US07971265B2
A content management system constructed by a plurality of storage apparatuses that can communicate with one another. A 1st storage apparatus, which is one of the storage apparatuses, stores therein, in correspondence, a content and copy destination information and sends the content and the copy destination information therefrom to a 2nd storage apparatus, which is another one of the storage apparatuses. Yet another one of the storage apparatuses that is indicated by the copy destination information stores therein, in correspondence, the content and copy source information and, after the 1st storage apparatus has sent the content and the copy destination information to the 2nd storage apparatus, rewrite the copy source information such that the copy source information indicates the 2nd storage apparatus.
US07971257B2
A method/system/computer program for obtaining the network origin of a downloaded entity of interest (e.g. a threat or malicious software). The method includes recording the network locations of at least some files downloaded to a processing system and recording the physical locations of the at least some files stored in one or more storage devices of the processing system. Then, identifying an entity of interest in the processing system and searching the recorded network locations and the recorded physical locations for the network location and the physical location of the entity of interest. Then, if the network location and the physical location of the entity of interest is identified, transmitting the network location and the physical location of the entity of interest to a remote processing system.
US07971255B1
A system for detecting and halting execution of malicious code includes a kernel-based system call interposition mechanism and a libc function interception mechanism. The kernel-based system call interposition mechanism detects a system call request from an application, determines a memory region from which the system call request emanates, and halts execution of the code responsible for the call request if the memory region from which the system call request emanates is a data memory region. The libc function interception mechanism maintains an alternative wrapper function for each of the relevant standard libc routines, intercepts a call from an application to one or more libc routines and redirects the call into the corresponding alternative wrapper function.
US07971252B2
In one aspect, a method to generate an attack graph includes determining if a potential node provides a first precondition equivalent to one of preconditions provided by a group of preexisting nodes on the attack graph. The group of preexisting nodes includes a first state node, a first vulnerability instance node, a first prerequisite node, and a second state node. The method also includes, if the first precondition is equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, coupling a current node to a preexisting node providing the precondition equivalent to the first precondition using a first edge and if the first precondition is not equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, generating the potential node as a new node on the attack graph and coupling the new node to the current node using a second edge.
US07971249B2
Systems and methods for managing pestware processes on a protected computer are described. In one implementation, a reference point in the executable memory that is associated with a process running in the executable memory is located. A first and second sets of information from corresponding first and second portions of the executable memory are then retrieved. The first and second portions of the executable memory are separated by a defined offset, and each of the first and second portions of the executable memory are offset from the reference point. The process is identifiable as a particular type of pestware when the first and second sets of information each include information previously found to be separated by the defined offset in other processes that are of the particular type of pestware. In some variations, the reference point is a starting address and/or an API implementation in the process.
US07971247B2
Methods and apparatus for use with an integrated circuit device of a processing device of a network node of a digital networking system, configured to monitor one or more control messages received at the processing device from each of a plurality of CPE devices, and limiting the one or more control messages to one or more specified rates for a specified duration. The integrated circuit device is further configured to provide one or more data channels to the plurality of CPE devices from the processing device in response to the one or more control messages processed at the processing device.
US07971245B2
A method and system to verify active content in a server system include receiving a communication (e.g., an e-mail message or an e-commerce listing) that includes active content to be made accessible by the server system. A reference (e.g., a URL) within the active content is identified, the reference pointing to further data that is not included within the communication. This further data is to be retrieved when the active content is rendered. The reference is stored at the server system, and the further data, to which the reference points, is repetitively and periodically retrieved. Subsequent to each retrieval of the further data, a determination is made as to whether the further data is malicious.
US07971232B2
A system is disclosed for centralized management of access permissions to specific devices on client terminals using a group policy framework. The system identifies a unique device identifier for a specific device, and allows policy to be set for the specific device based on identifying the specific device by its unique device identifier.
US07971231B2
The present invention discloses a solution for managing policy artifacts using a configuration management database (CMDB). Policies can be associated with a number of information technology resources, such as servers, businesses applications and the like. The solution permits automatic tagging of the policies (auto-discovery) as they enter the CMDB. For example, when a policy is added, it can be compared against a set of tagging rules. Multiple rules can match a new policy, which results in multiple tags being added for the policy. The policy specific tags can be optionally indexed for faster searching. Once indexed, the CMDB can support policy and policy tag based queries. In one embodiment, policy artifacts can be manipulated within a CMDB tool in a manner consistent with how the CMDB tool handles configuration items (CIs).
US07971226B2
An interactive computer game system (10) for one or more players includes a game server (12) that generates a first game piece (19A) controlled by a first player, and a second game piece (19B). The first game piece (19A) has a first adjustable battle parameter that is adjustable by the first player and a first fixed battle parameter that is not adjustable by the first player. The second game piece (19B) can have a second adjustable battle parameter that is adjustable by the second player and a second fixed battle parameter that is not adjustable by the second player. The game pieces (19A, 19B) engage in a battle having an outcome determined by an algorithm that is based at least partly upon one or more of the adjustable battle parameters and/or one or more of the fixed battle parameters. In another embodiment, the game server (12) generates a pool of game pieces from which the players select activated first game pieces and second game pieces, respectively. The game pieces of each player engage in battles until only one player has at least one activated game piece remaining, and is thereby determined the winning player.
US07971221B2
An overhead video system for an aircraft is disclosed. The overhead video system comprises a wireless overhead video unit; and at least one mounting rail detachably coupled to the wireless overhead video unit. The mounting rail provides structural support and electrical power to the wireless overhead video unit. A system in one embodiment may use mounting rails that double as power rails supplying power to the wireless overhead video unit. Video control and content streaming is accomplished over a wireless link. The power rail control may be accomplished remotely via a standard or solid state relay. Normal rail power for the rail mounted video system may come from the utility bus.
US07971220B2
A system, method, computer program product, and apparatus for automatically ensuring consistency between program and system information protocol (PSIP) tables and program specific information (PSI) tables in a digital television (DTV) stream, for example, in ATSC DTV stream. Encoders generate MPEG streams including PSI tables. A PSIP generator generates PSIP information from program information. A remultiplexer combines the MPEG information and the PSIP information while resolving any conflicts between the PSI tables and the PSIP tables based on a set of rules. The transport stream output by the remultiplexer includes consistent information in both the PSI tables and the PSIP tables.
US07971219B2
The invention relates to a display control apparatus and method that make it possible to easily recognize detailed information relating to an overlap time slot in an apparatus capable of setting recording reservations for programs whose broadcast time slots overlap with each other. Program-11 that will be broadcast from 11 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. on channel-123 and program-14 that will be broadcast from 11:40 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. on channel-124 have an overlap broadcast time of 11:40 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Of a block of program-11, a portion of the overlap time slot is given a color (hatched) meaning that an action corresponding to a set reservation will be executed in spite of the overlap in broadcast time with the other program. Of a block of program-14, a portion of the overlap time slot is given a color (dotted) meaning that an action corresponding to a set reservation will not be executed because of the overlap in broadcast time with the other program. The invention can be applied to equipment for processing TV programs such as STBs.
US07971212B2
A disk stopper (101) for regulating a loading position of the disk stopper, a stopper regulating member (102) that regulates a movable range of the disk stopper (101), and a link member (103) movable in association with the stopper regulating member (102), and a cam slider (30) engageable with the link member (103) are provided. When a small-diameter disk is inserted, the first engaging portion of the link member (103) and the first engaging portion of the cam slide (30) engage each other. When a large-diameter disk is inserted, the second engaging portion of the link member (103) and the second engaging portion of the cam slide (30) engage each other. Based on the engaging condition of the link member (103) and the cam slider (30), the stopper regulating member (102) switches the loading position of the disk medium regulated by the disk stopper (101).
US07971187B2
Described are software stacks for accepting and implementing portable packages containing encodings of processes. The packages are portable and distinct from the technology stacks. The packages may be in the form of declarative code for configuring the technology stacks and can be plugged into the technology stacks to allow the technology stack to play the packages, thereby automating the processes encoded by the packages. The technology stacks have components that are declaratively configurable such that they can provide their functionality autonomously and yet can also, as a unit, in performing their respective functions, cooperatively perform the processes encoded by the packages.
US07971183B2
A design tool assists with the conversion of legacy applications to web services. The design tool provides a flexible and visual design environment through which web services are defined, created, and deployed for controlling a legacy application. As a result, the legacy applications may be made accessible through web services to remote callers consonant with the wide spread adoption of web services. An organization may thereby extend the life-cycle of their legacy applications and continue to realize the benefit of substantial investment in the applications.
US07971181B2
Project information relating to a project is received, the project information identifying a project type, an authorized write entity, and an authorized approval entity, and a valid metric is selected based at least on the project type, the valid metric measuring an aspect of performance of the project. Base measures corresponding to the valid metric are received from the authorized write entity, the base measures further including periodic base measures corresponding to at least one metric period, and aperiodic base measures corresponding to an aperiodic incident, and the valid metric is calculated based on the base measures. The base measures are sorted into excluded base measures and non-excluded base measures, organizational baseline data is imported, and an organizational indicator is calculated based on the non-excluded base measures and the organizational baseline data.
US07971172B1
Some embodiments provide a reconfigurable IC that implements a design that is designed at a particular design clock rate. The reconfigurable IC includes reconfigurable circuits for performing operations on a set of inputs in the particular design. The IC further includes routing circuits for routing signals to and from the logic circuits to allow the logic circuits to perform the operations. The reconfigurable IC implements the design by having reconfigurable circuits that reconfigure at a rate faster than the design clock rate. For at least one operation which is defined at the design clock rate, the reconfigurable IC replicates the operation set in at least two reconfiguration cycles to reduce consumption of routing circuits.
US07971164B2
A system, method and program product are described in which schematics in a library that a user has tagged are read as ready for layout. The difficulty of each layout is assessed based on statistics indicative of the complexity of the schematic. The statistics may regard the number of connections, pins, devices, and other schematic information. The information is used to calculate the total amount of effort required to complete the design and generate a report.
US07971162B2
A method to assess spare latch placement in a macro, the method comprises steps of: determining a location for each spare latch in the macro; examining local clock buffers associated with the macro to locate any local clock buffers without a spare latch directly attached to clock nets driven by said local clock buffer; measuring a distance between each of the local clock buffers without spare latches and a closest spare latch; running statistics for the local clock buffers from the measuring step; and locating macros with inadequate spare latch placement using the statistics.
US07971151B2
A common process control graphical user interface plant operators, plant maintenance personnel, and management is disclosed which provides a real-time interface to both the process and the plant. The common interface is modular in design and is capable of supporting various specializations for each user type. Operator consoles are dedicated to each section of the plant and include additional functions such as maintenance, configuration, simulation and supervisory information. The unified for common graphical interface replaces control room displays filled with single case analog controllers, meters, and digital indicators. The common interface addresses the functions that previously were provided by the panel motor start/stop buttons and status indications, chart recorders, annunciator panels and subsystem interfaces. From a console, operators manage alarms, adjust the process by entering new setpoints or other parameters, “zoom in” on particular portions of the process for details, and utilize other specialized applications to work with their batch, advanced control, or business applications. The interface will run in both dedicated and non-dedicated modes, will run as a rich client or as part of a browser style interface utilizing web services and will run on workstations, laptops, tablet PC's, handhelds, and smart phones.
US07971145B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of adapting software component interfaces by providing a user interface for specifying a provided interface, a required interface and interface operators. In another embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of adapting interfaces comprising receiving an adapter specification, receiving a plurality of communication actions from a first software component, transforming one or more of the communication actions in accordance with predefined interface operations; and sending transformed communication actions to a second software component.
US07971140B2
The present invention is a system and method for generating quotations from a reference document on a touch sensitive display device or other handheld device, including the following steps: (a) receiving a first input from a user designating a first point in a captured image of the reference document to define a first corner of a crop rectangle; (b) receiving a second input from the user designating a second point in the captured image to define a second corner of the crop rectangle, wherein the first input is released before the second input is initiated; (c) cropping the captured image from the first point to the second point of the crop rectangle when the second input is released to generate an image quotation; and (f) generating a quotation data object comprising the image quotation and a bibliographical reference to a referenced section of the reference document which contains the image quotation. After the image quotation has been cropped, it may be annotated using a similar two-touch method. The present invention may be used in smart phones such as Apple iPhones®, or industrial hand-held devices that inspectors may use to quote reference documents, and in other purposes.
US07971122B2
Apparatus and method of generating cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs) for a message with N data blocks. The method includes calculating a partial CRC for an out of order data block and storing the result, generating, using a division operation, a CRC remainder multiplier associated with the out of order data block and storing the result, repeating the calculating and generating steps until all N data blocks for the message are received; and combining the results of the calculating step and the generating step.
US07971121B1
A communications system (100) includes a packet switching network (130) configured to transfer a stream of information packets from a source (110) to a destination (120). The communications system (100) also includes at least one loss concealment processor (140) configured to perform packet loss concealment on the stream of information packets as the stream passes through an intermediate point within the packet switching network (130).
US07971114B2
A method for testing a random-access memory (RAM) includes six tests. The first test is performed by performing a write and read test to storage locations of the RAM. The second test is performed by testing walking 1's across each data bus of the RAM. The third test is performed by testing walking 0's across the data bus of the RAM. The fourth test is performed by testing walking 1's across each address bus of the RAM. The fifth test is performed by testing walking 0's across the address bus bit of the RAM. The sixth test is performed by performing a write and read test to random blocks in the storage locations of the RAM.
US07971112B2
A method of an apparatus for diagnosing a memory including a storing module for storing diagnosis information relating to memory errors in a memory to be diagnosed, the apparatus capable of detecting memory errors, the method includes: testing the memory and detecting a memory error for each of a plurality of areas of the memory; dividing at least one of the areas into a plurality of sub-areas upon detection of a memory error in the at least one of the areas; testing the sub-areas and detecting a memory error for each of the plurality of the sub-areas; counting the number of sub-areas where a memory error is detected; and storing information of the number of the sub-areas where a memory error is detected together with information of the at least one of the areas containing the sub-areas into the storing module.
US07971111B1
A controller for scan testing a memory. The controller includes a control state machine for controlling the scan process, a test sequence stored in a random access memory used by the control state machine for controlling an actual memory test, a pattern generation data unit responsive to the control state machine for generating a test pattern that is written to and read from a memory under test, a configuration register read by the control state machine for configuring the controller and a fault location register written to by the control state machine for storing locations of defects in the memory. The controller is used to auto scan a memory in real time, interleaved with other processes accessing the memory. The controller has several modes of operation including operating in a periodic burst mode to conserve power and in a background mode so as not to interfere with other processes accessing the scanned memory.
US07971107B2
A calculating apparatus that calculates a characteristic of a target signal, including an input section that receives a bit error or a sampling timing, and a calculating section that calculates sampling timings over a range in which the bit error rate is less than a designated value or a bit error rate at a designated sampling timing, by using a relational expression between the sampling timing and the bit error rate. A transmission model for transmitting a signal having jitter includes a random component and a deterministic component having a prescribed probability density distribution. The relational expression is achieved by substituting, as parameters, a standard deviation of a random component and a peak-to-peak value of a deterministic component in a jitter of the target signal.
US07971105B2
A device that includes an error detection circuit that is configured to detect a timing error resulting from a fast voltage drop by comparing a signal from a critical path to a signal from a replica path; and a clock signal provider that is adapted to receive a clock signal and to delay, by a fraction of the clock cycle and in response to a detection of the timing error, the clock signal to provide a delayed clock signal that is provided to a clocked circuit that is coupled to the critical path; and a controller that is configured determine a level of a supply voltage in response to a capability of the error detection circuit and the clock signal provider to manage fast voltage drops; wherein the supply voltage is provided to at least one component of the critical path.
US07971104B2
Apparatus and methods for converting a processor, having a plurality of states and being operative to execute software operations stored in a memory device, into a self-stabilizing processor, comprising providing self-stabilizing watchdog hardware that, with given timing, interacts with the processor, in accordance with an interaction sequence that includes at least one trigger that sets the processor to a known state from among a set of at least one known states. Also described are applications for stabilization of operating systems and other hardware or software configurations, apparatus and methods for ensuring eventual invariance of software executed by a processor, and apparatus and methods for enforcing fixed software configurations.
US07971103B2
An event log system for capturing event information associated with error events occurring within a computer system. The event log system includes an event log displaying error messages associated with the error events captured within the computer system, and displaying inline error resolution information within each error message corresponding to each respective error event. User community information such as links to wiki topics and forum threads are contextually provided for and inline with individual error log entries. Also, action buttons to help the user resolve errors and problems are also contextually provided, as are surfaced links to domain experts within the user community, such as online chat buttons to them.
US07971102B2
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for preemptive thermal management for a computing system based on cache performance, the computing system having a processor, cached computer memory operatively coupled to the processor, and a processor cache operatively coupled to the processor, the processor cache capable of storing a subset of memory contents of the cached computer memory, that include: attempting, by the processor, to retrieve portions of the memory contents of the cached computer memory from the processor cache, resulting in cache misses for the processor cache; tracking, by the processor, cache miss statistics for the processor cache in the computing system, the cache miss statistics describing the cache misses for the processor cache; and administering a thermal management device for the computing system in dependence upon the cache miss statistics, the thermal management device operatively coupled to the processor and capable of managing temperature for the computing system.
US07971099B2
A system and method are provided for improving recovery times in fallover conditions in a multinode data processing system by sending notification of the failure of a server node, which is acting as server for a client application running on a client node, to the client application. In the present invention, this notification is provided by the fallover node acting as backup for the server node. When a client application receives no response from a server for a long time, it assumes that the server has failed and initiates reconnection. The present invention speeds-up the reconnect initiated by the client application by having system level software proactively notify the client application about the server failure. This results in faster recovery for client applications.
US07971092B2
Methods and devices for reading data from a plurality of storage devices belonging to a plurality of spans and checking consistency (e.g., XOR parity check) of data belonging to each span independently of another span in one embodiment. Methods and devices for reading data from a plurality of stripes and checking consistency of the data from the plurality of stripes in another embodiment.
US07971084B2
In one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises at least one processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor and comprising logic instructions encoded in the computer readable medium, wherein the instructions, when executed in a processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations comprising initializing a direct memory access profiler in an electronic system, wherein the direct memory access is coupled to a policy manager in the electronic system, measuring at least one memory consumption characteristic of the electronic system, communicating the at least one memory consumption characteristic to a policy manager of the electronic system, and using the at least one memory consumption characteristic to adjust a power state of the electronic system.
US07971067B2
The present invention discloses a method for controlling the smart electric appliance by connecting a key device to a smart electric appliance and performing control operations on the smart electric appliance in accordance with the control settings for the key device after positively authenticating the internal device descriptor of the key device. Also, the present invention discloses a system according to the method mentioned above, including a smart electric appliance comprising a USB interface module, an authentication module, an execution module and a general control module, and a key device comprising a smart storage module. By introducing the key device, authenticating the key device before allowance of use of the smart electric appliance, and setting different control operation levels for different users of the smart electric appliance, it becomes very secure to use the smart electric appliance, while it becomes more flexible to use the same.
US07971062B1
A hand-held token for secure conveyance of encryption keys includes memory for holding a media key and at least one device key. Control logic reads the media key from memory, encrypts the media key based on the device key, and transmits the encrypted media key to a data storage device. The data storage device decrypts the encrypted media key using its own device key, which may have previously been downloaded from a token.
US07971058B2
Plaintext/cyphertext pairs are generated for use in authenticating a device. The device performs a secure authentication algorithm on a secure authentication image file and a received plaintext challenge, and outputs a cyphertext response. If the cyphertext response matches a pre-stored cyphertext string associated with the plaintext challenge, then the device is authenticated. A master processor manages the generation of the plaintext/cyphertext pairs. Plaintext challenges are generated in the master processor using a binary counter and an n-bit key. Each plaintext challenge is transmitted to a first processor and a second processor. The first processor executes the secure authentication algorithm on each plaintext challenge and outputs a cyphertext response associated with each plaintext challenge. The second processor executes the secure authentication algorithm on each plaintext challenge and outputs a second cyphertext response associated with each plaintext challenge. The master processor receives the first and second cyphertext responses for each plaintext challenge. If the first cyphertext response matches the second cyphertext response, then the master processor stores each plaintext challenge and the associated cyphertext response as a vector pair in a database.
US07971057B2
Executing a monitor on a platform, the monitor capable of providing exclusive, secure access to an audio I/O device of the platform, executing a first partition on the platform, providing an audio device model in the first partition by directly mapping the audio I/O device from the monitor to the first partition for applications executing in the first partition, and providing exclusive, secure access to the audio I/O device to a program performing an audio function in a secure mode in the first partition.
US07971055B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for making efficient trust management decisions. A trust management engine is provided that processes requests for system resources, authorizations or certificates, and the identity of one or more root authorities that are ultimately responsible for granting or denying the requests. To determine whether a request should be granted, the trust management engine identifies a set principals from whom authorization may flow, and interprets each of the certificates as a function of the state of one or more of the principals. The processing logic iteratively evaluates the functions represented by the certificates, updates the states of the principals, and repeats this process until a reliable determination can be made as to whether the request should be granted or denied. The certificates may be evaluated until the state of the root authority indicates that the request should be granted, or until further evaluation of the certificates is ineffective in changing the state of the principals.
US07971054B1
A digital-content-analysis system includes a network services component adapted to receive a remote service request, a stream monitor adapted to form digital content into at least one data stream, and a stream analyzer interoperably coupled to the network services component and the stream monitor and adapted to receive and analyze the at least one data stream. The stream analyzer includes a lexical analyzer adapted to separate the at least one data stream into a plurality of tokens, a classifier adapted to classify the at least one data stream into at least one category by processing at least a subset of the plurality of tokens and computing a classification rating for at least one category, and a set of parameters. At least a subset of the parameters contains information developed from previous operation of the stream analyzer.
US07971050B2
A method of using BIOS information can include exporting first BIOS information from a first information handling system. The method can further include initiating a boot sequence for the second information handling system and importing second BIOS information into a second information handling system after initiating the boot sequence and before initiating an operating system, wherein the second BIOS information is associated with the first BIOS information. The method can further include initiating an operating system of the second information handling system after importing the second BIOS information. The first and second BIOS information may be the same, or the second BIOS information may be derived from the first BIOS information. The first and second information handling systems may be the same or different. In one embodiment, the first BIOS information can be translated into a text file for editing before using the second BIOS information during a boot sequence.
US07971046B2
A method of initializing a booting procedure of a mobile platform having a certain NAND flash memory. The method comprises sending (304) an initial read command sequence to the NAND flash memory and detecting (305) if the NAND flash memory is responsive to the read command sequence. If the NAND flash memory is responsive to the read command sequence the mobile platform will be configured (306) to interface with the NAND flash memory. If the NAND flash memory is not responsive to the initial read command sequence, the method further comprises sending (307) another read command sequence to the NAND flash memory. The another read command sequence is associated with the initially sent read command sequence. Next, it is detected (308) if the NAND flash memory is responsive to the another read command sequence, and if so the mobile platform will be configured (309) to interface with the NAND flash memory.
US07971036B2
A multi-node video signal processor (VSPN) is describes that tightly couples multiple multi-cycle state machines (hardware assist units) to each processor and each memory in each node of an N node scalable array processor. VSPN memory hardware assist instructions are used to initiate multi-cycle state machine functions, to pass parameters to the multi-cycle state machines, to fetch operands from a node's memory, and to control the transfer of results from the multi-cycle state machines.
US07971035B2
A data processing system having a memory for storing instructions and several central processing units for executing instructions, each central processing unit includes an adaptive power supply which provides, among other data, temperature information. Circuitry is provided that receives the temperature information from the many central processing units, selects a central processing unit which has the lowest temperature and which is available to execute instructions and dispatches instructions to the selected central processing from the memory.
US07971025B2
Physical storage space in a storage system is not allocated to a segment of a targeted volume until the segment of the volume is first targeted for storing write data. When write data is received, the storage system determines whether the targeted volume is designated for storing a first data type that is accessed frequently by I/O operations or designated for storing a second data type that is accessed less frequently than the first data type. Physical storage space for storing the write data is allocated from a first logical partition of the physical storage designated for storing the first data type when the targeted volume is of the first data type and from a second logical partition of the physical storage designated for storing the second data type when the targeted volume is of the second data type. Allocation of frequently accessed data is controlled and performance bottlenecking avoided.
US07971016B2
A ROM is divided into a first area and a second area. A program is stored in the second area and a jump command to the stored program is stored in a specific address of the second area. A call command for the specific address of the second area is stored in the first area.
US07971011B2
A remote copy method for copying data within a first storage apparatus to a second storage apparatus via a network, includes transmitting data from the first storage apparatus in units of first buffer sets each formed by a plurality of first recording exclusive buffers within the first storage apparatus, and receiving the data by the second storage apparatus in units of second buffer sets each formed by a plurality of second recording exclusive buffers within the second storage apparatus, so as to maintain a sequence guarantee with respect to the data that is copied.
US07971007B2
A method for accessing a downgrade memory and a downgrade memory apparatus are provided. The downgrade memory apparatus comprises at least one management unit and a controller. The management unit comprises a plurality of blocks, each block having a plurality of pages, and each page having a plurality of sectors, the downgrade memory having a plurality of non-accessible sectors. The controller is configured to parse a write command corresponding to a special block, to select at least one accessible sector according to a status information of the special block and to program the write command to the special block, wherein the status information indicates at least one non-accessible sector in the special block. Thereby the method and the apparatus of downgrade memory may as well omit the non-accessible sectors as enhance the usage memory capacity in accordance with the status information.
US07971000B2
The invention concerns a method and a system for maintaining consistency of a cache memory, accessible by multiple independent processes. The processes can share common data. The processes perform simultaneous data searching operations optionally followed by providing the data to the processes, a removal of same or an insertion of new data. The searching, removal and insertion operations, are comprehensively executed once they have been initiated by the independent processes. They are executed excluding one another when they must operate on common data. The removal or insertion operations are each completely reversible. In that context, the invention provides that the operations for providing, removing or inserting the data have a finite or bound duration of execution so as to prevent any locking. In particular, the insertion operation, which includes a step of releasing an input when a partition of the cache memory is full, if it requires browsing through the entire partition to make a selection, is however possibly interrupted if the maximum browsing time is reached. In that case, the most appropriate input, among the already browsed inputs, is released. The inputs of said partition are browsed exhaustively, which results from storing the last consulted address of the partition after each release.
US07970999B2
An information distribution system includes an interconnect and multiple data processing nodes coupled to the interconnect. Each data processing node includes mass storage and a cache. Each data processing node also includes interface logic configured to receive signals from the interconnect and to apply the signals from the interconnect to affect the content of the cache, and to receive signals from the mass storage and to apply the signals from the mass storage to affect the content of the cache. The content of the mass storage and cache of a particular node may also be provided to other nodes of the system, via the interconnect.
US07970998B2
A cache memory of the present invention includes a second cache memory that is operated in parallel with a first cache memory, a judgment unit which, when a cache miss occurs in both of the first cache memory and the second cache memory, makes a true or false judgment relating to an attribute of data for which memory access resulted in the cache miss, and a controlling unit which stores memory data in the second cache memory when a judgment of true is made, and stores the memory data in the first cache memory when a judgment of false is made.
US07970995B2
A storage group configured by a plurality of storage devices is configured by a plurality of storage sub-groups, and the respective storage sub-groups are configured from two or more storage devices. A sub-group storage area, which is the storage area of the respective storage sub-groups, is configured by a plurality of rows of sub-storage areas. A data set, which is configured by a plurality of data elements configuring a data unit, and a second redundancy code created on the basis of this data unit, is written to a row of sub-storage areas, a compressed redundancy code is created on the basis of two or more first redundancy codes respectively created based on two or more data units of two or more storage sub-groups, and this compressed redundancy code is written to a nonvolatile storage area that differs from the above-mentioned two or more storage sub-groups.
US07970984B2
A computerized system is booted from a flash memory device configured to always operate one or more of its blocks only in a M-bit-per-cell mode and the rest of its blocks in a N>M-bit-per-cell mode. When the system is powered up, an initialization program is retrieved from the M-bit-per-cell block(s), corrected for errors using a first error correction method, and executed. Data accessed subsequently from the N-bit-per-cell blocks are corrected using an error correction method that corrects more errors per block than the first error correction method.
US07970982B2
A memory card includes: a first memory chip responding to all commands input externally; and a second memory chip responding to commands, among the commands input externally, relevant to reading, programming, and erasing operations with data. Card identification information stored in the first memory chip includes capacity information corresponding to a sum of sizes of the first and second memory chips. The plurality of memory chips of the memory card are useful in designing the memory card with storage capacity in various forms.
US07970972B2
With an external memory to be inserted and removed through an adapter, insertion and removal of the external memory are reliably detected and data destruction with insertion or removal is prevented. A detector includes a card detection section (32) for detecting that a memory card (10) has been inserted into a connector (31), acquiring the ID of the detected memory card (10), and acquiring card information of the memory card (10), an application section (36) for making an access request to a memory card, and a card access section (34) for acquiring the ID of a memory card (11) inserted into the connector (31) at the time of the access request, making a comparison between the ID of the memory card (10) and the ID of the memory card (11), determining whether or not the IDs are identical, and acquiring card information concerning the memory card (11) if the IDs are not identical.
US07970964B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for variable width data input to a pattern-recognition processor. A variable width data input method may include receiving bytes over a data bus having a first width and receiving one or more signals indicating the validity of each of the one or more bytes The valid bytes may be sequentially provided to a pattern-recognition processor in an 8-bit wide data stream. In an embodiment, a system may include one or more address lines configured to provide the one or more signals indicating the validity of the bytes transferred over the data bus. The system may include a buffer and control logic to sequentially process the valid bytes.
US07970962B2
A network device includes a port and a bus transmission calculation module. The port is connected to the network device to receive a data burst. The bus transmission calculation module connects to the port for calculating a first number of bytes to be transmitted from a first bus and a second number of bytes to be transmitted from a second bus. The first and second bus connect to the network device and transfer data from the network device.
US07970957B2
An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for disambiguating commands with respect to logical protocols is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, commands are disambiguated in accordance with an extent of device usage since a most recent device reset event. In some embodiments, commands are disambiguated in accordance with one or more command target parameters of a current command and/or one or more previous commands. In some embodiments, commands are disambiguated in accordance with a security policy and/or a data access policy and/or an indication of a data damage risk.
US07970955B2
A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an external storage device, the external storage being configured to store a second plurality of files and second management data corresponding to the second files; a controller configured to generate new management data by merging the first management data and the second management data, and to store the new management data in a memory; and a display unit configured to display contents of the first and second plurality of files based on the new management data without indicating to the user where the respective files are stored.
US07970950B1
A system and method are provided for accelerating data transfer between networked databases. First provided are a plurality of databases coupled by a network. At least one laser unit is coupled to each database. In operation, such laser units are capable of communicating data between the databases via free space by way of a laser beam. This allows data communication at a rate faster than that which the network is capable.
US07970947B1
The present invention is directed to a small size and light weight small form factor user system suitable for having TTNT connectivity which consumes minimum power to operate. The small form factor user system having TTNT connectivity may be capable of interacting in a low latency real time manner with airborne networks. The small form factor user system having TTNT connectivity may have significantly reduced radio power consumption and form factor size through maintaining core capabilities of the full size TTNT terminal while relaxing other capabilities. An encapsulated message structure may be utilized to simplify communication between the TTNT small form factor user system and the full size TTNT nodes.
US07970936B2
Simplifying any cumbersome URLs that are made public. The function of converting to simplify cumbersome URLs is performed by Web service providers for appropriate fees. Accordingly, the converted URL will have a new domain portion, i.e. the Web service provider's domain along with a simplified path portion defining the path with the Web service provider's domain that will point to the original URL, stored within the service provider. Within the service provider, URLs of said accessed Web documents are converted to include a domain section specifying the service provider's domain and a path portion within said service provider's domain that is simpler than the original URL path portion. The path portion in the converted URL is usually shorter than the path portion in the original URL.
US07970932B2
View-upload decoupled (“VUD”) peer-to-peer (P2P) video distribution is provided, in which each peer is assigned to one or more channels to upload, with the assignments made independent of what the peer is viewing. For each assigned channel, the peer distributes (that is, uploads) the channel. This effectively creates semi-permanent distribution swarms for each channel, which are formed by peers responsible for uploading that channel. This can minimize problems associated with channel churn because peers may remain in their assigned distribution groups even if they switch channels. To minimize cross-channel overhead associated with VUD P2P video distribution, substream swarming, in which a peer in a distribution swarm only downloads a small portion of the video stream, called a substream, and uploads the substream to multiple viewers, may be provided. To minimize video streaming quality degradation that may occur during a reconfiguration transient period upon sudden and large increases in video download demands for some channel, VUD P2P video distribution may be integrated with tradition ISO P2P video distribution (which is self-adaptive to the sudden increases in channel popularity).
US07970931B2
Policy-based routing system and method for a multi-homed computer. Policy-based routing permits or blocks usage of system level route(s) based on user credentials and/or network application(s) associated with a data transfer. The credentials can include information associated with an application, a user, and the like. Optionally, one or more filter(s) can be configured over classifiable field(s), such as credential(s), information associated with a determined proposed route, to statically permit/block route usage and/or to invoke an inspection module (e.g., custom inspection routine) when the filter condition(s) are met.
US07970921B2
The invention can be viewed as a system for providing media information to a user via an interactive media services client device coupled to a programmable television services server device. A method of the preferred embodiment of the present invention includes receiving user input and excluding one or more media titles from a media title list based on the user input.
US07970908B2
A system providing search functionality supporting the exchange and consumption of media is disclosed. The searching of media on storage belonging to any of a pre-defined group of users of a personal media network is provided. In addition, media stored on designated servers may also be included in a search. The media stored may include audio, still images, video, and data. A user may search the stored media using a number of criteria including the time period of the media, the type of device, and the type of media. The system also provides support for the search of one or more media peripherals, which may be searched when the media peripherals are communicatively coupled to the system.
US07970903B2
Geographically dispersed data centers each include servers and storage systems and are in communication with each other. An application is installed on a guest operating system on a virtual machine set up on a server at a first data center. The application accesses a logical unit on a storage system at the first data center. When migration of the application is initiated, the process determines whether any of the data centers has server resources and storage resources required to receive migration of the application. A destination data center is selected from candidate data centers meeting requirements for migration of the application. The application and guest operating system are migrated from the first data center to a second virtual machine set up on a second server at the destination data center. If a replica of the LU is not already present at the destination data center, the LU is also replicated.
US07970900B2
A multi-level network security system is disclosed for a computer host device coupled to at least one computer network. The system including a secure network interface Unit (SNIU) contained within a communications stack of the computer device that operates at a user layer communications protocol. The SNIU communicates with other like SNIU devices on the network by establishing an association, thereby creating a global security perimeter for end-to-end communications and wherein the network may be individually secure or non-secure without compromising security of communications within the global security perimeter. The SNIU includes a host/network interface for receiving messages sent between the computer device and network. The interface operative to convert the received messages to and from a format utilized by the network. A message parser for determining whether the association already exists with another SNIU device. A session manager coupled to said network interface for identifying and verifying the computer device requesting access to said network. The session manager also for transmitting messages received from the computer device when the message parser determines the association already exists. An association manager coupled to the host/network interface for establishing an association with other like SNIU devices when the message parser determines the association does not exist.
US07970899B2
There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for defining a policy including a set of rules for a packet forwarding device by receiving information sufficient to enable a first rule related to one of security or traffic management to be defined, and based on the received information, enabling a corresponding second rule related to the other one of security or traffic management to be defined.
US07970897B1
Systems and methods for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests and determining optimizations for improving such performance are provided. A processing device obtains and processes performance metric information associated with processing a request corresponding to two or more embedded resources. The processing device uses the processed performance metric information to determine a consolidation configuration to be associated with the two or more embedded resources. In some embodiments, in making such a determination, the processing device assesses performance metric information collected and associated with subsequent requests corresponding to the content associated with the two or more embedded resources and using each of a variety of alternative consolidation configurations. The processing device may also consider a number of factors, including performance selection criteria obtained from an original content provider. Aspects of systems and methods for generating recommendations to use a particular consolidation configuration to process a subsequent request corresponding to the content associated with the two or more embedded resources are also provided.
US07970895B2
A communication pattern inducing system focuses on the propagation of topics amongst a plurality of nodes based on the text of the node rather than hyperlinks of the node. A node could represent a weblog or any other source of information such as person, a conversation, images, etc. The system utilizes a model for information diffusion, wherein the parameters of the model capture how a new topic spreads from node to node. The system further comprises a process to learn the parameters of the model based on real data and to apply the process to real (or synthetic) node data. Consequently, the system is able to identify particular individuals that are highly effective at contributing to the spread of topics.
US07970893B2
Techniques for creating policies for use in policy-based management of quality of service treatments of network data traffic flows are described. Policies are defined based on information about types of flows generated by an application and quality of service functions that are available in the network. Application information is received that defines flows generated by an application, including points where the application generates the traffic flows. QoS information is received that defines one of more quality of service treatments that the network device may apply to data processed by the network device. Based on the information, processing policies that associate the flows with the QoS treatments are determined. Mappings of the application information to the QoS treatments, which may be used to generate the quality of service value when the application program generates flows, are created and stored. Thus, the policies are informed both by application expertise and network expertise.
US07970891B1
The present disclosure includes a system and method for tracking links displayed in Web browsers. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a hostname operable to identify an action and an instance of a link displayed through a Web browser. The hostname is unique for a period of time. The one or more actions associated with the displayed link are tracked.
US07970883B2
The present invention is to provide a communication network designing method based on an actual condition of social network structured on a communication network, a communication network designing program, and a recording medium on which the program is recorded.A communication network designing method executed by a communication network designing apparatus which is connected to a communication network in which a plurality of communication terminals are connected to each other and which designs the communication network is characterized in that a social network formed on the communication network is analyzed, and the communication network is designed on the basis of the analysis result.
US07970882B2
Proposed are a management apparatus and a management method capable of facilitating resource management With the provided management apparatus and management method for managing a resource allocated to a virtual node that provides a file sharing service to a client in units of a resource management group configured from a plurality of mutually associated resources, an association between the resources is extracted based on history information of access from the client, and the associated resource management groups are integrated based on the extracted association between the resources. Thus, it is possible to reduce the number of resource management groups to be managed, and resource management is thereby facilitated.
US07970871B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for controlling sensor networks. A sensor network has a plurality of sensor nodes, which have sensors for monitoring operational parameters of devices within an application-specific system. A wireless communication module is provided for each node to enable the node to wirelessly communicate with other nodes of the network. A user defines various scripts for controlling the behavior of one or more nodes, and the network distributes the scripts, as appropriate, to various nodes thereby implementing the behavior defined by the scripts. Accordingly, a user can easily and dynamically configure or re-configure the behavior of any node without having to physically access the node that is being configured or re-configured.
US07970869B2
A system for automatic user skill-gap evaluation using a proxy server or a proxy application. The proxy server or application receives a user input from a user and analyzes the user input to determine whether the user input falls below an acceptable user skill threshold level. The user input consists of user activity within an application and the user activity is recorded in a user action log. To determine whether the user input falls below the acceptable user skill threshold level, the proxy server or application compares the user activity recorded in the user action log with user skill-gap behavior patterns created by a subject matter expert. In response to determining that the user activity recorded in the user action log falls below the acceptable user skill threshold level, the proxy server or application sends a specific training module to the user based on an identified user skill-gap.
US07970856B2
A system and method of managing assets on a distributed grid enabled network. The system and method includes sending, to a content provider, a conditional request to obtain a requested asset. The system and method further includes receiving, in response to the conditional request, information to identify a most recent copy of the requested asset, and transferring the requested asset to at least one grid enabled peer for subsequent downloading to a requesting client.
US07970852B2
A system and method for migrating a client partition between computer electronic complexes (CECs) while maintaining access to a Storage Area Network. An active and inactive world wide port name are generated for a client virtual channel adapter. A query is sent to a name server from the VIOS on the source CEC. The name server creates a list of small computer system interface (SCSI) targets that are available. The list is used by the VIOS on the destination CEC to verify whether any physical ports in the destination CEC have access to the same SCSI target. The client partition may be migrated between a source CEC and a destination CEC and the access to the Storage Area Network access may be maintained.
US07970832B2
Interfaces for message delivery approaches are disclosed. The interface may include pages for administering accounts for senders, pages for administering message processing systems, and pages for viewing information about senders or message processing systems. In another aspect, automatic alert mechanisms are disclosed. The alert mechanisms send a message to one or more users or machines that have been registered to receive alerts. Alerts may be triggered by any event related to a sender, a message, or a message processing system or may be triggered by any other condition or event. In another aspect, techniques for automatically disabling senders are disclosed. The automatic disabling of a sender may be triggered by any event related to a sender, a message, or a message processing system or may be triggered by any other condition or event.
US07970831B2
An intelligent email service for a web-based intranet server such as a ColdFusion server that automatically generates emails is provided. The intelligent email service provides a periodic verification of normal email spooler activity. Should the spooler be malfunctioning, the intelligent email service restarts the spooler and notifies the server's system administrator. The intelligent email service also processes any undeliverable email messages by determining, for each undeliverable email, whether mail server or the email itself was at fault. Should the mail server be at fault, the undelivered email is resent. Otherwise, the faulty email is emailed back to the originating party.
US07970828B2
A variety of techniques are disclosed for efficient liveness monitoring in a reliable publish/subscribe multicast system having at least one broker and at least one subscriber, by: at the broker, sending (310) a status request message to the subscriber, and at the subscriber, sending (350) a status response message to the broker to indicate liveness. Status responses by subscribers may be suppressed when at least a chosen minimum number (>=1) of subscribers send a response. This suppression (320-340) uses a system of “response claim” messages and random back-off timers. These provide the advantage that the efficiency of network usage is improved by reducing the number of unwanted packets that are sent.
US07970818B2
Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user requests and in response to a user request for a given item of media, determining whether the media is present in the client database, and if not, automatically downloading those portions of the media which are necessary to supply the user with the given item of media from the server database. An image server is provided including at least one processor operative to supply portions of image data to clients in response to multiple requests therefrom, and thread management software operating the at least one processor by causing it to process the requests using at least one of a plurality of threads, the thread management software being characterized in that it initiates a new thread when an existing thread has exceeded a predetermined metric of busyness.
US07970813B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to systems, methods and devices for imaging device event notification administration and subscription. Some aspects relate to imaging device event notification based on a subscribing application address and the occurrence of an event defined in an event identification. Some aspects relate to the use of a subscriber manager that manages imaging device event notification requests received from subscribing applications.
US07970810B2
A circuit element includes a plurality of computation blocks connected at least partially in series for processing multi-bit numbers. Each of the computation blocks includes a plurality of transistors having characteristic threshold voltages. The circuit element is configured so that the transistors will each operate at a voltage below its threshold voltage. The circuit element includes a plurality of circuit sub-elements each having an output. The circuit sub-element outputs are connected together.
US07970804B2
A journaling file allocation table (FAT) file system includes an FAT file system module, a storage device and a driver. The FAT file system module includes a journaling module and receives a file operation instruction sent by an operating system. The storage device has an FAT file system and an FAT journaling cache. The driver is coupled to the FAT file system module, the journaling module and the storage device in order to access the storage device. When the FAT file system stored in the storage device is a journaling FAT file system, the FAT file system module enables the journaling module to receive and execute the file operation instruction sent by the operating system and to accordingly produce a corresponding file operation instruction to the driver for performing a journaling file operation on the storage device.
US07970797B2
A method for implementing distributed database management system operations on a computer cluster. The method includes defining ownership relationships between a plurality of computers in the computer cluster and a plurality of data nodes in the computer cluster, wherein a distributed database management system operation can be directly carried out by a first computer only on those data nodes owned by the first computer. The method further includes monitoring database usage characteristics. The method further includes carrying out a re-architecture step in response to the database usage characteristics by redefining ownership relationships to improve the efficiency of the distributed database management system operations.
US07970793B2
Calendar events are pulled from an information source, such as a website, having listed events. A user subscribes to an information source where information containing time-stamped events appears. Alternatively, a user specifies a keyword for searching on the information source. If there are any changes on the information source in regard to a user-specified keyword, the event is automatically linked to the user's calendar. In yet another aspect, a publisher of the information source uses a tag set to tag running text on their information source, e.g. website, such that there is no need for the publisher of an information source to maintain a calendar of the events described in the information source. In yet another aspect, the publisher of the information source is not informed of who subscribes to the information source or what keywords the users specify in regard to the information source to provide user anonymity.
US07970786B2
A system for retrieval and aggregation of information resulting from context-based queries includes one or more programmed worklets and a plurality of interconnected computer systems. The computer systems are collectively programmed to model the workflow activities worklets distinct from assistlets to recognize work people perform and to suitably represent such work, generate queries through a meta-querying template that utilize the modeled worklets received from a first processing unit, retrieve information relevant to the work task in response to the queries from a plurality of data sources, and aggregate the retrieved information for presentation to the user.
US07970785B2
Sources of operational problems in business transactions often show themselves in relatively small pockets of data, which are called trouble hot spots. Identifying these hot spots from internal company transaction data is generally a fundamental step in the problem's resolution, but this analysis process is greatly complicated by huge numbers of transactions and large numbers of transaction variables to analyze. A suite of practical modifications are provided to data mining techniques and logistic regressions to tailor them for finding trouble hot spots. This approach thus allows the use of efficient automated data mining tools to quickly screen large numbers of candidate variables for their ability to characterize hot spots. One application is the screening of variables which distinguish a suspected hot spot from a reference set.
US07970781B1
Creation, association, and/or placement of search forums for searches strings enable users to discuss aspects of both searches and elements associated with the searches, and further enable the users to view discussions from other users. The search forum may be generated from variations of the search string. In addition or alternatively, search strings may be associated with existing item forums, category forums, and tag forums. Search forums may be placed with, for example, search results or with items, categories, and/or tags, among other possibilities, to provide user access to the search forums.
US07970768B2
A full text indexing system is provided for processing content associated with data applications such as encyclopedia and dictionary applications. A build process collects data from various sources, processes the data into constituent parts, including alternative word sets, and stores the constituent parts in structured database tables. A run-time process is used to query the database tables and the results in order to provide effective matches in an efficient manner. Run-time processing is optimized by preprocessing all steps that are query-independent during the build process. A double word table representing all possible word pair combinations for each index entry and an alternative word table are used to further optimize runtime processing.
US07970761B2
A content management system (CMS) includes a component identification mechanism for identifying components in a component-centric way that takes into account specified conditions for a link location in a compound document as well as component relationships and conditions. By using the relationships and conditions, a more intelligent choice may be made when identifying components for a particular link location. The identifying of components for a given link location in a compound document may be used by the content management system when auto-population is enabled, and may be used by the content management system to provide a list of candidate components to a user when auto-suggestion is enabled.
US07970760B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media comprising instructions for identifying needy queries for which additional responsive content is needed. A method comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms and retrieving one or more content items identified as responsive to the query, the one or more content items ranked according to one or more ranking techniques. A score is generated for the one or more ranked content items identified as responsive to the query. A determination is thereafter made as to whether the query is needy based upon a comparison of the one or more scores associated with the one or more content items identified as responsive to the query and a needy query score threshold.
US07970758B2
A method and apparatus for searching data entries in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory is described. At least a portion of an input is received from a user. Entries of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory are searched to identify entries that contain the portion of the input from the user. Information pertaining to the identified entries is returned to the user, wherein the information pertaining to at least one identified entry does not include the portion of the input or a modification of the portion of the input.
US07970750B2
Performing a category search to identify categories of web sites that relate to a search term includes receiving at least one search term that then is compared with a hierarchy of category identifiers, and with terms related to one or more categories, to determine whether matches exist. A category identifier is selected based on the matches that are determined to exist within the hierarchy and the terms, and at least the category identifier is displayed. Performing a search to identify web sites and categories of web sites that relate to a search term also may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with a list of recommended web sites, previously performed searches, a hierarchy of category identifiers, and terms related to one or more categories to determine whether matches exist. Results based on matches that are determined to exist are displayed.
US07970749B2
A system and method are disclosed for facilitating development of computer games that depict or represent actual, real world geographic areas as part of the play scenarios of the games. A source database contains data that represent geographic features in a region including roads in the region. The data in the source database includes attributes suitable for use for providing navigation-related functions. In addition to providing data from the source database for navigation-related functions, data from the source database are also provided for computer game development. An application programming interface, as well as other tools for handling geographic data, is provided for accessing and processing of the geographic data.
US07970746B2
User productivity can be facilitated by providing an interface between a high-level intent and low-level settings that should be configured to achieve the intent. The intent can be expressed in declarative language. The intent can be verified to determine if it conforms to a target, a policy, or both. Policy binding can provide a relationship between the target and the policy. An application view can be provided that allows the user to view a server having one or more databases.
US07970742B2
Techniques for history enabling a table in a database system so that past versions of rows of the history-enabled table are available for temporal querying. The table is history enabled by adding a start time column to the table and creating a history table for the history-enabled table. The history table's rows are copies of rows of the history-enabled table that have changed and include start time and end time fields whose values indicate a period in which the history table's row was in the history-enabled table. Temporal queries are performed on a view which is the union of the history-enabled table and the history table. The temporal queries are speeded up by period of time indexes in which the leaves are grouped based on time period size, identifiers are assigned to the groups, and the keys of the index include the group identifiers.
US07970739B2
A method and system are provided for maintaining profiles of information channels available on the Web, wherein the information channels are accessed via pull-only protocols. The method includes monitoring one or more channels by a channel pull action at a monitoring rate, wherein the monitoring rate is determined for the one or more channels based on the number of update events in a previous time period. The method may optimally include filtering the update events in the time period by a novelty measure, wherein the filtering disregards events that do not include significant novel information. The monitoring rate is adapted based on reinforcement learning applying iterative learning rules over time.
US07970734B2
A data collection apparatus includes a network of sensing units for sensing a parameter. Each sensing unit of the network of sensing units includes a sensor, a first data storage device, a first receiving device, and a first transmitting device. The first data storage device is for storing data from the sensor. The first transmitting device is for transmitting data derived from the sensor. The apparatus also includes a single control unit. The single control unit includes a second receiving device, a second transmitting device, and a second data storage device. The second receiving device is for receiving data transmitted from the network of sensing units. The second data storage device is for storing the data received from the network of sensing units. The sensing units of the network of sensing units are each configured so a real time signal triggers a change in at least one from the group consisting of: (a) sensor data handling, (b) sensor data collection, (c) sensor data storage in the sensing unit, and (d) sensor data transmission to the single control unit.
US07970731B2
Methods and systems are described that allow supplier information to be captured and processed for imported or exported products that have multiple supply sources. Each of the products may be classified under a plurality of HTS (Harmonized Tariff Schedule) codes, which may then be assigned to the product. The assigned HTS codes may be entered and stored in a database of a trade compliance system. A plurality of certifications may be requested and obtained from the suppliers of the product. The certifications, which may include a COO certification or a NAFTA certification, for example, may be entered and stored in the database. Each certification may identify and certify one of the multiple supply sources for the product. Each certification may be associated with one of the plurality of HTS codes.
US07970724B1
A method for executing an agent utilizing a rule engine and a set of canonical rules in an execution environment comprising collecting an initial set of data, asserting the initial data into a working memory, executing the rule engine utilizing the working memory and the set of canonical rules and firing an applicable rule by the rule engine.
US07970715B2
An electronic system for maintaining and controlling the use of water includes a control valve, an electronic water counter and a central computer connected to the water counter by wire, internet or wireless for opening and closing a control valve during pre-selected periods or in the event of excess usage. The system is also capable of providing water at an increased charge and subject to modification by a Smart Card.
US07970698B2
The present invention relates to automated decisioning for a credit request associated with an applicant. Information associated with an applicant is received. Data associated with the applicant is received from at least one data source. A user interface is configured to allow a user to provide a definition of decision rules in a near-natural language. Information associated with the decision rules is determined based on the definition of the decision rules. A selection of rule flow information associated with the decision rules is received through the user computer interface. A decision is generated based on the information associated with the applicant, data associated with the applicant from the at least one data source, the information associated with the decision rules, and the selection of information associated with decision rules. The decision is displayed.
US07970686B1
A system and method are disclosed for communicating information between a securities customer and a trader. The system includes a computer which has three class components for completing the communications between the customer and the trader. A first component manages trading functions, a second component manages customer log-in and password, and the third component manages communication between the first two components and a trading system.
US07970685B2
The present invention provides a financial product management system for managing a financial product, which makes it possible to attempt to reduce the investment risk associated with current price fluctuations even when making a lump-sum investment without requiring the investor or distributor to divide the total funds into smaller amounts.
US07970665B1
A method of providing recommendations is disclosed and includes receiving a selection of an offering via an online site. The method also includes outputting a detail page related to the offering via the online site. The detail page includes a first selectable indicator corresponding to a social network of a visitor and a second selectable indicator corresponding to unfiltered content. The method also includes outputting at least one recommendation via the detail page. Each recommendation is associated with a member of the social network when input received via the online site indicates a selection of the first selectable indicator.
US07970664B2
Various methods are disclosed for monitoring user browsing activities, and for using such information to provide item recommendations to users. In one embodiment, a monitoring component of a merchant's Web site maintains a record of products viewed by each user during a current browsing session—preferably based on visits to product detail pages. A recommendations component uses the resulting history of viewed products to identify additional products to recommend, preferably using a pre-existing table that maps products to related products. In one embodiment, this table is generated by periodically analyzing user browsing histories to identify correlations between purchases, viewing events, and/or other actions performed with respect to particular products. The recommended items may be displayed together with an option to individually deselect the recently viewed items on which the recommendations are based. Embodiments are also disclosed that use recent browse node visits, and recent searches, to generate the recommendations.
US07970659B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that provides gift registry services to a user. During operation, the system enrolls a business with a registry system and identifies a first set of items offered for sale by the business. Next, the system populates the registry system with the first set of items. Finally, the system presents the first set of items to the user for inclusion in a gift registry associated with the user.
US07970653B2
A method and system for identifying and transmitting data entities in a wireless communication system including at least one mobile user terminal. The method includes the steps of identifying a primary service to be provided, identifying a plurality of data entities associated with that service, selecting which of the plurality of data entities is to be transmitted and transmitting the selected data entities in a single transaction.
US07970652B1
An apparatus and method for an internet-based auction and payment system for facilitating participant initiated autonomous auction instances and book entry payment transfers between participant accounts maintained, tracked or accessible by the system for participants to make payments to other participants on the system for items won at the autonomous auction instances. Furthermore, categories for the classification of items at auction may be selected by a seller while the seller is isolated from communication with the auction system to facilitate the asynchronous creation of data records by user for subsequent bulk listing and auction initiation. Data records may include data headers when transmitted to the auction system to provide authorization and program interface usage measurements.
US07970637B2
A system that can enable the atomization of application functionality in connection with an activity-centric system is provided. The system can be utilized as a programmatic tool that decomposes an application's constituent functionality into atoms thereafter monitoring and aggregating atoms with respect to a particular activity. In doing so, the functionality of the system can be scaled based upon complexity and needs of the activity. Additionally, the system can be employed to monetize the atoms or activity capabilities based upon respective use.
US07970634B2
A system for managing remote doctor medical request workflow may include a workflow module that optimizes assignments of medical requests to remote doctors based on parameterized doctor and scheduling information and may further include a forecasting module that predicts the hospital credentials, state licenses or doctors needed to fulfill a projected volume of future medical requests. In one embodiment, radiologists are parameterized and then matched with requests for radiological readings based on information extracted from DICOM image headers and merged with associated information contained in a medical work order. In this embodiment, the radiologists are parameterized based on their locations, schedules, hospital credentials, state licensing, compensation metrics, and performance metrics and incoming requests for review of CT scans and the like are filtered based on the parameterized radiologist information to identify one or more radiologists who are to fulfill the medical request.
US07970618B2
There is provided a system capable of distributing code-compressed data based on audio data on a music composition via the Internet to a mobile telephone so that a user can cut out a desired range from the code-compressed data and register it as a call sound. The system has a data structure of a content frame (3GPP, 3GPP2) containing code-compressed data (AAC) of audio data. The content frame has at least one cut-out position information in the AAC data in its extended function section. A mobile telephone has a content storage unit, a cut-out selection unit to be used by the user to select at least one cut-out position information contained in the extended function section of the content frame, and a data cut-out section for cutting out data from the code-compressed data. The code-compressed data which has been cut out is decompressed when called and the sound is outputted from a loudspeaker.
US07970614B2
The present invention provides a system and method for treating distortion propagated though a detection system. The system includes a compensation module that compensates for untreated distortions propagating through the detection compensation system, a user model pool that comprises of a plurality of model sets, and a model selector that selects at least one model set from plurality of model sets in the user model pool. The compensation is accomplished by continually producing scores distributed according to a prescribed distribution for the at least one model set and mitigating the adverse effects of the scores being distorted and lying off a pre-set operating point.The method for treating distortion propagated though a detection system includes receiving a signal from a remote device, and compensating the signal for untreated distortions. The compensation includes selecting at least one relevant model set from a plurality of model sets, producing scores distributed according to a pre-described distribution for the at least one model set, and mitigating the adverse effect of the scores being distorted by rejecting a signal if it lies off a preset operating point.
US07970613B2
Use of runtime memory may be reduced in a data processing algorithm that uses one or more probability distribution functions. Each probability distribution function may be characterized by one or more uncompressed mean values and one or more variance values. The uncompressed mean and variance values may be represented by α-bit floating point numbers, where α is an integer greater than 1. The probability distribution functions are converted to compressed probability functions having compressed mean and/or variance values represented as β-bit integers, where β is less than α, whereby the compressed mean and/or variance values occupy less memory space than the uncompressed mean and/or variance values. Portions of the data processing algorithm can be performed with the compressed mean and variance values.
US07970610B2
The vocabulary size of a speech recognizer for a large task is reduced by providing a recognizer only for the most common vocabulary items. Uncommon items are catered for by providing aliases from the common items. This allows accuracy to remain high while also allowing uncommon items to be recognized when necessary.
US07970581B2
Described is a technique to exhaustively enumerate the thermodynamic properties of the water molecules solvating the active site of a protein in its apostate and calculate the relative binding affinities of congeneric compounds that bind to this protein. The subject matter includes sampling the configurations of the solvating water in the active site; extracting the thermodynamic information about the solvating water from these configurations by clustering the observed water configurations into regions of high water occupancy (e.g., “hydration sites”), computing the average system interaction energies of water molecules occupying the various hydrations sites, computing excess entropies of water molecules occupying the hydration sites; constructing a 3 dimensional hydration thermodynamics map of the protein active site; and computing relative binding affinities of congeneric ligands based on the principle that tighter binding ligands can displace more entropically structured and energetically depleted hydration sites from the active site into the bulk fluid.
US07970577B2
A method for evaluating placement errors within a lithographic mask, the method includes: providing or receiving a reference result that represents a distance between a reference pair of points of a reference element; measuring, for each pair of points out of multiple pairs of points that are associated with multiple spaced apart elements of the lithographic mask, the distance between the pair of points to provide multiple measurement results; wherein differences between a measurement result and the reference result are indicative of relative placement errors; and determining relative placement errors in response to relationships between the reference result and each of the measurement results.
US07970571B2
A pointing device includes accelerometers and rotational sensors that are coupled to a processor. The processor samples the accelerometers and rotational sensors to detect gravity and pointing device motion and uses algebraic algorithms to calculate roll compensated cursor control signals. The processor transmits the cursor control signals to a receiver that is coupled to an electronic device that moves the cursor on the visual display.
US07970569B2
A connection test apparatus includes a controlling section, controlling each connection test device to switch the operation mode between the first and the second modes such that a first connection test device among the connection test devices is in the first mode and the remaining connection devices are in the second mode, and controlling a signal generating circuit to output the connection test signal; and a judging section judging, on the basis of the response signal that the first connection test device outputs in response to the connection test signal, a state of connection of a first connector connected to the first connection test device and a first net including the first connector among the nets.
US07970564B2
This disclosure describes signal processing techniques that can improve the performance of blind source separation (BSS) techniques. In particular, the described techniques propose pre-processing steps that can help to de-correlate the different signals from one another prior to execution of the BSS techniques. In addition, the described techniques also propose optional post-processing steps that can further de-correlate the different signals following execution of the BSS techniques. The techniques may be particularly useful for improving BSS performance with highly correlated audio signals, e.g., from two microphones that are in close spatial proximity to one another.
US07970558B1
A method for monitoring a signal from a cycle switch mounted to a lubrication divider block system. The method comprises receiving a signal from a remotely located cycle switch that is mounted to a divider block, wherein the cycle switch is responsive to the motion of a piston in the divider block. The number of cycles of the cycle switch are counted based on the signal from the cycle switch. The number of cycles is stored in a computer readable medium and the amount of lubricant used is calculated based on the number of cycles. The amount of lubricant used is then stored in the computer readable storage medium.
US07970555B2
A method of developing a repair process for a gas turbine engine component deformed during engine operation includes determining peak stress locations in a model of the component, applying loads to sample components based on the model to produce geometrical correction values in the samples, generating data from the samples including the loads applied and the geometrical correction values produced, destructively analyzing the samples at the peak stress locations for structural imperfections, and correlating the loads applied to the geometrical correction values produced to determine allowable loads necessary to produce target geometrical correction values in a used component substantially free of structural imperfections.
US07970553B2
Disclosed is a method of iteratively optimizing two (or more) interrelated sets of probes for the multi-step analysis of sets of designated sequences, each such sequence requiring, for conversion, at least one conversion probe (“primer”), and each converted sequence requiring, for detection, at least one capture probe. The iterative method disclosed herein for the concurrent optimization of primer and probe selection invokes fast logical string matching functions to perform a complete cross-correlation of probe sequences and target sequences. The score function assigns to each probe-target alignment a “degree of matching” score on the basis of position-weighted Hamming distance functions introduced herein. Pairs of probes in the final selection may differ in several positions, while other pairs of probes may differ in only a single position. Not all such positions are of equal importance, and a score function is introduced, reflecting the position of the mismatch within the probe sequence.
US07970552B1
An analysis of the profile of a non-human animal comprises: a) providing a genotypic database to the species of the non-human animal subject or a selected group of the species; b) obtaining animal data; c) correlating the database of a) with the data of b) to determine a relationship between the database of a) and the data of b); c) determining the profile of the animal based on the correlating step; and d) determining a genetic profile based on the molecular dietary signature, the molecular dietary signature being a variation of expression of a set of genes which may differ for the genotype of each animal or a group of animals Nutrition and pharmalogical assessments are made. Reporting the determination is by the Internet, and payment for the report is obtained through the Internet.
US07970546B1
Methods, systems, and software for representing seismic shot or receiver data as a superposition of a plurality of diplets are disclosed. The method includes decomposing one or more prestack shot or receiver records into a set of diplets, migrating the diplets using one or more velocity models, and synthesizing one or more migrated diplets into a migrated seismic volume, wherein each diplet comprises information about spatial location, orientation, amplitude, an associated wavelet, acquisition configuration, and coherency.
US07970544B2
Stoneley-wave data acquired in the LWD environment are used to characterize/estimate formation permeability. Real-time Stoneley-wave time-delay/slowness and center-frequency/attenuation data are used to indicate/characterize formation permeability even during drilling. The use of stabilizers mounted at the tool ends helps maintain the tool position from severe decentralization, reducing ambiguities in the permeability characterization/estimation.
US07970542B2
There is discloses a new method for identifying an electromagnetic signal having a known waveform. The method includes using a lightning matched filter receiver having a bank of filters matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms for detecting lightning. The use of a lightning matched filter receiver facilitates detection of lightning discharges below the noise level. Positioning three or more monitoring stations at different spaced apart geographic locations where each monitoring station has a lightning matched filter receiver where the filters are matched to nominal but arbitrary lightning waveforms can be used to detect and determine the location of a lightning discharge.
US07970532B2
Methods and systems for planning, managing, and executing the flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle are disclosed. In particular, the methods and systems are designed to reduce the likelihood that the UAV will be detected by determining a flight path based on the proximity of the UAV to a point of interest and the visual, acoustic, and infrared signatures of the UAV relative to a point of interest. Additionally, the methods and systems enable a UAV operator to compare a recommend flight path and an altered flight path based on how the altered flight path changes the proximity of the UAV to a point of interest, and changes the visual, acoustic, and infrared signatures of the UAV relative to a point of interest.
US07970529B2
A lane recognizing device comprises: an image processing means which performs a process of estimating a lane of a road by processing an image of the road and outputs a result of the process as first lane information; a lane estimating means which performs a process of estimating the lane using a map data of the road and the current position information of a vehicle and outputs a result of the process as second lane information; and an actual lane recognizing means which recognizes an actual lane of the road on the basis of the first lane information and the second lane information. Thereby, even if there is an unpredictable skid mark or road repaired part, it is possible to detect the lane accurately while increasing the opportunities for detecting the lane as much as possible by processing the road image and obtaining the road information and the map data.
US07970525B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the vehicle speed of a motor vehicle, wherein a provisional first speed value is determined for high speeds and a provisional second speed value is determined for low speeds and the vehicle speed is determined as a function of the determined provisional first speed value either from the provisional first speed value or from the provisional second speed value, or from a combination of the first and second speed values.
US07970515B2
Power is supplied to an ECU (20) from an on-vehicle battery (41). When an ignition switch (42) is switched from the OFF state to the ON state upon vehicle engine start, the ECU (20) is switched from the power saving mode to the normal mode and a CPU (31) executes initial processing. Moreover, when a user puts on a seat belt and a seat belt switch (44) is switched from the ON state to the OFF state, the ECU (20) is switched from the power saving mode to the normal mode and the CPU (31) executes the initial processing. Thus, the initial processing is executed at a comparatively short interval and it is possible to improve the reliability of the CPU (31).
US07970512B2
An integrated stability control system using the signals from an integrated sensing system for an automotive vehicle includes a plurality of sensors sensing the dynamic conditions of the vehicle. The sensors include an IMU sensor cluster, a steering angle sensor, wheel speed sensors, any other sensors required by subsystem controls. The signals used in the integrated stability controls include the sensor signals; the roll and pitch attitudes of the vehicle body with respect to the average road surface; the road surface mu estimation; the desired sideslip angle and desired yaw rate from a four-wheel reference vehicle model; the actual vehicle body sideslip angle projected on the moving road plane; and the global attitudes. The demand yaw moment used to counteract the undesired vehicle lateral motions (under-steer or over-steer or excessive side sliding motion) are computed from the above-mentioned variables. The braking control is a slip control whose target slip ratios at selective wheels or wheel are directly generated from the request brake pressures computed from the demand yaw moment.
US07970510B2
There is provided a vehicle drive control system performing the stability control of a vehicle by highly accurately and easily sensing accelerations generated in each tire and sensing a tire ground contact pattern, a sensor unit thereof and a tire. Using a sensor unit 100 mounted in each tire 2 of a vehicle 1, accelerations generated in X, Y and Z directions are sensed and at the same time, a low frequency noise component and high frequency noise component added to the Z axis direction acceleration signal are extracted. Digital values being the sensing result are transmitted as digital information to a monitor device 200 by radio wave. The monitor device 200 compares many pieces of tire ground contact pattern information preliminarily stored with the digital information to thereby specify a tire ground contact pattern and output the information to a stability control unit 700. The stability control unit 700 performs, based on the acceleration values and the information on tire ground contact pattern obtained, the correction control of driving of a sub-throttle actuator 412 or a brake drive actuator 640.
US07970509B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for identifying components in an assembly. The system comprises an assembly including one or more components and a power harvesting device, and a reader. The power harvesting device provides power to the one or more components and queries component identification information from the one or more components. The one or more components provide the power harvesting device with the component identification information which is relayed to the reader by the power harvesting device. The system allows determination of the components of the assembly while precluding the need for dismantling the assembly or powering on the assembly to run diagnostic software.
US07970502B2
Apparatuses and methods for controlling autoflight systems are disclosed herein. An apparatus for use with an aircraft having an autoflight system can include an autoflight performance selector configured to limit the response of the autoflight system to flight guidance instructions in at least two of the pitch, roll and yaw axes. The autoflight performance selector has at least a first selection and a second selection different than the first selection. Selecting the first selection causes the response of the autoflight system to flight guidance instructions to not exceed a first level in the at least two axes, and selecting the second selection causes the response of the autoflight system to the flight guidance instructions to not exceed a second level in the at least two axes different than the first level.
US07970497B2
An aircraft architecture may be designed to create an optimal balance between electric power and bleed power in order to match or improve current more electric architecture (MEA) performance while simplifying power extraction from the engines as well as simplifying the electrical system. Conventional aircraft architectures may use electric only ECS and cabin pressurization systems (so-called “no bleed” systems). Alternatively, older conventional aircraft may use strictly engine bleed air to provide power for ECS and cabin pressurization systems. The present invention, on the other hand, provides an architecture which may optimize the use of both engine bleed air and MEA designs to provide a system that may be simpler and potentially more reliable and available as compared to conventional aircraft architectures.
US07970492B2
In a mobile robot control system, it is configured to input at least one of the desired position and orientation of the robot at a time when the robot reaches the desired position by manipulation of the operator, to control the motion of the robot based on the inputted desired position and orientation, and to display a first image indicative of the inputted desired position and orientation by numeric values or language including at least the numeric values and a second image indicative of the inputted desired position and orientation by graphics on a display. With this, the operator can check the desired position and orientation of the robot with both of the numeric values and graphics. As a result, it becomes possible to prevent the operator from manipulating erroneously and operate the robot to be moved or turned as desired by the operator.
US07970490B2
An article dispensing system is provided which can be customized to selectively store and dispense multiple desired articles to suitable containers. The system of the invention is particularly relevant for items which can be stored on hangers in a vertical format and dispensed therefrom.
US07970487B2
The present invention is directed to a method of calibrating drill depth of an ophthalmic processing device. A number of drill cycles are selected for drilling an expected number of holes in a lens blank. The selected number of drill cycles is performed. The drill depth of each consecutive drill cycle varies incrementally. An actual number of locations the drill bit contacted the lens blank during the drill cycles is compared to the expected number of holes. The drill depth is adjusted depending on the compared values. A method of calibrating drill hole size is also disclosed.
US07970485B2
Systems for determining width/space limits for product mask layouts. A mask writer generates a first pattern on a test mask corresponding to a test mask layout. A lithography tool generates a second pattern on a wafer corresponding to a first pattern on a test mask by a lithography process using a preset exposure dose. A metrology tool measures widths of the first and second pattern. A controller determines a width/space limit for the product mask layout according to the width difference between the first and second pattern.
US07970475B2
A device and method is provided for biasing lung volume by electrically stimulating tissue associated with the diaphragm or phrenic nerve at a low level.
US07970474B2
A new hermetically-sealed contact feedthrough for cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators for the connection between internal device electronics and external components, a flat ceramic disk (1) being used as an insulating main carrier, in which openings (3) are situated, into which various electrode embodiments (4, 5, 6, 7) may be inserted as through contacts. Using a metal flange or metal-plated vapor deposition zone (2), the ceramic disk may be soldered directly onto the implant housing (11). In addition, active and passive auxiliary components (8) may be applied directly to the ceramic. The main carrier may be implemented as a multilayer ceramic (9), so that rewiring levels and shielding components (10) may be integrated in the feedthrough. The feedthrough according to the present invention allows novel construction variants, above all things having orientation to multipolar systems, through use of standardized ceramic semifinished products.
US07970465B1
New decision paradigms for ICDs are described. In one implementation, an implantable system senses cardiac output and arterial pressure parameters and shocks the heart in inverse relation to the arterial pressure, if the cardiac output is insufficient. In another implementation, the implantable system applies atrial anti-tachycardia pacing before applying ventricular anti-tachycardia pacing, if the heart rate is tachycardic.
US07970443B2
An expandable screen is for displaying display information according to a display mode command. The expandable screen includes a main screen, an extension screen, and a display controller. The extension screen pivotally connected to the main screen via a hinge. The display controller is for receiving the displaying information and the display mode command, and for controlling the main screen and the extension screen according to the display mode command. A mobile phone using the expandable screen, and a display controlling method are also disclosed.
US07970442B2
A chain-shaped foldable cellphone capable of expanding functions and changing shape during usage comprises a mainframe module, a display module, more than one dual-spindle connecting block and an expansible module or an extensive module, wherein the extensive module is a complementary connector of the expansible module, and the neighboring ends of the two modules can be connected mutually while the distant ends thereof can be connected to one of the spindles of one dual-spindle connecting block respectively; by using the pivotal connection of the dual-spindle connecting block, the mainframe module is pivotally connected to the display module, and a plurality of extensive module and expansible module of various functions can be further pivotally connected to construct a chain-shaped foldable cellphone.
US07970437B2
A wireless terminal device having network access is disclosed. Selection of menus is simplified by allowing selection of more than one input such as direct touching of the screen, virtual keyboards or roller buttons. A focus marker in the form of a border around a field may be used to limit the area of selection. An object menu icon is visible without needing a right click of a mouse to make selection of the menu easier. The selection of options is localized and parsed at the network server before a response to the user selection is sent back to the terminal.
US07970432B2
The stationary body 12 comprises a plurality of operation keys 18 and two or more microphones 22 and 24. The movable body 16 comprises a receiver 34 and a liquid crystal image displaying surface 32, and is connected to the stationary body 12 by the hinge 14 so that the movable body 16 can be folded to the stationary body 12. The movable body 16 further comprises a structure 40 by which a user or others can recognize the presence of the microphones. The microphones 22 and 24 can be used for conversation purposes or for recording sound in stereo. The structure 40 capable of indicating the presence of two or more microphones can guide sound to the microphones. The structure 40 capable of indicating the presence of the microphones is constituted in such a manner that the user or others can see a hole provided on the wall above the microphone or a recess portion communicated with the hole.
US07970427B2
A method for controlling an output of a power amplifier of a portable communication device includes determining a power level of a signal received at the portable communication device, generating a receive reference signal (RXLEV) that is indicative of the power level of the signal received at the portable communication device, and determining whether the receive reference signal is within a threshold value window. When the receive reference signal is within the threshold value window a nominal power output of a power amplifier in the portable communication device is transmitted during a random access channel signal transmission. When the receive reference signal is below the threshold value, a power output of the power amplifier in the portable communication device is increased during the random access channel signal transmission. When the receive reference signal is above the threshold value, a power output of the power amplifier in the portable communication device is decreased during the random access channel signal transmission.
US07970425B2
A push-to-talk (“PTT”) group call system, for use as, e.g., a public safety wireless network, includes a CDMA-based 1x-EVDO radio access network operably connected to a PTT server over an IP network. The radio access network includes base stations for radio communications with a number of distributed mobile stations. In carrying out wireless communications, the group call system combines IP-based voice and other real-time multimedia services with the 1x-EVDO radio access network's Broadcast Multicast Service. This allows a number of users to receive the same copy of an IP-based media stream for point-to-multipoint, group transmissions. To reduce call setup times, the group call system uses “standing” call groups, which are ongoing group communication channels pre-established between the PTT server and authorized group users. Thus, mobile stations link to one or more standing call groups of interest upon power-up, prior to users speaking.
US07970421B2
The present system uses dynamic assignment of key codes to select options of response content in request messages prior to transmission from an application server to a communication device. Dynamic assignment of key codes to selection options can occur according to a list of key codes having a predefined order also known as a predefined key code series. A key code series could be ordered according to ergonomic considerations or other considerations such as according to an alphabetic or numeric ordering. Communication occurs between one or more server applications running on an application server and a particular communication device, such as a cell phone. Dynamic key code assignment addresses problems raised when one communication device is concurrently carrying on more than one session with one or more server applications since the communication device identifier, such as a phone number, will be the same for all sessions.
US07970420B2
A novel and improved method and system for paging a cellular telephone or other wireless terminal using two paging channels that reduces standby mode power consumption described. In one embodiment of the invention, a minimally encoded quick paging channel is established over which short, quick page messages are transmitted during one of a set of quick paging slots. The quick page message indicates that a communications request has been received, and that the receiving communication terminals should process a highly encoded full paging channel over which more detailed, full page messages are transmitted during the next full paging slot. A terminal monitors full paging channel only after a quick page message has been received on the quick paging channel.
US07970415B2
A system for locating a device in a wireless network that caches a known location and sets an expiration time based on the location. The system correlates the location with known places, such as movie theaters, restaurants, etc. to set the expiration time. For example, if a device was known to be at a movie theater, the expiration time would be set to a longer period of time. However, if the device was determined to be in a moving location, the expiration time would be set to a shorter period of time. The system also includes a mechanism to query the cached location based on a current time of the query and a granularity variable the accounts for a geographic area in which the device is located. The system also accounts for special locations where the mobile device will likely not be moving for long periods of time, or locations where the mobile device may move great distances between determinations of actual location.
US07970413B2
A mobile phone performs a search operation for searching for a communicable access point when a state of being able to communicate with an access point changes to a state of being unable to communicate. When a search operation is performed, the mobile phone displays that the search operation is being performed. In order to reduce power consumption, when the mobile phone displays that the search operation is being performed, the search operation is halted in response to acceptance of an input of an instruction to halt the search operation.
US07970407B2
This invention relates to a method of optimising the capacity of at least one WCDMA type mobile telephony network (RT) to create at least one additional service (MBMS) for which the data flow is predominantly in the downlink direction, the method being characterized in that it includes the following steps: creation of at least one planned traffic map (CT) representing the forecast coverage of the network (RT) and the power necessary to use services, for at least one planned deployment date (DD) for the network (RT); calculation of the power available in each cell (CR) in the network (RT) in the absence of emission diversity and then a step of calculation of the power available in each cell (CR) in the network (RT) in the presence of emission diversity; creation of at least one list of cells for which emission diversity has to be installed as a function of at least a number (N) of transmission channels required for the service (MBMS) for which the flow is predominantly in the downlink direction.
US07970398B2
A method for provisioning, registering and authenticating a mobile phone on a basestation is provided. The method includes receiving an addition request for the addition of a mobile station to a basestation authorization record via an interface. The method continues with creating an entry for the mobile station, where the entry includes mobile station information, and receiving a registration request including request information from the mobile station to register to receive basestation based services via the associated internet multimedia subsystem network. The method also includes authorizing registration on the IMS network based at least in part on the request information.
US07970396B2
A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a terminal in a session-based position information system is discussed. Network-initiation of area-based positioning of a roaming terminal is discriminated according to a proxy mode and a non-proxy mode, and area-based positioning for the roaming terminal is performed in various manners according to whether an SLP for performing the positioning procedure with respect to the discriminated modes is a V-SLP or an H-SLP.
US07970393B2
An application development system comprises a test-enable authority configured to store test-enable software for a plurality of mobile communication devices. In order to develop new applications, e.g. BREW applications, for a mobile communication device, the mobile communication device should be “test-enabled.” Mobile communication devices can be test-enabled using test-enable software that can, for example, be downloaded from the test-enable authority by a software developer. In one aspect, the test-enable software can install on the developer's computer, run a predetermined number of times and then uninstall. This allows communication device manufacturers to control the number of test-enabled communication devices in the market. In addition, this can save time, money, and effort for communication device manufacturers as well as developers.
US07970392B1
A method of call forwarding a call originally placed to a mobile telephone number of a mobile telephone to a landline telephone number of a landline telephone is provided, wherein the call is routed through a telephone network by a service provider. A forwarding location of the mobile telephone is determined using a mobile location technology. The landline telephone number of the landline telephone is provided to the service provider. A current mobile telephone location is determined by a mobile location technology. The mobile location technology is capable of locating the mobile telephone using service provider equipment. The service provider determines that the call is being made to the mobile telephone when the current mobile telephone location is at the forwarding location. The call to the mobile telephone number is forwarded to the landline telephone number when the current mobile telephone location is at the forwarding location.
US07970387B2
A method of personalizing a call set-up of a mobile radio terminal includes acquiring contact information associated with a callable device. The contact information includes call set-up audio data corresponding to audio content selected by a user of the device. The contact information is stored as an entry in a database maintained by the mobile radio terminal. The audio content corresponding to the call set-up audio data is played back when the entry is selected.
US07970386B2
A system is disclosed in which a wireless device is monitored and maintained over a network. One embodiment of the system comprises a wireless device including: a service to maintain data objects, provide messaging capability, and provide data access capability on behalf of a user of the wireless device; and a rules engine communicatively coupled to the service to execute a set of rules transmitted to the wireless device from a server, the set of rules to instruct the rules engine to gather information related to the wireless device and to take action on the wireless device based on the gathered information.
US07970380B2
A method in a communication network wherein users are authenticated based on network originated user identities is disclosed. The authentication method comprising the steps of receiving a network originated identity from a user and associating the network originated identity with at least one non-network originated identity stored in a data storage. When a non-network originated identity is received from the user, the non-network originated identity from the user is compared with the at least one non-network originated identity from the data storage. The user is authenticated if the comparison is valid.
US07970378B2
A method for verifying a purported location of a wide area network user is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving information from a user via a wide area network, including a purported geographical location of the network user. A first network address from which the information is received is recoded, and an access code is generated and recorded. The access code is broadcast in a defined region that includes the purported geographical location of the user. A user access code is then received via the wide area network from the user. The user access code is compared with the access code broadcast in a defined region, and the first network address is compared to a second network address from which the user access code is received. If the codes and addresses match, the geographical location of the user is considered verified and the user may be validated. Various methods for broadcasting the access code and various systems for implementing the method are disclosed.
US07970374B2
Systems and methods for communicating over a power line are configured to substantially simultaneously communicate over a plurality of wideband frequency ranges. Signals may be communicated two or from a communication node at two different frequencies simultaneously. These signals may be exchanged with different nodes and/or include independent data. In some embodiments, some of the wideband frequency ranges are above 30 MHz.
US07970373B2
A direct sampling tuner includes a low noise amplifier and an optional dynamically configurable band pass filter coupled to the low noise amplifier. The optional filter is configured to pass a selected band of channels. The tuner further includes a relatively high accuracy, multi-bit analog-to-digital converter (“ADC”) coupled to the LNA or to the optional dynamically configurable band pass filter. The ADC operates at greater than about twice a frequency of a sampled signal. The ADC directly samples the spectrum of the selected channels at the Nyquist rate, thus avoiding image problems presented by conventional tuners.
US07970367B1
System for dual diversity receiver using switched LNAs. A dual diversity receiver is provided that includes two antennas to receive a radio signal, where each antenna produces an antenna signal that is representative of the received radio signal. The receiver includes first and second LNAs that receive the respective antenna signals and output first and second amplified signals. The receiver also includes logic to determine the stronger antenna signal and select one of the LNA outputs for processing by the receiver.
US07970362B2
A transmitter has a power amplifier (40) to amplify an input signal having amplitude modulation, a supply voltage controller (10) to control a supply voltage of the power amplifier (40) according to the envelope, a sensor (R1) for sensing a modulation of a current drawn by the power amplifier (40), a delay detector (20) for detecting a delay of the controlled supply voltage relative to the sensed current, and a delay adjuster (30) for compensating the relative delay according to the detected delay. By sensing a current drawn, the delay detected can include any delay contributed by the power amplifier (40) up to that point, and yet avoid the more complex circuitry needed to derive the delay from an output of the power amplifier. Thus the distortion and out of band emissions caused by differential delays can be reduced more effectively.
US07970361B2
A user equipment (UE) without service in a communication system measures the radio-frequency (RF) power in a bandwidth received by the UE on the possible downlink carriers in a frequency band that is supported by the UE. The bandwidth is typically the bandwidth of communication channels in the communication system. If the UE supports more than one frequency band, the UE may scan more than one of those frequency bands. The UE processes the measurement results with a noise-reducing enhancement technique, such as a median filter, and then examines the processed results for a particular spectral shape, e.g., a shape that corresponds to a cell signal.
US07970355B2
The present invention describes a method of closed loop MIMO communication utilizing implicit or explicit channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter performs linear pre-processing (for example, QR decomposition or bi-diagonal decomposition or Jacobi rotations, and/or sporadic SVDs) on a channel matrix, and the receiver mitigates the mutual interference between the streams by performing MMSE processing on the received signals. The MMSE matrix is computed with respect to the processed channel that may estimated by the receiver through preprocessed pilot signals. The transmitters preprocessing is of much lesser cost and complexity than full SVD.
US07970349B2
The present invention improves a system capacity and satisfaction rate with a quality of service in packet communications performed through a radio link established between a transmitting station and a receiving station by dynamically limiting transmission power of packets in the transmitting station and keeping an increase of an interference level in the receiving station, which belongs to another cell, within a TPC margin. The present invention includes a resource allocator 115 configured to set transmission power of packets in a next step period, by use of transmission power of packets in a preceding step period (slot) and an interference level of the receiving station.
US07970348B2
A solution is disclosed for minimizing the amount of hardware and hardware accuracy requirements to simultaneously give the feature of both cell and narrow beams transmission, while enabling methods for capacity/coverage increase. The main property utilized by the present invention for maintaining cell-coverage pattern control, when radiating information in two simultaneous beams, is to use orthogonal polarization states for the two beams. The two orthogonal polarization states may for instance constitute linear polarization slanted at +45° and −45°, respectively. The dedicated broadcast transmission needs to be conveyed defining the total cell coverage area. The total cell coverage area is matched by the coverage of the two fixed narrow-beams. The broadcast signal transmission is divided into two signal streams/paths, one for each of the two fixed narrow-beams (no coherency requirements existing between the two parallel signal streams/paths). The two broadcast signal streams/paths are combined by means of combiner units with the dedicated combined signals from all fixed narrow-beam selected users in each of the two branches. The signals to the two antennas are then transmitted having an orthogonal polarization.
US07970347B2
A transmission method for use in a multi-hop wireless communication system is provided. Furthermore, the system has access to a time-frequency format for use in assigning available transmission frequency bandwidth during a discrete transmission interval. The format defines a plurality of transmission windows within such an interval, where each window occupies a different part of that interval and has a frequency bandwidth profile within the available transmission frequency bandwidth over its part of that interval. Furthermore, each window being assignable for such a transmission interval to one of said apparatuses for use in transmission. The transmission method for use in this system includes employing said format for one or more such transmission intervals to transmit data and control information together along at least two consecutive said links as a set of successive transmission signals, link by link. Each said signal is transmitted in an available transmission window of said interval(s) and at least two of said signals are transmitted during the same said transmission interval such that said information is transmitted along said consecutive links in fewer transmission intervals than said number of consecutive links.
US07970329B2
An image heating apparatus includes an endless belt for heating an image on a recording material at a nip; magnetic flux generating means, disposed opposed to an outer surface of the endless belt, for generating a magnetic flux to cause the belt to generate heat; a metal member disposed inside the belt and supporting a member which is disposed inside the belt; and a magnetic flux reducing member, disposed between the metal member and an opposing portion of the belt which is opposed to the magnetic flux generating means, for reducing a magnetic flux actable on the metal member.
US07970324B2
A developer carrier is provided in a rotatable manner. A layer-thickness control member makes a layer thickness of a developer carried on the developer carrier uniform. An accelerated agglomeration degree of the developer is equal to or less than 40%. The layer-thickness control member is formed with a blade. An angle between a rolling direction of the blade and a rotating direction of the developer carrier is set to 5 degrees to 80 degrees.
US07970322B2
A developing roller includes a cylindrical sleeve that holds developer on a peripheral surface thereof, and a magnet roller being provided in the sleeve and having a plurality of magnetic poles. The sleeve includes a plurality of micro-recesses formed on the peripheral surface thereof, and the plurality of micro-recesses are arranged dispersedly in the axial direction and the circumferential direction of the sleeve. The densities of the micro-recesses in both end portions of the sleeve are larger than the density of the micro-recesses in a central portion of the sleeve.
US07970318B2
A charging device (10) includes electrospray means for inducing electrospraying through application of a voltage to an incoming liquid (11), in order to produce charged liquid droplets (13). The device (10) charges a photoreceptor drum (1) by means of the liquid droplets (13). Hence, the invention provides a charging device capable of reducing ozone production while preventing the charging device and the electrostatic latent image carrier from degrading or wearing out from friction between the device and the carrier and provides also an image forming device incorporating the charging device.
US07970311B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a developing device including: a roller that develops an electric latent image formed on an image holding body; a chamber that stores a toner; a case that houses the roller and the chamber; a concave portion that is inwardly concaved from the case and that includes: a sidewall, a bottom, and a filling port formed in the bottom; and a first lid that closes the filling port.
US07970290B2
The present invention provides a digital phase estimator, a digital phase locked loop and an optical coherent receiver. The optical coherent receiver comprises a local oscillator laser, for supplying a local oscillator optical signal; an optical 90 degree frequency mixer, for mixing a received optical signal with the local oscillator optical signal; first and second balancing photoelectric detectors, for converting the optical signals outputted from the optical 90 degree frequency mixer into baseband electrical signals; first and second A/D converters, for respectively converting output signals from the first and the second balancing photoelectric detectors into digital signals; a digital phase locked loop, for compensating a phase difference between a carrier signal of the received optical signal and the local oscillator optical signal, and outputting the compensated signal; and a data recovering unit, for recovering data from the compensated signal.
US07970280B2
A method and apparatus is provided for tracking a thermally floating wavelength signal channel grid generated at an optical transmitter (Tx) in an optical transmission system or optical network where the wavelengths of the individual Tx signal channels may move in wavelength due to, for example, changes in ambient temperature at the optical transmitter but the channel spacing between Tx signal channels along the thermally floating Tx wavelength grid remains constant. An optical receiver (Rx) is provided that has a demultiplexed signal channel grid that may have a different channel spacing from that of the floating Tx wavelength grid, that is either larger, the same as, or smaller Rx grid spacing compared to the Tx grid spacing, and includes a number of demultiplexed channel signal outputs along an Rx channel grid in excess of the number of Tx signal channels on the Tx channel grid so that the optical receiver is capable of detecting the floating Tx channel grid and providing electrical output signals representative of the Tx channel signals transported over the optical network.
US07970278B2
A flexible open ring optical network includes a plurality of nodes connected by twin or other suitable optical rings. Each node is operable to passively add and passively drop traffic from the rings. The nodes may include a transport element for each ring. The transport elements include an optical splitter element and an optical combiner element. The optical splitter element is operable to passively combine an add signal including local add traffic and a first transport signal including ingress traffic from a coupled optical ring to generate a second transport signal including egress traffic for transmission on the coupled optical ring. The optical combiner element is coupled to the optical splitter element and is operable to passively split a third transport signal including the ingress traffic to generate a drop signal including local drop traffic and a fourth transport signal including the ingress traffic. Protection switching may be provided by selectively openable switches disposed in and distributed around the rings.
US07970276B1
There is provided a frame structure for stereoscopic imaging. First and second cameras may be mounted to the structure to respectively record first and second images which may be combined to produce a three-dimensional image. The frame structure comprises a casing sized and shaped to receive a beam splitting device therein and first and second camera supports mounted to a sidewall of the casing for respectively holding the first and second cameras. Each camera support comprises an outer frame defining an internal cavity to receive a corresponding camera therein, and attaching means which comprise at least three connecting portions contacting the casing sidewall and positioned around an opening of the casing sidewall. This configuration substantially prevents deformation of the frame structure due to bending.
US07970258B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07970257B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus comprises an image extraction module, an image list display process module, and a playback module. The image extraction module extracts a plurality of representative images from a sequence of video content data, and outputs time stamp information which is indicative of a time point at which each of the plurality of extracted representative images appears in the video content data. The image list display process module displays, on a display area, a list of representative images appearing in a period from a start position to a predetermined display constraining position of the sequence of the video content data among the plurality of extracted representative images, and constrains the display of the representative images appearing after the display constraining position among the plurality of representative images. The playback module plays back the video content data in response to input of a playback request event.
US07970255B2
An information record medium contains video information indicating a main-video, sub-video information indicating a sub-video which can be displayed at least partially over the main-video, and sub-video control information including sub-frame range information specifying at least a part of the region in the sub-video as a sub-frame and sub-frame control information for controlling display of a sub-frame displayed over the main-video. The sub-frame control information includes dynamic control information includes dynamic control information for dynamically displaying the sub-frame.
US07970248B2
Included among the many structures described herein are photonic bandgap fibers designed to provide a desired dispersion spectrum. Additionally, designs for achieving wide transmission bands and lower transmission loss are also discussed. For example, in some fiber designs, smaller dimensions of high index material in the cladding and large core size provide small flat dispersion over a wide spectral range. In other examples, the thickness of the high index ring-shaped region closest to the core has sufficiently large dimensions to provide negative dispersion or zero dispersion at a desired wavelength. Additionally, low index cladding features distributed along concentric rings or circles may be used for achieving wide bandgaps.
US07970242B2
A fiber-based electric apparatus includes an elongate, flexible fiber core. The apparatus also includes an electric device layered on the fiber core.
US07970240B1
A computer based, digital image management system that visually presents an entire archive in a manner that facilitates easy, non-textual, searching for specific images. The system consists of two main elements; a file management methodology, and a graphical user interface. The file management method utilizes reference files that contain multiple properties (metadata) relating to each image file. Image files are grouped into a multiplicity of collections based on user-defined associations of the properties. The graphical user interface visually represents the groups of image files on 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional graphic metaphors. In addition, the graphical interface uses multiple display variables such as icons, mnemonics, size, movement, color, and luminance to signify relationships between groups, and/or communicate key properties of individual or groups of images.
US07970231B2
An image processing method has an edge intensity value calculating section (4) for calculating an edge intensity value in a neighborhood of a pixel of interest from feature values of micro regions calculated by a feature value calculating section (3); an edge intensity value correcting section (5) for correcting the edge intensity value calculated by the edge intensity value calculating section (4) in accordance with an edge intensity correction curve; and a filter value calculating section (6) for calculating a low-pass filter value of the pixel of interest from image signal values of neighboring pixels having the same color component as the pixel of interest. It corrects the image signal value of the pixel of interest by carrying out weighted addition of the image signal value of the pixel of interest and the low-pass filter value using the edge intensity values before and after the correction.
US07970230B2
A method of reducing ringing artifacts in image data that has been filtered with a high frequency emphasis filter. For each filtered data value, a local variance is calculated from data values at neighboring filter taps. This variance is compared to a threshold, and if the threshold is exceeded, the filtered data value is limited between local minimum and maximum values. A method of reducing noise, also using the local variance, is also described.
US07970225B2
An image processing device includes a processor controlling one or more components of the image processing device, a region extraction unit for separating and extracting a character region, a graphic region and a photograph region from image data; a region compression unit for performing a compression process for each of the region data extracted by the region extraction unit; a region synthesis unit for synthesizing the region data compressed by the region compression unit; and an image size calculation unit for calculating an image size of specific region data extracted by the region extraction unit. The region compression unit selectively uses a first compression method or a second compression method to perform the compression process for the specific region data.
US07970218B1
A method of filtering and encoding video data in a compressed format is provided. The method includes receiving pixels representing video data from an initial video display, receiving pixels representing video data from a subsequent video display, selecting a group of pixels from the subsequent video display as new video data, determining filtered pixel values from the new video data, and encoding the filtered values in a compressed format for communication to another computer accessible via a computer network.
US07970201B2
A system, method and computer program product for defect detection, the method includes: (i) retrieving a second pixel of a second image that corresponds to a tested pixel of a first image of the object; wherein the first and second images were obtained using different acquisition methods; (ii) searching a third pixel of the second image such that a neighborhood of the second pixel is similar to a neighborhood of the third pixel; (iii) retrieving a fourth pixel of the first image that corresponds to the third pixel; and (iv) comparing between the tested pixel and the fourth pixel.
US07970194B2
An image processing apparatus includes a storage unit, a specifying unit, a calculation unit and a display unit. The storage unit stores diffusion weighted image data. The specifying unit specifies a calculation target region on the diffusion weighted image data. The calculation unit calculates at least one of a diffusion coefficient and a fractional anisotropy serving an index of diffusion anisotropy with regard to the calculation target region based on the diffusion weighted image data. The display unit displays at least one of the diffusion coefficient and the fractional anisotropy calculated by the calculation unit.
US07970191B2
A method for downsampling fluoroscopic images and enhancing guidewire visibility during coronary angioplasty includes providing a first digitized image, filtering the image with one or more steerable filters of different angular orientations, assigning a weight W and orientation O for each pixel based on the filter response for each pixel, wherein each pixel weight is assigned to a function of a maximum filter response magnitude and the pixel orientation is calculated from the angle producing the maximum filter response if the magnitude is greater than zero, wherein guidewire pixels have a higher weight than non-guidewire pixels, and downsampling the orientation and weights to calculate a second image of half the resolution of the first image, wherein the downsampling accounts for the orientation and higher weight assigned to the guidewire pixels.
US07970187B2
A method has been described for deriving contour data in X-Ray images for vessels with differential absorption through applying a contour-finding algorithm on a shadow image and finding the vessel borders through segmentation based on image intensities. In particular, the method uses the following steps: finding a densitometric area of an above mentioned vessel, and displacing one or both of the borders inward until the densitometric measurement result between the borders after such displacing will start to change significantly. Furthermore, a specific procedure is introduced to automatically determine the conversion factor to equate the densitometrically based diameter to the contour based diameter of the vessel and to discriminate bifurcating or parallel vessels.
US07970184B2
A digital image acquisition device is for acquiring digital images including one or more preview images. A face detector analyzes the one or more preview images to ascertain information relating to candidate face regions therein. A speed-optimized filter produces a first set of candidate red-eye regions based on the candidate face region information provided by the face detector.
US07970179B2
A process for extracting iris data for biometric identification includes a thresholding method where the thresholds are selected according to a nonparametric approach that considers the grey scale and does not require classifying pixels as edge or non-edge pixels. An eye image is first acquired, where the eye image has component images including an iris image with an inner boundary and an outer boundary. The eye image has a distribution of grey levels. Component images, such as an iris image or a pupil image, from the eye image are segmented according to the distribution of grey levels. The inner boundary and outer boundary of the iris image are determined from the component images. The iris image within the inner boundary and outer boundary is processed for biometric identification. The component images may be segmented by creating an eye histogram of pixel intensities from the distribution of grey levels.
US07970177B2
A system for distance calculation is disclosed. The system includes an illuminator unit, one or more camera units, and a distance processor. The illuminator unit illuminates a scene in a target area using a textured pattern creator and wherein the textured pattern creator includes a diffractive optical element. The one or more camera units captures two or more images of the target area from two or more physical locations. A textured pattern illumination is visible in each of the two or more images of the target area. The images are used to calculate distances to one or more points in the scene in the target area.
US07970170B2
Methods and systems for image processing are provided. A method for processing images of a scene includes receiving image data of a reference and a current frame; generating N motion vectors that describe motion of the image data within the scene by computing a correlation function on the reference and current frames at each of N registration points; registering the current frame based on the N motion vectors to produce a registered current frame; and updating the image data of the scene based on the registered current frame. Optionally, registered frames may be oversampled. Techniques for generating the N motion vectors according to roll, zoom, shift and optical flow calculations, updating image data of the scene according to switched and intermediate integration approaches, re-introducing smoothed motion into image data of the scene, re-initializing the process, and processing images of a scene and moving target within the scene are provided.
US07970167B2
The present invention relates generally to deriving identifying data from sample values representing video or audio. One claim recites a method including: obtaining identifying data from an electronic processor that derives the identifying data from sample values representing audio or video; providing the identifying data to a database; receiving advertising information from the database, the advertising information being associated with the audio or video, and the advertising information having been identified in the database utilizing at least the identifying data; and providing the advertising information to a consumer. Of course, other combinations are provided and claimed too.
US07970163B2
A method for controlling a communication system comprising obtaining moving picture data, inquiring about processing capability with respect to the obtained moving picture data, changing a preset transfer rate of the moving picture data to a changed transfer rate based on the inquiry results, and transmitting the moving picture data using the preset transfer rate or the changed transfer rate.
US07970155B2
An external speaker control apparatus causes only one of an internal speaker and an external speaker to output audio when a power supply of the external speaker control apparatus which controls the external speaker changes from an off state to an on state, the external speaker being a speaker outside a video and audio output apparatus. The external speaker control apparatus includes a microcomputer for detecting the change of the power supply of an amplifier from an off state to an on state and a HDMI/CEC communication unit or outputting an instruction requesting output of information which indicates the audio output mode to the video and audio output apparatus while at the same time receiving the information indicating the audio detects the change of the power supply from an off state to an on state, wherein the microcomputer controls the output of the audio from the external speaker according to the information indicating the audio output mode.
US07970154B2
A condenser microphone is obtained, in which the bias of a current amplifier circuit in emitter-follower connection immediately after an impedance converter automatically changes in accordance with the switching of phantom power supply voltages and the maximum output level and the maximum permissible input sound pressure level are increased at any power supply voltage. The condenser microphone comprising a transistor Q2 in emitter-follower connection immediately after an FET 2 that constitutes an impedance converter Q1 has a constant current diode D2 connected to an output transformer TRS that also serves as a transformer for phantom power source supply and resistors R0 and R1 that divide the voltage on the cathode side of the constant current diode D2 into a bias voltage that causes the transistor Q2 to operate.
US07970148B1
A method and apparatus for providing simultaneous enhancement of transmission loss and absorption coefficient using activated cavities is presented. A layer of material is provided, and a backing plate having a plurality of cavities on the top surface of said backing plate, is disposed adjacent a top surface of said layer of material. A screen is disposed along the top surface of said cavities on said backing plate and at least one cavity includes an actuator disposed within the cavity and a control system receiving a signal from the microphone and receiving a signal from the accelerometer and providing a drive signal to the actuator to provide an acoustic output to provide simultaneous insertion loss and absorption which serves to minimize a linear combination of the signal from the microphone and the signal from the accelerometer.
US07970146B2
To improve the adjustment of the settings of a hearing aid or a hearing instrument respectively, a method is proposed according to which at least one setting of the hearing aid or instrument respectively for a particular acoustic environment is changed or deviated from the actual setting without any preceding action or manipulation of the user to provoke the user to interact or to readjust the setting.
US07970142B2
A technique that decrypts data stored on removable media, if the device on which the encryption was performed is lost, unavailable, or the user credentials are lost. In example embodiment, this is achieved by using the administrator UID, the administrator UDID, the removable media, the names of one or more data files to be decrypted, the administrator Pswd, and a KeyID to decrypt data stored on the removable media associated with a lost or unavailable mobile device on which encryption was performed.
US07970141B2
The present invention relates to a method for traitor tracing. One embodiment of a method for determining at least one traced private key used by a decoder to decrypt an encrypted message includes defining an input ciphertext, the input ciphertext being associated with a tracing private key and having a sublinear size, calling the decoder on the input ciphertext, and associating the tracing private key with a set of traced private keys if the decoder is able to correctly decrypt the encrypted message in accordance with the input ciphertext, the set of traced private keys including at least one private key.
US07970130B2
Low-latency method and apparatus of GHASH operation for authenticated encryption Galois Counter Mode
Disclosed is a low-latency method and apparatus of GHASH operation for authenticated encryption Galois Counter Mode (GCM), which simultaneously computes three interim values respectively yielded from the additional authenticated data A, the ciphertext C, and the hash key H defined in the GCM. Then, the output of the GHASH operation may be derived. Assuming that A has m blocks and C has n blocks, this disclosure performs the GHASH operation with max {m,n}+1 steps. The input order for the additional authenticated data A and the ciphertext C may be independent. A disordered sequence for the additional authenticated data A and the ciphertext C may also be accepted by this disclosure. This allows the applications in GCM to be more flexible.
US07970124B2
A system and method for provide a stable gain from an adaptive gain control device in a signal path. An echo canceller is also located in the signal path, and is used to provide performance information regarding losses in the signal. This performance information is fed to the automatic gain control device via a connection. The automatic gain control device thereafter uses the performance information to determine a maximum gain that might be provided based upon losses cause by echo conditions. The gain however is limited in order to provide for a stable system. The performance information includes a loss rate that includes a combination of the echo return loss and the echo return loss enhancement.
US07970116B2
A method and apparatus for notifying an end user of a messaging event in a multi-user setting is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that selectively identifies one or more parties to whom a messaging event is directed according to one or more matches between a caller identifier associated with the messaging event and one or more entries in a plurality of contact books corresponding to a plurality of users of the terminal device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US07970109B2
A voicemail system enabling various components of the voicemail system to be distributed geographically yet operate as a seamlessly integrated system is disclosed. A signal gateway interfaces with a telephone network. In addition, one or more media servers interface with the signal gateway as well as the telephone network. The signal gateway is configured to block calls to malfunctioning media servers. The signal gateway monitors the media servers, and responsive to determining that a media server has malfunctioned, the signal gateway initiates auto-blocking such that the telephone network does not route calls to the malfunctioning media server. In addition, the signal gateway is configured to auto-detect a media server responsive to the media server being initialized. The voicemail system can include a variety of other elements, such as one or more system management units and one or more central data and message store systems. Each of the elements in the voicemail system communicate with each other over an internet protocol type network. Any functions in the various elements that require interfacing with the telephone network are simply handled through the signal gateway.
US07970108B2
An enhanced services system for a telecommunications network includes operator equipment accessible by an operator, and a routing system for routing a call from a caller to the operator equipment. The caller may access e-mail creation and service and/or interpreter services. A method of sending an electronic message includes routing a call from a caller to operator equipment using a routing system, inputting information provided by the caller into the operator equipment to create an electronic message, and sending the electronic message to at least one recipient. A method of translating a telephone conversation includes providing a routing system to connect to operator equipment a call from a caller, routing the call to the operator equipment using the routing system to enable communications between at least the caller and a bilingual operator, and translating at least a portion of the conversation between the caller and a third party.
US07970106B2
An enhanced Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) based voicemail system that has a distributed architecture and methods for implementing enhanced VXML based voicemail systems are disclosed. The voicemail system includes a media server, which is in communication with a telephone network. The media server is adapted to invoke a voicemail service of the distributed voicemail system and adapted to render at least a first portion of a Voice eXtensible Markup Language (VXML) page. An application server, which is in communication with the media server, is adapted to generate a VXML page and provide the VXML page to the media server. The XVML page has a tag embedded therein, and the media server processes the tag. A voicemail-account monitorer, which monitors at least a portion of the voicemail system, is invoked by the media server processing the tag.
US07970100B2
A mammography apparatus includes a detector that detects X-rays transmitted through a breast, and an optically transparent or semitransparent pressing panel for pressing the breast. The apparatus further includes a near infrared ray source that provided between the X-ray source and the pressing panel and arranged in a two-dimensional shape in alignment with the pressing panel, and that is movable between a first position in close contact with the pressing panel and a second position outside an X-ray image capture region. Near infrared image capture is carried out using the near infrared ray source by causing the near infrared ray source to be in the first position, and the near infrared ray source is caused to retract to the second position when carrying out X-ray image capture using the X-ray source.
US07970089B2
An apparatus that reduces sampling errors for data communicated between devices uses phase information acquired from a timing reference signal such as a strobe signal to align a data-sampling signal for sampling a data signal that was sent along with the timing reference signal. The data-sampling signal may be provided by adjustably delaying a clock signal according to the phase information acquired from the strobe signal. The data-sampling signal may also have an improved waveform compared to the timing reference signal, including a fifty percent duty cycle and sharp transitions. The phase information acquired from the timing reference signal may also be used for other purposes, such as aligning received data with a local clock domain, or transmitting data so that it arrives at a remote device in synchronism with a reference clock signal at the remote device.
US07970081B2
A wireless communication device uses a time-invariant delay-Doppler channel response estimate for received signal demodulation. The device provides coherent signal demodulation by accounting for frequency and time selectivity in a land-based mobile communication environment, which arise mainly because of delay and Doppler shifts, respectively. In one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a channel estimator that estimates channel response in a wireless communication network by estimating a delay-Doppler response of a wireless communication channel to obtain a delay-Doppler channel response estimate and converting the delay-Doppler channel response estimate to a time-varying channel response estimate, e.g., a time-varying frequency or impulse response. The delay-Doppler response may be estimated in a continuous or discrete domain. In one embodiment, the channel estimator includes a delay-Doppler correlator that measures the delay-Doppler response by observing a response of a wireless communication channel to a pilot signal and converting the observed response to a delay-Doppler domain.
US07970067B1
An OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) receiver is equalized by dividing each of a plurality of received OFDM symbols into a plurality of sub-symbols and outputting each of Fourier-converted signals corresponding to each of the sub-symbols, and estimating a channel response corresponding to each of the divided sub-symbols.
US07970066B1
A system includes an input, a variable gain amplifier (VGA), and an automatic gain control (AGC) module. The input receives an input signal. The input signal includes frames of N symbols modulated using orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), wherein a cyclic prefix (CP) precedes each of the N symbols, and wherein N is an integer greater than 1. The VGA provides a gain when amplifying the input signal. The AGC module selectively adjusts the gain of the VGA during the CP preceding M of the N symbols, wherein M is an integer greater than 1.
US07970063B2
A field transmitter includes field device circuitry configured to measure or control a process variable. A first process control loop terminal is configured to couple to a two-wire process control loop which carries a loop current. A second process control loop terminal configured to couple to the two-wire process control loop. A switching regulator has an input and an output. The output is coupled to the transmitter circuitry and arranged to provide power to the transmitter circuitry. A variable voltage source having an input electrically coupled to the first process control loop terminal, and a voltage output coupled to the input of the switching regulator and a control input. The voltage output is a function of the control input.
US07970061B2
A video decoder is connected with a block distortion detector for specifying the boundary of blocks where block boundary occurs, using decoded image data and information of motion vectors, which are supplied from the video decoder; and a block distortion remover for subjecting pixels in the vicinity of the block boundary of the decoded image to filtering on the basis of the result of detection from the block distortion detector, thereby removing the block distortion. Therefore, block distortion is accurately detected when a compressed and coded image is decoded, and the detected block distortion is removed while minimizing the blurriness of the image.
US07970050B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding in an intra mode based on a multiple scanning method through which efficiency of the intra mode is improved by using a spatial relationship within a frame more and obtaining estimation information from numerous references. The method includes: dividing an input image into basic encoding units composed of predetermined sized blocks; scanning at least one of the basic encoding units; determining whether references for motion estimation of a current basic encoding unit can be used as references to encode the current basic encoding unit; and encoding the current basic encoding unit according to a result of the determination.
US07970049B2
An external video device includes inputs for receiving an audio video signal from a source. The device includes in one enclosure audio and video processor portions configured such that the audio and video processors use a general purpose external bus for coupling electrical signals from the video device to a host computer. In one embodiment, the general purpose external bus is one of an IEEE-1394 bus or a USB bus. The general purpose external bus is used to transmit video from the host computer to the external video encoder and thereby to enhance the encoding efficiency.
US07970037B2
RF power is transmitted to a CO2 gas discharge laser form a source of RF power via a series combination of transmission line sections. The lengths and characteristic impedances of the transmission line sections are selected to transform the impedance of the RF power source to the operating impedance of the laser.
US07970033B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first lead having an element mounting portion; a second lead located in a same plane as the first lead, with a predetermined space left between the first lead and the second lead; a molding encapsulant made of a resin for fixing the leads; and a semiconductor element affixed to a top surface of the element mounting portion of the first lead. The molding encapsulant covers at least part of each of upper and lower surfaces of the leads. A resin injection hole mark, which is a mark of a hole through which the encapsulant has been injected, is left on the encapsulant, and part of the resin injection hole mark is located above the first lead or the second lead, and the remaining part of the resin injection hole mark is located above a space between the first lead and the second lead.
US07970032B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for reducing the phase noise of a laser signal from a laser source. This device comprises a first current generator for supplying a driving current to the laser source in view of producing the laser signal. A phase noise detector is responsive to the laser wavelength for generating a phase error signal and a second current generator is responsive to the phase error signal for generating a compensation current added to the driving current supplied to the laser source for generating a phase-adjusted laser signal. The device therefore defines a phase stabilization loop formed by the phase noise detector and the second current generator, for reducing the phase noise of the laser signal.
US07970030B2
A medical laser device is described that generates a laser beam controllable with presets as to pulse duration, pulse repetition rate, power and energy per pulse. The device also provides presets with respect to water and air outputs. Parametric values for power, pulse duration, pulse repetition rate, and energy per pulse as well as for water and air settings may be programmed by an end user and stored as presets.
US07970026B2
A continuously pumped, mode-locked laser is disclosed, which includes a cavity dumper that can remove a constant fraction of the light from the cavity at every 1/f period of time, independent of the time at which the first pulse in a train is initiated. The cavity dumper includes a modulator and two output arms, denoted as a primary output arm and a secondary output arm. When a user desires a train of pulses, the pulses are directed to the primary output arm. Between trains of pulses, when no pulse is desired by the user, the pulses are directed to the secondary output arm, which terminates in an absorber or at a secondary optical system. In this manner, the energy contained in each output pulse is essentially constant, from pulse-to-pulse and from train-to-train. This may overcome the disadvantage of many lasers that have a single output arm, in which the first pulse in a train may have an energy that depends on the length of the inactive period that immediately precedes the train.
US07970025B2
A method and system for stabilizing a laser to a frequency reference with an adjustable offset. The method locks a sideband signal generated by passing an incoming laser beam through the phase modulator to a frequency reference, and adjusts a carrier frequency relative to the locked sideband signal by changing a phase modulation frequency input to the phase modulator. The sideband signal can be a single sideband (SSB), dual sideband (DSB), or an electronic sideband (ESB) signal. Two separate electro-optic modulators can produce the DSB signal. The two electro-optic modulators can be a broadband modulator and a resonant modulator. With a DSB signal, the method can introduce two sinusoidal phase modulations at the phase modulator. With ESB signals, the method can further drive the optical phase modulator with an electrical signal with nominal frequency Ω1 that is phase modulated at a frequency Ω2.
US07970023B2
A fiber laser arrangement having a high beaming power includes a plurality of continuously operating coherent individual fiber lasers. Pumping energy generated by a common master oscillator operated in the longitudinal mode is distributed to the fiber lasers by way of a fiber splitter, in a branched manner. An integrated electro-optical phase shifter is assigned to each individual fiber laser, and can be controlled by an electronic control system. By appropriate displacements of the optical phases in individual phases of the fiber laser arrangement atmospheric turbulence effects on the propagation path of the laser radiation to a target are compensated in order to obtain an optimal focusing of the entire laser radiation onto the remote target.
US07970019B2
Method and Apparatus for delivering audio signals from a source node to a destination node on a network. The apparatus uses a number of switches that transmit prioritized data on a packet network. The switches are coupled to a number of send/receive nodes for sending and receiving digital audio signals on the data network. The audio packet size and the receive buffers are sized to store a minimum possible number of audio samples to minimize latency in processing audio signals arriving at said receive node, but still ensure audio delivery without interruption due to packet data network delay. An additional feature of the invention is recovery of clock synchronization over the same data network by novel arrangement of transmission of timing packets on the network. By sending a multiplicity of packets at irregular intervals a minimum network transit delay can be determined by each of the receive nodes which allows the receive nodes to filter out packet network transit delay error and maintain accurate local clocks.
US07970017B2
An automatic synchronization method and apparatus that synchronizes data on a peer-to-peer basis across multiple devices. Automatic synchronization occurs on one or more similar user devices from one device to another and does not require synchronization with a central server. No single device acts as a central synchronization server, but all devices on which the application resides and that have the data to be synchronized can communicate with each other directly, or indirectly through other devices that have direct communication with the device on which data is changed.
US07970014B2
The invention concerns a method of providing a real-time communication connection over an IP communication network between a first entity and a second entity, as well as a sending and a receiving device to execute the method. The basic idea of the invention is to fragment non-real-time streams associated with the real-time communication connection at the first entity, to multiplex the fragments of the non-real-time streams into real-time streams of the real-time communication connection at the first entity, and to transmit the multiplexed real-time streams comprising the real-time streams and the fragments of the non-real-time streams via the real-time communication connection from the first entity to the second entity. In order to ensure a reliable quality of service of the real-time data, the real-time part of the multiplexed data stream is assigned the highest priority for transmission. At the second entity, the multiplexed real-time streams are demultiplexed, the fragments of the non-real-time streams are re-composed and the original non-real-time streams are re-generated.
US07970012B2
A packet processing method for exchanging packet data through a plurality of layers is disclosed, that comprises the steps of storing the entire packet to a packet memory; and storing part of each packet of the packet data used in processes of a layer 2 processing portion and a layer 3 processing portion of the plurality of layers to a multi-port shared memory, the layer 2 processing portion and the layer 3 processing portion accessing the same memory space of the multi-port shared memory. In addition, a pipeline processing system is used so that when the layer 2 processing portion and the layer 3 processing portion access the shared memory, they do not interfere with each other.
US07970007B2
A communication apparatus is provided which avoids such a situation that retrieval tables do not correspond with each other, and a broadcast is induced. When an input port or an output port determined by switch function units 121, 131 is a port belonging to a Link Aggregation group, frame identifying units 122, 132 copies a frame, outputs the frame from the output port determined by the switch function units 121, 131, and transfers the copied frame to a header editing 123 and 133. The header editing units 123, 133 generate a header inside an apparatus including a field indicating whether it is a copied frame and a field storing an input port number to attach the header to the frame, and transfer the frame from one of frame transferring units 13, 12 to another.
US07970005B2
Provided is a channel bonding receiving apparatus and method for expanding a channel bonding receiving band in a cable modem. The channel bonding receiving apparatus includes a channel bonding dividing unit for dividing a channel bonding broadband signal into a plurality of band signals and extracting a corresponding channel bonding signal from each of the divided band signals; and a channel routing unit for routing each of the extracted channel bonding signals to a corresponding demodulator.
US07970001B2
A receiver apparatus wherein the processing amount for CQI (Channel Quality Indicator) measurements in a communication system having a plurality of system bandwidths can be reduced. In this apparatus, a narrow band CQI measurement part (109) measures, as a narrow band CQI, the CQI in resource blocks the number of which is required for the CQI measurement from the start position of a narrow bandwidth transmitted from a transmitter apparatus; a wide band CQI measurement part (110) extracts, from a system bandwidth transmitted from the transmitter apparatus, resource blocks the number of which is required for the CQI measurement, and then measures, as a wide band CQI representative of the channel quality of the whole system bandwidth, an average CQI in the extracted resource blocks; and a feedback information generating part (111) generates feedback information including both the narrow band CQI and the wide band CQI.
US07969999B2
A packet-signaling relay device selectively relays incoming signal packets, and includes a random number generation unit which generates a random number, a delete threshold generation unit which generates a delete threshold based on an objective delete probability, a comparison unit which compares the random number and the delete threshold to generate a comparison result, and a delete determination unit which generates a delete/storage determination result based on the comparison result. The packet-signaling relay device further includes a packet receiving-and-storing unit which is responsive to the comparison result to selectively delete or store incoming signal packets, and a sending unit for sending the signal packets stored in the packet receiving-and-storing unit.
US07969992B2
A method and system for determining a route for a packet traveling over at least one system from a source to a destination is disclosed. A first geographic area corresponds to the source and a second geographic area corresponds to the destination. The destination further has an address which does not indicate the second geographic area. In this aspect, the method and system include associating an address for the destination with the second geographic area to allow selection of the route for the data packet based on the second geographic area and selecting the route based on a second geographic area. In a second aspect, the method and system include providing a direct link having a controllable amount of traffic and selecting the direct link as at least a portion of the route when a data packet to the destination is to be routed. The method and system also facilitate selection of a route for a data packet. In this aspect, the method and system include obtaining information relating to an autonomous system. The autonomous system has a geographic area. The information includes the geographic area. In this aspect, the method and system also include associating the autonomous system with the geographic area to allow selection of the route based on the geographic area.
US07969979B2
A method of multicasting a data file. The method includes transmitting a notification on an upcoming multicast transmission to a plurality of receivers (20) designated to receive the multicast transmission, tuning by at least one of the plurality of receivers (20) to one or more multicast channels, responsive to the notification, transmitting a data file, from a data server (42), on the one or more multicast channels, without the data server (42) receiving acknowledgements from the receivers (20) on whether they received the notification, determining receivers (20) designated to receive the multicast transmission that did not receive at least a portion of the data file; and attempting to deliver the data file to the determined receivers (20).
US07969975B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for collecting data from CPE devices located on a remote LAN are provided. Communication is established over a WAN with a gateway attached to the LAN. The gateway is then used to enumerate the CPE devices on the LAN. A firewall pinhole is created in the gateway for each CPE device on the LAN, and communication is established through the pinholes to the CPE devices to collect the desired data.
US07969968B2
Systems and methods are provided for lawful interception of data transmissions through at least one broadband network. Data transmissions, including voice and data services as well as high bandwidth transmissions such as multimedia and video, are intercepted and routed to authorized agencies such as law enforcement monitoring facilities. The systems and methods also enable interception of data transmissions such as peer to peer type data transmissions that pass through broadband networks from source to recipient without passing through centralized core network elements. These transmissions are intercepted at access points distributed throughout the broadband networks and forwarded to lawful intercept node elements for transmission to authorized entities.
US07969965B2
An architecture is provided for coupling wireless local area network (WLAN) signals between an internetworking device and a remotely located access point using a transport network. The access point is coupled to the transport network for communicating with the internetworking device. The access point includes a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point and an access point remote converter. The WLAN access point receives wireless local area network signals from wireless computing equipment and converts such signals to local area network compatible signals. The access point remote converter receives the local area network compatible signals from the WLAN access point and converts the signals to transport modulated format signals suitable for transmission over the transport network. The transport network also provides a power signal to power at least some components of the access point.
US07969956B2
A system and method for integrating the call control signaling pathway with data network access components. A call control server agent is resident on a network device that provides a first interface from an access network to a packet-switched data network. The call control server agent receives data session initiation requests and passes the requests to the call control server agent. The call control server agent also performs proxy server functions and provides a source of information relating to data sessions directly to the access network.
US07969950B2
In general, one embodiment of the invention is a air monitor adapted to a wireless network. The air monitor enforces policies followed by the wireless network even though it is not involved in the exchange of data between wireless devices of the wireless network such as access points and wireless stations.
US07969946B2
A mobile device includes a communications protocol stack including a MAC layer and TCP layer separated by an IP layer. A cross-layer coordination module parallel to the communications protocol stack is coupled to both the MAC layer and TCP layer. The MAC layer generates a message sent to the cross-layer coordination module indicating that the mobile device is about to engage in a communications handover from a first base station to a second base station. The cross-layer coordination module passes handover information to the TCP layer so as to inform the TCP layer of the communications handover. If the mobile device is operating as a TCP sender, the TCP layer freezes its connection and state during the communications handover. If the mobile device is operating as a TCP receiver, the TCP layer sends a TCP ACK message to a TCP sender having an advertised window size set to a zero value so as to cause the TCP sender to freeze a connection and state during communications handover.
US07969940B2
A method of assigning radio resources in a cellular system using wired Relay Stations (RSs) includes: a Base Station (BS) gathering feed-back control information of all Mobile Stations (MSs) via the RSs in a cell of the BS; a first process, wherein the MSs are divided into two groups according to a channel state of each MS; a second process, wherein sub-channels are dynamically assigned to MSs belonging to a group, in which a channel state of each MS is good, of the two groups; and a third process, wherein sub-channels are dynamically assigned to MSs belonging to a group, in which a channel state of each MS is bad, of the two groups by considering a resource state per RS and a channel gain between sub-channels.
US07969934B2
The present disclosure provides an access node for transferring and/or assigning network passwords. The access node includes a first interface for sending and receiving communication of a first type to and from a first node operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The access node also includes a second interface for sending and receiving communication of a second type to and from a second node in a mobile network, such as a GSM/GPRS network. The access node further includes a short messaging service (SMS) module for sending and receiving SMS messages to the second node carrying an OTP allocated. The access node also includes a mechanism to verify a precondition before the OTP is sent to the second node.
US07969931B2
The invention relates to a method for configuring a context for a connection delivering a packet data service to a mobile terminal via a target wireless access network. The mobile terminal is initially connected to an originating wireless access network and the packet data service may be provided to the mobile terminal via the originating wireless network. Moreover, the invention provides an authentication server, a packet data gateway and a packet data service support node which participate in the context configuration method. To provide a method that allows establishing connection for packet service delivery to a mobile terminal from a wireless access network, as for example a UMTS, as fast as possible the invention suggests to preconfigure service provision of the packet data service via the target wireless access network by establishing a context prior to the mobile terminal connecting to the target wireless access network.
US07969928B2
A method and apparatus that allocates bandwidth among wireless sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is disclosed. The method may include allocating transmission time slots for a plurality of wireless sensor nodes based on at least one channel quality metric, determining battery levels in each of the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and average battery level of all of the plurality of wireless sensor nodes, determining differences in battery level between each of the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and average battery level of all of the plurality of wireless sensor nodes, wherein if any such difference is above a predetermined threshold, increasing the transmission time slots allocation of wireless sensor nodes having higher battery levels relative to other wireless sensor nodes in the plurality of wireless sensor nodes.
US07969924B2
A method and network element for sending a transition indication to transition a user equipment to a different state or mode, the method receiving a configuration message from a network; and transmitting a transition indication from the user equipment, the transition indication only includes a cause if the configuration message contains an inhibit transition indication. Also, a method and user equipment for processing a transitioning indication from a user equipment indicating the user equipment desires a transition to a different state or mode, the method comprising: receiving the transition indication from the user equipment; if the transition indication contains a cause: releasing a signaling connection of the user equipment or transitioning the user equipment to a different state or mode; and if the transition indication does not contain the cause: releasing the signaling connection.
US07969923B2
A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes receiving and transmitting signals over a time division duplex (TDD) communication path. Signals are received over the TDD communication path via a first portion of a first frequency band. The first frequency band is adjacent to a second frequency band and to a third frequency band. The first frequency band is different from the second frequency band and from the third frequency band. A first frequency division duplex (FDD) communication path can be operable in the second frequency band. A second FDD communication path can be operable in the third frequency band. Signals are transmitted over the TDD communication path via a second portion of the first frequency band that is different from the first portion of the first frequency band.
US07969922B2
Methods, devices, computer readable media and apparatus are presented for providing configurable task management, such as data collection management, on a wireless device. Task management provides conditions and associated actions which may be dynamically configured and implemented in conjunction with any application executed on the wireless device.
US07969915B2
An embodiment includes a method of minimizing the delay in convergence time for a complex STP topology following a topology change in the network system in the spanning tree protocol (STP) standard, including: receiving, by a root port of a first bridge, a data message that includes identification of a current root bridge and a priority value of the current root bridge; receiving, by a second port of the first bridge, a second data message from a second bridge; and if a message age timer of the first bridge has less than a limiting message age time value remaining before expiry, then blocking a reply, by the second port of the first bridge, to the second data message from the second bridge.
US07969902B2
Tandem-free vocoder operations (TFO) between non-compatible communication systems may be enabled through hardware modifications at communication elements within each system. In one aspect, each infrastructure entity in System 1 comprises an intra-system TFO Frame Generator G1, an intra-system TFO Frame Extractor E1, and a TFO Frame Extractor E2 of System 2, which is non-compatible to System 1. Each infrastructure entity in System 2 comprises an intra-system TFO Frame Generator G2, an intra-system TFO Frame Extractor E2, and a TFO Frame Extractor E1 of System 1.
US07969900B2
Systems and methods for testing network performance and communicating network device information are disclosed. The preferred embodiments of the present invention enhance the standard ICMP echo or ping protocol, while still maintaining backward compatibility. Furthermore, the network performance testing can be based on different qualities of service or types of service. This allows the network testing to be useful in real-time applications such as voice and/or video.
US07969898B1
A technique for breaking a loop caused by looping alternate paths associated with a prefix in a communications network. One or more non-looping alternate paths associated with the prefix that exclude a first node in the communications network are identified. One or more alternate paths from nodes in the loop that are associated with the prefix are identified. An identified path that intersects with an identified non-looping path is established as an alternate path associated with the prefix at a node in the loop.
US07969889B2
Methods and systems for providing a network and routing protocol for utility services are disclosed. A method includes discovering a utility network. Neighboring nodes are discovered and the node listens for advertised routes for networks from the neighbors. The node is then registered with one or more utility networks, receiving a unique address for each network registration. Each upstream node can independently make forwarding decisions on both upstream and downstream packets, i.e., choose the next hop according to the best information available to it. The node can sense transient link problems, outage problems and traffic characteristics. Information is used to find the best route out of and within each network. Each network node maintains multi-egress, multi-ingress network routing options both for itself and the node(s) associated with it. The node is capable of several route maintenance functions utilizing the basic routing protocol and algorithms.
US07969888B2
A communications network comprising a plurality of nodes supporting connection-oriented traffic and connectionless traffic, wherein management traffic between the nodes is propagated as connectionless traffic having a common management identifier. Also disclosed is a communications network component comprising logic that supports connection-oriented traffic and Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)-based connectionless traffic, wherein the logic propagates management messages as VLAN-based connectionless traffic having a unique VLAN identifier (VID). Included is a communications network component comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising provisioning a unique VID for management messages, and selectively propagating management messages with the unique VID.
US07969885B2
A method and arrangement for adjusting the degree of filling of a jitter buffer in a network element receiving digital data. To the jitter buffer, there is connected a read-out unit for reading digital data from the jitter buffer. In the method, there is composed a time reserve indicator for the received protocol unit, the time reserve indicator being essentially the difference of an order indicator connected to the protocol unit and an order indicator connected to the operational cycle of the read-out unit. The time reserve indicator of the protocol unit indicates whether the protocol unit was received in good time, in order to ensure that the digital data is in the jitter buffer when the digital data is in turn to be read out. The degree of filling of a jitter buffer is adjusted on the basis of time reserve indicators composed for the received protocol units.
US07969881B2
Sharing a resource may include the use of label values associated with information units presented to the resource. The label values may be determined based on, for example, arrival rates and/or committed flow rates. Criteria may be applied to label values to determine if the associated information units may be dropped.
US07969872B2
This specification can provide resource allocation in peer-to-peer networks. This specification describes techniques whereby individual resources can in certain circumstances share their local views to create a network-wide view. The use of a performance manager facilitates this sharing. The sharing of fault information both access multiple devices and for a single device across restarts is also provided. A network-based aggregator for performance and fault analysis is also provided so that complex analysis algorithms can be provided centrally to assist network performance management.
US07969862B1
A two step method for determining restoration cycles for a mesh network includes generating a set of possible restoration cycles, and selecting a subset of low-cost restoration cycles on the network. The cost of a restoration cycle may be based, in part, on the availability of capacity on the link to restore traffic with and/or without interference, and network policy. Enabling the restoration cycles to be determined based on the bandwidth capacity of the restoring link, the flows carried by the other link, and other network policy considerations enables embodiments of the invention to account for traffic class, priority, and other traffic considerations when selecting restoration cycles on the network. Identifying arcs on the network with relatively high cost restoration cycles allows portions of the network to be targeted for increased capacity.
US07969860B2
A serial-parallel converter 102 of a transmitter apparatus receives an input of a signal to be transmitted and serial-parallel-converts this to output m (m≧2) number of intermediate signals. A unitary matrix modulator 103 modulates the output m number of intermediate signals into a unitary matrix of m rows and m columns whose components other than diagonal components are 0 and outputs the obtained matrix. A splitter 111 supplies the respective diagonal components of the output matrix to the input channels of an inverse Fourier transform unit 112 as input signals. The inverse Fourier transform unit 112 outputs m number of inverse-Fourier-transformed signals obtained by performing inverse Fourier transform of the supplied input signals. A parallel-serial converter 113 parallel-serial-converts the output m number of inverse-Fourier-transformed signals to output one transmission signal. A transmission unit 114 transmits the output transmission signal. The difference between the frequency of any two channels of the inverse Fourier transform unit 112 is equal to or larger than a predetermined coherent bandwidth.
US07969851B2
A laser converging apparatus comprising: a nonpolarizing hologram element having a first area defined by a numerical aperture corresponding to a thickness of a first protective layer of a first disk medium and a second area inside the first area, the second area defined by a numerical aperture corresponding to a thickness of a second protective layer (>the thickness of the first protective layer) of a second disk medium, the second area having a hologram pattern for diffracting laser light into zero order light and high-order diffracted light having the order of primary or higher; an objective lens having the numerical aperture corresponding to the thickness of the first protective layer, the objective lens converging the laser light having passed through a part of the first area other than the second area and the zero order light having passed through the second area onto an information surface on one side of the first protective layer, the objective lens converging the high-order diffracted light having passed through the second area onto an information surface on one side of the second protective layer; and a holder that holds the nonpolarizing hologram element and the objective lens.
US07969850B2
Optical element, optical pickup device comprising the same, and unnecessary light elimination method
The optical element comprises a first diffraction structure for generating three beams by diffracting light from a light source and a second diffraction structure that exhibits structural birefringence for a prescribed polarized light returning to the light source. The first diffraction structure is formed on a first face of a translucent optical base material and the second diffraction structure is formed on a second face of the optical base material. The optical base material, the first diffraction structure and the second diffraction structure are formed of a single material.
US07969847B2
A disc apparatus comprising: a jitter-value detection unit configured to detect a jitter value based on a signal to be read from a medium; a defocus-value setting unit configured to set a defocus value for focusing an objective lens in the medium based on the jitter value; and a defocus-value adjusting unit configured to detect the jitter value every time the defocus value is changed stepwise within a predetermined range of the defocus value including a reference value of the defocus value, to obtain an optimum defocus value to be set for the defocus-value setting unit within a predetermined time period, based on a maximum jitter value and a minimum jitter value of the detected jitter values.
US07969846B2
A hologram recording and reproducing device controls an optical beam output from an external cavity semiconductor laser to improve a diffraction efficiency. The hologram recording and reproducing device includes an external cavity laser, a photodiode, a laser drive circuit and a laser diode controller. The external cavity laser has a laser diode adapted to emit an optical beam that is used to generate data light and reference light with which a hologram recording medium is irradiated. The photodiode detects the amount of the optical beam output from the external cavity laser. The laser drive circuit supplies a current to the external cavity laser. The laser diode controller controls the laser drive circuit to ensure that a value obtained by integrating the detected intensity of the optical beam with respect to time over a predetermined period is equal to predetermined recording energy.
US07969845B2
Disclosed herein is an optical recording apparatus which may record post pre-format recording information on an optical recording medium which has a guide portion formed in advance for guiding a light beam and a plurality of address portions for specifying individual positions of the guide portion, which may include position information detection means for detecting position information of a recording region in which significant information is recorded along the guide portion and a breakdown region which is part of the guide portion or/and the address portions and is broken down so as not to be detected using the light beam, servo means for controlling the position of the light beam based on the position information, and laser light intensity adjustment means for adjusting the intensity of the light beam in order to record information based on a predetermined format in the recording region and thermally break down the breakdown region.
US07969842B2
A playback device includes a reading section that performs reading from a recording medium, and a control section that acquires the latest temporary management information recorded last on the recording medium. The control section executes a read control process of controlling the reading section so that when reading pointer information in a temporary management information unit recorded last in a temporary management information unit recording area, reading of data is executed from a predetermined position located before a segment in which the pointer information is included, and an information acquiring process of executing a process for acquiring the temporary management information pointed to by the pointer information from the data read in response to the read control process.
US07969840B2
A recording method for an optical disc having at least three recording layers (11, 12, 13, 14), in which test recording areas are formed in the odd-numbered recording layers (11, 13) and the even-numbered recording layers (12, 14) in positions that are mutually non-overlapping in the thickness direction of the optical disc, the test recording areas in the odd-numbered recording layers are formed in positions mutually aligned in the thickness direction, and the test recording areas in the even-numbered recording layers are formed in positions mutually aligned in the thickness direction. The time for test recording for determining the optimal recording power can be shortened.
US07969833B2
In servo control within an optical disc apparatus, when iterative learning control is started, the servo characteristics are modified to servo characteristic giving increased gains during a given period of time. Under this condition, the iterative learning control is provided.
US07969829B2
An objective lens driving device is provided with an objective lens; a lens holder for holding the objective lens; a pair of linear suspension springs for supporting the lens holder at each one end; a spring holder whereupon the other ends the springs are fixed; and a driving means for at least driving the objective lens in a tracking direction together with the lens holder. The linear suspension springs have narrowed or widened end compared with the other end in plan view from an optical axis direction. The lens holder is supported to be driven in the tracking direction, by having the cross point of the two lines, which pass the suspension spring ends on one side and are vertical to the extending directions of the linear suspension springs, respectively, at the driving center.
US07969828B2
An optical pickup actuator independently drivable in focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The optical pickup includes a lens holder movably installed on a base, and mounted with an objective lens for transmitting an incident light to an optical information recording medium; and a magnetic circuit to independently driving the lens holder in the focusing, tilting and tracking directions. The magnetic circuit includes opposing magnets; a focusing coil and tilting coils interposed between the magnets, mounted inside the lens holder, and wound around respective axes parallel to the focusing direction; and a plurality of tracking coils mounted outside the lens holder, interposed between the magnets and wound around respective axes transverse to the focusing direction. The magnetic fields of the magnets are guided by outer yokes partially encompassing the magnets and inner yokes positioned within the focusing coil and the tilting coils.
US07969825B2
The invention relates to a backlash-compensating toothed moving part, for a precision gear assembly, particularly in clock-making, in which the backlash-compensating teeth each have a section extending symmetrically to both sides of the radius of said mobile passing the tip of said teeth with an elastic connection to said mobile to give said teeth a freedom of movement in the plane of the mobile, at least one tooth in two being a backlash-compensating tooth comprising stop means arranged to limit the freedom of movement as a function of the backlash in the gear assembly to be compensated for.
US07969821B2
A method and system for locating a sound source within a defined area in which the sound data is collected with a plurality of spaced apart microphones. The sound data received by the microphones is processed to form a cross spectral density matrix containing vectors of cross correlations and auto correlations of the sound data. A replica vector matrix containing sound data from at least one test sound at a plurality of predetermined locations within the defined area is then constructed. The sound data vectors in the cross spectral density matrix are then projected on the replica vectors in the replica vector matrix to obtain a probability of the location of the sound source at each predetermined location within the defined area. These probabilities form a distribution within the defined area in which the largest probability distribution correlates with the location of the sound source.
US07969815B2
The timing of output signals can be controlled by coupling a digital signal through a signal distribution tree having a plurality of branches extending from an input node to respective clock inputs of a plurality of latches. A phase interpolator is included in a signal path common to all of the branches, and a respective delay line is included in each of the branches. Each of the latches couples a signal applied to its data input to an output terminal responsive to a transition of the digital signal applied to its clock input. The delay lines are adjusted so that the latches are simultaneously clocked. The delay of the phase interpolator is adjusted so that the signals are coupled to the output terminals of the latches with a predetermined timing relationship relative to signals coupled to output terminals of a second signal distribution tree.
US07969807B2
A memory including an array of memory cells and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control partial array self refreshes and to switch from one partial array self refresh to another partial array self refresh. Data in memory cells that are refreshed via the one partial array self refresh and refreshed via the other partial array self refresh is retained in the memory cells from before a first switch from the one partial array self refresh to the other partial array self refresh to after the first switch.
US07969801B2
A data input circuit includes a first data input unit, a second data input unit, and a clock unit. The first data input unit is configured to receive external data at rising edges of a data strobe signal and output the external data as first internal data in response to an internal clock. The second data input unit is configured to receive the external data at falling edges of the data strobe signal and output the external data as second internal data in response to the internal clock. The clock unit is configured to generate the internal clock using an external clock signal.
US07969799B2
A memory interface physical layer macro including one or more embedded input/output (I/O) buffers, one or more memory interface hardmacros and control logic. The one or more embedded input/output (I/O) buffers support a plurality of I/O supply voltage levels. The one or more memory interface hardmacros are coupled to the one or more embedded I/O buffers. The control logic controls the one or more hardmacros and the one or more I/O buffers.
US07969794B2
A one-transistor type DRAM including a floating body storage element connected between a bit line and a source line and controlled by a word line comprises a plurality of source lines and word lines arranged in a row direction, a plurality of bit lines arranged in a column direction, a plurality of clamp bit lines and reference bit lines arranged in a column direction, a cell array including the floating body storage element and formed in a region where the source line, the word line and the bit line are crossed, a clamp cell array including the floating body storage element and formed in a region where the source line, the word line and the bit line are crossed, a reference cell array including the floating body storage element and formed in a region where the source line, the word line and the bit line are crossed, and a sense amplifier and a write driving unit connected to the bit line and configured to receive a clamp voltage and a reference voltage.
US07969791B2
The present invention is related to a composite flash memory device comprises a plural sector flash memory array which is divided to plural sector that is a minimum erasing unit of the flash memory device, a flash memory array storing control commands which control a total system of the composite flash memory device and/or the only composite flash memory device in and sharing I/O line of the plural sector flash memory array, the read operation of the flash memory array is enable when the plural sector flash memory array is gained access.
US07969782B2
The present disclosure includes methods, devices, modules, and systems for operating semiconductor memory. One method embodiment includes determining a status of a page of memory cells without using input/output (I/O) circuitry, and outputting the status through the I/O circuitry.
US07969777B1
A new memory cell can contain only a single thyristor. There is no need to include an access transistor in the cell. In one embodiment, the thyristor is a thin capacitively coupled thyristor. The new memory cell can be connected to word, bit, and control lines in several ways to form different memory arrays. Timing and voltage levels of word, bit and control lines are disclosed.
US07969767B2
A method is disclosed that includes controlling current flow direction for current sent over a source line or a bit line of a magnetic memory device. A current generated magnetic field assists switching of a direction of a magnetic field of a free layer of a magnetic element within a spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction (STT-MTJ) device.
US07969763B2
A detector circuit for detecting an external manipulation of an electrical circuit. The detector circuit includes a digital circuit which is sensitive to at least one of the effects of ionizing radiation or fluctuations of a supply voltage, and the output state of the digital circuit is indicative of an attack.
US07969743B2
A heat sink assembly dissipates heat of a chip on a circuit board. A temperature collecting module of the heat sink assembly senses temperature of the chip and generates corresponding analog signals. A display module of the heat sink assembly receives the analog signals and converts the analog signals into digital signals, and then displays the digital signals with temperature unit symbol.
US07969738B2
A computer includes a casing in which an opening is formed, a heat generating element which is provided inside of the casing, a main cooling unit which is disposed between the opening of the casing and the heat generating element and cools heat which is generated from the heat generating element, and an auxiliary cooling unit which is provided inside of the casing and additionally cools inside air directed to the main cooling unit.
US07969734B2
Disclosed is a system for cooling an electronics package. The system includes a fluid pump and a microcooler assembly. The system utilizes one or more cooling layers interspersed with layers of electronics in the electronics package. Each cooling layer has an array of cooling channels formed in a substrate, an input manifold through which cooling fluid is provided for distribution through the array of cooling channels, and an output manifold which collects fluid from the array of cooling channels. The elements of the cooling system are integrated by conduits including a package conduit for passage of fluid from the fluid pump to the electronics package, a cooler conduit for passage of fluid from the electronics package to the microcooler assembly, and a pump conduit for passage of fluid from the microcooler assembly to the fluid pump. Also disclosed is a method for cooling the electronics package.
US07969733B1
A heat transfer system, method, and computer program product are provided for use with multiple circuit board environments. In use, a heat transfer component configured to be situated between a first circuit board and a second circuit board is provided. Such heat transfer component is in thermal communication with a first processor of the first circuit board and a second processor of the second circuit board. Furthermore, the heat transfer component is situated between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US07969727B2
According to one embodiment, an equipment enclosure includes a plurality of equipment elements, each element having one or more heat generating sources. A heat exchanger is mounted towards the top of the equipment enclosure. The heat exchanger is thermally coupled to at least some of the heat generating sources. The enclosure includes an exhaust vent through which air heated by the heat exchanger may be evacuated, and an inlet vent through which air from outside the equipment enclosure may be drawn into the equipment enclosure to cool the heat exchanger by stack effect ventilation.
US07969707B2
An aerodynamic ion generator is disclosed. The generator includes an electric motor coupled to a propeller for placing in an airflow to generate electrical energy, with ionizing electrodes coupled to the propeller; a generator powered by the electric motor for generating AC high-voltage; an electrical transmission arrangement for transmitting the AC high voltage to the ionizing electrodes of different polarities; and a cleaning device that includes arms, each of the arms for cleaning a corresponding ionizing electrode of the ionizing electrodes and pivotally attached to a shaft located on the propeller wherein most of the mass of the arm is closer to a cleaning end of the arm than to the shaft that arm is attached to.
US07969693B2
A tunnel magnetoresistive sensor includes a pinned magnetic layer, an insulating barrier layer formed of Mg—O, and a free magnetic layer. A barrier-layer-side magnetic sublayer constituting at least part of the pinned magnetic layer and being in contact with the insulating barrier layer includes a first magnetic region formed of CoFeB or FeB and a second magnetic region formed of CoFe or Fe. The second magnetic region is disposed between the first magnetic region and the insulating barrier layer.
US07969692B2
A magnetic head includes a pair of ferromagnetic electrodes, namely, a first ferromagnetic electrode layer which is in contact with a portion of a first electrode layer with a first insulating barrier layer interposed in between; and a second ferromagnetic electrode layer which is in contact with another portion of the first electrode layer with a second insulating barrier layer interposed in between. The first electrode layer and the first ferromagnetic layer collectively constitute part of a current-supplying circuit. Moreover, the first electrode layer and the second ferromagnetic layer which are in contact with the first electrode layer with the second insulating barrier layer interposed in between in a region where the two layers are not in contact with the first insulating barrier layer, collectively constitute part of a voltage-measurement circuit. Spin-polarization at the interface in an intersecting region of the second ferromagnetic layer and the second insulating barrier layer, is greater than spin-polarization at the interface in an intersecting region of the first ferromagnetic layer and the first insulating barrier layer.
US07969686B2
Methods of defining servo patterns and data patterns for forming patterned magnetic media are described. For one method, a lithographic process is performed to define a servo pattern in servo regions on a substrate. The lithographic process also defines a first data pattern in data regions of the substrate. The first data pattern is then transferred to (i.e., etched into) the data regions. Self-assembly structures are then formed on the data pattern in the data regions to define a second data pattern. The servo pattern is then transferred to the servo regions and the second data pattern is transferred to the data regions. Thus, the servo pattern is defined through lithographic processes while the data pattern is defined by a combination of lithographic processes and self-assembly.
US07969684B2
A perpendicular write head having a wrap around trailing shield for reducing stray field writing and adjacent track interference. The trailing shield is notched, having an un-notched portion directly behind (trailing) the write pole and first and second notched portions that extend laterally to either side. The un-notched portion of the trailing shield is located adjacent to the trailing edge of the write pole and is separated from the trailing edge of the write pole by a trailing shield notch. The notched portions are separated from the trailing edge of the write gap by a notch depth, measured along the trailing direction, the notch depth as measured in the trailing direction being larger than the trailing shield distance. The notch depth as measured in the trailing direction is preferably 25-50 nm larger than the trailing shield gap distance.
US07969679B2
A read signal for one revolution of each of a plurality of tracks jitter of which is cancelled is obtained and a binary-coded image data for the read signal is generated and the track number position of each servo area is specified from the binary-coded image data. Further, a read signal in this position in radial direction is obtained from the track number position of each of the specified servo areas and the servo area is tested by the read signal.
US07969674B2
An apparatus is provided having a data transfer member, and a medium supported by a base adjacent the data transfer member. A medium tilting device supports the base and is selectively positionable to tilt the medium with respect to the data transfer member to simulate presenting the head to the medium at a desired angular orientation. A sensor measures a characteristic associated with a data transfer relationship between the data transfer member and the medium.
US07969665B2
A lens adjusting device of a projector is provided. The lens adjusting device has a base, a frame, and at least one positioning structure. A lens is fixed on the frame. The positioning structure is utilized for movably setting the frame on the base. The positioning structure has a groove, a slider, and a positioning unit. The groove is disposed on the frame. The slider is disposed in the groove and has a guiding hole defined therein. The extending direction of the guiding hole is substantially perpendicular to the extending direction of the groove. The positioning unit is slidably disposed in the guiding hole and penetrates the guiding hole to set the frame and the slider on the base.
US07969660B2
The subject invention provides methods for creating wavefront aberrators with a desired refractive index profile that is stable against thermal and/or solar exposure. The invention further provides wavefront aberrators produced according to the methods described herein.
US07969643B2
Display particles for an image display apparatus, wherein the image display apparatus comprises two substrates at least one of which is transparent, with the display particles being sealed between the substrates in a powder state, so that by generating an electric field between the substrates, the display particles are moved to display an image, wherein the display particles are formed through processes in which at least a binder resin and a colorant are kneaded and pulverized to give core particles, resin fine particles are fixed and fused on surfaces of the core particles, and then the core particles on which the resin fine particles are fixed and fused are sphered to give an average degree of roundness of 0.960 or more, and wherein a ratio of use of the resin fine particles is set in the range from 100 to 300% in the rate of the total projection area of the resin fine particles relative to the total surface area of the core particles, as well as an image display apparatus loaded with the display particles.
US07969641B2
A power generating black mask comprising an anti-reflection layer deposited over a substrate, a first electrode layer deposited over the anti-reflection layer, a semi-conductor layer deposited over the first electrode layer and a second electrode layer deposited over the semi-conductor layer.
US07969638B2
A thin black mask is created using a single mask process. A dielectric layer is deposited over a substrate. An absorber layer is deposited over the dielectric layer and a reflector layer is deposited over the absorber layer. The absorber layer and the reflector layer are patterned using a single mask process.
US07969632B2
A method for fabricating a computer generated hologram or holographic stereogram can reconstruct a three-dimensional object having visualized cross-sectional surfaces, wherein three-dimensional object composed only of surface data is processed to have visualized cross-sectional surfaces on a given cross section thereof by adding surface data to cross-sectional surfaces. The method includes obtaining volume data of a three-dimensional object, obtaining a number of two-dimensional cross-sectional image data of the three-dimensional object, producing three-dimensional object image data composed only of surface data of the three-dimensional object from the two-dimensional cross-sectional data obtained above, cutting the three-dimensional object surface data along predetermined cross section, defining the shape by adding surface data representing cross-sectional surfaces on the cut cross section, defining the arrangement of the defined three-dimensional object, a hologram plan and a reference beam to compute interference fringes on the hologram plane, and recording the interference fringes on a recording medium.
US07969623B2
Image-capturing apparatus meeting demands for high-image resolution and high-speed data capture during both still- and moving-document data-capture modes. Includes: a reading unit having first and second linear photoreceptors arrayed along an data capture sub-scanning direction, a delay circuit delaying output from the first photoreceptor, and an adding circuit adding delayed first-photoreceptor output to second-photoreceptor output; and a scanning unit illuminating from underneath the platen, and shiftable along it to guide linear reflected light from a document to the first and second photoreceptors. During a moving-document data-capture mode, the scanning unit is disposed in a data-capture position established at one edge of the platen to scan a document being conveyed, and when in a still-original data-capture mode, it is shifted from along the platen's opposite edge toward the one edge thereof to scan a stationary document.
US07969618B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a generating unit that generates a control image representing control information to be used for controlling an operation that is performed by the image forming apparatus; a superimposing unit that superimposes the control image generated by the generating unit on a print image; and an output unit that outputs a superimposed image generated by the superimposing unit performing the superimposition. The control information is to be used for performing a control operation so that a document formed with pages having the superimposed image printed thereon is collectively processed, with the superimposed image representing the control information. The control information contains the total number of pages of the document and the page number of the corresponding page having the superimposed image printed thereon.
US07969615B2
An image forming apparatus forms an image for a latent image portion of which density is relatively higher with a dark color image forming portion, and forms an image for a background portion of which density is relatively decreased or of which image disappears, with a light color image forming portion, with respect to portions of forgery-preventing pattern image in which the density contrasts for the portions mutually differ after copying.
US07969609B2
According to the method and system for display screen-aided generation of an electronic document from rastered image data, a group of image data per page and comprising multiple pages is stored. Symbols for associated pages of the group per associated page are displayed in an organized structure in the first screen region. Per page or per region, the image data is separately selected for full display in a second screen display region so that the associated page is accessible for additional processing steps with respect to at least one of the elements selected from the group consisting of a pixel processing and a page processing. Upon touching a symbol of the group with a selection member, a content of the associated page of the group is displayed in an automatically opening, separate display region.
US07969607B2
The invention provides a print control apparatus, a print control method, and a print control program, in which in the case of Z-folding a sheet which has been print-outputted by using an N-up function for allocating a plurality of logic pages onto one sheet, it is possible to make layout adjustment such that the logic pages printed onto the output sheet in the Z-folding state can be easily confirmed, and also provides a memory medium in which such a program has been stored. For this purpose, layout designation to designate a mode to print the plurality of logic pages onto one of print surfaces of the sheet which is outputted by a printing apparatus is made. Further, when the sheet is Z-folded, the layout of the plurality of logic pages is adjusted so that the whole area of at least one logic page is displayed onto an exposing surface of the Z-folded sheet.
US07969606B2
An automatic advertisement system creates and processes a digital image that includes a user's digital photograph and advertisement images from selected advertisers. The new composed images are larger than the standard photographs in size (e.g., 4″×6″, 5″×7″) to allow the user's photograph to be in the standard size and to allow space for the advertisement images. The system provides a criteria specification tool to allow advertisers to accurately specify their target audiences based on, e.g., zip code, age, education. The system also provides a criteria specification tool to allow the user to specify his/her preferences of advertisement on his/her digital photograph production. The system further provides various layouts to prevent the user from clipping out advertisement images all at once. The system further allows advertisers to track their advertising results and allows the user to maintain his/her privacy. The system can be applied to contents other than advertisement image, such as announcements, personal messages, invitation cards and so on.
US07969601B2
If information indicating a number of cover sheets included in a job sheet data does not match a number of cover sheet data counted by a sheet count unit, a facsimile transmission unit does not transmit a facsimile document. Moreover, if a facsimile number included in a cover sheet data does not match a facsimile number included in a job sheet data, the facsimile transmission unit does not transmit a facsimile document.
US07969599B2
A method of controlling an information processing apparatus, which counts process amounts in the device for each user, in a system for processing print jobs within a range of access limitation information. The information processing apparatus specifies a user who requests access authority information for a job, and a job whose access authority information is issued to that user. The apparatus checks if a process of the job is completed. The apparatus determines a printable page count of the specified user using an output process amount value of the job issued by the user, when the specified job is complete. The apparatus notifies a managing apparatus, which issues access authority information, of the printable page.
US07969593B2
Print data is input from an external device, and the input print data is analyzed. The print data is temporarily saved in a holding unit on the basis of the analysis result to interrupt a printing process for the print data and start the printing process for another print data.
US07969574B2
Apparatus for monitoring the cure of a bone cement material which is provided in a container. The apparatus includes a radiation source from which radiation is directed towards cement in the container and a sensor for detecting radiation from the radiation source which has passed through cement in the container, and for generating a signal according to the intensity of the detected radiation. A data processor is used in monitoring changes in the intensity of radiation that is detected by the sensor due to changes in the opacity of cement in the container to radiation from the source as the cement cures.
US07969571B2
An apparatus for estimating a property of a fluid downhole, is provided an includes: an optical fiber that receives light emitted from a light source and including an unclad portion adapted for contacting the fluid; a photodetector for receiving optical signals from the portion; and a spectrometer for obtaining an evanescent spectrum of the fluid from the portion. A method and a system are included.
US07969570B2
A method for performing a diagnostic assay of an analyte, wherein the method comprises providing a base that has been structured using laser processing so as to provide a substrate with at least one patterned surface, wherein the laser processing comprises the selective application of pulsed laser energy to the base, whereby to melt a surface layer of the base which resolidifies, whereby to create the at least one patterned surface; applying a metal to the at least one patterned surface so as to provide at least one metalized patterned surface; positioning the analyte on the at least one metalized patterned surface; and performing a diagnostic assay of the analyte.
US07969564B2
A method and system for defect localization includes: (i) receiving a test structure that includes at least one conductor that is at least partially covered by an electro-optically active material; (ii) providing an electrical signal to the conductor, such as charge at least a portion of the conductor; and (iii) imaging the test structure to locate a defect.
US07969563B2
A lens measuring device and method applied therein. The lens measuring device includes a light source, a first polarizer, a second polarizer, and an image analysis module. The method includes enabling the light source to orderly pass through the first polarizer, a lens to be measured, and the second polarizer to generate a light beam to be measured, and then enabling the image analysis module to analyze image-related information of the light beam to be measured, consequently deducing the structural center and energy distribution of the lens to be measured, and then further analyzing errors in polarity and skewness of the lens to be measured. By applying a common light source, the method is spared complicated correction that is otherwise required when a conventional collimating laser light source is applied, and the method can also easily and simultaneously test a plurality of lenses to be measured.
US07969562B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for determining the birefringence autocorrelation length of a fiber in a non-destructive manner. The PMD of an optical fiber is measured over a first optical spectrum. A Faraday rotation angle is measured over a second optical spectrum. The birefringence autocorrelation length is determined from the measuring of the PMD and the Faraday rotation angle.
US07969560B2
An apparatus that can measure both haze and clarity on a web moving at conventional manufacturing speeds. The apparatus uses an integrating sphere and a novel mirror arrangement. With this arrangement, the invention can utilize a calibration curve created using known samples over the range of measurement desired to convert in real time, and the response of two photo detectors that measure the wide and low angle scattering signals, to deduce the desired optical property values. This approach significantly increases the speed and response of sensor and enables either on-line single point or full web scanning for uniformity measurement and control.
US07969557B2
A lithographic projection apparatus includes a substrate table that holds a substrate, a projection system that projects a patterned beam of radiation onto the substrate, and a liquid confinement structure that confines a liquid in a space between the projection system and the substrate, the substrate, the substrate table, or both, to form a part of a boundary of the space. In addition, a closing plate forms a part of a boundary of the space in place of the substrate, the substrate table, or both, when moved without substantially disturbing the liquid, the liquid confinement structure, or both.
US07969553B2
The present invention relates to an exposure device for transferring circuit patterns of a mask to a roll-film-shaped object. The exposure device includes a supply reel rotation section that is constituted by a supply reel around which the object is wound and that feeds the object by rotating the supply reel, at least one guide roller for guiding the object fed from the supply reel rotation section, an exposure stage on which the circuit patterns are transferred to the object guided by the guide roller, and an alignment mark forming section which forms, on the object, alignment marks that are used to align the mask with the object and which is positioned between the guide roller and the exposure stage.
US07969537B2
An exemplary liquid crystal panel includes a top substrate and a bottom substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the top substrate and the bottom substrate, and a black matrix unit formed on a bottom surface that is adjacent to the liquid crystal layer of the top substrate. The black matrix includes an insulating layer and a grounded conductive layer between the bottom surface of the top substrate and the insulating layer.
US07969534B2
A polarizing element manufacturing method includes (a) forming a plurality of fine metal wires by forming a metal film on a substrate and patterning the metal film, (b) applying, onto a base material, a glass precursor solution for forming a protective layer for protecting the fine metal wires, (c) placing the substrate on the base material so that ends of the fine metal wires are immersed in the glass precursor solution, and (d) forming the protective layer by drying the glass precursor solution, and bonding together the base material and the substrate with the protective layer therebetween.
US07969522B2
A display substrate includes a first metal pattern, a first insulating layer, a first electrode, and a second metal pattern. The first metal pattern includes a gate line and a signal line. The first insulating layer is disposed on a substrate having the first metal pattern formed thereon. A first opening passes through the first insulating layer to partially expose the signal line. The first electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer corresponding to a unit pixel. The second metal pattern includes a connection electrode contacting the first electrode and the signal line through the first opening and a data line.
US07969521B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device partially or substantially blocks light from a light source from exciting a semiconductor layer. The LCD device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a light-shielding layer, and a light source. The light source directs light toward a lower surface of the substrate. The light-shielding layer is formed between the substrate and the semiconductor layer. Some or all of the light directed towards the semiconductor layer by the light source is blocked by the light-shielding layer.
US07969520B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with high image visibility at low power consumption and produced at low cost by using an interlayer dielectric film, which has low dielectric constant, high heat-resistant property, high optical transmissivity, high film thickness and high flattening property produced at low cost. An organic siloxane dielectric film is used as an interlayer dielectric film of the liquid crystal display device. A ratio of nitrogen content to silicon content (Ni content/Si content) in the interlayer dielectric film is controlled to 0.04 or more in the element ratio. The limiting film thickness to suppress and limit the cracking caused by the thickening of the interlayer dielectric film is set to 1.5 μm or more.
US07969514B2
A system and method for enabling set up of a controlling device capable of controlling a plurality of appliances, via an interactive instruction set and associated programming. The programming is accessible by a STB or other controllable appliance and is configured to appropriately display interactive instructions and prompts to a user during a user initiated set up procedure for configuration of another controllable device (e.g., DVD, VCR, DVR, etc.) available to the user. Appropriate set up data, generally in the form of command library codes, is displayed to the user by the interactive instruction set and associated programming for entry and trial by the user in set up of the desired appliance(s).
US07969513B1
An appurtenant remote control adapter device suited for application with portable remote controllers commonly used with entertainment equipment including television receptors. The proxy adaptor is configured to intercept a sequence of wireless command signals emitted by the remote control. The intercepted command signals are adapted for temporal storage in a memory. A singular “SEND” command button may be subsequently actuated by a user to urge discharge of the temporarily stored wireless command signal from the memory for forthright translation to a remotely controlled apparatus as a usually singular packetized data burst of wireless signal. The adapter allows a user to leisurely enter individual keystrokes composing the command signal sequence and only then necessarily aim the adapter towards the remotely controlled apparatus with a concurrent singular actuation of the SEND key-button to translate the wireless signal to command the remotely controlled apparatus.
US07969506B2
A cradle for connecting to a portable electronic apparatus is described. The cradle includes an AC adapter connector, a USB connector, a mini USB plug, and a USB signal detecting circuit. The USB connector is used to connect to a USB interface of a computer. The mini USB plug is used to connect to the portable electronic apparatus. The USB signal detecting circuit detects the USB_D+ and the USB_D− of the USB connector. When the computer is suspended from an operating state, the portable electronic apparatus is charged by the AC adapter through the mini USB plug. When the computer resumes normal operation, the USB connection between the portable electronic apparatus and the computer is automatically reestablished.
US07969501B2
For auto-focusing of a focusing lens within an image sensing system, an N-bin luminance histogram is generated by a digital signal processor from an image. A microprocessor determines a type of the image from the N-bin luminance histogram. The microprocessor also determines a focus position using a first set of at least one focus value if the image is determined to be of a first type. The microprocessor also determines the focus position using a second set of at least one focus value different from the first set if the image is determined to be of a second type.
US07969500B2
An optical apparatus includes a rectangular optical member provided on an optical axis, a supporting member configured to support the optical member, and a rectangular vibrating device stuck to the optical member close to and in parallel with one of four sides of the optical member and configured to vibrate the optical member in a wave fashion to have a plurality of nodes parallel with the one side. The vibrating device is configured to operate in two or more vibration modes differing from one another at least in number or positions of the plurality of nodes. A support position at which the optical member is supported by the supporting member is a position of a portion of the optical member that corresponds to a node in a vibration mode other than a vibration mode whose amplitude is largest among the two or more vibration modes.
US07969498B2
A digital camera has a measuring part and a display part. The measuring part measures a certain quantity from the moment of photographing a cleaning image. The display part displays the cleaning image in the case that the certain quantity is less than a predetermined threshold.
US07969491B2
An amount of charges consonant with the intensity of the light entering photodiodes is generated, and the level of the charges is determined by a charge level determination circuit. Based on this determined charge level, a capacitance setting circuit sets a capacitance of an integrating capacitor unit in an integrating circuit. Thereafter, in the integrating circuit, the charges generated by the photodiodes are integrated in the integrating capacitor unit, and a voltage having a value consonant with the amount of the integrated charges is output. When background light is strong and the overall intensity of incident light is high, a comparatively large capacitance is set for the variable capacitor unit of the integrating circuit, and the intensity of the incident light is detected without saturation. When background light is weak and the overall intensity of incident light is low, a comparatively small capacitance is set for the variable capacitor unit of the integrating circuit, and the intensity of the incident light is detected at high sensitivity, regardless of the surrounding conditions.
US07969489B2
A defective pixel specifying method and a defective pixel specifying system for a semiconductor device having a defective pixel are provided. Also provided are an image correcting method and an image correcting system for making a defective pixel inconspicuous on the screen when a read image is displayed. The present invention determines whether or not there is a defective pixel for each pixel and specifies the coordinate of the defective pixel using image signals obtained by reading a plurality of images. The image signal of the defective pixel is set based on the image signals of the pixels adjacent to the defective pixel to correct the image of the subject read.
US07969488B2
A method and apparatus that allows for the correction of multiple defective pixels in an imager device. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes the steps of selecting a correction kernel for a defective pixel, determining average and difference values for pixel pairs in the correction kernel, and substituting an average value from a pixel pair for the value of the defective pixel.
US07969481B2
A camera includes a CPU. The CPU individually detects a ratio of an object which exceeds a threshold value in a moving amount to a center area of an object scene and a ratio of an object which exceeds the threshold value in the moving amount to a peripheral area of the object scene. If differences between the respective detected ratios are large, the CPU sets a photographing mode to a sports mode. When a shutter button is operated, the object scene is photographed in accordance with a set photographing mode.
US07969478B1
Methods and apparatuses for color correction of color device for various operating conditions. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, operating under a current condition, a color correction operation that is derived from color correction operations defined for other conditions is performed on the color data. In another embodiment, a device profile for managing colors for a color device operating under one condition is interpolated from the device profiles for the color device operating under other conditions (e.g., based on the input received from a user interface according to the perception of the user or based on the measurement of a sensor). The interpolation can be based on the input received from a user interface according to the perception of the user or it can be based on the measurement of a sensor or a set of sensors. Various operating conditions for a color device (e.g., a scanner, a camera, a video camera, a printer, a display device such as a CRT monitor or an LCD display panel, a television set, or others) include chromaticity and illumination of ambient light, background color for a display device, characteristics of print media for a printer, humidity, temperature, pressure and ink level for an ink jet printer, the age of a light source for a scanner, and others.
US07969476B1
A method for accessing a pixel, the method includes: providing a fixed reference current to a readout circuit that is coupled to a pixel, wherein the fixed reference current is indifferent to changes in a pixel output current drained by the pixel; wherein a value of the pixel output current is responsive to light impinging on the pixel during an integration period; and sampling a difference signal that is responsive to a different between the fixed reference current and the pixel output current while providing the fixed reference current to the readout circuit.
US07969475B2
Embodiments of the invention are described that provide automated and efficient optimization of camera settings. In certain embodiments of the invention, both focus and exposure settings are determined based on an analysis of compressed images taken of a frame. Based on this analysis, the camera focus and exposure settings are set to provide a preferred image quality of the particular frame. This optimization of the focus and exposure settings is performed at each frame within the multi-frame image source. As a result, each frame image is independently optimized and addresses variations, such as light and surface inconsistencies, across the multi-frame image source.
US07969474B2
An RF signal source having a camera that provides a camera output, an encoder that encodes the camera output in a compressed digital format, and a modulator that digitally encodes and modulates the compressed camera output and that provides the digitally encoded, modulated, and compressed camera output as an RF output of the RF signal source. The camera, the encoder, and the modulator may be contained in an enclosure. Additionally or alternatively, the encoder, the modulator, and at least part of the camera may be formed on a semiconductor substrate.
US07969468B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging device for photographing a subject image to output as image data, a recording device for recording the image data as an image file, a wireless communication device, a partner device searching device for searching for a partner device of a wireless communication, and a wireless communication setting device for setting the wireless communication device to be effective or to be invalid, and when the wireless communication device is effectively set by the wireless communication setting device, the partner device searching device automatically starts the searching of the partner device with activation of the imaging device.
US07969463B2
An object of the present invention is to eliminate color non-uniformity and intensity non-uniformity on a three-dimensional image. The present invention provides a three-dimensional display comprising: a two-dimensional display, which comprises a plurality of color subpixels arranged in rows extending in a horizontal direction and in columns extending in a vertical direction which is substantially perpendicular to the horizontal direction, the color subpixels of red, green and blue being arranged periodically in the rows and the color subpixels of the same color being arranged in the columns; and a lenticular sheet provided on the two-dimensional display and having a plurality of cylindrical lenses through which the color subpixels are viewed and which extend in parallel with one another, the central axis of each cylindrical lens being inclined at an angle of θ to the column of the two-dimensional display, wherein, when a pitch of the color subpixels in the horizontal direction is px, a pitch of the color subpixels in the vertical direction is py, and a color subpixel group constituting one three-dimensional pixel is constituted by 3M×N number of color subpixels where 3M is the number of color subpixels in each row of one of the cylindrical lenses and N is the number of color subpixels in each column of one of the cylindrical lenses, a relationship, θ=tan−1(3px/NPy), is satisfied.
US07969453B2
Techniques to generate partial display updates in a buffered window system in which arbitrary visual effects are permitted to any one or more windows (e.g., application-specific window buffers) are described. Once a display output region is identified for updating, the buffered window system is interrogated to determine which regions within each window, if any, may effect the identified output region. Such determination considers the consequences any filters associated with a window impose on the region needed to make the output update.
US07969450B2
A system for optimizing display colors of a digital light processing projector includes a color analyzer, and a central processing module. The color analyzer is configured for detecting a first image produced by the projector to obtain actual brightness proportions of red, green, and blue light components associated with the first image, and obtaining a color coordinate of the first image at the actual brightness proportions. The central processing module is configured for adjusting the actual brightness proportions to pre-set brightness proportions to form a second image. The color analyzer detects the second image to obtain a color coordinate thereof. The central processing module adjusts the color coordinate of the second image to a pre-set standard color coordinate, and changes the first gamma curve of the projector to a second gamma curve according to the adjusted color coordinate of the second image.
US07969449B2
Various techniques for implementing aspects of color control in display devices are disclosed. One exemplary technique includes measuring an input/output profile of a display, then applying a mathematical model to the display's measured profile to generate color control tables. One exemplary technique may include tracking a first color temperature below a high-luminosity transition point and gradually transitioning to tracking a second color temperature above the high-luminosity transition point. One exemplary technique may also include gradually transitioning from tracking a darklight color temperature below a low-luminosity transition point to tracking the first color temperature above the low-luminosity transition point. Another exemplary technique may include tracking a response curve for a specified chromaticity above a low-luminosity transition point.
US07969442B2
A method for producing cartoon animation using character animation and mesh deformation is provided. The system includes a motion analysis module, a mesh deformation module, a motion deformation module, and a skinning module. The motion analysis module receives existing motion data having information about non-deformed motions of a character, and extracts parameters from the existing motion data by analyzing an animation value that a character's each joint has. The mesh deformation module receives existing mesh data having information about an external appearance of a character and existing skinning data having information for cohering the parameters or bones with mesh, and generates deformed mesh data. The motion deformation module receives the existing motion data and deforms motion using the parameters. The skinning module receives the deformed mesh data, the deformed motion data, and the existing skinning data and generates character animation data having cartoon like motion.
US07969437B2
Embodiments of the invention provide for accelerated polygon intersection testing of rays against a set of polygons. The amount of computation required in the rendering process is reduced by preprocessing the scene into a data structure that can be more efficiently traversed. During the preprocessing stage, triangles such as triangle may be converted into vertex and edge representation.
US07969429B2
The collector, emitter, and base of a bipolar transistor circuit are connected to a high side power supply terminal, the drain of a level shift transistor, and a floating power supply terminal, respectively. When a high side output transistor is on, the floating power supply terminal is at the potential of a high potential power supply terminal. The high side power supply terminal is at a potential higher than the potential of the floating power supply terminal by a constant voltage. Turning the level shift transistor on, its drain potential drops below the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The base current flows through the bipolar transistor circuit and the drain potential of the level shift transistor is clamped near the potential of the floating power supply terminal; The bipolar transistor circuit is turned on and its collector current supplies the drain current of the level shift transistor.
US07969420B2
An improved handheld electronic device and an improved method facilitate the entry of data when the data is provided in a predetermined data format. In the depicted exemplary embodiment, the handheld electronic device includes a user interface that facilitates the entry of data having a predetermined data format.
US07969415B2
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are provided by logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry and provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special
US07969411B2
The present invention provides an input device where the input, is created by translating a front plate in relation to the chassis such that the translation movement may easily be controlled, and at the same time, due to the freedom built into the device, any level of menu control and selection criteria may be provided.
US07969404B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a backlight assembly which includes a device for driving the backlight including a light emitting diode (“LED”) used as a light source, which has a high efficiency and a high reliability for controlling brightness of each color light. The driving device drives a first, second and third LED unit emitting a first, second and third light, respectively. The driving device includes a first driving part emitting the first light in response to a brightness control signal and outputting a reference control signal in response to a first brightness of the first light, a second driving part driving the second LED units generating the second light of which second brightness is controlled in response to the reference control signal, and a third driving part driving the third LED units generating the third light of which third brightness is controlled in response to the reference control signal.
US07969391B2
A pixel circuit including: a driving transistor; a light emitting element; and a power supply line; wherein the driving transistor is connected between the power supply line and a predetermined electrode of the light emitting element, and the power supply line is formed as multilayer wiring, and an interpolating capacitance is formed such that the power supply line formed as the multilayer wiring and another conductive layer are opposed to each other at a distance.
US07969387B2
In the method for driving a plasma display device, the plasma display panel are applied with voltage through the following process. In the first address period where an address discharge is generated on the scan electrodes that belong to the first scan electrode group, the third switching element is turned OFF so as to give a different value of reference voltage between the first and the second scan electrode driving sections. In the second address period where an address discharge is generated on the scan electrodes that belong to the second scan electrode group, the third switching element is turned ON so as to give a same value of reference voltage between the first and the second scan electrode driving sections. In the sustain period where sustain pulses are applied to a plurality of scan electrodes to generate a sustain discharge in the discharge cells, the third switching element is turned ON.
US07969386B2
A plasma display apparatus and a method of driving the plasma display apparatus are provided. The plasma display apparatus includes a plasma display panel including a first electrode and a second electrode, a first electrode driver, and a second electrode driver. The first electrode driver supplies a first falling signal of a voltage magnitude, that is more than a voltage magnitude of a scan signal supplied during an address period, to the first electrode before the supply of a rising signal with a gradually rising voltage in at least one subfield of several subfields of a frame. The second electrode driver supplies a second signal having a polarity opposite a polarity of the first falling signal to the second electrode during the supply of the first falling signal.
US07969384B2
A micromirror device, which makes an image display with digital image data, comprises pixel elements each of which makes pulse width modulation (PWM) for incident light depending on the deflection state of light and which are arranged in the form of a matrix. Each of the pixel elements has a mirror, at least one memory cell comprising a transistor and a capacitor, and an electrode connected to each transistor. Memory cells arranged successively in a ROW direction are connected by a ROW line. The image data is loaded at a time interval during which the voltage of the electrode can hold the deflection state of a pixel element.
US07969379B2
An antenna assembly having a radiating element and a circuit board is provided. The radiating element is coupled to the circuit board by a conductive extension and hook portion where the hook portion extends into and possibly through a bore on the circuit board.
US07969375B2
According to the invention, a system for rotating a parabolic antenna about a central point is disclosed. The system may include a support member, a spherical structure, and at least one arm. The support member may be coupled with a surface and may also be coupled with the support member. The spherical structure may be at least partially spherical in shape about the central point. The spherical structure may include a first plurality of magnets. The at least one arm may be in proximity to the spherical structure and may also include a second plurality of magnets. The at least one arm may be coupled with the parabolic antenna, and at least a portion of the magnets in either one of, or both of, the first plurality of magnets and the second plurality of magnets may be configured to be selectively activated to rotate the arms about the central point.
US07969373B2
A planar antenna device (AD) for a TV receiver (R) comprises i) a loop antenna (LA) comprising first (E1) and second (E2) ends spaced one from the other, ii) a tuning means (TM) connected to the first (E1) and second (E2) ends of the loop antenna (LA) and arranged to control the frequency of the VHF TV signals this loop antenna (LA) is able to receive from command signals, iii) a first ground plane (GP1) cooperating with the loop antenna (LA) in order to act as a UHF monopole in receiving TV signals with UHF frequencies, iv) a first coupling means (CM1) coupled to the loop antenna (LA) at a first chosen location and arranged to deliver the received VHF signals, v) a second coupling means (CM2) coupled to the loop antenna (LA) at a second chosen location and arranged to deliver the received UHF signals, vi) an amplification means (AM) coupled to the first ground plane (GP1) and arranged to amplify TV signals, and vii) a switching means (SM) arranged to couple the amplification means (AM) to the first coupling means (CM1) and/or to the second coupling means (CM2) in dependence on command signals in order that the amplification means deliver amplified selected TV signals with VHF and/or UHF frequencies to an output.
US07969372B2
The small loop antenna element of the antenna apparatus includes loop antenna portions that have a predetermined loop plane and radiate a first polarized wave component parallel to the loop plane, and at least one connecting conductor that is provided in a direction orthogonal to the loop plane and connects the plurality of loop plane portions to radiate a second polarized wave component orthogonal to the first polarized wave component. In the case of the antenna apparatus located adjacent to a conductor plate, by making the maximum value of the antenna gain of the first polarized wave component and the maximum value of the antenna gain of the second polarized wave component substantially identical when the distance between the antenna apparatus and the conductor plate is changed, a composite component of the first and second polarized wave components are made substantially constant regardless of the distance.
US07969356B2
A satellite positioning system receiver programmed to determine information for a satellite using ephemeris data (710), determine information for the same satellite using almanac data (722), which may have been previously stored on the receiver, to determine an error between the satellite information determined from the ephemeris data and the satellite information determined from the stored almanac data (730), and to update the stored almanac data based upon the error (734).
US07969348B2
A wide area location and telemetry system may include a wide area location and telemetry system server that is configured to determine wide area location and telemetry system data about an object when the object is located within the coverage area of the wide area location and telemetry system. The wide area location and telemetry system server may also be configured to receive localized location and telemetry system data about the object when the object is located within the coverage area of a localized location and telemetry system. The wide area location and telemetry system may also include a database and a database manager. The database manager may be configured to store the wide area location and telemetry system data and the localized location and telemetry system data in the database.
US07969345B2
Fast implementation of a maximum likelihood algorithm for the estimation of target motion parameters
A system and method for implementing a maximum likelihood estimator for making a joint estimation of range, range rate, and acceleration of a target utilizing a pulse doppler radar. The MLE of target motion parameters are determined by keystone processing a baseband signal, and generating a first estimate of the motion parameters based on the processed signal. The first estimate is utilized to set up sampling intervals for the performance of a coarse search. Then a fine search is performed using Newton's method to determine the MLE.
US07969340B2
A segmented digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. In the present invention, the segmented DAC of the present invention comprises a signal component processing stage and a plurality of noise component processing stages cascaded with the signal component processing stage. A noise component of an input word for the DAC is split into a plurality of portions to be processed. By doing so, effect due to gain mismatch(es) in an analog portion of the DAC can be effectively reduced without significantly increasing DAC cells used in the DAC.
US07969334B2
Multiplying digital-to-analog converters (MDACs), which are generally employed in pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), can have a settling error associated with the MDAC amplifier. Here, a circuit is provided that includes additional amplifiers and a capacitor network that compensates for this settling error. Thus, a more accurate pipelined ADC can now be produced.
US07969333B2
Techniques for encoding data based at least in part upon an awareness of the decoding complexity of the encoded data and the ability of a target decoder to decode the encoded data are disclosed. In some embodiments, a set of data is encoded based at least in part upon a state of a target decoder to which the encoded set of data is to be provided. In some embodiments, a set of data is encoded based at least in part upon the states of multiple decoders to which the encoded set of data is to be provided.
US07969323B2
An instrumented component (18, 19) for use in various operating environments such as within a combustion turbine engine (10). The component (18, 19) may have a substrate, a sensor (50, 94, 134) connected with the substrate for sensing a condition of the component (18, 19) during operation of the combustion turbine (10) and a connector (52, 92, 140) attached to the substrate and in communication with the sensor (50, 94, 134) for routing a data signal from the sensor (50, 94, 134) to a termination location (53). The component (18, 19) may include a wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) in communication with the connector (52, 92, 140) for wirelessly transmitting the data signal. Recesses (114, 116) may be formed with a root portion (112, 132) of components (18, 19) within which wireless telemetry device (54, 76, 96) may be affixed.
US07969314B2
A personal athletic device is worn by a runner during a race. A race course is provided with a plurality of mats along the race course. The mats have antennas and generate a magnetic field. The personal athletic device has a chip system having an RFID tag and a display. As the runner progress along the course, the RFID tag is triggered at each mat and race data is displayed on the device.
US07969313B2
Remote communication devices, radio frequency identification devices, wireless communication systems, wireless communication methods, radio frequency identification device communication methods, and methods of forming a remote intelligent communication device are provided. According to one aspect, a remote intelligent communication device includes communication circuitry configured to at least one of receive communication signals and generate communication signals; and an antenna coupled with the communication circuitry and substantially tuned to a plurality of frequencies, the antenna being configured to communicate wireless signals corresponding to the communication signals including at least one of receiving wireless signals and outputting wireless signals. Another aspect includes a wireless communication method including providing a remote intelligent communication device having an antenna substantially tuned to a plurality of frequencies; and communicating wireless signals using the antenna including at least one of receiving wireless signals at one of the frequencies and outputting wireless signals at one of the frequencies.
US07969286B2
The invention is intended to be used in the technological field of communication and the update of data between electronic equipment (1, 2) capable of inter-communicating using wireless links. The invention relates more particularly to a process and a system to automatically configure and update the data saved in a radio frequency identifier (3). The process and the system enable the update of the data recorded in a radio frequency identifier of a first equipment item (1) equipped with a display screen (5) by displaying on screen a visual code (7) bearing update data of the radio frequency identifier. The visual code is then read using a second equipment item (2) provided with a visual code read device (4) having radio frequency identifier read-write interface. Then, the decoding of the visual code and the conversion and transmission of the update data to the radio frequency identifier by means of the read-write interface are performed.
US07969284B2
A wireless communication system includes an interrogator including a housing including circuitry configured to generate a forward link communication signal; communication circuitry configured to communicate the forward link communication signal; and a communication station remotely located with respect to the housing and configured to receive the forward link communication signal from the communication circuitry and to radiate a forward link wireless signal corresponding to the forward link communication signal; and at least one remote communication device configured to receive the forward link wireless signal. A method of communicating within a wireless communication system includes providing an interrogator and at least one remote communication device; generating a forward link communication signal using circuitry within a housing of the interrogator; communicating the forward link communication signal from the housing using communication circuitry; receiving the forward link communication signal from the communication circuitry within a communication station of the interrogator remotely located from the housing; radiating a forward link wireless signal corresponding to the forward link communication signal using the communication station; and receiving the forward link wireless signal within the at least one remote communication device.
US07969282B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses for RFID readers forming a reader network are described. In an aspect of the present invention, a plurality of RFID readers are configured to interrogate tags. Furthermore, the readers are configured to communicate with one another. Each of the readers include a ID number which identifies that particular reader within a reader network during communications. Each reader includes a network interface module and an optimization module to receive and process statistical data obtained from other readers in the network. Aspects of the present invention include a ‘primary/secondary’ reader network configuration, as well as a ‘distributed elements’ reader network configuration. A set of operational rules for the environment is indicated, and tag interrogations are optimized according to the rules. Readers may communicate according to a “Listen Before Talk” (LBT) protocol to avoid undesirable interference. Individual readers are capable of dynamically establishing and joining a network, and leaving the network in a self-configured and semi-autonomous or autonomous manner.
US07969281B2
A radio frequency identification data tag, a system and a method for reading the tag are described. The tag comprises a plurality of diffractive elements which are indicative of data carried by the tag. The diffractive elements have such shape that the dimension of the diffractive elements along one axis is substantially different than the dimension of the elements along the perpendicular axis. The diffractive elements are arranged in columns and rows in accordance with a predetermined layout scheme. In each column, the diffractive element is oriented in a direction other than the direction of the elements in the neighboring columns. The system for reading the tag comprises an array of transmitting (Tx) antennas for emitting an RF transmitted radiation signal at a predetermined polarization towards the tag, and an array of receiving (Rx) antennas configured for collecting re-radiated RF radiation produced by the tag at a polarization orthogonal to the polarization of the transmitting antenna. The system also includes an interrogator unit configured for generating the RF transmitted signal, and processing the RF received signal for reading the data carried tag. The reading is carried out by using amplitude information of SAR images based on the received signal for determining the arrangement of symbol elements in columns and phase information of the SAR images for determining the arrangement of the symbol elements in rows.
US07969279B2
Disclosed herein is a remote control system including a remote commander and a main device having a capability to connect with a subordinate device. The main device includes: a display; a first storage device for storing a plurality of sets of remote control codes; a first signal reception circuit; a first signal transmission circuit for, e.g., transmitting to the remote commander a set of remote control codes corresponding to a subordinate device; and a control unit. The remote commander includes: a second signal reception circuit for receiving the set of remote control codes; a second storage device for storing the set of remote control codes; a second signal transmission circuit; and an operation section for transmitting a remote control code transmission control signal for causing the control unit to perform remote control code transmission control for selecting the set of remote control codes and transmitting the set of remote control codes.
US07969274B2
An inductor structure (102) formed in an integrated circuit (100) is disclosed, and includes a first isolation layer (106) and a first core plate (104) disposed over or within the first isolation layer (106, 114). The first core plate (104) includes a plurality of electrically coupled conductive traces composed of a conductive ferromagnetic material layer. A second isolation layer (108) overlies the first isolation layer and an inductor coil (102) composed of a conductive material layer (118) is formed within the second isolation layer (108). Another core plate may be formed over the coil. The one or more core plates increase an inductance (L) of the inductor coil (102).
US07969270B2
A communications transformer in which the primary and secondary windings are each divided into equal halves is disclosed. One primary and one secondary half winding is disposed about one section of a magnetic core, while the other halves are disposed about a second, parallel section. Voltages in the primary half windings and secondary half windings caused by stray magnetic fields are subtracted.
US07969260B2
A variable radio frequency band filter includes a housing with a plurality of cavities, a plurality of resonators, wherein one resonator is arranged in each cavity, and a tuning arrangement having a plurality of tuning structures. One of the tuning structures is arranged in each of the cavities. The tuning structures of multiple cavities are mechanically connected such that the tuning structures may be shifted simultaneously in order to simultaneously vary the resonance frequencies of the cavities. Each tuning structure includes at least one first metallic surface facing the resonator and at least one second metallic surface facing a wall of the cavity, the first and second metallic surfaces being conductively connected. The second metallic surface is arranged such that a small and essentially uniform gap is formed between the second metallic surface and the wall to achieve a virtual grounding of the metallic surfaces.
US07969252B2
Increasing loop gain is a common practice for reducing lock time of phase locked loops. Very high loop gains, however, often result in increasing the lock time or causing loop instability. For very high loop gains, delaying the feedback clock signal along the feedback path of a phase locked loop decreases lock time and prevents instability. A delay circuit may be used at any location along the feedback path of the phase locked loop.
US07969247B2
A delta-sigma fractional-N frequency synthesizer having a charge pump with error canceling circuitry eliminates a non-linear term from the charge pump transfer function. The charge pump includes a matched pair of charging current sources, each supplying a first current IP1 to a common node, when enabled. The charge pump also includes a matched pair of discharging current sources, each sinking a second current IN1 from the common node, when enabled. The error canceling circuitry includes a charging current source, which supplies a current equal to the second current IN1 to the common node, when enabled. The error canceling circuitry also includes a discharging current source, which sinks a current equal to the first current IP1 from the common node, when enabled. The charging and discharging current sources of the error canceling circuitry are both enabled when either one of the matched pairs of charging and discharging current sources is enabled.
US07969239B2
A novel capacitor for use in a charge pump circuit has a substrate with a planar surface. A first electrode is in a first plane spaced apart from the planar surface. A second electrode is adjacent to and is spaced apart from the first electrode in the first plane and is capacitively coupled thereto. A third electrode is in a second plane, spaced apart from the first plane and is capacitively coupled to the first electrode. A fourth electrode is adjacent to and spaced apart from the third electrode in the second plane and is capacitively coupled to the third electrode and capacitively coupled to the second electrode. The first and fourth electrodes are electrically connected together and the second and third electrodes are electrically connected together. In addition, a cylindrical shape electrode, and a great wall electrode, and charge pump capacitor-by-pattern-filling is disclosed. A charge pump circuit using the foregoing described capacitor has a plurality of transistors for charging the capacitor and discharging the capacitor thereby increasing the voltage of the charge pump circuit.
US07969238B2
A cost-effective device for influencing the transmission of electrical energy of an alternating voltage line with a plurality of phases has phase modules, which each have an alternating voltage terminal for connecting to a phase of the alternating voltage line and two connecting terminals. A phase module branch extends between each connecting terminal and each alternating voltage terminal. The phase module branch is formed of a series connection of sub-modules, each having a power semiconductor circuit and an energy accumulator connected in parallel to the power semiconductor circuit. The connecting terminals are connected to one another. The power semiconductor circuit is equipped with power semiconductors that can be switched off and are connected to each other in a half bridge.
US07969227B2
According to one embodiment, a temperature detection circuit is provided which requires only a small number of additional components, thus minimizing an increase in costs and which offers an insulating property and high responsiveness. A temperature detection circuit outputs a first PWM signal corresponding to a temperature of a first temperature sensor from a photointerrupter as a signal insulated from the first temperature sensor. A temperature detection circuit outputs a second PWM signal corresponding to a temperature of a second temperature sensor from a photointerrupter as a signal insulated from the second temperature sensor. A controlling arithmetic apparatus calculates a higher one of the temperatures detected by the first and second temperature sensors based on the PWM signals output from the photointerrupter.
US07969224B2
A method and a circuit for correcting duty cycle distortion. A delay insertion gate corrects data dependent delay distortion that is generated by CMOS flip-flop circuits. The delay insertion gate includes two field effect transistors and a current mirror. The two transistors each respectively receive an input signal from an upstream circuit. At least one of the transistors is coupled to an output node. The output node temporarily holds a voltage state within the delay insertion gate, correcting any distortion in the duty cycle of the input signals.
US07969221B2
A square wave generator includes a sawtooth wave generator for generating a sawtooth wave, and a convertor for generating a square wave based on the sawtooth wave. The sawtooth wave generator includes a capacitor and a switching unit connected parallel to each other. A first terminal of the capacitor is electrically coupled to a power source and the convertor, and a second terminal of the capacitor is grounded. The switching unit includes a trigger and a field-effect transistor. When a voltage of the first terminal of the capacitor is not less than a first threshold voltage of the trigger, the trigger is turned on to activate the field-effect transistor, the field-effect transistor is turned on to ground the first terminal of the capacitor, so that the capacitor discharges rapidly.
US07969220B2
A delay circuit includes first and second selective delay stages each including a number of unit delay cells to delay signals applied thereto; and a delay control unit configured to control selectively applying an input signal to the first selective delay stage or the second selective delay stage in response to a code combination of first and second selection signals and produce an output signal.
US07969215B1
A programmable memory interface circuit includes a programmable DLL delay chain, a phase offset control circuit and a programmable DQS delay chain. The DLL delay chain uses a set of serially connected delay cells, a programmable switch, a phase detector and a digital counter to generate a coarse phase shift control setting. The coarse phase shift control setting is then used to pre-compute a static residual phase shift control setting or generate a dynamic residual phase shift control setting, one of which is chosen by the phase offset control circuit to be added to or subtracted from the coarse phase shift control setting to generate a fine phase shift control setting. The coarse and fine phase shift control settings work in concert to generate a phase-delayed DQS signal that is center-aligned to its associated DQ signals.
US07969212B2
A power-up signal generating circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a current source unit configured to supply a current to a first node; a current sink unit configured to be turned on when the level of a divided voltage dividing an external voltage is equal to or higher than a predetermined level to allow the current to flow from a first node to a second node; a control unit configured to control the turn-on timing of the current sink unit by controlling a voltage level of the second node; and a signal generating unit configured to enable a power-up signal depending on a voltage level of the first node.
US07969211B2
A power detecting device, a power supply device using the same, and a reference voltage generator are provided. The power detecting device adapted to detect a power voltage of a display device includes a bandgap voltage generating circuit, a voltage regulating circuit, and a power-on reset circuit. The bandgap voltage generating circuit provides a reference voltage via an output terminal thereof. The voltage regulating circuit and the power-on reset circuit are coupled to the output terminal of the bandgap voltage generating circuit. When the power voltage doesn't reach a threshold voltage, the voltage regulating circuit increases the reference voltage referred by the power-on reset circuit. When the power voltage reaches the reference voltage, the power-on reset circuit generates a reset signal to reset the display device. Therefore, when the power voltage doesn't reach a stable, the power-on reset circuit will not be incorrectly started by increasing the reference voltage.
US07969201B2
A decoder circuit that can prevent the delay of decoder output includes a switch that is put into an ON state when a node A of an NMOS region is not an output channel of a selected gradation voltage. The switch is connected to the node A. Thus, a voltage raised by electric charges accumulated by a coupling capacity C1 caused in the node A when the gradation voltage is outputted from an output terminal of the decoder output can be discharged by the switch in the ON state.
US07969190B2
A mixed-voltage buffer circuit coupled between a first circuit operative at a first power supply voltage and a second circuit operative at a second power supply voltage. The buffer circuit is connectable to the second power supply voltage and a third power supply voltage and includes an input circuit coupled to the first circuit through a first node and to the second circuit through a second node. The input circuit includes a first part coupled to the first node and an inverter coupled to the second node. The first part provides a signal having a voltage level approximately equal to the third power supply voltage to the inverter in response to a first signal on the first node, and provides a signal having a voltage level approximately equal to the second power supply voltage to the inverter in response to a second signal on the first node.
US07969188B2
A method and apparatus of providing a programmable system using non-volatile programmable transistors are disclosed. A programmable logic circuit, in one embodiment, includes a first programmable transistor and a second programmable transistor. The first programmable transistor includes a first gate terminal, a first source terminal, a first drain terminal, and a first programming terminal. The second programmable transistor includes a second gate terminal, a second source terminal, and a second drain terminal, and a second programmable terminal. The first and second programmable transistors include non-volatile memory elements. The first and the second gate terminals are coupled to an input terminal, and the first drain terminal and the second source terminal are coupled to an output terminal to perform a logic function.
US07969174B2
Methods and systems for semiconductor testing are disclosed. In one embodiment, devices which are testing too slowly are prevented from completing testing, thereby allowing untested devices to begin testing sooner.
US07969170B2
Microcontactor probe with reduced number of sliding contacts for Conduction, and electric probe unit
In order for a conduction path to have a reduced number of sliding portions for conduction, without increase in inductance nor resistance, thereby permitting an enhanced accuracy of inspection, a pair of plungers (3, 4) biased in opposite directions by a coil spring (2), to be electrically connected to a wiring plate (10), have electrical connections in which, in a tubular portion (15) as a tight wound spiral portion (15a) fixed on one plunger (4) to allow linear flow of electrical signal, the other plunger (3) is brought into slidable contact.
US07969167B2
A capacitance-to-voltage interface circuit includes a capacitive sensing circuit, an amplification circuit adapted for selective coupling to the capacitive sensing circuit, a capacitor bank comprising a plurality of binary-weighted capacitors, and a switching architecture associated with the capacitive sensing circuit, the amplification circuit, and the capacitor bank. The switching architecture reconfigures the capacitance-to-voltage interface circuit for operation in a plurality of different phases, including an amplification phase and an analog-to-digital conversion phase. During the amplification phase, the capacitor bank is utilized for offsetting capacitance of the amplification circuit. During the analog-to-digital conversion phase, the capacitor bank is utilized in a successive approximation register.
US07969161B2
Electrical tomography drive frequency selection systems and methods are disclosed. One aspect of the present invention pertains to a system for optimally selecting a drive frequency of an electrical tomography which comprises a sensor electrode stably associated with a tissue site within an internal organ of a subject for generating an induced signal based on a noise signal over a range of frequency bands, wherein an electrical field for the electrical tomography is turned off. In addition, the system comprises a noise processing module for isolating the induced signal for each frequency band over the range of frequency bands. Furthermore, the system comprises a frequency select module for selecting a drive frequency of the electrical field for the electrical tomography by comparing the induced signal for each frequency band over the range of frequency bands.
US07969158B2
A noise-reduction method for processing a port is applied to a test target for testing or being burned in with software. At least one zero-Ohm resistor is provided with a first end thereof electrically connected to a device under test (DUT) of the test target and a second end thereof connected to a test port. Moreover, at least one grounding zero-Ohm resistor is provided with one end connected to ground and the other end is a floating end. After the test target is finished debugging or burned in with software, the connection of the first end and the DUT is disabled, and the second end is connected to ground through the floating end to reduce noise generation and improve a flexibility in circuit layout.
US07969157B2
A fault detection circuit connects to and determines the occurrence of failure in an inverter circuit. The inverter circuit comprises three outputs to connect three groups of lamps respectively, and the fault detection circuit comprises a magnetic unit and a signal detection unit. The magnetic unit comprises first, second and third flux generating windings electrically connected to the three outputs of the inverter circuit, and a flux detection winding. If no fault occurs on the outputs of the inverter circuit, total flux generated by the flux generating windings is cancelled out. As long as any fault occurs on the outputs of the inverter circuit, flux generated by the flux generating windings cannot be canceled out, and the flux detection winding is electromagnetically coupled accordingly and driven by the generated flux to output a coupling signal, based on which the signal detection unit generates an alert signal accordingly.
US07969152B2
A method for measuring the resistivity of sea-bed formations is described. An electromagnetic field is generated using at least one stationary long-range transmitter. The frequency of the electromagnetic field is between and/or including the ULF/ELF range. At least one component of the electromagnetic field is measured. A conductivity distribution is determined based on the at least one measured component. The determined conductivity distribution is correlated with geological formations and/or hydrocarbon deposits.
US07969150B2
An apparatus and method is disclosed for measuring a parameter of an earth formation surrounding a wellbore. A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) tool and at least one second tool are conveyed in the wellbore on a wireline, the NMR tool having a magnetic influence on a region of the wellbore. The magnetic influence of the NMR tool is removed from the region of the wellbore using a demagnetizing device. The parameter of the earth formation is measured using the at least one second tool. A second demagnetizing device may be used to remove the magnetic influence of the at least one second tool from the region of the wellbore.
US07969146B2
An displacement measurement device and associated method where displacement measurements of a movable member are obtained by an electromagnetic field sensor that need not move relative to the magnet or other electromagnetic field source. The electromagnetic field sensor senses disruptions in the electromagnetic field caused by movement of the movable member to provide an output indicative of the position of the actuator.
US07969144B2
A sensor device for measuring a magnetic field in the region of a primary part of a permanently excited electrical machine or a corresponding primary part having teeth includes a sensor metal plate for conducting a magnetic field, a spacer, and a sensor for measuring a magnetic field. A distance between the sensor metal plate and a flank of a tooth of the primary part can be created by the spacer. The sensor may be a Hall sensor and is arranged in a region of the sensor metal plate between the sensor metal plate and the primary part.
US07969141B2
An inductive proximity sensor or switch and a method of using same. The sensor or switch includes an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (“ASIC”) and a plurality of external components. The ASIC is implemented in CMOS technology and has an oscillator. A switch point of the sensor or switch is predetermined by selection of a bias voltage to a potential node of the oscillator.
US07969133B2
A method for providing maximum power point tracking for an energy generating device using a local buck-boost converter coupled to the device is provided. The method includes operating in a tracking mode, which includes initializing a conversion ratio for the buck-boost converter based on a previous optimum conversion ratio. A device power associated with the initialized conversion ratio is calculated. The conversion ratio is repeatedly modified and a device power associated with each of the modified conversion ratios is calculated. A current optimum conversion ratio for the buck-boost converter is identified based on the calculated device powers. The current optimum conversion ratio corresponds to one of a buck mode, a boost mode and a buck-boost mode for the buck-boost converter.
US07969128B2
A capacitor isolated electronic power converter includes a direct current power source in series with a first inductor; and a first switch for switching contact with a second inductor in series with the power source return; an output load in series with a third inductor which connects to a second switch for switching contact to a fourth inductor in series with the output load return; the third inductor and second switch for switching connect through a first capacitive coupling to the second inductor; and the fourth inductor and second switch for switching connect through a second capacitive coupling to the first inductor; wherein the first and second capacitive coupling isolate the power source from the output load.
US07969123B2
An exciter assembly for supplying a field current to the rotor windings of a superconducting synchronous machine includes a pulse transformer having a stationary primary winding and a secondary winding that is mounted to the rotor of the superconducting synchronous machine for rotation therewith. A switched mode power supply supplies a pulsed voltage to the primary winding of the pulse transformer. The pulsed voltage developed at the secondary winding of the pulse transformer is supplied to the rotor windings through a rectifier semiconductor device and a pair of transfer leads. The rotor windings and a flywheel semiconductor device are located inside a cryogenic chamber or cryostat. The flywheel semiconductor device is connected in parallel with the rotor windings and operates in unison with the rectifier semiconductor device in order to provide synchronous rectification of the switched mode power supply output. The switched mode power supply and both the primary and secondary windings of the pulse transformer are located outside the cryostat.
US07969110B2
The invention relates to an actuator having an (auto)synchronous rotary electric motor and a reversible speed-reducing gearbox coupled to the motor to be driven in rotation thereby An outlet shaft is coupled to the speed-reducing gearbox to be driven in rotation thereby A first angular position sensor and a control circuit are connected to the motor. The circuit delivers a motor power supply signal that varies as a function of a position setpoint signal applied to the control circuit and as a function of signals delivered by the angular position sensor. The gearbox has a plurality of speed-reducing each having a pair of gears mounted to rotate about two parallel axes of rotation.
US07969104B2
In a rotary electric system, a rotary electric machine is provided with an armature core and star-connected multiphase windings with a neutral point wound in the armature core. Each of the star-connected multiphase windings has a predetermined winding configuration that prevents, when a zero-phase current is supplied from a direct current power source to the star-connected multiphase windings via the neutral point, a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in each phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings from being cancelled out by a zero-phase magnetic flux created in the armature core based on the zero-phase current flowing in another one phase winding of the star-connected multiphase windings.
US07969103B2
A block switch controller for a linear motor is disclosed, the block switch controller having a motor current threshold profile controlling the switching of a plurality of block switches in a linear motor. Also, a block switch controller for a linear motor comprising a closed loop vector current controller that incorporates a delay state having a feedback gain is disclosed. Additionally, a method of switching a plurality of block switches that minimizes switching transients is provided. Finally, an article of manufacture containing computer code implementing a modeling and simulation program for modeling a linear motor system is provided.
US07969082B2
It aims to improve electron emission efficiency in an electron beam apparatus which includes laminated electron-emitting devices. To achieve this, there are provided an insulating member which has a concave portion on its surface, a cathode which is positioned astride a side surface of the insulating member and an inner surface of the concave portion, a gate which is positioned opposite to the cathode, and a protruding portion which is formed on the gate. In this constitution, the low potential surface of the cathode which is positioned inside the concave portion is inclined to the side of the gate from the entrance toward the interior of the concave portion.
US07969081B2
A plasma display panel includes: pairs of electrodes having first electrode and second electrode which are arranged in parallel with each other; first substrate having dielectric layer formed so that the dielectric layer can cover the pairs of electrodes; and second substrate having third electrode which is arranged crossing the pairs of electrodes, and the plasma display panel further includes: floating electrodes, protruding onto a discharge space provided on dielectric layer at positions respectively corresponding to first electrode and second electrode, wherein floating electrodes are opposed to each other. Due to the above composition, the discharge starting voltage is reduced and the drive voltage is decreased. Accordingly, the light emitting efficiency is enhanced.
US07969080B2
The present invention provides an electron source that can produce a stable electron beam even if an apparatus employing the electron source receives vibration from the outside. An electron source comprising an insulator, a pair of conductive terminals attached to the insulator, a filament tensed between the pair of conductive terminals, a rod-shaped cathode having a sharp end portion performing as an electron emitting portion and joined with the filament, wherein the cathode has another end portion different from the electron emitting portion, fixed to the insulator. It is preferred that said another end portion of the cathode other than the electron emitting portion, is fixed to the insulator via a metal pin brazed with the insulator.
US07969079B2
A carbon nanotube device in accordance with the invention includes a free-standing membrane that is peripherally supported by a support structure. The membrane includes an aperture that extends through a thickness of the membrane. At least one carbon nanotube extends across the aperture on a front surface of the membrane. The carbon nanotube is also accessible from a back surface of the membrane.
US07969078B2
A spark ignition device is provided having an electrode sparking tip constructed from an AuPd alloy with the addition of at least 3 wt. % of a precious metal element selected from at least one of platinum, iridium, rhodium and ruthenium. The gold counteracts oxidation of the palladium and the additional elements provide the sparking tip with high temperature and high strength mechanical properties and resistance to alloying with the combustion constituents during use.
US07969071B2
The crystal unit for surface mounting includes a container body having a recess, a pair of holding terminals formed on an inner bottom surface of the recess and a crystal blank provided with excitation electrodes on both principal surfaces thereof, having a first end and a second end with lead-out electrodes extending from the excitation electrodes toward both sides of the first end. Both sides of the first end are fixed to the holding terminals using a conductive adhesive. Pillow members protruding from the inner bottom surface are provided on the inner bottom surface of the recess at positions corresponding to corners on both sides of the second end. A bank having a height lower than a height of the pillow members is provided on the inner bottom surface of the recess at an intermediate position between the pair of pillow members.
US07969069B2
The invention is an energy transducer that utilizes a material's internal energy as an energy source by operating in a cycle where there is a net loss in the material's internal energy without the need to raise the temperature of the material above ambient temperature. The invention is accomplished by the use of selected materials in which the material's mechanical strain, magnetization or electric polarization can be controlled by cross coupling forces, and where the cross coupling coefficients are not equal to each other in finite operating regions.
US07969057B2
A rotor of a synchronous motor includes a rotating shaft, a plurality of segments, a plurality of permanent magnets, and a field coil. The segments are located radially outward of the rotating shaft and arranged in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft at a predetermined pitch with spaces formed therebetween. Each of the segments has a recess making up a magnetic reluctance portion and an opposite pair of ends making up salient-pole portions. Each of the permanent magnets is disposed in one the spaces between the segments with a predetermined orientation of its N and S poles. The field coil is wound around the segments to extend in the circumferential direction of the rotating shaft through the recesses of the segments. The field coil creates, when energized with DC current, magnetic flux which magnetizes the pair of ends of each of the segments in opposite directions.
US07969056B2
A rotating electric motor includes a stator core, a rotational shaft capable of rotation, a field yoke allowing a flow of magnetic flux in an axial direction, first and second rotor cores fixedly installed on the rotational shaft, a first magnet fixedly installed between the first rotor core and the second rotor core, a first rotor teeth formed at the first rotor core, a second magnet provided alongside of the first rotor teeth in the circumferential direction of the first rotor core, a second rotor teeth formed at the outer surface of the second rotor core, protruding outwardly in the radial direction, a third magnet provided alongside of the second rotor core in the axial direction, and windings that can control the density of magnetic flux between at least one of the first rotor core and second rotor core and the stator core.
US07969049B2
A high power density generator contains an armature structure having a plurality of conductors and at least one heat transfer tube thermally coupled to the conductors. The tube is hollow so as to allow a heat transfer fluid to pass through it. The tube is made of a material having a thermal conductivity λ of at least 20 W/mK, an electrical breakdown strength of at least 60 V/mil, and a mechanical strength adequate for handling, manufacturing and operation. In an embodiment of the invention, the tube is made of a ceramic material.
US07969039B2
A controller is capable of executing direct couple control that directly couples a first power device and a second power device without causing a DC/DC converter to convert voltage. During the direct couple control, a drive signal that causes no voltage conversion is intermittently output to at least one of a plurality of switching devices.
US07969037B2
A wind turbine nacelle configuration includes a frame structure configured for mounting atop a wind turbine tower. The frame structure includes a base, side support members, and top support members. A shell is attached to the frame structure to enclose the nacelle. A drive train may be housed within the frame structure and includes a low speed rotor shaft connected to a gearbox, and a high speed shaft connecting the gearbox to a generator. The frame structure is configured so that at least one component of the drive train is suspended from the top support members within the frame structure.
US07969027B2
A semiconductor device comprising an organic substrate, at least one semiconductor chip provided on a surface of the substrate, and a cured resin composition encapsulating the semiconductor chip provided on the surface of the substrate, characterized in that an absolute value of a distance between an imaginary line connecting two diagonally opposite corners of the substrate and a highest or lowest position on the surface of the substrate between the corners is smaller than 600 μm, as measured with a laser three-dimensional measuring instrument, a total volume ratio of the semiconductor chip to the semiconductor device ranges from 18 to 50%, and the cured resin composition comprises an inorganic filler (C) in such an amount that a weight ratio of the inorganic filler (C) to a total weight of the cured resin composition ranges from 80 to 90%.
US07969025B2
An electric power semiconductor device including first and second circuit patterns formed on main surfaces of first and second insulating substrates, respectively, first and second semiconductor chips mounted on the first and second circuit patterns, respectively, a multilayer electrode plate assembly disposed between the first and second insulating substrates, having first, second and third electrode terminals provided with a distance from each other, a first connecting conductor made by wire bonding for connecting the first and second semiconductor chips to the first and second electrode terminals, and a second connecting conductor having an extending portion extended from a part of the third electrode terminal to be connected to the second circuit pattern, and the connection between the extending portion of the third electrode terminal and the second circuit pattern is implemented by a solder.
US07969023B2
An integrated circuit package in package system includes: providing a substrate with a first wire-bonded die mounted thereover, and connected to the substrate with bond wires; mounting a triple film spacer above the first wire-bonded die, the triple film spacer having fillers in a first film and in a third film, and having a second film separating the first film and the third film, and the bond wires connecting the first wire-bonded die to the substrate are embedded in the first film; and encapsulating the first wire-bonded die, the bond wires, and the triple film spacer with an encapsulation.
US07969020B2
Various stacked semiconductor devices and methods of making the same are provided. In one aspect, a method of manufacturing is provided that includes providing a first semiconductor die that has a first bulk semiconductor side and a first opposite side. A second semiconductor die is provided that has a second bulk semiconductor side and a second opposite side. The second opposite side of the second semiconductor die is coupled to the first opposite side of the first semiconductor die. Electrical connections are formed between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die.
US07969016B2
A self-aligned wafer or chip structure including a substrate, at least one first concave base, at least one second concave base, at least one connecting structure and at least one bump is provided. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface, and at least one pad is formed on the first surface. The first concave base is disposed on the first surface and electrically connected to the pad. The second concave base is disposed on the second surface. The connecting structure passes through the substrate and disposed between the first and second concave bases so as to be electrically connected to the first and second concave bases. The bump is filled in the second concave base and protrudes out of the second surface.
US07969015B2
A system for connecting a first chip to a second chip having a post on the first chip having a first metallic material, a recessed wall within the second chip and defining a well within the second chip, a conductive diffusion layer material on a surface of the recessed wall within the well, and a malleable electrically conductive material on the post, the post being dimensioned for insertion into the well such that the malleable electrically conductive material will deform within the well and, upon heating to at least a tack temperature for the malleable, electrically conductive material, will form an electrically conductive tack connection with the diffusion layer to create an electrically conductive path between the first chip and the second chip.
US07969014B2
The invention discloses a technique for designing the power layout of an integrated circuit. The power layout design forms a power mesh and a power ring with a plurality of metal trunks with uniform line width. In particular, the power ring includes a plurality of metal rings, which are formed by arranging denser layout of the metal trunks with uniform line width. The power ring serves as a function of receiving and providing a power source to the elements of the integrated circuit.
US07969012B2
A method for easily manufacturing a semiconductor device in which variation in thickness or disconnection of a source electrode or a drain electrode is prevented is proposed. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer formed over an insulating substrate; a first insulating layer formed over the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode formed over the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer formed over the gate electrode; an opening which reaches the semiconductor layer and is formed at least in the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer; and a step portion formed at a side surface of the second insulating layer in the opening.
US07969006B2
An integrated circuit chip includes a silicon substrate, a first circuit in or over said silicon substrate, a second circuit device in or over said silicon substrate, a dielectric structure over said silicon substrate, a first interconnecting structure in said dielectric structure, a first pad connected to said first node of said voltage regulator through said first interconnecting structure, a second interconnecting structure in said dielectric structure, a second pad connected to said first node of said internal circuit through said second interconnecting structure, a passivation layer over said dielectric structure, wherein multiple opening in said passivation layer exposes said first and second pads, and a third interconnecting structure over said passivation layer and over said first and second pads.
US07968989B2
A multi-package module that includes a multi-layer interconnect structure, a housing structure attached to the multi-layer interconnect structure, and a plurality of integrated circuit packages inserted into slots in the housing structure, and placed into contact with the multi-layer interconnect structure. The integrated circuit packages can be removed from the slots in the housing structure, thereby enabling testing and/or replacement of the integrated circuit packages.
US07968971B2
A thin-body bipolar device includes: a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor fin constructed over the semiconductor substrate, a first region of the semiconductor fin having a first conductivity type, the first region serving as a base of the thin-body bipolar device, and a second and third region of the semiconductor fin having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type, the second and third region being both juxtaposed with and separated by the first region, the second and third region serving as an emitter and collector of the thin-body bipolar device, respectively.
US07968968B2
An inductor utilizing a pad metal layer. The inductor comprises a metal spiral, a metal bridge, and a metal interconnect. The metal bridge is formed with the pad metal layer and a plurality of vias and has one end connected to the metal spiral. The metal interconnect is connected to the other end of the metal bridge. In addition, resistivity of the pad metal layer is lower than that of the metal spiral.
US07968967B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a power source, and a stacked structure over the semiconductor substrate and coupled to the power source. The stacked structure includes a bottom electrode, a top electrode, and an insulation layer between the top electrode and the bottom electrode, wherein the insulation layer has a breakdown voltage lower than a pre-determined write voltage provided by the power source and higher than a pre-determined read voltage provided by the power source.
US07968960B2
In various method embodiments, a device region in a semiconductor substrate and isolation regions adjacent to the device region are defined. The device region has a channel region and the isolation regions have strain-inducing regions laterally adjacent to the channel regions. The channel region is strained with a desired strain for carrier mobility enhancement, where at least one ion type is implanted with an energy resulting in a peak implant in the strain-inducing regions of the isolation regions. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07968958B2
A semiconductor device includes: a sensor element having a plate shape with a surface and including a sensor structure disposed in a surface portion of the sensor element; and a plate-shaped cap element bonded to the surface of the sensor element. The cap element has a wiring pattern portion facing the sensor element. The wiring pattern portion connects an outer periphery of the surface of the sensor element and the sensor structure so that the sensor structure is electrically coupled with an external element via the outer periphery. The sensor element does not have a complicated multi-layered structure, so that the sensor element is simplified. Further, the dimensions of the device are reduced.
US07968954B2
A method for reducing the effective thickness of a gate oxide using nitrogen implantation and anneal subsequent to dopant implantation and activation is provided. More particularly, the present invention provides a method for fabricating semiconductor devices, for example, transistors, which include a hardened gate oxide and which may be characterized by a relatively large nitrogen concentration at the polysilicon/gate oxide interface and a relatively small nitrogen concentration within the gate oxide and at the gate oxide/substrate interface. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a metal gate strap (e.g., a metal silicide layer) disposed over the polysilicon layer thereof, which device includes a hardened gate oxide and which may be characterized by a relatively large nitrogen concentration at the silicide/polysilicon interface to substantially prevent cross-diffusion.
US07968950B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode having ends that overlap isolation regions, wherein the gate electrode is located over an active region located within a semiconductor substrate. A gate oxide is located between the gate electrode and the active regions, and source/drains are located adjacent the gate electrode and within the active region. An etch stop layer is located over the gate electrode and the gate electrode has at least one electrical contact that extends through the etch stop layer and contacts a portion of the gate electrode that in one embodiment overlies the active region, and in another embodiment is less than one alignment tolerance from the active region.
US07968948B2
A trench isolation structure in a semiconductor device is provided. A semiconductor substrate has cell regions and peripheral circuit regions. First trenches have a predetermined depth and are formed in the semiconductor substrate at the cell regions. A first sidewall oxide film is formed overlying the first trenches. A first liner nitride film is formed overlying the first sidewall oxide film. Second trenches have a predetermined depth and are formed in the semiconductor substrate at the peripheral circuit regions. A second sidewall oxide film is formed overlying the second trenches. An oxide film fills the first overlying second trenches. A second liner nitride film formed on the filling oxide film. The second liner nitride film is separated from the sidewalls of the first and second trenches.
US07968943B2
Plural through-holes are formed in a region of a semiconductor substrate positioned below a drain region (an element region other than a P-type well region). According to this configuration, an opposing area of the drain region and the semiconductor substrate can be reduced. Therefore, a drain-substrate capacitance Cdsub is reduced, and an output capacitance Coss of an SOI LDMOSFET can be reduced as a result.
US07968942B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor apparatus having high reliability with respect to a withstand voltage, leakage characteristics, etc. by disposing a structure of preventing stress occurring by metal wiring from directly acting on a trench relating to the semiconductor apparatus having a trench gate. The semiconductor apparatus of the invention includes a semiconductor substrate including a semiconductor layer having a predetermined impurity concentration, a trench gate formed in the semiconductor layer by filling a stripe-shaped trench by a conductor layer on which surface and interface a gate oxide film is formed, an insulating film covering a surface of the semiconductor layer and having a source contact opening, a source region formed in the semiconductor layer, a source electrode formed on the surface of the semiconductor layer so as to electrically connect to the source region through the source contact opening, a gate peripheral wiring connected to the trench gate at a peripheral edge part of the trench gate, a gate electrode separately formed from the source electrode, formed above the surface of the semiconductor layer and connected to the gate peripheral wiring and a drain electrode formed on an surface of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the surface of the semiconductor layer, wherein the trench gate is formed so as to avoid a corner portion of the source contact opening of the source electrode.
US07968940B2
Double gate IGBT having both gates referred to a cathode in which a second gate is for controlling flow of hole current. In on-state, hole current can be largely suppressed. While during switching, hole current is allowed to flow through a second channel. Incorporating a depletion-mode p-channel MOSFET having a pre-formed hole channel that is turned ON when 0V or positive voltages below a specified threshold voltage are applied between second gate and cathode, negative voltages to the gate of p-channel are not used. Providing active control of holes amount that is collected in on-state by lowering base transport factor through increasing doping and width of n well or by reducing injection efficiency through decreasing doping of deep p well. Device includes at least anode, cathode, semiconductor substrate, n− drift region, first & second gates, n+ cathode region; p+ cathode short, deep p well, n well, and pre-formed hole channel.
US07968939B2
A gate trench 13 is formed in a semiconductor substrate 10. The gate trench 13 is provided with a gate electrode 16 formed over a gate insulating film 14. A portion of the gate electrode 16 protrudes from the semiconductor substrate 10, and a sidewall 24 is formed over a side wall portion of the protruding portion. A body trench 25 is formed in alignment with an adjacent gate electrode 16. A cobalt silicide film 28 is formed over a surface of the gate electrode 16 and over a surface of the body trench 25. A plug 34 is formed using an SAC technique.
US07968928B2
DRAM cell arrays having a cell area of less than about 4 F2 comprise an array of vertical transistors with buried bit lines and vertical double gate electrodes. The buried bit lines comprise a silicide material and are provided below a surface of the substrate. The word lines are optionally formed of a silicide material and form the gate electrode of the vertical transistors. The vertical transistor may comprise sequentially formed doped polysilicon layers or doped epitaxial layers. At least one of the buried bit lines is non-orthogonal to at least one of the vertical gate electrodes of the vertical transistors.
US07968926B2
A memory cell includes a semiconductor substrate; and a first, a second, and a third transistor. The first transistor includes a first dielectric over the semiconductor substrate; and a first floating gate over the first dielectric. The second transistor is electrically coupled to the first transistor and includes a second dielectric over the semiconductor substrate; and a second floating gate over the second dielectric. The first and the second floating gates are electrically disconnected. The memory cell further includes a first capacitor; a second capacitor electrically coupled to the first capacitor; a third capacitor; a fourth capacitor electrically coupled to the third capacitor, wherein each of the first, the second, the third and the fourth capacitors includes the semiconductor substrate as one of the capacitor plates. The third transistor is a selector of the memory cell and is electrically coupled to the first and the second transistors.
US07968923B2
An image sensor pixel includes a photo-sensor region, a microlens, a first color filter layer, and a second color filter layer. The photo-sensor region is disposed within a semiconductor die. The microlens is disposed on the semiconductor die in optical alignment with the photo-sensor region. The first color filter layer is disposed between the photo-sensor region and the microlens. The second color filter layer is disposed on an opposite side of the microlens as the first color filter layer.
US07968917B2
There is provided a semiconductor memory device including: a first wiring layer; a second wiring layer; a third wiring layer; a memory array region; a first gate array region being formed at a region at which the first wiring layer, the second wiring layer and the third wiring layer can be used in wiring of the plural unit cells; and a second gate array region being formed at a region at which two wiring layers that are the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer can be used in wiring of the plural memory cells, and the plural unit cells are arrayed so as to be separated at an interval needed for placement, by using the first wiring layer, of wiring that should be placed by using the third wiring layer.
US07968908B2
Semiconductor structures providing protection against electrostatic events of both polarities are provided. A pair of p-n junctions is provided underneath a shallow trench isolation portion between a first-conductivity-type well and each of a signal-side second-conductivity-type well and an electrical-ground-side second-conductivity-type well in a semiconductor substrate. A second-conductivity-type doped region and a first-conductivity-type doped region are formed above each second-conductivity-type well such that a portion of the second-conductivity-type well resistively separates the second-conductivity-type doped region and the first-conductivity-type doped region within the semiconductor substrate. Each of the second-conductivity-type doped regions is wired either to a signal node or electrical ground. One of the two npn transistors and one of the two p-n diodes, each inherently present in the semiconductor structure, turn on to provide protection against electrical discharge events involving either type of excessive electrical charges.
US07968897B2
A light-emitting device capable of improving light extraction efficiency is provided. This light-emitting device comprises a support substrate set on a side opposite to a light emission surface and a semiconductor element layer, bonded to the support substrate, having a side surface inclined by a prescribed angle with respect to at least the normal of the light emission surface.
US07968886B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising thin-film transistors in each of which the second wiring is prevented from breaking at steps. A silicon nitride film is formed on gate electrodes and on gate wiring extending from the gate electrodes. Substantially triangular regions are formed out of an insulator over side surfaces of the gate electrodes and of the gate wiring. The presence of these substantially triangular side walls make milder the steps at which the second wiring goes over the gate wiring. This suppresses breakage of the second wiring.
US07968880B2
To improve problems with on-state current and off-state current of thin film transistors, a thin film transistor includes a pair of impurity semiconductor layers to which an impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added, provided with a space therebetween; a conductive layer which is overlapped, over the gate insulating layer, with the gate electrode and one of the pair of impurity semiconductor layers to which an impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added; and an amorphous semiconductor layer which is provided successively between the pair of impurity semiconductor layers to which an impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added in such a manner that the amorphous semiconductor layer extends over the gate insulating layer from the conductive layer and is in contact with both of the pair of impurity semiconductor layers to which an impurity element imparting one conductivity type is added.
US07968873B2
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device and a manufacturing method thereof. The organic light emitting device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a first thin film transistor disposed on a substrate, an organic layer disposed on the first thin film transistor, a pixel electrode disposed on the organic layer and connected to the first thin film transistor, a partition disposed on the pixel electrode and the organic layer, and an organic emission layer disposed on the pixel electrode and contacting the partition. The partition has an organic layer exposing hole that exposes a portion of the organic layer and an opening that exposes a portion of the pixel electrode.
US07968867B2
A light-emitting device and the method for making the same is disclosed. The light-emitting device is a semiconductor device, comprising a growth substrate, an n-type semiconductor layer, a quantum well active layer and a p-type semiconductor layer. It combines the holographic and the quantum well interdiffusion (QWI) to form a photonic crystal light-emitting device having a dielectric constant of two-dimensional periodic variation or a material composition of two-dimensional periodic variation in the quantum well active layer. The photonic crystal light-emitting devices can enhance the internal efficiency and light extraction efficiency.
US07968865B2
A heterostructure having a heterojunction comprising: a diamond layer; and a boron aluminum nitride (B(x)Al(1-x)N) layer disposed in contact with a surface of the diamond layer, where x is between 0 and 1.
US07968863B2
Method of manufacturing an optical device, and an optical device, the optical device having one or more layers (13) of quantum-dots located in-between barrier layers (12). A spacer layer (15) is grown on a barrier layer (12), such that the spacer layer (15) is adapted for substantially blocking strain fields induced by quantum-dot layers, thereby producing a smooth growth front for a subsequent barrier layer (12).
US07968860B2
A measurement system for measuring a degree of moisture stratification in a flat sheet product, such as paper, board or other materials. The system uses a combination of a reflection gauge and a transmission gauge to provide output signals indicative of surface moisture of a first side and of moisture in the body of the flat sheet product. The output signals are processed by a controller or computer to provide a measurement of the moisture stratification. An additional reflection gauge and an additional transmission gauge can also be used to provide additional output signals indicative of surface moisture of a second side of the flat sheet product and of moisture in the body. Narrow band radiation is used with modulation to distinguish from ambient radiation as well as radiation incident on the opposite side.
US07968856B2
This invention concerns a fluorometer preferably combined with a thermal cycler useful in biochemical protocols such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA melting curve analysis. The present fluorometer features a low heat-generating light source such as a light emitting diode (LED), having a one-to-one correspondence to each of a plurality of sample containers, such as capped PCR tubes in a standard titer tray. The fluorometer of the present invention further comprises an optical path between each LED and its correspondingly positioned container, and another optical path between each fluorescing sample within the positioned container and an optical signal sensing means. The instrument can be computer controlled.
US07968849B2
Whether a phenomenon of photon incidence on detectors is a double event or a single event is determined (step S1). When it is a double event, emission data is collected (S2), and is put to an image reconstruction process (S3). When it is a single event, on the other hand, the data is collected as data for calibration (S4), and is put to a calibration process (S5). Since the data for calibration is collected during a clinical practice, a PET apparatus can be calibrated frequently without lowering the operating ratio of the apparatus.
US07968848B2
A blackbody radiation device (110) includes a planar filament emission element (102) and a planar detector (104) for respectively producing and detecting radiation having width dl/l less than about 0.1 to test a sample gas, where l is the wavelength of the radiation; a reflector (108); a window (W); an electrical control (118); and a data output element (116).
US07968846B2
A cavity thermal detector assembly is presented that allows both tunable narrowband and broadband operation. This allows for high light efficiency, low thermal time constant, and flexibility in designing the optical path. The thermal detector/filter layers are part of the top mirror or mirrors of a Gires-Tournois-type optical cavity and provide absorption and reflection that can be adjusted to the desired width and position of the detected band. Tuning, if desired, can be achieved by applying micromechanical methods. Broadband operation may be achieved by bringing the sensor close to the bottom mirror. In this mode, the sensor or its supports may or may not touch over a small area.
US07968845B1
An imaging device has a thermal sensor to remotely measure respective temperatures of regions within an imaging field and to generate temperature information signals. A motion tracking system tracks motion of the thermal sensor and generates position information signals representing positions of the thermal sensor during the temperature measurements. An image construction processor uses the position and temperature information signals to generate a two-dimensional image representative of the imaging field including respective temperature indications at different locations within the two-dimensional image, and stores the two-dimensional image within a memory. The two-dimensional image may be used as an output image for display to a user.
US07968843B2
Method and apparatus capable of observing a liquid sample. An optical image of the sample and an image using a primary beam, such as an electron beam or charged-particle beam, can be obtained at the same time. The apparatus has a film including a first surface on which the liquid sample is held. The primary beam irradiation column and optical image acquisition viewer are located on opposite sides of the film that acts to block light.
US07968827B2
A heating module for an oxygen sensor comprises an estimated mass module, a cumulative mass module, and a temperature control module. The estimated mass module determines an estimated mass of intake air to remove condensation from an exhaust system after startup of an engine. The cumulative mass module determines a cumulative mass of intake air after the engine startup. The temperature control module adjusts a temperature of an oxygen sensor measuring oxygen in the exhaust system to a first predetermined temperature after the engine startup and adjusts the temperature to a second predetermined temperature when the cumulative air mass is greater than the estimated air mass, wherein the second predetermined temperature is greater than the first predetermined temperature.
US07968826B2
The warming article contains a heating element and a sensing system. The sensing system has a first sensor element being a temperature dependent variable resistor and a second sensor element having at least two resistors in series and corresponding jumpers for one or more resistors in the second sensor element. The first sensor element is linear and flexible and the second sensor element is used to adjust the total sensor resistance to a fixed value at a particular temperature.
US07968823B2
A wireless inductive coupling assembly for a heated glass panel assembly is provided that includes a metal oxide coated glass panel with a panel frame, an opening frame that cooperates with the coated glass panel frame to allow the panel to cover a panel opening, a receiving coil that is positioned in the panel frame and that is wired to the panel, and a sending coil that is positioned in the opening frame and that is wired to an electrical power source. When the electrical power source supplies electrical power to the sending coil, the sending coil wirelessly induces an electrical current in the receiving coil, which causes the dielectric panel to provide heat.
US07968820B2
A method for producing an area of light transmissivity in a generally opaque panel comprises forming an area of reduced thickness in the panel, laser drilling an array of microscopic holes in the area and thereafter filling the holes with a light transmissive material such as a curable polymer. The thinned area may also be filled with a polymer to reinforce the thinned area, and the polymer may be colored to add color to light transmitted through the pattern.
US07968813B2
A control module for selectively switching electrical power from an electrical power source to a load circuit comprises a housing. An electromechanical actuator in the housing has a movable plunger. A fixed contact is fixedly mounted in the housing and is electrically connected to a first electrical terminal. A conductive contact arm in the housing comprises an elongate bar having a turn defining opposite first and second legs. The contact arm is pivotally mounted in the housing proximate the turn and is operatively connected to the plunger to be selectively positioned thereby. The contact arm further comprises a conductor tab proximate the turn. The first leg includes a movable contact for selectively electrically contacting the fixed contact. The second leg includes a user interface operator.
US07968812B2
A flexible joint may include a conductive compression spring and a pair of non-conductive spring cages disposed at opposite ends of the compression spring to support the compression spring. A conductive member disposed inside the compression spring may extend between the pair of spring cages. One end of the conductive member may be fixed for movement with one of the spring cages and another end of the conductive member may be fixed for movement with the other of the spring cages.
US07968809B2
A switching device for an electrical switchgear assembly for power distribution includes a grounding function unit including a first moving control element selectably moveable to a first manual operation position and an isolation function unit including a second moving control element selectably to a second manual operation position. The grounding function unit is selectable to a manual operation state by moving the first moving control element to the first manual operation position, and the isolation function unit function unit is selectable to a manual operation state by moving the second moving control element to the second manual operation position. When the manual operation state is selected for one of the grounding and isolation function units, selection of the other of the grounding and isolation functional units to the manual operation state is blocked by a respective one of the first and second moving control elements.
US07968806B2
A housing for one or more electrical components that are connected to sources of a plurality of voltages comprises a box, a first cover to cover a first portion of the opening in the box and a second cover to cover a second portion of the opening. The first cover includes a separator that projects into the box when the first cover is installed to divide the interior of the box and so that components connectable to a higher voltage can be separated from components connectable to a lower voltage.
US07968801B2
The camera module structure (10) of the present invention is arranged such that a board electrode (2) of a printed board (1) and a mounting electrode (4) of a camera module (3) mounted on the printed board (1) are joined with each other through a solder joint section (5), and the board electrode (2) and the mounting electrode (4) are aligned by self-alignment. The solder joint section (5) includes a solder section (16) for solder-joining, and a supporting section (17) for supporting the camera module (3). The present invention realizes a solder mounting structure wherein a heavy-weight component is joined on the board with solder by self-alignment.
US07968793B2
A solar cell includes a back metal-contact layer, a P-type semiconductor layer, a P-N junction layer, an N-type semiconductor layer and a transparent electrically conductive layer. The P-type semiconductor layer is formed on the back metal-contact layer. The P-type semiconductor layer is comprised of nano particles of a P-type semi-conductive compound. The P-N junction layer is formed on the P-type semiconductor layer. The N-type semiconductor layer is formed on the P-N junction layer. The N-type semiconductor layer is comprised of nano particles of an N-type semi-conductive compound. The transparent electrically conductive layer is formed on the N-type semiconductor layer and functions as a front contact layer.
US07968792B2
Quantum dot sensitized wide bandgap semiconductor photovoltaic devices & methods of fabricating same
A quantum dot (QD) sensitized wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor heterojunction photovoltaic (PV) device comprises an electron conductive layer; an active photovoltaic (PV) layer adjacent the electron conductive layer; a hole conductive layer adjacent the active PV layer; and an electrode layer adjacent the hole conductive layer. The active PV layer comprises a wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor material with Eg≧2.0 eV, in the form of a 2-dimensional matrix defining at least two open spaces, and a narrower bandgap semiconductor material with Eg<2.0 eV, in the form of quantum dots (QD's) filling each open space defined by the matrix of WBG semiconductor material and establishing a heterojunction therewith. The active PV layer is preferably fabricated by a co-sputter deposition process, and the QD's constitute from about 40 to about 90 vol. % of the active PV layer.
US07968787B2
Audio player, having many items of music content stored therein and having at least a function for reproducing any one of the items of music content stored therein, is instructed to select and reproduce music content, corresponding to a user-designated music piece, from among the items of music content. In response to user's designation of the music piece, the audio player selects, from among the many items of music content, music content corresponding to the designated music piece and reproduces the selected music content. With such arrangements, a user is allowed to appropriately and readily set a performance environment suited for the desired music piece, by using the audio player to actually listen to and check the content of the music piece for which a performance environment is to be set.
US07968777B1
A guide for stringed instrument and method. The guide comprises a mast slidably and rotatably attached to a clamp, an arm slidably and rotatably attached to and end of the mast opposite the clamp, and an up-stop rigidly attached to an end of the arm opposite the mast. Padding may be attached to the clamp to cushion the attachment between the clamp and a stringed plucked instrument. Method steps included removably attaching the clamp to a stringed instrument, setting a height of the up-stop over the instrument strings to substantially equal the sum of a player's middle finger distal phalangeal joint length plus the player's middle finger middle phalangeal joint length, positioning the player's index and middle fingers substantially under the up-stop, and plucking the strings. The guide may also be used to properly position a bow in a rest position, resting against the up-stop, pending being used to play the instrument.
US07968772B2
A cotton cultivar, designated DP 110 RF, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar DP 110 RF, to the plants of cotton DP 110 RF and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar DP 110 RF with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar DP 110 RF with another cotton cultivar.
US07968771B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS27001. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS27001, to the plants of soybean RJS27001 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS27001 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS27001 with another soybean plant, using RJS27001 as either the male or the female parent.
US07968770B2
Compositions and methods related to transgenic glyphosate/ALS inhibitor-tolerant soybean plants are provided. Specifically, soybean plants having a 3560.4.3.5 event which imparts tolerance to glyphosate and at least one ALS-inhibiting herbicide are provided. The soybean plant harboring the 3560.4.3.5 event at the recited chromosomal location comprises genomic/transgene junctions having at least the polynucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO:10 and/or 11. The characterization of the genomic insertion site of the 3560.4.3.5 event provides for an enhanced breeding efficiency and enables the use of molecular markers to track the transgene insert in the breeding populations and progeny thereof. Various methods and compositions for the identification, detection, and use of the soybean 3560.4.3.5 events are provided. Methods and compositions for increasing yield are also provided.
US07968763B2
Markers associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance are provided. Methods of identifying resistant, and susceptible plants, using the markers are provided. Methods for identifying and isolating QTL are a feature of the invention, as are QTL associated with Sclerotinia stem rot resistance.
US07968761B1
Exemplary compositions, methods, and systems are disclosed that can be useful for reducing a concentration of a contaminant associated with a medium, which can be any substance or material, such as soil, water, air, and/or fluid. In one exemplary method, the medium is treated with Fe-MDGA and an oxidizing agent in amounts effective to oxidize at least a portion of the contaminant.
US07968759B2
In a process for converting methane to aromatic hydrocarbons, a feed containing methane is supplied to one or more reaction zone(s) containing catalytic material operating under reaction conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the methane to aromatic hydrocarbons; the reaction zone(s) being operated with an inverse temperature profile.
US07968749B2
Disclosed is crystalline R(+)-N-propargyl-l-aminoindan containing water at an amount of less than 0.5% by weight and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same, and the process for the manufacture and the validation thereof. Also disclosed is a process for the preparation of solid rasagiline base.
US07968748B2
A process for resolving a compound in racemic form comprising the following steps is described: a) reacting a compound in racemic form with a resolving agent, b) forming a diastereoisomeric complex of the resolving agent and an enantiomer of interest, c) separating the enantiomer of interest from the obtained diastereoisomer, wherein such a process is characterized in that said resolving agent is a compound of Formula (I). A diastereoisomeric complex between the resolving agent of Formula (I) and the enantiomer of interest is also described. The process according to the invention allows acid and basic racemic mixtures to be separated.
US07968742B2
A method and a device for the sulfonation or the sulfation of organic liquid raw materials with an SO3/air mixture and other reaction gases in order to perform rapid, highly exothermic gas-liquid reactions in conventional thin-layer falling-film reactors are disclosed. The introduction of the SO3/air mixture occurs through several feed locations, which are located within (along) the reaction tube or reaction tubes or in the annular gap of annular-gap falling-film reactors. High peak temperatures, undesirable byproducts, worsening of the color and local oversulfation or oversulfonation, which leads to side reactions, are largely avoided.
US07968740B2
A process is disclosed for preparing an organically modified layered double hydroxide having a distance between the individual layers of the layered double hydroxide of about 1.5 nm and comprising an organic anion as charge-balancing anion, the process comprising the steps of: (a) preparing a precursor suspension comprising a divalent metal ion source and a trivalent metal ion source; (b) solvothermally treating the precursor suspension to obtain a double layered hydroxide, wherein an organic anion is added before or during the formation of the layered double hydroxide of step (b), or following the formation of the layered double hydroxide, so as to obtain the organically modified layered double hydroxide, with the proviso that deoxycholic acid is not the sole organic anion.
US07968738B2
The present invention provides organic arsenicals. Many of these compounds have potent in vitro cytotoxic activity against numerous human tumor cell lines, both of solid and hematological origin, as well as against malignant blood cells from patients with leukemia.
US07968736B2
A compound of the following structure: wherein R1 is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or a halogen atom; R2 is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; Ra, Rb and Rc are independently an alkyl group or an aryl group; Rd is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxylalkyl group, —RiSiRaRbRc or a benzyl group, wherein Ri is an alkylene group; Re is an alkyl group, an allyl group, a benzyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, or —NRgRh, wherein Rg and Rh are independently H, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R3 is (CH2)n where n is and integer in the range of 0 to 5, —CH2CH(CH3)—, —CH═CH—, —CH═C(CH3)—, or —C≡C—; R4 wherein y1 and y2 are 1 and y3, y4 and y5 are independently 0 or 1, Rk1, Rk2, Rk3, Rk4 and Rk5 are independently H, CH3, or OR2a, and Rs1, Rs2, Rs3, and Rs4 are independently H or CH3, wherein R2a is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe; and R5 is H or OR2b, wherein R2b is H, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aryl group, a benzyl group, a trityl group, —SiRaRbRc, CH2ORd, or CORe.
US07968732B1
The present invention is related to a process for the preparation of 5-benzyloxy-2-(4-benzyloxyphenyl)-3-methyl-1H-Indole (formula-1, a useful intermediate for the synthesis of bazedoxifene) using 4-benzyloxy propiophenone and 4-benzyloxy phenyl hydrazine hydrochloride.
US07968731B2
An improved process is described for the purification of ropinirole hydrochloride. The process includes (i) dissolving ropinirole hydrochloride in water; (ii) treating the solution obtained in step (i) with sodium dithionate and charcoal; (iii) treating the filtrate obtained in step (ii) with water immiscible solvent and base and isolating the free base; and (iv) treating the free base obtained in step (iii) with ethanolic HCl to give ropinirole hydrochloride.
US07968726B2
Methods of preparing compounds of formula I are disclosed:
US07968719B2
The present invention relates to indazole derivatives of the general formulae I or II having the meanings indicated in the description, to the pharmaceutically useful salts thereof and the use thereof as drugs.
US07968717B2
The invention relates to a new crystalline anhydrate of tiotropium bromide, processes for preparing it and its use for preparing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of respiratory complaints, particularly for the treatment of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and asthma.
US07968715B2
The present invention relates to a light-emitting transition metal compound represented by the Chemical Formula 1 and Chemical Formula 2 and an organic electroluminescence device including the same.In the Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, M is Ir, Pt, Rh, Re, Os, and the like, m is 2 or 3, n is 0 or 1, the sum of m and n is 3, provided that the sum of m and n is 2 when M is Pt, X, and Z are the same or different, N or P, and Y and Q are O, S, or Se, R1 and R5 are hydrogen, a C1 to C20 alkyl excluding an aromatic cyclic substituent, a cycloalkyl, a halogen, a linear or branched substituent including at least one halogen, or a linear or branched substituent including at least one heteroatom, and R2, R3, R4, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 are hydrogen, a C1 to C20 alkyl, an aryl, a cycloalkyl, a halogen, a linear or branched substituent including at least one halogen, a linear or branched substituent including at least one heteroatom, carbonyl, vinyl, or acetylenyl, or may form a cycle, and may be the same or different.
US07968713B2
There is disclosed a method of synthesizing a quinoxaline derivative in which toxicity, corrosiveness and permeation are low and which is excellent in safety and which attains a reduced reaction time, a greatly improved yield and excellent economical efficiency. The object is achieved by a method of synthesizing a quinoxaline derivative which comprises adsorbing a benzofuroxan derivative and a β-diketone derivative on a solid support, and then heating the derivatives in a solid state by microwave irradiation to dehydrocyclize them. An example of a quinoxaline derivative is a compound of formula (4):
US07968711B2
The present invention provides a method of treating glaucoma or ocular hypertension which comprises applying to the eye of a person in need thereof an amount sufficient to treat glaucoma or ocular hypertension of a compound of formula I wherein Y, Q, Z, R, R1 and R2 are as defined in the specification. The present invention further comprises pharmaceutical compositions, e.g. ophthalmic compositions, including said compound.
US07968707B2
A compound of the formula: is disclosed as an HIV protease inhibitor. Methods and compositions for inhibiting an HIV infection are also disclosed.
US07968700B2
The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules comprising novel expression augmenting DNA fragments and an expression cassette, said expression cassette comprising a heterologous promoter linked to a nucleic acid of interest. The invention further provides uses of the novel expression augmenting DNA fragments. The invention further provides methods for obtaining novel expression augmenting DNA fragments.
