US07771108B2
The planar lighting device includes a light guide plate including two symmetrical, inclined planes increasingly distanced from the light exit plane with the increasing distance from the light entrance planes toward the center, a curved portion joining the inclined planes, and scattering particles dispersed therein; light sources; a housing; a securing unit securing the light sources and light guide plate to keep their distance constant, and a sliding mechanism allowing the securing unit to slide. Distance between the light entrance planes, thicknesses at the light entrance planes and at the central curved portion, its radius of curvature and taper of the inclined planes are all held within respective given ranges as well as scattering particle diameter and density, light use efficiency and middle-high ratio of the brightness distribution.
US07771107B2
A backlight module structure and a backlight module incorporating the structure are provided. The backlight module includes a back plate and at least one light source device. The back plate includes a base and a plurality of projections which are substantially parallel to each other. The projections are disposed on the base and spaced apart from each other to define at least one slot and be placed at a specific height (the first height) relative to the base. The light source device is adapted to fit into the slot. The light source device includes a substrate and a plurality of light sources which are disposed on the substrate and are placed at another specific height (the second height) relative to the base. The first height is substantially equal to or higher than the second height.
US07771098B2
A multi-primary color display has a backlight source and pixels. Each pixel has at least four sub pixels, which display red primary color, green primary color, blue primary color and a fourth primary color, respectively. At the peak position of the fourth primary color located in the wavelength range between 550 nm˜600 nm, the relative luminance ratio of the fourth primary color to the green primary color is greater than or equal to 0.5. When the ratio of the relative luminance meets the requirement and the relative luminance of a newly added primary color is greater than a certain value, the colors beyond the three-primary color gamut, which includes natural colors and other colors outside the natural color gamut, can be reproduced.
US07771084B2
A light emitting system is disclosed, including a light generator, a complex lens and an activating unit. The light generator provides a light beam emitted in a first direction in parallel to an optic axis. The complex lens, disposed on a path of the light beam, includes a plurality of micro structures for refracting the light beam. The activating unit includes an activating member coupled to the complex lens. The activating member activates the complex lens with an activation frequency to reciprocally move in a second direction alternate to the first direction. By the disposition of the complex lens, the energy of the light beam is uniformly distributed. Additionally, speckle produced by the light beam is reciprocally moved within an area by the activating unit, creating a photogene reaction, to successfully eliminate existence of the speckle.
US07771083B2
Retrofitting lighting fixtures (e.g., HID based lighting fixtures) using a pin mounted PL style fluorescent based energy efficient light assembly and methods of installing retrofitting lighting fixtures are disclosed.
US07771078B2
There is provided a lamp fixing holder. A lamp fixing holder for fixes a lamp to a receiving container. The lamp provides a liquid crystal display panel with light. The lamp includes a first portion of a face and a second portion of the face. The light emitted from the first portion of the face advances toward the liquid crystal display panel. The lamp fixing holder comprises a lamp fixing body and a fixing member. The lamp fixing body holds a third portion of the face of the lamp. The second portion includes the third portion. The fixing member fixes the lamp fixing body to the receiving container. The lamp fixing holder according to the present invention fixes the lamp so that the lamp does not sway, while minimizing an amount of light that is shielded by the lamp fixing holder.
US07771071B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a thermally controlled optical filter comprises a frame coupled to an etalon where the frame includes a resistive thermal device disposed on the frame to obtain thermal measurements of the etalon during operation. The frame may be generally L-shaped or generally square-shaped. The frame may include a fillet that is generally planar, generally beveled or trapezoidal, or generally circular in shape. A heater may be additionally disposed on the frame. The etalon and frame subassembly may be bonded to a micro hot plate that is capable of heating the etalon to an operational temperature.
US07771067B2
An ultracompact, lightweight, reflective telescope is described which has no loss due to central obscuration for a beam being projected from its focus. The optical surfaces are composed of matched conics of rotation.
US07771065B2
An optical unit including a plate, an optical element, a fixing device for partially fixing the optical element against the plate, and a deforming device, located between the plate and the optical element, for applying a deforming force to the optical element to change a surface shape of the optical element. The deforming device includes poles for contacting a back face of the optical element, and actuators for driving the poles against the plate.
US07771060B2
A mirror element for a school bus is mounted to the front to provide wide angle viewing of the ground in front of and to the side of the bus. An upper portion of the mirror element which is generally dome shaped is treated to reduce glare.
US07771056B2
First and second reflectors are provided. The first reflector has a function of reflecting a light ray emitted from a light source and directing it toward an image display element and the second reflector has a function of changing the direction of a light ray so as to be reflected by the first reflector which light ray is emitted from the light source and not reflected by the first reflector. An outer periphery shape of the second reflector is changed correspondingly to an effective area of a first array lens 10.
US07771048B2
Devices, systems, and methods measure, diagnose, and/or treat one or both eyes of a patient. Adaptive optics systems (such as those having a deformable mirror) may be configured to an aspherical or multi-spherical presbyopia-mitigating prescriptive shape to allow objective and/or subjective measurements of a candidate prescription. A plurality of viewing distances allow subjective and/or objective evaluations of performance using a light spot or a test viewing image. Measurements of aberrations at selected viewing conditions (including distances and/or brightness) with correlating pupil sizes may also be provided. Wavefront measurement systems and methods may help position and isolate the eye from ambient light.
US07771041B2
A medium support member has a first surface for supporting a print medium and a second surface opposite to said first surface. The medium support member includes a plurality of recesses formed in the first surface and a plurality of protrusions formed in the second surface such that each recess has an associated protrusion opposite thereto. Each recess has an air passage connecting the recess with an interprotrusional space formed between the protrusions. A printing system includes a device for image-wise application of marking material to a print medium, base member and the medium support member. A method of forming the medium support member includes supporting a sheet of base material, pressing a first punch to form the recess and the protrusion in the sheet of base material, and pressing a second punch such that a perforation is applied into the sheet of base material.
US07771040B2
A transfer belt has a two-layer structure consisting of two inner belts formed of metal, such as stainless steel, and an outer belt formed of an elastic material, such as silicone rubber, being spread across the inner belts. The inner belts are endless and wound around transfer rollers, while the outer belt has its ends which are not joined with each other and form an opening therebetween. Distortion of the outer belt due to stress is designed to be suppressed by using a reinforcing member around the opening.
US07771038B2
A printing apparatus is provided. The printing apparatus forms a dot in a desired position of a printing sheet by ejecting an ink droplet from a nozzle. A static electricity eliminating mechanism eliminates static electricity generated on the printing sheet by a conductive portion that is arranged in a position to which the ink droplet is ejected from the nozzle or an upstream side of such position on a path through which the printing sheet passes. The conductive portion is formed in at least one of a sheet feed roller and an idle roller that carry the printing sheet. The sheet feed roller or the idle roller is formed by coating a predetermined insulating coating on a surface of a conductive rod-shaped member. The conductive portion is formed by stripping off a part of the coating on the sheet feed roller or the idle roller.
US07771037B2
An ink containing a hydrophobic colloid charged with a positive zeta potential when the pH of the ink is within a range of over 4 and under 6. Silicon or silicon compound can be limited from being eluted into the ink from a circuit board formed from a silicon wafer or the like. Additionally, silicon or silicon compound, if eluted into the ink can be prevented from being deposited on a resistance heater and causing “cogation”, or to prevent the silicon or silicon compound from being deposited in an ink channel and nozzle to clog the nozzle.
US07771035B2
The invention relates to a reservoir assembly for a pagewidth printhead cartridge. The cartridge has a fluid distribution molding with priming inlets in fluid communication with fluid channels for supplying printing fluid to a plurality of printhead integrated circuits. The reservoir assembly includes a reservoir compartment arranged in fluid communication with the fluid channels via a fluid outlet. The reservoir includes a porous absorbent material located inside the compartment to absorb printing fluid delivered via the priming inlets. The reservoir assembly also includes a bypass fluid path arranging the fluid outlet and a well region of the compartment in fluid communication, said bypass fluid path having a bypass valve to facilitate priming the reservoir compartment with printing fluid.
US07771034B2
The invention relates to a fluidic arrangement for a printer. The arrangement includes an ink tank for storing ink, and an ink distribution assembly in fluid communication with the ink tank for supplying printhead integrated circuits (ICs) positioned thereon with ink from the ink tank. The arrangement also includes a valve arranged in an ink line between the ink distribution assembly and the ink tank, said valve configured to isolate ink in the ink tank from the printhead ICs whenever the printer is powered down. Further included is a pump located downstream from the ink distribution assembly, and a sump arranged in fluid communication with the pump for receiving excess ink from the ink distribution assembly.
US07771028B2
An ink supply system for an inkjet printhead is provided. The system comprises: (a) an ink reservoir for storing ink; (b) an ink conduit providing fluid communication between the ink reservoir and the printhead; (c) a pressure device for positively pressurizing the ink reservoir; and (d) a valve in the ink conduit for controlling a supply of ink to the printhead.
US07771025B2
An inkjet printhead has a plurality of nozzle arrangements. Each nozzle arrangement comprises an ink chamber having an ink supply channel and an ink ejection port; an ink spreading prevention rim provided around and spaced apart from the ink ejection port to define a pit between the ink ejection port and the ink spreading prevention rim; and a thermal actuator mechanism configured to operatively eject ink from the chamber via the ejection port. The plurality of nozzle arrangement are grouped into pods, each pod having two rows of nozzle arrangements spatially staggered with respect to each other.
US07771020B2
An ink jet recording head includes a recording element substrate having an array of discharge ports and a side surface extending along an array direction of the discharge ports, and an opposite surface facing the side surface. A minimum distance is provided between the opposite surface and the side surface at least at a center portion of the side surface. Also, a distance greater than the minimum distance is provided between the opposite surface and the side surface at an end portion of the side surface in the array direction.
US07771019B2
A printer module includes a housing surrounding a frame. The housing defines footing holes. A print engine is housed within the housing. The print engine includes a pair of opposed print head assemblies for enabling double-sided printing on print media to be effected. Feet extend from the housing and are spaced apart to engage in respective footing holes defined in the housing of another printer module so that the printer modules can be stacked together.
US07771015B2
This invention provides for a nozzle arrangement for a printhead. The nozzle arrangement includes a substrate that defines an ink inlet passage. A nozzle plate is arranged on the substrate and defines an ink chamber in fluid communication with the ink inlet passage and a nozzle aperture in fluid communication with the ink chamber. A nozzle enclosure is arranged on the nozzle plate about the aperture and is configured to isolate the aperture from at least one adjacent aperture. The arrangement also includes a heater element suspended within the chamber and configured to produce ink cavitation when heated to eject a drop of ink via the nozzle aperture. The heater element is configured as a looped element so that no solid surface thereof is in the vicinity of a point of collapse of the produced cavitation.
US07771013B2
A pagewidth printhead assembly has an elongate support beam, an elongate shell at least partially enclosing and restraining the support beam and printhead integrated circuits mounted to the support beam so as to be substantially aligned with one another along the pagewidth. The shell has a laminated structure.
US07771010B2
An apparatus has a plurality of printing cartridges to reproduce an image, wherein each printing cartridge prints a portion of the image onto a substrate. The apparatus further includes a media transport for moving the substrate parallel to a first dimension. The printing cartridges are disposed on a carrier in a two dimensional pattern such that the plurality of printing cartridges are able to print on the substrate a line that is perpendicular to the first dimension. Fewer than half of the plurality printing cartridges that print segments of the line that abut each other are adjacent to each other along the first dimension.
US07771008B2
A printhead maintenance assembly for an inkjet printer includes a housing. A movable chassis is arranged in the housing. A belt is mounted on the chassis with a contact surface for sealing engagement with a printhead of the printer. The chassis and thus the belt are reciprocally movable between a first position in which the contact surface is engaged with the printhead and a second position in which the printhead is disengaged from the printhead. A pair of spools are mounted on the chassis. The belt is mounted about the spools, with one of the spools being a toothed drive spool and the other being an idler spool. A drive motor is mounted on the chassis. A drive gear driven by the motor is engaged with the drive spool so that the motor can drive the belt. The drive spool, drive gear and drive motor form part of a conveyor mechanism for conveying the belt in a direction substantially parallel with a longitudinal axis of the printhead. A cleaning station is mounted on the chassis and positioned so that the belt moves past the cleaning station to be cleaned.
US07771007B2
A printhead maintenance facility for an inkjet printer having a pagewidth printhead and a media path for feeding sheets of media substrate in a media feed direction wherein the pagewidth printhead has a nozzle face defining an elongate array of nozzles extending the printing width of the media substrate. The printhead maintenance facility has a wiper member extending the length of the nozzle array, a chassis for supporting the wiper member and a maintenance drive. The maintenance drive has a first actuator for moving the wiper member towards or away from the nozzle face, and a second actuator for rotating wiper member about an axis extending transverse to the media feed direction, wherein the first actuator and the second actuator are independently operable.
US07770967B2
A head rest device that improves reliability of detecting a head on the basis of a change in capacitance without complicating a wiring structure. A head rest device is provided with a head rest rear portion configured to be supported to a seat back, and a head rest front portion freely moving forward and backward between a fully-closed position coming close to the head rest rear portion and a fully-open position separated from the head rest rear portion. The head rest front portion is moved by an actuator. The head rest front portion has a sensor electrode structured such that its capacitance is changed as a head of an occupant approaches, and an ECU controlling the actuator so as to move the head rest front portion and detecting the approach of the head of the occupant on the basis of a change of the capacitance of the sensor electrode thereon.
US07770965B2
A chair having a base with a seating surface and a back support attached to the base for supporting a person seated on the seating surface. At least one attachment point is located on the chair for attaching an accessory for use in securing a person to the chair. The chair has a concealment means moveable between a concealment position for covering at least one attachment point and an uncovered position wherein the attachment point is accessible.
US07770962B1
Apparatus and method for an airfoil being disposed on the rear of an automobile or like vehicle. The angle of the airfoil is controlled by a bob weight connected to the airfoil through a series of linkages so that when the vehicle accelerates or de-accelerates, the angle of the airfoil is adjusted. The linkage between the airfoil and the bob weight controls the angle of attack of the airfoil so as to optimize vehicle down force on the tires so as to optimize performance.
US07770958B2
Disclosed is a soft top for a motor vehicle, comprising longitudinal struts that span a roof opening and a flexible roof skin which spans the width of the vehicle and is fastened to a windshield frame in the front and a bow spanning the width of the vehicle in the rear in the mounted state. One respective longitudinal strut that delimits the roof skin in the transversal direction of the vehicle is embodied as a lateral rail which can be connected at least to one lateral vehicle element. In order to put the soft top down, it can be folded in the transversal direction of the vehicle, the roof skin and the longitudinal struts being joined so as to form a pre-assembled unit.
US07770954B2
A vehicle interior assembly includes: a center console having front and rear terminal ends defining a longitudinal axis; and a sliding portion slidingly engaging the rear terminal end of the console such that the sliding portion is operable to slide in frontward and rearward directions substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the console to cover and uncover at least one storage bin, wherein the sliding portion includes a first portion extending under the rear terminal end of the console and a second portion extending over the rear terminal end of the console to cover and uncover the at least one storage bin.
US07770953B2
A vehicle console with an adjustable armrest has a single operation knob at a fore-end of an armrest to open and close a storage well and to adjust position of an armrest for individual vehicle drivers. The armrest includes a pair of latch members driven by the operation knob. When the operation knob is at the end of the downward rotation, the latch members are inserted into catch holes in the console box, and the armrest is fixed to the console box in a “lock mode”. When the operation knob is halfway from the “lock mode”, the latch members are drawn out of the catch holes but remain in grooves in the console box in a “semi-lock mode”, wherein the armrest can slide along the grooves but cannot open the storage well. When the operation knob is drawn up to the end of the upward direction, the latch members are drawn out of the grooves and the armrest is in a “unlock mode” and the storage well can open and close.
US07770952B2
A trash management apparatus in a vehicle includes a recessed portion, a moveable upper drawer, and a stationary lower bin. The drawer moves in one direction within the recessed portion to direct trash into the stationary lower bin. The drawer has a through-opening allowing trash to pass into the lower bin when the drawer is moved in the one direction, with the bin being removable via an access door in an exposed lateral surface of the center console. A sensor detects a presence or level of trash within the bin or the drawer, and an indicator illuminates when a predetermined amount or level of trash is detected. An actuator is alternately connected to the upper drawer to move the drawer in the one direction when a sensor determines that trash in the drawer exceeds a threshold level.
US07770949B2
An aircraft door mechanism includes a solenoid connected to a support assembly. The solenoid displaces the latch pin between a solenoid energized and a solenoid de-energized position. A catch assembly rotatably connected to the support assembly is positioned to engage a 3½ degree or less taper portion of the latch pin in the solenoid energized position. When the latch pin moves to the solenoid de-energized position, a latch bolt supported by the door rotates the catch assembly. The latch bolt includes a distal bulbous end which multiplies the force applied to the door to rotate the catch assembly. If the latch pin is extended, a substantially greater force is required to force the latch pin to the solenoid de-energized position owing to the reduced taper of the latch pin. Authorized door entry is therefore easier and unauthorized door entry is made more difficult.
US07770946B2
A door lock device for a vehicle includes a latch mechanism having a latch rotatable to pass a half-latch state to a full-latch state, a closer mechanism capable of forcedly turning the latch from the half-latch state to the full-latch state, and an actuator for driving the closer mechanism. A casing forming a part of the latch mechanism is secured to the door so as to turnably support the latch. An extending support part extending in a direction orthogonal to a turning axis of the latch is connectedly provided in the casing. The closer mechanism is adapted to be operated on a plane orthogonal to the turning axis of the latch, and is disposed between the actuator and the extending support part so as to be aligned with the latch mechanism. Thus, it is possible to construct the door lock device to be thin so as to be easily disposed in a door.
US07770935B2
A threaded joint for steel pipes comprises a pin (1) and a box (2) each having a threaded portion (3a or 3b) and an unthreaded metal-to-metal contact portion (4a or 4b) as contact surfaces which contact each other when the joint is fastened. The contact surfaces (3a and 4a and/or 3b and 4b) of at least one of the pin (1) and the box (2) are coated with a lower layer of a solid lubricating coating containing a solid lubricating powder (e.g., molybdenum disulfide, tungsten disulfide, or graphite) and a binder (e.g., an epoxy or other organic resin) and an upper layer of a solid corrosion protective coating formed by an organic resin which does not contain solid particles.
US07770931B2
A description is given of a handle (1) for in particular (cross-country) ski sticks and Nordic walking sticks, having a hand-retaining device (17), such as a hand loop or glove, which can be fastened in a releasable manner to the stick handle (1) via a coupling element (12) secured on the hand-retaining device (17), the stick handle (1) having a top end (22) and a bottom end (23), on or in which a stick tube can be, and/or is, fastened. A particularly straightforward releasable fastening arrangement which is stable, of reliable design and can also be utilized at low temperatures and in the presence of snow is made available by a retaining element (4) being provided on and/or in the stick handle (1), this retaining element having at least two lateral grooves (19) which are open essentially in opposite directions and, at least in certain regions, run essentially from top to bottom in respect of the stick handle (1), and by the coupling element (12) having, for the purpose of fastening on the retaining element (4), two corresponding protrusions which engage laterally in these grooves (19).
US07770927B2
A system for absorbing energy in a vehicle includes a pair of laterally spaced upper and lower side rails which extend along a longitudinal axis. The lower side rails are disposed below the upper side rails. An upper member extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and interconnects the upper side rails. A lower member extends transverse to the longitudinal axis and interconnects the lower side rails. The upper and lower members are each disposed to transmit energy from the upper and lower members through the respective upper and lower side rails. The upper and lower members are configured to simultaneously deform upon impact of the vehicle with an object and transfer a force generated from impacting the object to the upper and lower side rails, respectively.
US07770920B2
System for measuring the weight of an occupant in a vehicle seat having a bottom portion and a back portion at an angle to the bottom portion and for controlling a safety restraint system responsive thereto which includes a fluid-containing bladder mounted within or beneath an upper surface of the bottom portion of the seat and supported by a base of the seat, a pressure sensor operatively coupled to the bladder for generating a signal responsive to pressure of the fluid within the bladder caused by pressure applied to the upper surface of the seat, and a processor coupled to the pressure sensor for determining the weight of the occupant from the signal and generating a control signal for controlling the safety restraint system responsive to the weight determination. The weight of the occupant can be used to control components in the vehicle or the seat itself.
US07770917B2
Disclosed are embodiments of apparatus, methods, and systems for inflatable curtain venting. In one embodiment, an inflatable curtain airbag is tested using a 50th-percentile dummy. The inflatable curtain airbag comprises a vent opening positioned such that during the crash test, the head of the 50th-percentile dummy strikes the airbag at the location of the vent such that the exit of inflation gas through the vent is at least partially blocked. The same inflatable curtain airbag may then be used in a test involving a 5th-percentile dummy, in which case the head of the 5th-percentile dummy would not strike the airbag so as to block the vent, thereby allowing for venting of the airbag.
US07770912B2
A front wheel foldable device for a golf cart includes a main body, a wheel frame, a positioning member, a sleeve, a stop member, and an elastic member. Thus, the wheel frame is pulled outwardly relative to the main body so that the locking portions of the positioning member are moved to detach from the locking grooves of the main body respectively. Then, the wheel frame is rotated through ninety (90) degrees and is released, so that the post of the wheel frame is retracted into the main body by a restoring force of the elastic member, the locking portions are locked in the locking grooves respectively, the front wheel is turned from an upright state to a horizontal state, and the front wheel is parallel with and rested on the cart frame when the cart frame is folded.
US07770909B2
An articulated vehicle is provided including a stabilization system configured to resist roll-over of a trailer portion of the vehicle.
US07770904B2
A materials handling vehicle may include a vehicle frame, a drive wheel, a first caster assembly located on the right side of the drive wheel, and a second caster assembly located on the left side of the drive wheel. A weight distribution assembly connects the first or second caster assembly to the vehicle frame and may include an adjustable preload mechanism to provide a preload force to the first or second caster assembly.
US07770903B2
The present inventions provide self-supporting drawer type storage carts for the storage of pallets or other loads, including heavy and relatively fragile loads, that may be smoothly moved between an open or forward position and a closed or rearward position.
US07770891B2
A method for varying the symbols used on a mechanical reel strip are disclosed. A reel strip comprises a plurality of symbols, each of the symbols associated with a symbol group. Each of the symbol groups is associated with a symbol group designation position on the reel strip. By varying the designation position on the reel strip, the symbols used with each reel strip can be modified. When multiple mechanical reels are used in a gaming machine, the symbol designating position for each reel strip can be the same as any other reel strip or can vary from any of the other reel strips. As such, an endless number of games and game variations may be created and deployed.
US07770886B2
A sheet feed tray has a bottom plate on which a sheet is to be placed; two side fences for positioning opposite widthwise sides of a sheet placed on the bottom plate; and an interlocking mechanism for interlocking movements of the side fences toward and away from each other. The interlocking mechanism includes two racks integrally attached to the respective side fences with toothed surfaces thereof opposed to each other and movable along the bottom plate, and a pinion provided on the bottom plate. The pinion is rotatable about its central axis and is engageable with the pair of racks. Locking projections are disposed at the respective rack sides and project toward the bottom plate side. Contact portions are disposed at the bottom plate side and engage the locking projections with the pair of side fences maximally or minimally spaced apart from each other.
US07770885B2
A media buckler comprises a media engagement surface, a support structure having at least one dimension drafted from a first thickness to a second thickness, the engagement surface having varying stiffness.
US07770879B2
A recording medium transport apparatus includes: plural storage units each storing a recording medium; a transport unit that transports the recording medium from one of the storage units to a recording position where an image is recorded on the recording medium; a memory that stores a reference position of a recording medium prescribed for each storage unit; a measuring unit that measures a position of the transported recording medium; and a movement unit that reads the reference position corresponding to the storage unit that stored the transported recording medium, from the memory, and moves the recording medium according to the difference between the reference position and the measured position such that the position of the recording medium approaches the reference position when the recording medium is located upstream of the recording position in the transport direction thereof.
US07770877B2
A sheet supply tray and a sheet discharge tray are provided. Long sheets can be supplied from the sheet supply tray loaded with the long sheets. The sheet discharge tray is used also as the sheet supply tray, and receives the long sheets with a sheet discharge surface thereof in an area facing the sheet loading surface of the sheet supply tray. A discharge guide unit for guiding the discharge direction of the long sheets is detachably provided in such a dual-purpose type sheet discharge unit. A discharge/reception unit supporting the long sheets is detachably provided as a whole or a part of the sheet discharge unit. An extension sheet tray extensible with respect to a standard sheet tray is provided while the extension state of the extension sheet tray can be detected by an extension detection unit.
US07770872B2
A flow device intended for a two-phase flow processing enclosure of the natural counter-flow type, in which an ascending gaseous flow and a descending liquid flow circulate. The device is formed by an appreciably horizontal tray having openings for the passage of the ascending gaseous flow, and a channel for recovering the descending liquid flow, the channel discharging into a flow orifice. The flow device includes a single guide device extending beneath the tray and connected to the flow orifice in such a way that the liquid flows on its outer wall. Also, a processing enclosure, particularly for processing a hydrocarbonated or aqueous type liquid flow, containing the flow device.
US07770868B2
A telescopic lifting assembly designed particularly for the hydraulic height adjustment of a medical treatment table includes two antiparallel juxtaposed linear drives (2, 3) connected functionally one behind the other in the direction of actuation (1) whereby the inner components (6) are connected to a coupling piece (7) which is provided with guide surfaces (14) cooperating with the outer components (5) in the direction of actuation (1). A secure and stable guiding mechanism is made possible thereby along the entire lifting range.
US07770862B2
A rotatable support mechanism is attached to a body of an electronic device for upholding the body on a plane and adjusting relative positions between the body and the plane. The rotatable support mechanism includes a base, a rotatable disk, and an elastic stopper. The base attached to the body of the electronic device has an axle. The rotatable disk has a holder and a groove. The axle passes a sidewall of the groove. The rotatable disk rotates around the axle as an axis. The sidewall of the groove has at least an opening. The elastic stopper mounted to the axle has an elastic shell fragment and does not rotate with the disk. As the disk is rotated, the elastic shell fragment enters and passes through the opening to exert a resistance force to the disk. Therefore, the electronic device is upheld vertically or horizontally by the rotatable support mechanism.
US07770860B1
A modular ceiling-mounted medical services system including a vertical column supported by an articulating arm assembly. Rotational joints connect the column to the lower arm, the lower arm to the upper arm, and the upper arm to the ceiling mount. Rotational movement at each of the joints is controlled by an electrically-released electromagnetic brake, and all of the brakes may be controlled by a switch panel on the column. Thus, the entire assembly is held in place until the switch is activated. Slight hand pressure is sufficient to operate the switch while simultaneously pushing or pulling the column into the desired position. The service lines that supply the outlets in the column all pass through large central openings in the brakes. In this way, the brake mechanism is stronger and more reliable, and the profile and footprint of the entire assembly can be minimized.
US07770858B2
A mounting bracket is adapted for mounting a field device, as well as to a field device that for the purpose of attachment to a mounting surface comprises such a mounting bracket. The mounting bracket comprises (a) a first bracket strap which includes a first rotary bearing, (b) a second bracket strap, spaced apart from the first bracket strap by a space, including a second rotary bearing and (c) at least one movable lock on one of the two bracket straps. The rotary bearings are designed to articulate on two opposing sides of a field device that may be arranged in the space so that the field device may be rotated, on an imaginary axis that extends through the space, from a first angle position to a second angle position. The lock is designed to engage the field device in order to in this way resist a torque of the field device in that the lock converts the torque to a pair of forces which is removable by way of one of the rotary bearings and by way of the lock itself.
US07770847B1
A model train and layout control system based on on-board sound and locomotive modules, new signaling methods, bi-directional communication, environmental sound, turnout control, train location methods, computer interaction and accessory control, by adding components to existing technology. AC power signal waveforms are variously altered to convey digital command words.
US07770846B2
Fixing system for a modular leading edge (2) to the structure of an aircraft lift plane (1), in which the leading edge (2) has a covering (4) formed from a first lamina (5) and a second lamina (6) between which there is an interior airtight chamber, and the fixing system comprises a main attachment element (3) whose cross-section has a central element (13), a first arm (14) which is fixed to the first lamina (5) of the covering (4) of the leading edge (2), and a second arm (15) which is fixed to the second lamina (6) of the covering (4), and the central element (13) is in turn fixed to a covering (10) of the torsion box (8) of the structure of the lift plane (1).
US07770840B2
An engine assembly for aircraft including a turboshaft engine, an attachment strut, and a plurality of engine mounts interposed between the attachment strut and the turboshaft engine. The plurality of engine mounts include two forward mounts arranged in a staggered manner in relation to each other in a vertical direction of the turboshaft engine, the first forward mount configured to assure uniquely taking up of stresses brought to bear along the transversal direction of the turboshaft engine, and the second forward mount configured to assure uniquely taking up of stresses brought to bear along the transversal and vertical directions.
US07770838B2
The invention relates to a method of releasing a reel awe, which is hydraulically restrained by a self-locking effect by means of inwardly located wedge surfaces of expansion elements. Removal of a coil from a reel awe is achieved, without problems, by lifting off the self-locking effect of the expansion elements at least partially or completely by applying longitudinal vibrations acting in an axial direction. The invention also relates to a correspondingly formed device.
US07770823B2
A fuel injector comprises a movable element, a seat contact surface formed at one end of the movable element, a nozzle member having a valve seat. The seat contact surface of the movable element is in contact with and seated on at the time of valve closing. A nozzle holder portion holds a periphery of the nozzle member. A plastic deformation portion is formed by engaging one of a part of the nozzle member and a part of the nozzle holder portion in the other one of the part of the nozzle member. The nozzle member and the nozzle holder portion are joined by welding.
US07770818B2
A fuel injection valve includes a housing having a wall surface on an opposite side of the nozzle hole. A fuel passage opens in the wall surface, and communicates with a nozzle hole through a nozzle cavity. The nozzle cavity accommodates a valve element. A cylinder is substantially in contact with the wall surface at one end, and slidably accommodating one end of the valve element. The cylinder partitions the nozzle cavity substantially into a fuel accumulator chamber and a pressure control chamber. The fuel accumulator chamber accumulates fuel supplied from the fuel passage. The pressure control chamber accumulates fuel for manipulating the valve element. The cylinder has an outer wall defining a deflecting surface for radially outwardly deflecting fuel flowing from the fuel passage.
US07770814B2
An irrigation system for supplying aerated water to plants includes a diffuser. Oxygen is diffused into water by the diffuser to generate aerated water. The aerated water is supplied to an irrigation device which supplies the aerated water to the plants.
US07770811B2
A toy vehicle is provided which allows the track to be bent without creasing. The track is provided with a plurality of rails and side ribs which strengthen the track against deformation even when the track is provided with loops for play or coiled for transport. Stiffener bars are releasably secured to the track to form and support loops. A connector pad and suction cup are provided to allow releasable securement of the track or window or similar flat surface.
US07770810B2
The track system of the present invention provides dolly track whose joints are substantially seamless, providing a substantially smooth riding surface over the entire length of joined sections of track. The ferrule design of the invention provides ridged piece to piece joining, eliminating pinching and hinging points. This allows multiple assembled track pieces to be moved without damage. The system uses self locking track buckles. A folding cross member system may be folded for ease of movement and placement. In one embodiment, the track is comprised of a carbon fiber hybrid composite with lighter weight and greater strength than prior art steel or aluminum tracks. In addition the track of the present invention does not bend, eliminating the need to reshape or repair the track each time before use.
US07770809B2
Disclosed herein are devices comprising at least one flexible seal, at least one flexible complex seal having at least one closed cavity containing a fluid, or a combination thereof. The devices may comprise at least one immobile and inflexible substrate and at least one mobile and inflexible substrate capable of movement due to the flexible seal, the flexible complex seal, or both. The flexible complex seals comprise at least one closed cavity comprising a fluid, such as a gas or a liquid. As disclosed, the presence or absence of heat will cause the mobile and inflexible substrate to move. The movement will increase or decrease the fluid amount or fluid flow rate in the primary fluid layer. Also disclosed are methods for enhancing the insulating properties of insulating assemblies.
US07770798B2
An automatic digital video-imaging based code symbol reading system for use in point of sale (POS) environments, employing automatic illumination control, multi-tier modular software architecture and digital video-imaging based code symbol reading techniques, which ensures the reliable reading of code symbols graphically represented in digital images, in high-throughput point-of-sale and other environments, while providing the versatility required to accommodate the different ways in which operators present objects for code symbol reading at POS environments.
US07770794B2
Methods and systems for transferring information between a movable system and another system. The movable subsystem includes an electrical component providing electrical signal including information. Electromagnetic radiation is modulated according to the information. The other subsystem includes a receiving component that receives the modulated electromagnetic radiation and converts the received electromagnetic radiation into other electrical signals.
US07770783B2
Methods and systems for authenticating products are provided. A client system receives a request for a set of unique security codes and also receives product data associated with a product on which the security codes are to be printed. The client sends at least some of the product data to a host system and receives a batch identifier from the host. The host stores received product data with the batch identifier. The client generates the set of security codes and then provides the codes to be printed on the product. After the products enter the stream of commerce, the host can receive an authentication request including a security code, and in response the host will verify that the security code is valid and return to the requestor the authentication result and at least part of the product data associated with the batch identifier.
US07770780B2
Motor-vehicle bodies or sub-assemblies thereof are assembled in a welding-assembly station with the aid of frames arranged at the two sides of the conveying line that traverses the station, said frames being provided with fixtures for locating and clamping the various parts of the body. The side frames are moved between their operative position in the station and an inoperative position at a distance from the station with the aid of multi-axis manipulating robots. Said robots, however, do not carry the frames up to their final operative position for assembling the body, but rather unload them on two rigid structures, which are prearranged at the two sides of the line and are movable in a transverse direction with respect thereto between an open condition and a closed condition. The movable structures, once they have received the frames from the robots in their open condition, displace into their closed condition, thus carrying the frames into their final operative position.
US07770777B2
A portable friction forge welder that applies a direct rotational load to workpieces via a rotational actuator and a direct axial load to workpieces via an axial actuator, where the rotational actuator and the axial actuator have separate and independent power sources. The portable friction forge welder relies on a stored energy linear axial actuator or a center-hole hydraulic axial actuator to achieve high axial forces and a high torque, low rotational velocity to achieve rotational forces, enabling the welder to achieve higher quality welds using larger diameter workpieces than conventional portable friction welders. By applying a high axial force between workpieces prior to high torque rotation of the workpieces results in improved quality welds. A unique clamping device maintains a fixed positional relationship between the workpieces and includes a unique shroud that enables friction welds under a positive pressure inert atmosphere.
US07770775B2
A surgical cutting and fastening instrument is disclosed. According to various embodiments, the instrument includes an end effector, a main drive shaft assembly, and a handle. The end effector comprising a cutting instrument for cutting an object positioned therein. The handle comprises a motor for actuating the shaft via a gear drive train, a firing trigger, and a run motor sensor for sensing retracting of the firing trigger. When retraction of the firing trigger is sensed by the run motor sensor, the motor is signaled to forward rotate to cause cutting of the object positioned in the end effector by the cutting instrument. The instrument may also include a reverse motor sensor for sensing a condition indicative of an end of a cutting stroke by the cutting instrument and a stop motor sensor for sensing a condition indicative of retraction of the cutting instrument.
US07770766B2
A rucksack comprising a bag having a back panel and, among other things, a belt assembly and a rigid frame secured to the back panel and the belt assembly. According to the invention, the bottom portion of the rigid frame has a V-shaped configuration with an angle α at the apex, and in its middle and rear portion, the belt assembly includes an upwardly open pocket having a V-shaped configuration with an angle β at the apex, where β is greater than α, such that said pocket is suitable for serving as a housing for receiving the V-shaped bottom portion of the frame while allowing the belt assembly to pivot angularly to some extent relative to the remainder of the rucksack.
US07770765B2
The present invention is directed to a multi-modal wearable baby and small child carrier that is readily adjustable and which, when worn in use, leaves the wearer's arms and hands free. The carrier comprises an elongated strap attached to a flexible sheet-like body wherein the elongated strap can be worn as a neck strap or can be converted to form at least two shoulder straps, and the flexible sheet body is folded to form a positioning portion, so that the user may position the baby or small child directly in front of, or to the left or right side of the torso of an adult who is using and wearing the carrier, such that the baby can be positioned facing toward the adult or facing away from the adult.
US07770763B2
The invention relates to a precision cover (1) with a spout (5) for closing a container of liquid or particulate product of the type in which the top of the cover forms a spout (5) with a sliding seal (2) that is acted upon by a spring (4) and whose motion is controlled by a pivoting opening lever (3). This cover (1) is characterized in that the pivoting opening lever (3) controls at least two different modes of operation of the sliding seal (2), one in which, for a given angular shift of the control lever (3), the seal (2) is moved by a low value relative to the opening of the spout (5), and the other in which, for the same angular shift of the control lever (3), the sliding seal (2) is moved by a higher value relative to the opening of the spout (5) so as to allow the operator to meter the flow rate of the container's contents with very high precision in the first mode and with a high value of opening in the second mode.
US07770753B2
In combination, a vending machine for newspapers which includes a storage area for newspapers, a dispensing device, and an output device through and from which the newspapers fall downwards and an output chute including a lower newspaper-receiving support slot having a rearwardly angled lower wall, an upper wall extending generally parallel with the lower wall and spaced thereabove, a base wall and side walls which together form the generally rectangular box shape of said lower newspaper-receiving support slot. The lower and upper walls extend at an angle between 10° and 40° from vertical, and the lower wall has a height of between one-half inch and three inches less then the height of the newspaper such that upon the newspaper being dropped therein, a graspable portion of the newspaper protrudes whereby the newspaper is easily removable from said lower newspaper-receiving support slot.
US07770744B2
The present invention relates to a rope winding system (1) for winding and unwinding a steel rope (4) of a crane (7). A rope winding system (1) according to the present invention has a rope drum (6), onto which the steel rope (4) can be wound in a plurality of layers, and a magnetic system (7) which is configured to generate a magnetic field over a section of the steel rope (4) with its magnetic flux being deflected by a movement of the steel rope (4) in such a way that the steel rope (4) is braked. A crane (7) is also discloses which is equipped with such a rope winding system (1) for winding and unwinding a steel rope (4).
US07770742B1
A shower caddy that securely supports itself along the water supply line of the shower head. The shower caddy support mounting assembly includes a rubber gasket, a shower head support, and a set screw. The shower caddy requires the temporary removal of the shower head in order to install the shower caddy. The shower caddy frame is made from a durable plastic or lightweight material that resists oxidation.
US07770740B2
A support for the lower ends of elongated articles stored in an upright position, such as the lower ends of firearms contained within a storage cabinet. The support includes a base, and one or more support members are releasably engageable with the base. Each support member receives and secures the lower end of a firearm relative to the base. Each support member is releasably engaged with the base via one or more releasable fasteners that extend through openings in the base and the support member. The base may include a series of slots, within which the fasteners are movable to adjust the position of the support members on the base. The one or more support members may be a single support member that supports the lower end of each firearm, and a series of support members are mounted along the length of the base to support the lower end of a series of articles. Alternatively, the one or more support members may be a pair of support members that cooperate to define the upwardly facing recess within which the lower end of the firearm is received, and which may be moved together and apart in the slots to accommodate differently dimensioned firearms.
US07770738B2
A classifying device for classifying particles using a centrifugal force contains a microchannel includes a curved portion including a first tubular channel and a second tubular channel; and a diaphragm that is provided within the curved portion, and that is located at a position between the first tubular channel and the second tubular channel; and wherein the diaphragm has at least a first apertured group formed in a central region of the diaphragm and a second apertured group formed in a first end region and a second end region of the diaphragm, the first apertured group and the second apertured group communicate the first tubular channel with the second tubular channel along a direction of the centrifugal force, the first apertured group has a mesh, and the second apertured group has a mesh that is different in size from the mesh of the first apertured group.
US07770737B2
A screening machine for screening bulk material and the like comprising a housing and two sidewalls at which a screen deck is disposed, the screen deck comprising cross-members mounted on the sidewalls and longitudinal members which are mounted on the cross-members and receive an exchangeable screen lining. Said longitudinal members are clamped to the cross-members by means of removable mounting ties from two different directions.
US07770732B2
A packaging includes a tray and a sheet. The tray has a series of spaced apart sections. Each spaced apart section is generally rectangular in shape and has a recessed compartment and an upper surface. The sheet is fixed in part to the upper surface of the tray and has a plurality of tab portions that are not fixed to the tray thereby creating a tab. Each tab portion corresponds to one of the spaced apart sections and has first and second ends. Each tab portion can be graduated in width from the first end to the second end. The first end can be positioned in a corner of the corresponding spaced apart section. The tab portion has a length measured parallel to the length of the corresponding spaced apart section and the second end is adjacent to the sealed portion of the sheet.
US07770730B2
A device for support and protection of a tubular element has a single-piece construction, and respective open and closed configurations. The device includes a base portion, at least one side-portion, and a living hinge interconnecting the side-portion and the base portion. The base portion includes a plurality of recesses on a surface, each recess being delimited by a plurality of pins, each pin having an indentation. The plurality of indentations form a pocket by which the tubular element is held. The living hinge opens such that the side-portion is substantially parallel to the base portion in the open configuration, and closes such that the side-portion fauns a protective shell about the base portion in the closed configuration.
US07770729B2
An array of multi-stage configured cleansing wipe products may include first stage cleansing wipes and second stage cleansing wipes. The first stage cleansing wipes may have a first structure and a first composition selected in view of a first child developmental stage. The second stage cleansing wipes may have a second structure and a second composition selected in view of a second child developmental stage. The first structure and the first composition are different and potentially progressive from first stage to second stage. First stage product packaging may include at least one first stage-specific indicia and second stage product packaging may include at least one second stage-specific indicia. Stages of the array may be communicated and tailored based upon the foods eaten and the manner of eating (such as being fed or self-feeding) of the babies or children in each stage.
US07770714B2
A transfer apparatus includes a first magnetic member placed in a carrier, and a second magnetic member placed in a carrier supporting unit to oppose the first magnetic member from a position below the first magnetic member in the vertical direction, and having the same polarity as that of the first magnetic member. The repulsive force generated between the first and second magnetic members vertically pushes up the carrier, thereby reducing the weight of the carrier supported by the carrier supporting unit.
US07770697B2
An energy recovering system in a hydraulic lift device of a battery operated industrial truck. With the system, working oil can be supplied to other hydraulic actuators while energy recovering operation is performed by the hydraulic lift device, occurrence of pressure pulsation in the working oil can be prevented, and energy recovering efficiency is increased. The hydraulic lift device comprises a lift cylinder (1) for lifting a fork F, an electric motor (4) rotated by power supply from a battery (5), a hydraulic pump (3) for supplying pressurized oil to the lift cylinder (1), a control valve (14) disposed in a pressurized oil supply path (23), and a controller (17). The controller (17) controls the opening of the control valve (14) and rotation speed of the electric motor (4) which functions as an electric generator driven by the hydraulic pump (3) rotated by the action of the pressurized oil returning from the lift cylinder (1) when a load is lowered so that the generated electricity charges the battery (5) to recover the potential energy of the load.
US07770694B2
Resonator arrangement in an acoustic muffler for a refrigeration compressor having a shell (1), inside which is mounted an acoustic muffler comprising a hollow body (10) defining at least one dampening chamber (13), which carries a gas inlet duct (20) and a gas outlet duct (30), each presenting a respective length and having a respective wall thickness, at least one of the gas inlet and gas outlet ducts (20, 30) carrying, extending along at least part of its length, a respective plurality of tube type resonant ducts (40), each resonant duct (40) presenting a first end (41), open to the interior of the respective gas duct (20, 30) and a second end (42), opposed to and spaced from the first end (41), each said resonant duct (40) being dimensioned to present a determined length and a determined diameter, which are calculated to define a certain reactive impedance and a certain dissipative impedance for the acoustic muffler, in a determined frequency band.
US07770688B2
A rotational speed superimposing device for a vehicle steering system has an input shaft with an output shaft, which is oriented toward the input shaft in the axial direction thereof, and has a supporting arrangement, which positions the input shaft and the output shaft so that they are at least, in part, rotationally mounted. An auxiliary drive provided with a rotor, which is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a wave generator, such as an oval disk on whose periphery an external toothed flexible ring is directly or indirectly mounted, this external toothing engaging in an internal gear at least at two opposite peripheral points. The supporting arrangement is fixed to the vehicle body. The output shaft is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the internal gear, and the input shaft is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to the external toothed flexible ring. The input shaft and the output shaft are mounted so they freely rotate independently of one another.
US07770683B2
A three-wheeled vehicle includes a main frame assembly having a steering head disposed on a front portion of the main frame assembly, a front fork assembly pivotably coupled to the steering head, a front wheel rotatably supported by the front fork assembly, a rear frame coupled to a rear portion of the main frame assembly, a rear axle assembly coupled to at least one of the main frame assembly and the rear frame, a pair of rear wheels rotatably supported by the rear axle assembly, an engine-transmission assembly supported by the main frame assembly and positioned between the front wheel and the pair of rear wheels, and a body including a first mounting portion directly mounted to the main frame assembly, and a second mounting portion directly mounted to the rear frame.
US07770677B2
An in-wheel suspension including a wheel; a carrier that rotatably supports the wheel; an arm (90) that is coupled with a vehicle body, and that extends into the wheel; at least one link that is coupled with the carrier so as to be pivotable about a first shaft substantially parallel to a wheel rotation axis and coupled with the arm so as to be pivotable about a second shaft substantially parallel to the wheel rotation axis, the at least one link extending in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle; and at least one of an elastic element and an attenuation element that is arranged between the carrier and the link.
US07770674B2
A system for providing an automated axial force to a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in a wheelchair. An electronic transmission control receives one or more input signals generated by throttle position or other variables. The microprocessor generates an output signal that adjusts the axial force applied to a CVT thereby automatically adjusting the input to output ratio. The invention also provides a manually-controlled variator is designed for use on a wheelchair. The manual shifter hydraulically adjusts an axial force imparted on a variator in communication with a wheelchair wheel and a hand rim. Application of the axial force causes the hand rim input and wheelchair wheel output ratio to change, permitting a wheelchair operator to manually adjust the input to output ratio to more easily operate the wheelchair.
US07770669B1
An auger and hole stabilization combination system includes an auger bit that has a bottom end, a top end, and at least one boring blade positioned between the top and bottom ends. A cylinder has an upper end and a lower end. The cylinder has an inner diameter greater than an outer diameter of the auger bit. A coupler releasably couples the auger bit to the cylinder. The auger is extended into a ground surface and the cylinder retained within a hole dug by the auger while a post is placed in the hole.
US07770668B2
A modular base assembly for a rotary drill head includes a drive flange assembly having a tubular drive shaft configured to engage at least a lower drive interface. The modular base assembly also includes a gear housing supporting the drive flange assembly. Furthermore, the modular base assembly can also include a plurality of interchangeable gear pinions selectively coupled to the drive flange assembly.
US07770667B2
An electrically powered and controlled tractor system includes one or more electric gripper assemblies and one or more electric power train assemblies. Power and control signals for the gripper assemblies and power train assemblies can be delivered from a ground surface via a wireline. The gripper assembly employs a motor-activated lead screw and nut combination to expand passage-gripping elements, preferably by pushing the gripping elements radially outward from locations between opposing ends of the gripping elements. A failsafe mechanism can retract the gripping elements during a power interruption. The power train assembly employs a motor-activated lead screw and nut combination to expand and contract two ore more telescoping members. The tractor system can include multiple tractor units that each includes one gripper assembly and one power train assembly. A tractor can include one power train assembly and two gripper assemblies.
US07770664B2
An expandable underreamer apparatus disposed on a distal end of a drillstring and configured to drill a formation includes a substantially tubular main body adjacent a cutting head, the main body providing at least one axial recess configured to receive an arm assembly, and the arm assembly configured to translate between a retracted position and an extended position. The apparatus further includes a plurality of cutting elements disposed on the arm assembly, and a plurality of wear indicators imbedded in at least one arm assembly and positioned behind the cutting elements with respect to a direction of rotation of the arm assembly, wherein the wear indicators are configured to provide an increased torque to the drillstring upon contacting the formation.
US07770660B2
A power tool can include a gear case, a motor having first and second sets of lead wires, a housing assembly, and a field case. The field case may include a front portion configured for engaging the gear case and a rear portion. The housing assembly may include first and second generally symmetrical housing segments configured for engaging the field case and forming a mid-handle grip. The first set of lead wires may be routed through the front portion of the field case directly to a trigger switch assembly. A method for assembling a mid-handle power tool is also provided and may include routing lead wires through a ventilation path between the field case and trigger assembly.
US07770659B2
The invention relates to a rotary drive assembly for a drill rod having an outer tube and an inner rod extending at least in sections inside the outer tube, comprising a first gear unit having at least a first drive unit for driving the inner rod in a rotating manner and a second gear unit, which is offset to the said first gear unit in the longitudinal direction of the drill rod and has at least a second drive unit for driving the outer tube in a rotating manner. In accordance with the invention provision is made for the second drive unit to be spaced from the second gear unit and for the second drive unit to be arranged adjacent to the first drive unit on the first gear unit.
US07770657B2
An agricultural tillage sweep providing good soil action without ridges in the soil surface at both high and low speed operation in different soil conditions. Wings extending outwardly and rearwardly from a leading nose portion include non-flat soil contacting surfaces defining opposed outwardly and upwardly directed surfaces converging in the forward direction. The surfaces, which can be concave upwardly and outwardly, define soil throwing action that progressively increase in the rearward direction. A shallow sweep leading area provides greater upward soil lift and lesser outward soil throw compared to trailing areas. At high speeds, the leading area provides vertical lift and substantial outward throw of soil, and at lower speeds the progressive action surfaces provide additional outward throw of soil to facilitate necessary soil mixing action.
US07770647B2
Methods of hydraulically fracturing subterranean coal seams and formations resulting in improved permeability to stimulate Coalbed Methane. In one method, the coal seam is fractured using a proppant-containing fracturing fluid in alternating stages with an aqueous base solution that etches the fracture faces of the coal thereby creating channels for fluid flow. In another method, the coal seam is fractured using a fracturing fluid without propping agents in alternating stages with an aqueous base solution that is pumped at a pressure sufficient to maintain the fractures in an open position thereby etching the fracture faces to create channels for fluid flow. In yet another embodiment, a base solution is injected into the formation at a pressure sufficient to create fractures therein and simultaneously etch the faces of the open fractures to thereby form channels in the faces for increased fluid flow.
US07770642B2
There is a method for enhancing the recovery of oil from a reservoir. The method has the step of a) introducing a flooding fluid into the reservoir and b) extracting the oil through a wellbore at a location different than the point of introduction of the flooding fluid into the reservoir. The flooding fluid has water and an amount of one or more non-polymeric viscoelastic surfactants sufficient to provide an interfacial surface tension of about 1 mNm or less and a viscosity of about 10 cps or more. The one or more surfactants is selected from the group of one or more cationic surfactants, one or more zwitterionic surfactants, one or more amphoteric surfactants, one or more anionic surfactants, and combinations thereof.
US07770636B2
A groundwater collecting apparatus which can continuously collect groundwater, and can selectively collect groundwater at a specific depth by directly generating vertical movement is provided. The groundwater collecting apparatus includes: a vibration unit selectively admitting groundwater which exists in the monitoring well according to vibration in a vertical direction; a driving unit being supplied a power to vibrate the vibration unit in a vertical direction; and a hollow guide pipe being connected to the vibration unit to guide the groundwater to a ground, the groundwater having flowed into the vibration unit through a channel inlet of the vibration unit.
US07770632B2
The invention provides for an orientation insensitive heat exchanger assembly for cooling an electronic device comprising a hermetically sealed housing defining a boiling chamber and two condensing chambers. A partition is disposed in the boiling chamber and defines two sets of alternating channels extending in overlapping relationship to one another and with one set of alternating channels open to one of the condensing chambers and the other set of alternating channels open to the other condensing chamber for sealing the condensing chambers from one another. Coolant is maintained in each of the condensing chambers. In operation, if the thermosiphon is tilted with one side lower than the other, the channels open to the lower side are empty of coolant into the lower condensing chamber while the channels open to the opposite upper side hold the coolant over the entire boiling chamber aligning with an electronic device to continue cooling.
US07770624B2
An overhead garage door has an apparatus for pinch resistant operation. The garage door may include horizontal sections and the door may be formed from a plurality of these sections, arranged in a stack, and pivotally connected to adjacent sections. The apparatus, such as meeting rails, may be attached to adjacent horizontal sections to mask the appearance of a seam created as adjacent sections are joined or provide pinch resistant operation.
US07770606B2
An upper side for a multiple-layer sheet-forming fabric has a multiplicity of longitudinal threads woven with a multiplicity of transverse threads and thereby form repeats in the longitudinal and transverse directions. The transverse-thread repeat contains three times as many threads as the longitudinal-thread repeat. The longitudinal-thread repeat has at least three threads. The transverse-thread repeat has at least nine threads. All longitudinal threads run alternately over three transverse threads and under three transverse threads, and subsequently under the remaining transverse threads of a transverse thread repeat. Two directly adjacent longitudinal threads are displaced with respect to one another in the longitudinal direction by at least three transverse threads.
US07770605B2
Fabric support and a weaving machine using the support, in which the fabric support (1) includes several supporting elements (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) which can be arranged next to one another and a profiled section (20, 30, 40, 50, 60) which is supported by the supporting elements (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 18, 19) and includes a guide surface (22) for a fabric (3).
US07770593B2
A bleed valve which is intended for the fuel tank of a vehicle has a housing, a floating body disposed in such a manner as to be able to move in the longitudinal direction. A rim of an outlet orifice forms a valve seat for a sealing element which is supported by a support disc, wherein the support disc is articulated in a cardanic manner on the floating body. The sealing element is disposed in such a manner as to be able to move according to the movement of the floating body between a position which closes the outlet orifice and a position which opens same, wherein as a result of the said articulation of the support disc on the floating body positional changes, e.g. inclined positions, which are caused by the drive operation of the vehicle do not impair the sealing function.
US07770591B2
A tent frame includes two main supporting units, a connecting rod unit interconnecting the main supporting units, and two oblique supporting units. Each main supporting unit includes two foot rods, first and second corner connectors mounted respectively on the foot rods, an intermediate connector, a first supporting rod interconnecting the first corner connector and a first rod connecting portion of the intermediate connector, and a second supporting rod interconnecting the second corner connector and a second rod connecting portion of the intermediate connector. Each oblique supporting unit is mounted on a respective one of the main supporting units, and includes a first strut interconnecting the first corner connector and the second rod connecting portion, and a second strut interconnecting the second corner connector and the first rod connecting portion.
US07770590B2
A housing has an expansion tent connectable thereto. A bag-shaped cover is present, and has an opening permanently connected to the housing. The cover forms the interior surface of the erected expansion tent, and is suitable for hermetically sealing off the interior of the housing and the expansion tent with respect to the environment. Sealing can be provided during all operating conditions, while erecting the tent, and while dismantling the tent.
US07770589B2
A water-powered eductor cleaner for removing accumulated matter from within a chamber of an eductor. The water-powered eductor cleaner includes an eductor cleaning system for separating accumulated matter from the inside walls of the eductor chamber. The eductor cleaning system utilizes a high-pressured water stream from within the eductor chamber to provide the energy to move the eductor cleaning system between the inside walls of the eductor chamber, thereby engaging and dislodging the accumulated matter.
US07770588B2
The automated motorcycle wash of the present invention is designed to wash motorcycles ranging in length from 7 feet up to an 11 foot chopper. It will hold a motorcycle positioned within the wash bay securely in place while running a complete 2-step pre-soak cleaner application, a high pressure rinse, a low pressure clear coat protectant application, a spot free rinse, and a double dryer pass. The rear wheel cleaners of the present invention will wash the rear wheel and tires of a motorcycle positioned within the wash bay. The front wheel stop of the present invention will also wash the front wheel and tire of a motorcycle positioned within the wash bay with built in high pressure sprayers.
US07770586B2
A hair inserter for inserting a hair bundle into a flat tubular hair holder made of a sheet in such a design that the hair bundle can be inserted therein from an upper opening at one end thereof toward a lower opening at the other end thereof. The hair inserter has a long main body having, at one end portion thereof, a hair catching part capable of catching a hair bundle and is configured to be smoothly inserted with a hair bundle caught on the hair catching part through the inside of the tubular hair holder from the opening toward the opening.
US07770581B2
A breathing mask shall has an inspiration valve (4) that can be replaced in a simple manner. The breathing valve (4) is designed for this purpose as a modular assembly unit that can be inserted into the breathing gas channel (3) from the outer side (10) of the mask.
US07770578B2
Improved methodology and apparatus for the clinical study and treatment of sleep apnea which incorporates one or more of the following features: (1) application of mono-level, alternating high and low level, or variable positive airway pressure generally within the airway of the patient with the mono-level, high and low level, or variable airway pressure generally being coordinated with and/or responsive to the spontaneous respiration of the patient, (2) usage of adjustably programmable pressure ramp circuitry capable of producing multiple pressure ramp cycles of predetermined duration and pattern whereby the ramp cycles may be customized to accommodate the specific needs of an individual sleep apnea patient so as to ease the patient's transition from wakefulness to sleep, (3) remote control or patient-sensed operation of the apparatus, (4) employment of safety circuitry, reset circuitry and minimum system leak assurance circuitry, controls and methods, and (5) utilization of clinical control circuitry whereby sleep disorder data may be compiled and appropriate therapy implemented during a one-night sleep study.
US07770577B2
Methods and devices useful for treatment of lung conditions resulting from dysfunction of normal pulmonary physiology.
US07770576B2
A hinge mechanism for the lids of barbeque grills and smokers, especially for use with ceramic grills and smokers that have very heavy lids. A barbeque grill/smoker includes a base tub and a lid. The invention pivotally couples the base tub to the lid using a four pivot axis linkage. The pivotal coupling allows reciprocal movement from a lid closed position to a lid open position. The hinge mechanism may include a spring assist feature.
US07770571B2
An anti-jam firing mechanism comprises a front bolt movable between a first position and a second position, in which a crossover point is positioned between the first position and the second position. The front bolt is operative to engage a frangible projectile, such as a paintball, as the front bolt moves from the first position to the second position. A drive mechanism drives the front bolt with either a first force or a second force. The drive mechanism drives the front bolt with the first force when the front bolt travels between the first position and the crossover point. When the front bolt travels between the crossover point and the second position, the drive mechanism drives the front bolt with the second force. Typically, the first force is less than a projectile rupturing force.
US07770570B2
A paint ball gun includes a ball receiving member rotatably received in the top tube of the paint ball gun and the ball receiving member includes a space defined therein which communicates with a receiving hole so that paint balls drop into the space via the receiving hole. The ball receiving member is connected with a rotary unit which is controlled by operation of the trigger powered by a power unit which introduces pressurized air to activate the rotary unit which rotates the ball receiving member. The receiving hole communicates with a hopper to receive a paint ball and pressurized air cannot enter into the ball receiving member when the ball receiving member is in the first position. The receiving hole is sealed and pressurized air enters into the ball receiving member to shoot the paint ball when the ball receiving member is in the second position.
US07770566B2
A method for controlling an internal combustion engine that is to be operated either by petrol or alcohol or by a variable proportion of the two fuels and that includes an electronic control unit that can drive the engine, an admission line, and an exhaust line that includes a richness probe. The method determines the richness of the carbide mixture entering into the combustion cylinders, and increases the duration of the injection by intervals according to the richness of the carbide mixture.
US07770550B2
The invention provides a variable valve train for an internal combustion engine, in which attachment and detachment of a rotation drive source can be performed without an affect on a transmission mechanism and environment. The variable train system comprises a variable valve system that is fixed to a cylinder head and implements variable control on valve drive outputs according to displacement that is inputted to a control input member; a rotation drive source that outputs control rotation for setting valve properties from an output shaft; and a transmission mechanism that is located on the side of the variable valve system, receives the control rotation outputted from the output shaft with an input shaft, and transmits the control rotation to the control input member, wherein the rotation drive source is detachably fixed to an engine body; the output shaft of the rotation drive source is coupled to the input shaft by using a coupling that moves the output shaft toward the input shaft and disengageably couples the output shaft to the input shaft; and the coupling transmits the rotation of the output shaft to the input shaft while allowing misalignment between the output shaft and the input shaft.
US07770549B2
A compression reduction device for internal combustion, spark ignition, piston engines with removable cylinders. The device is installed under each cylinder of an engine to reduce the engine's compression ratio, thereby allowing the safe use of lower octane unleaded fuel. The device is a metal or composite part shaped to match the cylinder-to-crankcase mount. The engine cylinders are unbolted and raised slightly to allow placement of the invention between the cylinder and it's mounting on the engine crankcase. After reattaching, the top of the cylinder has effectively been raised, relative to the top of the piston, thereby reducing the cylinder's compression ratio.
US07770541B2
Described is an animal training device for delivering a response signal in response to receiving an audible signal. The animal training device is adapted to be carried by an animal and delivers the response signal, which includes a stimulus to the animal and an animal location indicator, in response to receiving the audible signal, which includes a voice command and other distinguishable sounds. The animal training device allows an animal handler to deliver a stimulus to the animal and generate a location indicator without using an additional device, such as a handheld transmitter.
US07770529B2
A method and device for filling a container with a fertilizer, pesticide, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, chemical, or the like material by gravity, includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a valve for opening or restricting a flow between the inlet and outlet and having open and closed positions, and an actuator disposed downstream of the inlet for actuating the valve between the open and closed positions, wherein the actuator is operated by a container to be filled with a material.
US07770520B2
An ignition device, which is simple and inexpensive to produce, for a pyrotechnic protection device, in particular an airbag or seatbelt tensioner is provided. The ignition device includes a base with a deformed metal carrier part having a current leadthrough for an electrical ignition and a cap connected to the base, a propellant charge being enclosed between the base and cap, and the metal carrier part of the base having a base body and a welding rim of reduced thickness compared to the base body, the cap being welded to the welding rim by way of an encircling weld seam.
US07770512B2
An apparatus for use in a beverage brewing machine includes a filter pack containing an amount of grinds to brew approximately only a single serving of brewed beverage, a single serving disposable brew basket including a body defining a brewing reservoir. The body is formed with a disposable rigid construction. The body has an opening therethrough to permit a brewed beverage to flow from the brewing reservoir of the disposable brew basket into a beverage container. The body extends upwardly from a bottom of the brewing reservoir to an open top that is configured to receive heated water from the brewing machine. The heated water flows through the open top during a brewing operation. The brewing reservoir has a size dimensioned appropriate to make approximately only a single serving of beverage during a single brewing operation. The brewing area is sufficiently large to hold the filter pack and the heated water while brewing without a level of the heated water rising above and overflowing the open top.
US07770511B2
The invention relates to a device and method for preparing liquid from solid materials such as medicinal materials. It includes liquid and materials for preparing the liquid at the beginning and the end of the process. The device uses a steam generator, an intermediate switch valve and a material chamber, which are connected sequentially with pipes, and further includes an outlet pipe, which is at the bottom of the material chamber. The method involves the steps of: distillation and absorption; immersion; and repetition. The device and method for preparing liquid alternates the distillation and immersion steps, which reduces harmful substance in the prepared liquid that would otherwise occur by conventional methods. The method not only extracts soluble effective matter, but also reduces loss of volatile effective matter. Ultimately, the method makes the steps for preparing liquid simple and clear, and it can prepare liquid quantitatively, effectively and without pasty and shrinkable characteristics. The device may be automatically controlled by an electric control circuit, thereby avoiding operational errors that are common with manually operated, conventional devices.
US07770501B2
A miter saw having a cutting portion movable toward and away from a base and laterally tiltable for bevel cutting. A gear case is provided at the cutting portion and is positioned at one lateral side of the cutting portion. A bearing holder is provided in the gear case for holding a bearing which rotatably supports a spindle for a circular saw blade. The bearing holder has a thickness smaller than an axial length of the bearing. A first bearing nip member in contact with one axial end of the bearing is fixed to one side of the bearing holder, and a second bearing nip member in contact with another axial end of the bearing is fixed to another side of the bearing holder. These nip members are made from a material having a mechanical strength higher than that of the bearing holder.
US07770500B2
A substrate cutting system which requires a small footprint area so as to be compact, and also which is capable of efficiently cutting a substrate is disclosed. A pair of substrate cutting devices are provided in a cutting device guide body 30 so as to be movable along a direction perpendicular to the moving direction of the clamp devices 50, the pair of substrate cutting devices cutting the mother substrate from each of the top surface and the bottom surface of the mother substrate which is clamped by the clamp devices 50.
US07770495B1
A ratchet connector includes a driving element, a control ring, and a working element. A tooth block is disposed in an open groove of the driving element. Both sides of the tooth block have several teeth. The control ring is mounted on the driving element to control the tooth block to move along the bottom of the open groove. The working element is mounted on the driving element. The teeth of the tooth block engage with the ratchet teeth on an inner surface of the working element.
US07770493B2
An assembly of punched and formed material that has an ergonomically designed hood which covers a torsion spring that connects the hood to the formed and punched hook and a sliding base. The base and hood thereof is inserted and secured to the hook which allows the base to slide as the hood assembly is being pinched which opens the hook and allows the tool to be placed onto the threads of bolts, screws, or small pipe.
US07770486B2
In an automatic transmission, a shift lever is operable to move to one of a plurality of shift positions corresponding to ranges established as selectable options. The plurality of shift positions are each configured as one of a momentary position allowing the shift lever to automatically return to a home position and a retention position allowing the shift lever to be held therein. A return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in the retention position to return to the home position is provided. The return mechanism is enabled on one of conditions that the parking switch be turned on and that an ignition switch be turned off. In a manual transmission, a return mechanism for causing the shift lever held in a gear stage to return to a home position is provided, and the return mechanism is enabled on condition that an ignition switch be turned off.
US07770485B2
A control lever system permits setting of an appropriate traveling mode with a single control lever by changing over between two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive, changing over a front differential gear between locked and free statuses, and changing over a rear differential gear between locked and free statuses. The single control lever is capable of setting the change-overs in prescribed combinations.
US07770483B2
A power train for an amphibious vehicle includes an engine and transaxle arranged North-South, driving front, rear, or all four road wheels. A power take off with optional decoupler and constant velocity joint drives marine drive means. The power take off may be taken from the input shaft of the transmission, and may use a synchronizer. The transaxle includes a differential. The rear wheels may be set back from the differential outputs, with intermediate drive by chains or belts. A sandwich type power take off may also be used. In the four wheel drive embodiment, a power take off is required from the rear differential. Decouplers may be provided in at least one wheel drive shaft on each driven axles.
US07770479B2
A vest for a human body has an air core coupled to a pulsator operable to subject the vest to pulses of air which applies and releases high frequency pressure forces to the body. The pulsator has two diaphragms connected to a brushless electric dc motor with rotary to reciprocating linear motion transmitting mechanisms comprising scotch yokes having anti-lash assemblies operable to generate air pulses in an air pulsing chamber. The diaphragms also increase the pressure in a manifold chamber. A check valve connects the manifold chamber with a pulsing chamber to allow pressurized air to flow from the manifold chamber into the pulsing chamber. An air flow control valve in communication with the manifold chamber is used to adjust the pressure of the air in the manifold and pulsing chambers. A programmable motor controller adjusts the duration of operation and speed of the motor to vary the operational time and frequency of the air pulses.
US07770465B2
A force sensor assembly particularly suited for use in an electronic stylus that senses the contact force on its nib for recording pen strokes and handwriting recognition. The sensor assembly has a housing in which force sensing circuitry is mounted. The force sensing circuitry is configured for receiving an input force to be sensed and converting the input force into an output signal indicative of the input force. A coupling transmits the input force to the force sensing circuitry. The coupling has an inner section that applies the input force to the load bearing member, an outer section that receives the contact force on the nib and a collapsible section that allows the outer section to move relative to the inner section when the contact force exceeds a threshold. The relative movement of the outer section is limited by an abutment on the housing so that the input force on the force sensing circuitry never exceeds the threshold. This protects the force sensing circuitry from damage by sharp impact loads such as dropping the stylus on its nib.
US07770452B2
A semiconductor sensor is disclosed that includes a semiconductor substrate, a sensing portion provided on the semiconductor substrate, and a pad in electrical communication with the sensing portion and provided on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor sensor also includes a bonding wire in electrical communication with the pad. Furthermore, the semiconductor sensor includes a cover member with a covering portion disposed over the semiconductor substrate for covering the sensing portion such that the covering portion is separated at a distance from the sensing portion. The cover member further includes a coupling portion provided on the semiconductor substrate at an area including the pad and for enabling electrical connection of the pad with the bonding wire therethrough.
US07770448B2
A chemical storage device and a method for monitoring chemical usage are described herein. The device and disclosed method utilize a chemical storage canister and a load cell integrated into one transportable unit. The load cell is capable of compensating for the added weight of attached dispensing devices used in the semiconductor industry. Additionally, the load cell continuously displays the weight of the chemicals as they are withdrawn from the chemical storage device. These functionalities are included in the control logic of the load cell which is incorporated into the load cell itself.
US07770447B2
A fluid detector for determining a presence of a fluid within a container includes a piezoelectric element that outputs a first ultrasonic signal in response to an input electrical signal and a lens with an upper portion and a lower portion. The piezoelectric element is coupled to the upper portion of the lens so that, when the lens is disposed adjacent the outer surface of the wall such that the lens is intermediate the piezoelectric element and the wall, the lens focuses the first ultrasonic signal toward the wall so that the first ultrasonic signal enters the wall.
US07770444B2
A patch configured to fix an electronic system, which includes a sensor, to a tire. The patch has a foot with a surface configured to be fixed to the tire. The foot has at least two portions connected to one another by at least one bridging element. The bridging element has, in a section which is parallel to the surface of the foot that is configured to be fixed to the tire, a surface area which is smaller than the overall surface area in the same section between the connected portions of the foot. In the same section, the bridging element continuously connects the connected portions of the foot.
US07770438B2
The head slider has a plurality of heaters each heating a corresponding region of the ABS, and a sensor detecting collision of the ABS with a projection on a surface of the magnetic disk. Currents supplied to the respective heaters are controlled and produce heats independently of one another. The heats produce projections on the corresponding regions of the ABS, respectively. The ABS with asperity can be planarized through appropriately controlling magnitude of the currents supplied to the heaters. Thus, the variation of a sensor output depending on asperity of the ABS is effectively reduced. Another head slider has a heater locally heating a corresponding region of the ABS. The heater has a structure where a central portion is away from the ABS compared with end portions, or a structure where calorific power of a central portion is smaller than that of each of end portions. Thus, overall projection shape becomes flat.
US07770432B2
A sensor element for gas sensors for determining the concentration of particles in gas mixtures, especially soot sensors, having at least one measuring device exposed to the gas to be determined, at least one heating element integrated into the sensor element and at least one temperature measurement element integrated into the sensor element, the heating element being situated within the sensor element spatially between the measuring device and the temperature measurement element.
US07770429B2
In a method for producing a coupling on a pipe, preferably consisting of copper or steel or Cu—, Ni—, Fe— alloys, by way of a preferably graduated or one-stage expansion of the pipe end to create a much larger difference in diameter, an expansion tool is introduced axially into the end of the pipe. Once the expansion tool has been introduced into the pipe end, the region of the pipe end that is to be or has been expanded is completely or partially compressed, by a force acting axially on the pipe end, so that the external diameter of the pipe end that is to be processed is delimited by one or more shaping jaws that completely or partially surround the pipe end. The invention also relates to a device for producing a coupling on a pipe end according to the method.
US07770418B2
A dispensing device for liquid and/or powdered treating agents includes a compartment for holding a first treating agent. A first nozzle is disposed above a lateral region of the compartment and configured to convey water therethrough onto the first treating agent. A second nozzle is disposed above a central region of the compartment and configured to convey water therethrough onto the first treating agent. A receptacle configured to hold a second liquid treating agent can be inserted into the compartment so as to form a gap between a wall of the receptacle and a wall of the compartment. Introduction of water through the first nozzle and the second nozzle is selectively controllable.
US07770415B2
The invention relates to a knitting device for making a double-sided textile comprising two outer laps (1,2) that are knitted and joined to one another by means of a ground yarn (4). This device comprises two groups of needles (6) that move in translation on a respective needle bed (5) following a continuous rectilinear trajectory in a respective plane (P1, P2). The positions of the hook (7) of a needle (6) of at least one group respectively between its knitting station and its bonding station are situation on both sides of the intersecting straight line (D) between said two planes (P1, P2). In addition, the lift of the needle (6) between its knitting removal station is less than the lift of the needle (6) between its removal station and its bonding station.
US07770412B2
An integrated unit for a refrigerant cycle device includes an ejector having a nozzle part for decompressing refrigerant, and an evaporator located to evaporate the refrigerant to be drawn into a refrigerant suction port of the ejector or the refrigerant discharged from an outlet of the ejector. The evaporator includes a plurality of tubes defining refrigerant passages through which refrigerant flows, a tank that is disposed at one end side of the tubes for distributing refrigerant into the tubes and for collecting the refrigerant from the tubes. The tank extends in a tank longitudinal direction that is parallel to an arrangement direction of the tubes, and is provided with an end portion in the tank longitudinal direction. Furthermore, the end portion has a hole portion for inserting the ejector, and the ejector is inserted into an inner space of the tank from the hole portion.
US07770407B1
A thermal transfer system, a heat sink, and a method for transferring heat are provided. The thermal transfer system includes a fuel cell that can produce a fluid. A wick is provided to transfer the fluid to a destination at which a heat source is present. An enclosure having a porous fluid-permeable external wall can surround the fluid at the destination. When the fluid permeates or condenses on the external wall exterior surface, air exposure of that external wall will cause evaporative cooling of the fluid, and thereby enhance the cooling effect at the heat source. The fluid is a natural byproduct of the fuel cell. Accordingly, the thermal transfer system not only cools a heat source, but produces electric current. The heat sink can be thermally coupled to the heat source, and can have a plurality of fins extending from a base. One or more fins can have a fluid-permeable external wall for evaporative cooling. Fluid can be transferred more efficiently using a wick placed somewhere within the internal radial dimension of a pipe that extends from the fuel cell to the heat source. The external wall of the pipe can also be porous to maximize the fluid entrapment on the inner surface and the evaporative cooling on the external surface.
US07770399B2
A gas turbine engine has the convergent flaps and seals of an adjustable cross-sectional area nozzle connected to associated liners with a thermally compliant bracket. The bracket includes spaced feet with an intermediate notch spaced away from the liner. In this manner, a temperature gradient along the liner can be easily compensated at the connection of the bracket to the liner by adjustment within the notch. In other features, the bracket is riveted to the liner, providing further resistance to thermal expansion due to temperature gradiations.
US07770394B2
A remote power supply system associated with offshore hydrocarbon production and transportation operations includes an expansion turbine that generates power for the system. The remote power supply system also has a support structure that supports the expansion turbine. A cooling section is supported by the support structure, and is in fluid communication with the expansion turbine to receive the vapor therefrom and to condense it to liquid. A downcomer and boiler section is in fluid communication with the cooling section to receive the liquid condensed from the vapor. An ignition assembly is positioned toward a lower end portion of the downcomer and boiler section. The ignition assembly ignites a fuel and air mixture and causes the liquid received by the downcomer and boiler section from the cooling section to boil into vapor. A return passage conveys vapor from the downcomer and boiler section to the inlet of the expansion turbine.
US07770380B2
An apparatus and method to control ignition, combustion burn rate, extinguishment, and reignition of solid propellant is provided.
US07770375B2
A material having a plurality of impurity collection spaces has an outer face facing into a cooling air flow stream for a gas turbine engine component. Impurities such as sand or dirt will collect in the plurality of spaces. In a disclosed embodiment, a honeycombed material is utilized. The material may have a surface that will sit with at least a component parallel to an axial centerline of a gas turbine engine that is to receive the collection material. The material surface may also have a component which is generally perpendicular to the axial centerline. The material may be placed in a gas turbine engine upstream of the turbine section, and downstream of the combustion section. Moreover, the collection material may be placed such that there is cleaner air flow radially inwardly of the collection material, and heavier dirt-laden air passing along the collection material such that impurities can be collected.
US07770372B2
A blended yarn is provided having at least one component fiber type being made of stretch broken fibers, preferably of a stretch broken high performance fiber, along with multi-end yarns containing the blended yarn, composite yarns having at least one component being the blended yarn, and articles made from the blended, multi-end or composite yarn.
US07770368B2
An enveloping device (1), capable of repeatedly performing a process for producing an envelope and inserting a content into the envelope at high speed, comprises: a film feeder (2) for feeding a film (7) wound on a roll and supplied in the form of two overlapping folds that extend in a width direction (W); an envelope making device (3) for repeatedly forming an envelope by cutting and fusing, in a longitudinal direction of the film (7), the two overlapping folds while conveying the film; an envelope conveying conveyor (5) which conveys a plurality of envelopes (8) while arranging these envelopes in a line; and an inserting device (6) for inserting a content (9) into each envelope (8) conveyed by the envelope conveyor (5).
US07770367B2
An apparatus for sealing a bag of encased material is described. A plurality of nozzles radiate from a central vacuum system, each nozzle associated with a clamping means. A framework rotates about the central vacuum system. A holding tray and an elevating device are removably attachable to the framework. The holding tray is attachable below a one of the plurality of nozzles and comprises an upright section and a projecting section. The upright section is supported by the framework at an acute angle from vertical, a top end of the upright section being adjacent to the framework and a bottom end of the upright section being remote from the framework. The projecting section is removably attachable to the bottom end of the upright section and projects approximately normal to the upright section. The elevating device is removably attachable to the framework below a one of the plurality of nozzles.
US07770364B1
Systems and methods for branding medication are provided, including, a first capper system that caps a first medication container with a first cap of a first branding including first identification of a third party supplier of one of the prescription and medication order; a second capper system that caps a second medication container with a second cap of a second branding including second identification of another third party supplier of the one of the prescription and medication order; a transport system that transports the first and second medication containers; and a control system that controls the transport system to transport the first and second medication containers based on customer information, and controls the one of the first capper system and the second capper system to cap the first and second medication containers with one of the first and second caps.
US07770363B2
A method for filling cells of a heat-formed strip with corresponding articles, the strip being continuously advanced at a predetermined operating speed, comprising: collecting a plurality of articles which are in contact with each other and arranged in parallel rows; adjusting the position occupied by the collected articles in such a way that the articles are arranged in a same spatial arrangement as a same number of empty cells in a longitudinal region of the blister strip to be filled; transferring the articles to a position above the blister strip, the speed of advancement of the articles being gradually synchronized with the speed of advancement of the strip, in a centered position relative to corresponding underlying empty cells of the longitudinal region; releasing the articles into the empty cells of the longitudinal region; repeating these operating stages in order to fill at least a further longitudinal region, which is identical and adjacent to the longitudinal region, in such a way as to complete the filling operation for a longitudinal tract of the blister strip.
US07770362B2
A method and a device for producing and filling sacks with at least four longitudinal seams provide a more cost-effective approach to producing and filling sacks. The material that forms the sacks is supplied from an unwinding device in the form of a tubular material to a sack forming device. The tubular material is provided with longitudinal seams in the sack forming device, with the seams extending over a major part of the sacks.
US07770354B2
A lightweight cementitious panel/tile is provided with increased bending stiffness and less weight than conventional construction panels. The cementitious panel is constructed of a cementitious surface (which may be reinforced with wood fiber or other materials) supported by an integrated stiffener grid on the underside to absorb stresses and loads.
US07770350B2
Floor covering, including hard floor panels which, at least at the edges of two opposite sides, are provided with coupling parts, cooperating which each other, substantially in the form of a tongue and a groove, wherein the coupling parts are provided with integrated mechanical locking elements which prevent the drifting apart of two coupled floor panels in a direction (R) perpendicular to the related edges and parallel to the underside of the coupled floor panels, and provide a snap-action coupling.
US07770348B2
A method and apparatus for installing steel studs to make a wall includes a first and second track each having a center portion, an inner lip extending from the center portion and an outer lip extending from the center portion. A first flange goes on each side of the inner lip of the first track. A second flange goes on each side of the inner lip of the second track. A U-shaped stud is provided having at least a portion of an inner lip of the stud being disposed between the first tab and the inner lip of the first track and at least a portion of the inner lip of the stud being disposed between the second tab and the inner lip of the second track.
US07770345B2
A floor tile for a raised floor. The floor tile is defined by a shallow upwardly-opening metal pan defining a shallow compartment in which a main preformed one-piece concrete block is secured. The main concrete block is preferably formed from a plurality of one-piece preformed concrete sub-blocks which are adhesively adhered in sideward abutting relationship to define a plan profile corresponding to the main concrete block. The main concrete block is then adhesively secured within the compartment of the metal pan.
US07770341B2
An electrical conduit encasement including a top section and bottom section secured together by mortar and adjacent encasements by mortar. A pair of vertically extending threaded rods suspend the concrete encasements with the rods extending through members attached to plates embededly attached to the encasements.
US07770340B2
A modular egress window well structure which is constructed of structurally identical walls that interlock and attach to the foundation of a building via a termination strip. The identical wall members allow for ease of manufacturing and installation of the egress window well. The method of installation comprises removing soil away from the foundation of a building, securing the termination of strips to the foundation, assembling the egress window well and then backfilling the soil around the structure.
US07770333B2
An adapter for a tank, having a bottom with one or more adhesive-receiving channels formed therein, an inner wall, structure for supporting a riser component on the adapter, and wall reinforcement structure. The adapter is particularly suited to providing pre-cast concrete tank lids with structural, interengaging support for a column of stackable riser components to form a passageway to facilitate access to the tank from a higher elevation.
US07770328B2
A cable (11) is provided comprising a steel cord (12) and a polymer material (15). The steel cord (12) has a diameter less than 2.5 mm, and is coated with the polymer material (15). The cable (11) has a permanent elongation of less than 0.05% at a permanent force of 50 N, after being subjected to a force of 450 N. Further, a window elevator system (300) comprising such a cable (11) is provided.
US07770322B2
A process for cultivating photosynthetic microbes comprising Closed Systems for continuous cultivation and Open Systems for batch cultivation, in which (a) the Closed System Area occupies no more than 20% of the Total Land Area of the cultivation facility; (b) batch cultures in the Open Systems are initiated with an inoculum from the Closed Systems containing a cell biomass of no less than 5% of the carrying capacity of said Open System; (c) the doubling rate of said photosynthetic microbe is no less than once every 16 hours; and (d) the residence time of the batch culture in said Open System is no more than a period of 5 days.
US07770301B1
A portable system for documenting the height of one or more children during their growth. The system comprises an elongated frame that can be disassembled into segments for travel.
US07770294B2
A razor including a replaceable shaving cartridge. The replaceable shaving cartridge includes a pivotal frame, a blade unit moveably secured to the pivotal frame and an interconnect member. The blade unit includes one or more blades and has a camming surface. The interconnect member has a pivotal support structure that pivotally supports the pivotal frame for pivoting about a pivot axis. A biasing member that has a cam follower surface extends from the interconnect member to act on the camming surface to bias the blade unit. A handle is releasably secured to the interconnect member.
US07770271B2
The invention concerns a creel (2) comprising a plurality of winding heads (7) from which several yarns of the same type or of different types are drawn simultaneously by means of a winding machine (3). Said creel comprises at least one dynamic yarn tension device (6) which is associated with each winding head and at which a variable braking force is applied to the yarn to produce a predetermined yarn tension. Each yarn tension device (6) can be activated by means of an associated drive motor (20). Said creel (2) comprises a control device for controlling the yarn tension based on the angular speed or the yarn speed during a start-up and/or an interruption of the winding machine (3), as well as a regulator (25) for regulating the yarn tension during the normal stationary phase of the winding machine (3). The control device and the regulator (25) are designed such that the yarn tension or the output tension of each yarn can be maintained at a substantially constant level relative to a setpoint value. In order to determine a quantity of regulation (32) of the braking force required to control the yarn tension device (6), a precompensation of the disturbing quantity is implemented. Said precompensation calculates from the yarn speed (v) as input quantity a compensated correction quantity (34) of at least the inertia of the motor and a friction coefficient of the drive motor (20).
US07770265B2
An anchor having an internal passage defined by a revolved wall profile. The anchor is conceptually divided into four regions: a neck region, a transition region, a mid region, and a distal region. Each of these regions has its own design considerations. A portion of a parabola is used to define at least part of the revolved wall profile. The parabolic portion is preferably used in at least the neck and mid regions. In order to create a tangency condition proximate the neck anchor boundary, the parabola used to create the wall profile is angularly offset from the wall profile's axis of rotation.
US07770264B2
A substantially flat clip element is provided for clamping onto the side edge of an object, such as a stack of papers or documents. Application of the clip element can be effected individually and manually, or a stack of the clip elements can be included within an application device, e.g., in the form of a hand-held and/or desktop device. In another alternative, the clip stack can be provided in a paper processing device, e.g., a finishing station, such that successive groups of papers/documents are clipped together in automatic fashion.
US07770262B2
Handle portions of hand tools are disclosed that enhance gripping properties while simultaneously imparting flexibility and cushioning properties to the tool handle portion to promote a softer, more ergonomic tool handle portion. The handle portion of a hand tool housing is ergonomically configured for normal gripping by a user's hand and wherein the pressure points of contact by at least one predetermined portion of the hand principally contact a relatively soft tactile cushion surface. The handle portion has at least one support structure configured to provide a volume around which the user's hand can grip with the user's thumb, palm and fingers in contact with said volume, wherein the support structure has at least one window located adjacent the predetermined portion, and a cushion structure bonded to the support structure and spanning each window to provide the relatively soft tactile cushion surface.
US07770255B2
A base has wheels, including a drive wheel, for wheeling the base over a floor. A nozzle is fixed to the base for a fan in the base to draw air from the floor through the nozzle. A handle is connected to the base for propelling the base by manually applying a force to the handle. A drive assist motor, which is not configured to drive the fan, has an output shaft coupled to the drive wheel. The controller is operative in a driving mode to power the motor to rotate the drive wheel in a direction corresponding to a direction of the force applied to the handle. The controller is operative in a non-driving mode to refrain from powering the motor to rotate the drive wheel.
US07770250B2
A concrete building system includes a set of parallel spaced apart strip footers and one or more precast concrete sections supported by the footers in a predetermined alignment. Each precast concrete section has a top slab integrally connected to a pair of equally flared legs. Each leg depends from an end of the top slab at an effective flare angle to form a corner. The precast section includes haunch sections formed between the top slab and each leg resulting in a corner thickness greater than the uniform thickness of the angled leg to which it is integrally formed and the top member. The length of the effective span of each section varies between 60 and 90 percent of the distance between the bottom-of-leg span. The sections can be used to construct bridges, culverts, underground storage units, fluid detention units and dam structures.
US07770249B2
A tooling device configured to manipulate an electrical connector is disclosed. The tooling device has a body and a first pair of prongs pivotally mounted to the body. Each of the prongs of the first pair of prongs is spaced apart. The prongs pivot independent of each other and have an identical configuration.
US07770248B2
A cushion unit includes shell having a first cushion retaining portion and a second cushion retaining portion that are demarcated by a hinge-seam including a fastener portion. The fastener portion is secured to an inboard surface of the shell. According to an embodiment, the cushion unit includes a cushion member affixed to an inboard surface of the shell. According to an embodiment, the fastener portion is secured directly to an outboard surface of the cushion member and secured indirectly to an inboard an inboard surface of the shell. According to an embodiment, the fastener portion is secured directly to an inboard an inboard surface of the shell. A method for manufacturing a cushion unit is disclosed. A method for providing a cushion unit is also disclosed.
US07770239B1
A suspension system and chin strap assembly for a helmet including two downwardly extending top straps; strap adjusters coupled proximate the end portions of each top strap; a helmet attachment means coupled to each of the top straps; a headband coupled to each of the top straps; a front strap that is adjustably coupled to a first front strap adjuster and a second front strap adjuster; a nape pillow pad is coupled to the front strap, and a portion of a quick release buckle and a strap ring are slideably coupled to the front strap; a chin strap coupled to the quick release buckle and a strap ring; and a back strap that is adjustably coupled to a first back strap adjuster and a second back strap adjuster and attached to a nape pillow pad.
US07770238B2
A necktie is disclosed having a knot, the knot having a channel. The necktie has a unitary band, the band being a separate material from the knot. The band has two circumferential segments, each segment being threaded through the channel. Each segment of the band is capable of sliding within the channel. The band is without a clasp on the back outer surface of the knot. The necktie has an elastic textile fabric, within the knot, that is capable of restraining the motion of the band.
US07774855B2
A computer-implemented system, method and software program product for retrieving and displaying large amounts of data in a computer system. The system comprising an integrity client computer, an analyst client computer, a visual display unit, a pointing device, an integrity checker, an integrity server interconnected to the integrity checker, a user interface, and at least one integrity database. The integrity checker is located on the integrity client computer. The integrity checker checks status of files located on the integrity client computer. The integrity server collects, stores and retrieves data generated by the integrity checker. The at least one integrity database is located in the integrity server and stores data provided by the integrity checker. The user interface is located on the analyst client computer and interconnected to the integrity server, and the user interface retrieves data stored by the integrity server and displays the data on the visual display unit to allow a user to analyze the data.
US07774854B1
Systems and methods for protecting information provided to an agent via a communication network are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: receiving a communication via a communication network, the communication including information that is to be protected; routing the communication to an agent; recording at least a portion of the communication; identifying the information that is to be protected from the communication; and preventing unauthorized access to the information during replay of the portion of the communication.
US07774848B2
A method of mapping a remediation to a plurality of vulnerabilities may include: assessing susceptibility of an non-remediated machine to a first vulnerability, which results in a first set of two or more vulnerabilities to which the machine is susceptible; implementing the remediation upon the machine; assessing susceptibility of the remediated machine to the first vulnerability, which results in a second set of vulnerabilities to which the machine is susceptible; and creating a machine-actionable map between the remediation and two or more members of the first set based upon differences between the first and second sets.
US07774839B2
A graphical user interface for an intrusion detection system is described. The graphical user interface includes a field that depicts a summary of anomalies identified as part of a event that is detected in a network, the summary indicating event severity details of the event and an alert action region including a control to permit a user to snooze future alerts related to the event in the summary for a period of time.
US07774838B2
A thorough method for restricting which operations (processes) can be run by a user on a single workstation computer or by a user on a session in a multi-user environment, such as Microsoft Windows 2000 Terminal Services. By default, all applications (processes) are disallowed. Only explicitly assigned applications (processes) are allowed to run. The method entails running two software modules in user mode, one of which maintains a list of allowed processes for each user and one of which monitors new processes as they are started. When a new process is started the monitoring module sends the process ID to the list module. The list module checks the ID against its list and kills the process if it is not authorized. This way, only processes created by users are validated as apposed to validating all file I/O (processor intensive). This decreases the processing requirements.
US07774836B1
An improved firewall for providing network security is described. The improved firewall provides for dynamic rule generation, as well using conventional fixed rules. This improvement is provided without significant increase in the processing time required for most packets. Additionally, the improved firewall provides for translation of IP addresses between the firewall and the internal network.
US07774834B1
A security gateway receives messages, such as URL requests, rejected by a message filter based on a set of rules. The security gateway maintains frequencies with which the messages were rejected by the rules. The security gateway finds rejected messages having a high frequency of occurrence. Since messages having a high frequency of occurrences are more likely to represent legitimate requests rather than malicious attacks, the security gateway generates exception rules, which would allow similar messages to pass through the gateway.
US07774832B2
A protocol management system is capable of detecting certain message protocols and applying policy rules to the detected message protocols that prevent intrusion, or abuse, of a network's resources. In one aspect, a protocol message gateway is configured to apply policy rules to high level message protocols, such as those that reside at layer 7 of the ISO protocol stack.
US07774829B2
The present invention relates to a method for method or system which is able to control access to a new computer user password reset. The system is preloaded with a random password that does not needed to be known by anyone. There are two main situations in which this method will be used. The first situation involves a locally managed password and account where the user does not log in to a domain. The second situation involves remote management, where the user logs in to a domain.
US07774828B2
Common authentication and authorization (AA) between networks having disparate access technologies may enable a seamless user transition between the networks. A set of AA credentials from a user attempting to gain access to one of the networks may be received, and a subscriber database of another of the networks may be used to verify the set of AA credentials. A communication protocol common to the networks may be used. Additionally, the user may employ a single set of authentication and authorization (AA) credentials, usable over multiple communication protocol layers. Further, a user may perform a single authentication and authorization (AA) operation when roaming across two or more networks by gathering user's key material during an AA challenge and reply session at a data link layer. The gathered material may be used for an AA challenge at an upper network layer or another network as the user transitions between networks.
US07774827B2
Techniques for providing role-based security with instance-level granularity are provided. A security service detects a request made by a principal for access to a resource. Access to the resource is conditioned on a status of a role. The role is associated with the request, the principal, and the resource. The security service evaluates a constraint associated with the role to determine the status. The status is subsequently consumed to determine whether access to the resource for the purposes of satisfying the request is permissible.
US07774826B1
A system and method for determining effective policy profiles, is presented herein. The system includes one or more client devices configured to initiate a request for at least one effective policy profile, a server mechanism communicatively coupled to the one or more client devices and configured to receive the request for the at least one effective policy profile and determine the at least effective policy profiles for each of the requesting one or more client devices, and a policy data storage component communicatively coupled to the server mechanism and configured to store a plurality of policy profiles. The plurality of plurality of policy profiles includes an association between each of the one or more client devices and one or more of the plurality of policy profiles.
US07774820B2
A cable television settop receiver and method includes a software component and a frequency acquisition method for determining the ability of the operating system/control program in the settop receiver to operate the settop receiver. The software component, referred to as a “bootloader”, executes on the processor contained in the settop receiver and determines the capability and version of the settop receiver operating system/control program. If the bootloader determines that the operating system/control program should be updated, the bootloader initiates a download sequence, the performance of which allows the proper operating system/control program to be downloaded to the settop receiver. The download occurs after receipt, by the settop receiver, of a code version table (CVT). The CVT includes information that the settop receiver uses to determine which frequency to tune to receive the replacement operating system/control program. In accordance with another aspect of the invention, the bootloader initiates a frequency hunt sequence to determine the proper frequency to which to tune to receive the CVT. The frequency hunt sequence covers the entire spectrum of possible frequencies over which to receive the CVT.
US07774807B2
A system identifies which of first and second signal sources is supplying a program signal to a monitored receiver. The first and second signal sources and the monitored receiver are located in a household. The system extracts a reference program signature representative of an output of the monitored receiver and first and second source program signatures representative of an output of the first and second signal sources. The system identifies which of the first and second signal sources is a source of the program signal in response to the reference program signature and the first and second source program signatures.
US07774806B2
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a thin optical disc having remote reading capability is provided. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, the optical disc includes a central clamping area that defines a central aperture operable to be engaged by a spindle mechanism of an optical disc drive, an optically-readable data storage area substantially surrounding the central clamping area, the optically-readable data storage area having a planar thickness of less than 1.20 mm, and an electronic tag coupled to or embedded within the optical disc, the electronic tag comprising a radio frequency tag or radio frequency identification tag.
US07774800B2
An information processing system or a digital decoder (5) makes it possible to process data originating from at least one application (3), for example, by way of a bouquet of television programs, and comprises an operating system (1), a virtual machine (10) and an application manager (4) executing one or more variable management instruction sets (11) so as to influence the operating system (1) and the virtual machine (10) during the execution of the application.
US07774786B2
A system for improved scheduling of resources within a Workflow-Management-System or a computer system with comparable functionality (WFMS). Based on a new resource specification comprised within a process model and associated with an activity, the WFMS determines the resources required for execution of said activity. The invention further schedules a request for allocation of said resources on behalf and in advance of starting execution of said activity. This approach reduces the execution time of the activity as all resources required by the activity will be available when execution of the activity begins; the activity does not have to wait for these resources. Moreover, a WFMS knowing the required resources of the activities it is administrating is able to schedule resource requests to avoid resource conflicts between the activities.
US07774778B2
A device control apparatus has a state processing task section 101 for determining an operation state of a device among a plurality of operation states of the device; a sequence processing task section 107 for running a processing program among a plurality of processing programs, and a task connecting section 111 for selecting the sequence processing program corresponding to the operation state of the device determined by the state processing task section to activate the sequence processing task section 107. In this arrangement, the sequence processing program can be easily written without considering an internal state transition processing, and the internal state transition processing and the sequence processing program can be freely designed without the need of modifying the sequence processing program due to change of the internal state transition processing.
US07774776B2
Single port initial context access to an Enterprise Java Bean (“EJB”) including providing EJBs, including an EJB used by a client of a Java application; deploying the Java application, including deploying, at a fixed node and port, an application server for initial context lookup; selecting through the application server a home object for the EJB used by the client; and instantiating through the home object the EJB used by the client. Providing EJBs typically includes providing database records representing EJBs, each of which includes data describing the name of an EJB, a version of the EJB, and a node and port where an instance of the EJB may be deployed. Selecting a home object typically includes creating a context object, where the context object includes a providerURL, and the providerURL includes the node and port of the application server.
US07774775B2
A method and system for revising installation software is disclosed. The method includes causing an installation program to configure at least a portion of the installation program using an update. An example of a system of the present invention is an installation architecture. Such an installation architecture includes an installation program. The installation program is configured to update at least a portion of the installation program.
US07774770B2
A method of operating a computer involving data structures in a set of data structures. As unloaded data structures are needed during runtime, a data structure is received from a first memory. The data structure includes one or more sets of instructions and one or more constants. Instructions from the data structure are stored in a first portion of a second memory, which comprises RAM. Constants from the data structure are stored in a second portion of the second memory if only if the respective constant has not been stored in the second portion of the second memory. Indexes in instructions that reference the constants are modified to correspond to the respective locations of the constants in the second portion of the second memory, and at least some instructions from the data structure are read and executed from the RAM. Also described is a computer system including a memory and logic that, for classes in a set of classes, receives a class from a class file and stores constants from the class in a second portion of the memory if only if the respective constant has not been stored in the second portion of the memory.
US07774769B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for partitioning a program segment into at least a first stage and a second stage, determining a live set of variables and control flow information alive at a boundary between the first and second stages, and controlling the first stage to transmit a trace-specific portion of the live set for a first trace to the second stage via a communication channel. In such manner, reduced transmission of data between the stages is effected. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774746B2
Generating code is disclosed. A specification of one or more translation patterns is received. The one or more translation patterns are used to generate at least a portion of code associated with a translator. Using the one or more translation patterns to generate at least a portion of code associated with the translator results in the translator being configured to create a target object model. Creating the target object model includes populating one or more elements of the target object model in a processing order at least in part associated with an order of elements in the one or more translation patterns.
US07774742B2
A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one project plan for a project comprising a plurality of tasks and calculating a task priority for each of the plurality of tasks based on the at least one project plan. The method further includes receiving at least one sub-task for a first task of the plurality of tasks and assigning the at least one sub-task a task priority identical to the task priority of the first task. In one alternative, the method further includes receiving a new task priority for the first task, assigning the new task priority to the first task and assigning the new task priority to the at least one sub-task of the first task. The method may also include an interface to allow starting of sub-tasks only when the parent task is started.
US07774739B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, there is a method of designing a lithography mask. The method can comprise determining a maximum width of a shifter, wherein the maximum width corresponds to a width of a shifter for a first set of features and determining whether the shifter having the maximum width can be placed in a shifter space for a second set of features. The method can also comprise incrementally decreasing the width of the shifter to be placed into the shifter space for the second set of features when the shifter having the maximum width cannot be placed in the shifter space for a feature in the second set of features until an acceptable shifter width can be determined or until the shifter width is reduced to a predetermined minimum shifter width.
US07774738B2
A lithography method for suppressing resist scum includes the steps of designing an original layout with line patterns and pad patterns, extracting a pad pattern layout from the original, layout, obtaining a first reduction layout which is reduced by a first reduction width relative to the pad pattern layout, obtaining a second reduction layout which is reduced by a second reduction width larger than the first reduction width relative to the pad pattern layout, obtaining an assist pattern layout which is self-aligned to the pad pattern layout by deducting the second reduction layout from the first reduction layout, generating assist patterns in the original layout by deducting the assist pattern layout from the original layout, and projecting the layout including the assist patterns on a semiconductor substrate by an exposure process.
US07774736B2
A method of generating a mask design having optical proximity correction features disposed therein. The methods includes the steps of obtaining a desired target pattern having features to be imaged on a substrate; determining an interference map based on the target pattern, the interference map defining areas of constructive interference and areas of destructive interference between at least one of the features to be imaged and a field area adjacent the at least one feature; and placing assist features in the mask design based on the areas of constructive interference and the areas of destructive interference.
US07774729B1
A method for designing a system on a target device includes inserting sequential elements into combinatorial logic bounded by a source sequential element and a destination sequential element to reduce glitching. The sequential elements are clocked with a clock signal having a phase difference from at least one of a clock signal clocking the source sequential element and the destination sequential element.
US07774716B2
The invention provides methods and devices that address problems encountered when attempting to accurately reconstruct visual stimuli being displayed to a user as they interact with online-content, typically through a browser interface. In one embodiment, the invention provides for the browser to maintain a record of selected technical parameters and relevant data that may impact the manner in which online-content is being displayed to the user, taking into consideration the current context in which the browser is being operated. In another embodiment, the invention is a device for recording events as reported from a browser interface. The events are recorded in a selected format and syntax to form a primary index of events and related outcomes which comprise the user's interface experience. In operation, the device detects events as detected at the browser interface. Next, the device identifies, categorizes, and filters detected events as to their relevance to the visual stimuli being presented to the user. The device then assigns a unique identifier, preferably in the form of an alphanumeric string, to each relevant event. Furthermore, the device records selected events into a log (along with their categorization), a unique identifier, and the time in which the event occurred. Yet another embodiment is a device that records changes in parameters that may impact the visual stimuli.
US07774710B2
A software tool assists users of a computer network to share items from each others' personal workspaces without requiring manual interaction on the users' part to receive and store items therein. An authoring user enters a command to share the object with “target recipients” and identifies the target recipients. Thereafter, the computer system creates records corresponding to the shared object in the workspaces of the target recipients. The records include pointers to the shared object. When a target recipient elects to open the records, it causes the computer system to access the author's workspace and create a copy of the personal object for the target recipient, who is then free to interact with the copy as if it were in his own personal workspace. Significantly, the target recipient does not participate in the distribution of the personal object from the author's workspace to his own. There is no administrative overhead as is required commonly in e-mail distribution systems.
US07774708B2
Improved graphical user interfaces and techniques for providing remote media content to users are disclosed. According to one aspect, an application window display on a display device can expose a user not only to local media content but also to remote media content that is associated with the local media content. The local media content is stored locally, while the remote media content is stored remotely and available from a remote media server. According to another aspect, the remote media content to be displayed can be determined in a manner that is dependent on a user interaction with the local media content. According to still a further aspect, the manner by which the remote media content is displayed can be dependent on the availability of remote media content at the remote media server.
US07774703B2
Techniques are provided for indicating workspace awareness using one or more of a write shadow, a read shadow, and/or a shadowbar providing an indication of operations performed at associated locations by various users accessing a same document. A write shadow may be used to indicate a position in a document being modified by a user. A read shadow may be used to indicate a position being viewed by a user. A shadowbar may be used to indicate areas of overlap among users with a shading and coloring indicative of a degree of overlap.
US07774686B2
A method of performing HARQ performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a bundling indicator which indicates the number of bundled downlink subframes, determining whether at least one bundled downlink subframe is missed by comparing the bundling indicator with the number of detected bundled downlink subframes, generating a representative ACK/NACK signal when no bundled downlink subframe is missed, and transmitting the representative ACK/NACK signal on an uplink channel. Recovery capability is maximized and the packet loss is reduced in such a situation that less number of ACK/NACK signals are fed back than that of downlink packets.
US07774684B2
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to improving the reliability, availability, and serviceability of a memory device. In some embodiments, a memory device includes a memory core having a first portion to store data bits and a second portion to store error correction code (ECC) bits corresponding to the data bits. The memory device may also include error correction logic on the same die as the memory core. In some embodiments, the error correction logic enables the memory device to compute ECC bits and to compare the stored ECC bits with the computed ECC bits.
US07774677B2
For the transmission of information with verification of transmission errors, a useful information message (M) is transmitted in a determined frame while being associated with a determined number p of transmission error verification bits (CRC,S) also transmitted in the frame. In order to have an element allowing the verification of intentional errors, determined number p1 of the transmission error verification bits form a seal (S) obtained from a determined sealing function, where p1 is a number less than p. Application to radiocommunications equipment requiring the verification of the integrity and the authentication of the messages transmitted.
US07774673B2
The invention relates to a decoding device particularly adapted to decode a digital input signal (E) in a transmission system using direct sequence spread spectrum, this digital input signal (E) being composed of symbols, each symbol representing a bit satisfying a Barker code, and comprising several symbol elements.This device comprises several finite response filters (FLT1 to FLT4) each of which receives the digital input signal (E), a clock circuit (CLK_GEN) outputting clock signals (CLK1 to CLK4) to the filters with a frequency equal to the frequency at which symbol elements are produced and uniformly distributed phase shifts, and an analysis circuit (ANL) designed to identify which of the filters is best tuned to the input signal (E) and to control the clock circuit to make it generated a clock signal (CLK5) optimised for decoding and an analysis circuit.
US07774672B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for requesting additional forward error correction, when needed, in a communication system. In one exemplary embodiment, among others, a method includes receiving a first set of data packets and a first amount of forward error correction (FEC) from an upstream transmitting device. The method also includes determining whether or not the first amount of FEC is sufficient to correct any detected errors with respect to the data packets. Then, an error indication is transmitted to the upstream transmitting device when the first amount of FEC is not sufficient to correct the detected errors.
US07774671B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, an integrated circuit such as a processor includes a counter to count an actual number of unreliable storage locations in the processor cache, at least one register to store an acceptable number of unreliable storage locations for the cache, a detector to measure a thermal environment of the processor, and circuitry to raise an operating voltage of the processor if the actual number of unreliable storage locations exceeds the acceptable number of unreliable storage locations, and if the thermal environment is acceptable.
US07774668B2
A method for monitoring a test case generator system by detecting non-reproducible pseudo-random test cases, comprising: building a first pseudo-random test case having a first sequence of seeds comprising a first starting seed and a first ending seed through the test case generator system; reproducing the first sequence of seeds of the first pseudo-random test case by building a second pseudo-random test case having a second sequence of seeds comprising a second starting seed and a second ending seed through the test case generator system when the test case generator system is operating in a reproduction mode, the first starting seed being used as the second starting seed of the second sequence of seeds; and comparing the first ending seed in the first sequence of seeds to the second ending seed in the second sequence of seeds.
US07774664B2
An integrated circuit can have plural core circuits, each having a test access port that is defined in IEEE standard 1149.1. Access to and control of these ports is though a test linking module. The test access ports on an integrated circuit can be arranged in a hierarchy with one test linking module controlling access to plural secondary test linking modules and test access ports. Each secondary test linking module in turn can also control access to tertiary test linking modules and test access ports. The test linking modules can also be used for emulation.
US07774645B1
A technique protects shared data in a local device having local memory. The technique involves observing a page table entry (PTE) on the local device. The PTE is stored in a page table used for managing virtual to physical address translations, tracking page modifications and handling page faults between semiconductor memory and magnetic disk drive memory on the local device. The technique further involves leaving a mirroring routine inactive on the local device when the PTE indicates that shared data corresponding to the PTE has not been modified on the local device. The mirroring routine is configured to copy the shared data from the local memory to a remote device. The technique further involves activating the mirroring routine to mirror the shared data from the local memory to the remote device when the PTE indicates that shared data corresponding to the PTE has been modified on the local device.
US07774642B1
A fault zone definition mechanism groups components of an interconnect environment having a common point of dependence into a logical group defining a fault zone for the interconnect environment. The fault zone definition mechanism may be implemented in software, firmware or hardware, or a combination of two or more of software, firmware and hardware. A method for defining a fault zone is also disclosed.
US07774640B2
A disk array apparatus where, when a failure occurs at a part of a cache memory, a memory area of an I/O processing controller other than the memory area where the failure has occurred is utilized without taking over the whole I/O processing to an I/O processing controller of other system is provided, so that influence of performance degradation can be minimized. In a disk array apparatus including dual cache memories, when a failure occurs at a part of the cache memory, only a memory area where the failure has occurred is closed, and reallocation thereof to another memory area of the same cache memory is conducted to continue an I/O processing.
US07774639B2
An apparatus, program product and method utilize distributed coordinating members to distribute member-specific state data to subscribing members in a distributed computing system. Member-specific state data is associated with different subjects, and coordinating members are configured to manage state data associated with particular subjects such that a reporting member that needs to report member-specific state data associated with a particular subject forwards that state data to a coordinating member associated with that subject. Once received, the coordinating member then distributes the member-specific state data to any members that have subscribed to receive state data associated with that subject.
US07774634B2
A Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) communication system dynamically provides power and data communications over a communications link. In an enterprise environment made up of one or more personal computing devices (e.g., personal or laptop computers), a switch determines a power classification for each device via a PoE control module that can be part of, for example, a Power Source Equipment/Powered Device (PSE/PD) system or a LAN-On-Motherboard/Powered Device (LOM/PD) system. A method of classifying power for each device includes detecting a device, polling it for power requirement information using a Layer 2 data link layer, receiving power requirement information from the device, and determining a power classification for the device. Power requirement information can include battery charge status, power load, power mode, etc., of the device. Various types of data packets can be used. The method can be repeated on a periodic basis, allowing power classification to be dynamic.
US07774632B2
A power management method in a portable electronic device includes storing a plurality of pieces of sub-state information indicating setting states of functions from a user interface (UI) of the portable electronic device, constructing a field by combining sectors, each formed with a predetermined number of bits, indicating the plurality of pieces of sub-state information, analyzing the sub-state information of the field, and selecting a clock frequency corresponding to the analyzed field from among clock frequencies pre-set to operate a central processing unit (CPU) of the portable electronic device and applying the selected clock frequency to the CPU. Accordingly, by combining information on sub-states indicating functions currently set in a portable electronic device in order to construct a field and selecting a clock frequency optimal for the field, an unnecessary increase of a CPU clock frequency in multi-tasking can be prevented, and power of a CPU can be efficiently managed.
US07774631B1
A system for minimizing power consumption of a multiprocessor data storage system is disclosed. The system utilizes processors that are capable of operating at a number of different reduced power modes, such that the processors operate at full power during peak workloads, but can be powered down during low workload times. When the onset of peak loads are detected through monitoring I/Os per second (“IOPS”) and/or response times of the system, the processors are brought out of power-down mode to handle the increased IOPS during the peak loads. In this manner, the majority of the processors only operate at full power when the system experiences peak loads. During normal and low load times, the processors are either operated at reduced power or are powered down. This results in a significant reduction in power consumption of the system.
US07774624B2
A system for detecting tampering in a signal conditioner of electronics that determines a parameter from signals received from one or more sensors is provided. The system includes a host system that receives the parameter signals from the signal conditioner indicating properties of a material and supplies power to the signal conditioner. The signal conditioner is remote from and coupled to said host system. The signal conditioner generates the parameter signals. The host system is configured to periodically transmit a request for said authentication information to said signal conditioner, receive said authentication information from said signal conditioner in response to said request, compare said authentication information with initial authentication information, and detect said tampering condition in said signal conditioner if said authentication information is not equal to said initial authentication information.
US07774622B2
In one embodiment, a Central Processing Unit having a processing core. The processing core connects to an internal memory bus having N address lines and X data lines. A cache connects to the internal memory bus and uses M of N bits of the N address lines to address data stored in the cache. A cryptographic unit in the CPU encrypts data written to an external memory and decrypts data read from the external memory. The cryptographic unit encrypts and decrypts N-M address lines of the internal memory bus and the data lines of the bus.
US07774621B2
Even when a content is split due to a failure occurrence in the course of moving the content, the contents having been split are combined and reconstructed. A controller to move contents that moves the content stored in a first storage unit to a second storage unit, includes means for rendering the content to be playback impracticable, the content remaining in the first storage unit and corresponding to the content having been moved to the second storage unit, storing means for storing information regarding content movement, including information which specifies the content in the first storage unit and the second storage unit, selecting means for selecting one of continuously moving or reconstructing the content in the first storage unit when a failure occurs, means for verifying the second storage unit as a target and the content therein, by use of the information which specifies the second storage unit as a target and the content, and means for determining a range as to which the content movement is continued or the content is reconstructed, so as to continue one of the content movement and the content reconstruction.
US07774619B2
New code routines for a secure system (e.g., a TPM) are stored in a memory (e.g., a flash memory) that is located external to the secure system. For example, a chip may include a TPM and an external flash memory may be connected to the chip. New routines for the TPM may then be stored in the flash. A function table may be used to determine whether a given function to be executed by the TPM is stored in on-chip memory (e.g., ROM) or in the flash. New function tables may be stored in the flash. For example, when a new set of functions is loaded into the flash, a new function table that references the new functions also may be loaded into the flash.
US07774605B2
A digital measurement apparatus measures a physical measurement object, provides a digital signature of public-key cryptography to measured data of a thus-measured physical quantity, and manages the measured data. The apparatus generates at least a pair of a public key and a private key, to be used for the digital signature of the public-key cryptography, through a key generating algorithm.
US07774602B2
The present invention provides a method and system for secure access to computer equipment. An embodiment includes a secure access controller connected to a link between a transceiver (such as a modem) and the computer equipment. Public and private keys are used by the secure access controller and a remote user. The keys are provided to the secure access controller by an authentication server. Once the transceiver establishes a communication link with the user, the access controller uses these keys to authenticate packets issued by the user to the computer equipment. If the packet is authenticated, the access controller passes the packet to the computer equipment. Otherwise, the packet is discarded. Another embodiment includes a secure access controller having a plurality of ports for connection to a plurality of different pieces of computer equipment. The secure access controller thus intermediates communications between the modem and the plurality of different pieces of computer equipment.
US07774600B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method includes verifying an initiating logical processor of a system; validating a trusted agent with the initiating logical processor if the initiating logical processor is verified; and launching the trusted agent on a plurality of processors of the system if the trusted agent is validated. After execution of such a trusted agent, a secure kernel may then be launched, in certain embodiments. The system may be a multiprocessor server system having a partially or fully connected topology with arbitrary point-to-point interconnects, for example.
US07774597B2
The invention provides a method and system for a network which includes a plurality of nodes, preferably routers, a shared network segment for communication between the nodes, and several multicast channels in the shared network segment on which the nodes, preferably routers, can send multicast messages to the other nodes. A specific multicast channel is provided on which the nodes can send specific start multicast messages to other nodes, wherein a node which starts a protocol application, preferably a routing protocol application such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol, is adapted to send a multicast start message on the specific multicast channel. Another node, preferably a router, receiving this start message is adapted to validate the authenticity of the start message and to send a response message.
US07774595B2
Provided is a computer security apparatus and a method using a security input device driver. Data inputted through a data input unit is directly encrypted at the security input device driver without passing through an OS input device driver supporting in an OS. Thereby, the data inputted through the data input unit can be prevented from being illegally acquired by any hacking program from the beginning.
US07774591B2
A data processing device includes a memory, a processing unit, a logic element, a first database and a management unit. The memory stores a plurality of software modules which processes input data. The processing unit enables to execute the plurality of software module. The logic element enables to configure a plurality of hardware modules, which can perform processings equivalent to those performed by the plurality of software module, using a dynamic reconfiguration. The first database stores configuration information indicating a configuration of the plurality of hardware modules when the plurality of hardware modules is set to the logic element. The management unit determines a first software module to be set to the logic element as a hardware module in the plurality of software modules on the basis of a predetermined condition with respect to a processing of the input data, and sets a first hardware module corresponding to the first software module to the logic element with reference to the first database.
US07774584B2
The apparatus and method herein splits the function of a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem data pump between a digital signal processor (DSP 106) and a general purpose host central processing unit (CPU 102). The DSP (106) handles all front end data pump processing such as interface to an analog front end (108 and 110), FFT processing, FEQ processing, QAM decoding, and bit formatting. The host CPU (102) handles all back end data pump processing such as DMT tone deordering, data deinterleaving, error detection and correcting, bit descrambling, CRC processing, and the like. In order to enable the DSP (106) and the CPU (102) to communicate with each other effectively, buffers (132) under the control of specialized buffer management methodology (FIG. 4) are used.
US07774576B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor mass storage system and architecture can be substituted for a rotating hard disk. The system and architecture avoid an erase cycle each time information stored in the mass storage is changed. Erase cycles are avoided by programming an altered data file into an empty mass storage block rather than over itself as a hard disk would. Periodically, the mass storage will need to be cleaned up. These advantages are achieved through the use of several flags, and a map to correlate a logical block address of a block to a physical address of that block. In particular, flags are provided for defective blocks, used blocks, and old versions of a block. An array of volatile memory is addressable according to the logical address and stores the physical address.
US07774574B2
A prototype system having an integrated circuit including an on-chip processor and an on-chip router connected to off-chip resources via an interface. A request directing unit on the chip receives memory access requests and directs them in accordance with either one of two address maps. In one of the address maps, a first range of addresses is allocated to at least one on-chip resource and a second range of addresses is allocated to the interface. In the other memory address map, the first range of addresses is also allocated to the interface. An integrated circuit including such a request directing unit is also described, together with a method for evaluating a prototype system.
US07774572B2
The present invention relates to a system capable of carrying out efficient and stable system operation control even if a usage rate of the entire system varies under a situation in which the characteristics of storage units, such as maximum available total capacity and speed performance, are largely different from each other. Therefore, the system according to the present invention is composed of a monitor unit for monitoring information on a total volume of data stored in each of the storage units or in all the storage units, an index value calculating unit for calculating an index value on the basis of the monitor result and a location unit for distributively locating or relocating logical storage areas in physical storage areas on a plurality of storage units on the basis of the calculated index value.
US07774569B1
Technologies are presented herein for synchronization of I/O operations in a data storage system. Multiple reader and writer locks may be acquired by calling processes at two different granularities. Locks may be acquired for an area of storage equivalent to the logical unit of allocation or for a sub-provision area equivalent to a unit of snapshot read-modify-write. Each lock may be represented by a lock data structure that represents the same amount of logical address space as the logical unit of allocation. A request that arrives to the lock data structure may be placed in a lock wait queue until the request can be honored. A round robin technique may be utilized to respond to requests for locks so that one lock does not starve out other locks.
US07774559B2
A memory hub receives downstream memory commands and processes each received downstream memory command to determine whether the memory command includes a write command directed to the memory hub. The memory hub operates in a first mode when the write command is directed to the hub to develop memory access signals adapted to be applied to memory devices. The memory hub operates in a second mode when the write command is not directed to the hub to provide the command's write data on a downstream output port adapted to be coupled to a downstream memory hub.
US07774557B2
In one embodiment, an image forming device includes a storage device for storing data. A storage access manager is configured to coordinate access to the storage device from a plurality of client devices that communicate with the storage device using at least one uncoordinating communication protocol.
US07774556B2
Main memory is managed by receiving a command from an application to read data associated with a virtual address that is mapped to the main memory. A memory controller determines that the virtual address is mapped to one of the symmetric memory components of the main memory, and accesses memory use characteristics indicating how the data associated with the virtual address has been accessed, The memory controller determines that the data associated with the virtual address has access characteristics suited to an asymmetric memory component of the main memory and loads the data associated with the virtual address to the asymmetric memory component of the main memory. After the loading and using the memory management unit, a command is received from the application to read the data associated with the virtual address, and the data associated with the virtual address is retrieved from the asymmetric memory component.
US07774552B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that prevents store starvation in a computer system that supports marked coherence. The system starts by receiving a store instruction to be executed. The system then determines whether a cache line to which the store is directed is load-marked. If so, the system delays the store operation and asserts a store-requested flag in the metadata for the cache line, wherein when the store-requested flag is asserted, no subsequent load-marks can be placed on the cache line. Then, when all of the load-marks have been removed from the cache line, the system completes the store operation.
US07774547B2
A cache on-demand module employing a cache performance module for managing size adjustments to a cache size of a cache memory in view of supporting an optimal performance of a storage subsystem employing the cache memory by determining an optimal cache size of the cache memory for supporting the optimal performance of the storage subsystem, and reporting any size adjustment to the cache size of the cache memory based on the determined optimal cache size of the cache memory. The cache on-demand module further employs a cache accounting module for managing a client expense account associated with the cache memory by determining whether a client charge or a client rebate is warranted as a function of any size adjustment to the cache size of the cache memory by the cache performance module.
US07774544B1
In an embodiment of the invention, a method and apparatus permits the reliable disk ownership changes. The method and apparatus generate a replay request based on ownership data stored in a persistent memory device, in response to a failure occurrence when ownership is being changed for disks in an aggregate. The method and apparatus will compare an update count in the replay request with an update count in a disk in the aggregate. Based on the comparison of the update count, the ownership on the disk is changed so that each disk in the aggregate will be owned by a same node. The failure occurrence can be, for example, a power failure, a panic occurrence, or a takeover procedure.
US07774541B2
A storage apparatus using a non-volatile memory, which retains data even after power interruption, as its cache and a method of managing the same are provided. The storage apparatus includes a main storage medium, a non-volatile memory used as a cache of the main storage medium, a region of the non-volatile memory being divided into a fixed region and a non-fixed region according to whether or not data is fixed, and a block management unit managing physical blocks by means of virtual addresses, the physical blocks being allocated to the non-volatile memory.
US07774531B1
One embodiment provides a system which uses a temporal ordering policy for allocation of limited processor resources. The system starts by executing instructions for a program during a normal-execution mode. Upon encountering a condition which causes the processor to enter a speculative-execution mode, the processor performs a checkpoint and commences execution of instructions in the speculative-execution mode. Upon encountering an instruction which requires the allocation of an instance of a limited processor resource during the execution of instructions in the speculative-execution mode, the processor checks a speculative-use indicator associated with each instance of the limited processor resource. Upon finding the speculative-use indicators asserted for all instances of the limited processor resource which are available to be allocated for the instruction, the processor aborts the instruction. On the other hand, upon finding the speculative-use indicator is deasserted for an instance of the limited processor resource which is available to be allocated for the instruction, the processor asserts the speculative-use indicator associated with the instance and executes the instruction.
US07774529B2
Bus transfer efficiency is improved in bus communication that uses a shared memory, based on a communication origin master 101 selectively using an arbitration completion notification signal and a memory access completion notification signal. Based on the arbitration completion notification signal, the communication origin master 101 issues a command issue permission signal to the communication destination master 102, and the communication destination master 102 generates and issues a command for accessing the shared memory 12. Based on the memory access completion notification signal, the communication origin master 101 issues a command issue permission signal to the communication destination master 102, and the communication destination master 102 generates and issues a command for accessing the shared memory 12.
US07774515B2
A device for preventing a process collision based on plural of input signals includes an input block for receiving a first and a second input signals to thereby generates a first and a second process request signals, a collision controller for controlling the process collision in accordance with a predetermined priority, and a signal processing block for outputting a first process signal in response to the first process request signal and outputting a second process signal in response to the second process request signals. Herein, the process collision is caused one of cases when the second input signal is inputted at an activation sector of the first process signal of the first input signal, when the first input signal is inputted at an activation sector of the second process signal of the second input signal, and when the first and the second inputs are inputted concurrently.
US07774509B2
A command conversion device 14 is connected between an amplifier device 11 and a portable player 13. The amplifier device 11 sends/receives a plurality of types of first commands corresponding to a plurality of types of devices (e.g., CD players, MD recorders, tape recorders, etc.), and performs an operation based on a received first command. The portable player 13 sends/receives a second command, and performs an operation based on a received second command. The command conversion device 14 includes a selector for selecting a type of a first command, and a converter. When a first command of the type selected by the selector is received from the amplifier device 11, the converter converts the received first command into a second command, and sends the second command to the portable player 13.
US07774496B2
Method, system and program product are provided for reducing size of memory required for a switching node's forwarding table by employing forwarding tables of different types to map received data packets addressed to downstream nodes and upstream nodes to appropriate output ports of the switching node. The method includes receiving a data packet at a data transfer node of a network and selecting a forwarding table from multiple types of forwarding tables accessible by the node based on an attribute associated with the received data packet, and mapping the data packet to an output port of the node utilizing the forwarding table selected from the multiple types of forwarding tables based on the attribute associated with the packet.
US07774494B2
Technique for Routing digital audio and digital video signals commences by routing a digital video signal, devoid of embedded digital audio, to at least one output, typically by way of a video cross-point switch. At least one digital audio signal undergoes buffering to obtain a prescribed amount of data prior re-timing of the digital audio signal to a prescribed timing format. Following buffering and re-timing, the digital audio signal undergoes routing to at least one output, typically by way of an audio cross-point switch. When routed to outputs associated with each other, the digital audio signal undergoes embedding in the digital video.
US07774493B1
A method, device, and apparatus that provide a means for generating a network frame that provides information related to one or more super-channels for data transmission, which are comprised of one or more sub-channels for data transmission, over which the network frame is transmitted are disclosed.
US07774488B2
A method and system for switching media streams of a video in a client system. The media streams are made available to the client system by a content providing system. A first media stream received from the content providing system is played in a SHOW mode in the client system. An environmental change in an environment within or adjacent to the client system is detected, resulting in executing a procedure for deciding whether to switch from playing the first media stream to playing a second media stream differing from the first media stream. The executed procedure decides to make the switch. The switch is made to playing the second media stream in the SHOW mode as the second media stream is being received from the content providing system in response having been requested from the content providing system. The switching preserves content continuity of the video.
US07774484B1
A system and method for directing network connections. The invention enables a network device to direct subsequent connections from a client to a server for accessing resources. A process extracts a persistence key from a received message, and employs the persistence key to identify the appropriate server. An interface is provided, enabling a user program to direct the process of extracting the persistence key. The invention also provides a way for multiple clients to persist to a common server.
US07774482B1
Each service in a computer network may have a connection rate limit. The number of new connections per time period may be limited by using a series of rules. In a specific embodiment of the present invention, a counter is increased each time a server is selected to handle a connection request. For each service, connections coming in are tracked. Therefore, the source of connection-request packets need not be examined. Only the destination service is important. This saves significant time in the examination of the incoming requests. Each service may have its own set of rules to best handle the new traffic for its particular situation. For server load balancing, a reset may be sent to the source address of the new connection request. For transparent cache switching, the connection request may be forwarded to the Internet.
US07774478B2
A method for scheduling another time for a communication session when a called party is presently unable or unwilling to accept an incoming call. A first user's communications device receives a request for a communication session from a second user's communications device. Upon failure to accept the request, a server automatically forms a calendar data object, such as in response to receipt of a scheduling trigger message from the first communications device that includes an indication of the failure to accept and an identifier of the second user. The calendar data object includes scheduling information indicating, explicitly and/or implicitly, future time(s) when the first user is available. The calendar data object is sent to either one of the devices, and a time is selected. The server then notifies the other device of the selected time. Corresponding devices are also described.
US07774476B2
A client may receive first content data and second content data from a server over a communication channel. The first content data may be configured to cause a first window to be displayed on the client. The first window may comprise at least one user selectable element configured to prompt, when selected, the second content data to cause a second window to be displayed on the client. Furthermore, input data entered in the second window may be transmitted from the client to the server, over the same communication channel used to receive the first and second content data.
US07774475B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a symmetric network address translation NAT (100) setting up sessions between a user terminal (110-1, 110-2) and a server (120-1, 120-2). If a new session is initiated by said user terminal an external IP-address (C) and port (D) representing the desired destination server as well as a public NAT-IP address (X) are determined. Further, a public NAT-IP port is selected. Finally, the NAT sets up the new session based on an appropriate entry representing said new session in a NAT table. In order to save available public NAT-IP ports a new session according to the invention not necessarily represented by a new public NAT-IP port, but by a tuple comprising the public NAT-IP address, the selected public NAT-IP port (Y), the external IP address (C) and the port (D). A new session is set up only if there is an entry of the whole tuple identifying said new session in said NAT-table.
US07774472B2
A system and method for cross-authoritative, user-based network configuration management is provided. Users log-in to a network using any device coupled to the network, and an identity manager may provide the user with a custom computing environment by verifying the user's identity and identifying content, assignments, and other configuration information associated with the user. For instance, the identity manager may retrieve a unique identifier assigned to the user, query one or more authoritative source domains based on the unique identifier, and deliver a computing environment assigned to the user. By seamlessly integrating multiple authoritative sources, administrators can make assignments to users across multiple authoritative source domains, and queries to the sources will always be up-to-date without having to perform synchronization processes.
US07774470B1
A load balancing server system includes a plurality of servers. A server has a dispatcher module, a request handler module, a cache and a local database. A load balancer receives requests for information from clients and distributes the requests among dispatcher modules of the plurality of servers in a balanced manner. The dispatcher module receives a request for information, calculates an identifier of a server from a subset of a hash result responsive to the request, routes the request to the server identified by the identifier, and provides information in the response to the client that requested it. The request handler module receives the request routed by the dispatcher module, determines the requested information by searching the cache and/or the local database, and provides the determined information to the dispatcher module.
US07774467B1
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there are provided methods and mechanisms for determining an allocation of resources, including hardware resources in a computing environment. With these methods and mechanisms, it is possible for computing resource allocations to satisfy one or more operational considerations, such as for example without limitation: “reduce device heat dissipation”, “avoid single point of failure in switched network” and other allocation needs are contemplated.
US07774466B2
A distributed data storage system stores a single image file system across a plurality of physical storage volumes. The physical storage may be direct attached storage, or may be coupled through a storage area network (“SAN”). One or more clients communicate with a plurality of storage nodes through a network. A client of the distributed data storage system transmits a request over the network for a file identified in the file system. A load-balancing switch selects one of the storage nodes to process the request. The storage node accesses at least one of the physical volumes and transmits a response for the storage operation to the client.
US07774465B1
A storage virtualization controller for transferring data between a host and a storage device at a wire-speed data transfer rate. A downstream processing element adapted for connection to the storage device is configurable coupled to an upstream processing element adapted for connection to the host. A central processing element coupled to the upstream processing element grants permission to the upstream processing element to transfer the data at the wire-speed rate without further involvement by the central processing element.
US07774464B2
A system and method for having a client generate a new profile for a new server for the SyncML protocol is described. Conventionally, users of client devices need to manually configure the devices to allow for synchronization with new servers via SyncML. Using the described system or method, a client device may configure a profile for a new server without requiring the user to manually configure the synchronization profile.
US07774449B2
A computer-implemented system and method for performance profiling on a target device. The computer-implemented method includes configuring the target device to operate in a first mode or a second mode, and receiving a write command from a host device. When the target device is configured to operate in the first mode, the method includes sending an authorization to send write data to the host device, and receiving write data from the host device. When the target device is configured to operate in the second mode, the method includes allocating a reserved write buffer on the target device, and receiving write data from the host device using the write buffer.
US07774446B2
A method and system for discovering, defining, and implementing an application topology through the user of a graphical user interface is provided. A topology system may analyze the topology of an enterprise and provide a graphical representation of the application topology. The topology system may discover the application topology of an enterprise by accessing various configuration data stores of the enterprise. The topology system provides a graphical representation of the application topology and allows a user to modify the topology using a graphical user interface. The topology system may then control the implementation of the application topology.
US07774443B2
A power management system embodiment of the present invention comprises a power manager with a network agent in communication over a network with a network manager. The power manager is connected to control the operating power flowing to various pieces of computer network equipment at a single site. A user is able to assign names to each control port, and the power manager maintains a list of enrolled users who have access. Many operational mode choices are possible, and each can be configured by the user while remote from the power manager. The power manager can be commanded to upload a user configuration list, and it can be commanded to accept a downloaded user configuration list.
US07774437B2
A method and system for configuring a new device are disclosed. The method includes using a host system to create a configuration file including data useable to configure the new device. A portable storage device is interfaced to the host and the configuration file is transferred to the storage device. The storage device is then interfaced to the new device and the configuration file is transferred to the new device. The configuration file is optionally used to configure the new device for communication over a network. A method for configuring the new device using a direct connection between the new device and a system bus of the host is also disclosed.
US07774436B2
Method and system for Internet Protocol (IP) provisioning over a cable network. The method and system including a plurality of embedded settop boxes (eSTBs) of at least two different vendors requesting IP provisioning according to a first protocol. The method and system further including a network provisioning unit (NPU) in communication with the eSTBs over the network for responding to the eSTB IP provisioning requests with IP provisioning data, wherein the eSTB IP provisioning data is outputted according to the first protocol such that provisioning of the eSTBs is standard for each vendor in so far as each eSTB utilizes the first protocol for provisioning.
US07774429B2
A method of building and assembling programs across computer networks that is dictated by the user to perform logical work without the user using a compiler. Users are able to assemble programs over a network by defining or re-defining which logical components are bound into the overall program without the use of a compiler. Logical components are called and bound into the program at run time, allowing dynamic programming which may be modified at any time without re-compiling the entire program. Each logical component can act independently of other logical components or work in concert with each other. This allows assembly of a program, even though some components may be created using totally different methodologies and/or are constructed by different programmers.
US07774425B2
A content management method and apparatus are provided. A method for a first device to provide content to a second device in a home network includes: receiving content information through a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed provided from a content server outside of the home network; updating a content list, which can be provided by the first device through the home network, based on the content information which is received; and transmitting the updated content list to the second device.
US07774419B2
An interactive system and method for controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions involving a plurality of users including controlling access to a plurality of communications sessions, each of said communications sessions being for access by a plurality of users, wherein data identifying said plurality of communications sessions have been stored in association with data indicative of one or more characteristics thereof. The method includes receiving a request to initiate communications among members of a group of users, wherein said request includes data identifying the group of users, responsive to receiving said request, selecting a communications session on the basis of data identifying the group and at least some of said stored data indicative of characteristics of a given communications session, and transmitting messages to at least some members of the group. Each message has a message body including data providing access to the selected communications session and a destination address determined from data indicative of a given member of the group.
US07774413B2
Techniques for eliminating duplicate/redundant scanning of email messages while the email message traverses the various servers within an email infrastructure are provided. Some techniques utilize a message hygiene stamp that is transported with the email message as the email message enters an enterprise and is routed within the enterprise until the email message reaches the end user inbox. The filters comprise logic that enables the filters to annotate the result of their filtering or other processing in corresponding message hygiene stamps. The message hygiene stamps allow the filters to determine whether the email message has already been processed by the filter within the email infrastructure.
US07774412B1
A client computer converts selected content (e.g., an images, text, audio, etc.) into message formatted content to enable communication of the selected content in a respective message to a picture phone device in a cellular phone network. Additionally, the client computer converts the selected content into web formatted content to enable communication of the selected content to a web browser operating in a web network environment. To make the selected content available for distribution, the client computer creates a web page including a) the web formatted content and b) an address identifying a location of the message format content as it will be stored in a server. The client computer uploads the web page, web formatted content, and message formatted content to a selected server. Viewing of the web page in a browser enables a user to download the message formatted content in the server to a cellular phone.
US07774410B2
Automatically saving communicated multimedia objects to a repository for subsequent use includes in response to a sent electronic message and a received electronic message, identifying an embedded multimedia object or an attached multimedia object. The embedded multimedia object or the attached multimedia object is separated from the electronic message. The separated multimedia object is automatically saved to a repository for subsequent use by a user and the user is able to select the multimedia object from the repository for subsequent use.
US07774407B2
A method of operating an instant messaging application comprises running an instant messaging dialogue session across a plurality of participant devices. When a user wishes to postpone the session, the application receives a postponement signal from a participant device, determines a future restart time and future participant devices, terminates the current instant messaging dialogue session, and initiates a new instant messaging dialogue session at the restart time for the future participant devices.
US07774388B1
A method, system, and apparatus for identifying, describing, integrating, and discovering information events with the unique feature of applicability to and extensibility across event states irrespective of function and or embodiment in one system with one approach, one infrastructure, one architecture, one method, and one principled basis, comprising: a self-mint method for self-service identity; an information architecture; a method to organize everything; a scalable business process for integrating data from different tables and/or from different systems into one combined system; a programming process and language, operating system architecture, and modeling medium; and a search engine and directory to make it all accessible; altogether comprising an infrastructure for a network system.
US07774387B2
A data compressor including a separating unit configured to separate input data into cross reference data with the reference information between the vertices, and a vertex group including the plurality of vertices with the types and values, and to output data of the vertex group thus separated; a template storing unit configured to store reference information between vertices having a specific pattern, as a template; a template match detecting unit configured to detect a portion matching the template stored in the template storing unit, from the cross reference data separated by the separating unit; and a template replacing unit configured to replace the matched portion detected by the template match detecting unit with the template, in a state in which the reference information between the vertices can be referred to, and to output the replaced cross reference data.
US07774383B2
A set of programs is disclosed comprising a web display interface program (WIP), a Display Configuration Program (DCP) and a Sequence Logging Program (SLP). Responsive to user actions, the set of programs provide instructions to a server connected to storage containing a facet tree database and a rules database. The WIP comprises a user interface and a set of servlets that read the facet element to be displayed from the facet tree database, and based upon the user characteristics, acquire the appropriate display rules for the user from the rules database. The DCP allows an administrator to select or configure rules that will establish views for different end users that are tailored to those particular end users. The SLP allows end users to navigate through a set of facets using a standard faceted search, or using a previously constructed sequence of facets, and logs the user choices for later use.
US07774380B2
The present invention discloses a data structure which, given an identifier for a Representational State Transfer (REST) resource, can rapidly yield a configured target and simultaneously yield all configured pattern based rules and constraints for the target. The disclosed data structure is a tree structure including nodes for URL portions. Each node is associated with a hash tree specifically grown in a manner that ensures collision occurrences are non-existent. The tree structure is effectively two or more superimposed trees; one for URL pattern matching to determine a target, another for determining constraints. A single tree traversal, which can be based on a progressive hash, can be used to concurrently determine a target and a set of constraints, which represents improved performance over conventional implementations that require multiple, distinct query/response operations to produce equivalent results.
US07774376B1
A type system that facilitates seamless integration of data access to relational and semi-structured data in an object oriented host language. A data access component includes the type system and corresponding set of syntax constructions that facilitates coercive subtyping and restricts covariance to identity conversions.
US07774368B2
A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing folders between one or more layers of folders. It includes selecting layers to link together, comparing folders in the selected layers using an immutable identifier, parsing the folders of each of the selected layers into fields, comparing the fields of parsed folders of the selected layers, and determining whether to synchronize the folders of the selected layers based on conflict rules triggered in response to the comparison of the fields of the parsed folders. Also disclosed is a system and method of merging two or more folders in a network into a single folder. It includes comparing entries between folders to identify duplicate entries, grouping the identified duplicate entries in each folder, generating a matrix from the duplicates grouping and assigning each matrix entry a value, and matching the matrix entries based on the assigned values to determine an extent to merge an identified duplicate entry.
US07774367B1
Techniques for controlling access to resources within a device are described. A device is described, for example, that includes a computer-readable medium and a management interface. The computer-readable medium stores configuration data and authorization data. The authorization data defines an access control attribute and an associated regular expression specifying a textual pattern. The management interface receives a text-based command to access the configuration data of the device, evaluates the command using the regular expression, and controls access to the configuration data based on the evaluation.
US07774366B2
A sharing model enables users to easily and conveniently create and share standard and custom database objects, and applications, among users or groups of users. The sharing model includes systems and methods that allow users to conveniently create and customize tabs and tab sets that define relationships between custom objects and fields, standard objects and fields, and applications. A tab visually represents a user interface into an element of an application or into a database object. Selection of a tab provides a user access to the object or element of the application represented by the tab. A tab set is a group of related tabs that work as a unit to provide application functionality. New tabs and tab sets may be defined and tab set views may be customized so that an end user can easily and conveniently switch between the various objects and application elements represented by the displayed tabs and tab set views.
US07774352B2
A method of reversing a plurality of erroneous invoices proffered by a plurality of vendors/suppliers. The method comprises providing a master database for inputting a plurality of vendor invoices, storing a cancellation request for each of the plurality of erroneous invoices in a response database, executing an agent to extract data pertaining to the cancellation request stored for each of the plurality of erroneous invoices from the response database, creating an intermediate file containing data extracted from the response database, executing a delivery component for adding a header record and trailer record to the intermediate file, and for renaming the intermediate file, and executing a bridge program for delivering the intermediate file from the response database into the master database and processing the intermediate file in the master database in order to reverse each of the plurality of erroneous invoices in the master database.
US07774340B2
A system for calculating the importance of web pages is provided. The web pages are organized hierarchically into collections. The system calculates the importance of each collection based on inter-collection links from a web page in one collection to a web page in another collection. The system then calculates the importance of web pages in the collections with a high calculated importance based on links between the web pages in those collections using, for example, a conventional page rank algorithm. The system may also calculate the importance of web pages in each collection with a low calculated importance separately based on the links between the web pages in the collection using, for example, a conventional page rank algorithm.
US07774337B2
A method for controlling a relational database system, with a query statement comprised of keywords being analyzed, with the RTN being formed of independent RTN building blocks. Each RTN building block has an inner, directed decision graph which is defined independently from the inner, directed decision graphs of the other RTN building blocks with at least one decision position along at least one decision path. The inner decision graphs of all RTN building blocks are run by means of the keywords in a selection step and all possible paths of this decision graph are followed until either no match with the respectively selected path is determined by the decision graph and the process is interrupted, or the respectively chosen path is run until the end.
US07774336B2
A method is disclosed for executing a predetermined query plan, the method comprising: executing a portion of the query plan; providing a reordered query plan; comparing ranking metrics for the query plans; and executing the query plan having the lower ranking metric.
US07774332B2
Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing.
US07774331B2
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.
US07774328B2
A fact repository supports searches of facts relevant to search queries comprising keywords and phrases. A service engine retrieves the objects that are associated with facts relevant to the query. The objects are displayed on a search results page. Each object is displayed with selection of the facts associated with the object. The selected facts are ordered according to their relevance to the query.
US07774322B2
A file operations engine is provided that manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system. The operation engine may provide a user with the option to keep both files that have a file name conflict. It may further permit the user to rename a file involved with a file name conflict. The operations engine may also automatically rename one of the files of a file name conflict by appending a character to a root of the filename. The character may include the lowest integer available for the root in a destination for the files. The operations engine may provide the option to keep both files as part of a pre-calculation of potential errors for a requested operation. The operations engine may place file name conflicts in an error queue and permit the user to select an option to keep both files after the conflict is encountered.
US07774320B1
Systems, methods, computer program products, and means are provided for verifying the integrity of data structures. A system includes a first data structure, a second data structure, and a fingerprint block. The first data structure has a first set of unique identifiers. The second data structure has a second set of unique identifiers. The fingerprint block verifies correspondence between the first and second data structures by performing a mathematical function on the first and second sets of unique identifiers to produce a result indicative of correspondence.
US07774319B2
In an embodiment, a database interface performs a three-step optimistic database access. The database interface initially performs an optimistic read of a database object. The database object is checked for consistency after the optimistic read. If the database object is inconsistent, a first pessimistic read is performed with an isolation level that does not guarantee consistency (e.g., with an isolation level of committed read). The database object is checked again for consistency after the first pessimistic read. If the database object is inconsistent, a second pessimistic read is performed with an isolation level that may guarantee consistency (e.g., with an isolation level of repeatable read).
US07774309B2
A method and apparatus for obtaining data from a cluster of cache nodes in a tree-based structure is disclosed. A querying cache node outside a partition group queries data of a cache node of the partition group. The partition group is made of one or more cache nodes of the cluster, where an instance of a cache node in the partition group is copied to each cache node in the partition group. The instance of the data of the cache nodes of the partition group is copied to the querying cache node. The partition group is adjusted to include the querying cache node as a member of the partition group.
US07774306B1
A method of file management in an electronic processing system includes defining in the electronic system an electronic file of a selected file type and at least one electronic sub-folder within the electronic file for storing information of a corresponding information type. Roles are defined in the electronic processing system for participants creating and utilizing the electronic file, including a role for an information collector. The information collector is electronically tasked to collect information of the information type, which is uploaded and selectively stored in the sub-folder in the electronic file. Selected participants are allowed to access the electronic file as defined by the corresponding role.
US07774302B2
A computer program product and computer system for implementing a method that generates an n-dimensional matrix presentation of at least part of an m-dimensional database including data records and at least two key dimensions. Each key dimension includes data value fields. Each data value field has real data therein. A sorting sequence of fact numbers is calculated. The fact numbers identify the data records. Entry points for each dimension of the n-dimensional matrix presentation are calculated. Each entry point is calculated to be linked with a corresponding fact number of the sorting sequence. A cardinality of the n-dimensional matrix presentation is calculated in dependence on the calculated sorting sequence and the calculated corresponding entry points. The n-dimensional matrix presentation is generated based on the calculated cardinality and the calculated entry points.
US07774294B2
A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and receiving content selection actions from the user. The method further includes analyzing the date, day, and time of content selection actions by the user and analyzing descriptive terms associated with the selected content items to learn a periodicity of user selections of similar content items. In response to subsequent searches by the user, the method calls for selecting and ordering a collection of content items for presentation to the user based on comparing the user's search input to descriptive terms associated with content items and based on the learned periodicities of the user.
US07774292B2
Disclosed is a method and system for the use of virtual robots (Bots) to assist in the answering of inquiries from persons over the Internet, telephone, wireless, or other form of electrical, digital, or electronic communication. Such method and system consists of (1) a Bot processor consisting of (a) a connection interface capable of receiving, directly or indirectly, inputs from a user in natural or machine language, which the Bot processor then responds to in natural or machine language, and (b) an engine capable of recognizing an input and providing a response; and (2) a service desk consisting of (a) a human being, (b) a connection interface that connects directly or indirectly to the Bot processor and to the front end, and (c) a display where the human being can see, in humanly comprehensible form, information transmitted by the user and/or the Bot processor.
US07774284B2
The present invention provides a plurality of Enterprises with a single online user interface with which the Enterprise can provide Enterprise Shippers, shipping origination users and shipping intermediary users with an automated parcel management system for a plurality of supported Carriers for a plurality of services. The present invention provides for the hierarchical definition of users, including the establishment of at least one user for each Enterprise as a Super-Administrator with the highest level of privileges and authority for the Enterprise, and the identification of other users as Sub-Administrators, Desktop Users and Shipping Station Users. The present invention also provides for the hierarchical definition of organizational units within each Enterprise, including the definition of sites, groups within a site, and users within a group. The present invention further provides for a distinct definition of policies, privileges, and other types of specifications for each user level, each user, and each organizational unit. The present invention applies the user and organizational policies, privileges and other specifications as they apply to each particular user to drive the interactive interface with each particular user and to provide among other things, shipping options, shipping services, shipping rates, traveler and/or shipping label preparation, and shipment tracking.
US07774283B2
A method facilitating a transaction between a camera-phone user and a business entity. The business entity produces a printed medium indicating a transaction. The printed medium includes a barcode that includes direct contact data for communicating with the business entity. The barcode further includes specific transaction data relating to the transaction in the printed medium. Using the digital camera feature, the user captures a digital image of the barcode. The camera-phone is programmed to decode the digital image to retrieve the direct contact data and the transaction data embedded in the barcode. The camera-phone then automatically initiates a direct communication with the business entity via the mobile communications device using the decoded direct contact data. One communications are established, the camera phone further transmits the transaction data derived from the barcode to further facilitate the transaction.
US07774282B2
Methods, apparatus, and media for controlling supply of a utility service to a load are disclosed. Generally, the embodiments may involve receiving representation of utility service supply to a load, receiving and storing in a computer data storage device a usage range representation comprising at least one expected value of utility input to the load and/or at least one expected value of output from the load, and producing a control signal for use by a utility service supply controlling device when usage is outside of usage range representation. Control signal can be operable to cause the utility service supply controlling device to restrict or interrupt the supply of the utility service to the load.
US07774280B2
A method, system and device for transferring rights adapted to be associated with items from a rights supplier to a rights consumer, including obtaining a set of rights associated with an item, the set of rights including meta-rights specifying derivable rights that can be derived from the meta-; determining whether the rights consumer is entitled to the derivable rights specified by the meta-rights; and deriving at least one right from the derivable rights, if the rights consumer is entitled to the derivable rights specified by the meta-rights, wherein the derived right includes at least one state variable based on the set of rights and used for determining a state of the derived right.
US07774279B2
Processes and systems for offering and granting digital rights that govern distribution and usage of content, services and resources. The processes and systems provide a basis for flexible business models and negotiation transactions between content providers and users. The concept of meta-rights, which permit digital rights to be derived, permits upstream parties in a content distribution chain to dictate rights granted and received by downstream parties. Therefore, each transaction can be considered as a two party transaction between a rights supplier and a rights consumer.
US07774276B1
A method and system for dealing with non-paying bidders related to network-based transactions in which a submission of a complaint to a network-based facility is facilitated. The complaint is related to a party who has failed to complete a transaction. A resolution of the complaint is facilitated. A record associated with the part is updated if the complaint is not resolved. The record indicates a count of failed transactions related to the party. A submission of a refund request can also be facilitated if the complaint is not resolved.
US07774275B2
A method and system provides for the use of credit arrangements in simulated environments. A user can participate in credit transactions involving purchases of virtual products, virtual services, and virtual items of value. Feedback is provided to the user regarding results of the credit transactions. In some embodiments multiple users can make simulated purchases or incur simulated credit obligations that are posted to virtual accounts, and the multiple users can also make simulated compensation against balances due or obligations owed for said virtual accounts. The user is also provided with an opportunity of engaging in real-world financial transactions related to the virtual credit arrangement. In some implementations of the system and method, multiple players at different locations can use virtual charge accounts and/or real world financial accounts in connection with arranging or resolving a virtual credit transaction. One aspect makes a virtual charge account service available for use in a fictional world environment, wherein a billing statement charges various fees that may be valuated in fictional world money, real-world money, or non-monetary fictional world value tokens.
US07774274B2
A payment card processing system and method is provided that allows an account holder to upgrade a private label card to a dual card. The dual card may be used for both private label transactions and bankcard transactions. Methods for upgrading to the dual card account include selecting a private label account having associated monetary and non-monetary data and maintained on a first processing platform for upgrade to a dual card account, creating the dual card account on a second processing platform, transferring the non-monetary data associated with the private label account from the first processing platform to the second processing platform for association with the dual card account, and initiating a trailing activity process to identify monetary and non-monetary activity associated with the private label account and update a cross reference table to associate the trailing activity with the dual card account.
US07774256B1
System and method to minimize accounting volatility from owning equities and other investment assets
A system computing performance statistics for an investment fund or similar investment vehicle, computing a minimum investment performance corridor guarantee provided by an underwriter, and computing the amount of reimbursement due, if any, from an underwriter if the investment is liquidated at a point in time. Also, the system accepts hypothetical data with respect to investment performance and underwriter terms. The system then illustrates underwriter risk exposure and potential investor reimbursements under different fact combinations.
US07774253B1
System and methods are disclosed to permit the retroactive application of an interest rate change to a loan. An entity acting as an agent for a loan agreement may allocate a portion of the interest collected on a loan into a margin reserve portion. The reserve amount may be increase or decreased as desired. Furthermore, the agent may hold or distribute the reserve amount according to the compliance, or lack of compliance, of the borrower to certain financial reporting procedures, including the meeting of certain financial goals. A pricing grid or performance grid may be included with the loan agreement to assist in the calculation of interest rate changes and changes to the reserve amount. In addition, traders on the secondary market for loans may minimize the risk of over-payment or under-payment.
US07774251B1
Systems and methods for providing dynamic integration and access to disparate data sources are described. The apparatus may include an internal data source access engine, an external data source access engine, an integration engine and a user interface module. The method may comprise receiving a request for bill-pay services from a user, first retrieving internal bill-pay information, second retrieving external bill-pay information, integrating the first retrieved and second retrieved information into a single unified graphical presentation, presenting the unified graphical presentation to the user.
US07774250B1
Systems and methods for providing valid responses to requests for quotations are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a system according to the invention preferably includes a server. The server includes a server storage device and a server processor connected to the server storage device. The server storage device preferably stores a server program for controlling the server processor. The server processor is preferably operative to receive a request from a requesting participant for a market-validated offer to sell an item; receive an offer price from a responding participant in response to the request; and provide a bid to an electronic marketplace, the bid including a price that is lower than the received offer price.
US07774240B2
Systems and methods are provided wherein a security deposit is used to facilitate a transaction with a customer. It is arranged for a benefit to be applied to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer. For example, a subsidy provider may offer to apply a subsidy amount to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of the task by the customer. It is also arranged for the customer to provide a security deposit. Based on the performance of the task by the customer, it is arranged for the security deposit to be returned to the customer.
US07774234B1
A method for selecting a seller in a multi-seller environment in which multiple sellers are offering for sale one or more goods desired by the buyer. A criterion for selecting a seller may be specified by the buyer or an intermediary. After identifying a seller offering the desired good(s) for sale, a seller is selected which best satisfies the criterion. More than one criterion may be specified. If the buyer desires to purchase multiple goods, a seller offering one or more of the multiple goods may be selected or a seller solution including a combination of sellers may be selected. A computer-implemented method and an apparatus for carrying out the computer-implemented method is also provided.
US07774233B2
A kiosk dispenses and receives recorded optical media using an interconnected central server, through an Internet Service Provider. The central server has databases and processing capabilities and is connected to a credit verification system. The databases collect inventory administration information and customer data (e.g., credit card information and email addresses) from the kiosks. The central server initiates credit verification, sends receipts to customers via email and maintains databases for remote inventory-control and administration of the kiosk network. A kiosk may identify a recorded disk for automated restocking and perform quality assessment of a recorded disk. The kiosk may provide publishing-on-demand or act as a portal for remotely served advertisements. The kiosk preferably includes a rotatable carousel with a selection of DVDs. A digital camera captures a digital image of a disk barcode and internal software rotates the image to “read” the barcode, to control inventory and access issues.
US07774231B2
A system for facilitating electronic payments in a food service setting using a mobile device is provided. The mobile device interacts with a proximity reader to verify user upon entry into a food establishment and the rest of the transaction such as ordering items and paying for said items is accomplished using messaging.
US07774221B2
A planning system including at least one business rule remote from at least one client, a meeting editor, wherein at least one meeting may be generated for the at least one client by the meeting editor in accordance with at least one of the at least one business rule, and at least one tracker communicatively connected to the meeting editor, wherein the at least one tracker tracks at least two data items selected from the group consisting of invitees to at least one of the at least one meetings, respondents to invitations to the meeting, at least one speaker of the meeting, at least one host of the meeting, finances of the meeting, and a venue of the meeting, and wherein the at least one tracker communicates the at least two data items with the meeting editor.
US07774220B2
The present invention is a project management method, system and software product for aiding a user in attaining goals. The system has a goal field for describing a goal, a plurality of obstacle fields for describing a plurality of obstacles to be overcome in attaining the goal, and a plurality of strategy fields for describing a plurality of strategies for overcoming the plurality of obstacles to achieve a result correlated with the goal. Each obstacle field in the plurality of obstacle fields is linked to the goal field, has a unique associated strategy field in the plurality of strategy fields, and is linked with the unique associated strategy field.
US07774217B1
Systems and methods provide customizable insurance according to consumer preferences. Demand simulators may be used to guide the creation of optimized packages of features, which consumers may select from to form an insurance product appropriate for their particular needs. Packages may be formed with a particular appeal to consumers with common characteristics. In addition, methods are provided for selling insurance products formed through an optimization process and providing corresponding insurance services.
US07774215B2
An integrated health care delivery network with enabling software and network technology to maximize bed resources, manage varying census levels, and avoid patient diversions through real-time monitoring, automation and communication, is disclosed. Preferably, the present invention is embodied in a bed management/census control dashboard (BMD) system that interfaces with and complements existing Admission/Discharge/Transfer (ADT) systems. The BMD system is an easy-to-use business intelligence application that is designed to allow administrators, clinicians and managers to easily access, analyze and display real-time patient and bed availability information from ancillary information systems, databases and spreadsheets. It enables users to see trends and relationships in hospital (bed) management data directly from their desktop personal computers.
US07774214B1
A health care claim payment system and method receives a claim for a health care service provided to a participant in a benefits plan. The claim is received by a payment services system, and a portion of the claim is payable by the participant. The payment services system remits the portion of the claim payable by the participant on behalf of the participant so that payment can be remitted to the provider in a single payment and accepts risk of delinquency and/or non-payment by the participant. In one example, the health care provider receives payment for the participant portion and employer portion of the claim within 30 days of issuing a health care service.
US07774210B1
A record and billing service system and method for use in health care offices. The system allows a health care agent to generate a visit form for a patient that keeps a record of the patient's health history and treatment records received at a healthcare facility. The visit form includes procedure and/or diagnoses information that is particular to a given health care provider or facility. Thus, the system generates the visit form, which shows the types of procedures, diagnosis, inventory, and the like normally provided in the health care office by the health care provider. The application can be customized to reflect specialties provided in that office or by that provider. The system also converts the types of procedures, diagnosis and inventory matters listed in the application into accurate billing records.
US07774197B1
Methods for building arbitrarily large language models are presented herein. The methods provide a scalable solution to estimating a language model using a large data set by breaking the language model estimation process into sub-processes and parallelizing computation of various portions of the process.
US07774195B2
A localization platform is used to localize data to one or more distinct markets. A matching component receives data to be localized and accesses different localization components and returns localized data corresponding to the input data. A data gathering component receives localized content from an input source that is external to the localization platform along with metadata that identifies the particular input source that provided the localized content. The data gathering component then only allows the particular input source that provided the localized content to modify that localized content.
US07774192B2
A method for text alignment of a first document and a second document that is a translation version of the first document. The method first divides paragraphs of the first and second documents into sub-sentential segments according to the punctuations in the language of the first and second documents. Each of sub-sentential segments corresponds to a plurality of words. After the sub-sentential segmenting process, pairs of alignment units are summarized from the first and second documents. The alignment units in the first and second documents are then aligned and scored mainly based on the probability of corresponding punctuations. To increase the alignment accuracy, the pairs of alignment units can also be aligned and scored based on at least one of length corresponding probability, match type probability, and lexical information. The method allows for fast, reliable, and robust alignment of document and translated document in two disparate languages.
US07774190B1
A method and apparatus for performing sleep and stall operations in a system that includes a device under test and that includes an emulator device that operates to perform a sequence of instructions in lock-step fashion with the device under test. When a first signal is received at the device under test, the device under test initiates the sleep function and turns off its clocks. When the clocks are turned off, the emulator device discontinues execution of the sequence of instructions. When the sleep function has been completed by the device under test a second signal is sent to the emulator device. Execution of the sequence of instructions is resumed when the number of clock signals received at the emulator device since the second signal was received equals a predetermined value.
US07774185B2
The detection of protein sequence alignments firstly generates protein blocks having n successive C-alpha atoms from two protein sequences. A matrix of the distance of protein atoms from said C-alpha atoms for each block is then determined. A difference matrix is determined from respective distance matrices representing the differences between the protein blocks of the two protein structures. A Cellular Automaton (CA) model is generated in an initial configuration based upon the difference matrix, and evolved through at least one generation using predetermined rules. The rules determine which CA cells remain live and which are set to be dead.
US07774181B2
A system and method of providing physics data generated by a physics simulation and consumed by main application are provided. The main application may incorporate different scene versions or varying physics-based complexity while running on systems having different hardware and software resources.
US07774175B2
Pie charts are respectively displayed at coordinate locations in each upper left corner of image data that indicates genes on a network diagram N by a genetic information display apparatus. These pie charts can also be displayed semi-transparently. Numerical values of gene expression information (including a first expression level, its expression level ratio, a second expression level and its expression level ratio) prior to a scale conversion can also be displayed by pointing to image data using a pointing device. Accordingly, the legibility of the gene expression information is enhanced, and can be understood intuitively and clearly.
US07774149B2
A water leakage-acoustic sensing method in a steam generator of a sodium-cooled fast reactor, the method including: calculating a standard deviation and an average of an octave band by octave band analysis of an input signal sound received from at least one predetermined acoustic sensor; comparing the calculated standard deviation and the calculated average of the octave band, and determining a size of the octave band based on a comparison result; calculating an average of standard deviations of the octave band recomposed by the determined size and normalizing the average of standard deviations; applying a predetermined weight, established by a predetermined neural network learning algorithm, to the normalized average of standard deviations; and generating leakage determination data based on the average of standard deviations to which the weight is applied.
US07774135B2
Disclosed are a navigation system and/or a point information display method and a program. The navigation system consists mainly of: a stream receiver that receives broadcast streams; a data decoder that samples a data signal from the received streams and decodes the data signal into character string information; a matching block that performs matching to compare a predetermined keyword, which is associated with position information specified in map information data, with stored keywords and searches a keyword consistent with the keyword contained in the character string information; a position information searching block that searches position information associated with the keyword contained in the character string information and detected to be consistent with a stored keyword by the matching block; and a display unit that displays the detected position information while superimposing it on a display image.
US07774134B1
A method and system for enabling one or more customers to search for a pharmacy store location. The method and system includes registering a customer with the network website; prompting the customer to enter a username and password; and displaying to the customer on the website at least one of a prescription order selection or a pharmacy data access selection. Additionally, the method and system includes receiving from the customer a particular prescription order via a communication network that connects a plurality of member pharmacies; performing a prescription drug interaction check for the particular prescription order; sending the customer a confirmation email corresponding to the received particular prescription order; determining a pharmacy store location based on at least one of the following: i) if the pharmacy store location is a drive through store location; or ii) if the pharmacy store location is a close store location to the customers; and displaying at least one closest pharmacy store location to a geographic location indicated by the customer.
US07774129B2
The start control device for a vehicle has previously stored a plurality of coolant temperature maps in association with information on a plurality of engines in which determination rotational speeds for use in determining whether or not the each engine has achieved complete combustion are determined for several different engine coolant temperatures. The start control device for a vehicle starts cranking when detecting a signal from an engine starting switch, selects a coolant temperature map associated with engine information acquired out of the plurality of coolant temperature maps, determines a determination rotational speed NE determined for the coolant temperature at start in the selected coolant temperature map, and terminates the cranking when the engine rotational speed reaches the determination rotational speed NE.
US07774123B2
An electronic control unit of a motor vehicle is connected to signal transmitters and generates output signals in response to a desired speed signal, a yaw signal, a target vehicle signal, and a wheel speed signal. The electronic control unit generates a trigger signal that limits the momentary speed (or momentarily the acceleration) of the motor vehicle for at least a value that substantially corresponds to a maximum of a distance X between the motor vehicle and a target motor vehicle at the same time of its leaving the detection area. The distance X is reduced by a shortening stretch DX to an effective distance Xeff that is dependent on at least one of an environmental condition environment (motorway, country road, town traffic), the speed of the target motor vehicle at the time of leaving the detection area, the momentary speed of the motor vehicle, and the bend radii of bends already driven through in the past within a predetermined period of time.
US07774118B2
An ECT_ECU executes a program that includes the steps of i) starting a TD (1) timer when a shift determination is made and a change amount ΔTH of a throttle opening amount is greater than ΔTH (1), ii) starting a TD (2) timer when ΔTH is greater than ΔTH (2), iii) outputting a shift command after time measured by the TD (2) timer reaches a predetermined period of time unless a shift determination is made, and iv) executing shift control based on the shift command that was output.
US07774115B2
An airbag deployment system including at least one module housing, at least one deployable airbag associated with each housing, an inflator associated with each housing for inflating the airbag(s) to deploy into the passenger compartment, an airbag inflation determination unit for determining that deployment of the airbag(s) is/are desired, and respective electronic control units arranged within or proximate each housing and coupled to a respective inflator and the airbag inflation determination unit for initiating the inflator to inflate the airbag(s) in the respective housing upon receiving a signal from the airbag inflation determination unit. The control units include a power supply for enabling initiation of the inflator.
US07774110B2
A failure diagnosis apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus includes a diagnosis processing section for executing failure diagnosis processing on a device of the vehicle to generate a diagnosis result. The apparatus also includes a data managing section for managing data of the diagnosis result. After an execution condition is met for failure diagnosis, the diagnosis processing section outputs an execution demand to the data managing section for the failure diagnosis processing. In response to the execution demand, the data managing section outputs an execution permission to the diagnosis processing section for the failure diagnosis processing. Also, after the execution condition is met for the failure diagnosis, the diagnosis processing section starts executing the failure diagnosis processing regardless of whether the execution permission has been outputted by the data managing section. A method of failure diagnosis is also disclosed.
US07774109B2
A hybrid-electric vehicle powertrain control is trained to predefined trips, enabling efficient use of torque events during such trips.
US07774103B2
A system for estimating vehicle side-slip in the linear vehicle operating region that includes updating front and rear cornering stiffness signals. The system includes a first state observer processor that employs a bicycle model with state feedback for generating yaw acceleration and lateral acceleration signals. The system further includes a subtractor that receives the yaw acceleration and lateral acceleration signals and measured yaw rate and lateral acceleration signals, and generates yaw acceleration and lateral acceleration error signals. A parameter estimation processor calculates an updated front cornering stiffness and rear cornering stiffness signals. The updated front and rear cornering stiffness signals are sent back to the first state observer processor, and are used by second state observer processor for generating the estimated vehicle side-slip.
US07774102B2
The present disclosure describes an HVAC system and means for communication between an integrated system of individual controllers for interactively controlling various components in the HVAC system. Various embodiments of an HVAC system are provided that may comprise at least two controllers that communicate with each other to provide a method of controlling the operation of an HVAC system, based on a communication protocol utilized by each of the various controllers. The communication protocol provides for establishing communication between a sending controller and at least one other controller that is the intended recipient. The communication protocol also provides for monitoring of communication signals by one or more controllers in the system, where the one or more controllers monitor communication signals which are intended for other recipient controllers to thereby listen to information being communicated.
US07774098B2
To generate a desired gait of a robot 1 such that a permissible range of a predetermined component (a translational floor reaction force horizontal component or the like) of a floor reaction force acting on the mobile robot 1, a gait generating system for a mobile robot creates a provisional motion, which indicates a provisional value of a desired motion, and repeats processing for correcting the provisional motion by using a first dynamic model and a second dynamic model having a dynamic accuracy that is higher than that of the first dynamic model until a predetermined condition is satisfied, thereby obtaining a final corrected motion as the desired motion. Relative to the provisional motion and a corrected motion at each correction, a difference between a predetermined component of a floor reaction force produced on the second dynamic model and a predetermined component of a floor reaction force produced on the first dynamic model is determined as a floor reaction force error, and a change amount of the error at each correction is also determined. A corrected motion when the change amount has converged to zero is determined as the desired motion.
US07774097B2
An automatic prescription drug dispenser including a remote dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network. The remote dispenser transmits and receives information from the communications network and dispenses prescription drugs to the patient. The prescription entry system transmits and receives information from the communications network and provides an input system for the prescriber to electronically enter individual prescriptions for each patient. The communications network coordinates communications between the doctor, insurance carrier, and the remote dispenser. The remote dispenser stores, retrieves, and labels prescription drug and over-the-counter products directly to patients through a remote automated dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network. The remote dispenser transmits and receives information from the communications network and dispenses drugs to the patient. The prescription entry system transmits and receives information from the communications network and provides an input system for the doctor to electronically enter individual prescriptions for each patient. The communications network coordinates communications between the prescriber, insurance carrier, and the remote dispenser. Also described are various embodiments of apparatus and method of the invention useful in pharmacy settings as for example found in drug stores or “big box” retailers or other such settings. Other methods include providing a remote dispenser in virtually any location.
US07774095B2
Disclosed is a system and program for using storage slots efficiently. A storage element count is assigned to each one of multiple logical libraries, and the sum of the storage element count for each one of the multiple logical libraries exceeds the total number of storage slots in the library.
US07774094B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for selecting a source cluster in a distributed storage configuration. A measurement module measures system factors for a plurality of clusters over a plurality of instances. The clusters are in communication over a network and each cluster comprises at least one tape volume cache. A smoothing module applies a smoothing function to the system factors, wherein recent instances have higher weights. A lifespan module calculates a mount-to-dismount lifespan for each cluster from the smoothed system factors. A selection module selects a source cluster for accessing an instance of a specified volume in response to the mount-to-dismount lifespans and a user policy.
US07774085B2
A printing apparatus, method, and computer program of designing a floating roller in a tensioning system adapted to one of supply and receive a web of material to or from one of a web supply and a processing machine, comprising inputting external radius of said floating roller, measure of elasticity of the material, a thickness of the material, width of the material, and angles at which the material contacts the floating roller; and adjusting mass of the floating roller and rotational inertia of the floating roller based on external radius of the floating roller, measure of elasticity of the material, thickness of the material, width of the material, and angles at which the material contacts the floating roller such that the floating roller maintains a constant tension on the web of material as the material is passing through the tensioning system.
US07774078B2
One embodiment can be characterized as a method of data analysis for an audio player comprising analyzing at least a portion of audio data; selecting a sound profile based upon the analysis of the audio data; adjusting sound field settings according to the sound profile; and outputting at least a portion of the audio data according to the sound field settings. Another embodiment can be characterized as an audio player device comprising an audio analysis circuit adapted to determine a characteristic of audio data; a profile selection circuit adapted to select a sound profile corresponding to the characteristic of audio data; and a sound field circuit adapted to adjust sound field settings according to the sound profile.
US07774077B1
An audio context object gathers multiple channels of audio data from an audio device and stores each channel of data separately in a ring buffer. Clients of the audio context can request any number of channels of data at any interval from the audio context. Multiple clients can share the same audio device. The ring buffer used by the audio context object stores the channels of audio data in a two-dimensional array such that each channel of audio data is stored in contiguous memory.
US07774074B2
Apparatus and methods for controlling a system that operates responsive to a plurality of input control signals are disclosed. During operation the system generates a plurality of output status/control signals. A master controller has at least first and second controllers. The first controller outputs and inputs signals over a first communication path, and the second controller outputs and inputs signals over a second communication path. The first and second controllers output signals based on input signals received over the first and second communication paths, respectively, and also based on stored control data. A plurality of input/output modules are provided. Each of the input/output modules has first and second slave controllers. The first slave controller of each of the input/output modules inputs and outputs signals over the first communication path to the first controller, and the second slave controller outputs and inputs signals over the second communication path. Each of the first slave controllers outputs and inputs signals to and from a first input/output circuit, and each of the second slave controllers outputs and inputs signals to and from a second input/output circuit. Each of the input/output modules also includes a combiner circuit. At least some of the input control signals for controlling the system are generated by the combiner circuit of each input/output module based on signals output from both the first and second input/output circuits. The output control signals for controlling the system are generated based on output status/control signals from the system that are coupled to each of the first and second input/output circuits of the input/output modules.
US07774072B2
An assembly comprises at least two elongated members that are attached together via one or more attachment elements such that the elongated members each define unattached distal branches. The elongated members are configured to deliver a therapy from a medical device to at least one target tissue site within a patient. Each elongated member may deliver the therapy to a different target tissue site.
US07774068B1
Systems and methods for treating movement disorders using cortical stimulation. In one embodiment, a method for treating movement disorders comprises determining a site at the cortex of the brain of a patient related to a movement disorder (e.g., restless leg syndrome) of an afflicted body part. The site can be determined by obtaining a representation of neural activity occurring in the cortex of the patient and correlating an area of neural activity with the afflicted body part. The method can also include applying neural stimulation, such as electrical or magnetic waveforms, directly to the site.
US07774066B2
An implantable medical device having a case with therapeutic componentry contained with the case. A module has a rail around at least a portion of a perimeter of the module and is adapted to be mechanically secured to the case. The case has a rigid fastening channel adapted to receive the rail of the module. The rigid fastening channel has an opening allowing the rail of the module to drop into the rigid fastening channel through the opening and then slide along the rigid fastening channel to be mechanically secured to the case.
US07774063B2
A method and device for detecting cardiac signals in a medical device that includes decomposing sensed cardiac signals using a wavelet function to form a corresponding wavelet transform, generating a first wavelet representation corresponding to the wavelet transform that is responsive to RR intervals of the sensed cardiac signals, generating a second wavelet representation that is not responsive to RR intervals associated with the sensed cardiac signals, determining a no lead failure zone in response to the first wavelet representation and the second wavelet representation, and distinguishing the cardiac event from a device failure in response to the determined no lead failure zone. The method and device may also include generating a wavelet representation corresponding to the wavelet transform that is not responsive to RR intervals of the sensed cardiac signals, determining RR intervals associated with the sensed cardiac signals, and determining a no lead failure zone in response to the wavelet representation and the determined RR intervals.
US07774062B2
This document discusses, among other things, detection of a sudden onset of a tachyarrhythmia. A sudden onset of tachyarrhythmia is determined by monitoring changes in intrinsic ventricular rate, such as by using one or more sensing channels in the ICD. A lowest tachyarrhythmia rate threshold is accompanied by a slightly lower “hysteresis tachyarrhythmia rate threshold.” If a sudden onset of tachyarrhythmia is declared, the sudden onset status is not reset by the ventricular rate falling below the lowest tachyarrhythmia rate threshold, but is instead reset by the ventricular rate falling below the slightly lower hysteresis tachyarrhythmia rate threshold.
US07774059B2
A subcutaneous cardiac device includes a subcutaneous electrode and a housing coupled to the subcutaneous electrode by a lead with a lead wire. The subcutaneous electrode is adapted to be implanted in a frontal region of the patient so as to overlap a portion of the patient's heart.
US07774058B2
A subcutaneous cardiac device includes a subcutaneous electrode and a housing coupled to the subcutaneous electrode by a lead with a lead wire. The subcutaneous electrode is adapted to be implanted in a frontal region of the patient so as to overlap a portion of the patient's heart.
US07774054B2
System and method for controlling insertion of a tracheal tube in a patient, comprising at least two electrodes adapted to be coupled to the patients chest for providing impedance measurements, a measuring instrument for performing the impedance measurement, said instrument also being provided with storage means for storing a first data set representing chosen characteristics of the impedance change during a first measurement, and evaluation means for comparing the first data set with a second data set representing the characteristics of a second impedance measurement, for evaluating the difference between said measurements and providing an evaluation signal, said first and second data sets representing impedance variations measured during lung inflation with and without an inserted tracheal tube.
US07774053B2
A neural probe array is provided for subdural implantation to record intracranial field potentials in the brain. The neural probe array includes a base having first and second sides and a plurality of apertures therebetween. A plurality of contacts are spaced along the first side of the base for recording the field potentials. It is contemplated to provide drug delivery through the apertures in the base in order to enhance the biocompatibility of the neural probe array and to utilize the field potentials recorded by the contacts to drive an external device.
US07774052B2
The systems of the present invention provide improved accuracy in monitoring, analysing, detecting, predicting and/or providing alerts and alarms associated with depth of anaesthesia, depth of consciousness, hypnotic state, sedation depth, fatigue or vigilance of a subject, with as few as 3 surface electrodes. The systems incorporate real-time phase, amplitude and frequency analysis of a subject's electro-encephalogram. The systems weight outputs of various types of analyses to produce an integrated analysis or display for precise indication or alert to users of the systems including anaesthetists, nurses and other medical personnel, transport drivers and machine workers. The systems weight the outputs of one or more analysis algorithms including combinations of simultaneous, real-time R&K analysis, AEP spectral analysis-SEF-MF, Bi-coherence analysis, initial wave analysis, auditory response, arousal analysis, body movement analysis, 95% spectral edge analysis and anaesthetic phase and spectral energy variance measurement in association with a subject's state of consciousness.
US07774051B2
The instant invention relates to an electrophysiology apparatus and method used to measure electrical activity occurring in a portion of tissue of a patient and to visualize the electrical activity and/or information related to the electrical activity. In particular, the instant invention relates to three-dimensional mapping of the electrical activity and/or the information related to the electrical activity.
US07774045B2
The invention provides a medical guiding system including: a position data calculating device for detecting position and orientation of an ultrasonic endoscope serving as a medical instrument; image storing section for storing medical image data obtained before use of the ultrasonic endoscope; a body position correcting section for correcting at least one of position and direction at least one of viscera and organ in the medical image data, in line with a body position of the subject; and an image configuring section for calculating a position of the ultrasonic endoscope in the medical image data corrected by body position correcting section, based on a position of the ultrasonic endoscope obtained by the position data calculating device.
US07774041B2
First time-density curves concerning arteries in a specific region and second time-density curves concerning tissues in the specific region are prepared from a plurality of continuous images concerning the specific region of a subject into which a contrast medium is injected. Modulation transfer functions indicating local blood flow circulations in the tissues with respect to the arteries are calculated by curve-fitting so that residual errors of the second time-density curves are minimized with respect to convolution of the modulation transfer functions and first time-density curves. Indices concerning the local blood flow circulations with respect to the respective arteries are calculated from the modulation transfer functions. Maps of the indices for the arteries are prepared, and the maps of these indices are synthesized into one map in accordance with the residual errors for the first time-density curves.
US07774040B1
A method and apparatus for multi-phase cardiac CT imaging includes an adaptive, selective reconstruction process that, when possible, implements an image or non-phase location driven reconstruction process to reconstruct cardiac CT images. If the hardware parameters support an image location driven reconstruction for the particular imaging session then the image location driven reconstruction is implemented. However, if image location driven reconstruction is not supported, a default phase location driven reconstruction is employed. Image location driven reconstruction improves system throughput and improves image quality as more cardiac phase locations can routinely be generated to better “freeze” the motion of the heart of a patient.
US07774039B2
An electrophysiology catheter introduced through the groin and inferior vena cava into the right side of the heart comprises an elongate flexible shaft having a steerable distal section and a prolapsing section located proximally of the distal section. The distal section is inserted into the coronary sinus and a back-steering force is applied to the catheter to anchor the distal section therein, after which the catheter is further advanced to prolapse the prolapsing section against the high right atrium. Electrical pathways in both the coronary sinus and the high right atrium are mapped using respective electrode pairs carried on the distal and prolapsing sections of the catheter.
US07774038B2
A system and method for calibrating a sensor of a characteristic monitoring system in real time utilizes a self-calibration module for periodic determination of, and compensation for, the IR drop across unwanted resistances in a cell. A current-interrupt switch is used to open the self-calibration module circuit and either measure the IR drop using a high-frequency (MHz) ADC module, or estimate it through linear regression of acquired samples of the voltage across the sensor's working and reference electrodes (Vmeasured) over time. The IR drop is then subtracted from the closed-circuit value of Vmeasured to calculate the overpotential that exists in the cell (Vimportant). Vimportant may be further optimized by subtracting the value of the open-circuit voltage (Voc) across the sensor's working and reference electrodes. The values of Vmeasured and Vimportant are then controlled by respective first and second control units to compensate for the IR drop.
US07774028B1
A system for providing multiple graphical representations for wireless network devices indicating status of the devices. The generated graphical representations of the devices are indicative of radio frequency channels the devices are operating on, as well as whether devices are on, off or in a standby mode. A device in standby mode monitors the wireless network to determine when it can resume normal operation. A menu or other interface construct is generated to enable a user to determine additional properties of the devices, such as addresses. Device representations may also indicate that devices are operating within the wireless network, but do not support one or more functions associated the system for managing the wireless network.
US07774024B2
A print medium is provided which has a surface provided with first coded data in a linear pattern encoding first information and second coded data in a two-dimensional coordinate grid encoding second information. The first and second information are indicative of a print media identifier linked to a web page. The print media identifier is able to be determined using a sensor module of a mobile telecommunications device. The web page is retrievable from a database using the print media identifier.
US07774020B2
A computer-based method and system for ascertaining whether multiple radios available for connection to a mobile computing device are associated with a single wireless device comprise the steps of: using the mobile computing device to receive data from a radio of a wireless device; querying a database to ascertain whether the mobile computing device has previously identified that radio; if not, sending a request for identifying information to the radio; if no response is received, scanning the received data from the radio to look for and capture identifying information; processing the captured identifying information into a simplified name; querying the database to ascertain whether the mobile computing device has previously identified another radio with a similar simplified name, which indicates that the respective radios are associated with a single wireless device; communicating information that the respective radios are associated with a single wireless device to one or more software applications; and storing the simplified name in the database for future queries.
US07774011B2
Disclosed are a method, a User Equipment (UE) and a system for providing a simultaneous multiple session Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) multimedia service. A PoC client performing a PoC multimedia communication service participates in multiple sessions according to the setup of a user, and can simultaneously receive the same media streams without filtering in a PoC server when the same media streams are transmitted. Further, the PoC client can set a session, to which filtering is to be applied, from among a plurality of sessions and media types.
US07774002B1
Common search queries can be provided that are associated with a location. A location of a mobile device can be determined, and common search queries associated with the location can be transmitted to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device is able to execute the common search queries from the mobile device.
US07773989B2
When a native application and a downloaded application installed on a mobile equipment are simultaneously executed by multitask and when these applications try to use short-range wireless communication simultaneously, the short-range wireless communication may be unavailable because of restrictions on communication resources. An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method capable of performing communication management to permit the applications to use the short-range wireless communication, without a need for a complicated operation of especially terminating an application to release a communication resource in the foregoing case. A communication profile storage 105 stores combinations of communication profiles which can be simultaneously executed. A short-range wireless communication management unit 104 determines whether a communication process according to an instruction from an external application 102 can be executed, based on the communication profiles. When the short-range wireless communication process is determined not to be executed, a disconnection unit 108 notifies the external application 102 of unavailability of the communication.
US07773987B2
Techniques to reduce the amount of registration required by a mobile station in a wireless communication system, especially if the registration zones are defined to be small areas. In one scheme, a mobile station registers (e.g., at RR-level) with a network entity (e.g., a base station) each time it enters a new registration zone, which can correspond to an R-TMSI zone defined by GSM MC-MAP. The mobile station maintains a timer for each zone with which it has already registered but has since left. If the mobile station leaves a particular zone for a period longer than a time-out period, the registration with that zone times out, and the mobile station re-registers with that zone whenever it re-enters the zone. The mobile station may implement zone-based, timer-based, implicit, traffic channel RR, and some other registrations, or a combination thereof. Parameters to facilitate registration may be defined by a base station.
US07773983B2
Provided is an application filtering apparatus for controlling session, which is coupled to a network which is coupled to a plurality of terminal devices, a first server for managing subscriber information of the terminal devices, and a second server for providing a service to the terminal devices, the application filtering apparatus comprising: an interface coupled to the network; a processor coupled to the memory; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the application filtering apparatus is configured to: obtain the subscriber information from the first server; obtain, when one of the terminal devices sends a session control message to the second server, an identifier of the terminal device that has sent from the received session control message; and send, based on the obtained subscriber information and the obtained identifier of the terminal device, an instruction to control the service to the second server via the interface.
US07773981B2
A base station control portion 200 selects one or plural signals from signals received by plural settable communication paths in accordance with the state of the wave. A wireless communication apparatus 110 communicates with a wireless terminal 300 and a wired communication network. When the wireless communication apparatus 110 receives a request for upgrading software from a network management device 250, the wireless communication apparatus 110 controls the state of the transmission wave of a wireless interface so as to switch a communication path in which communication services are being provided to another wireless communication apparatus 110 without blackouts, rewrites the set software to software having been received through a wired interface in advance, returns the state of the transmission wave of the wireless interface and upgrades software without blackouts of the supply of communication services to the wireless terminal 300.
US07773976B2
Sharing content among users of mobile devices is facilitated and controlled by a system and method that employs a content sharing application to receive and process requests to share content among users of devices such as mobile devices and personal computers. Recipients receive share content messages from the content sharing application indicating that they have been selected to access shared content. Such messages may provide direct or indirect access to the shared content via the recipient mobile device. Recipients can specify privacy management schemes to limit or control the receipt of such messages. The content sharing application may also provide various spam filtering techniques that prevent users from abusing the system, including restricting the number or type of requests to share content that may be effectuated over time.
US07773973B2
An authentication method and a method for transmitting authentication information, and the method for transmitting authentication information includes: an MS and a network agree in advance one or more agreed operations to be performed when the network determines that the SQNMS is an agreed value; the MS generating an authentication resynchronization token (AUTS) by using the agreed value, sending a resynchronization request containing the AUTS to the network; upon receiving the resynchronization request and determining that the SQNMS of the AUTS is the agreed value, the network performing the one or more agreed operations. The method of transmitting authentication information from the MS to the network conveniently implement the information transmitting between the MS and the network and guarantee the network security without increasing and changing the existing signaling resources and authentication parameters.
US07773968B2
A receiver (1300) includes a mixing digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (1306), a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) (132A) and an interface (134D). The mixing DAC (1306) includes a radio frequency (RF) transconductance section (1308) and a switching section (1310). The RE transconductance section (1308) includes an input for receiving an RF signal and an output for providing an RE current signal. The switching section (1310) is coupled to the RF transconductance section (1308) and includes inputs for receiving bits associated with a digital local oscillator (LO) signal and an output that is configured to provide an analog output signal. The DDFS (132A) includes outputs configured to provide the bits associated with the digital LO signal to the inputs of the switching section (1310). The interface (134D) is coupled to the DDFS (132A) and is configured to align the bits provided by the DDFS (132A) with a first clock signal.
US07773964B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, processors and computer-readable media include a radiated testing module that executes a predetermined radiated performance test on a wireless device. The test dictates various performance-related parameters to measure and log at each of a plurality of predetermined positions. Further, the wireless device receives synchronization information operable to enable synchronization between the logged measurements and each of the positions. The synchronized log allows the wireless device, or another apparatus, to determine a radiated performance characteristic based on a predetermined analysis protocol. Further, the described embodiments allow for the determination of several radiated performance characteristics in a single test, using a single, unaltered wireless device.
US07773961B2
A base station is disclosed for communicating with a subscriber station in a wireless network without requiring training signaling overhead. The base station is capable of combining a pilot signal with a data symbol and transmitting the combined pilot signal and data symbol to the subscriber station. A power level of the pilot signal is below a power level of the data symbol. The base station may be a single-input, single-output (SISO) antenna system or a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system.
US07773951B2
A method and apparatus for generating channel quality information, such as may be used for transmit link adaptation, provide different operating modes, such as a first mode that may be used when propagation channel estimates are not reliable, and a second mode that may be used when the propagation channel estimates are reliable. In one or more embodiments, channel quality information is generated using receiver performance information that characterizes receiver performance in terms of a defined channel quality metric, e.g., supported data rates, for different values of receiver input signal quality over a range of propagation channel realizations. Channel quality information can be generated by selecting channel quality metrics according to receiver input signal quality and a desired probability of meeting a defined performance requirement over a range of propagation channel realizations, or by selecting channel quality metrics according to receiver input signal quality and particularized propagation channel realizations.
US07773945B2
An RFID reader analog front end architecture employs multiplexed use of a single analog to digital converter in order to digitize the inphase and quadrature components of the incoming signal from the reader's receiving antenna. The Type 1 architecture includes an analog I/Q switch that controls which of the baseband signals will be digitized by a single Analog to Digital Converter. In the Type 2 architecture, the I/Q switch is moved so that it is directly adjacent to the receive mixers, requiring only one antialiasing filter block and gain block. In the Type 3 architecture, one mixer and its associated filtering chain are eliminated. The Type 4 architecture provides for selection of transmitter phase basis by means of an I/Q switch operating under control of the DSP that phase-shifts the transmitter with respect to the receiver.
US07773928B2
A transfer-separation device includes an intermediate transfer unit, a secondary transfer roller, a repulsive roller, a transfer unit, and a charge-eliminating/separating member. The secondary transfer roller and the repulsive roller form a nip through which the intermediate transfer unit and a recording medium pass. The transfer unit applies a bias voltage of a polarity identical to that of a toner image to the repulsive roller to secondarily transfer the toner image onto the recording medium. The charge-eliminating/separating member separates the recording medium from the intermediate transfer unit by removing charge therefrom. The volume resistance of the repulsive roller is greater than that of the secondary transfer roller. The surface resistance of the secondary transfer roller is equal to or greater than 106.5 ohm.
US07773925B2
A misregistration correcting unit correcting image misregistration on an endless belt in an electrophotographic image forming apparatus is disclosed that includes an image creation part that creates on the endless belt misregistration correction pattern sets each including a pattern of mark groups each being one of a horizontal line mark group formed of horizontal line segment marks and an oblique line mark group formed of oblique line segment marks; a position detecting part that detects the mark positions; a position detection counting part that counts the number of the detected positions of each mark group and detects an abnormal mark group whose number of the detected positions is other than a prescribed number; a detection result storing part that stores information on the detected mark positions; and a misregistration calculating part that calculates the amount of misregistration based on the stored position information excluding that of the abnormal mark group.
US07773921B2
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image carrying member, a two-component developer carrying member holding on an outer surface a developer containing carrier beads and toner particles, the two-component developer carrying member having a first magnetic element mounted therein, a toner carrying member carrying a thin toner layer on an outer surface, a toner collecting roller for collecting the toner particles scattered and suspended in the vicinity of the two-component developer carrying member and the toner carrying member, the toner collecting roller having a second magnetic element mounted therein, and a housing accommodating the two-component developer carrying member, the toner carrying member and the toner collecting roller. The toner collecting roller is located face to face with the two-component developer carrying member with the first and second magnetic elements disposed to face each other with oppositely directed polarities.
US07773911B2
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus detachably mounts plural process cartridges. Each cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum frame and a roller frames movable between a contact position where the roller contacts the drum and a spacing position where the roller is spaced from the drum. The apparatus includes a drawing member detachably mounting the cartridges and movable substantially horizontally crossing an axial direction of the drums between a mount position where the cartridges are mounted in a main assembly of the apparatus and a drawn position drawn out of the main assembly, a spacer movable between a retracted position where the drawing member is retracted from a movement path of the cartridges to permit movement of the mounted cartridges and an operating position where the drawing member is in the movement path to move the drum frames between the contact and spacing positions.
US07773900B2
The image forming apparatus includes image forming parts, a developing device and a cleaner to clean at least the intermediate transfer material or the transfer device, wherein at the image forming operation starting time, in each image forming part, after starting the charging, the application of the developing bias is started before the top end of the charging portion of the image bearing member surface reaches a developing area in which the image bearing member and the developer bearing member are set against each other, and from among the areas on the image bearing member in which the charging is not yet performed in each image forming part, in case each area having passed the developing area when the developing bias is applied is brought into contact with the intermediate transfer member, the contact area with each area in the intermediate transfer member is controlled without superposing on the intermediate transfer member.
US07773898B2
This invention provides an image forming apparatus capable of outputting, without using any special device, an image which is free from changes in density and tint even upon crisscross rotation and exhibits good proportion of a small character. To accomplish this, the pulse width of a laser emission signal is controlled at 16 levels for one dot at 600 dpi, controlling an actual image in the main scanning direction. When adjusting vertical and horizontal line widths, patch data are created by rotating an anisotropic pattern through 0° and 90° (S1 in FIG. 5). Then, a reader/scanner (15) reads each patch as density data (S2 in FIG. 5). A pulse width, that is, line width correction value at which the densities of the patch patterns rotated through 0° and 90° become equal to each other is obtained (S3 in FIG. 5).
US07773895B2
An image forming apparatus capable of detecting the density of an image patter with a sufficient accuracy irrespective of the color and/or the density of the image pattern, making it possible to carry out color stabilizing control of an output image with high accuracy. An image pattern formed on a transfer material is read by an optical sensor, and based on information on the image pattern, image forming conditions are controlled by a controller. In accordance with the color and the density of the image pattern, an accumulation time of the optical sensor is set.
US07773884B2
A method and apparatus for automatic shut-down and start-up of optical amplifiers in wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical networks include use of an optical channel monitor (OCM) to monitor loss and return of an input signal. By using the OCM to separately monitor the power level of each individual channel, it is possible to detect loss of all channels or return of a single channel even in the presence of ASE at the amplifier input. The OCM receives a fraction of the input power to the amplifier via an optical tap at the amplifier input, and provides an electrical output to a control unit corresponding to the optical power level of each individual WDM channel. Based on this electrical output, the control sends a shut-down or start-up signal to the pump unit within the amplifier.
US07773880B2
An optical access system capable of avoiding cutoffs or interruption in the periodically transmitted signals that occur during the ranging time is provided. A first method to avoid signal cutoffs is to stop periodic transmit signals at the transmitter during the ranging period, and transmit all the periodic transmit signals together when the ranging ends, and buffer the signals at the receiver to prepare for ranging. A second method is to fix definite periods ahead of time for performing ranging, then cluster the multiple periodic transmit signals together in sets at the transmitter and send them, and then disassemble those sets back into signals at the receiver. The transmitting and receiving is then controlled so that the transmit periods do not overlap with the ranging periods. In this way an optical access system is provided that can send and receive signals requiring periodic transmissions without interruption even during ranging operation.
US07773874B2
A focus detection method for detecting a focus state based on object images formed through a photographing optical system in at least one focus detection area, while performing a search operation, includes determining at least one support area which overlaps the focus detection area; determining an in-focus position of the focusing lens group in the focus detection area to be an in-focus position of the focusing lens group when a brightness of the object is one of equal to and higher than a predetermined value; and determining an in-focus position of the focusing lens group upon an in-focus state being detected in the focus detection area and in the support areas which overlaps the focus detection area when the brightness of the object is lower than the predetermined value.
US07773870B2
A biometric authentication apparatus includes an illumination section, an imaging section, a photographic subject placing section, and an authentication section. The illumination section irradiates at least near infrared light onto a biological portion placed in contact with a housing surface. The imaging section images a near infrared light image of the biological portion. The photographic subject placing section is provided in the vicinity of the illumination section, in which at least a part of the light emanation portion of the illumination section on a side where the imaging section is disposed is covered by the photographic subject when the photographic subject is placed. The authentication section performing biometric authentication by making a comparison between a specific pattern extracted from the near infrared light image of the biological portion imaged by the imaging section and a preliminarily registered specific pattern.
US07773869B2
A light diffusion box for photographic use comprises a box body which has an inner surface for reflecting light and an opening at its one end, a light source mounted at the bottom of the box body, and a light-transmitting member. The light-transmitting member includes a light-transmitting area having a specific shape and a light-blocking area formed at the periphery of the light-transmitting area. The light-transmitting area may is of any suitable shape, such as any one of circular, elliptic, stripe, quinquangular, octagonal shape. By forming a light-transmitting area having a specific shape in the light-transmitting member, the light spot projected from the soft light box can exhibit any specific shape, thereby meeting the need of a variety of purposes in photography.
US07773859B1
A recording system uses electronic program guide information to resolve conflicts between programs that have been selected by a viewer for recording. The recording system allows the viewer to select conflicting (i.e., coinciding) programs for recording, while communicating to the viewer that a conflict exists. Conflicts can be automatically resolved in response to a dynamic change to the recording system, such as an increase in the number of tuners available for recording. Conflicts can also be automatically resolved as senior conflicting programs are taken off the broadcast schedule or are deselected by the viewer. A junior program that conflicts with a senior repeating program can be scheduled for recording by removing from the recording schedule only those instances of the senior repeating program that actually conflict with the junior program, while keeping non-conflicting showings of the repeating program on the schedule. The recording system can also search the electronic program guide for alternate showings of a selected episode of a conflicting program, such that the conflict can be resolved if a non-conflicting showing of the episode is found.
US07773857B2
The audio-visual program editing process comprises: in an iterative manner, a step (200) of editing the combined image comprising: a step (210) of selecting an image source, a step (230) of selecting a part of the selected image and a step (250) of selecting a display format for the said selected image part, in a combined image; after the end of the step of editing the combined image, a step (270) of memorizing each image source, each image part and each display format of the combined image and a step (280) of displaying the combined image, in the course of which, the display of each image part is automatically refreshed.
US07773845B2
An optical fiber transmits at least a signal light having a wavelength of 1550 nanometers in a fundamental propagation mode. The optical fiber has a cutoff wavelength equal to or longer than a wavelength of 1550 nanometers, a wavelength dispersion in the fundamental propagation mode at the wavelength of 1550 nanometers larger than 0 ps/nm/km, and a dispersion slope in the fundamental propagation mode at the wavelength of the signal light equal to or smaller than −0.05 ps/nm2/km.
US07773844B2
Method for reducing bandwidth loss in data center applications with multiple fiber type connectivity
A communications coupling for a low bandwidth fiber optic cable and a high bandwidth fiber optic cable, includes: a guiding ferrule adapted for coupling to a surrogate fiber optic cable comprised of one of the low bandwidth fiber optic cable and the high bandwidth fiber optic cable, the guiding ferrule including at least one mounting feature for aligning the guiding ferrule with an optical axis of the surrogate cable; the guiding ferrule further including at least one guiding feature for aligning the optical axis of the surrogate fiber optic cable with an optical axis of a connecting fiber optic cable, the connecting fiber optic cable comprised of the other one of the low bandwidth fiber optic cable and the high bandwidth fiber optic cable. A method and a communications infrastructure are provided.
US07773841B2
Fiber optic sensors commonly require a 180 degree turnaround to form a continuous optical circuit. Methods and apparatus for providing 180 degree turnarounds in a fiber optic system that include a shorter radius turnaround then provided by micro-bending the optic fiber are desired. An embodiment of a turnaround apparatus includes a first optic fiber pigtail, a second optic fiber pigtail, and an optical waveguide forming a U-shaped path having an input end optically connected to a first end of the first pigtail and an output end optically connected to a first end of the second pigtail.
US07773828B2
Target pixel blocks are picked up from a target image selected from a plurality of images picked up by an imaging device, motion vectors of these target pixel blocks are calculated between two images, and affine transformation coefficients for blur correction is calculated based on the motion vectors. Weighting coefficients are set for target pixel blocks based on a confidence level of the calculated motion vectors with respect to the image blur. For example, motion vectors in peripheral portion of the image is usually large in size, so that the confidence level of these may be enhanced.
US07773822B2
Systems including hardware and computer software and methods can create a text-searchable data structure that includes electronic image documents. The system may be configured in modules. The system converts an electronic image document into a visually optimized electronic image document and into a detail optimized electronic image document. The system also includes an OCR engine that abstracts character information from the detail optimized electronic image document and writes the character information into a text file. The visually optimized electronic image document is linked with the text file in a data structure by the system. The resulting data structure, which may be an image over hidden text pdf document, may be searched using various text based search techniques. When specified text is located in a text file, the corresponding visually optimized electronic image document may then be presented to the searcher.
US07773821B2
A method for compressing image data having pixels arranged like a matrix in a line direction and a sub scan direction orthogonal to the line direction is provided herein. The disclosed method allows for a reduction in memory capacity necessary for the expansion of the data. The method includes the steps of dividing the image data in the line direction and in the sub scan direction into blocks covering a plurality of lines, determining a representative value about density of pixels included in each of the blocks, determining additional information for each line in each of the blocks or for a plurality of lines whose number is smaller than the total number of lines of the block and creating compressed data by using the representative value and the additional information.
US07773820B2
A data compression apparatus includes a thinning section that thins numerical values from a succession of values constituting compressed data to create first and second compressed data; a reversible compression section for the first compressed data; a detecting section that detects an edge portion of the image; and a non-reversible compression section that processes the second compressed data based on a result of the edge detection. When the detecting section detects no edge portion, the non-reversible compression section outputs a predetermined code of a number of bits. When the detecting section detects the edge portion, the non-reversible compression section outputs a first value based on image numerical value when involved with a predetermined positional relation expressed by a first number of bits and a second value expressed by a few number of bits than the first number when the image numerical value is not involved with a predetermined positional relation.
US07773807B2
A computer readable medium embodying instructions executable by a processor to perform a method for seeded image segmentation using l∞ minimization, the method including providing an image comprising a set of pixels, wherein a foreground seed label is given for at least one pixel of the image and a background seed label is given for at least another pixel of the image, determining an affinity function for every pair of neighbor pixels, solving the l∞ minimization, which assigns a probability to each pixel, labeling each pixel as foreground pixel or background pixel according to a threshold of the probability, and outputting the image including the segmentation labels.
US07773806B2
Methods and systems for image segmentation are disclosed. A nonlinear statistical shape model of an image is integrated with a non-parametric intensity model to estimate characteristics of an image and create segmentations of an image based on Bayesian inference from characteristics of prior learned images based on the same models.
US07773805B2
A system and method for flare cancellation and image contrast restoration includes generating a histogram of pixel response values of pixels of an image and generating an adjustment signal having a luminance adjustment value responsive to the histogram. The system and method also includes adjusting the pixel response values of pixels of the image responsive to the adjustment signal to produce an adjusted image.
US07773794B2
A method and an apparatus process images. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data including a region of interest; and calculates a Hessian peak characteristic for the region of interest, the calculating step including summing eigenvalues of a Hessian matrix to obtain the Hessian peak characteristic, wherein the Hessian matrix is associated with a pixel property in the region of interest.
US07773783B2
Processing speed is improved, by decreasing the amount of calculations required in face detecting processes. A human subject is photographed, and light is received by light receiving elements for each color component, to obtain pieces of pixel data. Next, a raw color image is generated from the pixel data, and a green signal image is generated from green pixel data. Thereafter, faces within the raw image are detected, by performing face detecting processes on the green signal image.
US07773782B2
An image output apparatus for automatically laying out a number of captured images in a composition without uncomfortable feeling and outputting the same is provided. The image output apparatus includes: an object orientation identification section for identifying the orientation of an object in an image; an image layout section for laying out the image within an output region based on the object orientation identified by the object orientation identification section; and an image output section for outputting the image laid out within the output region by the image layout section.
US07773778B2
An authentication apparatus is provided. The authentication apparatus acquires a plurality of pieces of registration authentication information each of which is unique to an authentication target. These pieces of registration authentication information are based on biological information obtained from different and the same kind of parts of a living body of a registered user. The authentication apparatus also acquires biological information from a part of the living body selected by a user, and then generates personal authentication information based on the biological information acquired. The authentication apparatus subsequently arranges a collation order of the plurality of pieces of registration authentication information, and then sequentially collates the plurality of pieces of registration authentication information with the personal authentication information in accordance with the collation serial numbers. After that the authentication apparatus notifies an external section of the authentication target whose registration authentication information corresponds to the personal authentication information as an authentication target successfully authenticated.
US07773777B2
Through changes in lighting and audio solutions together with projections of images and/or animations that are initiated by the entrance of a person (professional or patient) in a medical environment, such as a radiology department, cardiology department, intensive care unit, etc., a certain ambience/atmosphere is created in this specific architectural context. This ambience can be a choice from certain predefined themes (e.g. animal drawings for children or nature images) or truly personal when personal content (e.g. images of family or vacation) is inserted in the system.
US07773775B2
Surrogate document indicator and methods of using same. A surrogate document image encoded on a storage medium as part of a database or repository of images includes a surrogate document image indicator. In example embodiments, images within the system, including surrogate document images are stored in tagged image file format (TIFF) and the TIFF header includes the surrogate document image indicator. When images are retrieved by an application from an archive or a check image management system, each one is programmatically examined to detect the presence of the surrogate document image indicator. If necessary, the image with the indicator is treated as an exception.
US07773767B2
A headset is adapted to be positioned on a head and includes a headband assembly for spanning across the head of a user, an earcup assembly coupled proximate one end of the headband assembly, and a power source assembly coupled proximate the other end of the headband assembly. A flexible stabilizing strap has a first end coupled to the headset proximate the earcup assembly and a second end coupled to the headset terminal proximate the power source assembly. The stabilizing strap is adapted to engage the head of a user to further stabilize the headset on the head.
US07773765B1
A loudspeaker assembly is described suitable for flown arrays and incorporating a horn load planar or ribbon transducer. Planer acoustic transducers have a relatively limited power output capacity. Addition of a horn suitable for an elongated source effectively amplifies the power output capacity of the planar devices.
US07773763B2
The present invention relates to a binaural hearing aid system comprising a first hearing aid and a second hearing aid, each of which comprises a microphone and an A/D converter for provision of a digital input signal in response to sound signals received at the respective microphone in a sound environment, a processor that is adapted to process the digital input signals in accordance with a predetermined signal processing algorithm to generate a processed output signal, and a D/A converter and an output transducer for conversion of the respective processed sound signal to an acoustic output signal, and a binaural sound environment detector for binaural determination of the sound environment surrounding a user of the binaural hearing aid system based on at least one signal from the first hearing aid and at least one signal from the second hearing aid for provision of outputs for each of the first and second hearing aids for selection of the signal processing algorithm of each of the respective hearing aid processors so that the hearing aids of the binaural hearing aid system perform coordinated sound processing.
US07773761B2
The present invention proposes a system in which an ultrasonic carrier beam is modulated using an audio input signal. The audio signal is divided into frequency bands, and that frequencies in different ones of these bands are treated differently. Specifically, different modulating schemes are used for different frequency bands. Also, different transducer aperture sizes are used for different frequency signals. Also, a further frequency equalizer is provided within each of the frequency bands. Finally, a relatively smaller amplitude modulating index (or indices) is used for signals in low frequency band(s).
US07773760B2
While a vehicle incorporating an active vibration noise control apparatus is decelerating, hysteresis is given if an operating point moves from an operating point on a sampling period characteristic curve to an operating point on another sampling period characteristic curve. Even if a base period detected depending on noise contains fluctuations, a smooth noise control process is performed. Since a division number produced when the base period is divided by a sampling period is a real number, the freedom of design is widened. Less strict limits are posed on the processing capability of a CPU of the active vibration noise control apparatus to provide a wider control range.
US07773754B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing secured data transmission and for managing cryptographic keys. One embodiment of the invention provides secure key management when separate devices are used for generating and utilizing the keys. One embodiment of the invention provides secure storage of keys stored in an unsecured database. One embodiment of the invention provides key security in conjunction with high speed decryption and encryption, without degrading the performance of the data network.
US07773749B1
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for the production and labeling of objects in a manner suitable for the prevention and detection of counterfeiting. Thus, the system incorporates a variety of features that make unauthorized reproduction difficult. In addition, the present invention provides an efficient means for the production of labels and verification of authenticity, whereby a recording apparatus which includes a recording medium, having anisotrophic optical domains, along with a means for transferring a portion of the recording medium to a carrier, wherein a bulk portion of the recording medium has macroscopically detectable anisotrophic optical properties and the detecting apparatus thereon.
US07773748B2
A seed value making method and device for a PRNG (Pseudo Random Number Generator) are provided. The seed value making method includes the steps of: accumulating in memory units of a First Data Pool data from various external sources, analyzing the data to determine a source type, computing entropy estimations for each of the external sources basing on the source type as determined, and generating a seed value by using the entropy estimations and the data accumulated in the memory units of the First Data Pool. Accordingly, in generating a seed value, dynamic estimation of random sources rate, and classification of sources on slow and fast ones, and reliable and unreliable ones, can be provided, and also, seed values can be made with taking in account rate and reliability of the sources.
US07773746B2
An encrypted communication system, capable of performing processing with the speed higher than the conventionally achieved speed, includes an encryption device and a decryption device sharing parameters that satisfy p=3 and q=2^k (k: an integer of 2 or greater). The decryption device generates a public key and a private key using the parameters, the encryption device encrypts a plain text using the public key, and then, the decryption device decrypts the encrypted text using its own private key.
US07773745B2
An opening mechanism has a guide mechanism which holds the movable body in such a manner as to be slidable in the predetermined direction with respect to the planar solid body. This structure allows the solid body, the movable body and the guide bodies to be made of planar materials such as a steel plate, thereby enabling the opening mechanism to have a thinner profile. In addition, these components can be produced by a comparatively simple process such as press working, making it possible to provide a less expensive opening mechanism. A thin electronic device using this opening mechanism is also provided.
US07773744B1
A sealing current system for a subscriber line that comprises a power source coupled to a first end of the subscriber line configured to apply a voltage to the subscriber line. The sealing current termination circuit coupled to a second end of the subscriber line configured to limit a current in the subscriber line, the current produced by the applied voltage.
US07773742B2
There is provided an echo canceller which can appropriately cancel an echo even when a low-frequency component is included in the signal to be passed. The echo canceller includes an echo replica forming means for forming an echo replica signal from a far-end input signal by using an adaptive filter including a filter section and a coefficient update section, and an echo cancellation means for removing an echo component in a near-end input signal by subtracting the echo replica signal from the near-end input signal. The echo canceller further includes an offset removal means for removing an offset component produced under an effect of low frequencies from the filter coefficient of the adaptive filter.
US07773738B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein to provide relayed language interpretation are disclosed herein. The relayed language interpretation permits a caller to communicate with a third party. A language interpretation call is received from a caller at a language interpretation provider. A caller language corresponding to a language spoken of the caller is determined. A first interpreter that speaks the caller language and a base language is engaged to the language interpretation call. An indication from the caller that the caller needs interpretation between the caller language and a third-party language is received. The first interpreter is permitted to engage a second interpreter that speaks the base language and the third-party language. The second interpreter is engaged to the language interpretation call. The third party is engaged to the language interpretation call. Over-the-phone interpretation of the caller language and the third-party language is performed.
US07773734B1
A method and apparatus for enabling all network elements in a geographically diverse network to advance each call setup message that has not been processed successfully by these network elements to their identical backup network elements to attempt to advance and process the original signaling message are disclosed. In other words, the affected call setup message is advanced to an identical network element that serves as a backup to the original network element in order to advance the call establishment to minimize call failure.
US07773733B2
The invention provides a single digital communication link between system-side and line-side circuitry in a DAA, capable both of carrying data signals and of transferring a substantial amount of power to the line-side circuitry. The invention comprises a system-side interface circuit, a line-side interface circuit, and an isolation barrier including a transformer. Each interface circuit is capable of connection to an upstream communication circuit (either line-side or system-side), from which it may receive data signals to be transmitted across the isolation barrier to the other interface circuit, and to which it may pass data signals received across the isolation barrier from the other interface circuit. The line-side interface circuit may further include a rectifier and a storage device.
US07773732B2
A modem for interconnecting a DSL line and a local bus comprises a DSL interface adapted to send and receive data on the DSL line at a DSL bandwidth selected from a first set of bandwidths, and a local bus interface adapted to operate at a local bus bandwidth selected from a second set of bandwidths so as to match the DSL bandwidth. In a first operating mode, the modem reserves as much as possible of a predetermined local bus bandwidth and then synchronizes the DSL line to a matching mode. In a second operating mode, the modem synchronizes the DSL line to a predetermined bandwidth and then reserves a matching local bus bandwidth or, if impossible, adopts a bulk transfer mode.
US07773721B2
A tomosynthesis method for creating a three-dimensional reconstruction of a target element volume acquires radiation absorbance images of the target element volume through a limited plurality of positions. The target element volume is divided into a plurality of volume segments and a reconstruction algorithm is applied to each segment to generate a three-dimensional reconstruction of each volume segment. The three-dimensional reconstruction of each volume segment is then merged to create a three-dimensional reconstruction of the target volume. A tomosynthesis system and a computer program product for carrying out tomosynthesis are also provided.
US07773711B2
The invention relates to a method and system for use in assessing the quality and integrity of a data transmission path or link between a data transmitting location and at least one receiving location at which a broadcast data receiver is located with means to allow an error rate calculation to be made with respect to a known data signal sequence which is inserted into the transmitted signal. On the basis of the calculations made and sent to the transmitting location a particular data modulation scheme is adopted to provide the most efficient data transmission method for each receiving location. The invention is of particular use in cable data transmission networks of the type which for example allow television channels and other services to be provided to a plurality of receiving locations.
US07773705B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for canceling a neighbor cell interference in a broadband wireless communication system.
US07773696B1
A transmitter is configured to transmit a time of arrival (TOA) message to a receiver applying a quadrature multiple frequency ranging (QMFR) algorithm for separating multiple path signal components. The transmitter includes (1) a modulator for generating a quasi-band limited minimum shift keyed (QBL-MSK) signal, (2) a serial formatter for generating a serial QBL-MSK (SQBL-MSK) signal, and (3) a switch for disabling the serial formatter, during a time that the TOA message is being transmitted to the receiver. The receiver includes (1) a matched filter for separating a data packet with the TOA message into in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) spreading sequences, (2) an even sample mapping section, coupled to the matched filter, for outputting the even samples of the I and Q spreading sequences, (3) an odd sample mapping section, coupled to the matched filter, for outputting the odd samples of the I and Q spreading sequences, and (4) sliding correlator banks for receiving the even samples of the I and Q spreading sequences and the odd samples of the I and Q spreading sequences and outputting despread even I and Q samples and despread odd I and Q samples to a QMFR algorithm for separating multiple path signal components.
US07773688B2
A balanced transmitter up-converts a baseband signal directly from baseband-to-RF. The up-conversion process is sufficiently linear that no IF processing is required, even in communications applications that have stringent requirements on spectral growth. In operation, the balanced modulator sub-harmonically samples the baseband signal in a balanced and differential manner, resulting in harmonically rich signal. The harmonically rich signal contains multiple harmonic images that repeat at multiples of the sampling frequency, where each harmonic contains the necessary information to reconstruct the baseband signal. The differential sampling is performed according to a first and second control signals that are phase shifted with respect to each other. In embodiments of the invention, the control signals have pulse widths (or apertures) that operate to improve energy transfer to a desired harmonic in the harmonically rich signal. A bandpass filter can then be utilized to select the desired harmonic of interest from the harmonically rich signal. The sampling modules that perform the sampling can be configured in either a series or a shunt configuration. In embodiments of the invention, DC offset voltages are minimized between the sampling modules to minimize or prevent carrier insertion into the harmonic images.
US07773684B2
A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a randomizer to input and randomize data streams including a plurality of segments having at least one segment having one or more null packets, a null packet exchanger to create known data having a predetermined pattern and to replace the null packets at positions of the segments having the null packets of the randomized data streams to insert the known data, an encoder to encode the data streams to which the known data is inserted, and a modulation/RF unit to modulate, RF-modulate, and transmit the encoded data streams. A digital broadcasting receiver detects the known data from a signal received from the digital broadcasting transmitter and uses the detected known data for synchronization and equalization, so that a digital broadcasting reception performance of the digital broadcasting receiver can be improved at poor multipath channels.
US07773683B2
An apparatus capable of inter-carrier interference (ICI) cancellation in a communication system, the apparatus comprising a detecting module configured to detect an ISI-free region free from inter-symbol interference (ISI) in a guard interval (GI) of a symbol in time domain, a windowing module configured to provide a windowing function in time domain, identifying a weight value in the windowing function based on the ISI-free region, and multiplying a channel response related to the symbol by the windowing function in time domain to obtain a windowing result, wherein the windowing result comprises a first portion corresponding to the ISI-free region and a second region corresponding to an end portion of the symbol, the end portion and the ISI-free region having the same length, and a combination module configured to combine the first portion and the second portion of the windowing result in time domain.
US07773679B2
Special DC tone treatment in a wireless communications system, e.g., an OFDM system, is discussed. In the downlink, a wireless terminal receiver introduces self-interference at the DC tone from the RF/baseband conversion. A base station every so often does not transmit on the downlink DC tone while continuing to transmit on other downlink tones. Wireless terminals measure received signal on the downlink DC tone during the time of suspended DC tone transmission, estimate self-interference and apply a correction to other received downlink DC tones. In the uplink DC tone interference is a composite of the assigned wireless terminal transmitter's baseband/RF conversion self-interference and air link noise. During one symbol interval of an N symbol interval dwell, the uplink DC tone is reserved for a special modulation symbol, which is a predetermined function of the other N−1 modulation symbols. At the base station, its receiver receives a set of modulation symbols conveyed by the uplink DC tone for a dwell, calculates the average DC component and corrects the received N−1 modulation symbols.
US07773676B2
A video decoding system is provided. When a DDR SDRAM is used as an external memory, MBs are rearranged and then stored to minimize memory access operations for the MBs at the DDR SDRAM and unnecessary additional word read operations caused by a DDR characteristic. Accordingly, the video decoding system can efficiently perform a memory access operation on MBs for video display and frame decoding by the video decoder. Specifically, the decoding system can reduce the total video decoding time, thereby allowing a surplus memory use time for additional functions of a digital broadcasting receiver.
US07773673B2
In a method for motion estimation using adaptive patterns in a video sequence compression system, an initial search pattern located at a center of a search window in a block of a video frame is determined. A location of a minimum block distortion measure (BDM) is searched in the initial search pattern. A horizontal search pattern for functioning on the search window is determined in the horizontal direction to search a location of a minimum BDM in the horizontal search pattern. A vertical search pattern for operating on the search window is determined in the vertical direction to search a location of a minimum BDM in the vertical search pattern. The location of the minimum BDM in each pattern is designated to be a motion vector. A search pattern to be used in a subsequent searching stage is determined based on the location of the minimum BDM in each pattern.
US07773669B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a digital transmitter may comprise two or more phase modulators in a cascaded arrangement. The phase modulators may modulate a local oscillator signal using control signals derived from the quadrature baseband data to be transmitted. A closed loop power control feedback arrangement may be used to compare the output power of the transmitter with a desired output signal, and make corrections to the output signal by modifying at least one of the control signals provided to the cascaded phase modulators.
US07773668B1
A programmable logic device is provided with adaptive equalization circuitry that is programmable in one or more respects. Examples of the programmable aspects of the equalization circuitry are (1) the number of taps used, (2) whether integer or fractional spaced taps are used, (3) what starting values are used in the computation of coefficient values, (4) whether satisfactory coefficient values are computed only once or on an on-going basis, (5) whether an error signal is generated using a decision directed algorithm or using a training pattern, (6) what training pattern (if any) is used, and/or (7) the location of the sampling point in the bit period of the signal to be equalized.
US07773665B2
Provided is a frequency synchronizing apparatus and method that can synchronize frequencies between receiving signals and transmitting signals by extracting a carrier error and sampling timing error information in a synchronization process of the receiving signal from a main transmitter or another repeater and reflecting them in the transmitting signal in an on-channel repeater. The apparatus includes a carrier recovery means for compensating a carrier frequency error of a receiving signal; a timing recovery means for compensating a sampling timing error of the receiving signal; a carrier error reflecting means for reflecting the carrier frequency error extracted from the carrier recovery means to a transmitting signal; and a timing error reflecting means for reflecting the sampling timing error extracted from the timing recovery means to the transmitting signal. The present invention is used to form an on-channel repeating network in any transmission system including a digital television broadcasting system.
US07773662B2
Synchronization techniques for reducing the effects of time dispersive wireless communications channels are presented. A synchronization technique for communications over a time dispersive wireless channel includes receiving a signal having at least identical first and second symbols, and calculating a metric for each sampling time by correlating respective samples of the first symbol included in a first sampling window with respective samples of the second symbol included in a second sampling window. The technique further includes identifying one of the sampling times at which the metric attains a maximum value, and estimating an optimal time offset for synchronizing to the received signal based on the identified sampling time. Optionally, the technique further includes estimating a carrier frequency offset based on the difference of phase of the complex conjugate samples at the maximum absolute value of the metric.
US07773661B2
A method for monitoring a redundant (passive) transmitter, being, for example, part of a base station of a point-to-multipoint radio communications system transmits, during normal operation, a spread-spectrum signal over the redundant transmitter, the spread-spectrum signal being of low spectral power in comparison with data signals being transmitted by the active transmitter of the base station. One or more receivers are associated, for example, with terminal stations in communication with the base station and detect the presence of the spread-spectrum signal. If the spread-spectrum signal is not found to be present, the receivers provide an indication of this, and from this indication, a decision is made as to the integrity of the redundant transmitter.
US07773647B2
A germanate glass composition suitable for use in a fiber amplifier for broadband amplification of optical signals is provided. The glass preferably includes 35-75% GeO2, 0-45% PbO, 5-20% BaO, 5-20% ZnO, and 2-10% R2O (R=Na, Li, K). It is doped with thulium ions (Tm3+) and codoped with holmium ions (Ho3+). The glass composition of results in a remarkably large bandwidth as compared with previous glasses. It is also highly compatible with existing silica optical fibers.
US07773633B2
Apparatus and method of processing bitstream of embedded codec which is received in units of packets
Provided are a packet processing apparatus and method used when an output bitstream of an embedded codec is divided into a plurality of packets and transmitted accordingly, and more particularly, an efficient packet processing apparatus and method which can reduce deterioration of sound quality which may occur when a packet required for the reproduction of a voice signal is not received due to different arrival times of a plurality of packets at a receiving end if an output bitstream of an embedded codec is divided into the packets and transmitted accordingly through a path or a plurality of paths. In particular, an apparatus for processing packets of an embedded codec is provided. The apparatus includes a packet reception unit receiving packets, a layer information unit identifying layer information from received packets, a bitstream determination unit using the received packets, and a bitstream generation unit generating a new bitstream. The apparatus is used to provide a voice and multimedia service using an embedded codec in a packet network.
US07773625B2
An access method for periodic contention-free sessions (PCFS) reduces interference between overlapping first and second wireless LAN cells contending for the same medium. Each cell includes a respective plurality of member stations and an access point (AP) station. The access method for periodic contention-free sessions (PCFS) includes a fixed cycle time that reduces conflicts with PCFS from other cells. The PCFS from several cells are repeated in cycles of cycle period (CP), which is the contention-free period (CFP) of an access point times a factor that is a function of the number of overlapping cells. Periodic contention-free sessions (PCFSs) are generated, one from each overlapping cell. PCFS transmission attempts occur at the fixed specified time spacing following the start of the previous cycle. Each active AP sets a timer at CP and a PCFS is initiated when the timer expires. The timer is then reset and starts a new cycle.
US07773612B2
The present invention discloses an ATM networking controller, including: an external interfaces and an internal interface; an Interface Processing Module for processing network transmission services and implementing the uplink/downlink transmission of local services and the transparent transmission of non-local services; an OAM Processing Module for implementing automatic topology management and data configuration synchronization through OAM information elements; a Switching and Scheduling Processing Module for scheduling the interconnection services and guaranteeing the QoS thereof; and a Routing or Protection Switching Module for switching a path, implementing self-healing recovery of services, detecting failures, and conducting the corresponding switching protection. An ATM device and an ATM communication network system are disclosed by the present invention as well. According to this invention, various networking modes can be implemented flexibly, maintenance of the network is more convenient, and the efficiency and reliability of the network is guaranteed.
US07773610B2
A method is disclosed for routing BGP traffic. In one embodiment, according to the method, an association is formed between a first process and a second process. The first process includes a first BGP process on a first peer and the second process includes a second BGP process on a second peer. The association is formed using a reliable datagram-oriented IP transport protocol. Traffic sent from the first BGP process is segregated into a control traffic type and an update traffic type and any more finer classifications that can further classify BGP traffic. The traffic from the first BGP process is sent to the second BGP process in accordance with a priority allocation assigned to the traffic types based on the association.
US07773608B2
A router, comprising: a core controller; a plurality of egress edge units coupled to said core controller, said plurality of egress edge units including at least one egress port; and a plurality of ingress edge units coupled to said core controller and in communication with said plurality of egress edge units, wherein each ingress edge unit comprises: a plurality of ingress ports; an ingress interface associated with each ingress port, each ingress interface operable to segregate incoming optical data into a plurality of subflows, wherein each subflow contains data intended for a particular destination port; and a TWDM multiplexer operable to: receive subflows; generate a micro lambda from each subflow; time multiplex each micro lambda according to a schedule pattern; wavelength multiplex each micro lambda; and transmit each micro lambda to a switch fabric according to the schedule pattern.
US07773606B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a network element synchronizes a number of clocks within the system while supporting multiple independent timing domains. The network element includes a local clock, which is free-running and is not necessarily synchronized with an external reference, that synchronously provides a local time value to the slave and master interfaces of each timing domain. Each slave interface of each timing domain independently determines timing information based on a received master clock synchronization event and the value of the local time when that synchronization event was received. The timing information is distributed to the master interfaces of the appropriate timing domain, and each master interface calculates an adjusted synchronization event based on the received timing information and the value of the local time when that timing information was received. The adjusted synchronization events are transmitted out of the network element to an external slave interface.
US07773601B2
A wireless communication apparatus is disclosed. A transmitting device transmits a first aggregation frame in which first transmission data frames are aggregated. A measuring device measures a number value of retransmission of each of the first transmission data frames. A storage stores a limiting value of the number value of retransmission. A determination device determines whether the number value of retransmission of each of the first transmission data frames exceeds the limiting value. A transmission buffer buffers the first transmission data frames for which it is determined that the number value of retransmission does not exceed the limiting value, and discards the first transmission data frames for which it is determined that the number value of retransmission exceeds the limiting value, of the first transmission data frames. A retransmitting device retransmits the first aggregation frame in which the first transmission data frames buffered in the transmission buffer are aggregated.
US07773599B1
A network device may include a packet header processing engine configured to receive a packet containing packet header information that includes a maximum transfer unit size and a packet length, and determine whether the packet length is greater than the maximum transfer unit size. The packet header processing engine may also be configured to generate and transmit new packet header information when the packet length is less than the maximum transfer unit size, and generate a first fragment header when the packet length is greater than the maximum transfer unit size. The packet header processing engine may further be configured to transmit the first fragment header for generation of a first packet fragment when the packet length is greater than the maximum transfer unit size.
US07773595B2
A system for parsing frames including a first cell extraction circuit (CEC) configured to identify a first cell from a first frame, a first parser engine operatively connected to the first CEC, where the first parser engine is configured to generate a result based on the first cell, and a first forwarding circuit operatively connected to the first parser engine and configured to forward the result, where the first CEC, the first parser engine, and the first forwarding circuit are associated with a first frame parser unit.
US07773592B1
Method and system for routing frames in a network is provided. The method comprises, receiving a frame at a receive port of a networking switch element; determining a transmit port and a virtual lane for routing the frame; asserting a request signal to the transmit port; waiting for an accept signal from the transmit port; determining if an output link on the transmit port is unavailable and if a flow control credit is available for transmitting the frame; sending the frame to the transmit port if the accept signal is asserted; and transmitting the frame on the output link and de-asserting the request signal.
US07773575B2
In accordance with a non-limiting example of the present invention, a communications system includes a plurality of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) mesh networks, each comprising a plurality of wireless nodes, each having a transmitter and receiver that communicate on a primary and at least one secondary frequency, and communicate using a TDMA epoch that is divided into at least a beacon interval using the primary frequency and a digital data interval using both the primary and secondary frequencies. The wireless nodes are operative for allocating a secondary frequency usage of a digital data interval for a TDMA mesh network to fall into an unused portion of the secondary frequency usage of another TDMA mesh network.
US07773574B2
A scheduling method includes classifying, by a PC, terminals into delay-sensitive terminals and delay-insensitive terminals according to their traffic types; setting an initial value and a maximum value of a poll failure counter of each of the delay-sensitive terminals; polling each of the delay-sensitive terminals; determining whether there exists a delay-sensitive terminal of which a current value of the poll failure counter is less than the maximum value; and if there exists no delay-sensitive terminal of which the present value of the poll failure counter is less than the maximum value, sequentially polling the delay-sensitive terminals and the delay-insensitive terminals.
US07773570B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting/receiving signals in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) mesh communication system. The method includes transmitting, by a transmitter, a control message including an address to receivers according to a generated traffic, if traffic is generated; and receiving, by a receiver, the transmitted control message, confirming the address included in the control message, and performing a predetermined operation according to results obtained by confirming the address.
US07773566B2
A method for operating a subscriber unit that communicates with a code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless network is provided. At the subscriber unit, synchronization information is encoded with a CDMA code. The CDMA encoded synchronization information is transmitted from the subscriber unit in discrete repeating intervals. The discrete repeating intervals are separated by other discrete repeating intervals during which the subscriber unit does not transmit synchronization information.
US07773564B2
The present invention provides methods and apparatus for implementing spatial multiplexing in conjunction with the one or more multiple access protocols during the broadcast of information in a wireless network. A subscriber unit for use in a cellular system is disclosed. The subscriber unit includes a plurality of spatially separate antennas and a transmitter for transmitting a plurality of substreams of a datastream on an assigned channel or slot of a multiple access protocol. The transmitter is arranged to apply each substream to an associated one of the spatially separate antennas.
US07773559B2
Techniques are described for intelligently allocating bandwidth in a wireless mesh network. The wireless mesh network includes a nodes and links interconnecting the nodes. In order to increase capacity and avoid congestion in the network, a network administrator may regulate network traffic by adjusting various parameters that control the operation of network nodes. The network administrator may identify topology information, which indicates a configuration of the nodes and links, and a traffic matrix, which indicates a relative traffic demand weighting for each source node-destination node pair. From this information, the network administrator may calculate a bandwidth assignment for each link. Network administrator may use the bandwidth assignments to calculate a parameter for each node. That parameter may affect the amount of bandwidth used by a node. These parameters may be transmitted to their respective nodes.
US07773551B1
In one embodiment, a system for data handling in a distributed communication network includes one or more data-handling nodes (DHNs) that each reside at one of one or more receptors. Each receptor is operable to receive first data units from one or more remote units. Each DHN is operable to extract second data units from the first data units, add extensions to the second data units for tracking the second data units in the distributed communication network, store the second data units locally at the receptor, generate log files of the second data units for communication to a data monitoring and recovery (DMR) agent at the receptor, and communicate the second data units with the added extensions to a routing system for routing the second data units in the distributed communication network.
US07773549B2
In multicast service channels capable of efficiently transmitting multicast data and a method for efficiently managing multicast services using new multicast channels, a communication system includes: a higher layer; a first layer as a physical layer; and a second layer as an intermediate layer for processing data from the higher layer to generate multicast data and multicast control data, the second layer including at least one logical channel for transmitting the multicast data from the higher layer, at least first transmission channel for transmitting the processed multicast data to the physical layer, and at least one second transmission channel for transmitting the multicast control data to the physical layer.
US07773548B2
A method includes receiving, from a broadcast receiver, identification information for identifying a currently received broadcast station. The method also includes receiving, from an external server, state information which indicates a state of a service for providing information concerning the currently received broadcast station corresponding to the identification information. In addition, the method includes providing information, from a server, depending on whether a URL is included in the state information. The method further includes transmitting, to the broadcast receiver, the state information and an address corresponding to the service, after receiving the identification information from the broadcast receiver and the state information from the external server.
US07773544B2
A call jump establishes a jump from a call of a traditional telephone carrier established with audio signals. When it is determined that video should be added to the call, a packetized network is connected. The audio and video are transmitted over the packetized network. There is provided standard telephone equipment. A video enabled device is capable of rerouting the audio selectively to either the traditional telephone carrier or the packetized network. A packetizer packetizes the audio signals from the standard telephone equipment and the video.
US07773542B2
A dual radio wireless mesh access point is described herein. According to one embodiment, a wireless mesh access point includes an uplink wireless interface, a downlink wireless interface, a local wireless interface, and a routing unit coupled to the uplink, downlink, and the local wireless interfaces. The routing unit is configured to route data packets to other wireless mesh access points (APs), including communicating with an uplink AP via the uplink wireless interface and communicating with a downlink AP via the downlink wireless interface. The uplink and downlink wireless interfaces utilize different communication channels having different communication frequencies. The routing unit communicates with one or more local clients via the local wireless interface. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07773534B2
A computer communication interface transmission control codes analyzing system and method for a computer platform to analyze machine codes received by the computer platform are disclosed. The system includes a header record area having a plurality of header units for storing address information, a code definition record area for storing codes generated when the electronic information device generates the transmission control codes and the transmission control codes are transmitted over the communication interface, and a descriptor analyzing unit for searching the machine codes for data stored in the address information of the header units of the header record area when receiving the machine codes, searching the code definition record area for codes corresponding to the searched data and operating description contents represented by the searched codes, and displaying the searched codes and operating description contents on a display unit electrically connected to the computer platform.
US07773527B2
A quality of service policy for one or more documents for transmission from the local storage to one or more end points for said documents through a communication system is retrieved from a remote registry associated with an offering, and said documents are enqueued according to said quality of service policy. In some cases, the registry may be co-hosted with at least one of the document end points. The quality of service policy may be derived from a transport policy for said one or more documents, and may even be such as to not specify a quality of service for delivery of some or all of the documents. In some cases, XML documents may be used to set forth the quality of service policies.
US07773522B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and computer programs for improving performance and resource utilization of cluster-based data processing systems. The number of persistent connections between first and second data processing units of a system is adjusted according to monitored performance of communications between the nodes. The monitored performance measure is the queuing delay between the nodes, and the number of connections is increased and decreased as changing load conditions increase and decrease the queuing delay. A method of establishing and closing persistent connections in response to a monitored queuing delay between a front-end gateway computer and each of a cluster of back-end servers is used to improve the performance of a cluster-based Web server or provision of Web services. Unwanted connections are closed to enable system resources to be allocated to other processes.
US07773517B2
A method and device for identifying degradation in service quality for a wireless media service. The wireless media service has a known expected packet generation rate, which may be determined by the device based upon the codec and payload size selected on initiating the media service. At a receiving device, the packets actually received by the device from the other termination point are counted over a time period, and this number is compared with the number of packets that were expected based upon the known packet generation rate. From this comparison a packet loss rate may be determined. If the packet loss rate exceeds a threshold level, then the device may issue a user alert, terminate the service, or take other action. The threshold level may be established based upon a packet loss rate corresponding to a significant degree of service quality degradation.
US07773509B2
A method and system for providing QoS in a network using traffic management including traffic stream admission and traffic control, is provided. The traffic stream admission and control is achieved using parameterized QoS within a network. Such parameterized QoS enhances QoS service in the UPnP QoS architecture.
US07773493B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a conductive storage medium to store information in the form of electrostatic charge. The conductive storage medium can be disposed in a non-conductive layer that is formed over a charge blocking layer, which in turn may be disposed over an electrode layer. In one embodiment, a barrier layer may be disposed over the non-conductive layer. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07773488B2
In an information reproducing apparatus in which a liquid crystal lens element is used for the selection and switching of layers, the instability of servo control during the switching of the layers due to the overlapping of signals from two layers is eliminated and the focal point is shifted onto the correct switched layer. During the switching of the liquid crystal lens, a focus bias is added depending on the direction in which the layers are switched so as to stabilize servo control. Alternatively, the objective lens is held during the switching and after the switching of the liquid crystal lens element, the hold state is released in synchronization with the rotation of the disk.
US07773486B2
A holographic optical information playback apparatus for playing information that is recorded on a recording medium in a form of interference fringes is provided with a two-dimensional photoreceptor array which receives a two-dimensional array of light spots that is diffracted at the recording medium due to application of reference light onto the medium, and outputs a playback signal including information recorded on the recording medium. The two-dimensional photoreceptor array has a photoreceptor section in which plural photoreceptor cells for detecting the intensities of received lights are arranged so that a photoreceptive area corresponding to the light spot array is formed, and assigns plural photoreceptor cells are assigned to each light spot in the light spot array according to the irradiation position of the light spot array, whereby the light intensity of one light sport is detected using the output signals from the plural photoreceptor cells.
US07773485B2
In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time.In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
US07773484B2
To prevent the focal point of a light beam from entering an unrecorded area, where no data has been written yet, when data is being read continuously from multiple storage layers.An optical disc drive can read data from an optical disc with at least first and second storage layers. The drive includes: a drive mechanism for rotating the disc; an optical pickup, which irradiates the disc in the drive mechanism with converged light and generates a read signal based on the light reflected from the disc; and a control section for controlling operations of the drive mechanism and the pickup, thereby shifting the focal point of the light. In reading data from the first and second layers continuously, the control section shifts the focal point in a first radial direction while data is read from the first layer and then moves the focal point to a location on the second layer before data starts to be read from the second layer. That location has been shifted from its previous one by a predetermined displacement in a second radial direction that is opposite to the first radial direction.
US07773475B2
An optical pickup actuator includes a lens holder on which a plurality of object lenses to use in recording/reproducing information onto/from different kinds of optical media are mounted, a tilting unit tilting the lens holder, and a controller controlling the tilting unit to tilt the lens holder about one of the object lenses that is appropriate to use in recording/reproducing information onto/from a kind of optical medium to be used.
US07773473B2
A write once disc allowing management of a data area, includes a lead-in zone, a data area, and a lead-out zone. The write once disc includes a predetermined area storing area allocation information which indicates whether at least one section of the data area is allocated for disc defect management. In the disc and method, area allocation information specifying a structure of the data area is recorded on the disc, thus allowing a recording/reproducing apparatus to recognize the data area structure. Therefore, allocating areas, such as a spare area, for disc defect management other than an area for storing user data, to the data area is possible. The allocation of the areas for disc defect management to the data area enables effective use of the write once disc.
US07773469B2
A method for tuning a plurality of write strategy parameters of an optical storage device includes detecting a plurality of lengths, each length corresponding to a pit or a land on an optical storage medium accessed by the optical storage device, performing calculations corresponding to a plurality of data set types and generating a plurality of data-to-clock edge deviations respectively corresponding to the data set types, and utilizing the data-to-clock edge deviations for tuning the write strategy parameters corresponding to the data set types respectively.
US07773467B2
A drive stoppage command unit commands a drive unit to stop driving a pickup head, and an objective lens of a pickup head, when it has decided that the power supply voltage of operating power which is being supplied by a first power supply unit to a servo control unit is less than or equal to a first voltage. Furthermore, the drive stoppage command unit also commands the drive unit to stop driving the pickup head and the objective lens, if stoppage of the driving of the pickup head and of the objective lens has been decided upon by a logic control unit.
US07773463B2
For a timepiece movement, a striking train mechanism having: at least one resonant element (32) which can emit at least two sounds of different frequencies, at least two pallets (36), and at least two hammers (34) which are designed to be driven by the pallets (36) in order to strike the resonant element (32).
US07773458B2
Systems and methods for detection and analysis of amplitude modulation of underwater sound employ a product of a time delayed first electrical signal with a second electrical signal to generate a summed-product signal. The time delayed first electrical signal and the second electrical signal have an amplitude modulation indicative of characteristics of a vessel propeller. The summed-product signal is analyzed to detect a vessel and to determine the characteristics of the vessel propeller. In some arrangements a plurality of summed-product signals are analyzed to also determine a depth of the detected vessel.
US07773453B2
Disclosed is a FIFO peek access device that utilizes a peek signal to access data stored in a FIFO without losing or erasing data. The peek signal is applied to read address logic and prevents the incrementing of the pointers in the peek address logic, so that after a read enable signal is asserted, the same data block can be accessed again on the next read enable signal.
US07773452B2
An integrated logic circuit comprises a memory area, wherein the memory area comprises a plurality of groups of memory cells, each group of memory cells assigned an address. The memory area further comprises an address decoder having a plurality of address inputs for receiving an address and for selecting a group of memory cells to which the received address is assigned and a plurality of data outputs for outputting information stored in a group of memory cells which is selected by the address decoder. The integrated logic circuit further comprises a coupling device which couples at least one portion of the data outputs of the memory area to at least one portion of the address inputs of the address decoder.
US07773449B2
An apparatus for controlling bank of a semiconductor memory includes a plurality of banks, a peripheral circuit unit that generates and outputs a bank selection signal and a first address, and a bank controller that generates a second address obtained by correcting the first address to match a bank control timing and outputs the generated second address to a bank corresponding to the bank selection signal among the plurality of banks. Since it is easy to ensure a timing margin, it is possible to completely prevent an address generation error, minimize a layout area, and reduce current consumption.
US07773435B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a command buffer that receives an external command and outputs a first command signal, a clock buffer that receives an external clock signal and outputs a first internal clock signal, a delay measurement and initialization unit that receives the first internal clock signal and a fourth internal clock signal and responsively outputs a second internal clock signal and a plurality of delayed signals corresponding to a delay time between when the external clock signal is input and data is output, a delay locked loop that receives the second internal clock signal and outputs a third internal clock signal and the fourth internal clock signal, a latency signal generation unit that delays the first command signal by a delay time between when the second internal clock signal is input to the delay locked loop and when the third internal clock signal is output from the delay locked loop, and then outputs the delayed first command signal as a latency signal, in response to the second and third internal clock signals and the delayed signals, and a data output buffer that outputs the data in response to the latency signal and the third internal clock signal.
US07773433B2
A non-volatile memory of a first type, having characteristics of high capacity and coarse granularity, is associated with a non-volatile memory of a second type, having characteristics of low capacity and fine granularity. These memories are managed such that a non-volatile memory resulting from this association has the characteristics of high capacity of the first type of non-volatile memory and fine granularity of the second type of non-volatile memory.
US07773431B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a column multiplexer for accessing data from a memory array comprising an output node having a logic state that is based on a logic state of a control node, and column elements, each comprising a first pair of series connected switches controlled by a column select signal and a bit line signal associated with data stored in a plurality of memory cells. The first pair of switches is configured to set the control node to a logic low state based on a logic state of the bit line signal. The column elements each also comprise a second pair of series connected switches controlled by the bit line signal and a complement of the column select signal. The second pair of switches is configured to set the control node to a logic high state based on the logic state of the bit line signal.
US07773430B2
A method of identifying logical information in a cell, particularly in a programming by hot hole injection nitride electron storage (PHINES) cell by one-side reading scheme is disclosed. The method comprise steps of: erasing the first region and the second region of PHINES cell by increasing a local threshold voltage (Vt) to a certain value; programming at least one of the first region and the second region of the PHINES cell by hot hole injection; and reading a logical state of the PHINES cell by measuring an output current of one of the first region and the second region; wherein different quantity of the output current is caused by interaction between different quantity of the hot hole stored in the first region and the second region, so as to determine the logical state of the PHINES cell by one-side reading scheme.
US07773427B2
A non volatile memory device and method of operating including providing a verification voltage to a gate of a selected memory cell within multiple memory cells and providing a first pass voltage to a gate of a non-selected memory cell within the memory cells during a program verification operation; and providing a read voltage to the gate of the selected memory cell and providing a second pass voltage to the gate of the non-selected memory cell during a read operation. The second pass voltage is greater than the first pass voltage.
US07773410B2
An embodiment of a writing system for a phase change memory based on a present application is disclosed. The writing system comprises a first phase change memory (PCM) cell, a second PCM cell, a first writing circuit and a verifying circuit. The first writing circuit executes a writing procedure, receives and writes a first data to the first PCM cell. The verifying circuit executes a verifying procedure and the circuit further comprises a processing unit and a second writing circuit. The processing unit reads and compares the data stored in the second PCM cell with a second data. The second writing circuit writes the second data to the second PCM cell when the data stored in the second PCM cell and the second data are not matched.
US07773407B2
This invention discloses a static random access memory (SRAM) cell comprising a pair of cross-coupled inverters connected between a positive supply voltage (Vcc) and a first node, a first NMOS transistor with a gate and drain connected to the first node and a source connected to a ground, and a second NMOS transistor with a drain and source connected to the first node and the ground, respectively, and a gate connected to a control-line.
US07773400B2
A phase adjusting circuit is provided that is capable of adjusting a delay time at a rise or fall of a driving signal for driving an inverter. A phase adjusting circuit is provided upstream of a driver circuit, and an output from a hysteresis comparator is input to the driver circuit through the phase adjusting circuit. The phase adjusting circuit delays at least either rise or fall of the signal input to the driver circuit to adjust any difference between the pulse width of the input signal input to the driver circuit and the pulse width of a signal output from a switching element of an inverter driven by the driver circuit.
US07773395B2
A uniform converter input voltage distribution power system evenly controls the individual input voltages of DC-to-DC series-input parallel-output connected converters using a uniform input voltage distribution controller including a generator for generating respective error signals from the converter input voltages using a common distribution reference signal for providing respective converter control signals connected to the converters through respective shared-bus controls for evenly distributing the power delivered by the converters that are shared-bus current-mode converters for preferably providing a low output voltage. Employing a common regulation control signal, the controller can also provide system output voltage regulation, system input current limiting, proportional-voltage control, relaxed voltage uniformity, and fault-tolerant power control.
US07773391B2
An exemplary DC to DC converter (200) includes a first DC input (210) connected to a first DC power supply; a second DC input (220) connected to a second DC power supply; a transformer (230) including a primary winding (231), a sub-primary winding (232), and a secondary winding (233) for outputting a AC voltage; a pulse reverse circuit (260) including an input for receiving a square pulse and an output for providing the reverse square pulse; a first switch transistor (240) including a source connected to ground, a drain connected to the first DC input via the primary winding, and a gate connected to the output of the pulse reverse circuit; a second switch transistor (250) including a source connected to ground, a drain connected to ground via the sub-primary winding and a capacitor in series, and a gate connected to the output of the pulse reverse circuit.
US07773390B2
A power distribution system for integrated circuits includes methods to damp resonance between a bypass capacitor network and a power/ground cavity of the printed circuit board that (a) does not require excessive quantities of bypass/damping components or (b) does not require high plane cavity capacitance or in the alternative can insure a Q of less than 1.4 at the transition from the bypass network to the plane cavity impedance cross-over.
US07773389B2
An electronic component mounted structure has: a circuit board; two semiconductor elements that are mounted on the circuit board; and an AC coupling capacitor that is operable to cut off signals with a predetermined frequency or less and is provided between the two semiconductor elements. The AC coupling capacitor is mounted on the circuit board such that a part or a whole of the AC coupling capacitor is away from the surface of the circuit board.
US07773388B2
The present invention is to provide a printed wiring board in which malconnection or disconnection caused by a difference between coefficients of thermal expansion of a semiconductor chip and a printed wiring board can be decreased even when a highly-integrated semiconductor apparatus is mounted thereon and an electronic device using the same. An electronic device (4) according to the present invention includes a printed wiring board (1) with a component mounting pin (18) and a surface-mounting type semiconductor apparatus (2) with an electrode pad (3), wherein the component mounting pin (18) has elasticity and is urged against the electrode pad (3) to maintain electric connection.
US07773384B2
A thermal module includes a heat sink disposed on a contact surface of the heat source, a mounting bracket having first and second ends, a fastening member, a pressing member, and at least one clip. The mounting bracket surrounds the heat source. The first end has at least one latch portion. The second end has at least one mounting slot and at least one first opening in communication with the mounting slot. The fastening member is slidably mounted in the mounting slot. The clip spans the heat sink and has two ends respectively engaged with the latch portion and a portion of the fastening member respectively. The pressing member includes a pressing tightly engaged with the clip and urges the heat sink when an operation portion of the pressing member is rotated from the first predetermined position to the second predetermined position.
US07773378B2
A heat-dissipating structure for the expansion board architecture is provided. A fixing element disposed on the heat-absorbing substrate fixes the motherboard and the first expansion board. The heat-generating elements on the motherboard or the first expansion board are directly in touch with the heat-absorbing surface of the heat-absorbing substrate to absorb their heat. The heat-dissipating board extended from the side of the heat-absorbing substrate then dissipates the heat absorbed by the heat-absorbing substrate. The structure thus solves the problems that existing heat-dissipating structures occupy larger space and therefore cannot be effectively used in an expansion board architecture to dissipate heat produced by the heat-generating elements between the motherboard and the expansion board and that it is likely to have assembly tolerance. Using the structure can reduce the space and the assembly tolerance, but effectively enhance heat dissipation in the expansion board architecture.
US07773376B2
An exemplary foldable electronic device includes a first cover, a second cover rotatably coupled to the first cover, a hooking portion, and a latching portion. The second cover defines an engaging hole. The hooking portion is positioned on the first cover, and the latching portion is positioned on the second cover. The hooking portion includes a deformable arm configured to engage in or disengage from the engaging hole of the second cover. The latching portion includes a slidable assembly configured to slide relative to the main body thereby deforming the arm to disengage from the engaging hole.
US07773368B2
A fuse incorporates a fusible element assembly and an auxiliary fusible element assembly in a solid arc extinguishing material configuration. The fusible element assembly has a first operating characteristic and the auxiliary fusible element has a second operating characteristic different than the first operating characteristic. An installation adapter may be used to adapt a fuse to a non-standard mounting for the fuse. The installation adapter may include first and second adapter members that secure to the fuse to provide contacts having an appropriate spatial relationship to engage the non-standard mounting. A fuse and an installation adapter may be packaged as a kit.
US07773359B2
An overcurrent protection system and method are disclosed. In one embodiment the overcurrent protection system includes a first switch connected between a supply voltage and an output voltage. A comparator circuit provides a comparator output signal having first and second values that depend on a comparison of the output voltage relative to the supply voltage, the first value indicating an overcurrent condition. A control circuit is coupled to provide a control signal to a control node of the first switch for controlling the first switch in one of first and second operating modes according to the value of the comparator output signal. The control circuit controls the first switch in the first mode to limit the current through the first switch to a level between predetermined upper and lower current levels in response to the comparator output signal having the first value. The control circuit activating the first switch to a normally on condition in the absence of the comparator output signal having the first value.
US07773355B2
Improved protection circuits are provided for use as voltage overload protection circuits, ESD protection circuits for RF input pins, and unit protection cells for distributed amplifiers. Preferably, the protection circuits include a positive threshold voltage trigger used to trigger a switch wherein the trigger includes a diode string in series with a resistor and the switch includes a bipolar transistor switch in series with a diode. Alternatively, the trigger includes a diode string in series with a single diode and a single resistor, and is used to trigger a Darlington pair transistor switch in series with a diode. In another embodiment, a Darlington pair transistor switch is triggered by a capacitor. In use with distributed amplifiers, the ESD protection circuits are preferably absorbed inside the artificial transmission lines of the distributed amplifier.
US07773353B2
An ECU determines based on a voltage from an insulation resistance decrease detector whether the insulation resistance of a power supply device decreases or not. When a load external to the vehicle is not connected to the power supply device, the ECU sets a determination threshold value for determining that the insulation resistance decreases to a normal first value. On the other hand, when the load external to the vehicle is electrically connected to the power supply device, the ECU sets the determination threshold value to a second value which is lower than the first value, in consideration of an increase in the capacitive component due to a capacitor of a Y-capacitor.
