US09204586B2
An electronic-circuit assembling process to be carried out in an electronic-circuit assembling system, for assembling an electronic circuit, by mounting electronic circuit components supplied from a component supplier, onto a circuit board, wherein the electronic circuit components includes at least one of different-property components having respective different electrical properties. The process includes: (a) a different-property-component-related information obtaining step of obtaining a different-property-component-related information including (a-i) a property-related information that enables recognition of the electrical property of the different-property component supplied from the component supplier and (a-ii) a different-property-component supply position that is a position of the component supplier supplying the different-property component, such that the different-property-component-related information is obtained by detecting the property-related information and/or the different-property-component supply position; (b) a mounting step of mounting, based on information related to the different-property-component supply position, the electronic circuit components including the different-property component, onto the circuit board; and (c) a property-related information providing step of providing the circuit board with the property-related information of the different-property component mounted on the circuit board.
US09204579B2
Liquid-cooled power unit of a power electronics device, which power unit includes at least two power modules, the cooling surface of which power modules is provided with pin-type protrusions and which power modules are fixed to the frame part of the power unit. A liquid duct is arranged inside the frame part of the power unit, and the power modules are fixed to the points of the apertures situated in the frame part on both sides of the liquid duct in such a way that the pin-type protrusions of the power modules are situated in the liquid duct. A wedge-shaped part is disposed in the liquid duct, which wedge-shaped part includes a wedge-shaped front part for spreading the liquid flow into two essentially equal flows at the point of the power modules.
US09204576B2
An example apparatus is provided and may comprise a housing, an electronic blade system, and a plurality of airflow management components. The housing may have an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The electronic blade system may be located between the upper chamber and the lower chamber. The plurality of airflow management components may be configured to be removable and to manage airflow in the housing.
US09204573B2
In general, according to an embodiment, a power conversion apparatus includes a first inverter, second inverter and a cooler. The first inverter includes a plurality of semiconductor devices connected together in parallel per phase. In the second inverter, the number of parallel-connected semiconductor devices are two or more per phase, the semiconductor devices are connected together in parallel and the number of parallel-connected semiconductor devices in the second inverter is fewer than that in the first inverter per phase. The semiconductor devices in the first inverter are installed in an area of a cooling surface of the cooler positioned over a first channel. The semiconductor devices in the second inverter are installed in an area of the cooling surface positioned over the second channel.
US09204572B2
A disclosed heat radiation arrangement includes a substrate that has a first surface on which a heating element is installed; a heat radiating member that abuts a surface of the heating element via a thermal conductive elastic member, the surface of the heating element being on an opposite side with respect to a side of the first surface; and a casing to which the substrate and the heat radiating member are attached, wherein the substrate is secured to the casing within a region between two extended sides and on opposite sides of the heating element when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the first surface, these two extended sides being defined by extending two opposite sides of the heating element, which form outer edges of the heating element, toward outer edges of the first surface.
US09204567B2
A music reproduction apparatus in which a first reproduction unit that has a first retainer capable of retaining a first external audio source and a second reproduction unit that has a second retainer capable of retaining a second external audio source are arranged next to each other. The music reproduction apparatus includes an opening-closing door that covers the first reproduction unit and the second reproduction unit in an openable and closable manner. The second retainer is positioned at an accommodation position on the deeper side than the opening-closing door in the state covered by the opening-closing door. When the opening-closing door is moved to uncover the second retainer, the second retainer is drawn from the accommodation position to move to a draw out position.
US09204563B2
A supporting base includes a bottom plate and a plurality of stepwise supporting structures connected with and raised up from a plurality of side edges of the bottom plate. Each stepwise supporting structure includes a plurality of raising segments and at least one supporting segment. The plurality of raising segments and the at least one supporting segment are alternately arranged. The at least one supporting segment is substantially parallel to the bottom plate. The lowest raising segment has a bottom end connected with one of the side edges of the bottom plate. A thickness of at least one of the at least one supporting segment is greater than that of at least one of the plurality of raising segments. A display device using the support base is also provided to improve assembling efficiency and reduce cost.
US09204562B2
An electrical junction box includes a case that includes a bottom plate portion and a case-side peripheral wall portion, the case having an opening that opens to a lateral side, and a cover that closes the opening of the case and includes a lid plate portion and a cover-side peripheral wall portion covering a perimeter of the case-side peripheral wall portion. A protruding length of a second upper plate portion of the cover-side peripheral wall portion that is located on the upper side in a state in which the electrical junction box is used is set at such a length that the second upper plate portion protrudes slightly outward beyond an outer surface of the bottom plate portion.
US09204559B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device uses a mounting jig having an insulated circuit board positioning jig, a tubular contact element positioning jig having a plurality of positioning holes formed at predetermined positions to insert a tubular contact element, and a tubular contact element press-down jig. By the insulated circuit board positioning jig and tubular contact element positioning jig, an insulated circuit board and the tubular contact elements are positioned, and the tubular contact elements are soldered to the insulated circuit board while being pressed down by the tubular contact element press-down jig.
US09204548B2
An apparatus includes a first electronic device mounted on a first substrate and a second electronic device mounted on a second substrate. In some embodiments, the second substrate is configured to be removably connected to the first electronic device. The second electronic device is mountable on either planar surface of the second substrate.
US09204543B2
An Integrated Circuit (IC) package comprises a package comprising a first set of pads having a pinout that is compatible with a chip core of a product family. A second set of pads are on substantially the same plane as the first set of pads and outside the package core. The second set of pads is configured to accommodate a circuit outside the chip core. The geometric center of the package core is different from the geometric center of the IC package.
US09204538B2
A method includes forming a hard mask over a base material, and forming an I-shaped first opening in the hard mask. The first opening includes two parallel portions and a connecting portion interconnecting the two parallel portions. Spacers are formed on sidewalls of the first opening. The spacers fill an entirety of the connecting portion, wherein a center portion of each of the two parallel portions is unfilled by the spacers. The hard mask is etched to remove a portion of the hard mask and to form a second opening, wherein the second opening is between the two parallel portions of the first opening. The second opening is spaced apart from the two parallel portions of the first opening by the spacers. The first opening and the second opening are then extended down into the base material.
US09204528B2
A stiffener-integrated flexible printed circuit board includes: (A) a stiffener; (B) a thermosetting adhesive; (C) an insulator film; and (D) a wiring-pattern-equipped film, the stiffener (A), the thermosetting adhesive (B), the insulator film (C), and the wiring-pattern-equipped film (D) being laminated in this order, the insulator film (C) containing at least (a) a binder polymer and (b) spherical organic beads. This provides a stiffener-integrated FPC which is excellent in adhesion between a thermosetting adhesive of a stiffener and an insulator film and which is small in warpage.
US09204527B2
A neutron generator includes an ion source disposed in a pressurized environment containing an ionizable gas. The ion source includes a substrate with a bundle of carbon nanotubes extending therefrom. The ends of the nanotubes are spaced from a grid. Ion source voltage supply circuitry supplies a positive voltage potential between the substrate and the grid of the ion source to cause ionization of the ionizable gas and emission of ions through the grid. An ion accelerator section is disposed between the ion source and a target. The ion accelerator section accelerates ions that pass through the grid towards the target such that collisions of the ions with the target cause the target to generate and emit neutrons therefrom. The ion source, accelerator section and target are housed in a sealed tube and preferably the carbon nanotubes of the bundle are highly ordered with at least 106 carbon nanotubes per cm2 that extend in a direction substantially parallel to the central axis of the tube. The neutron generator provides gas ionization at much higher atomic to molecular ratio that the prior art, which allows for small compact size designs suitable for logging tools that are used in space-constrained downhole environments.
US09204518B2
One aspect relates to combining an at least one LED-based secondary general illumination lighting with an at least one primary general illumination lighting to at least partially provide an at least one combined general illumination lighting. The aspect further comprises sensing one or more sensed optical characteristics of an at least one alternate general illumination lighting. The aspect further comprises controlling at least one controlled optical characteristics of the at least one LED-based secondary general illumination lighting to control the at least one combined general illumination lighting at least partially responsive to the sensing the one or more sensed optical characteristics of an at least one alternate general illumination lighting.
US09204517B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device driving apparatus for controlling a light emitting unit including series-connected light emitting device arrays. The apparatus includes a rectifier for rectifying an AC signal, and outputting a ripple current signal according to a result of the rectification, a current adjuster for outputting a selection voltage, and a sequential driving controller connected to channel lines connected to respective output terminals of the light emitting device arrays, the sequential driving controller selectively establishing current paths between the light emitting device arrays and the channel lines, based on a voltage level of the ripple current signal, and adjusting an intensity of current flowing through the channel lines, based on the selection voltage. The current adjuster performs analog-digital conversion upon a setting voltage, generates a digital value according to a result of the analog-digital conversion, and outputs one of a plurality of selective voltages, based on the digital value.
US09204511B2
A lighting apparatus includes a chopper circuit and a control circuit that controls the chopper circuit. The control circuit includes a determining unit that determines a duty ratio of a dimming signal, and an output control unit that outputs a drive signal. The control circuit outputs a drive signal from the output control unit according to a result of a determination by the determining unit and causes the solid state light-emitting element to be lighted in a normal mode. In the charging mode, the control circuit sets an average value of a current flowing through an inductor to be higher than in the normal mode and charges a smoothing capacitor until a voltage across the smoothing capacitor reaches a prescribed voltage. When power is supplied, the control circuit charges the smoothing capacitor in the charging mode and subsequently lights the solid state light-emitting element in the normal mode.
US09204509B2
A variable color light system includes multiple dual color light emitting diodes (LED's) arranged in a light bar. The dual LED's are arranged with a common cathode and two anodes. The light system includes a switch that controls the power to the light system. The system is controlled to power a first anode, a second anode, or neither anodes. When the first anode is powered, the dual LED's emit a first color. When the second anode is powered, the dual LED's emit a second color. The light system is LED driven. The dual LED light system can be used in a light bar that can be used on a vehicle, an off-road vehicle, a recreational vehicle, or a boat.
US09204501B1
A device for applying microwave energy to a product having a microwave cavity defined by a top wall, bottom wall, and opposing sidewalls. The central portion of the microwave cavity contains a conveyer for moving product through the microwave cavity. A waveguide passes through one of the walls of the microwave cavity and directs microwave energy through the mouth of the waveguide which is located in the central portion of the microwave cavity, near the conveyer. The microwave energy is applied directly to the product without the need for antennas, stirring devices, scattering devices, or diffusing devices.
US09204498B2
A cloth material of the invention includes a cloth material main body that includes a plurality of conductive wires that generate heat by conduction, and a conductive connecting member that is provided on a side portion of the cloth material main body and electrically connects the plurality of conductive wires together. End portions of the plurality of conductive wires are exposed from the side portion of the cloth material main body so as to be exposed portions. The connecting member electrically connects the plurality of conductive wires together by being welded in a state sandwiching the exposed portions and the side portion of the cloth material main body. Welded portions formed by the welding are arranged alternately with non-welded portions, lined up in a line.
US09204496B2
A planar heating element has an electrical insulating substrate, at least one pair of electrodes that includes thin metal wires covered with conductive cover layers and that is placed on a surface of the electrical insulating substrate, a polymer resistor that is placed on the electrical insulating substrate and that is supplied with electricity from the electrodes, and electrical insulating cover material 16 that covers the electrodes and the polymer resistor and that is made to adhere to the electrical insulating substrate by hot melt, and sectional shape of the conductive cover layers is of an ellipse in general with long axis parallel to the surface of the electrical insulating substrate.
US09204493B2
A seat heater includes a seat-warming heater which is connected to a power source and warms a person sitting on a seat, an over-temperature-preventing part which disconnects the connection between the seat-warming heater and the power source when the over-temperature-preventing part is heated to a predetermined temperature so as to prevent over-temperature of the seat-warming heater, and a heater which heats the over-temperature-preventing part, wherein the over-temperature-preventing part is non-return type, and the heater for the over-temperature-preventing part is arranged to cover opposite portions of the over-temperature-preventing part, thereby realizing both higher output and improved safety.
US09204487B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a communications subsystem having an interface module and a protocol module with the communications subsystem being configured to be coupled to an antenna. An applications subsystem includes a software applications module and an abstraction module. The software applications module is to execute an operating system and user applications; the abstraction module is to provide an interface with the software applications module. A controller interface module is coupled to the abstraction module and the interface module and is to convert signals from the applications subsystem into signals that are executable by the communications subsystem. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09204486B2
A wireless device includes a wireless transceiver configured to transmit to and receive from nodes in a wireless sensor network (WSN) and control logic coupled to the first wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver transmits a wireless packet to a node in the WSN based on the transmission coinciding with a break in transmissions for a second wireless network. Based on the wireless transceiver being configured to transmit the wireless packets utilizing time synchronized channel hopping, slot frames for packet transmissions in the WSN are time offset so as not to coincide with transmissions made on the second wireless network. Based on the wireless transceiver being configured to transmit the packets utilizing coordinated sampled listening, wake up sequence transmissions for the WSN are time offset so as not to coincide with the transmissions made on the second wireless network.
US09204485B2
A network node for a wireless communication network, in particular for a wireless sensor network, includes a wireless communication device operable in a first communication mode in which the communication device emits; with a first transmit power, first communication signals for contactless communication with other network nodes in the communication network. The communication device is further operable in a second communication mode, in which the communication device emits, with a second transmit power, second communication signals for communication with a transponder, whereby the second transmit power is greater than the first transmit power. In the first communication mode, by the communication device there is detectable the presence of a transponder in the environment of the network node by the first communication signals.
US09204484B2
An apparatus and a method for communication are provided. The apparatus is configured to: communicate with a network via a cell created by a relay node; receive from the relay node information required in reception of backhaul transmission sent by a base station of the network to the relay node, the transmission including at least one data packet designated to the apparatus and in decoding of the at least one data packet; receive a backhaul transmission sent by a base station of the network to the relay node and decode the at least one data packet from the transmission.
US09204480B2
A Tunneled Direct Link Setup (TDLS) establishment method. The method includes associating a Basic Service Set (BSS) which includes an Access Point (AP); transmitting a TDLS setup request frame through the AP to an intended peer station, the TDLS setup request frame requesting to establish a TDLS direct link, the TDLS setup request frame including a link identifier, the link identifier including a BSSID field, a transmitter address field and a receiver address field, the BSSID field being set to a BSSID, the transmitter address field being set to a medium access control (MAC) address of the TDLS initiator, the receiver address field being set to a MAC address of the intended peer station; receiving a TDLS setup response frame including a status code field; and transmitting a TDLS setup confirm frame including the link identifier. The TDLS setup confirm frame includes high throughput operation information.
US09204472B1
A method and system for automatically connecting to a WiFi network is disclosed herein. The present invention provides a set of diagnostic steps that are undertaken automatically on a mobile communication device to identify this condition and generate a browser window so that the condition can be fixed and the mobile communication device can automatically access the Internet through an Internet access gateway.
US09204465B2
In a wireless communication system that conducts a communication between a base station and a terminal the base station includes a first communication unit using a first communication system of a TDMA system, and a second communication unit using a second communication system, and the terminal includes a third communication unit using the first communication system, and a fourth communication unit using the second communication system. The base station transmits a control signal in the first communication system with the use of the first communication unit, and the base station determines timing of transmission for the second communication unit according to timing of TDMA of the first communication unit. The third communication unit receives the control signal transmitted from the base station in the first communication system, and the fourth communication unit controls receiving operation according to information included in the control signal.
US09204464B2
Access priority for wireless devices located in an area in which radiofrequency (RF) coverage areas of a first wireless access point and a second wireless access point overlap is controlled by coordinating operation of the first wireless access point and the second wireless access point. The wireless devices access a common RF channel via a collision sense multiple access/collision avoidance mechanism. The probability of accessing the RF channel may be varied by adjusting the length of interframe spacings and the length of contention windows. The length of the interframe spacings and the length of the contention windows associated with the first access point and associated with the second access point are configured such that the probability of wireless devices associated with the first wireless access point accessing the RF channel is greater than the probability of wireless devices associated with the second wireless access point accessing the RF channel.
US09204457B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a network comprising a primary station communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the primary station communicating with a secondary station in a discontinuous mode; the secondary station transmitting to the primary station a control message based on the current status of the secondary station; and the primary station changing a parameter of the discontinuous mode based on the control message.
US09204455B2
The present invention is directed to methods for adjusting a guard period in a cellular wireless communication system, to a base station adapted to adjust a guard period, and to a network management entity for adjusting a guard period. One method comprises the steps: obtaining (S1) an indication of at least one downlink frame for an interference measurement; transmitting (S2) during the at least one indicated downlink frame an interference signal; measuring (S3) interference at least during a part of the guard period succeeding the indicated downlink frame; and setting (S4) at least one of an end time of at least one subsequence.
US09204452B1
A system and machine-implemented method for connecting to a network. Plural assignable channels for connecting to a network are determined. History data for one or more of the assignable channels is obtained. The history data indicates a number of prior network connections for the computing device via each of the one or more assignable channels. The plural assignable channels are ranked based on the obtained history data. The plural assignable channels are scanned based on the ranking. The computing device is connected to the network based on the scan.
US09204443B2
A method for a user equipment switching an operation channel in a wireless personal area network (WPAN), disclosed in the present invention, comprises the following steps: setting a PAN coordinator and an association for a first frequency band; receiving from the PAN coordinator of the first frequency band information for channel switching to a second frequency band; and setting the PAN coordinator and the association for the second frequency band based on the switching information that is received.
US09204438B2
The present application relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence and a fourth scrambling sequence determined by the second short sequence; scrambling the short sequences with the respective scrambling sequences; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the first short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence and the first short sequence scrambled by the second scrambling sequence and the fourth scrambling sequence to a frequency domain.
US09204422B2
One aspect provides a modem for use at a terminal. The modem comprises a first interface and a processing unit. The first interface is arranged to connect to a communications network. The processing unit is arranged to receive a message from the communications network via the first interface while in an operating mode. The processing unit is also arranged to assess the message on receipt to determine that one or more public warning message is to be broadcast to the modem from the communication network in a second later time period. The processing unit is also arranged to, based on the determination, modify operation of the modem in the second later time period to ensure the one or more public warning message is received and acted on by the modem.
US09204417B2
Disclosed is a mobile broadcast signal demodulation chip for location. The demodulation chip includes a reception demodulation and module and a measurement module, where the reception and demodulation module is configured to demodulate a spread spectrum signal for positioning inserted in the header of a time slot or in the header of a transmission frame of a received mobile broadcast signal to acquire navigation message information; and the measurement module is configured to measure and acquire location characteristic parameters. The demodulation chip is not only capable of demodulating broadcast data in a mobile broadcast signal, but also capable of demodulating a spread spectrum signal for positioning-inserted in the header of a time slot or in the header of a transmission frame of a received mobile broadcast signal to acquire navigation message information and location characteristic parameters, thereby effectively improving location accuracy.
US09204414B2
An apparatus and method for a Mobile Station (MS) in an idle mode for performing a location update in a broadband wireless access communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a ranging request message requesting location update to a Base Station (BS) when a location update condition is met in idle mode, receiving a ranging response message including information for location update response from the BS, and wherein the information indicates whether a downlink traffic is pending for the MS.
US09204407B2
A base station transmits messages comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped in a primary cell group and one or more secondary cell groups. A pathloss reference for a secondary cell is a configurable parameter if the secondary cell is in the primary cell group. The configurable parameter is configurable to a downlink of the secondary cell or the primary cell. The pathloss reference is only configurable as a downlink of the secondary cell if the secondary cell is in the secondary cell group.
US09204390B2
Provided is a node control apparatus communicating an external Internet Protocol (IP) network and managing a plurality of mobile nodes included in a local network. The node control apparatus manages information relating to the plurality of mobile nodes, each equipped with one or more wireless interfaces, configures one or more groups by classifying the plurality of mobile nodes according to the type(s) of the wireless interface(s) of each of the plurality of mobile nodes, selects a representative node for each of the groups, and allows the member nodes of each of the groups to communicate with the external IP network via their representative node. Therefore, it is possible to minimize power consumption by selectively using a wireless interface for use in connecting to the representative node of each of the groups.
US09204388B2
Disclosed herein are apparatus, method, and computer program whereby a mobile station receives an indication from a base station in a physical layer field and interprets the indication for use in at least a power management function.
US09204386B2
Methods and systems for rule-based context acquisition are disclosed herein. The method includes accepting a request for target context from an application at a context acquisition system and identifying context rules relating to the target context using a rule-based inference cache. The method also includes determining an inferred value of the target context based on previously-acquired contexts and the context rules without initializing sensor procedures as a result of the request.
US09204381B2
An apparatus (200) for use in a telecommunications system. The apparatus (200) comprising a memory (240) and a controller (210). The controller (210) is configured to receive a radio frequency bandwidth and identify a first candidate carrier frequency (710) from the received a radio frequency bandwidth. The controller is further configured to, for a first potential radio access technology determine a probability estimate (Prob) for the first candidate carrier frequency (710) being a carrier frequency of the first potential radio access technology, where in the probability estimate is based on a received power in a transmission band of the first potential radio access technology having the candidate carrier frequency (710) and on a received power in a guard band of the first potential radio access technology having the candidate carrier frequency and from this select a radio access technology based on the probability estimate (Prob) for the candidate carrier frequency (710).
US09204378B2
Devices and configurations to implement wireless network connectivity enhancements that improve wireless network connection time and operations are generally disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a reduced wireless network scan is performed to only scan wireless network channels associated with a preferred or previously profiled wireless network. If a preferred or profiled network is identified from the result of the reduced wireless network scan, then an automatic connection may be established immediately with the preferred or profiled wireless network. Performance of the reduced wireless network scan may be performed instead of a full wireless network scan, thereby saving the amount of time required to scan channels that do not have a preferred or profiled wireless network.
US09204366B2
A flexible connection control femtocell access point device of a small cell and a method of driving the same are provided. A maximum system load is used and network efficiency is maximized by calculating a system load occurring when a mobile station is newly connected according to the type of services that user equipments, that is, mobile stations, in a small cell, such as a femtocell, desire to use, comparing the calculated system load and the maximum system load, and determining whether to limit connection of the mobile station.
US09204348B2
A control method in a mobile communication system, that includes configuring a discard timer corresponding to a service data unit (SDU) for discarding the SDU according to a value of the discard timer that indicates a time elapsed since the discard timer started at reception of the SDU; when a handover is performed, maintaining the value of the discard timer corresponding to the SDU and taking over the elapsed time of the SDU; and discarding the corresponding SDU when the value of the discard timer reaches a given value.
US09204336B2
A technique of processing network traffic that is sent on a tunnel between a first tunnel and a second tunnel node in a communication network is provided. A device implementation of this technique comprises an enhanced network address translation, eNAT, component (10) comprising a first obtaining unit (14) configured to obtain an uplink data packet (26) from an uplink tunnel from the first tunnel node to the second tunnel node, the uplink data packet comprising a first network address associated with the first tunnel node, a second network address associated with the second tunnel node, a first identifier associated with the uplink tunnel an internal network address, and an internal port number, a second obtaining unit (16) configured to obtain a second identifier associated with a downlink tunnel from the second tunnel node to the first tunnel node, wherein the downlink tunnel is related to the uplink tunnel, a checking unit (18) configured to check, based on the second network address and the first identifier, whether a database entry comprising the second network address and the first identifier exists in a database (12), an updating unit (20) configured to update the database (12) in case the checked database entry does not exist in the database (12), and a manipulating unit (22) configured to manipulate the uplink data packet (26).
US09204332B2
A method and system for providing session admission control for a new session in a broadband wireless network is provided. The method may include obtaining a guaranteed bit rate and a first quality of service class indicator for the new session. The method may further include calculating an available capacity using the guaranteed bit rate and determining whether the available capacity is a negative or a positive value. The new session may be admitted or rejected based on whether the available capacity is a negative or positive value.
US09204325B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for reducing the impact of false downlink control information (DCI) detection in long term evolution (LTE) physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) data are disclosed. According to one method, an LTE multi-UE simulator receives PDCCH data from an evolved node B (eNode B). The LTE multi-UE simulator applies blind DCI decoding to decode at least one DCI value from channel control elements that carry the PDCCH data. The LTE multi-UE simulator applies at least one false DCI detection countermeasure to identify as true or false DCIs from the DCIs detected using the blind decoding.
US09204315B2
The present invention provides a method of coordinating access nodes when a sleeping cell is detected. The method may include modifying a coverage area of an access node to compensate for lost coverage in a sleeping cell detected by the access node. The access node implements resource allocation algorithms and a cell identification algorithm. The method may also include instructing the resource allocation algorithms and/or the cell identification algorithm to perform a predetermined action concurrently with the modification.
US09204298B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a system includes a memory operable to store a user account identifier associated with a user account and a mobile device identifier associated with a mobile device. The memory is also operable to store a first user credential and a second user credential, the second user credential, wherein the second user credential comprises user input data captured by a sensor. The system includes a network interface operable to receive a request to authenticate a requesting user. The system also includes a processor operable to determine information included in the request to facilitate authentication of the requesting user and whether the information included in the request matches the information associated with the user account. The processor is further operable to authenticate the requesting user if the request is associated with the user account and information included in the request matches the information associated with the user account.
US09204293B2
The method provides a Law Enforcement Agency LEA with retention or interception data related to a target user. At a data retention source node or at an interception control element of a telecommunications network, traffic packets involving the target user are inspected and a plurality of usage data records based on the inspected traffic packets are generated. Each record comprises information relating to a certain service class and to a respective communications stack layer. For each communications session involving a plurality of different communications stack layers, at the data retention source node or, respectively, the interception control element, the plurality of usage data records are provided with a same correlation identity number for correlating the data at the different communications stack layers. Then, the usage data records comprising the correlation identity number to the LEA are sent, for instance to the LI system or the data Retention System, respectively.
US09204291B2
A system in which a portable electronic device communicates with an external device to determine a location. Upon determining its location, the portable electronic device transmits this information as well as identifying information to a control processor. The control processor controls one or more controllable devices according to the location and identifying information. The portable electronic device may determine the location via NFC tag or via one or more RF beacons transmitting information according to the Bluetooth 4.0 protocol.
US09204288B2
Address books may be intelligently adapted. A sensor output is received indicating a measure of vibration of a mobile device. An address book associated with the mobile device is retrieved and condensed according to the measure of the vibration to generate address favorites. The address favorites are displayed on a display device of the mobile device, such that the vibration experienced by the mobile device determines which contacts in the address book are preferred.
US09204285B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving a Diameter message at the DRA from an origin device, wherein the Diameter message is associated with a subscriber; establishing a subscriber record context object in response to receiving the Diameter message, wherein the subscriber record context object is associated with a subscriber record of the subscriber; evaluating a rule that includes a context object reference, wherein the evaluation includes accessing the subscriber record context object based on the context object reference; and transmitting a message based on the evaluation of the rule.
US09204282B2
A method performed by a network system communicatively coupled to a wireless device by a wireless access network, the network system including a network element corresponding to a network element destination, the method comprising providing at least a portion of a device policy to the wireless device, wherein the device policy is configured to assist in detecting wireless device traffic associated with a service activity, identifying the service activity as being included in a service usage activity classification, and directing or routing the wireless device traffic associated with the service activity over the wireless access network based on information identifying the network element destination; providing a network element policy to the network element corresponding to the network element destination; detecting, at the network element, traffic associated with the wireless device; and applying the network element policy at the network element to the traffic associated with the wireless device.
US09204281B2
A process of tracking usage of a wireless device in a third party wireless network with a metering system includes implementing the metering system in a network separate from the third party wireless network and activating the wireless device in response to identification of the wireless device and confirmation of use of a tracking system to the metering system. The process further includes obtaining, by the metering system, an amount of wireless services used by the wireless device. The obtaining includes at least one of obtaining an amount of wireless services used from the third party wireless network and obtaining an amount of wireless services used from the tracking system.
US09204279B2
A telecommunication network may include a policy management system and a charging system. The charging system may be configured to receive a request for subscriber state information relating to a subscriber from the policy management system, retrieve current subscriber state information from memory, determine future subscriber state information for the subscriber, generate a communication message that includes the current subscriber state information and the future subscriber state information, and send the generated communication message to the server computing device.
US09204278B2
A method includes receiving, from a user device associated with an end user, a request for content provided by a content provider. The method includes determining whether the requested content is to be provided on a data toll network, determining whether the requested content includes data toll free content in response to a determination that the requested content is to be provided on the data toll network, and applying graphic elements indicating data toll free status of data toll free sections of the requested content in response to a determination that the requested content includes data toll free content. The method further includes providing the requested content including the applied graphic elements to the user device, and billing data usage associated with providing the data toll free sections to the end user device to the content provider.
US09204276B2
The invention relates to a method for relaying, by an in-vehicle emergency system, a private emergency point of the vehicle to a public emergency point that is handling an emergency of the vehicle in which the in-vehicle emergency system is incorporated, the public emergency point depending on the location of the emergency. The method comprises the steps of receiving a message from a call control node of a mobile communications network in response to an emergency call initiated by the in-vehicle emergency system, the message containing contact information of the public emergency point, and transmitting the received contact information of the public emergency point to the private emergency point.
US09204273B2
A method for trigger information transmission and protocol conversion is provides, and the method includes: an MTC-IWF which has received trigger information about an MTC device acquires routing information of the MTC device through a subscribed serving network element, the MTC-IWF transmits received trigger information about the MTC device to a serving core network node of the MTC device through an SMS core network node; the serving core network node of the MTC device transmits the trigger information to the MTC device; in the above process, the MTC-IWF or a dedicated IWF or an SMS router implements signaling conversion between an MAP protocol and a Diameter protocol. A system for trigger information transmission and protocol conversion is also provided for implementing above method. It is possible using the method and system to transmit trigger information through a T4 interface and establish a process of converting between an MAP protocol and a Diameter protocol.
US09204270B2
A message distribution center (MDC) and Intelligent Delivery Agent in a wireless Internet gateway interposed between content providers and a wireless carrier to subjectively examine and direct messages via simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) based on desired rules using standard SMTP Gateway and other known protocols. The MDC includes an individual queue for each subscriber, and the provider is informed through conventional SMTP messages that the short message has been accepted. If the carrier has specifically disallowed service for a particular mobile identification number (MIN), then the content provider is informed that the recipient is invalid. An MDC provides a single mechanism for interacting with subscribers of multiple carriers, regardless of each carrier's underlying infrastructure. An MDC protects networks by intelligently throttling messages and configuring message delivery parameters. An MDC receives presence information. A content provider communicates with the MDC using SMTP messages, and the MDC communicates with wireless carriers.
US09204262B2
A fountain code-based cooperative multicast method comprises: 1) transmitting forwards, by a base station, a code symbol informed by a packet encoded by a fountain code, after receiving a feedback that all users correctly decode, stopping transmitting a data; 2) after completing receiving the data early by a user with good channel conditions, monitoring a “help” signal of other users, when receiving the “help” signal, the user with good channel conditions participates in a cooperation, when receiving the feedback of a cooperative user that has correctly received the data, stopping the cooperation by the user with good channel conditions; and 3) monitoring a feedback signal of remaining users that correctly receive the data by a user that does not complete receiving the data, and deciding whether to transmit a “help” signal, according to a signal intensity of the feedback signal.
US09204261B2
A vehicular control apparatus (1) is provided with: an obtaining device (3) capable of receiving an electric wave from an electric wave communication base (E10, E20, N10 etc.) which emits the electric wave for providing driving assistance service to a plurality of vehicles which respectively drive on a plurality of service roads (10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, 20A etc.), and of obtaining a plurality of road data (520A, 520B, 520C, 520D) respectively corresponding to the plurality of service roads managed by the electric wave communication base; and a weighting device (140) for applying, to each of the obtained plurality of road data, weighting information indicating importance for specifying one service road that one vehicle enters and indicating importance for providing the driving assistance services in association with the one service road.
US09204259B2
Aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for generating models of a wireless network environment in an indoor space which may be used to predict an indoor location. The disclosure relates to collecting wireless network access point identifier information and power level observed at various locations are collected to generate various signal maps. The signal maps may be used to generate models of the indoor space. In one example, a voting model may use a probability distribution of a plurality of signal maps in order to identify a location with a highest probability of overlap with current signals received at a client device. Once a location has been identified, it may be used to assist with any number of navigational functions, such as providing turn by turn directions to another indoor location, for example, a conference room or exit, or simply providing information about the current location.
US09204255B2
Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system.
US09204252B2
A method for providing information to a plurality of vendors located remotely from a broadcast network. A plurality of user-defined parameters are received by a user input database with at least one of the user-defined parameters including a user profile. Each of the user profiles includes a user identifier code identifying a communicator device associated with a particular user. Real-time data indicative of the spatial locations of the communicator devices is received by a communicator location database. Search information is received independently from a plurality of vendors and a data set is generated for each vendor.
US09204251B1
A series of RF beacons deployed about a localized area to create an infrastructure for use with a series of applications. One application provides navigation to the receiving device, wherein the location of the receiving device utilizes information obtained from one or more beacon signals. The location can be determined by signal strength, triangulation, an identity of the RF beacon, etc. Another feature is an initiation of an application based upon receipt of a beacon signal. Another application provides local based services (LBS) to the recipient. Another application is directed towards transportation, including transportation management, parking assistance, traffic telematics, etc. Another application emergency based applications, more specifically a communication process in an area where longer range cellular infrastructure is either non-existent or non-functional. The system can create an infrastructure by networking a series of mobile transceivers to create an ad hoc network.
US09204246B2
A radio frequency communication device has data transmission means and data receiving means. The data transmission means comprise load modulating means being adapted to receive a radio frequency carrier signal emitted by another RF communication device and to modulate the RF carrier signal by means of load modulation in accordance with data to be sent. The data receiving means comprise a RF frequency carrier signal generator being adapted to emit a radio frequency carrier signal and load demodulating means being connected to an emission path of the radio frequency carrier signal and demodulating the radio frequency carrier signal when it has been load modulated by another RF communication device.
US09204244B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments enable access to a wireless communications medium. In example embodiments, a method comprises determining, by a first wireless node, whether there are enough master nodes within range in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of wireless nodes; and assuming, by the first wireless node, a role of a master node to participate in synchronization message contention in the wireless communication network, in response to determining that there are not enough master nodes within range.
US09204231B1
An exemplary system includes 1) a first sound processor included in a first auditory prosthesis system associated with a first ear of a patient, the first sound processor including a first volume control facility, and 2) a second sound processor included in a second auditory prosthesis system associated with a second ear of the patient, the second sound processor including a second volume control facility. The first volume control facility adjusts, in response to actuation of the first volume control facility, a first volume level perceived by the patient when electrical stimulation is applied by either the first auditory prosthesis system or the second auditory prosthesis system. The second volume control facility adjusts, in response to actuation of the second volume control facility, a second volume level perceived by the patient when acoustic stimulation is applied by either the first auditory prosthesis system or the second auditory prosthesis system.
US09204230B2
An exemplary system includes 1) an electro-acoustic stimulation (“EAS”) subsystem that directs a cochlear implant to apply electrical stimulation to a patient, and directs a receiver to apply acoustic stimulation to the patient; and 2) a volume control subsystem communicatively coupled to the EAS subsystem and that facilitates independent control of a first volume level perceived by the patient when the electrical stimulation is applied and a second volume level perceived by the patient when the acoustic stimulation is applied.
US09204227B2
Disclosed herein is a system for binaural noise reduction for hearing assistance devices using information generated at a first hearing assistance device and information received from a second hearing assistance device. In various embodiments, the present subject matter provides a gain measurement for noise reduction using information from a second hearing assistance device that is transferred at a lower bit rate or bandwidth by the use of coding for further quantization of the information to reduce the amount of information needed to make a gain calculation at the first hearing assistance device. The present subject matter can be used for hearing aids with wireless or wired connections.
US09204225B2
A test system for evaluates acoustic feedback characteristics of a listening device by changing the transfer function of the signal path from an acoustic output to an acoustic input of the listening device. A variable filter comprises an acoustic input, an acoustic output, and a control unit for changing a transfer function of the filter. First and/or second acoustic propagation elements propagate acoustic sound, the first acoustic propagation element acoustically connecting the acoustic output of the listening device with the acoustic input of the variable filter, the second acoustic propagation element acoustically connecting the acoustic output of the variable filter with the acoustic input of the listening device; wherein the system is configured to allow a determination of acoustic feedback or a level of acoustic feedback of the listening device at different frequencies.
US09204224B2
An electrostatic speaker includes: a first electrode formed of a sheet-like member, having a first face including a protrusion and a second face opposite the first face, and having conductivity and flexibility; a second electrode formed of a sheet-like member, disposed so as to be opposed to the second face, and having conductivity and flexibility; and an oscillator formed of a flexible sheet-like member, and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, at least one face of which has conductivity.
US09204198B2
Provided is a server system in which real-time communication based on a moving image group is performed between a number of users. The moving image collection/delivery server system accumulates moving images sequentially uploaded in real time via a network in a database, generates moving image thumbnails used to simultaneously display a plurality of moving images on a single display screen in real time, allocates the moving image thumbnails to a channel group adaptively generated from sequentially uploaded moving images, and delivers the moving image thumbnails to a terminal having a display and operating unit in real time via a network, and the sequentially generated moving image thumbnails are stored in an allocated channel in ascending order of shooting times and delivered to a plurality of terminals.
US09204183B1
A vehicle-mounted device includes a first authentication unit for performing first authentication processing in which, when a first device is connected to an output unit, the vehicle-mounted device is authenticated as a source device and the first device is authenticated as a sink device; a second authentication unit for performing second authentication processing in which, when a second device is connected to the input unit while a digital content is being output to the first device from the output unit, the vehicle-mounted device is authenticated as the sink device and the second device is authenticated as the source device; a determination unit; and a third authentication unit for performing third authentication processing in which the vehicle-mounted device is authenticated as a repeater device when a condition for providing the digital content from the second device to the first device is determined to be satisfied by the determination unit.
US09204172B2
Techniques are provided for encoding an extended image such that it is backwards compatible with existing decoding devices. An extended image format is defined such that the extended image format is consistent with an existing image format over the full range of the existing image format. Because the extended image format is consistent with the existing image format over the full range of the existing image format, additional image information that is included in an extended image can be extracted from the extended image. A base version of an image (expressed using the existing image format) may be encoded in a payload portion and the extracted additional information may be stored in a metadata portion of a widely supported image file format.
US09204170B2
Methods of spatial compression of image data using trees formed with logic gates are described. Data encoding is achieved using a five-level wavelet transform, such as the Haar or 2/10 transforms. A dual transform engine is used, the first engine being used for the first transform, and the subsequent transforms being performed by the second engine. Each bit plane of the resulting coefficients is then encoded by forming a tree structure from the bits and logical OR combinations thereof. Redundant data are removed. Further data can be removed with a predetermined compression profile. The resulting blocks of compressed data are of variable length and are packaged with sync and index words for transmission so that the location and identity of the transformed data blocks can be determined.
US09204164B2
A moving picture coding apparatus includes an inter-pixel filter having filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The inter-pixel filter includes filters having different filtering strengths. The coding apparatus also includes a filter processing control unit for determining a filtering strength of the inter-pixel filter.
US09204163B2
Provided are motion vector determining method and apparatus for determining a motion vector via motion vector prediction.The motion vector determining method involves determining a candidate motion vector list comprising motion vectors of a plurality of candidate blocks referred so as to predict a motion vector of a current block, when a reference image of a first candidate block from among the plurality of candidate blocks is different from a reference image of the current block, determining whether or not to use a motion vector of the first candidate block from the candidate motion vector list, based on whether each of the reference image of the current block and the reference image of the first candidate block is a short-term reference image or a long-term reference image, and determining the motion vector of the current block by using a candidate motion vector selected from among the motion vectors comprised in the candidate motion vector list.
US09204159B2
Included are embodiments for processing video data. At least one embodiment includes a logic configured to receive video data having a format chosen from at least two formats and logic configured to receive an instruction from an instruction set including an indication of the format of the video data. Some embodiments include first parallel logic configured to process video data according to a first format in response to the indication is the first format and second parallel logic configured to process the video data according to a second format in response to the indication is the second format.
US09204158B2
A hardware multi-standard video decoder device. A command parser accesses a video stream and identifies a video encoding standard used for encoding the video stream. A plurality of hardware decoding blocks perform operations associated with decoding the video stream, wherein different subsets of the plurality of hardware decoding blocks are for decoding video streams encoded using different video encoding standards.
US09204153B2
A picture coding apparatus includes a motion vector estimation unit and a motion compensation unit. The motion vector estimation unit selects one method for deriving a motion vector of a block to be motion-compensated, depending on a motion vector of a block located in a corner of a decoded macroblock from among a group of blocks that compose the decoded macroblock corresponding to the current macroblock to be coded and determines the motion vector derived by the selected method for derivation to be a candidate of the motion vector of the current macroblock to be coded. The motion compensation unit generates a predictive image of the block to be motion-compensated based on the estimated motion vector.
US09204151B2
Provided is a method that restores a differential quantization parameter of a current coding unit, generates a quantization parameter predictor of the current coding unit using one or two quantization parameters of a left quantization parameter, an above quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter and generates a quantization parameter of the current coding unit using the differential quantization parameter and the quantization parameter predictor, wherein a minimum size of quantization unit is adjusted per picture. Therefore, the complexity of the encoding and decoding apparatus is reduced by adjusting the minimum size of the quantization unit. Also, coding efficiency is improved by encoding the quantization parameter using neighboring quantization parameters and by signaling the minimum size of the quantization unit per picture.
US09204136B2
A display device includes a backlight unit, a light guiding plate which is overlappingly arranged on an optical panel, light emitting elements which are arranged on the side surface of the light guiding plate, and a light source driving unit which drives the light emitting elements. The light source driving unit intermittently turns on all of the light emitting elements when displaying a 3D image on the optical panel. In contrast to this, when displaying a 2D image on the optical panel, each light emitting intensity of the light emitting elements in a part of rows is set to be the same as that in a 3D mode, and each light emitting intensity of the light emitting elements in a part of rows other than that is set to be lower than that in the 3D mode.
US09204130B2
A method and a system for creating three dimensional representation of an object are provided. The method includes projecting a pattern image comprising one or more pattern elements and capturing an image of the object with the pattern image projected onto the object. The method includes extracting intensity values corresponding to at least two color components of each pixel of the captured image. For each color component, a probability map is generated using the corresponding intensity values. The probability map for a color component represents a probability that a pixel of the captured image is representing a part of a pattern element. A joint probability distribution is determined by combining the probability maps. Using the joint probability distribution, specific pattern elements are located in the captured image. The method includes determining three dimensional coordinates representing points on surface of the object based on the location of the specific pattern elements.
US09204128B2
A stereoscopic shooting device includes: a first shooting section that obtains a first image; a second shooting section that outputs a second image; an angle of view matching section that cuts image portions to have the same angle of view from the first and second images; a parallax information generating section that generates parallax information indicating parallax between the two image portions; a reliability information generating section that generates reliability information indicating the degree of reliability of the parallax information based on at least one of the first and second images and the parallax information; and an image generating section that generates, based on the parallax information and the first image, a third image that forms, with the first image, stereoscopic images. The parallax information generating section corrects the parallax information based on the reliability information.
US09204125B2
A receiving system that can receive and process 3D images and a data processing method of the same are disclosed. The receiving system includes an image receiving unit and a display unit. The image receiving unit receives a 3-dimensions (3D) image and system information including additional information of the 3D image (i.e., additional 3D image information), generates 3D signaling information based upon the additional 3D image information included in the system information, and transmits the generated 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through a digital interface. And, the display unit receives the 3D signaling information along with the 3D image through the digital interface, formats the 3D image based upon the receiving 3D signaling information, and displays the formatted 3D image.
US09204122B2
A method for adapting 3D video content to a display under different viewing conditions is disclosed. The method has the steps of: retrieving a stereoscopic image pair; obtaining a maximum disparity value for the stereoscopic image pair; determining a largest allowable shift for the stereoscopic image pair using the obtained maximum disparity value; calculating an actual shift for a left image and a right image of the stereoscopic image pair using the determined largest allowable shift; and shifting the left image and the right image in accordance with the calculated actual shift.
US09204119B2
An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording unit which records the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit records the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor receives signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata includes time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor. The metadata also includes unique identification code for identifying the audio/video signals. The unique identification code is a UMID or the like.
US09204118B2
A mobile communication terminal having a menu that can be constructed using a mobile flash includes an input device section for inputting a reproduction request of a flash movie; a Man Machine Interface (MMI) loading a corresponding movie file based on the reproduction request; a bridge module performing a communication with the MMI to monitor navigation events; a memory section for storing a Extendible Markup Language (XML) document having information about a handset configuration and a menu tree configuration of the terminal; an engine section parsing the XML document read from the memory section to map the XML document with the flash movie and analyzing the parsed XML document according to the navigation events; and a play section for outputting the analyzed XML document contents through a display section.
US09204109B1
A process for producing a small crack in a turbine rotor blade for use in training inspectors to be qualified for inspecting blades with small crack, where each blade is vibrated in order to initiate a small crack under observation using an IR camera that can detect for a small crack, and when a small crack at a desired size is produced on the blade, the vibration is stopped and the blade removed and then used in a training process to train and qualify an inspector for an inspection process.
US09204107B2
A content analysis engine receives video input and performs analysis of the video input to produce one or more gross change primitives. A view engine coupled to the content analysis engine receives the one or more gross change primitives from the content analysis engine and provides view identification information. A rules engine coupled to the view engine receives the view identification information from the view engine and provides one or more rules based on the view identification information. An inference engine performs video analysis based on the one or more rules provided by the rules engine and the one or more gross change primitives.
US09204100B2
A method and a system for providing remote set-top box access functions in an Internet browser extension is disclosed. Web page content of a currently viewed web page is compared to an entertainment content database. The web page content is determined to be associated with entertainment content in the entertainment content database. Also, it is determined that there is a media manipulation action for the entertainment content, and a notification that the media manipulation action is available for the entertainment content is displayed.
US09204098B1
In an approach to determine a pre-recorded video for use in place of a video feed of a user in a video conference, a computer receives one or more pre-recorded videos of a user in which the pre-recorded videos include at least one visual representation of an emotional state. The computer determines a meeting tone of at least one meeting discussion in the video conference and determines a first video of the one or more pre-recorded videos of the user that corresponds to the meeting tone. The computer substitutes the first video into the video conference in place of a video feed in the video conference.
US09204095B2
A communication server and accompanying communication devices allow near instantaneous communication between users of the communication devices. A communication device may be configured with multiple channels, where each channel is assigned a corresponding communication device. As the communication devices are registered with the communication server, each communication device has knowledge of other registered communication devices. Thus, communication devices may communicate nearly instantaneously with each other. Furthermore, as the communication device is equipped with multiple channels, a single communication device may host a conference call with other communication devices. In addition, communication device may include multiple buttons to control the communication device, and indicator lights to indicate the status of calls with other communication devices.
US09204093B1
A solution is provided to enhanced user experience in digital media content sharing by inactively combining call setup for a video call with a caller's game performance data. A first communication terminal is used by the caller to initiate a video call to a callee, who uses a second communication terminal to receive the call. The caller plays a computer game while waiting for the call setup. During the call setup, the first terminal periodically evaluates the caller's game performance and generates a ring tone adjustment instruction that modifies an original ring tone played by the callee's communication terminal. The adjusted ring tone indicates caller's emotions. Integrating a caller's game performance data with a video call setup makes the call setup more joyful for the parties and conveys valuable psychotherapeutic value in the video communication between the parties.
US09204083B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for performing video recorder failover. In a particular embodiment, a system includes a first Network Video Recorder (NVR) configured to receive a video stream and record the video stream to a first long-term storage. The system further includes a second NVR configured to receive the video stream and temporarily stores an amount of the video stream in temporary storage. In response to a detection of a failure of the first NVR, the second NVR is configured to record the video stream to the second long-term storage and transfer at least a portion of the video stream stored in the temporary storage corresponding to the amount of time between detection of the failure and when the second NVR began recording the video stream to the second long-term storage.
US09204080B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for MCM (multiple chip module) packages having multiple stacked demodulator dies that share one or more MCM pins. The shared pins can include clock generation pins, clock input/output pins, receive signal path input pins, voltage supply pins, ground supply pins, and/or any other desired pins. In addition to reducing footprint sizes for printed circuit board (PCB) applications, the multi-demodulator MCM package embodiments described herein also allow for improved routing of connection traces on PCBs.
US09204078B2
According to one embodiment, a detector configured to detect an operator of a remote control for remote-controlling a video display apparatus is provided. The detector includes a face detector, a remote control detector, and an operator identifier. The face detector is configured to detect a first position of a viewer's face from a taken video. The remote control detector is configured to detect a second position of the remote control from the taken video. The operator identifier is configured to identify a viewer operating the remote control based on the detected first position of the viewer's face and the detected second position of the remote control when a plurality of viewer's faces are detected.
US09204065B2
An apparatus including at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to generate a signal from at least one sound transducer of an apparatus, where the signal is generated based upon sound received at the at least one sound transducer, where the sound includes acoustic noise generated by a component of the apparatus; and remove a noise component from the signal, where the noise component at least partially corresponds to the acoustic noise generated by the component.
US09204061B2
Displaying video on a video display device is disclosed. A first video stream from a first video streaming source is displayed on the display device. A second video stream from a second video streaming source is processed on the display device without displaying the second video stream. Displaying the first video stream is ceased and instead the second video stream is displayed. Supporting operations on a video stream is also disclosed. At least one video chunk is received at a first granularity. A determination is made that an operation is to be performed at a different granularity. At least one video chunk is requested at the different granularity.
US09204060B2
Systems (100) and methods (500) for providing a dynamic mark (112, 900) with a video. The methods comprise: receiving a sequence of symbols (“1234”) uniquely identifying an entity and video; mapping each symbol to an image pattern of a plurality of different image patterns to form a sequence of First Active Image Patterns (“FAIPs”). Each FAIP (1102-1108) exclusively comprises first pattern regions (802-816) for encoding symbols. At least two pattern regions are rendered with at least one color (e.g., “R, G, and/or B”) other than a background color for the image pattern. The first pattern regions are arranged in a non-grid like pattern. Each first pattern region has a non-square shape with a single side boundary line directly abutting a single side boundary line of at least one other first pattern region. The FAIPs are then caused to be displayed along with the video in a detectable and decodable manner.
US09204051B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup section configured by an image pickup optical system, and an image pickup device for a storage section for temporarily storing image data, a display section, a dividing operation section for instructing that a region to be displayed on the display section is to be divided, and a signal processing control section including at least a display control section, and an image processing section, wherein the signal processing control section performs display control of displaying, on the display section, an image based on the image data, dividing a display region of the display section after receiving a division instruction from the dividing operation section, and causing a second image to be displayed in one of regions obtained by the division, and repeatedly updating/displaying a first image in a display region, of the display section, different from an image display region.
US09204049B2
An imaging apparatus includes a front lens group, which constitutes part of an imaging optical system, at a fixed position with respect to an optical axis direction, wherein the front lens group includes a front lens element and a reflector and the reflector reflects light rays exiting from the front lens element; a movable lens group provided closer to the image plane side than the front lens group and movable along the optical axis; a support member which supports the reflector; a movable frame which supports the front lens element and is supported by the support member to be movable along a plane orthogonal to the optical axis of the front lens element; and a driver which drives the movable frame in the plane, in accordance with vibrations applied to the photographing optical system, to reduce image shake.
US09204048B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving information indicative of an amount of light present for capturing an image frame of a video clip, and, based on the amount of light present, determining a candidate exposure time for the image frame. The method also includes determining a maximum exposure time for the image frame. If the candidate exposure time is less than or substantially equal to the maximum exposure time, the method includes capturing the image frame with approximately the candidate exposure time. If the candidate exposure time is greater than the maximum exposure time, the method includes capturing the image frame with approximately the maximum exposure time.
US09204037B2
An image photographing method and an apparatus in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes photographing an image a number of times with an interval when a photographing signal is input in an optimum subject photographing mode, recognizing a subject from the photographed images, extracting a candidate image which includes the recognized subject, determining a validity of the extracted candidate image, displaying one of the photographed images as a representative image, and dividing and displaying a valid candidate image which is determined as a valid candidate image and an invalid candidate image which is determined as an invalid candidate image on one side of the displayed representative image, or displaying only the valid candidate image.
US09204030B2
The image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor having plural pixels each being constituted by a microlens causing light fluxes from mutually different areas in an exit pupil of an image capturing optical system to form two object images and two photoelectric conversion portions photoelectrically converting the two object images, a signal reader performing a first reading operation that adds signals from the two photoelectric conversion portions to read the added signal as a pixel signal and a second reading operation that independently reads the signal from each of the two photoelectric conversion portions as the pixel signal, and a phase difference detector detecting a phase difference between the two object images by using the pixel signal read by the second reading operation. The signal reader performs, when the phase difference is detected, the second reading operation on pixel lines located discretely among plural pixel lines in the image sensor.
US09204028B2
A captured image display device includes: a wireless communication unit; an imaging unit; a display unit; an imaging instruction unit which issues an imaging instruction to a remote camera that wirelessly communicates with the wireless communication unit; an image processing unit which performs image processing to convert an image data captured by the imaging unit into an image displayed on the display unit, and when the wireless communication unit wirelessly receives an image data corresponding to an image which is captured by the remote camera based on the imaging instruction, performs image processing to convert the image data into the image displayed on the display unit; and a display control unit which causes an image corresponding to the image data to be displayed on the display unit until the image processing unit ends the image processing for the image data after the imaging instruction is issued.
US09204025B1
Systems and methods of manufacturing compact camera modules for use in electronic device are provided. The camera module includes a lens housing and a substrate assembly. The substrate assembly includes a flexible substrate wrapped around a molded enclosure. The optical image stabilization components for the camera module may be enclosed within the molded enclosure.
US09204022B2
A camera mounting assembly is configured to couple to a camera housing. The camera mounting assembly includes a plurality of indentations configured to allow for the passage of light through the indentations and upon the image sensor of a camera enclosed by the camera housing. The camera mounting assembly can further include recessed channels within an inner-front surface of the camera mounting assembly configured to further allow for the passage of light through the indentations, through the recessed channels, and upon the image sensor.
US09204015B2
An image processing apparatus may include a conversion unit, a determination unit, and a calculation unit to convert image data into color material data indicating a chromatic color material amount and an achromatic color material amount. The conversion unit converts image data of a pixel of interest into chromatic color material color material data. The determination unit determines achromatic color material color material data on the pixel of interest based on coloring information corresponding to the converted color material data of the chromatic color material and coloring information that occurs at surrounding pixels that surround the interest pixel. The calculation unit calculates coloring information that occurs at the interest pixel based on coloring information corresponding to a combination of the converted color material data of the chromatic color material and the determined color material data of the achromatic color material and the coloring information that occurs at the surrounding pixels.
US09204012B2
An image forming apparatus that reduces the downtime due to image density control is provided. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus obtains, using a sensor, background data at a plurality of measurement positions from a rotation member, and density data at a plurality of measurement positions from a patch image formed on the rotation member. Further, the image forming apparatus normalizes density data based on first background data and calculates first correction density data, and also normalizes density data based on second background data for which the measurement positions have been shifted from those of the first background data, calculates second correction density data, and acquires corrected density data in accordance with the first correction density data or the second correction density data that has a smaller variation.
US09204011B1
An apparatus and a method for extracting a background luminance map of an image, and a de-shading apparatus and method. The apparatus includes: a luminance extracting unit, configured to extract luminance values everywhere in the image to obtain a luminance map; a separating unit, configured to separate background from foreground of the image based on the luminance map, to obtain an initial background luminance map; a top and bottom luminance obtaining unit, configured to extract top and bottom luminance of the initial background luminance map, and in the case of a part of the top and/or bottom luminance being missing, to supplement the missing part utilizing existing data of the top and/or bottom luminance to obtain complete top and bottom luminance; and an interpolation unit, configured to perform interpolation on the whole image based on the complete top and bottom luminance, to obtain the background luminance map of the image.
US09204006B2
A scanner module and an image scanning apparatus employing the same. The scanner module comprises an illuminator for illuminating light on an object to be scanned. The illuminator includes a light emitting diode, a light guide extending in a main scanning direction to change a direction of the light received from the light emitting diode, and at least one elastic member to elastically support at least one longitudinal end of the light guide. As the light guide is elastically supported by the elastic member, convex deformation or bowing of an emission face of the light guide due to thermal expansion can be reduced.
US09204005B2
According to an embodiment, provided is an image forming apparatus available for use with a memory card, the memory card including a housing that includes a built-in memory device and a terminal exposed from the housing. The image forming apparatus includes: a memory-card storing section that includes a pit for storing the memory card therein, the memory-card storing section being provided in a main body of the image forming apparatus as an apparatus main body; and an outer cover detachably attached to the apparatus main body to cover the memory-card storing section. At least one portion of the memory-card storing section is configured to be brought into contact with the housing of the memory card when the memory card is stored in the memory-card storing section and is configured to be electrically connected to a ground of the apparatus main body.
US09204002B2
An electronic device with keys which is capable of improving the user's usability for the keys, wherein processes allocated to the keys can be switched. A switching unit switches processes allocated to at least a part of the plurality of keys according to a predetermined operation. A determination unit determines whether or not the switching unit is in a normal state. An invalidation unit invalidates a part of the plurality of keys in a case where the determination unit determines that the switching unit is not in the normal state. An execution unit executes, when the key not invalidated by the invalidation unit among the plurality of keys is pressed, a process allocated to the pressed key, in a case where the determination unit determines that the switching unit is not in the normal state.
US09203999B2
It can confirm candidates of functional parts that can be selected as a function restriction release target, and can select the functional parts of the function restriction release target prior to receiving a release code. A mobile terminal sends registration information, which includes a MAC address acquired from a multifunction device, to a server. An authentication process of the compound device is performed in the server. After that, an additional function selection screen is displayed in the mobile terminal based on the data sent from the server. The user controls the mobile terminal to select additional functions and to send additional function selection information, and a payment process is performed for the server. The release code is sent from the server to the mobile terminal. The multifunction device releases the function restriction of the corresponded functional parts based on the release code.
US09203988B2
An image forming apparatus includes a SIP controlling section, a web screen obtaining section, a display device, a first web controlling section, and a second web controlling section. The SIP controlling section establishes a connection with another image forming apparatus on the reception side, by communicating with a SIP server. The web screen obtaining section obtains information about a web screen by making a request to a web server. The first web controlling section executes the application on the basis of the operation performed on the web screen displayed by the display device and transmits/receives image data to/from the image forming apparatus on the reception side through the connection. The second web controlling section executes the application on the basis of the operation performed on the web screen displayed by the display device and transmits/receives audio data to/from the image forming apparatus on the reception side through the connection.
US09203980B2
A chip mountable on a customer replaceable unit monitoring memory (CRUM) unit used in an image forming job includes a central processing unit (CPU) with an operating system (OS) thereof, which is separate from an OS of the image forming apparatus, to perform at least one of authentication and cryptographic data communication with a main body of an image forming apparatus by executing one cryptographic algorithm corresponding to a set state from among a plurality of pre-provided cryptographic algorithms, using the OS thereof. The security of a unit on which the chip is mounted can thereby be reinforced and random changes of data of the unit can be prevented.
US09203967B2
A system and a method for processing calls. The system comprises a database including: a plurality of telephony identifiers; and for each telephony identifier, information regarding a group of persons that is associated with the telephony identifier, each person of the group of persons being reachable by placing a call to the telephony identifier, the information comprising, for each person of the group of persons, information related to processing of calls involving the person. The system also comprises a processing element having access to the database and being operative for: determining that a given call involves a particular person of the group of persons that is associated with a given one of the telephony identifiers; and processing the given call based on the information related to processing of calls involving the particular person. Also provided is a method for associating an additional telephony identifier with one or more identities of a group of identities that is associated with a telephony identifier, and a method for associating an additional identity with a telephony identifier that is associated with a group of identities.
US09203964B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for originating a call to a wireless number by a contact center while enforcing various compliance requirements. In one embodiment, a compliance server and a PBX cooperate to originate the call to the wireless number. The agent logs into the compliance server and the compliance server provides the agent with a wireless number to dial. The agent manually enters the wireless number using a phone connected to the PBX. The PBX queries the compliance server regarding establishing the wireless call. Upon authorization, the PBX establishes a first call leg to the compliance server, and a second call leg to the called party that is joined with the call leg to the agent's phone. Upon completion of the call, the agent dispositions the call to the compliance server, which then releases the first call leg. In response, the PBX then releases the second call leg.
US09203959B2
A communication terminal apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to when an incoming-call notice is received, determine whether or not, among calls that have been initiated and that have failed to be answered, a call for which a number of a call reception destination matches a number of a call initiation source included in the incoming-call notice and for which a time related to initiation of the call and a time related to the incoming-call notice have a given relationship therebetween has been initiated, and when the call has been initiated, cause the communication terminal apparatus or a communication terminal apparatus that is the call reception destination to output information indicating suppression of initiation of a call.
US09203957B2
A system for managing telephone messages played by a telephone includes an integrated telephone answering device configured to playback a plurality of outgoing messages. The system further includes a first memory section to store a default outgoing message and a second memory section to store one or more custom outgoing messages. The system further includes a handset operable to send outgoing messages for storage in the base unit and to send information related to outgoing messages for storage in a database of the base unit, the information including an outgoing message identifier associated with each outgoing message and a list of calling numbers associated with each outgoing message identifier. The system further includes a processor operable to receive an indication of a playback outgoing message request, to determine a calling party number associated with the outgoing message identifier, to retrieve an outgoing message identifier associated with the calling party number, and to send a signal to the integrated telephone answering device to playback an outgoing message associated with the outgoing message identifier.
US09203956B2
A method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file including, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers to an electronic device with or without an Internet connection, said method comprising transmitting and audio and/or visual media file in compressed format to said electronic device, and wherein the electronic device is effective to receive said audio and/or visual file and playback said audio and/or visual content on demand by a user.
US09203943B2
A method for detecting time division duplex (TDD) noise of a communication device, the communication device includes a radio frequency (RF) unit, a voice generation unit, a voice signal acquisition unit, an audio processing unit, and a processor. The RF unit emits a plurality of radio signals. The voice generation unit generates voice signals and outputs the voice signals. The voice signal acquisition unit acquires the voice signals. The audio processing unit converts the acquired voice signals into digital audio signals, and analyzes the digital audio signals to detect whether the digital audio signals contain time division duplex (TDD) noise. The processor generates a result indicating the digital audio signals contain or do not contain the TDD noise according to the analysis of the digital audio signals, and displays the result on a display of the communication device.
US09203942B2
A mobile communication device configured to operate in at least a first mode and a second mode is provided. The mobile communication device includes a housing, a light emitting unit configured to emit at least a first color when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to emit a second color when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode, and a filtering unit having at least a first pattern associated with the first mode and a second pattern associated with the second mode. The filtering unit is configured to display the first pattern with the first color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to display the second pattern with the second color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode.
US09203940B2
An integrated device provides functionality of both a PDA and cellular telephone. Features include a power button offering control of both the computing and telephony functions of the device; a lid that turns the device on and off and controls additional telephony functions; a jog rocker that activates the device and is used to select from a variety of menu options; application buttons that offer direct access to applications stored on the device, and which can be configured to operate in conjunction with secondary keys to offer added functionality; a keyboard that enables data input into the device; an automatic word completion function that verifies and corrects a user's typing in real time; and a simplified keyboard navigation system that allows the navigation of menus using keyboard shortcuts.
US09203939B2
A driving system includes a sensor, a shape memory alloy member, a processing module and a recovery member. The sensor is installed on a housing, and the shape memory alloy member is connected to a module and the housing. The processing module is coupled to the sensor and the shape memory alloy member. The processing module supplies power to the shape memory alloy member when the processing module receives a sensing signal from the sensor, such that the shape memory alloy member is heated to deform for driving the module to move away from the housing. The recovery member is connected to the housing and for driving the module to get closer to the housing.
US09203936B2
An aspect of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a request from a communication device to initiate a communication session in a packet-switched network, obtaining a first name authority pointer record responsive to determining that there is an undesirable operational state in the packet-switched network, wherein the first name authority pointer record comprises a null record, obtaining a second name authority pointer record responsive to determining that there is a desirable operational state in the packet-switched network, wherein the second name authority pointer record comprises a record, and initiating the communication session according to one of the first name authority pointer record or the second name authority pointer record. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09203924B1
A system and method for recommending audio files to member of social network are provided. Method includes receiving representation of first set of audio files and representation of set of social networking contacts associated with member, and representation of one or more second sets of audio files. Each second set of audio files is associated with at least one social networking contact in set of social networking contacts associated with member. Method also includes determining first set of characteristics based on representation of first set of audio files. Method also includes determining second set of characteristics based on representation of one or more second sets of audio files. Method also includes generating recommendation for new audio file based on first set of characteristics and second set of characteristics. New audio file is not in first set of audio files. Method also includes providing indication of recommendation for new audio file.
US09203916B2
A system and methods for a web-based analytics tracking system are provided. The system includes a data structure having a plurality of web page identifiers that are each associated with a respective web page, the web pages each located on a respective one of plurality of first servers connected together using a network, the data structure further including tag information specific to each of the plurality of respective web pages, the data structure is located on a second server different than the first servers. The system also includes a tracking script including a programmed to load a loader program located on the second server, the loader program is configured to query the data structure for tag information relating to the selected web page, build an image tag request using the tag information, and insert the image tag request into the selected web page.
US09203908B2
A system and method for storing a cookie of a web page are provided. An initial cookie value corresponding to a web page is received, and a domain depth of a uniform resource locator (URL) of the web page is identified. Cookie data including a name-value pair is generated for the web page. The name-value pair includes the initial cookie value and the identified domain depth. The generated cookie data is stored corresponding to a domain of the web page.
US09203896B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for data interaction, and the method includes: obtaining required times of data interaction between valid applications in a background application mode and a network; selecting a minimum required time from the current required times as a target required time of data interaction, and starting timing; when the target required time expires, obtaining each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times, and determining the valid application as a target application; and activating a packet data protocol PDP, establishing a data link between the target application and the network, and performing data interaction, and then restarting timing.
US09203895B1
A system and method are provided for offloaded lateral transmission between protocol interface devices in an electronic system. Such offloading allows the lateral transmission of data and/or instructions between disparate protocol interface devices without burdening the electronic system's resources, such as the primary processor, memory, and/or system bus. A lateral communication controller is provided to intercouple the first and second protocol interface devices and selectively intercept data packets from one device to be injected into another.
US09203876B2
Exemplary methods, computer systems, and computer program products for automatic registration of devices in a computer environment are provided. In one embodiment, the computer environment is configured for, in response to a fabric login (FLOGI) and/or a fixed disk (Fdisk) received from an initiator and/or a target disk, executing an automatic name server registration, state change registration, and management server registration to identify at least one of the devices.
US09203868B2
Code is associated to a target based on an inspection of the code. A target may be a device or a user. A number of code components may be inspected at one time and then transferred or otherwise associated to a target based on the target's profile. A code component may be a policy of an information management system.
US09203861B2
A system and method for determining at least one hardening strategy to prevent at least one attack, comprising: performing processing associated with obtaining at least one attack graph, the at least one attack graph comprising at least one goal condition, at least one initial condition, and at least one exploit; performing processing associated with obtaining at least one allowable action that disables the at least one initial condition; performing processing associated with obtaining costs associated with the at least one allowable action; and performing processing associated with utilizing the at least one allowable action to determine at least one recommended strategy from the at least one allowable action taking into account the costs.
US09203860B1
Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to identity authentication and/or recognition. Some embodiments provide a method for determining when a user may engage in a restricted activity, including engaging in an initial contact with a user via a channel, acquiring identifying information relating to the user, receiving, from the user, a request to engage in an activity, determining an activity trust threshold required for the activity, based on the identifying information, determining an initial identity trust score for the user based on the identifying information, comparing the initial identity trust score with the activity trust threshold. Based on the comparison, the user is either allowed to engage in the activity, rejected from engaging in the activity, or additional identifying information is collected.
US09203852B2
Described systems and methods allow a classification of electronic documents such as email messages and HTML documents, according to a document-specific text fingerprint. The text fingerprint is calculated for a text block of each target document, and comprises a sequence of characters determined according to a plurality of text tokens of the respective text block. In some embodiments, the length of the text fingerprint is forced within a pre-determined range of lengths (e.g. between 129 and 256 characters) irrespective of the length of the text block, by zooming in for short text blocks, and zooming out for long ones. Classification may include, for instance, determining whether an electronic document represents unsolicited communication (spam) or online fraud such as phishing.
US09203847B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are for detecting and managing unauthorized use of cloud computing services from within an internal network of a business or other organization. A computer system may be configured to identify a plurality of Web resources that have been accessed by computing devices from within the internal network. The computer system may also be configured to obtain Internet protocol (“IP”) information from a network component of the internal network. The IP information may be used to determine whether each of the plurality of Web resources is a cloud computing service resource. The computer system may also be configured to block access to a cloud computing service resource of the plurality of Web resources upon determining that the IP information identifies the cloud computing service resource as being unauthorized.
US09203831B2
A client authentication system receives an authentication request from a server for a session between a client and the server. The authentication system determines whether a storage device contains a configuration that corresponds to the authentication request. The authentication system configures client authentication based on whether the storage device contains the corresponding configuration and displays in a graphical user interface (GUI) a status indicator to show the client authentication configuration for the session. The GUI allows a user to change the client authentication configuration for the session.
US09203827B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer readable medium for determining and representing one or more authentication requirements for at least one valid service flow of one or more information centric network (ICN) based services. This technique involves capturing service specification and storing it in a repository. Then, one or more possible service flows are generated and represented based on the nature of contents, delivery options and preferred architecture. This representation is again modified based on the trust level among functional entities and authentication scope which are inferred from the service specification. The final representation of the service flow shows only the valid inter-connections and operations among functional entities and the service flow is constrained by authentication requirement.
US09203825B2
A method of authenticating a user at a peripheral apparatus includes receiving a log-in request from a user, sending a request to a social networking service to authenticate the user's social networking service account, receiving the user's social networking service account information from the social networking service, determining based on the user's social networking service account information whether the user is authorised to access the peripheral apparatus, and allowing, in a case that the determining determines that the user is authorised to access the peripheral apparatus, the user access to the peripheral apparatus.
US09203821B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for automatically preloading data pertaining to credentials determined to be likely to be used during a particular time interval into a memory utilized by a credential emulator. The systems and methods described herein contemplate identifying a particular time interval by identifying events that may designate the beginning and end of that particular time interval, identifying contextual information relevant to the client device or a user account affiliated with the client device during the time interval, identifying a set of credentials available for loading into the memory utilized by the credential emulator, determining from the set of credentials, a subset composed of individual credentials that are likely to be used during the time interval, and loading data pertaining to individual credentials in the subset into the memory utilized by the emulator.
US09203820B2
In a networked environment, a client side application executed on a client device may transmit a request to an authorization service for access to a resource. The authorization service may authenticate the user of client device and/or the client device based on user credentials and/or a device identifier. In response to authenticating the user and/or the client device, the authorization service may send to the client side application a request for confirmation that the client device complies with a distribution rule associated with the resource, where the distribution rule requires a specific application or specific type of application to be installed, enabled and/or executing on the client device as a prerequisite to accessing the resource. If the client device complies with the distribution rule, the client side application accesses the resource. Accessing the resource may include receiving an authorization credential required for access to the resource.
US09203816B2
A key server for controlling access of a client device to a subset of different quality copies of media content to be delivered over a network to the client device. In one embodiment, a key server receives a request for playback permission of media content by a client device, and applies a set of one or more business rules to determine which copies of the media content, if any, can be played by the client device, and allows access to a subset of the copies that can be played back by the client device and restricts access to the copies that are not part of the subset.
US09203809B2
A communication system and a method of transmitting and/or receiving data in the communication system are provided. A method of transmitting media data of a camera to a user terminal in a communication environment in which the camera connected to a first network and the user terminal connected to a third network are connected to a second network includes: obtaining second address information of the second network that corresponds to first address information of the first network, from an address conversion apparatus; obtaining third address information of the second network from an address providing apparatus connected to the second network; transmitting the first through third address information to the user terminal through a session control server connected to the second network; and transmitting the media data to the user terminal based on at least one of the first through third address information.
US09203806B2
In some variations, first and second rule sets may be received by a network protection device. The first and second rule sets may be preprocessed. The network protection device may be configured to process packets in accordance with the first rule set. Packets may be received by the network protection device. A first portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the first rule set. The network protection device may be reconfigured to process packets in accordance with the second rule set. A second portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the second rule set.
US09203804B2
A method and a system for defending against malware and a method for updating a filtering table thereof are provided. The method for defending against malware includes: receiving a network packet by an electronic device, which stores a filtering table; determining whether the network packet conforms to a specific filtering rule of the filtering table by the electronic device; if the network packet conforms to the specific filtering rule, performing a specific operation on the network packet by the electronic device according to the specific filtering rule; and if the network packet does not conform to the specific filtering rule, uploading characteristic information of the network packet to a malware analyzing device by the electronic device.
US09203802B2
In methods and a device for mitigating against cyber-attack on a network, a distributed intermediary device is placed into a network between computers or network nodes of the network to mitigate cyber-attacks between the computers or nodes of a network from remote systems. Threats are assessed by utilizing internal information assurance mechanisms of the device to detect such cyber-attacks without requiring external modification of the software and/or hardware of the computers or nodes of the network to be protected. The device prevents attacks at the platform level against the OS and network resources.
US09203800B2
A communication method executed by a node in an ad hoc network having multiple nodes, includes receiving from a neighboring node of the node in the ad hoc network, a first packet that includes a sender address of the neighboring node and a first packet transmission count of packet transmissions from the neighboring node; extracting the first packet transmission count from the first packet; receiving from the neighboring node and after reception of the first packet, a second packet that includes the sender address of the neighboring node and a second packet transmission count of packet transmissions from the neighboring node; extracting the second packet transmission count from the second packet; determining whether the second packet is an invalid packet, based on the first packet transmission count and the second packet transmission count; and discarding the second packet upon determining the second packet to be an invalid packet.
US09203798B2
Technologies related to time based IP address hopping are generally described. In some examples, IP communications may involve IP network nodes including source nodes, which may configure and send IP packets via a network, gateway nodes, which may receive IP packets from the network and may send the IP packets to end point nodes, and end point nodes. The IP network nodes may hop between different IP addresses, which different IP addresses may be identified at least in part using shared time values.
US09203794B2
An electronic message may be reconfigured to effect an enhanced notification using an input interface to receive at least one electronic message created by or on behalf of a message source for delivery to an intended recipient. A matching engine determines whether the electronic message corresponds to a predetermined definition of an enhanced notification. An enhancement engine reconfigures the electronic message to the enhanced notification if stored information related to the intended recipient indicates that the intended recipient is subscribed to receive the enhanced notification. Reconfiguring the electronic message may include reconfiguring the message to provide special handling, routing or presentation.
US09203792B2
A server system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors receives from a client device a request, the request comprising a request for message content from one or more email messages in a conversation thread. The server system responds to the request by identifying the message content, identifying candidate authors, and obtaining qualifying posts by the candidate authors, the qualifying posts satisfying predefined criteria. The server system furthermore selects a subset of the qualifying posts, and prepares the selected subset of the qualifying posts and the message content for concurrent display at the client device.
US09203789B2
Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic message by executing instructions contained in the electronic attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. This identified remote server typically hosts a web site containing content for viewing by the recipient of the electronic message. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server, typically a web site on an intranet or the global Internet. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network.
US09203787B2
Displaying electronic information in an instant-messaging application includes accessing a first electronic message providing information describing a first user that has an identifier included in a set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application. A second electronic message providing information describing a second user that has an identifier included in the set of identifiers of users of an instant messaging application is accessed. Content contained within the first and second messages is analyzed to determine that at least a portion of content is common to the first and second electronic messages. Based upon the content analysis, an indication that the first and second messages include common content is provided to the user. Alternatively or additionally, an indication that two users are in physical proximity to a geographic location may be provided in response to detecting that the two users are within a threshold distance from the geographic location.
US09203783B2
A receiving network node (210) configured to select from received packets differing by time of initial transmission from a sending network node (230), and accepting for transmission, based on initial transmission time, the selected packets to an application layer (740). An internetworked processor node configured to: (a) read a sequence number and an originator identifier of a received packet message (810); (b) compare a stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier with the received packet sequence number (820); (c) if the received packet sequence number is less than or equal to the stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier, then discard (840) the received packet; and (d) if the received packet sequence number is greater than the stored highest sequence number associated with the originator identifier, then deliver (860) the message of the received packet to an application based on an upper layer protocol.
US09203780B2
Techniques to distribute messages using communication pipelines are described. An apparatus may comprise a message receiving component operative to receive a message at a first server for forwarding to a virtual receiver, a routing component operative to identify a second server maintaining the virtual receiver and determine a communication pipeline between the first server and the second server, and a message sending component operative to send the message from the first server to the second server over the communication pipeline. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09203776B2
When a network composed of usual switches on a communication route exists, in the network, a QoS control cannot be carried out to a user. Specifically, the switch receives a packet and issues a notice to an external controller and a user authenticating section of the controller determines a QoS policy of a flow. When a plurality of networks exists on the route, a route calculating section selects a route based on the QoS policy and topology data so as to pass through an appropriate network. A flow table generating section generates a flow table which carries out queuing based on the QoS policy and a marking of a DSCP value to a DS field of a header when transmitting a packet to the selected network, and registers the flow table for the round-trip on the switch.
US09203775B2
Methods and apparatus to provision cloud computing network elements are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a selection of a cloud networking template from a client, wherein the cloud networking template includes a data center connector type and a wide area network connector type, configuring a virtual machine on a host server based on the cloud networking template, configuring a data center connector based on the data center connector type, configuring a wide area network connector based on the wide area network connector type, and coupling the wide area network connector to the data center connector and coupling the data center connector to the virtual machine within the host server to enable the client to access the virtual machine.
US09203774B2
A system for instantiating resources of an IT-service includes a management engine operable to analyze a service model of said IT-service comprising nodes representing the resources and being indicative of a resource type of said represented resources. Each node comprises a generic API not being specific to any particular resource manager and providing an abstract method for instantiating the resource represented by the respective node. For each node, determining the resource types being indicated by said node; evaluating a service provider catalog indicative of resource managers operable to provide a resource of a given resource type and determining an address of each resource manager; selecting one of the resource managers; sending a request to the address of the selected resource manager for a description of a resource-manager-specific API of said resource manager; overriding said abstract method by a resource-manager-specific method for the API; and executing the overridden abstract method.
US09203758B2
In an open flow network system, a packet to be subjected to multicast transmission is transmitted to a plurality of VLANs which are different. Specifically, a packet transfer processing unit determines, when receiving a packet, whether or not the packet is for the multicast transmission. In case of the multicast transmission, whether or not the packet has been completely transmitted to ports specified for destinations is checked. When not having completely transmitted, a packet header of a packet is rewritten, and the written packet is copied and transmitted to a destination port and a network processor (NP). Through the loop-back processing, whether or not the packet received from NP is for the multicast transmission is determined. In case of the multicast transmission, it is checked whether or not the packet has been completely transmitted to the ports specified for destination. When having not been completely transmitted, the packet is rewritten in the packet header and is copied and transmitted to the destination port and the NP. When having been completely transmitted, the packet is discarded and the processing is ended.
US09203754B2
In a network device to be used for a packet handling, the network device includes a first unit to communicate with a controller according to a first protocol, and to receive a packet handling rule from the controller which is capable of sending the packet handling rule to a plurality of the network devices via a network between the controller and the network device. A second unit to classifies, based on a classification rule for classifying a received packet, whether to handle the packet according to the packet handling rule sent from the controller or to handle the packet according to a table entry that the network device autonomously set based on a second protocol. A third unit requests the packet handling rule to the controller when the packet handling rule for forwarding the received packet is not set in the network device.
US09203750B2
Systems and methods for Ethernet frame translation to Internet Protocol over Infiniband (IPoIB). An example method may comprise receiving, by a computer system, a network frame comprising a payload and a header including a destination address, determining an IB link layer address corresponding to the destination address, and encapsulating the payload into an Infiniband over Internet Protocol (IPoIB) frame including the IB link layer address.
US09203747B1
Techniques are described for providing virtual networking functionality for managed computer networks. In some situations, a user may configure or otherwise specify a logical network topology for a managed computer network with multiple computing nodes that includes one or more virtual networking devices each associated with a specified group of the multiple computing nodes. Corresponding networking functionality may be provided for communications between the multiple computing nodes by emulating functionality that would be provided by the networking devices if they were physically present and configured to support the specified network topology. In some situations, the managed computer network is a virtual computer network overlaid on a substrate network, and the networking device functionality emulating includes receiving routing communications directed to the networking devices and using included routing information to update the specified network topology for the managed computer network.
US09203746B2
Managing resources in a multi-level switch assembly system, includes a resource tree with the multiple hierarchical levels, wherein a first level device is associated with a first level, one or more second and third level devices are associated with lower, second and third levels respectively, and so on. Cost tokens are assigned to the various devices based on their corresponding resource requirements. Resources of the multi-level switch assembly system, such as, ports and/or bandwidth, are dynamically allocated to the first, second, third level devices, and so on, based on their corresponding cost tokens in a hierarchical manner.
US09203742B2
A network system has: a communication device configured to perform frame transmission and reception; a network configured to transfer the frame; a gateway connected between the communication device and the network; and a controller configured to perform management of the communication device and the network. The frame is classified into a control frame for communicating control information necessary for communication and a data frame for communicating data between communication devices. The gateway determines whether a frame received from a source communication device is the control frame or the data frame, forwards the control frame to the controller, and forwards the data frame to the network. The controller performs the management based on the control frame received from the gateway. The network transfers the data frame received from the gateway to a destination communication device without through the controller.
US09203738B2
An example method for determining an optimal forwarding path across a network having VxLAN gateways configured to implement both FGL networking and VxLAN capabilities can include learning RBridge nicknames associated with the VxLAN gateways in the network. Additionally, the method can include determining a path cost over the FGL network between each of the VxLAN gateways and a source node and a path cost over the VxLAN between each of the VxLAN gateways and a destination node. Further, the method can include determining an encapsulation overhead metric associated with the VxLAN and selecting one of the VxLAN gateways as an optimal VxLAN gateway. The selection can be based on the computed path costs over the FGL network and the VxLAN and the encapsulation overhead metric.
US09203732B2
A connection-oriented network (5) has a plurality of connections terminated at a first node (N6). A recovery group (A) is configured at the first node (N6) comprising at least two of the plurality of connections (LSP1-6, LSP2-6, LSP3-6, LSP4-6). Fault detection is performed over each of the connections in the recovery group (A) and the node determines if at least one recovery group fault condition is met, based on the results of the fault detections performed over the connections in the recovery-group (A). When the at least one recovery group fault condition is met, the node causes traffic on the plurality of connections in the recovery group (A) to be transferred to backup paths. When the at least one recovery group fault condition is not met, and a fault has been detected on a connection in the recovery group (A), the node causes traffic to be transferred from that connection to a backup path.
US09203709B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a service is disclosed. A computer system collects information about the use of a set of resources by the service. Responsive to receiving a request to verify information about the use of the set of resources by the service, the computer system generates a description of the use of the set of resources by the service using the information collected. The computer system then creates a response to the request using the generated description of the use of the set of resources by the service as proof of the validity of the information.
US09203692B1
Event routing in a distributed computing system with distributed data management is optimized by communicating events a datum only to either backup server processes or server processes respectively associated with an application process having an interest in an event affecting the datum.
US09203689B2
Disclosed is a novel passive fingerprinting technique based on DHCP messages to determine the device type and operating system. DHCP implementations are shown to vary among device types and have an effect on DHCP lease durations. To improve network address utilization, without introducing any protocol changes, the present invention provides a new leasing strategy which takes into account device types. This strategy, compared to current approaches, improves the address utilization sixfold without considerably increasing DHCP overhead.
US09203686B2
Method and system are provided for providing access to string-based message headers in network protocol messages. The method includes: converting header names into canonical form, wherein a canonical key represents one or more equivalent header names including alias forms, and wherein a canonical key has a string and an integer value; providing a mapping between the header names and the canonical keys; and searching for a header name using the canonical key by sequential search using integer comparison.
US09203673B2
Multi-channel support within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A processor of the communication device is implemented to process a signal to generate processed signals. Also, the communication device includes multiple inverse discrete fast Fourier transform (IDFT) processors respectively to process the processed signals to generate a signal streams respectively across channels (e.g., a first of the IDFT processors is implemented to process a first processed signal to generate a first signal stream based on a fast Fourier transform (FFT) channelization across a first number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) tones, and a second of the IDFT processors is implemented to process a second processed signal to generate a second signal stream based on the FFT channelization across a second number of OFDM tones). The communication device also includes communication interface(s) to transmit the signal streams to at least one additional communication device.
US09203668B2
A method of block deinterleaving data received at a digital radio broadcast receiver is described. The method includes providing a block of memory having n×k addresses, wherein the block comprises a single table, receiving a digital radio broadcast signal at the receiver, and demodulating the digital radio broadcast signal into a plurality of interleaved data units. For at least one series of n×k data units a pointer step size is determined, and for each data unit in the series, an address in the block is calculated based on the pointer step size, and an output data unit is read from the block at the address, such that said output data units represent block deinterleaved data units. An input data unit from the plurality of interleaved data units is then written to the block at the address. Associated systems and computer readable storage media are presented.
US09203661B2
A communication system performs communication using a pulse width modulation code as a transmission code. The communication system includes a plurality of nodes that are connected via a transmission line to be capable of communicating with each other. Each of the nodes including a driver circuit. The driver circuit includes a transistor that enables and blocks conduction between the transmission line and a ground line. The plurality of nodes includes a master node and a slave node. The master node is one of the plurality of nodes. The slave node is at least one node other than the master node among the plurality of nodes. The master node includes a limiter that restricts, when the transistor of the driver circuit is turned off, changes in a conductive state of the transistor.
US09203656B2
A receiver that estimates a frequency response of a transmission path using a first pilot signal stored in advance and a second pilot signal received, the receiver includes an electric power information calculation means that calculates electric power information of the first pilot signal for each subcarrier, a coefficient calculation means that calculates a coefficient on the basis of comparison between the electric power information and a predetermined threshold, a multiplication means that multiplies the electric power information of the first pilot signal for each subcarrier by a corresponding coefficient calculated by the coefficient calculation means, a transmission path estimation means that calculates an estimation value of a frequency response of a transmission path on the basis of the first pilot signal multiplied in the multiplication means and the second pilot signal received from a transmitter, and an interpolation processing means that performs interpolation processing for the calculated estimation value.
US09203653B2
A system, such as a satellite reception assembly or customer premises gateway, may comprise an analog-to-digital converter operable to digitize a signal spanning an entire television spectrum (e.g., cable television spectrum or satellite television spectrum) comprising a plurality of television channels. The system may comprise a signal monitor operable to analyze a signal to determine a characteristic of the signal. The system may comprise a data processor operable to process a television channel to recover content carried on the television channel. The system may comprise a channelizer operable to select first and second portions of the signal, and concurrently output the first portion to the signal monitor and the second portion to the data processor.
US09203651B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring, via a monitoring server, attributes of computer systems in communication with the monitoring server. A graphical user interface may display selectable attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server. The computer systems may be sorted in a tree based upon, at least in part, one or more selected attributes of the computer systems monitored by the monitoring server.
US09203649B2
A method, system, and article are provided for processing solicited electronic mail messages responsive to a set of rules. Each received message is processed through the rules to determine if it meets at least one protocol in the set of rules, wherein the rules pertain to a method of communicating the message to the recipient. Upon a match of the message to at least one rule, the message is conveyed to the recipient in conformance with the rule.
US09203646B2
A method and system of message transport selection for a communication device configured for communication over a plurality of message transports are provided. A determination is made as to whether any of the plurality of message transports is available for sending an outgoing message from the communication device. One of the available message transports is then selected, and the outgoing message is sent from the communication device using the selected message transport. Even though the outgoing message may be of a message type associated with one of the plurality of message transports, other message transports may be selected and used to send the outgoing message from the communication device.
US09203638B2
A cable television plant may include fiber nodes, cable modems, a management information base (MIB), and a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The CMTS may include logic to apply information from the MIB to determine the suitability of resources assigned to the fiber nodes from particular MAC domains for providing data communications.
US09203634B2
Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term of validity has been attached is sent to a user terminal over a paging channel via an SMS server. When the user terminal receives the message, it determines whether or not the message is within the term of validity, and if it determines that the message is within the term of validity, starts up the instructed application from among a plurality of applications that are stored. The stock price information server then sends to the user terminal the stock price information that is requested by the started up application.
US09203629B2
Systems and methods for providing user-centric device-based data communications cost monitoring and controls. In an embodiment, the method operates by sending a registration request associated with a subscriber session, determining current data usage associated with the subscriber, and sending data usage thresholds. The method further comprises sending quotas associated with the subscriber session after collecting data usage information associated with the subscriber session. The method receives a notification at the subscriber's mobile device when a pre-determined quota is exceeded during the subscriber session to control data usage. The system communicates with a usage policy server and a usage policy application. The usage policy application allows a subscriber to alter terms and service tiers of a subscription. The usage policy application displays current data usage information on a per-network and per-application basis using subscriber profile information, subscriber session information, and prior subscriber usage history received from the usage policy server.
US09203626B2
A system configured to authenticate a user for encryption or decryption includes a user authentication apparatus, a computer-readable medium operable to communicate with the user authentication apparatus, and an encryption and decryption computer communicating with the user authentication apparatus. The computer-readable medium may store user identifying information and encryption and decryption data. The encryption and decryption computer may be configured to receive an application programming interface (API) for interfacing with the user authentication apparatus and receive the user identifying information from the computer-readable medium via the API. A user may be authenticated based on the user identifying information and, once the user is authenticated, the encryption and decryption data may be read.
US09203613B2
Systems and methods for authentication generate keys from secret credentials shared between authenticating parties and authenticators. Generation of the keys may involve utilizing specialized information that, as a result of being used to generate the keys, renders the generated keys usable for a smaller scope of uses than the secret credential. Further, key generation may involve multiple invocations of a function where each of at least a subset of the invocations of the function results in a key that has a smaller scope of permissible use than a key produced from a previous invocation of the function. Generated keys may be used as signing keys to sign messages. One or more actions may be taken depending on whether a message and/or the manner in which the message was submitted complies with restrictions of the a key's use.
US09203609B2
Various methods for implementing keystream hierarchy in a distributed memory environment are provided. One example method may comprise causing a generated keystream to be accessed on a memory device, wherein the keystream was generated in an instance in which the memory device was in radio communications range. One example method may further comprise determining a session key based on the generated keystream and a modified keystream. In some example embodiments, the modified keystream is created by the memory device based on the generated keystream and a keystream received by the memory device from a second device. One example method may further comprise causing communications data to be transmitted to the memory device or to the second device. In some example embodiments, the communications data is protected using at least a portion of the session key and is intended for the second device.
US09203607B2
A confidential information exchange between a sender and a receiver may be conducted without the use of encryption keys. The information is coded with a Challenge-Response Table that is shared between the sender and the receiver. Rather than sending a challenge and then waiting for a response, the challenge and response are both sent by the sender of the information. The information sent comprises an index with a challenge and a response from the Challenge-Response Table. Upon receiving the coded information, the receiver uses the Challenge-Response Table to decode the information by using the index to locate the challenge and its valid response. Upon determining that the challenge and the response are correct, a first decoded answer is determined. Upon determining that either the challenge or the response, or both, are incorrect, a second decoded answer is determined.
US09203605B2
A phase interpolator (PI) is provided to adjust the phase of a clock such that the phase is aligned to an incoming data pattern from a data stream. The data can be captured from a device such as a flip-flop or the like. The present technique uses a PI (digital to phase) and a digital state machine in a feedback loop to set the correct digital code to the PI inputs to achieve an appropriate clock phase. Of course, there can be variations.
US09203603B2
A frame transmitting unit divides a payload area of an upper-layer frame into a plurality of slots, maps a lower-layer frame to one or more of the slots, and transmits the upper-layer frame including connection information that indicates which one or more of the slots the lower-layer frame of a same type is mapped to. The frame synchronization detection unit identifies, as one or more allocated slots, the one or more slots to which the lower-layer frame of the same type is mapped, on the basis of the connection information, and detects the frame synchronization by identifying a frame head signal of the lower-layer frame of the same type that is mapped to the one or more allocated slots.
US09203602B1
A data lock detection system may include a receiver configured to receive a data signal, a phase detector configured to output a phase detection output signal representative of the data signal with respect to a clock signal, and a lock detector configured to receive the phase detection output signal. The lock detector is configured to determine a presence of a frequency difference between the data signal and the clock signal and output a lock determination output signal that indicates if the data signal is locked or unlocked with the clock signal.
US09203597B2
A communication device includes an EHF communication unit, a data signal line, and a protocol bridge element. The EHF communication unit includes a transceiver, and an antenna coupled to the transceiver. The data signal line carries a data signal conforming to a first communication protocol. The protocol bridge element is coupled to the data signal line and EHF communication unit, and configured to receive a first protocol-compliant data signal from the data signal line, translate the first protocol-compliant data signal to an outbound binary signal, time-compress the outbound binary signal, and transmit the outbound time-compressed signal to the transceiver. The protocol bridge element is further configured to receive an inbound time-compressed signal from the transceiver, time-decompress inbound time-compressed signal to an inbound binary signal, translate inbound binary signal to conform to a second communication protocol, and provide second protocol-compliant signal to the first data signal line.
US09203595B2
Efficient initial access system under a multi-carrier combination condition for supporting broadband
The present invention relates to a wireless access system, and more particularly, to an initial system under a multi-carrier combination condition. A method of for performing an initial access in a base station which supports the multi-band of a terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: searching one or more downlink component carriers of the base station; receiving system information including a broadcast channel of a first downlink component carrier from among the searched one or more downlink component carriers and information for indicating one or more uplink component carriers connected to the first downlink component carrier; transmitting a first message to the base station through a first uplink component carrier from among one or more uplink component carriers indicated by the received system information; and receiving a second message including uplink authorization information from the base station through the first downlink component carrier.
US09203591B2
An apparatus and method for controlling inter-cell interference is disclosed. The user equipment for controlling inter-cell interference in a wireless communication system includes an interference level measuring module configured to measure interference levels of neighboring cells using at least one of information about the number of antennas among antennas deployed in the neighboring cells, information about indexes of the effective antennas, and information about reference signal of the neighboring cells, an interference restriction request determination module configured to compare the interference levels of the neighboring cells with a predetermined threshold and to determine whether or not UE requests an interference restriction to the neighboring cells, and a transmitter configured to transmit information about one or more neighboring cells, to which the interference restriction request will be transmitted, to a serving base station.
US09203569B2
A method of transmitting pilot signals in a system which performs communication using two or more earners comprises transmitting first pilots and second pilots from at least one user equipment to a base station, the first and second pilots, which are transmitted from the at least one user equipment, being multiplexed by code division multiplexing, and the first and second pilots, which are transmitted from a specific user equipment, having different transmission powers, and transmitting data from the at least one user equipment to the base station depending on the first pilots and the second pilots. Since many UEs can transmit CQ pilots, exact channel estimation can be performed and thus communication efficiency can be improved.
US09203564B2
Techniques for supporting data transmission via a relay station are described. In an aspect, data transmission may be supported using ACK-and-suspend. A transmitter station sends a first transmission of a packet to a receiver station. The transmitter station receives no ACK information for the first transmission of the packet and suspends transmission of the packet. The transmitter station thereafter receives an indication to resume transmission of the packet and, in response, sends a second transmission of the packet. In another aspect, different ACK timeline may be used when applicable. The receiver station may send ACK information in a designated subframe if available for use or in a different subframe. In yet another aspect, ACK repetition may be used. The receiver may send ACK information in multiple subframes to facilitate reception of the ACK information when the transmitter station is unable to receive one or more of the multiple subframes.
US09203563B2
Discussed generally herein are enhanced Node Bs (eNodeBs) and User Equipment (UE) arranged for offloading UE traffic from a communications node and techniques for the same. An eNodeB can include processing circuitry arranged to obtain traffic load information of one or more WiFi access points within a coverage area of the eNodeB and produce corresponding offload guidance information, the traffic load information includes information about user equipment (UE) traffic flows on the one or more WiFi access points. The eNodeB can include a transceiver arranged to transmit the offload guidance information to one or more UEs and arranged to receive a request from at least one of the UEs to move at least some of the UE traffic flows to one of the WiFi access points.
US09203560B2
Methods and apparatus for delayed block acknowledgments in a WLAN. In an aspect, a method is provided for communication with one or more nodes. The method includes transmitting to the one or more nodes a block comprising data and a first bit indicating no acknowledgements for the data are to be transmitted from the one or more nodes. The method also includes determining whether a selected time location within a transmit time duration has been reached, wherein if the selected time location has been reached, transmitting to the one or more nodes a second bit indicating that the one or more nodes are to transmit one or more acknowledgements, respectively, for the data. The method also includes receiving at least one acknowledgment for the data within a remaining portion of the transmit time duration.
US09203559B2
In some implementations, a method of wireless communications between a wireless communications network and wireless user equipment includes receiving, using a primary Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration, data on a primary component carrier in a first frequency band. Using a secondary TDD configuration, data on a secondary component carrier is received in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) for data received on the secondary component carrier is transmitted using a supplemental TDD configuration. A transmission or retransmission on the secondary component carrier uses a supplemental TDD configuration as well. The supplemental TDD configuration is different from the secondary TDD configuration. Furthermore, an uplink supplemental configuration may be different from a downlink supplemental configuration.
US09203556B2
In various embodiments, a system comprising a network interface, a processor, and a non-transient memory medium operatively coupled to the processor is disclosed. The memory medium is configured to store a plurality of instructions configured to program the processor to receive a digital bit stream, transform the digital bit stream to an encoded digital bit stream. The encoded digital bit stream comprises at least one of a gateway channel, a composite channel, or a data channel, and any combination thereof, and provides the encoded digital bit stream to the network interface for transmission. A non-transitory computer-readable memory medium and a computer-implemented method also are disclosed.
US09203545B2
A method for allocating uplink and downlink bandwidth, includes: receiving, by a primary ONU, a primary PON downlink frame sent by a nested OLT, where the primary PON downlink frame carries a primary ONU uplink bandwidth grant and a secondary ONU uplink bandwidth grant; parsing, by the primary ONU, the primary PON downlink frame to acquire the primary ONU uplink bandwidth grant and the secondary ONU uplink bandwidth grant; and sending, by the primary ONU, a secondary PON downlink frame to a secondary ONU, where the secondary PON downlink frame carries the acquired secondary ONU uplink bandwidth grant. The present disclosure achieves an optimal overall performance for the two stages of PONs by considering general conditions of the two stages of PONs, and meanwhile ensures a maximum available bandwidth for the two stages of PONs during formulation of bandwidth grants.
US09203543B2
Optical transmitter apparatus 10 comprising a reflective optical amplifier 12, a driver 14, an optical splitter 16, polarisation compensation apparatus 18 and an optical router 20. The reflective optical amplifier is arranged to receive an optical seed signal. The driver is arranged to generate a drive signal arranged to cause the reflective optical amplifier to amplify the optical seed signal to form an optical signal. The optical splitter is arranged to receive the optical signal and to split off a part of the optical signal to form a further optical signal. The polarisation compensation apparatus is arranged to receive the further optical signal and to rotate a polarisation of the further optical signal by a pre-determined amount, to form a further optical seed signal. The optical router is arranged to receive the further optical seed signal and to direct the further optical seed signal to the reflective optical amplifier for amplification thereby.
US09203542B2
Proposed is an optical node that contains a number of A optical demultiplexers. Each demultiplexer is adapted to provide at its N output ports N incoming optical signals received from N optical cores of an incoming optical multi-core fiber. Furthermore, the optical node contains a number of B optical multiplexers. Each multiplexer is adapted to receive at its N input ports N outgoing optical signals and to insert the N outgoing optical signals into N optical cores of an outgoing multi-core fiber. The optical node is configurable to switch one of the incoming optical signals simultaneously onto B input ports of different multiplexers and to combine A of the incoming optical signals from A output ports of different demultiplexers onto a same input port of one of the multiplexers. Alternatively, N incoming signals are received from N different mode signals of a spatially multiplexed multi-mode fiber and then transmitted as N multi-mode signals into a spatially multiplexed multi-mode fiber.
US09203533B2
System and method for real-time wireless transmission of digital audio at multiple radio frequencies
Disclosed is a system and method for the real-time wireless transmission of digital audio signals. A transmitter including a processor may be used to: generate a first digital data stream and a second digital data stream from a digital audio signal and transmit the first digital data stream at a first radio frequency and the second digital data stream at a second radio frequency. A receiver including a processor may be utilized to: receive the first and second digital data streams at the first and second radio frequencies, respectively, and generate the digital audio signal from the first and second digital data streams.
US09203529B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to determining the location and/or density of vias that form part of an RF isolation structure of a packaged module and the resulting RF isolation structures. From electromagnetic interference (EMI) data, locations of where via density can be increased and/or decreased without significantly degrading the EMI performance of the RF isolation structure can be identified. In certain embodiments, one or more vias can be added and/or removed from a selected area of the packaged module based on the EMI data.
US09203526B2
The present invention discloses method and system for improving performance of interference cancellation in a radio communication system. The method comprises: estimating power of an interfering signal contained in a received signal; estimating power of an additive estimate error signal added to the interfering signal; and canceling the interfering signal from the received signal if the estimated power of the additive estimate error signal is lower than the estimated power of the interfering signal. A cellular mobile terminal and a cellular base station comprising the system are also disclosed.
US09203524B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable for providing smart underwater free space optical communications are provided. According to one aspect, a system for smart underwater free space optical communications is provided. The system includes a receiver. The receiver includes an optical detector array for detecting incident light under water. The receiver further includes a compound lens array located optically in front of the optical detector. The compound lens array includes lenses that steer incident light arriving at different angles to different portions of the optical detector array. A controller processes signals generated by the optical detector based on the incident light and controls an aspect of the underwater communications based on the steered incident light detected by the detector array. Components of the controller may include a backscatter estimator and an angle of arrival estimator for estimating water quality obtained from backscattered light and an angle of arrival of incident light, respectively.
US09203523B2
The present invention relates to a flexible method of provide chips for optical interconnect with different number of channels.
US09203522B2
An optical receiver includes an optical detector that is positioned to detect an optical data signal received from an optical channel generates a received electrical data signal at an output. An electrical switch passes one of the received electrical data signal and a second electrical signal depending upon a control signal applied to a control input. A data and clock recovery circuit generates a recovered clock and a recovered data signal when a signal-to-noise ratio of the received electrical signal is in a range where a signal locking condition is established, and generates the control signal at the control output that instructs the electrical switch to select the received electrical data signal if the signal locking condition is established and to select the second electrical signal if the signal locking condition is not established.
US09203516B2
An identification device is configured to be coupled externally to an optoelectronic device to provide connectivity and/or identification information in an optical network in which the optoelectronic device is implemented. The identification device may include an integrated circuit with unique identification information and a plurality of contacts coupled to the integrated circuit and configured to be coupled to an outside identification system. The outside identification system communicates with the identification device via the plurality of contacts to collect unique identification information, the ability to retrieve the unique identification information additionally implicating connectivity in some embodiments. The identification device may include a plurality of clips configured to engage corresponding posts on a latch of the optoelectronic device.
US09203508B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for estimating chromatic dispersion of a received optical signal (Rx(f)), the method comprising: scanning the received optical signal (Rx(f)) through a number (M) of chromatic dispersion compensation filters in a chromatic dispersion filter range (Dmin . . . Dmax) between a first chromatic dispersion value (Dmin) and a second chromatic dispersion value (Dmax) with a resolution (ΔD) determined by the chromatic dispersion filter range (Dmin . . . Dmax) normalized by the number (M) of chromatic dispersion compensation filters to obtain filtered samples (Rx, D(f)) of the received optical signal (Rx(f)); and determining a correlation function (CD(τ,B)) indicating an estimate of the chromatic dispersion by correlating the filtered samples (Rx, D(f)) of the received optical signal (Rx(f)) with respect to frequency shifts (τ) over a correlation bandwidth (B), wherein the correlation bandwidth (B), the chromatic dispersion filter range (Dmin . . . Dmax) and the resolution (ΔD) are iteratively adapted according to an optimization criterion.
US09203507B2
[Problem] To provide a user-friendly information-gathering device enabling users to select buttons easily.[Solution to Problem] An information-gathering device 1 has a plurality of selection buttons 6a to 6e and 7a to 7c, a communication module 10, and a cancel button 4. The communication module 10 has an IC chip 12 and a button cell 14. The IC chip 12 has a storage 21 which stores information for identifying the pressed selection button and information about the time of the press, in chronological order, a controller 22 which performs control to store the information in the storage, and a wireless communication unit 23. When the cancel button is pressed, the controller 22 stores, in the storage, information requesting to cancel press information about the selection button pressed immediately before the cancel button is pressed.
US09203505B2
An approach for transmission of data packets, based on virtual frame timing, over a communications channel is provided. A remote terminal receives a first stream of data packets at periodic time intervals. The terminal receives an allocation of time slots within a sequence of TDMA transmission frames, for transmission of the data packets over the channel. The timing structure of the allocated time slots is based on a virtual frame size relative to the interval timing of the first data packet stream, and independent of the frame size/timing of the TDMA transmission frames. The remote terminal may receive a second stream of data packets at periodic time intervals that differ from the time intervals of the first stream. In a multi-stream scenario, the virtual frame size for the time slot allocation is based on the greatest common denominator of the interval timings of the first and second data streams.
US09203504B2
A system and method is provided to enable enhanced paging for 3GPP IMS based Mobile Satellite Communication is presented. The method is achieved by utilizing the network requested secondary PDP context activation (NRSPCA) features of 3GPP release 7. NRSPCA involves interaction between P-CSCF, GGSN, and SGSN that eventually allows SGSN to identify the traffic type of the incoming call without looking at the compressed SIP messages. RAN can do enhanced paging, if necessary; based on the request secondary PDP context activation message, if the Paging Cause is indicating conversational class. In another embodiment, enhanced paging can be achieved by marking the packet with an appropriate DSCP code, which is done by the P-CSCF. SGSN can populate the paging cause with enhanced paging code based on the DSCP code provided or RAN can escalate paging to enhanced paging by examining the DSCP code.
US09203498B2
A virtual broadband transmitting unit includes a stream generator to generate a multiplicity of data streams from an incoming media datastream, and a transmission manager to control the upload of the multiplicity of data streams along a multiplicity of transmission channels to at least one wireless communication network. A virtual broadband receiver includes means to receive a multiplicity of media data streams from a multiplicity of data connections, and an assembly engine to assemble the data streams into a single media stream.
US09203491B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining a precoding matrix indicator, a user equipment UE, a base station eNB, and a system. The method includes: receiving a reference signal sent by a base station; selecting, based on the reference signal, a precoding matrix from a codebook, where a precoding matrix W included in the codebook is a product of two matrices W1 and W2, where W1 is a block diagonal matrix, where each block matrix is a Kronecker product of a matrix Ai and a matrix Bi; and sending a precoding matrix indicator PMI to the base station, where the PMI corresponds to the selected precoding matrix, so that the base station obtains the precoding matrix according to the PMI.
US09203476B2
Systems and methods for code communication are provided. A secure system wirelessly transmits, via a magnetic field transmitter, an access code to a handheld wireless communication device as a sequence of polarities of a short-range magnetic field. The wireless communication device senses the sequence of polarities and determines the code from the sensed sequence of polarities. The code provides access to the secure system. The handheld wireless communication device can wirelessly transmit the code received from the short-range magnetic field and identification information to the secure system to receive access to the secure system. The access is personalized based on at least the identification information and is maintained or validated when the handheld wireless communication device is within range of the short-range magnetic field.
US09203472B2
A system includes an analog front end (AFE) unit to be coupled to a power line network, and a controller coupled to the AFE unit. More specifically, the AFE unit is to receive a packet signal from the power line network wherein, based on a first gain parameter, the AFE unit is to amplify the received packet signal. The controller is configured to calculate a root-mean-square (RMS) power of the amplified packet signal. Further, the AFE unit is to calculate a second gain parameter based on the calculated RMS power of the amplified packet signal and the first gain parameter, wherein the second gain parameter is to be used to amplify the received packet signal instead of the first gain parameter.
US09203467B2
A method of management for operating a first system of communication of the broadband type communication system emitting over a first frequency range, and a second system of communication of the narrow band type communication system emitting over a second frequency range, the first system and the second system using all or part of a same frequency band, such common frequency band being called a crossover frequency band for both systems, the method including: embodying a scan operation from at least the crossover frequency band of the two systems using a scan device from the first communication system; identifying, after the scan operation, the frequency channels used by the second communication system; adapting the operating of the first communication system within the frequency channels identified as being used by the second communication system.
US09203466B2
System(s) and method(s) are provided to facilitate generating and processing acquisition pilots in wireless communications. Acquisition pilots that convey timing and frequency synchronization information, wireless system acquisition and system determination information are modulated with pseudorandom sequences. The R bits of information carried by the acquisition pilot that conveys system determination information are augmented with T bits that convey a counter index associated with the system timing of superframes transmitted from an access point. The processing overhead resulting from the addition of the T bits is offset by the advantages afforded to a wireless communication. Salient advantages include: (i) processing gain at a receiver for communication in a specific sector during asynchronous operation, (ii) packet boundary determination through the counter field values, and (iii) initialization of various pseudorandom registers employed for communication.
US09203456B2
A mobile device having a periphery and including a substrate, a feeding line, and a resonance element is provided. The substrate has a ground plane and the feeding line is disposed on the substrate. The resonance element is formed on at least a portion of the periphery. The resonance element is electrically connected to the feeding line and the ground plane respectively via a first feeding point and a first ground point, so as to form a first excitation path. The resonance element receives and transmits a first radio frequency signal and a second radio frequency signal via the first excitation path.
US09203451B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a radio-frequency (RF) front-end for a radio configured to receive an RF signal at a first frequency includes an antenna port configured to be coupled to an antenna, and a notch filter having an input coupled to the antenna port. The notch filter is configured to reject one or more frequencies, such that the first frequency is a harmonic or intermodulation distortion product of the one or more frequencies. The RF front-end also includes a piezoelectric filter having an input coupled to an output of the notch filter and an output configured to be coupled to an RF amplifier. The piezoelectric filter has a pass band comprising the first frequency.
US09203450B2
A signal transmission approach comprises encoding a source signal (comprising a plurality of source symbols) to generate a corresponding encoded signal. The encoded signal is modulated by mapping each source symbol to a respective signal constellation point of an applied signal constellation to generate a modulated signal. The modulated signal is pre-distorted based on a distortion estimate to generate a pre-distorted signal. The pre-distorted signal is filtered to generate a filtered signal. The filtered signal is frequency translated and amplified to generate a transmission signal for transmission via an uplink channel of a satellite communications system. To increase throughput, the source signal is processed through the apparatus and the resulting transmission signal is generated at a Faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) symbol rate and with a tight frequency roll-off. The modulated signal is pre-distorted based on a distortion estimate relating to the nonlinearity and the filters applied before and/or after the pre-distorter.
US09203443B2
Optimal period rate matching for turbo coding. A means is provided herein by which a nearly optimal (e.g., optimal for one block size and sub-optimal for others) periodic puncturing pattern that depends on a mother code. Any desired rate matching can be achieved using the means and approaches presented herein to ensure an appropriate rate of an encoded block output from a turbo encoder so that the subsequently modulated signal generated there from has the appropriate rate. In addition, some embodiments can also employ shifting for another design level available in accordance with puncturing employed to provide for periodic rate matching. Selectivity can also be employed, such that, a first periodic puncturing pattern can be applied at a first time to ensure a first rate, and a second periodic puncturing pattern can be applied at a second time to ensure a second rate.
US09203442B2
A stopping criterion for a turbo-encoding method. The criterion is based on a state metrics calculated by a forward-backward recursion in a coding trellis of an elementary encoder. If, for at least one elementary decoding stage, forward state metrics of a last symbol of a block or backward state metrics of a first symbol of a block exceeds a first threshold, the turbo-decoding iterations are stopped. If it is not the case, it is further checked whether the state metrics exceeds a second threshold and if the absolute value of the difference between the current state metrics and the state metrics obtained at the previous iteration lies below a given margin. In the affirmative, the turbo-decoding iterations are stopped and a hard decision is taken on extrinsic values.
US09203434B1
Some embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for an optimized and efficient encoding scheme that can accommodate higher block lengths of data. Some embodiments generally relate to: (1) coding structures for a new class of LDPC matrices based on algebraic relations, and (2) encoding method that achieves the R=1−k/n exact bound on code rate. In addition, in some embodiments, the coding structures efficiently create matrices with excellent error-correcting properties and are devoid of short cycles (leading to robust performance). The implementations of the coding structures are scalable over a range of code rates and block lengths.
US09203428B2
A data storage system stores at least one dataset including a plurality of records. A data processing system, coupled to the data storage system, processes the plurality of records to produce codes representing data patterns in the records, the processing including: for each of multiple records in the plurality of records, associating with the record a code encoding one or more elements, wherein each element represents a state or property of a corresponding field or combination of fields as one of a set of element values, and, for at least one element of at least a first code, the number of element values in the set is smaller than the total number of data values that occur in the corresponding field or combination of fields over all of the plurality of records in the dataset.
US09203427B2
A transmitter, receiver and method for mitigating the cliff effect for content delivery over a heterogeneous network. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes: (1) a joint encoder configured to receive a content unit and generate multiple quantized representations thereof and (2) an erasing quantizer associated with the joint encoder and configured to select, from uncoded symbols representing the content unit, multiple subsets of the uncoded symbols. The multiple quantized representations and the multiple subsets of the uncoded symbols are associated to form multiple, independently quantized, correlated descriptions of the content unit. Two design parameters may be employed to control the level of correlation. In one embodiment, the receiver includes: (1) a joint decoder configured to decode quantized representations extracted from received descriptions representing a content unit and (2) a summing junction associated with the joint decoder and configured to employ at least one uncoded symbol representing the content unit to compensate for at least one corresponding symbol that the joint decoder failed to decode.
US09203422B2
An event-driven tracking analog to digital converter (ADC) architecture is proposed. The proposed architecture has less sensitivity to amplifier and DAC non-linearity, reduces the swing and dynamic common-mode range requirement of the operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) and comparators, respectively.
US09203418B2
The present disclosure provides a clock generator circuit comprising a master clock generator unit configured to generate a master clock signal, and a plurality of slave phase locked loop units. Each of the plurality of slave phase looked loop units is configured to receive the master clock signal as an input reference signal and a corresponding source clock signal. The slave phase locked loop unit may comprise an inner loop and an outer loop. The inner loop may comprise a frequency synthesizer locked on a master clock signal received from a master clock generator unit, while the outer loop may comprise a binary phase detector, an output of which goes to a loop filter with proportional and integral action, controlling the inner loop frequency value via a sigma delta input.
US09203409B2
Disclosed is a wafer-level stacked chip assembly, comprising a plurality of chip layers vertically stacked together with vertically electrical interconnections between the adjacent chip layers realized by TSVs (Through Silicon Via). Each chip layer includes a switching mechanism for selectively bypassing chip coding sequence to deactivate failed IC area and its chip coding sequence, thereby the interconnection relationship among the chip layers can be re-defined and the function and chip code of the failed IC area can be deactivated. Accordingly, any known failed chip in the wafer-level stacking chip assembly can be controlled as a dummy chip to realize the wafer-level chip stacking of non-known good dices with exclusion of failed chip(s).
US09203403B2
The touch panel comprises a plurality of first axial electrodes extending along a first direction and a plurality of second axial electrodes extending along a second direction. The second axial electrode comprises a plurality of second axial conductive units and a plurality of bridging structures connecting with two adjacent second axial conductive units electrically. The bridging structure comprises a conductive component and an insulating component. The insulating component disposed between the conductive component and the first axial electrode. The conductive component comprises a connection portion and two contact portions, the two contact portions are respectively disposed on both ends of the insulating component and contact their corresponding second axial conductive units. The connection portion is electrically connected with the two contact portions, while the length of the connection portion along the first direction is less than the lengths of the contact portions along the first direction.
US09203401B2
Methods, systems, circuits, and devices for power-packet-switching power converters using bidirectional bipolar transistors (BTRANs) for switching. Four-terminal three-layer BTRANs provide substantially identical operation in either direction with forward voltages of less than a diode drop. BTRANs are fully symmetric merged double-base bidirectional bipolar opposite-faced devices which operate under conditions of high non-equilibrium carrier concentration, and which can have surprising synergies when used as bidirectional switches for power-packet-switching power converters. BTRANs are driven into a state of high carrier concentration, making the on-state voltage drop very low.
US09203390B1
A test mode activation circuit that includes a clock signal generating module, a resistor-capacitor circuit, a current generating module, an output capacitor and a comparator is provided. The clock signal generating module generates a clock signal to an input node such that the resistor-capacitor circuit electrically connected to the input node receives the clock signal to generate a triggering signal every predetermined time interval. The current generating module generates a charging current to an output node in response to the triggering signal. The output capacitor receives the charging current from the output node such that an output voltage of the output node gradually increases. The comparator receives the output voltage from the output node and a reference voltage, wherein the comparator compares the output voltage and the reference voltage to generate a test mode activation signal when the output voltage is larger than the reference voltage.
US09203388B2
A method of converting an input clock to generate an output clock and providing a certain system with the output clock is provided. The method includes setting up a desired output clock value and a variable value and determining whether the input clock is the rising edge; adding the output clock value to the variable value to provide a calculated value when the input clock is the rising edge; comparing the calculated value with the input clock value; and outputting, when the calculated value is equal to or larger than the input clock value as a result of comparison, the output clock as logic state ‘1’ and setting, a value obtained by subtracting the input clock value from the calculated value, as the variable value.
US09203376B2
A ladder-type surface acoustic wave filter includes a first series resonator having the lowest resonance frequency among a plurality of series resonators; and a second series resonator having a resonance frequency higher than the first series resonator. The film thickness of a dielectric film in the region where the first series resonator is formed is larger than that of a dielectric film in the region where the second series resonator is formed.
US09203364B2
Two LPFs are disposed on the output side of a differential amplifier to remove an AC component contained in an output signal output from a first output terminal of the differential amplifier and an AC component contained in an output signal output from a second output terminal of the differential amplifier. The lowpass filter voltage of the output signal output from the first output terminal with the AC component removed is input to one of input terminals of one of two comparators, and the lowpass filter voltage of the output signal output from the second output terminal with the AC component removed is input to one of input terminals of the other comparator.
US09203362B2
Embodiments include but are not limited to apparatuses and systems including a quadrature lattice matching network including first path having a series inductor and a shunt inductor, and a second path having a series capacitor and a shunt capacitor. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09203361B2
Harmonic control apparatus of radio frequency (RF) devices are provided including an active device. In particular, the harmonic control apparatus includes a complementary open-loop resonator that is integrated in a conducting pattern of the harmonic control apparatus, to produce a shunt resonator that is configured to act as a short-circuit termination on at least one tuned frequency.
US09203360B2
An audio output amplifier includes a plurality of amplification circuits that drive a plurality of electroacoustic conversion devices, respectively. Each of the plurality of amplification circuits includes a current detection resistance that is provided between a path of a current which is supplied to the corresponding electroacoustic conversion device; and a current controller that generates a voltage between both ends of the current detection resistance, the voltage being proportional to a voltage value of an audio input signal supplied to the corresponding amplification circuit.
US09203359B2
Because of input of a digital signal, PWM-input, separately excited, class-D amplifier systems are less prone to be affected by noise than in the conventional case that an analog signal is input. Since a ramp wave that is synchronized with a PWM signal is used as a comparison clock, no beats occur between a PWM clock and a reference clock, making is possible to provide a class-D amplifier system which exhibits a large S/N ratio. Furthermore, the fact that an external clock can be varied provides another advantage that no beat noise occurs even in a set that is disposed close to a radio receiver.
US09203357B2
A power amplifier includes a semiconductor substrate including transistor cells, a drain electrode for the transistor cells located on the semiconductor substrate, a drain pad located on the semiconductor substrate and connected to the drain electrode, an ion-implanted resistance located in the semiconductor substrate and extending along and in contact with the drain pad, a floating electrode located on the semiconductor substrate and in contact with the ion-implanted resistance, and an output matching circuit located outside the semiconductor substrate. The power amplifier further includes a wire connecting the drain pad to the output matching circuit.
US09203355B2
The present invention relates to a digital pre-distortion apparatus, including: a coefficient control unit for setting coefficients in a look-up table, the coefficients minimizing a difference of an input signal to a power amplifier and an exponentiation of the sum of a first absolute output signal having the first number of delays and a second absolute output signal having the second number of delays, for an absolute signal of an output signal of a power amplifier; an adder for receiving a first absolute input signal having the first number of delays and a second absolute input signal having the second number of delays, for an absolute signal of the input signal of the power amplifier, and outputting the sum of the first absolute input signal and the second absolute input signal; and said look-up table, connected to the adder, for outputting result values according to the set coefficients in correspondence to the sum of the first absolute input signal and the second absolute input signal.
US09203353B2
A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) and an envelope tracking power supply are disclosed. The RF PA receives and amplifies an RF input signal to provide an RF transmit signal using an envelope power supply voltage. The envelope tracking power supply provides the envelope power supply voltage based on a setpoint, which has been constrained so as to limit a noise conversion gain (NCG) of the RF PA to not exceed a target NCG.
US09203347B2
An apparatus comprises an amplifier having an input coupled to a radio frequency signal through a digital-to-analog circuit, an adaptive power supply having an output coupled to a bias voltage of the amplifier, wherein the output of the adaptive power supply is configured to have a shape similar to an envelope of the radio frequency signal and a feedback circuit comprising a sensing circuit and a mapping circuit, wherein the sensing circuit is configured to sense a current flowing from the adaptive power supply to the amplifier and sense the bias voltage of the amplifier, and wherein the mapping circuit is configured to sense the bias voltage of the amplifier, and wherein the mapping circuit is configured to generate a control signal for dynamically adjusting parameters of a low pass filter so as to stabilize the adaptive power supply.
US09203344B2
A method of operating a pixel clock generator (PCG), the method including generating N clock signals according to a control voltage signal, the N clock signals having different phases and N being a natural number; generating M frequency-divided clock signals based on the N clock signals, the M frequency-divided clock signals having different phases and M being a natural number greater than N; and generating a pixel clock signal based on at least two selected ones of the M frequency-divided clock signals.
US09203340B2
A temperature calculation unit calculates a temperature T1 of one power semiconductor chip as a temperature estimating target, from a reference temperature, a temperature difference ΔT1, and a temperature difference ΔT2. The temperature difference ΔT1 is calculated based on an electric power loss Q1 generated in all power semiconductor chips of a power semiconductor module containing one power semiconductor chip as the temperature estimating target. The temperature difference ΔT2 is calculated based on the electric power loss Q1 and an electric power loss Q2 generated in all power semiconductor chips of a power semiconductor module other than the power semiconductor module containing one power semiconductor chip as the temperature estimating target.
US09203339B2
A motor driving device according to the present invention includes: a PWM duty ratio detecting unit for detecting a target rotational speed based on a duty ratio of a PWM signal input from a host system; a PWM period detecting unit for detecting a period of the PWM signal; a PWM period error calculating unit for calculating an error between a PWM period output from the PWM period detecting unit and a PWM period previously set as a reference calculated by using the operational clock generator; a position detecting sensor for detecting a permanent magnet of the rotor; and an actual rotational speed calculating unit for calculating an actual rotational speed of the rotor by using a signal output from the position detecting sensor. The present motor driving device controls a speed while correcting the actual rotational speed based on the PWM period error.
US09203338B2
An electric power assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor being rotatable about a pivot axis relative to the stator. An inverter is coupled to the electric motor and includes a power switching device that outputs an electrical signal from the inverter at a first frequency and having interference at a second frequency. The second frequency is a byproduct of the electrical signal creating the first frequency. The stator is electrically connected to the inverter to receive the first frequency such that the stator produces a first magnetic field. A frequency filter is attached to the rotor and directs the portion of the electrical signal having the second frequency to the rotor such that the rotor produces a second magnetic field that interacts with the first magnetic field to rotate the rotor about the pivot axis relative to the stator.
US09203334B2
This invention is intended to provide a wind power generator system or method for controlling a wind power generator system, designed to implement switching-initiated smooth energy changeover without leading to a complex system configuration. The method of controlling a wind power generator system according to an aspect of the invention, wherein the generator system includes a wind turbine that uses wind to generate electric power and a control device that controls the wind turbine, is a control method designed so that when the wind turbine is generating power, the turbine drives the control device by use of the turbine-generated power, irrespective of an electric power system state.
US09203331B2
A high performance electric pulse motor without a collector, with an electronic control circuit, capable of performing either with direct current or with alternating current. The motor includes a magnetic circuit at its stator including a pair of stator polar pieces, an induction coil at each polar piece, and a rotor between the polar pieces. The rotor has at least a pair of radial extensions in opposition for each pair of polar pieces in the stator and, attached to the rotor's axis, means opaque to light having a window allowing free passage of light. The motor further includes a permanent light source and a photo resistor.
US09203330B2
A motor control device includes a PWM signal generation unit generating a signal pattern of two of three phases so that the pattern follows a rotor position, and a timing adjusting unit. The signal generation unit increases/decreases duty in both directions of lag side and lead side based on any phase of a carrier-wave period regarding a first phase. The signal generation unit increases/decreases duty in one direction regarding a second phase. The signal generation unit increases/decreases duty in a direction opposite to the second phase regarding a third phase. The timing adjusting unit adjusts detection timing so that a current detection unit detects current in fixed timing with respect to one phase and current in another fixed timing with respect to the other phase or the current detection unit is capable of detecting current in variable timing according to magnitude of output voltage to an inverter circuit.
US09203329B2
Included are: a voltage command generation unit which generates a voltage command amplitude and a voltage command phase based on a current command value; a phase generation unit during rectangular wave energization, which generates a voltage command phase during rectangular wave energization; and a control switching determination unit which switches by determining as to which control of PWM energization or rectangular wave energization will be performed depending on the amount of the condition of a motor. A switching device unit is driven by the output from a PWM energization unit when switched to the PWM energization; and the switching device unit is driven by the output from a rectangular wave energization unit when switched to the rectangular wave energization. The voltage command generation unit calculates the voltage command amplitude and the voltage command phase by using parameters of the motor.
US09203319B2
A switching power converting apparatus includes a voltage conversion module, a detecting unit, and a switching signal generating unit. The voltage conversion module converts an input voltage into an output voltage associated with a secondary side current, which flows through a secondary winding of a transformer and is generated based on a switching signal. The detecting unit generates a detecting signal based on the output voltage and a predetermined reference voltage. The switching signal generating unit generates the switching signal based on the detecting signal and an adjusting signal so that the secondary side current is gradually increased during a start period of the switching power converting apparatus.
US09203315B2
A current sensor includes input modules each including an amplifier having a first input coupled to a respective winding of a regulator; a transistor having a control input coupled to the amplifier output, a first terminal coupled to a second input of the operational amplifier, and a second terminal configured to provide a sense current representing an unbalance of a phase current with respect to an average current of a winding; a current generator configured to bias the transistor; and an output resistor coupling the first terminal to an intermediate node. An output stage includes an output amplifier having a first input coupled to the intermediate node, and an output transistor having a control terminal coupled to the output amplifier output, a first terminal coupled to a second input of the output amplifier, and a second terminal providing another sense current representing a total current of the regulator.
US09203308B2
A power converter includes a ramp generating unit, a first comparator, a second comparator, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating unit. The ramp generating unit provides a ramp signal. The first comparator receives the ramp signal and a control signal to provide a normal operation control signal. The second comparator receives the ramp signal and the control signal to provide a dynamic response control signal. The PWM signal generating unit generates a PWM signal according to the normal operation control signal or dynamic response control signal. When the control signal is higher than a threshold of ramp signal, the second comparator provides the dynamic response control signal to the PWM signal generating unit to control it to adjust a duty cycle of the PWM signal.
US09203305B2
In a Pulse Width Modulation power converter and control method, wherein one of the operating modes steady state or load transient is detected. For either of the two operating modes one set of PID coefficients is provided for the control law that controls the duty ratio command. In case a load transient is detected, the KP gain is selected adaptively. Operating mode detection is supported by oversampling the error signal.
US09203299B2
An apparatus for converting a first voltage into a second voltage includes a reconfigurable switched capacitor power converter having a selectable conversion gain. converter includes a cascade multiplier switched capacitor network having capacitors, each of which electrically connects to a stack node and to a phase node. A controller causes the network to transition between first and second operation modes. In the first mode, at least one capacitor is isolated from a charge transfer path of the reconfigurable switched capacitor power converter. Consequently, in the first mode of operation, the power converter operates with a first gain. In the second mode, the power converter operates with a second conversion gain. Meanwhile, a third voltage across the at least one capacitor is free to assume any value.
US09203282B2
A cooling support element for a stator segment of an electrical machine is provided. The cooling support element has a first and a second plate each having an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface of the first plate has anchoring element for anchoring a stator lamination stack attached to the cooling support element. The lower surface of the second plate has an inlet and an outlet opening. The two plates are attached to each other. The lower surface of the first plate faces the upper surface of the second plate. Separator elements are disposed between the lower surface of the first plate and the upper surface of the second plate for providing a cooling channel. A cooling fluid is guidable from the inlet opening through the cooling channel to the outlet opening for dissipating heat from the stator lamination stack.
US09203281B2
A tool cover for receiving a tool housing of a pneumatic tool is disclosed. The tool cover supports and aligns an inductor element of a stator with magnets of a rotor within the tool housing. The tool cover also supports a circuit to which the inductor element is electrically connected, where the circuit comprises a power conditioner for receiving current from the inductor element and conditioning the current to be acceptable for supply to a load that comprises one or more logic processing devices.
US09203280B2
A bias magnetic flux is formed so as to be passed through the electromagnet core of an electromagnet, and a bypass magnetic path, serving as a magnetic path for a control magnetic flux, is formed in parallel with a permanent magnet, the bypass magnetic path being magnetized in a direction in which passage of the bias magnetic flux is blocked, and thus, even if the permanent magnet and the electromagnet are disposed in locations where the mutual magnetic fluxes of the permanent magnet and the electromagnet are superimposed, the control magnetic flux formed by the electromagnet is passed through the bypass magnetic path, whereby loss of the control magnetic flux can be suppressed. Thereby, the permanent magnet and the electromagnet can be disposed in locations where the mutual magnetic fluxes are superimposed, whereby the device can be made smaller in size.
US09203279B2
An electric machine includes a generally annular outer rotor supported to rotate about a rotational axis. The outer rotor defines an internal cavity therein and has a plurality of permanent magnets in the internal cavity generating a first magnetic field. An inner rotor is in the internal cavity and is supported to rotate about the rotational axis. The inner rotor has a plurality of permanent magnets about its perimeter that generate a second magnetic field. A generally annular stator is in the internal cavity between the outer rotor and the inner rotor. The stator has a stator winding supported by a non-magnetically conductive stator core. The stator winding is arranged to generate a field that interacts with the first and second magnetic fields. One of the outer rotor or the inner rotor is mechanically coupled to drive a load. The other of the outer rotor or the inner rotor is not mechanically coupled to drive the load.
US09203272B1
The end windings in the stator and rotor are major sources of core-end heating in large electric machines. This invention discloses a Stealth End Winding that makes some of the end-turns within these end windings to be magnetically invisible or stealth in order to reduce the core-end heating. It employs permanent magnets in proximity of these end windings to flip the magnetic field of stealth end-turns, making them to point in a direction away from the core-end. This action reduces the magnetic field that hits the core-end, which in turn reduces core-end heating. A Stealth End Winding can potentially eliminate prevailing devices such as the flux shield, flux shunt, core-end stepping, slit-teeth etc that have been used so far to reduce the core-end heating. Elimination of core-end stepping reduces the field current thereby increase the efficiency and power rating. Elimination of flux shield reduces cost and cooling needs.
US09203270B2
A stator is provided. The stator includes a yoke part of an annular shape, tooth winding portions that protrude inward from the yoke part and around which an electric wire is wound, and a tooth end portion formed on an inward side of the tooth winding portion. The stator is formed by stacking steel plates in a direction corresponding to a rotational axis of a motor. The tooth winding portion is formed by stacking the steel plates having different shapes such that at an end portion in the stacking direction, thickness of the tooth winding portions gradually decrease toward the end portion in the stacking direction, and the yoke part and the tooth end portion include protruding portions formed by stacking the steel plates, such that the protruding portions protrude from the tooth winding portion in the stacking direction.
US09203256B2
A charge transfer circuit has a charge transfer unit including an input charge holding element holding an input charge, an output charge holding element holding an output charge, and a charge transfer element, provided between a first node of the input charge holding element and a second, node of the output charge holding element, to transfer the charge held by the input charge holding element to the output charge holding element, an error sensing circuit detecting a third voltage corresponding to a first voltage of the first node when the charge transfer element finished transferring the charge from the input charge holding element to the output charge holding element, and an error correction unit correcting a second voltage of the second node when the charge transfer finished based on the third voltage and eliminate an error included in the second voltage of the second node.
US09203254B2
A Power Management Circuit for a portable electronic device comprising an internal battery to be charged either through a first interface or through an AC_DC conversion circuit. The circuit comprises a first buck/boost converter having a Switched Mode Power Supply (SMPS) mode which can be controlled either in a buck or a boost mode, said first buck/boost controller being associated with a first external coil for the purpose of embodying a battery charging circuit through a first interface (USB). The circuit further comprises a second buck/boost converter which can also be controlled either in a buck or a boost mode. Bypass circuits are used for performing, under control of a control circuit, the bypass of either the voltage of the battery or the voltage generated by said buck/boost controllers when in boost mode to a second interface (SIM/MMC).
US09203252B2
A computing device can include one or more processors, and a charging module operable by the one or more processors to determine a charging state of a second computing device, responsive to determining that the charging state of the second computing devices indicates the second computing device is operatively coupled to a power source, output by the first computing device and for display, a notification, and responsive to determining that the charging state of the second computing device indicates the second computing device is disconnected from the power source, send, by the first computing device, to the second computing device, an indication of the notification.
US09203251B2
A battery charger on which power conversion components for converting commercial power to direct current power are mounted, includes a core frame formed into a C-letter shape in horizontal cross section. The components at least producing heat among the power conversion components are mounted on one side confined by a C-letter cross section of its both sides. An outer housing is attached to the core frame so as to cover the core frame, and a fan supplies cooling air to a region confined by the C-letter shaped cross section of the core frame.
US09203247B2
A power storage unit is provided which is able to facilitate recalibration and which is able to supply power even while recalibration is being performed. A method for correcting the capacity values of storage batteries, and a power storage system are also provided. In the power storage unit, a control unit turns ON a portion of the switches to connect a portion of the storage batteries to the charge and discharge path for correction, and corrects the capacity value of the portion of storage batteries by charging and discharging the portion while the other switches are turned OFF to disconnect the other storage batteries from the charge and discharge path.
US09203245B2
A battery rental kiosk system is provided. The system allows for batteries to be rented or purchased for mobile devices that may require a battery recharge. In one embodiment, the system may allow a customer to rent the battery for a selected time period and charge a customer credit card periodically at the expiration of the time period.
US09203243B2
A load leveling system and method capable of controlling switches such that it appears to a generator that the load is constant. The purpose is to prevent high-load simultaneous switching or multiple synchronous switching from damaging sensitive equipment. The present invention utilizes a central controller communicating to a number of switches such that the switches turn off and on in a synchronized, serialized manner. As one switch turns “off,” another should be turning “on” until a cycle is completed. In this manner, the generator will only see a single “on” and a single “off” load per cycle. The various switches are scheduled such that, ideally, the power load seen by the power source has emissions of no more than one PWM load superpositioned with zero or more constant, non-modulated loads.
US09203242B2
A system integrating a tidal power generation device and a wind power generation device and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a wind power generation device, a tidal power generation device and an integration device. The wind power generation device generates a first voltage, the tidal power generation device generates a second voltage, and the integration device integrates the first and the second voltages for a further use.
US09203231B2
Plug-on neutral circuit breakers include an AFCI OR GFCI circuit breaker housing, a neutral conductor with an external end portion extending from the AFCI/GFCI circuit breaker housing, and a clip assembly attached to the neutral conductor at a specific length configured to align with the loadcenter neutral bar location. The clip assembly includes a conductive clip with downwardly extending, spaced apart legs. The legs are sized and configured to clamp against opposing sides of a neutral bar.
US09203224B2
Provided is an electrical junction box which prevents a bonder cap from falling out of a bonder cap accommodating part without using a bundling tie. The electrical junction box includes a frame having a bonder cap accommodating part and a terminal-attached wire accommodating part, and a cover. An edge forming an insertion port of the bonder cap accommodating part includes a low pro file portion with the same height as that of an edge of the terminal-attached wire accommodating part and a projecting portion projecting beyond the low profile portion. In a state where the cover is attached to the frame, a distance between the low profile portion and the cover is longer than the full length of the bonder cap, and a distance between the most projected portion of the projecting portion and the cover is shorter than the full length of the bonder cap. The wire bundle outside the bonder cap accommodating part is bent toward the low profile portion.
US09203220B2
An installation assembly for bridging a cable harness between two aircraft structure elements of an aircraft is provided. The installation assembly includes an elongated connecting rod having two end sections for attaching the connecting rod onto two adjacent aircraft structure elements, at least one cable guidance element having at least one receiving section for receiving a cable harness and an attachment section for circumferentially surrounding the connecting rod. Locking means are provided to form a connection between the attachment section and the connecting rod, wherein a polygonal cross section of the connecting rod corresponds to a recess of the attachment section in order to form a positive locking engagement between the cable guidance element and the connecting rod.
US09203208B2
A system and method for high power parametric amplification based on performing amplification in a frequency domain after time domain pulses are optically Fourier transformed, to overcome bandwidth limitations. In a nutshell, a first optical Fourier transformation of a seed spectrum is performed and parametric amplification is carried out in this spatially dispersed frequency plane. As a consequence, individual parts of the spectrum can be amplified using an optical amplification medium comprising a series of optical amplification units, such as different narrowband crystals, placed one next to each other. Each crystal is tuned independently to optimize its corresponding spectral slice. A second optical Fourier transformation recovers the time domain laser pulses. This method enables scalability of amplified bandwidth and pulse energy at the same time.
US09203201B2
A manufacturing method is provided for a terminal (10) that has a board connecting portion (12) to be connected to a circular through hole (B1) formed to penetrate through a board (B). The manufacturing method includes a wire drawing step of manufacturing a wire material having a polygonal cross-section with obtuse interior angles by drawing the wire material through an opening of a wire drawing die, the opening having a polygonal shape with obtuse inner angles. The method then includes a surface processing step of applying a surface processing to the wire material, and a cutting step of cutting the wire material having the surface processing applied thereto to a specified length to form the terminal (10).
US09203200B2
A coupling (30) for the introduction of a bias voltage into a vacuum chamber. The coupling consists of a metallic ball bearing assembly (36), a bearing sleeve or cup (34), and an EMI shielding gasket (42) seated within the bearing sleeve or cup. The ball bearing assembly is fitted within the EMI shielding gasket, about a metallic shaft (32) which, in turn, is coupled to a source of the bias voltage. The bearing sleeve or cup is, in turn, coupled to a rotating component such as a platen, for receiving the bias voltage within the vacuum chamber.
US09203191B2
An electrical connector is provided for a cable for distributing power. The connector includes a first end, a second end, and a midsection, and includes a female connector and a male connector. The female connector includes a tapered female insulator and a female contact defining at least one first radial aperture. The female connector further includes a first retaining screw received within a corresponding aperture defined in the female insulator to secure assembly thereof. The male connector includes a tapered male insulator defining a second taper and a male contact defining at least one second radial aperture. The male connector further includes a second retaining screw received within a corresponding aperture defined in the male insulator to secure assembly thereof.
US09203190B2
A lock structure of a connector includes a flexible lock arm, a lock engaging part and a releasing lever part. The flexible lock arm fixed to the second connector housing at a base end portion thereof is extended in a fitting direction of the connector. The lock engaging part provided at a distal end portion of the flexible lock arm is configured to be locked with a locking part provided in the first connector housing. The releasing lever part connected to the lock engaging part is extended along the flexible lock arm, and is configured to be rotated together with the lock engaging part around a pivot which is movable while releasing the lock. A thickness of the flexible rock arm is gradually decreased from the base end portion to the lock engaging part.
US09203187B2
A hot plug structure of an electronic peripheral device has a connecting port. The hot plug structure includes a base having a linear way, a support connected to the base and moveable along the linear way in which the electronic peripheral device is fixed on the support, a connector installed on the base and disposed corresponding to one side of the linear way, and a rotating part disposed corresponding to the other side of the linear way. The rotating part has a first pivot portion pivoted around the base and a second pivot portion pivoted around the support. The rotating part can be rotated to drive the support close to or away from the connector such that the connecting port is plugged in or unplugged from the connector. Therefore, the connection efficiency and use convenience of the hot plug structure are improved.
US09203185B1
A multi-segmented security loop cable has a plurality of electrical conductor segments, each having a male connector on one end and a female connector on the other end, the connectors being joined by an electrical cable. Socket contacts and pin contacts are crimped to the stripped ends of individual wires in the cable. The contacts are embedded in a male or female body to form either a plug housing or a receptacle housing. The housings have a compression ring installed thereon to retain the contacts in the body. The housings have a strain relief member over-molded thereon to complete the connectors by chemically bonding to the connector body, exposed wire insulation and the cable outer jacket to form an integral unit of these elements for electrical and mechanical protection. A method of using the security loop cable is also disclosed.
US09203180B2
A connector includes a shell and a coupling mechanism rotatably coupled thereto. The coupling mechanism includes an inner coupling nut and an outer coupling nut separate from the inner coupling nut. The inner coupling nut has internal threads configured to be threadably coupled to a mating connector. The inner coupling nut has a plurality of ramped steps disposed at different circumferential positions along the rear. The outer coupling nut has a detent successively engaging the ramped steps as the outer coupling nut is rotated in a tightening direction. The detent is released from the corresponding ramped step when the connector is fully mated to the mating connector. The detent engages a corresponding ramped step as the outer coupling nut is rotated in an untightening direction causing the inner coupling nut to rotate in the untightening direction.
US09203176B2
A plug connector is for connecting to a receptacle connector. The receptacle connector comprises two resilient plates. The plug connector has an insulating housing and a metal shell. The insulating housing includes a tongue portion and a base portion for accommodating and connecting the terminals. The metal shell has a top plate, bottom plate, and two side plates. Multiple recesses, protrusions or elongated recesses are selectively formed on at least one of the top plate, the bottom plate for connecting the resilient plates. These can avoid electromagnetic interference, dusts or any external substances from attaching to the insulating house and also ensure a high quality of the insertion force and the extraction force after frequent uses.
US09203171B2
A cable connector assembly includes a first connector, a second connector, and a cable connecting the first connector to the second connector. The first connector includes a first printed circuit board, a second printed circuit board, and a connecting member between the first and the second printed circuit boards. The second connector includes a third printed circuit board and a fourth printed circuit board. The cable includes a number of signal wires for transmitting data signals and a number of control wires for transmitting control signals. The control wires includes a number of first control wires connecting the first and the third printed circuit boards and a number of second control wires connecting the second and the fourth printed circuit boards.
US09203162B2
A system for receiving a signal from one or more satellites or for transmitting a signal to one or more satellites and a method of operating the system, the system comprising a frame, a signal converter for converting between a received/transmitted signal and a corresponding signal, the converter being positioned, in relation to the frame, rotational around a predetermined axis, and a depolarizer mounted, in relation to the frame, rotational around the predetermined axis, the method comprising the sequence of steps of rotating one of the converter and the depolarizer independently of the other of the converter and the depolarizer, fixing the depolarizer in relation to the converter at a predetermined rotational relationship and rotating both the converter and the depolarizer.
US09203161B2
An antenna apparatus 1 includes a high-frequency output portion 2 for outputting a high-frequency signal, an antenna 5 including a first excitation unit 3 and a second excitation unit 4, the first excitation unit 3 emitting a first linearly polarized wave according to the high-frequency signal output from the high-frequency output portion 2, the second excitation unit 4 emitting a second linearly polarized wave that is orthogonal to the first linearly polarized wave at the same time with the first linearly polarized wave according to the high-frequency signal output from the high-frequency output portion, and a phase adjustment portion 6 for adjusting a phase of at least one of the high-frequency signal to be input to the first excitation unit 3 and the high-frequency signal to be input to the second excitation unit 4 in a range of change from 0 to 270 or more degrees.
US09203155B2
Provided are a metamaterial structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The metamaterial structure includes a dielectric layer, nanowires penetrating the dielectric layer and arranged in a spacing having negative refraction with respect to an electromagnetic wave incident on the dielectric layer, and coating layers formed between the nanowires and the dielectric layer.
US09203153B2
A loop antenna includes: a pair of first linear elements, a feed point connected with each of the first linear elements, a first variable impedance element, one end of which is connected with one end of the first linear elements, a second variable impedance element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements, and a second linear element, one end and the other end of which are electrically connected with the other end of the first variable impedance element and the other end of the first linear elements. A self-resonance coil receives power fed to the feed point of the loop antenna and transmits the received power to a receiving self-resonance coil.
US09203151B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to intelligently employ antenna resources in a manner that may reduce interference between communications signals even in instances where multiple separate frequency band communications need to be supported in a vehicle of limited size. A manifold antenna system is proposed that provides a scheme and a physical construct whereby multiple individual radio receiver/transmitter units may share a limited number of transmitting and receiving antennas. The disclosed manifold antenna system is particularly adaptable to aircraft, spacecraft, vessel or vehicle applications where there is limited room for mounting a number of individual antennas as may be needed to support each radio receiver/transmitter unit in an effort to minimize an amount of interference as is conventionally caused by having transmitting antennas located in too close a proximity to receiving antennas.
US09203149B2
An antenna system, comprising: a phased array antenna (4); and a dielectric lens arrangement (6), for example a single solid dielectric lens (6) comprising a substantially spherical convex surface (12) and a concave surface (14); wherein the dielectric lens arrangement (6) is arranged to magnify the effective aperture of the phased array antenna (4). The concave surface (14) is positioned within the near field of the phased array antenna (4). The phased array antenna (4) is operated at a frequency greater than or equal to 50 GHz. The antenna system retains some ability to electronically scan the beam. The antenna system may be for transmission and/or reception. The antenna system may be used for example for communication between two vehicles.
US09203147B2
Beamforming system and method which includes an inverse beamformer with first ports and second ports, a beamformer with beam ports and antenna ports, and antennas. The inverse beamformer may receive transmit signals provided to first ports, generates intermediate signals based on the transmit signals, and output the intermediate signals from the second ports. The beamformer's beam ports may couple to the second ports and the antenna ports, and may receive the intermediate signals at the beam ports, generate antenna signals based on the intermediate signals, and output the antenna signals at the antenna ports. The antennas may each receive an antenna signal from an antenna port, and transmit the antenna signal into space. The inverse beamformer may generate the intermediate signals in a manner that is mathematically inverse to the beamformer's generation of the antenna signals so that the antenna signals approximate the transmit signals up to respective phase shifts.
US09203143B2
A magnetic field focusing assembly includes a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a magnetic field, and a split ring resonator assembly configured to be magnetically coupled to the magnetic field generating device and configured to focus the magnetic field produced by the magnetic field generating device.
US09203138B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, method may include receiving one or more environment parameter signals indicative of an environment of a wireless communication element. The method may also include communicating one or more control signals to an antenna tuner of the wireless communication element for controlling an impedance of the antenna tuner based on the one or more environment parameter signals.
US09203137B1
An electronic device may have a metal housing. The metal housing may have an upper housing in which a component such as a display is mounted and a lower housing in which a component such as a keyboard is mounted. Hinges may be used to mount the upper housing to the lower housing for rotation about a rotational axis. A slot-shaped opening may separate the upper and lower housing. A flexible printed circuit with ground traces may bisect the slot-shaped opening to form first and second slots. Cavity antennas may be aligned with the slots. Each cavity antenna may include a hollow carrier with a pair of speakers. The speakers may have ports that emit sound through aligned openings in the lower housing. Conductive gaskets surrounding the ports may acoustically seal the speaker ports while shorting the cavity antenna to the lower housing.
US09203128B2
A compact interfacing device for rotating electro-magnetic fields between an input and output waveguide includes a support bar extending between opposing sides of a frame, the frame encircling an interior space divided by the support bar; and a dipole bar orientated orthogonal to the support bar. When the input waveguide interfaces an input-side of the frame and is arranged so that an extent of an input width of the input waveguide is orientated at first angle with respect to an extent of the dipole-bar length, and when the output waveguide interfaces an output-side of the frame and is arranged so that an extent of an output width of the output waveguide is orientated at a second angle with respect to the extent of the dipole-bar length, an input electric field aligned perpendicular to the extent of the input width is rotated upon propagating through the compact interfacing device.
US09203127B2
A battery heater device which heats a battery with a plurality of cells mounted on a vehicle comprises a first heater part which heats cells positioned at an outer side in the battery; a second heater part which heats cells positioned at an inner side in the battery; and a controller which controls power to be supplied to the first and second heater parts; wherein the controller reduces the power supplied to the second heater part at a predetermined timing after start of the power supply to the first and second heater parts, thereby improving quick-heating performance of the battery and heating the battery more uniformly with use of simple arrangement.
US09203125B2
A battery cell assembly in accordance with an exemplary embodiment is provided. The assembly includes a first frame member having a first plurality of tabs extending away from a first peripheral edge of the first frame member. Each tab of the first plurality of tabs has a first coupling feature at a distal end of the respective tab. The assembly further includes a second frame member having a plurality of slots extending into a second peripheral edge of the second frame member. The assembly further includes a battery cell disposed between the first and second frame members, and each first coupling feature of each tab of the first plurality of tabs is configured to engage a respective slot of the plurality of slots of the second frame member to fixedly hold the first and second frame members together.
US09203124B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack having a plurality of battery cells or unit modules (‘unit cells’) electrically connected to each other, wherein the unit cells are arranged in a width direction (traverse direction) of the battery pack in an upright fashion in a state in which the unit cells are spaced apart from each other to form coolant flow channels, thereby constituting a battery module layer, and two or more battery module layers are mounted in a pack case such that the battery module layers are stacked in a height direction (vertical direction) of the battery pack, and wherein the battery pack includes a coolant introduction part, through which a coolant is introduced into the two or more battery module layers to simultaneously cool some or all of the unit cells in the two or more battery module layers, and a coolant discharge part, through which the coolant, having passed the unit cells, is discharged.
US09203116B2
An energy storage device comprising at least one negative electrode, wherein each negative electrode is individually selected from (i) an electrode comprising negative battery electrode material; (ii) an electrode comprising capacitor electrode material; (iii) a mixed electrode comprising either—a mixture of battery and capacitor electrode material or—a region of battery electrode material and a region of capacitor electrode material, or—a combination thereof, and wherein the energy storage device either comprises at least one electrode of type (iii), or comprises at least one electrode of each of types (i) and (ii),—at least one positive electrode, wherein the positive electrode comprises positive battery electrode material and a charging ability-increasing additive, such as one or a mixture of: (a) carbon nanomaterial, vapor grown carbon fiber, fullerene, or a mixture thereof, and (b) tin dioxide conductive materials.
US09203114B2
Provided are an electrolyte for a magnesium secondary battery having improved ion conductivity and stability, and a method for preparing the same. The electrolyte for a magnesium secondary battery shows higher ion conductivity as compared to the electrolyte according to the related art, increases the dissociation degree of a magnesium halide electrolyte salt, and provides stable electrochemical characteristics. In addition, after determining the capacity, output characteristics and cycle life of the magnesium secondary battery including the electrolyte, the battery provides significantly higher discharge capacity after 100 cycles, as compared to the electrolyte according to the related art. Therefore, the electrolyte may be useful for an electrolyte solution of a magnesium secondary battery.
US09203107B2
An exemplary embodiment provides a lithium ion secondary battery using a high energy type anode, which enables long-life operation thereof. A secondary battery according to an exemplary embodiment comprises an electrode element in which a cathode and an anode are oppositely disposed, an electrolytic solution, and an outer packaging body which encloses the electrode element and the electrolytic solution inside; wherein the anode is formed by binding an anode active material, which comprises carbon material (a) that can absorb and desorb a lithium ion, metal (b) that can be alloyed with lithium, and metal oxide (c) that can absorb and desorb a lithium ion, to an anode collector with an anode binder; and wherein the electrolytic solution comprises a liquid medium which is hard to generate carbon dioxide at a concentration of 10 to 75 vol %.
US09203096B2
In an air battery system, a decrease in power output and an increase in inner pressure during discharge are prevented even when deposition of the reaction product increases with the discharge and the volume of the electrolytic solution increases with progress of the reaction. The air battery system includes an air battery a reservoir tank to reserve electrolytic solution to be supplied to the air battery and a reaction product sump to store reaction product produced in the air battery, the reaction product sump provided between the air battery and the reservoir tank.
US09203093B2
The present invention provides an electrode for a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. In one embodiment, a planar nanoporous or microporous metal foam or metal aerogel structure is provided, from which an electrode with a catalyst layer integrally formed by fixing a catalyst in the metal foam or metal aerogel is formed.
US09203079B2
An anode for a secondary battery capable of improving cycle characteristics, a secondary battery using the anode, and a method of manufacturing an anode for secondary battery. An anode active material layer is formed by vapor phase deposition method, and contains Si as an element. In the anode active material layer, there are a plurality of primary particles grown in the thickness direction. The primary particles aggregate and form a plurality of secondary particles. At least some of the primary particles have shape curved in the identical direction to an anode current collector on the cross section in the thickness direction. Thereby, stress due to expansion and shrinkage due to charge and discharge can be relaxed.
US09203075B2
The present invention relates to a battery pack in which a plurality of unit modules consisting of battery cells are stacked, adjacently or in regular intervals, and electrode tabs are connected in series, and more specifically, to a battery pack including an overcurrent protector capable of preventing damage to each battery cell caused by a battery cell short circuit or overcurrent which flows in from a protection circuit by: connecting positive and negative electrode tabs of the battery cell with a voltage sensing line in order to sense the voltage of each battery cell; and installing a fuse in a connector which is arranged between the battery cell and the voltage sensing line and couples electrode tabs.
US09203073B2
A bipolar battery includes: a power generation element formed by stacking a plurality of bipolar electrodes, in which an electrode layer is formed on a front and a rear of a collector, via an electrolyte layer; an elastic metal portion provided in contact with the power generation element so as to contact the power generation element in point or line contact when no external force is exerted thereon and contact the power generation element in surface contact when external force is exerted thereon; and an outer covering material provided to accommodate the power generation element and the elastic metal portion, an internal air pressure of which is set to be lower than an atmospheric pressure such that the elastic metal portion is caused to contact the power generation element in surface contact by a pressure difference between the internal air pressure and the atmospheric pressure.
US09203072B2
A microporous film, characterized in that it is prepared by a method comprising melting and kneading a polyolefin resin, inorganic particles and a plasticizer, forming the resultant mixture into a sheet, subjecting the rejecting the resultant sheet to a biaxial stretching treatment of a surface magnification of not less than 20 and less than 100 times, and then extracting the plasticizer, it has an inorganic particle content of 20 to 60 mass %, and it exhibits a piercing strength of 3.0 N/20 μm or more.
US09203070B2
A method for making a flat polymer foam having a core layer of nano-sized open, interconnected cells that includes saturating a solid-state polymer with a supercritical fluid, allowing the gas to desorb for at least 35 minutes, and then heating the gas-saturated solid polymer for at least 3 minutes while constraining the foam in the thickness dimension. Any skin layer formed on the exterior may be removed via polishing, thus creating a foam with an open structure from side to side. The foam can be used as a battery separator.
US09203060B2
A secondary battery having a current interrupt device (CID) between a negative current collecting plate and a case of the secondary battery. The secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode; a case housing the electrode assembly; a cap assembly coupled to the case for sealing the case; a positive current collecting plate connected to the positive electrode and the cap assembly; an insulator in the case adjacent an end plate of the case; and a negative current collecting plate connected to the negative electrode and the end plate of the case, the end plate being curved convexly toward an inner cavity of the case.
US09203057B2
The present invention maintains a power generating element in a flat shape as far as possible to thereby improve workability in a manufacturing process. In a battery including a power generating element formed into a flat shape and housed in a container, the power generating element formed by winding a foil-shaped positive electrode plate 24a and a foil-shaped negative electrode plate 24b, with separator 25 sandwiched therebetween, about a winding core 21 having flexibility, a thin-plate-shaped member TP having higher rigidity than the winding core is attached to at least one of opposite end portions in a direction of a winding axis of the winding core 21.
US09203053B2
A luminescence element includes a substrate, a first electrode layer located on the substrate, a second electrode layer located above the first electrode layer and arranged to oppose the first electrode layer, and an emitting layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The second electrode layer includes a light-transmitting conductive layer that contains a conductive polymer and a cured resin in which constituent molecules are crosslinked with one another.
US09203051B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display (OLED) apparatus that includes a substrate; an organic light emitting element on the substrate, the organic light emitting element including a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode; a viscoelastic layer on the organic light emitting element, wherein an elastic portion of the viscoelastic layer is about 30% or more, the elastic portion being defined by
US09203047B2
The organic electroluminescent element has a transparent substrate, a transparent first electrode, an organic layer, a second electrode, and a light-outcoupling layer. The light-outcoupling layer is formed between the transparent substrate and the first electrode. The first electrode, the organic layer and the second electrode constitute an electroluminescent laminate. A covering substrate facing the transparent substrate is adhered to the surface of the transparent substrate via an adhesive sealing portion surrounding the periphery of the electroluminescent laminate. A connection electrode extending outward from inside a surrounded region where the electroluminescent laminate is covered with the covering substrate is formed at least on the surface of the light-outcoupling layer. The average thickness of the light-outcoupling layer in an adhesion region where the adhesive sealing portion is formed is smaller than the thickness in the central region where the electroluminescent laminate is formed.
US09203044B2
An organic light-emitting element having high efficiency and long lifetime is provided. An organic light-emitting body is provided which includes a host having a high electron-transport property (n-type host), a host having a high hole-transport property (p-type host), and a guest such as an iridium complex and in which the n-type host and the p-type host are located so as to be adjacent to each other. When an electron and a hole are injected to such a light-emitting body, the electron is trapped by the n-type host and the hole is trapped by the p-type host. Then, both the electron and the hole are injected to the guest, and thus the guest is brought into an excited state. In this process, less thermal deactivation occurs and the working rate of the guest is high; thus, highly efficient light emission can be obtained.
US09203041B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate that extends along a first direction to define a length and second direction perpendicular to the first direction to define a height. The substrate includes a dielectric layer and at least one gate stack formed on the dielectric layer. A source contact is formed adjacent to a first side of the gate stack and a drain contact formed adjacent to an opposing second side of the gate stack. A carbon nanotube is formed on the source contact and the drain contact. A first portion of the nanotube forms a source. A second portion forms a drain. A third portion is interposed between the source and drain to define a gate channel that extends along the first direction. The source and the drain extend along the second direction and have a greater length than the gate channel.
US09203030B2
Recyclable organic solar cells are disclosed herein. Systems and methods are further disclosed for producing, improving performance, and for recycling the solar cells. In certain example embodiments, the recyclable organic solar cells disclosed herein include: a first electrode; a second electrode; a photoactive layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an interlayer comprising a Lewis basic oligomer or polymer disposed between the photoactive layer and at least a portion of the first electrode or the second electrode; and a substrate disposed adjacent to the first electrode or the second electrode. The interlayer reduces the work function associated with the first or second electrode. In certain example embodiments, the substrate comprises cellulose nanocrystals that can be recycled. In certain example embodiments, one or more of the first electrode, the photoactive layer, and the second electrode may be applied by a film transfer lamination method.
US09203029B2
A method for producing an electronic component with at least one first electrode zone (21) and one second electrode zone (23), which are separated from one another by an insulator (9) and each comprise at least one sublayer of a first electrically conductive material. Also disclosed is an electronic component, which may be produced using the disclosed method.
US09203018B2
A memory element with a first electrode, a memory layer, and a second electrode in this order. The memory layer includes a resistance change layer provided on the first electrode side, an ion source layer provided on the second electrode side, an intermediate layer provided between the resistance change layer and the ion source layer, and a barrier layer provided at least either between the ion source layer and the intermediate layer, or between the intermediate layer and the resistance change layer.
US09203014B2
A magnetic memory device may include a free magnetic structure, a tunnel barrier layer, and a pinned magnetic structure wherein the tunnel barrier layer is between the free magnetic structure and the pinned magnetic structure. The pinned magnetic structure may include first and second pinned layers and an exchange coupling layer between the first and second pinned layers. The second pinned layer may be between the first pinned layer and the tunnel barrier layer, and the second pinned layer may include a junction magnetic layer and a buffer layer between the junction magnetic layer and the exchange coupling layer. The buffer layer may include a layer of a material including a non-magnetic metallic element. Related devices, structures, and methods are also discussed.
US09203005B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) package includes a package substrate, a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad, an upper insulating layer and an LED chip. The first electrode pad is disposed on an upper surface of the package substrate and includes a groove. The second electrode pad includes a protruding portion disposed in the groove of the first electrode pad. The upper insulating layer insulates the first electrode pad from the second electrode pad on the package substrate. The LED chip includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are respectively electrically connected in the form of a flip-chip to the first electrode pad and the protruding portion of the second electrode pad.
US09203001B2
An LED module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) or a surface mount device (SMD) mount, an LED chip mounted on the PCB or the SMD mount, a cover mounted on the LED chip and a surface of the PCB or the SMD mount which surrounds the LED chip. The surface of the PCB or the SMD mount on which the spherical cover is mounted may be covered on its side walls with a white reflective material which is in contact with the LED chip.
US09202994B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting element includes a light reflecting layer, first second, third and fourth semiconductor layers, first and second light emitting layers, and a first light transmitting layer. The second semiconductor layer is provided between the first semiconductor layer and the light reflecting layer. The first light emitting layer is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers. The first light transmitting layer is provided between the second semiconductor layer and the light reflecting layer. The third semiconductor layer is provided between the first light transmitting layer and the light reflecting layer. The fourth semiconductor layer is provided between the third semiconductor layer and the light reflecting layer. The second light emitting layer is provided between the third and fourth semiconductor layers. The light reflecting layer is electrically connected to one selected from the third and fourth semiconductor layers.
US09202991B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic nitride-based fluorescent material, comprising an inorganic fluorescent host material represented by the following formula (I): (M)xSiyNz:At (I) wherein, M is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of metals of IIA and IIIA, and x is from 1.0 to 3.0, and y is from 0.7 to 6.0, and z is from 1.0 to 9.0 and At is an activator; and a surface coating material is at least one metal oxide, metal hydroxide or metal carbonate, and the metal of the metal oxide, the metal hydroxide or the metal carbonate is selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, La, Ga, In, Sn, Sb and Bi.
US09202985B2
A light emitting diode (LED) and a forming method thereof are provided. The LED includes a semiconductor substrate, a bonding layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a LED die formed on a surface of the bonding layer. The effective lighting area of the LED may be increased, heat radiation may be improved, and lighting efficiency may be enhanced.
US09202984B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) including a semiconductor stack structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer, the semiconductor stack disposed on a substrate, a conductive substrate disposed on the semiconductor stack structure, and an electrode disposed on the conductive substrate and in ohmic contact with the conductive substrate, wherein the electrode comprises grooves penetrating the electrode and a portion of the conductive substrate.
US09202977B2
A light emitting diode including a substrate, a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer is provided. The first semiconductor layer includes a first surface and a second surface. The active layer and the second semiconductor layer are stacked on the second surface in that order, and a surface of the second semiconductor layer away from the active layer is configured as the light emitting surface. A first electrode electrically is connected with the first semiconductor layer. A second electrode is electrically connected with the second semiconductor layer. A number of first three-dimensional nano-structures are located on the second surface of the first semiconductor layer. A number of second three-dimensional nano-structures are located on a surface of the active layer contacting the second semiconductor layer, and a cross section of each of the three-dimensional nano-structures is M-shaped.
US09202973B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to light emitting diodes including a plurality of light emitting cells on a substrate to be suitable for AC driving. The light emitting diode includes a substrate and a plurality of light emitting cell formed on the substrate. Each light emitting cell includes a first region at a boundary of the light emitting cell and a second region opposite to the first region. A first electrode pad is formed in the first region of the light emitting cell. A second electrode pad having a linear shape is disposed to face the first electrode pad while regionally defining a peripheral region together with the boundary of the second region. A wire connects the first electrode pad to the second electrode pad between two adjacent light emitting cells.
US09202964B2
A system and method for applying an electrical bias to a photovoltaic device in a temperature control chamber, in which the temperature of the photovoltaic device is controlled according to a temperature profile. The temperature profile may include at least one hot phase and at least one cool phase.
US09202930B2
A method of making a non-volatile memory cell includes forming a plurality of discrete storage elements. A tensile dielectric layer is formed among the discrete storage elements and provides lateral tensile stress to the discrete storage elements. A gate is formed over the discrete storage elements.
US09202928B2
A thin film semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a gate electrode disposed above the substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer disposed above the substrate so as to oppose the gate electrode, a channel protective layer disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode each connected to the oxide semiconductor layer. The density of states DOS [eV−1cm−3] of oxygen defects in the oxide semiconductor layer satisfies the following relationship: DOS≦1.710×1017×(Ec−E)2−6.468×1017×(Ec−E)+6.113×1017 provided that 2.0 eV≦Ec−E≦2.7 eV where Ec [eV] is an energy level of a conduction band edge of the oxide semiconductor layer and E [eV] is a predetermined energy level of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09202922B2
A semiconductor device includes a fin-shaped silicon layer and a pillar-shaped silicon layer on the fin-shaped silicon layer, where a width of a bottom part of the pillar-shaped silicon layer is equal to a width of a top part of the fin-shaped silicon layer. A gate insulating film and a metal gate electrode are around the pillar-shaped silicon layer and a metal gate line extends in a direction perpendicular to the fin-shaped silicon layer and is connected to the metal gate electrode. A nitride film is on an entire top surface of the metal gate electrode and the metal gate line, except for the bottom of a contact.
US09202919B1
Techniques and structures for shaping the source and drain junction profiles of a finFET are described. A fin may be partially recessed at the source and drain regions of the finFET. The partially recessed fin may be further recessed laterally and vertically, such that the laterally recessed portion extends under at least a portion of the finFET's gate structure. Source and drain regions of the finFET may be formed by growing a buffer layer on the etched surfaces of the fin and/or growing a source and drain layer at the source and drain regions of the fin. The lateral recess can improve channel-length uniformity along the height of the fin.
US09202917B2
The present disclosure relates to a Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device having a buried silicon germanium oxide structure configured to enhance performance of the FinFET device. In some embodiments, the FinFET device has a three-dimensional fin of semiconductor material protruding from a substrate at a position located between first and second isolation regions. A gate structure overlies the three-dimensional fin of semiconductor material. The gate structure controls the flow of charge carriers within the three-dimensional fin of semiconductor material. A buried silicon-germanium-oxide (SiGeOx) structure is disposed within the three-dimensional fin of semiconductor material at a position extending between the first and second isolation regions.
US09202913B2
The present application discloses a method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure, comprising the steps of: a) providing a p-type field effect transistor; b) forming a tensile-stressed layer on the p-type field effect transistor; c) removing a portion of the tensile-stressed layer, so that the remaining portion of the tensile-stressed layer generates compressive stress in the channel of the p-type field effect transistor; and d) performing annealing, so as to achieve the object of memorizing compressive stress in a channel of a transistor and improving the performance of the transistor. The method according to the present invention memorizes the compressive stress in the channel of the transistor by a stress memorization technique, increases mobility of holes, and improves overall performance of the semiconductor structure.
US09202912B2
An integrated circuit and method includes a DEMOS transistor with improved CHC reliability that has a lower resistance surface channel under the DEMOS gate that transitions to a lower resistance subsurface channel under the drain edge of the DEMOS transistor gate.
US09202899B2
A voltage switchable non-local spin-FET is disclosed which provides a layer of chromia over a ferromagnetic substrate, such as cobalt. A film of graphene overlays the chromia, with a protective layer of metal oxide like cobalt oxide or iron oxide there between to prevent catalytic degradation of the graphene, which may occur. The graphene is provided with a contact, or source and drain, depending on the application. The spin-FET, which exhibits magnetic remanence, may be provided with a top gate of, e.g., cobalt or other ferromagnet such as iron. As an alternative to the ferromagnetic substrate, the device may be formed on a silicon or gallium arsenide base, or directly on a metal interconnect of an integrated circuit.
US09202894B1
One method includes forming trenches that define a fin structure including a first layer of a first semiconductor material and a second layer of a second semiconductor material positioned above a substrate, performing at least one etching process that exposes opposing end surfaces of the first and second layers, performing at least one recess etching process that removes end portions of the first layer and defines a cavity on opposite ends of the first layer, performing an epitaxial deposition process that fills each of the cavities with a support structure including a third semiconductor material, and performing an etching process to selectively remove remaining portions of the recessed first layer relative to the second layer and the support structures, the end portions of the second layer and the support structures defining pillars on opposite ends of the fin structure.
US09202877B2
One object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor, which has stable electrical characteristics. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first insulating film is formed; source and drain electrodes and an oxide semiconductor film electrically connected to the source and drain electrodes are formed over the first insulating film; heat treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film so that a hydrogen atom in the oxide semiconductor film is removed; oxygen doping treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film, so that an oxygen atom is supplied into the oxide semiconductor film; a second insulating film is formed over the oxide semiconductor film; and a gate electrode is formed over the second insulating film so as to overlap with the oxide semiconductor film.
US09202860B2
A method for fabricating a capacitor includes: (1) forming a bottom electrode on a substrate; (2) forming a template layer on the bottom electrode; (3) performing a plurality of atomic layer deposition (ALD) cycles by using water vapor as an oxidant thereby depositing a first TiO2 layer on the template layer; and (4) performing ozone pulse and purge step to transform entire thickness of the first TiO2 layer into rutile phase.
US09202853B2
An organic electroluminescent (EL) display device having a plurality of pixel circuits formed at crossing points of a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines is provided. Each pixel circuit includes at least two driving transistors connected to a first power voltage line, the at least two driving transistors receiving a data signal through at least one of the data lines and outputting a driving current corresponding to the data signal; and an organic light emitting diode having at least two first electrodes respectively connected to the at least two driving transistors and emitting a light corresponding to the driving current. The organic light emitting diode has the at least two first electrodes and a common second electrode per pixel in order to prevent the whole pixel from not operating due to a short circuit occurring between one of the first electrodes and the second electrode.
US09202852B2
A capacitor having a configuration in which capacitors are coupled in series to each other is described. The capacitor formed on a substrate according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a polysilicon layer doped with an impurity; a first insulation layer formed on the polysilicon layer; a first metal layer formed on the first insulation layer and including first and second areas; a second insulation layer formed on the first metal layer; and a second metal layer formed on the second insulation layer and coupled to the second area of the first metal layer. The second metal layer is overlapped with at least a part of the first area of the first metal layer.
US09202845B2
A memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a variable resistance layer. The second electrode includes a metal. The metal is more easily ionizable than a material of the first electrode. The variable resistance layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The variable resistance layer includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a relatively high crystallization rate. The second layer contacts the first layer. The second layer has a relatively low crystallization rate. The first layer and the second layer are stacked along a direction connecting the first electrode and the second electrode.
US09202844B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower interconnection having second conductivity-type impurities on a substrate having first conductivity-type impurities. A switching device is on the lower interconnection. A first blocking layer is provided between the lower interconnection and the switching device. The first blocking layer includes carbon (C), germanium (Ge), or a combination thereof. A second blocking layer may be provided between the substrate and the lower interconnection.
US09202828B2
A method of manufacturing a polysilicon (poly-Si) layer, a method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus using the method, and an organic light-emitting display apparatus manufactured by using the method. The method includes forming an amorphous silicon (a-Si) layer on a substrate having first and second areas, thermally treating the a-Si layer to partially crystallize the a-Si layer into a partially crystallized Si layer, removing a thermal oxide layer through a thermal treatment, selectively irradiating the first areas with laser beams to crystallize the partially crystallized Si layer.
US09202824B2
A display panel includes a substrate, a gate line, a color filter and a roof layer. The substrate includes a thin film transistor disposed thereon. The gate line extends along a first direction on the substrate and is connected to the thin film transistor. The color filter is disposed on the substrate. The roof layer is disposed on the color filter and is configured to define a tunnel-shaped cavity between the roof layer and the color filter. The tunnel-shaped cavity extends along a second direction crossing the first direction. A cross-sectional thickness of an area of the roof layer adjacent to the gate lines is smaller than a cross-sectional thickness of another area of the roof layer spaced apart from the gate lines.
US09202823B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a plurality of pixels on a substrate. Each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a driving and a switching thin film transistor. The driving thin film transistor includes a first semiconductor including first source and drain regions, a first gate electrode overlapping the first semiconductor, a gate insulating layer between the first semiconductor and the first gate electrode, an oxide layer between the first semiconductor and the gate insulating layer, and first source and drain electrodes. The switching thin film transistor includes a second semiconductor including second source and drain regions, a second gate electrode overlapping the second semiconductor, and second source and drain electrodes. The switching thin film transistor includes the gate insulating layer between the second semiconductor and the second gate electrode. The gate insulating layer contacts an upper portion of the second semiconductor.
US09202819B2
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device includes an electrode separation pattern, a stack structure, a data storage layer, and a channel structure. The electrode separation pattern is disposed on a substrate. A stack structure is disposed on a sidewall of the electrode separation pattern. The stack structure includes a corrugated sidewall opposite to the sidewall of the electrode separation pattern. The sidewall of the electrode separation pattern is vertical to the substrate. A data storage layer is disposed on the corrugated sidewall. A channel structure is disposed on the charge storage layer.
US09202814B2
A memory device which can keep a stored logic state even when the power is off is provided. A signal processing circuit including the memory device, which achieves low power consumption by stopping supply of power, is provided. A memory device includes a logic circuit including a first node and a second node, a first memory circuit connected to the first node, a second memory circuit connected to the second node, and a precharge circuit connected to the first node, the second node, the first memory circuit, and the second memory circuit. When reading data is performed, the precharge circuit outputs a precharge potential to the first node and the second node. The first memory circuit and the second memory circuit each include a transistor in which a channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor film.
US09202808B2
An integrated circuit electrical protection device is disclosed that includes a semiconductor substrate and a plurality of transistor fingers partitioned into a plurality of segments. The segments are distinguished from one another by well-ties spaced apart from each other within a source/drain region that is shared by adjacent segments.
US09202806B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package includes a Zener diode, a light emitting device including a light emitting diode, a body including lead frames on which the light emitting device and the Zener diode are disposed, and provided with a cavity formed on the lead frames, a first adhesive member disposed between the Zener diode and the lead frames, and a second adhesive member disposed between the light emitting device and the lead frames, and the thickness of the second adhesive member is equal to or less than the thickness of the first adhesive member.
US09202803B2
An apparatus including a package substrate including a plurality of layers of conductive material, the package substrate including a cavity; and a device in the cavity, wherein an ultimate layer of the plurality of layers of conductive material defines contacts to contact points of the device. An apparatus including a package substrate comprising a plurality of conductive layers and a silicon bridge die disposed between ones of the plurality of conductive layers and an ultimate layer of the plurality of conductive layers defines contact points to contact points of the silicon bridge die; and a logic die coupled to the contact points of the ultimate layer of the plurality of layers of conductive layers.
US09202789B2
Some novel features pertain to an integrated device package (e.g., die package) that includes a package substrate, a die, an encapsulation layer and a first set of metal layers. The package substrate includes a first surface and a second surface. The die is coupled to the first surface of the package substrate. The encapsulation layer encapsulates the die. The first set of metal layers is coupled to a first exterior surface of the encapsulation layer. In some implementations, the first set of metal layers is configured to operate as a die-to-wire connector of the integrated device package. In some implementations, the integrated device package includes a second set of metal layers coupled to the second surface of the package substrate. In some implementations, the integrated device package includes a second set of metal layers coupled to a second exterior surface of the encapsulation layer.
US09202788B2
A semiconductor device structure and a method of fabricating a semiconductor device structure are provided. A first device layer is formed over a substrate, where an alignment structure is patterned in the first device layer. A dielectric layer is provided over the first device layer. The dielectric layer is patterned to include an opening over the alignment structure. A second device layer is formed over the dielectric layer. The second device layer is patterned using a mask layer, where the mask layer includes a structure that is aligned relative to the alignment structure. The alignment structure is visible via the opening during the patterning of the second device layer.
US09202781B2
A wiring substrate includes a core layer, first and second wiring layers, and a first insulating layer. The core layer has one and another surfaces and includes a plate-shaped member formed of an aluminum oxide and multiple linear conductors penetrating the plate-shaped member in a thickness direction of the plate-shaped member. The first wiring layer is formed on the one surface of the core layer. The second wiring layer is formed on the other surface of the core layer. The first insulating layer has a same thickness as the first wiring layer and is formed in an area of the one surface of the core layer on which the first wiring layer is not formed. The first and second wiring layers are positioned superposing each other in a plan view. The first and second wiring layers are electrically connected by way of the multiple linear conductors.
US09202775B2
Semiconductor devices are provided. The semiconductor device includes a bit line contact plug and a storage node contact plug electrically connected to an active region of a substrate. A bit line structure is disposed on the bit line contact plug to extend in a first direction. The bit line structure is disposed in a trench pattern that intrudes into a side of the storage node contact plug. Related methods and systems are also provided.
US09202772B2
The present invention is an improvement in a molded semiconductor package and the method for its manufacture. The package comprises a substrate, a semiconductor die mounted on the substrate, a molding compound encircling the die on the substrate, a lid on the molding compound, and a heat pipe extending between the semiconductor die and the lid. Preferably, the heat pipe is formed so that it encircles the die. The package is assembled by mounting the die on the substrate, applying the molding compound to the substrate while a channel is formed in the molding compound adjacent the semiconductor die, inserting a heat pipe material in the channel, and mounting the lid on the molding compound and the heat pipe material.
US09202770B1
A packaged semiconductor device has an integrated circuit (IC) die and first and second volumes of molding compound. The first volume of molding compound is disposed on a first portion of a first side of the IC die and comprises a first molding compound. The second volume of molding compound is disposed on a second side of the IC die, different from the first side, and comprises a second molding compound, different from the first molding compound. By including different molding compounds, the properties of the packaged semiconductor device can be varied across the device.
US09202769B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die and an encapsulant deposited over the first semiconductor die. An interconnect structure is formed over the first semiconductor die and encapsulant. A thermal interface material is formed over the first semiconductor die and encapsulant. A stiffening layer is formed over the first semiconductor die and an edge portion of the encapsulant. Alternatively, an insulating layer is formed adjacent to the first semiconductor die and a stiffening layer is formed over the insulating layer. The stiffening layer includes metal, ferrite, ceramic, or semiconductor material. A heat spreader is disposed over the first semiconductor die and a central portion of the encapsulant. Openings are formed in the heat spreader. A recess is formed in the heat spreader along an edge of the heat spreader. A coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the stiffening layer is less than a CTE of the heat spreader.
US09202764B2
An apparatus for removing a defect according to the embodiment includes an image processing part for observing a surface of a substrate; a layer forming part for forming a layer on the surface of the substrate; and a humidity controlling part for controlling humidity in a chamber in which the substrate is placed. A method for removing a defect according to the embodiment includes detecting the defect on a surface of a substrate; forming an oxide layer by oxidizing the defect; and removing the oxide layer. A method for removing a defect according to another embodiment includes forming an oxide layer on an entire surface of a substrate; and removing the oxide layer to remove the defect.
US09202749B2
Methods for achieving advanced patterning of an interconnect dielectric material layer are provided in which the dimension, i.e., width, of an opening that is formed into a metallic hard mask layer is shrunk prior to extending the opening into the interconnect dielectric material layer. The shrinking of the dimension of the opening that is formed into the metallic hard mask layer can be achieved in the present application by forming at least a metallic hard mask spacer portion on a sidewall surface of each patterned metallic hard mask layer. The aforementioned basic principle can be applied to forming a line opening, a via opening and/or a combined via and line opening within an interconnect dielectric material layer, wherein each of the openings (line, via and/or via and line) has a reduced dimension as compared to that obtainable utilizing conventional lithography.
US09202745B2
Methods for processing a substrate are described herein. Methods can include positioning a substrate comprising silicon in a processing chamber, delivering a plasma to the surface of the substrate while biasing the substrate, exposing the surface of the substrate to ammonium fluoride (NH4F), and annealing the substrate to a first temperature to sublimate one or more volatile byproducts.
US09202738B2
Systems, apparatus and methods including pneumatic end effectors for transporting substrates between system components of electronic device manufacturing systems are provided. In one aspect, an end effector has a base adapted to be connected to a robotic component, and one or more pneumatic suction elements positioned on the base. Applying a pneumatic source to the pneumatic suction element draws a substrate into contact with contact pads of the end effector. Methods and systems, as well as numerous other aspects are disclosed.
US09202737B2
The present invention provides a method for plasma dicing a substrate. The method comprising: providing a process chamber having a wall; providing a plasma source adjacent to the wall of the process chamber; providing a work piece support within the process chamber; placing the substrate on a carrier support to form a work piece; providing an intermediate ring interposed between the substrate and the frame; loading the work piece onto the work piece support; generating a plasma through the plasma source; and etching the work piece through the generated plasma.
US09202736B2
A method for refurbishing at least a portion of an electrostatic chuck. The method comprises removing a first dielectric component from a fluid distribution element of the electrostatic chuck and replacing the first dielectric component with a second dielectric component.
US09202732B2
The substrate detection apparatus includes: a collimating reflector located on one side of substrates; an illumination unit configured to radiate light in a planar state toward the collimating reflector such that edge portions of the substrates are located in an optical path of the light; an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a passing light image including the edge portions formed on the collimating reflector with the light radiated in the planar state from the illumination unit; and an image processing unit configured to process the passing light image obtained by the image acquiring unit, thereby detecting the conditions of the substrates.
US09202724B2
Provided is a substrate treatment apparatus that treats a surface of a substrate while rotating the substrate. The substrate treatment apparatus includes: a physical tool unit including a physical tool configured to treat the surface of the substrate; a nozzle unit including a liquid supply nozzle configured to supply a liquid to the surface of the substrate and a gas supply nozzle configured to supply a gas to the surface of the substrate; a physical-tool-unit moving mechanism configured to move the physical tool unit along the surface of the substrate; and a nozzle-unit moving mechanism configured to move the nozzle unit along the surface of the substrate.
US09202717B2
A method of making a liquid discharge head which includes a nozzle to discharge liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the nozzle, a pressure chamber substrate to form surfaces of the pressure chamber, and a piezoelectric actuator to apply pressure to liquid in the pressure chamber having a lower electrode, a ferroelectric film, and an upper electrode, includes a silicon wafer supplying process, a position adjustment process, a surface treatment process to reform a surface of the lower electrode, a liquid applying process to apply ferroelectric precursor on the lower electrode by an inkjet method, a heating process to heat the ferroelectric precursor film, and a cooling process. A series of processes from the position adjustment process to the cooling process is iterated to form a ferroelectric film having a predetermined thickness. The series of processes is performed with certain waiting times inserted between key processes.
US09202714B2
Methods for forming semiconductor device packages include applying an underfill material over a semiconductor wafer including conductive elements such that an average thickness of the underfill material is at least about 80% of an average height of the conductive elements and each conductive element is covered by underfill material. Underfill material covering tips of conductive elements is removed. Other methods include positioning a stencil over a semiconductor wafer and applying an underfill material to a major surface of the semiconductor wafer through the stencil. Additional methods include aligning and associating conductive elements having a surface substantially free of underfill material with bond pads of a substrate, melting and flowing the underfill material, and heating the conductive elements and underfill material to melt tip portions of the conductive elements and cure the underfill material.
US09202712B2
A method of manufacturing a lead frame, comprising the steps of: providing an electrically-conductive base material having first and second planar sides; forming a patterned conductive layer on the first planar side of the base material; etching the second planar side of the base material at portions with respect to exposed portions on the first planar side of the base material comprising the patterned conductive layer, to form partially-etched portions on the second planar side of the base material; providing a non-conductive filling material over the second planar side of the base material, wherein the filling material fills spaces inside the partially-etched portions on the second planar side of the base material to form adjacent portions of the filling material and a plurality of conductive portions on the second planar side of the base material; and etching the exposed portions of the first planar side of the base material comprising the patterned conductive layer to form partially-etched portions on the first planar side of the base material that combine with the partially-etched portions on the second planar side of the base material to thereby form a plurality of separate conductive regions on the first planar side of the base material, each conductive region being electrically conductive with at least a respective one of the plurality of conductive portions on the second planar side of the base material.
US09202711B2
A method for reducing light point defects of a semiconductor-on-insulator structure and a method for reducing the surface roughness of a semiconductor-on-insulator structure are disclosed. The methods can include a combination of thermally annealing the structure followed by a non-contact smoothing process.
US09202709B2
A liquid for polishing a metal is provided that is used for chemically and mechanically polishing a conductor film including copper or a copper alloy in production of a semiconductor device, and a polishing method using the metal-polishing liquid is also provided. The liquid includes: (a) colloidal silica particles having an average primary particle size of from 10 nm to 25 nm and an average secondary particle size of from 50 nm to 70 nm; (b) a metal anticorrosive agent; (c) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a surfactant and a water-soluble polymer compound; (d) an oxidizing agent; and (e) an organic acid.
US09202705B1
An integrated circuit (IC) module with a lead frame micro-needle for a medical device, and methods of forming the IC module are described. The methods include forming a lead frame blank including a micro-needle integrally formed therein. The micro-needle may be bent beyond an initial lower side of the lead frame blank. The initial lower side may be joined with a protection layer such that the bent micro-needle is embedded in the protection layer, which may be removably attached to the initial lower side and the bent micro-needle. An IC component may be affixed to an upper side of the lead frame blank. The IC component and an upper surface of a core of the lead frame blank may be encapsulated with a molding compound forming a packaging of the IC module. Removal of the protection layer may expose the bent micro-needle projecting away from the packaging.
US09202704B2
A system for forming self-aligned contacts includes electroplating a first metal contact onto a Group III-V semiconductor substrate, the first metal contact having a greater height than width and having a straight sidewall profile, etching back the semiconductor substrate down to a base layer to expose an emitter semiconductor layer under the first metal contact, conformally depositing a dielectric layer on a vertical side of the first metal contact, a vertical side of the emitter semiconductor layer and on the base layer, anisotropically etching the dielectric layer off of the semiconductor substrate to form a dielectric sidewall spacer on the vertical side of the first metal contact and providing a second metal contact immediately adjacent the dielectric sidewall spacer.
US09202698B2
Gate electrodes having different work functions can be provided by providing conductive metallic nitride layers having different thicknesses in a replacement gate scheme. Upon removal of disposable gate structures and formation of a gate dielectric layer, at least one incremental thickness conductive metallic nitride layer is added within some gate cavities, while not being added in some other gate cavities. A minimum thickness conductive metallic nitride layer is subsequently added as a contiguous layer. Conductive metallic nitride layers thus formed have different thicknesses across different gate cavities. A gate fill conductive material layer is deposited, and planarization is performed to provide multiple gate electrode having different conductive metallic nitride layer thicknesses. The different thicknesses of the conductive metallic nitride layers can provide different work functions having a range of about 400 mV.
US09202693B2
A method of forming an ultra-shallow junction in a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming an amorphous region in a semiconductor substrate by performing a pre-amorphization implant step and implanting one or more dopants in the amorphous region by performing a monolayer doping step. The semiconductor substrate is then thermally treated to activate the implanted dopant in the amorphous region to thereby form an ultra-shallow junction in the semiconductor substrate. The thermal treatment can be performed without any oxide cap overlying the implanted amorphous region.
US09202682B2
Disclosed are devices and methods related to flat gas discharge tubes (GDTs). In some embodiments, a plurality of GDTs can be fabricated from an insulator plate having a first side and a second side, with the insulator plate defining a plurality of openings. Each opening can be covered by first and second electrodes on the first and second sides of the insulator plate to thereby define an enclosed gas volume configured for GDT operation. Various examples related to such GDTs, including electrode configurations, opening configurations, pre-ionization features, grouping of a GDT with another GDT or device, and packaging configurations, are disclosed.
US09202676B2
In some embodiments, a quantitative analysis of at least one ion signal associated with a sample, which is detected by a mass spectrometer having at least two tandem quadrupole instruments, is employed to select one of the following operational modes for further mass analysis of the sample: (a) utilizing both quadrupole instruments as mass resolving filters, and (b) utilizing one quadrupole instrument as a mass resolving filter and utilizing the other as a linear ion trap. In some embodiments, the quantitative analysis of the ion signal comprises comparing the ion signal intensity with a predefined threshold.
US09202672B2
There is provided an apparatus and a method capable of preparing a standardized probe without need for working skill of probe processing. According to the present invention, a probe shape generation process of detecting a probe shape based on the probe incoming current detected by a probe current detection unit, a probe tip coordinate extraction process of detecting a tip position of the probe from the probe shape, a probe contour line extraction process of generating a probe contour line obtained by approximating a contour of the probe from the tip position of the probe and the probe shape, a probe center line extraction process of generating a center line and a vertical line of the probe from the probe contour line, a processing pattern generation process of generating a processing pattern based on the probe tip position, the probe center line, the probe vertical line, and a preset shape and dimension of a probe acute part, and an ion beam termination process of performing, based on the processing pattern, termination of ion-beam processing are performed.
US09202671B2
A charged particle beam apparatus includes a sample stage, a focused ion beam column, a scattered electron detector that detects backscattered electrons generated from a cross-section of a sample, a crystal orientation information generation unit that generates crystal orientation information on a predetermined region of the cross-section, and an angle calculation unit that calculates attachment angles of the sample stage, corresponding to a direction of the cross-section. In response to receiving input of information indicating that the crystal orientation information on the region displayed on a display unit is changed to aimed second crystal orientation information, the angle calculation unit calculates the attachment angles corresponding to the direction of the cross-section for generating the second crystal orientation information, and the focused ion beam column performs etching processing on the cross-section at the calculated attachment angles.
US09202669B2
According to the present invention, in a charged particle beam device having a charged particle source, an objective lens for focusing a primary-charged particle beam emitted from the charged particle source, a scan deflector for scanning the primary-charged particle beam on a sample, and a detector for detecting signal particles generated from the sample under scanning of the primary-charged particle beam, whereby a sample image is obtained by using the signal particles of the detector, the charged particle beam device comprises a deflector for deflecting an angle of irradiation of the primary-charged particle beam onto the sample, first and second independent power supplies for passing currents to the deflector, and a switch for switching over voltages applied from the two power supplies in unit of one line or one frame of scanning of the primary-charged particle beam.
US09202666B1
A method of operating a charged particle beam device is provided. The charged particle beam device includes a beam separator that defines an optical axis, and includes a magnetic beam separation portion and an electrostatic beam separation portion. The method includes generating a primary charged particle beam, and applying a voltage to a sample, the voltage being set to a first value to determine a first landing energy of the primary charged particle beam. The method further includes creating an electric current in the magnetic beam separation portion, the current being set to a first value to generate a first magnetic field, and applying a voltage to the electrostatic beam separation portion, the voltage being set to a first value to generate a first electric field. The method includes guiding the primary charged particle beam to the beam separator, wherein the primary charged particle beam enters the beam separator at a first angle relative to the optical axis and, under the influence of the first magnetic field and the first electric field, leaves the beam separator at a second angle relative to the optical axis. The method includes generating a secondary charged particle beam by impingement of the primary charged particle beam on the sample to which the voltage with the first value is applied, and separating the secondary charged particle beam from the primary charged particle beam in the beam separator, wherein the secondary charged particle beam enters the beam separator at a third angle relative to the optical axis and, under the influence of the first magnetic field and the first electric field, leaves the beam separator at a fourth angle relative to the optical axis. The first angle and the fourth angle are different. The method further includes applying the voltage to the sample, the voltage being set to a second value to determine a second landing energy of the primary charged particle beam, creating the electric current in the magnetic beam separation portion, the electric current being set to a second value to generate a second magnetic field, applying the voltage to the electrostatic beam separation portion, the voltage being set to a second value to generate a second electric field, guiding the primary charged particle beam to the beam separator, wherein the primary charged particle beam enters the beam separator at the first angle relative to the optical axis and, under the influence of the second magnetic field and the second electric field, leaves the beam separator at the second angle relative to the optical axis, generating the secondary charged particle beam by impingement of the primary charged particle beam on the sample to which the voltage with the second value is applied, and separating the secondary charged particle beam from the primary charged particle beam in the beam separator, wherein the secondary charged particle beam enters the beam separator at the third angle relative to the optical axis and, under the influence of the second magnetic field and the second electric field, leaves the beam separator at the fourth angle relative to the optical axis.
US09202660B2
In various embodiments, a traveling wave amplifier circuit is disclosed. The traveling wave amplifier circuit is configured to receive an RF wave and an electron beam. The traveling wave amplifier effects synchronized interaction between the RF wave and the electron beam. The traveling wave amplifier circuit comprises a waveguide. The waveguide comprises a plurality of asymmetric cells arranged periodically. The waveguide is configured to receive an electron beam. Each of the asymmetric cells comprises at least one asymmetrical structure within the asymmetric cell to modify the dispersion relation of the waveguide.
US09202656B2
An improved fuse including a fuse body, a fusible element, end terminations and insulated plugs used to seal a cavity formed within the fuse body to extinguish electrical arcs when an overcurrent condition occurs.
US09202654B2
According to one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a first electrode formed on a support substrate, a second electrode arranged to face the first electrode and formed to be movable in a facing direction with respect to the first electrode, a beam portion formed on the support substrate and formed to support the second electrode, a cap layer formed to cover the second electrode and beam portion, a plurality of through-holes formed in the cap layer, the through-holes being formed in a portion other than a proximity portion in which a facing distance between the cap layer and a member in the cap layer is not longer than a preset distance, and a sealing layer formed to cover the cap layer and fill the through-holes.
US09202649B2
An operation device includes three contact circuits each including fixed terminals and a slider as a movable contact for selectively changing a state between the fixed terminals to an ON/OFF state, a determination unit to which the contact circuits are connected, and an operation signal generation unit that outputs a signal indicating that an operation unit is in a state of ON operation. In response to an ON operation, the slider moves from an initial position where all contact circuits are in an OFF state to an end position where all contact circuits are turned on. Assuming that one of the contact circuits is a reference contact circuit and the others are output contact circuits, the reference contact circuit is provided such that a distance from the initial position to a position where the reference contact circuit is turned on is smaller than that for the output contact circuits.
US09202645B2
A movable portion of a vacuum circuit-breaker includes a circular spring sliding on an outer bearing surface in most positions, that is suitable for entering a recess on relaxing in order to define a maximally open position for the vacuum circuit-breaker in which locking is thus provided. The movable portion may be made up of two sections, of which one, made of copper, is a very good electrical conductor, and is directed towards the stationary contact and receives a connection element for connection to an outside electrical circuit; the section may be made of steel in order to promote sliding of the spring without wear.
US09202638B2
The invention relates to an aqueous fluoropolymer, and preferably polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), composition for manufacturing electrodes for use in non-aqueous-type electrochemical devices, such as batteries and electric double layer capacitors. The composition contains aqueous PVDF binder, and one or more powdery electrode-forming materials. In one embodiment, the composition is free of fluorinated surfactant In another embodiment, one or more fugitive adhesion promoters are added. The electrode formed from the composition of the invention exhibits interconnectivity and irreversibility that is achieved from the use of aqueous PVDF binder.
US09202635B2
A substrate for counter electrode of dye-sensitized solar cell is made of a composite material, which is prepared by: a) compounding vinyl ester and graphite powder to form bulk molding compound (BMC) material, the graphite powder content ranging from 60 wt % to 95 wt % based on the total weight of the graphite powder and vinyl ester, wherein 0.01-10 wt % of an electrically conductive filler, based on the weight of the vinyl ester resin, is optionally added during the compounding; b) molding the BMC material from step a) to form a substrate for the counter electrode having a desired shaped at 80-200° C. and 500-4000 psi.
US09202628B2
laminated ceramic capacitor which has favorable moisture resistance includes an inner layer section that has dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrodes stacked alternately, and outer layer sections formed outside the inner layer section. The dielectric ceramic layers have a perovskite-type compound including a main constituent containing Ca and Zr, and an additive containing Si and Mn. The average grain size in the dielectric ceramic layers constituting the outer layer sections is smaller than the average grain size in the dielectric ceramic layers constituting the inner layer section. The Si/Mn molar ratio in the dielectric ceramic near the interfaces between the internal electrodes and the dielectric ceramic layers is ≦15.
US09202624B2
There are provided a conductive paste composition for an external electrode and a multilayer ceramic electronic component fabricated using the same, the conductive paste composition for an external electrode including: a conductive metal powder; and a resin mixture including at least one resin selected from a group consisting of an epoxy-based resin and a phenoxy-based resin, and a polyvinyl formal resin.
US09202622B2
It is possible to control a welding in a high speed and a high precision large electric current, and consumption electric power is also reduced. In the welding transformer, a loop magnetic core 25, a wound primary coil 12, plural positive side coils 14 and plural negative side coils 16 that are alternately sandwiched between respective gaps 12a of the primary coil 12, are comprised. A coil is fixed on the other surface of a contact base member 62. On the other surface of the contact base member 62, a first connection polar board 44 is electrically connected to a positive side electric conductor 30 through the first connection polar board 44. A negative side coil 16 is electrically connected to a negative side electric conductor 32. The connecting part of the positive side coil 14 and the negative side coil 16 is electrically connected to the third connection polar board 48. By sandwiching a thin insulation layer 31, a positive side electric conductor 30, a rectifying device 18 and a first polar board 34 are arranged on one side; A negative side electric conductor 32, a rectifying device 20 and a second polar board 36 are arranged on the other side; and the first polar board 34 and the second polar board 36 are electrically connected to a third polar board 38. It is possible to use by combining plural units and by connecting an output side in parallel in a small size and a large capacity.
US09202621B2
A slotted bobbin magnetic component device includes a bobbin having an elongated bobbin tube with transverse slots. One or more substantially flat electrically conductive winding inserts are inserted radially onto the bobbin tube via the transverse slots. At least one detent positioned on the winding insert secures the winding insert on the bobbin and prevents the winding insert from becoming misplaced relative to the bobbin. One or more flanges protruding from the bobbin engage one or more corresponding recesses on the winding insert to prevent angular movement of the winding insert relative to the bobbin. One or more primary conductive winding coils are disposed about the bobbin in the gaps between adjacent winding inserts, the coils being formed by axially winding numerous layers over each other in alternating axial winding directions.
US09202617B2
A low profile surface mount electromagnetic component such as a power inductor includes first and second core pieces arranged side by side and having longitudinal side walls facing one another. A preformed coil winding includes vertical legs that are received in vertical slots of the facing longitudinal sidewalls of the component. Inset depressed sections are provided in the top surfaces of the first and second magnetic core pieces and receive a main winding section of the coil winding. Surface mount terminal tabs extend on the bottom surfaces of both the first and second magnetic core pieces.
US09202609B2
Various high speed shielded cables are used in combination with a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a plurality of electrical terminations in electrical contact with the conductor sets of the cable at a first end of the cable, the electrical terminations configured to make electrical contact with corresponding mating electrical terminations of a mating connector and at least one housing configured to retain the plurality of electrical terminations in a planar, spaced apart configuration.
US09202608B2
Various high speed shielded cables are used in combination with a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a plurality of electrical terminations in electrical contact with the conductor sets of the cable at a first end of the cable, the electrical terminations configured to make electrical contact with corresponding mating electrical terminations of a mating connector and at least one housing configured to retain the plurality of electrical terminations in a planar, spaced apart configuration.
US09202602B2
The invention provides for a method for producing isotopes using a beam of particles from an accelerator, whereby the beam is maintained at between about 70 to 2000 MeV; and contacting a thorium-containing target with the particles. The medically important isotope 225Ac is produced via the nuclear reaction (p,2p6n), whereby an energetic proton causes the ejection of 2 protons and 6 neutrons from a 232Th target nucleus. Another medically important isotope 213Bi is then available as a decay product. The production of highly purified 211At is also provided.
US09202596B2
A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of fuse arrays each including a plurality of fuses; a selection block which selects one fuse array among the fuse arrays in response to values of a group of bits of a repair code; a code alignment block which aligns disposition of bits other than the group of bits of the repair code, wherein the alignment disposition is changed based on the fuse array selected in the selection block; and an operation block which controls an operation of the fuse array selected in the selection block in response to a repair command and an output code of the code alignment block.
US09202592B2
Systems and methods for managing memory in a dynamic translation computer system are provided. Embodiments may include receiving an instruction packet and processing the instruction packet. The instruction packet may include one or more instructions for obtaining a block of virtual memory for use in an emulated operating environment from a slab of virtual memory in a host environment, maintaining a mapping between the block of virtual memory and physical memory when the block is returned to the host environment, and for filling the block of virtual memory with zeros and a pattern based, at least in part, on a detected fill type.
US09202591B2
A method for testing an electronic memory while the memory is in use includes: (a) detecting an access to the electronic memory at a test address, (b) saving, in a register subsystem, write data written to the electronic memory at a location corresponding to the test address, (c) comparing the write data to data read from the electronic memory at the location corresponding to the test address to determine whether the memory has a fault, and (d) generating an error signal if the memory has a fault.
US09202585B2
A memory system is provided, which includes a nonvolatile memory module including a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices, and a memory module controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory module. At least two nonvolatile memory devices of the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices are configured to store serial presence detect (SPD) information. The memory module controller is configured to read the SPD information from the nonvolatile memory module and to set a communication mode with the nonvolatile memory module based on the read SPD information.
US09202582B1
The present invention discloses a flash-memory low-speed read mode control circuit, which comprises a charge pump, a first voltage division circuit composed of two resistors and a first switch interconnected in series, and a second voltage division circuit composed of two capacitors interconnected in series. The first switch is used for switching between the data read mode of the low-speed read mode and the charge pump electric-leakage mode. In the data read mode, a first component voltage formed by the two resistors is fed back to the input terminal of the charge pump through a comparator, an NAND gate and a buffer, making a stable value of the output voltage of the charge pump proportional to the first component voltage. In the charge pump electric-leakage mode, the second voltage division circuit monitors the output voltage of the charge pump: when the output voltage is below a low threshold voltage, a feedback signal is formed and sent to the input terminal of the charge pump to make the charge pump turned on; when the output voltage is above a low threshold voltage, a feedback signal is formed and sent to the input terminal of the charge pump to make the charge pump stop working. The present invention can reduce the average current of the entire low-speed read mode significantly, and reduce the power consumption of the read process.
US09202571B2
Nonvolatile memory devices utilize vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells (e.g., NAND-type strings) that can be selectively coupled to common source lines within a substrate. This selective coupling may be provided by lateral ground select transistors having different threshold voltages that account for different lateral spacings between the vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells and the common source lines.
US09202568B2
A method for writing data into an EEPROM connected to an I2C bus, wherein the data to be written is transmitted in frames having a size corresponding to the size of a physical half-page of the memory. The programming of a data page in the memory is performed while another page is being received.
US09202564B2
A control circuit is configured to perform a state determination operation to sense voltages of a plurality of first wiring lines, the voltages changing based on current flowing from the first wiring lines to a plurality of second wiring lines via a plurality of variable resistive elements. Then, the control circuit is configured to adjust voltages to be applied to the first and second wiring lines in a reset operation or a set operation based on the voltages of the first wiring lines sensed in the state determination operation.
US09202559B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: a plurality of memory cells; a word line; a plurality of first bit lines and a plurality of second bit lines; and a control circuit. The control circuit is capable of executing: a determining operation that determines whether the memory cell which is to be a write-target includes an erase-target cell whose threshold voltage is to be the erase state, or not; and an inverting operation that inverts selection or unselection of the bit line connected to one of the two memory cells adjacent to the erase-target cell, in the first write operation and the second write operation.
US09202558B1
Technologies are generally described herein for performing a pulse programming operation on memory cells. The memory cells may be programmed according to a relative ranking of a property of the memory cells. The relative ranking may correspond to a particular word to be written to the memory cells. The memory cells may be pulsed until the property corresponds to a particular relative ranking. Some examples of properties of the memory cells include, but are not limited to, threshold voltages, resistance values, or current carrying capabilities.
US09202538B2
Methods and devices are disclosed where a voltage on a wordline is changed from a first voltage to a second voltage via a plurality of intermediate voltages.
US09202536B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory array, a wordline circuit, divided into at least two subcircuits, to control the memory array, and a bitline circuit, divided into at least two subcircuits, to control the memory array. The wordline subcircuits and the bitline subcircuits at least partially overlap separate respective regions of the memory array.
US09202534B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes performing a pre-read and a first main read to selected memory cells in response to a read request, and performing a second main read to the selected memory cells in response to a re-read request.
US09202532B2
A decoder circuit, responsive to a burst sequence control signal, for accessing a memory location in a memory array. The decoder circuit receives an address signal and outputs a plurality of first select lines. Logic circuitry receives these first select lines and a burst sequence control signal and outputs a plurality of second select lines. When the bust sequence control signal is unasserted, the logic circuitry passes through to the plurality of second select lines the signals received on the plurality of first select lines. When the burst sequence control signal is asserted, the logic circuitry performs a logical operation on the signals received on the plurality of first select lines and outputs the result on the plurality of second select lines.
US09202527B2
An interface connector apparatus and associated method is provided having a reach portion extending from a body portion a first distance, and electrical contacts at an end of the reach portion. An alignment member is connected to the reach portion and extends from the body portion a second distance that is greater than the first distance, the alignment member including a retainer operably imparting a bias that retains the interface connector in another device.
US09202525B2
A portable media playing device incorporating a menu structure. The device includes a display mechanism, a navigation database, including a navigation record with a navigation description, and an action database, including an action record with an action description. The action database is customizable. A display driver displays the navigation description. When the navigation description is selected, the display driver displays the action description. When the action description is selected, a digital synchronization system generates an extra action request (EAR) record that includes an action identifier and action data for storage in an EAR database. When the device is synchronized with a computer, a synchronization manager accesses the EAR database and updates the action database with any new action records.
US09202520B1
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining when a user likes a piece of content based, at least in part, on analyzing user responses to the content. In one embodiment, the user's response may be monitored by audio and motion detection devices to determine when the user's vocals or movements are emulating the content. When the user's emulation exceeds a threshold amount the content may be designated as “liked.” In certain instances, a similar piece of content may be selected to play when the current content is finished.
US09202518B2
In one embodiment, a method includes executing a first forward loop of a detection algorithm on a block of signal samples during a first time interval, executing a first reverse loop of the detection algorithm on the block during a second time interval to produce first soft information, executing a decoding algorithm on the block during a third time interval using the first soft information to produce second soft information, executing a second forward loop of the detection algorithm on the block during a fourth time interval using the second soft information, executing a second reverse loop of the detection algorithm on the block during a fifth time interval to produce third soft information, executing the decoding algorithm on the block during a sixth time interval using the third soft information to produce a decoded block of signal samples, and outputting the decoded block of signal samples.
US09202517B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data tracks. First data is written to a first data track, and the first data is read from the first data track to measure a first quality metric representing a recording quality of the first data. Second data is written to a second data track, and the second data is read from the second data track to measure a second quality metric representing a recording quality of the second data. The first and second quality metrics are processed to generate a first statistical quality metric. A first defect threshold is generated based on the first statistical quality metric, and at least part of the disk is scanned for defects based on the first defect threshold.
US09202515B1
A read/write channel module for writing data to and reading data from a storage medium. A servo channel module is configured to recover a servo field from the storage medium in accordance with a read signal read from the storage medium and a first clock signal. A locator module is configured to determine, based on a location of the servo field recovered from the storage medium, a location of a predetermined bit pattern that is located subsequent to the servo field on the storage medium. A phase error calculator module is configured to estimate a phase error of a second clock signal based on the location of the predetermined bit pattern, wherein a phase and a frequency of the second clock signal are different than a phase and a frequency of the first clock signal, and adjust the phase of the second clock signal based on the estimated phase error.
US09202509B2
Techniques for grouping or pairing individual audio products with network capability (players) to stimulate a multi-channel listening environment are disclosed. In instead of grouping selected players to play back an audio item, a user is allowed to activate one of the players to process the data of the audio item, essentially separating the data into individual streams, each of the streams representing a single-sound track and being played back in one of the players, thus creating a multi-channel listening environment with the selected players.
US09202508B2
Provided is an optical disk drive including a turntable on which an optical disk is mounted and which rotates the optical disk, a chuck pulley movable in the direction of an axis of the turntable between a first pulley position spaced from the turntable and a second pulley position which is close to the turntable and in which the chuck pulley grips the optical disk together with the turntable, the chuck pulley being attracted toward the turntable by a magnetic force, and a pulley operating mechanism for moving the chuck pulley between the first pulley position and the second pulley position. The pulley operating mechanism, at the time of moving the chuck pulley between the first pulley position and the second pulley position, inclines the chuck pulley in relation to the turntable, and brings the chuck pulley closer to or away from the turntable.
US09202506B1
A power level is applied to a laser that heats a heat-assisted recording medium is increased during recording for a plurality of iterations. Each iteration involves writing test data to a plurality of sequential tracks of the recording medium using the power level and determining bit error rates of the test data. Based on the bit error rates of the iterations, a power boost profile is determined. The power boost profile starts at a baseline level at a first track of a plurality of sequentially-written tracks, incrementally increases to a steady-state level over a first portion of the tracks, and remains at the steady-state level over subsequent ones of the tracks. The power boost profile is applied to the laser when recording to the recording medium.
US09202498B2
A head transducer comprises a reader coupled to reader bond pads and configured to interact with a magnetic storage medium. A first thermal sensor is configured to produce a first sensor signal. The first sensor is biased relative to a common mode voltage at the reader bond pads. A second thermal sensor is configured to produce a second sensor signal. One of the first and second sensors is situated at or near a close point of the head transducer in relation to the magnetic storage medium, and the other of the first and second sensors spaced away from the close point. Circuitry is configured to combine the first and second sensor signals and produce a combined sensor signal indicative of one or both of a change in head-medium spacing and head-medium contact.
US09202495B2
A method and apparatus are provided for positioning a transducer relative to a track of a data storage medium and inducing lateral modulation of transducer the relative to the track. An element of the transducer is actuated toward the storage medium during the lateral modulation, and atomic interaction is detected between the element and the storage medium because of a change in a response to the lateral modulation of the transducer due to the atomic interaction.
US09202490B2
A magnetic head includes a read transducer and a write transducer at a media-facing surface of the magnetic head. The magnetic head includes at least one heater that causes heat deformation at the media-facing surface in response to different first and second energizing currents. The first energizing current results in a first close point between the media-facing surface and a recording medium. The second energizing current results in a second close point between the media-facing surface and the recording medium. The second close point is at a different location in the media-facing surface than the first close point.
US09202488B2
A waveguide has an input end near a top of a slider coupled to receive light from an energy source. The waveguide delivers the light at an output end of the waveguide near a bottom of the slider. The apparatus includes light blocking members on respective first and second cross track sides of the waveguide. The light blocking members are configured to block stray light away from a light path. The light blocking members are at a location along a length of the waveguide between the top and the bottom of the slider. Confinement of light within the waveguide is near a maximum at the location.
US09202487B2
An approach for aligning a light source on a slider involves filtering light emerging from the air bearing surface of a (ABS) of a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) slider. A first portion of the emerging light is emitted by a near field transducer in response to optical excitation and has a component having a first polarization state. A second portion of the emerging light including stray light has polarization states different from the first polarization state. The polarizing filter substantially transmits light having the first polarization state and substantially rejects light having a polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. Alignment coordinates for the light source are determined based on the light transmitted through the polarizing filter.
US09202479B1
An apparatus includes a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head that comprises a write coil, a write coil heatsink, and a spacer. The write coil heatsink is thermally coupled to the write coil. The spacer lies intermediate the write coil and the write coil heatsink.
US09202477B2
Systems and methods are included for determining a presence of an upcoming reading field during a write mode of a storage device, and initiating a read-while write RWW) mode of the storage device in response to the sensed reading field. Initiating the RWW mode comprises warming up the reader circuitry, generating a signal in response to an end to the write operation, and activating reader bias current in response to the generated signal.
US09202476B2
The present invention relates to a method and a background estimator in voice activity detector for updating a background noise estimate for an input signal. The input signal for a current frame is received and it is determined whether the current frame of the input signal comprises non-noise. Further, an additional determination is performed whether the current frame of the non-noise input comprises noise by analyzing characteristics at least related to correlation and energy level of the input signal, and background noise estimate is updated if it is determined that the current frame comprises noise.
US09202474B2
A headset is provided for use by a user to effect voice communication in a sound-restricted environment. The headset includes a microphone that converts the user's voice at a first sound level to produce a first audio signal. The headset also includes an apparatus with circuitry that amplifies the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal representing that produced by conversion of the user's voice at a greater, second sound level by the microphone, and outputs the second audio signal for communication to a telecommunications device or sound recording device. The circuitry also receives a third audio signal and measures a third sound level thereof. The circuitry produces a feedback signal in at least one instance in which the third sound level is greater than a threshold sound level that is less than the second sound level, and outputs the feedback signal for communication to the user.
US09202473B2
It is inter alia disclosed to determine, for each set of basis code vectors of a plurality of sets of basis code vectors, a potential basis code vector for encoding an input vector, wherein each set of basis code vectors is associated with at least one scale representative of a plurality of scale representatives, and to determine a code vector for encoding the input vector from a subset of code vectors, said subset of code vectors comprising, for each determined potential basis code vector and each scale representative associated with the set of basis code vectors of the respective potential basis code vector, a code vector based on the respective potential basis code vector scaled by the respective scale representative.
US09202471B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a current context associated with a mobile computing device and determining, based on the current context, whether to switch the mobile computing device from a current mode of operation to a second mode of operation during which the mobile computing device monitors ambient sounds for voice input that indicates a request to perform an operation. The method can further include, in response to determining whether to switch to the second mode of operation, activating one or more microphones and a speech analysis subsystem associated with the mobile computing device so that the mobile computing device receives a stream of audio data. The method can also include providing output on the mobile computing device that is responsive to voice input that is detected in the stream of audio data and that indicates a request to perform an operation.
US09202467B2
A method for processing a voice request for data specifying a web page, the request including a rule-based grammar statement, the method comprising identifying a grammar associated with the rule-based grammar statement, determining whether a first connection identified as being associated with the grammar is specified in a data structure identifying one or more connections, and processing the request in at least a portion of a window capable of presenting the web page and associated with the first connection if a first connection identified as being associated with the grammar is specified in the data structure.
US09202464B1
Methods and apparatus related to training speech recognition devices are presented. A computing device receives training samples for training a neural network to learn an acoustic speech model. A curriculum function for speech modeling can be determined. For each training sample of the training samples, a corresponding curriculum function value for the training sample can be determined using the curriculum function. The training samples can be ordered based on the corresponding curriculum function values. In some embodiments, the neural network can be trained utilizing the ordered training samples. The trained neural network can receive an input of a second plurality of samples corresponding to human speech, where the second plurality of samples differs from the training samples. In response to receiving the second plurality of samples, the trained neural network can generate a plurality of phones corresponding to the captured human speech.
US09202462B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for key phrase detection. One of the methods includes receiving a plurality of audio frame vectors that each model an audio waveform during a different period of time, generating an output feature vector for each of the audio frame vectors, wherein each output feature vector includes a set of scores that characterize an acoustic match between the corresponding audio frame vector and a set of expected event vectors, each of the expected event vectors corresponding to one of the scores and defining acoustic properties of at least a portion of a keyword, and providing each of the output feature vectors to a posterior handling module.
US09202459B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing speech dialog of a speech system. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a first utterance from a user of the speech system; determining a first list of possible results from the first utterance, wherein the first list includes at least two elements that each represent a possible result; analyzing the at least two elements of the first list to determine an ambiguity of the elements; and generating a speech prompt to the user based on partial orthography and the ambiguity.
US09202446B2
A stringed instrument plectrum cover that includes a formed structure having a conformal shape adapted to match the tear-drop shape of an instrument pick. The cover comprises a thickened member having an open interior. The plucking end of the pick is exposed while the body of the pick is retained within the thickened member, whereby the member increases the thickness of the pick and improves purchase thereof. The surface of the cover includes decorative features such as phosphorescent decals and designs thereon for personalization and for identification of the pick in low light. The pick is inserted through the open end of the thickened member, whereby the pick is supported within a channel in the padded member while its plucking end and its body section is exposed.
US09202444B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating address information to translate the order in which memory locations are accessed in a video buffer, to maintain a desired orientation in a rotated display. A video buffer is filled with display data to drive a CRT, LCD, or other display screen, starting with the upper-left corner. When the user rotates the display screen, the display screen continues to scan from the same starting corner, resulting in a misaligned orientation. In embodiments, a correct orientation can be automatically generated by determining a scan direction for the rotated display. The physical location of the new logical starting pixel is determined, and the rows and columns of the display image are rendered in a revised logical order which compensates for the amount and direction of rotation.
US09202441B2
Electronic apparatus system for dynamically adjusting display mode and drive method of display panel
An electronic apparatus system is provided. The electronic apparatus system includes a register, a display mode computation unit, a display device and a control circuit. The register stores image information having a data input refresh frequency. The display mode computation unit generates a display mode control signal by computation based on an image characteristic categorization of the image information. The display device includes a display panel having a plurality of pixel units. The control circuit controls a display mode and a drive mode of the display panel according to the display mode control signal to further adjust a display refresh frequency of the display panel.
US09202432B2
A wide viewing angle holographic image display method and apparatus are disclosed. The wide viewing angle holographic image display apparatus includes a scan line unit and a control unit. The scan line unit includes a plurality of lateral scan lines that represent different angles, respectively. The control unit performs control so that different data are output at the respective different angles, represented by the lateral scan lines, using the plurality of lateral scan lines.
US09202428B2
A method of refreshing a memory array for a driving circuit includes generating a word-line scanning signal corresponding to a word-line of a memory array, and turning on a plurality of memory cells corresponding to the word-line of the memory array according to the word-line scanning signal to refresh the plurality of memory cells corresponding to the word-line of the memory array, wherein the memory has a first number of bit-lines and a second number of word-lines.
US09202415B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) based display device including a pixel circuit that includes: an OLED to be connected to a first power terminal, a transistor connected to the OLED, a first capacitor connected to the transistor, a second capacitor connected to the first capacitor and the transistor, a first switch receiving a data signal and a scanning signal and connected to the first capacitor, a second switch connected to the transistor and receiving an enable signal, a third switch connected to the transistor and receiving a compensation signal, and a switching unit configured to transmit one of the enable signal, voltage at a terminal of the first capacitor, a reference signal and the scanning signal to a terminal of the transistor when operated in a conductive state.
US09202408B2
A organic light emitting display includes a plurality of touch pads spaced from one another in the touch pad portion, each of the touch pads including a metal pad layer and a transparent electrode pad layer connected to the metal pad layer via a plurality of first contact holes in a first insulating film, a dummy pad portion formed in the dead region of the first buffer layer, the dummy pad portion comprising a plurality of dummy pads corresponding to the touch pads, and a sealant comprising a plurality of conductive balls between the touch pad portion and the dummy pad portion.
US09202406B2
An LCD device includes: an LC panel which exhibits different gamma curves under different view angles, and a display control circuit which divides a single frame period into first and second display periods and divides a display region of the LC panel into first and second regions. The display control circuit has a luminance computing section which computes A to D so that A to D satisfies A+C=B+D and A≠B≠D as well as C≠B≠D, where A and C are gray-level luminances, A and B are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the first display period, and C and D are the white luminances of pixel data displayed in the first and second regions, respectively, during the second display period.
US09202403B2
A pixel circuit is provided. The pixel circuit is electrically coupled to a data line, a first scan line, and a second scan line. The pixel circuit includes a first pixel unit, a second pixel unit, and a third pixel unit. The first pixel unit is electrically coupled to the data line and the second scan line, to determine a first displayed gray scale of the first pixel unit. The second pixel unit is electrically coupled to the data line and the first scan line, to determine a second displayed gray scale of the second pixel unit. The third pixel unit is electrically coupled to the data line, the first scan line, and the second scan line, to determine a third displayed gray scale of the third pixel unit.
US09202394B2
The present invention relates to a shading device for use with a display system. The shading device comprising fixing means (102) for fixing onto the display system.
US09202393B1
A product display marking system for use with product shelves that have plural shelf channels, which receive product markers, and wherein each shelf channel has a channel length. The system includes a bulk product marker that is configured as a continuous strip of material that has a width selected to fit the plural shelf channels, and that has plural tear lines oriented transverse to the continuous length, and which are spaced apart by a strip length that is an integer divisor of the plural channel lengths. One or more strip lengths of the bulk product marker, which are selected to equal a selected one of the plural channel lengths, are selected and torn along one of the plural tear lines, for insertion into the selected one of the plural shelf channels, thereby marking the product disposed thereon.
US09202389B2
A blood vessel model which imitates a human blood vessel including an aqueous gel made from polyvinyl alcohol having an average polymerization degree of 300 to 3500 and a saponification degree of 90% by mole or more, and silica particles; and a method for producing a blood vessel model which imitates a human blood vessel, including filling a mixed solution containing polyvinyl alcohol having an average polymerization degree of 300 to 3500 and a saponification degree of 90% by mole or more, silica particles and water in a mold for forming a blood vessel model, and freezing the mixture at a temperature of −10° C. or lower, followed by thawing. The blood vessel model can be suitably used as a blood vessel model for practicing insertion of a stent graft into an aneurysm, a blood vessel model for practicing resection or ligation surgery of a blood vessel, and the like.
US09202384B2
System and methods of gating notifications for content objects of an electronic learning platform are described herein. The notification may be conditioned on whether the content object is available to a user receiving the notification, or the state of the content object, for example.
US09202383B2
A method and system for connecting monitoring equipment is provided. A user is provided with instant voice feedback as they are connecting monitoring equipment. Such feedback can reduce or eliminate confusing hookup instructions and enable the user to use both hands to safely connect the equipment without the distraction of looking at hard-to-read probe markings or connection labels. The use of a voice output reduces or avoids problems of poor visibility and reduced hearing in typical industrial environments, using arc flash safety gear.
US09202382B2
A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code causes a processor at a first vehicle (e.g., a first autonomous vehicle) to generate a first planned path based on a current position of the first vehicle and a mission requirement assigned to the first vehicle. A first planned path associated with a second vehicle (e.g., a second autonomous vehicle), which is based on a current position of the second vehicle and a mission requirement assigned to the second vehicle, is received at the first vehicle. After the first planned path associated with the second vehicle is received, a second planned path is generated based on the first planned path associated with the second vehicle and at least one of the mission requirement assigned to the first vehicle or the first planned path of the first vehicle. The second planned path of the first vehicle is transmitted to the second vehicle.
US09202381B2
The general field of the invention is that of methods of graphic representation, modification and validation of an aeronautical flight plan for an aircraft avionics system. The system comprises means for computing and generating said flight plan, a task management system, a visualization device displaying a graphic representation of said flight plan and a man-machine interface suitable for making selections, modifications or additions to the information contained in said graphic representation, said selections, modifications and additions being taken into account by the task management system, said graphic representation containing a timeline on which feature at least the various phases of the flight plan and the information corresponding to said phases. The method according to the invention contains a step of displaying at least one item of information depending on several parameters and the graphic representation of which depends on the level of available information about said parameters.
US09202367B2
A transmitter for remote control includes a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to receive a first audio signal from a electronic device and convert the first audio signal to a first direct-current (DC) signal, a first boost circuit connected to the first ADC to receive and amplify the first DC signal, a second ADC receives a second audio signal from the electronic device and converts the second audio signal to a second DC signal, a second boost circuit connected to the second ADC to receive and amplify the second DC signal, an energy storage element and a transmission module is powered by the energy storage element and generates a carrier signal, the transmission module receives the amplified first DC signal from the first boost circuit, the amplified first DC signal modulates the carrier signal generated by the transmission module, and the amplified second DC signal charges the energy storage element.
US09202360B1
A mobile terminal is used to assist individuals with disabilities. A mobile terminal such as a “smartphone”, tablet or other commercially available wireless handheld device may be loaded with software. The software may be configured to: (i) store criteria for managing communications between a disabled user of the mobile terminal and a remote caregiver and a second remote individual, (ii) determine whether a criterion is satisfied, and if so (iii) initiate a communication from the mobile terminal to the remote caregiver, and (iv) initiate a second alert to the second remote individual via a second alert type. Thus, through this software, the mobile terminal may dynamically facilitate communications with specific remote caregivers based on specific situations that may confront disabled individuals.
US09202356B1
A shutter apparatus limits an image capturing area of an image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image. The shutter apparatus includes a base in which a hole is formed, and a restricting member that surrounds the image-capturing apparatus, wherein the restricting member is divided into a plurality of members, each being operated independently, and received and protruded through the hole of the base.
US09202354B2
A system that generates a haptic effect using an Eccentric Rotating Mass (“ERM”) actuator determines a vibration level of the device during operation of the device. The system receives a haptic effect signal including one or more parameters, where one of the parameters is a voltage amplitude level as a function of time. The system varies the voltage amplitude level based at least on vibration level and applies the varied haptic effect signal to the ERM actuator.
US09202345B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure generally relates to gaming systems and methods which utilize a symbol matrix or symbol field in conjunction with a movable symbol display window to randomly select different subsets of symbols from the symbol matrix and provide different awards to players based on such selected symbol subsets.
US09202341B2
A system and a method of conducting games of chance with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount are described. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule for the player. Live games of chance, games of chance facilitated by electronic gaming machines or devices and server-based games may utilize the method shown here. Players may also receive enhanced awards such as enhanced player points based on the amount of the initial investment, or based on other parameters and factors. Awards and bonuses may also be provided to players who exhaust an initial investment exceeding a threshold amount. Other different variations and combinations of the games and winnings are also explained in details.
US09202334B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include monitoring, at a wagering game machine, base wagering game activity associated with one or more base wagering games that are presented during a wagering game session. The operations can also include generating and transmitting one or more activity notification messages comprising at least an indication of the base wagering game activity to a player tracking server to cause the player tracking server to reward the base wagering game activity. The operations can further include generating and transmitting login and logout notification messages to a secondary game server to cause the secondary game server to determine secondary wagering game activity associated with one or more secondary wagering games presented during the wagering game session. The secondary wagering game activity can be used by the player tracking server to reward the secondary wagering game activity.
US09202326B2
A money handling apparatus that handles money includes an inlet for taking in money; a money storing unit that stores therein the money; an outlet for dispensing the money; a money transport unit that transports the money between the inlet and the outlet, and the money storing unit; a money recognition unit that is provided to the transport unit and recognizes the money; a check receiving port for receiving a check; a scanner that scans the check to acquire a check image; a check transport unit that transports the check between the check receiving port and the scanner; a check recognition unit that recognizes check information that includes at least a check amount from the check image acquired by the scanner; and a control unit that dispenses money equivalent to an amount of difference between a transaction amount acquired from outside the money handling apparatus and a sum of the check amount and an amount of the deposited money.
US09202315B2
A displacement map generation section generates, for a stereoscopic image, a displacement map indicating a displacement of a second viewpoint image relative to a first viewpoint image. A first new image generation section performs rotation processing in accordance with a given rotation angle on the first viewpoint image to generate a new first viewpoint image. A displacement map correction section performs correction processing on the displacement map on the basis of the rotation angle to generate a corrected displacement map. A second new image generation section generates a new second viewpoint image from the new first viewpoint image on the basis of the corrected displacement map.
US09202303B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for compositing a rendered path object into an image buffer. A shader program executing within a graphics processing unit (GPU) performs a stenciling operation for the path object and subsequently performs a texture barrier operation, which invalidates caches configured to store texture and frame buffer data within the GPU. The shader program then performs covering operation for the path object in which the shader renders color samples for the path object and composites the color samples into an image buffer. The shader program binds to the image buffer for access as both a texture map and a writeable image. Stencil values are reset when corresponding pixels are written once per path object, and texture caches are invalidated via the texture barrier operation, which is performed after each covering operation per path object.
US09202302B2
Provided are graphic processing method and apparatus. The graphic processing method receives an image divided into a plurality of primitives to generate one tree structured display list for a plurality of tiles by connecting the divided primitive with at least one next primitive to be rendered. According to the present invention, since one display list is generated and used for the entire screen or a plurality of tiles, the present invention is efficient in the aspect to a memory usage.
US09202290B2
A method of decoding an image includes the steps of restoring a residual value by performing inverse quantization and inverse transform on the residual value by entropy decoding a received bit stream, generating a prediction unit by performing intra prediction selectively using one of a plurality of prediction modes on a prediction unit split by conducting at least one of asymmetric partitioning and geometrical partitioning, and restoring an image by adding the residual value to the prediction unit. It may be possible to enhance encoding efficiency of high-resolution images having a resolution of HD or higher by performing intra prediction on the asymmetric partitioning and/or geometrical partitioning.
US09202289B2
The present invention relates to image encoding and image decoding. A method for encoding images according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring division information from peripheral blocks of an encoding target block with respect to the peripheral blocks; predicting the division of the encoding target block on the basis of the acquired division information; encoding information on the difference between the practical division information of the encoding target information and the predictive division information predicted in the predicting process; and transmitting the encoded information. The present invention can encode/decode the division information of the encoding/decoding target blocks using the information about the peripheral blocks.
US09202286B2
The image processing apparatus for detecting a moving object in a moving image includes a background generation unit configured to generate a background image of the moving image while updating the background image over time. The background generation unit includes a model derivation unit configured to derive a mixed distribution model having one or more distribution models for each pixel of interest, and a background value derivation unit configured to derive one or more background pixel values respectively corresponding to the one or more distribution models. The model derivation unit is configured to generate a new distribution model from pixel values of a plurality of pixels within a local region containing the pixel of interest in a first frame, and update the existing distribution model using a pixel value of the pixel of interest in a second frame that is different from the first frame.
US09202285B2
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus, method, and program that can extract an object from an input image more easily and more accurately.A face detecting unit (31) detects a face from an input image, a mask area setting unit (33) sets a mask area which masks a person in the input image based on a position of the face detected by the face detecting unit (31), a background model updating unit (51) updates a background image by learning areas other than the mask area in the input image as the background image, and a separating unit (54) separates the input image into the background image and a foreground image which is an area of the person in the input image based on the background image updated by the background model updating unit (51) and the input image. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that extracts a person from an input image.
US09202279B2
An apparatus for analyzing an ultrasonic image is provided. The apparatus includes a feature point extracting unit configured to convert the ultrasonic image into a phase information image and extract a feature point from the phase information image, and an image registering unit configured to perform an image registration on the ultrasonic image based on the extracted feature point.
US09202277B2
A disappearing direction determination device and method, a video camera calibration apparatus and method, a video camera and a computer program product are provided. The device comprises: a moving target detecting unit for detecting in the video image a moving target area where a moving object locates; a feature point extracting unit for extracting at least one feature point on the moving object in the detected moving target area; a moving trajectory obtaining unit for tracking a movement of the feature point in a predetermined number of video image frames to obtain a movement trajectory of the feature point; and a disappearing direction determining unit for determining, according to the movement trajectories of one or more moving objects in the video image, a disappearing direction pointed by a major moving direction of the moving objects. Thus, a disappearing direction and video camera gesture parameters can be determined accurately.
US09202271B2
A method and a system for determining a physical property of an object, e.g., a diameter value of an anatomical structure, employs local object context information for determining a local physical property of the object. The context information may be a known or determined cross-sectional shape of the object. In one embodiment, a processor may be configured to provide volumetric image information of the object having a three-dimensional structure; determine the physical property of the object along its three-dimensional structure; determine the object context information of the object; and visualize the object context information and the physical property on a display.
US09202268B2
In a method to generate a nuclear medicine image reconstructed from an average of multiple subsets of acquired counts of a dataset, having an image quality characteristic aligned with that of a corresponding image obtained from a reconstruction of all counts of the dataset, a phantom data acquisition is used to determine an appropriate post-processing step necessary to align each image quality characteristic which provides a desired alignment of a given image quality characteristic. The determined post-processing step is applied to the combination of the multiple reconstructions.
US09202260B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a scanned image. The method for processing a scanned image comprises: a shaded region extracting step of extracting a region, which is shaded by a shading object and lies in a margin in the vicinity of an edge of the scanned image, as a shaded region and a pixel value repairing step of repairing values of pixels, which lie both in a line segment and the shaded region, by using a linear model according to known values of pixels, which lie both in the line segment and the margin, the line segment passing through the shaded region and being parallel to the edge.
US09202258B2
Techniques are disclosed for retargeting images. The techniques include receiving one or more input images, computing a two-dimensional saliency map based on the input images in order to determine one or more visually important features associated with the input images, projecting the saliency map horizontally and vertically to create at least one of a horizontal and vertical saliency profile, and scaling at least one of the horizontal and vertical saliency profiles. The techniques further include creating an output image based on the scaled saliency profiles. Low saliency areas are scaled non-uniformly while high saliency areas are scaled uniformly. Temporal stability is achieved by filtering the horizontal resampling pattern and the vertical resampling pattern over time. Image retargeting is achieved with greater efficiency and lower compute power, resulting in a retargeting architecture that may be implemented in a circuit suitable for mobile applications such as mobile phones and tablet computers.
US09202241B2
A system and method is disclosed for presenting relevant advertising to user search queries. The ads can be selected by reference to an underlying content presented in organic search results. The ads can be combined and supplemented with conventional keyword/pay for placement type services to improve ad performance. The system can also be used for testing content related ads in advance of their presentation to potential third party partners in an advertising campaign.
US09202238B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for transmitting information from a remote location to a financial decision system. In certain representative transmission methods machine readable content is generated that is adapted to be received by a financial decision system. The machine readable content is transmitted using a first protocol or standard. The transmission of machine readable content is received and converted from the first protocol to a second protocol or standard. The machine readable content is then transmitted using the second protocol. The first protocol can be a non-packet switched serial protocol, such as RS-232. The second protocol can be a packet-switched Internet Protocol (IP), such as for example, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
US09202227B2
A computer implemented sales prediction system collects data relating to events of visitors showing an interest in a client company from plural data sources, an organization module which organizes collected data into different event types and separates the collected event counts in each event type between non-recent events and recent events occurring within a predetermined time period, a first processing module which periodically calculates weighting for each event type based on recent events and non-recent events for the event type compared to totals for other selected event types, a second processing module which periodically calculates sales prediction scores for each visitor and companies with which visitors are associated based on the accumulated event data and weighting, and a reporting and data extract module which is configured to detect variation in sales prediction scores over time to identify spikes which can predict upcoming sales and to provide predicted sales information and leads to the client company.
US09202219B2
Methods and apparatuses for merging different types of pay for performance advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining an indicator of potential revenue for a party from price information of a list of entities, which includes first price information for a first type of advertisements and second price information for a second type of advertisements; and sorting the list of entities based at least partially on the indicator of potential revenue. In one embodiment, a method includes: converting price information for an advertisement of a first type to equivalent price information for a second type of advertisements. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining automatically, based on a call bid amount for a pay per call advertisement, a click bid amount for a pay per click advertisement to provide a phone number of the pay per call advertisement.
US09202215B2
Using cryptographic techniques, sensitive data is protected against disclosure in the event of a compromise of a content delivery network (CDN) edge infrastructure. These techniques obviate storage and/or transfer of such sensitive data, even with respect to payment transactions that are being authorized or otherwise enabled from CDN edge servers.
US09202212B1
A bank customer's CE device passively eavesdrops on NFC communications between the customer's electronic debit or credit card (“e-card”) and a third device and alerts the customer when such communication is detected from the e-card. In this way, the customer is alerted to possibly fraudulent “fishing” of the e-card data by a nearby thief device.
US09202211B2
Systems and methods are provided to facilitate repeated purchase and payment transactions. In one aspect, a system includes an interchange and a data storage facility configured to store payment transaction records associated with phone numbers. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and to communicate with the common format processor in a common format. The common format processor is configured to identify a prior payment transaction associated with a phone number in response to a message from a mobile phone having the phone number, communicate with a merchant to repeat a purchase according to the prior payment transaction, and transmit via one of the converters premium messages to the mobile phone to collect funds for a payment to repeat the purchase.
US09202208B1
Music integration for use with video editing systems and method for automatically licensing the same
A real-time music request system is provided for use with editing tools for the editing of video productions. The system automates the request for licensable music, provide a mechanism for submitting fulfillment, and filters and screens for relevancy prior to proving submissions to the request.
US09202207B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transferring money using email. One of the methods includes receiving, at a user device, user input of a request to transfer a payment amount from a recipient account with a payment service system to a sender account of a sender with the payment service system. A draft email message is generated, the message having content identifying the requested payment amount, the draft email message including a confirmation link to a network resource associated with the payment service system, wherein upon receiving an indication that the recipient selected the confirmation link, the payment service system identifies a sender account of the sender and a recipient account of the recipient and initiates a transfer of the requested payment amount from the recipient account to the sender account.
US09202197B1
Disclosed are various systems, methods, and other embodiments involving assignment and use of sort bins in a materials handling center. A manifest is generated in a computer system that directs a picking of a plurality of items from a plurality of inventory locations in a materials handling center in fulfillment of a plurality of orders for the purchase of the items. Sort bin assignments are generated in the computer system before picking the items. Each sort bin assignment corresponds to a respective one of the items, and each of the sort bin assignments specifies a corresponding one of a plurality of sort bins designated to coalesce together the items associated with respective ones of the orders for packing. The sort bin assignments are stored in memory for use in sorting the items.
US09202196B2
A method comprising receiving radio frequency tracker identifiers stored by tags associated with items; evaluating the radio frequency tracker identifiers based on radio frequency tracker identifiers previously received or concurrently received; identifying one or more radio frequency tracker identifiers based on the evaluating; selecting a rule from a set of rules when it is determined that an event occurred with respect to the identified one or more radio frequency tracker identifiers, wherein the set of rules correlates with information included in the radio frequency tracker identifiers and the selected rule pertains to an occurrence of the event; selecting a responsive action based on the selected rule; and generating a notification defined by the selected responsive action.
US09202194B1
Distribution of a product or package is tracked through a supply chain having multiple entities that successively receive the product or package. A unique device identifier is associated with each of the supply chain entities and identifies a device that the supply chain entity uses to communicate with an administration computer. The supply chain entities electronically communicate to the administration computer via the device whenever the supply chain entities send a product or package to a successive supply chain entity in the supply chain or receive a product or package from a previous supply chain entity in the supply chain. The communication includes the unique device identifier of the supply chain entity, the unique product or package identifier of the product or package being sent or received, and the supplier code that the supply chain entity has received the product or package from, or sends the product or package to.
US09202193B2
An early alert system and a related method for livestock disease detection are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, an activity measurement zone (AMZ) is defined near an incentive device (e.g. food or water dispensing system) with an RFID tag reader, and an animal's entrance into or out of the AMZ is tracked and counted with an RFID tag attached to the animal. If the animals' activity relative to the AMZ drops to an alarmingly low level (e.g. dropping below an alert trigger point) over a period of time, then a user of the alert system is informed of a potential health problem with the animal and may also be encouraged to inspect the animal in person for further determination of its current health and potential medical issues.
US09202186B2
Materials handling vehicles are integrated with enterprise computing systems by providing a transceiver on a vehicle, where the transceiver is configured for wireless data communication across a wireless computing environment. More particularly, integration is implemented by configuring a processor on the materials handling vehicle to: communicate with the transceiver for wireless communication to a corresponding server computer, to communicate with at least one electronics component of the materials handling vehicle across a vehicle network bus and to receive logon information to identify an operator logging onto the materials handling vehicle. Integration also comprises configuring the processor to implement at least one customization function on the materials handling vehicle based upon the received logon information by: wirelessly communicating information between the server computer and the materials handling vehicle via the transceiver and interacting with at least one component of the materials handling vehicle across the materials handling vehicle network bus.
US09202182B2
A method and system is presented for defining a technique that uses business process, business activities, and data model and mapping to define a best-practice business and Information Technology (IT) blueprint to address client transformation to a new architecture. The present invention defines an eight step Business Architecture Analysis Process (BAAP) that evaluates business processes, including IT and non-IT components of a client business to create a Business Architecture Analysis (BAA) based on a fit/gap closure project list.
US09202178B2
A computing device to automatically cluster a dataset is provided. Data that includes a plurality of observations with a plurality of data points defined for each observation is received. Each data point of the plurality of data points is associated with a variable to define a plurality of variables. A number of clusters into which to segment the received data is repeatedly selected by repeatedly executing a clustering algorithm with the received data. A plurality of sets of clusters is defined based on the repeated execution of the clustering algorithm that resulted in the selected number of clusters. A plurality of composite clusters is defined based on the defined plurality of sets of clusters. The plurality of observations is assigned to the defined plurality of composite clusters using the plurality of data points defined for each observation.
US09202175B2
Systems and methods are provided for a well control expert system that provides well control recommendations for a drilling system. The well control expert system includes a well control Bayesian decision network (BDN) model that receives inputs and outputs recommendations based on Bayesian probability determinations. The well control BDN model includes a circulation section, a well control practices section, and a troubleshooting section.
US09202172B2
An apparatus for processing data in a computer-aided logic system includes at least one reasoning device having a reasoner, which draws conclusions on the basis of a semantic model and a model instance of the semantic model using data, at least one data source for providing data for processing by the reasoning device, and at least one application which makes a request to the reasoning device and receives results of conclusions from the reasoning device. The reasoning device and the data source interact such that the reasoning device takes an event which has occurred in the data source, particularly at particular times, as a basis for receiving associated event-based data from the data source for the purpose of drawing a causal and/or temporal-based conclusion. The information about the event-based data from the data source includes a temporal and a causal component. There are also described a related method and implementation.
US09202170B2
A method and a system for making contextual recommendations to users on a network-based system. For example, activity associated with a user interacting with a network-based system is tracked. Based, at least in part, on the tracked user activity on the network-based system, a recommendation relationship type is selected. The recommendation relationship type can be either a substitute relationship type or a complement relationship type. A recommended object can be selected based at least in part on the recommendation relationship type and a first object accessed by the user interacting with the network-based system. A recommendation can be generated for the recommended object for presentation to the user interacting with the network-based system.
US09202163B2
The invention consists in an RFID label consisting of at least: one functional layer comprising at least one electronic component, one antenna connected to the electronic component; one upper layer; one lower layer having an adhesive surface; wherein the upper and lower layers consist of one or more materials capable of resisting to ultraviolet radiation and/or of filtering the ultraviolet radiation. The invention also includes the method for manufacturing the RFID label and the machine applying the method for manufacturing the RFID label.
US09202160B2
A memory card adaptor is provided which includes a housing including a bottom lid and a top lid that form the housing. The housing may be configured to receive a memory card. The memory card adaptor may include a package substrate between the bottom lid and the top lid. The package substrate may include a core having a first surface and a second surface; a first layer on the first surface, and the first layer may include a plurality of contact lands; and a second layer on the second surface, and the second layer may include a plurality of contact pads that are electrically connected with the contact lands through a plurality of via holes. The plurality of via holes may be formed such that they penetrate the core. One of the first and second layers may include a return path on at least one signal line.
US09202157B2
A memory access arbiter (MAA) in an RFID tag is connected to an unique address space (UAS), which comprises a non-volatile memory (NVM), a transferred data memory (TDM) and a status-information memory (SIM) storing information on the status of the transferred data memory (TDM). The transferred data memory (TDM) and the status-information memory (SIM) are volatile memories, e.g. of the RAM type having a memory capacity of 16 bits or 32 bits according to the standard of an applied RFID communication. The RFID tag of the invention provides for a faster communication between an interrogator and an external logic element by one order of magnitude, which is due to fast volatile memories for transferred data as well as for corresponding status information. A still higher communication rate is achieved by introducing a command that has not yet been standardized.
US09202153B2
An email requesting an attached file to be printed is received from an email server. In the case where printing of the attached file of the received email has not been completed, an error notification indicating that the printing has not been completed is sent to the email server as a reply to the received email.
US09202127B2
A method for processing a multi-channel image is disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of grayscale images from the multi-channel image. At least one text region is identified in the plurality of grayscale images and text region information is determined from the at least one text region. The method generates text information of the multi-channel image based on the text region information. If the at least one text region includes a plurality of text regions, text region information from the plurality of text regions is merged to generate the text information. The plurality of the grayscale images is processed in parallel. In identifying the at least one text region, at least one candidate text region may be identified in the plurality of grayscale images and the at least one text region may be identified in the identified candidate text region.
US09202117B2
A system detects a transaction outcome by obtaining video data associated with a transaction area and analyzing the video data to obtain at least one video transaction parameter concerning transactions associated with the transaction area. The transaction area can be a video count of items indicated in the video data as detected by an automated item detection algorithm applied to the video data. The system obtains at least one expected transaction parameter concerning an expected transaction that occurs in the transaction area, such as a scan count of items scanned at a point of sale terminal. The system automatically compares the video transaction parameter(s) to the expected transaction parameter(s) to identify a transaction outcome that may indicate fraudulent activity such as sweethearting in a retail environment.
US09202105B1
A user can be authenticated to any of a number of computing devices using an authentication process that recognizes the user and verifies that an actual human being is attempting to be authenticated, in order to minimize the ability of another person to spoof the authentication process. A model of a user can be generated and stored in the cloud, enabling that model to be synchronized across various devices. A user accessing one of these devices can have image information captured, which can be used with a facial recognition process, to recognize the user, and with a human verification process, to verify that the facial information corresponds to a human user. Various approaches such as visual analysis, three-dimensional imaging, and thermal imaging can be used to verify that the human user being recognized is interactive with the device.
