US08726402B2
Systems and methods that reformat media are described. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a server, a first communications device and a second communications device. The server, the first communications device and the second communications device may be operatively coupled to a network. The second communications device may receive, from the first communications device, a device profile relating to the first communications device and may send the device profile and media content to the server. The server may reformat the media content based on the device.
US08726398B1
A method and system for anonymizing data to be transmitted to a destination computing device is disclosed. Anonymization strategy for data anonymization is provided. Data to be transmitted is received from a user computer. Selective anonymization of the data is performed, based on the anonymization strategy, using an anonymization module. Accent preservation of data is selected. An accent value for the data is determined. The anonymized data with the determined accent value is transmitted to the destination computing device over a network. In one embodiment, the anonymized data has less number of characters than the input data.
US08726391B1
Information is received from a set of peer clients associated with a client, the information indicating likelihoods of peer client exposure to malware threats. An environmental safety score associated with the client is determined based, at least in part, on the information received from the set of peer clients, wherein the environmental safety score indicates a likelihood that the client is exposed to malware threats. A set of malware signatures is retrieved from the server at a time determined responsive to the environmental safety score and stored.
US08726380B2
An edge monitoring approach can be utilized to detect an attack which includes a plurality of relatively low bandwidth attacks, which are aggregated at a victim sub-network. The aggregated low bandwidth attacks can generate a relatively high bandwidth attack including un-solicited data traffic directed to the victim' so that the aggregated attack becomes more detectable at an edge monitor circuit located proximate to the victim. Related systems, devices, and computer program products are also disclosed.
US08726379B1
Systems and methods for gathering, classifying, and evaluating real time security intelligence data concerning security threats presented by an IP address, and reporting in real time the degree and character of such security threats.
US08726375B2
A method for preventing Domain Name System (DNS) spoofing includes: performing uppercase/lowercase conversion for letters of a DNS question field in a DNS request packet according to a preset rule; sending the DNS request packet; receiving a DNS response packet; obtaining uppercase/lowercase distribution of the letters of the DNS question field in the DNS response packet; and forwarding the DNS response packet to a target DNS client if the uppercase/lowercase distribution of the letters of the DNS question field in the DNS response packet complies with the preset rule. Corresponding to the method, a device for preventing DNS spoofing is disclosed. The method and device reduce occupation of storage resources of the device.
US08726371B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a location of a device relative to a reference, and identifying a first password from a plurality of passwords for use to unlock the device based on the location of the device relative to the reference. The plurality of passwords includes at least one complex password and at least one simple password. The method also includes prompting for input arranged to unlock the device, obtaining the input, and determining when the input matches the first password. When it is determined that the input matches the first password, the device is unlocked.
US08726369B1
In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise presenting a data field in a spoof-resistant manner, receiving field data, and securing field data. In some embodiments, the integrity of an input device may be verified.In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise hashing a credential and a characteristic associated with a data recipient, and performing password-authenticated key agreement using the hashed value.In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise monitoring an input, determining that the input is associated with confidential information, and enabling secure data entry.
US08726363B2
Modules and methods that provide virtual device communication via information packets addressed to the virtual devices. Virtual devices aggregate capabilities of target devices and represent the aggregate as an operational device to remote systems. Physical device elements and virtual devices contained within modules are able to communicate and cooperate over extended distances in a peer-to-peer fashion via a virtual bus tunnel offering addressing and data transport functionality. Such modules and methods can be combined with disk drives to form RAID-like storage structures.
US08726362B2
Provided is a device including a chip that includes a firewall engine, and a driver, wherein the driver identifies an owner process of a packet to be transmitted, and transmits the packet to the chip only if the owner process is allowed to transmit the packet to an external device, wherein the chip performs filtering by applying a rule for packet filtering to the packet received from the driver.
US08726359B2
A method of managing content related to a plurality of social networking websites. The method comprises accessing a first account that stores user's authentication information of the plurality of the networking websites and connecting to the plurality of social networking websites. Content associated with a second account is obtained from each of the plurality of social networking websites and service capabilities of each of the plurality of social networking websites are tracked. The obtained content from all the social networking websites is displayed on a single page and service information applicable to content is provided.
US08726357B2
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for tracking network traffic of users in a research panel are presented. A packet for a network device coupled to the network access device is received. An indicia corresponding to a presumptive user of the network device is obtained, where the presumptive user includes a member of a set of known users. One or more logging rules is applied to the network device, where the one or more applied logging rules correspond to the obtained indicia. Information relating to the packet is stored when the packet satisfies at least one of the logging rules applied to the network device.
US08726353B2
Methods and apparatus for ensuring the computer security of users of a computer system are described. A user is allocated a security grading relating to how secure their computer system (2) is, for instance in terms of anti-virus software, firewalls and up-to-date security patches. Methods and apparatus (10, 12) for providing a security grading of a user's computer system are also disclosed. Users without a security grading or with low level security grading may then be accorded only basic access to the data or functionality of another computer system (8), for instance such as on-line banking services or the like. This ensures therefore that those users that take responsibility for their own security are allowed full access without undue security protocols whereas users without proper security do not have so much access.
US08726351B2
Systems and/or methods for controlling access to a plurality of records and/or documentary materials to be persisted in an electronic archives system are provided. The plurality of records and/or documentary material and all preserved information may be stored and accessed on the basis of user and/or object attributes. The user attributes include group affiliation, ownership, and state (e.g., workflow step and time of day). The object attributes include group affiliation, business role, clearance or access level, and network address from which access is requested. Access to the plurality of records and/or documentary material can be obtained both from within a single security domain as well as across more than one security domain.
US08726346B2
Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with securely provisioning a digital content protection scheme are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method may include forming a trust relationship between a media application within an application execution environment of a device and a security controller of the device. The application execution environment may include an operating system, and the operating system may control resources within the application execution environment. Additionally, the security controller may be outside the application execution environment, enabling components of the security controller to be secured from components of the operating system. Further, the method may include the security controller in enabling a digital content protection scheme for the media application to provide digital content to a digital content protection enabled transmitter within the application execution environment for provision to a digital content protection enabled receiver. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US08726344B1
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for measuring trust. A device is encountered. A trust score for the device is calculated and compared to a threshold. The threshold may be a minimum trust score associated with the function. If the calculated trust score equals or exceeds the threshold, then the function is executed. If the calculated trust score is less than the threshold, then the function is denied.
US08726340B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus may store at least one subject token associated with a user and a device, at least one resource token associated with the resource, and at least one network token associated with a network. The apparatus may determine various access values associated with these stored tokens. The apparatus may then determine the value of a first access value based on the values of these various access values. The apparatus may determine that the value of the first access value is insufficient to grant access to the resource and determine that access by at least one of the user and the device to the resource over the network should be denied.
US08726333B2
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US08726331B2
A stream of time-ordered data, such as a movie, is divided into multiple fragments of equal length, which are repetitively transmitted at different respective repetition rates. The fragments are reordered for transmission so that those which occur near the beginning of the original data stream are transmitted more frequently than those which occur later in the data stream. When a user enters a request to utilize the data, the individual fragments are stored upon receipt at the user's premises, and reassembled into a contiguous stream. The ordering of the fragments is such that the wait time required before utilization of the data can begin is limited to a predetermined maximum, and at least one copy of every fragment becomes available by the time it is needed.
US08726330B2
Payment-based audiovisual playback system characterized by comprising a microprocessor device associated with a payment device primarily including means for storing, inter alia, in digital format the visual and sound information to be used. The system is associated through interfaces with display means and sound playback means for providing a multimedia environment. The system is controlled by a multitask operating system including a tool and service library integrated into the storage means. The system, which is also associated through an interface with a telecommunications modem, is optionally connected to an audiovisual data distribution network by a telecommunications modem and telecommunications links, said telecommunications function also being controlled by said multitask operating system.
US08726319B2
A bridge is provided for connecting multiple satellite receivers to multiple accessories in a video distribution system such as a direct broadcast satellite system. The bridge is designed for interposition between multiple satellite receivers (set top boxes or STBs) and controllable accessories (e.g. LNBs or multi-switches) of the video distribution system. The bridge provides controlled communication between STBs and controllable accessories using, for example, customized vendor extensions to the DiSEqC communication protocol. The bridge includes a communication protocol transceiver for each STB port, a communication protocol transmitter for each controllable accessory port, a mailbox for each STB port, a mailbox for the bridge, and a controller, processor, processing means or processing logic controlling or regulating video distribution system communication.
US08726317B2
A method of converting a modulated optical signal to an encoded electrical signal is provided. The method utilizes a device comprising an electrooptic sideband generator, an optical filter, and an optical/electrical converter. Initially, the modulated optical signal, which carries encoded optical data, is directed to an optical input of the electrooptic sideband generator. The electrooptic sideband generator is driven to generate frequency sidebands about a carrier frequency of the input optical signal. The optical filter is utilized to discriminate between the frequency sidebands and the carrier frequency and combine sidebands-of-interest to yield at least one frequency-converted optical signal comprising a millimeter wave modulation frequency. The frequency converted optical signal carries the encoded optical data and the modulation frequency is a function of the spacing of the sidebands-of-interest. The frequency-converted optical signal is directed to the optical/electrical converter where it is converted to an encoded electrical signal. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US08726308B2
A premises based multimedia communication system includes a source device that produces multimedia content, a rendering device that presents the multimedia content, and a premises communication network coupling the source device to the rendering device. The source device receives data packets carrying the multimedia content from the remote content source via at least one remote delivery communication network and transmits at least two copies of the data packets carrying video frames of the multimedia content to the rendering device via the at least one premises communication network. The rendering device decodes video frames carried by first copies of the data packets. Upon an unsuccessful decoding of the video frames carried by the first copies of the data packets, the rendering device decoding video frames carried by second copies of the data packets and upon a successful decoding of the video frames carried by the first copies of the data packets, the rendering device discards video frames carried by second copies of the data packets.
US08726300B2
A computer device with a built-in disk driver is disclosed in the present invention. The thin computer device includes a casing for accommodating at least one electronic component. A sunken structure is disposed on a surface of the casing. The thin computer device further includes a disk driver movably disposed inside the sunken structure. The disk driver includes a tray, a drive motor, a track set, and an optical read-in module. The tray movably connected to the casing for holding an optical disk. The drive motor disposed on the tray. The track set disposed on the tray. The optical read-in module slidably disposed on the track set. The optical read-in module reads information from the optical disk when the tray holds the optical disk and is located outside the sunken structure.
US08726296B1
A system and machine-implemented method relating to event processing including receiving from a first system first event data describing a first user initiated event occurring on the first system and converted from a first data format to a second data format, receiving from a second system second event data describing a second user initiated event occurring on the second system and converted from a third data format to the second data format, associating a first view component which processes at least one of event data and dimension data to generate a report with event data received from the first system, and invoking the first view component in response to receiving the first event data to generate a report for an end user.
US08726284B2
A request management component receives requests to perform an operation. Each of the requests is assigned, based on one or more criteria, to one of multiple different request groups. Based at least in part on execution policies associated with the request groups, determinations are made as to when to submit the requests to one or more recipient. Each of the multiple requests is submitted to one of the recipients when it is determined that the request is to be submitted.
US08726279B2
Methods and system for sharing a hardware resource in a computer system running at least one software process having multiple threads. A lock_indicator is provided in data structures within the computer system. A request is received to use the hardware resource by one of the threads that is defined to be a requesting tread. Based on the lock_indicator, it is determined whether the hardware resource is available for use by the requesting thread. If this indicates that the hardware resource is available, the lock_indicator is set under control of the hardware resource to instead indicate that the hardware resource is unavailable, and a go_indicator signals to indicate that use of the hardware resource for the request can now proceed.
US08726278B1
A method and system is disclosed for providing a distributed technical computing environment for distributing technical computing tasks from a technical computing client to technical computing workers for execution of the tasks on one or more computers systems. Tasks can be defined on a technical computing client, and the tasks organized into jobs. The technical computing client can directly distribute tasks to one or more technical computing workers. Furthermore, the technical computing client can submit tasks, or jobs comprising tasks, to an automatic task distribution mechanism that distributes the tasks automatically to one or more technical computing workers providing technical computing services. The technical computing worker performs technical computing of tasks and the results of the execution of tasks may be provided to the technical computing client.
US08726271B1
Method and system are disclosed for providing multiple installations of a software application. The method/system creates an installation template from a single correct or “golden” installation of the software application and uses the installation template to produce additional installations of the software application. In one embodiment, any references to a specific host or computing system in the files or directories of the installed software application are replaced with a temporary variable in the installation template. The installation template may then be stored on a designated server and uploaded to any computing system needing a new installation of the software application. Once uploaded, the variable is replaced with system-specific references to complete the new installations. Since the installations are produced from the installation template and not from floppy disks or CD-ROMs, the process takes significantly less time.
US08726263B2
Techniques for detection and installation of software on a per-user basis are disclosed. An update agent in a client device may receive configuration data for a software application, the configuration data indicating availability of updates for the software application. The client device may be configured to have user accounts for a plurality of users. The update agent may determine that the software application is a per-user application. The update agent may identify a subset of the plurality of users for whom the updates for the software application are to be installed. The update agent may download the updates for the software application, and install the updates for a first user of the subset, in response to the first user logging into the client device.
US08726254B2
Program source code is annotated to support dataflow analysis or other program analysis, without requiring changes to compilers. Annotation statements are embedded inside comments or other non-code-generative portions of the source code. The annotations can be used to express contracts at routine boundaries, allowing an analyzer to check the global correctness of the source code through modular (local) analysis, with performance that is linear in the number of routines. In particular, annotated SQL source code may be analyzed to identify SQL injection vulnerabilities.
US08726245B2
Preparing a computer software application for static analysis by identifying a control flow within a model portion of a computer software application having a model-view-controller architecture, where the control flow passes a value to a controller portion of the computer software application, analyzing a declarative specification of the controller portion of the computer software application to identify a view to which the controller portion passes control based on the value, and synthesizing a method within the computer software application, where the method calls the view.
US08726243B2
Performance of applications run on a distributed processing structure including a grid of processing units is automatically tested by: running at least one application on the distributed processing structure; loading the application with processing workload to thereby produce processing workload on the distributed processing structure; sensing the operating status of the processing units in the distributed processing structure under the processing workload and producing information signals indicative of such operating status; collecting these information signals; providing a rule engine and selectively modifying, as a function of the rules in the rule engine and the information signals collected, at least one of: the processing workload on the application, and the operating status of the processing units in the grid.
US08726234B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for allowing a computer system user to extend the functionality of a data-centric software application. The method includes instantiating the data-centric software application, where the data-centric application has portions of business logic categorized and associated with items of data-centric application functionality defined in a schema. The method includes receiving customization input to customize at least one of the portions of business logic. The method includes formulating a representative model corresponding to at least one of the portions of customized business logic. The method includes applying the representative model to the schema to generate a customized schema that extends the business logic of the data-centric software application. The method includes instantiating the data-centric software application in accordance with the customized schema to customize the functionality of the business logic in the data-centric software application.
US08726226B2
A tool supports management of engineering project changes using a current design diagram with links to implementation components, a proposed design diagram, and a work list of tasks for transforming the current design into the proposed design. Tasks recite intended changes such as add, remove, or refactor, with reference to implementation components to be changed, and tracking information. Work list tasks may be automatically generated based on design model differences correlated with project code, automatically generated based on tracked user design actions correlated with project code, and/or manually generated by users. Work lists may be exported. Users can mark a relationship for removal and view a corresponding updated work list. Users can trace impact of a work list on project context such as testing coverage, database structures, and user scenarios.
US08726219B2
Methods and apparatuses to design and analyze digital circuits with time division multiplexing. In one embodiment, the method for designing a digital circuit comprises determining signal timing for a portion of the digital circuit, and automatically replacing nets for a plurality of connections in the digital circuit with a Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) channel in response to a determining of routing congestion.
US08726217B2
Methods and systems are provided for analyzing cells of a cell library used to generate a layout. One exemplary method involves determining a routed connection location utilized in the layout for a pin of the cell for each instance of the cell in the layout. The method continues by determining a utilization metric for the pin of the cell based on the plurality of routed connection locations and a plurality of possible connection locations for the pin, and displaying the utilization metric on a display device.
US08726216B2
A method of generating an area efficient power switch cell includes receiving, by a cell library design tool, a specification of a power switch circuit to be established as a power switch cell in a cell library. The cell library design tool also receives one or more attributes of the power switch cell including a height of the cell boundary and receiving, by the cell library design tool, a layout placement constraint requiring the power switch cell to be placed in a semiconductor layout so as to bridge two parallel rows of doped wells. The parallel rows of doped wells are interleaved with doped substrate and the doping of the wells is of a different type than that of the substrate. Based on the specification of the power switch circuit, the one or more attributes, and the layout placement constraint, the cell library design tool generates the power switch cell.
US08726205B1
A method includes reading, through a processor of a computing device communicatively coupled to a memory, a design of an electronic circuit at a first level higher than a second level at which design verification and/or design simulation of the electronic circuit is to be conducted, and representing instances of elements of the electronic circuit in a data structure. The method also includes parsing, at the first level, the design to automatically generate a list of regular expressions related to text-matching strings with the elements of the electronic circuit based on removing undesired instances related to the elements from the data structure, and pruning, at the second level, connectivity descriptors of the electronic circuit based on the automatically generated list of regular expressions. Further, the method includes optimizing the design verification and/or the design simulation at the second level based on the pruned connectivity descriptors thereof.
US08726204B2
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods and apparatus for managing and allocating hardware resources during RTL synthesis. For example, in one exemplary method disclosed herein, an RTL description of a circuit to be implemented in a target architecture is received. The target architecture of this embodiment comprises a fixed number of hardware resources in a class of hardware resources. One or more operator instances are determined from the RTL description received, where at least some of the operator instances are implementable by the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources. In this embodiment, and prior to initially synthesizing the RTL description into a gate-level netlist, assignment information indicative of how the operator instances are to be implemented using the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources is automatically determined. A graphical user interface is also provided that allows a user to view and modify the assignment information.
US08726200B2
Apparatus includes a machine readable storage medium for storing a template library having at least one template. The template is to include a first layout representation of at least one pattern to be formed by multi-patterning a single layer of an IC. The pattern has a plurality of portions to be formed using a plurality of respectively different photomasks. The first layout representation includes data identifying on which photomask each portion is to be located. An electronic design automation (EDA) tool includes a processor configured to receive a hardware description language representation of at least a part of a circuit and generate a second layout representation of the part of the circuit having a plurality of polygons. The EDA tool has a matching module that identifies and outputs an indication of whether one or more of the plurality of portions matches a subset of the plurality of polygons.
US08726199B2
In response to entering a screensaver mode of operation, a search criteria identifying requested subject matter is transmitted to a search engine. A set of uniform resource locators are returned based upon the search criteria. A display image at a display device is updated periodically to display information referenced by the uniform resource locator.
US08726192B2
A system is disclosed including: a first display control section 218 for selectively displaying, in a first display area, a second predetermined number of first objects among first objects, corresponding to a first predetermined number of game programs, for which an order is set; a second display control section 219 for displaying a position designation image at a position corresponding to a position, of subject software, in an order set for the first predetermined number of pieces of software; a display change section 217 for designating a first object to be displayed in the first display area, based on an operation input received by using the position designation image; and an activation execution section 220 for activating software corresponding to one first object which is selected from among the second predetermined number of first objects displayed in the first display area, based on the operation input.
US08726189B2
Computer-implemented methods for organizing graphical user interface windows into separate stacks of windows is provided are provided. In one aspect, a method includes providing, for display, a first window in a graphical user interface, and receiving a request to display a second window in the graphical user interface when viewing the first window. The method also includes moving the first window to a first stack in the graphical user interface in response to the request, and displaying the second window in the graphical user interface in a second stack. In response to a request to display a third window in the graphical user interface, the third window is configured to be displayed in the first stack or in the second stack based on a defined constraint shared between the third window and the second window. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
US08726169B2
A system and method for enabling structured communication among a social network is disclosed. The system enables a user to formulate a question and answer pattern including potential responses to the question based upon the form of question. The system then translates and transmits a message including the question and answer pattern to users over a plurality of different messaging platforms for eliciting responses to the question using the answer pattern. The system then aggregates responses to the question and presents the responses in a summary format. A language for defining messages according to static and dynamic content and other attributes is disclosed. Collaborative filtering reduces the decision space and as a result increases the possible range of specialized communications a user can choose from and apply or the message processing space available to contemplate alternatives resulting in more effective choices.
US08726160B2
A content service system including a content metadata analyzer module, a widget information acquisition module, a widget administration module, and a widget engine module is provided. The content metadata analyzer module receives a first metadata corresponding to a multimedia content, and generates a widget request or a service metadata according to the first metadata. The widget information acquisition module acquires a widget information of a first widget according to the widget request or the service metadata. The widget administration module installs and executes the first widget according to the widget information, wherein the first widget plays an extended content corresponding to the multimedia content. A content service method and a computer-readable recording medium corresponding to the content service method are also provided.
US08726159B2
An exemplary system includes a media content processing subsystem configured to provide a first interactive graphical user interface to a display for presentation to a user in response to a transmission of an input command, provide an end interactive graphical user interface to the display for presentation to the user in response to a repeat transmission of the input command, and perform an action corresponding to a selected entry within the end interactive graphical user interface in response to another repeat transmission of the input command. The first interactive graphical user interface corresponds to a first content level within a navigation thread and the end interactive graphical user interface corresponds to an end content level within the navigation thread.
US08726158B2
A user interface generation apparatus is provided, the apparatus being capable of switching over between a compound user interface and a stand-alone user interface by simple operations. When an input unit receives a second input while a control unit controls to display a compound user interface object group, the control unit controls to display a stand-alone user interface object group of a user interface displayed correspondingly to a reception position of the second input in the compound user interface object group.
US08726146B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to identify and associate video content. In one implementation, a method is provided that includes requesting a webpage by a user computer and determining whether a keyword is present on the webpage requested by the user computer. Furthermore, the method includes creating a link on the webpage from the keyword to the video file and displaying the video file when the link is activated.
US08726139B2
Provided herein is a method and system for providing and analyzing unified data signaling that includes setting, or analyzing a state of a single indicator signal, generating or analyzing a data pattern of a plurality of data bits, and signal, or determine, based on the state of the single indicator signal and the pattern of the plurality of data bits, that data bus inversion has been applied to the plurality of data bits or that the plurality of data bits is poisoned.
US08726136B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products provide highly reliable file delivery using a combination of packet-level FEC on source data packets which are arranged in matrices, where encoding is performed on both rows and columns or on rows, columns and diagonals.
US08726135B2
A wireless communication system includes: a dividing unit to divide data into a plurality of first code blocks; a generation unit to generate first error detection information for each of the plurality of code blocks; a transmission unit to wirelessly transmit at least one of the plurality of first code blocks using a first channel and the first error detection information using a second channel; a reception unit to receive a plurality of second code blocks and second error detection information transmitted wirelessly; and a detection unit to execute error detection on each of the plurality of second code blocks using the second error detection information and to control a continuation of the error detection for the code blocks based on a result of the error detection.
US08726128B2
By using a processor to share certain burdens originally handled by a controller of a non-volatile memory module, the controller is able to process more complicated procedures. The procedures include an error correction code generating procedure, a data scrambling procedure, a data recovery procedure, an address translation procedure configured to translate a logical address into a physical address, and a wear leveling procedure.
US08726119B2
Provided is a fast stochastic decoding method for a low density parity check (LDPC) code. The decoding method may include decoding the LDPC code based on an LDPC decoding scheme, using a message expressed by a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) value.
US08726118B2
A mobile station device configured to communicate with a base station device by a time division duplex (TDD) scheme, and to transmit retransmission data to the base station device by an automatic retransmission scheme in response to reception acknowledgement information transmitted from the base station device, the mobile station device including a controller configured to determine a number of frames from a reception of the reception acknowledgement information to a transmission of the retransmission data, based on a position of a reception slot within a reception frame, the reception slot including the reception acknowledgement information.
US08726115B2
A method in a wireless communication system that includes a user equipment, an anchor network station and at least one assisting network station, where the user equipment transmits the same data to the network stations and the network stations each transmit an acknowledgement of the data to the user equipment in response. The at least one assisting network station also forwards the data to the anchor network station.
US08726107B2
This disclosure is related to measurement of latency in data paths. A latency measurement may be accomplished by calculating a roundtrip write-to-read latency based on generating a write signal and receiving a read signal approximately simultaneously. The read signal may be based on a coupling between a write element and read element. A device setting may then be adjusted based on the calculated roundtrip write-to-read latency. Further, a read/write mechanism that is used to write user data to and read user data from a data storage medium may be used to determine the roundtrip write-to-read latency. Even further, the roundtrip write-to-read latency may be determined in real-time as the data storage device is in operation.
US08726104B2
A post-write read operation, using a combined verification of multiple pages of data, is presented. In a simultaneous verification of multiple pages in a block, the controller evaluates a combined function of the multiple pages, instead of evaluating each page separately. In one exemplary embodiment, the combined function is formed by XORing the pages together. Such a combined verification of multiple pages based on the read data can significantly reduce the controller involvement, lowering the required bus and ECC bandwidth for a post-write read and hence allow efficient post-write reads when the number of dies is large.
US08726085B2
An anomaly detection mechanism is provided that detects an anomaly in a control network, and includes an identifying unit to receive event information on an event that occurs, and to identify a group including a resource related to the event information by referring to a configuration management database for retaining dependence relationships between processes and resources including a control system; a policy storing unit to store one or more policies each of which associates one or more actions with a condition defining a situation suspected to have an anomaly; an adding unit to acquire group-related information needed for application to the one or more policies, and to add the acquired information to the event information; and a determining unit to apply the event information to the one or more policies and to determine the one or more actions associated with the matched condition as one or more actions to be taken.
US08726083B1
A system for providing prior operation states of a virtual machine in a storage system having at least one storage array is provided. It may be determined that a trigger for taking a snapshot image of the virtual machine and a snapshot of a storage array state has occurred. The snapshot image of the virtual machine may be taken. The snapshot of the storage array state may be taken. The snapshot image of the virtual machine and the snapshot of the storage array state may be made available for subsequent access to rollback the virtual machine and storage array state to a prior state.
US08726067B1
A system for responding to a failure in an active/active system is provided. It may be determined that a failure has occurred in connection with a first site and a second site. A winning site and a losing site may be determined from among the first site and the second site. It may be determined whether to perform at least one of: a push operation, a pull operation or both to obtain or identify data from the losing site in order to maintain I/O operations on the data at the winning site. A message may be sent to the losing site concerning the data. The message may depend on whether to perform the push operation, the pull operation or both. A response to the message may be received.
US08726061B2
Multiple media devices are synchronized in a multi-media system having a computer system, a plurality of media devices, and a display system. Each media device to be synchronized receives a front-end synchronization signal that periodically increments a front-end counter. The front-end counter represents an unadjusted system time (UST). The media device obtains a frame of data to be displayed from a computer system. The media device also receives a back-end synchronization signal that periodically increments a back-end counter each time a frame of data is to he displayed. The back-end counter represents a media stream count (MSC). UST and MSC data are periodically transmitted to the computer system for analysis and use by a synchronization algorithm. Specifically, UST is transmitted to the computer system each time a frame of data is obtained, and a UST/MSC pair is transmitted to the computer system each time a frame of data is displayed. The computer system executes a synchronization algorithm that uses the transmitted UST and UST/MSC pair to maintain the media devices in a synchronized state.
US08726046B2
The integrated circuit device includes: an electrostatic protection circuit that is provided between first and second power supply lines coupled to external terminals respectively, and forms a current pathway between the first and second power supply lines during a given period in response to an increase in a voltage between the first and second power supply lines; and a power supply generating circuit that performs power supply control based on a voltage of the first power supply line and generates a control signal in accordance with a switching timing of the power supply control. And, the electrostatic protection circuit includes an adjustment circuit for shortening the given period in response to the control signal.
US08726042B2
Various mechanisms are disclosed for protecting the security of memory in a computing environment. A security layer can have an encryption layer and a hashing layer that can dynamically encrypt and then dynamically hash sensitive information, as it is being loaded to dynamic memory of a computing device. For example, a memory unit that can correspond to a memory page can be processed by the security layer, and header data, code, and protect-worthy data can be secured, while other non-sensitive data can be left alone. Once such information is secured and stored in dynamic memory, it can be accessed at a later time by a processor and unencrypted and hash checked. Then, it can be loaded back onto the dynamic memory, thereby preventing direct memory access attacks.
US08726035B2
Systems and methods are described which utilize a recursive security protocol for the protection of digital data. These may include encrypting a bit stream with a first encryption algorithm and associating a first decryption algorithm with the encrypted bit stream. The resulting bit stream may then be encrypted with a second encryption algorithm to yield a second bit stream. This second bit stream is then associated with a second decryption algorithm. This second bit stream can then be decrypted by an intended recipient using associated keys.
US08726032B2
A method for protecting a first secrets file. The method includes an n-bit generator generating a secrets file name for the secrets file and generating a decoy file names for decoy files. The secrets file includes a secret. Each of the decoy files includes decoy file contents, are a same size as the secrets file, and is associated with a modification time within a range of modification times. The modification time of the secrets file is within the range of modification times. The secrets file and decoy files are stored in a secrets directory.
US08726023B2
Methods, a client entity, network entities, a system, and a computer program product perform authentication between a client entity and a network. The network includes at least a bootstrapping server function entity and a network application function entity. The client entity is not able to communicate with both of the network entities in a bidirectional manner. The 3GPP standard Ub reference point between the client entity and the bootstrapping server function entity is not utilized for authentication purposes, such as authentication using GAA functionality for unidirectional network connections.
US08726014B2
A system for managing license files comprises a memory operable to store a socket module. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a command to open a license file, wherein the command is associated with a first user identifier. The license file is stored in a first remote node and is associated with a second user identifier. If the second user identifier matches the first user identifier, the processor is further operable to use the socket module to establish a socket connection with the first remote node. The processor is further operable to, using the socket connection, retrieve from the first remote node a file descriptor associated with the license file. The processor is further operable to apply an update to the license file, wherein the update is addressed according to the file descriptor. If the second user identifier does not match the first user identifier, the processor is further operable to prevent the updating of the license file.
US08726008B2
A system and method for protecting data communications in a system including a load-balancer connected to a cluster of security network components, e.g. firewall node. The load-balancer transfers one or more of the data streams respectively to the security components. The security network components transmit control information to the load-balancer and the control information includes an instruction regarding balancing load of the data streams between said components; The load-balancer balances load based on the control information. Preferably, network address translation (NAT) is performed by the load-balancer based on the control information or NAT is performed by the security network component and the control information includes information regarding an expected connection based on NAT. Preferably, when the data communications includes an encrypted session, an encrypted connection of the encrypted session is identified based on the control information and the balancing of the load maintains stickiness of said encrypted connection.
US08726003B2
A reconfigurable operation apparatus includes a reconfigurable circuit, a storage unit and a control unit. The reconfigurable circuit has a plurality of small circuits and reconfigures a circuit using the small circuit selected from the plurality of small circuits based on recorded circuit information. The storage unit stores first and second circuit information which corresponds to first and second compression circuits, respectively. The control unit reconfigures the reconfigurable circuit into the first or second compression circuit by recording the first or second circuit information in the reconfigurable circuit in accordance with an input data string.
US08725992B2
A programming language may include hint instructions that may notify a programming idiom accelerator that a programming idiom is coming. An idiom begin hint exposes the programming idiom to the programming idiom accelerator. Thus, the programming idiom accelerator need not perform pattern matching or other forms of analysis to recognize a sequence of instructions. Rather, the programmer may insert idiom hint instructions, such as an idiom begin hint, to expose the idiom to the programming idiom accelerator. Similarly, an idiom end hint may mark the end of the programming idiom.
US08725988B2
Systems and methods for pre-fetching of data in a memory are provided. By pre-fetching stored data from a slower memory into a faster memory, the amount of time required for data retrieval and/or processing may be reduced. First, data is received and pre-scanned to generate a sample fingerprint. Fingerprints stored in a faster memory that are similar to the sample fingerprint are identified. Data stored in the slower memory associated with the identified stored fingerprints is copied into the faster memory. The copied data may be compared to the received data. Various embodiments may be included in a network memory architecture to allow for faster data matching and instruction generation in a central appliance.
US08725985B2
A method for making memory more reliable involves accessing data stored in a removable storage device by translating a logical memory address provided by a host digital device to a physical memory address in the device. A logical memory address is received from the host digital device. The logical memory address corresponds to a location of data stored on the removable storage device. A physical memory address corresponding to the local address is determined by accessing a lookup table corresponding to the logical zone.
US08725984B2
In computing environments that use virtual addresses (or other indirectly usable addresses) to access memory, the virtual addresses are translated to absolute addresses (or other directly usable addresses) prior to accessing memory. To facilitate memory access, however, address translation is omitted in certain circumstances, including when the data to be accessed is within the same unit of memory as the instruction accessing the data. In this case, the absolute address of the data is derived from the absolute address of the instruction, thus avoiding address translation for the data. Further, in some circumstances, access checking for the data is also omitted.
US08725973B2
Described in detail herein is a method of copying data of one or more virtual machines being hosted by one or more non-virtual machines. The method includes receiving an indication that specifies how to perform a copy of data of one or more virtual machines hosted by one or more virtual machine hosts. The method may include determining whether the one or more virtual machines are managed by a virtual machine manager that manages or facilitates management of the virtual machines. If so, the virtual machine manager is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it manages or that it facilitates management of. If not, a virtual machine host is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it hosts. The data of each virtual machine is then copied according to the specifications of the received indication.
US08725960B2
A storage subsystem receives writes from a computer via a storage subsystem interface. The storage subsystem reduces a number of the writes. A single drive of the storage subsystem has primary and redundant storage devices with storage device interfaces. A disk controller of the single drive implements a data redundancy scheme by storing data associated with the reduced number of writes in the primary storage devices and by storing computed redundancy information in the redundant storage devices. The disk controller is operable without a loss of data in the presence of at least a single failure of any of the storage devices. Optionally the storage devices are flash memory devices. Optionally the disk controller is operable without a loss of data in the presence of at least two failures of any of the storage devices when a number of the redundant storage devices is at least two.
US08725958B2
The present invention provides a data processor capable of reducing power consumption at the time of execution of a spin wait loop for a spinlock. A CPU executes a weighted load instruction at the time of performing a spinlock process and outputs a spin wait request to a corresponding cache memory. When the spin wait request is received from the CPU, the cache memory temporarily stops outputting an acknowledge response to a read request from the CPU until a predetermined condition (snoop write hit, interrupt request, or lapse of predetermined time) is satisfied. Therefore, pipeline execution of the CPU is stalled and the operation of the CPU and the cache memory can be temporarily stopped, and power consumption at the time of executing a spin wait loop can be reduced.
US08725955B2
A chip having integrated multiple processor cores and a data processing method are disclosed. The processor chip includes an MP core (main processor core), an AP core (application processor core) which performs a processing function designated by a control of the MP core, a first SM controller which sets a path such that the MP core is coupled with a shared memory, and a second SM controller which sets a path such that the AP core is coupled with the shared memory. By virtue of the present invention, the number of chips installed can be minimized, to allow efficient utilization of PCB space and enable a compact size for a portable terminal.
US08725949B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for asynchronously binding data from a data source to a data target. A user interface thread and a separate thread are used to enable the user interface thread to continue execution rather than blocking to obtain updated data, to which elements of a user interface that the user interface thread is managing, are bound. The separate thread obtains updated data from a data source, stores the updated data in a local cache, and notifies the user interface thread of the updated data's presence in the local cache. The user interface thread, upon detecting the notification, accesses the updated data in the local cache and populates the updated data into the user interface.
US08725947B2
An adaptive stream player that has control over whether a retrieved stream is cached in a local stream cache. For at least some of the stream portions requested by the player, before going out over the network, a cache control component first determines whether or not an acceptable version of the stream portion is present in a stream cache. If there is an acceptable version in the stream cache, that version is provided rather than having to request the stream portion of the network. For stream portions received over the network, the cache control component decides whether or not to cache that stream portion. Thus, the cache control component allows the adaptive stream player to work in offline scenarios and also allows the adaptive stream player to have rewind, pause, and other controls that use cached content.
US08725944B2
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to implementing fault tolerant data storage in solid state memory. In some implementations, a method includes receiving a request for data stored in a solid state memory, and identifying a logical block grouping for logical data blocks of the requested data, the logical data blocks corresponding to the solid state memory, and the logical block grouping comprising at least one physical data storage block from two or more solid state physical memory devices. The method also includes reading the stored data and a code stored in the identified logical block grouping, and comparing the code to the stored data to assess the requested data.
US08725942B2
A method and a system for configuring mirrors of virtual storage devices in a virtual host includes obtaining a topology connection relationship between the virtual storage devices to be configured with mirrors and the virtual host, where the topology connection relationship is a hierarchical relationship in a tree shape with the virtual host as a root node and the virtual storage devices to be configured with mirrors as leaf nodes, and configuring the mirrors of the virtual storage devices to be configured with mirrors in the virtual host according to the obtained topology connection relationship. The method and the system for configuring mirrors of virtual storage devices in a virtual host can increase reliability.
US08725941B1
A virtualized storage system comprises at least one host, at least one virtual array, a backend array and a management server. The host requests storage operations to the virtual array, and the virtual array executes storage operations for the host. The backend array, coupled to the virtual array, comprises physical storage for the virtual array. The management server determines the efficiency for the virtual array. The management server determines an input throughput data rate between the host and the virtual array based on storage operations between host and virtual array. The management server also determines an output throughput data rate, from the virtual array to the backend array. The output throughput data rate is based on the storage operations that require access to the backend array. The management server determines the efficiency of the virtual array using the input throughput data rate and the output throughput data rate.
US08725935B2
A non-volatile memory system receives and stores host data. As the memory system receives host data, it initially writes the data in a binary format and then subsequently performs an on-chip folding operation on the data, storing the data in a multi-state format. The memory system interleaves the phases of the folding operations, where the host stores data according to allocation units. The memory system also can perform the binary and subsequent on-chip folding operations on multiple memory planes in parallel, where the controller also balances the operations. When the memory system needs a memory block for the writing of data, it selects blocks from a free block list, where the free block list includes a reserve portion that is only accessible for a specified set of commands.
US08725927B2
Solid state storage devices and methods for populating a hot memory block look-up table (HBLT) are disclosed. In one such method, an indication to an accessed page table or memory map of a non-volatile memory block is stored in the HBLT. If the page table or memory map is already present in the HBLT, the priority location of the page table or memory map is increased to the next priority location. If the page table or memory map is not already stored in the HBLT, the page table or memory map is stored in the HBLT at some priority location, such as the mid-point, and the priority location is incremented with each subsequent access to that page table or memory map.
US08725913B2
A method for binding input/output (I/O) objects to nodes includes an subsystem receiving a request to use an I/O device from a process, determining a first resource to service the request, generating a first I/O object corresponding to the first resource, wherein the first I/O object is unbound, and sending the first I/O object to a Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) I/O Framework. The method further includes the NUMA I/O Framework selecting a first NUMA node of a plurality of NUMA nodes, to which to bind the first I/O object and binding the first I/O object to the first NUMA node. The method further includes servicing the request by processing, on the first NUMA node, the first resource corresponding to the first I/O object.
US08725909B2
A method for identifying a host operating system by a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device is disclosed, which pertains to the field of information security. The method includes: A) the USB device is powered on and initiated; B) it is determined whether the first setup packet is a first preset command, if yes, C is performed, if not, D is performed; C) it is determined whether the seventh byte of the first preset command is a second preset value, if yes, an operating system identification is set as a first preset identification, and F is performed, otherwise, E is performed; D) it is determined whether the first setup packet is a second preset command, if yes, the operating system identification is set as a second preset identification, and F is performed, otherwise, E is performed; E) information interaction with the host is performed according to a default operating system identification until the last setup packet is received, and it is determined whether the last setup packet is a third preset command, if yes, the operating system identification is set as a third preset identification, if not, the operating system identification is set as a fourth preset identification; F) information interaction with the host is performed according to the present operating system identification, and then it waits to receive the instructions issued by the host.
US08725908B2
A peripheral apparatus control system that provides a device management screen capable of producing appropriate view contents and functions according to the use environment of each user for improving operability. The system includes an information processing apparatus, a peripheral apparatus, a driver capable of controlling the peripheral apparatus, a peripheral apparatus management function capable of managing the peripheral apparatus, and a peripheral apparatus management screen. The system determines a view content of the peripheral apparatus management screen according to an attribute of the driver.
US08725903B2
Asynchronous network interface and method of synchronisation between two applications on different computers is provided. The network interface contains snooping hardware which can be programmed to contain triggering values comprising either addresses, address ranges or other data which are to be matched. These data are termed “trip wires”. Once programmed, the interface monitors the data stream, including address data, passing through the interface for addresses and data which match the trip wires which have been set. On a match, the snooping hardware can generate interrupts, increment event counters, or perform some other application-specified action. The invention thus provides in-band synchronisation by using synchronisation primitives which are programmable by user level applications, while still delivering high bandwidth and low latency. The programming of the synchronisation primitives can be made by the sending and receiving applications independently of each other and no synchronisation information is required to traverse the network.
US08725898B1
A system and method for performing address translation for packets entering or leaving a network. In some embodiments, a private network that may be fully or partially virtualized can use a stateless tunneling mechanism to communicate with external networks, such as the Internet, without using an external IP address for every host on the private network. For example, a packet forwarding device using a stateless Port Address Translation (PAT) implementation can route the packets subject to PAT by using forwarding rules rather than by storing connection-tracking state. Connection state information can be maintained at the hosts rather than at the packet forwarding device.
US08725892B2
Methods and apparatus for facilitating consumption of services via a services network are described. Access is provided to a services directory which identifies a plurality of services and at least one connector for facilitating consumption of each of the services via the network. Each connector is operable to mediate communication protocol and business policy differences between a first network end point associated with the corresponding service and a second network end point associated with a consumer of the service. For each of selected ones of the connectors, information accessible via the services directory is provided regarding how to use the connector to consume the corresponding service. For each of selected ones of the services, access to a connector design process is provided via the services directory. The connector design process is operable to facilitate creation of a new connector for the corresponding service, and to specify at least one business process for mediating the business policy differences.
US08725891B2
A method and apparatus for aggregating cloud system resources is described. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request to start a cloud computing session. The method may also include determining a cloud computing system from among a plurality of cloud computing systems that satisfies the request. Furthermore, the method may include routing the request to the determined cloud computing system to initiate the cloud computing session.
US08725875B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods and storage medium associated with native cloud computing. In embodiments, a system may include a number of clusters of computing nodes, and a data communication network configured to couple the clusters of computing nodes. The system may further include a control node configured to segment or cause segmentation of the data communication network to isolate a cluster of the computing nodes from other clusters of the computing nodes, t for allocation for native execution of a computation task. The system may further include a control network coupled to the data communication network and the control node. Other embodiments may be disclosed and claimed.
US08725866B2
A method of updating a link count in a partitioned directory shared by a plurality of computers within a cluster. The partitioned directory is traversed once by a first computer to obtain a link count. The link count is stored in the first computer and broadcast to a cluster of computers. A total number of allocated links is less than a maximum limit on link count minus the link count. A respective number of links is allocated to each computer within the cluster. Delta values of each computer are updated in real-time as subdirectories are created/erased. A delta value associated with each of the plurality of computers is received. A delta value represents a net number of links created or removed by each computer. The link count is updated based on the previous link count and further based on each of the delta values and further based a delta value associated with the first computer. The updated link count is stored by the first computer and broadcast to the plurality of computers.
US08725860B1
Visualization for managing multiple IP address management systems is provided. In some embodiments, visualization for managing multiple IP address management systems for an IP address management manager system includes communicating with a plurality of IP address management systems to determine IP address management information managed by each of the IP address management systems; and generating a graphical visualization of an IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems based on the IP address management information managed by each of the IP address management systems, in which the graphical visualization of the IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems indicates any gaps or overlaps in the IP address space managed by the plurality of IP address management systems.
US08725857B2
A system has a network and a data source communicatively coupled to the network. Further, the system has logic configured to discover the data source available on the network and store metadata indicative of the discovered data source in memory, the logic further configured to generate a release parcel, in response to a user input, for performing operations on the data source, the logic further configured to deploy the release parcel to a dynamic query service computing device wherein operations on the data source can be performed through the release parcel.
US08725855B2
Systems and methods for associating commissioning files with components in a networked environment are provided. In one embodiment, a unique network identifier of a system component, such as a MAC address, and a network address, such as an IPv4 address may stored in an association file to link components on a network layout map to specific commissioning files. The network address may have a lease configured to infinity or to a power cycle of a component on the network. Further aspects relate to detecting if a system component has been replaced with another component. The detection may determine whether the new component has a unique network identifier not located in a association file. A user input may indicate whether the component is new or a replacement. If the new component is a replacement for another component, the unique network identifier of the first system component may be received and recorded.
US08725840B2
A method includes exchanging information between a local web-server of a local storage device and a remote web-server through a network. The exchange of the information is initiated autonomously by the local storage device upon a determination by the local web server that the information is not stored at the local storage device.
US08725837B2
A device receives subscriber information associated with user devices provided in a network, receives network information associated with the network, and receives user device information associated with the user devices. The device also determines content to cache based on the received information, and requests the determined content from a content provider device. The device further receives the determined content from the content provider device, and stores the determined content in a cache device.
US08725830B2
Accepting a third party news article submission is disclosed. A first submission, including a first URL of a first news article that is different from a second URL of a previously accepted second news article submission, is received. One or more automated checks are performed on at least a portion of the first submission. Whether to accept the first submission is automatically determined based at least in part on the performed checks.
US08725828B2
Various methods are provided for recommending interaction between devices in a local environment. One example method may include locating at least one device within a local environment in response to an interaction with content. The at least one device that is located within a local environment is configured to provide functionality related to the interaction with the content. The method may include identifying a selected device from the located at least one device based on a user profile recommendation and the interaction with the content. The method may further include causing at least one of the content and an executable to be transferred to the identified selected device. Similar and related example apparatuses and example computer program products are also provided.
US08725827B2
In a data communication system that performs data communication between a master station and slave stations in a token passing system employing an Ethernet (registered trademark), when a communication processing unit of a master station subjects processing for circulating a token frame between the master station and slave stations and receiving data from the slave stations to retry processing, the communication processing unit subjects the processing to the retry processing without transferring data received from the slave stations to a data processing unit that performs transmission and reception of data between the data processing unit and an arithmetic processing device.
US08725825B2
An exchange system which allows for allows for the sharing and updating of presence information and address books between exchange-connected terminals and external terminals and allows for communication between exchange-connected terminals and external terminals via the use of pseudo exchange-connected terminals, pseudo external terminals and a pseudo external terminal & pseudo exchange-connected terminal is provided.
US08725824B2
A method of processing a message in a messaging service client device that has a user interface device includes with the messaging service client device, ascertaining a proposed recipient for a message entered by a user with the user interface device; determining a set of potential recipients for the message with the messaging service client device, the set of potential recipients including the proposed recipient; determining whether, among the set of potential recipients, the proposed recipient is a most likely recipient of the message; and responsive to a determination that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient, providing a notification to the user through the user interface device that the proposed recipient is not the most likely recipient.
US08725817B2
A service disclosure device receives a search message transmitted from a service using device, and if the ID of the service using device is stored in a memory, transmits a response message indicating a service to be disclosed to the service using device. The service disclosure device displays information about the service using device on a display, and if a permission to disclose the service to the service using device is input, registers the ID of the service using device in the memory. After a response limit to the search message has expired, the service disclosure device transmits a notification message indicating the service to be disclosed to the service using device.
US08725816B2
Members of a social network service may share real-time comments about multimedia content they are viewing. The comments are attached to bookmarks that allow other members to view the video and add to the discussion thread.
US08725807B2
Systems and methods for data casting in an interest aware peer network are provided. The method comprises determining whether a set of interests associated with a node in a network is updated, wherein the set of interests comprises one or more topics IDs, wherein each topic ID corresponds to a topic of interest associated with said node; distributing the set of interests associated with the node to one or more neighboring nodes by way of a first distribution scheme until N nodes in the network are aware of the updated set of interests for the node; providing each node in the network with a mechanism to determine value of a topic of interest in a set of interests received in association with a node based on a topic ID included in the set of interests for the node.
US08725801B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for image sharing and display. The method includes selecting an image, establishing a context with a peer workstation, and displaying an image on the peer workstation based on the established context. The context may include an image sharing coordinate system, the displayed data types, the coordinates of displayed data types, and lookup tables for image data types. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for image sharing and display. The system includes a master workstation and a peer workstation. The peer workstation includes a display device adapted to display an image based at least in part on information received from the master workstation. The information received from the master workstation may include an image sharing coordinate system, the displayed data types, the coordinates of displayed data types, and lookup tables for image data types.
US08725798B2
Provisioning a cloud based high performance computing cluster. The method includes from a cloud based provisioning service deployed in a cloud based computing provider, providing a user interface. The method further includes receiving user input at the cloud based provisioning service from the user interface. The method further includes from the user input, determining a configuration for a cloud based user service for the user. Using the cloud based provisioning service, the method further includes provisioning the cloud based user service for the user, in the cloud, based on the determined configuration.
US08725786B2
The invention relates to a program storage device readable by a machine, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a specific semiconductor-based computational device situated in the machine to perform the steps of a partial SRT (PSRT) division of a dividend X by a divisor D to obtain a quotient Q. The steps include: causing a computer to obtain the dividend X and the divisor D; representing the dividend X and the divisor D as a digital representation having a plurality of bits; and performing iteratively a series of steps until a desired accuracy of the quotient Q is achieved. The invention also relates to an article of manufacture including a computer usable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein for causing a partial SRT (PSRT) division of a dividend X by a divisor D to generate a quotient Q.
US08725783B2
A mathematical expression calculation apparatus includes: a display; and a processor to perform the operations of: displaying a mathematical expression on the display; displaying terms included in the mathematical expression displayed on the display in display modes which differ among types of the terms respectively; specifying among the display modes a display mode of any of the terms of the mathematical expression displayed on the display, in accordance with operation of a user; and carrying out calculation among terms which are included in the terms of the mathematical expression displayed on the display and are displayed in the specified mode, and renewing and displaying the mathematical expression.
US08725780B2
Systems and methods for storing and accessing data on a removable media having a changeable data set and an immutable data set. In one embodiment, a system can comprise a removable media storage system adapted to determine whether a host system running one or more applications is configured to enforce Write Once Read Many (WORM) policies. The host system can be communicatively coupled with the removable media storage system and configured to execute instructions causing the host system to determine whether to allow or deny a request to access data on the removable media. The host system can use rules to determine if an access request is to access data of a changeable data set or a immutable data set. If the request is to access data of the changeable data set, access is allowed. If the request is to access data of the immutable data set, reads are allowed, as well as writes of new data. Access requests to rename, delete, and/or write to existing data of the immutable data set are denied.
US08725769B2
An online service provider (OSP) operates online data centers to store members' data objects relating to various online member services of the OSP. An aggregated catalog lists members' data objects residing in the online data centers and also those residing in member computers' local storage. An aggregator monitors contents of the online storage facilities to detect new storage of prescribed types of data objects owned by the members, and also communicates with member computers to identify prescribed types of data objects newly stored in the respective local storage. The aggregator updates the aggregated catalog to list the newly stored data objects. Responsive to a request by a member, a finder searches the aggregated catalog and utilizes results of the search to provide, for display at the requesting member's computer, a consolidated listing of online data objects and locally stored data objects owned by the requesting member.
US08725768B2
A method for allowing an information seeker to utilize affiliate group searching involving human searchers who are members of particular information affiliate groups. Each affiliate group has an area of expertise in which they are particularly skilled. In at least one embodiment, the method includes accepting designation of an affiliate group for providing information searching and presenting search results produced by a member of the affiliate group to an information seeker.
US08725767B1
Described are techniques for controlling access to objects. A template is selected. The template includes information specifying a role, one or more levels of expertise, and which objects and object information are accessible to said one or more levels of expertise. A first of the levels of expertise is selected. The template and the first level of expertise are associated with a user identifier. Access to objects and object information is restricted in accordance with the template when performing processing for the user identifier.
US08725766B2
A method and a system are provided for searching content (e.g., text, metadata and/or a fingerprint, etc.). In one example, the system receives content and a query for matching the content. The content includes computer readable data. The system generates a feature vector for the content. Generating the feature vector comprises generating a signal from the content, generating a spectrogram from the signal, and generating the feature vector from the spectrogram. The system searches for at least one feature vector that matches the feature vector for the content.
US08725765B2
Some embodiments of a system and a method to implement a hierarchical registry federation have been presented. For instance, a registry federation can be stored in a set of one or more storage devices, the registry federation including multiple registries, each registry having one or more records. The registries can be organized in an oriented graph such that each registry is logically connected to another registry in the registry federation as a parent registry or a child registry.
US08725758B2
A tag sharing method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, an audio/video data file and tag data describing different subject matter of audio/video data of the audio/video data file. The computer processor associates portions of the tag data with audio/video subsets of the audio/video data and in response the computer processor generates a modified audio/video data file including independent audio/video tags. Each audio/video tag of the independent audio/video tags includes an audio/video subset of the audio/video subsets independently stored with an associated portion of the portions of the tag data. The computer processor receives rule data comprising rules associated with allowing users of a social networking system to view each audio/video subset. The computer processor stores the modified audio/video data file and the rule data.
US08725754B2
The various embodiments herein provide a method and system for modeling a data. The method for modeling data comprises steps of extracting the data from a plurality of data sources, identifying a plurality of entities from the plurality of data, defining occurrence of a relationship between the plurality of entities, capturing recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of entities based on one or more common interactions between the plurality of entities and creating a data model indicating the occurrences and recurrences of the relationship between the plurality of the entities. The data model is adapted to store data corresponding to the plurality of entities, the relationship between the plurality of entities and the common interactions between the plurality of entities. The plurality of entities includes contents of a digital data artifact.
US08725748B1
A tester information tester information processing system provides test equipment for generating test data. A markup language encoder connected to the test equipment encodes the test data for storage in an object-oriented database management system connected to the markup language encoder, and a user interface is operatively connected to the object-oriented database management system for retrieval of the test data.
US08725746B2
A method for filtering user information takes into account not only specific keywords in the user information, but also related user-characteristic data (e.g., user activity data), and allows targeted user characteristics to be determined from multiple aspects of user activities. In one aspect, the disclosed method adopts different filtering schemes for different types of targeted users to improve the recognition accuracy with respect to the target user information. The method determines a suitable filtering scheme using a correspondence relationship between the filtering scheme and keywords and user-characteristic data. The method uses modeling of sample users and multiple candidate filtering schemes to formulate targeted filtering scheme. An apparatus for implementing the method is also disclosed.
US08725739B2
Techniques for category-based content recommendation are described. Some embodiments provide a content recommendation system (“CRS”) configured to recommend content items (e.g., Web pages, images, videos) that are related to specified categories. In one embodiment, the CRS processes content items to determine entities referenced by the content items, and to determine categories related to the referenced entities. The determined entities and/or categories may be part of a taxonomy that is stored by the CRS. Then, in response to a received request that indicates a category, the CRS determines and provides indications of one or more content items that each have a corresponding category that matches the indicated category. In some embodiments, at least some of these techniques are employed to implement a category-based news service.
US08725737B2
Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or more storage devices. In various embodiments, such processing of the index and storing of the metadata can facilitate, for example, enhanced data management operations, enhanced data identification operations, enhanced storage operations, data classification for organizing and storing the metadata, cataloging of metadata for the stored metadata, and/or user interfaces for managing data. In various embodiments, the metabase can be configured in different ways. For example, the metabase can be stored separately from the data objects so as to allow obtaining of information about the data objects without accessing the data objects or a data structure used by a file system.
US08725736B2
A computer-implemented system and method for clustering similar documents is provided. Concepts are identified for a set of documents and occurrence frequencies are determined for each concept in the documents set. A distance quantifying a similarity for each of the documents in the set with one or more clusters of documents is calculated. Each document is mapped to at least one of the one or more document clusters.
US08725733B2
Provided is a system and method providing a search result by registering an extended keyword. A search result providing system may include a registration keyword determining unit to determine whether a registration keyword is required to be additionally registered based on at least of information associated with a registration of an input keyword, and a registration keyword registration unit to additionally register the registration keyword associated with the input keyword.
US08725730B2
A data processing system includes a plurality of processing stages. In response to a query, a membership structure is accessed to determine whether partially processed data from a particular one of the processing stages.
US08725725B2
Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services
An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the context of the active task. The information retrieval system then processes the context representation to generate queries or search terms for conducting an information search. The information retrieval system determines the relevance of a word to the context by utilizing an adaptive weighting system. The information retrieval system assigns varying weights to different attributes of a word and calculates an accumulated weight of the word by accumulating all weights assigned to the word. The attributes may include word size, style, location of the word, etc. The system then ranks the importance of words based on their respective accumulated weight, and chooses words that rank within a predetermined number from the top to form search terms to conduct an information search using various data sources.
US08725714B2
Information management techniques for performing private information request are provided. Original information request entered on a personal computing device are obscured by a camouflaging engine. The obscured information request is then submitted to a search engine accessible over the Internet by the device. Subsequently, the search engine will generate search results based on the obscured information request. Upon completion of the search, a filtering engine on the device will filter the obscured search result based on the original entered information request, preferences or personal profile. The output of the filtering engine, reflecting the personalized result for the original information request, can be displayed on the device. The device could also include ways to receive advertisements from the search engine, or a third or an outside advertisement party. An advertisement filtering engine on the device filters the received advertisements and displays the filtered advertisements on the device.
US08725694B2
A system and method are provided for performing storage operations relating to a first secondary copy of electronic data. A storage policy or storage preferences may dictate that a replication copy should be used in storage operations performed to a particular client, sub-client, data, media or other item. Based on the storage policy, when a new client, sub-client, data, media or other item is received, a media agent determines whether there is a replication copy of the item. In the absence of a replication copy, one may be created. The replication copy may be provided by a third party application, or created by the client or a storage management system component. Information regarding the replication copy and its corresponding first secondary copy may be stored in a database. To optimize use of system resources, storage operations relating to the first secondary copy may be performed using the replication copy instead of the first secondary copy.
US08725693B2
Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer. In the automatic failover configuration, the primary database system remains available even in the absence of both the standby and the observer as long as the standby and the observer become absent sequentially. The failover configuration may use asynchronous transfer modes to transfer redo to the standby and permits automatic failover only when the observer is present and the failover will not result in data loss due to the asynchronous transfer mode beyond a specified maximum. The database systems and the observer have copies of failover configuration state and the techniques include techniques for propagating the most recent version of the state among the databases and the observer and techniques for using carefully-ordered writes to ensure that state changes are propagated in a fashion which prevents divergence.
US08725689B1
A method and system for generating and managing snapshots of Virtual Machine (i.e., virtual snapshots) and creating a centralized integrated backup for the Virtual Machine (VM). Proposed method and system allow users to roll back to any previous version of the VM and instantiate this version using the logic encapsulated in a virtual snapshot of the VM. The virtual snapshots taken at various times can be combined into a chronological tree viewable via a virtual snapshot image viewer. The snapshot trees for different VMs are combined into centralized integrated system backup (CIB) that can be managed by a central console including a GUI of the virtual snapshot image viewer.
US08725688B2
A system and method for performing an image level restore of data is described. In some examples, the system receives a request to restore a file and transmits the request to an intermediate component. The intermediate component may then retrieve a directory file from an image of a secondary copy of a data set, identify a location of the file from the directory file, and provide the location to the requestor.
US08725679B2
A method for synchronizing a database with data stored at a client includes providing a data feed to receive data by the client from the database and provide received data, caching the received data in a client side cache to provide client side cached data, detecting a database change to data within the database corresponding to the client side cached data according to a polling operation to provide a change event, pushing the change event to the client side cached data to update the client side cached data in accordance with the database change and the polling operation, requesting further data from the database, determining whether the further data includes data of the client side cached data to determine remaining data exclusive of the client side cached data and pushing the remaining data to the client side cached data.
US08725665B2
Techniques for evaluating the accuracy of a predicted effectiveness of an improvement to an infrastructure include collecting data, representative of at least one pre-defined metric, from the infrastructure during first and second time periods corresponding to before and after a change has been implemented, respectively. A machine learning system can receive compiled data representative of the first time period and generate corresponding machine learning data. A machine learning results evaluator can empirically analyze the generated machine learning data. An implementer can implement the change to the infrastructure based at least in part on the data from a machine learning data outputer. A system performance improvement evaluator can compare the compiled data representative of the first time period to that of the second time period to determine a difference, if any, and compare the difference, if any, to a prediction based on the generated machine learning data.
US08725659B2
A user interface evolves based on learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of a user. Learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of the user can be stored in a knowledge base. Information from the surrounding environment of the user can be obtained during learning of idiosyncrasies or collection of data. Thought-based statements can be generated based at least in part on the knowledge base and the information from the environment surrounding the user during learning of idiosyncrasies or collection of data. The thought-based statements serve to invoke or respond to subsequent actions of the user. The user interface can be presented so as to allow for interaction with the user based at least in part on the thought-based statements. Furthermore, personality nuances of the user interface can be developed that affect the interaction between the user and the user interface.
US08725648B2
A selection of a digital content item is received from a client over a network. A license agreement associated with the selected digital content item is identified based on a content ID of the digital content item, where the license agreement is identified by a license ID. The license agreement includes one or more constraints for accessing the digital content item. A tracking code is generated based on the content ID associated with the selected digital content item, the license ID associated with the identified license agreement, and the user ID associated with the client. The tracking code is inscribed on the digital content item to generate a deliverable content file, where the deliverable content file contains the digital content item therein. The deliverable content file is transmitted to the client over the network, where the tracking code is visible or audible when the digital content item is accessed from the deliverable content file.
US08725644B2
Various methods for securely processing an online transaction between a customer and a merchant are disclosed. In one method, an authentication credentials request that includes a transaction identifier is received from a merchant system. In response, an encryption key is transmitted to the merchant system. From a customer system, the personal account data associated with the customer is received, which is encrypted with the encryption key. A transaction processing request from the merchant system prompts the generating of a transaction processing response based upon its execution.
US08725637B2
This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for generating electronic invoices. The method may include logging on to an online invoicing service account, and looking up a customer account from multiple customers associated with the online invoicing service account. The method may further include selecting the customer account that has a pending financial transaction with a biller. A request for an electronic invoice to be generated for the selected customer is initiated and the electronic invoice may be transmitted to the selected customer.
US08725629B2
A system is disclosed for enabling a portfolio manager to obtain credit approval for an issuer of securities from a credit analyst. The system includes a relational database containing subjective and objective issuer information, a graphical user interface for permitting a portfolio manager to submit a credit approval request to a credit analyst, a graphical user interface for permitting a credit analyst to evaluate the credit approval request submitted by the portfolio manager based on the issuer information contained in the database, and a graphical user interface for permitting the credit analyst to resolve the credit approval request on behalf of the portfolio manager.
US08725628B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an apparatus may include a network interface configured receive data from and communicate data to a remote electronic device and a processor coupled to the network interface. The processor may be configured to receive, via a user interface of the remote electronic device and the network interface, credentials for identifying a customer; and determine, based on known information regarding the customer available at the time of receipt of the credentials, whether the customer is eligible to apply for a payment program an account with a past-due amount.
US08725625B2
A capital asset planning system for selecting assets for improvement within an infrastructure that includes one or more data sources descriptive of the infrastructure, one or more databases, coupled to the one or more data sources, to compile the one or more data sources, one or more processors, each coupled to and having respective communication interfaces to receive data from the one or more databases. The processor includes a predictor to generate a first metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a current status of the infrastructure, a second metric of estimated infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on a user-selected, proposed changed configuration of the infrastructure, and a net metric of infrastructure effectiveness based, at least in part, on said first metric and said second metric. The system also includes a display, coupled to have the one or more processors, for visually presenting the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness, in which the assets for improvement are selected based, at least in part, on the net metric of infrastructure effectiveness.
US08725621B2
An electronic exchange system network includes a trader site having an automated trading system capable of submitting orders to an exchange site. The automated trading system determines whether an order should be submitted based on, for example, the current market price of an option and theoretical buy and sell prices. The theoretical buy and sell prices are derived from, among other things, the current market price of the security underlying the option. A look-up table stores a range of theoretical buy and sell prices for a given range of current market price of the underlying security. Accordingly, as the price of the underlying security changes, a new theoretical price may be indexed in the look-up table, thereby avoiding calculations that would otherwise slow automated trading decisions. Other techniques may be used in addition or in the alternative to speed automatic decision-making. In addition, a system of checks may be conducted to ensure accurate and safe automated trading. The automated trading system may be capable of automatically submitting orders in connection with the underlying security in order to hedge part of the delta risk associated with the automated option trades.
US08725620B2
A method and system for negotiating improved terms for a product being purchased over the Internet. Once a purchaser has made a decision to buy a specific product over the Internet, the purchaser may use the services of a personal negotiating broker-agent program to beat the best available purchase transaction within a specifiable time window. The personal broker-agent program may detect an issuance of a commitment to purchase over the Internet by a purchaser. The personal broker-agent program may then make an offer to the purchaser the option of waiting a predetermined amount of time while the broker agent searches for improved items. On acceptance of the option by the purchaser, the personal broker-agent program may conduct an auction and/or search the Internet for a better deal and may evaluate the auction and/or search responses to determine the best deal. The personal broker-agent program may then execute the best deal. If the purchaser elects not to accept the option from the personal broker-agent program, then the purchaser may execute the commitment to purchase transaction without delay.
US08725613B1
The embodiments illustrated herein provide systems and methods for predicting or identifying early life account fraud at a point-in-time within existing account portfolios. The identity-level linking of inquiry data described herein allow for detecting inconsistent and/or suspicious use of identity data elements across multiple applications that traditional fraud detection systems may consider to be different consumers. The system can be configured to calculate or generate a fraud score after a credit account is booked and/or opened by a financial institution or other third party. Even though the likelihood of fraud is assessed at the time when an applicant applies for credit, there may still be some applicants that successfully pass through authentication and/or fraud tools.
US08725606B2
There is provided an arrangement for a money market note and a term note. The arrangement includes (1) a provision for crediting (a) a collection to (b) principal of the money market note, if the principal of the money market note is not fully credited, and (2) a provision for crediting (a) the collection to (b) principal of the term note, if the principal of the money market note is fully credited.
US08725605B1
Systems consistent with the present invention provide financial account management services for user service accounts. Such systems receive requests from users to register with a trusted intermediary. Registration with the intermediary enable users to customize management services to be performed for selected user service accounts. The trusted intermediary server periodically collects account information from provider servers that govern accounts provided to the users. The intermediary server then analyzes the collected account information to determine whether customized management services should be performed. The management services may include sending account status messages to the users and performing automatic payment functions to credit delinquent accounts. Such methods and systems enable users to avoid, for example, penalties and fees associated with mis-managed accounts by allowing the intermediary server to perform proxy management services for users.
US08725604B2
The present invention provides a system and method of generating a set of tax schedule information comprising: (a) providing an Excel interface, the Excel interface being associated with a set of commands and functions; (b) accessing a separate database, the separate database storing a set of data, the set of data having been defined using the set of commands and functions; (c) manipulating the set of data according to the set of commands and functions to generate the set of tax schedule information; and (d) storing the set of tax schedule information in a separate database. This embodiment may further include one or more of the following: using at least one entry from the set of tax schedule information to populate a tax schedule; wherein the separate database is an XML database; wherein the set of tax schedule information is based, at least in part, on a set of tags associated with the XML database.
US08725594B1
A system that facilitates continuous flow execution of orders is provided. The system includes a supply chain data store that stores supply chain data (e.g., inventory, supply, demand) and a data acceptor operable to receive the supply chain data from supply chain members, to conform the supply chain data to supply chain schema and to validate the supply chain data. The system also includes an inventory deployment analyzer that analyzes a user defined inventory network and accounts for the stored supply chain data to produce inventory transfer recommendations, transfer orders, alerts and/or a diversion order.
US08725592B2
Exemplary embodiments provide methods, systems and devices for recommending one or more products for a selected individual. The products may be recommended to a user for gifting to the selected individual. Exemplary embodiments may automatically determine one or more topics of interest to the selected individual. In an exemplary embodiment, semantic analysis may be performed on textual content associated with the selected individual to automatically extract the topics of interest. Exemplary embodiments may use the topics of interest to automatically determine one or more products that are likely to be of interest to the selected individual.
US08725586B2
A computer implemented method for categorizing transactions for a user comprising receiving a plurality of transactions, each transaction including a transaction party, a date associated with the transaction, and a transaction amount, providing a set of transaction categories, automatically associating one of the transaction categories with at least one of the received transactions from the set of transaction categories, providing a set of reliability codes comprising at least two reliability codes, selecting a reliability code from the set of reliability codes for at least one of the automatically selected transaction categories, and displaying at least one of the received transactions with its selected reliability code.
US08725584B1
Systems and methods for selling and purchasing vehicle history reports are described. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a set of vehicles in a dealer inventory, determining a subset of the vehicles in the dealer inventory for which the dealer has not purchased a vehicle history report, presenting a summary report to a dealer, the summary report including information about at least one of the vehicles in the subset of the vehicles, receiving a selection to purchase a vehicle history report for at least one of the vehicles in the summary report, and providing the vehicle history report corresponding to the selection to the dealer.
US08725577B2
A method and system for conducting an online payment transaction through a point of sale device. The method includes receiving input from a user selecting an item for purchase through the point of sale device; calculating a total purchase amount for the item in response to a request from the user to purchase the item; and sending payment authorization for the total purchase amount from the point of sale device to a payment entity, in which the payment authorization is sent to the payment entity via a mobile communication device of the user. The method further includes receiving a result of the payment authorization from the payment entity through the mobile communication device; and completing the payment transaction based on the result of the payment authorization.
US08725568B2
A transaction handler receives, for forwarding to a sponsor account's issuer, a coupon authorization request message from a merchant's acquirer that identifies the sponsor account and a coupon for an item being purchased by a consumer in a transaction with the merchant. The issuer determines eligibility of the coupon for use by the consumer, and sends an authorization response message to the merchant via its acquirer and the transaction handler for the application of a corresponding discount for the item when the coupon is eligible. One or more coupon eligibilities for the purchase of the item by the consumer from the merchant can be derived from comparisons of the transaction to predetermined times, geographies, jurisdictions, sets of merchants, and/or the number of times that coupons have been used in other transactions. The transaction handler can further process the transaction for authorization the consumer's account to pay of the transaction.
US08725566B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for predicting advertiser keyword performance indicator values based on proximity of advertisers to one another are provided. A keyword is received from a first advertiser that has not previously bid on the keyword. Another advertiser that is similar to the first advertiser and has previously bid on the keyword is identified, and a predicted performance indicator value for the keyword is calculated for the first advertiser based upon an established performance indicator value of the keyword for the other advertiser. In this way, performance predictions for an advertiser desiring to bid on a keyword that is new to that advertiser may be calculated more accurately than traditional methods that do not take into account advertiser similarity.
US08725563B2
A search engine, system and method for locating and rating a plurality of electronic mentions of respective ones of a plurality of brands. The engine, system and method includes a web crawl engine that seeks mentions of ones of a plurality of keywords in proximity to ones of the electronic mentions of the respective ones of the plurality of brands, a content reviewer that electronically presents to a manual reviewer the mentions of ones of a plurality of keywords in proximity to ones of the electronic mentions of the respective ones of the plurality of brands, a scoring input for receiving a first of the ratings from the manual reviewer of the mentions of ones of a plurality of keywords in proximity to ones of the electronic mentions of the respective ones of the plurality of brands, at least one electronic rating input for receiving second ones of the ratings of the mentions of ones of a plurality of keywords in proximity to ones of the electronic mentions of the respective ones of the plurality of brands, and a correlator that normalizes the rating by comparing the first of the ratings to the second ones of the ratings, and that correlates ones of the plurality of brands to a desired purchaser profile in accordance with the normalized rating.
US08725559B1
System and methods for categorizing electronic advertisements categorized based on the attributes associated with the creatives, such as product type, predominant color, size of the create, media type of the creative are provided. Categories to be associated with electronic advertisements may be predefined, and an electronic advertisement may have various attributes associated with each of these categories.
US08725551B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing post-charge information distribution for an electric vehicle. In one embodiment, a user profile is updated with charging process data that is derived, in part, from a charging process between the electric vehicle and a charging station. The process then identifies a set of recipients of data from the user profile. The set of recipients include a set of third party principals. The data from the user profile is processed using a set of data processing rules specified by the set of recipients to form processed data. Thereafter, the processed data is transmitted to the set of recipients according to preferences of the set of recipients.
US08725547B2
A method and apparatus for use with a processor, a database and an interface including a display screen, the database including schedule information associated with utilization of time for at least one medical resource that may be scheduled for use over a period including several sub-periods, the method for aiding a scheduler responsible for scheduling the resource to optimally schedule new requests for the resource's time, the method comprising the steps of identifying a utilization value for at least one schedule sub-period for the at least one resource wherein the utilization value indicates current use of time for the at least one sub-period for the at least one resource, identifying an optimization indicator at least in part as a function of the utilization value for the at least one sub-period and presenting the optimization indicator via the display.
US08725538B2
A machine-implemented method of assisting medical evidence collection for adjudication of a medical disability request is described. In some embodiments, the method includes providing an electronic medical record of a patient, the electronic medical record includes evidence of at least one claimable medical disability condition and locating in the electronic medical record at least one keyword associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition. In some embodiments, the method further includes processing an inference rule associated with the at least one claimable medical disability condition, such that the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition is identified in the electronic medical record and outputting, to a computer-readable medium, information indicative of (1) the evidence of the at least one claimable medical disability condition, and (2) a location of the evidence in the electronic medical record.
US08725528B2
A tissue treatment system including a processing unit executing software, an electronic display in communication with the processing unit, and a storage unit in communication with the processing unit. The software may be configured to cause the processing unit to manage a patient history database, treatment history database, and image history database. The processing unit may further be configured to enable a clinician to access and display information stored in any of the databases.
US08725522B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing automatic identification of semantically coherent, user-aligned fragments in business process models. One process includes operations for identifying a hierarchy of process fragments in a business process model associated with a user. At least one process metadata category associated with a role of the user is determined. A score for each process fragment in the hierarchy of process fragments is computed, the score computed based at least in part on a probable level of interest in the at least one process metadata category for the role of the user. At least one process fragment in the hierarchy of process fragments for inclusion in a view of the business process model to be presented to the user, the selection based at least in part on the score computed for the at least one process fragment.
US08725519B2
Provided are audio encoding and decoding apparatuses capable of recovering a high-quality audio signal at a low bit rate. The audio encoding method includes: detecting at least one sinusoidal wave from an input audio signal; calculating components of additional basis vectors based on residual audio signals and the additional basis vectors of the sinusoidal wave; determining transmission of components of the additional basis vectors; and at least one of (a) encoding frequencies and (b) phases and amplitudes of the sinusoidal waves when the transmission of the components of the additional basis vectors are determined, wherein the residual audio signals are obtained by excluding the detected sinusoidal waves from the input audio signal.
US08725513B2
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing expressive user interaction with a multimodal application, the multimodal application operating in a multimodal browser on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of user interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a speech engine through a VoiceXML interpreter, including: receiving, by the multimodal browser, user input from a user through a particular mode of user interaction; determining, by the multimodal browser, user output for the user in dependence upon the user input; determining, by the multimodal browser, a style for the user output in dependence upon the user input, the style specifying expressive output characteristics for at least one other mode of user interaction; and rendering, by the multimodal browser, the user output in dependence upon the style.
US08725509B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to language models stored for digital language processing. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of generating a language model, including: receiving a collection of n-grams from a corpus, each n-gram of the collection having a corresponding first probability of occurring in the corpus, and generating a trie representing the collection of n-grams, the trie being represented using one or more arrays of integers, and compressing an array representation of the trie using block encoding; and using the language model to identify a second probability of a particular string of words occurring.
US08725507B2
Systems and methods consistent with the innovations herein relate to communication using a virtual humanoid animated during call processing. According to one exemplary implementation, the animation may be performed using a system of recognition of spoken vowels for animation of the lips, which may also be associated with the recognition of DTMF tones for animation of head movements and facial features. The innovations herein may be generally implemented in portable devices such as PDAs, cell phones and Smart Phones that have access to mobile telephony.
US08725506B2
A speech processing engine is provided that in some embodiments, employs Kalman filtering with a particular speaker's glottal information to clean up an audio speech signal for more efficient automatic speech recognition.
US08725504B1
An approach to performing inverse quantization on a quantized integral value is described. This approach involves determining whether a quantized integral value lies within a first range or a second range of possible values. An interpolated inverse quantization value is calculated from the quantized integral value, using a predetermined bit shifting operation, depending on whether the quantized integral value was in the first or the second range.
US08725503B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices for forward time-domain aliasing cancellation in a coded signal transmitted from a coder to a decoder. Information related to correction of the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal is calculated at the coder and added in a bitstream sent from the coder to the decoder. The decoder receives the bitstream and cancels the time-domain aliasing in the coded signal in response to the information comprised in the bitstream. The information may be representative of a difference between a frame of audio signal to be encoded in a first coding mode and a decoded signal from the frame including time-domain aliasing effects.
US08725501B2
There is disclosed an audio decoding device capable of improving audio quality of a decoded signal by considering the energy change of a past signal in eracure concealment processing. In this device, an energy change calculation unit (143) calculates an average energy of an audio source signal of one-pitch cycle from the end of the ACB vector outputted from an adaptive codebook (106). Moreover, the energy change calculation unit (143) calculates a ratio of the average energy of the current sub-frame and the sub-frame immediately before and outputs the ratio to an ACB gain generation unit (135). The ACB gain generation unit (135) outputs a conceal processing ACB gain defined by the ACB gain decoded in the past or information on the energy change ratio outputted from the energy change calculation unit (143) to a multiplier (132).
US08725494B2
A document can be processed to provide sentiment values for phrases in the document. The sequence of sentiment values associated with the sequence of phrases in a document can be handled as if they were a sampled discrete time signal. For phrases which have been identified as entities, a filtering operation can be applied to the sequence of sentiment values around each entity to determine a sentiment value for the entity.
US08725493B2
A method for parsing the flow of natural human language to convert a flow of machine recognizable language into a conceptual flow includes, first, recognizing the lexical structure and then, a basic semantic grouping is determined for the language flow in the lexical structure. The basic semantic grouping is then determined that denotes the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow. The responsibility of the main action, occurrence or state of being for the language flow is then determined within the lexical structure followed by semantically parsing the lexical structure. Thereafter, any ambiguities in the responsibilities are resolved in a recursive manner by applying a predetermined set of rules thereto.
US08725482B2
This invention relates to a method for characterizing the pores of reticulated framework structures and using these characteristics to predict the actual performance characteristics of the reticulated framework structures as membranes for gas separation, and other purposes.
US08725478B2
The invention relates to methods for upscaling a three dimensional model. More particularly, but not by way of limitation, embodiments of the present invention includes method for upscaling a three dimensional model by preserving transmissibility.
US08725477B2
Methods and systems for creating a numerical pseudocore model, comprising: a) obtaining logging data from a reservoir having depth-defined intervals of the reservoir, and processing the logging data into interpretable borehole image data having unidentified borehole image data; b) examining one of the interpretable borehole image data, other processed logging data or both to generate the unidentified borehole image data, processing the generated unidentified borehole image data into the interpretable borehole image data to generate warped fullbore image data; c) collecting one of a core from the reservoir, the logging data or both and generating a digital core data from one of the collected core, the logging data or both such that generated digital core data represents features of one or more depth-defined interval of the reservoir; and d) processing generated digital core data, interpretable borehole image data or the logging data to generate realizations of the numerical pseudocore model.
US08725461B2
Configuration data and performance data can be collected from computing machines running a target program. Periods of stress for the computing machines can be identified using the performance data, and a set of the computing machines can be grouped under a stress profile using the performance data. One or more configuration points can be identified on the set of machines, and an effect of each of the configuration point(s) on performance of the set of machines can be inferred using the configuration data and the performance data. The inferred effect(s) of the configuration point(s) can be used to determine a baseline set of configuration settings.
US08725457B2
A method to model a complex system of pipes. The model takes into account the physical processes in a tree-type piping system and provides for an accurate modeling of a real world tree-type piping system. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program is provided for analyzing models of dry pipe systems. The computer program includes a user interface and a computational engine. The user interface allows a model of a dry pipe system to be defined and the computational engine determines a liquid flow time through the model of the dry pipe system. The computational engine provides a verification of the liquid flow time in a model of a referential dry pipe system within 20% of an actual liquid flow time in the referential dry pipe system.
US08725453B2
A mobile terminal which makes it possible to automatically calculate a step length of a user with accuracy. A step count-acquiring section acquires a step count of the user of a mobile terminal. A position calculating section calculates a position of the mobile terminal. A center position-calculating section calculates a center position of a plurality of positions calculated by the position calculating section. A covered distance-calculating section calculates a distance covered by the mobile terminal based on a plurality of the center positions calculated by the center position-calculating section. A step length-calculating section calculates the step length based on the step count acquired by the step count-acquiring section and the covered distance calculated by the covered distance-calculating section.
US08725449B2
A human surrogate head model (HSHM) to measure brain/skull displacement due to a physical force, such as due to an explosive, ballistic, or automotive crash type of event. A HSHM may include a plurality of magnetic field generators positioned stationary relative to a HSHM skull, each to generate a magnetic field oriented with respect to a corresponding one of multiple directions. The HSHM may include one or more electromagnetic force (EMF)-based displacement sensors, each of which may include three inductive coils oriented orthogonally with respect to one another and co-aligned about a central point. A signal processor may be implemented to separate signals generated by each coil of each EMF-based displacement sensor into a plurality of component magnitudes, each attributable to a corresponding one of the magnetic fields. A computer-implemented model may be implemented to correlate between the component magnitudes and a corresponding position and orientation of the displacement sensor.
US08725448B2
A self validating flame detection system (10) for a turbine engine (12) configured to determine whether a flame exists in a turbine engine combustor is disclosed. The self validating flame detection system (10) may include two different types of flame detection sensors to reduce the risk of false positive signals. In at least one embodiment, the flame detection system (10) may include one or more infrared sensors (20) that sense infrared radiation within the combustor of the turbine engine (12) and one or more ultraviolet light sensors (22) that sense ultraviolet light within the combustor of the turbine engine (12). The flame detection system (10) may include a processor (24) configured to ignore the steady state infrared signal generated and instead analyze the dynamic infrared signal. The processor (24) may be configured to determine whether both types of sensors indicate a flame out condition so that a false alarm does not occur.
US08725444B2
A thermometer includes a first surface temperature measurement unit; a first reference temperature measurement unit; a second surface temperature measurement unit; a second reference temperature measurement unit; a temperature correction unit that calculates a mounting positional difference between the first and second surface temperature measurement units from a measurement subject and a mounting positional difference between the first and second reference temperature measurement units from the measurement subject in terms of temperature differences that compensate for temperature dependence, thus correcting the first surface temperature and first reference temperature, or the second surface temperature and second reference temperature; and a core temperature calculation unit that calculates a core temperature of the measurement subject using the first surface temperature and first reference temperature or the second surface temperature and second reference temperature corrected by the temperature correction unit.
US08725443B2
Touchscreen testing techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a piece of conductor (e.g., metal) is positioned as proximal to a touchscreen device and the touchscreen device is tested by simulating a touch of a user. This technique may be utilized to perform a variety of different testing of a touchscreen device, such as to test latency and probabilistic latency. Additional techniques are also described including contact geometry testing techniques.
US08725432B2
A signal processing method for a Coriolis flowmeter including: performing frequency conversion to combine an oscillation frequency to each of two flow rate signals obtained by A/D conversion on input signals of the phase difference and/or the vibration frequency proportional to the Coriolis force acting on the at least one flow tube; measuring a frequency of a composite waveform associated with at least one of the vibration detection sensors; transmitting a control signal based on the measured frequency; controlling so that a sum frequency component or a difference frequency component of a composite component of a composite frequency signal is constant; and measuring phases from a sum signal or a difference signal of each of controlled converted composite frequencies, to thereby obtain a phase difference signal component.
US08725431B2
A tactile sensor unit is provided, which includes a substrate; a coat formed on the substrate; and a cantilever beam structure having one end fixed to the substrate and curved to rise in such a direction that the other end of the cantilever beam structure is farther from the substrate than the one end. The tactile sensor unit detects a load applied to the coat. The cantilever beam structure is capable of resonating at a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency which is different from the first resonant frequency. The tactile sensor unit further includes a computation section for calculating a directional component of the load based on a change ratio of the first resonant frequency obtained in accordance with a change in the load and a change ratio of the second resonant frequency obtained in accordance with the change in the load.
US08725423B2
Described is a method for determining that a population of cells are a specific type of leukemic cell based on the replication timing fingerprint for the population of cells.
US08725414B2
In an information processing device, when a positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information calculated from GPS signals and the like, a movement area setting unit sets a movement area with a size corresponding to a distance between a current location and a destination. When the positional information acquiring unit acquires positional information indicating a current location after setting this movement area, a judgment unit judges whether the positional information is within the movement area. Then, as a result of this judgment, in a case of being within the movement area, a display control unit executes display control of a display unit so as to display on a map the positional information, and in a case of being outside of the movement area, so as not to display on the map the positional information.
US08725393B2
A plant control apparatus includes a plant model and a control input determining device. The plant model estimates a control variable of a plant based on an input including a control parameter to adjust a first control variable of the plant. The control input determining device is configured to correct a temporary value of the control parameter so that a first control variable model value satisfies a predetermined constraint. The control input determining device is configured to determine a control input for the plant based on the temporary value of the control parameter that has been corrected. The first control variable model value is defined as an estimated value of the first control variable calculated by the plant model when the temporary value of the control parameter is input to the plant model.
US08725392B2
A device for controlling an injection valve actuator for an internal combustion engine has a voltage source, the voltage of which is high compared to the voltage of a vehicle battery and which is connected to the actuator by way of at least one controllable switch. A switching controller can be connected to the vehicle battery at the input end and it is connected to the voltage source at the output end to generate the high voltage from the voltage of the vehicle battery. The switching controller is designed in such a way that the high voltage of the voltage source is regulated to a higher value as the temperature increases.
US08725388B2
A method is provided for operating a direct injection system of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. The at least one fuel injection parameter is adjusted by a closed loop control of the injected fuel quantity.
US08725384B2
A turbine to detect a flame holding event includes a combustion section to receive a fluid from a compressor, to heat the fluid by combusting a fuel to generate heat, and to output the heated fluid to a turbine section. The combustion section includes a combustor having a combustion chamber in which the fuel is combusted, and the combustion section having a sensor to sense a static pressure within the combustion chamber. A combustion control device detects a flame holding event in the combustion chamber based only on the sensed static pressure.
US08725367B2
In a control apparatus and a control method for a vehicle automatic transmission in which a plurality of gears with different speed ratios are achieved by selectively engaging a plurality of friction engagement devices and a one-way clutch, if an acceleration request is made in the case where the one-way clutch is in an idling state when a first predetermined gear is to be achieved by engaging the one-way clutch, a pre-synchronization control is executed to transmit torque through a predetermined friction engagement device used to achieve a second predetermined gear at which the one-way clutch is maintained in an idling state, and to continue to change a rotational direction of the one-way clutch toward a rotational direction in which the one-way clutch is brought to a synchronized state, according to the acceleration request.
US08725363B2
A multiple detection zone supplemental remote control system for a materials handling vehicle comprises one or more sensors capable of defining multiple contactless detection zones at least towards the front of the forward travel direction of a remotely controlled vehicle. The vehicle responds to the detection of objects within the designated zones based upon predetermined actions, such as to slow down or stop the vehicle, and/or to take other action, such as to perform a steer angle correction.
US08725357B2
A motor control apparatus that drive-controls a motor by an inverter based on each-phase duty command values of PWM and detects each-phase motor currents of the motor by a one-shunt type current detector. The apparatus includes a current detection correcting section that calculates a current detection correction value based on a power-supply voltage of the motor, each-phase duty command values, a back-EMF information of the motor, each-phase motor currents detected by the current detector, arrangement information of the PWM, and electric characteristic formula of the motor, thereby to correct the each-phase motor currents detected by the current detector to a motor average current by the current detection correction value and drive-controls the motor.
US08725348B2
A method is provided for detecting faults in an electronically controlled drive system of a motor vehicle by way of an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit detects at least the accelerator pedal position and the longitudinal acceleration of the motor vehicle as input signals. The control unit is configured to carry out a first fault detection program independently of its actual functional scope, by which program, a fault is detected if a defined acceleration gradient, which is dependent on a change in the accelerator pedal position, is exceeded for longer than for a predefined time period.
US08725339B2
A method for controlling a hybrid traction assembly includes an initial depleting phase which begins at the beginning of the vehicle mission and where the hybrid traction assembly is controlled to cause depletion of the storage device at a high first mean depletion rate, at least one sustaining phase where the hybrid traction assembly is controlled so that the state of charge is maintained in a predetermined sustaining range. The method further includes a second depleting phase which extends between the initial depleting phase and the sustaining phase, wherein the hybrid traction assembly is controlled to cause depletion of the storage device at a second mean depletion rate, the second mean depletion rate being lower than the first mean depletion rate.
US08725334B2
A method for controlling torque applied to wheels of a vehicle including at least one electric motor connected to a battery and connected to at least one driving wheel. The motor is capable of operating as a generator for recharging the battery when the vehicle slows down. A first braking adjustment travel and a second acceleration adjustment travel are applied to the movement of the acceleration pedal of the vehicle, the braking adjustment travel being a continuously decreasing function relative to the charge of the battery.
US08725333B2
In control apparatus and method for a vehicle, the vehicle including a traveling mode (a WSC traveling mode) in which a slip control is performed for a clutch (second clutch CL2) and a revolution speed control is performed for the driving source such that a revolution speed at a driving source side of the clutch becomes higher than that at a driving wheel side of the clutch by a predetermined revolution speed, an actual torque of a driving source of the vehicle is detected, a command hydraulic pressure is reduced from an initial command hydraulic pressure and a post-correction command hydraulic pressure is set on a basis of the command hydraulic pressure when a variation in the actual torque of the driving source along with the reduction of the command hydraulic pressure is determined to end, when a vehicle stopped state is determined to occur during the traveling mode.
US08725329B1
Systems and methods are for controlling of a hybrid propulsion system for a marine vessel. A control circuit controls an electric motor-generator according to at least two modes, including a first mode wherein the electric motor-generator receives power from a battery and rotates a driveshaft to drive a propulsor and a second mode wherein the electric motor-generator generates power to charge the battery based upon torque from an internal combustion engine. A time criteria and at least one user-desired operational characteristic of at least one of the internal combustion engine, electric motor-generator, and battery are input to the control circuit. Based on the time criteria and user-desired operational characteristic, the control circuit calculates a schedule for at least one of charging the battery with the electric motor-generator and discharging the battery to a house load of the marine vessel. The control circuit further controls operation of the electric motor-generator according to the schedule.
US08725325B1
The present invention relates to a fixed guideway transportation system that achieves a superior cost benefit ratio, is lower in net present cost and thus more easily justified for lower density corridors, and can provide passenger carrying capacities appropriate for higher density corridors serviced by mass rapid transit systems today. The invention provides an emergency braking control system and methodology that enables the implementation of related systems and methods that achieve safe headways at higher speeds than conventionally possible, while maintaining collision avoidance capabilities. In embodiments, vehicles are controlled from one or more stations with commands that are periodically sent from the station to the vehicle. For the control of emergency braking, this command contains a Safe to Proceed (STP) field that is intended and is required for the vehicle to withhold braking.
US08725321B2
A system and method for controlling an aircraft with flight control surfaces that are controlled both manually and by a computing device is disclosed. The present invention improves overall flight control operation by reducing the mechanical flight control surface components while providing sufficient back-up control capability in the event of either a mechanical or power-related failure. Through the present invention, natural feedback is provided to the operator from the mechanical flight control surface which operates independent of computer-aided flight control surfaces. Further, through the present invention, force input signals received from the pilot are filtered to improve the operation of the computer-aided flight control surfaces.
US08725320B1
The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising a user interface and a computer. The user interface comprises a display. The computer is configured to display information about time and position of an aircraft in relation to a number of waypoints for a flight on the display. The information is displayed using a number of graphical display features.
US08725314B2
Each motor is controlled by a microcontroller and the set of microcontrollers is driven by a central controller. According to the invention, said method comprises: a preliminary step consisting at least in establishing an asynchronous serial communications link over a line between the central controller and each of the microcontrollers, and in allocating an address parameter to each microcontroller; and in operation, at least a control step proper consisting: i) for the central controller, in sending simultaneously on each link line a message containing at least one instruction specified by the address parameter of a destination microcontroller that is to execute said instruction; and ii) for each destination microcontroller, in extracting the instruction addressed thereto from said message, and executing it.
US08725311B1
Vehicle including a seat in which an occupant sits during use of the vehicle and a monitoring system for monitoring the occupant in the seat. The monitoring system includes sets of electric field antennas, each including at least one antenna, a control unit connected to the antenna sets and including selectors coupled to the antennas. The selectors are controlled by the control unit to obtain signals from one or more antennas serving as receiving antennas and one or more antennas serving as sending antennas. The control unit determines which combination of sending antenna(s) and receiving antenna(s) provides a strongest signal in an expected heartbeat range and/or expected respiration range of the occupant and then monitors this combination for changes and/or deviations from a normal range of heartbeats and/or respiration.
US08725309B2
An object of the invention is to provide a safety driving support apparatus capable of detecting a dangerous moving object with high accuracy at quick timing. A safety driving support apparatus 100 of the invention includes a traffic obstacle detection section 101 for detecting a traffic obstacle of the periphery of a vehicle, a speed change induced event detection section 106 for detecting an event of inducing a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section 101, a speed change detection section 102 for detecting a sudden change in behavior of a pedestrian from a traffic obstacle detected by the traffic obstacle detection section 101, and a dangerous pedestrian detection section 109 for deciding that the pedestrian is a dangerous pedestrian when the speed change detection section 102 detects a change in behavior of a pedestrian within a certain time from a point in time when a speed change induced event of a pedestrian detected by the speed change induced event detection section 106 occurs.
US08725307B2
A system and method for evaluating cooling performance of equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks and at least one cooling provider. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of measured inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the at least one cooling provider and a subset of the plurality of equipment racks, implementing a cooling model, the model including an ambient air temperature value, a plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, and a plurality of airflow values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, adjusting at least one of the ambient air temperature value and each of the plurality of airflow values in the cooling model, adjusting the cooling model to compensate for the adjusted at least one of the ambient air temperature value and each of the plurality of airflow values in the cooling model, substituting a first subset of the plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values in the cooling model with the plurality of measured inlet and exhaust air temperature values, and predicting a second subset of the plurality of inlet and exhaust air temperature values for the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider in the cooling model.
US08725304B2
A plant controller includes a feedback controller configured to calculate a control input provided to a plant so that a control output of the plant matches a target value. The feedback controller includes a controller transfer function that is a transfer function of the feedback controller. The controller transfer function is expressed by a product of an inverse transfer function of a transfer function of a control target model obtained by modeling the plant and a disturbance sensitivity correlation function defined using a sensitivity function. The sensitivity function indicates sensitivity of a disturbance to be applied to the plant with respect to the control output. The sensitivity function is defined by using a response characteristic parameter that indicates a response characteristic of the plant.
US08725302B2
A control system is for completion installation, intervention and testing activities at a subsea location. The control system has a first control circuit at a surface location; a subsea test tree located in a blowout preventer at the subsea location, the second control circuit located within a riser extending from the blowout preventer towards the surface location; and a plurality of sensors monitoring characteristics of the subsea location. The second control circuit communicates with the first control circuit and receives the characteristics of the subsea location. The second control circuit also controls electrically powered subsea valves based upon commands from the first control circuit and based upon the characteristics of the subsea location to complete a completion installation, intervention, and/or testing activity.
US08725297B2
A sheet paper storage and dispensing device stores and dispenses sheet paper, and includes a first reel drum onto which a tape is wound; a second reel drum on which sheet paper is stored; a motor which drives the first and second reel drums via a drive system; an electromagnetic clutch which switches between transmitting and interrupting drive force from the drive system; an electromagnetic brake which applies a brake to the drive system; a trigger sensor which detects supplying of the sheet paper; a tape speed detection section which detects a transporting speed at the intake/discharge port; a motor speed variation control unit which controls changes in a rotation speed; and a winding control unit which causes winding by controlling the electromagnetic clutch so as to transmit the driving force when supplying of the sheet paper to the intake/discharge port is detected by the trigger sensor.
US08725296B2
There is provided a gripping judgment apparatus including a plan unit that generates a target orbit for moving a gripping unit in a state in which an object as a gripping target is gripped by the gripping unit, an observation unit that measures movement of the gripping unit driven based on the target orbit, a gripping state judgment unit that judges whether or not an object as a gripping target is grippable based on a target value of the gripping unit derived from the target orbit and an actual measured value measured by the observation unit, and a gripping state change unit that changes a gripping state of an object gripped by the gripping unit based on a judgment result obtained by the gripping state judgment unit.
US08725294B2
A method for controlling behavior of an intelligent mechanical system having more than one degree of freedom. The method includes (a) providing a target to a selector unit that requires operation of actuators of the mechanical system; (b) generating by a selector unit more than one behavior commands adapted to reach the target; (c) simulating movements of the mechanical system for each behavior command by a computing unit of the mechanical system; (d) assessing fitness values for each simulated movements based on at least one objective; and (e) sending the behavior commands with a highest fitness value to the actuators of the mechanical system.
US08725286B2
A system for transporting inventory items includes an inventory holder capable of storing inventory items and a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit is capable of moving to a first point with the inventory holder at least one of coupled to and supported by the mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit is additionally capable of determining a location of the inventory holder and calculating a difference between the location of the inventory holder and the first point. The mobile drive unit is then capable of determining whether the difference is greater than a predetermined tolerance. In response to determining that the difference is greater than the predetermined tolerance, the mobile drive unit is also capable of moving to a second point based on the location of the inventory holder, docking with the inventory holder, and moving the mobile drive unit and the inventory holder to the first point.
US08725275B2
Electronic device communication systems and methods are operable to decrease power consumption in an electronic device during user defined power conservation periods. An exemplary embodiment identifies an occurrence of a start of a user defined power conservation period, maintains power to a first group of components in the electronic device, and shuts off a second group of components in the electronic device in response to the occurrence of the start of the user defined power conservation period.
US08725274B2
Devices and systems control energy usage in accordance with instructions from a head end system. A device may be instructed to cease energy consumption. Another device may allow users to override some instructions. Messages may be provided to users to request the cessation of energy consumption; the users may, but need not comply.
US08725271B2
Apparatus is provided for applying current to a nerve. A cathode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a cathodic longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a cathodic current to the nerve. A primary inhibiting anode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a primary anodal longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a primary anodal current to the nerve. A secondary inhibiting anode is adapted to be placed in a vicinity of a secondary anodal longitudinal site of the nerve and to apply a secondary anodal current to the nerve, the secondary anodal longitudinal site being closer to the primary anodal longitudinal site than to the cathodic longitudinal site.
US08725270B2
Methods and systems for neurostimulation and/or neurotelemetry of electrically-excitable biological tissue. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a radio frequency output to a diode implanted in biological tissue. The radio frequency output cause current to flow in the diode that is sufficient to provide neurostimulation. Additionally, a radio frequency receiver is configured to receive a second harmonic signal from the diode, which can be used to control the radio frequency output.
US08725268B2
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system includes a programming device that determines parameters for programming an implantable medical device based on patient-specific information including indications for use of the implantable medical device. By executing an indication-based programming algorithm, the programming device substantially automates the process between the diagnosis of a patient and the programming of an implantable medical device using parameters individually determined for that patient.
US08725264B2
Provided is a method for treating neuropathic pain, including: providing, to a patient suffering from said neuropathic pain, a visual illusion to correct a mismatch between motor commands and sensory feedback; and applying a cranial stimulation to said patient during at least part of the duration of said visual illusion. This is particularly applicable to the treating of neuropathic pain in patients suffering from spinal cord injuries.
US08725258B2
A cardiac rhythm management (CRM) system delivers anti-tachyarrhythmia therapies and uses patient-specific and/or tachyarrhythmia event-specific information to automatically set and adjust one or more arrhythmia detection durations. In one embodiment, the CRM system initializes and updates the one or more arrhythmia detection durations using patient-specific information such as medical history and recent medical trends. In another embodiment, the CRM dynamically adjusts the one or more arrhythmia detection durations using the patient's hemodynamic performance. One example of such an arrhythmia detection duration is a sustained rate duration (SRD) that starts when a tachyarrhythmia such as a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia is detected. An anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy is delivered only if the tachyarrhythmia sustains throughout the SRD.
US08725257B2
Systems and methods for pacing the heart using resynchronization pacing delays that achieve improvement of cardiac function are described. An early activation pacing interval is calculated based on an optimal AV delay and an atrial to early ventricular activation interval between an atrial event and early activation of a ventricular depolarization. The early activation pacing interval for the ventricle is calculated by subtracting the measured AVEA from the calculated optimal AV delay. The early activation pacing interval is initiated responsive to sensing early activation of the ventricle and pacing is delivered relative to expiration of the early activation pacing interval.
US08725253B2
Systems and methods related to the field of cardiac resuscitation, and in particular to devices for assisting rescuers in performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are described herein. In some aspects, a system and method can include obtaining values for depths of a plurality of the chest compressions and information about a physiological parameter of the person and providing periodic feedback to a user about chest compressions performed by the user based at least in part on the values for the depths of the plurality of the chest compressions and a target compression depth.
US08725251B2
A method for enhancing an immune response in a vertebrate subject is described. The method includes providing at least one energy stimulus configured to modulate one or more nervous system components of the vertebrate subject, and administering one or more immunogen to the vertebrate subject, wherein the at least one energy stimulus and the one or more immunogen are provided in a combination and in a temporal sequence sufficient to enhance an immune response in the vertebrate subject.
US08725244B2
A device determines values for one or more metrics that indicate the quality of a patient's sleep based on sensed physiological parameter values. Sleep efficiency, sleep latency, and time spent in deeper sleep states are example sleep quality metrics for which values may be determined. The sleep quality metric values may be used, for example, to evaluate the effectiveness of a therapy delivered to the patient by a medical device. In some embodiments, determined sleep quality metric values are automatically associated with the therapy parameter sets according to which the medical device delivered the therapy when the physiological parameter values were sensed, and used to evaluate the effectiveness of the various therapy parameter sets. The medical device may deliver the therapy to treat a non-respiratory neurological disorder, such as epilepsy, a movement disorder, or a psychological disorder. The therapy may be, for example, deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
US08725234B2
The present invention provides systems, devices, and methods employing fiber optic shape and position tracking. The systems, devices, and methods permit measurement of and continuous tracking of the shape and position of objects whose shape dynamically changes with time. Applications include tracking and monitoring of endoscopes for diagnostic and surgical procedures.
US08725230B2
The invention relates to a steering wheel for a vehicle can include a sensor assembly mounted in the steering wheel. The sensor assembly can include an electrode configured to measure a biological parameter of a driver of the vehicle. In invention further relates to a sensor assembly for a steering wheel. The sensor assembly can include an electrode configured to measure a biological parameter of a driver of the vehicle. The sensor assembly can be configured to be mounted in the steering wheel.
US08725224B2
A filter includes a dielectric substrate; an electrode layer continuously formed covering a first side of the dielectric substrate; a disk-shaped electrode pattern provided on a second side of the dielectric substrate, the disk-shaped electrode pattern and the electrode layer holding the dielectric substrate therebetween; a ground slot having an opening that is formed asymmetrically with respect to the center of a circular area included in the electrode layer and exposes the dielectric substrate, the circular area and the disk-shaped electrode pattern holding the dielectric substrate therebetween.
US08725221B2
A portable terminal is provided and the portable terminal includes a terminal body, a projector operatively connected to the terminal body, and a door movably mounted to the terminal body, the door being moveable between a first position covering the projector and a second position exposing the projector.
US08725216B2
Embodiments are provided for automatically setting an alert mode on a wireless device. Scheduling data is received which defines a predetermined period utilized to set the alert mode. The scheduling data may be received either by direct input in the wireless device or alternatively from an external edge device, such as a network server, in a communications network. In response to receiving the scheduling data, an alert mode on the wireless device is automatically set for the predetermined period. The alert mode may include a silent alert mode on the wireless device. The wireless device may include a sensor for receiving data indicative of a current external state. The sensor data may include location data, temperature data, and ambient noise data. The received sensor data may be utilized to automatically trigger the setting of an alert mode in the wireless device.
US08725210B2
An attachable assembly for smart phone that has at least one contact site disposed thereon is disclosed. The attachable assembly comprises a mount unit and an extension device. The mount unit is fixed at one edge of the smart phone, and has at least one locking slot disposed thereon; the extension device electrically contacts the contact site and has at least one locking member selectively engaged to the locking slot. Wherein, the extension device has a rotative axis so that the extension device is rotated and fitted with the mount unit.
US08725208B2
A serial transmission interface between an image sensor and a baseband circuit includes a transmission end and a reception end. The transmission end is set in the image sensor, and is utilized for transmitting image data sensed by the image sensor. The reception end is set in the baseband circuit, and is utilized for receiving the image data transmitted from the transmission end. The transmission end is one of a master control end and a slave control end, and the reception end is correspondingly the other.
US08725200B2
A communication operating method and a dual standby mobile terminal including a first communication module and a second communication module are provided. The first communication module supports forming a first communication channel with a first wireless communication network. A second communication module supports forming a second communication channel with a second wireless communication network. When the first communication module transitions from an abnormal service state to a normal service state, the first communication module performs a base station search based on base station channel information of the second communication module and camps on a found base station.
US08725198B2
Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies that can be substantially flush with the external surfaces of the housings of the devices, despite variations in their manufacture. The ejectable component assemblies may include connectors coupled to circuit boards of the devices, and trays that can be loaded with removable modules, inserted through openings in the housings of the devices, and into the connectors for functionally aligning the removable modules with the circuit boards. The ejectable component assemblies may also include ejectors coupled to the housings of the devices for ejecting the trays from the connectors and, thus, from the devices themselves.
US08725197B2
An apparatus and method of an electronic device for controlling the electronic device are disclosed herewith. The method includes determining that the electronic device is engaged in a voice call. The method further includes detecting at least one object that covers at least a predetermined portion of a mouthpiece area of the electronic device while the electronic device is engaged in the voice call. Furthermore, the method activates an electronic mute feature of the electronic device in response to detecting the at least one object.
US08725194B2
In a radio network in which multiple base stations can communicate with multiple user terminals in a coordinated way, user terminals may be grouped into groups, each group representing a coordination scheme to be used for user terminals in the group. The groups may be chosen, for example, according to path loss or QoS requirements Preferably there are three groups requiring no coordination, multiuser coherent coordination and single user coherent coordination respectively. Grouping may be done dynamically according to one or more of the following factors: —the terminal's signalling overhead—the affordable processing complexity—the traffic load—the radio conditions. The grouping unit may be placed in one or more base stations or in any other suitable unit in the network.
US08725181B2
A method and apparatus for providing a cellular zone is disclosed. A communication link connects a cellular base station and a wireless access point. A typical communication link can be a wire-based communication network, such as the Internet, using IP telephony protocol. The wireless access point communicates with a cell phone over a cellular frequency and thereby establishes the cellular zone. Where the area of the cellular zone and the coverage area of the cellular base station overlap, continuous arbitration is performed to select a communications channel. The strength of a first signal received from the cellular base station is compared to the strength of a second signal received from the wireless access point. Selection criteria include signal strength and a time-oriented criteria to maintain continuity of communication channel.
US08725174B2
A computer-implemented method for providing an alert regarding mobile device location is provided. The method includes obtaining location data corresponding to locations of a mobile device over a period of time. A location pattern is determined based on the location data. The current location of the mobile device is detected at a time based on the determined pattern, and an alert is provided regarding the current location of the mobile device. A system for providing alerts regarding mobile device location is also provided.
US08725172B2
A portable subscriber access unit includes a wireless transceiver and a processor. The processor controls the transceiver, determines a mobility state of the access unit, and determines a data packet content type. The transceiver transmits the mobility state, receives service rights based on the mobility state, and transmits the data packet on a condition that the content type is allowed by the service rights.
US08725171B2
A method of providing mode changes to wireless devices is provided. The method may include receiving a request from a wireless device to connect with a network device and sending a signal to the wireless device to enter a location defined mode.
US08725164B2
A method and an apparatus for reminding a calendar schedule and a recording medium are provided. First, a schedule and a location of an event are set in a calendar, and first positioning information of the location is obtained. Then, second positioning information of a current location of a mobile device is obtained. Next, the current location is determining whether to be within a signal range of a signal source. Once the current location is within the signal range, the time for moving from the location with the second positioning information to the location with the first positioning information is calculated. Finally, a reminding time is set according to the transferring time, and a reminding action is taken at the reminding time. Thereby, the reminding time of the event can be dynamically adjusted to avoid delay caused when the mobile device is too far from the event location.
US08725160B2
The network resources allocated to Machine Type Communication (MTD) devices (also referred to as Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Devices) can be reduced through the introduction of a new device state in a network. The network device state, referred to as a sleep state, allows the network to offload context information about the device to another network element so that the resources allocated to the sleeping device can be released. When the device needs to be contacted by a network element, the stored context information can be retrieved to facilitate paging the otherwise offline device.
US08725154B2
A handover properties estimation system includes a moving-route extraction unit which extracts moving routes which pass through a handover area or a neighboring area by using map information of the handover area and the neighboring area. The handover area is an area in which a handover process occurs between cells in a mobile communication system. The system further includes a moving-route handover properties calculation unit for calculating handover properties of the moving routes extracted by the moving-route extraction unit, by using radio-wave environment information of the moving routes.
US08725153B2
Devices and methods for adjusting resource management procedures in heterogeneous communication networks are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for adjusting radio resource management procedures in a mobile device communicating with a node operating in a cell in a heterogeneous communication network includes transmitting a first message to the node, the first message including a request for cell information, receiving a second message transmitted from the node, the second message including the requested cell information, measuring signal reception information, processing the received cell information and measured signal reception information to determine an adjustment to a radio resource management procedure, and adjusting the radio resource management procedure based on the determined adjustment. The first and second messages may be radio resource control (RRC) messages, such as RRC connection request and response messages.
US08725151B2
A method and an apparatus for setting up an X2 interface setup are provided. The method includes transmitting, by a first Base Station (BS), an X2 interface setup request to a second BS, wherein the X2 interface setup request comprises an access mode of a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) supported by a cell in the first BS, and transmitting, by the second BS, an X2 interface response message to the first BS, wherein the X2 interface response message comprises the access mode of the CSG supported by the cell in the second BS.
US08725149B2
A handover method according to the present invention includes the steps of: forwarding, at a handover-source radio base station (eNB), user data (A) for a mobile station (UE) to a handover-target radio base station (eNB) when it is determined that a handover processing is to be performed, the user data (A) being stored in the handover-source radio base station (eNB); activating, at the handover-target radio base station, a predetermined timer when transmitting a path switch request to a path control apparatus, and storing second user data for the mobile station received from the path control apparatus until the predetermined timer expires; and forwarding, at the handover-target radio base station, the stored second user data to the mobile station after the predetermined timer expires.
US08725145B2
A particular method includes sending a request from a mobile device associated with a plurality of subscriptions to a wireless communication network. The request indicates a time period requested by the mobile device as a non-communication time period of the wireless communication network with respect to the mobile device.
US08725144B2
An apparatus and method is provided for making use of black-list network information to make scanning more efficient in multi-mode mobile devices. When performing a scan for a network, if a network that is blacklisted is found, scanning is discontinued for any network that has the same radio access technology as the network that was found. Thus, excessive scanning that can be costly for the mobile device in terms of battery life and responsiveness to provide service, is avoided.
US08725138B2
A roaming information code which can be wirelessly or otherwise transmitted as a SSID or other data field(s) of a wireless technology or standard. Further, a RIC-VAP scheme for provider-specific security information. Still further, wirelessly or otherwise transmitted compact price and AP workload information codes.
US08725129B2
The present invention pertains to improved communication quality in cellular communication networks (10) and the like. A customer has the option to pay different amounts for different tiers of service relating to voice quality and bandwidth access (S102). Higher service tiers may guarantee that a specific vocoder or bit rate is used. Different tiers may be associated with customers' records (208) for billing purposes. The network (200) may also afford high end cellular phones higher voice quality by comparing a given high end phone to a look up table (FIG. 6) which indicates what level of service is associated with the given phone. A calling mobile station (312) or a receiving mobile station (302) may case the other mobile station to change to a more robust vocoder (410) or bit rate (S508) to ensure a higher quality phone call. Furthermore, the user may also opt to change the quality level before or during a call.
US08725127B2
A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages stored in the database is also associated with one or more demographic codes, and users of wireless communications device select from one more demographic codes to describe their advertisement preferences. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages.
US08725126B2
A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.
US08725117B2
Exemplary embodiments provide for optimizing operation of a radio program operated by a host process. Aspects include analyzing the contextual information received from the plurality of client devices participating in the radio program and enabling at least one feature on the host process based at least in part on the contextual information.
US08725107B2
The invention relates to a method for sending an emergency message to mobile terminals located in an emergency area, in which at least location information and a subscriber identification code is stored in a database for a plurality of mobile terminals. Then the emergency area is determined. Next, a set of destination terminals is selected out of the database having location information that corresponds to the emergency area. To each of the destination terminals the emergency message is sent by means of an SMS message or a voice message using said subscriber identification code. By using the method according to the invention, all the terminals present in the emergency area can be reached, independent of whether they are subscribed to an SMS alerting service, and not depending on a certain channel to receive the message.
US08725104B2
One or more circuits may comprise at least one first-type analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and at least one second-type ADC. The circuit(s) may be operable to receive a plurality of signals, each of which may comprise a plurality of channels. The circuit(s) may be operable to digitize a selected one or more of the channels. Which, if any, of the selected channels are digitized via the at least one first-type ADC and which, if any, of the selected channels are digitized via the at least one second-type ADC, may be based on which of the plurality of channels are the selected channels and/or based on power consumption of the circuit(s). A bandwidth of each first-type ADC may be on the order of the bandwidth of one of the received signals. A bandwidth of each second-type ADC may be on the order of the bandwidth of one of the plurality of channels.
US08725100B2
Apparatus for reducing FM click noise on a demodulated FM signal, the apparatus comprising, filter means configured to produce a click detection signal according to the demodulated FM signal, click detection means configured to receive the click detection signal and produce a click occurrence signal, and click correction means configured to correct FM clicks on the demodulated FM signal according to the click occurrence signal.
US08725099B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a mixer circuit to receive and generate a mixed signal from a radio frequency (RF) signal and a master clock signal, a switch stage coupled to an output of the mixer circuit to rotatingly switch the mixed signal to multiple gain stages coupled to the switch stage, and a combiner to combine an output of the gain stages.
US08725098B2
A radio-frequency (RF) front-end circuit includes a tunable filter, a negative transconductance circuit coupled with the tunable filter to produce a tuning oscillation signal, and a counter arranged to determine a frequency of the tuning oscillation signal. The RF front-end circuit also includes a control circuit arranged to shift the frequency of the tuning oscillation signal by adjusting the tunable filter until the frequency of the tuning oscillation signal falls within an acceptable frequency range corresponding to a desired channel frequency band.
US08725090B2
System and method for calculating a transmitter beamforming vector related to a channel vector h under per-antenna power constraints combined with total power constraint, under per-antenna power constraints combined with overall line of site (LOS) effective isotropic radiated power (EIRP) and under all three constraints. Calculating a transmitter beamforming vector may be done in the transmitter, in the receiver and feedback to the transmitter or in both. The method may be adapted to perform with a multi-antenna receiver and with multi-carrier systems.
US08725083B2
Transmit power (e.g., maximum transmit power) may be defined based on the maximum received signal strength allowed by a receiver and a total received signal strength from transmitting nodes at the receiver. Transmit power may be defined for an access node (e.g., a femto node) such that a corresponding outage created in a cell (e.g., a macro cell) is limited while still providing an acceptable level of coverage for access terminals associated with the access node. An access node may autonomously adjust its transmit power based on channel measurement and a defined coverage hole to mitigate interference and perform a self-calibration process.
US08725077B2
Providing scheduling and adjusting of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) streams by a first network component based on channel quality for a user equipment or assistance data received by another network component is disclosed. Receiving multiple MIMO OFDM streams by a user equipment (UE) from at least two network components is also provided.
US08725075B2
A system and method for communicating an electrical signal from a first region to a second region via an electrically conductive wall between the first and second regions. The method comprises using a transmitter to generate the signal in the first region, using the wall or a segment of the wall as part of a transmission path for the signal between the first region and the second region, wherein the transmitter comprises an output impedance and means for matching the output impedance and an impedance of the wall determined by an electrical property of the wall. The system comprises a first region separated from a second region by means of an electrically conductive wall, wherein the first region comprises a transmitter for generating an electronic signal in the first region, which transmitter has an output impedance that matches an impedance of the wall.
US08725068B2
The performance of a repeater path may be predicted by identifying the parameters of a transmitting earth, a receiving earth station, and the component performance parameters of at least one of the gain, loss and noise figure of at least one of repeater components in the repeater path. The component performance parameters, the transmitting and receiving earth station parameters, and the predicted repeater performance may be communicated and/or displayed via a graphical user interface.
US08725066B2
An apparatus and method for allocating a resource to a Mobile Station (MS) connected to a Relay Station (RS) in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. In the broadband wires communication system, a Base Station (BS) includes a transmitter for transmitting a pilot signal transmission request message to an MS, and a scheduler for frequency-selectively allocating a resource to the MS by using channel information upon receiving from an RS the channel information estimated using the pilot signal.
US08725056B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an inner guide, an outer guide opposing the inner guide. The inner guide and the outer guide define a curved transporting path where the recording sheet is transported. The image forming apparatus further includes a first feeder positioned upstream of the curved transporting path and a second feeder positioned downstream of the curved transporting path. The outer guide includes a rigid guide and a deformable resilient guide superimposed on the rigid guide. The rigid guide includes a first outer guide portion extending to a first downstream position and a second outer guide portion extending to a second downstream position positioned downstream of the first downstream position. A first resilient guide portion of the resilient guide, which corresponds to the first outer guide portion, extends to a third downstream position positioned downstream of the first downstream position and does not extend beyond the second downstream position.
US08725052B2
Wax management systems are provided. In one aspect a wax management system has print positioning system having an input to receive a fused toner print having a toner image with a viewing surface that has first portions with wax globules and second portions without wax globules and a print positioning apparatus that arranges the print for wiping by a wiping system having a wiping surface that wipes the viewing surface to move at least some of the wax from the wax globules onto the second portion. A wax management device controller determines when fused toner print is at a temperature where the toner image is below a glass transition temperature of the toner and the wax is below a melting temperature for the wax and to position the print for wiping. The controller causes the wiping system to wipe the print after the controller makes the determination.
US08725049B2
A fixing device for thermally fixing a developing agent image to a sheet includes: a tubular flexible fusing member; a heater; a nip member; and a backup member. The tubular flexible fusing member has an inner peripheral surface defining an internal space. The heater is disposed in the internal space and radiates radiant heat. The nip member is disposed in the internal space and receives the radiant heat from the heater. The inner peripheral surface is in sliding contact with the nip member. The backup member provides a nip region in cooperation with the fusing member upon nipping the fusing member between the backup member and the nip member. The nip member has a surface confronting the heater. The surface includes a first heat absorption region having a first heat absorption ratio of a predetermined value and a second heat absorption region having a second heat absorption ratio higher than the first heat absorption ratio. The second heat absorption region is positioned at a region of the surface overlapping with the nip region.
US08725045B2
A tubular article includes a layer containing a polyimide resin, a fluorinated polyimide resin and fluorine resin particles as an outermost layer.
US08725030B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form a developer image in a developer agent on a photosensitive member, an intermediate transfer member arranged in a position to face the photosensitive member, a primary transfer member to transfer the developer image from the photosensitive member to the intermediate transfer member, a secondary transfer member to transfer the developer image from the intermediate transfer member to the recording medium, a cleaning member to remove materials adhered onto the intermediate transfer member, a container to store the materials removed from the intermediate transfer member, an attachment section, to which the container is detachably attached, and a conveyer to convey the recording medium to pass through a position between the intermediate transfer member and the cleaning member.
US08725027B2
An image forming device is provided, which includes an interlocking mechanism that causes a cleaning unit to clean with a cleaning surface thereof a detection surface of a detection sensor for reading each detection pattern formed on an outer surface of a sheet-feeding endless belt, in conjunction with movement of a drawer, which holds a plurality of process cartridges, between an attachment position where a photoconductive drum included in each process cartridge faces an up-facing side of the outer surface of the endless belt and a replacement position where at least one of the process cartridges is outside a main body housing of the image forming device.
US08725022B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a storage unit which stores job data of a reserved job, an image forming unit which executes an image forming based on the job data of the reserved job, a paper feeding unit which stores a paper to be supplied to the image forming unit, a display unit, a control unit which determines whether a type of a paper to be used in the reserved job is different from a type of a paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit or not, and allows the display unit to display a job scheduling screen for displaying reservation information indicating a time required for an execution of the reserved job by including a predetermined notification when the control unit determines that the type of the paper to be used in the reserved job is different from the type of the paper which is stored in the paper feeding unit.
US08725017B2
A printer is provided including a substrate transport apparatus; a pick mechanism; a fuser assembly having a heat transfer member including a belt and a heater, a backup member for engaging the belt so as to define a fusing nip with the belt, and a temperature sensor associated with the backup member for sensing the temperature of the backup member; and a controller coupled to the substrate transport apparatus, the pick mechanism, the heater and the temperature sensor. The controller causes the pick mechanism to remove substrates from the storage tray at a first pick rate when the backup member is at a temperature within a first backup member index temperature range and at different pick rate less than the first pick rate when the backup member is at a temperature greater than the first backup member index temperature range.
US08725013B2
An image forming apparatus capable of forming an image with a color toner and a transparent toner does not always form an image using the transparent toner. Under the circumstance where the image in which the transparent toner is more easily deteriorated than the color toner is output, if the deteriorated transparent toner is frequently discharged, the productivity may be lowered. Thus, when an amount of the transparent toner applied to the recording material that is acquired by an acquisition device is less than a predetermined amount, the transparent toner in the amount more than that acquired by the acquisition device is applied to the recording material.
US08725009B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a cleaning device that collects a waste toner attached to the surface of the image carrier using a cleaning member, a waste container that is removable from an image forming apparatus body, a temporary storage unit that is provided in the image forming apparatus body to temporarily store a waste including the waste toner collected in the cleaning device before the waste is transported to the waste container, and a waste transport unit that transports the waste to the temporary storage unit, wherein a discharge speed of the waste from the temporary storage unit by the waste discharge unit is lower than a transport speed of the waste to the temporary storage unit by the waste transport unit.
US08725008B2
Methods and systems receive printing symptoms from a user into a graphic user interface and receive system information from a printing device exhibiting the printing symptoms. The method analyzes the printing symptoms using a diagnostic inference system operating on a computerized device operatively connected to the graphic user interface to produce candidate component defects. The method outputs diagnostic recommendations containing the candidate component defects to the user. The diagnostic recommendations include at least one representative image of a printing defect corresponding to each candidate component defect, and probabilities of correctness of the candidate component defects displayed alongside the representative image.
US08725005B2
A photodetector receiver circuit for an optical communication system includes an optical photodetector which receives optical signals and converts them into an electrical current. In one illustrative embodiment, a dynamic impedance module which switches the receiver circuit between a high impedance state and a low impedance state and a buffer stage which receives the electrical current and converts the electrical current into a voltage signal compatible with a digital circuit. A method for receiving an optical signal includes, receiving the optical signal and converting it into an electrical pulse train, switching a dynamic impedance module between a high impedance state and a low impedance state, transforming the electrical pulse train into an output voltage signal using a buffer stage, and receiving the output voltage signal by a digital circuit.
US08724999B2
An optical communication system includes a polarization multiplexed orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing POLMUX-OFDM transmitter for generating a POLMUX-OFDM double sideband signal, an optical processing path for processing the double sideband signal from the transmitter; an analog-to-digital convert ADC-OFDM receiver coupled to the optical processing path for receiving the double sideband signal processed by the optical path; and a block-diagonal multiple-input multiple-output MIMO equalizer responsive to the receiver for enabling correct operation for a completely random incoming signal polarization state without adaptive polarization control at said receiver, which enables complexity.
US08724993B2
In multicast transfer in a passive optical network (PON) system, an optical line terminal (OLT) is provided, which dynamically changes the longest response time included in a General Query message or a Specific Query message to control the timing at which a given terminal device transmits a report message. This reduces the possibility that the OLT has failed in getting some report messages from terminal devices due to lack of processing capability, and reduces the waste of the band due to useless transmission of multicast packets, which is caused by a delay in reporting that the given terminal device has left a multicast group, by taking into consideration both the message processing capability of the OLT and the number of optical network units (ONUs) each of which has terminal devices being subordinate thereto and belonging to the same multicast group.
US08724992B2
A ring network system includes a plurality of node apparatuses that are sequentially connected through a transmission medium that is formed in a ring form. In the ring network system, the remaining node apparatuses, except for a first node apparatus of the plurality of node apparatuses pass an optical signal that is transmitted from the first node apparatus, and a second node apparatus corresponding to a destination of the optical signal among the remaining node apparatuses, extracts the optical signal while transferring the first optical signal to a next node apparatus of the second node apparatus.
US08724985B2
The present invention discloses a Wavelength Division Multiplexing Filter which can satisfy coexistence requirements of different PON systems and an optical line detecting system. The Wavelength Division Multiplexing Filter comprises a plurality of filters that are configured: in a downlink direction, to receive a first optical pulse signal output by a first PON system, a second optical pulse signal output by a second PON system or gained by coupling an output signal of the second PON system and a video signal, and a third optical pulse signal sent from an Optical Time Domain Reflectometer, and to couple the first optical pulse signal, the second optical pulse signal and the third optical pulse signal into an Optical Division Network; and in an uplink direction, to split an uplink optical pulse signal according to wavelength bands, to transmit an optical pulse signal in a first uplink wavelength range to the first PON system, to transmit an optical pulse signal in a second uplink wavelength range to the second PON system, and to transmit an optical signal in a third uplink wavelength range to the Optical Time Domain Reflectometer.
US08724983B2
A flash structure for the camera function of a handheld electronic device having at least a camera module as well as an image sensor and a camera lens contained in the camera module, comprising an outer cover, an annular reflector, at least a light diffuser, and one or a plurality of fixed light-emitting elements which are light emitting diodes or electronic flashes to provide continuous or intermittent supplemental light source. The center of the annular reflector passes through the camera lens and is formed on the motherboard of the handheld electronic device, and is arranged with a through-slot. The one or the plurality of light-emitting elements are embedded in the through-slot of the annular reflector, arranged around the camera lens, and electrically connected to the motherboard. The light diffuser is disposed outside the annular reflector, outside the light-emitting element and positioned around the camera lens.
US08724976B2
Embodiments of the invention generally contemplate an apparatus and method for monitoring and controlling the temperature of a substrate during processing. One embodiment of the apparatus and method takes advantage of an infrared camera to obtain the temperature profile of multiple regions or the entire surface of the substrate and a system controller to calculate and coordinate in real time an optimized strategy for reducing any possible temperature non-uniformity found on the substrate during processing.
US08724974B2
A vaporizer, capable of stabilizing the behavior of pressure inside the vaporizer, includes a chamber having an inlet and an outlet, a heating device that heats the inside of the chamber, a partition wall structure 13 that is provided inside the vaporizer and partitions the liquid material inside the chamber into a plurality of sections, and liquid distribution portions 20 that are provided at the lower portion of the partition wall structure 13 and that allow liquid distribution among the sections partitioned by the partition wall structure 13, and the partition wall structure includes a grid-like, honeycomb-shaped, mesh-like, or pipe-shaped partition wall.
US08724970B2
A method of searching for objects of interest within captured video comprising capturing video of a plurality of scenes, storing the video in a plurality of storage elements, and receiving a request to retrieve contiguous video of an object of interest that has moved through at least two scenes of the plurality of scenes. In response to the request, searching within a first storage element of the plurality of storage elements to identify a first portion of the video that contains the object of interest within a first scene of the plurality of scenes, processing the first portion of the video to determine a direction of motion of the object of interest, selecting a second storage element of the plurality of storage elements within which to search for the object of interest based on the direction of motion, searching within the second storage element to identify a second portion of the video that contains the object of interest within a second scene of the plurality of scenes, and linking the first portion of the video with the second portion of the video to generate the contiguous video of the object of interest.
US08724964B2
A method and system for managing multiple user locks and deletion requests on a digital video recorder (DVR) is disclosed. Files associated with the DVR can be protected from deletion by allowing users to lock a recorded file utilizing a number of locking strategies. The recorded file can also be locked by multiple users and the recording can be deleted when the users specifically remove the lock. A simpler interface for each user can be provided to prevent other users from deleting recorded files, which have not yet been viewed. Such an approach allows for an administrative override to prevent users from locking recordings and never unlocking in order to prevent the DVR exhausting disk space.
US08724958B2
An object of a reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is to solve a problem in that, when video data and music data of BGM are played simultaneously as they are, one of them is finished while the other is still playing, and accordingly, this does not provide an effect of sufficiently satisfying the user even though the BGM is inserted. The reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a recording medium capable of storing one or a plurality of video data, a network communication section for receiving, from a music server via a network, music-reproduction data having a reproduction time of almost the same length as a reproduction time of the video data stored in the recording medium, and a reproduction control section for simultaneously reproducing the music-reproduction data received by the network communication section and the video data stored in the recording medium.
US08724955B2
The present ejection mechanism is for a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) unit. The ejection mechanism comprises a latch, and an actuator. The latch is located on a bottom surface of a housing of the SFP unit, and maintains the SFP unit within a chassis when in an engaged position. The actuator comprises an actuating end, a pivot and a distal end. The actuating end has a part emerging from the SFP unit. Upon upward movement of the actuating end, the pivot leads a downward movement of the distal end and application of a pressure on a bottom of the SPF unit thereby disengages the SPF unit from the chassis.
US08724951B2
According to one example of the invention an optical fiber comprises: (i) a core comprising Al doped silica but essentially no Er or Yb, and having a first index of refraction n1; (ii) at least one F doped silica based cladding surrounding the core and having a second index of refraction n2, such that n1>n2, wherein the cladding comprises essentially of SiO2 and 0.2-5 wt % F; (iii) a hermetic carbon based coating surrounding said cladding, said hermetic coating being 200 to 1000 Angstroms thick; and (iv) a second coating surrounding said hermetic coating, said second coating being 5 μm to 80 μm thick.
US08724947B2
Cables have armor including a polymer, the armor having an armor profile that resembles conventional metal armored cable. The armor provides additional crush and impact resistance for the optical fibers and/or fiber optic assembly therein. The armored cables recover substantially from deformation caused by crush loads. Additionally, the armored fiber optic assemblies can have any suitable flame and/or smoke rating for meeting the requirements of the intended space.
US08724936B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to high-bandwidth, low-latency optical fabrics for broadcasting between nodes. In one embodiment, an optical fabric includes an optical communication path optically coupled to a broadcasting node and optically coupled to one or more broadcast receiving nodes. The optical fabric also includes a first optical element optically coupled to the optical communication path and configured to broadcast an optical signal generated by the broadcasting nodes onto the optical communication path, and one or more optical elements optically coupled to the optical communication path and configured to divert a portion the broadcast optical signal onto each of the one or more receiving nodes.
US08724933B2
An optical device includes: a substrate; an optical branching filter on the substrate and dividing input light into first and second input lights; first and second Mach-Zehnder optical modulators on the substrate and respectively modulating the first and second input lights; and an optical coupler on the substrate and combining light modulated by the first Mach-Zehnder optical modulator and light modulated by the second Mach-Zehnder optical modulator. Each of the first and second Mach-Zehnder optical modulator includes two optical waveguides, a phase modulation electrode applying a modulation voltage across the optical waveguides to change phases of light in the optical waveguides, and a feed line and a terminal line respectively connected to opposite ends of the phase modulation electrode to supply the modulation voltage to the phase modulation electrode. The feed lines and the terminal lines respectively extend to peripheral portions of the substrate.
US08724932B2
This disclosure is directed to fiber-optic modulators that can be integrated in optical fibers to encode data in optical signals. In one aspect, a fiber-optic modulator includes a weak planar, sub-wavelength grating disposed between an end of a first optical fiber and an end of a second optical fiber. A first electrode is disposed on an edge of the grating and connected to an electronic signal source, and a second electrode is disposed on the edge of the grating opposite the first electrode and connected to the electronic signal source. The grating includes a grating pattern to reflect a channel input to the first optical fiber when a low or no current portion of an electronic signal to be generated by the electronic signal source is applied to the grating and to transmit the channel when a high current portion of the electronic signal is applied to the grating.
US08724924B2
Systems and methods for matching a received image with a template image are disclosed herein. Such systems and methods can advantageously enable an image captured by a mobile device (such as a smartphone or digital camera) to be correctly identified by the processing application. In some embodiments, the received image is first resized in one or both dimensions in order to match or approximately match the dimensions of a given template. The received image and template image can then be superimposed. Next, an optimal translative transformation value can be calculated in order to generate a confidence level for the current possible match. After confidence levels for each template are generated and recorded, the template with the highest confidence level can be selected as the best match for the received image.
US08724923B2
An image processing apparatus may include a distortion correcting unit performing distortion correction processing on input image data to generate output image data. The distortion correcting unit may include a distortion correction coordinate transforming unit that obtains coordinates indicating a position of the input image data corresponding to a position of the output image data, a range calculating unit that calculates a range of the input image data to be used in the distortion correction processing based on the coordinates of the input image data obtained by the distortion correction coordinate transforming unit, a correction information storage unit, an input image data storage unit, and an interpolation calculating unit that checks an amount of the input image data stored in the input image data storage unit based on the information regarding the range of the input image data.
US08724922B2
An image correcting device includes an image input section, an image storage section, a correction table storage section, a geometry correcting section for geometrically correcting an input image stored in the image storage section, based on a correction table, and an image output section for output of the input image corrected by the geometry correcting section, wherein the correction table is created by calculating longitudes and latitudes that correspond to respective pixel positions on an output image that becomes the corrected image; calculating corrected latitudes through correction of the latitudes, based on the longitudes and the latitudes; calculating light directions in a subject space, the light directions corresponding to the longitudes and the corrected latitudes; and calculating positions on the input image as resampling positions, the positions corresponding to the respective light directions; and associating the resampling positions with the pixel positions on the output image.
US08724916B2
In certain embodiments, to eliminate DC leakage into surrounding AC values, scaling stage within a photo overlap transform operator is modified such that the off-diagonal elements of the associated scaling matrix have the values of 0. In certain embodiments, the on-diagonal scaling matrix are given the values (0.5, 2). In some embodiments, the scaling is performed using a combination of reversible modulo arithmetic and lifting steps. In yet other embodiments, amount of DC leakage is estimated at the encoder, and preprocessing occurs to mitigate amount of leakage, with the bitstream signaling that preprocessing has occurred. A decoder may then read the signal and use the information to mitigate DC leakage.
US08724915B2
Provided is an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. In the image encoding method, a portion of a texture region included in a current picture is selected as a sample texture for synthesizing the texture region and only the sample texture is encoded in place of the texture region, thereby improving the compression efficiency of encoding with respect to the texture region and thus improving the compression efficiency of encoding with respect to the entire image.
US08724910B1
Methods and systems for selecting a representative image of an entity are disclosed. The representative image can be, but is not limited to, that of a person, a corporate logo, other symbol associated with a person or corporation. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for selecting a representative image of an entity is disclosed. The method includes: accessing a collection of images of the entity; clustering, based on similarity of one or more similarity features, images from the collection to form a plurality of similarity clusters; and selecting the representative image from one of said similarity clusters. Further, based on cluster size of said similarity clusters popular clusters can be determined, and the selection of the representative image can be from the popular clusters. In addition, the method can further include assigning a headshot score based upon a portion of the respective image covered by the entity to respective images in said popular clusters, and further selecting the representative image based upon the headshot score. Corresponding system and computer program product embodiments are also disclosed.
US08724907B1
A document template for classifying documents is created for each document class. The document template includes a set of keywords and the spatial relations of the keywords. A document to be classified is received. The spatial relations of the template keywords of a template are compared with the spatial relations of corresponding words in the document. If the spatial relations are the same, the document may be classified in the document class of the template.
US08724905B2
A method for determining with a physical image processing device a visual balance of an image includes assigning a visual weight point to each of a plurality of visual elements within the image with the image processing device, each visual weight point having a weight value based on visual properties associated with the visual element, and determining the visual balance of the image with the image processing device by measuring a vector value at a center of the composition, the vector value being based on a distance of each visual weight point from the center and the weight value associated with each visual weight point.
US08724902B2
A method for processing image data comprises generating face data representing a set of detected faces from image data representing a set of images forming a library of images, using the face data to determine a sub-set of the images from the library in which at least the same person appears, and generating at least one clothing signature for the person representing clothes worn by the person in at least one of the images in the sub-set, and using the or each clothing signature, identifying further images of the person in the library.
US08724900B2
A method and system for processing digital image data taken from a three-dimensional topographic area including terrain and a right of way including a first and a second object to establish a clearance surface to define clearance violations within a boundary area. Waypoints are located to define a centerline and the boundary area to be analyzed. Vegetation coordinate points in the scene are determined from the digital image data. Ground coordinate points are determined from the digital image data. A clearance surface segment is constructed within the boundary area between the first and second object. The clearance surface is determined from the location of the first and second object and clearance criteria. The clearance surface is used to define a violation region.
US08724899B2
A method for processing an image divided into blocks of pixels is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: detecting, for each block, a largest sub-block whose pixels have an equal luminance value; identifying, for each block, if the detected largest sub-block is or is not a natural texture; determining, for each block, a block blockiness level on the basis of the number of pixels within the detected largest sub-block and on the basis of the identification step; and processing the image on the basis of the block blockiness levels.
US08724898B2
A signal processor which performs gradation conversion processing using a histogram of an image signal is provided with a feature calculating unit which calculates a feature of the image signal; an interval setting control unit which sets intervals of a pixel value in the histogram when a histogram of the image signal is obtained, according to the calculated feature, so as to obtain the histogram of the local region of the image signal; a gradation-conversion-characteristic calculating unit which calculates a gradation conversion characteristic, using the histogram obtained by using the intervals set at the interval setting control unit; and a gradation converting unit which performs gradation conversion to the image signal using the gradation conversion characteristic.
US08724889B2
A method and apparatus for CT image reconstruction may include selecting, by a unit, projection data of the same height on a curve having a curvature approximate to that of the scanning circular orbit, implementing, by a unit, a weighting processing on the selected projection data, filtering, by a unit, the weighting processed projection data along a horizontal direction, implementing, by a unit, three-dimensional back projection on the filtered projection data along the direction of ray. The method and apparatus can effectively eliminate cone beam artifact under a large cone angle.
US08724887B2
A method of depth imaging includes acquiring a depth image from a depth camera, identifying an environmental factor invalidating depth information in one or more portions of the depth image, and outputting an environmental modification to mitigate the environmental factor.
US08724881B2
A method and system for multi-part left atrium (LA) segmentation in a C-arm CT volume is disclosed. Multiple LA part models, including an LA chamber body mesh, an appendage mesh, a left inferior pulmonary vein (PV) mesh, a left superior PV mesh, a right inferior PV mesh, and a right superior PV mesh, are segmented in a 3D volume. A volume mask is generated from the LA chamber mesh, the appendage mesh, and the PV meshes. Erosion is performed in the LA chamber body and a plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask. The plurality of ostia regions in the volume mask are refined using region growing, and a smooth mesh is fit to each ostia region. A consolidated LA mesh is generated from the volume mask and the parts of the LA mesh are relabeled in the ostia region based on part boundaries detected using an optimization approach.
US08724873B2
There are disclosed embodiments for an ultrasound system for performing segmentation of vessels. The ultrasound system comprises: an ultrasound data acquisition unit configured to transmit an ultrasound signal to a target object including vessels, receive an ultrasound echo signal reflected from the target object and form ultrasound data corresponding to the target object; a volume data forming unit configured to form volume data based on the ultrasound data; and a processor configured to form a 3-dimensional ultrasound image based on the volume data, set a plurality of slices on the 3-dimensional ultrasound image and perform segmentation of the vessels based on a degree of registration between the respective vessels on the adjacent slices.
US08724864B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for non-invasively examination of internal structures of an object by producing dielectric images utilizing reflection and transmission 5 measurements using microwave radiation, characterized by an antenna array surrounding a region of interest for the examination, a microwave transceiver for measuring reflected and transmitted electromagnetic fields, a computational module for receiving detected radiation and for processing data based on the detected radiation, the computational module further being operatively arranged to execute a reconstruction procedure utilized to compute an image of the 10 dielectric profile under detection.
US08724859B2
The invention may include a fingerprint scanner having an ultrasonic wave emitter, a platen, an acoustic splitter and an acoustic detector. The invention may also include a method of scanning a fingerprint, wherein ultrasonic energy is provided and reflected with an acoustic splitter to provide first reflected energy, the first reflected energy may be reflected from a finger to provide second reflected energy, the second reflected energy may be received at the splitter, and allowed to pass through the splitter, and the second reflected energy may then be received at a detector.
US08724853B2
Methods are apparatuses are described for identifying a target object using optical occlusion. A head-mounted display perceives a characteristic of a reference object. The head-mounted display detects a change of the perceived characteristic of the reference object and makes a determination that a detected object caused the change of the perceived characteristic. In response to making the determination, the head-mounted display identifies the detected object as the target object.
US08724847B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment that processes time-series images that include a plurality of images captured in time series includes an interval setting unit that sets a time-series interval on the basis of a variation between images of the time-series images; and an area classifying unit that performs, in an image included in the time-series interval, classification into a plurality of category areas using a classification reference for each time-series interval set by the interval setting unit.
US08724844B2
The inertial transducer comprises a foot, a modular key, at least one suspension means having at least three contact points, and heat dissipation means comprising multiple heat transfer points. The foot alternatively includes an opening or a cap. The cap may be frangible. Preferably, the foot includes a cylindrical wall that extends within the inertial transducer and the foot's lower surface is coplaner with the lower surface of a housing of the transducer, thereby reducing stack height. The cylindrical wall may or may not be threaded and may accept a shaft from a receiving apparatus used to associate the transducer with a substrate.
US08724843B2
A casing for covering an outer yoke is provided; an acoustic cavity is formed by this casing; a diaphragm and the outer surface of a side wall of the outer yoke; a second elastic member is provided to join the outer circumferential edge of the casing to the outer circumferential edge of the diaphragm without any gap therebetween; this second elastic member includes pores formed by foaming and made of a material whose elastic modulus is smaller than that of a first elastic member; and pores communicating through from the back surface of the second elastic member, that is the inner side of the casing, to the front surface that is the opposite side of the back surface are eliminated.
US08724841B2
A portable electronic device having an outer case having a substantially planar face in which a microphone associated acoustic port is formed. The device also has a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone positioned within the outer case, the MEMS microphone having a diaphragm facing the microphone associated acoustic port. An acoustic mesh is positioned between the front face of the outer case and the diaphragm, the acoustic mesh having a non-linear acoustic resistance so as to minimize an effect of an incoming air burst on the diaphragm. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08724827B2
An audio system for a vehicle has at least one source of audio signals. At least one array of speaker elements is located at each seat position that radiates within a range of bass frequencies. For each at least one array, the speaker elements receive a common audio signal, and a respective filter is disposed between the common audio signal and each of the speaker elements. Each respective filter processes magnitude and phase of the common audio signal independently of each other respective filter to thereby define a directional audio radiation from the at least one array.
US08724822B2
A communication system enhances communications in a noisy environment. Multiple input arrays convert a voiced or unvoiced signal into an analog signal. A converter receives the analog signal and generates digital signals. A digital signal processor determines temporal and spatial information from the digital signals. The processed signals are then converted to audible sound.
US08724818B2
This disclosure claims a method for security processing during RRC connection re-establishment, comprising: a UE sends an RRC connection re-establishment request message to the eNB; after receiving the request message, the eNB determines whether an original access layer security algorithm used by the UE is supported by the eNB itself according to the current status and configuration; if supported, the communication protection with UE is implemented via the original access layer security algorithm; if not supported, according to the security capability of UE, the access layer security algorithm which has the highest priority and is supported by the UE is selected from the access layer security algorithms configured by the eNB itself to be the new access layer security algorithm, and the communication protection between the eNB and the UE is implemented by the new access layer security algorithm. This disclosure also claims a system for security processing during the RRC connection re-establishment.
US08724811B2
Provided are techniques for providing a home or business security system that relies upon data encryption for both communication and the storage of content. The disclosed technology incorporates all the devices necessary for a comprehensive security system, including, but not limited to, controllers, monitors, alarms and communication media. The system may include an unlimited number of devices and, further, individual devices may be added and removed as needed. Users may define and change the boundaries of a security system or, in other words, decide what devices to include or not include in such a system. A defined boundary does not need to be confined to a single location. In one embodiment, the claimed subject matter incorporates xCP based broadcast encryption technology.
US08724807B2
The invention relates to a method of receiving and securely recording digital data comprising a step for recording said digital data on a secured disk by a recorder/receiver belonging to a determined secured domain comprising several equipment items and defined by an identifier, a step for recording on the secured disk the identifier of the domain of the recorder/receiver to define this domain as the only domain in which the reproduction/copying of the multimedia content is authorized, wherein it comprises a prior step for recovering a disk key from the secured disk, and in that the domain identifier is encrypted by said disk key and the digital data is scrambled by title keys, said title keys being encrypted by said disk key. The invention also relates to a method of securely distributing digital data, an access device and a recorder/receiver.
US08724806B2
A partial multiple encryption device consistent with certain embodiments has an input adapted to receive a unencrypted video signal. An encryption arrangement produces a partially multiple encrypted video signal from the unencrypted video signal. An output is adapted to provide the partially multiple encrypted video signal. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08724801B2
Headgear for mounting a camera or other mobile media device is disclosed. The head gear includes a band for circling the head and means for enlarging or decreasing the diameter of the band to make it adjustable for various head sizes. A head mount is secured to the band for holding the device. The mount includes an enclosure with a flap for closing a pocket. The flap is secured to the mount proximate the head and folds over the front of the mount and is secured thereto to maintain the device in the pocket. The front of the pocket contains openings which are aligned with the lens of the held device to focus and record events in front of the user. The pocket has hinged side panels to allow expansion and contraction, caused by a bladder within, so that the camera may be pointed at a desired angle by the mount, thereby achieving the desired angle of view of the camera.
US08724791B2
A call setup process (28) in a telecommunication device (10) is controlled, wherein the telecommunication device (10) receives a user command (22) to set up a call, initiates the call setup process (28), determines that the call is likely to reach a voicemail system (14), and, in response to the determination that the call is likely to reach the voicemail system (14), automatically terminates the call setup process (28). A telecommunication device (10) comprises related features. A telecommunication network (12) is adapted to support or implement a determination whether or not an incoming call is forwarded to the voicemail system (14). The invention improves the user experience if a called party does not personally answer a telephone call.
US08724786B2
A method, system and apparatus for implementing a Multimedia Ring Back Tone (MRBT) service are provided. The method includes: receiving a call request originated by a calling terminal; parsing a tone playing policy specifying whether to play a caller tone or a callee tone or whether to filter a tone; performing caller tone media negotiation or callee tone media negotiation, or performing no tone negotiation according to the parsing result; and playing the caller tone or the callee tone to the caller, or playing no tone. With the technical solution of the present invention, the caller tone service can be implemented in the IMS domain. Whether a caller tone or a callee tone is played to the caller is determined according to a preset policy. Furthermore, the tone filtering service is also implemented. This gives a user freedom in experiencing the MRBT service.
US08724785B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of associating first data identifying a first party with second data to allow future recognition of the first party, including the steps of: conducting a telephone call with the first party; storing second data derived from the telephone call with the first party, the second data being different to the first data and characterizing a feature of the first party to allow future recognition of the first party; and associating the first data with the second data.
US08724773B2
To improve the quality of x-ray images, IN a method to process an x-ray image, a mathematical correction of the x-ray image is implemented, wherein the correction at least partially removes from the x-ray image the locally dependent blurring caused by a projection direction-dependent, effective optical focus size of an x-ray tube used to acquire the x-ray image.
US08724771B2
A shift register includes a plurality of stages, each of which outputs a carry pulse and a scan pulse. An nth one of the stages includes a carry output switching device controlled by a voltage applied to a set node and connected between a carry clock transfer line transferring any one of i carry clock pulses and a carry output terminal of the nth stage, a scan output switching device controlled by the voltage applied to the set node and connected between a scan clock transfer line transferring any one of j scan clock pulses and a scan output terminal of the nth stage, and a stabilization switching device controlled by any one of the i carry clock pulses and connected between a carry output terminal of an (n−p)th one of the stages and the set node or between a start transfer line and the set node.
US08724770B2
Disclosed herein is a bidirectional shift register which is capable of preventing multi-outputs from both end stages. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for outputting scan pulses forward or reversely based on a start pulse and a plurality of clock pulses with a phase difference. A last one of the stages includes a forward scan controller for making a set node active and a reset node inactive based on any one of the clock pulses and a scan pulse from an upstream stage, a reverse scan controller for making the set node active and the reset node inactive based on any one of the clock pulses and the start pulse, and an output unit for outputting any one of a corresponding scan pulse and a deactivation voltage based on a voltage at the set node, a voltage at the reset node and any one of the clock pulses.
US08724769B2
This invention relates to a method of preparing nuclear fuel including the step of depositing at least two adjacent series of layers (16, 18) around a kernel (12) of fissile material, each series comprising a layer of pyrolytic carbon (16) contiguous with a layer of silicon carbide (18) and each layer (16, 18) having a thickness of at most (10) micrometers, such that alternate layers of (16, 18) of pyrolytic carbon and silicon carbide are deposited around the kernel (12). The invention extends to a nuclear fuel element (10).
US08724761B2
Provided is a symbol synchronization apparatus and method of a passive RFID reader. The symbol synchronization apparatus includes: an edge clock detector generating edge clocks by detecting phase inversion positions of a received signal; a preamble detector detecting a preamble section by analyzing the generation times of the edge clocks; a symbol decision time extractor extracting a symbol decision time by averaging distances between the edge clocks consecutively generated in the preamble section, when the preamble section is detected; and a symbol decider deciding a symbol by analyzing the magnitude of the received signal, when the time reaches the symbol decision time.
US08724751B2
A method for a single radio aggregated spectrum receiver of a terminal arranged to operate in a radio network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving information from a network node of the radio network about frequency properties of an aggregated spectrum to be received; determining information about the aggregated spectrum comprising at least one of presence of blocking interferer(s) interspersed with, and pass bands within the aggregated spectrum; and providing filter(s) based on the determined information about the aggregated spectrum such that desired signals are passed and any blocking interferer(s) are attenuated. Corresponding computer program, receiver and terminal are also disclosed.
US08724750B2
An adjacent channel interference rejection mechanism is provided to detect and reject CCK-modulated signals from an adjacent channel in a wireless communication receiver. Replicas of the baseband signals are frequency-shifted and then analyzed through a series of correlations to compare the power of the correlation outputs. An adjacent channel interference of a CCK-modulated signal is determined and rejected based on the comparisons meeting a predetermined tolerance level.
US08724742B2
An apparatus and a method therein include selecting a size of a soft buffer memory partition per component carrier in a Carrier Aggregation scenario. The method supports multiple carriers to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition, the partition associated with receiving data on at least one component carrier, the multi-carrier system comprising at least two component carriers, each component carrier is associated with a configured bandwidth, the apparatus comprising the processor configured to select a size of a soft buffer memory partition for the first component carrier based at least in part on a first total number of soft channel bits, a first number associated with hybrid automatic retransmit request processes, and the configured bandwidth of the first component carrier.
US08724736B2
A transmitter architecture having a single signal path or hardware to cover WCDMA/EDGE/GSM applications, and requires no SAW at the transmitter outputs. The transmitter architecture allows for a transmit convergence feature. A passive mixer with unique driver and furthermore using native devices available from the CMOS process for the mixer cores enables low voltage and low power design, low output noise and high linearity. A digital variable gain amplifier has the capability to cover wide output dynamic range operated from low supply voltage and interfaced digitally with the baseband circuit without DAC. A single transformer is used to combine the outputs from the WCDMA/EDGE and GSM drivers and subsequently convert the differential signal paths into a single-ended signal. RF switches are used to divert the output from the transformer to different bands and applications.
US08724734B2
A coding method with a small error is provided. In the coding method of the present invention, a normalization value obtained from an input signal is corrected for an error calculated from an input and output in vector quantization and is then quantized. The coding method includes a normalization stage of normalizing the input signal in accordance with the normalization value of the input signal, calculated in each frame; a dividing stage of dividing the normalized frame into divided input signal sequences in accordance with a predetermined rule; a vector quantization stage of applying vector quantization to the divided input signal sequences to generate a vector quantization index; and a normalization value correction stage of correcting the normalization value of the input signal for the error obtained from the input and output in the vector quantization stage.
US08724733B2
The present disclosure is concerned with a digital transmitter using Delta-Sigma modulators (DMSs) that uses an up-sampler and modulator block that follows the DSMs to generate the RF equivalent of the baseband signal to be transmitted. The up-sampler and modulator block is simple to implement and contains only one or a few multiplexers implemented in high speed logic technology.
US08724725B2
In various embodiments, techniques are provided to determine channel characteristics of various communication systems such as OFDM systems or systems using a plurality of transmit antennas by using various sets of training symbols that produce zero cross-correlation energy. Channel communication can accordingly be simplified as the zero cross-correlation property allows for channel estimation without a matrix inversion.
US08724724B2
The present disclosure provides for the construction and use of a set of Zero-Correlation-Zone (ZCZ) Concatenated Complementary Pair (CCP) sequences with zero-correlation-zone range greater than one or with zero-correlation-zone range equal to one and the sequence set size greater than two. Complementary pair sequences A and B are selected and, for each member of the set of ZCZ CCP sequences, sign sequences pA and pB are combined with the complementary pair sequences to form a member ZCZ CCP sequence of the set. A ZCZ CCP sequence modified by propagation over a communication channel may be identified by cross-correlation with ZCZ CCP sequences of the set. A set of sign sequences may be constructed by recursive expansion from an initial set or found by a computer search. The sequences may be used in a transceiver of a portable electronic device or other communication device.
US08724721B2
According to embodiments there is provided a method for reducing the crest factor of an input signal. The method is performed in a part of a transmitter and comprises creating a clipped signal by clipping the input signal using a predetermined clipping threshold and creating a peak signal from the input signal. The peak signal comprises the difference between the input signal and the clipped signal. At least part of the peak signal is convoluted with an inverse Fourier transform of a filtering mask defined in the frequency domain. In this way a filtered signal is created. A subtraction signal is generated by subtracting the filtered signal from the input signal.
US08724720B2
In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, a first set of modulation coding schemes (MCSs) and a second set of MCSs that correspond to a number of spatial streams and a number of encoders are provided. The first set of MCSs correspond to a first channel bandwidth and the second set of MCSs correspond to a second channel bandwidth, and the first set of MCSs is different than the second set of MCSs. An MCS is selected from the first set of MCSs when the PHY data unit is to be transmitted using a channel having the first channel bandwidth, and the MCS is selected from the second set of MCSs when the PHY data unit is to be transmitted using a channel having the second channel bandwidth. Information bits are encoded using the number of encoders and according to the selected MCS, and the encoded information bits are parsed into the number of spatial streams. The encoded information bits are modulated according to the MCS, and a plurality of OFDM symbols are formed based on the modulated encoded information bits.
US08724711B2
Systems, devices and methods for performing luma-based chroma ultra prediction are described. Down-sample filters may be applied to luma values of luma pixel positions to generate reconstructed luma values for chroma pixel positions in a prediction unit of an intra frame. The down-sampled reconstructed luma values may then be used to predict chroma values for the chroma pixel positions. In some implementations, a reconstructed luma value of a chroma position may be used to predict that position's chroma value. In other implementations, reconstructed luma values of neighboring chroma pixel positions may be analyzed to adaptively predict a chroma value for a chroma pixel position.
US08724709B2
The invention relates to a method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and to a corresponding decoding method. Furthermore, the invention relates to encoding, decoding, transmission and/or storage of audio and/or video data wherein said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section and/or said corresponding decoding method are used in processing of the audio and/or video data. Said method for encoding of a bit amount of a data section comprises the steps of encoding said bit amount indicating integer as a first number of equally valued bits followed by a stop bit of different value wherein said first number equals said bit amount increased by a threshold value. Using said method, quotients of values larger than a threshold can be encoded using unary as well as binary code wherein quotients of values smaller than the threshold can be encoded in unary code.
US08724707B2
This disclosure describes techniques for region-of-interest (ROI) encoding. In accordance with the techniques described herein, an encoding device may determine a temporal spatial dependency value for a candidate reference video block for inter-coding a current block in a video frame. The encoding device may compare the temporal spatial dependency value to a threshold value and select a coding mode for the current block based on the comparison. A decoding device may receive data defining a ROI as well as the temporal spatial dependency value and decode a video block in the ROI based at least in part on the temporal spatial dependency value. In this manner, the techniques of this disclosure may allow a video content viewer the ability to choose a ROI to watch.
US08724703B2
A method for motion estimation with respect to a sequence of images. Respective updates are generated based on predictor vectors. The updates are distributed over a plurality of tables, which are organized in a plurality of table sets. Only a single table of updates, of a respective selected table set, is applied to a given predictor vector to generate a limited set of candidate vectors only. For a subsequent predictor vector, a further single table of the plurality of tables out of the plurality of table sets is applied.
US08724701B1
An image processing system is provided for encoding videos based on example-based compression. To select the dictionary predictor entries to encode a video, the image processing system reduces the complexity of the video by decomposing the video into smaller pieces. By breaking the video into the simpler pieces, it is easier to locate dictionary predictor entries that are similar to the pieces of the video. The image processing system may decompose the video into one more space-time tubes. For each space-time tube, the image processing system selects dictionary predictor entries to encode the tube.
US08724699B2
There are provided video encoders, video decoders, and corresponding methods. A video encoder for encoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder for encoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. A video decoder for decoding video signal data for an image block includes a decoder for decoding all color components of the video signal data using a common predictor. Additionally, an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding signal data for an image block includes an encoder and decoder for encoding/decoding color components of the video signal data without applying a residual color transform thereto. Furthermore, a video encoder and decoder for encoding/decoding video signal data for an image block includes an encoder and decoder for encoding/decoding the video signal data using unique predictors for each of color components of the video signal data.
US08724694B2
A decoder pipeline may include a decoding (prior to deblocking) stage followed by a deblocking stage. A memory can be coupled to the decoder pipeline. A decoded first macroblock can be output from the decoding stage directly into the deblocking stage, bypassing the memory, if a decoded second macroblock depended on to deblock the first macroblock is already deblocked. Otherwise, the decoded first macroblock is stored in the memory until the second macroblock is deblocked and available to deblock the first macroblock.
US08724691B2
Video data is transcoded on the fly to produce a progressive download viewed while the data is being received while streaming and/or may be downloaded and played later. An analyzer analyzes a portion of an input video data file to determine coded characteristics of encoded input video and determines an expected data volume. A generator generates a file header for output video data that includes an indication of the expected volume thereof. A transcoder transcodes the input video data to produce encoded output video data. The output interface supplies the encoded output video data with the file header as a stream to a receiving device. In a first embodiment, the expected volume of data in the header is overestimated and blank video chunks added. In an alternative embodiment, the expected data of volume is underestimated and compression parameters are modified during the transcoding process.
US08724690B1
The present invention is directed to a decision feedback equalizer that implements a multipath delay calculator to determine the delay between a line-of-sight component of a received data signal and a reflection of the line-of-sight component. The determined delay is used to control when decisions are used within the decision feedback equalizer so that the appropriate decisions are delayed until the reflection is received. In this way, the reflection can be substantially removed from the data signal using decisions that were generated when the line-of-sight component was received. Because the correction window is limited to the time when the reflection is received, the number of taps required to perform equalization is greatly reduced resulting in a decision feedback equalizer with less circuitry or logic.
US08724689B2
Narrowband ingress estimation and characterization using equalizer taps. A equalizer including a feed forward equalizer (FFE) and a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) is implemented to process an input signal thereby generating an output signal. Analysis of the frequency response of the equalizer including the FFE and the DFE of the equalizer allows for the determination of whether or not narrowband ingress exists within the signal received by the equalizer. For example, analysis of the signal output from the equalizer provides for determination of the overall frequency response of the equalizer. In addition, analysis of the respective equalizer coefficients within one or both of the FFE and the DFE of the equalizer may be used to determine the overall frequency response of the equalizer. Narrowband ingress may be identified when the combination of the FFE (having a notch therein) and the DFE provides for an overall flat frequency response.
US08724688B1
An unrolled decision feedback equalizer (DFE) as disclosed herein has a reduced number of compensation factors while keeping a suitable performance level for a given application. The KN possible DFE correction levels are reduced or compressed into fewer levels (R), merging together the levels that are the closest together where K represents the number of possible symbols in each baud, or the number of bits encoded into each baud, and N represents the DFE depth in number of bauds. A mapping function is then provided to convert the KN combinations of previous history bits into R sampler selections.
US08724673B2
A pulse fiber laser device 1 has a Fabry-Perot type optical resonator, and is provided with an excitation light source 11, an optical coupling unit 12, an amplifying optical fiber 13, a saturable absorber 14, a gradient index lens 15, an optical output unit 16, a dispersion adjusting unit 17, a mirror 21 and a mirror 22. The saturable absorber 14 and the mirror 21, integrated into one body, constitute a saturable absorber mirror 23. The gradient index lens 15 converges the light output from an end face of an optical fiber 32 and outputs the light to the saturable absorber mirror 23, and inputs the light reflected from the saturable absorber mirror 23 into the end face of the optical fiber 32. Thus, there is provided a pulse fiber laser device that enables easy adjustment of the intensity of light incident on a saturable absorber and facilitates miniaturization.
US08724671B2
A system for generating multiple simultaneous laser wavelengths, said system comprising: a pulsed slave laser comprising a non-linear electro-optic crystal optically coupled to a lasing crystal in a ring cavity configuration, said non-linear electro-optic crystal configured to adjust an optical path length of said ring cavity in response to an applied voltage potential; an energy pump configured to initiate a pulse cycle in said pulsed slave laser in response to a trigger; a cavity control circuit configured to apply said voltage potential to said non-linear electro-optic crystal to generate a cavity resonance condition associated with said adjusted optical path length, said cavity control circuit further configured to provide said trigger to said energy pump in response to a detection of said cavity resonance condition; and one or more seed lasers configured to inject a single frequency laser beam into said pulsed slave laser.
US08724666B1
A laser oscillator to generate a pulsed light beam includes an output coupler mirror, configured to reflect a reflected portion of the pulsed light beam back into the laser oscillator, and to couple an outputted portion of the pulsed light beam out from the laser oscillator; an end-mirror, configured to return the pulsed light beam into the laser oscillator; a gain material, positioned between the output coupler mirror and the end-mirror along an optical path, configured to amplify the pulsed light beam; a self-starting saturable absorber, configured to self-start a pulsed mode-locking operation of the laser oscillator; and a pulse-shaping saturable absorber, configured to shape pulses of the pulsed light beam into laser pulses with a pulse length of less than 1,000 femtoseconds.
US08724664B2
A method for transporting communications signals includes receiving an analog IF signal at a first unit. The analog IF signal includes a first carrier having a first frequency and a first bandwidth and a second carrier having a second frequency different from the first frequency and a second bandwidth. The analog IF signal is converted to a digitally sampled IF signal having the first carrier located in a first Nyquist zone, the second carrier located in a second Nyquist zone, an image of the first carrier located in a third Nyquist zone, and an image of the second carrier located in the third Nyquist zone. The image of the first carrier and the image of the second carrier is transmitted from the first unit to a second unit, where the image of the first carrier and the image of the second carrier is then converted to the analog IF signal.
US08724663B2
An implementation method and system, main control device and smart card for information transmission are provided. The method includes: the smart card notifying the main control device of the operating mode supported thereby; the smart card receiving a clock frequency returned by the main control device, and if the main control device determines that the smart card can support an externally provided clock frequency, the clock frequency is a second clock frequency; judging whether the smart card itself can support the second clock frequency, and if true, the smart card and the main control device carrying out information transmission based on the clock control signal of the second clock frequency; otherwise the smart card carrying out the transmission based on the dock control signal of the first clock frequency, and the main control device carrying out the transmission based on the clock control signal of the second clock frequency.
US08724659B2
A packet forwarding unit such as a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM) receives Ethernet packets carrying real-time information and forwards the information therein on output lines such as Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines (ADSLs). The DSLAM includes a clock device having an extraction unit and an adaptive clock. The extraction unit analyzes received packets to select streams of received packets from one destination to one user, and the adaptive clock generates a reference clock signal according to the arrival times of packets in the selected streams. The clock signal is sent to time reference units in DSL modems for the output lines.
US08724651B2
A wireless network system including a first terminal for sending a request-to-send signal including information on a medium use period to a second terminal before sending data, receiving a clear-to-send signal from the second terminal, and sending data to the second terminal during the medium use period; the second terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and sending the clear-to-send signal; a third terminal for receiving the request-to-send signal and transmitting data to a fourth terminal during the medium use period; and the fourth terminal. Thus, it is possible to prevent occurrence of a problem that when it is judged that the wireless channel is being used, transmission of the station is suppressed.
US08724644B2
According to one embodiment, in a double-ring network, a master station includes a transmitting and receiving permission switch portion, a communication port A at an A-system side, a communication port B at a B-system side, a first receiving control circuit portion, a transmitting and receiving control circuit portion, a frame detection determining circuit portion, a frame data generating circuit portion, a logical address determining circuit portion, a live list setting circuit portion and an address list setting circuit portion. The master station determines a token order (a transmission priority, also called a logical address) using a shortest path function by the logical address determining circuit portion and the address list setting circuit portion such that the token order does not depend on physical addresses of transmission stations and is matched to a connection order of transmission stations to realize path optimization. This reduces a transmission time.
US08724639B2
The present invention provides a method and device for an integrated smart hub. The method and device for an integrated smart hub provides for a simultaneously multicasting of a plurality of functions with a simple and an easy process to operate the device. The integrated device utility includes applications in the areas of telephony, data processing, content storage, multimedia, augmentative communications, personal computing, home or facility security and automation. The integrated smart hub system incorporates integrated components and functions including a Set Top Box (STB), telephone modem, wireless modems, Optical Network Terminal (ONT), Very-high-speed Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL), data server, video server, solid-state storage, game server, an Internet Protocol (IP) intelligent gateway router, and a plurality of microprocessors.
US08724637B2
A system and method for providing multi-topology support in RSVP-TE in a multi-protocol label switching network is provided. A method includes reserving path states for a traffic engineered label switched path (TE LSP), and releasing the reserved path states. The TE LSP is established within a single network topology in an environment of multiple network topologies, and the reserving path states includes sending a first resource reservation protocol with traffic engineering (RSVP-TE) message containing multi-topology information.
US08724632B2
A programmable packet switching controller has a packet buffer, a pattern match module, a programmable packet classification engine and an application engine. The packet classification engine has a decision tree-based classification logic for classifying a packet. The application engine has a number of programmable sub-engines arrayed in a pipelined architecture. The sub-engines include a source lookup engine, a destination lookup engine and a disposition engine, which are used to make a disposition decision for the inbound packets in a processing pipeline.
US08724631B2
The present invention discloses a method, a system and an apparatus for transmitting data, which are applied in an identification identifier locater separation network, the method includes: a source terminal sending a first data packet to a source Access Support Node (ASN), and taking an Access Identity (AID) of the source terminal and the AID of a destination terminal as a source address and a destination address of the first data packet respectively; the source ASN, after receiving the first data packet, if a Routing Identifier (RID) corresponding to the AID of the destination terminal is not queried out locally, encapsulating the first data packet which is as a payload data packet to a second data packet by using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) format, and adding a GRE packet header and a delivery protocol packet header; and the source ASN sending the second data packet to a mapping forwarding plane, which queries the RID corresponding to the AID of the destination terminal and sends the first data packet to the destination ASN according to the queried RID. The present invention realizes a high data forwarding performance, and a network processor may be used to process, the encapsulation format is easy to extend, and the edition is convenient to upgrade.
US08724627B2
In one embodiment, single-homing and active-active multi-homing is provided in a Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS). A customer edge node actively communicates frames of a same Virtual Private Network (VPN) instance with two or more VPLS nodes of a VPLS network. The VPLS nodes are configured to appropriately forward frames throughout the VPLS network: without looping of a frame sent by the same external node back to the same external node, without flooding multiple copies of a frame to the same external node, and while performing learning of addresses in forwarding tables of said VPLS nodes such that said forwarding tables of said VPLS nodes converge despite frames of the same LAN service being received by said at least two of said VPLS nodes from the same external node.
US08724623B2
A plurality of wireless interfaces and/or internal radios is utilized within a network switching device to enable wireless intra-connectivity within its switch fabric. The wireless intra-connectivity services switching operations in the network switching device, to prevent and/or reduce blocking in the network switching device. The wireless intra-connectivity is also used to enable management and control operations in the network switching device. Operations of the internal radios and/or wireless interfaces are managed to mitigate and/or limit interference among the internal radios and to optimize throughput available via the wireless intra-connectivity. Arbitration, channelization, time multiplexing, and/or directionality techniques, for example, are utilized in the internal radios. External radios are operable to enable cascading plurality of network switching devices.
US08724616B2
A radio communication system including a communication apparatus can transmit signals each including same data from a transmission antenna and a transmission antenna to a mobile station. The mobile station measures a difference in receiving timing between the signal from the transmission antenna and the signal from the transmission antenna. The communication apparatus exercises control so as to change at least one of transmission timing of the signal from the transmission antenna and transmission timing of the signal from the transmission antenna according to the difference in receiving timing at the mobile station.
US08724612B2
A method for adapting data retrieval polling in a mobile wireless device is disclosed. The mobile wireless device is configured in an adaptive pull mode and polls a remote server when a data retrieval polling timer expires. Data retrieval information is stored in the mobile wireless device and the data retrieval polling timer is updated to a value based on the stored data retrieval information. The data retrieval information includes time intervals between successive polls or time delay intervals between data arrival at and retrieval from the remote server. Updates are based on weighted moving averages of the data retrieval information.
US08724611B2
An authorization scheme limits the number of nodes that send out resource utilization messages. Here, a first node may determine whether a second node is allowed to transmit a resource utilization message, and send a message to the second node indicative of this determination. The second node may then determine whether to send out a resource utilization message based on the message from the first node and the quality of service associated with receive traffic at the second node. In some aspects, a node that is allowed to transmit a RUM may be identified based on whether the node is expected to be scheduled to use a given resource.
US08724603B2
A method for network access and a mobile station configured for the same is described. In one embodiment, there is provided a method for network access on a mobile station comprising: scanning for Wi-Fi networks; receiving responses from available wireless access points (APs) of the Wi-Fi networks; selecting a Wi-Fi network in accordance with past connectivity data associated with the Wi-Fi networks of the available APs; and attempting to connect to the selected Wi-Fi network.
US08724602B2
An information terminal includes: a wireless communication section configured to communicate with an outside; a main functional section configured to perform an information processing operation that includes data communication with the outside, performed using the wireless communication section; a monitoring section configured to detect a state of power supply for the main functional section; and a communication control section configured to cause the wireless communication section to transmit data, preliminarily stored in a memory, to the outside when the state detected by the monitoring section corresponds to a state in which the main functional section is not capable of performing data communication using the wireless communication section.
US08724599B2
A method and system for connecting to a wireless LAN Access Point (AP) using position information and an apparatus using the same. The method and system includes scanning APs in a preset period, determining a current position of an AP access apparatus based on the scanned APs, calculating distances between the current position of the AP access apparatus and each of positions of one or more user-designated APs, controlling a scan period in response to the calculated distances, and, when the user-designated APs are scanned, accessing the scanned user-designated APs. In scanning the nearby positioned wireless LAN AP and accessing the scanned AP, the power consumption can be reduced and the access time to AP can also be reduced.
US08724591B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a traffic offload method, a traffic offload function entity, and a traffic offload system. The method includes: receiving, by a first traffic offload function entity, user information of a user equipment sent by a core network device; obtaining, a traffic offload policy and matching the traffic offload policy with the user information; and offloading traffic corresponding to the user equipment according to the user information that successfully matches the traffic offload policy. The traffic offload function entity may obtain the user information and may perform traffic offload according to the user information.
US08724590B2
A method for operating a multiple point (MP) controller includes receiving, from a source primary point, a handover required message for a user equipment coupled to the source primary point, the handover required message including target primary point information and MP radio bearer information. The method also includes determining an MP configuration according to the handover required message, and sending, to a target primary point, a handover request message including the MP configuration and the MP radio bearer information. The method further includes sending, to the source primary point, a handover message including the MP configuration, the MP radio bearer information, and reconfiguration information for the user equipment, the handover message initiating a handover of a subset of the MP radio bearer from the source primary point to the target primary point, and receiving, from the target primary point, a handover complete message.
US08724587B2
The present invention relates to radio communications technologies and discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for sending a data packet to avoid repeated forwarding of data when a user equipment hands over between an access point and an evolved NodeB. The method includes: receiving, by an evolved NodeB, a data packet sent by a core network and sending the data packet to a current access point; and keeping caching the data packet on the evolved NodeB before determining that a user equipment has correctly received the data packet from the current access point. The present invention is applicable to data transmission in a network.
US08724585B2
The present invention relates to providing a generic control plane in a GTP mobility protocol in a core network. When a type of user plane is detected, a user plane parameter is provided in a control plane message header. The user plane message indicates the type of user plane. Functions, parameters and messages are provided according to the indicated type of user plane. Thus, e.g. easier hand over between different access networks can be provided and an optimization of the user plane implementation in an edge node.
US08724583B2
Techniques are provided herein to support roaming of wireless mobile client devices from one wireless local area network access point device to another wireless local area network access point device. Neighbor discovery messages are received from wireless mobile client devices. A neighbor discovery message specifies a target address for a neighbor discovery function. A response to a neighbor discovery message is sent to a wireless mobile client device such that the response message appears to have been sent by a wireless mobile client device that has an address that corresponds to the target address of the neighbor discovery message.
US08724577B2
A wireless communication system including a base station and a wireless terminal, the method includes at the wireless terminal, selecting first information used for first random access or second information used for second random access; and transmitting, during or after the completion of random access using selected information, third information to be transmitted to the base station during random access using information which is not selected, the third information being used by the wireless terminal until the random access using information which is not selected is finished.
US08724563B2
Method and apparatus that facilitates detecting system information blocks in a heterogeneous network
Aspects are disclosed for detecting a system information block (SIB) within a heterogeneous network. In one aspect, a type of scheduling information pertaining to an SIB is selected, and a parameter known to a wireless terminal is associated with the type of scheduling information. The wireless terminal then decodes the SIB by deriving the scheduling information from the known parameters, without having to decode a Physical Downlink Control Channel.
US08724558B2
A field testing system is provided that uses a personal computer tethered to an interface board. A cellular telephone plugs into the interface board during wireless field testing. The cellular telephone may include configurable multiplexer circuitry and power supply circuitry. During normal operation, the cellular telephone is configured so that its application processor is linked to its application processor and to an external bus. During field testing, the cellular telephone is configured to link the baseband unit to the external bus and the interface board. The baseband unit may support advanced communications busses (e.g., USB). To avoid consuming too many pins in the external bus between the interface board and the cellular telephone, power for the USB bus during field testing may be derived from a power management unit in the cellular telephone.
US08724555B2
Techniques to more efficiently transmit pilot and signaling on the uplink in an OFDM system. With subband multiplexing, M usable subbands in the system are partitioned into Q disjoint groups of subbands. Each subband group may be assigned to a different terminal for uplink pilot transmission. Multiple terminals may transmit simultaneously on their assigned subbands. The transmit power for the pilot may be scaled higher to attain the same total pilot energy even though S instead of M subbands are used for pilot transmission by each terminal. Pilot transmissions from the terminals are received, and a channel estimate is derived for each terminal based on the pilot received on the assigned subbands. The channel estimate comprises a response for additional subbands not included in the assigned group. Subband multiplexing may also be used for uplink signaling transmission.
US08724553B2
The invention relates to a method for route optimisation of packet switched data transmissions between a first mobile node and a second mobile node in a mobile communication system comprising a plurality of access networks. The method comprises the step of transmitting return routability protocol packets and data packets. The return routability protocol packets and data packets are analysed, and at least part of an address comprised in headers of the return routability protocol packets and data packets is removed.
US08724548B2
A counter synchronization process is described that is event driven rather than conducted on a periodic basis. A receiving device, which may be a user equipment (UE) or a base station, monitors received data packets to detect a rollover of a packet data sequence number in successive data packets. When the sequence number rollover is detected, the receiving device increments the variable data portion of the deciphering key stored in memory. Also in response to this detected rollover event, the receiving device transmits a synchronization message to the source device.
US08724545B2
A method of wireless communication includes identifying at least one current resource for which a coexistence issue is present. The method also includes submitting a message to a base station that includes information indicative of the coexistence issue for the current resource(s). The handover request may include information indicative of the resource for which the coexistence issue is present and/or a desired future resource.
US08724542B2
A transmission of information within a wireless cellular network may include a first and second group of samples. A first group of samples is created comprising at least a first and a last subgroup, wherein the last subgroup is same as the first subgroup. A second group of samples created. A transformed set of samples produced by jointly transforming the created first and second group with a discrete Fourier transform (DFT). The transformed set of samples is expanded to produce an expanded set, and the expanded set is transformed with an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) to produce an OFDM symbol with a fractional payload. The first group of samples is a reference signal (RS), which is known to the receiver before the transmission occurs, while the second group of samples is information data.
US08724540B2
The present invention provides a reference signal transmission method and apparatus by a base station in a wireless communication system including a relay station. The base station generates a plurality of relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) reference signals for the demodulation of an R-PDCCH which is a control channel for the relay station relative to each of a plurality of layers, maps the plurality of R-PDCCH reference signals with R-PDCCH regions included in a relay zone within at least one resource block according to a predetermined reference signal pattern, and transmits at least one resource block through a plurality of antenna ports.
US08724536B2
Embodiments provide power-efficient mechanisms for communicating small amounts of information to receiver devices within a mobile broadcast system. A generic transport mechanism enables transmitting data relevant to upper layer protocols in a lower layer sub-channel so multiple information summary flows can share the same physical layer sub-channel. Data fields are added to the Overhead Information Service (OIS) channel to provide power-efficient logical channels for carrying the summary information. Data from the power-efficient logical channels are provided to an upper protocol layer that receives the information summary flows. Information summary flow may carry a version number of an information flow in the broadcast signal, codes or other information. Receiver devices periodically monitoring the OIS receive the information summary flows. Employing an embodiment, a receiver device can minimize power consumption because reception of the OIS can indicate whether any new information flows are available, obviating a need to periodically check information flows.
US08724535B2
The invention relates to a technique for controlling a content distribution in a point-to-multipoint (“PTM”)-enabled network environment (100), wherein, over a PTM control channel “CCH” (120, 122), control information related to the content distribution is provided for recipients (112, 114, 116) of the content distribution. The control information is provided over the CCH according to a notification scheme indicating a temporal pattern for the provision of the control information. A method embodiment of the technique comprises the step adopting, for a content distribution, either a first control information notification scheme provided for a distribution of streaming content or a second control information notification scheme provided for a distribution of one or more content files.
US08724534B2
An information service apparatus and method in a wireless communication system are provided. A method of operating a Radio Access Station (RAS) includes receiving information regarding business offices located in a cell coverage area of the RAS from a network entity of a core service network, classifying the received business office information according to a plurality of items and storing the classified information in a Data Base (DB), allocating a Multicast Connection IDentifier (MCID) for each item, determining a transmission period for each item, obtaining a business office list of a corresponding item from the DB when a Transmit (Tx) time elapses according to the Tx period, generating an advertisement multicast burst including the obtained business office list, and multicasting the generated burst to pre-registered Mobile Stations (MSs).
US08724524B2
When communicating with a second wireless station, a first wireless station judges, based on link-related information received from the second wireless station and link-related information extracted from a signal transmitted by a fourth wireless station, whether a transmission link from the third wireless station to the fourth wireless station and a transmission link from the first wireless station to the second wireless station can be concurrently established without interference with each other. If judging affirmatively, the first wireless station transmits a signal to the second wireless station in synchronization with a signal transmitted by the third wireless station to the fourth wireless station.
US08724522B2
A method and system for locating a device connected to a network by determining a current network address for the device and comparing the current network address to a network address in a user profile. If the network addresses match, the device is located based on a physical address associated with the network address in the user profile.
US08724518B2
In a communication system formed of two or more networks in which a part or all of nodes belonging to each said network form a plurality of combinations of nodes so as not to overlap with other node on the network to which each node belongs, the nodes belonging to the same combination are connected with each other and terminals are connected under the control of a part or all of the nodes belonging to the same combination, a node belonging to the combination transmits a frame received from a terminal under the control of the node itself to any of adjacent nodes on the network to which the node itself belongs and a node belonging to the same combination to which the node itself belongs and connected to the node itself. This obtains a highly reliable communication system whose desired transmission capacity can be realized at low costs and which can be restored from an abnormal state in a short time period.
US08724504B2
This application discloses a power control method and device of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) in a long term evolution (LTE) advanced system, relates to the technical field of wireless communications and is intended to reasonably determine the signal transmit power of a user equipment (UE) on the PUCCH to thereby improve the power utilization ratio of the user equipment. In this application, upon determining to bundle generated positive acknowledge (ACK)/negative acknowledge (NACK) information, the UE bundles the ACK/NACK information in a predefined bundling scheme, determines the power offset value corresponding to the number of bits carried on the PUCCH according to the bundling scheme and further determines the transmit power of the PUCCH. With the invention, the transmit power of the UE can be determined more reasonably.
US08724501B2
To provide a mobile communication terminal test device and a mobile communication terminal test method capable of displaying the theoretical value of a packet transmission rate. A mobile communication terminal test device 1 includes a pseudo base station device 10 that is connected between a mobile communication terminal 5, which is a test target, and a virtual connection device 20, a table storage device 30 that stores various tables, a parameter input unit 50 that inputs information about TM, MCS, and NRB, a TBS acquiring unit 41 that acquires TBS on the basis of the input information and various tables stored in the table storage device 30, a packet transmission rate calculating unit 43 that calculates the theoretical value of the packet transmission rate from TBS, and a display unit 93 that displays the theoretical value of the packet transmission rate.
US08724483B2
An interface for implementing a loopback configuration which offers improved calibration and/or testing of an electronic system is disclosed. More specifically, embodiments provide a bi-directional interface with at least two portions or partitions capable of communicating data in opposite directions and implementing a loopback configuration between components of an electronic system, thereby enabling more flexible, efficient and effective calibration and/or testing of the electronic system using a single interface. The loopback of the partitioned bi-directional interface may be used to perform data link training and/or electronic system testing. In one embodiment, the loopback configuration of the interface may be reversible. Additionally, the looped or coupled end of the partitions may be switched from one component to another, thereby reversing the configuration of the loopback in one embodiment. As such, embodiments enable different and/or additional calibration operations and/or tests to be performed when compared with conventional loopback configurations.
US08724475B2
Network monitoring method and apparatus estimates the congestion window throughout the life of a TCP flow (socket connection), providing information useful for network performance analysis and troubleshooting.
US08724473B2
A system and method for locating signatures in packets is disclosed. The method may include receiving a packet over the network and searching the packet for a signature at locations specified in a location cache. When the signature is found at a stored location specified in the location cache, pertinent data located after the signature is obtained and network testing processing is performed. When the signature is not found at any stored location specified in the location cache, the packet is searched for the signature. When the signature is found, the location at which the signature is found is added to the location cache. Pertinent data located after the signature is obtained and network testing processing is performed. The method may be performed by a network testing system and by a computing device having a virtual machine.
US08724471B2
A transmission method for multiple TCP sessions with the same host including methods for congestion control and retransmission of lost segments.
US08724466B2
Ingress and egress port packets for a connection between a first node and second node are mirrored to a mirroring port on a network switch. A count of ingress and egress port packets associated with a handshake process is determined. Duplicate mirrored packets associated with the connection are filtered based at least in part on the count.
US08724460B2
The invention relates to a cellular communication network serving mobile terminals or devices and how to reduce the signalling load in said network by introducing an auxiliary device which holds data packets in order to minimize connections according to a pre-determined rule.
US08724457B2
A communication apparatus stores topology information that is shared by communication apparatuses included in a network and representing connection states between the communication apparatuses. The topology information includes port identification information for identifying ports that are connectable to each other within each communication apparatus. The communication apparatus determines a route by sequentially selecting a port that can be connected to a port, to which transmission data is input based on the port identification information.
US08724454B2
An example method includes detecting a failure at a first network element, the failure is associated with a link between the first network element and a second network element. The method also includes generating a list of network elements to be notified based on the failure, the second network element is included on the list. The method further includes generating an alarm indication signal (AIS) message, the AIS message identifies a plurality of tunnels affected by the failure. The AIS message is communicated to the second network element. In more detailed embodiments, each link between the first network element and the second network element includes a globally unique link identifier, which includes an associated autonomous system number. The globally unique link identifier can represent a string to be associated with the plurality of tunnels, the globally unique link identifier includes a source address and a destination address.
US08724452B2
A technique for protecting traffic in a Layer 2 (L2) communication network between a first and a second local nodes (CE1, CE2) interconnected via a redundant dual homed structure, the technique comprises a) distributing the traffic in the dual homed structure in a fault-free state, to form two traffic flows between the CE1 and CE2; b) providing Layer 2 (L2) fault indications for the dual homed structure, in the form of operation and maintenance (OAM) tools, c) in a faulty state of the dual homed structure, forwarding traffic packets at the provider edges of the structure, based only on conventional physical fault indications and L2 fault indications, by locally making forwarding decisions for selecting an active communication line via the redundant dual homed structure.
US08724444B2
Provided is method of forming a signal in a wireless communication system in which a plurality of terminals commonly use a resource in the time domain and the frequency domain. The method includes multiplying a signal to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a first cyclic shift index in a first slot to be transmitted to a base station, wherein the multiplying is performed by a first terminal and a second terminal; and multiplying information to be transmitted by a frequency domain orthogonal code symbol corresponding to a second cyclic index that is different from the first cyclic index of the first slot to be transmitted to the base station, in a second slot, wherein the multiplying is performed by the first terminal and the second terminal.
US08724439B2
In an optical recording method, recording parameters (WU) to be used for recording are obtained using recommended recording parameter values (WR) read from an optical recording medium and previously obtained vector information (PC) and approximation coefficients (Ca, Cb) (S24). Writing to the optical recording medium is performed using the obtained recording parameters (S17). The vector information (PC) includes a vector component of the parameters obtained statistically with respect to parameter difference values (DF) between optimal recording parameter values (WO) and the recommended recording parameter values (WR) over a plurality of optical recording media so as to strengthen mutual correlation between the parameters. The approximation coefficients (Ca, Cb) are obtained by approximating a relationship between converted information (X) and feature information (D), the converted information (X) indicating a relationship between the vector information (PC) and the parameter difference values (DF), the feature information (D) indicating the features of each optical recording medium obtained from the recommended recording parameter values (WR) and the vector information (PC).
US08724435B1
According to one embodiment, in a magnetic disk, a reflecting layer with a higher reflectance to near-field light than a magnetic recording layer is provided in the magnetic recording layer so as to be flat. A magnetic head performs magnetic recording on the magnetic recording layer while locally heating the magnetic recording layer based on the near-field light.
US08724434B2
A magnetic recording system including follows: a recording head, a recording medium that includes a first recording medium layer, a second recording medium layer, and a substrate. The magnetic recording system includes an electric field applying device applying an electric field and a magnetic field applying device applying a magnetic field to the recording medium, a movement mechanism that moves them to an arbitrary position. The magnetic recording system has a function of controlling an applying direction of at least one of the electric field applying device and the magnetic field applying device, and the recording head is arranged at a position facing the recording medium.
US08724433B1
A timed vibrating system for habit programming featuring a microprocessor, a vibrator, and a battery. A switch allows a user to control whether or not the vibration of the vibrator is audible. A cap on the housing allows a user to control the frequency with which the vibrator vibrates. Each vibration, or alert, reminds the user to clear his thoughts and rid his mind of worry so that he can maintain a positive outlook on his disease. The system can be worn on the user's body, for example around his neck on in his pocket.
US08724425B2
A semiconductor storage device includes an external terminal to which a first signal is supplied, a core circuit, and an access operation control circuit that generates a signal indicating an access operation mode to the core circuit for subsequent cycles based on a pulse width of the first signal.
US08724419B2
A bitcell can include an insulating area, a first doping, a second doping, and a gate terminal for the insulating area. The second doping can be proximate to the first doping and proximate to the insulating area. The second doping can be characterized by a lower threshold voltage than the first doping. The bitcell can be configured for programming by a voltage on the gate terminal that results in a conductive hole selectively burned in the insulating area between the gate terminal and the first doping.
US08724418B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a first fuse having one end coupled with a first bit line and configured to be programmed with a data, a second fuse having one end coupled with a second bit line and configured to be programmed with the data; a program controller coupled with the other ends of the first fuse and the second fuse and configured to perform a program operation on at least one of the first fuse and the second fuse in response to a program voltage, and a read controller coupled with the other ends of the first fuse and the second fuse and configured to perform a read operation on the first fuse and the second fuse in response to a read voltage.
US08724415B2
Disclosed herein is a storage control device that includes a temperature sensor, temperature information selection section, refresh command reception section and trigger issuance frequency setting section.
US08724399B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for erasing split-gate non-volatile memory (NVM) cells using select-gate erase voltages that are adjusted to reduce select-gate to control-gate break-down failures. The adjusted select-gate erase voltages provide bias voltages on the select-gates that are configured to have the same polarity as the control-gate erase voltages applied during erase operations and that are different from select-gate read voltages applied during read operations. Certain additional embodiments use discrete charge storage layers for the split-gate NVM cells and include split-gate NVM cells having gap dielectric layer thicknesses that are dependent upon control gate dielectric layer widths.
US08724395B2
A nonvolatile memory device is programmed by performing a plurality of program loops each comprising applying a program voltage to a selected wordline to change a threshold voltage of a selected memory cell, and applying a verification voltage to the selected wordline to verify a program state of the selected memory cell. In each program loop, the nonvolatile memory device determines a program condition and increments the program voltage by an amount determined according to the program condition.
US08724372B2
A capacitor-less memory cell, memory device, system and process of forming the capacitor-less memory cell includes forming the capacitor-less memory cell in an active area of a substantially physically isolated portion of a bulk semiconductor substrate. A pass transistor is formed on the active area for coupling with a word line. The capacitor-less memory cell further includes a read/write enable transistor vertically configured along at least one vertical side of the active area and operable during a reading of a logic state with the logic state being stored as charge in a floating body area of the active area, causing different determinable threshold voltages for the pass transistor.
US08724368B2
A semiconductor device includes first to fourth memory cells and each memory cell includes a first gate electrode, a ferroelectric film, a semiconductor film, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a paraelectric film and a second gate electrode. The ferroelectric film is interposed between the first gate electrode and the semiconductor film, the source electrode and the drain electrode are interposed between the semiconductor film and the paraelectric film. The first gate electrode, the ferroelectric film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode constitute a first semiconductor transistor. The second gate electrode, the paraelectric film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode constitute a second semiconductor transistor.
US08724358B2
A stacked structure of a power converter is disclosed. The stacked structure has a power conversion circuit that provides an output or input of alternating current in three phases and is composed of odd-numbered parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules for each phase, and a heat sink for cooling the power semiconductor element modules. An odd number of the parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules are arranged in a first phase and a third phase, and an even number of the parallel-connected power semiconductor element modules are arranged in a second phase respectively in two rows on the heat sink relative to a ventilation direction of air for cooling the heat sink.
US08724354B2
The present invention provides a multi-phase inverter control device and a current control method for the same. The multi-phase inverter control device comprises a discrete circuit receiving CT IOCCS, CT IOCS and CT LIVS, and converting them into a plurality of DT signals; a multi-dimensional quantization circuit calculating according to an MDFQCC (Multi-Dimensional Feedback Quantization Current Control) algorithm to obtain DT IOVS for determining a plurality of switching signals; a driver circuit receiving the switching signals, and converting the switching signals into a plurality of switch driving signals; and an inverter circuit receiving the switch driving signals to output voltage across the load. The present invention decreases switching frequency, reduces switching loss and controls the inverter to output current efficiently.
US08724351B2
A controller for a load drive system which can reduce a ripple current which flows in a smoothing capacitor even when an inverter is PWM controlled with a two-phase modulation includes a converter for changing an output voltage of a DC power supply, an inverter for transforming a DC voltage outputted from the converter into a three-phase AC voltage to be applied onto a load and a smoothing capacitor provided in parallel between the converter and the inverter includes an inverter controller for PWM controlling the inverter with a two-phase modulation and a converter controller for PWM controlling the converter.
US08724350B2
An exemplary power supply circuit for providing a driving voltage to a load includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) control circuit, a transformer, a voltage output terminal, and a temperature compensation circuit. The PWM control circuit is configured for outputting a pulse signal. The transformer is configured for converting a first direct current (DC) voltage to a second DC voltage according to the pulse signal. The voltage output terminal is configured for outputting the driving voltage based on the second DC voltage. The temperature compensation circuit includes a temperature sensor for detecting an operation temperature of the load and correspondingly generating a detecting signal, and a feedback signal transmitter for outputting a feedback signal based on the detecting signal. The PWM control circuit adjusts a duty ratio of the pulse signal according to the feedback signal outputted by the temperature compensation circuit.
US08724342B2
A cover shield for a circuit board having a body. A peripheral wall is disposed about an edge of the body. First and second slots each include a first portion that extends through the body and a second portion that extends through the peripheral wall. A barbed tab is disposed between the first and second slots. A notch extends through a portion of the barbed tab. A distinct abutting member is disposed on the peripheral wall.
US08724331B2
An intelligent wall-mounted switch module is provided so that plural electric appliances can be turned on or off mechanically with a single switching element through touch-based selection. The switch module includes a switching element mounted on a wall. The switching element has a control unit electrically connected to the electric appliances and a display for displaying, under control of the control unit, plural identification images whereby the electric appliances or the space or spaces where they are located can be identified. A touch panel is provided on a surface of the display. A user may slide a finger along the touch panel, thus instructing the control unit to switch the identification images displayed by the display. Then, the switching element can be switched so as for the control unit to turn on or off the electric appliance corresponding to the identification image displayed. The switch module features enhanced durability.
US08724327B2
A heat sink assembly includes a heat sink, two first fixing structures, and two second fixing structures. The heat sink includes a base. The base includes two opposite sidewalls each forming a fixing portion. When the heat sink is mounted to a first motherboard, the first fixing structures are respectively and detachably connected to the fixing portions of the heat sink, and fix the heat sink to the first motherboard. When the heat sink is mounted to a second motherboard, the second fixing structures are detachably connected to fixing portions of the heat sink, and fix the heat sink to the second motherboard.
US08724325B2
An example solid state switching arrangement includes at least one bus bar configured to carry electrical current and at least one switch that is silicon carbide based. The switch is secured relative to the bus bar and the bus bar is configured to communicate thermal energy away from the switch. An example method of arranging a switch includes mounting a silicon carbide based switch relative to a bus bar and communication thermal energy away from the silicon carbide based switch using the bus bar.
US08724321B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal display having a display panel, a housing, and a plurality of heat pipes. The housing has a sealing part and has aeration paths. The sealing part seals the display panel to box the display panel therein, while making a display screen of the display panel viewable from outside. The aeration paths are arranged outside the sealing part and communicate with the outside of the housing. The heat pipes extend from a rear surface of the display panel to the aeration paths.
US08724317B2
A housing has a front surface and a back surface. A keyboard and a corresponding bottom surface move between a non-deployed configuration and a deployed configuration. A tray slides in and out of the housing along one or more slots that are formed internal to the housing. This tray can include an internal surface having a first side that contacts the keyboard and an opposing second side that contacts the aforementioned bottom surface when the latter components are non-deployed. When moving to the deployed configuration the keyboard and bottom surface first move substantially parallel to the housing and then move substantially perpendicular to the housing. Projections on these components can interact with corresponding tracks formed in the housing to direct at the least this perpendicular movement.
US08724311B2
A chip card holder for holding at least one chip card, includes a base, a drawer and a arm. The drawer is slidably attached to the base. The drawer defines a receiving space and a receiving groove communicating with the receiving space. The arm is rotatably attached in the receiving groove. When only one chip card is received in the receiving space, the arm rotates relative to the drawer until the arm is pressed on the chip card so the chip card is held in the receiving space by the arm; when two chip cards are stacked in the receiving space, the arm is attached in the receiving groove to prevent said two chip cards from sliding out of the receiving space through the receiving groove.
US08724308B2
An electronic device includes a chassis and a data storage assembly slidably received in the chassis. The data storage assembly includes a bracket and a plurality of hard disk drives uprightly inserted in the bracket, which can arrange more hard disk drives in the bracket effectively.
US08724307B2
An optical drive includes a drive chassis and a front panel. The drive chassis includes a single sleeve unit having a top panel, a first side panel, a second side panel, a bottom panel, and a back panel. The single sleeve unit is a single piece of material such that the top panel, the first side panel, the second side panel, the bottom panel, and the back panel are continuous. Additionally, the single piece of material is bent at an intersection of each of the top, first side, second side, bottom, and back panels. The front panel is snap fitted onto the top panel, the first side panel, the second side panel, and the bottom panel of the single sleeve unit of the drive chassis.
US08724306B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to a hinge assembly. An example of the hinge assembly includes a pair of active hinges and a pair of passive hinges. The hinge assembly may be utilized in portable computing devices such as notebook computers and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
US08724302B2
Flexible hinge and removable attachment techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a flexible hinge is configured to communicatively and physically couple an input device to a computing device and may implement functionality such as a support layer and minimum bend radius. The input device may also include functionality to promote a secure physical connection between the input device and the computing device. One example of this includes use of one or more protrusions that are configured to be removed from respective cavities of the computing device along a particular axis but mechanically bind along other axes. Other techniques include use of a laminate structure to form a connection portion of the input device.
US08724299B2
An external component attachable to a portable electronic device includes a curved surface attachable to a convex surface of the portable electronic device and attaching portions formed at both ends of the curved surface and fixable to the portable electronic device. The curved surface curves such that the width between the attaching portions is narrower than the width between fixing portions of the portable electronic device to which the attaching portions are fixable.
US08724298B2
A panel display suspension system comprising a first mounting part and a second mounting part. In order to be able to easily adjust the horizontal position of a suspended panel display (7) the first mounting part is provided with a supporting rail-shaped body (1) and the second mounting part is provided with supporting movers (3) for cooperation with the rail-shaped body. One of the mounting parts is configured for securing to the panel display and the other mounting part is configured for securing to a wall.
US08724296B2
To provide a solid electrolytic capacitor having a high capacitance and an excellent heat resistance. A solid electrolytic capacitor includes: an anode 2; a dielectric layer 3 provided on the surface of the anode 2; a first conductive polymer layer 4a provided on the dielectric layer 3; a second conductive polymer layer 4b provided on the first conductive polymer layer 4a; a third conductive polymer layer 4c provided on the second conductive polymer layer 4b; and a cathode layer provided on the third conductive polymer layer 4c, wherein the first conductive polymer layer 4a is made of a conductive polymer film formed by polymerizing pyrrole or a derivative thereof, the second conductive polymer layer 4b is made of a conductive polymer film formed by polymerizing thiophene or a derivative thereof, and the third conductive polymer layer 4c is made of a conductive polymer film formed by electropolymerizing pyrrole or a derivative thereof.
US08724295B2
A positive electrode 21 and negative electrode 22 formed of a thin metal plate are disposed on the same plane with a space provided therebetween. An insulative resin is disposed in the space between the both electrodes. The insulative resin electrically insulates the positive and the negative electrodes, and making both electrodes integrated as a sheet to form a terminal board. Positive- and negative-electrode drawing portions are formed on the same surface of the main body of a capacitor element, and that surface serves as a joined face with the terminal board. With the terminal board being superimposed on the joined face of the capacitor element, the metal plate forming the positive and negative electrodes of the terminal board are electrically coupled to the positive- and negative-electrode drawing portions of the element, respectively.
US08724293B2
Disclosed is a storage device comprising a positive electrode material containing graphite; a negative electrode material containing an oxide of at least one metal element selected from Ti, Zr, V, Cr, Mo, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Sn, Sb, Bi, W and Ta, which may preferably contains a metal oxide containing at least Ti as a metal element; and an electrolyte solution. This storage device has high capacitance and high discharge voltage, thereby having high energy. Consequently, this storage device can have high energy density, while being excellent in cycle performances and rate performances.
US08724289B2
A disclosed substrate temperature adjusting-fixing device includes an electro static chuck attracting and holding an attractable object onto a base body having a built-in electrode by applying a voltage to the electrode, a base plate fixing the electro static chuck via an adhesive layer, a power supplying portion electrically connected to the electrode, and a retaining portion holding the power supplying portion, wherein the retaining portion includes a main body and a sealing portion, the main body is fixed to the base plate and has recesses opened on an opposite side of the adhesive layer and a through hole penetrating through the main body, the power supplying portion includes an electrode pin and an electric wire, the electric wire is wired inside the adhesive layer, the through hole and the recesses to electrically connect the electrode with the electrode pin, and the sealing portion fills the recesses.
US08724285B2
Techniques or processes for providing markings on products are disclosed. Particular arrangements of input devices may provide enhancements in ease of use. Further, cosmetic laser marking of input devices may provide improved visual appearance. Additionally, selectively controlling laser operation parameters during laser marking may provide laser marking that may be substantially electrically conductive, which in turn may be helpful in electrostatic discharge protection.
US08724284B2
An electrostatic protection component includes: a body in which a plurality of ceramic substrates is laminated; and a pair of discharge electrodes which are formed within the body and which are spaced to face each other. The discharge electrodes include main body portions extending along a longitudinal direction, and the main body portions include tips in the longitudinal direction and side edges extending along the longitudinal direction. The pair of discharge electrodes are arranged such that both the main body portions are adjacent to each other in a short direction. The discharge electrodes face each other in the short direction between the side edges, and discharge occurs only between the side edges, between the discharge electrodes.
US08724277B2
A communication device that establishes a communication with another communication device and supplies electric power to the other communication device by way of a transmission channel, the device comprises a supply voltage generation section that generates a supply voltage, a first detection section that detects a connection of an electric device other than the other communication device to the transmission channel, and an output control section that controls a supply of electric power to the other communication device, wherein the output control section supplies no power to the other communication device when the first detection section detects the connection of the electric device.
US08724272B2
An ESD protection device with a tunable holding voltage is disclosed. Embodiments include: providing a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) having a first n-type layer with a cathode connection, a first p-type layer with a first control connection, a second n-type layer with a second control connection, and a second p-type layer with an anode connection; coupling the anode connection to a power rail; coupling the cathode connection to a ground rail; providing a tunable holding voltage control unit including a first NMOS having a first gate, a first drain, and a first source, wherein during an ESD event, the first NMOS is turned off and a holding voltage of the SCR is low; coupling the first drain to the first control connection; coupling the first source to the ground rail; and coupling the first gate to a program circuit.
US08724266B2
The invention is a photovoltaic-specific, DC load-break disconnect switch intended for applications where load-break capability is only required under abnormal operating conditions or in an emergency due to the catastrophic failure or other system components. Under normal operating conditions, the load will be switched off before a DC disconnect switch is opened. Under conditions where a load-break disconnect operation is required, an alternate path is automatically provided through a sacrificial fuse to divert current from opening contacts such that the fuse interrupts the current and not the contacts, thereby providing a substantially arcless load break. The current rating of the sacrificial fuse may be orders of magnitude less than the normal carry current. Equipment based on this invention will provide a one-time load break function that is renewable by the replacement of a fuse. The invention leverages the superior, cost-effective fault clearing capability of fuses in DC applications.
US08724250B2
A system and method for reading magnetic tape are provided herein. The system includes a tape head including two read arrays. Each of the two read arrays includes a first set of data read elements of a first channel pitch and a second set of data read elements of a second channel pitch, and the first set of data read elements and the second set of data read elements are interleaved. The tape head also includes a write array located between the two read arrays.
US08724248B2
A method, apparatus and a data storage device are provided for implementing data track pitch adjustment for data written on a recordable surface of a storage device under operational vibration conditions. An operational vibration disturbance spectrum is detected during a write operation and the data track pitch is selectively adjusted based on the detected operational vibration disturbance spectrum. The adjusted track pitch information is saved and used during a read operation.
US08724242B2
Cross-track deviation of a writer from a predetermined track on a recording medium is detected. A write current is adjusted based on the cross-track deviation of the writer from the predetermined track. The adjusted write current is applied to the writer to compensate for the cross-track deviation of the writer from the predetermined track.
US08724241B2
A prism unit includes a prism having at least one optical surface in its inside, and a prism base disposing the prism, the prism base including at least three seating surfaces that are attached to a surface orthogonal to the optical surface of the prism, a seating surface bonded part that is bonded to the prism by an adhesive. At least the three seating surfaces and the seating surface bonded part are symmetrically arranged on the optical surface of the prism.
US08724236B2
An endoscope objective lens system design is disclosed, generally comprising a first lens group having overall negative refractive power, a second lens group having overall positive refractive power, and an aperture diaphragm disposed between the first and second lens groups wherein the first lens group includes a plano-concave lens with its concave surface facing the objective end of the endoscope.
US08724235B2
A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power including a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the object-side surface and the convex image-side surface of the first lens element being aspheric; a second lens element with negative refractive power including a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the second lens element being aspheric; and a third lens element with negative refractive power including an object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, and the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the third lens element being aspheric. The second lens element and the third lens element are made of plastic. The image-side surface of the third lens element is concave near an optical axis and convex away from the optical axis.
US08724229B2
A decentered optical system includes a decentered prism which is located in opposition to the image display device, in which there are at least three optical surfaces mutually decentered with at least two thereof being in rotationally asymmetric shape, and which is filled inside with a medium having a refractive index of greater than 1, and a decentered lens which is interposed between the viewer's eyeball and the decentered prism, and is made up of mutually decentered two surfaces and filled inside with a medium having a refractive index of greater than 1, and in which on the image display device side with respect to an on-axis chief ray incident from the center of the image display device on the center of an exit pupil, there is a lens portion having positive power, and on an opposite side thereof, there is a lens portion having negative power.
US08724224B2
A display device includes a dihedral corner reflector array optical element composed of a substrate and a plurality of dihedral corner reflectors arranged regularly on one main surface of the substrate, the dihedral corner reflectors including orthogonal mirror planes perpendicular to each other and being perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate; and an object existing by the one surface of the substrate, the optical element forming a real image of the object by the other main surface of the substrate. The optical element includes a plurality of protrudent bodies integrally formed of a transparent material of the substrate, each of the protrudent bodies including two sides of orthogonal mirror planes perpendicular to each other as the dihedral corner reflector perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate. The optical element is disposed so that the protrudent bodies face toward a space in which the object exists.
US08724223B2
A device for homogenizing laser radiation contains a plurality of mirror elements which are arranged offset with respect to one another and at which the laser radiation to be homogenized can be reflected in such a way that it is split into a plurality of partial beams corresponding to the number of mirror elements. The partial beams have a path difference with respect to one another as a result of the reflection. The device further has a plurality of lens elements, each of which is respectively assigned to one of the mirror elements in such a way that a respective one of the partial beams can pass through one of the lens elements. A distance between each of the mirror elements and the lens elements assigned thereto is equal to the focal length of the respective lens element.
US08724221B2
An optical filter includes a substrate and a filter film attached on the substrate. The filter film has alternate layers of high reflective layers and low reflective layers to form a plurality of Fabry-Perot resonators. A basic optical thickness of the high reflective layers and the low reflective layers is one fourth a central wavelength (λ0/4) of incident ray, and each of the Fabry-Perot resonators has two high reflector films and a spacer between the high reflector films. The spacers in the Fabry-Perot resonator, which is most proximal to the substrate, and in the Fabry-Perot resonator, which is most distal to the substrate, have an optical thickness respectively in a range between four times the basic optical thickness and fourteen times the basic optical thickness.
US08724219B1
Method and apparatus to generate a composite far field beam having a central null and discrete cylindrical symmetry. A phased array of Gaussian beams was used to form an annular far-field pattern as opposed to the normal peaked pattern in most phased arrays. This annular pattern arises from the radial symmetry of the polarization in each beam. Beams opposite one another in the annulus are polarized in the same direction but are 180° out of phase. This causes the center portion of the beam to be a null rather than a peak.
US08724217B2
A reflected dark field structure includes a bottom plate, a support tube, a light unit, a diffuser structure, and a reflector unit that provides reflected dark field illumination, such that a gem held by the support tube and surrounded by the diffuser structure is illuminated and viewable through an aperture in the reflector unit. A method for imaging and analyzing a gem includes placing the gem onto a support tube where it is illuminated with dark field and reflected dark field illumination, and viewing the gem via an aperture located on a top reflector unit, which provides a top cover for the gem. Furthermore, a method and apparatus for obtaining images of a gem includes a dark field stage, a reflector unit, and an image-acquiring device, such that a gem placed in the dark field stage is illuminated, and such that the reflector unit covers the dark field stage and provides reflected dark field illumination, and such that the image-acquiring device is directed towards an aperture in the reflector unit.
US08724215B2
The invention can include an apparatus for producing optical pulses, comprising an oscillator for producing optical pulses at a first optical pulse repetition frequency, the optical pulses having a first wavelength; a first optical fiber amplifier; a second optical fiber amplifier; a pulse picker located between the first and second optical fiber amplifiers, the pulse picker operable to reduce the optical pulse repetition frequency of optical pulses, wherein the first amplifier amplifies optical pulses at the first optical pulse repetition frequency and the second amplifier amplifies optical pulses at a reduced optical pulse repetition frequency that is less than the first optical pulse repetition frequency; a nonlinear optical fiber receiving amplified optical pulses having the reduced optical pulse repetition frequency and the first wavelength to produce, at the reduced optical pulse frequency, optical pulses that include one or more nonlinearly produced wavelengths different than the first wavelength; and wherein the pulse picker and the first and second optical fiber amplifiers are located between the oscillator and the nonlinear optical fiber.
US08724212B2
An electrophoretic display device includes a circuit substrate and an opposed substrate arranged to face each other, a dispersion liquid interposed between the circuit substrate and the opposed substrate, a plurality of platforms arranged to be spaced apart from each other with a slit therebetween in a display region on the circuit substrate, a plurality of reflectors respectively formed on top faces of the plurality of platforms, a slit electrode located in each slit, an opposed electrode formed on the opposed substrate, and an electrophoretic layer filled with a dispersion liquid which contains black particles having a different color from that of the reflectors and being dispersed in a dispersion medium.
US08724202B2
An array of MEMS shutters may incorporate opaque and/or interference-based film stacks, to control light in a window. The shutter structure may include one or more layers with a controlled stress gradient, which makes a shutter arm curl out of plane and away from a defined aperture for light, thus permitting light to be transmitted through a transparent substrate and past the MEMS structure. To close the shutter, a voltage may be applied between an electrode in the shutter arm and an electrode covering a region on the substrate, rolling the shutter arm flat against the substrate electrode and placing the shutter arm over the aperture. The shutter arm may be configured to transmit selected wavelengths of light. In some implementations, the shutter arm may be configured to filter out infrared light.
US08724199B2
An optical scanning apparatus includes a deflecting device for scanning and deflecting a light beam, a first optical member onto which reflected light from the deflecting device is incident, a wall disposed between the first optical member and the deflecting device, a mirror that reflects the light beam having passed through the first optical member, a second optical member disposed above the deflecting device to guide and form an image of reflected light from the mirror on a surface to be scanned, a supporting member supporting the second optical member and having at least one bent portion, and a housing. The bent portion of the supporting member is disposed above the deflecting device in a position nearer to the deflecting device than the wall face in a direction perpendicular to the deflecting face of the deflecting device so that a flow of air produced by the deflecting device is branched.
US08724190B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to start image formation in accordance with a second job while performing the image formation in accordance with a first job, each of the first job and the second job including information indicating one of paper feeding units; a detecting unit configured to detect whether a recording medium is stored in a paper feeding unit indicated by the first job; and an image formation control unit configured to cause the image forming unit to continue the image formation in accordance with the second job when the detecting unit detects that a recording medium is stored in the paper feeding unit, and cause the image forming unit to suspend the image formation in accordance with the second job when the detecting unit detects that no recording medium is stored in the paper feeding unit.
US08724184B2
A method of scanning a document uses a document scanning device having a case which defines a cavity and has a docking location on a first side and a document platform on a second opposed side. The method includes steps of inserting an electronic image capturing device into the docking location, inserting a document to be scanned onto the document platform, activating a camera on the electronic image capturing device, and capturing an image of the document. Once the document image has been captured, the method may also include a further step of transmitting the image to another location, using a communications network.
US08724183B2
An imaging apparatus for imaging a document in an open environment or a closed environment including processor, memory, an imaging device having at least one image sensor and a direct light-source, a bench having an upper surface and a document holding mechanism having at least one paperweight. The paperweights are disposed in respective fitted hollow columns formed in the document holding mechanism, extending generally perpendicular, upwardly from the upper surface of the bench, wherein the respective fitted hollow column facilitates free up and down motion of the paperweight inside, and wherein the document may be pushed underneath said paperweight to thereby flatten the document.
US08724181B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with a document receiving portion that receives a document, and an image reader that moves between a first end position of the document receiving portion and a second end position opposite to the first end position. The image reader reads the image of the document on the document receiving portion while moving in a predetermined direction. A cable is provided having an end connected to the image reader. A cable protrusion and a regulation protrusion are configured such that, along with movement of the image reader in the predetermined direction from the first position to the second position, the cable protrusion moves a predetermined distance in the predetermined direction and contacts the regulation protrusion, and the regulation protrusion regulates a further movement of the cable in the predetermined direction.
US08724178B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit to form a color toner image using a color toner and a transparent layer using a transparent toner on a sheet of recording media, a sheet conveyance unit to transport the sheet, a 3D display lens forming unit disposed downstream from the image forming unit in a sheet conveyance direction, and a controller. The 3D display lens forming unit includes a shaping member including an uneven portion having predetermined surface unevenness, and a pressure member to press the shaping member against the sheet, forming a shaping nip between the shaping member and the pressure member. The 3D display lens forming unit shapes the transparent layer that is an outermost layer on the sheet into a stereoscopic display lens by transferring the surface unevenness of the uneven portion of the shaping member to the transparent layer formed on the sheet.
US08724177B2
A printing apparatus having an automatic printing sheet feeder integrated thereto to improve mass productivity. The printing apparatus includes a base, a moving stage, an automatic printing sheet feeder, and a printing roll. The moving stage is linearly movable along the base, and has a lithographic plate seated on the top surface thereof, the lithographic plate having a printing pattern thereon. The automatic printing sheet feeder is installed on the moving stage. The automatic printing sheet feeder includes an unwinding roll, which supplies the printing sheet, a rewinding roll, which collects the printing sheet, and a plurality of guide rolls, which guide the printing sheet to pass through the printing area of the moving stage. The printing roll is installed on the base, and performs printing by transferring ink from recesses of a printing pattern of the lithographic plate to the printing sheet on the moving stage.
US08724175B2
A halftone correction device for an image forming apparatus including an intermediate transfer belt and performing halftone processes includes: a correction unit that performs halftone correction for each of the halftone processes using correction tables corresponding to the halftone processes; a pattern generation unit that generates on the belt halftone patterns based on at least one of the halftone processes; a measurement unit that measures image densities of the generated halftone patterns; an estimation unit that estimates, from the image densities of the halftone patterns, image densities of halftone patterns corresponding to the other ones of the halftone processes, by applying a relational expression as an estimation equation to patches of the halftone patterns having an equal image area ratio; and a table generation unit that generates the correction tables using target values and the image densities of the halftone patterns of the halftone processes.
US08724174B2
An image processing apparatus includes an edge-portion detector, an edge-width detector, and a tone correction unit. The edge-portion detector detects a pixel of an edge portion by determining whether or not each of pixels constituting image data which has been input is a pixel which is included in the edge portion. The edge-width detector detects, for the pixel of the edge portion detected by the edge-portion detector, an edge width which is a width of the edge portion. When the edge width detected by the edge-width detector is smaller than a value which is set in advance, the tone correction unit performs tone correction differently in accordance with the detected edge width.
US08724170B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including: an image forming section which forms an image on paper; a plurality of image reading sections each of which reads the image formed on the paper, and is connectable to the image forming apparatus; a storage section which stores connection information on a connection state between each of the image reading sections and the image forming apparatus; and a control section which selects a test image reading section from among the image reading sections based on the connection information, makes the selected test image reading section read a test image formed by the image forming section, and performs image quality adjustment based on the read test image.
US08724167B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a thinning unit. The acquisition unit may acquire color information concerning color of an image having an attribute of at least one of character or line drawing. The determination unit may determine a thinning ratio for thinning data of non-edge portions of the image according to the color information acquired by the acquisition unit. The thinning unit may thin data of the non-edge portions according to the thinning ratio determined by the determination unit. The thinning ratio determined by the determination unit when the color information indicates a color other than black is lower than the thinning ratio determined when the color information indicates black.
US08724162B2
A system and method for implementing selectable platen sheet rulers as one of technology-based dynamically adaptable platen sheet rulers or physically-replaceable platen sheet rulers or a plurality of physically-replaceable platens having associated with each a permanently-affixed set of platen sheet rulers for device emulation, are provided. The user is provided with a mechanism by which to select a different origin for imaging operations in an image forming device. To enable emulation on the image forming devices, selectable rulers are employed. Dynamically-adaptable rulers include liquid crystal display (LCD) technology, light emitting diode (LED) arrays or similar tools to configure platen sheet ruler displays to frame a platen of the image forming device to enable real-time changing of the platen sheet rulers. Separately, physically-replaceable rulers such as, for example, one of “snap-in” rulers that are changeable with respect to a set platens in the image forming device are provided.
US08724160B2
An image forming apparatus includes an accumulation unit, an instruction unit, an output unit, an identifier computing unit a combining unit and a change unit, wherein the combining unit does not perform the combining for an increased copy number when the change unit increases the print copy number information.
US08724157B2
An object of this invention is to increase the transfer rate of image data from a host computer to a printing apparatus. To achieve this object, a printing apparatus which divides the printing area in the printhead scanning direction into a plurality of regions and prints in each divided region in order to print by scanning the printhead on the printing medium includes a conversion circuit which rearranges image data that is transmitted from the host computer and arranged in a direction perpendicular to the data arrangement of the printhead, into image data in the same horizontal direction as the data arrangement direction of the printhead.
US08724155B2
A copier apparatus includes a scanner for acquiring at least one image to be copied. Temporary storage is adapted to temporarily store the image only until the next subsequent print/copy job is scanned. At least one printing engine is used to print the image on a medium. In addition, a processor is preset to delete the image from the temporary storage after completion of printing of the image by the printing engine unless the user interface has previously received an instruction to reprint the image. If the user provides an instruction to reprint the image, the user interface is adapted to display a menu of reprint options. Then the image can be reprinted without having to be rescanned.
US08724148B2
A control device is notified of recording problems in a recording device based on the location of drive data in a storage device. A printer stores a start-recording position as start-recording position data, writes drive data reflecting the start-recording position in a line buffer, drives a line thermal head based on the buffered drive data to record on a recording medium, and the printer returns information denoting the start-recording position based on a request from the host computer.
US08724147B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions to control a computer, which is configured to display a webpage including a webpage image based on webpage data, to perform a method of image forming control, the method including: receiving an instruction to select an area on the display screen as a selection area; storing selection area webpage data; storing first image data having a first format generated based on the selection area webpage data; storing image data having the first format representing the webpage image in the selection area, as a second image data; detecting an image absence area, wherein a content of the first image data display is absent from that of the second image data; generating correspondence image data corresponding to the image absence area; compositing the correspondence image data into the image absence area to produce composite image data; and outputting the composite image data.
US08724140B2
One or more print streams destined for one or more print stream processing modules are optimized prior to printing, based on relevant document attributes. Optimization may balance operation time of a first processing module with that of a second processing module, by appropriate assigning of documents to the print streams. Optimization may separate input print file document pages into sort groups and/or order sort group documents from largest to smallest. Optimization may allocate documents to optimize the inserter throughput without damaging the integrity of the sort groups. With 2-up or 3-up printing or the like, allocation of sort groups between the multiple outputs to be created after printed paper is split may ensure that parallel paper document outputs are as nearly the same length as possible, to minimize paper wastage. Separation of pages of the same document among different streams/modules can be avoided.
US08724137B2
State information about whether a printing apparatus can store print data for confidential printing is acquired. When the print data can be stored, secure information and print data are transmitted, and when the print data cannot be stored, the print data is transmitted after performing authentication based on the secure information.
US08724133B2
An image forming apparatus may include a reading unit, a display unit, and a printing unit. The reading unit reads a document and generate image data. The display unit displays a screen for setting a layout in printing the image data. The printing unit prints the image data using the layout and a read size of the document. In response to a screen for setting a layout in printing the image data being displayed by using a certain method, a user of the displaying unit is allowed to skip setting of the read size of the document to print the image data. In response to a screen for setting a layout in printing the image data being displayed without using the certain method, the user is requested to set the read size of the document to print the image data.
US08724115B2
A stage metrology suitable for REBL includes an interferometer stage metrology system configured to measure the position and rotation of a short-stroke wafer scanning stage, wherein the interferometer metrology system includes two or more interferometers for each axis of measurement, wherein a first interferometer mirror is disposed on a first surface of the short-stroke wafer scanning stage and a second interferometer mirror is disposed on a second surface of the short-stroke wafer scanning stage, and a control system configured to determine a shape error for the first interferometer mirror using two or more interferometer measurements from the two or more interferometers associated with the first interferometer mirror and a shape error for the second interferometer mirror using two or more interferometer measurements from the two or more interferometers associated with the second interferometer mirror.
US08724100B1
A wafer includes multiple optical devices that each includes one or more optical components. The optical components include light-generating components that each generates a light signal in response to application of electrical energy to the light-generating component from electronics that are external to the wafer. The optical components also include receiver components that each outputs an electrical signal in response to receipt of light. The wafer also includes testing waveguides that each extends from within a boundary of one of the optical devices across the boundary of the optical device and also provides optical communication between a first portion of the optical components and a second portion of the optical components. The first portion of the optical components includes one or more of the light-generating components and the second portion of the optical components include one or more of the receiver components.
US08724097B2
A source of light that could cause ocular damage within a given range from the source of light, such as a first laser, is accompanied by an optical hazard avoidance device, such as a second laser, that stimulates voluntary, involuntary, or both voluntary and involuntary responses, either physiological or behavioral or both physiological and behavioral, within one or more hazard zones, such as by inducing gaze aversion within the viewer. For example, a visible laser beam induces gaze aversion, pupil contraction or a combination of gaze aversion and pupil contraction, reducing the dose rate or exposure of the ocular tissue to damaging radiation from a primary source. In one example, the primary source is a UV Raman detector and the visible laser beam is selected to induce gaze aversion.
US08724093B2
A division line depicted on a road is detected. A beam-formed electromagnetic wave is repetitively at intervals transmitted toward the road viewed from a vehicle to scan in the vehicle width direction. Each beam-formed electromagnetic wave is radiated to a radiation area on the road, and the radiation areas made by transmitting the beam-formed electromagnetic wave a plurality of times virtually produces a scan area on the road. Every beam-formed electromagnetic wave, distance data indicative of a distance between a division line on the road and the vehicle is measured based on information about a reflected electromagnetic wave. The distance data measured is received to detect the division line based on characteristics of changes in a sequence of the distance data produced by mapping the received distance data in a scanning order of the beam-formed electromagnetic wave.
US08724086B2
A projection exposure apparatus for microlithography comprises illumination optics for illuminating object field points of an object field in an object plane is disclosed. The illumination optics have, for each object field point of the object field, an exit pupil associated with the object point, where sin(γ) is a greatest marginal angle value of the exit pupil. The illumination optics include a multi-mirror array that includes a plurality of mirrors to adjust an intensity distribution in exit pupils associated to the object field points. The illumination optics further contain at least one optical system to temporally stabilize the illumination of the multi-mirror array so that, for each object field point, the intensity distribution in the associated exit pupil deviates from a second adjusted intensity distribution in the associated exit pupil by less than 0.1 in at least one of an inner σ or an outer σ.
US08724085B2
An exposure apparatus and method exposes a substrate via a projection optical system and a liquid. A liquid immersion system supplies liquid to form a liquid immersion region below the projection optical system. First and second tables each can mount a substrate. A drive system drives the first and second tables, which are positionable below the projection optical system. The drive system is controlled to move the first and second tables below the projection optical system relative to the liquid immersion region to replace one of the first and second tables positioned below the projection optical system with the other of the first and second tables such that the liquid immersion region is transferred from the one of the first and second tables to the other of the first and second tables while the liquid immersion region is maintained below and in contact with the projection optical system.
US08724084B2
In a lithographic apparatus, a localized area of the substrate surface under a projection system is immersed in liquid. The height of a liquid supply system above the surface of the substrate can be varied using actuators. A control system uses feedforward or feedback control with input of the surface height of the substrate to maintain the liquid supply system at a predetermined height above the surface of the substrate.
US08724079B2
When a transition from a first state where one stage is positioned at a first area directly below projection optical system to which liquid is supplied to a state where the other stage-is positioned at the first area, both stages are simultaneously driven while a state where both stages are close together in the X-axis direction is maintained. Therefore, it becomes possible to make a transition from the first state to the second state in a state where liquid is supplied in the space between the projection optical system and the specific stage directly under the projection optical system. Accordingly, the time from the completion of exposure operation on one stage side until the exposure operation begins on the other stage side can be reduced, which allows processing with high throughput. Further, because the liquid can constantly exist on the image plane side of the projection optical system, generation of water marks on optical members of the projection optical system on the image plane side is prevented.
US08724075B2
An optical element includes a base material, a liquid-repellent member provided on at least a part of a surface of the base material, and a light-reducing member provided between the base material and the liquid-repellent member to protect the liquid-repellent member from radiation of light by reducing the light. The optical element is usable for a liquid immersion exposure apparatus for exposing a substrate through a liquid. It is possible to avoid any inflow of the liquid in a liquid immersion area into an unexpected place via the optical element.
US08724072B2
A liquid crystal display device with a pair of substrates which are arranged to face each other with liquid crystal therebetween, columnar spacers having the substantially equal height formed on a liquid-crystal-side surface of one substrate, and the columnar spacers include the columnar spacer which is contact with a liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate and the columnar spacer which is not contact with the liquid-crystal-side surface of another substrate.
US08724066B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate having pixels, each pixel including a display area and a non-display area; a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a common electrode; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each pixel includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a main pixel electrode having a first connection part electrically connected to the first transistor, and a sub-pixel electrode having a second connection part electrically connected to the second transistor. The first and second connection parts are disposed in the non-display area. A protective layer is disposed between the first connection parts the first transistors and between second connection parts and the second transistors.
US08724063B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal optical apparatus includes first and second substrate units, a liquid crystal layer, and a drive unit. The first substrate unit includes a first substrate having a first major surface, a plurality of first and second electrodes. The first electrodes are provided on the first major surface to extend in a first direction. The second electrodes are provided on the first major surface to extend in the first direction. The second substrate unit includes a second substrate having a second major surface opposing the first major surface and an opposing electrode. The opposing electrode is provided on the second major surface. The liquid crystal layer is provided between the first and second substrate units. The drive unit is electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, and the opposing electrode and forms a refractive index distribution in the liquid crystal layer.
US08724060B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing liquid crystal display module with photovoltaic cell, which includes: (1) providing a substrate and a liquid crystal display panel; (2) forming a transparent conductive layer on the substrate through sputtering; (3) forming a first matrix, which is arranged to stay away from a pixel aperture of the liquid crystal display panel and is located below the TFT arrays; (4) forming a photovoltaic layer on the transparent conductive layer through chemical vapor deposition; (5) forming a second matrix corresponding to the first matrix; (6) forming a metal layer on the photovoltaic layer through sputtering; (7) forming a third matrix corresponding to the second matrix so as to form a photovoltaic cell on the substrate; (8) applying sealant to the substrate around the photovoltaic cell; and (9) bonding the substrate and the liquid crystal display panel to each other and curing the sealant.
US08724055B2
The present invention relates to a display and polarizer capable of photon-electric conversion, the display capable of photon-electric conversion comprising: a first substrate having a first top surface and a first bottom surface, a second substrate having a second top surface and a second bottom surface, a liquid crystal layer disposed between said first bottom surface of said first substrate and said second top surface of said second substrate, a first polarizer disposed on said first top surface of said first substrate, and a photon-electric conversion element, wherein a light-polarized dye is added into said photon-electric conversion element to form a second polarizer attached to the second bottom surface of the second substrate, and photon energy of an incident light, which has a direction of vibration parallel to absorption axis of said light-polarized dye, is absorbed by said light-polarized dye for photon-electric conversion.
US08724051B2
A backlight device includes a light source configured to light a liquid crystal panel from a back surface of the liquid crystal panel, wherein the light source includes a white light emitting diode, and a colored light emitting diode portion.
US08724045B2
The present invention provides a flat panel display device and a stereoscopic display device. The flat panel display device includes a backlight system and a display panel. The backlight system includes a reflector plate and a back frame and the back frame carries the reflector plate. The back frame includes at least two primary assembling pieces, the at least two primary assembling pieces being joined to form a main frame structure of the back frame; and the reflector plate has a substrate containing a conductive fiber net for preventing electromagnetic interference. With the above arrangement, the lat panel display device and the stereoscopic display device of the present invention have a backlight system, which has a back frame having a simple structure, saves material for the back frame, and reduces the cost of the back frame. Further, the present invention integrates a conductive fiber net in a substrate of a reflector plate for preventing electromagnetic interference so that the flat panel display device and the stereoscopic display device that use a joined back frame of the present invention can achieve the purpose of preventing electromagnetic interference with an easy manner and thus further reduce the manufacturing cost of the flat panel display device and the stereoscopic display device.
US08724041B2
An improved drive scheme for a segmented polarizing modulator (or Polarization Control Panel) for use in an electronic stereoscopic display. The segmented polarization modulator segments are arranged contiguously in a direction of the sequential scan. The liquid crystal material used in each segment is driven in a manner to reduce the visibility of segment boundaries, by applying a positive or negative transition voltage (+T or −T volts) for a short period of time prior to applying +H and −H drive voltages. Optionally, the transition voltage may also be applied in transitioning from +H and −H drive voltages.
US08724040B2
In an embodiment of the invention, a pixel structure of a 3D display device is provided. The pixel structure of a 3D display device includes a thin film transistor (TFT) substrate including a pixel, wherein the pixel is divided into a first subpixel strip and a second subpixel strip, and each subpixel strip includes a plurality of subpixels, wherein each subpixel is divided into a first area and a second area including one contact hole located in one of the first area and the second area, wherein the locations of the contact holes in the first subpixel strip and the second subpixel strip are the same or the location of the contact holes in the first subpixel strip is a mirror image of the location of the contact holes in the second subpixel strip, and a light modulating element formed on the pixel.
US08724039B2
A hybrid multiplexed 3D display and a displaying method thereof. The hybrid multiplexed 3D display includes an image display, a light source and an image splitter. The image display generates a view image. The light source sequentially generates light of multiple colors transmitted through the image display. The image splitter disposed above or below the image display causes image data, which is generated after the light is transmitted through the image display, to emit toward two or more than two view directions. Thus, the image viewed by a user has at least two views to achieve a stereoscopic visual effect.
US08724026B2
A system for enabling two different users to independently view and listen to two completely different programs on the same display at the same time is provided. A user wears eyeglasses with filters to filter out light from the program which the user does not want to view, while allowing the light from the program the user does want to view to be seen by the user. Successive frames of a first program are displayed using light polarized in one direction in an alternating manner with frames of a second program using light polarized in another direction. A first user wears glasses with lenses configured to filter out the light from the second program while a second user wears glasses to filter out the light from the first program. Thus, while wearing the glasses, the first user can see the first program while watching the display, but not the second program. Simultaneously, while wearing the other glasses, the second user will see the second program, but not the first program.
US08724024B2
A video signal output device and method are capable of easily displaying moving images while synchronizing transmission-side data and reception-side data even if video data is asynchronously transferred to the reception side from the transmission side. A video signal output device for receiving video data transmitted from a transmitter in sync with a first clock through a communication unit, storing the video data in a storage unit, reading the video data from the storage unit in sync with a second clock, and displaying moving images on a display unit, includes a synchronization adjustment unit for detecting a video data correction amount in accordance with a reference video data amount in one vertical synchronous period and a video data amount of the second clock in one vertical synchronous period to adjust a predetermined horizontal scanning period in accordance with the video data correction amount. The synchronization adjustment unit may distribute the video data correction amount to a plurality of invalid horizontal scanning periods not contributing to the display of moving images and adjust the plurality of invalid horizontal scanning periods.
US08724023B2
In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for transporting an ancillary data packet in the active area of a video stream are provided. In particular embodiments of the present invention, the method includes coupling a playback server and a digital video projector with a DVI link; placing an ancillary data packet of link encryption metadata in a false line of video in an active area of a frame of video at the playback server, a remainder of the active area comprising true lines of video; transmitting the ancillary data packet from the playback server to a digital video projector through the DVI link; extracting the ancillary data packet from the frame of video at the digital video projector; and displaying the remainder of the active area of the frame of video at the digital video projector.
US08724017B2
Systems, methods, and a computer readable medium for performing auto exposure (AE) techniques that are beneficial in variable lighting conditions—and particularly applicable to handheld and/or mobile videoconferencing applications—are disclosed herein. Handheld and/or mobile videoconferencing applications—unlike their fixed camera counterparts—are often exposed to a wide variety of rapidly changing lighting and scene conditions, and thus face a difficult trade-off between adjusting exposure parameter values too frequently or not frequently enough. In personal electronic devices executing such handheld and/or mobile videoconferencing applications, it may be desirable to: use a small, centered, and center-weighted exposure metering region; set a relatively low brightness target value; and adjust the camera's exposure parameter values according to a distance-dependent convergence speed function. The use of such techniques, in conjunction with a relatively large stability region, may also improve the quality of a video encoder's temporal predictions—and thus video quality—in videoconferencing applications.
US08724011B2
The image pickup apparatus includes a first detector detecting a first in-focus position by a phase difference detection method using paired image signals, a controller controlling position of a focus lens a basis of the first in-focus position to perform focusing, a second detector detecting a second in-focus position by a contrast detection method, a calculating part calculating a correction value for correcting the first in-focus position in image capturing on a basis of difference between the first and second in-focus positions, and a determining part determining a level of reliability of the first in-focus position. The controller calculates the correction value when the level of reliability is a first level, and to restrict the calculation of the correction value when the level of reliability is a second level lower than the first level.
US08724006B2
An imaging system includes an array of lenses, a plurality of sensor pixels for each lens, the sensor pixels being on an image plane of the imaging system, and a corresponding plurality of focal plane coding elements. A focal plane coding element for each sensor pixel has multiple sub-pixel resolution elements. The focal plane coding element being between the lens and each sensor pixel, wherein sub-pixel resolution elements over the plurality of focal plane coding elements represent a selected transform matrix having a non-zero determinant. The output of the plurality of sensor pixels being an image multiplied by this matrix.
US08723999B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel region in which shared pixels which share pixel transistors in a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions are two-dimensionally arranged. The shared pixel transistors are divisionally arranged in a column direction of the shared pixels, the pixel transistors shared between neighboring shared pixels are arranged so as to be horizontally reversed or/and vertically crossed, and connection wirings connected to a floating diffusion portion, a source of a reset transistor and a gate of an amplification transistor in the shared pixels are arranged along the column direction.
US08723993B2
An imaging apparatus and image capture program are provided that enable an image processing section compatible with a Bayer array to be employed without modification even in cases in which an image pickup device is employed that is provided with a color filter of an array other than a Bayer array.An imaging apparatus (10) is equipped with a color filter (30) having repeatedly disposed 6×6 pixel basic array patterns C containing a portion of a Bayer array pattern; and a drive section (22) that drives the image pickup device (14) so as to read pixel data only of pixels at a predetermined position so as to give the same pattern as the Bayer array pattern.
US08723990B2
A pixel of an image sensor includes only two signal lines per pixel, a pinned photodiode for sensing light, a floating base bipolar transistor, and no reset and address transistors. The floating base bipolar transistor provides the pixel with a gain, which can increase pixel sensitivity and reduce noise. The pixel also incorporates a vertical blooming control structure for an efficient blooming suppression. The output terminals of the pixel are coupled to a common column output line terminated by a special current sensing correlated double sampling circuit, which is used for subtraction of emitter leakage current. Based on this structure, the pixel has high sensitivity, high response uniformity, low noise, reduced size, and efficient layout.
