US07841008B1
A determination is made as to whether there is a correlation between a user's security risk profile and a personalized threat profile of an actual or spreading threat. If there is a correlation, a personalized reactive alert is issued in the case of an actual threat. The personalized reactive alert informs the user of specific suspected data that may have been compromised by the threat and the specific non-computer related action that the user should take. Further, if there is a correlation, a personalized proactive alert is issued and/or personalized proactive protective action taken in the case of a spreading threat. The personalized proactive alert informs the user of the spreading threat that the user and/or the user's host computer system is particularly susceptible to. Further, the personalized proactive protective action taken provides automated risk mitigation.
US07841006B2
In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, a method of detecting kernel level rootkits includes requesting first information from a kernel level process, the first information including first contents. The first information is received at a user level process. The method also includes compiling second information at kernel level, the second information including second contents corresponding to an expected first contents of the first information. The first contents are compared to the second contents.
US07841000B2
Protection of an authentication password stored in a database held by a SAM of Windows® is strengthened. A GINA, a part of the OS, receives an authentication password in ASCII codes. The authentication password is converted to first UNICODES, and the first UNICODES are salted with a random number and converted to second UNICODES. The random number used for salting is associated with a user account and a password and stored in a read/write protected non-volatile memory or a non-volatile memory which can be accessed only by a BIOS. An LSA of the OS can process UNICODES without being changed.
US07840997B2
A METHOD FOR PROTECTION COMPUTER MEMORY AGAINST UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS includes partitioning data received via communication links and instructions for controlling the processing of data incoming from a protected computer by means of an external controller. To substantially eliminate any breach in the firewall all the messages received in a communication session are logged into an external storage locked at the side of the protected computer, the external storage input is locked, and independently of CPU, long-term storage and operating storage of the protected computer, messages are sorted into textual and/or iconic files, program files and files of undefined type, and the demand in the files received and admissibility of their usage in the protected computer is individually determined.A DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD comprises an external storage, a controllable input switch and a controllable output switch connected to the external controller.
US07840992B1
Described are a system and method for providing data protection. A storage management system in communication with first and second storage arrays is configured to implement a data protection procedure for protecting data stored in the first storage array using the second storage array. An environmental information processor receives information related to an event that can threaten the data stored in the first storage array and, based on the received information, issues a command to the storage management system. The command causes the storage management system to initiate the data protection procedure as a precautionary action for protecting the data stored at the first storage array.
US07840989B2
An apparatus and method are presented to allow the extension of a data cable modem service, for example DOCSIS, over a wireless link. According to the invention a wireless hub transceiver is connected to a distribution coax cable of, for example, a DOCSIS based system. The downstream data is transferred over a wireless link to a remote subscriber radio frequency (RF) unit connected to a cable modem that provides the downstream data to the subscriber. Similarly, upstream data is sent from the subscriber cable modem over the wireless link to the wireless hub transceiver where such data is inserted back to the distribution coax cable.
US07840988B1
A technique is described for facilitating communication in access networks such as cable networks. One aspect of the present invention is directed to an improved line card configuration which may be used to provide upstream channel “high availability” protection whereby the cable modems of a failed upstream channel may be immediately and dynamically reassigned to an alternate upstream channel in order to minimize service disruption. Another aspect of the present invention is directed to an improved line card configuration which is able to provide load balancing capabilities across multiple upstream channels associated with one or more line cards. According to a specific implementation, such load balancing capabilities may be used to reassign cable modems (which are physically connected to a fixed upstream port) to alternate upstream channels. Yet another aspect of the present invention is directed to an improved line card configuration which is able to provide the feature of virtual cabling. According to one embodiment, the feature of virtual cabling may be used to dynamically configure, via software, cable modems from any selected subscriber group to “talk” to any desired PHY chip on any line card within a CMTS.
US07840976B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US07840966B2
A system is set forth that includes a processor, one or more memory storage units, and software code stored in the one or more memory storage units. The software code is executable by the processor to generate a plurality of adaptive partitions that are each associated with one or more process threads. Each of the plurality of adaptive partitions has a corresponding processor time budget. One or more of the process threads are designated as critical threads. Each adaptive partition associated with a critical thread is assigned a corresponding critical time budget. The software code also includes a scheduling system that is executable by the processor for selectively allocating the processor to run the process threads based, at least in part, on the processor time budgets of the respective adaptive partitions. The scheduling system may allocate the processor to run a critical thread based on the available critical time budget of the associated adaptive partition even when the processor time budget of the associated adaptive partition has been exhausted. In one example, the scheduling system functions so that it only bills the critical time budget of an adaptive partition for time used to run an associated critical thread when the processor is overloaded and the critical time budget for the adaptive partition is concurrently exhausted. Methods of implementing such a system are also set forth.
US07840958B1
A computer or its user can prevent the installation of spyware on the computer by having a program that continuously observes and collects data on execution and installation behavior on the computer. This behavior can relate to execution of any application or installation of any type of software. The program uses various installation detection programs and an event collector that continuously observes and gathers data on execution and installation activities on the computer. The program then uses pre-defined rules to determine whether the behavior or activity correlates to spyware installation, which can occur through various methods and means that are often difficult to detect. However, by establishing a comprehensive set of rules that focus on the spyware installation behavior, the program of the present invention is able to detect when spyware is likely being installed and either alert the user who can prevent further installation or execution or automatically do so.
US07840948B2
A computer program product and method for testing software applications for keyboard accessibility call for generating a first test script from a first input stream; identifying key signals associated with keys of a test keyboard; associating the key signals to the first input-stream to generate a second test script; and running the second test script to test the keyboard accessibility.
US07840945B2
A software resource testing system and method. A computing system comprising a software application receives data identifying an expected state for an external resource required for execution of the software application. The computing system receives data identifying a first action to be taken if the expected state does not equal an actual state generated during a functionality test for the identified external resource. The computing system receives data identifying a second action to be taken if the expected state equals the actual state during the functionality test. A resource listing test file comprising a list including the data identifying the external resource, the data identifying the expected state, the data identifying the first action, and the data identifying the second action is generated. The resource listing test file in stored in a memory system in a specified format.
US07840941B2
Customizations are applied to a software product by determining whether any of the customizations to be applied are in conflict with one another. If so, product dependency information, which identifies a product that the customizations are based on, is used to reduce a number of conflicting customizations to be made to the software product. Any remaining conflicts are resolved, and the customizations are applied.
US07840939B1
Rules are provided to address the interplay of annotations and inheritance in the JAVA programming language. Class-level annotations affect the class they annotate and members of the class they annotate. Class-level annotations do not affect a class member declared by a superclass. If a class member carries a specific member-level annotation, an annotation of the same type implied by a class-level annotation is ignored. An interface implemented by a class does not contribute annotations to the implementing class or members of the implementing class. Class members inherited from a superclass, that are neither hidden nor overridden, maintain the annotations they had in the class that declared them. Member-level annotations on class members inherited from a superclass, that are either hidden or overridden, are ignored. Interface-level annotations affect the interface they annotate and all members of the interface they annotate, including inherited members.
US07840932B2
The present application is directed to apparatus and methods for determining a magnitude of defocus and a direction of defocus for a photolithography process. A sub-resolution feature on a reticle which is not printed on a wafer at the best focus offset, but is formed on a wafer at some defocus during the photolithography process is analyzed to determine the magnitude and direction of defocus. The magnitude and direction of defocus are used to adjust the photolithography process to an optimal focus based on the determined magnitude of defocus and the determined direction of defocus.
US07840929B2
A method for automatically modifying a frame of a circuit diagram is applicable for a computer-executable circuit layout software, which determines intersection or discontinuity of line segments generated after a diagram is converted through using a program, and automatically corrects the diagram to output a complete circuit diagram, so as to enhance the convenience of reading and determining the circuit diagram, and to simplify manual inspection procedures, and thus the working process is accelerated.
US07840915B2
Methods and media for forming a bound network are provided. In some embodiments, methods for forming a bound network include: decomposing an asynchronous input network to form a network of base functions, wherein the network of base functions includes simple base functions that include two-input threshold OR functions and two-input threshold AND functions with hysteresis, and complex base functions generated during the decomposing; partitioning the network of base functions into at least one subject graph, each portion of the at least one subject graph having a function; determining matches between the at least one subject graph and one or more pattern graphs; and selecting at least one of the one or more pattern graphs to be used in the bound network for the function of each of different portions of the at least one subject graph.
US07840898B2
Systems and methods are described for creating a video booklet that allows browsing and search of a video library. In one implementation, each video in the video library is divided into segments. Each segment is represented by a thumbnail image. Signatures of the representative thumbnails are extracted and stored in a database. The thumbnail images are then printed into an artistic paper booklet. A user can photograph one of the thumbnails in the paper booklet to automatically play the video segment corresponding to the thumbnail. Active shape modeling is used to identify and restore the photo information to the form of a thumbnail image from which a signature can be extracted for comparison with the database.
US07840892B2
Data for electronic images is stored in a server. Metadata is assigned to each image file and categorizes each image according to one or more schemes. Possible metadata schemes include image date, one or more image subjects, and image location. The image files may then be searched based on the assigned metadata. Images may be stored in a database that includes at least one virtual folder corresponding to each metadata scheme, with each image having at least one entry in each folder. Each folder may further have subfolders that correspond to sub-categories of a categorization scheme. Each image may then have an entry in each subfolder which describes a part of the image metadata. A date search interface allows a user to select a year of interest, then a month, and then a day. A location search interface allows a user to select a subregion of a displayed region.
US07840889B2
A computer-implemented method includes designating selected spreadsheet cells within a spreadsheet document. Spreadsheet function source code characterizing the functionality associated with the selected spreadsheet cells is generated. The spreadsheet function source code is incorporated into a source code application.
US07840885B2
Shift resister rings are used to provide column access in a traceback memory during Viterbi decoding.
US07840883B2
A DVB-H receiver for performing forward error correction is disclosed. The DVB-H receiver includes: a tuner, for receiving a data stream; a base-band receiver, coupled to the tuner, for continuously extracting and transmitting data bytes of an MPE-FEC frame from the data stream; a backend system, coupled to the base-band receiver, for generating corresponding syndromes of the extracted data bytes once all data bytes of the MPE-FEC frame are received, outputting the syndromes to the base-band receiver, and forward error correcting the MPE-FEC frame according to error values corresponding to the syndromes; and a storage device, coupled to the backend system, for storing the extracted data bytes. The base-band receiver generates the error values and error locations according to the received syndromes, and then outputs the error values and error locations to the backend system.
US07840882B2
A DTV transmitting system includes a first pre-processor for coding first enhanced data having a high priority for forward error correction (FEC) at a first coding rate and expanding the first enhanced data at a first expansion rate, and a second pre-processor for coding second enhanced data having a low priority for FEC at a second coding rate and expanding the second enhanced data at a second expansion rate. The receiving system further includes a data formatter for generating enhanced data packets, a multiplexer for multiplexing the enhanced data packets with main data packets, an RS encoder for RS-coding the multiplexed data packets, and a data interleaver for interleaving the RS-coded data packets and outputting a group of interleaved data packets having a head, a body, and a tail.
US07840877B2
There is provided a system and method of mass storage. The method includes dividing storage units into standard size blocks and upon receiving a write request from an application, generating EDC data for user application data associated with the write request. The method also includes compressing the user application data using a lossless compression technique and storing the user application data and the EDC data together in a single block in a primary data area if the lossless compression technique is successful.
US07840859B2
Interleaving improves noise rejection in digital communication and storage systems. According a known scheme, the interleaving/deinterleaving is achieved by storing symbols in a temporary memory table of R rows×C columns in a row by row order, and reading them in a column by column order, or vice versa, so obtaining a rearranged order. Methods and devices for interleaving and deinterleaving are proposed which accomplish the same interleaving/deinterleaving operation with a reduced size of the temporary memory table. The rearrangement of the symbols according to the rearranged order is accomplished by using a table with a reduced memory size, in combination with the order with which the symbols are fetched from or stored in a further memory. The invention further relates to ICs and apparatuses for interleaving and/or deinterleaving.
US07840857B2
The present invention provides a method and system for automated handling of resolvable and non-resolvable errors in the execution of system management flows by enhancing Workflow Engines (30) by an Error Handling component (40) and by adding a supportive Error Handling Layer (60, 90, 100) to invoked system management tasks which serves as the counterpart to the Workflow Engine's Error Handling component (see FIG. 2). The additional functionality of the task-provided Error Handling Layer (90, 70, 100) is accessible for the Workflow Engine via extended web services interfaces (91, 71, 101). The Workflow Engine's Error Handling component (40) and the task-provided Error Handling Layer allow for the definition of a standard protocol between the Workflow Engine and invoked tasks (31) for automated error handling.
US07840850B2
A data processing system for logging memory access data; the data processing system having a memory management unit to support a virtual memory environment having a first data structure to store address translation data (VPN1 . . . VPNN, PPN1 . . . PPNn) to relate a virtual address to a corresponding physical address of a physical memory; a page fault/TLB miss handler to store page fault data, associated with the page fault, in a second data structure in response to a page fault; and a dump manager to store, in response to an event, memory access data derived from the physical memory according to at least a portion of the page fault data.
US07840846B2
A computer implemented method and computer program product for detecting and communicating boot failures in a client device. A Dynamic Host Control Protocol server is configured to monitor Dynamic Host Control Protocol communications from one or more client devices, wherein the client devices are configured to boot from local media. A boot request is received from a client device in response to a failure of the client device to boot from the local media. Responsive to receiving the boot request, a determination is made that a boot failure has occurred on the client device.
US07840845B2
A method for setting a breakpoint includes the following: receiving an input specifying a location for insertion of a breakpoint in the executable program; determining a breakpoint address for insertion of the breakpoint in the executable program based on the specified location of the breakpoint; writing a breakpoint instruction into a second machine-accessible medium at the breakpoint address; and locking a line containing the breakpoint instruction into the second machine-accessible medium to prevent the breakpoint instruction from being overwritten.
US07840843B2
A testing system for an embedded system is provided. The testing system includes a plurality of devices and one or more host computers. Each device, which includes the embedded system to be tested, is connected to the host computer via a network based on the network file system protocol. The host computers are further connected with a control server, and each of the host computers comprises a root file system. The control server is configured for providing an interface for a user to set test parameters, controlling each of the host computers to invoke a test program, thereby testing the embedded system according to the test parameters, and receiving test results of the embedded system from the host computer. A related testing method is also provided.
US07840834B2
An apparatus, program product and method checks for nodal faults in a group of nodes comprising a center node and all adjacent nodes. The center node concurrently communicates with the immediately adjacent nodes in three dimensions. The communications are analyzed to determine a presence of a faulty node or connection.
US07840833B2
A system for managing a cluster of nodes, the cluster comprising a plurality of groups of nodes, each node being associated with a vote, the system further comprising an arbitration device, the arbitration device being associated with a number of votes dependent on the number of nodes in the cluster, each node further being associated with a cluster manager, one of the cluster managers for each group being operable: if the group is in communication with the arbitration device, to determine whether the group has the greatest number of votes, including the votes of the arbitration device; if the arbitration device is operative, but the group is not in communication with the arbitration device, to determine whether the group meets the quorum without adjusting the quorum; and if the arbitration device is not operative, to determine whether the group meets the quorum after adjusting the quorum.
US07840832B2
A fault tolerant data processing system for controlling a real time process. The system is tolerant to systematic faults in its software. The system includes a data processor unit with a program memory and a data memory and input and output units where program software residing in the program memory can be executed on the data processor unit. The system includes a normal-mode software program residing in the program memory, and a backup-mode software program also residing in the program memory arranged to perform the same or similar function of the normal mode software program but being differently implemented than the normal-mode software program, and where a trigger signal received by the data processor unit can switch execution control such that the normal-mode software program stops executing and the backup-mode software program starts executing.
US07840830B2
A data input apparatus includes: a phase detector comparing a phase of a data strobe signal with a phase of a clock signal to output a first phase comparison signal and a second phase comparison signal. A first delay controller determines whether a first data input strobe signal is delayed to output the determined signal as a second data input strobe signal in response to the first phase comparison signal. An internal clock synchronizer synchronizes first aligned data and second aligned data with the clock signal in response to the second data input strobe signal, to output the synchronized first and second data as first internal output data and second internal output data, respectively. A second delay controller determines whether the first internal output data and the second internal output data is delayed in response to the second phase comparison signal, to output the first internal output data and the second internal output data as first output data and second output data, respectively.
US07840829B2
A power supply system is structured, which has a server disposed so that it is capable of communicating through redundant communication media with a user terminal at a user site which is capable of receiving power from one power supply system selected by making a switchover among a plurality of power supply systems; the server collects information about abnormalities caused in the plurality of power supply systems through other redundant communication media from abnormality detectors disposed in a plurality of power generating plants, each of which is part of one of the plurality of power supply systems, and on a plurality of electric transmission/distribution lines, each of which is also part of one of the plurality of power supply systems; the server determines whether the power supply system from which the user is currently receiving power is normal or abnormal; if the power supply system is abnormal, the server sends, to the user terminal, information about normal power supply systems from which the user is able to receive power.
US07840827B2
An apparatus and method for power management of a display system. A display controller couples to a memory storage device. A frame buffer in the memory storage device is filled with frames of information for display on a display device. The frames of information transfer to a display buffer in the display controller. The display controller transmits the frames of information from the display buffer to the display device. When frame information is not being transferred to the display controller, the display controller and the memory storage device may separately enter a power saving state. In power saving state, the display controller may continue to transmit frame information to the display device; however, power and a clock signal to components of display controller may be limited. When the display buffer is almost empty, the display controller exits power saving state to fill the display buffer.
US07840824B2
A management technique provides for management of power supply modules. In multiple computer equipment, in response to a load state, if an operation system issues a command that changes a processor state of a processor to a sleep state, a management module is notified through a management network MI that the processor state has changed. The management module holds a system information, and performs the steps of: updating system information because the processor state has changed; from this system information, calculating the power consumption required for the multiple computer equipment; determining the number of required AC-DC power supply modules to be operated; and changing the number of operating AC-DC power supply modules by use of a control interface PA.
US07840819B2
An automatic switch method and apparatus are used to set the output current of a USB by slowly increasing the output current under monitoring the voltage on the USB. If the USB could normally operate until the output current reaches a threshold value, a higher level is set for the output current, otherwise a lower level is set instead. The process may be performed periodically to dynamically determine the output current for the USB.
US07840818B2
A secure software package for original equipment manufacturers to run in electronic devices in order to access and dynamically decrypt encrypted audio video or other content from a memory storage device such as a memory card, optical or hard disk such that the user interface of the device need only send simple commands and the decrypted content is output.
US07840814B2
A method for managing an original executable code downloaded into a reprogrammable computer on-board system such as a microprocessor card. The code includes a cryptographic signature and is executable by the microprocessor once the validity of the signature has been checked. Off the card, a modified executable code corresponding to the original code and adapted to a pre-defined specific use is identified. A software component is calculated, which when applied to the original code, enables the modified code to be reconstructed. The software component is signed, and the signed original code and the signed software component are downloaded into the card. On the card, the signature of the original code and the software component are checked, and the software component is applied to the original code in order to reconstruct the modified code for the execution of the same by the microprocessor.
US07840813B2
The present invention relates to a method of access to a service consisting in i) identifying and registering a client (C), ii) authenticating the client to an anonymous certification authority, iii) authenticating the client by producing an anonymous signature and opening and maintaining an anonymous authentication session with a server (Se), and iv) selectively allowing contact between the server (Se) and the anonymous certification authority (ACA) to revoke the anonymity of the client (C) using the signature provided in step iii). The invention also relates to a system for opening and maintaining an authentication session guaranteeing non-repudiation.
US07840812B1
A synchronization device checks the revocation status of a digital certificate used by a portable computing device, such as a personal digital assistant or mobile phone. The synchronization device typically sends the revocation status to the portable device during a periodic synchronization operation. Revocation status checking can occur using minimal processing, memory or network access resources of the portable device. In some embodiments, the synchronization device is a desktop personal computer, or a server within a mobile communication network. In other embodiments, the portable device uses a certificate and sends the certificate to the synchronization device during a subsequent synchronization operation. In yet other embodiments, the synchronization device checks the status of a certificate, generates a summary for the certificate and transmits the summary to the portable device prior to its use of the certificate. In yet other embodiments, the synchronization device manages certificates for one or more portable devices.
US07840811B2
Provided is a network system using diameter authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) infrastructure to support the bootstrapping of a Mobile Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile node. The network system includes a mobile node equipped with Mobile IPv6, an attendant which is accessed by the mobile node when the mobile node moves toward a new network, an AAA local server which supports AAA processes for the mobile node in a local network, an AAA home server which supports AAA processes for the mobile node in a home network, and supports initial settings during the bootstrapping of the mobile node, and a home agent which handles binding update (BU) and binding acknowledgement (BA) regarding the mobile node. The AAA home server can configure initial settings for the mobile node that is authenticated by the AAA local server so that the mobile node can be effectively bootstrapped. Then, the AAA home server can distribute an IPsec SA to the mobile node and a home agent, and perform BU and BA based on the initial settings.
US07840810B2
A method for rejoining a second group of nodes with a first group of nodes is described. A first state of a first group key associated with a first group of nodes is received. The first state of the first group key is multicast to a second group of nodes. The first group key is rekeyed to a second group key associated with the second group of nodes. A second state of the second group key is multicast to the second group of nodes. A third state of a third group key associated with the first group of nodes is received. A rekey command is multicast to the second group of nodes if the third state is different from the second state. The second group key is rekeyed to the third group key.
US07840809B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for sending a session key file encryption key for use in the secure transmission of an encrypted media stream across a network. A logging node receives a double encrypted session key file encryption key. The session key file encryption key is used to encrypt session keys, which in turn can be used to decrypt the encrypted media stream. The logging node decrypts the session key file encryption key. Thereafter, the logging node sends the session key file encryption key to a reviewing node for use in secure transmission of the encrypted media stream.
US07840808B2
A client device transmits service identification information to an authentication device at the time of a service request, prompts selection of one or more authentication entity devices which execute one or more authentication subprocesses from among all the authentication entity devices adaptive to profile information received from the authentication device, based on “function list information defining an execution environment of each of the authentication entity devices”, transmits a request for executing an authentication subprocess to such selected each authentication entity device, and transmits to the authentication device “authentication context information including an execution environment and an execution result of an authentication subprocess” received from such each authentication entity device.
US07840800B2
The method to check module chaining in a modular software architecture located in an electronic unit with microprocessor comprising, apart from the microprocessor, a memory space, uses an identification, secured by the hardware, of the calling module. The invention also concerns an electronic unit with microprocessor designed to implement the above method.
US07840790B1
In a virtualization computer system, a method and system that does not exclusively allocate I/O devices, for example, storage and networking devices, to a commodity operating system (COS) when mainly used for booting the virtualization system. Those I/O devices needed by the COS are accessed via virtual machine kernel drivers, thereby giving the COS the benefits of operation derived from features in the virtual machine kernel that is provided for these I/O devices.
US07840786B2
A memory subsystem includes a first memory, a second memory, a first compressor, and a first decompressor. The first memory is configured to store instruction bytes of a fetch window and to store first predecode information and first branch information that characterizes the instruction bytes of the fetch window. The second memory is configured to store the instruction bytes of the fetch window upon eviction of the instruction bytes from the first memory and to store combined predecode/branch information that also characterizes the instruction bytes of the fetch window. The first compressor is configured to compress the first predecode information and the first branch information into the combined predecode/branch information. The first decompressor is configured to decode at least some of the instruction bytes stored in the second memory to convert the combined predecode/branch information into second predecode information, which corresponds to an uncompressed version of the first predecode information, for storage in the third memory.
US07840778B2
A parallel processing architecture comprising a cluster of embedded processors that share a common code distribution bus. Pages or blocks of code are concurrently loaded into respective program memories of some or all of these processors (typically all processors assigned to a particular task) over the code distribution bus, and are executed in parallel by these processors. A task control processor determines when all of the processors assigned to a particular task have finished executing the current code page, and then loads a new code page (e.g., the next sequential code page within a task) into the program memories of these processors for execution. The processors within the cluster preferably share a common memory (1 per cluster) that is used to receive data inputs from, and to provide data outputs to, a higher level processor. Multiple interconnected clusters may be integrated within a common integrated circuit device.
US07840776B1
A method of responding to an attempt to write a memory address including a target instruction which has been translated to a host instruction for execution by a host processor including the steps of marking a memory address including a target instruction which has been translated to a host instruction, detecting a memory address which has been marked when an attempt is made to write to the memory address, and responding to the detection of a memory address which has been marked by protecting a target instruction at the memory address until it has been assured that translations associated with the memory address will not be utilized before being updated.
US07840771B2
A method for storage management is provided which displays the materials on which it is determined which of the thin provisioning volume or the logical unit (LU) is to be used for storage promotion. The method is executed in a computer system having one or more host computers, one or more storage subsystems, and a management computer. The storage subsystem includes a physical disk and a disk controller. The disk controller provides the host computer with the thin provisioning volume. The management computer obtains the allocated capacity from the disk controller and the host-recognized capacity from the host computer. By subtracting the obtained allocated capacity from the host-recognized capacity, the management computer calculates an improved capacity. By dividing the calculated improved capacity by the obtained host-recognized capacity, the management computer calculates an improvement ratio and displays the calculated improvement ratio.
US07840770B2
Methods and systems for managing computer system configuration data are provided. The method includes staging the configuration data in a staging memory accessible to a first application, selecting a path for a transfer of the configuration data from the staging memory to a target memory, emulating a hardware data loader using a second software application adapted to control a transfer of the configuration data from the staging memory to the target memory, and transferring the configuration data from the staging memory to the target memory using the emulator. The method further effectively expands a memory capacity of a Flight Management Computer by providing swappable memory capacity such that a re-certification to Federal Aviation Administration standards of the Flight Management Computer is not triggered.
US07840767B2
System managing a plurality of virtual volumes and a virtual volume management method for the system
This invention provides a control technique of a data processing system, in which functions of a highly-functional high-performance storage system are achieved in an inexpensive storage system so as to effectively use the existing system and reduce the cost of its entire system. This system has a RAID system, an external subsystem, a management server, a management client and the like. The management server includes an information management table for storing mapping information of the RAID system and the external subsystem. When performing copy process, the pair creation in which a logical volume of the RAID system is set as a primary volume of copy source and a logical volume of a mapping object of the RAID system mapped from the logical volume of the external subsystem is set as a secondary volume of copy destination is executed from the management client by using the information management table.
US07840766B2
A storage system for writing data sent from a computer to storage regions is described. The storage system includes storage regions configured to store data, and a controller coupled with the storage regions. The controller is configured to control writing of the data from the computer. The controller is further configured to set a first storage region for writing data sent from the computer to a second storage region. The controller then acquires a snapshot of the first storage region at a predetermined time, writes a snapshot journal for the snapshot to the second storage region, and manages a snapshot management table. The controller also acquires a recovery point journal when a recovery volume designated by the computer is made, and writes the recovery point journal to the second storage region.
US07840765B2
In an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus and method for Remote Direct Access Memory (RDMA) copy-on-write perform the steps including: marking a page of a first application as copy-on-write when the first application and a second application share the page, and exposing the page via RDMA protocol to a remote application; in response to a write access message to the page from the remote application, dropping the write access message; and stalling the first application while a copy-on-write processing is pending, in response to the write access message to the page from the remote application.
US07840755B2
Methods and systems for automatically identifying storage array modifications thereof. An interface device associated with a data-processing system and a storage array thereof can be automatically monitored in order to identify one or more command completion events associated with the interface device. Data indicative of the status of the interface device can then be automatically compiled in response to identifying the command completion even(s) as a result of automatically monitoring the interface device. Data indicating that the storage array has been modified can thereafter be generated if the data indicative of a status of the interface device is equivalent to a particular value.
US07840751B2
Apparatus and method for command queue management of back watered requests. A selected request is released from a command queue, and further release of requests from the queue is interrupted when a total number of subsequently completed requests reaches a predetermined threshold.
US07840749B2
Area management information is cached in a cache memory by controlling the access size when an information processor accesses the area management information in an information recording medium. When the processing content of the information processor is to retrieve a free area from the area management information, a physical management block size determined from the physical characteristics of the information recording medium is used. When the processing content is to acquire a link destination from the area management information, minimum access unit of the information recording medium is used. Consequently, overhead can be lessened when the area management information is accessed.
US07840743B2
A double network physical isolation circuit includes a north bridge chip, a bus switch circuit, a first memory, and a second memory. The bus switch circuit includes a first and a second bus switch chip. The first and second memories are connected to different networks. The north bridge chip is connected to the first and second memory. When the bus switch circuit receives a high level signal, the first input pin of the first bus switch chip is in electrical communication with the first output pin of the first bus switch chip, and the first memory is activated. The second memory is grounded through the second bus switch chip. When the bus switch circuit receives a low level signal, the second input pin is in electrical communication with the second output pin of the first bus switch chip, and the second memory is activated. The first memory is grounded through the second bus switch chip.
US07840737B2
This invention provide a data processor capable of multiplexing data transfers with desired data transfer characteristics guaranteed, without multiplexing buses. The data processor includes: a transfer path that mutually connects plural processors and plural transfer element circuits such as memory; an arbitration circuit that controls data transfer in the transfer path; and a control register that defines the priority and minimum guaranteed bandwidth of data transfer. The arbitration circuit decomposes data packets sent from plural data transfer sources into subunits, and reconstructs plural data packets having the same data transfer target, based on priority and minimum guaranteed bandwidth stored in a control register. Thereby, the one reconstructed data packet can include subunits of plural data packets from transfer sources having different priorities, and data amounts of subunits contained in it can satisfy minimum guaranteed bandwidth of data transfer.
US07840736B2
Provided are a method, system, and program for initializing a processor of a computer system, to enumerate a remote bus and remote devices coupled to the remote bus, as operating components of the computer system. In another embodiment, a controller stores a message containing a directive in a memory shared by a processor of a computer system and the controller which may be operated independently of the state of said processor and said operating system. The processor may read a message stored in the shared memory by the controller and process the message. In addition, the processor may store a message intended for the controller to provide, for example, status information to be forwarded to another computer system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07840734B2
A bus buffer can include a data buffer and a clock signal buffer. The data buffer for can include two symmetrical buffer circuits with an output signal that can follow the input voltage to provide bi-directional buffer action for a data path of the bus buffer. The clock buffer can operate in a forward or reverse direction, where the signal direction for the clock signal path in the bus buffer can be controlled with a direction input. The bus buffer can also include an enable circuit for enabling the data path and the clock signal path.
US07840728B1
Apparatus, methods, and systems provide for remote management of a set of local computers by transferring screen frames produced by the local computer for viewing at a remote computer. A redirection module captures and transmits video signals from a local computer through over a network, such as the Internet, to a remote computer where the remote computer produces a display that contains the screen frames being transferred. The module is configured for use with and installation within a keyboard, video, and mouse switch configured for receiving the module. The redirection module is further configured for use with and installation on a server-blade to allow remote management of the server-blade.
US07840721B2
Devices with multiple functions and methods for switching functions thereof are provided. The device comprises a plurality of hardware components, a plurality of functional modules, an input device, and a processing module. Each functional module corresponds to one of the functional connecting configurations for the hardware components. The processing module executes one of the functional modules and drives the hardware components according to the functional connecting configuration corresponding to the executed functional module. The processing module determines whether to generate a switch command according to an input command received by the input device. When the switch command is generated, the processing module directly terminates the functional module being currently executed and adjusts to execute another functional module, and drives the hardware components according to the functional connecting configuration corresponding to the functional module to be executed.
US07840707B2
A portal server having a reverse proxy mechanism for proxying one or more Web applications on a backend server in response to a request for Web content from a user. The reverse proxy mechanism includes a portlet, a set of configuration rules, and a rewriting mechanism. The rewriting mechanism is configured to forward a user request for Web content to a Web application on the backend server, receive a response from the Web application, and rewrite the received response in accordance with the configuration rules. The portlet is configured to produce a content fragment for a portal page from the rewritten response. The configuration rules include rules for rewriting any resource addresses, such as URLs, appearing in the received response from the Web application to point to the portal server rather than to the backend server.
US07840703B2
A method, computer program product, and system are provided for dynamically routing data through the data processing system. Data is received at a first processor that is to be transmitted to a destination processor. The data that is received includes address information. A lookup is performed in routing table data structures based on the address information to identify candidate paths through which the data is routed to the destination processor. A determination is made as to whether any of the candidate paths are not able to be used to route the data to the destination processor based on a setting of at least one identifier. A path is selected from the identified candidate paths for routing of the data based on a setting of the at least one identifier. Then, the data is transmitted from the first processor along the selected path toward the destination processor.
US07840686B2
A method and system for conducting communications over a network is provided. An embodiment includes a server that is connectable to a client machine via a virtual private network that includes a VPN concentrator. The client machine and the VPN concentrator are configured to delay renegotiation of the VPN link in the event that an important stream is being carried over the VPN link.
US07840681B2
The present invention is directed to a session initiation protocol (SIP) infrastructure containing various user devices and the use of this infrastructure to conduct media exchange sessions among the various user devices. Included in the user devices are wearable devices, for example pendants and wrist watches, that provide readily available and accessible devices for use in controlling the media exchange sessions. SIP permits the separation of the control aspects of a session from the actual media exchange aspects to facilitate the use of wearable devices having limited processing resources as control devices. The actual media exchange is directed to user devices suitable for sending, receiving and displaying the exchanged media.
US07840680B2
Methods and systems for broadcast-like effect using fractional-storage servers that receive and store erasure-coded fragments, which are generated on-the-fly from segments of streaming content arriving in real-time. Shortly thereafter, assembling devices obtain the fragments and reconstruct the segments at a rate that allows approximately real-time presentation of the streaming content including the segments.
US07840679B2
A content delivery system which supports fragment requests without specifying the source address, including an assembling device, a relay server, and fractional-storage servers. The assembling device issues a client-request to receive enough erasure-coded fragments to reconstruct a portion of streaming content. The relay server receives the client-request, selects a plurality of fractional-storage servers that together store enough fragments to reconstruct the portion, and transmits, to the fractional-storage servers, fragment pull protocol requests for these sufficient fragments, on behalf of the assembling device. And the fractional-storage servers transmit the requested fragments to the assembling device in response to the fragment requests.
US07840677B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for optimizing an objective function (e.g. the overall end-to-end runtime latency) of a flow graph of message transformations which are placed onto an overlay network of broker machines by replicating stateless transformations in a guided manner. Exemplary embodiments include a guided replication method, including given an initial transformation graph and a network topology, running a placement algorithm to obtain top N best task-to-broker assignments, identifying the R-task which forms the performance bottleneck, checking if the objective function improvement drops below a designated threshold, if yes, then selecting the optimal task-to-broker assignment and the program terminates; otherwise, replicating the R-task, optimally distributing the data load among R-task's replicas, deriving a set of starting points from the above obtained top N task-to-broker assignments, and re-executing the placement algorithm with these starting points in an iterative fashion.
US07840674B1
A load balancing method classifies requests routed by a client computer to a server computer as either idempotent or non-idempotent requests. Idempotent requests can be submitted multiple times if not processed on the first attempt. Non-idempotent requests are submitted only once. The method designates a last server that provided an indication that it last processed a request and marks that server as the last available server. In one implementation, the method routes non-idempotent requests to the last available server and routes idempotent requests to any server or any of a subset of servers.
US07840666B2
Device, control method of the device, and program for causing computer to execute the control method
A device capable of flexibly changing a protocol for use for event communication in consideration of communication load applied to an event providing apparatus. The device receives an event registration request transmitted from a client apparatus, and based on the received event registration request, notifies a generated event to the client apparatus. When receiving an event registration request, the device determines whether or not communication load caused by event notification exceeds a threshold value, and based on the result of determination, decides a protocol for use for the event notification to the event registration request.
US07840663B1
A peer-to-peer network is monitored for suspicious activity based on patterns of activity. When a particular pattern of suspicious activity is detected, an action associated with the particular pattern is taken. The activity monitored may include network traffic among peers and data sharing on a peer in the network. The action may be to log information about the suspicious activity and/or to send an alert about the suspicious activity.
US07840659B2
A method and system for use in identifying customer premises equipment (CPE) in a distributed network are presented. The method includes receiving a first point-to-point-over Ethernet active discovery packet generating a device identifier code that identifies a product model of a customer premises equipment (CPE) device, and sending a second point-to-point over Ethernet (PPPoE) active discovery packet. The second PPPoE active discovery packet includes a tag that includes the device identifier code.
US07840652B2
A system and method determines network configuration settings that provide optimal network performance for a user's computer (client machine). The computer is connected to a remote server via a network connection. A plurality of network configuration settings are selected for the computer. One or more performance tests using the selected network configuration settings are automatically conducted. An algorithm is used to determine the best network configuration settings and achieve the desired network performance characteristics for the computer based on preferences specified by the user. The network configuration settings of the computer are automatically adjusted based on the results of the performance tests. The user's computer can access network configuration setting recommendations from the remote server, based on network configuration settings and aggregate test results associated with other computers that previously were in communication with the remote server.
US07840648B1
A method of composing a web page is described. The method includes transmitting an authoring web page including an embedded authoring tool to a client computer using a network. The authoring tool may be used to compose the web page. Web-page content corresponding to the composed web page is received from the client computer. The composed web page may include one or more regions for displaying one or more advertisements having one or more links to one or more content locations. In another aspect of the disclosure, an advertising program registration module may include a link or other mechanism for sending the authoring web page to a publisher registering to participate in the advertising program.
US07840645B1
The invention is directed to methods and techniques in a communications device for delivering content. In particular the technique includes intercepting, from a requesting device, an initial request for initial content accessible from an initial content source and in response to intercepting the initial request, creating redirection information indicating an identity of secondary content to be accessed by the requesting device in addition to the initial content in the initial request and providing the redirection information to the requesting device, such that the requesting device accesses both the secondary content from the secondary content source as well as the initial content from the initial content source.
US07840644B2
In a system for providing information to a user through the use of a BS broadcast, information items can be displayed in an optimum order and the information can be deleted from or stored in a storage device in the optimum order. Attribute information showing information categories may be designated. When the information stored in the storage device is viewed, the number of times the information is viewed is counted for each category of the information by using the attribute information indicating the information category. A user access tendency is determined from the count value of the accessed category, and an access priority is determined from the user access tendency. Attribute information showing the priority of the information may also be designated. In this case, the access priority is determined from the attribute information indicating the information priority. When a list of the information stored in the storage device is displayed, it may be displayed in order from the highest access priority to the lowest. To assure a vacant area in the storage device, the information may be deleted in order from the information of the lowest access priority. When new information is stored in the storage device, the information of the highest access priority may be filtered and stored.
US07840642B2
Methods, devices, systems, and media are disclosed for replacing an email attachment with a call, and forwarding the email with the call to a user for selective display of the attachment by making a call. One embodiment includes receiving an email on a mail server, wherein the email has the email attachment, and removing the email attachment from the email to produce a stripped email. The embodiment further includes storing the email attachment on a server, adding the call to the stripped email, and forwarding the stripped email with the call for displaying to a recipient.
US07840637B2
An example embodiment of a includes a Home Page, a Web Presence Tool Page, and a Product and Community Forum which is created and maintained by a Hosting Provider. The Home Page may be made accessible to Hosting Customers and Partners and is an ideal location for placement of ads since all members of the Web Hosting Community are funneled through this Web page. The Web Presence Tool Page may display information generated by a Partner regarding the Partner's application which may be viewed by the Hosting Customers. The Product and Community Forum may allow the Hosting Customers to share information regarding all the applications with other Hosting Customers.
US07840636B2
In some embodiments, a client computer includes a memory, a client presence program adapted to be located in the memory, and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory and is adapted to execute the client presence program to receive provider presence information from an instant messaging (IM) server and to store the provider presence information in the memory. The provider presence information includes at least a provider status for at least one service provider.
US07840630B2
An Arithmetic Logic Unit that includes first multiplexers coupled to a first adder, the first multiplexers controlled by a first opcode register; second multiplexers receiving input from the first adder and coupled to a second adder; and a second opcode register for controlling one or more of the second multiplexers, the first adder, or the second adder. A combination of the bits in the first and second opcode registers configures the ALU to perform one or more arithmetic operations or one or more logic operations or any combination thereof.
US07840629B2
Methods and apparatus for converting a radix 2 multiplier to respective groups of radix 4 encoded bits representing numbers of the group consisting of −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, wherein the set of encoded bits includes: a first bit that is true when the associated number is 2, a second bit that is true when the associated number is −2, a third bit that is true when the associated number is either negative or zero, and a fourth bit that is true when the associated number has an absolute value of 1.
US07840620B2
A playlist generator implements a net-based playlist generation process that comprises a multi-stage, hierarchical process. At a highest hierarchical level, the playlist generator applies parameters corresponding to a user's “general” preferences, wherein the parameters are relatively constant. At a lower level of the hierarchy, the playlist generator applies parameters corresponding to the user's “specific” preferences, wherein the parameters are dynamic time-dependent or event-dependent. The playlist generator uses the high-level parameters to generate a subset of material from a global collection of material, and applies the lower-level preferences to this subset of material in response to a change in the user's immediate preferences.
US07840616B2
The file recording method of the present invention is a method for recording a file on an information medium including at least both a specific area and a data area. In the method, a reserved area is allocated previously as a part of a recording file, from a current recording location of the recording file under recording on the data area, and at the same time, management information of the recording file including the reserved area is recorded on the specific area. When recording data additionally on the recording file, the data are recorded on the reserved area from the recording location. Thereby, the concentration of rewriting of the management information of a file system to a storage area is avoided while compatibility with an existing file system is maintained, and thus the life of the information medium is extended.
US07840610B2
A computer program product, apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatic generation of a map definition. The computer program product performs operations for such generation. These operations include identifying a source data structure and a source attribute associated with the source data structure and identifying a destination data structure and a destination attribute associated with the destination data structure. These operations also include automatically identifying a match of the source attribute and the destination attribute and generating a map definition inclusive of the match. The computer program product, apparatus, system, and method thereby reduce human intervention in the creation of a map definition.
US07840605B2
A system and method for generating runtime metadata for use in the development of mobile device applications. A metadata file, such as an XML file that is used to capture the metadata for a database associated with a mobile device application, is used to generate initialization code. This initialization code, when executed, creates runtime metadata for the application database in terms of a first object (e.g. classID object) through which metadata associated with the application database is accessible and at least one second object (e.g. propertyID object) through which metadata associated with a property of a data record of the application database is accessible.
US07840600B1
Systems and methods for interactively creating, customizing, and executing reports over the internet
The present invention enables users to interactively create, customize, and execute reports on data stored in databases using only a web browser. The user can create, customize, and execute reports by selecting various report elements including, for example, data sources, fields, filters, labels, charts, dashboards, and the like. Advantageously, the present invention enables users to create the reports through an Internet connection, without any special software, such as web browser plug-ins, database applications, and the like, without knowledge of data access languages, such as SQL, and without direct access to a database server. The present invention can directly connect to a plurality of different database types through a virtual or physical network connection. It fully functions without requiring the creation of additional configuration items like catalogs, models or secondary schemas by a programmer or database administrator (DBA).
US07840599B2
User interface and policy loading aspects of a policy-based, outsourced, network management system. In one aspect, a user selects policies using a graphical user interface (GUI) with a two paned window having a tree view of the policies in one pane. In another aspect, the policies are (1) created in the GUI format (e.g., XML), (2) sent over a network (e.g., the internet) to a service center in the same format, and (3) are loaded, manipulated and stored in the same format. In another aspect, the initial loading of the policies is done using a bulk loader in a logic layer. In another aspect, the logic layer also includes a configuration checker which handles changes or additions to policies in a finished network management system. Any aspects of the new or changed policy that are inconsistent with the finished system are parsed and stripped out. In another aspect, where the details of a new policy or change aren't specified, a base configuration creator creates a policy with minimal attributes. In another aspect, the logic layer also contains a device control console, which allows bypassing the policy creating and configuring to allow a user to directly access a device for configuration.
US07840587B2
A query cache for travel planning includes a cache database that stores query results and a cache test mechanism that receives a travel planning query and uses the query to find a result in the cache database and if a result is found returns the result, the result including a set of answers each answer in the set having a flight and a fare useable with the flight.
US07840586B2
A user interface may be provided that allows a user to select one or more stored items and display metadata attributes for those items. The user may further specify modifiers for one or more of the metadata attributes and perform searches based on selected ones of the metadata attributes and/or selected ones of the modifiers. In addition, a descriptive phrase may be automatically generated for one or more items. The descriptive phrase may be generated based on one or more of the metadata attributes. In doing so, metadata attributes may be converted to more user-friendly forms and collected into a sentence or other phrase. The descriptive phrase may be attached to the one or more items.
US07840572B2
A system may determine a document inception date associated with a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.
US07840571B2
The method discloses: scanning an original copy of a handwritten identifier; comparing the identifier to a set of prerecorded identifiers; adding the identifier to the set of prerecorded identifiers, if the identifier shares less than a predetermined similarity with any identifier within the set of prerecorded identifiers; linking the identifier to a set of information; scanning the original copy a second time; matching the second scan of the original copy with the first scan of the original copy; and retrieving the set of information in response to the matching. The system discloses: a computer system; a handwritten identifier; an imaging device for scanning an original copy of a handwritten identifier; an image processing and matching module for comparing the identifier to a set of prerecorded identifiers; a linking module for linking the identifier to a set of information.
US07840570B2
The invention relates to a system and method for acquiring and aggregating information relating to the reproduction of multimedia files or elements in a database, said data including information relating to the number of multimedia file or element reproductions. The inventive system comprises a plurality of digital devices which can access and reproduce multimedia files and an acquisition and storage device which communicates with each of the digital devices in order to receive data from each of the identification/characterization programs, such that the identification/characterization program can count the reproductions at least in a direct and/or weighted manner.
US07840569B2
A neural network is used to process a set of ranking features in order to determine the relevancy ranking for a set of documents or other items. The neural network calculates a predicted relevancy score for each document and the documents can then be ordered by that score. Alternate embodiments apply a set of data transformations to the ranking features before they are input to the neural network. Training can be used to adapt both the neural network and certain of the data transformations to target environments.
US07840567B2
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for deriving optimal physical space and ambiance conditions for a user. A physical space analyzer comprising an information sensor and an optimal space analyzer detects a broadcast of characteristics of a set of nearby physical spaces. In turn, the physical space analyzer produces a ranking of the set of nearby physical spaces using the characteristics based on preferences of the user as expressed by the user's profile. An ambiance optimizer is provided to refine the ranking of the set of nearby physical spaces based on dynamically input preferences of the user.
US07840566B2
A digital recording apparatus using a disc shaped record medium including an extracting unit that extracts outlined information of each of a plurality of files recorded on the disc shaped record medium. A correlating unit correlates the extracted outlined information and the plurality of files and generates an index file. A recording unit records the index file to a predetermined position of the disc shaped record medium. When a predetermined operation mode is performed, a plurality of types of data of the plurality of files are output in a predetermined format.
US07840553B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided that relate to processing database queries. In one embodiment, a query analysis logic can be configured to analyze a query to identify multiple instances of the same table. Instance numbering for the multiple table instances can then be performed using the query structure such that equivalent queries will likely get the same instance number assignments to improve materialized view recommendations for queries.
US07840545B2
A method and system for providing user-friendly access to a database are described. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide a database server. There is at least one database coupled to the database server, wherein the database server enables access to the at least one database. A user-defined interface configured to have access to the at least one database, wherein the user-defined interface is customized to have functionality to suit specific needs of a user.
US07840542B2
The invention provides a method and system for controlling access to semantic web statements. The method comprises the steps of providing a set of semantic web statements in a defined format, and storing the statements in one or more first tables; and constructing a set of access control lists in the defined format, and storing the lists in one or more second tables. Each of the access control lists of the second tables is connected to one or more of the statements of the first tables, and the access control lists are used to enforce access rules to the semantic statements. Preferably, this access is enforced by filtering out web statements that users do not have permission to read, and by returning errors when users attempt to make changes to the semantic statements that the users do not have permission to change.
US07840530B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for supporting parallel nested transactions in a transactional memory system. Releasing a duplicate write lock for rollback is supported. During rollback processing of a parallel nested transaction, a write log entry is encountered that represents a write lock. If the write lock is a duplicate, a global lock is used to synchronize access to a global versioned write lock map. Optimistic read validation is supported. During validation, if a versioned write lock indicates a sibling conflict, consult information to determine if a parallel nested transaction should be doomed. Write lock acquisition is supported. Upon attempting to acquire a write lock for a parallel nested transaction, a transactional memory word is analyzed to determine if the write lock can be obtained. If the transactional memory word indicates a versioned write lock, retrieve a write log entry pointer from a global versioned write lock map.
US07840526B1
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and user interfaces that provide abilities to administer data in a workflow system. In some embodiments, the workflow system is a portion of a larger system, such as a document management system.
US07840525B2
Multiple atomic “component” database transactions are combined into a single extended transaction through message passing. The multiple component transactions that comprise a single extended transaction may, in combination, perform a single computation. The component transactions may pass messages to each other by writing and reading records to and from one or more databases. The resulting extended transaction may be distributed and/or long-lived.
US07840523B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for aggregating event data in order to reduce the amount of storage space necessary to store event data for later use in statistical analyses of the event data. The raw event data is analyzed and, for each event ID within a time period, a specific set of numbers and sums are calculated. This set is then stored instead of the raw event ID and used for all subsequent analyses of the events. The set of numbers and sums reduce the amount of storage required for each event ID within a time period to a set of five data elements, regardless of the number of underlying events in the raw event data. The set of number and sums include a number of events, a sum of the events, a sum of the squares of the events, a sum of the cubes of the events and a sum of the events raised to the fourth power.
US07840517B2
A performance evaluating apparatus for a rule is provided, which is capable of evaluating a business value of a rule applied to the operation and management of an information system through autonomous control. The performance evaluating apparatus for a rule collects, respectively before activation processing that is prescribed by a rule and after completion of the execution of the processing, a rule execution history and a system state information indicating a state of a monitored information system that is necessary for calculation of the business value. The business value is calculated from the collected system state information and rule execution history by a given calculation formula.
US07840516B2
A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium are provided for preserving privacy of one-dimensional nonstationary data streams. The method includes receiving a one-dimensional nonstationary data stream. A set of first-moment statistical values are calculated, for a given instant of sub-space of time, for the data. The first moment statistical values include a principal component for the sub-space of time. The data is perturbed with noise along the principal component in proportion to the first-moment of statistical values so that at least part of a set of second-moment statistical values for the data is perturbed by the noise only within a predetermined variance.
US07840502B2
An advertisement image classification system trains a binary classifier to classify images as advertisement images or non-advertisement images and then uses the binary classifier to classify images of web pages as advertisement images or non-advertisement images. During a training phase, the classification system generates training data of feature vectors representing the images and labels indicating whether an image is an advertisement image or a non-advertisement image. The classification system trains a binary classifier to classify images using training data. During a classification phase, the classification system inputs a web page with an image and generates a feature vector for the image. The classification system then applies the trained binary classifier to the feature vector to generate a score indicating whether the image is an advertisement image or a non-advertisement image.
US07840498B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for determining whether to market an intellectual property asset, where the intellectual property asset is based at least in part on an innovation developed for an internal need. In an embodiment, a description of an intellectual property asset is received, and an assessment of the marketability of the intellectual property asset is generated based at least in part on the description of an intellectual property asset and a marketing criterion.
US07840492B2
Methods and systems for dispensing value are described. In one configuration, a unique tangible indicia is enabled with a value and then disabled after the value is redeemed. In another configuration, a user enables a unique coded stamp and associates a postage payment with the stamp. The postal service cancels the stamp by deactivating the stamp from a list of active stamps and optionally audits the payment association.
US07840490B1
The described embodiments contemplate a system, method and computer-readable medium with computer-executable instructions for managing licensed commodities. The novel system comprises an installed software database having licensing terms. The system further includes an owner module and an asset management module that communication with the installed software database. The system includes a client device that provides a request for software to the installed software database for processing.
US07840486B2
A method and system of performing secure credit card purchases in the context of a remote commercial transaction, such as over the telephone, wherein only the customer, once generally deciding upon a product or service to be purchased, communicates with a custodial authorizing entity, such as a credit card company or issuing bank wherein such entity has previous knowledge of the credit card number as well as custodial control of other account parameters such as interest rate, payment history, available credit limit etc. The customer supplies the custodial authorizing entity with the account identification data such as the credit card number and a requested one of a possible plurality of predetermined payment categories which define the dollar amount for the purchase and specific, predetermined time parameters within which authorization by the custodial authorizing entity will remain in effect. The custodial authorizing entity then generates a transaction code which is communicated exclusively to the customer wherein the customer in turn communicates only the transaction code to the merchant instead of a credit card number. The transaction code is indicative of merchant identification, credit card account identification and a designated one of the plurality of predetermined payment categories.
US07840483B2
Techniques and systems for settling over-the-counter financial instruments includes sampling over a periodic interval are disclosed. A volume weighted average price of the sampled process may be calculated and forward points may be applied to the volume weighted average priced to determine an associated spot exchange rate. Such a synthetic spot FX exchange rate may be published to subscribers. Over-the-counter financial derivatives may establish delivery obligations according to the spot exchange rate. In the event where a number of transactions during the sampling period is less than a threshold, a midpoint of bids and asks associated with orders for the exchange traded financial derivative may be used to determine an average of the midpoint, to which the forward points may be applied to determine the spot exchange rate. Alternatively, the time-weighted average of the bid and ask orders during a periodic interval may be used in computing the volume-weighted average price.
US07840477B2
An apparatus for routing trading orders comprises a memory and a processor. The memory stores first trading information associated with a first buy order placed with a first market center. The first buy order is associated with a product and the first trading information comprises a disclosed quantity of the product and a reserved quantity of the product. The memory also stores second trading information associated with a second buy order placed with a second market center. The second buy order is associated with the product and the second trading information comprises a disclosed quantity of the product and a reserved quantity of the product. The processor is coupled to the memory and receives a sell order associated with a quantity of the product. The processor further cancels at least a portion of the second buy order placed with the second market center for placement with the first market center. The canceled portion of the second buy order is determined based at least in part upon the second trading information. The processor further routes at least one additional sell order to the first market center having a quantity that is based upon at least one of the first trading information and the canceled portion of the second buy order.
US07840475B2
The invention is directed to methods and systems for commodities procurement with concomitant hedging. The invention enables automatic commodity purchase at a desired basis level when a seller's price matches a buyer's basis bid and concomitantly automatically placing an electronic commodities order to hedge the buyer's purchase.
US07840474B1
A method and system for electronically trading financial instruments is disclosed. In one embodiment of the disclosed invention, traders generate requests for proposals (“RFPs”) on financial instruments. The RFPs are broadcast to traders whose tradeable structures include the RFP structure. During a response phase, traders may respond to the RFP. These responses are preferably broadcast to all traders who have responded, as well as the requestor. Preferably, only the requestor may trade on the responses during the response phase. Once the response phase expires, the system preferably enters an action phase during which all responders to the RFP and the requestor may trade on the responses. Once the action phase expires, the responses are migrated to the general market.
US07840471B2
A method of funding and managing a fund of diverse life insurance policies issued by investment grade carriers, the fund providing enhanced risk adjusted investment return. The method includes selecting, using computer enabled instructions, the life insurance policies for the fund without underwriting on the lives of the insured of each life insurance policy, the step of selecting based on a cash value analysis of the life insurance policies to identify those policies with viable projected cash value streams and that can be positively impacted to improve the cash value streams; acquiring, using computer enabled instructions, the selected life insurance policies for the fund, wherein benefits of life insurance policy ownership pass to the owners of the fund; and managing the fund, using computer enabled instructions, to maximize a financial risk adjusted investment rate of return that provides equity level returns with fixed income asset exposure.
US07840469B2
The present invention provides a system and method for administering an investment option known as a lifetime income share. Lifetime income shares mitigate survival risk, the risk that an individual will outlive his or her assets. More specifically, the purchase of a plurality of lifetime income shares guarantees an individual a predetermined, periodic income payment for the life of the purchaser. The guaranteed stream of monthly income commences at a specified age. Furthermore, the guaranteed stream is utilized to supplement an existing income level or provide income in the event that the individual outlives his or her accumulated liquid assets.
US07840468B2
The invention comprises a system and method for hedging or mitigating mortality exposure risk in a portfolio of mortality-dependent instruments. A mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio is calculated or otherwise determined. Then the sensitivity of the portfolio to mortality risk or longevity risk is calculated or otherwise determined, in other words, how much is cost or value of the portfolio affected by a change in mortality rate. To account for that mortality exposure, a selection is made of building block mortality derivatives that include age-based mortality derivatives. The selected plurality of building block mortality derivatives are used to create a hedge against the mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio.
US07840465B1
An organization electronically receives a payment from a customer of the organization based on a current time. If the current time is before a predetermined time relating to an identified payment due date, a non-real-time payment system is employed to effectuate the payment from the customer. The non-real-time payment system processes the payment at a later time on or before the identified payment due date such that the payment is applied to the customer on or before the identified payment due date. If the current time is after a predetermined time relating to the identified payment due date, a real-time payment system is employed to effectuate the payment from the customer. The real-time payment system processes the payment at the current time such that the payment is applied to the customer at the current time.
US07840464B2
The invention comprises A comprises a system and method for hedging or mitigating mortality exposure risk in a portfolio of mortality-dependent instruments. A mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio is calculated or otherwise determined. Then the sensitivity of the portfolio to mortality risk or longevity risk is calculated or otherwise determined, in other words, how much is cost or value of the portfolio affected by a change in mortality rate. To account for that mortality exposure, a selection is made of building block mortality derivatives that include age-based mortality derivatives. The selected plurality of selected plurality of building block mortality derivatives are used to create a hedge against the mortality risk or longevity risk of the portfolio.
US07840459B1
A system and method issues a credit card or other credit instrument to a user by first obtaining authorization and authentication from the user.
US07840454B2
A computer-implemented method and system for calculating a safety stock quantity for several warehouses within an availability check during a delivery process of goods, wherein the safety stock quantity is representative of a quantity of products which is protected by the availability check, wherein the safety stock quantity is a combination of a predetermined safety stock quantity and a calculated safety stock quantity and the calculated safety stock quantity being a combination of the predetermined safety stock quantity, a percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity, an expected demand quantity and a percentage of the expected demand quantity and wherein the safety stock quantity is calculated within the availability check using the predetermined safety stock quantity, the percentage of the predetermined safety stock quantity, the expected demand quantity and the percentage of the expected demand quantity for the respective delivery process of goods.
US07840447B2
A number of sets of methods and apparatuses applicable to online shopping are disclosed. One set, “Bin Packing Methods with Approximate Membership”, includes methods in pricing and auctioning a bundle of items, some of which could belong to another bundle. Significantly, the membership of a bundle, during pricing and auction, could change. Another set, the “Shopping Console”, puts a structure into the online shopping experience, so that through one interface various shopping activities can be facilitated, including but not limited to researching, pricing, negotiation, group buying, and tracking of purchases. Still another set, “Flash Mob Shopping”, allows sellers and a (spontaneous) group of shoppers to connect on prices without requiring shoppers' hard commitments, and with sellers revealing only necessary price information.
US07840433B2
The present invention provides fluid, depleting chips for allocating computational resources for obtaining desired service level characteristics, wherein fluid chips deplete from a maximum allocated amount but may, in an optional implementation, be allowed to be replenished through the purchase of additional chips. A number of chips are assigned to the requestor/party, known as the business unit (BU), which could be a department, or group providing like-functionality services. In one implementation, the chips themselves could represent base monetary units integrated over time.
US07840423B2
An insurance premium rate setting support system is composed of a computer and includes: a probability-increase/strong-influence location coefficient setting section which sets a probability-increase/strong-influence location coefficient by obtaining the coefficient based on a predetermined function; and an earthquake insurance premium rate computation section which computes an insurance premium rate where an increase in the earthquake occurrence probability, based on the estimated strain accumulation, is reflected by multiplying together the set probability-increase/strong-influence location coefficient and an insurance premium rate where the increase in the earthquake occurrence probability, based on the estimated strain accumulation, is not reflected.
US07840421B2
An infectious disease surveillance system is disclosed, which comprises a database system for storing data relating to at least one infectious disease; input means for providing data to the database system; a complex adaptive system associated with the database system; processing means for processing the data of the database system and converting the data into surveillance data; and output means for displaying the surveillance data.
US07840414B1
The present application generally relates to a method and system for identifying whether or not a particular mail piece has machine readable address correction service information and for providing feedback to a mailer or the Postal Service regarding errors in such requests and corrective action needed. In particular, the method relates to analyzing an encoded barcode containing address correction information to verify whether address correction service is requested. For each mail piece containing an address correction service request, the method includes verifying that address correction service request associated with the decoded barcode is valid.
US07840403B2
An audio encoder performs entropy encoding of audio data. For example, an audio encoder determines whether a first code table in a group of plural code tables contains a code representing a first vector. If it does, the code is used, and otherwise the escape code from the first code table is used and the first vector is encoded using, at least in part, a second code table. An audio decoder performs corresponding entropy decoding.
US07840401B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable mediums for compensating one or more signals and/or one or more parameters for time delays in one or more signal processing paths.
US07840397B2
A simulator is partitioned into a functional component and a behavior prediction component and the components are executed in parallel. The execution path of the functional component is used to drive the behavior prediction component and the behavior prediction component changes the execution path of the functional component.
US07840396B2
A system for making real-time predictions about an arc flash event on an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, an analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component is communicatively connected to a sensor configured to acquire real-time data output from the electrical system. The analytics server is communicatively connected to the data acquisition component and is comprised of a virtual system modeling engine, an analytics engine and an arc flash simulation engine.
US07840382B2
Methods and apparatus for network re-creation in controlled environments. In an aspect, a method for network re-creation is provided. The method includes determining a logging window, logging at least one re-creation parameter during the logging window to produce a re-creation log, and storing the re-creation log. In an aspect, an apparatus for network re-creation is provided. The apparatus includes a re-creation processor configured to determine a logging window, and log at least one re-creation parameter during the logging window to produce a re-creation log, and log storage configured to store the re-creation log. In an aspect, a method for network re-creation is provided. The method includes obtaining a re-creation log, determining at least one re-creation parameter from the re-creation log, and re-creating a network environment based on the at least one re-creation parameter.
US07840375B2
A method of generating a library from a reference substrate for use in processing product wafers is described. The method includes measuring substrate characteristics at a plurality of well-defined points of a reference substrate, measuring spectra at plurality of measurement points of the reference substrate, there being more measurement points than well-defined points, and associating measured spectra with measured substrate characteristics.
US07840370B2
Method and apparatus for monitoring the rotational speed of a shaft, in particular a shaft having a number of spaced features on or rotating with the shaft. Preferred embodiments of the invention are concerned with methods and apparatuses for processing signals in order to calculate, with high accuracy and a fast response time, the rotational speed of a gas turbine shaft. The invention recognizes that it is possible to accurately measure speed between two eddy current sensors (5, 6) by determining the time take for a turbine blade to pass therebetween provided that appropriate compensation is made for the effect of apparent changes in the magnetic distance between the sensors.
US07840358B2
A hierarchical statistical framework for separating mixed data is provided. The approach is a shift from chaining hard-decision modules to an integrated soft-decision approach. The framework facilitates separating, for instance, sequencing data obtained from a mixture of two or more different sequences. The sequencing data can be separated using machine learning techniques to determine the correspondence between the sequencing data and the two or more different sequences.
US07840347B2
A navigation system comprises an image display unit at which various images including a map are displayed, a touch panel operation detection unit that detects a touch panel operation performed by a user based upon a contact position at which the user has touched the image display unit, a specified road detection unit that detects a road segment specified by the user by tracing a corresponding road portion present in the map, based upon a locus of the contact position resulting from the touch panel operation detected by the touch panel operation detection unit, and a route setting unit that extends the detected road segment along a direction in which the road portion has been traced by the user and sets the extended road segment as a route to follow.
US07840346B2
Real time performance comparison involves identifying predefined route data corresponding to a route. Measured locations are detected while a user traverses the route carrying a mobile device. The measured locations are sent via a network synchronously with the detection of the respective measured locations. Comparative data points are derived based on the predefined route data and the measured locations in response to receiving the measured locations. The comparative data points are sent, via the network, in response to measured locations. The comparative data points allow the user to measure relative performance during the route traversal.
US07840343B2
When displaying map information including a place where a 2-dimensional code is set according to the information containing the 2-dimensional code, the map can be displayed in a direction facilitating a user to view the map. A mobile terminal includes 2-dimensional code read means for reading a 2-dimensional code set at a particular location and containing position information on the location where it is set and the azimuth information on the location with respect to the read reference direction of the 2-dimensional code. The mobile terminal further includes display means for displaying a map, rotation angle calculation means, and map rotation means. The 2-dimensional code read means outputs position information recorded in the 2-dimensional code and the 2-dimensional code read reference direction and azimuth information. The rotation angle calculation means calculates a rotation angle from the 2-dimensional code read reference direction and azimuth information. The display means displays a map including the 2-dimensional code setting position rotated according to the rotation angle.
US07840338B2
An apparatus, and related method, for monitoring and controlling the traffic of transport systems, such as railway vehicles, wherein the vehicles include device elements, such as satellite positioning systems, monitored by a series of centralized units to monitor and control adjacent areas. In case of anomalous traffic situations, the system and method provides proper alarm signals and signals for automatically putting into action the breaking systems of the vehicles. To do so, the devices can interface with breaking means and sensors placed along the railway paths and in the vehicles, and exchange positioning data or other kinds of data of various sensors, among vehicles running within a certain mutual distance and can further include a secured memory means for storing data, information and parameters.
US07840337B2
A method is for controlling an overrun condition in a hybrid vehicle having a combustion engine and additionally at least one electric motor as well as an overrun fuel cutoff, which interrupts a fuel supply to the combustion engine when the vehicle is in an overrun condition and restores the fuel supply when the combustion engine reaches or falls below a restoring speed. At least in a combustion engine at operating temperature, the fuel supply is restored at a restoring speed of at most 200 min−1, e.g., at most 100 min−1 above an idling speed of the combustion engine. The restoring speed may be in the range of the idling speed or only slightly above the latter. The restoring speed is thus clearly lowered as compared to the usual restoring speeds and extends the overrun fuel cutoff phases and thus reduces fuel consumption.
US07840334B2
An engine control system for an internal combustion engine with a fuel injector, comprises a combustion fuel quantity computing means for computing a combustion fuel quantity in a combustion cycle; and a residual fuel quantity computing means for computing a residual fuel quantity in the combustion cycle based on a difference between an injection fuel quantity of the fuel injector and the combustion fuel quantity.
US07840332B2
Systems and methods for steam turbine remote monitoring, calculating corrected efficiency, monitoring performance degradation, diagnosing and benchmarking are disclosed with an example turbine system including a turbine, a data acquisition device coupled to the turbine, the data acquisition device for collecting turbine data that includes performance parameters of the turbine and a central monitoring system coupled to the data acquisition device, the central monitoring system for receiving the collected turbine data and processing the turbine data to determine turbine performance.
US07840328B2
Industrial truck with a display unit for an operator and with a sending and receiving unit directed towards the load pick-up region, which can receive sent data from load goods and from load supports, and an analyzing unit, which displays the received data in the display unit, wherein the analyzing unit examines the data received from a load good with respect to transportation conditions and displays existing transportation conditions in the display unit.
US07840327B2
A drive assistance device for a wheel chair having a drive motor, a driving wheel, a sensor means which is designed such that a driving force manually induced into a driving wheel is detected, and a control unit, designed such that the drive motor is controlled to drive the driving wheel in accordance with a drive assistance degree depending on the driving force manually induced into the driving wheel, wherein the control unit comprises an anti-rollback operational mode in which it is adapted to control the drive motor such that an unintended rolling of the driving wheel is avoided. The invention also relates to a wheel chair having such a drive assistance device.
US07840320B2
A method for monitoring engines of a plane, including at least two engines, each engine being controlled and monitored by an engine monitoring calculator, the calculators being connected to each other by a communication network and each calculator monitoring operating parameters of one engine. The method being characterized in that both calculators output on the network the value of at least one of the parameters for comparison with the same parameter outputted by the other calculator, and if a value of one calculator deviates from a value of the other calculator by a difference higher than a predetermined threshold, one of the engines is diagnosed as operating abnormally.
US07840319B2
Route planning methods for use by a package delivery service provider are disclosed that satisfy a stochastic daily demand while taking advantage of drivers' route familiarity over time. A model for estimating the value of driver familiarity is disclosed along with both an empirical and a mathematical model for estimating the value of route consistency, along with a Core Area Route Design which involves the concepts of combinatorial optimization, meta-heuristic algorithms, tabu search heuristics, network formulation modeling, and multi-stage graph modeling. In one embodiment, a service territory is divided into unassigned cells associated with a grid segment involving prior driver delivery stops, and a driver from a pool of unassigned drivers is assigned to a route based on examining each driver's grid segment visiting frequency limit with respect to a minimum limit so as to optimize driver selection based on of each driver's familiarity with the route.
US07840316B2
An aircraft flight control surface actuation control system includes an actuator control unit and a flight control module. The actuator control unit includes at least two independent actuator control channels to generate limited authority flight control surface actuator commands based on pilot inceptor position signals and flight control augmentation data. The flight control module supplies the flight control augmentation data to each of the independent actuator control channels, determines operability of each of the actuator control channels and, based on the determined operability of each independent actuator control channel, selectively prevents one of the independent actuator control channels from supplying the limited authority flight control surface actuator commands. The flight control module may also generate full authority flight control surface actuator commands for supply to flight control surface actuators.
US07840315B2
An aviation yoke HSI interface and flight deck control indicator and selector safety system enhances flight safety. The system incorporates a multi-controlled HSI with a yoke heading adjustment control, a yoke VOR radial selector, and a yoke heading centering control positioned on the captain yoke. The system may also incorporate a first officer multi-controlled HSI with a first officer yoke heading adjustment control, a first officer yoke VOR radial selector, and a first officer yoke heading and course centering control positioned on the first officer yoke. An autopilot mode indicator visually indicates whether an autopilot is flying according to a desired heading or according to a VOR radial signal. A side selector-indicator control permits selection of which side controls the flight of the aircraft. A first control unit and a second control unit may be in electrical communication with both sides to fly the aircraft in autopilot.
US07840300B2
The subject invention pertains to an apparatus and method for collecting 2-D data slices of a specimen. Embodiments can incorporate a lapidary platen and an image recording system to image a specimen. The lapidary wheel platen can provide an imaging plane such that an image can be taken as the lapidary wheel platen abrades a surface of the specimen. A specimen mount can maintain the surface of the specimen properly aligned in the image plane. The imaging system can be a continuous recording system such as a video camera, a discrete recording system such as a flatbed scanner, or combinations of continuous and discrete recording systems to simultaneously collect two distinct data sets. The 2-D data set(s) can then be processed to create intricate 3-D color models.
US07840293B2
A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing system. Such features include validating the content of event messages to ensure compliance of event report information with a standard. The system also supports caching IDs associated with particular aspects of an event message (e.g., a production request, a process segment) as well as a unique ID corresponding to the ID assigned by the production event database to reduce the need to access the database when assigning unique database IDs to received events. The production event messaging system also supports both asynchronous and synchronous transactional messaging between the sources of events and the production database service. Furthermore, the system supports including extensions to a base production message schema through the inclusion of metadata that designates a particular production server to parse and apply/store the extension information.
US07840290B2
There is provided with an encoded digital audio reproducing apparatus including: a reading control portion which reads an encoded audio file having a data part including audio data as a sequence of frames and a size part including size information on each of the frames; a table generating portion which generates a table holding positional information on frames at intervals of a predetermined number of frames in the sequence of frames; a decoding portion which sequentially decodes the audio data from a leading frame to output the decoded audio data; a reproducing portion which reproduces the decoded audio data; and a reproduction start position calculating portion which, in the case where a reproduction request from an arbitrary frame in the audio data is inputted, decides from the table a frame satisfying a positional reference for the arbitrary frame as a reproduction start frame.
US07840287B2
A robust method of creating process models for use in controller generation, such as in MPC controller generation, adds noise to the process data collected and used in the model generation process. In particular, a robust method of creating a parametric process model first collects process outputs based on known test input signals or sequences, adds random noise to the collected process data and then uses a standard or known technique to determine a process model from the collected process data. Unlike existing techniques for noise removal that focus on clean up of non-random noise prior to generating a process model, the addition of random, zero-mean noise to the process data enables, in many cases, the generation of an acceptable parametric process model in situations where no process model parameter convergence was otherwise obtained. Additionally, process models created using this technique generally have wider confidence intervals, therefore providing a model that works adequately in many process situations without needing to manually or graphically change the model.
US07840274B2
A visual prosthesis for restoring color vision to patients with lost or impaired visual function. The prosthesis creates the perception of a color image by electrically stimulating visual neurons in patterns consistent with the electrically patterns naturally produced by the retina in response to a color image.
US07840272B2
Compositions and methods are provided for modulating the growth, development and repair of bone, cartilage or other connective tissue. Devices and stimulus waveforms are provided to differentially modulate the behavior of osteoblasts, chondrocytes and other connective tissue cells to promote proliferation, differentiation, matrix formation or mineralization for in vitro or in vivo applications. Continuous-mode and pulse-burst-mode stimulation of cells with charge-balanced signals may be used. Bone, cartilage and other connective tissue growth is stimulated in part by nitric oxide release through electrical stimulation and may be modulated through co-administration of NO donors and NO synthase inhibitors. Bone, cartilage and other connective tissue growth is stimulated in part by release of BMP-2 and BMP-7 in response to electrical stimulation to promote differentiation of cells. The methods and devices described are useful in promoting repair of bone fractures, cartilage and connective tissue repair as well as for engineering tissue for transplantation.
US07840263B2
A gene regulatory system controls gene therapy by emitting one or more forms of energy that regulate gene expression by triggering promoters. The system includes a sensor to sense a signal indicative of a need for the gene therapy as well as responses to the gene therapy. The regulation of the gene expression is controlled based on the sensed signal and/or a user command. In one embodiment, the system delivers one or more electrical therapies in conjunction with the gene therapy.
US07840259B2
A method for evaluating an electrocardiogram is disclosed herein. The method includes measuring an electrical activity of a patient, processing the measured electrical activity to form a multi-lead signal, and extracting a segment of the multi-lead signal. The method for evaluating an electrocardiogram also includes transforming the segment of the multi-lead signal into a synthesized signal that is most representative of the patient's electrical activity, and evaluating the synthesized signal. A corresponding system for evaluating an electrocardiogram is also disclosed.
US07840256B2
An array for use with a surgical navigation system is provided. The array comprises a frame and first, second and third markers attached to the frame. The first, second and third markers are detectable by a tracking system used in image guided surgery, and the first marker is movable relative to the frame. In one embodiment, at least one marker slides along the frame from a first position where it is held in place to a second position where it is also held in place. In another embodiment, one or more of the markers is removed from the frame at a first position and reattached to the frame at a second position. In still another embodiment, a portion of the frame itself moves with the movable marker.
US07840252B2
A method for determining a three dimensional representation of a tubular organ, the method comprising the procedures of registering a three dimensional medical positioning system (MPS) coordinate system with a two dimensional coordinate system, acquiring a plurality of MPS points within the tubular organ, the MPS points are associated with the MPS coordinated system, each of the MPS point is acquired with a respective organ timing signal reading, acquiring at least one two dimensional image of the tubular organ, the at least one two dimensional image is associated with the two dimensional coordinate system, the at least one two dimensional image is acquired from at least one perspective, each of the at least one two dimensional image is further acquired with a respective organ timing signal reading, associated each of the MPS points with the at least one two dimensional image according to the organ timing signals thereof, determining a temporal three dimensional representation of a portion of the tubular organ for each MPS point, the portion being identifiable in the respective two dimensional image.
US07840251B2
An apparatus having an insertable portion for holding a position sensor is disclosed. The position sensor can transmit a signal indicative of its position with respect to a field generator. The insertable portion of the catheter has fiducial markings that are detectable by an imaging modality when the insertable portion is inserted into the anatomical body. The fiducial markings are asymmetrical about at least a first axis of the insertable portion. After the insertable portion has been inserted into the anatomical body, the fiducial markings can be detected to facilitate registration of the position sensor held in the insertable portion to the anatomical body. The apparatus also has a fixing mechanism for releasably fixing the insertable portion to the anatomical body. The non-symmetrical fiducial markings facilitate unambiguous registration of the insertable portion to the anatomical body. When the insertable portion is inserted into the anatomical body to a location of interest, the fixing mechanism substantially rigidly fixes the insertable portion of the catheter to a part of the anatomical body near the location of interest.
US07840246B1
A measurement light detector detects light transmitted by a light source of an implantable system that is scattered back into an implantable housing, and produces a measurement signal indicative of the intensity of the light detected by the measurement light detector. A calibration light detector detects a portion of the transmitted light that has not exited the housing, and produces a calibration signal that is indicative of the intensity of the light detected by the calibration light detector, which is indicative of the intensity of the light transmitted by the light source. Changes in the intensity of the transmitted light are compensated for based on the calibration signal produced by the calibration light detector. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
US07840239B2
A power management bus for controlling power over multiple device subsystems includes a master power bus controller which transmits power management information to control one or more power resources through a transmit interface. The transmitted information is received at one or more receive interfaces. A broadcast message can be transmitted to control multiple power resources by subsystem, resource group and resource type. A single address message can be transmitted to control a single power resource. A power down can be initiated at any of the receive interfaces.
US07840235B2
Systems and methods that provide channel-adaptive antenna selection in multi-antenna-element communication systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method that selects a subset of receive antennas of a receiver to receive a transmitted RF signal may include, for example, one or more of the following: establishing possible subsets of the receive antennas; determining sets of channel parameter statistics corresponding to the possible subsets of the receive antennas; computing output bit error rates of the receiver, each output bit error rate being computed based on at least one set of channel parameter statistics; selecting a particular possible subset of the receive antennas based upon a criterion predicated on the computed output bit error rates; and connecting one or more RF chains of the receiver to the receive antennas of the selected particular possible subset.
US07840234B2
A method and mobile communication device capable of resuming operating function of a temporarily disable SIM (subscriber identity module) card are provided. The SIM card is disposed in a mobile equipment (ME), in which a code verification state of the SIM card is recorded. When the code verification state is “verification required” state, the ME records an original personal identification number (PIN)/PIN unlock key (PIN/PUK) code corresponding to the SIM card. The method includes the steps of executing a SIM card start-up procedure; determining whether the code verification state of PIN/PUK code is the same with the state stored in the ME and whether a PIN/PUK code re-read from the SIM card is the same with the original one; and determining whether the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) value re-read from the SIM card is the same with original one: if so, resume and re-use the SIM card.
US07840231B2
The present invention relates to a method for adjusting forward transmission power control threshold in a mobile communication system, comprising the following steps of: setting in advance at the base station side an overload control threshold and an adjustment range of the power control threshold of sector forward transmission power; obtaining current total values of the forward transmission power of the sector; judging whether the sector forward transmission power exceeds said overload control threshold; judging whether the sector forward transmission power exceeds said adjustment range of the control threshold; dynamically adjusting the forward transmission power threshold, and so on. By the steps of pre-setting the overload control threshold and power control threshold adjustment range of the sector forward transmission power, obtaining the current total values of the forward transmission power of the whole sector and judging whether the sector forward transmission power exceeds the overload threshold and so on, the present invention realizes real-time regulation of the sector forward transmission power, thereby can track the variance of the actual forward transmission power, and ensure CDMA mobile communication system having a good communication service quality.
US07840228B2
A base station synchronization system, a synchronization controller, and a base station are provided that are capable of establishing precise synchronization among a plurality of base stations. In a base station synchronization system including a plurality of base stations and a base station concentrator, the base station concentrator includes a control information generator for generating synchronization control information, and each base station includes a VCO oscillating at a frequency corresponding to an input control voltage, and a corrector for correcting the input control voltage to the VCO according to the synchronization control information. This configuration makes it possible to establish synchronization among the master clocks of the plurality of base stations so as to suppress phase differences among the base stations and precisely synchronize the base stations with each other.
US07840219B2
A method for selecting a subset of sites within a set of candidate sites for activating one or more radio stations of a telecommunications network includes building an initial solution of a subset of sites starting from a network configuration having the whole set of active candidate sites; and optimizing the initial solution for activating “inactive” sites and/or deactivating “active” sites, in order to minimize a predetermined cost function for the solution. The steps of building and optimizing the initial solution are adapted to define both solutions that have a geographic coverage area that is greater than a predefined minimum coverage area and to manage an amount of traffic that is greater than a predefined minimum expected traffic value. A processing system and a processing program or group of programs can be executed by the system when pre-arranged for performing the above method.
US07840217B2
Methods and apparatus for performing proxy registration on behalf of a node with a Home Agent supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. A first registration request is composed on behalf of the node and transmitted to the Home Agent via a first Local Mobility Anchor, wherein the first Local Mobility Anchor is a regional controller via which registration is performed when the node moves within a region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor. When the node moves within a region or between regions, the node is re-registered. Specifically, a second registration request is composed and transmitted to the first Local Mobility Anchor when the node moves within the region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor. When the node moves into a second region associated with a second Local Mobility Anchor and outside the first region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor, a second registration request is composed and transmitted to the Home Agent via the second Local Mobility Anchor, wherein the second Local Mobility Anchor is a regional controller via which registration is performed when the node moves within a region associated with second first Local Mobility Anchor.
US07840208B2
A message exchange network is disclosed in which at least two different methods of storing messages in memories of message storage entities, e.g., a mobile handset, an SMSC, an e-mail client, or an e-mail server, are utilized based on the type and the content of the information contained within the message. An information service message containing information that is supercedingly updateable, e.g., stock quote, weather or traffic information, is stored using a replacement method by which an older message previously stored is replaced by a newly received message. All other types of messages are stored using an append method by which the newly received message is stored in an unoccupied available memory location. In a disclosed embodiment, message identifier included in the message itself provides information necessary to distinguish between the aforementioned two types of messages. In a disclosed embodiment, a block of message identifiers is reserved for storage of information service messages. The architectures and methods for receipt, delivery and storage of messages disclosed herein replaceable and/or on demand update of information service messages while providing efficient use of memory in which the messages are stored, avoiding the annoyance and inconvenience to the subscriber in having to scroll through numerous stale and/or obsolete messages in order to view the most current up to date message and having to manually selecting and deleting obsolete and stale messages, and avoiding unnecessary deliveries of the obsolete and stale messages by message centers.
US07840207B2
A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server to halt the message server from forwarding further portions of the message content. The system provides a mechanism for the user of the mobile communications device to cause the mobile communications device to further signal the message server to recommence the forwarding of further portions of the secure message content to permit the verification of the e-mail based on the further portions of the secure message content.
US07840196B2
In a filter circuit, resonators is connected in parallel between input and output terminal, an input signal is input through the input terminal and supplied to the resonators. Signal generators are connected to the resonators to control the resonators. The signal generators are controlled by a control unit so that the resonators are resonated to generate resonance signals at different resonant frequencies and at predetermined resonance phases. Thus, the output signal is set within a desired frequency range.
US07840189B2
A wireless communication device comprises a frequency generation circuit employing a crystal oscillator operably coupled to a fractional-based synthesiser and a voltage-controlled oscillator. The fractional-based synthesiser utilises a ratio between an integer value and a fractional value to set a radio frequency signal of the voltage-controlled oscillator. An automatic frequency control scaling sub-system is operably coupled to a fractional-based synthesiser and configured to receive and use an AFC word to frequency scale the fractional value in a multiplicative manner to set a radio frequency supported by the fractional-based synthesiser. Preferably, an automatic frequency generation sub-system utilises Absolute Radio Frequency Channel Number and the cyclical nature of the fractional value.In this manner, a saving on hardware and software overheads associated with frequency channel selection for fractional-N type synthesizers can be made.
US07840185B2
A system includes an enterprise network having a call control system that manages telephony services for wireless handsets. At a remote site, a computing device establishes a secure, wireline communication session with the enterprise network. The computing device also establishes wireless, packet-based links with one or more handsets. The device acts as a relay to enable the handsets to receive telephony services managed by the enterprise network even though outside of the service area of the enterprise network.
US07840177B2
A media content monitoring system uses a rack adapted to receive multiple carrier boards to improve the system's ability to be configured to specific applications. Each carrier board contains tuner modules for receiving AM/FM broadcasts, satellite radio broadcasts, TV audio broadcasts, HD, IBOC, DAB and DRM digital radio broadcasts, etc. The tuner modules produce a USB output that is combined by a USB hub on the carrier boards into a single USB output. The carrier board outputs are in turn combined by a rack based USB hub into single USB output that is provided to a host computer. The host computer includes content identification software that automatically identifies selected media content received by the tuner modules and stores the selected content in a database. The host computer can send control codes to the tuner modules to alter their reception parameters.
US07840164B2
An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit to form an image on a print medium, the image forming apparatus including a guide shaft, first and second shaft insertion members into which the guide shaft is inserted, a unit main body including first and second insertion holes provided along the guide shaft and whose diameters larger than external diameters of the first and second shaft insertion members, respectively, and an adhesive to adhere the first and second shaft insertion members inserted into the first and second insertion holes, to the unit main body.
US07840147B2
An image forming apparatus for stabilizing image densities of a high-density image by devising shapes of test patches is provided. A test pattern image is created by adhering toner to a plurality of test patches having respectively different line area rates of 100% or less. An amount of adhering toner for a line area rate of 100% is calculated by detecting the amount of the toner adhering to the test pattern image. Then, process conditions are controlled so that the calculated amount of the adhering toner reaches a predetermined value. By doing so, the amount of the adhering toner of the high-density image is accurately controlled.
US07840146B2
A developing device has stirring members for conveying and stirring a developer-tank-contained developer and a developer holder, and has a developer replenishing tank for replenishing a replenishment developer to a developer tank; a toner concentration detecting sensor; a discharging mechanism for discharging an excessive amount of the developer-tank-contained developer outside the developer tank when the amount of the developer-tank-contained developer inside the developer tank exceeds a predetermined amount; and a control unit for replenishing the developer-tank-contained developer when it is detected that the toner concentration inside the developer tank is lower than a first reference value and for forcibly consuming the toner inside the developer tank and replenishing the replenishment developer when it is detected that the toner concentration inside the developer tank is higher than a second reference value that is higher than the first reference value.
US07840140B2
A transmitter-side transmission signal for compensating disturbances caused by e transmission properties of an optical transmission system is provided. A high-bit-rate-binary signal is serially introduced into an N-level-shift register. A bit pattern whose bit number depends on the transmission system disturbance influence is removed from the shift register and introduced into comparators connected to comparative-value registers. The comparative-value registers include values received from a transmission function and from various binary-bit patterns. In the comparators, the binary-bit pattern introduced is converted into a binary combination which is introduced into a digital-analog transducer, which transmits a compensation signal, corresponding to a discrete value for the amplitude or phase of the transmission signal corresponding a desired signal form, to a modulator. For bit pattern whose bit number is <=10 a code conversion is carried out a bit-data rates transmitted while the comparative-value registers of the comparators subsist with substantially slow storage elements.
US07840120B2
A communication system includes a first recording apparatus and a second recording apparatus. The first recording apparatus determines whether recording of a broadcast program is settable in the first recording apparatus based on first information for reservation of the recording and second information for selecting an apparatus to be used to record the broadcast program, and transmits third information for requesting the state of the apparatus to the second recording apparatus when the recording is not settable. The second recording apparatus receives the third information from the first recording apparatus, and transmits fourth information to the first recording apparatus in response to the third information. The first recording apparatus further receives the fourth information from the second recording apparatus, evaluates a priority level assigned to the second recording apparatus based on the fourth information, and transmits the first information to the second recording apparatus according to the priority level.
US07840119B2
A display device with personal versatile recorder capabilities is provided which is capable of processing progressive I-slice refreshed MPEG data streams to enable trick play mode features. The display device comprises a receiver for receiving a progressive I-slice refreshed MPEG data stream having I-slices distributed over multiple P-frames. The display device further comprises a syntax parser for parsing the data stream to locate I-slices which make up an I-frame. A storage device is provided for storing the data stream. The display device also comprises an interface for receiving a command for a trick play mode feature. A processor associated with the syntax parser recovers the located I-slices from the storage device and assembles the recovered I-slices into one or more constructed I-frames. A decoder is provided for decoding the constructed I-frames to enable the trick play mode features.
US07840114B2
The designated double speed number n is corrected by a ratio of a reproducing time of a VOBU calculated from the difference between VOBU_E_PTM and VOBU_S_PTM included in management information NV_PCK (navigation back) of the VOBU and a standard reproducing time (0.5 second) (S104), and an address of VOBU_SRI included in the VOBU of the recorded data is referred to by representing the corrected designation double speed number i as an exponent to obtain a VOBU to be subsequently reproduced (S109) The VOBU_SRI is referred to by representing the corrected designated double speed number i as the exponent, and an address of the VOBU to be subsequently reproduced can be obtained. Therefore, accurate reproducing speed can be achieved.
US07840108B2
Provided is a light branching optical waveguide including: at least one incident light waveguide (A) optically connected to one end of a multi-mode optical waveguide; and output light waveguides (B) larger in number than the incident light waveguide (A) optically connected to the other end thereof, the light branching optical waveguide being characterized in that: an intensity distribution of light incident from at least one optical waveguide (a) out of the incident light waveguide (A) on the multi-mode optical waveguide at a connecting surface of the incident light waveguide (A) and the multi-mode optical waveguide is asymmetric with respect to a geometrical central axis of the optical waveguide (a); and an extended line of the geometrical center axis of the optical waveguide (a) does not coincide with a geometrical central axis of the multi-mode optical waveguide. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain a low-loss light branching optical waveguide having a reduced branch loss and a reduced variation in branching ratio, and further to obtain a light branching optical waveguide having small wavelength dependence as well as a reduced branch loss and a reduced variation in branching ratio.
US07840107B2
An optical pumping device is provided in which a multi-core fiber obtained by bundling up a plurality of optical fibers, which are input ports, and a double clad fiber for optical pumping are spliced through a bridge fiber composed of a double clad fiber having a tapered shape. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently couple signal light and pumping light to the double clad fiber for optical pumping.
US07840103B2
A wavelength division multiplexing system has a wavelength division multiplexer and a wavelength division demultiplexer. The wavelength division demultiplexer is in series with the wavelength division multiplexer to process at least one optical signal to generate at least one processed optical signal. The wavelength division multiplexer and the wavelength division demultiplexer cooperate to introduce substantially zero total chromatic dispersion in the processed optical signal. In one version, the wavelength division multiplexer and the wavelength division demultiplexer introduce opposing functions of chromatic dispersion into the at least one processed optical signal.
US07840100B2
A method of laterally displacing at least a component of a light beam, the method comprising: a) directing the beam to enter a block of birefringent material at a first location, and at least the component of the beam to pass through the block on a first path to an exit location; and b) changing a polarization of the component of the beam after it has passed through the block, and directing it to pass back through the block from the previous exit location to a next exit location, following a next path oriented at changed angle due to its changed polarization state, at least one time; the component of the beam thereby being laterally displaced from the first location, when it exits the block a last time.
US07840094B2
An image processing apparatus and method, and a program-recorded recording medium perform detecting features of image information for classes which is input for learning, calculating the degrees of belongingness of the detected features to the classes, weighting pieces of the input image information based on the degrees of belongingness, and calculating prediction coefficients for the classes based on the weighted pieces of the image information. The apparatus and method, and program-recorded recording medium also perform detecting features of input image information for classes, calculating the degrees of belongingness of the detected features to the classes, weighting pieces of the input image information based on the degrees of belongingness, providing prediction coefficients for the classes, calculating pieces of predictive image information for the classes based on the weighted pieces of the image information and the provided coefficients for the classes, and adding the pieces of predictive image information for the classes.
US07840091B2
A method includes displaying a reference polar coordinate system on a display screen, and displaying a radiation pattern image on the display screen in juxtaposition with the displayed reference polar coordinate system. In another aspect, an angled line is drawn on a display screen to represent the proposed layout of a leaky coaxial cable. A point of interest is selected that is spaced from the proposed cable layout, and one of the segments of the cable is determined as likely to produce a dominant level of irradiation with respect to the point of interest.
US07840086B2
Methods for filling in of missing or damaged regions of images using information from surrounding areas are disclosed. A model for binary inpainting based on the Cahn-Hilliard equation is used, which allows for fast, efficient inpainting of degraded text, as well as super-resolution of high contrast images.
US07840075B2
A radar system includes a memory device operable to store radar-return data characterizing at least one geographic region, a database including a set of chart data representing fixed landmarks associated with the at least one geographic region, and a processor coupled to the memory device. The processor is configured to obtain from the memory device multiple sets of the radar-return data corresponding to successive scans of the at least one geographic region, perform correlation processing among the multiple data sets to yield a first correlated data set, perform correlation processing between the first correlated data set and fixed-landmark chart data associated with the at least one geographic region to yield a second correlated data set, and process the second correlated data set to remove said fixed-landmark chart data therefrom and yield a third data set representing scanned objects that are not fixed landmarks.
US07840066B1
Methods for enhancing the quality of an electronic image, including automated methods for contrast enhancement and image noise reduction. In many embodiments the method provides for grouping the histogram components of a low-contrast image into the proper number of bins according to a criterion, then redistributing these bins uniformly over the grayscale, and finally ungrouping the previously grouped gray-levels. The technique is named gray-level grouping (GLG). An extension of GLG called Selective Gray-Level Grouping (SGLG), and various variations thereof are also provided. SGLG selectively groups and ungroups histogram components to achieve specific application purposes, such as eliminating background noise, enhancing a specific segment of the histogram, and so on. GLG techniques may be applied to both monochromatic grayscale images and to color images. Several preprocessing or postprocessing methods for image noise reduction are provided for use independently or for use with GLG techniques to both reduce or eliminate background noise and enhance the image contrast in noisy low-contrast images.
US07840064B2
The present invention provides a method for automatically identifying a person comprises acquiring white-light and UV images of a portion of the person's skin, generating a skin mask from the white-light image, and comparing the skin mask with a pre-stored skin mask of the person. If a substantial match is not found between the two skin masks, the person is not identified, and an error message such as “wrong person” or “person unknown” is returned. Otherwise, the method proceeds to obtain results associated with certain skin conditions using at least the UV image. The results are compared with pre-stored results to determine if the person is the right person or wrong person. A computer readable medium and system are also disclosed.
US07840062B2
A method for computer aided detection (CAD) and classification of regions of interest detected within HRCT medical image data includes post-CAD machine learning techniques applied to maximize specificity and sensitivity of identification of a region/volume as being a nodule or non-nodule. The regions are identified by a CAD process, and automatically segmented. A feature pool is identified and extracted from each segmented region, and processed by genetic algorithm to identify an optimal feature subset, which subset is used to train the support vector machine to classify candidate region/volumes found within non-training data.
US07840061B2
A method adapts a boosted classifier to new samples. A boosted classifier is trained using initial samples. The boosted classifier is a combination of weak classifiers. Each weak classifier of the boosted classifier is updated adaptively by adding contributions of new samples and deleting contributions old samples.
US07840058B2
A method is provided for generating height information for an image point on a rectified image from first and second aerial images having respective first and second sets of rational polynomial coefficients (RPCs), the first and second aerial images and the rectified image including overlapping image locations. The method comprises steps for generating epipolar lines and RPC lines and intersection points of epipolar lines and RPC lines. The method also comprises steps for equating line and sample coordinates to cubic polynomial equations and simultaneously solving the cubic polynomial equations to generate a height of the image point.
US07840048B2
A system and method for identifying objects of interest in image data is provided. The present invention utilizes principles of Iterative Transformational Divergence in which objects in images, when subjected to special transformations, will exhibit radically different responses based on the physical, chemical, or numerical properties of the object or its representation (such as images), combined with machine learning capabilities. Using the system and methods of the present invention, certain objects that appear indistinguishable from other objects to the eye or computer recognition systems, or are otherwise almost identical, generate radically different and statistically significant differences in the image describers (metrics) that can be easily measured.
US07840044B2
A method and system is provided for image segmentation for liver objects. Segmentation is performed to obtain a first set of objects relating to liver. More than one types in association with one of the first set of objects are identified. Landmarks are identified based on the segmented first set of objects or the different types of one of the first set of objects. A second set of objects including liver lobes are segmented based on the landmarks.
US07840040B2
A method and system for providing an operational command signal to a workstation of an imaging system. The workstation is provided imaging data from a positionable transducer. The method and system convert at least one of a predetermined plurality of motion patterns imparted by an operator of the system to the transducer into the operational command signal.
US07840028B2
An authenticating system includes an object, an authentication service, a segmentation system, and an analysis system. The object includes a plurality of steganographic instruments on a visible portion of the object. The authentication service is configured to receive a digital image of at least one of the plurality of steganographic instruments. The segmentation system is configured to extract the at least one of the plurality of steganographic instruments for analysis. The analysis system is configured to determine if the at least one extracted steganographic instrument corresponds to at least one registered steganographic instrument.
US07840019B2
The estimation of an HRTF for a given individual is accomplished by means of a coupled model, which identifies the dependencies between one or more images of readily observable characteristics of an individual, and the HRTF that is applicable to that individual. Since the HRTF is highly influenced by the shape of the listener's outer ear, as well as the shape of the listener's head, images of a listener which provides this type of information are preferably applied as an input to the coupled model. In addition, dimensional measurements of the listener can be applied to the model. In return, the model provides an estimate of the HRTF for the observed characteristics of the listener.
US07840013B2
An array of microphones is provided wherein the microphones are positioned at the ends of cavities within a diffracting structure. The cavity depth, width, and shape are optimised to provide high directivity without grating lobes, at frequencies for which the distance between microphones is greater than half the acoustic wavelength.
US07840012B2
The audio conditioning apparatus (190) for conditioning an audio signal (O) to be output, contains a noise characterizing unit (106, 112) arranged to evaluate a noise level (NM) of environmental noise yielding a noise level with which subsequently a volume amplification unit (140) amplifies a volume of the audio signal (O) by a volume gain (GV), depending on the noise level (NM). The audio conditioning apparatus (190) contains a further noise characterizing unit (108,114), (110, 116) is comprised, arranged to evaluate a further noise level (NL, NH) of the environmental noise in a noise band of low bass or high treble noise frequencies, and based on this further noise level a further amplification unit (150, 152) amplifies by a further gain (GB, GT) the amplitude of frequency components in a to the noise band corresponding audio band of low respectively high audio frequencies of the audio signal (O). The result is a simple apparatus which achieves that the audio in a noisy environment substantially sounds as if there was no or less noise.
US07840007B2
A digital data false alteration detection program causes a computer to execute (a) a step (S1) of dividing digital data into a plurality of smaller block data, (b) a step (S2) of extracting noise inherent to a digital data acquisition device for each of the small block data, (c) a step (S3) of calculating correlation of the noise between adjacent small block data, and (d) a step (S4) of detecting small block data having noise correlation lower than a level predetermined for the surrounding small block data, as falsely altered data.
US07839997B2
An exemplary circuit for preventing unauthorized access to a phone includes three transistors, a zener diode, and a rectifier comprising two input terminals for receiving an AC voltage from the telecommunication office, a negative output terminal connected to the phone via a first resistor, and a positive output terminal connected to the phone. The anode and the cathode of the zener diode are respectively connected to the positive output terminal and the base of the first transistor. The collectors of the first and third transistors are connected to the base of the second transistor, which is connected to the positive and negative output terminals respectively via two capacitors. The collectors of the first and second transistors are connected to the positive output terminal respectively via a second resistor and a buzzer. Emitters of the three transistors are connected to the negative output terminal of the rectifier.
US07839993B2
In a line driver/receiver circuit where the line driver is connected with its output terminals to a load for supplying a transmit signal thereto and where the receiver is connected with its input terminals to the load for simultaneously receiving a receive signal therefrom, the transmit signal on the input terminals of the receiver is canceled by connecting the output terminals of the line driver to the load via equal complex sense impedances of an impedance value that is much smaller than the impedance value of the load impedance to match the load impedance, connecting the input terminals of the receiver to the load via equal first resistors and to respective output terminal of the line driver via equal second resistors, and providing transconductance amplifiers to sense the voltage across the sense impedances and supply corresponding currents to respective input terminal of the line driver.
US07839988B2
Methods and apparatus for data structure driven authorization and routing of outdial communication services are disclosed. A disclosed method comprises obtaining a call criterion from a request to authorize an outdial communication service call, and retrieving an authorization result based on the call criterion by accessing a data structure that correlates a plurality of authorization results with a plurality of call criteria, wherein each of the plurality of authorization results is selectively modifiable.
US07839983B2
A method for providing voice telephony services can include the step of receiving a call via a telephone gateway. The telephone gateway can convey call identifying data to a resource connector. A media port can be responsively established within a media converter that is communicatively linked to the telephone gateway through a port associated with the call. A call description object can be constructed that includes the call identifying data and an identifier for the media port. The call description object can be conveyed to a telephony application server that provides at least one speech service for the call. The telephony application server can initiate at least one programmatic action of a communicatively linked speech engine. The speech engine can convey results of the programmatic action to the media converter through the media port. The media converter can stream speech signals for the call based upon the results.
US07839980B2
A cooling apparatus (10) for X-ray tube inserts (14) is provided. The apparatus comprises a flow director (20) that is configured to direct at least a portion of a flow of a coolant toward a window (30) of an X-ray tube insert. The flow director may incorporate a flow sleeve (208) of a plurality of nozzles (88).
US07839979B2
It is described an electron optical arrangement, a X-ray emitting device and a method of creating an electron beam. An electron optical apparatus (1) comprises the following components along an optical axis (25): a cathode with an emitter (3) having a substantially planar surface (9) for emitting electrons; an anode (11) for accelerating the emitted electrons in a direction essentially along the optical axis (25); a first magnetic quadrupole lens (19) for deflecting the accelerated electrons and having a first yoke (41); a second magnetic quadrupole lens (21) for further deflecting the accelerated electrons and having a second yoke (51); and a magnetic dipole lens (23) for further deflecting the accelerated electrons.
US07839966B1
Sampling and analysis of input data is implemented within the programmable logic resource without using external equipment. CDR circuitry can be set to reference clock mode. In this mode, a reference clock signal is multiplied by a factor to generate a sample rate. The sample rate is divided by another factor, the desired width of the sampled data, to generate an output clock. The input data is sampled at the sample rate and sent to core circuitry based on the output clock. Dedicated circuitry in the core circuitry is configured to perform analysis on the sampled data.
US07839963B2
Circuitry for synchronizing communications between clock environments wherein a change of state is transmitted from a first clock environment to a second clock environment, the first clock environment being timed by a first clock signal and the second clock environment being timed by a second clock signal, the first and second clock signals having nominally the same frequency but an unknown phase relationship, the circuitry comprising: delay means in the first clock environment arranged to generate a plurality of timing signals by delaying said first clock signal by respectively different delay values; sampling means in the second clock environment for sampling said plurality of timing signals at timing determined by said second clock signal thereby generating a plurality of sampled timing signals; and determining means for generating a control signal based on said plurality of sampled timing signals and outputting said control signal for controlling the transfer time of said change of state.
US07839958B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for adjusting a signal includes applying at least one of a loss compensation for frequency-dependent distortion and an offset compensation for DC-offset distortion to a signal before or after the distortion occurs to generate an output signal, the output signal comprising even phase and odd phase. The method also includes selecting either the even phase or the odd phase at which to begin sampling. The method further includes, using a clock signal, beginning at the selected phase, sampling the output signal to generate a plurality of data values and an error value, the error value indicating residue of the distortion based on the sampling of the output signal. The method also includes adjusting none, one, or more of the loss compensation and the offset compensation applied to the signal based on the sampled error value. The method further includes, after adjusting the at least one of the loss compensation and the offset compensation applied to the signal based on the sampled error value, selecting either the even phase or the odd phase at which to begin the next sampling.
US07839957B2
A method of updating a multipath search that has located one or more multipath component peaks in a received signal, the method comprising repeating the search using a delay spread window extending either back from the latest peak or forward from the earliest peak.
US07839951B2
A system and method for performing digital crest factor reduction. In one embodiment, the method is devised to suppress the signal amplitude to maintain a low signal peak to average ratio (PAR), while maintaining a desirable Error Vector Magnitude (EVM). This technique may be designed to operate in highly dynamic signal conditions.
US07839947B2
According to the invention, a circuit for reducing the crest factor is provided: (A) with a transmit path with a data symbol to be transmitted; (B) with a model path, which is arranged in parallel with a section of the transmit path, which exhibits a model filter to which the non-oversampled data symbol to be transmitted can be supplied, the non-oversampled data symbol exhibiting a non-flat PSD power spectrum, which exhibits an analysis and evaluation circuit which is arranged following the model filter and which checks whether the time domain function of the data symbol to be transmitted exhibits within a predetermined time interval at least one maximum, the amount of which exceeds a first threshold and/or determines the associated position of the maximum within the time interval, and which, by scaling and displacing a dirac-like sample function generates a correction function in dependence on the position and the amplitude of the maximum; (C) with a subtracting device which is connected to outputs of the model path and of the transmit path and which subtracts the correction function from the data symbol to be transmitted.
US07839945B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to generate a codebook for channel state information by generating a random codebook; partitioning channel state information into a set of nearest neighbors for each codebook entry based on a distance metric; and updating the codebook by finding a centroid for each partition.
US07839942B2
In an OFDM receiver with a diversity configuration having a plurality of demodulation modules, to perform FFT window position recovery and clock recovery, the gain values calculated by the AGC units (16, 26) provided in the demodulation modules for adjusting the level of the received signal are supplied to a correlation combiner (35); the correlation combiner (35) multiplies the correlation signals supplied from the correlation detectors (17, 27) in the demodulation modules by coefficients calculated from the gain values, then adds the products to generate a combined correlation signal and supplies it to an FFT window position recovery unit (32) and a clock error detector (33). FFT window position recovery and clock recovery can thus be performed properly without depending on any one demodulation module.
US07839941B2
A wireless communication system that transmits data on multiple carriers simultaneously to provide frequency diversity includes an antenna array, which may provide for transmit diversity. Complex coding applied to the carriers and carrier frequency separation control time-domain characteristics of a superposition of the carriers. Each transmitter of a transmitter array may be provided with at least one carrier of the multicarrier signal. A periodic relative phase relationship applied to the carriers causes a periodic variation in the transmitter array's beam pattern. A periodic phase relationship between the carriers provides periodic scanning of the beam pattern transmitted by the antenna array. Embodiments of the invention may be employed with OFDM and frequency hopping.
US07839939B2
Spread spectrum transmission of information is performed using chaotic signals. Direct chaotic communication systems in which information is input to chaotic signal generated directly in information transmission frequency band, are achieved by forming broadband information carrier necessary for transmission and using a chaotic dynamic system whose structure is synthesized in advance in accordance with predetermined characteristics of broadband information carrier to cause chaotic dynamic system to provide operation of forming the broadband information carrier in form of a chaotic information carrier having prescribed spectral characteristics. Modulating the chaotic information carrier is carried out by forming chaotic radio or optic chaotic pulses from chaotic information carrier, with predetermined time intervals between pulses in accordance with the transmitted information signal, and the reception and demodulation at the receiving side is carried out using a dynamic system matched, in behavior, with chaotic dynamic system of transmitting side.
US07839931B2
A method and system of encoding and decoding digital video content. The digital video content comprises a stream of pictures which can each be intra, predicted, or bi-predicted pictures. Each of the pictures comprises macroblocks that can be further divided into smaller blocks. The method entails encoding and decoding each picture in said stream of pictures in either frame mode or in field mode.
US07839929B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently predecoding a hybrid bitstream generated by a plurality of coding schemes are provided. The method includes obtaining a first bit-rate for a boundary between the lower layer bitstream and the upper layer bitstream and a second bit-rate for a boundary between motion information and texture information of the upper layer bitstream from the input hybrid bitstream, determining the target bit-rate according to variable network circumstances, and when the target bit-rate is between the first and second bit-rates, skipping the motion information of the upper layer bitstream and truncating all bits of the texture information of the upper layer bitstream from the tail, except bits corresponding to the difference between the target bit-rate and the first bit-rate.
US07839924B2
A partial response signaling system includes a transmitter circuit configured to equalize input data in response to a control signal and to transmit a partial response signal through a transmission medium; and a receiver circuit configured to recover an output data from the partial response signal and to generate the control signal based on the partial response signal and an expected signal to output the control signal to the transmitter circuit.
US07839923B2
A communications system includes a carrier recovery module that determines a carrier frequency offset of an input signal. A rotator module rotates the input signal to minimize the carrier frequency offset and generates a compensated signal. A correlator module correlates the compensated signal with a unique word to obtain a timing correction. An equalizer module equalizes the compensated signal based on the timing correction and generates an equalized signal. The carrier recovery module includes a burst detector module that detects a burst in response to a preamble of the input signal and an average detector to set a gain of a programmable gain amplifier (PGA). The average detector is disabled during burst search by the burst detector module and enabled at a beginning of each burst, outputs burst data to a digital signal processor when the average detector is enabled, and does not output the burst data to the digital signal processor when the average detector is disabled.
US07839914B2
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for channel estimation regarding electromagnetic wave multi-path characteristics between a sender and a receiver by using a chirp signal. The method includes the steps of (a) multiplying a received composite signal by a narrowband chirp-shift-keying signal or narrowband multiple center-frequency-chirp signal generated by the receiver itself and outputting a sum of individual frequency components resulting from difference in distance of multiple paths for up-chirp and down-chirp signal portions of a chirp-shift-keying signal, respectively, the received composite signal being formed by generating narrowband chirp-shift-keying signals or narrowband multiple center-frequency-chirp signals by the sender, sending the signals by a transmission antenna, receiving the signals by a reception antenna of the receiver via a multi-path channel, superimposing the signals, and adding the signals; (b) multiplying outputs of the up-chirp and down-chirp signal portions of the sum of individual frequency components and calculating a tolerance frequency output; (c) compensating for a frequency tolerance of the sum of individual frequency components by using the tolerance frequency output and generating a frequency compensation output; (d) compensating for discontinuity of chirp-shift-keying signals resulting from use of the narrowband chirp-shift-keying signals or the narrowband multiple center-frequency-chirp signals regarding the frequency compensation output and generating a discontinuity compensation output having no discontinuity; (e) decomposing the discontinuity compensation output into individual multi-path signals by using a frequency analysis method; and (f) extracting an attenuation component and a time delay component caused by the multi-path channel from the individual multi-path signals by using a size of frequency components of each frequency.
US07839912B2
Provided is a surface emitting laser in which a reflector material is not limited, a film thickness of the reflector is uniform, and a single lateral mode operation can be performed at high light output power. The surface emitting laser includes a resonator including a first refractive index region located at a central portion thereof and a second refractive index region which is located at a peripheral portion thereof and is lower in effective refractive index than the first refractive index region. Further, the resonator is configured such that a resonator length of a region including the first refractive index region satisfies a resonance condition and a resonator length of a region including the second refractive index region does not satisfy the resonance condition.
US07839910B2
The laser device has a gain medium, first and second clads sandwiching the gain medium in the thickness direction, and a cavity structure for resonating the electromagnetic wave generated in the gain medium. The gain medium includes a plurality of active regions for generating an electromagnetic wave and at lease one connecting region sandwiched among the active regions. The first and second clads are each formed of a negative permittivity medium having a permittivity the real part of which is negative relative to the electromagnetic wave. A potential-adjusting portion is arranged between the connecting region and the first clad and between the connecting region and the second clad for adjusting the electric potential of the connecting region.
US07839903B2
Optical gain of a nonpolar or semipolar Group-III nitride diode laser is controlled by orienting an axis of light propagation in relation to an optical polarization direction or crystallographic orientation of the diode laser. The axis of light propagation is substantially perpendicular to the mirror facets of the diode laser, and the optical polarization direction is determined by the crystallographic orientation of the diode laser. To maximize optical gain, the axis of light propagation is oriented substantially perpendicular to the optical polarization direction or crystallographic orientation.
US07839900B1
An architecture for a frequency hopped spread-spectrum transmitter-receiver in an advanced tactical data link packet switched network that ensures optimal Statistical Priority-based Media Access (SPMA) performance, enables more efficient packing of hop channels in a given allocated bandwidth and counteracts hostile jamming. The transmitter-receiver supports a scalable symbol rate mode that reduces the symbol rate in the time domain and decreases the bandwidth in the frequency domain, over a predetermined prior value. A transceiver according to the present architecture is able to statically or dynamically scale the symbol rate of transmissions, operate in burst mode and change the hop set. In one embodiment the transceiver is part of a Software Defined Radio (SDR).
US07839894B2
Disclosed are a radio link control (RLC) entity and a data processing method for the RLC entity. The RLC entity includes a transmission data storing module that stores PDUs corresponding to SDUs transmitted from a first upper layer and outputs the stored PDUs by SDU units, a ciphering module that ciphers the PDUs stored in the transmission data storing module and transmitting the ciphered PDUs to a first RLC entity, a deciphering module that deciphers the ciphered PDUs transmitted from a second RLC entity, and a received data storing module that stores the deciphered PDUs and outputs the PDUs toward a second upper layer in the form of SDU units.
US07839892B2
Each transport format contains control parameters according to which data are mapped from at least one logical channel onto at least one transport channel by a data link layer protocol unit, with the control parameters in the transport formats containing information regarding that or those data link layer protocol buffer storages and/or that or those data link layer data streams from which the data to be transmitted need to be transmitted in a data transmission time interval.
US07839890B1
A communication technique enables the efficient transmission of data through a communication link having a large delay bandwidth product and/or a high bit error rate. The communication technique multiplexes data from one or more data sources through a plurality of communication connections to increase the overall throughput and to reduce the average data transfer delay of the communication link. Each communication connection has a set of communication connection parameters that may be uniquely configured so that each connection carries a particular type of data at a particular effective priority level. Each communication connection may be uniquely configured to have a particular sending buffer size, to deliver messages having a particular length to an underlying layer and to send the messages into the link at a particular rate to orchestrate the manner in which the communication connections send data through the link.
US07839873B1
A network device includes an interface (105), a TCP/IP protocol fast processing path (115), and a TCP/IP protocol slow processing path (110). The interface (105) receives a packet and parses the packets to determine a characteristic of the packet. The TCP/IP protocol fast processing path (115) processes the packet if the characteristic of the packet includes a first characteristic. The TCP/IP protocol slow processing path (110) processes the packet if the characteristic of the packet includes a second characteristic.
US07839872B2
Optical signals may be communicated with A/V Bridging services between an upstream link partner and a down stream link partner, each comprising an asymmetric Ethernet optical physical layer (PHY). High bandwidth A/V optical signals may be transmitted from the upstream link partner and low bandwidth optical signals may be transmitted from the downstream link partner. One or more of a time stamp, a traffic class and/or a destination address may be utilized in generating PDUs and managing communications via the asymmetric Ethernet optical PHY. The receiving link partner may register for delivery of the PDUs. An aggregate communication rate may be distributed evenly or unevenly among one or more optical links for transmission and aggregated upon reception via asymmetric Ethernet optical PHY operations. Compressed, uncompressed, encrypted and/or unencrypted optical signals may be handled. Signal processing may comprise forward error checking and clock recovery.
US07839869B1
Transparent point-to-point connectivity is provided between an incoming interface on an ingress node and an outgoing interface on an egress node in a network. An address associated with the egress node is circulated to the nodes in the network and a next hop address toward the egress node address is determined at each node. A label value is circulated along with the egress node address to the nodes. Examples of label values can include VLAN Ids or Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) labels. If data is received having the label value, the node receiving the data identifies the next hop address associated with that label value and transfers the data to the next hop associated with the identified next hop address.
US07839863B2
The invention relates to a method and equipment for performing aggregate-portion-specific flow shaping in packet-switched telecommunications, in such a way that the traffic flows (V1-VL) arriving in the system can be arbitrarily bundled into shaping groups and the speed properties (CIR, PIR, CBS) of an aggregate portion formed of packets representing the arbitrary shaping group (k) can be monitored and limited (aggregate-portion-specific shaping group). The invention is based on the fact that the earliest permitted moment, at which a packet in the system can be forwarded, is defined as the greatest value of the VTS values of all the shaping groups to which the traffic flow represented by the packet belongs, and as a result of the forwarding of the packet, the VTS values of the same shaping groups (k) are updated, in which the VTS value of an individual shaping group (k) expresses the earliest permitted moment, at which a packet belonging under the relevant shaping group (k) can be forwarded, without breaking the restrictions of the speed properties of the shaping group (k) being examined.
US07839862B1
The invention is directed toward techniques for Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) upstream label assignment for the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). The techniques include extensions to the LDP that enable distribution of upstream assigned labels from an upstream router to two or more downstream routers of a tunnel established over a network. The tunnel may comprise a LDP Point to Multi-Point (P2MP) Label Switched Path (LSP), an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast tunnel, or a Resource Reservation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions (RSVP-TE) P2MP LSP. The techniques also include extensions to the LDP that enable a router to advertise upstream label assignment capability to neighboring routers in the network. The MPLS upstream label assignment using LDP described herein enables a branch router to avoid traffic replication on a Local Area Network (LAN) for LDP P2MP LSPs.
US07839861B2
Embodiments of the invention relates to bandwidth requirements within a packet data network. A method and system for analysing traffic is described herein. The method may utilises an estimation of a concave hull function of the arrived traffic within the buffer. The use of such a concave hull representation may allows for more efficient data processing and for a direct measurement of desired service rates for differing predetermined control parameters.
US07839859B2
In accordance with aspects of the present principles, the quality of voice traffic and bandwidth utilization for data communication over a wireless multi-hop network may be improved. In an implementation of the present principles, a data packet transmission rate over a wireless multi-hop network may be controlled at an interface between the multi-hop network and a wired network based on a voice packet quality measure calculated from network parameters. Voice and data traffic quality and efficiency may be further improved by reordering a packet transmission queue at the interface to avoid timeout and/or varying a packet queue length at the interface using an acknowledgement window transmitted to a data packet sender.
US07839845B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transmitter capable of compressing header information in an aggregate of Media Access Control Service Data Units (MSDUs) by using one or more flags fields to describe which address fields are present in said aggregate.
US07839838B2
A method of polling in a wireless communications system includes prohibiting polling within a predetermined period and triggering a poll function while polling is prohibited. After the predetermined period has expired the method determines that there are no protocol data units (PDUs) scheduled for transmission or re-transmission and that the poll function was triggered by a “Last PDU in Retransmission buffer” trigger, and selects a PDU to schedule for re-transmission to fulfill the poll function.
US07839835B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive preceding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal preceding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US07839834B2
A forward link (FL) RLP and a reverse link (RL) RLP that are different in design are used for data transmission on the forward and reverse links, respectively. The asymmetric RLP designs may be quantified by, e.g., different feedback mechanisms and/or different data transmission mechanisms used for these RLPs. The FL RLP may utilize a negative acknowledgment (NAK)-based feedback mechanism whereas the RL RLP may utilize an acknowledgment (ACK)-based feedback mechanism. The NAK-based FL RLP may transmit each RLP frame once in sequential order and retransmit RLP frames out of sequence when not received correctly. The ACK-based RL RLP may transmit RLP frames in sequential order, one frame at a time until the frame is received correctly or the maximum number of transmissions have been attempted. Timers with adaptive values computed based on actual traffic conditions may be used to facilitate data transmission by the NAK-based FL RLP.
US07839832B2
A computer-readable carrier medium in wireless station for wireless network. Encoded in the carrier medium are instructions that when executed carry out a method operating at the link layer (L2) in the wireless station. The method includes, prior to the station being associated with a wireless network, wirelessly receiving L2 frames transmitted from one or more wireless access point of one or more wireless networks that the station can hear. The method further includes gathering information about the received L2 frames, including L2 information and L3 information. The L3 information includes whether an access point is sending an IP packet from a mobility agent, such that the station may associate with a wireless network that is in communication with the mobility agent. The method further includes storing information about the wireless networks that the station can hear in a database. The information stored about each wireless network includes one or more of an identifier of the wireless network, the L3 information in the L2 frame received from the access point of the wireless network, a time stamp of when the L2 frame was received from the access point, and an indication of the signal strength of the L2 frame from the access point.
US07839826B2
During (101) a communication session for a plurality of user platforms wherein at least one of the user platforms is on hold and wherein the communication session is presently occurring in a first network and is terminable by a Session Initiation Protocol server as comprises a part of that first network, one establishes (102) in the first network a Session Initiation Protocol instance as corresponds to the communication session wherein the Session Initiation Protocol instance comprises, at least in part, session context information for the user platform that is on hold. Then, following a handoff of bearer support of the communication session from the first network to a second network, one uses (104) the Session Initiation Protocol instance to maintain the hold status of the user platform that is on hold with the Session Initiation Protocol server subsequent to the handoff such that the Session Initiation Protocol server does not terminate the communication session.
US07839813B2
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for reordering received packets in a mobile telecommunication system supporting HARQ so that the problem of order change is solved. The method includes receiving from a receiving-side HARQ entity an input of a packet and processing time spent by the packet going through an HARQ operation; determining if a gap corresponding to at least one missing packet among received packets is detected based on the input packet belonging to the received packets and, when the gap is detected, waiting for the missing packet belonging to the gap to be received for a period of time obtained by subtracting the processing time from a predetermined maximum waiting value; and outputting the received packets to an upper layer in an order when the missing packet belonging to the gap fails to be received before the expiration of the period of time.
US07839807B2
A communication apparatus which is capable of performing bi-directional communication via a router in a local network including one or more routers is provided. An upper segment determination section obtains address range information under an upper router which is connected on an external network side of a router to which the communication apparatus is connected. A terminal communication path holding section connects and holds a communication path to another communication apparatus in the local network. A message relay section relays a communication message from the other communication apparatus. When the terminal communication path holding section receives a first request message requesting to establish a communication path from the other communication apparatus, the terminal communication path holding section stores source address information of the received first request message, and transmit a response message to the stored source address information to establish a communication path to the other communication apparatus.
US07839806B2
The inventive communication device for converting a baseband data signal to a baseband signal for a coaxial cable, comprises at least one first input terminal for receiving an incoming baseband data signal, at least a first output terminal for outputting an outgoing baseband data signal, a first input/output terminal for connecting to a coaxial cable for communication of a duplex signal, first rebalancing means for converting said incoming baseband data signal to a balanced input signal, subtraction means for subtracting the balanced input signal from the duplex signal to obtain a balanced output signal, second rebalancing means for converting the balanced output signal to said outgoing baseband data signal.
US07839802B2
Limiting or controlling access to various services thereby performing a firewall function. An access router may permit or deny a packet based on at least a portion of a unique bit string (or context information) which replaced layer 2 header information (e.g., the layer 2 (e.g., MAC) address). Further, a particular quality of service may be indicated by at least a part of the unique bit string (or context information). The service provided to a group of customers, that group of customers being defined by at least a portion of the unique bit string (or context information), may be monitored. Multicast groups may be supported by checking at least a part of the unique bit string (or context information) to determine whether or not a customer associated with that port is permitted to join the multicast group.
US07839799B2
A machine readable medium having instructions stored thereon to cause the machine to execute a method is provided. The method includes analyzing a received client request and available statistics to determine whether the request is likely to succeed and whether the request should be bundled with other requests. If the request is determined to not be likely to succeed, an error message is outputted to the client. If the request is determined to be likely to succeed but should not be bundled with other requests, a first service provider relevant to the request is invoked. If the request is determined to be likely to succeed and should be bundled with other requests, the request is bundled with the other requests and, subsequently, the first and/or a second service provider relevant to the bundled requests is invoked. The available statistics are then updated.
US07839779B2
A network flow control system utilizes flow-aware pause frames that identify a specific virtual stream to pause. Special codes may be utilized to interrupt a frame being transmitted to insert a pause frame without waiting for frame boundaries.
US07839777B2
The response time for resolving network traffic congestion is accelerated in a Data Center Ethernet (DCE) network. A data packet is received at a node in the network. Congestion of the data packet at the node is detected, and a backward congestion notification signal for the data packet is generated. A packet injection rate is adapted based on at least one of the backward congestion notification signal generated by the node and another backward congestion notification signal.
US07839773B2
In one embodiment, a first ranging timing description describing at least a duration of time during which a subject cable modem (CM) may burst and a duration of time during which the subject CM and other CMs in a multiple access network are not permitted to burst is translated into a second ranging timing description describing a duration during which a burst from the subject CM is expected to be received by a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The CMTS is conditioned to receive a burst from the subject CM during the duration of time described by the second ranging timing description. A timing offset is determined from at least an actual time a burst from the subject CM is received by the CMTS and the duration of time during which the subject CM and other CMs in the multiple access network are not permitted to burst to produce a determined timing offset. The determined timing offset is reported to compensate for delay in the multiple access network and the subject CM.
US07839772B2
There is provided a line redundant method for implementation of line switching in a switching matrix, including the bridge step of outputting a data signal to a plurality of redundant lines in the switching matrix, and the selector step of selecting only a data signal, of a plurality of data signals input from another switching matrix other than the switching matrix through the plurality of redundant lines, which is input through a redundant line required in the switching matrix, and not selecting the data signals input to the switching matrix through the lines other than the required redundant line. A line redundant system for implementing this method is also provided.
US07839769B2
There is described a method to organize a network, wherein if for a first router set up as the default gateway an inaccessibility of an assigned network element is detected at an interface of the first router a second router is set up as the logical default gateway. In this case a provision is made such that in the course of setting up the second router as the default gateway a check on the interface metric is performed at the first and/or second router and that in consequence of the inaccessibility detected for the interface an adaptation of the interface metric is carried out. The interface metric is propagated for example by way of the routing protocol OSPF and/or EIGRP and/or IS-IS to other routers. When using the method it is possible in a failure scenario with divided Layer-2 networks to avoid an occurrence of “black holes”, in other words gaps in communication. Moreover asymmetric routing, which is caused by a changeover of the logical gateway from the first router to the second router, can be eliminated. The danger of an excessive exchange of unicast messages, which can result in a high failure level of all participating network nodes and network node elements, is thus also excluded.
US07839764B2
A wireless sensor network gateway unit is proposed, which is designed for integration to a wireless sensor network (WSN) for providing a gateway function with a failed link auto-redirecting capability for the wireless sensor network. The proposed WSN gateway unit is characterized by the provision of an failed link auto-redirecting capability, which can respond to the failure of any sensor node in the WSN system by performing a failed link auto-redirecting operation for redirecting the down-linked good sensor nodes for linking to a nearby good sensor node to thereby allow the down-linked good sensor nodes to be nevertheless able to transfer data to the WSN gateway unit of the invention. This feature allows the WSN gateway unit of the invention to maintain good operational reliability for the WSN system.
US07839761B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving MAP information in a communication system are provided. A base station acquires channel quality information of each mobile station, generates sub-MAPs using MAP information, to which at least one of a coding scheme, a modulation scheme and a repetition scheme is applied, separately for each mobile station according to the channel quality information, and transmits the generated sub-MAPs. A mobile station receives MAP information from the base station, detects a sub-MAP allocated to the mobile station from the received MAP information, and restores the detected sub-MAP to MAP information using at least one of a corresponding decoding scheme, demodulation scheme and repetition scheme corresponding to coding scheme, modulation scheme and repetition scheme applied in the base station, based on channel quality information of the mobile station. Accordingly, system overhead can be reduced.
US07839759B2
The transmitting side is equipped with chip steering section 30 that performs a chip steering that shifts the allocation of N×M chip elements upon their respective subcarriers by one chip for every transmission unit in sequence, and the receiving side is equipped with a parallel/serial conversion section and an inverse chip steering section that rearranges the allocation of the chip elements shifted in chip steering section 30 back to original.
US07839758B1
A method and system are described for canceling an echo signal with an echo canceller in the analog domain. In one embodiment, a system includes an echo canceller that includes an interpolation filter unit, operating in a digital domain, that receives a first digital echo estimate signal from a LMS unit and generates a second digital echo estimate signal without oversampling. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) receives the second digital echo estimate signal and generates an analog echo estimate signal without oversampling. The echo canceller prevents the DAC from adding a high frequency component to the analog echo estimate signal. A subtractor adds the analog echo estimate signal to an incoming signal having an echo signal. The subtractor generates an analog signal with reduced echo signal in the useful frequency band of the incoming signal.
US07839755B2
To provide an information recording apparatus and so on which can improve convenience of handling even if music information is encoded in an LPCM system with a high quality and recorded therein.Music information M obtained by encoding a musical composition which should be reproduced in an uncompressed state, first control information G1 for controlling the compressed music information PM, compressed music information PM including a content same as at least any one of the music information M, and second control information G2 for controlling the compressed music information PM, the second control information G2 including corresponding information RR representing a corresponding relationship between the music information M and the compressed music information PM.
US07839750B2
A holographic recording apparatus causes reference light and information light to interfere with each other, and records the interference pattern in a recording medium. The holographic recording apparatus has an objective lens and a focus position controller. The objective lens focuses both the reference light and the information light at a focus position of the recording medium. The focus position controller changes the focus position into a predetermined position on the light path of the reference light.
US07839749B2
The present invention relates a recording apparatus and a recording method, a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method, and a program that make it possible to easily judge whether data was recorded in a recording medium by an apparatus of own model. An own model/another model information generating unit 41 generates, for each arbitrary recording unit, own model/another model information that is information indicating that the recording unit was recorded by an apparatus of own model. A discrimination code calculating unit 42 sets VMGI and an effective management table TV as a continuous data sequence and sets a result of calculating a hash value of the data sequence as a discrimination code. A recording and reproducing apparatus 1 records the discrimination code and the own model/another model information in a management table TV area of an optical disk 51. When a discrimination code′ obtained by calculating the hash value and a discrimination code recorded in the optical disk 51 coincide with each other, the recording and reproducing apparatus 1 reads out the own model/another model information. It is possible to apply the invention to a recording and reproducing apparatus.
US07839748B2
There is provided an optical information recording/reproducing apparatus capable of obtaining a high super-resolution effect using an optical information recording medium in which a super-resolution thin film is formed. An optical information recording medium 1 having a super-resolution layer is irradiated with a laser light in a light emission pattern such that a bias light emission portion that does not cause the super-resolution layer to be in the state of super-resolution and a pulse light emission portion that causes the super-resolution layer to be in the state of super-resolution alternatively appear, and reflected light is detected. A reproduction signal based on the pulse light emission portion and a reproduction signal based on the bias light emission portion are acquired. The results obtained by performing an arithmetic processing on the reproduction signal based on the bias light emission portion and the reproduction signal based on the pulse light emission portion are outputted as reproduction data.
US07839742B2
It has been discovered that damage to an optical disc can be used as a damage signature for that optical disc. The damage signature can be digitally represented to uniquely identify the optical disc in combination with other identifying information that identifies the optical disc. Services, such as a restore service, can be provided to a user after validation of a digital damage signature of an optical disc.
US07839737B2
In an optical recording medium having a plurality of recording layers on which information can be recorded by irradiating a laser beam from one side thereof, an optimum recording power to each of the recording layers can be determined. The optical recording medium has a plurality of recording layers on which information can be recorded by irradiating a laser beam from one side thereof, and each of the recording layers has a power calibration area (PCA) for optimizing the intensity of the laser beam.
US07839734B2
The invention provides a method for controlling spherical aberration correction for an optical disk drive. First, a collimator lens is moved to a first target position for spherical aberration correction. A driving time of motion of the collimator lens is then calculated. A prohibiting time is then determined according to the driving time. The collimator lens is then prevented from moving until the prohibiting time elapses.
US07839733B2
A signal, which is derived from the relationship between the lens shift amount of an objective lens and the amount of the positional-deviation, of a received light beam with respect to a light-receiving plane, which occurs in the tangential direction on a photodetector, is corrected by an offset caused by asymmetry in the intensity distribution of reflected light; a multiplication value is obtained by multiplying the corrected signal by a predetermined constant; based on a focus error signal obtained by subtracting the calculated value from the calculation expression according to the conventional astigmatism method, the focusing servo control is performed.
US07839732B2
A system and method for calibrating a recording track offset of an optical storage device accessing an optical storage medium of land/groove type. The system includes: a tracking servo loop arranged to control tracking operations of an optical head of the optical storage device; a track offset control loop arranged to control the recording track offset for the tracking servo loop; a controller arranged to enable a latest value of the recording track offset to be a readout value for utilization in a recording process performed later; and a comparator arranged to compare a recording length with a threshold value and generate a flag to represent whether the recording length is a long recording length, wherein the latest value is derived from the track offset control loop.
US07839722B2
In a capacitive membrane ultrasound transducer, one or more electrodes include multiple layers of conductive or semiconductive material. The layers may be positioned adjacent an insulator or cavity in an arrangement to reduce electrical degradation. For example, a conductive layer with less work function and less resistivity is spaced from an insulator by a conductive layer with more work function and more resistivity. The different layers of electrode material may provide for less electrical degradation due to the type of material used and relative location.
US07839720B2
A system and method for measuring velocity in a fluid medium utilizing a transducer are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises transmitting an acoustic signal comprising N (where N is integer and N>1) pings for each of a plurality of beams, receiving echoes from each ping, obtaining a velocity estimate for each of the N pings based on echoes of the ping, and calculating a velocity based on the sum of the N velocity estimates such that the velocity is substantially free from error caused by cross-coupling between the beams.
US07839706B2
A dual mode accessing signal control apparatus for being used in a dummy cells set of a memory, and a dual mode timing signal generating apparatus comprising a dual mode accessing signal control apparatus are provided. The dual mode accessing signal control apparatus respectively generates a write delay signal and a read signal during the write and the read process. The memory is thereby capable of self-timing its write and the read process, and is able to generate a wordline signal with a shorter width in the write process to ensure an early start to precharging. As a result, the whole duty period of the memory can be shortened.
US07839697B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of memory cells each including a holding circuit for holding memory data, and a read-only output circuit for outputting a signal corresponding to the data held by the holding circuit. The read-only output circuit has a read drive transistor controlled in accordance with a signal held by the holding circuit. A gate length of the read drive transistor is longer than a gate length of a transistor included in the holding circuit. Alternatively, the read-only output circuit has a read access transistor controlled in accordance with a read word select signal, and a gate length of the read access transistor is longer than a gate length of a transistor included in the holding circuit.
US07839693B1
An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (“CMOS NON-VOLATILE MEMORY”) cell is fabricated using standard CMOS fabrication processes. First and second polysilicon gates are patterned over an active area of the cell between source and drain regions. Thermal oxide is grown on the polysilicon gates to provide an isolating layer. Silicon nitride is deposited between the first and second polysilicon gates to form a lateral programming layer.
US07839685B2
Soft errors occur during normal use of a solid-state memory such as EEPROM or Flash EEPROM. A soft error results from the programmed threshold voltage of a memory cell being drifted from its originally intended level. The error is initially not readily detected during normal read until the cumulative drift becomes so severe that it develops into a hard error. Data could be lost if enough of these hard errors swamps available error correction codes in the memory. A memory device and techniques therefor are capable of detecting these drifts and substantially maintaining the threshold voltage of each memory cell to its intended level throughout the use of the memory device, thereby resisting the development of soft errors into hard errors.
US07839675B2
A magnetic memory device includes a substrate for reading and a magnetic memory cell. The substrate has a channel layer. The magnetic memory cell is formed on the substrate and has a magnetized magnetic material that transfers spin data to electrons passing the channel layer. Data stored in the magnetic memory cell are read by a voltage across both side ends of the channel layer that is generated when the electrons passing the channel layer deviate in the widthwise direction of the channel layer by a spin Hall effect.
US07839674B2
A chalcogenide material is proposed for programming the cross-connect transistor coupling interconnect lines of an electrically programmable matrix array. Leakage may be reduced by optionally placing a thin insulating breakdown layer in series with the select device or a phase change material. The matrix array may be used in a programmable logic device.
US07839672B1
A memory array includes cells with switches and phase-change elements that are in communication with the switches. Bit lines are in communication with the cells. Word lines are in communication with the cells. Different voltage source terminals each receive a respective source voltage. The different voltage source terminals are coupled to and supply current to at least one of the cells.
US07839671B2
In the present method of changing the state of a resistive memory device which is capable of adopting an erased, relatively higher resistance state and a programmed, relatively lower resistance state, the resistive memory device having first and second electrodes and an active layer between the first and second electrodes, an electrical potential is applied across the electrodes and current through the resistive memory device is limited by means of a first current limiting structure to change the resistive memory device from the erased, higher resistance state to the programmed, lower resistance state. Furthermore, an electrical potential is applied across the electrodes and current through the resistive memory device is limited by means of a second current limiting structure to change the resistive memory device from the programmed, lower resistance state to the erased, higher resistance state.
US07839670B1
A F-RAM memory device containing a current mirror sense amp. A F-RAM memory device containing a current mirror sense amp coupled to a negative voltage generator. A method of reading data from and restoring data back into F-RAM cells in a 2T2C F-RAM device containing a current mirror sense amp. A method of reading data from and restoring data back into F-RAM cells in a 1T1C F-RAM device.
US07839660B2
Techniques are disclosed to regulate an output current through a load coupled to a power converter using a current source coupled to the load. For instance, one power converter according to the teachings of the present invention includes an energy transfer element coupled between an input of the power converter and an output of the power converter. A power converter controller is coupled to the energy transfer element to control a transfer of energy from the input of the power converter to the output of the power converter. A load is to be coupled to the output of the power converter. A current source is to be coupled to the load. The current source regulates the current flowing through the load to a threshold current value. The current source is coupled to sense a current through the load. A switch having a first and second end is also included. The first end is to be coupled to the load and the second end is coupled to the current source. The switch is coupled to be switched on and off at a duty cycle to control an average current through the load. The current through the load is substantially equal to a current through the switch and the current source.
US07839659B2
An alternating current power supply device is provided with switch elements Q1, Q2 for converting direct current power from a direct current power supply Vin into alternating current power; a transformer T1 for converting the voltage of the alternating current power converted by the switch elements into other voltage; a load 20 connected to an output terminal of the transformer; a first detecting circuit 30 for detecting a first electric signal indicating power to be supplied to the load; a second detecting circuit 40 for detecting a second electric signal indicating the voltage of the direct current power supply; a feedback circuit 50 for generating a feedback signal based on the first electric signal detected by the first detecting circuit and the second electric signal detected by the second detecting circuit; and a control circuit 10 for generating a control signal based on the feedback signal from the feedback circuit and controlling on/off of the switch elements by the control signal so that power to be supplied to the load is at a prescribed value.
US07839658B2
Provided are a display device and a board supporting structure. The board supporting structure includes: a board; a main frame to which the board is fixed; a receiving portion formed at the main frame and on which the board is placed; and a connection member being a separate component fixing the board to the main frame and including a first portion coupled to the main frame and a second portion coupled to the board. Accordingly, an increase in thickness of the display device due to installation of the board is reduced, the performance reliability of the board is improved, the installation of the board is facilitated, and damage to the board is prevented.
US07839653B2
A backplane has signal connectors for connecting signals of logical boards connected to an upper level of the backplane; signal connectors for connecting signals of logical boards connected to a lower level of the backplane; power source connectors for supplying power to the logical boards connected to the upper level of the backplane; and power source connectors for supplying power to the logical boards connected to the lower level of the backplane. Some power source connectors are formed at one end of the backplane and the other power source connectors are formed at the other end of the backplane.
US07839650B2
The present invention provides a circuit board structure having an embedded capacitor and a method for fabricating the same. The circuit board structure includes a core layer board with at least one surface having non-penetrating first and second grooves, a circuit layer and a first electrode plate formed in the first and second grooves of the core layer board respectively and being flush with the core layer board; a high dielectric material layer formed on the core layer board, the circuit layer and the first electrode plate; a second electrode plate formed on the high dielectric material layer and corresponding to the first electrode plate, thereby forming a capacitor by the first and second electrode plates and the high dielectric material layer. The high dielectric material layer is formed on a plane surface so as to eliminate poor filling and improve reliability.
US07839641B2
A condenser for a power module combines a plurality of aluminum materials to form a casing equipped with a channel for coolant therein, thus making it possible to keep material costs low. Moreover, thanks to the excellent workability of the aluminum materials, it is possible to adopt a configuration with a complex concave-convex configuration for a superior heat radiation performance. A channel for coolant with high heat radiation performance can also be structured inside the casing. The relatively thick bottom plate secures the rigidity required by the casing, while the relatively thin top plate can have a rigidity intentionally structured lower. In this manner, stress generated on joining surfaces of the condenser and an insulative substrate can be mitigated due to active deformation of the top plate.
US07839633B2
A foldable computer chassis includes a first plate having multiple first fixing shafts and second fixing shafts, multiple second plates connected to two opposite edges of the first plate by the first fixing shafts, and multiple third plates movably and rotatably connected to the other two opposite edges of the first plate by the second fixing shafts. Each third plate has a fixing elastic element. When the computer chassis is folded, the second plates are rotated to lie on the first plate, and the third plates are moved and rotated to lie on the second plates. When the computer chassis is assembled, the second plates are rotated to stand on the first plate, and the third plates are moved and rotated to stand on the first plate. The fixing elastic elements on the third plates are provided for fastening the second plates with the third plates.
US07839619B2
An apparatus for reducing static electricity includes an ionizer that generates ions for neutralizing static electricity, a blower that produces a current of air for moving the ions to a desired location, and a motion detector operatively connected to the blower. Upon detecting motion, the motion detector activates the blower, which disperses ions to reduce static electricity at the desired location. The apparatus can include a heater for heating the current of ionized air. In addition, the motion detector can be operatively linked to the ionizer and heater so that they are also activated upon detection of motion. The blower can be linked to a timer such that it runs for a predetermined amount of time upon activation by the motion detector, or the blower can run continuously until the motion detector no longer detects any motion. The apparatus is particularly useful for reducing static electricity around fuel dispensers.
US07839610B2
A load driving device according to the present invention includes: a first current generation section generating a first current in accordance with a driving current of a load; a second current generation section generating a predetermined second current; an integration section charging and discharging a capacitor in accordance with magnitude relation between the first current and the second current; a comparison section comparing a terminal voltage of the capacitor and a predetermined threshold voltage; and an output section generating a protection signal based on output logic of the comparison section. Such configuration permits appropriately preventing load burnout.
US07839600B1
A method of tuning a seek operation of a disk drive is disclosed, the disk drive comprising a disk, an actuator arm, a head coupled to a distal end of the actuator arm, a voice coil motor (VCM) for rotating the actuator arm about a pivot, and a closed loop servo system for generating a VCM control signal applied to the VCM. A function h is applied to the closed loop servo system and a corresponding output g of the closed loop servo system is measured. A reference signal is generated in response to a summation of a plurality of the function h, wherein each of the plurality of the function h is shifted by an offset and scaled by a coefficient, and the coefficients are generated in response to the measured output g.
US07839599B2
A weighted combining scheme exploits information from two servo channels operating in parallel. A timing-based servo module comprises two synchronous servo channels coupled respectively to receive two digital servo signals read from a data tape. Both channels have outputs for an unweighted parameter estimate and for a measure of the channel reliability. A weight computation module provides first and second weight signals using the measures of channel reliability from the servo channels. An offset computation module provides first and second offset terms which are summed with the unweighted parameter estimates. Multiplying nodes receive the unweighted parameter estimates and the weight signals and outputs offset weighted parameter estimates. A summing node receives the offset weighted parameter estimates and outputs a combined offset weighted parameter estimate to a servomechanism.
US07839595B1
A method of selecting a dynamic fly height (DFH) control setting for a head in a disk drive is disclosed. The head is servoed over a disk, and a fly height measurement is generated for the head. A frequency component is extracted from the fly height measurement, and the DFH control setting for the head is adjusted in response to the extracted frequency component.
US07839590B2
In a method of servo writing of a magnetic recording system and the magnetic recording system, the signal is recorded in a dummy area with a higher recording density than the burst signal. Also, the maximum bit length of the burst area is shortened as compared with the maximum bit length of the data area. A servo control method for perpendicular recording similar to that for longitudinal recording can be used to reduce the development cost. The anti-signal decay performance is also improved. Further, since the variations of the burst signal along the track width is suppressed, the positioning accuracy is improved. These effects combine to produce a reliable magnetic recording system of large capacity.
US07839581B1
An optical viewer is disclosed which incorporates plastic lenses which reduce the weight and cost of the optical viewer. In accordance with an important aspect of the invention, the optical design of the viewer is configured to compensate for the inferior optical characteristics of the plastic lenses to provide an optical viewer with comparable performance relative to optical viewers with glass lenses.
US07839570B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved optical layered body with reduced scintillation, gloss blackness, color effects and interference fringes, while maintaining antistatic and antiglare performance.The optical layered body comprises, in order, an antistatic layer, an antiglare layer and a low refractive index layer on a light-transmitting substrate, The antistatic layer is a thin resin layer containing antimony-doped tin oxide and a diffusion filler, and having a predetermined surface roughness on its surface.
US07839566B2
A surgical microscopy system having an illumination system is provided. The illumination system comprises a xenon gas discharge lamp and a spectral filter which is optionally positionable into an illumination beam path of the surgical microscopy system and removable from the same. The spectral filter substantially exhibits, in a wavelength range between 400 nm and 700 nm, a transmission increasing from about 0.12 to 1 having a gradient between 0.025/nm and 0.0035/nm, in particular 0.00293/nm. Thus, the illumination system is enabled to provide light having two different spectral characteristics which is advantageous in particular for imaging structures in the human eye scattering to a different degree.
US07839562B2
Disclosed are white particles for an image display device which includes: (i) a pair of substrates facing each other, provided that at least one of the substrates is transparent; and (ii) the white particles enclosed in a gap between the substrates, with which an image is displayed through migration of the white particles by generating an electric field between the substrates, wherein each of the white particles contains: (a) a core particles containing an inorganic oxide having a refractive index of 2.0 or more in an amount of 80 to 99 weight % based on the total weight of the core particle; and (b) a resin layer having a thickness of 10 to 1000 nm on a surface of the core particle.
US07839560B2
A spatial light modulator comprises an array of individually addressable pixels enclosed within a space formed by a package lid and a package substrate. An aperture through which incident visible light pass into the package is formed on the package lid. In display systems employing the spatial light modulator, the illumination system is focused on a plane away from the pixels of the spatial light modulator so as to reduce cost.
US07839555B2
In a display device that includes a display space provided on a display surface side and a liquid sealed inside the display space so as to be operable and is constituted so as to be able to change a display color on the display surface side according to an application of an electric field to the liquid, the liquid is an ionic liquid containing an ambient temperature molten salt combining a cation and an anion. Further, an amount of water blended in the liquid is 0 to 10 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the ionic liquid. This makes it possible both to reduce a voltage to be applied to the liquid so as to allow driving at a low voltage and to improve an operation performance.
US07839553B2
A light source module for a scanning projection apparatus is provided. The light source module includes a plurality of point light sources and at least one light blocking unit. Each point light source is capable of providing a color light beam. The color light beams are combined into a combined light beam and the colors of the color light beams are different. The at least one light blocking unit is capable of being inserted into a transmission path of at least one of the color light beams at a fixed frequency to block a portion of the color light beam.
US07839549B2
This Patent Application describes invention in form of a design of three-dimensional (3D) autostereoscopic displays and other similar electro-optical devices, and also describes a method for reducing crosstalk in said 3D displays and in other similar electro-optical devices, such as in the electro-optical devices that perform optical switching, optical processors, optical data storage, etc. The improvement of the image quality as a result of the decrease of the size of the samples of Holographic/Diffractive Optical Element without increased crosstalk and/or superposition of extraneous images in the image reconstruction is also achieved by the use of the invention described in this Patent Application.
US07839539B2
A printer driver enables printing a color loss determination stamp that accurately indicates whether color loss has occurred in every print mode available on a printer. The image data parameter and storage unit 42 of the printer driver 1 stores a plurality of color loss determination bitmap image data 20 units used for printing a color loss determination stamp 18 correlated to each print mode. When a print mode is selected, an image data selection unit 43 selects and prints the color loss determination bitmap image data 20 corresponding to the print mode. A color loss determination stamp 18 that accurately reflects if color loss has occurred can therefore be printed when printing in any print mode.
US07839538B2
Apparatus and method of creating and printing a postal indicium incorporating a dynamic, image-dependent watermark including receiving and storing a transformed image and metadata from an electronic device, inserting a watermark or portions of a watermark into the transformed image at one or more watermarking zones specified in the metadata, performing a transform on the transformed image with the watermark or portions of the watermark inserted therein to create a printing image, and printing the postal indicium wherein the postal indicium incorporates the printing image, a barcode and human readable text.
US07839534B2
Disclosed herein is an image print apparatus configured to print an image for use in scrapbooking, including, an image data acquisition block configured to acquire image data of an image subject to processing, a template hold block configured to hold a plurality of templates each indicative of a clipping shape of the image for scrapbooking with a border line of the clipping shape, a template select block configured to select at least one of the plurality of templates held in the template hold block, an image display block configured to display the template selected by the select block by arranging the selected template on the image based on the image data acquired by the image data acquisition block, an operator block configured to enter a user-specified change in a relative position between the image and the template displayed on the image display block and in a size of at least one of the image and the template displayed on the image display block, and a print block configured to print the image displayed on the image display block and manipulated on the operator block.
US07839530B2
An image forming apparatus receives, from a server connected to a network, a notification that a module operating units composing the apparatus can be added. The apparatus requests distribution of a program including the module to the server. Further, when a function of the module can be realized from information of the module stored in each hierarchy composing the program of the apparatus acquired each predetermined period and information of main and option devices, the server transmits program distributing information including the module. The device stores the module in an area of a predetermined hierarchy on the basis of the program distributing information.
US07839527B2
A data control apparatus includes an extension devices interface to which a plurality of extension devices are connectable, a program memory provided on each of the plurality of extension devices and configured to secure a program, and an overwriting device provided on at least one of the plurality of extension devices and configured to overwrite the program stored in the program memory. The extension devices interface includes a download communicator configured to download extension device control programs from the extension devices interface to the extension devices connected to the extension devices interface.
US07839526B2
A printing system includes printing apparatuses connected to a network. A control apparatus of the printing system may send a print job to each printing apparatus and instruct each printing apparatus to execute the print job. When a first printing apparatus is instructed to execute the print job, the control apparatus makes a substitute printing reservation. The substitute printing reservation is for a second printing apparatus to execute the print job instead of the first printing apparatus. The second printing apparatus is set to a waiting state in which the second printing apparatus waits to execute the print job instead of the first printing apparatus.
US07839518B2
In the cases where a host side is powered off or something similar occurs, a print job which may have failed is recovered and managed as a recovered job from an intermediate file held on the host without a termination notice on starting the host next time, and if there is an instruction for reprinting, as for the print job so instructed, regeneration is performed from the intermediate file for the sake of re-creating the print job so as to re-execute a printing process.
US07839509B2
The invention represents an improved method of measuring trenches on semiconductor wafers with optical spectroscopy. According to the described method, it is possible to characterize not only depth but also shape of the trench. The advancement is achieved by improved Effective Medium Approximation-based modeling of the optical response of trench structures.
US07839507B2
Methods and systems for processing signals to minimize the effects of dye crosstalk. Deconvolution of multiplexed dye signals can include corrections for residual error determined from experimental measurements. Residual error corrections can account for reaction or assay specific factors and modify the subsequent filtering of signals. Correction values can be determined for specific dye-probe conjugates to minimize dye crosstalk and may be combined with residual error correction to further minimize errors in spectral deconvolution. Apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media can process signals and modify filters based on values obtained using the methods.
US07839496B2
The present invention is a sample holder for confocal microscopy of CMP pad samples cut or otherwise removed from either new or used CMP pads that maintains a uniform load and pressure over the part of the sample visible to the confocal microscope by placing the pad behind a transparent window and holding it against the said window by a means comprising upper transparent window retaining means having an offset adjacent the transparent window having the same or essentially the same refractive index as the pad material so that when the pad is held against the transparent window, the edges of the pad are outside the outer edge of the transparent window; lower pad retaining means to press the pad under a known/load against the transparent window, which lower pad retaining means has a size less than the size of the pad; spherical force transmitting means pressed against the lower pad retaining means;, through a load cell to measure the load transferred to the sample through lower pad retaining means, the spherical force transmitting means, the force transfer means and load cell from the posterior structural housing of the sample holder which is forced together with the said window retaining means by a force generating means; and means to adjust the known load and a method of confocal microscopy of new and used CMP pad samples to determine relative surface area and other characteristics using the said confocal sample.
US07839493B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for measuring a concentration level of particulates in water, by measuring a sound generated upon decomposition of particulates in a water sample which is irradiated by a laser beam. The apparatus comprises a laser beam generator for generating and outputting a laser beam, an output control unit for controlling an output of the laser beam to a constant level by a filter disposed in a laser beam path, a beam splitter for splitting a route of the laser beam output of the output control unit into two routes, a laser beam measurement unit for measuring an output intensity of the laser beam and outputting the measured value as an electrical signal, a condensing lens for condensing the laser beam, a sample cell for storing the water sample and positioned in the laser beam path of the condensed laser beam, a beam stopper for absorbing the condensed laser beam to prevent an external leakage of light, an acoustic sensor coupled with the sample cell for measuring a sound generated from the sample cell, and outputting the measured value as an electrical signal, and a control unit for receiving the signal of the acoustic sensor, calculating the concentration of particulates and outputting a device control signal.
US07839485B2
Positional information of a movable body in a Y-axis direction is measured using an interferometer and an encoder whose short-term stability of measurement values excels when compared with the interferometer, and based on the measurement results, a predetermined calibration operation for obtaining correction information for correcting measurement values of the encoder is performed. Accordingly, by using measurement values of the interferometer, correction information for correcting the measurement values of the encoder whose short-term stability of the measurement values excels the interferometer is obtained. Then, based on the measurement values of the encoder and the correction information, the movable body is driven in the Y-axis direction with good precision.
US07839482B2
An assembly including a radiation reflector and a contaminant barrier is disclosed. The contaminant barrier is arranged to receive radiation from a radiation source and to reflect that radiation towards the radiation reflector, and the radiation reflector is arranged to reflect the radiation, received from the contaminant barrier, back towards the contaminant barrier.
US07839476B2
The present invention reduces a connection failure between two conductive layers which are connected with each other via a through hole in a display device and reduces a defect of an orientation film formed on a TFT substrate side in a liquid crystal display device. A display device includes a display panel in which a first conductive layer formed on a surface of a substrate, and a second conductive layer which is formed over the first conductive layer as viewed from a surface of the substrate by way of a thin film layer formed of one insulation film or two or more stacked thin films including one insulation film are electrically connected with each other in an opening portion formed in the thin film layer. Out of opening ends of the opening portion of the thin film layer, an outer periphery of the opening end remote from the surface of the substrate changes a distance from the surface of the substrate one time or more during one turn of the outer periphery.
US07839475B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device having an array substrate with a top gate type TFT includes a first transparent metal layer deposited to enhance the adhesion between a data metal layer and an insulating substrate before a data metal deposition, and a second transparent metal layer deposited to enhance the adhesion between a gate metal layer and an insulating substrate before a gate metal deposition. The LCD device having the array substrate with a top gate type TFT can be fabricated with a reduced number of masking or sputtering processes, thereby reducing the fabrication time of the LCD device and increasing the yield of the LCD device.
US07839471B2
A liquid crystal device has a plurality of pixels arranged. The liquid crystal device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, liquid crystal provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, wires formed on the first substrate, and a reflective layer formed on the first substrate. Each pixel has a reflective display region formed by the reflective layer and a transparent display region without the reflective layer, and each wire is routed between two pixels in the transparent display region and in the reflective display region.
US07839470B2
Within a reflective display section R, a part of a light that reaches a reflective electrode through a color filter exits to the outside through slits and a part of a light that reaches the reflective electrode through the slits exits to the outside through the color filter. In addition, a light reaching the reflective electrode through the color filter and exiting to the outside through the color filter, and a light having no opportunity to pass through the slits also can be observed. Therefore, a mean film thickness of color filter through which all lights pass during the time in which they travel the associated distance after they are inputted to the inside until they are outputted to the outside becomes nearly equal to that could be observed in the transmissive section T.
US07839466B2
A backlight unit to effectively prevent generation of double images, having a frame, a plurality sets of light sources, at least one isolator and one diffuser. The light source sets are located within the frame and are individually driven periodically. The isolator is disposed at the bottom of the frame between adjacent light source sets. The diffuser is located on top of the frame over the light source sets and the isolator with a height larger than or equal to half the distance between the diffuser and the bottom of the frame.
US07839456B2
According to one embodiment, a video signal processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit to obtain the frequency of each luminance level from the input luminance signal worth of one frame, a frequency conversion unit that logarithmically converts the frequency of each luminance level obtained and adds a preset offset value, a preparation unit that prepares a nonlinear correction processing table to cumulatively add the frequency-converted data and provide nonlinear correction processing for the input luminance signal, and a processor that provides nonlinear correction processing to the input luminance signal in accordance with the prepared nonlinear correction processing table.
US07839453B2
An image data processor for generating driving image data for operating an image display device, including: an image memory; a write-in control section for sequentially writing-in plural frame image data having a predetermined frame rate to the image memory; a read-out control section for reading-out the frame image data 1 times (1 is an integer of 2 or more) at a rate 1 times the frame rate with every frame image data written into the image memory; and a driving image data generating section for generating the driving image data corresponding to each read-out image data sequentially read out of the image memory.
US07839449B2
Maximum and minimum aperture sizes are regulated with regard to a diaphragm in order to secure predetermined optical capability in an optical unit which includes a taking lens and the diaphragm. In a normal taking, the diaphragm is used within a normal taking range from the maximum to the minimum aperture sizes. In the present invention, an aperture size which is larger than the maximum size and a size which is smaller than the minimum size (extra aperture size or extra small size) are respectively set at outside the range that secures the capability. The aperture sizes of the diaphragm at outside the specified range are used at least for one of the following: automatic exposure (AE) adjustment, auto focus (AF) adjustment, electronic zoom, displaying a moving image, taking for recording the moving image, and taking under a low resolution by thinning out pixels.
US07839439B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a pixel array unit wherein a unit pixel group with a portion of elements of a unit pixel being shared with a plurality of unit pixels is arrayed in a matrix form, the unit pixel having a detecting unit, a pixel signal generating unit, a transfer unit to transfer the charge, and an initializing unit to initialize the potential of the pixel signal generating unit; and a driving control unit; wherein the driving control unit controls blooming reduction potential which is the transfer control potential supplied to the transfer unit of the unit pixel to be thinned, so that the overflow charge at the detecting unit with the unit pixel to be thinned which has no shared relation with the unit pixel to be read transitions to a state readily transferable to the pixel signal generating unit side of the unit pixel to be thinned.
US07839436B2
A photographing apparatus comprises an imaging sensor and a display unit. The imaging sensor obtains image data. The display unit indicates a first white balance setting picture that is used for setting a white balance gain in a white balance adjustment of the image data and a second white balance setting picture that is used for setting a fine adjustment of the white balance gain. The second white balance setting picture has an adjustment state indication area that illustrates a state where the fine adjustment is tuned and an adjustment quantity indication area which has a cursor illustrating a quantity of the fine adjustment and a two-dimensional coordinate plane illustrating a range of movement of the cursor. Only the second white balance setting picture has the adjustment state indication area.
US07839433B2
An imaging apparatus which can correct a shaking of the hand whether a moving picture is taken or a still picture is taken. Exposure is carried out within a shorter time than a predetermined exposure time to output a charge. Exposure and delivery of charge is carried out plural times to accumulate charges. An address for accumulation is changed in accordance with information of a shaking occurring within the shorter time and a signal due to the shaking and a signal before the shaking are accumulated at the address. Alternatively, a camera-shake is detected by using a sensor such as a gyroscope adapted to detect an angular velocity or an acceleration of a shaking of the imaging apparatus itself.
US07839428B2
Spectral Band Separation (SBS) modules including at least one dichroic element for imaging at least two different still or video images along non co-directional lines of sight for imaging purposes including inter alia displaying multiple 2D images, displaying Extended Field Of View (EFOV) images, stereoscopic imaging, 3D image rendering, and the like. The SBS modules can be implemented as discrete optical attachments for mounting on a color camera module or alternatively can be integrally formed therewith.
US07839425B2
A method of controlling thermal printing based upon print density. The method includes receiving pre-formatted data representing information to be printed on two sides of a thermal print media from a computer by a processor of a thermal printer, analyzing the pre-formatted data by the thermal printer to determine different types of data to be printed with different print densities by the processor, determining an average print density of the different print densities by the processor, determining that the average print density is greater than a predetermined average print density by the processor, determining a power level required to print the data, and directing first and second thermal print heads to print the data based upon the required power level by the processor.
US07839423B2
An image display system includes an image display device; an image creating device which creates display image data of a display image displayed in the image display device; a face image pickup device which picks up a face image of a person to look at the display image; and a face front point detecting device which creates face image data from the face image, and detects a face front point as a point positioned in front of a face of the person on the display image on the basis of the face image data. Here, the display image data are data such that the display image has a plurality of regions. The image creating device specifies a specific region corresponding to the face front point from the plurality of the regions, and creates the display image data by increasing an amount of information provided from an image corresponding to the specific region.
US07839422B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, for forming composite images using gradient-domain compositing are provided. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving two or more source images and aligning the received source images to form an assembled composite image. The method also includes stitching the seams between the aligned source images in the assembled composite image to form a final composite image. The stitching includes performing a gradient domain compositing. The gradient domain compositing uses a subset of pixels in the assembled composite image including calculating individual pixel values along the seams and interpolating pixel values away from the seams.
US07839419B2
A method and system for rendering a desktop on a computer using a composited desktop model operating system are disclosed. A composited desktop window manager, upon receiving content information from application programs, draws the window to a buffer memory for future reference, and takes advantage of advanced graphics hardware and visual effects to render windows based on content on which they are drawn. The windows may also be rendered based on environment variables including virtual light sources. The frame portion of each window may be generated by pixel shading a bitmap having the appearance of frosted glass based on the content of the desktop on top of which the frame is displayed. Legacy support is provided so that the operating system can draw and render windows generated by legacy applications to look consistent with non-legacy application windows.
US07839418B2
An apparatus and method for driving a liquid crystal display minimizes a gray loss of an image displayed on an RGBW-type display device, and enhances brightness and image quality. The apparatus for driving the LCD device includes: a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of unit pixels composed of 4-color sub-pixels; a data driver to transmit a video data signal to individual sub-pixels; a gate driver to transmit a scan pulse to the sub-pixels; a data converter to generate a histogram using a gray difference of input 3-color source data, to convert the 3-color source data into 4-color data according to a gain value extracted from the histogram, and to output the 4-color data; and a timing controller to transmit the 4-color data received from the data converter to the data driver and to control the gate driver and the data driver.
US07839414B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for color compensation of a display having a translucent display cover applied to an outside surface of the display. A method may include characterizing a color shift due to the translucent display cover for when there is rendering of an image on the display and compensating for the color shift when rendering an image on the display. The method further may include measuring the color shift induced by the color of the finish, and as described below compensating the red, green, and blue (RGB) levels of the display so that the display image may be presented to the user as originally intended. In this way, the image quality may be substantially optimized for viewing regardless of the lens/cover surface color.
US07839412B2
The system control section 50 displays the entire original image as a display image, or scrolls a display image with a part of the original image being the display image, depending on relationship between the aspect ratios of the original image and the display area.
US07839407B2
A method for a computer system includes determining an animation variable response subspace within an animation variable response space associated with an animation variable, in response to a set of training data for the animation variable, determining a set of characteristic calculation key points configured to allow navigation within the animation variable response subspace, calculating animation variable response values for the set of characteristic calculation key points in the animation variable response subspace in response to input data for the animation variable, and predicting animation variable response values for a set of points within the animation variable response space in response to animation variable response values for the set of characteristic calculation key points in the animation variable response subspace.
US07839406B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for adjusting image code values for enhanced image display.
US07839405B2
Disclosed herein is a display control apparatus which may include an image conversion unit, a display unit, a point specifying unit, and a visual-point position setting unit.
US07839400B2
The present invention is a system that manages a volumetric display using volume windows. The volume windows have the typical functions, such as minimize, resize, etc., which operate in a volume. When initiated by an application a volume window is assigned to the application in a volume window data structure. Application data produced by the application is assigned to the windows responsive to which applications are assigned to which windows in the volume window data structure. Input events are assigned to the windows responsive to whether they are spatial or non-spatial. Spatial events are assigned to the window surrounding the event or cursor where a policy resolves situations where more than one window surrounds the cursor. Non-spatial events are assigned to the active or working window.
US07839386B2
A method of signal processing for a sensitive signal generated from a pointing device, which comprises the steps of acquiring an accelerating signal; forming a filtering signal by a first filtering process to filter the accelerating signal; and processing a second filtering process to form a processed signal. By means of the aforesaid method, an inertia pointing device is disclosed in the present invention, which is capable of processing an accelerating signal generated from the movement of the pointing device operated by the user, and transmitting the processed signal to an electrical device. The electrical device is capable of generating a corresponding displacement for moving a cursor on the display or action for controlling an object according to the processed signal.
US07839383B2
The present invention discloses a wearable signal input apparatus for a data processing system comprising a wearable unit at least having a index finger sleeve and a middle finger sleeve; a position sensing unit located on said wearable unit for detecting a movement of the index finger and generating a corresponding displacement signal; a first and a second buttons respectively located on the index finger sleeve and the middle finger sleeve of said wearable unit for generating button signals; a signal processing unit provided on said wearable unit for receiving said displacement signal and said button signals and converting said signals into signals which are recognizable by a signal processing system; a signal transmission unit connected to said signal processing unit for transmitting said recognizable signals to said signal processing system; an input switch unit provided on said wearable unit and connected to said signal processing unit for turning said signal input apparatus on/off. The present invention may conveniently achieve the switching interoperation with other input devices and improve efficiency of the signal inputs.
US07839379B1
A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a light source configured to output light. The computing device also includes a light sensor configured to measure the level of light surrounding the computing device. The computing device further includes a control mechanism operatively coupled to the light source and light sensor and configured to adjust the level of output light based on the measured level of light surrounding the computing device.
US07839371B2
In a liquid crystal display device includes; a plurality of pixels arranged substantially in a matrix pattern; wherein each of the plurality of pixel includes; first and second thin film transistors including current paths connected to a source line in series, a storage capacitor line, a first capacitor connected between the first and second thin film transistors and connected to the storage capacitor line, a second capacitor connected between one of the source and the drain of the second thin film transistor and a pixel electrode and connected to the storage capacitor line, and a third capacitor including the pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a liquid crystal between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, wherein an overdrive voltage Vover satisfying equation Vover = C 1 C 2 + C lc · Vsig is added to a display signal voltage Vsig and a resultant voltage is applied to the source line.
US07839368B2
An apparatus and a method for generating overdriving values are provided, used to generate the overdriving values for displaying image data. The apparatus for generating overdriving values includes an outside environment sensor unit and an adjustment module. The outside environment sensor unit is for detecting at least an environment parameter. The adjustment module, electrically coupled with the outside environment sensor unit, receives environment parameters, generates and outputs the adjustment overdriving values according to the environment parameters. The above-mentioned environment parameters include at least one of a frame rate and a temperature.
US07839359B2
Disclosed are a plasma display apparatus and a driving method thereof. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel having a plurality of address electrodes, a data driver, and a timing controller. The data driver supplies a plurality of data pulses to the plurality of the address electrodes and the timing controller controls a width of a first data pulse of the plurality of data pulses to be different from a width of a second data pulse of the plurality of data pulse.
US07839351B2
A dual-port IBOC® antenna provides omnidirectional radiation of orthogonal, circularly polarized analog (FM) and digital (OFDM) signals using quadruple coplanar square loops driven from a hybrid having balanced outputs. The loops are arranged in a tiled square, with proximal sides functioning as further stripline hybrids to cancel cross coupling between the loops. Each loop quad is reflector-backed and emits a directional signal; multiple loop quads oriented radially form an omni bay. Vertical spacing between bays includes a minimum position for mutual coupling, while symmetry establishes uniform input impedance on the hybrid input ports. Tuning barbs on the loops fine tune frequency response. Bandwidth is wide, so that a single antenna can radiate multiple FM analog and hybrid IBOC® channels over the VHF FM radio broadcast band.
US07839350B2
An antenna device according to the present invention includes; a plurality of antenna elements; a line which is electro-magnetically connected to each of the antenna elements and is branched from at least one branch point in the line; and filters formed in the line between a first branch point and each of said plurality of antenna elements. Here, the first branch point is the electrically farthest branch point from each of the antenna elements among all branch points.
US07839348B2
A satellite tracking system for tracking a synchronous satellite includes a satellite antenna system movably supported on a roof of a vehicle via a roof frame to move between an operation position and a folded position. At the operation position, the satellite antenna system is rotated on the roof frame to adjust a horizontal orientation of a parabolic reflector of the satellite antenna system while the parabolic reflector is pivotally lift at a predetermined inclination angle to align with the satellite. At the folded position, the parabolic reflector is pivotally dropped down until the parabolic reflector faces downwardly to the roof of the vehicle to conceal a signal transmitting device of the satellite antenna system between the parabolic reflector and the roof of the vehicle. Therefore, the satellite antenna system provides a relatively low profile at the folded position when the vehicle travels.
US07839343B2
A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a dielectric substrate carried by the housing, circuitry carried by the dielectric substrate, and an audio output transducer carried by the upper portion of the housing and connected to the circuitry. The device may further include a user input interface carried by the housing and connected to the circuitry, and at least one auxiliary input/output device carried by the upper portion of the housing and connected to the circuitry. An antenna may also be carried within the lower portion of the housing comprising a pattern of conductive traces on the dielectric substrate.
US07839339B2
A circular polarized signal receiving antenna includes an active element having first and second ends separated by a gap. A dimension of the active element between the first and second ends thereof corresponds to approximately one wavelength of a resonant operating frequency of the antenna. A feed-point is coupled to the active element, wherein the feed-point is located approximately one-quarter of the wavelength from the first end of the active element and approximately three-quarters of the wavelength from the second end of the active element. In one embodiment, the feed-point is coupled to the active element.
US07839337B2
A multi-band antenna includes an insulative supporting member, an antenna stripe comprising a ground element, a first antenna used for wireless wide area net and a second antenna used on wireless local area net, wherein said first antenna comprises a first radiating portion with a horizontal first feeding tab, said first radiating portion is separated from the grounding element, said antenna stripe surrounds the supporting member, said first radiating portion is fixed on the supporting member and covers plural faces of the supporting member.
US07839328B2
Signals output from two filters included in a filter section 70 and differing in passband are respectively stored in different memories included in a memory section 80, and a positioning process is performed based on the signal stored in the memory. Specifically, the signal strength of a received signal is calculated by a coherent accumulation process and an incoherent accumulation process, and a signal system used for positioning is alternatively switched to a high-sensitivity system S1 or a high-accuracy system S2 as a result of determining whether or not the signal strength is equal to or greater than a threshold value.
US07839317B1
A Folding Comparator circuit which receives an analog input current and both compares it to a DC reference current while at the same time folding the input current around the reference current to be passed on as an output current which can then be passed on to another folding comparator stage. A series of such stages connected together with some XOR logic gates can perform an analog to digital conversion process as a pipeline of auto-folding stages which will instantly convert analog signal to digital signal.
US07839313B2
Techniques for correcting component mismatches in an M-channel time-interleaved Analog to Digital Converter (ADC). In order to obtain an error measure for offset, gain or phase, errors, outputs from each ADC are either summed or averaged over No samples. Calling each of the sums or averages as Xk where k=1, 2, . . . , M, there are M such values as a result. A single value representing the mean of these M values, Xmean, is chosen as a reference value. The offset, gain and phase errors for the M different ADCs are then obtained from Xk−Xmean. The sign of each offset error, i.e., sign (Xk−Xmean), is then used to drive an adaptive algorithm whose output represents an offset correction value for the corresponding ADC. The offset, gain, and phase correction outputs from the adaptive algorithm is fed to an array of Digital-to-Analog converters (DACs) whose outputs are voltages or currents that directly or indirectly controls the offset, gain or phase setting of each individual ADC. Thus, there are M different offset, gain and phase error signals and M different adaptive algorithms operating in conjunction with M different DACs providing offset control signals to M different ADCs. In certain embodiments, spur frequencies can be reduced with the use of notch filters.
US07839309B1
A physical layer device includes a converter module to convert input data having a first predetermined number of bits into output data having a second predetermined number of bits. A scrambler module is operable to be activated and deactivated. The scrambler module receives the output data having the second predetermined number of bits. An encoding module modulates the output of the scrambler module in accordance with one of a plurality of modulation types and generates an encoded output signal having an output level. The encoding module is operable to vary the output levels of the encoded output signal.
US07839306B2
A map display method whereby the contents of a road map displayed can be easily and clearly grasped regardless of the running conditions of a vehicle.In a summarized map displayed on a display screen 10, an area including a vehicle position 11, a destination 13 and a guide route 12 between them is displayed in simplified fashion. At a position far from the destination, as shown in FIG. 2A, a summarized map of a wide area is displayed and objects including a road 14 and a facility 15 are limited to a greater degree. With the approach of the vehicle position 11 to the destination 13, as shown in FIG. 2B, the contraction scale is decreased and a summarized map of a middle area is displayed, while at the same time increasing the objects displayed. With a further approach of the vehicle position 11 to the destination 13, as shown in FIG. 2C, a narrower area is displayed in summarization, while at the same time displaying substantially all the objects, thereby making it possible to grasp the neighborhood of the destination 13 in detail.
US07839305B1
An underwater vehicle, such as a submarine or a swimmer/diver, can be detected by seeding a volume of water with neutrally buoyant, acoustically reflective sensors. The sensors comprise a sonar reflective coating and an adhesive so that they stick to and mark said vehicle when said vehicle or swimmer/diver passes through said volume of water. A sonar detector scans the water to identify the presence of said vehicle or swimmer/diver by observing acoustic reflections from the sensors adhering to the vehicle or swimmer/diver.
US07839304B2
An onboard system for a rotary wing aircraft detects a limit cycle oscillation in the tail mast and provides a timely indication of the limit cycle oscillation to an aircrew before serious damage to the airframe is likely to occur.
US07839295B2
An LED fixture includes multiple LED drivers and multiple LED lamps so that the lifetime of the fixture is a multiple of the lifetime of a conventional fixture that uses only a single LED driver. A distributed controller activates and deactivates the LED drivers so that the different LED lamps are driven sequentially. An optional multi-lamp LED driver concurrently drives multiple LED lamps that have been previously driven by the LED drivers.
US07839283B2
An integrated circuit implements a wireless remote sensor. The wireless remote sensor includes an antenna coupled to an energy distribution unit to allow passive collection of electrical charge. A signal processing unit couples to the energy distribution unit and modulates transmission by the antenna according to a binary code.
US07839278B2
A key is determined from a volatile response using circuitry on the device. The volatile response depend on process variation in fabrication of the device. Error control data that depends on the first volatile response can be computed, stored externally to the device, and then used to generate the key using a volatile response using the circuit. Applications of volatile keys include authentication and rights management for content and software.
US07839262B2
The present invention is particularly applied to a vehicle relating to a key-less entry system, and desired information is provided to a vehicle 5 corresponding to the information by monitoring a remote control signal from an electronic key 2 for the key-less entry system, and starting up operations in response to this remote control signal as a trigger.
US07839260B2
At the time of start of usage, a voltage to be applied to a shape memory alloy wire 102 by a feedback control circuit 120 is set to a first voltage value (step S1), and at a limit resistance value detection step, (the feedback control circuit) measures a limit resistance value when the shape memory alloy wire 102 can be contracted (step S2), and upon storing the limit resistance value, a value of the maximum voltage to be input by the feedback control circuit 120 is set to a second voltage value (step S3). At an input electric power optimization step, a target resistance value is indicated, and the feedback control is carried out such that the resistance value indicated is not lower than the limit resistance value (step S4). Thereafter, voltage is stopped at the time of stopping the use of the actuator.
US07839253B2
A coupled inductor structure applied in a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer disposed under the first dielectric layer includes a first inductor element disposed on the first dielectric layer and a second inductor element disposed on the second dielectric layer. The first inductor element has a first bending segment, a second bending segment connected to the first bending segment, and a third bending segment connected to the second bending segment. The second bending segment of the first inductor element has on the second dielectric layer a projection intersecting a second bending segment of the second inductor element. A relative position of the first bending segment of the first inductor element to a first bending segment of the second inductor element is opposite to another relative position of the third bending segment of the first inductor element to a third bending segment of the second inductor element.
US07839252B2
A spool includes at least one bobbin and one winding wire, e.g., a winding wire lacquered for electrical insulation, the bobbin including at least one channel, e.g., one arranged as a pocket, at least one sleeve being electrically connected to the winding wire, the sleeve being electrically connected to an electrical line, e.g., a stranded conductor of a cable, the sleeve including deformable regions, for producing the electrical connections, a respectively deformable region being deformable such that a force-locking connection is provided and welding is able to be carried out.
US07839243B1
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, which can comprise a set of substantially planar arc plates. The substantially planar arc plates can be adapted to cause a dissipation of energy caused by an arc in a circuit breaker. A housing can be adapted to receive each of the set of substantially planar arc plates.
US07839237B2
The invention provides a phase shifter with flexible control voltage that is useful with all RF systems that phase shift a RF signal. The phase shifter according to the present invention may comprise transistors used as switching elements. In one aspect, the phase shifter provides the option of controlling a phase shifter with either a positive or a negative voltage control signal. For example, the dc ground of the transistors included in the phase shifter may be floated, either fixed or adjusted. The RF grounding of the transistors may be achieved by in-band resonant capacitors. Thus, the control voltage provided to the transistors is flexible in that it may be connected to a positive or negative control voltage, or it may be connected to ground, or it may swing from a positive control voltage to a negative control voltage or vice versa.
US07839231B1
Apparatus and methods for improving the performance of a modulator, typically in an I/Q modulation system, are described. Input I and Q current modulation signals may be processed to generate a sign signal and a magnitude signal, with the magnitude signal selectively applied to the inputs of a mixer based on the sign signal so as to generate respective I and Q modulation signal components. These may then be combined to generate a composite modulation signal.
US07839219B2
A low-noise amplifier circuit includes a MOS transistor in a common gate amplifier configuration. A single-ended input is at a source of the MOS transistor. A resonant cavity filter circuit is coupled to a gate of the MOS transistor.
US07839212B2
A two stage fully differential amplifier has been designed which works, in tandem with a TX-FIR, as a linear equalizer at low frequencies, not covered by the TX-FIR, and also acts as a linear amplifier at higher frequencies which are equalized by the TX-FIR. The amplifier as a frequency response which does not attenuate signals frequencies less than one twentieth of baud rate, creates gain peaking ion the region between one twentieth and one tenth of baud rate and maintains flat peak gain up to half of baud rate. Different aspects of the frequency response curve (such as dc gain, max gain and zero frequency) are completely programmable. Also, the differential amplifier has been designed from low power and process, voltage and temperature insensitive frequency response.
US07839211B2
The present invention relates to a method for correcting for a source of non-linearity and noise introduced in a switching power amplification stage during power amplification of a pulse-modulated reference signal from a pulse modulator, where the method comprises the following steps: —providing an output stage embedded in an analogue self-oscillating control loop able to receive a pulse-referenced input signal; —generating a feedback signal from the switching power amplification stage or after a demodulation filter; —deriving an error signal by comparing the feedback signal with the reference signal; —filtering the error signal by a low pass filter for reducing the higher harmonics of the carrier; —adding a compensator for generating high loop gain in the audio band; —feeding the compensator output to a zero cross detector or comparator, thus providing a carrier for re-modulation or re-timing by feeding the filtered signal to a zero cross detector or comparator, which controls the output stage. The invention furthermore relates to various systems for implementing the above method.
US07839210B2
A method and a circuit for detecting a radio-frequency signal, including at least one first MOS transistor with a channel of a first type, having its gate coupled to an input terminal capable of receiving said signal; a circuit for biasing the first transistor, capable of biasing it to a level lower than its threshold voltage; and a circuit for determining the average value of the current in the first transistor.
US07839206B2
A design structure that includes at least one tunneling device voltage reference circuit for use in low voltage applications is disclosed. The tunneling device voltage reference circuit includes a pair of voltage dividing device stacks, one having a linear voltage output and the other having a non-linear voltage output. A feedback circuit supplies a regulated voltage to each of the voltage dividing stacks so that the output voltages of the two device stacks equalize. Once the feedback circuit has locked, any one of the device stack output voltages and the regulated voltage may be used as a voltage reference.
US07839203B1
An adaptive capacitor charge/discharge network tailors the rate-of-change of a capacitor. The network includes two circuit groups with two or more parallel circuit branches, each branch including a current source and a controllable switch connected in series. The parallel circuit branches of one group are connected to Vss, and the parallel circuit branches of the other group are connected to Vdd. All the parallel circuit branches are connected to one plate of a capacitor, the other plate of the capacitor is connected to either Vss or Vdd. A control circuit controls the switch status, and incrementally controls the charge/discharge of the capacitor according to a predetermined order and a predetermined timing sequence to achieve a desired tailored charge/discharge curve.
US07839199B2
A circuit and a method for implementing frequency tripled I/Q signals are proposed, including receiving two input I/Q signals through frequency multipliers so as to generate two frequency multiplied signals and mixing the input I/Q signals and the corresponding frequency multiplied signals through mixers for generating and outputting two I/Q signals with a frequency three times that of the input I/Q signals. The invention eliminates the requirement for high amplitude of the input signals as in the prior art and has lower power consumption and broader bandwidth and can be used as high frequency signal sources in any single chip processes.
US07839179B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed, such as those involving a digital phase detector that includes a phase detection circuit configured to detect which one of two clock signals leads the other. One such phase detector includes a balancer configured to prepare the phase detection circuit for a phase detection. The phase detection circuit of one or more embodiments includes a cross-coupled latch configured to receive the two clock signals and generate a first latch output and a second latch output in response to the two clock signals. The aforementioned balancer is configured to substantially equalize the voltage levels of the first and second latch outputs before the phase detection circuit detects a phase difference between the two clock signals. For example, the balancer might pre-charge the outputs of the phase detection circuit to substantially the same voltage level before phase detection.
US07839177B1
A phase detector includes transistors that generate first and second phase error signals. The phase detector resets the first phase error signal in response to at least one of the first and the second phase error signals through a first reset path having a maximum reset delay that is equal to or less than a sum of switching delays of three transistors in the first reset path. The phase detector resets the second phase error signal in response to at least one of the first and the second phase error signals through a second reset path having a maximum reset delay that is equal to or less than a sum of switching delays of three transistors in the second reset path.
US07839174B2
An output buffer circuit includes a high voltage detecting circuit, a dynamic gate bias generating circuit, an output stage circuit and a pad voltage detector. The high voltage detecting circuit detects a power supply voltage and generates a first and a second determining signals and a first and a second bias voltages according to the power supply voltage. The dynamic gate bias generating circuit is biased by the first and the second bias voltages and receives the first and the second determining signals, for converting logic control signals into corresponding gate bias voltages according to the first and the second determining signals. The pad voltage detector detects a voltage of an I/O pad and provides a pad voltage detecting signal for the output stage circuit to modify an output signal outputted to an I/O pad. A mixed-voltage input/output (I/O) buffer is disclosed herein.
US07839173B1
A system for signal level shifting in an IC can include a first inverter having a first pull-up device and a pull-down device, wherein the first inverter is operable to receive an input signal having a voltage potential at a logic high that does not disable the first pull-up device. The system can include a second inverter coupled in series to an output of the first inverter, and a control module coupled to the output of the first inverter and an output of the second inverter. Prior to the input signal transitioning to the logic high, the control module is operable to decouple the input signal from the first pull-up device, disable the first pull-up device, and close a feedback loop that latches an output state of the second inverter.
US07839169B2
The invention in the simplest form is a programmable logic device comprising logic blocks configured substantially in a plane, external I/O endpoints, and embedded switched fabrics which provide non-contentious connection between the logic blocks and between logic blocks and I/O endpoints, the switch fabrics being offset from the plane of the logic blocks. The logic blocks are organized into logic groups, whereby a plurality of primary embedded switch fabrics are configurable for connecting logic blocks within logic groups, and at least one secondary switch fabric provides non-contentious connection between primary switch fabrics. The switch fabrics can employ non-blocking crossbar switches. A hierarchy of secondary switch fabrics can be included for providing non-contentions connection between both primary and other secondary switch fabrics.
US07839134B2
A method for simultaneously detecting a size and concentration of ionic materials includes measuring voltage drop values of at least three ionic materials of which sizes and concentrations are known using each of at least two FET-based sensors having different electrical characteristics, determining at least three points in a three-dimensional plot from the known sizes, concentrations and the measured voltage drop values, approximating the at least three points into a single plane, measuring a voltage drop value of an ionic material of which size and concentration are unknown using the at least two FET-based sensors, determining equipotential lines existing on the plane using the voltage drop value of the unknown ionic material and determining a cross point between each of the equipotential lines.
US07839132B2
A power converter comprising an inductor for receiving energy from a power supply, and connected to the inductor an output capacitor for providing an output voltage. In order to ensure a quick compensation of a reduction of load at the voltage output using few output capacitors, an additional current path is arranged in parallel either to the inductor or to the capacitor, which additional current path can be opened and closed. A current flowing through the additional current path reaches basically immediately a desired value, when the additional current path is opened. Feedback means are moreover provided for opening the additional current path, when the output voltage reaches a predetermined maximum value.
US07839131B2
A circuit comprising a gate driver including first and second switching stages for driving respective sync and control switches, at least one of which is a normally ON depletion mode device, and another circuit connected to the first and second switching stages and including first and second circuits. The first circuit is coupled to the first switching stage and to the sync switch, the first switching stage having a first state wherein the sync switch is on, and a second state wherein a first bias voltage is switched to the gate of the sync switch to turn it off. The second circuit has a first state wherein the control switch is on when the sync switch is off, and a second state wherein the control switch is switched off when the sync switch is on by switching a second bias voltage to the gate of the control switch.
US07839112B2
A torque control circuit includes a motor driving circuit, a motor operating current detection circuit, a reference voltage generation circuit, a maximum motor current setting circuit, a torque setting circuit, an information output circuit, a regulated-voltage power supply circuit, a motor operating temperature detection circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit includes an integrated circuit to carry out functions of reading information detection sources, processing, and instruction for execution of torque control and output terminals of the reference voltage generation circuit, the maximum motor current setting circuit, the motor operating temperature detection circuit, and the motor impedance torque setting circuit are respectively connected to corresponding input terminals of the integrated circuit to carry out desired control of torque supplied to the impact tool.
US07839110B2
A motor control system includes a first-type amplifier that receives a PWM instruction, a second-type amplifier that receives a positional instruction, a numerical control device, and a serial bus. The numerical control device includes a first processor that calculates a positional instruction of a motor, a DSP that calculates a PWM instruction of the first-type amplifier from the positional instruction, and a serial bus control circuit that outputs the PWM instruction of the first-type amplifier and the positional instruction of the second-type amplifier to the serial bus. The first-type amplifier generates a drive current signal of a motor directly from the received PWM instruction. The second-type amplifier includes a third processor that calculates a PWM instruction from the received positional instruction.
US07839109B2
A method of controlling a motorized window treatment provides for continued operation of the motorized window treatment during an overload or low-line condition. The motorized window treatment is driven by an electronic drive unit having a motor, a motor drive circuit, and a controller. The controller controls the motor drive circuit to drive the motor with a pulse-width modulated signal generated from a bus voltage. The controller is operable to monitor the magnitude of the bus voltage. If the bus voltage drops below a first voltage threshold, the controller stops the motor or reduces the duty cycle of the pulse-width modulated signal to allow the bus voltage to increase to an acceptable magnitude. When the bus voltage rises above a second voltage threshold, the controller begins driving the motor normally once again. During an overload or low-line condition, the controller is prevented from resetting, while driving the motor with minimal interruption to the movement of the motorized window treatment.
US07839098B2
A high frequency ballast for a metal halide lamp comprises a controller, a switch, and an oscillator. The controller selectively enables and disables the oscillator via the switch to ignite the lamp. The switch selectively tunes and detunes an inductor of the oscillator by altering an inductance of the inductor. When the inductor is tuned, the oscillator oscillates and provides power to the lamp. When the inductor is detuned, the oscillator does not oscillate and does not provide power to the lamp.
US07839093B2
Disclosed is a circuit arrangement for supplying a lamp wattage to a high-pressure discharge lamp (Lp) in the form of an alternating current having an operating frequency. The alternating current is generated by a full bridge that is composed of two half-bridge branches. The lamp wattage can be adjusted via the phase which the two half-bridge branches have relative to each other. The lamp wattage is modulated by means of the transmission function of an interface if the operating frequency is frequency-modulated. Said modulation of the lamp wattage can be compensated by adequately correcting the phase.
US07839091B2
A light emission device capable of holding a uniform color in various environments is provided. A light source control device has a light detection device for detecting emission brightness of light sources that emit different colors and controlling emission brightness of at least one light source of the light sources based on the detection result of the light detection device. A through-hole is formed in a reflection member for reflecting light emitted from the light source, and the reflection is in a predetermined direction. The light detection device is provided across the reflection member from the light source, and the light propagation member is provided at the through-hole.
US07839088B2
A glass composition of the present invention is oxide glass and has a composition that satisfies: 60 wt %
US07839083B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting elements that have a first electrode, a second electrode and a light emitting layer, an element layer, an auxiliary electrode that is electrically connected to the second electrode, and an insulating layer. The second electrode is commonly provided for the light emitting elements. The insulating layer has a portion arranged in a lower layer under the second electrode and the auxiliary electrode. The auxiliary electrode is formed partly in a peripheral region of the light emitting device. In the peripheral region, an end portion of the second electrode is located on an inner side along a plane of the substrate than an end portion of the auxiliary electrode and located on an outer side than an end portion of the insulating layer.
US07839082B2
Provided are an organic light emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof. The organic light emitting device includes a first display substrate, a second display substrate, and a first adhesive force improving member. The first display substrate includes a first substrate, a first electrode, organic light emitting patterns, a first spacer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed on an entire surface of the first substrate, and the organic light emitting patterns are disposed on the first electrode. The first spacer corresponds to the organic light emitting pattern and is disposed on the first electrode. The second electrode covers the organic light emitting patterns and the first spacer. The second display substrate includes a second substrate, and a first driving signal delivery part. The first adhesive force improving member electrically/physically couples the second electrode to the first driving signal delivery part.
US07839080B2
Provided is a method of fabricating an organic light emitting device using a solution process. The method includes forming an electrode on a lower substrate; depositing an organic active material solution containing at least one photoreactive material on the electrode to form an organic active material layer; and radiating light onto the organic active material layer so that a characteristic of the light varies according to the depth of the organic active material layer in order to gradually vary a molecular orientation structure in the organic active material layer according to the depths, thereby resulting in a carrier mobility gradient according to the depths of the organic active material layer.
US07839075B2
An organic electroluminescent element containing an anode and a cathode having therebetween a light emitting layer containing a phosphorescent compound, and hole blocking layer 1 provided adjacent to the light emitting layer and between the light emitting layer and the cathode, wherein hole blocking layer 1 contains a phosphorescent compound; and a content of the phosphorescent compound contained in hole blocking layer 1 is in the range of 0.1 to 50% of a content of the phosphorescent compound contained in the light emitting layer.
US07839072B2
A translucent laminate sheet includes at least one type of organic phosphor to make wavelength conversion of light emitted from a light source, and light-transmitting members to seal the organic phosphor.The light-transmitting members are formed by two plate-like members and the organic phosphor is disposed to be held between the two plate-like members. A frame member is disposed between the two plate-like members, and the organic phosphor is hermetically sealed in a space surrounded by the frame member and the two plate-like members.
US07839064B2
A spark plug including: a center electrode as defined herein; a substantially cylindrical insulator as defined herein; a cylindrical metal shell as defined herein; and a ground electrode as defined herein, wherein a spark discharge gap is provided between the leading end portion of the center electrode and the leading end portion of the ground electrode, and the ground electrode has a bulging curved face on a side opposite to a side in which the center electrode is provided, and a maximum of width of the ground electrode within a range of ±1 mm from a center point of the spark discharge gap in the axial direction, as viewed in a direction where the center electrode and the ground electrode overlap, is 105% or less of a width of an ordinary portion having a substantially constant width.
US07839059B2
The Inner-Forcer milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyro (mHRG) is a small, low cost, high performance gyroscope. It may have an extremely simplified design, with in one embodiment of the present method and apparatus only five major parts total, with most parts filling multiple functions. The method and apparatus in one embodiment may have: a resonator; and a body operatively coupled to the resonator, the unitary body integrally having electrodes, an electrode support unit, a weld ring and a plurality of electrically conductive pins, the plurality of electrodes operatively coupled to the electrically conductive pins.
US07839054B2
A piezoelectric actuator comprising a stack of piezoelectric layers formed from a piezoelectric material, a plurality of internal electrodes disposed throughout the stack to define active regions of the piezoelectric material therebetween which are responsive to a voltage applied across two or more groups of the internal electrodes in use, an insulating arrangement which at least partially covers at least one surface of the stack to define a piezoelectric/insulator interface, and two or more side electrodes to connect with the two or more groups of the internal electrodes. At least one bridging arrangement extends through the insulating arrangement and comprises a conductive material, so as to provide a connection between a side electrode and an internal electrode, wherein at least one first surface, defined by an interface between the conductive material and the insulating arrangement, and at least one second surface, defined by an internal boundary of a piezoelectric layer, are substantially continuous with one another in the vicinity of the piezoelectric/insulator interface.
US07839047B2
An axial gap electrical machine employs unique architecture to (1) overcome critical limits in the air gap at high speeds, while maintaining high torque performance at low speeds, while synergistically providing a geometry that withstands meets critical force concentration within these machines, (2) provides arrangements for cooling said machines using either a Pelletier effect or air fins, (3) “windings” that are produced as ribbon or stampings or laminates, that may be in some cases be arranged to optimize conductor and magnetic core density within the machine. Arrangements are also proposed for mounting the machines as wheels of a vehicle, to provide ease of removing and installing said motor.
US07839046B2
A claw pole type motor includes a rotor having a magnet arranged on an outer circumferential surface thereof and a stator including an annular iron core and an annular coil received within the iron core. The iron core includes a yoke portion opened in an inner circumferential surface opposite to the rotor, a plurality of upper claw-shaped magnetic poles and a plurality of lower claw-shaped magnetic poles which are arranged along an inner circumferential surface of the annular coil. The upper/lower claw-shaped magnetic poles are curved to extend axially downwardly/upwardly from an upper/lower inner edge of the yoke portion, respectively. The upper and the low claw-shaped magnetic poles are alternately arranged along a circumferential direction of the iron core. The yoke portion has cutout portions formed in non-magnetic path regions which do not include magnetic paths through which magnetic flux flows between neighboring claw-shaped magnetic poles across the annular coil.
US07839040B2
A permanent-magnet generator rotor comprising a first rotor shaft end portion having in the axial center a hollow portion through which a bolt is passed; a second shaft end portion having in the axial center a hollow portion and a bearing portion through which the bolt is passed. A magnetic cylindrical body is sandwiched between the first and second shaft end portions. The permanent-magnet generator rotor includes the magnetic cylindrical body fixed between the first and second shaft ends, a permanent magnet held on the outer circumferential surface of the magnetic cylindrical body; a non-magnetic cylindrical body shrink-fit onto the outer circumferential surface of the permanent magnet; a stator disposed around the permanent magnet; and the bolt penetrating through the first and second shaft ends; the hollow portions in the generator, and the magnetic cylindrical body.
US07839038B2
A cooling module 67 includes a motor assembly 42 having a motor case 24 having at least one open end and including mounting brackets 30 integral therewith. Each bracket has only a bottom portion 32 connected with the motor case. An armature assembly is disposed in the motor case and includes a rotatable shaft 46. A brush card assembly 56 is associated with the armature assembly, and an end cap 60 is disposed over the brush card assembly and partially covers the open end of the motor case and thereby defining a non end cap covered motor portion 63. A fan 64 is coupled to an end of the shaft and has a hub substantially covering one end of the motor assembly. A shroud 74 has a motor cover 76. Fastening structure 78 is associated with the shroud and engaged with the brackets thereby mounting the motor assembly to the shroud, with the motor cover substantially covering the end cap and the non end cap covered motor portion.
US07839030B2
When a pitch between centers of two adjacent magnetic pole portions disposed on an armature is defined as τs, the length W of permanent magnets disposed in the middle is equal to the pitch τs (W=τs). The length of each of the two end permanent magnets respectively disposed at either end of a permanent magnet magnetic pole row is denoted by W1. A ratio w1/W of the length W1 to the length W is defined as 0.43
US07839022B2
A system for providing power from solar cells where each cell or cell array is allowed to produce its maximum available power and converted by its own DC/DC converter. In one form the system includes: one or more solar generators, each of which has at least one solar cell; a maximum power tracker operatively associated with each solar generator, where the maximum power tracker includes a buck type DC/DC converter without an output inductor, and the maximum power trackers of the solar generators are operatively connected in series with each other; and an inductor operatively connected to the series connected maximum power trackers.
US07839014B2
A pulse-width rectifier for operating an electric machine in motor operating mode or in generator operating mode, includes a terminal for a control device that communicates with the pulse-width rectifier via a data connection. In order to safeguard the supply of energy in the case of a disturbance in the data transmission between the control device and the pulse-width rectifier, the pulse-width rectifier is constructed such that it automatically switches into an emergency generator operating mode in which it produces at its direct-voltage output a prespecified power with which it is possible to maintain at least an emergency operation of electrical consumers.
US07839011B2
An apparatus and method for signal transmission with isolation in medical devices. Data signals, such as patient measurement data and medical instrumentation control signals are converted to dynamic signals which are transmitted on power lines through an isolation module, such as a transformer. The dynamic signals are then converted to data signals having a voltage based on the frequency of the dynamic signals.
US07839008B2
A method for the operation of a wind energy plant with a double-fed asynchronous generator which has a mode of operation as a phase shifter, in which reactive power is fed into the electric power supply grid, the method having the following steps: the stator of the asynchronous generator is short-circuited, the asynchronous generator is run-up to a predetermined rotational speed from a working rotational speed range via a converter after running up, the short-circuit in the stator is cancelled, the double-fed asynchronous generator is synchronized with the electric power supply grid, and it is driven for the generation of reactive power.
US07839007B2
Flexible and elastic mechanisms for extracting power from a moving fluid. Sheet-like material is deformed during fabrication through an applied force so as to create undulations in said material, whose stresses are maintained through restraining components, thereby maintaining the occurrence of said deformations in the material. When placed in moving fluid, the resulting pressure differentials cause the positions of the undulations within the material to travel along said material in the same direction as the moving fluid. Power is extracted in one of two principle ways. The first is via a mechanical coupling of the sheet-like material to a rotating mechanism, which turns an electro-magnetic dynamo or other output device. The second is via the utilization of a flexible material which exhibits an electrical response to mechanical strain, whereby the strains caused by the travel of undulations along the material create an electrical current which is extracted via two or more electrodes.
US07839006B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the same prevents copper from being exposed to a surface of a passivation film after a copper metal line formation, to avoid contamination of processing equipment and the process environment. The method includes providing a substrate with a scribe lane and a chip area in which metal wiring layers are formed, forming a dielectric film, forming a conductive film on the dielectric film in a chip area and an alignment mark on the dielectric film in a scribe lane, forming passivation films, exposing the conductive film by removing the passivation films in a bonding pad portion in a chip area, forming another conductive film in the bonding pad portion to electrically connect with the conductive film, forming another passivation film, and selectively removing the passivation films.
US07839000B2
An electronic device may include an electronic substrate, and an under bump seed metallurgy layer on the electronic substrate. A barrier layer may be provided on the under bump seed metallurgy layer so that the under bump seed metallurgy layer is between the barrier layer and the electronic substrate, and the barrier layer may include nickel and/or copper. Moreover, portions of the under bump seed metallurgy layer may be undercut relative to portions of the barrier layer. In addition, a solder layer may be provided on the barrier layer so that the barrier layer is between the solder layer and the under bump seed metallurgy layer.
US07838996B2
A semiconductor device comprises a wiring layer. The wiring layer is provided by forming a sidewall film having a closed-loop along a sidewall of a hard mask, etching off the hard mask to leave the sidewall film, and then etching a target material to be etched with a mask of the sidewall film. The wiring layer includes a folded wiring section formed along an end of the hard mask, and a parallel section composed of two parallel wires continued from the folded wiring section. The wiring layer has a closed-loop cut made in a portion except for the folded wiring section and the parallel section. The folded wiring section and the parallel section are used as a contact region for connection to another wire.
US07838995B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer; a p-n column portion over the first semiconductor layer and including second and third semiconductor layers, which are alternately arranged; and a peripheral portion adjacently to the p-n column portion and including a fourth semiconductor layer. An end second semiconductor layer has an impurity amount equal to or larger than a half of other second semiconductor layers. The third semiconductor layers include a large impurity amount portion adjacent to the end second semiconductor layer. The large impurity amount portion includes at least one third semiconductor layer having an impurity amount larger than an impurity amount of other third semiconductor layers.
US07838994B2
A wiring substrate 20, comprising a glass substrate, which is provided with through holes 20c, each having a tapered part 20d that becomes large in opening area at the side of an input surface 20a, and conductive members 21, formed on the inner walls of through holes 20c, is used. A semiconductor device 5 is arranged by connecting bump electrodes 17, provided on an output surface 15b of a PD array 15 in correspondence with conductive members 21, to input portions 21a of conductive members 21 formed on input surface 20a of wiring substrate 20. A radiation detector is arranged by connecting a scintillator 10 via an optical adhesive agent 11 to a light-incident surface 15a of PD array 15 and connecting a signal processing element 30 via bump electrodes 31 to output surface 20b of wiring substrate 20. A semiconductor device, with which the semiconductor elements and the corresponding conductive paths of the wiring substrate are connected satisfactorily, and a radiation detector using this semiconductor device are thus provided.
US07838993B2
It is an object of the invention to provide semiconductor devices which can protect privacy of consumers or holders of commercial products and control the communication range according to use, even when the semiconductor device which can exchange data without contact is mounted on the commercial products. A semiconductor device of the invention includes an element group including a plurality of transistors over a substrate; a first conductive film functioning as an antenna over the element group; a second conductive film surrounding the first conductive film; an insulating film covering the first and second end portions; and a third conductive film over the insulating film. The first conductive film is provided in the shape of a coil, and each end portion of the first conductive film is connected to the element group. First and second end portions of the second conductive film are not connected to each other.
US07838991B1
Improved protective metallization is described for bumped copper-top semiconductor chips. The semiconductor device includes a top wafer fabrication passivation layer with openings through which contact pads are exposed. A patterned copper layer is formed over the passivation layer and is electrically coupled to the contact pads through the openings. A metallic barrier layer is provided between the contact pads and the patterned copper layer. A titanium metallization layer overlies the patterned copper layer and cooperates with the barrier layer to envelop the copper layer in the regions of the contact pads. An aluminum metallization layer overlies the titanium metallization layer. An electrically insulating protective layer overlies the aluminum metallization and passivation layers. The protective layer includes openings in which underbump metallization stacks are formed. Each underbump metallization stack electrically connects to the aluminum metallization layer through an opening in the protective layer. Solder bumps adhere to the underbump metallization stacks.
US07838976B2
In inlets used for ID tags and the like, a defective connection between an integrated circuit part and an antenna is suppressed by improvement of tolerance for a bending or a pressing pressure. The integrated circuit part includes a semiconductor chip and a multilayer substrate having a concave portion. The semiconductor chip is mounted on the bottom of the concave portion. The multilayer substrate includes a connection electrode at the top surface and a connection electrode connected to the semiconductor chip on the bottom of the concave portion. The connection electrode on the bottom of the concave portion is connected to the connection electrode at the top surface by a penetration electrode inside a multilayer substrate. By such a configuration, the semiconductor chip is connected to the antenna.
US07838967B2
A semiconductor chip having through silicon vias (TSV) and a stacked assembly including the chip are revealed. The chip has a plurality of first and second bonding pads disposed on two opposing surfaces of a semiconductor substrate respectively. Through hole vertically penetrate through the semiconductor substrate and the first and second bonding pads. By forming first extruded ring, the first bonding pad has a first contact surface located between the first extruded ring and the through hole. By forming second extruded ring, the second bonding pad has a second contact surface located outside and adjacent to the second extruded rings to encircle the second extruded ring. The second extruded ring has a proper dimension to fit in the first extruded ring. Accordingly, a plurality of semiconductor chip can be stacked each other with accurate alignment without shifting to effectively reduce the stacked assembly height, moreover, chip stacking processes are accomplished by vertically stacking a plurality of chips first then filling conductive material into the through holes without electrical short between the adjacent bonding pads due to overflow of conductive material to meet the fine-pitch requirements of TSV. The process flow for the stacked assembly is simplified with higher production yields.
US07838964B2
Micromodules and methods of making them are disclosed. An exemplary micromodule includes a substrate having a thin film inductor, and a bumped die mounted on the substrate and over the thin film inductor.
US07838955B2
An image sensor includes a metal interconnection and readout circuitry over a first substrate, an image sensing device, and an ion implantation isolation layer. The image sensing device is over the metal interconnection, and an ion implantation isolation layer is in the image sensing device. The image sensing device includes first, second and third color image sensing units, and ion implantation contact layers. The first, second and third color image sensing units are stacked in or on a second substrate. The ion implantation contact layers are electrically connected to the first, second and third color image sensing units, respectively.
US07838954B2
A semiconductor solder bump structure having a solder bump with at least a first solder and a second solder attached to the first solder, producing one solder bump having at least two different solders with different melting temperatures. A method of fabricating the solder is included.
US07838953B2
A magnetic memory cell and a magnetic random access memory that are highly reliable and low-power consuming. An upper electrode having a connecting area smaller than the area of a ferromagnetic free layer of a magnetic memory cell is connected to the ferromagnetic free layer. A current is applied to produce an uneven magnetic field over the magnetic memory cell, whereby spin-transfer torque magnetization reversal can be realized with low current and at small write error rate.
US07838952B2
A micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) device includes: a fixed electrode made of silicon and provided above a semiconductor substrate; a movable electrode made of silicon and arranged in a mechanically movable manner by having a gap from the semiconductor substrate; and a wiring layered part that is provided around the movable electrode, covers a portion of the fixed electrode and includes wiring. One of the fixed electrode and the movable electrode is implanted with an impurity ion and at least a part of the portion of the fixed electrode covered by the wiring layered part is silicidized.
US07838950B2
The present invention is an electro mechanical component, such as a nano-electro-mechanical component, having a first, a second and a third portion arranged such that the second portion is used to functionally connect the first and the third portion. In the present invention, the second portion is a bilayer having a first and a second layer made from two dissimilar at least semiconductive materials; the two materials have different lattice constants; and the first layer harbors tensile strain close to an interface connecting the first and the second layer and harbors compressive strain at its surface; and the second layer harbors compressive strain close to the interface connecting the first and the second layer and tensile strain at the relaxed outer section.
US07838944B2
A non-volatile programmable memory cell suitable for use in a programmable logic array includes a non-volatile MOS transistor of a first conductivity type in series with a volatile MOS transistor of a second conductivity type. The non-volatile MOS transistor may be a floating gate transistor, such as a flash transistor, or may be another type of non-volatile transistor such as a floating charge-trapping SONOS, MONOS transistor, or a nano-crystal transistor. A volatile MOS transistor, an inverter, or a buffer may be driven by coupling its gate or input to the common connection between the non-volatile MOS transistor and the volatile MOS transistor.
US07838943B2
A semiconductor structure in which a planar semiconductor device and a horizontal carbon nanotube transistor have a shared gate and a method of fabricating the same are provided in the present application. The hybrid semiconductor structure includes at least one horizontal carbon nanotube transistor and at least one planar semiconductor device, in which the at least one horizontal carbon nanotube transistor and the at least one planar semiconductor device have a shared gate and the at least one horizontal carbon nanotube transistor is located above a gate of the at least one planar semiconductor device.
US07838942B2
A semiconductor structure that includes at least one logic device region and at least one static random access memory (SRAM) device region wherein each device region includes a double gated field effect transistor (FET) wherein the back gate of each of the FET devices is doped to a specific level so as to improve the performance of the FET devices within the different device regions is provided. In particular, the back gate within the SRAM device region is more heavily doped than the back gate within the logic device region. In order to control short channel effects, the FET device within the logic device region includes a doped channel, while the FET device within the SRAM device region does not. A none uniform lateral doping profile with a low net doping beneath the source/drain regions and a high net doping underneath the channel would provide additional SCE control for the logic device.
US07838940B2
A drain-extended field effect transistor includes a drain contact region and a drain extension region. The drain-extended field effect transistor further includes an electrostatic discharge protection region that is electrically connected between the drain contact region and the drain extension region to protect the drain-extended field effect transistor against electrostatic discharge. The electrostatic discharge protection region has a dopant concentration level such that in case of an electrostatic discharge event, a base push-out is prevented from reaching the drain contact region.
US07838935B2
Semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) structures, including large area SOI structures, are provided which have one or more regions composed of a layer (15) of a substantially single-crystal semiconductor (e.g., doped silicon) attached to a support substrate (20) composed of an oxide glass or an oxide glass-ceramic. The oxide glass or oxide glass-ceramic is preferably transparent and preferably has a strain point of less than 1000° C., a resistivity at 250° C. that is less than or equal to 1016 Ω-cm, and contains positive ions (e.g., alkali or alkaline-earth ions) which can move within the glass or glass-ceramic in response to an electric field at elevated temperatures (e.g., 300-1000° C.). The bond strength between the semiconductor layer (15) and the support substrate (20) is preferably at least 8 joules/meter2. The semiconductor layer (15) can include a hybrid region (16) in which the semiconductor material has reacted with oxygen ions originating from the glass or glass-ceramic. The support substrate (20) preferably includes a depletion region (23) which has a reduced concentration of the mobile positive ions.
US07838919B2
The capacitor structure includes a first electrode having a plurality of teeth protruding in a comb shape from an electrode base of a first electrode line and a second electrode having a plurality of teeth protruding in a comb shape from an electrode base of a second electrode line, both formed in a first wiring layer. The first and second electrodes face each other with their teeth interdigitated with each other via a dielectric. At least one of the teeth of the first electrode is electrically connected with a third electrode line formed in a second wiring layer.
US07838907B2
In a semiconductor device in which a diode and a high electron mobility transistor are incorporated in the same semiconductor chip, a compound semiconductor layer of the high electron mobility transistor is formed on a main surface (first main surface) of a semiconductor substrate of the diode, and an anode electrode of the diode is electrically connected to an anode region via a conductive material embedded in a via hole (hole) reaching a p+ region which is the anode region of the main surface of the semiconductor substrate from a main surface of the compound semiconductor layer.
US07838905B2
A semiconductor device having multiple lateral channels with contacts on opposing surfaces thereof and a method of forming the same. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a conductive substrate having a first contact covering a substantial portion of a bottom surface thereof. The semiconductor device also includes a first lateral channel above the conductive substrate and a second lateral channel above the first lateral channel. The semiconductor device further includes a second contact above the second lateral channel. The semiconductor device still further includes an interconnect that connects the first and second lateral channels to the conductive substrate operable to provide a low resistance coupling between the first contact and the first and second lateral channels.
US07838898B2
A light emitting diode (LED) module which includes a light emitting diode which includes a light emitting chip, a first electrode and a second electrode, the first and second electrodes being electrically connected to the light emitting chip. The light-emitting diode is supported on a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes a base substrate of an insulating resin material, a first extension electrode that is formed on the base substrate and is connected to the first electrode, and a second extension electrode that is formed on the base substrate and is connected to the second electrode.
US07838892B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip, comprising a plurality of semiconductor function regions (10) arranged on a common carrier layer (1, 7), at least one of the semiconductor function regions being a defect region (12), and a contact structure (18) for making electrical contact with the optoelectronic semiconductor chip. The contact structure is electrically conductively connected to at least one of the semiconductor function regions, and the contact structure is adapted to be electrically separated, or it is electrically separated, from the defect region.
US07838888B2
An SiC semiconductor device is provided, which comprises: a substrate made of silicon carbide and having a principal surface; a drift layer made of silicon carbide and disposed on the principal surface; an insulating layer disposed on the drift layer and including an opening; a Schottky electrode contacting with the drift layer through the opening; a termination structure disposed around an outer periphery of the opening; and second conductivity type layers disposed in a surface part of the drift layer, contacting the Schottky electrode, surrounded by the termination structure, and separated from one another. The second conductivity type layers include a center member and ring members. Each ring member surrounds the center member and is arranged substantially in a point symmetric manner with respect to the center member.
US07838883B2
An organic EL display device of active matrix type wherein insulated-gate field effect transistors formed on a single-crystal semiconductor substrate are overlaid with an organic EL layer; characterized in that the single-crystal semiconductor substrate (413 in FIG. 4) is held in a vacant space (414) which is defined by a bed plate (401) and a cover plate (405) formed of an insulating material, and a packing material (404) for bonding the bed and cover plates; and that the vacant space (414) is filled with an inert gas and a drying agent, whereby the organic EL layer is prevented from oxidizing.
US07838880B2
A flat panel display device that includes a clad unit that may prevent terminals of a pad unit from becoming corroded or damaged by an etching solution during etching. The flat panel display device may include a display unit, a pad unit which may include a plurality of terminals electrically connecting the display unit to external devices, and a clad unit which may cover at least side end portions of the terminals, in which the clad unit may be composed of an insulating material.
US07838879B2
An array substrate includes a substrate, a thin film transistor, a passivation layer, a pixel electrode and a storage capacitor. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a gate insulation layer formed on the substrate having the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulation layer and a data electrode formed on the semiconductor layer. The passivation layer is formed on the substrate having the data electrode and the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the data electrode through a contact hole formed through the passivation layer. The storage capacitor includes a first storage capacitor electrode that is spaced apart from the gate electrode of the thin film transistor and a second storage capacitor electrode that is formed on the gate insulation and including a same material as the pixel electrode.
US07838876B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip comprises a radiation passage area (2d), to which is applied a current spreading layer (4) containing particles (4b) of a wavelength conversion material. Furthermore, a method for producing such a semiconductor chip and also a device comprising such a semiconductor chip are specified.
US07838870B2
By introducing new concepts into a structure of a conventional organic semiconductor element and without using a conventional ultra thin film, an organic semiconductor element is provided which is more reliable and has higher yield. Further, efficiency is improved particularly in a photoelectronic device using an organic semiconductor. Between an anode and a cathode, there is provided an organic structure including alternately laminated organic thin film layer (functional organic thin film layer) realizing various functions by making an SCLC flow, and a conductive thin film layer (ohmic conductive thin film layer) imbued with a dark conductivity by doping it with an acceptor and a donor, or by the like method.
US07838856B2
A collimator that formed from a plurality of metal layers that are shaped by use of lithographic techniques in specific shapes. The formed metal layers are stacked and aligned together and then connected together to form the collimator.
US07838853B2
A patterned beam of radiation is projected onto a substrate. A reflective optical element is used to help form the radiation beam from radiation emitted from a plasma region of a plasma source. In the plasma source, a plasma current is generated in the plasma region. To reduce damage to the reflective optical element, a magnetic field is applied in the plasma region with at least a component directed along a direction of the plasma current. This axial magnetic field helps limit the collapse of the Z-pinch region of the plasma. By limiting the collapse, the number of fast ions emitted may be reduced.
US07838845B2
An ultraviolet irradiation water treatment apparatus includes a vessel having a cylindrical side portion, and plural rod-shaped ultraviolet lamps are disposed in parallel with a central axis of the side portion in the vessel. A water inlet pipe through which water flows into the vessel is provided in an outer wall of the side portion at a position in a tangential direction of an inner periphery of the side portion.
US07838842B2
An ion source is disclosed for providing a range of ion beams consisting of either ionized clusters, such as B2Hx+, B5Hx+, B10Hx+, B18Hx+, P4+ or As4+, or monomer ions, such as Ge+, In+, Sb+, B+, As+, and P+, to enable cluster implants and monomers implants into silicon substrates for the purpose of manufacturing CMOS devices, and to do so with high productivity. The range of ion beams is generated by a universal ion source in accordance with the present invention which is configured to operate in two discrete modes: an electron impact mode, which efficiently produces ionized clusters, and an arc discharge mode, which efficiently produces monomer ions.
US07838840B2
A charged particle beam apparatus for measuring and inspecting a sample having some parts in focus and other parts out of focus in an image due to the effect of the roughness of the sample surface is disclosed, in which in order to acquire a clear image of the whole or a predetermined area in the image, the focus adjustment conditions for each point in the area to be scanned by the charged particle beam are determined in advance, and the focus adjustment conditions thus determined are applied selectively to the patterns formed under the same fabrication conditions as the sample for which the focus adjustment conditions are determined.
US07838839B2
An electronic emission device including plural electron beams including a first structure having a plurality of emission sources of electron beam, hybridized with a second structure including a plurality of diaphragm openings.
US07838825B2
The present invention provides a novel approach for reliably and accurately detecting and identifying airborne particles. This is done by providing a novel system which incorporates electrostatic concentrators and/or ion mobility separators with Raman, IR, UV, XRF, LIF and LIBS spectroscopy and/or other spectroscopic techniques.
US07838823B1
An ion mobility spectrometer does not require a physical aperture grid to prevent premature ion detector response. The last electrodes adjacent to the ion collector (typically the last four or five) have an electrode pitch that is less than the width of the ion swarm and each of the adjacent electrodes is connected to a source of free charge, thereby providing a virtual aperture grid at the end of the drift region that shields the ion collector from the mirror current of the approaching ion swarm. The virtual aperture grid is less complex in assembly and function and is less sensitive to vibrations than the physical aperture grid.
US07838814B2
A system for recording an image as digital data comprises a photosensor array and a plenoptic set, including a main lens and a lenticular grating, to enable the photosensor array to obtain plenoptic image data from the sheet. A subset of the plenoptic image data is selected, such as according to a predetermined object distance, to obtain image data for a focused image. The subset of the plenoptic image can be selected after the scanning, so that prescanning of an unusual-shaped image-bearing object, such as an open book, is avoided.
US07838813B2
An improved laser light beam receiver rejects unwanted pulses of optical energy, such as strobe lights or other flashes of light, that can occur on a jobsite. The receiver analyzes a light beam reception by using a photosensitive light beam detector arrangement and a separate photoelectric detector serving as an interference signal detector. This additional detector is not easily able to detect the light beams needed in normal operation. On the other hand, the additional detector does detect mostly all interfering light flashes—caused by flash lamps and other similar devices—whose threshold limit is either at the same level or below that of the light beam detector arrangement. An evaluating circuit such as a microcontroller correlates the time of reception of the light beam detector arrangement and the interference signal detector in order to discard the result if the times of reception correspond to a major extent.
US07838810B2
A vacuum vessel is configured by hermetically joining a faceplate to one end of a side tube and a stem to the other end via a tubular member. A photocathode, a focusing electrode, dynodes, a drawing electrode, and anodes are arranged within the vacuum vessel. At the center of the stem an air discharging tube is connected. The air discharging tube includes an outer side tube and an inner side tube, which are disposed coaxially and connected to each other at the stem side. The outer side tube has high adhesiveness with the stem and the inner side tube is thin and has small stress when being cut, thereby enabling the joint with the vacuum vessel not to be damaged when the air discharging tube is sealed.
US07838809B2
Small-signal and other circuit design techniques realized by carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNFETs) to create analog electronics for analog signal handling, analog signal processing, and conversions between analog signals and digital signals. As the CNFETs exist and operate at nanoscale, they can be readily collocated or integrated into carbon nanotube sensing and transducing systems. The resulting collocation and integration may be at, or adequately near, nanoscale. One embodiment implements an analog differential amplifier having transistors which include carbon nanotubes, electrical contacts, and insulating material. The differential amplifier may be used in isolation or as an element of an operational amplifier. Negative feedback may be used to implement a wide range of analog signal processing functions, and to provide conversions among analog and digital signals. In some cases, an entire analog differential amplifier is implemented with a single carbon nanotube.
US07838806B2
An apparatus, system and method of a resonator device with an adjustable capacitor for allowing the resonance frequency (F) of the resonator device to continue to be matched to the Larmor frequency of the MRI system. The resonator device includes an inductor coil, a conductive member, a sleeve having first and second sockets that receive at least portions of the inductor coil and the conductive member as electrodes to provide a capacitor structure. Dielectric material can be positioned between at least the first and second sockets, where changes in the cross sectional area defined by the induction coil cause changes in the capacitance value (C) as one or more of the electrodes move within the socket. Changes in the inductance and the capacitance values allow for the resonance frequency (F) of the resonator device to continue to be matched to the Larmor frequency of the MRI system.
US07838805B2
Preform heating device able to perform a precise and strongly localised heating of the preforms before the blow moulding phase of the plastic bottle or container production process. This device has an innovative construction configuration, thus allowing high efficiency thanks to the significant reduction in the energy required to reach the project temperatures in the heating element in a very rapid way. The inductor does not heat the preform directly, but takes to the temperature set, through the concentration of the magnetic flow, generated by the passage of current, a conductor material of a particular form that, by irradiation and convection, in turn heats the PET.
US07838804B2
The present invention pertains to an electric heating element with at least one flat heating resistor to be arranged near a surface to be heated, and at least one electrode that serves to feed a current into the heating resistor and features at least two contact conductor strands that are, at least locally, connected to one another and to the heating resistor, at least in an elongated contacting region. The invention proposes that at least at one location along the electrode and/or the contacting region at which at least one of the contact conductor strands, at least locally, extends parallel to the direction of the electrode, and/or the contacting region, at least one additional contact conductor strand, at least locally, extends at an angle thereto.
US07838803B1
In order to provide an electric heat system that is quieter than those of the prior art, a switching circuit is incorporated into the controls for the heating system which provides for the heating elements of the electric heater to be kept at a more constant temperature than those of the prior art. The switching circuit regulates the output power to the degree desired while not inducing sharp changes in temperature of the coils of the electric heater and thus reduces the degree of rapid expansion and contraction of the coils and the enclosure for the heater. This in turn reduces the amount of mechanical noise produced by the electric heater while also reducing wear and tear on the heating element, the heater enclosure and objects near to the heater.
US07838802B2
The present invention provides a radiation apparatus with capability of preventing heat convection, which comprises a blackbody furnace having a cavity therein and an air pressure adjusting unit. The air pressure adjusting unit coupled to the blackbody furnace for adjusting the air pressure of the open end of the cavity according to the temperature difference between the cavity and the outside environment. By means of the design of the present invention, it is capable of preventing heat convection between the cavity and the outside environment by utilizing the air pressure adjusting unit for controlling the air pressure status around the open end of cavity such that the blackbody furnace is stable for services of calibrations and tests.
US07838797B2
The present invention is directed to a welding-type power source that includes a power source housing and an engine arranged in the power source housing to supply electrical power. An energy storage device is included that is in rechargeable association with the internal combustion engine and arranged to provide welding-type power for at least a given period.
US07838794B2
Laser-based methods and systems for removing one or more target link structures of a circuit fabricated on a substrate includes generating a pulsed laser output at a predetermined wavelength less than an absorption edge of the substrate are provided. The laser output includes at least one pulse having a pulse duration in the range of about 10 picoseconds to less than 1 nanosecond, the pulse duration being within a thermal laser processing range. The method also includes delivering and focusing the laser output onto the target link structure. The focused laser output has sufficient power density at a location within the target link structure to reduce the reflectivity of the target link structure and efficiently couple the focused laser output into the target link structure to remove the target link structure without damaging the substrate.
US07838792B2
A plasma processing apparatus is provided which processes a sample held on a sample table arranged in a process chamber in a vacuum container by using a plasma formed in the process chamber. The plasma processing apparatus comprises: paths arranged in the sample table in which a coolant is supplied and vaporized as it flows; a refrigeration cycle having the sample table, a compressor, a condenser and an expansion valve connected in that order and having the coolant circulate therein; coolant passages to cause the coolant that has passed through the expansion valve to branch and then merge with a coolant returning from the paths in the sample table toward the compressor; and a regulator to adjust an amount of coolant passing through the paths in the sample table and circulating in the refrigeration cycle and an amount of coolant branching and flowing through the coolant passages.
US07838787B2
A latching and electrical switch mechanism includes an insulated housing having a cavity therein with an opening thereto along with an electrically conductive ball disposed therein. The ball includes a stem with a smaller diameter than the ball and extends therefrom with a ball being sized for rotational and translational movement within the housing cavity. At least one groove is provided in the housing cavity and a coil spring is disposed in a groove for making electrical contact with the ball and retaining the ball for rotation within the cavity with the stem at selected conical angles with respect to the housing centerline. At least one electrical contact is disposed in the cavity at a spaced apart relationship with the coil spring for providing electrical connection with the ball upon translational movement of the ball within the cavity.
US07838784B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus has a housing. The housing has a first chamber to house circuit components, a second chamber parted from the first chamber, and a keyboard mounting portion to mount a keyboard. The keyboard mounting portion and second chamber are communicatively connected through a liquid inlet. A liquid outlet opening from the second chamber to the housing is formed below the liquid inlet. The liquid outlet has an opening area larger than the liquid inlet.
US07838783B2
A lever mechanism, particularly for a scale receiver of a scale that works on the principle of electromagnetic force compensation includes at least one lever which is connected to a stationary base body or an element connected to the base body. The at least one lever arm is connected to the base body or the element connected to the base body via an elastically deformable articulation which defines a swivel axis of the at least one lever. A load force (FL), which corresponds to the weight force (FG) or is derived therefrom, acts on a first lever arm of the at least one lever and generates on a second lever arm of the at least one lever a reaction three (FR). The elastically deformable articulation comprises two thin, elastically deformable bending areas, which connect the lever to the base body or to the element connected to the base body. Each bending area is bendable in a direction that is perpendicular to a longitudinal extension plane defined by the geometry of the respective bending area, for the generation of a swivel motion of the at least one lever. The longitudinal extension planes of the bending areas enclose an angle (α) that is not equal to zero, and a virtual swivel axis (D) of the at least one lever is defined by the two elastically deformable bending areas.
US07838768B2
An electrical device having a housing and moisture-sensitive electrical structural units situated in the housing, having a pressure compensation element situated in a housing part, which avoids, preferably prevents, the ingress of moisture, the pressure compensation element including a diaphragm which is permeable to gas, having an impact protection element situated in front of the diaphragm, which at least avoids spraying a liquid directly onto the diaphragm, wherein the impact protection element is in one piece part of the housing part.
US07838764B2
Alien crosstalk suppression cores are used to decrease alien crosstalk in communications channels. Electrical communication cables may be provided with alien crosstalk suppression cores. The alien crosstalk suppression cores, which may be ferrite suppression cores, are placed separately on some or all of the twisted pairs within a communication cable. The alien crosstalk suppression cores reduce ANEXT and AFEXT in high-frequency communications when communication cables are installed near one another. Alien crosstalk suppression cores may also be incorporated into other communication channel components, such as on a PCB within a communication jack.
US07838759B2
A method of forming a thermoelectric device may include forming a pattern of conductive traces, and forming an electrically insulating matrix between the conductive traces of the pattern of conductive traces. In addition, a plurality of thermoelectric elements may be electrically and mechanically coupled to the pattern of conductive traces so that each conductive trace of the pattern of conductive traces has one of the plurality of thermoelectric elements thereon. In addition, the plurality of thermoelectric elements may be free of the electrically insulating matrix. Related methods and structures are also discussed.
US07838758B2
A module for removable insertion into a body of an instrument having longitudinal strings, the body defining a transverse cavity extending from a lateral edge. The module includes a base configured to engage the cavity as the module travels along an axis of movement into the cavity. A first ball plunger contact is configured to conductively engage a corresponding first contact plate affixed to the body when the module reaches at a first point in movement along the axis and to remain engaged as the module moves into cavity along the axis of movement. A second ball plunger is configured to conductively engage a corresponding second contact plate affixed to the body when the module reaches a second point displaced inwardly from the first point in movement along the axis and to remain engaged as the module continues to move into cavity along the axis of movement.
US07838749B2
The present invention provides means and methods of transforming plant cells, seeds, tissues or whole plants in order to yield transformants capable of expressing all enzymes of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway that are essential for the targeted host plant to accumulate carotenes and/or xanthophylls of interest. The present invention also provides DNA molecules designed to be suitable for carrying out the method of the invention, and plasmids or vector systems comprising said molecules. Furthermore, the present invention provides transgenic plant cells, seeds, tissues and whole plants that display an improved nutritional quality and contain such DNA molecules and/or that have been generated by use of the methods of the present invention.
US07838747B1
A novel maize variety designated PHRAR and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHRAR with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHRAR through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHRAR or a trait conversion of PHRAR with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHRAR, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHRAR and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07838745B1
A novel maize variety designated PHHMH and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHHMH with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHHMH through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHHMH or a trait conversion of PHHMH with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHHMH, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHHMH and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07838744B1
A novel maize variety designated PHH58 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHH58 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHH58 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHH58 or a trait conversion of PHH58 with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHH58, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHH58 and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07838741B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS40001. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS40001, to the plants of soybean RJS40001 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS40001 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS40001 with another soybean plant, using RJS40001 as either the male or the female parent.
US07838730B2
The enzymes of the ACC synthase family are used in producing ethylene. Nucleotide and polypeptide sequences of ACC synthases are provided along with knockout plant cells having inhibition in expression and/or activity in an ACC synthase and knockout plants displaying a staygreen phenotype, a male sterility phenotype, or an inhibition in ethylene production. Methods for modulating staygreen potential in plants, methods for modulating sterility in plants, and methods for inhibiting ethylene production in plants are also provided.
US07838729B2
The invention provides for identification and use of certain chloroplast transit peptides for efficient processing and localization of dicamba monooxygenase (DMO) enzyme in transgenic plants. Methods for producing dicamba tolerant plants, methods for controlling weed growth, and methods for producing food, feed, and other products are also provided, as well as seed that confers tolerance to dicamba when it is applied pre- or post-emergence.
US07838726B2
The invention provides methods of introducing heterologous cells into fish. After introduction cells remain viable, and in some instances proliferate, for sufficient time to conduct a variety of analyses on the heterologous cells or the fish or both. Such methods are useful for screening potential drugs for toxicity toward introduced cells or for capacity to stimulate differentiation and/or proliferation of introduced cells. Such methods are also useful for diagnosing the presence of small quantities of cancerous cells or pathogens in patient tissue samples. Such methods are also useful for culturing cells for subsequent use in cell or tissue engineering.
US07838721B2
The present invention relates generally to an absorbent composite for an absorbent article, and more particularly to an absorbent composite comprising fibrous material and superabsorbent material having a Column Absorbency Under Load (CAUL) above 10 g/g. Such an absorbent composite provides a superabsorbent material having superior AUL and permeability, thereby providing improved absorption and rewetting properties. An absorbent article that contains such a composite provides improved ability to absorb and retain fluids, thus preventing excessive rewetting and leakage and making the article more comfortable to wear.
US07838700B2
A process for the recovery of substituted tartaric acid resolving agents from resolution process liquors comprising organic solvents, wherein the substituted tartaric acid derivatives are neutralised by adding a base, extracted into an aqueous phase and crystallized from the aqueous phase by addition of a mineral acid in the presence of an organic solvent.
US07838699B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of temporarily embolizing a blood vessel using a hydrolytically degradable crosslinked hydrogel as an embolus. In certain embodiments, the hydrolytically degradable crosslinked hydrogel substantially hydrolyzes only at about physiological pH. In certain embodiments of the method, the hydrolytically degradable crosslinked hydrogel is stable at low pH. In certain embodiments of the method, the hydrolytically degradable crosslinked hydrogel comprises a marker molecule, such as a dye, radiopaque, or an MRI-visible compound. It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
US07838696B2
A catalyst precursor composition and methods for making such catalyst precursor are disclosed. The catalyst precursor comprises at least a Promoter metal selected from Group VIII, Group IIB, Group IIA, Group IVA and combinations thereof, at least one Group VIB metal, at least one organic, oxygen-containing ligand, and a cellulose-containing material. The oxygen-containing ligand is an environmentally friendly/non-toxic material having an LD50 rate of >500 mg/Kg as single oral dose to rats. Catalysts prepared from the sulfidation of such catalyst precursors are used in the hydro processing of hydrocarbon feeds.
US07838688B2
The present invention relates to methods of making derivatized 3,4-alkylenedioxythiophene monomers and methods of using the 3,4-alkylenedioxythiophene monomers.
US07838684B2
The present invention relates to compositions of matter that are ionic liquids, the compositions comprising any of eleven cations combined with any of three fluorinated sulfonated anions. Compositions of the invention should be useful as solvents and, perhaps, as catalysts for many reactions, including aromatic electrophilic substitution, nitration, acylation, esterification, etherification, oligomerization, transesterification, isomerization and hydration.
US07838680B2
The present invention relates to a novel process, useful for preparing key intermediates of formula (I) in the synthesis of various compounds, among them compounds which are potent and specific antagonists of D3 receptors, in which X may be Nitrogen or Sulfur; Het means aryl or heteroaryl; each of which may be substituted by 1 to 4 groups J selected from: halogen, C1-C6 alkyl C1-C6 alkoxy, halo C1-C6 alkyl C2-C6 alkenyl, C2-C6 alkynyl, halo C1-C6 alkoxy, —C(O)R1, nitro, hydroxy, —NR2R3, cyano or a group Z; R1 is a C1-C4 alkyl —OR3 or —NR3R4; R2 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl; R3 is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl; R is H, C1-C6 alkyl aryl, benzyl; each of which may be substituted by 1 to 4 groups J; according to the following Scheme 1: in which step a means a reaction in basic conditions of compounds (IIA) with 3-thiosemicarbazide derivatives, followed by a treatment with an inorganic base and n-propane phosphonic cyclic anhydride and final pH adjustment with inorganic acids to give compounds of formula (II).
US07838678B2
A process is provided for preparing the HIV protease inhibitor atazanavir bisulfate wherein a solution of atazanavir free base is reacted with concentrated sulfuric acid in an amount to react with less than about 15% by weight of the free base, seeds of Form A crystals of atazanavir bisulfate are added to the reaction mixture, and as crystals of the bisulfate form, additional concentrated sulfuric acid is added in multiple stages at increasing rates according to a cubic equation, to effect formation of Form A crystals of atazanavir bisulfate.A process is also provided for preparing atazanavir bisulfate as Pattern C material. A novel form of atazanavir bisulfate is also provided which is Form E3 which is a highly crystalline triethanolate solvate of the bisulfate salt from ethanol.
US07838676B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the modulation of Beta-secretase enzyme activity and for the treatment of Beta-secretase mediated diseases, including Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related conditions. In one embodiment, the compounds have a general Formula I wherein R1, W, B, R3, R4, R5, i and j are defined herein. The invention also comprises pharmaceutical compositions including one or more compounds of Formula I, methods of use for these compounds, including treatment of AD and related diseases, by administering the compound(s) of Formula I, or compositions including them, to a subject. The invention also comprises further embodiments of Formulas II and III, intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the invention.
US07838675B2
A compound of formula (1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or in vivo hydrolysable ester thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these, all for use in the treatment of chemokine mediated diseases and disorders.
US07838665B2
The present invention features a chemoselective ligation reaction that can be carried out under physiological conditions. In general, the invention involves condensation of a specifically engineered phosphine, which can provide for formation of an amide bond between the two reactive partners resulting in a final product comprising a phosphine moiety, or which can be engineered to comprise a cleavable linker so that a substituent of the phosphine is transferred to the azide, releasing an oxidized phosphine byproduct and producing a native amide bond in the final product. The selectivity of the reaction and its compatibility with aqueous environments provides for its application in vivo (e.g., on the cell surface or intracellularly) and in vitro (e.g., synthesis of peptides and other polymers, production of modified (e.g., labeled) amino acids).
US07838664B2
In Caenorhabditis elegans, lin-4 and let-7 enclode 22- and 21-nucleotide RNAs, respectively, that function as key regulators of developmental timing. Because the appearance of these short RNAs is regulated during development, they are also referred to as “small temporal RNAs” (stRNAs). We show that many more 21- and 22-nt expressed RNAs, termed microRNAs, (miRNAs), exist in invertebrates and vertebrates, and that some of these novel RNAs, similar to let-7 stRAN, are also highly conserved. This suggests that sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms mediated by small RNAs are more general than previously appreciated.
US07838663B2
In Caenorhabditis elegans, lin-4 and let-7 enclode 22- and 21-nucleotide RNAs, respectively, that function as key regulators of developmental timing. Because the appearance of these short RNAs is regulated during development, they are also referred to as “small temporal RNAs” (stRNAs). We show that many more 21- and 22-nt expressed RNAs, termed microRNAs, (miRNAs), exist in invertebrates and vertebrates, and that some of these novel RNAs, similar to let-7 stRAN, are also highly conserved. This suggests that sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms mediated by small RNAs are more general than previously appreciated.
US07838660B2
In Caenorhabditis elegans, lin-4 and let-7 enclode 22- and 21-nucleotide RNAs, respectively, that function as key regulators of developmental timing. Because the appearance of these short RNAs is regulated during development, they are also referred to as “small temporal RNAs” (stRNAs). We show that many more 21- and 22-nt expressed RNAs, termed microRNAs, (miRNAs), exist in invertebrates and vertebrates, and that some of these novel RNAs, similar to let-7 stRAN, are also highly conserved. This suggests that sequence-specific post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms mediated by small RNAs are more general than previously appreciated.
US07838653B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for regulating expression of heterologous nucleotide sequences in a plant. Compositions are novel nucleotide sequences for a stress-induced promoter endogenously associated with the rye CBF31 coding region. A method for expressing a heterologous nucleotide sequence in a plant or plant cell using the regulatory sequences disclosed herein is provided. The method comprises transforming a plant cell to comprise a heterologous nucleotide sequence operably linked to a regulatory sequence of the present invention and optionally regenerating a stably transformed plant from the transformed plant cell.
US07838649B2
The invention generally relates to polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) polyketide synthase (PKS) systems, to homologues thereof, to isolated nucleic acid molecules and recombinant nucleic acid molecules encoding biologically active domains of such a PUFA PKS system, to genetically modified organisms comprising PUFA PKS systems, to methods of making and using such systems for the production of bioactive molecules of interest, and to novel methods for identifying new bacterial and non-bacterial microorganisms having such a PUFA PKS system.
US07838647B2
Blood plasma of pregnant women contains fetal and (generally>90%) maternal circulatory extracellular DNA. Most of said fetal DNA contains .Itoreq.500 base pairs, said maternal DNA having a greater size. Separation of circulatory extracellular DNA of .Itoreq.500 base pairs results in separation of fetal from maternal DNA. A fraction of a blood plasma or serum sample of a pregnant woman containing, due to size separation (e.g. by chromatography, density gradient centrifugation or nanotechnological methods), extracellular DNA substantially comprising .Itoreq.500 base pairs is useful for non-invasive detection of fetal genetic traits (including the fetal RhD gene in pregnancies at risk for HDN; fetal Y chromosome-specific sequences in pregnancies at risk for X chromosome-linked disorders; chromosomal aberrations; hereditary Mendelian genetic disorders and corresponding genetic markers; and traits decisive for paternity determination) by e.g. PCR, ligand chain reaction or probe hybridization techniques, or nucleic acid arrays.
US07838645B2
The present invention relates to a new molecular pathway in which activation of the receptor-interacting protein (RIP, a serine-threonine kinase) and Jun N-terminal kinase induce cell death with the morphology of autophagy. Further, autophagic death is induced by caspase 8 inhibition and expression of the mammalian genes ATG7 and beclin.
US07838644B2
A new method is described for the oversulfation of epiK-N sulfate to obtain an epiK5-amine-O-oversulfate with very high sulfation degree which, by subsequent N-sulfation, provides new epiK5-N,O-oversulfate-derivatives with a sulfation degree of at least 4, basically free of activity on the coagulation parameters and useful in the cosmetic or pharmaceutical field. Also described are new low molecular weight epiK5-N-sulfates useful as intermediates in the preparation of the corresponding LMW-epiK5-N,O-oversulfate-derivatives.
US07838642B2
The present invention discloses a process for the preparation of sucralose by the deacylation of trichlorosucrose-6-ethyl ester, wherein the deacylation reaction is performed in an alcohol solvent in the presence of organic base catalyst, so as to obtain sucralose.
US07838640B2
A cell extract for cell-free protein synthesis is produced by removing substances, which bind to an affinity support to be used in purification or interaction analysis, from a cell extract having protein synthetic activity. Then, a target protein is synthesized by using the cell extract for cell-free protein synthesis. The synthesized target protein can be purified by using the affinity support and used in interaction analysis.
US07838636B1
The present invention relates to novel human secreted proteins and isolated nucleic acids containing the coding regions of the genes encoding such proteins. Also provided are vectors, host cells, antibodies, and recombinant methods for producing human secreted proteins. The invention further relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods useful for diagnosing and treating diseases, disorders, and/or conditions related to these novel human secreted proteins.
US07838635B2
CD16A binding proteins useful for the reduction of a deleterious immune response are described. In one aspect, humanized anti-cd16A antibodies, optionally lacking effector function, are used for the treatment of immune disorders such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
US07838632B2
The invention provides isolated cellulose synthase nucleic acids and their encoded proteins. The present invention provides methods and compositions relating to altering cellulose synthase levels in plants. The invention further provides recombinant expression cassettes, host cells, and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acids.
US07838627B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds and polymers, compositions comprising novel compounds or polymers, and electronic devices comprising at least one layer containing the compound or polymer.
US07838625B2
The invention relates to novel dendritic polymers having biphosphonic terminations, to derivatives thereof, to a method for preparing them and to their uses.
US07838622B2
This invention is to provide a dope that has excellent formability and can be formed into a fiber, a film, pulp-shaped particles and the like by a wet method. This invention is also to provide a process for the production of a fiber excellent in heat resistance, strength and elastic modulus. This invention provides a dope and a process for the production of a fiber from the dope, the dope including a polyamide and a basic solvent, the polyamide containing a recurring unit of the following formula (I), wherein Ar1 represents at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of and having an inherent viscosity of 1.0 or more, the dope has a polyamide concentration of over 10% by weight but not more than 25% by weight and exhibits optical anisotropy at 50° C.
US07838617B2
Commercial spandex can be prepared with greater efficiency, improved consistency and at lower costs from a high-solids content polyurethaneurea polymer solution. The polyurethaneurea is prepared using a combination of 4,4′-MDI and 2,4′-MDI, and an amount of chain extenders and chain terminators such that the polymer solution, prior to spinning, is highly soluble and has an appropriate pre-spun IV and primary amine content. Such spandex fibers, and the fabrics and garments comprising them, have good dyeability and colorfastness, as well as other desirable characteristics.
US07838611B2
An object of the present invention relates to provide an ethylene polymer having excellent mechanical strength and excellent molding processability in a wide molding processing temperature range. The invention relates to use an ethylene polymer comprising a repeating unit derived from ethylene, or a repeating unit derived from ethylene and a repeating unit derived from a C3-8 α-olefin, the ethylene polymer being satisfied with the following (A) to (F). (A) Density (d (kg/m3)) is from 910 to 970, (B) MFR (g/10 min)) is from 0.01 to 50, (C) terminal vinyl number is 0.2 or less per 1,000 carbon atoms, (D) melt strength (MS160 (mN)) measured at 160° C. and MFR are satisfied with MS160>90−130×log(MFR), (E) melt strength (MS190 (mN)) measured at 190° C. and MS160 are satisfied with MS160/MS190<1.8, and (F) fluidized activation energy (Ea (kJ/mol)) and d are satisfied with 127−0.107d
US07838595B2
The present invention is directed to alkanal derivatives of water-soluble polymers such as poly(ethylene glycol), their corresponding hydrates and acetals, and to methods for preparing and using such polymer alkanals. The polymer alkanals of the invention are prepared in high purity and exhibit storage stability.
