal surface or the installation surface abutting against the projection.
US09886979B1
A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing an enhanced modulation code for hard disk drives (HDDs). A modulation code directly uses Bit Error Rate (BER) information for different user patterns to construct a coded word minimizing possible error rate. The modulation code has a flexible code rate that simplifies code optimization relative to Coded Bit Density (CBD), signal to noise ratio (SNR) and noise color.
US09886977B1
A recording medium having improved signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) capabilities includes dual cap layers over the recording layer, where the Curie temperature of the first cap layer over the recording layer is greater than the Curie temperature of the recording layer, and the Curie temperature of the second cap layer over the first cap layer is greater than the Curie temperature of the first cap layer. The first cap layer may be composed of a magnetically hard material, such as L10 CoPt, where the second cap layer may be composed of a magnetically soft material, such as Co. Such a medium is particularly useful in the context of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR).
US09886975B2
A hard disk drive according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a pivot assembly bearing device with a shaft, rolling bearings and a sleeve, a cylindrical convex portion formed in a cover member at the upper side, protruding inward, and fixed to an upper end surface of the shaft, a convex portion formed on a base member at the lower side, protruding inward, and fixed to a lower end surface of the shaft, and a labyrinth gap formed by opposing an outer peripheral surface of the convex portion to an inner peripheral surface of a sleeve in a radial direction and/or by opposing an outer peripheral surface of the convex portion to the inner peripheral surface of the sleeve in a radial direction.
US09886972B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a module having a substrate, read and write transducers positioned towards a media facing side of the module, and a closure. The write transducers include write poles having media facing sides with negative, zero or near-zero recession from a plane extending along the media facing side of a substrate of the module. The read transducers each have two shields. Media facing sides of the two shields are recessed a same amount from the plane, and are more recessed from the plane than the write poles.
US09886967B2
In some embodiments, a processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive an input signal having a first component and a second component. An estimate of the first component of the input signal is calculated based on an estimate of a pitch of the first component of the input signal. An estimate of the input signal is calculated based on the estimate of the first component of the input signal and an estimate of the second component of the input signal. The estimate of the first component of the input signal is modified based on a scaling function to produce a reconstructed first component of the input signal. The scaling function is a function of at least one of the input signal, the estimate of the first component of the input signal, the estimate of the second component of the input signal, or a residual signal.
US09886962B2
A computer-implemented method performed by a data processing apparatus includes receiving an audio signal that includes a frequency-domain representation of an audio file, extracting, from the audio signal, a plurality of frequency-domain data values that correspond to at least a portion of the audio file, compressing the plurality of data values to form a compressed frequency domain value file, and transmitting the compressed frequency domain value file to a server to identify the audio file.
US09886935B2
Disclosed is a method and system for driving a display panel, which relates to the technical filed of displays, and is able to solve the technical problem of undesired display effect resulting from flickers and blurred screens appeared on areas between the sub-areas of the display device. The present disclosure can be used in liquid crystal televisions, liquid crystal display devices, mobile phones, tablet PCs, etc.
US09886916B2
A display device includes an external image processing set and a display assembly configured to receive converted image data from the external image processing set and display an image corresponding to the converted image data. The display assembly includes a dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table storage unit which stores therein a dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, and the external image processing set includes a memory which receives the dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table from the display assembly and stores therein the received dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, and a graphic processing unit which outputs converted image data in which current frame data has undergone dynamic capacitance compensation based on the stored dynamic capacitance compensation lookup table, the current frame data and previous frame data.
US09886909B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first display area and a second display area, a primary driver integrated circuit (IC) to receive first input image of the first display area, to determine a luminance correction factor based on a sum of a first On-Pixel-Ratio (OPR) of the first display area and a second OPR of the second display area, to output a first image data signal to which the first input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, a secondary driver IC to receive second input image data of the second display area, to calculate the second OPR, to provide the second OPR to the primary driver IC, and to output a second image data signal to which the second input image data is remapped using the luminance correction factor, and a scan driver.
US09886907B2
A scan driver includes scan-driving blocks, each including a first transistor having a gate coupled to a first node to supply a first power to an output terminal, a second transistor having a gate coupled to a second node to couple a second clock to the output terminal, a third transistor having a gate coupled to a first input to supply the first power to the first node, a fourth transistor having a gate coupled to a second input to supply a second power to the first node, and a fifth transistor having a gate coupled to a first clock to couple the first input to the second node. A first scan-driving block further includes a sixth transistor coupled between the second input and the fourth transistor gate, and a NOT gate configured to invert the first input signal and to supply the inverted signal to the sixth transistor gate.
US09886906B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, a pixel circuit driving method and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a plurality of row pixel units. Each row pixel unit includes a plurality of subpixel units. Each of the subpixel units includes a subpixel driving circuit and a light-emitting component. Each row pixel unit further includes a row sharing unit. Each of the subpixel units is coupled with a first signal line and a second signal line; the row sharing unit is coupled with each subpixel unit included in the row pixel unit through the first signal line and the second signal line, to have a threshold compensation function.
US09886903B2
The pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, an optical sensor for detecting a luminance of light emitted from the light-emitting element, and a compensation control circuit which controls the amount of the current supplied to the light-emitting element on the basis of a detection result of the optical sensor and a second voltage applied in a second interval different from a first interval with a predetermined length in which the light-emitting element is allowed to constantly emit light with a luminance based on a first voltage, and includes a first control circuit and a second control circuit where the first control circuit controls a first current amount for enabling the light-emitting element to emit light and the second control circuit controls a second current amount supplied to the light-emitting element.
US09886900B2
An organic light emitting display device includes pixels. Each of the pixels includes an organic light emitting diode. The organic light emitting diode does not emit light during a first period where a voltage having a first level voltage is applied to the first voltage supply line, and the organic light emitting diode emits light during a second period where a second level voltage is applied to the first voltage supply line.
US09886890B2
A display device and a method for displaying an image thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a gray scale voltage output circuit, a common voltage output circuit and a control circuit. The display panel, according to a first gray scale voltage signal and a first common voltage signal, display an image; the control circuit is used for controlling the gray scale voltage output circuit and the common voltage output circuit to output a second gray scale voltage signal and a second common voltage to the display panel when at a predetermined time to display another image. The present invention can cause the blink rate to be maintained over time at a relatively stable range.
US09886888B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic paper display device and its driving method. The electronic paper display device comprises a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes at least two thin film transistors, and each thin film transistor is electrically connected to a corresponding data line and a corresponding gate line respectively, and within one refresh cycle, is turned on once separately. Embodiments of the invention can make refresh rate quicker and requirement on storage capacitance lower so as to achieve faster grayscale refresh.
US09886887B2
Techniques for displaying a quality-improved image with reduced power consumption are provided. In one embodiment, a display panel driver is provided that includes a dithering section configured to receive first m-bit image data and configured to generate second image data by performing dithering on the first image data with n-bit dither values each selected from elements of a dither table, and a driver circuit configured to drive the source lines of a display panel in response to the second image data. In generating the second image data corresponding to first pixels belonging to a first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a first column of the dither table, while the second image data corresponding to second pixels belonging to a second pixel column adjacent to the first pixel column, the dither values are selected from elements in a second column of the dither table.
US09886881B2
A method and device for image conversion from RGB signals into RGBW signals, after converting the RGB luminance input values into RGBW luminance output values, determine color-cast-removed RGBW luminance output values respectively, according to a position relationship between RGBW color coordinate values to which the RGBW luminance output values correspond respectively and a predetermined actual color coordinate value of a color having monochromatic color cast among RGBW in a chromaticity diagram, and thereafter convert the color-cast-removed RGBW luminance output values into corresponding RGBW output signals respectively and output the same. By means of the above method provided in the present disclosure, color having monochromatic shifting among RGBW can be compensated back to the expected RGBW color coordinates and luminance values, so the problems of color gamut deviation and color distortion caused by RGBW monochromatic color cast are eliminated, color gamut of the displayed image is more accurate.
US09886880B2
The present invention provides a drive method and a drive device of a liquid crystal display, and the drive method comprises: receiving an image to display; implementing skin color detection to the image pixels of the image to display to determine nude pixel and non skin color pixel; setting different skin color weights for the nude pixel and the non skin color pixel; implementing the color washout compensation to the image to display according to the skin color weight; driving the liquid crystal panel to show the image to display after the color washout compensation. With the aforesaid arrangement, the present invention preferably improves the resolution and viewing angle of the display at the same time.
US09886873B2
A medical training development system for development of medical training scenarios (15) is disclosed. The medical training development system comprises a repository (110) with a plurality of pre-programmed event modules (120) and pre-programmed medical training scenarios (15′). A scenario programming system (140) is connectable to the repository (110) for accessing the event modules (120) and the pre-programmed medical training scenarios (15) for programming the medical training scenarios (15′).
US09886872B2
A hydraulic training system includes a cart, with a fluid reservoir, a motor, a first pump and a second pump situated on the cart. The first and second pumps are in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir and are operatively connected to be driven by the motor. A drivable wheel is rotatably attached to the cart and is selectively connectable to the first pump to drive the wheel. A steering system is selectively connectable to the second pump and arranged to steer a steerable wheel extending from the top of a first planar surface.
US09886867B2
A processor implemented method for scoring a challenge taken by a user, and training the user using a simulation based learning platform is provided. The processor implemented method includes (i) obtaining, from a database, challenges to be taken by a user and associated at least one of information, (iii) processing a selection of, the challenge from the challenges with actions or steps performed by the user, (iv) rendering, hints to solve the challenge, (v) recording, steps taken by the user to solve the challenge, (vi) comparing the steps taken by the user with steps taken by an expert to solve the challenge to compute a deviance of the user from a reference path, (vii) scoring, the challenge based on the deviance of the user from the reference path to obtain a score, and (viii) notifying, a result associated with the challenge to the user based on the score.
US09886854B2
A flashing beacon may include a signal unit, a control unit associated with the signal unit, a solar panel or collector, and an activation device that may all be mounted or otherwise positioned on a post of a roadway sign. Light units associated with the signal unit may be programmed to flash on and off in a unique wig-wag pattern. Further, a light bar may also be used with the beacon to generate an intense flash of light soon after activation of the beacon as an additional means of grabbing the attention of the operator of a vehicle.
US09886847B2
A remote control for one or more technical devices includes: a passive or active radiofrequency identification (RFID) transponder, configured to be triggered by a switching contact physically touched by a user, in order to transmit data to control the one or more technical devices.
US09886846B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for using a single remote control to control a particular device among several devices by aiming the remote control at the device to identify the device to be controlled. Once the device is identified, the remote control is then configured to send remote control commands to communicate with the identified device when the buttons or other user interface elements on the remote control are selected.
US09886844B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: a storage block configured to store information about a combination of devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a first application and devices being selected to be controlled by a function of a second application; and a selection block configured to select, among the devices controllable by the function of the second application, a device in the same combination being selected to be controlled by the function of the first application on the basis of the above-mentioned information stored in the storage block.
US09886838B2
A touchless management method and system can include: a server beacon, the server beacon including a gesture sensor, a motion sensor, a managed sensor, a server beacon mass storage, and a server beacon power transceiver; detecting gesture data from the gesture sensor; recording sensor data with the managed sensor; a power station including a power station power transceiver, a station control unit, upload coordinator, and a station storage unit; sending a packet from the server beacon to the power station; prioritizing the packet; uploading a message including the sensor data to the power station; and uploading the message to a database server.
US09886828B1
An alert message application running in associated with an alert message response system and is configured with softkeys, each one of which is associated with an alert message response option that is displayed by a mobile communication device depending upon a type of alert message received by the mobile communication device from an event notification system. A mobile communication device user can select one of the displayed response options which causes coded information (response code) representing the selected response option to be included in an alert response message sent to the event notification system (ENS). The ENS uses the response code to determine whether to take an action.
US09886825B2
A money processing apparatus that performs input/output processing of money in a money unit configured to be pulled out from a casing and opened includes an actuator provided in the money unit; and an engagement portion provided in the actuator, configured to engage with the casing to lock pulling out or opening of the money unit in a stopped state due to power cut.
US09886821B2
A gaming system and method of rewarding players of electronic gaming machines connected by a network to a host computer which stores player-useable points at a network-accessible location, awards a personal points multiplier to a player, and applies the personal points multiplier to at least some of the points.
US09886819B2
A gaming system (100) includes gaming locations (102, 104, 106) that each comprise an interactive communication unit (119), including a display 118 visible from the gaming location. A network (126) is arranged to transmit data between the communication units. A touch screen liquid crystal display (118) unrelated to the operation of a gaming machine (102) generates graphics images.
US09886817B2
Embodiments of this concept are direct to a game that includes a combination of an entertainment game and a gambling game. This game combination provides an entertainment game that retains the playability and fun of a skill game or other non-traditional gambling game while allowing for wagers to still be placed and awards won. In some embodiments, the wager-based gambling game is tied directly into the entertainment game, which provides additional entertainment and excitement. Other embodiments separate some of the aspects of the gambling game from the entertainment game to retain the feel of well known gaming devices while still providing an entertainment game to the player.
US09886816B2
A method of gaming in a gaming system comprise selecting a plurality of symbols for display on a display of the gaming system at a plurality of display positions, each display position comprising a plurality of borders, each display position having a least one common border with at least two other display positions. The method involves determining with the gaming system, whether there are one or more groups of at least three symbols corresponding to a designated winning symbol combination displayed at respective ones of a plurality of display positions linked in a contiguous group, the determination being based on the display positions sharing a common border. An award corresponding to a determined group is made.
US09886814B2
A method of creating and securely sharing creatives is described. The method includes the steps of accessing a central processing environment, requesting at least one recording of at least a portion of an audio transmission generated from a communication device, generating at least one audio asset, adding the audio asset to a pool of related assets stored in a vault connected to the central processing environment, selecting the generated audio asset and at least one other related asset from the pool of related assets to form a creative, then requesting delivery of the creative to another communication device, and finally delivering the creative to the other communication device. The method is performed in part by a creative composition engine, which is also described. The engine includes a central processing environment having a processor, a digital recorder and a digital asset storage vault.
US09886809B2
An article dispensing machine capable of performing an inventory audit of a portion of the inventory and automatically pausing the inventory audit in response to a customer transaction request and method for performing the same are shown. After completing the customer request, the article dispensing machine resumes the inventory auditing process. The article dispensing machine thereby remains available for customer use during the inventory auditing process.
US09886806B2
Systems and methods of the invention relate to managing an inventory of items within a storage container. A storage container can house one or more items for distribution among one or more users such as, for instance, employees. The storage container discussed herein provides authentication of a user, tracking of the inventory each user removes or returns, video/image capture of user during access of the storage container, wireless tracking of items housed within the storage container, among others.
US09886805B1
Method and apparatus are disclosed for priming vehicle access based on wireless key velocity. An example vehicle includes a communication module to receive a signal from a wireless key of a user that includes velocity data of the wireless key and determine a distance to the wireless key. The example vehicle also includes a vehicle primer to determine an arrival time of the user based on the velocity data and the distance and prime the vehicle for access before the arrival time.
US09886803B2
A crane monitoring system is for determining crane service conditions is disclosed. The crane monitoring systems includes a sensor for measuring acceleration, a processing unit operably coupled to the sensor and a data store storing computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform a plurality of functions including determining at least one crane service condition dependent upon a signal from the sensor.
US09886797B2
A computer-implemented medical visualization method includes identifying a three-dimensional model of an anatomical item of a particular mammal; displaying a moving animation of the three-dimensional model, the moving animation created from multiple frames from imaging of the anatomical item over a short time period to capture movement of the anatomical item; displaying one or more non-moving views of the three-dimensional model while the moving animation is being displayed; and in response to receiving inputs from a user, changing the displayed moving animation and the one or more non-moving views automatically in coordination with each other.
US09886771B1
An image processing system and/or method obtains source images in which a damaged vehicle is represented, and performs image processing techniques to determine, predict, estimate, and/or detect damage that has occurred at various locations on the vehicle. The image processing techniques may include generating a composite image of the damaged vehicle, aligning and/or isolating the image, applying convolutional neural network techniques to the image to generate damage parameter values, where each value corresponds to damage in a particular location of vehicle, and/or other techniques. Based on the damage values, the image processing system/method generates and displays a heat map for the vehicle, where each color and/or color gradation corresponds to respective damage at a respective location on the vehicle. The heat map may be manipulatable by the user, and may include user controls for displaying additional information corresponding to the damage at a particular location on the vehicle.
US09886770B2
An image processing device includes: an entire image display control portion that performs control to display an entire image of a predetermined region in an entire image display window; and a cutout image display control portion that performs control to enlarge a plurality of tracking subjects included in the entire image and display the tracking subjects in a cutout image display window. The cutout image display control portion performs the control in such a manner that one cutout image including the tracking subjects is displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where relative distances among the tracking subjects are equal to or smaller than a predetermined value, and that two cutout images including the respective tracking subjects are displayed in the cutout image display window in a case where the relative distances among the tracking subjects are larger than the predetermined value.
US09886754B2
A method for detecting missing tooth in mining shovel, implemented using a processing device, includes receiving a pair of image frames from a camera disposed on a rope mine shovel configured to carry a mining load. A tooth line region corresponding to the pair of image frames is detected to generate a pair of tooth line regions based on a shovel template set. A difference image is determined based on the pair of image frames and the pair of tooth line regions. Further, a response map representative of possible tooth positions is determined based on the difference image using a tooth template matching technique. A tooth line is selected among a plurality of candidate tooth lines based on the response map. Further, a tooth condition is determined based on the tooth line and the difference image. The tooth condition is notified to an operator of the rope mine shovel.
US09886736B2
A method for handling parallel processing clients associated with a server in a GPU, the method comprising: receiving a failure indication for at least client running a thread in the GPU; determining threads in the GPU associated with the failing client; exiting threads in the GPU associated with the failing client; and continuing to execute remaining threads in the GPU for other clients running threads in the GPU.
US09886727B2
Methods and Devices are disclosed for performing automatic check-ins for a user associated with a mobile device. In some embodiments, the process is completely automated with no user intervention once the process has started. In some embodiments, the user is prompted for confirmation before the check-in is generated. The automatic check-in is performed based on detecting a social context which includes a current location of the user of the mobile device and applying rules. The rules may include an action part, a condition part, and qualifier part. The rules and the individual parts of the rules may be independently editable by the user.
US09886725B1
The methods described herein are suitable for use in explaining changes in the net federal tax between a current year and a preceding year (e.g., year-over-year changes). Thus, the methods have suitability for comparing taxes due amounts between different tax years as well as refund amounts between different tax years. The computing device presents to a user of the tax preparation software a multi-level data presentation of the reasons contributing to the differences in tax liability between a current year and a preceding year. In one aspect, the reasons may be expanded or collapsed to sure more or less detail depending on user preference.
US09886724B2
A system for evaluating text data to support multiple applications is disclosed. In some embodiments, text input data is received from multiple sources. The text input data may then be aggregated and mapped to create composite text input data. A semantic event in the composite text input data may be automatically detected, such as by being triggered by a semantic rule and associated semantic tag. A text mining result database may be updated by adding an entry to the database identifying the detected semantic event and the triggering semantic rule. An indication associated with the text mining result database may then be transmitted to a plurality of applications.
US09886722B1
A method of purchasing and selling insurance includes transmitting property information, having the property information analyzed, modifying at least one quotation calculation underwriting rule based on the analysis of the information, creating an insurance pricing model based on the modified underwriting rule, transmitting and receiving the insurance quote, and purchasing insurance via computer. A method for modifying insurance coverage including transmitting property information and existing policy information to a first insurance provider, generating a document directed to a second insurance provider authorizing cancellation of the existing insurance policy and directing the second insurance provider to remit a refund payment.
US09886715B2
Implementations for associating stackable subscriptions with varying attribute coverage are disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving a fulfillment requirement associated with a computing system, selecting a first product subscription from a plurality of product subscriptions in a data store, determining whether the first product subscription partially satisfies the fulfillment requirement, selecting a second product subscription from the plurality of product subscriptions when the first product subscription partially satisfies the fulfillment requirement, determining whether an addition of the second product subscription to the first product subscription satisfies the fulfillment requirement, and associating the first and second product subscriptions with the computing system when the addition of the second product subscription to the first product subscription satisfies the fulfillment requirement.
US09886714B2
Techniques are disclosed for protecting privacy of parties to electronic transactions, such as transactions conducted through a GSM network. An anonymity service provider receives orders directed from its subscriber to a recipient for goods or services, along with information about its subscriber. The anonymity service provider relays the order to the recipient but withholds information about the subscriber, as the subscriber directs. The recipient receives payment for the good or service by way of a voucher from the anonymity service provider.
US09886713B2
An enhanced shopping system for facilitating grocery shopping and in-store advertising is disclosed. The system uniquely changes (1) the way grocery retail industry captures and retains customers, (2) how customers organize their shopping efforts in grocery stores, (3) the approach to advertising and reaching customers, and (4) the information available to retailers and merchandisers related to customer (a) shopping patterns, (b) responses to merchandising and advertising, and (c) specific impact of discounting/coupons.
US09886711B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for identifying matching products relative to a reference product. A reference product is identified from a received product query and a query is generated based on the reference product. A generated query comprises of an ontology, at least one word appearing in a title of the reference product, and a set of key words appearing in social media data associated with the reference product. A database is searched using the generated query to find matching product sets and the results are returned and filtered. Results are filtered by calculating a relationship score between the reference product and one or more matching products in the set of matching products, and/or by filtering a subset of the set of matching products based on a customer profile. The filtered subset of results are communicated to a recipient.
US09886698B2
A method for viewing an augmented reality product brochure for a mattress product on a computing device is provided. The method includes capturing an image corresponding to the mattress product with a camera of the computing device and retrieving the augmented reality product brochure corresponding to the image from a memory of the computing device. The method also includes displaying the augmented reality product brochure on a user interface of the computing device, wherein the augmented reality product brochure includes a representation of the mattress product and modifying the representation of the mattress product based on receiving one or more instructions from the user.
US09886697B1
Certain aspects direct to systems and methods for distributing segmented media content to digital signage devices in a private network. In certain embodiments, the system includes a Media Content Distribution System (MCDS). Upon receiving an instruction to distribute an item of media content, the MCDS retrieves and segments the item from a storage server, and stores the segments in the storage server. When a first digital signage device requests for a segment, the MCDS transmits a storage link of the requested segment to the first digital signage device. Thus, the first digital signage device may retrieve the requested segment from the storage server, and send an address identifying a storage location of the requested segment stored in the private network back to the MCDS. When a second digital signage device also requests for the same segment, the MCDS transmits the address to the second digital signage device.
US09886686B2
A system and method comprising receiving information consequent to communication between a user and the computer system, performing one or more queries based at least in part on the information, and computing a set of frequency values for results of the one or more queries. The system and method further comprises determining at least one confidence score for the one or more queries based at least in part on an outcome of evaluating the set of frequency values against one or more sets of decision rules, and, based at least in part on the at least one confidence score, outputting at least one user identity associated with the at least one confidence score.
US09886683B2
A user interface for an electronic calendar represents different locations or different users or different user calendars in different portions of the display. Calendar entries can be associated with one or more locations, one or more users, and with one or more user calendars. The different locations may reside in different time zones and a timeline for each time zone is displayed. The position of the calendar entry provides a visual identifier of the timeline with which the event is associated. Travel time to and from events in the calendar are calculated for calendared events and shown adjacent to the beginning and end of the event. A user's future location at a point in time is inferred from patterns in the user's locations and by analyzing the user's calendared events and correspondence in order to calculate travel time to calendared events.
US09886677B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for monitoring, maintaining, tracking, and/or integrating inventory items in one or more systems. An inventory integration system may monitor the states, dependencies, and/or locations of inventory items across one or more data centers and/or similar structures. Issues detected may be escalated and remedial actions to the issues may be generated. The inventory integration system may communicate with various external resources in order to convey various information associated with the items of inventory and/or the data centers.
US09886673B2
A method for collecting and analyzing operational information from a network of components associated with a liquid energy commodity comprises the steps of: (a) measuring an amount of the liquid energy commodity in storage at one or more storage facilities in the network, and storing that measurement data; (b) determining a flow rate of the liquid energy commodity in one or more selected pipelines in the network, and storing that flow rate data; (c) ascertaining an operational status of one or more processing facilities in the network, and storing that operational status information; (d) analyzing the measurement data, the flow rate data, and the operational status information to determine a balance of the liquid energy commodity in the network or a selected portion thereof at a given time; and (e) communicating information about the balance of the liquid energy commodity to a third-party market participant.
US09886668B2
A processing element for an advanced processing apparatus. The processing element comprises a silicon-insulator interface and a confining arrangement for confining one or more quantum dots in the semiconductor. The processing element has also a control arrangement for controlling a quantum property of the one or more quantum dots and operate the one or more quantum dots as a qubit to perform quantum processing.
US09886665B2
A method, system, and computer program product for event detection using roles and relationships of entities are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A training event and a set of entities participating in the training event are identified in a training data. For a first entity in the set of entities, a first role occupied by the entity in the event is determined. A behavior attribute is assigned to the first role. A relationship of the first role with a second role corresponding to a second entity in the set of entities is determined. An event rule is constructed to detect an event corresponding to the training event in new data and comprising a plurality of roles, behavior attributes, and the relationship. The plurality of roles includes the first role and the second role, and the plurality of behavior attributes includes the behavior attribute assigned to the first role.
US09886651B2
In an example embodiment, a first plurality of images stored on a computing device is identified, each image having an indication that it depicts a first member of a social networking service. The first plurality of images is used as training data to a first machine learning algorithm to train a first machine learning algorithm model corresponding to the first member, the first machine learning algorithm model corresponding to the first member designed to calculate a member likelihood score for a candidate image. Then a second plurality of images stored on the computing device is obtained. Each image of the second plurality of images is fed to the first machine learning algorithm model corresponding to the first member, obtaining a member likelihood score for each of the second plurality of images. Then, based on the member likelihood scores for the second plurality of images, one or more member images are selected.
US09886646B2
An image processing apparatus includes a unifying unit, a memory, a storing unit, a setting unit, a selecting unit, an extracting, and a determining unit. The unifying unit unifies images of identification target regions cut out from a learning image. The memory stores a learning model. The storing unit stores identification target images converted into images of different image sizes. The setting unit sets a position and a size of a candidate region which is likely to include an identification target object of an identification target image. The selecting unit selects an identification target image of an image size with which the size of the cut-out candidate region is closest to the fixed size. The extracting unit extracts the information. The determining unit determines a target object included in the image of the candidate region.
US09886637B1
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for acquiring images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for acquiring images of occupants inside a vehicle using a vehicle in-cabin device that automatically determines a location of the device inside the vehicle.
US09886636B2
A system and method for creating an enhanced virtual top-down view of an area in front of a vehicle, using images from left-front and right-front cameras. The enhanced virtual top-down view not only provides the driver with a top-down view perspective which is not directly available from raw camera images, but also removes the distortion and exaggerated perspective effects which are inherent in wide-angle lens images. The enhanced virtual top-down view also includes corrections for three types of problems which are typically present in de-warped images—including artificial protrusion of vehicle body parts into the image, low resolution and noise around the edges of the image, and a “double vision” effect for objects above ground level.
US09886635B2
The present invention relates to a system for detecting a region of interest about a tilted line including: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a front image by photographing a front of a vehicle; an image processing unit configured to divide the front image in a pixel unit of a row and a column and shift the front image by one pixel in a left or right direction in each row or in an upper or lower direction in each column until a region of interest (ROI) appears in a straight line in one direction; and a control unit configured to calculate coordinate values of the pixels forming the straight line in one direction to determine the tilted line of the region of interest, when the straight line in one direction appears in the region of interest as the shifted result.
US09886630B2
At least one image registering unit records at least one series of images representing a subject. A control unit controls an operation sequence for the at least one image registering unit in such a manner that a subsequent data processing unit receives a repeating sequence of image frames there from, wherein each period contains at least one image frame of a first resolution and at least one image frame of a second resolution being different from the first resolution. Based on the registered image frames, the data processing unit produces eye/gaze tracking data with respect to the subject.
US09886628B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing and extracting content from an image captured using a mobile device. In one embodiment, an image is captured by a mobile device and corrected to improve the quality of the image. The corrected image is then further processed by adjusting the image, identifying the format and layout of the DL, binarizing the image and extracting the content using optical character recognition (OCR). Multiple methods of image adjusting may be implemented to accurately assess features of the DL, and a secondary layout identification process may be performed to ensure that the content being extracted is properly classified.
US09886626B1
Certain aspects of the present methods and systems may focus on computer implemented methods of obtaining digitized hand-writing data corresponding to a sample of a needed code point of a set of code points. Such methods may include: obtaining a sample of digitized handwritten text, the sample of digitized handwritten text including glyph data corresponding to a first glyph, the first glyph corresponding to the needed code point of the set of code points; associating the first glyph with the needed code point; identifying stroke data in the glyph data, the stroke data corresponding to a stroke component of the first glyph, determining a plurality of dimensional values of the stroke component in the stroke data; and associating the plurality of dimensional values with a new code point sample of the needed code point in a code point set data structure.
US09886610B2
An optical information detecting apparatus is formed as an integrated, solid state monolithic structure. The monolithic structure includes a plurality of light sensors disposed on a substrate and electrically isolated from one another, a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the substrate and electrically isolated from one another, the light sensors being optically isolated from the light emitting elements, and a circuit connected to the light emitting elements to generate light towards a target and connected to the light sensors to detect reflected light from the target, wherein a signal is generated in response to the detected light. The signal is indicative of an optical characteristic of the target.
US09886606B2
An information processing apparatus includes processing circuits that have respective identification information and that perform processing corresponding to a request from another information processing apparatus, and a reporting circuit that stores the respective identification information of the processing circuits and, instead of the processing circuits, that reports the identification information to the another information processing apparatus in response to a request for reporting the identification information, the request being issued from the another information processing apparatus.
US09886598B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for automatically adjusting a display to obscure application data. In an example, a computer-implemented method may include collecting eye data from a user, receiving the eye data collected from the user, analyzing the eye data, determining that eyesight of the user is on a display based on the eye data, providing data on the display to the user when the eyesight of the user is determined to be on the display, determining that the eyesight of the user is off the display, obscuring the data on the display in response to determining that the eyesight of the user is off the display, removing the obscuring applied to the data on the display when the eyesight of the user returns to the display.
US09886597B2
The invention relates to a data-processing method that includes encoding a plurality of data of n bits into code words having a predefined constant Hamming weight, characterized in that said method also includes using (4000) encryption operations or arithmetic operations on the resulting code word(s) and also in that encoding each datum includes: decomposing (100) the datum into a plurality of m bit sequences to be encoded, m strictly being less than n; encoding (300) each bit sequence into a partial code word, each having a predefined Hamming weight, such that the sum of the Hamming weights of the partial code words are equal to the Hamming weights of the code word; and concatenating (300) the partial code words such as to produce the code word corresponding to the datum. The invention also relates to a data transmission method and to an electronic circuit configured to implement said methods.
US09886589B2
A method for protecting data is disclosed that protects not only who may access data but also how it is used. This invention uses an intelligent proxy which controls access to protected data using any of a variety of already existing security measures and is also the only object capable of making use of the data so that the data may not be copied or otherwise used in any manner inconsistent with the design of a data protection scheme chosen to meet security needs.
US09886587B2
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine whether data including identification information of a user satisfy a condition to conceal the identification information, the data being generated when the user uses an apparatus, the condition being stored in a condition storage; a concealing unit configured to execute a concealing process to conceal the identification information included in the data when the data satisfy the condition; and a data storage configured to store one of the data including the identification information and data including the concealed identification information.
US09886583B2
A power fingerprinting system is adopted for assessing integrity of a target computer-based system. In one implementation, the power fingerprinting system may receive, at a first module, side-channel information of a first target component of a system, the first module being collocated with the first target component; obtain a power fingerprint for the first target component based on the side-channel information for the first target component, the power fingerprint for the first target component representing a plurality of execution statuses of the first target component; receive, at a second module, side-channel information of a second target component of the system, the second module being collocated with the second target component, the power fingerprint for the second target component representing a plurality of execution statuses of the second target component; and obtain a power fingerprint for the second target component based on the side-channel information for the second target component.
US09886581B2
Techniques for providing information security threat assessment and amelioration are disclosed. The techniques may include obtaining fundamental data, obtaining document data, preparing fundamental instance nodes from the fundamental data, preparing document nodes from the document data, preparing edges between at least some of the nodes, storing the nodes and the edges in a manner that reflects a graph structure, and causing to be displayed at least a portion of a graph defined by at least one node and at least one edge.
US09886579B2
A method for proactively detecting shared libraries suspected of association with malware includes the steps of determining one or more shared libraries loaded on an electronic device, determining that one or more of the shared libraries include suspicious shared libraries by determining that the shared library is associated with indications that the shared library may have been maliciously injected, loaded, and/or operating on the electronic device, and identifying the suspicious shared libraries to a reputation server.
US09886577B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to identify regions of code to be monitored, probe and lock code pages that include the identified regions of code, and remap the code pages as execute only to assist with the mitigation of malicious invocation of sensitive code. The code pages can be remapped as execute only in an alternate extended page table view to allow for the detection and mitigation of malicious invocation of sensitive code.
US09886573B2
A method performed by a computing system includes receiving from a publishing entity a message and a first piece of evidence that the message was sent by the publishing entity, time-stamping the first piece of evidence, storing the time-stamped first piece of evidence, sending the message to a first subscribing entity, receiving from the first subscribing entity a second piece of evidence that the message was received by the first subscribing entity, time-stamping the second piece of evidence, and storing the time-stamped second piece of evidence.
US09886567B2
In one embodiment, receiving a first action from a user of a computing device, wherein the first action causes the computing device to power up while a screen of the computing device is locked; obtaining a plurality of dynamic information items relevant to the user of the computing device; and displaying at least one of the plurality of dynamic information items on the locked screen of the computing device.
US09886561B2
A new method for encoding genomic data that reduces storage footprint by two orders of magnitude while preserving acceptable quality data.
US09886560B2
A process for the management of data of an analysis device, which data serve for the operation of a further analysis device which is designed so as to be equivalent to the first analysis device, is disclosed. The analysis device newly creates or modifies data on an internal memory medium of the analysis device and the first analysis device, during its operation, continuously stores the newly created or modified data in a redundant manner in a non-volatile removable storage medium, with the removable storage medium being independent of the internal memory medium.
US09886559B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling improvements in athlete training and injury management through entropy and third-order spectral analysis of digitized force-vs-time time series from movements. In embodiments, entropy and/or bispectral statistics are determined using time-series information obtained from movements of an athlete, such as squat jump and countermovement jump maneuvers, using a biomechanical sensor, such as a digital force plate apparatus. These statistics may be used to facilitate sports medicine and health management of the athlete. In some embodiments, where athletes are involved in sport that involves explosive power development in the lower extremities and extensive running, cutting, jumping or other movement having risk of injuries to the lower extremities, time series force plate data are obtained and transformed to calculate entropy and bispectral statistics, from which functional status of the lower limbs and readiness for safe return-to-lay may be ascertained.
US09886558B2
A system and method for creating a unique alias associated with an individual identified in a health care database such that health care data, and particularly pharmaceutical-related data, can be efficiently gathered and analyzed. The system has a first store for storing at least one record where each record includes a plurality of identification fields which when concatenated uniquely identify an individual, and at least one health care field corresponding to health care data associated with the individual. The system also has a second data store, and a processor. The processor selects a record of the first data store, then selects a subset of the plurality of identification fields within the selected record, and concatenates the selected subset of identification fields. Then the processor stores the concatenated identification fields in a record in the second store with at least one health care field from the selected record of the first data store.
US09886556B2
A method includes obtaining training data for a plurality of patients of a patient population. The training data includes training blood glucose history data including treatment doses of insulin administered by the patients of the patient population and one or more outcome attributes associated with each treatment dose. The method also includes identifying, for each patient of the patient population, one or more optimum treatment doses of insulin from the treatment doses yielding favorable outcome attributes. The method also includes receiving patient-state information for the treated patient, determining a next recommended treatment dose of insulin for the treated patient based on one or more of the identified optimum treatment doses associated with the patients of the patient population having training patient-state information similar to the patient-state information for the treated patient, and transmitting the next recommended treatment dose to a portable device associated with the treated patient.
US09886555B2
A pharmacy workflow platform and prescription checking and medicament dispensing station and method comprising (a) script display means; (b) scanning means for providing script data and stock bottle label data in electronic format from the prescription and a stock bottle label; (c) CPU means comprising i) means for receiving and storing the script data and stock bottle data in electronic format; ii) means for transferring the script data to the script display means to effect display of the script; iii) means cooperable with medicament dispensing weighing and counting means; (d) medicament-dispensing weighing means in communication with the CPU means; and (e) control means for controlling the CPU means. Medication is dispensed in a more safe, efficient and cost-effective manner.
US09886554B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a medical pill dispensing system. A system includes a supply module configured to supply one or more pills, where the supply module includes a plurality of containers. Each of the plurality of containers is configured to dispense one or more pills of a respective type. The system also includes a receiving module configured to receive one or more pills from the supply module. The system also includes a pre-fill tray configured to receive one or more pills from the receiving module. The system also includes a transfer plate configured to receive an arrangement of pills from the pre-fill tray. The system also includes a control module operable to control operation of one or more of the supply module, the first receiving unit, and the second receiving unit.
US09886551B2
A request is received from a consumer of services to consult with a service provider having a service provider profile that satisfies at least some attributes in a set of attributes that define a suitable service provider; an available service provider satisfying at least some of the attributes in the set of attributes is identified; and a communication channel is provided to establish a communication between the consumer of services and the identified service provider.
US09886548B2
The present application regards a system and method including database(s) of medical records, processed medical records, user profile information and electronic medical information including information associated with medical terminology associated with diagnoses, treatments and evaluations. A first user interface module is configured to provide prompts for information regarding electronic medical information, and to receive and store responses to the prompts. Further, an electronic medical record processing module converts a medical record into a processed medical record. Further, a second user interface module displays the processed medical record and at least some corresponding information to a first user in accordance with electronic user profile information associated with the first user, and displays the processed medical record and at least some different corresponding information regarding at least one different medical term from the medical record to a second user in accordance with user profile information associated with the second user.
US09886546B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to label radiology images. An example system includes a processor and a database. In response to receiving a first user input via a data input, the processor is to generate first annotations on a spinal image. The processor is to cause the spinal image having the first annotations to be displayed at a user interface. The processor is to prompt a user to provide second user input identifying an error in the first annotations. In response to receiving the second user input, the processor is to generate second annotations on the spinal image. The second annotations is to correct the error in the first annotations.
US09886543B2
A pattern of features of an integrated circuit is provided. A configuration of a pupil of an extreme ultraviolet wavelength radiation beam (also referred to as an illumination mode), is selected. The selected configuration is an asymmetric, single pole configuration. At least one disparity is determined between a simulated imaging using the selected configuration and a designed imaging for the pattern of features. A parameter (also referred to as a compensation parameter) is then modified to address the at least one disparity, wherein the parameter at least one a design feature, a mask feature, and a lithography process parameter. A substrate is then exposed to the pattern of features using the selected configuration and the modified parameter.
US09886539B2
A method for designing a circuit. The method may include obtaining a register-transfer level (RTL) file for an integrated circuit. The method may further include generating, using an RTL-Synthesis compiler and from the RTL file, a gate-level netlist including a plurality of cells for the integrated circuit. The method may further include determining, using a cross-probe criterion, an amount of cross-correlation between a first cell and a second cell in the gate-level netlist. The method may further include generating, in response to the amount of cross-correlation exceeding a correlation threshold, a cell group including the first cell and the second cell. The method may further include determining a boundary condition for the cell group. The method may further include generating a floorplan. The first cell and the second cell may be placed in the floorplan according to the boundary condition.
US09886537B2
A storage device stores first information indicating a first consumption current value during operation of a first partial circuit included in a circuit under design and second information indicating a surplus current value based on an allowable current value of a power source terminal of a second partial circuit and a second consumption current value during operation of the second partial circuit. A design support apparatus compares the surplus current value and the first consumption current value. When determining that the surplus current value is the first consumption current value or greater, the design support apparatus controls a layout apparatus to generate circuit information for a circuit under design where a power-supplying terminal of the second partial circuit and a power source terminal of the first partial circuit are connected.
US09886533B2
A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system comprising at least one processor, a thermodynamic state solver application, and a thermodynamic system solver application. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic state solver application computes a flash equilibrium state solution for each of a plurality of nodes in a thermodynamic network and determines for each of the plurality of nodes at least one sensitivity of a first thermodynamic property with reference to at least one second thermodynamic property. When executed by the at least one processor, the thermodynamic system solver computes a pressure at each of the nodes and flows between the nodes based at least in part on the sensitivities, wherein a result based on the pressures and flows is determined.
US09886528B2
It is provided a computer-implemented method designing a three-dimensional modeled object, comprising the steps of providing (S10) a plurality of two-dimensional views of the modeled object, a three-dimensional wireframe graph, associating (S20), to each vertex of the wireframe graph, a local radial order between all the edges incident to the vertex, and then determining (S30) edge cycles, by browsing the wireframe graph following the local radial orders associated to the vertices. Such a method improves the design of a 3D modeled object.
US09886527B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product provide the ability to modify a spline (e.g., a civil engineering spline). The spline, defined by a set of connected points, is obtained/acquired. A design constraint set is determined and may include an interpolation constraint (specifying a fixed elevation for a connected point), a slope constraint (specifying a bound on a slope between two of the connected points), and a curvature constraint (specifying; a maximum slope difference of a first slope and a second slope between three connected points). The spline is projected onto the design constraint set thereby modifying the spline by changing elevations of the connected points. The modified spline is then projected onto the design constraint set iteratively until the spline satisfies all constraints in the design constraint set.
US09886523B2
An intelligent search and interface customization system including innovative methods of processing user requests and optimizing search results is disclosed.
US09886517B2
Ranking product information is disclosed, including: determining, for each of a plurality of pieces of product information, a category grading value and a plurality of attribute grading values associated with that piece of product information; determining a plurality of user demand values corresponding to the plurality of pieces of product information based at least in part on the category grading value and at least one of the plurality of attribute grading values associated with each of the plurality of pieces of product information; and ranking the plurality of pieces of product information based at least in part on the corresponding plurality of user demand values.
US09886511B2
A method and system for facilitating the rendering of content by a web service in a local language associated with the user device. The system includes a server configured to receive, from the web service, a request including a locale identifier and user-inputted content received from the user device. The server identifies one or more language parameters based on the locale identifier. In an embodiment, the system provides the language parameters and a content presentation engine to the web service for dynamically rendering the user-inputted content to the user device according to the one or more language parameters. In another embodiment, the server caches a content presentation engine and the language parameters to the user device for rendering content generated by the web service.
US09886504B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and device for audio file management and a storage medium. The method may include that: an album image corresponding to an audio file to be managed is acquired (S101); color analysis is performed on the album image to obtain a characteristic color of the album image (S102); a color label is set for the audio file according to the characteristic color of the album image (S103); and the audio file is managed according to the color label of the audio file (S104). According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the audio file may be managed on the basis of colors, so that diversity and intelligence of the means of audio file management are improved.
US09886501B2
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for using a contextual graph to summarize a corpus of content. Natural Language Processing (NLP) preprocessing operations are performed on text within an input corpus to form a grammatical analysis. In turn, the grammatical analysis is used to generate semantic associations between phrases in the input corpus. The resulting semantic associations are then used to determine the thematic relevance of the individual sentences in the input corpus to form a context-based ranking. In turn, the context-based ranking is used to construct a context graph, the vertices of which are represented by phrases, and the edges are represented by an aggregate score resulting from performing calculations associated with semantic similarity of the phrases. The resulting context graph is then used to generate a content summarization for the input corpus.
US09886488B2
Data files are received from data sources that include textual content. The data files are categorized using a taxonomy of categories, where each category has sample textual content that defines a concept for the category. The categorizing includes comparing the textual content of the data file with the sample textual content for the category. A file score is calculated for each data file to compare the degree of similarity between the defined concept of the category and a determined concept for the data file. Each data file is associated with the category if the file score is equal to or greater than a pre-determined minimum score for the category. A portion of the data file and/or file score is be provided.
US09886487B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device determines at least two contact groups from a subset of contacts accessible by a telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device also generates a contact display including at least one contact group associated with the subset of contacts based on a current context of a user of the telecommunications device. The current context can include, for example, one or more of a location, time, date, and the like.
US09886474B2
A multidimensional object, such as a language-integrated query (LINQ) object, can be generated based upon a grouping set operator and zero or more key selectors. The object can be utilized to query over a non-relational data source. The object can include a sequence of functions corresponding to each grouping related to the grouping set operator in order to provide multidimensional grouping representation. Furthermore, the object includes nested structures for optimized execution of the grouping set operator.
US09886473B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for job management. One of the methods includes receiving a status report for each of a plurality of jobs from a pluggable status reporter. The jobs are executed by applications in a distributed computing system. The applications are developed in at least two different software frameworks. A job type for each job is determined. A specific status handler associated with the job type is selected to determine specified status information for the job. The specified status information is stored and associated with the job in a status database.
US09886467B2
Systems and methods for creating and using a workflow template for analyzing data entities stored in the one or more databases. After a desired workflow is identified, one or more series, data source, and/or entity restrictions based upon the workflow may be received. In addition, one or more chart configuration settings based upon the workflow may also be received. The restrictions and configuration settings may be saved as the workflow template. The workflow may then be performed by loading the saved workflow template, in order to automatically generate charts in accordance with the configuration settings of the template, based upon a received selection of series, data sources, and entities that adheres to the restrictions defined in the template.
US09886461B1
Systems and methods for indexing onscreen content on a mobile device are provided. For example, a method can include determining, using an index for a user that associates key items with images of screens captured from a mobile device of the user, that a first key item is responsive to a query initiated at the mobile device, and identifying responsive images, the responsive images being associated with the first key item. The method may also include highlighting, in the responsive images, areas corresponding to the first key item, and providing a search result to the mobile device that includes portions of the responsive images. The portions of the responsive images may be areas corresponding to the first key item in the images.
US09886458B2
Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring obscured data, said obscured data including property data regarding at least one property of one or more devices, wherein said obscured data has been obscured to avoid uniquely identifying the one or more devices, acquiring one or more services configured to be carried out on the one or more devices, said acquiring at least partly based on the acquired obscured data including the property data regarding at least one property of the one or more devices, and offering the one or more services in exchange for access to identifying data configured to uniquely identify the one or more devices associated with the property data. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09886454B2
An image processing method and an electronic device supporting the same are disclosed. An electronic device is provided to collect a plurality of images. The electronic device may collect the images by taking pictures/videos with a camera or by receiving the images from an external device. The electronic device also includes a processor able to determine an activity type during at least a portion of time when the images were taken by the camera or an activity type of the device that originally generated the images received from the external device. The processor may be able to select at least some of the collected images based on the activity type to generate a highlight content.
US09886448B2
In a system for downloading large data sets, when a user downloads a project or other large data set from the file sharing service, the user's computer first determines whether files in the data set are already resident on local storage. Files that are in a locally connected storage device, including network connected storage devices, are copied to the download location specified for the data set to be downloaded. Files that are not in local storage are then downloaded to the download location specified for the data set. Files in local storage are indexed to facilitate matching with files used in the project. Such indexing is based on processing the media data in the media data files to ensure that there is a match. For example, a signature can be generated from a portion of a file, such as a first block of media data from a file. This signature can be added to an index, along with other information about the file, such as metadata from the file, file names or file identifiers and the like. A matching algorithm processes files in the project to be shared, and matches them against the index.
US09886439B2
A method for preventing suspension of transactions in a database computing system by monitoring active database logs of the database computing system is provided. The method comprises switching archive units of the database computing system due to full database log condition occurring during system operations of the database computing system. The method further comprises maintaining a database log history table, wherein the database log history table captures a threshold count of the active database logs generated by system threads of the database computing system. The method further comprises defining a temporary location for archiving the active database logs based on the switched archive units of the database computing system, and the maintained threadhold count of active database logs in the database log history table due to full database log condition occurring during system operations of the database computing system.
US09886438B2
Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file.
US09886437B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for generating a complex signature. In an embodiment, the method includes: generating at least one signature for each of a plurality of different minimum size multi-media data elements (MMDEs), wherein generation of each of the at least one signature is performed by a plurality of computational cores, each computational core having at least one configurable property characterizing the core, and wherein configuration of the at least one configurable property respective of each core results in statistical independence among the plurality of cores; and assembling at least a complex signature including the generated signatures.
US09886434B2
A process receives content from a recording device. The content is provided through a transmission from a distribution system to the recording device and recorded by the recording device on a storage medium associated with the recording device. Further, the process receives, from the recording device, transmission data corresponding to the recorded content. The transmission data indicates one or more transmission identifiers that identify the transmission. In addition, the process sends the transmission data to a server. Finally, the process receives, from the server, program data that is descriptive of the content.
US09886422B2
In a method for dynamically highlighting repetitive text in electronic documents, obtaining one or more user preferences related to a user reading an electronic document. The method further includes determining whether the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, wherein a repetitive text association is data that provides one or more indications of repetitive text segments interspersed within a document. In response to determining that the electronic document contains one or more repetitive text associations, the method further includes identifying one or more repetitive text segments in the electronic document corresponding to the one or more repetitive text associations and determining a time duration expended by the user reading an instance of the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document. The method further includes highlighting the identified one or more repetitive text segments within the electronic document based one or more obtained user preferences.
US09886419B2
A test and measurement instrument provides for increased transient event detection by adjusting data sampling periods. The test and measurement instrument includes a data sampler for acquiring first sampled data and a data processor structured to process the first sampled data. The data processor operates during a first data processing period. Also included in the instrument is a sample time adjustor structured to allow a user to select a time for the data sampler to acquire second sampled data. The time for the data sampler to acquire the second sampled data occurs during the first data processing period. The time for acquiring the second sampled data may be determined by generating a probability distribution function, then applying the distribution function to the available times during the first data processing period that the second sample data may be collected. Methods of use of the test and measurement instrument are also provided.
US09886417B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a voltage in a wind farm. The method includes: collecting measured values of parameters as initial values of the prediction values; inputting the initial values into a preset control model for optimizing a model predictive control; solving the preset control model to obtain a first solution sequence of the reactive power setting values of the wind turbines and a second solution sequence of the terminal voltage setting values of the static var generators; and sending first values in the first solution sequence to the wind turbines and first values in the second solution sequence to the static var generators, such that a voltage control in the wind farm is realized.
US09886411B2
A data transfer device performing data transfer at a high speed if a descriptor chain cannot be entirely transferred by a single activation. In a DMA control device, when a transfer activation signal is asserted, a descriptor information control part sequentially reads descriptor information from a descriptor information storage part. When the count of pieces of descriptor information that have been read becomes equal to a transferable frame count, a backward skip control part outputs a backward skip instruction. When the backward skip instruction is outputted, a descriptor information control part skips reading remaining descriptor information.
US09886391B2
Embodiments relate to enhancing a refresh PCI translation (RPCIT) instruction to refresh a translation lookaside buffer (TLB). A computer processor determines a request to purge a translation for a single frame of the TLB in response to executing an enhanced RPCIT instruction. The enhanced RPCIT instruction is configured to selectively perform one of a single-frame TLB refresh operation or a range-bounded TLB refresh operation. The computer processor determines an absolute storage frame based on a translation of a PCI virtual address in response to the request to purge a translation for a single frame of the TLB. The computer processer further performs the single-frame TLB refresh operation to purge the translation for the single frame.
US09886389B2
This invention describes an apparatus, computer architecture, memory structure, memory control, and cache memory operation method for multi-core processor. A logic core bypasses immediate cache memory units with low yield or deadly performance. The core mounts (multiple) cache unit(s) that might already be in use by other logic cores. Selected cache memory units serve multiple logic cores with the same contents. The shared cache memory unit(s) serves all the mounting cores with cache search, hit, miss, and write back functions. The method recovers a logic core whose cache memory block is not operational by sharing cache memory blocks which might already engage other logic cores. The method is used to improve reliability and performance of the remaining system.
US09886384B2
The present examples relate to prefetching, and to a cache control device for prefetching and a prefetching method using the cache control device, wherein the cache control device analyzes a memory access pattern of program code, inserts, into the program code, a prefetching command generated by encoding the analyzed access pattern, and executes the prefetching command inserted into the program code in order to prefetch data into a cache, thereby maximizing prefetching efficiency.
US09886380B2
A virtual memory is partitioned into virtual partitions, each partition being subdivided into virtual sub-partitions and each sub-partition corresponding to a combination of multiple sectors of identical or different sizes of a physical memory. When an allocation request is made for a virtual memory space having a given memory size, a free partition is selected, a virtual sub-partition is selected corresponding to a combination of sectors having a minimum total size covering the given memory size of the virtual memory to be allocated, and free sectors of the physical memory are selected corresponding to the selected combination. A determination is made of a correspondence table between the selected virtual partition and the initial physical addresses of the selected free sectors, and a virtual address is generated.
US09886376B2
An example method for host virtual address reservation comprises: reserving a host virtual address range within a virtual address space of a computer system; associating a first virtual memory device with a first guest physical address range a virtual machine running on the computer system; associating a second virtual memory device with a second guest physical address range of the virtual machine; mapping a first guest physical address of the first guest physical address range to a first host virtual address of the host virtual address range, wherein the first host virtual address is identified by an offset with respect to the first guest physical address; mapping a second guest physical address of the second guest physical address range to a second host virtual address of the host virtual address range, wherein the second host virtual address is identified by the offset with respect to the second guest physical address.
US09886374B1
Methods and systems for implementing a virtual device farm are disclosed. A client device is registered to participate in software testing. One or more applications are selected based on the configuration of the client device. The one or more selected applications are installed on the client device. Programmatic testing of the one or more selected applications is performed using the client device. Results of the programmatic testing are collected.
US09886358B2
Information processing method, computer-readable recording medium, and information processing system
An information processing method includes executing a processing corresponding to a first request of a terminal apparatus using a first information processing apparatus, when a fault occurs in the first information processing apparatus, transmitting an apparatus information that identifies the first information processing apparatus from a second information processing apparatus to the terminal apparatus, after receiving the apparatus information by the terminal apparatus, discarding data transmitted from the first information processing apparatus to the terminal apparatus, transmitting, from the terminal apparatus to the second information processing apparatus, a response notification indicating that the apparatus information is received by the terminal apparatus, and after receiving the response notification by the second information processing apparatus, executing the processing corresponding to a second request of the terminal apparatus using the second information processing apparatus.
US09886350B2
A computer system comprises a processor unit arranged to run a hypervisor running one or more virtual machines; a cache connected to the processor unit and comprising a plurality of cache rows, each cache row comprising a memory address, a cache line and an image modification flag; and a memory connected to the cache and arranged to store an image of at least one virtual machine. The processor unit is arranged to define a log in the memory and the cache further comprises a cache controller arranged to set the image modification flag for a cache line modified by a virtual machine being backed up, but not for a cache line modified by the hypervisor operating in privilege mode; periodically check the image modification flags; and write only the memory address of the flagged cache rows in the defined log.
US09886349B2
A system, method, and computer program product for managing storage volumes. A processor creates a first point-in-time copy cascade, where the first point-in-time copy cascade comprises a source volume, a first snapshot point-in-time copy volume, and a second snapshot point-in-time copy volume; the first volume is a snapshot copy of the source volume and the second volume is a snapshot copy of the first volume; and the source volume, the first volume, and the second volume include a host portion. A processor creates a third snapshot point-in-time copy volume from the first volume. A processor maps the third volume to create a second cascade, wherein the second cascade comprises the source volume, the first volume, and the third volume but not the second volume. A processor directs an I/O operation for the first copy volume to the third volume.
US09886339B2
A semiconductor device may include normal memory cells, redundancy memory cells, a fuse array, and a controller. The normal memory cells may be coupled to a plurality of word lines and bit lines. The redundancy memory cells may be coupled to a plurality of word lines and bit lines, and may replace one or more normal memory cells that are defective. The fuse array may include a redundancy address storage region configured to store addresses of the redundancy memory cells, an error correction information storage region configured to store error correction information for correcting errors of addresses of the redundancy memory cells, stored in the redundancy address storage region, and a weak address storage region configured to store an address of a weak cell among the normal memory cells. The controller may perform a repair operation based on a redundancy address and perform a refresh operation on a weak cell corresponding to the address of the weak cell.
US09886334B2
The embodiments relate to processing a guest event in a hypervisor-controlled system. A guest event triggers a first firmware service for the guest event in firmware. The guest event is associated with a guest, a guest key, and with a guest state and protected guest memory accessible only by the guest and the firmware. The firmware processes information associated with the guest event. The processed information includes information of the guest state and the protected guest memory. A subset of the processed information is received by a hypervisor to process the guest event, and a non-received portion of the information is retained by the firmware. The hypervisor processes the guest event based on the received subset and sends a process result to the firmware triggering a second firmware service for the guest event. The firmware processes the process result together with the retained information to generate modification associated with the guest event. The firmware performs the generated modification associated with the guest event at the protected guest memory.
US09886323B2
A graphical user interface (GUI) for managing virtual machines (VMs) that are running in one or more hosts provides a search interface that is intuitive and presents search results in a tree structure that lists or marks items that meet user-designated search criteria. User-designated search criteria include favorite VMs, powered-on VMs, VMs running in a specified host, and text-based search criteria. Both VMs that are running locally in a local host and VMs that are running remotely in a remote host are listed so long as they meet the user-designated search criteria and thus can be managed using the GUI.
US09886313B2
A system includes a first node including a first processor and a first memory, and a second node including a second processor and a second memory. A worker thread of the first processor calls an allocation API to allocate a portion of the first memory, and calls a first allocator of a first memory manager associated with the first node to allocate a specified size of the first memory. The first memory manager calls an operating system function to reserve a memory segment of the specified size, sets a first Non-Uniform Memory Access policy of the first node to preferred, binds the reserved memory segment to the first node, adds the memory segment to a global freelist, and returns an address pointer of the reserved memory segment to the worker thread.
US09886309B2
A system, method and related data structures for discovering and describing computing resources available at various computing devices, and for exposing those resources as services that are addressable by software applications. The data describing the resources is arranged according to an identity-based schema. The computing resources may include, for example, storage capacity, bandwidth, processing power, input methods and mechanism, and rendering methods. The method and system are identity-based, whereby a user (with an identity) has access to the distributed resources commensurate with that identity.
US09886308B2
Disclosed is a method for controlling an embedded system and a device with an embedded system, the method including: transmitting, by a scheduling process of the embedded system, a standby instruction to a master process of the embedded system; releasing, by the master process, occupied hardware resource and exiting upon reception of the standby instruction; starting, by the scheduling process, a standby process of the embedded system after the master process exits; and controlling, by the standby process, the embedded system to enter a standby state.
US09886304B1
Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for sharing a storage device with multiple virtual machines are disclosed. One such method involves creating a pseudo-identity for a storage device and assigning a portion of an address space of the storage device to a virtual machine using the pseudo-identity. The storage device is coupled to a computing device and the pseudo-identity is created by a hypervisor associated with the computing device. The pseudo-identity facilitates access to the storage device by the virtual machine associated with the hypervisor and also facilitates presentation of one or more physical characteristics of the storage device to the virtual machine. The method also assigns a portion of an address space of the storage device to the virtual machine using the pseudo-identity.
US09886301B2
A computing method includes running, on a plurality of compute nodes, multiple workloads that access respective sets of memory pages. Respective bitmaps are calculated for at least some of the workloads, wherein (i) a bitmap of a workload is statistically indicative of a cardinality of the set of memory pages used by the workload, (ii) a union of two or more bitmaps is statistically indicative of the cardinality of a union of the sets of memory pages used by the two or more corresponding workloads, and (iii) an intersection of first and second bitmaps is statistically indicative of an overlap between respective first and second sets of memory pages used by the corresponding workloads. A decision is made to migrate a selected workload from a source compute node to a destination compute node, based on one or more of the bitmaps.
US09886288B2
Techniques for optimizing a guided edit process for editing a member profile page are described. According to various embodiments, incomplete member profile fields in a member profile associated with member of an online social networking service are identified. Profile completion score weight values associated with the incomplete member profile fields in the member profile are then determined. Thereafter, the incomplete member profile fields in the member profile are ranked, based on the profile completion score weight values associated with each of the incomplete member profile fields. A list of one or more of the highest ranked incomplete member profile fields are then displayed, together with a prompt recommending the member to complete the identified incomplete member profile fields.
US09886279B2
A method for populating an instruction view data structure by using register template snapshots. The method includes receiving an incoming instruction sequence using a global front end; grouping the instructions to form instruction blocks; using a plurality of register templates to track instruction destinations and instruction sources by populating the register template with block numbers corresponding to the instruction blocks, wherein the block numbers corresponding to the instruction blocks indicate interdependencies among the blocks of instructions; populating and instruction view data structure, wherein the instruction view data structure stores instructions corresponding to the instruction blocks as recorded by the plurality of register templates; and using the instruction view data structure to feed a plurality of stacked execution units of execution stage in accordance with the readiness of instruction sources of the instruction blocks.
US09886276B2
A data processing apparatus for accessing several system registers using a single command includes system registers and command generation circuitry capable of analysing a plurality of decoded system register access instructions, each specifying a system register identifier. In response to a predetermined condition, the command generation circuitry generates a single command to represent the plurality of decoded system register access instructions. The predetermined condition comprises a requirement that a total width of the system registers specified by the plurality of decoded system register access instructions is less than or equal to a predefined data processing width.
US09886268B1
A computer-implemented method for providing an informal interface and a formal interface to a computing application using a computer is provided. The informal interface includes first routines, the first routines using an informal input format. The method also includes providing a formal interface using the computer, where the formal interface includes second routines. The second routines support developer functionality, and the second routines using a formal input format. The method includes receiving a first input having a first routine input format, the first routine input format complying with the informal input format, or a second input having a second routine input format, the second routine input format complying with the formal input format. The method includes processing the received first input or the received second input and performing a computing operation based on the processing.
US09886267B2
In one example, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect a customer of the cloud-based services exchange to one or more cloud service providers, the plurality of interconnection assets including a virtual circuit by which the customer accesses a cloud service from the one or more cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets.
US09886257B1
Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for remotely updating an executing process that receives I/O requests on I/O port(s), stores write data to a write log on local storage, and uploads data from the write log to remote storage. An update for the process is detected and downloaded, and an updated process is instantiated from the update. The current process is directed to perform a shutdown for update during an update window. In response, the current process saves its current configuration, flushes an in-memory portion of the write log to local storage, and releases its I/O port(s). The updated process loads the saved configuration, detects that the port(s) have been released, and starts accepting I/O requests on the ports. During flushing, the current process flushes current data in memory while continuing to append new write data, stops accepting new write requests, and then flushes the new write data.
US09886254B2
A method of provisioning cloud-based software may include receiving provisioning information for provisioning a cloud-based software package, and determining modules that are part of the software package. The method may also include identifying a subset of the plurality of modules requiring parameters for provisioning that are included in the provisioning information, and provisioning the first set of modules using at least some of the parameters. The method may additionally include identifying a subset of modules requiring parameters that are not included in the provisioning information, and providing a self-service application configured to receive, at a later time, the parameters that are not included in the provisioning information and provision the second set of modules.
US09886251B2
A template function is received. The template function includes one or more data types. A single abstract instantiation of the template function is created. An abstract internal descriptor for each data type is created. A map set for each abstract internal descriptor is created. The number of instantiations required and the type of instantiation required is provided. A finished object is created using each map set. The finished object is a translation of the intermediate representation into assembly code.
US09886249B2
Described herein is a transcompiling framework. In accordance with one aspect, the framework generates a source abstract syntax representation corresponding to source code written in a source language. The framework may determine validity of constraints of a common denominator language by parsing the source abstract syntax representation, wherein the common denominator language is a set of intersects provided by the source language and reachable by a target language. In response to determining the constraints are valid, the source abstract syntax representation may be transformed to a target syntax representation associated with the target language. The target syntax representation is then printed as transcompiled source code in the target language.
US09886238B2
Provided is a method for detecting an audio input interface, comprising: acquiring input signals of every one of audio input interfaces; acquiring energy values of said input signals of every one of said audio input interfaces, and acquiring an interface identification of the audio input interface of which the energy value is the maximum among the energy values; adding said interface identification acquired herein into an identification sequence in an order by acquiring time; and identifying the audio input interface, of which the interface identification is saved most often in said identification sequence, as a valid audio input interface. Also provided is a system for detecting an audio input interface. The present disclosure is capable of effectively identifying the audio input interface connected to the microphone that the user is using, so that the user does not need to switch manually.
US09886232B2
According to embodiments described in the specification, a mobile electronic device and method for controlling a media player device to play back media are provided. The mobile device includes: a network interface; a memory storing first audio data and second audio data; a microphone; and a processor interconnected with the network interface, the memory and the microphone, the processor operating to: transmit, to a media player device via the network interface, a request to initiate a connection between the mobile device and the media player device; send the first audio data over the connection to the media player device for playback by the media player device; detect the playback of the first audio data via the microphone; and in response to detecting playback of the first audio data, send the second audio data over the connection to the player device for playback by the media player device.
US09886228B2
A method of using an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying a first input region corresponding to a first language or symbol set through a first or second display of an electronic device and displaying a second input region corresponding to a second language or symbol set through the first or second display. In addition, other embodiments can be made.
US09886227B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory containing a program executable by the processor. The computer is connected to a network, which is also connected to an image forming device and an external system configured to generate external print jobs. The code is configured to maintain a local print queue including local print jobs based on content generated by another computer program executed by the computer; receive a request for a job list from the image forming device; send a request for a list of the external print jobs to the external system; receive a list of the external print jobs from the external system; merge the list of the external print jobs with a list of the local print jobs in the local print queue to form a combined job list; and send the combined job list to the image forming apparatus.
US09886226B2
An image forming device that includes a communication device includes a class judging unit, a number-of-times determination unit, and a retry execution unit. The communication device transmits data to a management device through a first communication network provided by a communication carrier. The class judging unit judges a class under which a first error having occurred in data transmission falls, the class being predetermined according to a probability of a successful transmission retry. The number-of-times determination unit determines the number of times a retry is performed in response to the first error, such that the number of times the retry is performed is decreased as the probability of a successful transmission retry becomes low. The retry execution unit causes the communication device to execute the retry in response to the first error the determined number of times.
US09886217B2
A storage device includes a first storage unit, a second storage unit, a third storage unit, and a processor. The first storage unit is configured to store therein a part of a data group stored in a storage system. The second storage unit is configured to store therein partial hierarchical information which is a part of information on a hierarchical structure of the data group. The third storage unit is configured to store therein owner information including a data identifier in association with a device identifier. The data identifier identifies a specific data included in the data group. The specific data is related to the partial hierarchical information. The device identifier identifies a specific storage device. The specific device stores therein the specific data. The processor is configured to share management of the data group with other storage devices on basis of the partial hierarchical information and the owner information.
