US09282680B2
An electrical connector arrangement includes male and female connectors each having plural terminals connected to a respective conductor, and adapted for mutual physical and electrical mating. Each connector includes a respective overmold body coupled to a multi-conductor cable, a respective inner insulator disposed about and in contact with plural terminals, and an outer threaded coupling nut for coupling the two connectors together, where each insulator is comprised of an electrically insulating, thermally conductive material. In one connector, a conductive, cylindrical metal sleeve is disposed between its associated insulator and coupling nut. In that same connector, a generally circular metallic, spiral cooling spring is disposed between and in intimate contact with adjacent portions of the inner metal sleeve and the outer coupling nut to facilitate transfer and dissipation of heat via conduction and convection from the connector's outer surface.
US09282677B2
Power electronics device, such as a frequency converter, which includes liquid-cooled power units (REC5, REC6, AFE5, AFE6, INU4, INU5, DC/DC, DC/AC) and also a substrate arrangement. The power units include at least one power semiconductor component, e.g. an IGBT or a diode, connected to at least one power circuit connecting them. The power units are mechanically separate and they are disposed on at least one substrate provided with liquid cooling ducts. The substrate is common to more than one power unit, wherein the substrate includes liquid cooling interfaces and power circuit interfaces for each power unit that can be connected to it. In addition, the substrate includes one liquid cooling interface and one power circuit interface (DC+, DC−) to outside the substrate.
US09282676B1
An electronic display assembly for suspending an electronic display from one or more elongate members is disclosed. A closed loop of circulating fluid, such as air, may be placed within a sealed electronics compartment. An open loop channel may permit fluid, such as ambient air, to pass through the assembly via a channel defined by the space between the back pan and the electronic display. A pair of passageways preferably extend vertically along the assembly and are configured to accommodate the passage of an elongate member. Clamps may be utilized within these passageways to secure the assembly to the elongate members.
US09282674B2
A server includes a motherboard module, a storage device and a carrying structure. The motherboard module includes a motherboard and a CPU disposed on the motherboard. The storage device has two fastening portions opposite to each other. The carrying structure includes a carrier, two fastening members and a handle. The storage device is disposed on the carrier in a detachable manner. The two fastening members each include a fastening section and a pushing section connected to each other. Each of the two fastening sections is disposed on the carrier in a slidable way. The storage device is located between the two fastening sections. The handle includes two pushing sides corresponding to the two pushing sections. The handle is pivotally disposed on the carrier. The two pushing sides are located between the two pushing sections. The handle is capable of pivoting relative to the carrier.
US09282667B2
A display apparatus includes a display module for displaying an image, and a variable member for varying a shape of the display module. The variable member includes a first portion capable of varying in shape, and a second portion having opposite ends respectively fixed to opposite ends of the first portion, where a distance between the opposite ends of the second portion is varied such that the opposite ends of the first portion protrudes with respect to a central region of the first portion and thereby, the display module is varied in shape.
US09282666B2
Discussed is a display device and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein the display comprises an upper substrate; a lower substrate provided under the upper substrate, wherein the lower substrate extends to be longer than the upper substrate so as to expose a pad region provided at one side of the lower substrate; a panel driver on the pad region of the lower substrate; an exposure prevention member formed on the panel driver, for preventing the panel driver from being exposed to the external; and an upper film formed on the exposure prevention member.
US09282660B2
A cabinet rack includes a frame having first and second sides, and first and second power distribution unit brackets. The first power distribution bracket is connected to a first edge of the first side of the frame via a first rotating mount. The second power distribution bracket is connected to a first edge of the second side of the frame via a second rotating mount.
US09282654B2
A wall plate assembly for an HVAC controller may include a rear plate including an aperture extending through the rear plate and a front plate securable to the rear plate. In some cases, the front plate may have a recessed portion that is recessed back toward the rear plate and align with the aperture in the rear plate. An air flow barrier may be secured to the recessed portion of the front plate. The air flow barrier may include a barrier surface that covers a portion of the aperture formed in the recessed portion of the front plate to reduce air infiltration. The air flow barrier may include an air flow barrier aperture that is sized to accommodate wires passing through the aperture in the recessed portion of the front plate for connection to a wire connection block of the front plate.
US09282650B2
Embodiments of a thermal compression bonding (TCB) process cooling manifold, a TCB process system, and a method for TCB using the cooling manifold are disclosed. In some embodiments, the cooling manifold comprises a pre-mixing chamber that is separated from a mixing chamber by a baffle. The baffle may comprise at least one concentric pattern formed through the baffle such that the primary cooling fluid in the pre-mixing chamber is substantially evenly distributed to the mixing chamber. The pre-mixing chamber may be coupled to a source of primary cooling fluid. The mixing chamber may have an input configured to accept the primary cooling fluid and an output to output the primary cooling fluid.
US09282647B2
A method of making a micro-channel structure and applying a curable ink to the micro-channel structure includes providing a substrate and depositing a single layer of a curable polymer on the substrate, the single curable layer having a layer thickness. One or more micro-channels adapted to receive curable ink are embossed into the single curable layer, the micro-channels having a micro-channel thickness that is in a range of two microns to ten microns less than the layer thickness. The single curable layer is cured to form a single cured layer so that deformations of the micro-channels or the surface of the single cured layer are reduced. Curable ink is coated over the surface and micro-channels of the single cured layer. The curable ink is removed from the surface of the single cured layer and the curable ink is cured.
US09282641B2
The present invention discloses a precisely spliced foldable LED screen, comprising a screen formed by subscreens arranged vertically and horizontally; a steel cable arranged at the back of the subscreen and formed by long and short steel wires connected in a spacing manner on the vertical direction; and fixing seats arranged at the back of the subscreens and used for containing the connected parts of the long and short steel wires. According to the present invention, the fixing seats are arranged at the back of the subscreen, and the subscreens are connected in series through the connection between the steel cable and the fixing seats, thus realizing connection and fixation between the subscreens. The precisely spliced foldable LEC screen enables the subscreens to be installed and replaced more flexibly and conveniently.
US09282634B2
Provided is a printed wiring board including a first heat dissipation pattern placed in one surface layer on which a semiconductor package is to be mounted, a second heat dissipation pattern placed in the other surface layer, and an inner layer conductor pattern placed in an inner layer, in which through holes are formed in the printed wiring board; the first heat dissipation pattern has a joint portion which is placed in an opposed region opposed to a heat sink of the semiconductor package and which is joined to the heat sink with solder; at least one of the through holes is placed in the opposed region; and the second heat dissipation pattern is formed in a pattern in which an end portion of a conductor film in the one of the through holes on the other surface layer side is separated.
US09282633B2
The present invention provides a routing structure and display panel. The routing structure includes a plurality of routing, disposed separately. Each routing corresponds to a symbol, and the symbol is disposed on the routing to act as a part of the routing to conduct electricity. In this manner, the routing structure and display panel of the present invention allow expansion of routing width, effectively reduce RC constant and energy-consumption, and improve yield rate.
US09282625B2
A plasma resonant cavity, including a cylindrical resonant cavity casing, cutoff waveguides, and a waveguide inlet circumferentially formed on the cylindrical resonant cavity casing. The cutoff waveguides are arranged at two ends of the cylindrical resonant cavity casing and employ a movable end cover structure. An intermediate through hole is formed on each cutoff waveguide with the movable end cover structure, and a raised round table is arranged on an inner end surface of the cutoff waveguide and configured with the resonant cavity.
US09282617B2
An illumination system includes an input interface, a phase angle control module, a lamp, and a driving module. The input interface is controllably switched between a first state and a second state. The phase angle control module is electrically connected to an AC power source and the input interface. When the input interface is at the first state, the phase angle control module modifies a voltage waveform of the AC power source to generate a delayed conduction angle in a half wave period of the voltage waveform. The driving module is stored with a control mode, wherein the driving module switches the control mode to control the lamp to emit light in accordance with the delayed conduction angle.
US09282610B2
A dimming mode detection method is used in an LED driving apparatus including a rectifier bridge providing a DC bus voltage and a switching converter configured to convert the DC bus voltage into a driving signal to drive an LED. The method involves: powering on the LED driving apparatus; sensing the DC bus voltage and generating a voltage sensing signal; comparing a rising time during which the voltage sensing signal increases from a second threshold voltage to a first threshold voltage with a first time threshold to detect whether the LED driving apparatus is connected to a leading edge dimmer; and comparing a falling time during which the voltage sensing signal decreases from a third threshold voltage to a fourth threshold voltage with a second time threshold to detect whether the LED driving apparatus is connected to a trailing edge dimmer.
US09282608B2
Disclosed are dimming driving system and a dimming controller. A disclosed dimming driving system has a transformer, a lighting device, and a dimming controller. The transformer has a primary winding and a secondary winding inductively-coupled to each other. The secondary winding is coupled to an output power line and secondary ground, both coupling to and powering the lighting device. The dimming controller is coupled to the secondary winding for controlling current flowing through the lighting device according to a voltage drop of the secondary winding.
US09282604B2
A non-isolated light-emitting diode (LED) driving circuit has a rectifier, a switching device, a sampling resistor, a power supply unit, a controller unit and a lighting unit. The controller unit samples a voltage at the sampling resistor to compare the sampling voltage with reference voltage to determine if the switching device is turned on or off. When the switching device is turned on, a charging current outputted from the rectifier charges the power supply unit and the power supply unit simultaneously discharges to supply power to the lighting unit. When the switching device is turned off, a discharging current outputted from the power supply unit supplies power to the lighting unit. As there are no transformer and electrolytic capacitor, the non-isolated LED driving circuit is simplified, durable and cost-effective.
US09282591B2
A method for manufacturing a flexible heater that has a resistive track enclosed in two sheets of electrically insulating plastic material is provided. The resistive track of the flexible heater has electrical connections to which electrical wires are connected.
US09282587B2
A method and apparatus of an electronic device for managing notifications is disclosed herewith. The method includes identifying a plurality of notifications associated with one or more electronic devices. The method further determines context data of the plurality of notifications based, at least in part, on their association with at least one remote device. The method then determines an order of display of the plurality of notifications based on the context data. The method further provides the plurality of notifications based on the order of display.
US09282581B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for location-based WI-FI radio activation and deactivation for mobile devices. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a WI-FI connection management system can detect that a mobile device is within a coverage area provided by a WI-FI network. The WI-FI connection management system can also generate a trigger to instruct the mobile device to activate a WI-FI radio of the mobile device and connect to the WI-FI network. The WI-FI connection management system can also send the trigger to the mobile device.
US09282579B2
A user equipment establishes an elevated priority data connection and one or more non-elevated priority data connections. The elevated priority data connection may be an emergency public data network (PDN) connection. The user equipment may determine that one or more deactivation criteria for the emergency PDN connection is satisfied while the emergency PDN connection and at least one non-emergency PDN connection of the user equipment are active. Deactivation criteria may include expiration of a Periodic Tracking Area Update timer. In response, the user equipment may locally deactivate the emergency PDN connection and send a deactivation indication to the operator network.
US09282576B2
To prevent a collision from occurring at the time of random access in cases such as handover, response to paging and the like where a mobile station apparatus performs random access in response to directions from a base station apparatus. In a mobile communication system in which a mobile station apparatus 200 uses a signature of a beforehand determined signature group at the time of random access with a base station apparatus 100, the signature group is comprised of a signature group managed by the base station apparatus 100 and another signature group managed by the mobile station apparatus 200. The signature group managed by the base station apparatus 100 includes signatures associated with particular random access reasons to be selected by the base station apparatus 100.
US09282575B2
A system and method for reducing access channel delay in a wireless communication system includes a step 601 of sending an initial access request response that includes identifiers of any initial access requests, including an indicator that indicates whether any more responses with identifiers are going to be sent within a predefined time period. A next step 602 includes receiving the response. A next step 604 includes recognizing that a particular identifier from the initial access request is not in the response. A next step 606 includes determining from the indicator that there will be no more responses with identifiers sent within the predefined time period. A next step 608 includes transmitting another initial access request before the end of the predefined time period.
US09282574B2
In particular, even if sensors have their respective different timer precisions, the number of occasions when the sensors wait for data can be minimized, thereby reducing the output consumptions on the sensor sides. A coordinator (3) allocates, based on information previously received from sensors (2), the sensors to respective slots, which constitute a super-frame, in a time sequence order and then notifies, to the sensors (2), the respective slots to which the sensors are allocated. When each of the sensors (2) transmits data to the coordinator (3), the sensor makes a synchronization request at the timing of the notified slot without receiving any beacons from the coordinator.
US09282572B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced access class barring in LTE are provided. In embodiments, the method includes receiving, on a mobile device, a SIB2 message. A barring factor associated with the SIB2 message is identified. In embodiments, the barring factor is dynamic based on traffic parameters associated with a network. An upper limit for a random number is set on the mobile device and the random number is generated. The random number is generated and compared to the barring factor. If the random number is less than the barring factor, access to the network is provided to the mobile device. In embodiments, an additional random number is generated for special users or devices if the random number is greater than or equal to the barring factor.
US09282564B2
An echo-canceling unit for a simultaneous transmit and receive (STR) system includes at least three phase shifters instead of just two phase shifters in order to provide immunity to phase and/or amplitude imbalances. Each respective phase shifter is coupled to a transmit signal to generate an output signal comprising a selected phase shift with respect to the transmit signal. A weight calculation unit generates a corresponding amplitude-weight signal for the output signal of the phase shifter. A variable attenuator attenuates the output signal of each respective phase shifter based on the corresponding amplitude-weight signal to form an echo-cancelation signal component corresponding to the phase shifter. A first summer then sums the respective echo-cancelation signal components into a received signal containing an echo signal to form an echo-canceled signal. In some embodiments, an information handling system includes a receiver and a transmitter coupled to the echo-canceling unit.
US09282557B2
A method and apparatus are described including defining a neighbor set for each access point, selecting a first clock in a first access point, the selected clock having a highest accuracy as a grand master clock, advising neighboring access points to synchronize with the selected grand master clock and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the grand master clock. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a beacon message, inspecting clock descriptors in the beacon message, selecting a best master clock responsive to the inspection and transmitting a message to schedule a quiet period based on the selected best master clock.
US09282550B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method for transmitting control information through a PUCCH in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof, comprising the steps of: spreading modulation symbol sets to first slot, by using a first code; spreading modulation symbol sets to second slot, by using a second code, wherein the length of the second code is varied according to the number of SC-FDMA symbols for PUCCH transmission.
US09282545B2
A method for transmitting information includes: by a NodeB, receiving information reported by a User Equipment (UE) through an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) transmission channel, and determining the UE corresponding to the received information according to UE ID information carried in the received information. A system and NodeB for transmitting information are also provided. Therefore, when random access data is transmitted between the UE and the NodeB, the NodeB can determine the UE from which the data is received, thus ensuring practicability of the transmission solution that uses High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) to implement random access.
US09282544B2
A communication control method is provided which improves a wireless resource usage rate, is available to recognize a variation in wireless resource state in advance, and is available to control communication in accordance with the variation in a mobile communication system in which an MBMS and an HSDPA coexist and the same wireless resource is shared and used. A MAC-m transmits information related to a wireless resource used on an MBMS transport channel at a transmission timing of a base station to a MAC-hs before the transmission timing. The MAC-hs receives the information related to the wireless resource of the MBMS transport channel from the MAC-m. The MAC-hs calculates a wireless resource which can be used applied to data of a HSDPA transport channel at the transmission timing with using the information related to the wireless resource of the MBMS transport channel and a wireless resource to which the HSDPA transport channel is allocated. The MAC-hs controls communication of the data in accordance with the wireless resource of the calculation result.
US09282543B2
Methods and apparatus to avoid mobile station transmission of duplicate event-based and polled acknowledgments are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein for a mobile station include determining whether an acknowledgment status of a first downlink data block classified as unreported is to be reported by a polled acknowledgment response to be sent in response to a poll received from a network, sending event-based acknowledgment information to report the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block after determining that the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block is not to be reported by the polled acknowledgment response, and refraining from sending the event-based acknowledgment information to report the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block after determining that the acknowledgment status of the first downlink data block is to be reported by the polled acknowledgment response.
US09282541B2
According to the disclosure of the present description, a method in which a terminal cooperates with another terminal to transmit data to a base station is provided. The method comprises the following steps: if data to be transmitted to a base station exists, mutually exchanging data with another cooperative terminal which belongs to the same cooperative cluster; transmitting, to the base station, a request message for an allocation of an uplink resource for transmitting the data; receiving, from the base station, a permission message for the uplink resource; and, upon receipt of the permission message, transmitting the data and data of said other terminal using the uplink resource in accordance with the permission message.
US09282539B2
Systems and methods for channel-dependent CCA thresholds to balance different use cases in wireless networks are disclosed. In one aspect a device includes a receiver configured to receive transmissions on a plurality of channels. The device also includes a processor configured to determine whether a channel is one at least a first type or a second type of channel. If the channel is the first type, the processor is configured to determine whether the channel is available based at least in part on a set of first clear channel assessment thresholds. If the channel is the second type, the processor is configured to determine whether the channel is available based at least in part on a set of second clear channel assessment thresholds, where the set of second clear channel assessment thresholds is greater than or equal to the set of first clear channel assessment thresholds.
US09282538B2
An aspect provides a method, including: detecting an incoming voice call at an information handling device; detecting one or more external notification extension conditions at the information handling device, tracking user-device interactions to build a pattern of user behavior with respect to external conditions; updating the one or more external notification extension conditions based on the pattern of user behavior; and in response to detecting one or more updated external notification extension conditions at the information handling device, extending a notification of the incoming voice call at the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09282516B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for enabling mobile computing devices to share observation information using low-energy communication protocols. This observation information can include network connectivity information and GPS location information that is either known to or being sought out by a mobile computing device. When observation information (if any) maintained by a mobile computing device does not satisfy a threshold level of confidence, the mobile computing device can query neighboring mobile computing devices for corresponding observation information that satisfies the threshold level of confidence. Conversely, the mobile computing device can be configured to advertise observation information to the neighboring mobile computing devices when the observation information satisfies the threshold level of confidence. In this manner, the mobile computing devices can collaboratively share information in an attempt to reduce the significant workload that is otherwise required when working in isolation to establish network connectivity and determine GPS location information.
US09282512B2
A communication control method in a base station that includes a battery and is driven by power supplied from a power system or power supplied from the battery, comprises a transmission step of transmitting information indicating a remaining power amount of the battery to another base station.
US09282510B2
Dynamic reorganization of cell structures in wireless networks. The present invention relates to wireless communications and, more particularly, to energy usage of wireless equipments in wireless communications. Currently there are mechanisms in use that can selectively turn of carriers in a BTS depending on the traffic load. But due to the fixed costs of operating the base station even when there are no active users, turning off entire BTS will give more energy savings than simply reducing capacity by turning off carriers at low load. Embodiments herein detect a change in demand on the network and re-organize the cellular network by selectively turning off BTSs and appropriately increasing the coverage area of other BTSs, and arrive at a configuration that optimizes the energy consumption of the cellular network as a whole.
US09282499B2
In a telecommunications network including one or more mobile terminals in communicable relation to a mobile network and a data network such that data from the mobile terminals is transmitted towards the data network via the mobile network, a method of directing data from the mobile terminals towards the data network includes: providing an alternative data route towards the data network which bypasses at least a portion of the mobile network; comparing the data from the mobile terminals with selection criteria; and using the result of the comparison to selectively redirecting at least a portion of the data generated by the mobile terminals onto the alternative data route. The alternative data route may be configured to bypass at least a portion of the core component of the mobile network, and data that is redirected is data which is not required to be processed by the bypassed core network component.
US09282496B2
A method for using a user equipment with a first public land mobile network (PLMN) and with a second PLMN includes: operating the user equipment in a plurality of idle modes. The user equipment is a Dual Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Dual Standby (DSDS) user equipment. With respect to the first PLMN and with respect to an idle mode of the user equipment in the first PLMN, a first discontinuous reception scheme is implemented in case that the first PLMN is a registered public land mobile network (RPLMN) to the user equipment. With respect to the second PLMN and with respect to an idle mode of the user equipment in the second PLMN, a second discontinuous reception scheme is implemented in case that the second PLMN is a RPLMN to the user equipment.
US09282495B1
This invention provides a system and a method to automatically switch cellular data communications from 3G to 4G mode wherever reliable 4G cellular connectivity is available, and to collect and report reliable 4G cellular coverage geo-fence polygon information. The invention also provides a system and method to automatically switch cellular data communications between 4G cellular networks provided by different carriers, and 3G cellular networks provided by different carriers.
US09282487B2
For a multi-homed terminal, a method comprising a step of receiving, from a server, an a multiple interface related routing policy rule defined per terminal, said a multiple interface related routing policy rule comprising flow distribution rules including an Inter-APN flow distribution container that includes information related to routing IP flows with respect to a plurality of APNs for using PDN connections to access multiple IP networks is performed. Then, a first round of rule evaluation according to a flow distribution rule of highest priority selected among the flow distribution rules in the received a multiple interface related routing policy rule is performed. If the selected flow distribution rule is from the Inter-APN flow distribution container, then performing, by the multi-homed terminal, a second round of rule evaluation to select an access technology for performing flow distribution.
US09282485B2
A first communication unit receives packet signals broadcast from a base station apparatus and also receives packet signals broadcast from other terminal apparatuses according to a first communication scheme. A second communication unit communicates with a mobile apparatus according to a second communication scheme that differs from the first communication scheme. A receiving unit receives a filtering condition from the mobile apparatus by way of the second communication unit. A filtering unit selects a packet signal, which matches the filtering condition, from among the packet signals received by the first communication unit. A transfer unit transfers information, contained in the selected packet signal selected, from the second communication unit to the mobile apparatus.
US09282481B2
A mobile terminal includes an instrument specifying information acquiring portion that acquires instrument specifying information for specifying an instrument as a diagnostic subject, an equipment information acquiring portion that acquires, from a controlling device that controls equipment information pertaining to equipment that are provided with instruments, equipment information corresponding to the instrument specifying information, a diagnostic data acquiring portion that collects diagnostic data for the instrument using a data collecting device corresponding to a data categorization that is included in the equipment information acquired by the equipment information acquiring portion, an evaluating portion that evaluates whether or not there is a problem with the instrument by comparing proper-operation data for the instrument, included in the equipment information acquired by the equipment information acquiring portion, to the diagnostic data collected by the diagnostic data acquiring portion, and an outputting portion that outputs the evaluation result by the evaluating portions.
US09282477B2
Missing or unwanted parameter data indicative of wireless network conditions in a log file or playback file is replaced with substitute parameter data. The substitute parameter data can be calculated based on other data in the log file or playback file, selected from pre-defined data in storage, and provided by a user. The substitute parameter data may also be customized by the user via an interface.
US09282457B2
A method of sharing credential in a wireless communication system comprising a first user equipment, a second communication device and a network, includes transmitting a temporal credential and a credential custody request, from the first communication device, to the network; transmitting first custody information, by the network, to the first communication device; transmitting a credential acquiring request and second custody information, by the second communication device, to the network; and determining whether to transmit the temporal credential to the second communication device according to the second custody information.
US09282450B2
Certain aspects of a method and system for processing signals in a communication system may include maximizing system capacity for a communication system, based on a signal for a user within a search range and at least one other signal for one other user within the search range. The search range may be generated by sorting a plurality of signals based on a channel gain corresponding to each of the plurality of signals. The signal for the user may be selected from the search range corresponding to a channel gain that is greater than a channel gain corresponding to a remaining portion of the search range.
US09282443B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for preventing words from spanning across message blocks of a short message service (SMS) message. An SMS message is generated at a source wireless device, and an SMS manager, executing on the source wireless device, determines whether any words in the SMS message span across two or more message blocks of the SMS message. When so determined, the SMS manager attempts to shift characters of the SMS message across the message blocks to eliminate any word spanning. When the attempt to shift the characters between message blocks requires at least one additional message block to transmit the complete SMS message, the SMS manager gathers information about the destination wireless device to determine whether it is necessary to carry out the aforementioned shifting prior to sending the message blocks. The SMS manager then transmits the message blocks either unmodified or modified (i.e., shifted).
US09282432B1
Aggregated geo-fencing area based information delivery, in one aspect, may include determining a plurality of first geo-fencing areas of a first user based on monitoring or detecting locations of the first user. The locations may be detected via one or more user selected devices, which include location-aware devices such as GPS receiver/transmitter devices. A second user identifier may be received from the first user. One or more second geo-fencing areas of a second user may be determined, for example, similarly to the first geo-fencing areas. Content may be gathered based on aggregated geo-fencing area comprising the plurality of first geo-fencing areas and the one or more second geo-fencing areas. The content associated with the aggregated geo-fencing area may be presented, for example, for collaborative activity among the users.
US09282428B1
Systems and techniques relating to wireless communications are described. A described technique includes transmitting to a wireless communication device a positioning request paging message, the positioning request paging message including a capability request, a location information request, or both; and receiving, during a connection establishment process, a connection message from the wireless communication device, the connection message including a positioning response that is responsive to the positioning request paging message.
US09282426B2
A system may provide a client device with a persistent wireless network browser toolbar for use in, for example, a network browser. The persistent wireless network browser toolbar is provided with a login status indicator, a logout option, and a wireless network signal strength indicator.
US09282425B2
Methods and apparatus related to providing one or more completion step suggestions for a task that is associated with a user. In some implementations, the completion step suggestions may be provided to the user based on the satisfaction of a trigger condition. In some implementations, a trigger condition may be based on a user geographic location. In some implementations, a trigger condition may be based on an action of the user. In some implementations, a trigger condition may be based on a time when the associated task may be completed.
US09282424B2
A method and system for a logic-based uniform resource locator resolution are described in which a server may receive a request from a mobile device. The request may be based on a uniform resource locator (URL) obtained by the mobile device from a code, such as a two-dimensional code, or from a proximity device, such as a near field communication target device. In response to the request, the server may communicate to the mobile device URL redirection information for a URL that provides multimedia content comprising an advertisement, a webpage, a video, a virtual card, a phone number, sound, and/or other like information. The URL redirection information may be selected based on a location that corresponds to the code or the proximity device, which may be the location of the mobile device. The URL redirection information may also be selected based on a rotation schedule stored in the server.
US09282422B2
Disclosed are a method and system for parameter configuration of a mobile terminal. The method includes that a mobile terminal sends a trigger message for requesting configuration to a unified configuration server; the unified configuration server parses the trigger message to obtain information of an operator in an environment where the mobile terminal currently is, and sends the information of the operator to an operator database server; the operator database server configures, according to the information of the operator, configuration information currently required by the mobile terminal, and sends the configuration information to the mobile terminal; the mobile terminal receives and parses the configuration information, and performs corresponding configuration on the mobile terminal according to the configuration information. By the method of the disclosure, when a mobile terminal is in a region where some functions are not available, the mobile terminal actively requests a server to configure and modify client parameters, so as to achieve the beneficial effect that service software can always be used normally no matter which environment the mobile terminal locates, thereby improving the user experience and normal life of users in the region.
US09282420B2
A method and system for providing remote access to multi-channel audio by periodically polling channels of audio produced by, e.g., an application program by calling an Application Programming Interface (API). A method performs the polling to retrieve audio data from multiple channels and to mix the multiple channels into a mixed multichannel audio that is communicated to a remote computing device. The method transmits a sample minimum duration of audio data retrieved from all channels during at polling interval to provide low latency transmission of audio to remotely connected computing devices.
US09282419B2
An audio processing method and an audio processing apparatus are described. A mono-channel audio signal is transformed into a plurality of first subband signals. Proportions of a desired component and a noise component are estimated in each of the subband signals. Second subband signals corresponding respectively to a plurality of channels are generated from each of the first subband signals. Each of the second subband signals comprises a first component and a second component obtained by assigning a spatial hearing property and a perceptual hearing property different from the spatial hearing property to the desired component and the noise component in the corresponding first subband signal respectively, based on a multi-dimensional auditory presentation method. The second subband signals are transformed into signals for rendering with the multi-dimensional auditory presentation method. By assigning different hearing properties to desired sound and noise, the intelligibility of the audio signal can be improved.
US09282418B2
A cognitive loudspeaker system including a control station that communicates wirelessly and bi-directionally with a plurality of sound production stations. The control station and the sound production stations are initially synchronized to a conductor clock. Configuration information is then transmitted from the sound production stations to the control station. In response, the control station generates playback executables, which are transmitted to the sound production stations. The control station also transmits digital audio information to the sound production stations. Within each sound production station, the previously received playback executable is used to control the decoding and processing of the received digital audio information. Each sound production station generates digital audio output samples, which are converted to analog output signals. These analog output signals are amplified and are used to drive loudspeakers.
US09282417B2
An apparatus for spatial sound reproduction comprises a receiver (101) for receiving a multi-channel audio signal. An analyzer (107) determines a spatial property of the multi-channel audio signal, such as a spatial complexity or organization. A selection processor (109) then selects a reproduction mode from a plurality of sound reproduction modes where the multi-channel sound reproduction modes employ different spatial rendering techniques. A reproduction circuit (103) then drives a set of loudspeakers (105) to reproduce the multi-channel audio signal using the selected reproduction mode. The switching between the reproduction modes may be fast (e.g. in the order of 100 ms to 10 secs) thereby allowing a short term adaptation of the reproduction mode to the signal characteristics. The approach may in particular provide an improved spatial experience to a listener.
US09282415B2
An electromechanical transducer of the present invention includes a first electrode, a vibrating membrane formed above the first electrode through a gap, a second electrode formed on the vibrating membrane, and an insulating protective layer formed on a surface of the second electrode side. A region where the protective layer is not formed is present on at least part of a surface of the vibrating membrane.
US09282410B2
An electro-dynamic loudspeaker transducer's motor structure includes a magnetic circuit having a pole with minimal reluctance that allows the use of larger magnets and thicker front plates, thus generating higher flux density in the voice coil gap. The lower reluctance is achieved by increasing the pole piece's outside diameter at all points outside of the voice coil gap and the area swept out by the voice coil at maximal inward excursion. Increasing the pole's diameter over a substantial amount of the pole's distally projecting length (but not extending into the magnetic gap), provides an increased cross sectional area and a reduced magnetic circuit reluctance.
US09282409B2
A bass shaker system is provided that includes a motor and a motor housing, where the motor includes a motor case having first and second members shaped to tightly envelop an exterior surface of the voice coil while still leaving a gap between adjacent ends of the first and second members, and a plurality of spiders having at least four spider legs secured within a ring that has an interior shoulder to mate with a radial ridge on each of the first and second motor case members. In some embodiments, the bass shaker system includes ventilated caps and vented housing covers.
US09282405B2
Methods and systems for cancellation of table noise in a speaker system used for video or audio conferencing are disclosed. Table noise is cancelled by using a vertical microphone array to distinguish the tilt angle of sound received by a microphone. If the sound is close to horizontal, the audio is muted. If the sound is above a given angle from horizontal, it is not muted, as this indicates a person speaking. This eliminates paper rustling, keyboard clicks and the like.
US09282404B2
A handset microphone includes: a microphone unit, a first switch for turning on or off the output from the microphone unit, and a second switch for enabling or disabling the output from the microphone unit; the first and second switches have contacts operated by a magnetic field; the contact of the first switch is closed and short-circuits the output terminals while the first switch is being affected by the magnetic field; and the contact of the second switch is opened and disconnects one of the output terminals while the second switch is being affected by the magnetic field.
US09282401B2
The present invention provides a floating and waterproof sound box including a bottom house, the bottom house has a two-layer structure and includes an inner rear house located in an inner layer and an outer rear house located in an outer layer, the inner rear house is entirely enclosed, the outer rear house has a two-layer structure, at least one water inlet is defined in an outer layer of the outer rear house, and a water storage space is defined between the outer layer and in an inner layer of the outer rear house. The floating and waterproof sound box of the present invention can float over flowing water without being overturned or sinking and the inner rear house is entirely enclosed so that water penetration is avoided.
US09282399B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for recognizing and focusing on at least one source of an audio communication as part of a communication including a video image and an audio communication derived from two or more microphones when a relative position between the microphones is known. In certain embodiments, linked audio and video focus areas providing location information for one or more sound sources may each be associated with different user inputs, and an input to adjust a focus in either the audio or video domain may automatically adjust the focus in the another domain.
US09282395B1
The present embodiments relate to techniques (300) and apparatuses (100, 500) for implementing a flexible transducer for soft-tissue audio production. These techniques (300) and apparatuses (100, 500) enable an audio-production device (102) having a flexible transducer (116, 402) conformed to a person's pinna to create audio within the person's external ear canal.
US09282394B1
A headphone may include a driver assembly and a headphone cup having an adjustable airflow valve assembly and/or an adjustable headphone interior cup volume adjustment assembly. Headphone cups and/or other elements may be printed with a 3D printer, and may be tailored to a particular headphone driver element.
US09282392B2
Electronic necklace—headset for mobile electronic device in the form of a neck loop or necklace and a pair of wired headphones, where the headphone cords attached in close proximity to the back of electronic necklace and additionally connected together in the suboccipital node, located in the position of the device on the surface of the cervico-occipital region of the user to fix headphones and its cords, which reduces the slack of the cords and streamlines their excursion, creating conditions for continuous wear electronic necklace, including under the clothes, does not change the appearance of the user, allows to control an electronic necklace on touch over clothing, and inoperative can accommodate headphones shot and its cords in the back of the electronic necklace without having to remove the entire device.
US09282390B1
A multi-piece dual mode headphone, including: a molded elongated member, a rear molded insert member and an intermediate member all together forming a headphone with a channel extending through the interior of the headphone. A small speaker for transmitting sound energy is positioned in the headphone to direct the sound energy through the channel to the eardrum. The molded rear insert member includes a cap member and with positioning of the cap member providing for the headphone being in a first mode of operation where the channel extending through the interior of the headphone is open and a second mode of operation where the channel extending through the interior of the headphone is closed.
US09282386B2
A loud speaker enclosure and a method of forming the loudspeaker enclosure comprising the following steps: combining a first layer of a sheet material, a middle layer of a cored configuration and a second layer of the sheet material by using adhesive to form a panel; laminating a sheet of resilient material on the panel; forming a plurality of grooves extending partially through the depth of the panel, each of the grooves extending transverse to the panel such that the panel can be folded at the groove to form an enclosed main body; bending the panel at the location of the grooves to form the enclosed main body; capping the enclosed main body with a top wall and a bottom wall with separate panels wherein the main body, the top wall and the bottom wall defines the interior volume of the enclosure.
US09282382B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for media content streaming can include communicating with a remote device to stream media content to the remote device, accessing hint information associated with the media content, and transmitting a data stream to the remote device based on the hint information. The hint information can include message headers arranged in a transmission order sequence that correspond to respective media data samples. Accessing hint information can include accessing a hint segment that includes the message headers interleaved with the media data samples.
US09282377B2
Some embodiments provide methods of providing a translation of information to a translated format comprising: receiving information in a first format; identifying the first format, where in the first format is one of a plurality of different formats configured to be received; processing the information in accordance with the first format and extracting one or more speech elements from the information; identifying, through at least one processor configured to translate the received information, one or more sign language identifiers corresponding the one or more extracted speech elements, wherein at least one of the one or more sign language identifiers directly corresponds to a synonym of at least one of the one or more speech elements; and causing one or more sign language clips corresponding to at least one of the one or more sign language identifiers to be reproduced on a display of a displaying device.
US09282375B2
A method and system for remote control at a client of a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) enables a user to add desired multimedia program listings to a user collection. The user collection may be saved at an MCDN server for subsequent retrieval. Multimedia programs corresponding to the listings may be stored in a user collection cache. The user may easily select the listings in a user collection for presentation at an MCDN client. The multimedia programs may be provided from a plurality of content sources, including external content providers and the Internet.
US09282373B2
Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for managing timeshift and permanent recording in a storage device on a video broadcast receiver. In one embodiment, there is presented a system for recording programs. The system comprises memory, another memory, and a processor. The memory buffers recently displayed programs on a channel that said system is tuned. The another memory stores a plurality of instructions. The processor executes the plurality of instructions. Execution of the plurality of instructions causes writing the recently displayed programs on the channel that said system is tuned; writing a first list comprising at least one element, wherein each of the at least one elements indicate particular ones of the recently displayed programs; receiving an input indication a selection of presently displaying program for recording; and removing an element indicating the presently displaying program from the first list and adding the element to a second list.
US09282369B2
Disclosed example methods to determine a time offset between a first media signature having a first sequence of first data pairs and a second media signature having a second sequence of second data pairs include comparing ones of the first data pairs in the first sequence with ones of the second data pairs in the second sequence to determine original time differences between respective combinations of the ones of the first data pairs and the ones of the second data pairs. Such example methods also include scaling and truncating the original time differences to determine scaled time differences between respective combinations of the ones of the first data pairs and the ones of the second data pairs. Such example methods further include determining a histogram comprising bins representative of the scaled time differences, and selecting a histogram bin to correspond to the time offset between the first and second signatures.
US09282363B2
A method of managing video programs and associated program components on a storage unit of an electronic device is provided. A total number of playbacks of each video program stored in the storage unit and a total number of playbacks of each program component stored in the storage unit for each of the video programs are tracked. A percentage of playbacks of each program component stored on the storage unit relative to the total number of playbacks of its corresponding video program is determined. From this, candidates of program components for deletion from the storage unit are identified based on the values of the determined percentages. The tracking, determining and identifying steps of the method are performed by electronic components of the electronic device. A device is also disclosed.
US09282360B2
A system and method for allowing streaming audio to be transmitted in advance of streaming video in a data stream without synchronization errors, in order to minimize audio discontinuities, even where video transmission may become degraded.
US09282353B2
Novel arrangements are detailed involving delivery of entertainment content, and commercial sponsorship of such content. Some arrangements enable viewers to control presentation of advertising in video, e.g., selecting what commercials are to be presented—if any, and also their order and timing. Ad presentation can also be made dependent on context. Other arrangements ensure that advertising is actually rendered, and is not skipped-over. In still other aspects, entertainment content that is now offered on a paid basis is made available for free to certain viewers. For example, viewers may receive free content as a perk for earlier patronage of certain content sponsors. Fees charged to advertisers can be tied to measured consumer responses (e.g., to correlated increases in sales of advertised products), or to the demographics of the responding viewers (e.g., engagement of affluent consumers merits higher fees). A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09282347B2
A distributed stream processing system including a plurality of storage devices, at least one of which is configured to process at least one segment of a data stream, thereby producing a changed segment of the data stream, and provide output of at least the changed segment of the data stream, and a server configured to accept the output of the storage devices and combine the output into a transport stream. A method for combining a plurality of data streams including using one or more storage devices for processing at least one segment of a data stream, thereby producing a changed segment of the data stream, and providing output of at least the changed segment of the data stream, and combining the output of the storage devices into a combined data stream. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US09282345B2
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method that can generate a high-accuracy prediction image with a small amount of control information.A motion compensation circuit 51 specifies a macroblock corresponding to a prediction image in a reference frame other than a current frame using a motion vector supplied from a prediction mode determination circuit 41. The motion compensation circuit 51 reads an image of the specified macroblock from a frame memory 19, and extracts the read image as a motion compensation image. An intra-prediction circuit 52 performs intra-prediction on the current frame using an arbitrary method to generate an intra-prediction image IP. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus.
US09282343B2
A video encoding and decoding system for use in a multiview and bitdepth coding system is described. Such system can comprise a plurality of layer groupings, where each group can be adapted to encode and/or decode based on predictions from previous layers and a plurality of data categories from the input video data.
US09282334B2
An image decoding method for decoding a bitstream including a coded signal resulting from coding slices into which an image is partitioned and each of which includes coding units, includes decoding the coded signal, wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a slice header, information used for another slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice, the image includes rows each of which includes coding units, and when the normal slice starts at a position other than the beginning of the first row, the second row immediately following the first row does not start with the dependent slice.
US09282323B2
A stereoscopic image display device for sensing device motion using a gyro sensor included therein and controlling a viewing position, and a method for driving the same are disclosed, the stereoscopic image display device includes an image panel configured to output a two-dimensional image, a stereoscopic switching cell formed on the image channel and including n (n being a natural number greater than or equal to) first electrodes in a switchable region to convert the two-dimensional image into a three-dimensional image, a system including a gyro sensor, a voltage generator including a voltage source for independently applying voltages to the n first electrodes, and a stereoscopic switching cell controller configured to receive information about the motion of the system from the gyro sensor and transmit the information to the voltage generator.
US09282322B2
There is provided an image processing device including a phase calculation unit configured to calculate a phase of pixels of a 3D image projected onto a light shielding unit that limits a region seen by a left eye and a region seen by a right eye of the 3D image displayed on a display unit, and a blend processing unit configured to combine an image for the left eye with an image for the right eye for each pixel based on the phase calculated by the phase calculation unit, the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye being included in the 3D image.
US09282318B2
An image processing device, method and computer program product cooperate to make adjustments in detection area for image adjustment processing to when displacement adjustments have been made to a first or second imaging area. A detection area setting device sets a first detection area within a first imaging area and sets a second detection area in a second imaging area after a displacement adjustment is applied to at least one of the first imaging area and the second imaging area. The first detection area is an area used in image adjustment processing.
US09282308B2
A media player may include a media reader to read media content from a recording medium inserted into the media reader. The media player may also include a media analysis component to identify one or more valid portions of the recording medium containing media content and one or more invalid portions of the recording medium without media content. In one embodiment, the media player includes an archival component to store the media content from the one or more valid portions in a storage medium and a playback component to play back the one or more valid portions of the media content from the storage medium concurrently with the identification of the one or more valid portions by the media analysis component and the storage of the media content by the archival component.
US09282305B2
An imaging device includes: an image sensor that includes a color filter array in which normal image generation color filters corresponding to three or more bands and correction information generation color filters differing in spectral sensitivity characteristics from the normal image generation color filters are placed in an array; a normal image generation section that generates a normal image in which pixel values of missing pixels are interpolated; a spectral estimation section that performs a spectral estimation process based on pixel values obtained using at least the correction information generation color filters; a correction information generation section that generates correction information that corrects the normal image based on a spectral estimate value; and a corrected image generation section that performs a correction process on the normal image based on the correction information to generate a corrected image.
US09282304B1
A true-color image of a sample is obtained from interference data captured with a color camera. The irradiance of each color on the respective photo-sensor represents the sum of DC components received from the object and the reference surface and a modulated interference component. The color is determined at each pixel by removing the interference component and the reference-surface component from the irradiance data. The color map so derived is then combined with the height map produced with the same data to yield a true-color 3D map of the sample.
US09282303B2
An auto-color-correction method for an image capturing device includes calculating a plurality color temperatures of a plurality of pixels in an image; calculating a number of pixels of the plurality of pixels located in a first color temperature range as a first number and a number of pixels of the plurality of pixels located in a second color temperature range as a second number; generating a color temperature weight according to the first number and the second number; and generating at least one correction coefficient according to the color temperature weight, at least one first coefficient corresponding to the first color temperature range and at least one second coefficient corresponding to the second color temperature range.
US09282296B2
Multiple cameras are configured for use in video analytics. A single configuration tool is provided. The interrelationships between cameras are included within the configuration. Using a combination of text entry fields, registration of the cameras on a floor or other map, and marking on images from the cameras, an efficient workflow for configuration may be provided.
US09282284B2
Videoconferencing may be provided. A participant may be identified from audio information and in video information. From the video information, a plurality of images may be captured of the participant identified in the video information. A unique identifier may be associated with the captured plurality of images. The unique identifier may correspond to the participant identified from the audio information. The captured plurality of images and the associated unique identifier may be saved in a database.
US09282282B2
A method and an apparatus for providing a video communication service in an electronic device are provided. In the method, a distance from the electronic device to a user's face is determined. A control variable of video communication data is determined with consideration of the distance. The video communication service is provided with consideration of the control variable.
US09282281B2
Described herein are a number of steps, methods and/or solutions that can be applied to greatly improve attenuation control of RF signals in cable plant. The present disclosure is directed to a cable modem auto-attenuation system or any other signal transferring system. The system may be capable of taking a high-power signal from the cable plant's service line, dropping the power value down to a usable level and transmitting the signal to a cable modem while eliminating the need for rigorous manual adjustments that a normal cable modem often requires. In certain embodiments, the system may be integrated into a separate device connected between the modem and the cable company service line and configured to handle upstream and downstream attenuation separately or jointly.
US09282276B2
Electronic apparatus includes a cable assembly including a first component video signal input connector which is connected with a first component video signal external connector of a first component video signal external cable to receive a first component video signal; a second component video signal input connector which is connected with a second component video signal external connector of a second component video signal external cable to receive a second component video signal; a third component video signal input connector which is connected with a third component video signal external connector of a third component video signal external cable to receive a third component video signal; a single pin shaped output terminal; and a display including an input terminal which is provided on a rear side of housing and adapted to connect with the single pin shaped output terminal to receive the first, second and third component video signals.
US09282273B2
A multimedia mobile personalization system provides a remote control that detects a user's electronic tag, e.g. an RFID tag. The remote control notifies a multimedia device of the user's identity. The multimedia devices tailors it operations to the user's preferences stored locally. Multimedia content such as broadcast or recorded television programs, music play lists, and the like could be sorted, displayed, or restricted, depending on the user identifier.
US09282266B2
An image sensor comprising a row of light sensors registering incident light as electric signals, and a shift register including first and second register places per each light sensor is used for recording frames in fast succession. The image sensor allows for transferring the electric signals from the light sensors to the respective first register places and for shifting the electric signals on selected ones of the first and second register places forward in the shift register. After a first exposure time, the electric signals from each of a plurality of pairs of neighboring light sensors are added on one register place. After a second exposure time, the electric signals from each of the same pairs of neighboring light sensors are added on one register place located between two of the register places on which added electric signals from the first exposure time are present.
US09282263B2
An object is to provide a solid-state imaging apparatus capable of causing driving signals of pixels to reach the entire screen and of driving all the pixels. The solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel region including a plurality of pixels therein, each pixel having a photoelectric conversion element and at least one transistor, and a plurality of driving lines, each driving each of the plurality of transistors arranged in the pixel region, wherein the driving line supplies a driving signal through a buffer arranged in the pixel region to the transistor, and the number of the buffers is smaller than the number of the pixels.
US09282262B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels in a two-dimensional array. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion element that converts incident light into electric charge, and a charge holding element that receives the electric charge from the photoelectric conversion element, and transfers the electric charge to a corresponding floating diffusion. The charge holding element further includes a plurality of electrodes.
US09282245B2
An image capturing apparatus which performs moving image recording and still image capturing comprises: an image sensing unit configured to output an image signal in accordance with a quantity of incident light; a developing unit configured to perform development processes for a moving image or a still image for image signals output from the image sensing unit; a storage unit configured to store image signals output from the image sensing unit; and a control unit configured to control to perform a development process for a moving image corresponding to one frame of the image signals output from the image sensing unit and a development process for part of one frame of the image signals stored in the storage unit within a one-frame period of the moving image capturing, in a case where the still image capturing is performed during moving image recording.
US09282243B2
The present invention is directed to an exposure parameter compensation method and an imaging device. A capture-mode image capturing step is performed to obtain a first image and a second image according to a first exposure time and a second exposure time respectively based on a first light sensitivity and a predetermined time. The first image and the second image are operated on to result in a difference image. The first light sensitivity is replaced with a second light sensitivity, which is then recorded.
US09282241B2
Playback of backside appearance of an image capture subject at an appropriate playback speed that is in accordance with a predetermined playback time length is achieved by: outputting one recording start point and one recording end point within a period in which a turn motion of the image capture subject is detected; storing a video recording of the turn motion; calculating a recorded time length of at least one specific section of the video; determining a playback speed of the specific section in accordance with the playback time length; and playing back the specific section at the playback speed, whereby the specific section is played back over the playback time length regardless of the recorded time length of the specific section.
US09282235B2
A method to correct an autofocus operation of a digital image capture device based on an empirical evaluation of image capture metadata is disclosed. The method includes capturing an image of a scene (the image including one or more autofocus windows), obtaining an initial focus score for at least one of the image's one or more autofocus windows, obtaining image capture metadata for at least one of the one or more autofocus windows, determining a focus adjustment score for the one autofocus window based on a combination of the autofocus window's image capture metadata (wherein the focus adjustment score is indicative of the autofocus window's noise), and determining a corrected focus score for the one autofocus window based on the initial focus score and the focus adjustment score.
US09282229B2
A processor combines a first predicted signal generated based on an audio signal in an interval preceding a noise detection interval, and a second predicted signal generated based on an audio signal in an interval succeeding the noise detection interval, based on the ratio between the periodicity of the audio signal in the interval preceding the noise detection interval, and the periodicity of the audio signal in the interval succeeding the noise detection interval. The processor replaces the audio signal in the noise detection interval with the combined signal.
US09282226B2
A square camera housing accommodates a square camera with a substantially square profile. The square camera housing includes a latching mechanism to secure the camera in the housing, a mounting mechanism to secure the housing to a mounting device, and multiple openings in the housing body to accommodate the camera interface. These features allow the square camera to be inserted and secured in the square camera housing in one of a plurality of orientations relative to the square camera housing.
US09282214B2
An information processing apparatus (MFP), in a state where a user is logged into the MFP as an automatic login user for which a user authentication is not required, when the user authentication is performed in order to log in as another user (a login user), compares a use authority of the automatic login user and a use authority of the login user for each function. When the result of the comparison is that there exists a function, within the functions for which usage is permitted for the automatic login user, for which the usage is not permitted for the login user, the MFP modifies the use authority of the login user for that function such that the usage of that function is permitted for the login user.
US09282201B2
A system for creating and editing image and or text-based projects includes a server connected to a network and having access a processor and a data repository, and software running from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing for establishing a client-server connection between the server and at least one user-operated computing appliance connected to the network, initiating and maintaining an active data session between one or more users involved in project creation and or in project editing through a graphics user interface (GUI), establishing a layout grid and defining gridlines as snap-to targets, establishing snap guides for specified assets to be placed on a canvass in an image and or text-based project, and establishing a distance threshold representing the distance between an asset and a gridline before snapping occurs, selectively de-activating or deleting gridlines for snap-to functionality with certain assets based on breach of an asset population threshold.
US09282189B2
A voicemail notification indicates a caller has recorded a voicemail. The voicemail notification may be sent to any destination, such as a caller's device. The voicemail notification may be displayed in a communication log to visually indicate that the voicemail was recorded. A different notification may be sent and displayed to indicates the recipient retrieved the voicemail.
US09282187B1
The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for initiating and handling an emergency IP request using an IP enabled device having GPS capability. The IP enabled device is monitored for one or more emergency criteria. If the emergency criteria are satisfied, global positioning data is obtained using the GPS capability and the emergency IP request is sent to an address server. The address server receives the emergency IP request, obtains local emergency services data based on the global positioning data, dials a call center station based on the local emergency services data and passes an emergency call from the IP enabled device to the call center station. This invention can be implemented as a computer program embedded in a computer readable medium wherein the steps are performed by one or more code segments.
US09282176B2
Systems, methods and media for determining a phone number from a spoken alphabetic phone number are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for determining a phone number that includes receiving spoken alphanumeric content from a user, the spoken alphanumeric content having one or more alphabetic characters, such as letters, numbers or words. The spoken alphanumeric content may include termination words or separation words in addition to alphabetic characters. The method may also include parsing the received spoken alphanumeric content to determine equivalent numbers for alphabetic characters in the alphanumeric content, such as by parsing spoken received spoken letters, numbers and/or words to determine their equivalent numbers. The method may also include determining the phone number based on the received spoken alphanumeric content and the determined equivalent numbers. Further embodiments may include dialing the determined phone number after determining the phone number.
US09282173B2
The invention relates to a method and device for configurable parsing of packet headers in a network. A configurable packet header parser (CPHP) includes hard-coded packet header logic implementing a hard-coded state machine and a reconfigurable header parsing logic that is coupled to the hardcoded logic and includes programmable registers. The CPHP is remotely programmable by means of a command packet parser that may receive command packets carrying CPHP configuration data and program the registers with the CPHP data to enable parsing packet including new types of headers. The hybrid hard-coded/programmable CPHP requires only a relatively small number of programmable elements enabling ASIC-based implementation.
US09282172B2
A system for relaying data based on a modified reliable transport protocol is provided. According to an aspect, a relay can receive a data packet sent in accordance with a reliable transport protocol. The relay processes the received packet in accordance with modified reliable protocol and relays the received packet. The modifications can be based on alterations to reliability mechanisms which improve communication characteristics of the protocol for real time communications and other time sensitive communications. The modified protocol is nevertheless compatible with the original reliable protocol so that relay can communicate, using the modified protocol with any network component using the unmodified protocol.
US09282166B2
In a source computing system having a source management infrastructure, at least one source infrastructure management component is discovered. A description of a target cloud infrastructure having a target management infrastructure is obtained. The description includes at least one mandatory target infrastructure management component. The at least one source infrastructure management component is analyzed to determine whether at least one conflict exists with the at least one mandatory target infrastructure management component.
US09282162B2
A method and system for processing user profiles of a plurality of users in an electronic community. Noun phrases are extracted from activities of each user logged in an activity log server, each user having an existing user profile stored in a user profile and relationship database that is external to the activity log server. The existing user profiles in the user profile and relationship database are updated from the extracted noun phrases, a keyword being associated with each determined noun phrase and being within a semantic hierarchical tree, the updating based on a usage frequency of the extracted noun phrases and an importance value of the keywords.
US09282153B2
Technologies are presented for providing a suggestion list presenting options for posting information related to viewed content on a communication network. In some examples, a user may desire to contribute to posted content by adding comments and other relevant information. A system may identify one or more key terms included in the viewed content, and may compare the key terms with content, such as files, emails, websites, images and media content, on computing devices and web browser histories associated with the user to identify information that may be related to the viewed content. If the system identifies information related to the key terms of the viewed content, the system may present the identified information associated with key terms to the user, and may enable selection from a posting suggestion list for automatically posting.
US09282151B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing requests. Responsive to receiving a request from a client, a determination is made as to whether a connection within a pool of connections has a set of outstanding requests for the client to handle a previous request from the same client. Responsive to a determination that the connection has any outstanding request, a determination is made as to whether a set of requests queued for the connection is equal to or exceeds a threshold. Responsive to a determination that the set of outstanding requests is equal to or exceeds the threshold, subsequent requests from the client are unprocessed until the set of outstanding requests becomes less than the threshold.
US09282150B2
A method for allocation of network resources in an operations network for a selected environment includes, among other things, a plurality of applications communicating over a network having a bandwidth capacity and a plurality of modes including at least a first mode and a second mode.
US09282142B1
This disclosure relates to a system for operating virtual datacenters. The disclosure describes a system in which virtual datacenters may be self contained logical units. These units may contain workloads comprising one or more virtual machines. This can allow for enhanced portability to a variety of hosting environments, and may allow the virtual datacenters to be transferred between environments. Virtual datacenters may be in communication with a gateway server prior to transfer, and may maintain this communication following the transfer.
US09282135B2
Method and device implementations for network communications are disclosed. In at least one implementation, a computer networking method is disclosed which comprises opening a plurality of parallel TCP connections at a client computing device between a client program executed on the client computing device and a server program executed on a server computing device over a computer network. The method further comprises sending each of a plurality of application level web resource requests for respective byte ranges of an object from the client program executed on the client computing device to the server program executed on the server computing device over a corresponding one of the plurality of parallel TCP connections.
US09282121B2
Security language constructs may be translated into logic language constructs and vice versa. Logic resolution may be effected using, for example, the logic language constructs. In an example implementation, translation of a security language assertion into at least one logic language rule is described. In another example implementation, translation of a proof graph reflecting a logic language into a proof graph reflecting a security language is described. In yet another example implementation, evaluation of a logic language program using a deterministic algorithm is described.
US09282118B2
An embodiment may include policy engine circuitry that may enforce, at least in part, one or more platform resource management policies in a cloud computing environment. The one or more policies may be based, at least in part, upon service arrangements of the cloud computing environment. The one or more policies may establish respective isolated computing environments in the cloud computing environment that may be used by respective users. The enforcement of the one or more policies may result in the respective isolated computing environments being virtually isolated from each other and prevented from interfering with each other in derogation of the one or more policies. The one or more policies may be established, at least in part, via interaction of at least one management process with one or more application program interfaces of the circuitry. Many modifications are possible.
US09282117B2
A phishing classification model that detects a phishing website based on one or more feature vectors for the website is provided. The phishing classification model may operate on a server and may further select a website, generate a feature vector for a landing page of the website, create a feature vector for every iframe that is a descendent of the landing page, and derive a final feature vector from the feature vectors of the landing page and the descendent iframe pages. Further, machine learning techniques may be applied to generate, or train, a classification model based upon one or more known phishing websites. Based on the feature vector, the classification modeler may classify a website as either a phishing website or as a non-phishing website. Feedback in the form of human verification may further be incorporated.
US09282110B2
In an example embodiment herein, there is provided methods and a system for cloud-assisted threat defense for connected vehicles. A vehicle suitably includes an on-board computer system for operating and/or controlling various systems on the vehicle. The on-board computer system suitably operates in connection with or includes an on-board threat defense module for detecting and protecting against malware attacks and other security threats to the vehicle. In an example embodiment, a cloud-based security component or security cloud assists with the detection and protection against security threats and malware attacks to the vehicle while minimizing the processing load and memory requirements for the on-board threat defense module.
US09282091B2
An information processing system includes a common service providing unit configured to manage a user with organization identification information, user identification information, and unique identification information, and to provide a common service; and an application service providing unit configured to manage a user with user identification information, and to provide an application service by using the common service. The application service providing unit includes a receiving unit configured to request the common service providing unit to perform authentication on user identification information and organization identification information received from an external device, and receive, from the common service providing unit, the unique identification information associated with the user identification information and the organization identification information received from the external device, and a requesting unit configured to identify a user with the unique identification information and request the common service providing unit to provide the common service.
US09282085B2
A method according to preferred embodiment can include receiving a request at a server from a private key module associated with a first user device; directing a request for a first portion of the private key from the server to a second user device; and in response to a successful user challenge creating a first portion of a digital signature and a second portion of a digital signature at the server. The method of the preferred embodiment can further include combining the first portion of the digital signature and the second portion of the digital signature; and delivering the digital signature to the first user device. The method of the preferred embodiment can function to secure the digital signature process by splitting or dividing the user's private key into two or more portions, each of which require independent authorization from the user in order to create the digital signature.
US09282084B2
A method and apparatus for providing a temporary identity module to a device (1) in a communication network. An RO Server (2) receives a request for an identity module (51) from the device (1). It then obtains an identity module and generates an encryption key (S4, S5). The encryption key is partitioned into a plurality of slices such that no slice comprises the whole encryption key (S6). Each slice is sent (S8, S9) to respective further devices (10, 11) accessible by the server (2) such that no single further device (10, 11) receives sufficient slices to reconstruct the encryption key. A location key is generated (S10) that identifies each slice and the further device (10, 11) to which each slice has been sent. The identity module is encrypted using the encryption key (S11) and sent to the device (1) along with the location key (S12). The device (1) can subsequently use the location key to obtain the slices and reconstruct the encryption key.
US09282083B2
An encryption system can include a first port and a second port. A format translator can be coupled to the first port and the second port to translate a first header format of data received from the first port to a second header format of the second port. The format translator can translate the second header format of data received from the second port to the first header format. An encryptor can receive the data and encrypts the data received from the first port and decrypts the data received from the second port.
US09282082B2
A method, system and computer program product are disclosed for compressing encrypted data, wherein the data is encrypted by using a block encryption algorithm in a chained mode of operation, and the encrypted data is comprised of a set of N encrypted blocks, C1 . . . CN. In one embodiment, the method comprises leaving block CN uncompressed, and compressing all of the blocks C1 . . . CN in a defined sequence using a Slepian-Wolf code. In an embodiment, the data is encrypted using an encryption key K, and the compressing includes compressing all of the blocks C1 . . . CN without using the encryption key. In one embodiment, the compressing includes outputting the blocks C1 . . . CN as a set of compressed blocks CmprC1 . . . CmprCN-1, and the method further comprises decrypting CN to generate a reconstructed block {tilde over (X)}n, and decrypting and decompressing the set of compressed blocks using {tilde over (X)}n.
US09282068B1
A system, method and various user interfaces enable visually browsing multiple groups of video recommendations. A video stream includes a group of videos to be viewed and commented by users who join the stream. Users who join a stream form a stream community. In a stream community, community members can add videos to the stream and interact collaboratively with others community members, such as chatting in real time with each other while viewing a video. With streams, a user can create a virtual room in an online video content distribution environment to watch videos of the streams and interact with others while sharing videos simultaneously. Consequently, users have an enhanced video viewing and sharing experience.
US09282067B2
Message processing includes activating an out-of-office function for a messaging account, wherein the out-of-office function has a scheduled end time. A determination is made, using a processor, that a current time is after the scheduled end time and that a deactivation condition for the out-of-office function has not occurred. Responsive to the determination, an out-of-office action is performed using the processor.
US09282061B1
A system for handling address resolution protocol (ARP) messages has a plurality of communication modules for communicating via a network. Each such communication module has a separate link layer address (e.g., MAC address). Control logic in communication with each of the modules serves as an ARP proxy for the modules. Rather than using its own link layer address in the overhead of the ARP messages, the control logic uses the link layer addresses of the communication modules, thereby causing the network to learn these link layer addresses during ARP processing. Therefore, once ARP messaging between a communication module and a remote network device has been performed, the network has established a data path between the communication module and the remote network device, thereby helping to prevent or reduce message flooding when the two devices begin to communicate.
US09282060B2
Methods and apparatus for dynamic resource management within a distributed control plane of a switch
In some embodiments, a switch fabric system includes multiple access switches configured to be operatively coupled to a switch fabric. The multiple access switches include multiple ports each to be operatively coupled to a peripheral processing device. A first set of ports from the multiple ports and a second set of ports from the multiple ports are managed by a first network control entity when the switch fabric system is in a first configuration. The first set of ports is managed by the first network control entity and the second set of ports is managed by a second network control entity when the switch fabric system is in a second configuration. The second network control entity is automatically initiated when the system is changed from the first configuration to the second configuration.
US09282059B2
In one embodiment, a distributed intelligence agent (DIA) in a computer network performs deep packet inspection on received packets to determine packet flows, and calculates per-flow service level agreement (SLA) metrics for the packets based on timestamp values placed in the packets by respective origin devices in the computer network. By comparing the SLA metrics to respective SLAs to determine whether the respective SLAs are met, then in response to a particular SLA not being met for a particular flow, the DIA may download determined quality of service (QoS) configuration parameters to one or more visited devices along n calculated paths from a corresponding origin device for the particular flow to the DIA. In addition, in one or more embodiments, the QoS configuration parameters may be adjusted or de-configured based on whether they were successful.
US09282058B2
A stackable device having a plurality of data ports, wherein each of the data ports is capable of operating as a regular data port or a stacking port. A first set of one or more of the data ports is specified as a first flexible stacking port, and a second set of one or more of the data ports is specified as a second flexible stacking port. Each flexible stacking port can be individually configured to operate as an actual stacking port, if required by the configuration of an associated stack. If a flexible stacking port is not configured to operate as an actual stacking port, then the data port(s) included in the flexible stacking port are available to operate as regular data port(s).
US09282048B1
A system and methods for dynamically controlling sample rates and data flow in a distributed networked environment by dynamic determination of statistical significance or characteristics for an unlimited number of data collection scripts concurrently executed on concurrently rendering web pages operating an unlimited number of advertisements. Consumer and media behaviors are sampled on all the different components of the distributed environment to gather information, which is transmitted to a downstream statistical analytics system. The system and methods are configured to balance the communication data flow and load among servers and browsers in this distributed networked environment that are engaged in viewing of online content including online content with one or more advertisements.
US09282045B2
A method includes scheduling a packet to be transmitted to a second relay device instead of a first relay device, when a plurality of packets actually transmitted or to be transmitted under a rule, which causes the packets to dispersively pass through different relay devices when destination addresses of the packets are the same, are disproportionally transmitted to the first relay device, and the rule indicates that the packet is to be transmitted to the first relay device.
US09282042B2
In a network including a plurality of nodes, a node transmits data to another node, receives data from another node, and stores a communication history between a plurality of other nodes and the node itself. When an acknowledge response to data transmitted to a first node among the plurality of other nodes is not received, the node generates a duplicate data of the transmitted data. When a duplication report indicating detection of duplicate data transmitted to a second node among the plurality of other nodes has been received from one of the plurality of other nodes, the node refers to the communication history, and identifies the first node as a cause of generation of the duplicate data. Thereafter, the node generates a check request that include a communication history between the first node and the node itself and that requests the first node to check the communication history.
US09282040B2
Modern day user applications leverages new communication technologies such as WebRTC, WebEx, and Jabber allow devices to connect and exchange media content including audio streams, video streams, and data stream/channels. The present disclosure describes mechanisms for a Port Control Protocol (PCP) server to provide feedback to PCP clients to enforce certain policies on the transport of such media content for a network. A policy may include a traffic handling policy for enforcing differentiated quality of service characteristics for different types of media streams. Another policy may include a security policy ensuring a data files being transmitted over a data channel from one endpoint travels to a security application via a relay element before the packets reaches another endpoint. The mechanisms are transparent to the endpoints, and advantageously preserve the user experience for these user applications.
US09282038B2
A packet gateway (PGW) receives a plurality of IP packet fragments from a network. The IP packet fragments comprise a head fragment and one or more trailing fragments, and are associated with a first IP packet. As the fragments are received, a controller at the PGW classifies the fragments. The controller applies a same selected service treatment to the head fragment and to each of the trailing fragments based on the classification of the head fragment. The PGW then sends each treated packet fragment to an end user device.
US09282036B2
Techniques are described for transmitting a packet from a source switch module to a destination switch module. Embodiments receive, at the source switch module, from the destination switch module, path information specifying a path from the source switch module to the destination switch module. Upon detecting an occurrence of a predefined event, a packet is generated that includes (i) the received path information and (ii) payload data to be processed at the destination switch module. Embodiments determine an Ethernet port of the source switch module on which to transmit the packet, based on the received path information. The packet is transmitted to a second switch module using the determined Ethernet port.
US09282035B2
Techniques are described for transmitting a packet from a source switch module to a destination switch module. Embodiments include receiving, at a first switch module, a packet that includes (i) an ordered listing of Ethernet link identifiers, specifying a path to the destination switch module and (ii) payload data to be processed at the destination switch module. Embodiments determine that the first switch module is not a destination of the packet, based on the ordered listing of Ethernet link identifiers. Additionally, an Ethernet port of the first switch module on which to transmit the packet is determined based on the ordered listing of Ethernet link identifiers. Embodiments then transmit the packet to a second switch module using the determined Ethernet port of the first switch module.
US09282030B2
It is intended to shorten the time required for a path recalculation and a path switching upon occurrence of a failure. A path generation unit of a transport control server (TCS) S-1 generates the normal path information in accordance with the topology information of a network and the resource information which are set. Also, the path generation unit generates in advance the backup path information for occurrence of the failure based on the prediction topology information and the prediction resource information which have been modified in accordance with a predicted failure position. The path generation unit stores the generated backup path information in a data storage unit. A path information notification unit of the TCS (S-1) notifies nodes N of the generated normal path information. A failure information acquisition unit of the TCS (S-1) detects the occurrence of the failure. If the failure information acquisition unit detects the occurrence of the failure, the path information notification unit notifies the nodes N of the backup path information stored in the data storage unit.
US09282024B2
A physical layer device provides both timestamp processing and security processing. The timestamp processing may be PTP processing according to IEEE Std. 1588 and/or OAM processing according to ITU-T Recommendation Y.1731. The security processing may be MACsec processing according to IEEE Std. 802.1AE. The timestamp processing may delay some packets to avoid impairing accuracy of timing information. For example, the accuracy of timing information could be impaired when a packet containing the timing information is delay due to additional bits added to a preceding packet to include a security tag and integrity check value.
US09282023B2
A resistance arranging system and method based on a RS-485 network are disclosed. A detection packet is generated and a circuit loop is received, so that the detection packet is taken as a basis signal and the received detection packet through the circuit loop is taken as a comparison signal, and push-up, pull-down and terminal resistors are arranged by controlling the switch according to the basis signal and the comparison signal, whereby achieving in a technical efficacy of convenience of promoting the resistors arrangement.
US09282022B2
A method for diagnosing performance of a network switch device includes a processor monitoring data generated by a sensor associated with a network switch device, the data related to states or attributes of the network switch device. The processor detects a determined condition in the operation of the network switch device related to the state or attribute. The processor generates an event trigger in response to detecting the determined condition and executes a forensic command in response to the event trigger. Executing the command includes sending information relevant to the determined condition for aggregation in computer storage and for analysis.
US09282021B2
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and method for simulating a storage cluster testing system. The method and system includes a processor configured to instructions stored on a memory to produce a simulation interface. The simulation interface includes an abstraction layer that receives verbs from a test driver and passes the verbs to one of two or more plugins. The plugins may include a synthetic plugin configured to translate the verbs into one or more command and send commands to a simulated storage appliance that is a computing device with relatively lower performance than an actual storage appliance. The simulated storage appliance may act in place of two storage appliances clustered to form a storage cluster. The simulated storage appliance forms a simulated storage cluster. The simulated storage cluster simulates the performance of the verb on by the storage cluster.
US09282019B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller that manages several managed forwarding elements. The method receives a request to trace a specified packet having a particular source on a logical switching element. The method generates the packet at the network controller according to the packet specification. The generated packet includes an indicator that the packet is for a trace operation. The method inserts the packet into a managed forwarding element associated with the particular source. The method receives a set of messages from a set of managed forwarding elements that process the packet regarding operations performed on the packet.
US09282017B2
An apparatus captures packets transmitted between first and second devices in accordance with first and second communication protocols, where the first and second protocols each assign a value for identifying a packet transmitted between first and second devices. In a state in which a first packet transmitted from the first device to the second device has not been captured yet at a time point of capturing an acknowledgment packet, responsive to the first packet, including a first value, upon capturing a second packet assigned a second value indicating order earlier than the first value, the apparatus determines whether the second packet is the first packet that is captured later than the acknowledgment packet, based on a difference between third and fourth values respectively assigned to the second packet and a previous packet that is captured latest among packets transmitted from the first device and captured earlier than the acknowledgment packet.
US09282013B2
Systems for enabling an application to track provenance include an application analysis module configured to analyze an application binary to discover injection points for provenance tracking code; and an instruction alteration module configured to overwrite instructions in the application binary at the injection points to create an instrumented application. The overwritten instructions link the application binary to one or more instrumented libraries that invoke a provenance layer to track data operations.
US09282006B2
A method is disclosed to forward Ethernet frames associated with a service instance at a node (a “forwarding node”) in a network supporting an implementation of a protocol for creating logical loop-free topologies. The method starts with receiving a number of MMRPDUs at the forwarding node from links in the first network (receiving links), where each MMRPDU of the first plurality of MMRPDUs contains a first interested node list including one or more interested nodes identified by MAC addresses. Then a service instance identifier (SID) is identified for the service instance and a first set of MAC addresses interested in the service instance is formed. Then a number of MMRPDUs are sent to links associated with the service instance, where each MMRPDU contains a second set of MAC addresses interested in the service instance. The sending may be accompanied by the node installing filtering at the forwarding node accordingly.
US09281996B1
A method and system for dynamically selecting a destination gateway to complete a call over a path supported at least in part by an IP telephony network and a public switched telephone network. The method and system further provide for dynamically detecting available gateways, dynamically removing failed and/or unavailable gateways, and automatically recovering failed and/or unavailable gateways after a predetermined period of time. A method is also provided for detecting available destination gateways using a ping method, where a message is transmitted to a plurality of destination gateways on a one-by-one basis to ascertain the availability status of each destination gateway.
US09281988B2
A receiving device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure receives a signal in which a data symbol and invalidation data are arranged. The receiving device includes an amplifying unit that amplifies the input signal and a gain adjusting unit that adjusts gain of the amplifying unit in a section of the invalidation data. The present disclosure can be applied to a receiving device that receives a radio signal of an OFDM system.
US09281979B2
A Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system is described. The system may include a transmitting device having at least two transmitting antennae, each of the at least two transmitting antenna is configured to form and/or steer directional beam signals, and a receiving device having at least two receiving antennae. The transmitting device and the receiving device are configured and disposed such that illuminated spots at the receiving device produced by the beam signals of the transmitting antennae are smaller than spatial separation between neighboring receiving antennae and/or resolution spots from the receiving antenna are smaller than spatial separation between the transmitting antennae.
US09281978B1
A method and a highway addressable remote transducer (HART) soft modem device for modulating and demodulating analog signals with HART messages are provided. A phase coherent frequency shift keying (FSK) modulator modulates and transmits analog signals with HART messages, and a phase coherent FSK demodulator receives and demodulates the analog signals with the HART messages. The FSK modulator is a digital modulator that outputs 1 or 0 for transmission. With oversampling and low pass filtering, the digital modulation results in low jitter and good signal to noise ratio. The FSK demodulator applies a fast energy detect algorithm and dynamically reduces or increases a clock speed of a central processing unit (CPU) of the HART soft modem device for reducing power consumption of the CPU. Furthermore, the HART soft modem device uses direct memory access (DMA) to further reduce the power consumption, thereby reducing the overall power consumption by around 50%.
US09281977B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for separating two phase-modulated signals having different amplitudes. A separation method for a phase-modulated signal may include: receiving, using a single antenna, a first received signal and a second received signal that are modulated and thereby transferred from a transmitter; calculating an attenuation level of each of the first received signal and the second received signal by dividing each of the first received signal and the second received signal into a real number portion and an imaginary number portion; calculating a difference between the first received signal and the second received signal; and separating and thereby demodulating the first received signal and the second received signal.
US09281973B2
A method for demodulating at least one received frame is provided, where the frame includes of a succession of bits coded according to a Manchester code. The method includes the steps of: generating an interruption at least at each appearance of a rising and/or falling edge of the frame of coded bits; determining the time between each interruption from at least one first counter; reinitializing the demodulation of the frame as soon as one of the determined times is less than a first predetermined value or greater than a second predetermined value, the first and second predetermined values being dependent on the duration of a bit coded according to the code; and demodulating, for each determined time, if the determined time is greater than the first predetermined value and is less than the second predetermined value, at least one binary value of the frame from the determined time.
US09281971B1
Embodiments include systems and methods for determining link margins of data communications channels in a communications system. For example, an integrated circuit includes a large number of input/output (I/O) channels, each with a respective receiver system. The receiver system can include equalizer subsystems, that attempt to adapt to their respective channels (e.g., to eliminate inter-symbol interference). Embodiments manipulate filter tap weights in the equalizer subsystems to controllably close its respective data eye until a failure region is detected, indicating that a threshold I/O error rate has been exceeded. Thus, for each channel, the filter tap weights can be allowed to fully adjust to identify fully adapted values, and they can be forced into a failure region to identify failure region values. A link margin for each channel can be derived for each channel according to the difference between the fully adapted and failure region values of the filter tap weights.
US09281970B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for preventing false packet acceptance in high-speed links. In accordance with one aspect, embodiments are disclosed that facilitate assessing the probability of error bursts in receivers that include decision feedback equalizers (DFEs) and that perform non-contiguous mapping of received bits to frame bits. From this probability, calculation of a mean-time to false packet acceptance (MTTFPA) may be determined, and indication that a projected link MTTFPA is too low can be used to trigger an alert or invoke some safety mechanism. Associated operations may then be performed to ensure the link is prevented from being operated in an unsafe condition under which false packet acceptance may occur.
US09281956B2
A radio communication station in a radio communication system having a plurality of radio communication devices, derives a quantization parameter from control indications received from respective radio communication devices and transmits the quantization parameter to the radio communication devices on at least one downlink channel. The radio communication devices receive the quantization parameter, determine respective channel state metrics for the downlink channel, respectively quantize the determined respective channel state metrics by applying quantization ranges indicated by the quantization parameter, determine respective control indications indicative of the respective quantized channel state metrics, and transmit to the radio communication station respective signals indicating the determined respective control indications as respective random access transmissions on an uplink channel.
US09281954B2
A method for processing IP multicast packets in a Multichassis Link Aggregation (MLAG) domain. The method includes processing the IP multicast packet using the bridging functionality and the routing functionality implemented by each of the MLAG peers to process the IP multicast packets.
US09281945B2
A method for providing authentication of a user of a recipient unit when the recipient unit is off-line includes storing one or a plurality of challenge-reply sets associated with an article based on an on-line communication with a sender unit. Each of the challenge-reply sets includes at least a challenge-reply pair for use in off-line authentication of the user for a particular resource available through the recipient unit. When the user is offline, the method includes selecting at least one of the plurality of stored challenge-reply sets for off-line authentication of the user for the particular resource available through the recipient unit.
US09281944B2
A master public key is generated as a first set of lattices based on a set of attributes, along with a random vector. A master secret key is generated as a set of trap door lattices corresponding to the first set of lattices. A user secret key is generated for a user's particular set of attributes using the master secret key. The user secret key is a set of values in a vector that are chosen to satisfy a reconstruction function for reconstructing the random vector using the first set of lattices. Information is encrypted to a given set of attributes using the user secret key, the given set of attributes and the user secret key. The information is decrypted by a second user having the given set of attributes using the second user's secret key.
US09281930B2
In the present invention, a method for transmitting/receiving data in a wireless access system and a base station for same are disclosed. More particularly, the method comprises the following steps: setting a cell group per at least one cell having an identical uplink-downlink configuration, if a plurality of cells are set to a user equipment; performing via a first cell cross-cell scheduling with regard to a second cell, which belongs to a cell group that is different from that including the first cell, according to the uplink-downlink configuration of the first cell; confirming the occurrence of a collision subframe, in which an uplink subframe and a downlink subframe exist simultaneously in the same time interval, in two cells performing the cross-cell scheduling; and transmitting/receiving data with the user equipment when scheduled in the collision subframe due to the cross-cell scheduling, by modifying a transmission position of the uplink or the downlink according to the cross-cell scheduling.
US09281924B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating 40+40 MHz and 40+40+40+40 MHz transmission modes for IEEE 802.11 wireless communications systems using Very High Throughput (VHT) waveforms with application to Television White Space (TVWS) spectrum.
US09281922B2
An apparatus 310 employable in a communication system configured to determine a value for a new data indicator for semi-persistently allocated or scheduled resources. In one embodiment, the apparatus 310 includes a processor 320 configured to receive a cell radio network temporary identifier indicating a semi-persistent scheduling. The processor 320 is also configured to treat a reception of data with a new data indicator flag in accordance with the semi-persistent scheduling as one of a persistent initial transmission if a value of the new data indicator flag is equal to a first predefined value, and a retransmission of semi-persistent scheduling data if the value of the new data indicator flag is equal to a second predefined value.
US09281915B2
An optical receiver having a plurality of optical IQ modulators arranged in a butterfly configuration and configured to operate as an optical polarization de-multiplexer. The optical receiver further has (i) an opto-electric circuit configured to apply optical homodyne detection to an optical input signal received by the optical receiver and (ii) a controller configured to generate one or more control signals for driving the IQ modulators of the plurality based on one or more electrical feedback signals received from the opto-electric circuit.
US09281908B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for estimating signal and noise powers in a received signal set. For example, one embodiment of the present invention provides a method for determining signal power and noise power. The method uses a storage medium that includes a Na×Nw data pattern. The Na×Nw data pattern includes Na bits repeated Nw times. Both Na and Nw are each greater than one. The methods further include performing an initial read of the Na×Nw data pattern, which is stored to a first register. Nr subsequent reads of the Na×Nw data pattern are each processed by: performing a subsequent read of the Na×Nw data pattern, and performing a difference calculation using the initial read of the Na×Nw data pattern and the subsequent read of the Na×Nw data pattern and resulting in the calculation of a difference vector that is stored to a second register; and performing a difference accumulation calculation to generate an accumulation vector which is stored to a third register. Based at least in part on the stored Na×Nw data pattern and the stored difference vector, an electronics noise power is calculated.
US09281878B2
The present application discloses an array antenna, a method and a device for transmitting and receiving a signal. The array antenna includes at least two active antennas, wherein each active antenna is surrounded by at least two different parasitic antennas, respective parasitic antennas are respectively coupled to controllable loads, and the controllable loads are respectively coupled to a control circuit. With the arrangement of at least two active antennas, when a channel is in a good state, channel capacity can be adjusted by adjusting the controllable loads coupled to the parasitic antennas; and when the channel is not in the good state, the bit error ratio can be reduced by both adjusting the controllable loads coupled to the parasitic antennas and adjusting transmitting directional diagrams of the active antennas according to an adjustment vector, meanwhile, miniaturization can also be realized.
US09281876B2
The present invention relates to the field of coordinated multipoint transmission and reception (CoMP) in wireless communication networks, in particular to methods, an apparatus, and a network node for use in performing coordinated data transmissions in a wireless communication network. A method for use in a network node for coordinating data transmission to user equipments in a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network comprising at least two access nodes each access node having one or more antennas and being arranged to perform coordinated data transmissions to user equipments is provided. The method comprising: obtaining signal strength values associated with the one or more antennas of the at least two access nodes for a number of user equipments; arranging the number of user equipments into one or more groups of user equipments and associating each of the one or more groups of user equipments with a sub-set of the one or more antennas of the at least two access nodes based on the obtained signal strength values; and coordinating data transmission performed by the at least two access nodes to each of the one or more groups of user equipments based on the subset of the one or more antennas of the at least two access nodes associated with each group of user equipments, respectively.
US09281852B2
A method includes setting a circuit to a mode. A test tone having a first frequency is provided to the circuit for use in calibrating the circuit. A received signal is generated based on an output signal of the circuit, the received signal including a component having a second frequency that is a harmonic of the first frequency. A magnitude of the component having the second frequency in the received signal is measured. A delay of the circuit corresponding to the mode is adjusted according to the magnitude of the component.
US09281851B2
Presented are methods and apparatuses for maintaining a substantially constant gain and reducing gain compression (AM-AM distortion) of a power amplifier based on a pre-distortion signal generated from an analog, baseband envelope feedback loop.
US09281850B1
The present invention relates to an adaptable RF impedance translation circuit that includes a first group of inductive elements cascaded in series between an input and an output without any series switching elements, a second group of inductive elements cascaded in series, and a group of switching elements that are capable of electrically coupling the first group of inductive elements to the second group of inductive elements. Further, the adaptable RF impedance translation circuit includes at least one variable shunt capacitance circuit electrically coupled between a common reference and at least one connection node in the adaptable RF impedance translation circuit, which includes control circuitry to select either an OFF state or an ON state associated with each of the switching elements and to select a capacitance associated with each variable shunt capacitance circuit to control impedance translation characteristics of the adaptable RF impedance translation circuit.
US09281846B2
Methods and arrangements for parallelizing turbo encoding computations. At least one processor is provided. Turbo encoding computations are split into first and second parts. Using at least one processor, the computations of the first part are performed. Thereafter, using the at least one processor, the computations of the second part are performed, the second part correcting output provided by the computations of the first part. One of the first and second parts comprises computations performed in parallel and the other of the first and second parts comprises computations performed not in parallel. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09281840B2
A method for implementing multi standard programmable low-density parity check decoder in a receiver is provided. The method includes (i) generating, by a control signal generation unit, pre computed control signals associated with a h-matrix, (ii) obtaining, by a control signal storage unit of a hardware decoder unit, the pre computed control signals associated with the h-matrix, (iii) obtaining, by a LLR memory fetch & data align unit, LLR bytes from a LLR memory unit, (iv) rotating, by a rotation and aligning unit, the LLR bytes to obtain aligned valid LLR bytes, (v) processing, by the processing element unit, the aligned valid LLR bytes to obtain an output data, and (vi) decoding, the h-matrix associated with at least one standard and code rates based on the pre computed control signals.
US09281830B2
A radio apparatus includes a first receiver that is a processing unit for amplifying and frequency converting a radio signal received via an antenna, thereby outputting an IF signal; a detector unit for detecting a preamble signal from the IF signal; a second receiver for amplifying and quadrature demodulating the radio signal, thereby generating an I-signal and a Q-signal; a demodulator unit for demodulating the I-signal and Q-signal to generate a data signal; and a control unit for halting the operation of the first receiver and further activating the second receiver when the detector unit detects the preamble signal and for activating the first receiver and halting the operation of the second receiver when the demodulator unit completes the demodulation of the I-signal and Q-signal.
US09281829B2
Provided herein are apparatus and methods for fast charge pump holdover on signal interruption. In certain configurations, a clock generator system includes a phase-locked loop (PLL), a fast detect circuit, and a switch electrically coupled to an input of the PLL's loop filter. The fast detect circuit relatively quickly detects when an input signal to the PLL is lost. The fast detect circuit can quickly detect the loss of phase lock and can place the PLL into a holdover such that the frequency of a clock signal generated by the PLL remains within an acceptable range.
US09281827B2
A clock generator receives first and second clock signals, and input representing a desired frequency ratio. A comparison is made between frequencies of an output clock signal and the first clock signal, and a first error signal represents the difference between the desired frequency ratio and this comparison result. The first error signal is filtered. A comparison is made between frequencies of the output clock signal and the second clock signal, and a second error signal represents the difference between the filtered first error signal and this comparison result. The second error signal is filtered. A numerically controlled oscillator receives the filtered second error signal and generates an output clock signal. As a result, the output clock signal has the jitter characteristics of the first input clock signal over a useful range of jitter frequencies and the frequency accuracy of the second input clock signal.
US09281797B2
A high-frequency device includes a substrate including a plurality of layers that are stacked on top of one another and that include dielectric and magnetic layers, terminals, pattern conductors each formed on one layer, and via conductors each extending through one layer. The pattern conductors and via conductors connect the terminals and form a signal line that transmits a high-frequency signal. A first portion of the signal line includes a via conductor extending through one magnetic layer and/or a pattern conductor sandwiched between two magnetic layers and has a predetermined resistance to the high-frequency signal. A second portion of the signal line includes a capacitor formed of two pattern electrodes with at least one dielectric layer and no magnetic layers sandwiched there between and/or an inductor including a pattern conductor formed on a dielectric layer. The high-frequency device has an impedance to the high-frequency signal at the terminals.
US09281790B2
An amplifier circuit has a plurality of amplifiers configured to be connected in series, and each of the plurality of amplifiers has an amplifying element configured to non-inverting amplify a signal and a phase adjustment element configured to be connected to an output terminal of the amplifying element and to adjust a phase of the signal, wherein the amplifying element is subjected to negative feedback, and wherein a stability coefficient of a circuit in which the amplifying elements of the number the same as the number of the plurality of amplifiers are connected in series is less than 1.
US09281789B2
This invention generally relates to the technical field of integrated circuits. More specifically the invention relates to output stages for providing an output signal, into which an integrated circuit may be used. An aspect relates to an integrated circuit capable of driving an external class-B output stage in a manner that allows providing a continuous output signal over the full range of desired outputs. The integrated circuit may comprise a class-AB output stage working in conjunction with the class-B output stage so as to provide a hybrid output stage. The integrated circuit may prevent dead band problems commonly faced when employing a class-B output stage. The integrated circuit may also reduce the quiescent current of the hybrid output stage. This may have further advantages, such as for example, the output stage producing less heat/power than needs to be dissipated.
US09281786B2
An amplifier circuit with an input power detector and a related method are described. With the input power detector and related control network, the arrangement enables and/or disables a number of unit cells in power amplifiers.
US09281783B2
A power supply system includes a high-speed power supply providing a first output, operating in conjunction with an externally supplied DC source or low frequency power supply which provides a second output. A frequency blocking power combiner circuit combines the first and second outputs to generate a third output in order to drive a load, while providing frequency-selective isolation between the first and second outputs. A feedback circuit coupled to the combined, third output compares this combined, third output with a predetermined control signal and generates a control signal for controlling the high-speed power supply, based on a difference between the third output and the predetermined control signal. The feedback circuit does not control the DC source or the low frequency power supply, but controls only the high-speed power supply.
US09281772B2
A controller for a power converter detects a current output from the power converter, estimates a flux vector of the motor, and calculates a torque line in a physical model resulting from mathematizing a circuit equivalent to the motor, based on the estimated flux vector. The torque line indicates a line for obtaining a desired torque in a subsequent control period. The controller calculates a stator flux command value in accordance with a loss, calculates a voltage command value based on the torque line and the stator flux command value, and controls an output voltage.
US09281769B2
A motor control circuit and associated techniques can drive an electric motor in a start-up mode of operation followed by a normal mode of operation. The motor control circuit and techniques can receive a selection signal provided by a user that can select one of a plurality of sets of parameter values that determine characteristics of drive signals applied to the motor during the start-up mode of operation. The motor control circuit and associated techniques can synchronize operation between the start-up mode of operation and the normal mode of operation.
US09281764B2
An energy harvester device located into an in-ear device and harvesting energy from dynamic motion of the wall of the outer ear canal receiving the in-ear device therein, with an external sheath of the in-ear device generally assuming the contour of the ear canal wall. The energy harvester device has an energy harvesting module mounting on an inner portion of the in-ear device adjacent the external sheath, and is at least partially elastically deformable under a displacement of the ear canal wall to generate energy corresponding to the displacement of the wall. An energy storage module mounts onto the in-ear device and connects to the energy harvesting module to receive energy there from and supplying the stored energy to an electronic device of the in-ear device. The in-ear device having the energy harvester device therein is also part of the present invention.
US09281762B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for coupling a direct current (DC) pre-charging circuit to a motor drive. In one embodiment, an industrial automation device may include an enclosed module that may include a pre-charge circuit. The pre-charge circuit may pre-charge a direct current (DC) bus. Further, the DC bus may couple to an inverter. The enclosed module may also include a power input that may couple the pre-charge circuit to a DC power source and an electrical output structure that may couple the pre-charge circuit to the inverter. Additionally, the pre-charge circuit may be removeably coupled to the inverter and the DC power source via a sliding action of the enclosed module.
US09281759B2
A power converting apparatus and a photovoltaic module are discussed. The power converting apparatus includes a converter including a tapped inductor and a first switch, the converter converting a level of an input direct current (DC) voltage and outputting the level-converted DC voltage, and an inverter including a plurality of switches, the inverter converting the level-converted DC voltage into an alternating current (AC) voltage. The inverter operates separately in a first switching mode where the inverter performs a switching operation at a first frequency for a first period of the converted AC voltage and a second switching mode where the inverter performs a switching operation at a second frequency for a second period of the converted AC voltage, the second frequency being lower than the first frequency.
US09281758B1
A power supply circuit includes a rectifier module configured to rectify an input voltage and a capacitor including a first terminal coupled to the rectifier module. In addition, the power supply circuit includes first and second transistors. The first transistor couples to a second terminal of the capacitor, and the second transistor couples in series to the first transistor. The power supply circuit also includes a resistor, configured to set an inrush current value, in parallel with the second transistor. When coupled to a power supply, the power supply circuit is configured to turn-on the first transistor such that an inrush current flows, at the inrush current value, through the capacitor, first transistor, and resistor. After a delay time, the power supply circuit is configured to turn-on the second transistor such that the inrush current drops to around zero, thus maintaining a low impedance path during steady-state operation.
US09281749B2
Aspects of the present invention include a power supply system comprising a plurality of power supplies. Each of the power supplies can include an oscillator system configured to generate a clock signal at a clock node. Each of the power supplies can include an error amplifier configured to generate an error voltage at an error amplifier output node. Each of the power supplies can also include a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator configured to generate a PWM switching signal based on an error voltage and the clock signal. Each of the power supplies can further include a power stage configured to generate an output voltage based on the PWM switching signal.
US09281748B2
Operating a DC-DC converter on a chip that includes: micro-power-switching phases and magnetic material, each phase including: a high-side and low-side switch with control inputs for activating the switch, and an output node; where: the output node of each phase extrudes through the magnetic material to form, in each phase, a toroidal inductor with a single loop coil, and to form, for the plurality of phases, a directly coupled inductor; the output node of each micro-power-switching phase is coupled to a filter and a load; each high-side switch is configured, when activated, to couple a voltage source to the phase's single loop coil; and the low-side switch of each phase is configured, when activated, to couple the phase's single loop coil to a ground voltage and the switches are alternatively activated where no two switches of any phase are activated at the same time.
US09281747B2
Disclosed are devices, apparatus, circuitry, components, mechanisms, modules, systems, and processes for controlling a voltage regulator in response to information from a load. In some implementations, transient minimizer circuitry is coupled to receive a notification signal indicating a change or an anticipated change in an electrical characteristic of the load. The transient minimizer circuitry is configured to generate a state command signal responsive to the notification signal. The state command signal indicates a state of the voltage regulator. The switching control circuitry is coupled to receive the state command signal from the transient minimizer circuitry. The switching control circuitry is configured to operate switch circuitry to control the state of the voltage regulator in accordance with the state command signal.
US09281745B2
A fully digital synthesizable digital controller (152, 152a) controls a switch-mode DC-DC converter (150, 230, 240, 250, 260) having switching elements (154) and an LC circuit (156, 157) for producing an output voltage (160) that is maintained at a desired level regardless of load changes that can occur on the output. The digital controller (152, 152a) comprises an input stage (164), proportional-integral-derivative (PID) compensator (170), and a digital sigma-delta modulator (172). The input stage (164) produces a difference signal between a reference voltage Vref and a feedback voltage Vfbk, and comprises (i) first and second delta-sigma-delta modulators (178, 180) and a subtractor (182), (ii) a delta-sigma-delta modulator (180) and a subtractor (182); or (iii) a comparator (218). The PID compensator (170) processes the difference signal to compensate for an undesired phase shift and to stabilize the feedback loop. The digital sigma-delta modulator (172) generates a switching element control signal for controlling at least one of the switching elements.
US09281734B2
Provided herein is a linear motor in which a back yoke can readily be mounted onto a plurality of linear motor units. The back yoke is constituted from a back yoke assembly including a surrounding portion that entirely surrounds six linear motor units. The back yoke works to form part of respective magnetic circuits of the six linear motor units. The back yoke assembly includes first and second divided assemblies and five partition wall portions. The first and second divided assemblies are each formed by press working a magnetic plate made of silicon steel.
US09281732B2
A squirrel-cage rotor includes a rotor core having in its circumferential direction a plurality of slots extending in an axial direction, a plurality of conductor bars stored in each slot of the rotor core and whose ends are projected from an axial direction end surface of the rotor core, and a pair of end rings arranged at the ends of the rotor core and each having a plurality of fitting portions into which the both ends of the conductor bars projecting from the axial direction end surface of the rotor core are fitted. In the conductor bar, among the cross-sectional shape in a plane perpendicular to the axial direction, the shape on the rotor central axis side is a circular arc shape. In the plane perpendicular to the axial direction, a gap is provided on the rotor central axis side of the fitting portion fitted with the conductor bar.
US09281706B2
Methods and devices are disclosed including a wireless charging method comprising transmitting a wireless charging signal, monitoring at least one of an amplitude and a phase of the wireless charging signal, determining whether the at least one of an amplitude and phase is within a predetermined range of at least one predetermined value and, if it is determined that the at least one of an amplitude and phase is not within the predetermined range of the at least one predetermined value, stopping transmission of the wireless charging signal.
US09281705B2
An electronic cigarette case and a method for charging an electronic cigarette through it are provided. The electronic cigarette case comprises a case body having a charging interface, it further comprises a controller, a trigger switch, a charging detection module and an electronic cigarette charging output module, the trigger switch is set close to the charging interface and will be triggered when the electronic cigarette has been inserted into the charging interface, in case the controller has found out that the trigger switch has been triggered, it will control the electronic cigarette charging output module to enter a charging mode; in case the charging detection module has found out that the electronic cigarette has been fully charged, the controller will control the electronic cigarette charging output module to enter an ultra low standby mode.
US09281692B2
A power distribution unit, a communication device used with same, and a power distribution system. The power distribution unit comprises a master management module (331), and at least a group of socket management modules (211). The socket management module (211) is used to manage power output. The master management module (331) is connected to each socket management module (211), and is used to monitor a power output state of each socket management module (211) and control a switching state of the power output of each socket management module (211). The master management module (331) comprises an incoming port (431) and an outgoing port (432) for connection to external devices. The power distribution system comprises the power distribution unit and the communication device coordinating with the power distribution unit. The system can implement intelligent remote monitoring on the power distribution unit, and effective monitoring on a surrounding environment of the power distribution unit.
US09281688B2
In general, described is an energy management system for controlling multiple input streams of electricity to a local power system. Preferably, input streams are prioritized by computer algorithms for use or output within the local power system. Suitably, high priority streams are directed by the computer software to primary outputs while lesser priority streams are directed to secondary outputs.
US09281682B2
Circuits, integrated circuits, apparatuses, and methods, such as those for protecting circuits against electrostatic discharge events are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a thyristor coupled to a node and configured to limit the voltage and discharge the current associated with an over-voltage event at the node. The over-voltage event includes a negative voltage having a magnitude that exceeds a trigger voltage of the thyristor. The example apparatus further comprising a transistor coupled to the thyristor and configured to adjust the magnitude of the trigger voltage.
US09281680B2
A power switching circuit includes a power semiconductor element that includes a main switching element connected in parallel with a main body diode and a sense switching element connected in parallel with a sense body diode; a reverse overcurrent detection circuit that detects an overcurrent flowing in the reverse direction out of currents flowing through a parallel-connection body of the sense switching element and the sense body diode; and a control circuit that drives the gate of the power semiconductor element; wherein when the reverse overcurrent detection circuit detects a reverse overcurrent, the control circuit controls the main switching element and the sense switching element to turn on.
US09281679B2
A load circuit operates by power supplied from a power supply apparatus. A capacitive element is connected in parallel with the load circuit. A switching element is connected between the power supply apparatus and the load circuit in series with the power supply apparatus and the load circuit. A monitor section monitors voltage of the capacitive element and is connected in parallel with the capacitive element. An inrush current control section changes resistance of the switching element on the basis of the voltage monitored by the monitor section in order to control inrush current that flows at the time of an electronic device being plugged into or unplugged from the power supply apparatus. A breaker circuit prevents electric charges stored by the capacitive element from flowing into the monitor section at the time of the electronic device being unplugged from the power supply apparatus.
US09281674B2
A busway and a method of assembling the same in which a flowable, uncured epoxy is applied between insulated busbar conductors that are stacked on top of one another and inner surfaces of the busway housing into which the stacked conductors are placed to form an enclosed busway. The busbar conductors are insulated by an epoxy powder coat, which can develop pinholes during the curing of the epoxy powder. A flowable, curable dielectric material, such as epoxy, is applied between the outermost busbar conductors and the inner surfaces of the top and bottom pieces of the busway housing. Optionally, epoxy is also applied between adjacent pairs of busbar conductors, which are stacked and arranged into the housing. Pressure is applied to the housing stack, and the epoxy is allowed to cure, resulting in a busway having superior thermal performance, dielectric integrity, and mechanical strength compared to conventional busways.
US09281672B2
A system for providing an electrical interface across a sealed boundary may include a frame in sealed engagement with at least a portion of a substrate. The substrate may be in communication with an electrochromic device. The system may further include first and second conduits. The first conduit may be on a first side of the substrate and a second conduit may be on a second side of the substrate. The second conduit may be in communication with the first conduit through at least one of the seal, a space between the seal and the frame, and a space between the seal and the substrate.
US09281671B2
In an example an integral wiring box comprises: a circular base having a base wire access point; a side wall extended from a perimeter edge of the base forming a cavity having an internal surface and an external surface and a side wall wire access point; a base conduit extending from the base wire access point into the cavity; a side wall conduit extending from the side wall wire access point into the cavity; an internal mounting projection extending from the internal surface of the side wall into the cavity and free from attachment to the circular base, the internal mounting projection further comprising a mounting hole; and an external mounting projection extending from the external surface of the side wall away from the base, the external mounting projection further comprising a mounting hole; wherein a single mounting hub extends from the base into the cavity, wherein the base, side wall, internal mounting projection, external mounting projection, and mounting hub, are formed as a single component.
US09281664B2
An access door adjustable to an opening, comprising a frame adjustable to the width and the height of the opening; and a door panel, the frame comprising side members and corner members; each side member having a section adapted to receive an edge of the opening and comprising a first part adapted to lay flat on an outer surface of the edge of the opening and a second part extending within the opening and comprising engagement positions, the engagement positions being adapted to engage the corner members between a maximum length for each side of the frame by using outermost engagement positions and a minimum length for each side of the frame, depending on the size of the opening, the frame receiving the door panel for closing the opening.
US09281656B2
In at least one embodiment, the bar laser (1) has a semiconductor layer sequence (2) with an active zone (20). A waveguide (3) with a defined width (B) is formed as an elevation from the semiconductor layer sequence (2). A contact metallization (4) is applied to an upper side (30) of the waveguide (3) facing away from the active zone (20). A current flow layer (5) is in direct contact with the contact metallization (4). The contact metallization (4) is electrically connected via the current flow layer (5). A current flow width (C) of the active zone (20) and/or the waveguide (3) is less than the width (B) of the waveguide (3).
US09281654B2
A Raman amplifier using semiconductor lasers of Fabry-Perot, DFB, or DBR type or MOPAs, to output pumping lights having different central wavelengths, an interval between adjacent central wavelengths greater than 6 nm and smaller than 35 nm. An optical repeater is adapted to compensate loss in an optical fiber transmission line by the Raman amplifier. A Raman amplification method wherein the shorter the central wavelength of the pumping light, the higher light power of the pumping light. In the Raman amplifier, a certain pumping 1 wavelength being a first channel, and second to n-th channels are arranged with an interval of about 1 THz toward a longer wavelength side, pumping lights having wavelengths corresponding to the first to n-th channels are multiplexed, and pumping light having a wavelength spaced apart from the n-th channel by 2 THz or more toward the longer wavelength side is combined with the multiplexed light, thereby forming the pumping light source.
US09281648B2
A brush block for a slip ring assembly consists of a spring wire that is mechanically supported by two bores of a printed circuit board and continues into two contact springs. Furthermore, the spring wire comprises a solder joint for electrically contacting the printed circuit board. The solder joint is mechanically decoupled from the contact springs by means of two cranks of the spring wire.
US09281639B2
A micro radio-frequency connector includes an isolated body, a resilient terminal and an external terminal. The isolated body includes an accommodating slot and an inserting hole connected to the accommodating slot. The accommodating slot includes an upper inner wall and a lower inner wall opposite to each other. The resilient terminal is disposed inside the accommodating slot, and includes a fixing section, two resilient arms and a first contacting section. The fixing section is fixed to the accommodating slot. An end of the resilient arm is connected to the fixing section and contacts against the lower inner wall, the other end of the resilient arm is a free end to be separated from the lower inner wall while an external force is not applied to the first contacting section and further to contact against the lower inner wall while the external force is applied to the first contacting section.
US09281638B2
Pairs of matching connectors are described. The matching connectors can provide power to a powered device and/or communicate signals to a device. The matching connectors can include electrical contacts. In one example, the electrical contacts may be ring-shaped and several electrical contacts may be concentrically positioned. In one example, the matching connectors can be held together by a locking future that can be a magnet located in one or both of the matching connectors. In one example, the matching connectors can be connected by the angular of one of the connectors relative to the other. This rotation of one of the connectors relative to the other can engage the contacts of the connectors.
US09281629B2
A receptacle connector mounted to the printed circuit board, includes an insulative housing defining a mating tongue and a metallic shell enclosing the housing to form a mating cavity in which said mating tongue forwardly extends. A complementary plug connector includes a shell with a bull-nose tip. A metallic piece is mounted around a root of the mating tongue and equipped with a plurality of spring tangs to contact the relatively rigid bull-nose tip of the shell of the complementary connector for EMI/RFI protection.
US09281623B2
An electrical connector defines perpendicular first direction and second direction and includes a housing and a plurality of contacts. The housing includes a base portion and a first mating portion. The mating portion defines opposite first mating face and second mating face. The contacts are arranged in the housing in the second direction and include mating portions respectively exposed upon the first mating face and the second mating face and tails protruding from the housing. The contacts include several high-speed signal groups and each includes a pair of signal contacts and a grounding contact. The mating portions of the pair of signal contacts are located at the second mating face while the mating portion of the grounding contact is located at the first mating face. Three mating portions of each high-speed signal group are shaped as a triangle from a view along the first direction.
US09281622B2
Communications jacks include a housing having a plug aperture. A plurality of spring members extend into the plug aperture, and a plurality of plug contacts are mounted on respective ones of the spring members. The communications jack further includes a plurality of fixed contacts. Each fixed contact is configured to be in electrical contact with a respective one of the plug contacts when a plug is received within the plug aperture.
US09281617B2
A method and apparatus (“utility”) for securing an electrical connection formed by a mating structure including prongs of a male assembly and receptacles of a female assembly are provided. The utility includes a clamping mechanism whereby the very forces that would otherwise tend to pull the connection apart serve to actuate the clamping mechanism, thereby securing the mated pair. The apparatus may be integrated into a standard receptacle, or retrofitted to work with existing devices. In one embodiment, the clamping mechanism acts solely on the ground prong of a standard plug assembly, so that it is unnecessary to consider electrical potentials applied to the clamped prong in relation to the design of the clamping mechanism. Further, the withdrawing movement of the prongs of a plug may cause elongate clamping surfaces of the clamping mechanism to frictionally engage opposing surfaces of the clamped prong.
US09281616B2
A connector mounted to a circuit board to be inserted into a storage destination, and configured to include: a connector body including a housing part for housing an electric terminal connected to a predetermined wire of the circuit board, and a base part connected to the housing part; a panel including an opening which is formed in a pair of opposed surfaces and through which the housing part can be inserted; an ejector for detaching the circuit board from an insertion destination by turning; and a connection member connected to a turning shaft part for turning the ejector to fasten the circuit board and the base part of the connector body. The connector can be mounted, together with the ejector, to a compact circuit board corresponding to a compact unit wire rack and can be efficiently mounted in a saved space.
US09281615B1
Retainer clip (100) attachable to motor vehicle headlamp (10) for inhibiting second electrical connector (72) of wiring harness (44) from unintentionally separating from mating first connector (52) on the PCB (60) of the lamp. Retainer clip comprises a deformable retaining arm (110) configured to inhibit separation of the first connector (52) and a second connector (72) upon assembly thereof with the first connector (52) and the second connector (72); a second connector receptacle (140) defined by retainer clip body (102), the second connector receptacle (140) configured to receive the second connector (72) therein; and a support base (160) configured to cooperate with the motor vehicle lamp (10) to align the second connector (72) with the first connector (52) in a connection plane (82) to assemble the second connector (72) and the first connector (52).
US09281612B2
Power cables that include plug housings having an improved appearance as well as employ a halogen-free cable while providing adequate fire resistance. One example provides a power cable having cable plug with a substantially unitary body. Another example provides a power cable that is formed using halogen-free materials. To provide adequate fire protection, a strain relief formed using multiple materials is used.
US09281603B2
The present invention relates to a plug that can be fit into network ports. The plug features a flexible extrusion that fits into a aperture in the back of the plug. The when the flexible extrusion is linked into the aperture, it creates a loop that can hold a hang tag. The hang tag can be used to label the plug. The loop created by the plug can be tightened, so that it fits around a cable, in order to label the cable, once the plug has been removed from the socket.
US09281602B2
A socket has a plug board with first plug-in openings for appropriate pins of a plug of a first standard and with second plug-in openings for appropriate pins of a plug of a second standard. Provided in a spacing to the plug board are a first type of contact mounts for receiving plug pins of the first standard, and a second type of contact mounts for receiving plug pins of the second standard. Provided between the contact mounts and the plug board are protection elements which are movable out of a closed position in which the first and second plug-in openings are blocked, into an open position in which the plug-in openings are open. The protection elements are pretensioned into their respective closed positions by spring elements. The first and second protection elements are pretensioned into their respective end positions in different directions of movement by the spring elements.
US09281599B2
The present invention relates to improving input/output port configuration and structure of the portable device. According to at least one of embodiments of the present invention, a portable device an input/output port having a frame fixed to a PCB to form a space for enabling a plug to be externally inputted therein, the frame including a top base forming a top surface of the frame, a pair of sidewalls configured by being bent from both sides of the top base to form both lateral sides of the frame, fixing terminals configured to be fixed to the PCB by being bent from both of the sides of the top base simultaneously with a pair of the sidewalls, a bottom base forming a bottom surface of the frame, and a front opening provided to a front side of the frame to have the plug inserted therein.
US09281596B2
A connector terminal comprised of a single bent metal sheet, includes a contact portion including a first sheet portion and a second sheet portion, the first sheet portion and the second sheet portion being folded to overlap one on another, a terminal body, and a connector portion connecting the terminal body and the contact portion to each other, the connector portion including a reinforcement portion covering therewith an end surface of the first sheet portion, an end surface of the second sheet portion, and at least a part of a surface of the second sheet portion in a part of the contact portion.
US09281595B2
A connector system is configured for macro motion. Two mating terminals are configured so that during macro motion cycles, the resistance between two terminals does not substantially increase. One terminal can have multiple, somewhat spherical-shaped mating surfaces while a mating surface on the other terminal can be flat. The mating terminals can be configured to provide desirable resistance performance after more than 5000 cycles of macro motion.
US09281593B2
A connector is for connection to a plate-like connection object. The connector includes contacts, a housing holding the contacts, and an operating member for connecting the connection object to the contacts. The operating member has a pair of rotating shaft portions spaced apart from each other in a right-left direction and is rotatably supported by the housing so as to be displaceable between an initial position and a connecting position. The housing has a receiving portion which is open upward. The receiving portion is adapted to receive, from obliquely front, insertion of the connection object and to receive the operating member when the operating member is in the connecting position. The housing further has protruding portions in the rear part of the receiving portion for preventing upward warping of the connection object. The protruding portions are located between the pair of rotating shaft portions.
US09281588B2
A female connector downsized by downsizing female-side contacts. Each female-side contact portion is formed of a first connection portion having an arm portion extending from a base portion in a width direction, a first supporting portion integrally connected to one end of the arm portion, and a second connection portion having a second supporting portion integrally connected to the other end of the arm portion. The first and second supporting portions extend in a direction away from the arm portion, and then extend toward the central portion of the arm portion. When a male connector and the female connector are fitted, each male-side contact portion is received outside an associated female-side contact portion and then is moved inside therefrom. Then, the male-side contact portion is sandwiched by a first and second contact point portions formed respectively at the first and second point portions.
US09281587B2
A thin connector comprises a first connector having a flat plate shape and a second connector having a flat plate shape superimposed on and fitted with each other, the first connector including first contacts arrayed in a direction, each first contact having a spring portion composed of a first metal member in a flat plate shape, a projection portion formed on the spring portion so as to protrude in a perpendicular direction to the plane of the first metal member, and a first contact portion formed on a side surface of the projection portion, the second connector including second contacts arrayed in a same direction as the direction in which the first contacts are arrayed, each second contact being composed of a second metal member in a flat plate shape and having a second contact portion formed on a side surface of the second metal member.
US09281574B2
A crimp terminal includes a pressure-bonding section to which at least a conductor tip of an insulated wire is connected by pressure bonding, the insulated wire in which a conductor is covered with an insulating cover and an insulating cover on a tip side is peeled to expose the conductor to obtain the conductor tip, and a terminal connection section to which another connection terminal is allowed to be connected. The terminal connection section and the pressure-bonding section are configured as different parts, and a connection section in which the terminal connection section and the pressure-bonding section are connected in series in the order named from a tip side to a rear side in a long length direction is configured.
US09281564B2
An antenna system is disclosed that provides a directional radiation field. The antenna system includes at least two monopole antennas, each of which provides a differential connector. Each differential connector is associated with a signal having a different phase such that a radiation field associated with said antenna system is other than a radiation field that would exist if each differential connector were associated with the signal having the same phase.
US09281560B2
Systems are provided for positioning passive reflectors, such a lens/mirror assemblies, and other types of reflectors that need to be pointed in a particular direction. The systems can effectuate control of both the elevation and azimuth angles of the reflector. The systems can be configured so that a mount can rotate so as to vary the azimuth angle of the reflector by 360° or more without a need to reverse the direction of rotation of the reflector, and without the use of slip rings, RF rotary joints, or electrical cable wraps.
US09281557B2
A multi bandwidth balun is provided, including a main signal port, a main inductor electrically connected to the main signal port, a first inductor inducted mutually with the main inductor to constitute a first inductor of a first conversion circuit, a first capacitor module connected in parallel to the first conversion circuit, two first signal ports electrically connected to the first capacitor module, a first main capacitor electrically connected to the first signal port and the first capacitor module therebetween, a second inductor inducted mutually with the main inductor to constitute a second inductor of a second conversion circuit, a second capacitor module connected in parallel to the second conversion circuit, two second signal ports electrically connected to the second capacitor module, and a second main capacitor electrically connected to the second signal port and the second capacitor module therebetween.
US09281552B2
A method for producing a radio frequency identification transponder includes forming a first groove in a conductive sheet such that a portion of said conductive sheet surrounds the first groove, attaching an RFID chip to the conductive sheet after the first groove has been formed such that the first groove is located between a first connecting element of the chip and a second connecting element of the chip, and forming a second groove in the conductive sheet after the chip has been attached so as to form an antenna element of said transponder.
US09281549B2
An electricity storage module includes: an electric storage unit block that is constituted by arraying a plurality of prismatic electric storage units through a holding member; and a cooling channel that is formed between the electric storage unit and the holding member, through which a cooling medium for cooling the electric storage unit flows. A part of a cooling medium inlet opening of the cooling channel is covered so that a flow speed of a cooling medium after flowing into the cooling channel is higher than a flow speed of a cooling medium before flowing into the cooling channel.
US09281542B2
An electricity storage device includes an electrode assembly configured such that first and second electrodes are layered. The electrode assembly includes two tab groups in each of which tabs of the first electrodes or the second electrodes having the same polarity are bundled. Each tab group and a conductive member are welded with each other by a welding portion. The welding portion has a mixed portion configured by mixing at least one of a metal that forms metal foils and a metal that forms the conductive member with a dissimilar metal that is different from the metal of the metal foils and has a higher electric resistivity than that of the metal of the metal foils.
US09281536B2
A fuel cell including at least one of a hydrophilic interlayer and a flow field treated to impart hydrophilic properties is disclosed, wherein the hydrophilic interlayer and the treated flow field militate against water accumulation in ultrathin electrodes of the fuel cell, particularly for cool-start operating conditions (i.e. about 0° C. to about 60° C.).
US09281529B2
A unitized electrode assembly (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) for a fuel cell includes, in addition to an anode catalyst layer (54; 254) and a cathode catalyst layer (56; 256), a polymer electrolyte membrane (52) having an acid functional group normally including H+ ions and an edge seal (66; 166; 266, 366, 466) containing alkali metal ions in a form, concentration, and/or location for delivery and dispersion into the membrane. The edge seal of the unitized electrode assembly is proximate, and typically contacts, the peripheral edge region (68) of the membrane in ion-transfer relation therewith, and alkali metal ions leach into the membrane during fuel cell operation to provide a desired ion exchange in the membrane. The alkali metal ions contained by the edge seal may be Li+, Na+, K+, Rb+, and/or Cs+, and may be included as a dopant with the material of the edge seal during its formation, or may be included as a discrete component of the edge seal, as by an ion-doped strip of membrane material contained by the edge seal. The edge seal thus serves as a “reservoir” of the alkali metal ions for release to the polymer electrolyte membrane for increased durability.
US09281520B2
A paste suitable for a negative plate of a lead-acid battery comprises at least (a) a lead-based active material and an expander mixture comprising (b) carbon, (c) barium sulfate and (d) a lignosulfonate, wherein at least part of at least two of said components (a) to (d) are present in the paste as composite particles.
US09281518B2
Methods for synthesizing metal nanoparticles and the nanoparticles so produced are provided. The methods include addition of surfactant to a novel reagent complex between zero-valent metal and a hydride. The nanoparticles produced by the method include oxide-free, zero-valent tin nanoparticles useful in fabricating a battery electrode.
US09281516B2
A cathode material of a lithium ion secondary battery is provided, which includes a cathode active material and a glassy material coating on a surface of the cathode active material. The glassy material is capable of selectively allowing lithium ions to pass therethrough. The lithium ion secondary battery using the cathode material has the long cycle life and the high safety performance.
US09281511B2
The battery cell have a first and a second current collector, wherein the first current collector is connected to part of both of, part of any one of, or the whole of any one of a pair of positive-electrode layer stack sections of an electrode assembly, the second current collector is connected to part of both of, part of any one of, or the whole of any one of a pair of negative-electrode layer stack sections, and a connecting location between the first current collector and the positive-electrode layer stack sections and a connecting location between the second current collector and the negative-electrode layer stack sections are set so as to be asymmetrical to each other with respect to a second virtual plane.
US09281498B2
An organic EL device that efficiently extracts light includes an organic EL element formed by laminating a first electrode layer, functional layer, and second electrode layer on a substrate and a sealing member sealing the organic EL element. The organic EL device has a first electrode communicating part electrically connected to the first electrode layer at one side of the substrate and a second electrode communicating part electrically connected to the second electrode layer at the other side of the substrate. The organic EL device has first cross grooves crossing the organic EL element from the second electrode layer located at the one side to the second electrode layer that is located at the other side. The first cross groove is formed by removing the first electrode layer, functional layer, and second electrode layer. The sealing member and the substrate are connected outside of the first cross grooves.
US09281497B2
It is known that a light-emitting element utilizing organic EL deteriorates due to moisture. Therefore, a sealing technique to prevent moisture permeation is important. A light-emitting device including a light-emitting element utilizing organic EL is manufactured over a support substrate having flexibility and a high heat dissipation property (e.g., stainless steel or duralumin), and the light-emitting device is sealed with a stack body having moisture impermeability and a high light-transmitting property or with glass having moisture impermeability and a high light-transmitting property and having a thickness greater than or equal to 20 μm and less than or equal to 100 μm.
US09281492B2
According to the present invention, an electro-optic device comprises: a substrate which is split into a light emitting unit and a non-light emitting unit, wherein said light emitting unit is divided into a plurality of driving regions; an electrode pad which is formed in the non-light emitting unit of the substrate; and an electrode unit which comprises a plurality of supplementary electrodes each of which has one end connected to the electrode pad and has the other end connected to the centers of each of the plurality of driving regions, and transparent electrodes formed on the upper sides of the plurality of supplementary electrodes in the light emitting unit, wherein the area of each of the plurality of driving regions is set to an area in which no voltage drop occurs, and the plurality of supplementary electrodes are manufactured in the same length. Thus, according to the present invention, if power is supplied to each one end of the plurality of supplementary electrodes by using the electrode pad, the power is transmitted, at the same time, to the other ends of each of the plurality of supplementary electrodes. Therefore, the power is simultaneously supplied to each center of the plurality of driving regions regardless of the distance between the electrode pad and the driving regions. Further, as mentioned above, a voltage drop phenomenon is prevented since the light emitting unit is divided into the plurality of driving regions in which no voltage drop occurs. That is to say, uniform currents can flow on the front side of each driving region irrespective of the distance between the supplementary electrodes and the driving regions. Consequently, a large-scaled organic light emitting device which can show uniform brightness properties in the overall light emitting unit can be manufactured.
US09281487B2
Provided is a white organic light emitting diode device, including first and second electrodes facing each other above a substrate, first and second charge generation layers formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first stack disposed between the first electrode and the first charge generation layer and including a first light emitting layer, a second stack disposed between the first charge generation layer and the second charge generation layer and including a second light emitting layer, and a third stack disposed between the second charge generation layer and the second electrode and including a third light emitting layer, wherein two of the first to third light emitting layers emit a blue light and the rest light emitting layer emits a yellow-green light.
US09281485B2
For simplification of a structure and a manufacturing process of an element, and reduction of manufacturing cost, the present disclosure provides a light-receiving device including: a photoelectric conversion element; and an active element, wherein the active element includes at least one of a reset element configured to reset the photoelectric conversion element, an amplifier element configured to amplify a detection signal based on the photoelectric conversion element, or a selection element configured to selectively output the detection signal based on the photoelectric conversion element, and the photoelectric conversion element and at least part of the active element are formed by using an identical organic semiconductor material or an identical high molecular functional material.
US09281477B2
To provide a resistance change element which does not require a forming process and enables reduction of power consumption and miniaturization of the element, and to provide a method for producing it. A resistance change element 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a bottom electrode layer 3, a top electrode layer 5 and an oxide semiconductor layer 4. The oxide semiconductor layer 4 has a first metal oxide layer 41 and a second metal oxide layer 42. The first metal oxide layer 41 is formed between the bottom electrode layer 3 and the top electrode layer 5, and in ohmic contact with the bottom electrode layer 3. The second metal oxide layer 42 is formed between the first metal oxide layer 41 and the top electrode layer 5, and in ohmic contact with the top electrode layer 5.
US09281476B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a resistive memory and a method for fabricating the same. The resistive memory comprises a bottom electrode, a resistive layer and a top electrode. The resistive layer is located over the bottom electrode. The top electrode is located over the resistive layer. A conductive protrusion is provided on the bottom electrode. The conductive protrusion is embedded in the resistive layer, and has a top width smaller than a bottom width. Embodiments of the present invention further disclose a method for fabricating a resistive memory. According to the resistive memory and the method for fabricating the same provided by the embodiments of the present invention, by means of providing the conductive protrusion on the bottom electrode, a “lightning rod” effect may be occurred so that an electric field in the resistive layer is intensively distributed near the conductive protrusion. This significantly increases the possibility of generation of a conductive filament at the conductive protrusion, so that the conductive filament is not randomly formed. Thus, the stability of various parameters of the resistive memory is ensured, and thus the reliability and stability of the operation of the resistive memory are dramatically increased.
US09281474B2
A variable resistance memory according to an embodiment includes: a first wiring; a second wiring provided above the first wiring and intersecting with the first wiring; a third wiring provided above the second wiring and intersecting with the second wiring; a first variable resistance element provided in an intersection region between the first wiring and the second wiring, the first variable resistance element including a first variable resistance layer formed on the first wiring, and an ion source electrode provided on the first variable resistance layer and penetrating through the second wiring, the ion source electrode being connected to the second wiring and including metal atoms; and a second variable resistance element provided in an intersection region between the second wiring and the third wiring, the second variable resistance element including a second variable resistance layer formed on the ion source electrode.
US09281471B2
Memory devices and methods for fabricating memory devices have been disclosed. One such memory device includes a first electrode material formed on a word line material. A selector device material is formed on the first electrode material. A second electrode material is formed on the selector device material. A phase change material is formed on the second electrode material. A third electrode material is formed on the phase change material. An adhesion species is plasma doped into sidewalls of the memory stack and a liner material is formed on the sidewalls of the memory stack. The adhesion species intermixes with an element of the memory stack and the sidewall liner to terminate unsatisfied atomic bonds of the element and the sidewall liner.
US09281470B2
In a plasma processing method for plasma-etching magnetic layer by using a plasma processing device including a processing chamber in which a sample is plasma-processed, a dielectric window to seal an upper part of the processing chamber hermetically, an inductive coupling antenna disposed above the dielectric window, a radio-frequency power source to supply radio-frequency electric power to the inductive coupling antenna and a Faraday shield disposed between the inductive coupling antenna and the dielectric window, a deposit layer is formed on the plasma-etched magnetic layer by plasma processing while applying radio-frequency voltage to the Faraday shield after the magnetic layer is plasma-etched.
US09281465B2
A piezoelectric element includes first internal electrodes and second electrodes, as well as piezoelectric ceramic layers that are made of ceramics and arranged between the first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes. Manganese is present relatively more abundantly in the areas of the piezoelectric ceramic layers adjacent to the first internal electrodes and second internal electrodes, compared to at the centers of the piezoelectric ceramic layers. Insulation performance of the piezoelectric element is kept from dropping over the course of use.
US09281457B2
Provided is a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device, in which the semiconductor device has a semiconductor element having a plurality of wires bonded to the semiconductor element with sufficient bonding reliability and has a good heat dissipation property. A semiconductor device in which a first wire is ball bonded on an electrode, and a second wire is further bonded on the ball-bonded first wire, and the first wire or an end of the second wire defines a space between itself and the ball portion of the first wire.
US09281449B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting cells separated from each other and disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of conductive interconnection layers electrically connecting two neighboring light emitting cells. Each light emitting cell includes a light emitting structure including a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a first electrode, a second electrode, and an etching area. The light emitting structure further includes a first side surface and a second side surface, and if a width between the first side surface and the second side surface is defined as W, the second electrode is disposed in an area between a position separated from the first side surface by ⅕ W and a position separated from the first side surface of the light emitting structure by ½ W.
US09281448B2
A light emitting device including a contact layer, a blocking layer over the contact layer, a protection layer adjacent the blocking layer, a light emitter over the blocking layer, and an electrode layer coupled to the light emitter. The electrode layer overlaps the blocking layer and protection layer, and the blocking layer has an electrical conductivity that substantially blocks flow of current from the light emitter in a direction towards the contact layer. In addition, the protection layer may be conductive to allow current to flow to the light emitter or non-conductive to block current from flowing from the light emitter towards the contact layer.
US09281438B2
A group III element nitride single crystal is grown on a template immersed in a raw material liquid retained in a crucible and containing a group III material and one of an alkali metal and an alkali earth metal. The raw material liquid remaining after the growth of the single crystal is cooled and solidified, and by feeding a hydroxyl group-containing solution into the crucible, the solidified raw material is removed from around the template, and thus the group III element nitride single crystal is taken out from inside the solidified raw material. The template is disposed at a position away from the bottom of the crucible.
US09281432B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a PN junction formed between an N-type oxide layer and a P-type oxide layer, in which the N-type oxide layer is formed of an oxide having a perovskite structure containing titanium and strontium, a part of strontium is substituted with a +3 valence metal element or a part of titanium is substituted with a +5 valence metal element, and the amount of the metal element substituted in the N-type oxide layer is 0.01 mass % to 0.75 mass %.
US09281428B2
A mounting system for mounting photovoltaic panels on a support structure. The mounting system comprises photovoltaic panel frames in which the photovoltaic panels are mounted, panel support rails, and mounting brackets or cross beams for supporting the panel support rails. The panel frames have inwardly extending panel frame extensions on their back side. The panel support rails are mounted on the support structure with either pivoting brackets or cross beams. In either case, the support rails have pairs of stationary clamps and movable clamps with clamp lips that engage the panel frame extensions of the panel frames.
US09281424B2
An electromagnetic energy concentrator uses a prism and waveguide with a gap layer of uniform thickness disposed between the prism and a first surface of waveguide. Energy detectors, which may be photovoltaics or miniaturized antenna elements are disposed adjacent to and co-extensive with a second surface of the waveguide. The detectors operate in each of at least two bands; a distance between detectors operating in a given band depends on a wavelength in the given band.
US09281417B1
A semiconductor device includes a first active layer disposed over a substrate. The second active layer is disposed on the first active layer. The second active layer has a higher bandgap than the first active layer such that a two-dimensional electron gas layer arises between the first active layer and the second active layer. The first electrode establishes a Schottky junction with the second active layer. The first electrode includes a first electrode pad and a first series of fingers in electrical contact with the first electrode pad. The second electrode establishes an ohmic junction with the first active layer. The second electrode includes a second electrode pad and a second series of fingers in electrical contact with the second electrode pad. The first and second series of electrode fingers form an interdigitated pattern. The first electrode pad is located over the first and second series of electrode fingers.
US09281414B2
According to example embodiments of inventive concepts, a semiconductor device includes: a substrate, and a stacked structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately stacked on the substrate. The stacked structure defines a through-hole over the substrate. The gate electrodes each include a first portion between the through-hole and a second portion of the gate electrodes. A channel pattern may be in the through-hole. A tunneling layer may surround the channel pattern. A charge trap layer may surround the tunneling layer, and protective patterns may surround the first portions of the gate electrodes. The protective patterns may be between the first portions of the gate electrodes and the charge trap layer.
US09281405B2
A bottom-gate transistor with a short channel length and a method for manufacturing the transistor are provided. A bottom-gate transistor with a short channel length in which portions of a source electrode and a drain electrode which are proximate to a channel formation region are thinner than other portions thereof was devised. In addition, the portions of the source electrode and the drain electrode which are proximate to the channel formation region are formed in a later step than the other portions thereof, whereby a bottom-gate transistor with a short channel length can be manufactured.
US09281401B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations to reduce transistor gate short defects. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a plurality of lines, wherein individual lines of the plurality of lines comprise a gate electrode material, depositing an electrically insulative material to fill regions between the individual lines and subsequent to depositing the electrically insulative material, removing a portion of at least one of the individual lines to isolate gate electrode material of a first transistor device from gate electrode material of a second transistor device. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09281397B2
A semiconductor device (e.g., field effect transistor (FET)) having an asymmetric feature, includes a first gate formed on a substrate, first and second diffusion regions formed in the substrate on a side of the first gate, and first and second contacts which contact the first and second diffusion regions, respectively, the first contact being asymmetric with respect to the second contact.
US09281394B2
A semiconductor power device may include a lightly doped layer formed on a heavily doped layer. One or more devices are formed in the lightly doped layer. Each device may include a body region, a source region, and one or more gate electrodes formed in corresponding trenches in the lightly doped region. Each of the trenches has a depth in a first dimension, a width in a second dimension and a length in a third dimension. The body region is of opposite conductivity type to the lightly and heavily doped layers. The source region is formed proximate the upper surface. One or more deep contacts are formed at one or more locations along the third dimension proximate one or more of the trenches. The contacts extend in the first direction from the upper surface into the lightly doped layer and are in electrical contact with the source region.
US09281392B2
A charge-compensation semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body including a first surface, a second surface arranged opposite to the first surface, an edge delimiting the semiconductor body in a horizontal direction substantially parallel to the first surface, a drain region of a of a first conductivity type extending to the second surface, an active area, and a peripheral area arranged between the active area and the edge, a source metallization arranged on the first surface, and a drain metallization arranged on the drain region and in Ohmic contact with the drain region. In a vertical cross-section substantially orthogonal to the first surface the charge-compensation semiconductor device further includes: an equipotential region in Ohmic contact with the drain metallization and arranged in the peripheral area and next to the first surface, a low-doped semiconductor region arranged in the peripheral area and having a first concentration of dopants, and a plurality of first pillar regions alternating with second pillar regions in the active area and the peripheral area. The first pillar regions having a second concentration of dopants of the first conductivity type higher than the first concentration and are in Ohmic contact with the drain region. The second pillar regions are of a second conductivity type and in Ohmic contact with the source metallization. At least one of an outermost of the first pillar regions and an outermost of the second pillar regions forms an interface with the low-doped semiconductor region. A horizontal distance between the interface and the equipotential region divided by a vertical distance between the first surface and the drain region is in a range from about 0.5 to about 3.
US09281388B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of composite semiconductor devices. In one implementation, such a composite semiconductor device includes a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) substrate including a diode and an insulator layer. The composite semiconductor device also includes a transition body formed over the diode, and a transistor formed over the transition body. The diode is connected across the transistor using through-semiconductor vias, external electrical connectors, or a combination of the two.
US09281384B2
Structures and methods for blocking ultraviolet rays during a film depositing process for semiconductor device are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) film formed on a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode formed on the ONO film, a lower layer insulation film formed on the ONO film and the gate electrode, and a ultraviolet (UV) blocking layer based on a plurality of granular particles scattered in at least one insulation film formed on lower layer insulation film, where the UV blocking layer suppresses UV rays generated during an additional film deposition from reaching the ONO film.
US09281379B1
A gate-all around fin double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) devices and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of fin structures from a substrate. The method further includes forming a well of a first conductivity type and a second conductivity type within the substrate and corresponding fin structures of the plurality of fin structures. The method further includes forming a source contact on an exposed portion of a first fin structure. The method further comprises forming drain contacts on exposed portions of adjacent fin structures to the first fin structure. The method further includes forming a gate structure in a dielectric fill material about the first fin structure and extending over the well of the first conductivity type.
US09281372B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure includes a gate structure disposed over a substrate, wherein the gate structure includes a high-k dielectric layer and a work function structure. The high-k dielectric layer includes a base portion and a side portion, the side portion is extended from an end of the base portion, the side portion is substantially orthogonal to the base portion. The work function structure includes a first metal disposed over the high-k dielectric layer and a second metal disposed over the first metal and including a bottom portion and a sidewall portion extended from an end of the bottom portion, wherein the first metal includes different materials from the second metal, and a length of an interface between the sidewall portion and the bottom portion to a length of the bottom portion within the high-k dielectric layer is in a predetermined ratio.
US09281370B2
A manufacturing method according to an embodiment of this invention is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, which has: a first step of forming a first electrode 22 containing Ti or Ta on a top face of a nitride semiconductor layer 18; a second step of forming a second electrode 24 containing Al on a top face of the first electrode 22; a third step of forming a coating metal layer 26 covering at least one of an edge of a top face of the second electrode 24 and a side face of the second electrode 24, having a window 26a exposing the top face of the second electrode 24 in a region separated from the foregoing edge, and containing at least one of Ta, Mo, Pd, Ni, and Ti; and a step of performing a thermal treatment, after the third step.
US09281365B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region, a first electrode, a first insulating section, and a second insulating section. The first semiconductor region includes silicon carbide, is of a first conductivity type and includes first and second parts. The second semiconductor region includes silicon carbide, is of a second conductivity type and is provided on the second part. The third semiconductor region includes silicon carbide, is of the first conductivity type and is provided on the second semiconductor region. The first electrode is provided on the first part and the third semiconductor region. The first insulating section is provided on the third semiconductor region and juxtaposed with the first electrode. The second insulating section is provided between the first electrode and the first part and between the first electrode and the first insulating section.
US09281357B2
A method for forming a capacitor stack includes forming a first bottom electrode layer including a conductive metal nitride material. A second bottom electrode layer is formed above the first bottom electrode layer. The second bottom electrode layer includes a conductive metal oxide material, wherein the crystal structure of the conductive metal oxide material promotes a desired high-k crystal phase of a subsequently deposited dielectric layer. A dielectric layer is formed above the second bottom electrode layer. Optionally, an oxygen-rich metal oxide layer is formed above the dielectric layer. Optionally, a third top electrode layer is formed above the oxygen-rich metal oxide layer. The third top electrode layer includes a conductive metal oxide material. A fourth top electrode layer is formed above the third top electrode layer. The fourth top electrode layer includes a conductive metal nitride material.
US09281353B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, there are provided an organic semiconductor array substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The organic thin film transistor array substrate comprises a pixel structure formed on a transparent substrate; the pixel structure includes: a gate line, a data line, an organic thin film transistor, a pixel electrode, a common electrode line and a common electrode; the organic thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an organic semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode; above the data line, the source electrode, the drain electrode and the pixel electrode, there are disposed in order a first bank insulating layer and a second bank insulating layer from bottom to top; and at openings and through holes of the first bank insulating layer and the second bank insulating layer, the pixel structure is formed by printing.
US09281340B2
A manufacturing method for a photoelectric conversion apparatus in which a microlens is arranged for multiple electric charge accumulation regions formed on a semiconductor substrate, includes forming a first impurity region of a first conductive type on the semiconductor substrate; and forming a second impurity region of a second conductive type that is opposite the first conductive type in a part of the first impurity region to isolate the first impurity region into multiple regions such that each of the multiple electric charge accumulation regions includes isolated first impurity regions.
US09281337B2
A solid-state imaging device in which a pixel circuit formed on the first surface side of a semiconductor substrate is shared by a plurality of light reception regions and second surface side of the semiconductor substrate is the light incident side of the light reception regions. The second surface side regions of the light reception regions are arranged at approximately even intervals and the first surface side regions of the light reception regions e are arranged at uneven intervals. Respective second surface side regions and first surface side regions are joined in the semiconductor substrate so that the light reception regions extend from the second surface side to the first surface side of the semiconductor substrate.
US09281328B2
According to one embodiment, an image sensor includes an image-sensing element region formed by arranging a plurality of image-sensing elements on a semiconductor substrate and element isolation portions formed to isolate the image-sensing elements, and a logic circuit region formed in a region different from the image-sensing element region on the substrate and including a plurality of gate patterns. Further, dummy element isolation portions are arranged with a constant pitch in the boundary region between the image-sensing element region and the logic circuit region.
US09281326B2
The invention provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, and a display panel, the array substrate includes a plurality of thin film transistors, and the method includes: S1. preparing a base substrate on which sources and drains of the thin film transistors are formed; S2. forming an insulation layer on the base substrate such that the insulation layer includes spacer regions and a plurality of strip-shaped electrode regions, and every two adjacent strip-shaped electrode regions are separated from each other by the spacer region; S3. forming a spacer layer on the spacer regions of the insulation layer; S4. forming a pattern including strip-shaped electrodes on the strip-shaped electrode regions of the insulation layer; S5. peeling off the spacer layer on the spacer region. The invention can prevent every two adjacent strip-shaped electrodes from interconnecting due to etching residues, so as to improve product performance.
US09281325B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. As for the method of manufacturing the array substrate, the common electrode and the pixel electrode are formed by a single process simultaneously. Therefore, the problems of process complexity and the higher costs in the existing manufacturing process of array substrate can be solved.
US09281316B2
A semiconductor device includes stacked groups each including interlayer insulating patterns and conductive patterns and stacked in at least two tiers, wherein the insulating patterns and the conductive patterns are alternately stacked over a substrate and separated by slits, and a support body including holes and formed between the stacked groups.
US09281313B2
A non-volatile memory cell that includes a semiconductor substrate; a coupling capacitor located in a first active region of the semiconductor substrate; and at a shared second active region of the semiconductor substrate, a sense transistor and a tunnelling capacitor configured in parallel with the gate of the sense transistor. The coupling capacitor, sense transistor and tunnelling capacitor share a common floating gate electrode and the sense transistor includes source and drain regions arranged such that the tunnelling capacitor is defined by an overlap between the floating gate electrode and the drain region of the sense transistor. Word-line contacts may be to a separate active area from the coupling capacitor. This and/or other features can help to reduce Frenkel-Poole conduction.
US09281309B2
Methods and devices depicting fabrication of non-planar access devices having fins and narrow trenches, among which is a method that includes wet etching a conductor to form a recessed region and subsequently etching the conductor to form gates on the fins. The wet etching may include formation of recesses which are may be backfilled with a fill material to form spacers on the conductor. Portions of a plug may be removed during the wet etch to form overhanging spacers to provide further protection of the conductor during the dry etch.
US09281302B2
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an enhanced three dimensional (3D) semiconductor stack. A chip carrier has an aperture of a first length and first width. A first chip has at least one of a second length greater than the first length or a second width greater than the first width; a second chip attached to the first chip, the second chip having at least one of a third length less than the first length or a third width less than the first width; the first chip attached to the chip carrier by connections in an overlap region defined by at least one of the first and second lengths or the first and second widths; the second chip extending into the aperture; and a heat spreader attached to the chip carrier and in thermal contact with the first chip for dissipating heat from both the first chip and second chip.
US09281300B2
A semiconductor package includes a ball grid array (BGA) substrate having integrated metal layer circuitry, a flip chip chip scale module package (CSMP) having a first integrated passive device (IPD), the flip chip chip scale module package attached to the BGA substrate, and an application die attached to the IPD. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes providing a BGA substrate having integrated metal layer circuitry, attaching a flip chip CSMP having a first IPD to the BGA substrate, and attaching an application die to the IPD.
US09281295B2
A microelectronic package includes a substrate, first and second microelectronic elements, and a heat spreader. The substrate has terminals thereon configured for electrical connection with a component external to the package. The first microelectronic element is adjacent the substrate and the second microelectronic element is at least partially overlying the first microelectronic element. The heat spreader is sheet-like, separates the first and second microelectronic elements, and includes an aperture. Connections extend through the aperture and electrically couple the second microelectronic element with the substrate.
US09281294B2
A multi-chip semiconductor device includes a plate-shaped first semiconductor chip having a first connection portion in which a first semiconductor chip electrode is formed on a first main surface of the first semiconductor chip or on a first side surface vertical to the first main surface, and a plate-shaped second semiconductor chip having a second connection portion in which a second semiconductor chip electrode is formed on a second side surface vertical to a second main surface of the second semiconductor chip. Each of the first and second connection portions includes at least an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to each of the first and second main surfaces. The first connection portion and the second connection portion are connected to each other such that the first main surface of the first semiconductor chip and the second main surface of the second semiconductor chip are vertical to each other.
US09281293B2
Microelectronic packages having layered interconnect structures are provided, as are methods for the fabrication thereof. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a first plurality of interconnect lines in ohmic contact with a first bond pad row provided on a semiconductor. A dielectric layer is deposited over the first plurality of interconnect lines, the first bond pad row, and a second bond pad row adjacent the first bond pad row. A trench via is then formed in the dielectric layer to expose at least the second bond pad row therethrough. A second plurality of interconnect lines is formed in ohmic contact with the second bond pad row within the trench via. The second plurality of interconnect lines extends over the first bond pad row and is electrically isolated therefrom by the dielectric layer to produce at least a portion of the layered interconnect structure.
US09281290B2
A bond head for thermal compression die bonding comprises a collet operative to support a die on a first side of the collet during die bonding and a bond head heater located on a second side of the collet opposite to the first side for heating the collet and the die. A die vacuum suction hole on the bond head heater applies a vacuum suction force to hold the collet, and a collet vacuum suction hole on the bond head heater applies a vacuum suction force to hold the die. At least one vacuum distribution channel that is formed on the second side of the collet is in fluid communication with the collet vacuum suction hole and distributes the vacuum suction force across a surface of the second side of the collet for securing the collet.
US09281285B1
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a termination circuit configured to mitigate crosstalk from a radio frequency (RF) input/output (I/O) path to a second I/O path, such as a digital I/O path. Such crosstalk can be due to coupling between adjacent bond wires, for example. The termination circuit can include a low impedance loss path, such as a series RC shunt circuit. According to certain embodiments, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit can be in parallel with the termination circuit.
US09281284B2
System-in-Packages (SiPs) and methods for producing SiPs are provided. In one embodiment, the above-described SiP fabrication method includes the step or process of forming a through-hole in a core package, the core package containing an electrically-conducive routing feature exposed at a sidewall surface of the through-hole. A leaded component is positioned adjacent the core package such that an elongated lead of the leaded component extends into the through-hole. An electrically-conductive material, such as solder, is then applied into the through hole to electrically couple the elongated lead of the leaded component to the electrically-conductive routing feature of the core package.
US09281283B2
Embodiments of semiconductor devices (e.g., RF devices) include a substrate, an isolation structure, an active device, a lead, and a circuit. The isolation structure is coupled to the substrate, and includes an opening. An active device area is defined by a portion of the substrate surface that is exposed through the opening. The active device is coupled to the substrate surface within the active device area. The circuit is electrically coupled between the active device and the lead. The circuit includes one or more elements positioned outside the active device area (e.g., physically coupled to the isolation structure and/or under the lead). The elements positioned outside the active device area may include elements of an envelope termination circuit and/or an impedance matching circuit. Embodiments also include method of manufacturing such semiconductor devices.
US09281273B1
Semiconductor structures are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of gate structures extending in a first direction formed over a substrate and a contact formed adjacent to the gate structures over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a plurality of metal layers formed over the gate structures. In addition, some of the metal layers include metal lines extending in the first direction, and some of the metal layers include metal lines extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Furthermore, the gate structures follow the following equation: 0.2 P gate min + 0.35 L gate min + 0.3 H gate min - 20 0.2 L gate min + 0.8 H gate min - 5 × 0.3 L gate min + 0.3 H gate min + 5 38 ≤ 0.32 Pgate min is the minimum value among gate pitches of the gate structures. Lgate min is the minimum value among gate lengths of the gate structures. Hgate min is the minimum value among gate heights of the gate structures.
US09281272B2
The present invention is capable of suppressing a variation in the characteristics of a semiconductor device. In a conductor pattern CPA and a conductor pattern CPB arranged so as to run side by side with each other, the conductor pattern CPA is divided into a first portion P1 (A) and a second portion P2 (A), and the conductor pattern CPB is also divided into a first portion P1 (B) and a second portion P2 (B). The first portion P1 (A) of the conductor pattern CPA and the second portion P2 (B) of the conductor pattern CPB are formed by first patterning using the same first mask, while the second portion P2 (A) of the conductor pattern CPA and the first portion P1 (B) of the conductor pattern CPB are formed by second patterning using the same second mask.
US09281268B2
A multi-level interposer plate and a multi-chip module (MCM) that includes the multi-level interposer plate are described. First surfaces and second surfaces in different regions of the multi-level interposer plate have associated, different thicknesses. Moreover, first micro-spring connectors and second micro-spring connectors are respectively disposed on the first surfaces and the second surfaces. In the MCM, a given one of the first surfaces of the multi-level interposer plate faces a bridge chip in a first layer in an array of chips in the MCM so that first connectors, disposed on the bridge chip, mechanically and electrically couple to the first micro-spring connectors. Similarly, a given one of the second surfaces of the multi-level interposer plate faces an island chip in a second layer in the array of chips so that second connectors, disposed on the island chip, mechanically and electrically couple to the second micro-spring connectors.
US09281248B1
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a semiconducting surface having formed therein a first active region and a second active region, where the first active region consists of a substantially undoped layer at the surface and a highly doped screening layer of a first conductivity type beneath the first substantially undoped layer, and the second active region consists of a second substantially undoped layer at the surface and a second highly doped screening layer of a second conductivity type beneath the second substantially undoped layer. The semiconductor device also includes a gate stack formed in each of the first active region and the second active region consists of at least one gate dielectric layer and a layer of a metal, where the metal has a workfunction that is substantially midgap with respect to the semiconducting surface.
US09281244B1
Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. In an example, a method of dicing a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits involves forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask composed of a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask is then patterned with an adaptive optics-controlled laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask with gaps, exposing regions of the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. The semiconductor wafer is then plasma etched through the gaps in the patterned mask to singulate the integrated circuits.
US09281242B2
A through silicon via (TSV) stacked structure made of stacked substrates. Each substrate includes multiple tapered through silicon vias, wherein the wider end of each tapered through silicon via is provided with a recessed portion and the narrower end of each tapered through silicon via protrudes from the substrate. The substrates are stacked one after another with the narrower end of each tapered through silicon via being fitting and jointing into a corresponding recessed portion of the tapered through silicon via.
US09281236B2
Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure containing a back end of line randomly patterned interconnect structure for implementing a physical unclonable function (PUF), a method for forming the semiconductor device, and a circuit for enabling the interconnect structure to implement the physical unclonable function. The method includes forming a semiconductor substrate and a dielectric layer on the substrate. The randomly patterned interconnect structure is formed in the dielectric layer. The random pattern of the interconnect structure is used to implement the physical unclonable function and is a result of defect occurrences during the manufacturing of the semiconductor structure. The circuit includes n-channel and p-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) and the randomly patterned interconnect structure, which acts as electrical connections between the MOSFETs. The random electrical connections between MOSFETs are utilized for generation of unique keys for purposes such as authentication or identification.
US09281233B2
A method of preparing a monocrystalline donor substrate, the method comprising (a) implanting helium ions through the front surface of the monocrystalline donor substrate to an average depth D1 as measured from the front surface toward the central plane; (b) implanting hydrogen ions through the front surface of the monocrystalline donor substrate to an average depth D2 as measured from the front surface toward the central plane; and (c) annealing the monocrystalline donor substrate at a temperature sufficient to form a cleave plane in the monocrystalline donor substrate. The average depth D1 and the average depth D2 are within about 1000 angstroms.
US09281230B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for massive manufacturing a hierarchical structure that can hierarchically form high performance micro units one a flexible substrate. For this purpose, an apparatus for manufacturing a hierarchical structure according to the present invention is provided to layer micro units provided on a dummy substrate that is made of a hard material on a target substrate that is made of a flexible material by releasing the micro units from the dummy substrate. The apparatus includes: a transfer stage flat-transferring the dummy substrate by supporting the same and a main roller rolling the target substrate by winding the same as the transfer stage proceeds and layering the micro unit of the dummy substrate on the target substrate.
US09281224B2
An apparatus and an associated method for receiving and positioning a plurality of spaced-apart power semiconductor modules using a molded positioning body. The molded positioning body has a planar first main face and a plurality of receptacles for receiving the power semiconductor modules therein. Each receptacle has a stop means, by which a main face of each power semiconductor module is positioned plane-parallel with one another and in alignment with the first main face of the molded positioning body. The receptacle is embodied as tapering inwardly in the direction of the first main face, beginning at the second main face.
US09281220B2
Disclosed are a liquid processing device, and a liquid processing method. The liquid processing method includes a first process that includes supplying a first processing liquid to the substrate and discharging the first processing liquid within the processing space from a first discharge path, a second process that includes supplying a second processing liquid to the substrate and discharging the second processing liquid within the processing space from the second discharge path, and after stop supplying of the first processing liquid and prior to beginning of the second process, a nozzle switching operation switching from the first nozzle to the second nozzle and a discharge mechanism switching operation switching from the first discharge path to the second discharge path are performed. A longer one of a time to switch the nozzle and a time to switch the discharge mechanism is determined as a maximum preparation time and the switching operations begin at an earlier time than the completion time of the first process by the maximum preparation time or more.
US09281219B2
Embodiments include a method for securing a membrane material to a gate of a molecular receptor-based chemical field-effect transistor (CHEMFET). The method can include casting a membrane material onto an exposed region of the gate, curing the membrane material, placing the CHEMFET into a mold, inserting a single application of impervious electrically insulative resin into the mold, and securing edges of the membrane material by the single application of the impervious electrically insulative resin, thereby physically preventing lifting off of the membrane material from the gate. Embodiments include a sensor module. The sensor module can include a CHEMFET, an amplifier circuit, one or more sensor pins for contacting field ground soil, a data logger, and a wireless transceiver, among other components.
US09281212B1
A process for patterning a hard mask material with line-space patterns below a 30 nm pitch and a 15 nm critical dimension by employing a spin-on titanium-silicon (TiSi) polymer or oligomer as a tone inversion material is provided. The spin-on TiSi material is spin-coated over a patterned OPL that includes a first pattern generated from a DSA based process. The spin-on TiSi material fill trenches within the patterned OPL to form a tone inverted pattern by removing the patterned OPL selective to the spin-on TiSi material. The inverted pattern is a complementary pattern to the first pattern, and is transferred into the underlying hard mask material by an anisotropic etch.
US09281205B2
A method for etching an ultra thin film is provided which includes providing a substrate having the ultra thin film formed thereon, patterning a photosensitive layer formed over the ultra thin film, etching the ultra thin film using the patterned photosensitive layer, and removing the patterned photosensitive layer. The etching process includes utilizing an etch material with a diffusion resistant carrier such that the etch material is prevented from diffusing to a region underneath the photosensitive layer and removing portions of the ultra thin film underneath the photosensitive layer.
US09281199B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the following steps. First, a first interlayer dielectric is formed on a substrate. Then, a gate electrode is formed on the substrate so that the periphery of the gate electrode is surrounded by the first interlayer dielectric. Afterwards, a patterned mask layer is formed on the gate electrode, and a bottom surface of the patterned mask layer is level with a top surface of the first interlayer dielectric. A spacer is then formed on each sidewall of the gate electrode. Subsequently, a second interlayer dielectric is formed to cover a top surface and each side surface of the patterned mask layer. Finally, a self-aligned contact structure is formed in the first interlayer dielectric and the second interlayer dielectric.
US09281197B2
A semiconductor wafer is set in a laser irradiation apparatus, and laser beam irradiation is performed while the semiconductor wafer is moved. At this time, a laser beam emitted from a laser generating apparatus is condensed by a condensing lens so that the condensing point (focal point) is positioned at a depth of several tens ofμm or so from one surface of the semiconductor wafer. Thereby, the crystal structure of the semiconductor wafer in the position having such a depth is modified, and a gettering sink is formed.
US09281192B2
An IC device manufacturing process effectuates a planar recessing of material that initially varies in height across a substrate. The method includes forming a polymer coating, CMP to form a planar surface, then plasma etching to effectuate a planar recessing of the polymer coating. The material can be recessed together with the polymer coating, or subsequently with the recessed polymer coating providing a mask. Any of the material above a certain height is removed. Structures that are substantially below that certain height can be protected from contamination and left intact. The polymer can be a photoresist. The polymer can be provided with suitable adhesion and uniformity for the CMP process through a two-step baking process and by exhausting the baking chamber from below the substrate.
US09281185B2
Methods for passivating a nanotube fabric layer within a nanotube switching device to prevent or otherwise limit the encroachment of an adjacent material layer are disclosed. In some embodiments, a sacrificial material is implanted within a porous nanotube fabric layer to fill in the voids within the porous nanotube fabric layer while one or more other material layers are applied adjacent to the nanotube fabric layer. Once the other material layers are in place, the sacrificial material is removed. In other embodiments, a non-sacrificial filler material (selected and deposited in such a way as to not impair the switching function of the nanotube fabric layer) is used to form a barrier layer within a nanotube fabric layer. In other embodiments, individual nanotube elements are combined with and nanoscopic particles to limit the porosity of a nanotube fabric layer.
US09281183B2
A method of fabricating a III-nitride semiconductor device, including growing an III-nitride semiconductor and an oxide sequentially to form an oxide/III-nitride interface, without exposure to air in between growth of the oxide and growth of the III-nitride semiconductor.
US09281175B2
In some embodiments, a time of flight mass spectrometer can comprise an input orifice for receiving ions, a first ion accelerator stage for accelerating the ions along a first path, at least one ion reflector for receiving said accelerated ions and redirecting said ions along a second path different than the first path, a detector for detecting at least a portion of the ions redirected by said at least one ion reflector, and at least first and second field free drift regions disposed between said first acceleration stage and said detector, wherein said second field free region is disposed in proximity of the detector. In some embodiments, the lengths of the field free drift regions can be selected so as to provide 1st and 2nd order corrections of the time of flight of the ions with respect to variation in their initial positions.
US09281171B2
A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a mass selective ion trap or mass analyzer arranged upstream of an ion guide. Ions are scanned out of the mass selective ion trap or mass analyzer and are received in one or more axial potential wells created or formed within the ion guide. One or more transient DC voltages or potentials are preferably applied to the ion guide in order to create a plurality of axial potential wells which are translated along the length of the ion guide. Ions are released in packets from the exit of the ion guide and are orthogonally acceleration into a drift or flight region of an orthogonal acceleration Time of Flight mass analyzer with a relatively high duty cycle.
US09281170B2
Ions with a predetermined range of ion mobilities are produced by filtering input ions with at least two consecutive ion mobility high pass and/or low pass filters. Each ion mobility filter is formed by entraining ions in a moving gas and applying a DC electric field to the ions which causes the ions to move in a direction opposite to the gas flow. An ion mobility high pass filter is formed when the DC electric field drives the ions against the flow of gas, whereas an ion mobility low pass filter is formed when a the gas flow drives entrained ions against an DC electric field barrier.
US09281165B1
A tandem accelerator and ion implanter with improved performance is disclosed. The tandem accelerator includes a plurality of input electrodes, a plurality of output electrodes and a high voltage terminal disposed therebetween. The high voltage terminal includes a stripper tube. Neutral molecules are injected into the stripper tube, which remove electrons from the incoming negative ion beam. The resulting positive ions are accelerated toward the plurality of output electrodes. To reduce the amount of undesired positive ions that exit the stripper tube, bias electrodes is disposed at the entrance and exit of the stripper tube. The bias electrodes are biased a second voltage, greater than the first voltage applied to the terminal. The bias electrodes repel slow moving positive ions, preventing them from exiting the stripper tube and contaminating the workpiece.
US09281159B2
In a radiation generating apparatus of the invention, a radiation tube having a cathode for emitting an electron and an anode for generating a radiation by an irradiation of the electron emitted from the cathode is enclosed in a housing container filled with an insulating liquid. The apparatus has a mechanism in which a voltage for allowing the insulating liquid to flow can be applied between the cathode and the anode in a state where the cathode does not emit any electron. Even when the generation of the radiation is stopped, the insulating liquid can be efficiently sufficiently cooled without providing mechanical stirring means, and a high reliability is obtained even for intermittent use.
US09281150B2
Embodiments disclose a trip blocking apparatus of a circuit breaker exhibiting no trip at OFF functionality. The trip blocking apparatus effectively blocks tripping of a trip bar when the circuit breaker is in the OFF configuration. The trip blocking apparatus has a trip blocking arm and a blocking lever. A first projection of the blocking lever is configured to contact a handle arm, and a second projection is configured to interfere with the trip blocking arm to block tripping of the trip bar responsive to handle arm motion. Actuator resetting and blocking apparatus and trip blocking assemblies and methods of operating the trip blocking assembly are provided, as are other aspects.
US09281146B2
The present invention concerns a hydrophone signal limiting shunt switch, electrically associated and physically conjoined with a conventional hydrophone, for limiting hydrophone signal operability to water depths less than a predetermined, proscribed depth. The primary components of the shunt switch are a protected plunging bolt, at least one disk spring and an electrically conducting foot, none of which are ever in direct contact with the ocean environment. Flexure of the disk spring is the sole determinant of switch actuation. Upon sensing a predetermined, proscribed operating depth, the protected plunging bolt forces the electrically conducting foot to shunt the electrical connection between the associated hydrophone and the hydrophone transmission cable, consequently, quenching the hydrophone signal at the proscribed depth.
US09281137B2
A switch has a base having a frame portion disposed integrally with an outer peripheral portion of an upper surface of the base, a common fixed contact disposed at a corner of inside surfaces of the frame portion, and a fixed contact disposed on an inside surface of the base opposite to the common fixed contact, a spring member having elastic arm portions extending respectively from both ends of a bellows-like spring portion, wherein a free end portion of one of the elastic arm portions serves as a sliding movable contact, wherein a free end portion of another of the elastic arm portions serves as a rotationally movable contact, and wherein the rotationally movable contact is positioned so as to be in contact with the common fixed contact of the base, and an operation lever including an operation rib.
US09281136B2
The electrode material for a vacuum circuit breaker is produced by a method comprising a mixing step, a press sintering step, and a Cu infiltration step. In the mixing step, an Mo powder having a particle diameter of 0.8 to 6 μm is homogeneously mixed with a thermite Cr powder having a particle diameter of 40 to 300 μm in such a manner as giving a mixing ratio (Mo:Cr) of 1:1 to 9:1 and satisfying the weight relation Mo≧Cr. In the press sintering step, the resultant mixture is pressure molded under a press pressure of 1 to 4 t/cm2 to give a molded article. Next, said molded article is sintered by maintaining the same at a temperature of 1100 to 1200° C. for 1 to 2 hours in an heating furnace to give a partially sintered article. In the Cu infiltration step, a thin Cu plate is placed on said partially sintered article and maintained at a temperature of 1100 to 1200° C. for 1-2 hours in a heating furnace so that Cu is liquid-phase sintered and infiltrated into the partially sintered article. A contact material of an electrode for a vacuum circuit breaker has an integral structure consisting of a central member and a Cu—Cr outer peripheral member, said central member having been produced as described above and comprising 30 to 50 wt % of Cu of a particle diameter of 20 to 150 μm and 50 to 70 wt % of Mo—Cr of a particle diameter of 1 to 5 μm, while said outer peripheral member being formed of a material, which is highly compatible with the central member, shows excellent interruption performance and has high withstand voltage, and being provided outside the central member and fixed thereto.
US09281120B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component including: a ceramic body including dielectric layers; and a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, having at least one of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween, wherein when a distance between a widthwise end of an internal electrode disposed at a central portion of the ceramic body in a thickness direction thereof and an adjacent side surface of the ceramic body is defined as D1 and a distance between a widthwise end of an internal electrode disposed at an upper or lower portion of the ceramic body in the thickness direction thereof and the adjacent side surface of the ceramic body is defined as D2, D1/D2 is in a range of 0.5 to 0.95 (0.5≦D1/D2≦0.95).
US09281118B2
Described herein are techniques related to near field coupling and wireless power transfers. A device may include a cascaded coil antenna to include a first coil antenna that is connected in series with a second coil antenna. The first and second coil antennas are independent antennas prior to cascading and are located in different surfaces of the device to establish near field coupling through front side, top side, bottom side, or corner side of the portable device. Furthermore, a flux guide may be placed in the cascaded coil antenna to facilitate magnetic flux at the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna to induce current of the same phase during receive mode. During transmit mode, the flux guide facilitates the magnetic flux at the first coil antenna and the second coil antenna to generate magnetic fields of the same direction.
US09281116B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a power supply for a portable electronic device. The power supply includes a power source and a nonlinear inductor. The nonlinear inductor includes a first core and a second core connected in series to the first core, wherein the second core has a higher permeability than the first core.
US09281114B2
A stator assembly for a fuel valve comprising a magnetic E-core of stacked E-shaped laminations, a plastic bobbin proportioned to surround a central leg of the core, a magnetic wire coil on the bobbin, a non-magnetic metal plate having an O-shaped profile adjacent an end of the bobbin and distal ends of central and outer legs of the E-core, the core, bobbin, coil and plate encapsulated in a block, the block having a pair of vent channels overlying portions of the plate disposed between the outer core legs and the central core leg, the plate being proportioned to pre-stress the outer core legs outwardly prior to encapsulation whereby cyclic strain on the block due to hydraulic forces imposed by high pressure fuel pulses tending to spread the outer core legs is reduced and resistance of the block to cracking due to said fuel pressure pulses is increased.
US09281109B2
A magnetic assembly for use in a housing of an electronic device can include a first and a second magnet and a magnetic shield. The magnetic shield can reduce magnetic flux density from the first and the second magnets that can appear on the outside of the housing. A magnetic hinge assembly can include magnets configured to correlate with the first and second magnets. The magnetic hinge can magnetically attach to the housing by cooperating with the first and second magnets with magnets that can be included in the magnetic hinge.
US09281105B2
A permanent magnet has a grain structure that includes a main phase and a grain boundary phase that is primarily composed of a first metal. A second metal that enhances the coercivity of the permanent magnet and a third metal that has a lower standard free energy of oxide formation than the first metal and the second metal are diffused in the permanent magnet, and the third metal is present in the form of an oxide in the grain boundary phase.
US09281104B2
A method of fabricating a temperature sensing device based on printed silicon-carbon nanocomposite film is disclosed. This method includes high-crystal-quality Si nanoparticles (NPs) homogeneously mixed with carbon NPs and Si—C nanocomposites printed as negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor. These mixtures of Si and C NPs are formulated into screen printing paste with acrylic polymer binder and ethylene glycol (EG) as solvent. This composite paste can be successfully printed on flexible substrates, such as paper or plastics, eventually making printable NTC thermistors quite low-cost. Si and carbon powders have size range of 10 nanometers to 100 micrometers and are mixed together with weight ratios of 100:1 to 10:1. More carbon content, higher conductivity of printed Si—C nanocomposite films keeping similar sensitivity of high-quality Si NPs. With homogeneous distribution of carbon particles in printed films, electrons can tunnel from silicon to carbon and high-conductivity carbon microclusters enhanced hopping process of electrons in printed nanocomposite film. The measured sensitivity 7.23%/° C. of printed Si—C nanocomposite NTC thermistor is approaching the reported value of 8.0-9.5%/° C. for intrinsic silicon bulk material near room temperature, with the quite low resistance of 10 kΩ-100 kΩ. This NTC thermistor is quite suitable for low-cost readout circuits and the integrated systems target to be disposable temperature sensors.
US09281100B2
A coiled cable (10) has a conductor coil (12) formed into a coil shape having a coil average diameter (D) by winding four conductor base lines (21-24} with a diameter (d) to each of which art insulating coating layer (42) is applied. The conductor coil (12) is set to have an spring index (D/d) represented by 2≦D/d≦4, and each of the conductor base lines (21-24) is configured by twisting a plurality of materials that have φ0.008 to φ0.05 and that are made of tough pitch copper, oxygen-free copper, or copper alloy wire.
US09281098B2
A dry type electrical insulation is provided. The insulation includes a base fiber having an outer surface and a first melting point and a binder material, coated onto the outer surface of the base fiber, having a second melting point. In this insulation, the second melting point is lower than the first melting point. A dry type insulation matrix is also provided. The insulation matrix includes a plurality of composite fibers having a base fiber having a first melting point and a binder material co-extruded therewith, having a second melting point. In this insulation matrix, the second melting point is lower than the first.
US09281096B2
A process margin is improved and high connection reliability is obtained. Disclosed is an anisotropic conductive material including an adhesive composite and conductive particles dispersed in the adhesive composite, the adhesive composite containing a film forming resin, an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, a radical polymerizable resin, and a radical polymerization initiator, wherein the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer to be used has a melt flow rate of not less than 400 g/10 min.
US09281060B1
A device is disclosed, comprising: a first layer including a first molecular network having a first 2D lattice structure, a second layer including a second molecular network having a second 2D lattice structure, wherein the first layer and the second layer are arranged at a distance from each other such that the first and the second molecular network interact electronically via molecular orbital interactions, and a rotation device implemented to rotate the first layer relative to the second layer by a rotation angle, wherein an electrical resistance between the first molecular network and the second molecular network changes as a function of the rotation angle.
US09281058B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a common source line controller configured to provide a channel current to a cell string via a common source line during a read operation and a page buffer configured to detect data stored in a selected memory cell by detecting a current of the bit line when the channel current is provided. The page buffer may selectively bias the bit line to maintain a voltage of the bit line to be the same as or higher than a reference voltage.
US09281050B2
A method for reading data from a plurality of DRAM devices connected to common command, address, and data busses. A clock signal is provided to the plurality of DRAM devices. A read command and address to the plurality of DRAM devices on the command and address busses in synchronization with the clock signal. A read clock signal is provided to the plurality of DRAM devices to initiate a read operation in one of the plurality of DRAM devices that is selected by the address. The one DRAM device delays the read clock signal by an amount based on a speed of the one of the plurality of DRAM devices to generate. First delayed read clock and second delayed read clock signals are provided. The read data is received on the data bus in synchronization with the second delayed read clock signal.
US09281038B2
A low-pin-count non-volatile (NVM) memory to be provided in an integrated circuit. The low-pin-count non-volatile (NVM) memory can use only one external control signal and one internal clock signal to generate start, stop, device ID, read/program/erase pattern, starting address, and actual read/program/erase cycles. When programming or erasing begins, toggling of the control signal increments/decrements a program or erase address and a pulse width of the control signal determines the actual program or erase time. A data out of the low-pin-count non-volatile (NVM) memory can be multiplexed with the control signal. In some applications where only the integrated circuit can read the data, a second control signal internal to the integrated circuit generates start, stop, device ID, read pattern, starting address, and actual read cycles, while the first control signal external to the integrated circuit can do the same for the program or erase path. Since the clock signal can be derived and shared from the system clock of the integrated circuit, the NVM memory need only have one external control pin for I/O transactions to realize a low-pin-count interface.
US09281033B2
The semiconductor device may include a first internal command generator suitable generating first internal command signals after decoding the external command signals in response to the external control signal, a column control signal generator suitable for generating a column control signal after decoding the external command signals in response to the external control signal, and a second internal command generator suitable for generating second internal command signals from the first internal command signals in response to the column control signal. Related systems are also provided.
US09281025B2
A method of implementing a write block read function for a memory device includes configuring a dynamic read address decoder to receive static read address bits as inputs thereto and to generate an output used to implement a read operation of a memory location corresponding to the read address bits; configuring a dynamic write address decoder to receive static write address bits as inputs thereto and to generate an output used to implement a write operation of a memory location corresponding to the write address bits; and configuring a static write address decoder, in parallel with the dynamic write address decoder, to receive a portion of the static write address bits as inputs thereto, and coupling the static write address decoder to the dynamic read address decoder so as to block the read operation upon an address conflict with the write operation.
US09281024B2
A write block read apparatus for a memory device includes a dynamic read address decoder that receives static read address bits as inputs thereto and having an output used to implement a read operation of a memory location corresponding to the read address bits; a dynamic write address decoder that receives static write address bits as inputs thereto and having an output used to implement a write operation of a memory location corresponding to the write address bits; and a static write address decoder, configured in parallel with the dynamic write address decoder, the static write address decoder configured to receive a portion of the static write address bits as inputs thereto, and wherein the static write address decoder is coupled to the dynamic read address decoder so as to block the read operation upon an address conflict with the write operation.
US09281009B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of data tracks. Data is encoded into a first number of codewords, and the first number of codewords are interleave written to a first segment of a first data track. Data is encoded into a second number of codewords, and the second number of codewords are interleave written to a second segment of the first data track. The first number of codewords is different than the second number of codewords, and a size of the first segment is different than a size of the second segment.
US09281007B2
A communication channel structure and a decoding method supported by such a communication channel structure are disclosed. Such a communication channel includes a digital filter configured for filtering an input signal and two quantizer configured for quantizing the filtered signal. A first quantizer is utilized to quantize the filtered signal to produce a first quantized sample having a first precision and a second quantizer is utilized to quantize the filtered signal to produce a second quantized sample having a second precision, wherein the second precision is different from the first precision. The communication channel also includes an iterative decoder configured for utilizing the first quantized sample for a first global iteration of a decoding process and utilizing the second quantized sample for at least one subsequent global iteration of the decoding process.
US09281006B2
Systems, methods, devices, circuits for data processing, and more particularly to data processing including adjacent track interference detection and/or characterization.
US09281005B2
A method is provided, for example, to implement multiplexed communication on an analog bus between a recording channel and a preamplifier in a storage device. A first input of read data circuitry within the recording channel is switchably connected to a first analog line of the analog bus to receive read data transmitted from the preamplifier to the recording channel over the first analog line during a read operation. In addition, a write data output of write data circuitry within the recording channel is switchably connected to the first analog line of the analog bus to transmit write data from the recording channel to the preamplifier over the first analog line during a write operation.
US09281002B2
Disclosed herein are near field transducers (NFTs) that include either silver, copper, or aluminum and one or more secondary elements.
US09281000B2
The present invention relates to a photopolymer formulation containing chemically crosslinked matrix polymers, writing monomers and a photoinitiator system, wherein the photoinitiator system contains a HABI, a dye attuned to the HABI and having an absorption maximum in the range of 400-800 nm and a hydrogen donor. The present invention further relates to a process for producing exposed holographic media with the above photopolymer formulation.
US09280999B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit that performs a recording operation to each layer by performing laser light illumination to a recording medium which has (n+1) or more layers as a recording layer and in which a test writing area of each layer is formed between at least n consecutive layers and at a position in which the test writing areas are not overlapped with each other when seen from a laser light incident surface side, and a controller that sets the n consecutive layers to be a recording target layer in the recording operation including a test writing for laser power adjustment and causes the recording unit to execute the recording operation to the n recording target layers, wherein n≧2.
US09280998B1
A recording medium having an outer surface relatively free of magnetic particulates is achievable by, after forming a magnetic recording layer with which magnetic contamination is associated, removing magnetic contamination from the medium by immersing the medium in an acidic water solution. For example, a post-sputter wash process utilizing a mildly acidic water solution having a pH less than around 5 may remove cobalt particle contaminants from the surface of the medium. The water solution may be acidized by introducing into deionized water a pre-diluted strong acid such as nitric acid or a weak acid such as carbonic acid.
US09280994B1
One embodiment generally relates to a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording head has a body having an upper surface and a media bearing surface, a spot size converter disposed in the body and extending from the upper surface to the media bearing surface. The spot size converter has a core, comprising a first portion having a rectangular wall extending below the upper surface; and a second portion having a trapezoidal wall extending below the first portion. The magnetic recording head additionally has a first cladding adjacent to the spot size converter in an in-surface direction of the spot size converter, wherein the first cladding has a first refractive index lower than a refractive index of the spot size converter.
US09280984B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a noise cancellation method for an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving an audio signal; applying a Fast Fourier Transform operation on the audio signal to generate a sound spectrum; acquiring a first spectrum corresponding to a noise and a second spectrum corresponding to a human voice signal from the sound spectrum; estimating a center frequency according to the first spectrum and the second spectrum; and applying a high pass filtering operation to the sound spectrum according to the center frequency.
US09280983B2
Embodiments are directed towards providing acoustic echo cancellation in a closely-coupled microphone/speaker system. A speaker may produce an audible signal from a reference signal, which may be captured with a microphone. Full band cancellation (FBC) may modify the captured signal to suppress an echo of the reference signal caused by a direct acoustic path between the microphone and speaker. FBC may include a fixed filter and an adaptive filter. The fixed filter may modify the captured signal based on the reference signal. The adaptive filter may automatically adapt based on the captured signal and the reference signal. If a comparison of a performance of the adaptive filter and the fixed filter is above a threshold, then the fixed filter may be updated based on the adaptive filter. Subband acoustic echo cancellation may generate an output signal that suppresses residual echoes of the reference signal based on the modified signal.
US09280981B2
A method and apparatus for voice control of a mobile device are provided. The method establishes a connection between the mobile device and a voice-control module. Responsive to establishing the connection, the mobile device enters into an intermediate mode; and the voice-control module monitors for verbal input comprising a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands. The voice-control module sends instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received; and the mobile device acts on the received instructions. An apparatus/voice control module (VCM) for voice control of a mobile device, wherein the VCM includes a connection module configured for establishing a connection between the VCM and the mobile device; a monitoring module configured for monitoring for a verbal command from among a set of predetermined verbal commands; and a communications module configured for sending instructions to the mobile device related to the verbal command received.
US09280980B2
A method for encoding of an audio signal comprises performing (214) of a transform of the audio signal. An energy offset is selected (216) for each of the first subbands. An energy measure of a first reference band within a low band of an encoding of a synthesis signal is obtained (212). The first high band is encoded (220) by providing quantization indices representing a respective scalar quantization of a spectrum envelope in the first subbands of the first high band relative to the energy measure of the first reference band by use of the selected energy offset. An encoder apparatus comprises means for carrying out the steps of the method. Corresponding decoder methods and apparatuses are also described.
US09280979B2
A feature transform for speech recognition is described. An input speech utterance is processed to produce a sequence of representative speech vectors. A time-synchronous speech recognition pass is performed using a decoding search to determine a recognition output corresponding to the speech input. The decoding search includes, for each speech vector after some first threshold number of speech vectors, estimating a feature transform based on the preceding speech vectors in the utterance and partial decoding results of the decoding search. The current speech vector is then adjusted based on the current feature transform, and the adjusted speech vector is used in a current frame of the decoding search.
US09280976B2
An apparatus comprising: a coding rate determiner configured to determine a first coding bitrate for at least one first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter and a second coding bitrate for at least one second frame audio signal multi-channel parameter, wherein the combined first and second coding bitrate is less than a bitrate limit; a channel analyser configured to determine for a first frame the at least one first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter and configured to determine for a second frame the at least one second frame audio signal multi-channel parameter; a multi-channel parameter determiner configured to generate an encoded first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter within the first coding bitrate from the at least one first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter and configured to generate an encoded at least one second frame audio signal parameter within the second coding bitrate from the at least one second frame audio signal multi-channel parameter; and a multiplexer configured to combine the encoded at least one first frame audio signal multi-channel parameter and the encoded at least one second frame audio signal multi-channel parameter.
US09280971B2
A mobile wireless communications device may include a housing and a wireless transceiver carried by the housing. The mobile wireless communications device may also include audio transducer carried by the housing, and a controller cooperating with the wireless transceiver to perform at least one wireless communications function. The controller may also cooperate with the at least one audio transducer to convert speech input through the audio transducer to converted text, determine a proposed modification for the converted text, and output from the audio output transducer the proposed modification for the converted text.
US09280951B2
Stereoscopic image display device, image processing device, and stereoscopic image processing method
A stereoscopic image display device, with which the influence of a CT-image by the 3D crosstalk is lightened so that a sense of discomfort is not felt by the observer even when the observing position of the observer is shifted, includes an image processing unit including: a relative position calculating unit which calculates a relative position of a stereoscopic display panel with respect to the observing position of the observer; an image filter value calculating unit which calculates an image filter value for adjusting an image blurring amount according to the relative position; and an image filtering processing unit which performs image filtering processing on image data according to the image filter value.
US09280948B2
A system on chip (SoC) includes a first display subsystem configured to perform first and second imaging functions and a second display subsystem configured to only perform the first imaging function. The SoC is configured to activate one of the display subsystems and deactivate the other display subsystem based on a comparison of a current frame of image data and a previous frame of image data.
US09280946B2
A driving device of a display medium, includes: an applying unit that applies a gray level adjusting voltage including unit pulses in accordance with a gray level of a pixel to the pixel of a display medium; and a control unit that controls the applying unit so that the number of unit pulses of the gray level adjusting voltage which is applied at a movement time of each of plural types of panicle groups is equal to the number of unit pulses of the gray level adjusting voltage which is applied at the movement time of a particle group having the highest threshold value among the plural types of particle groups.
US09280945B2
An LCD device is disclosed which includes: a liquid crystal display panel in which there are a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a data driver configured to apply data voltages to the data lines; a gate driver configured to apply gate pulses to the gate lines; and a charge share device configured to selectively perform a charge share operation by storing charges corresponding to a data voltage applied to one of the data lines during a first interval and providing the stored charges to said one or another one of the data lines during a second interval based on a comparison of first video data corresponding to said one of the data lines in the first interval with second video data corresponding to said one or another one of the data lines in the second interval.
US09280944B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel, data lines, and scan lines. The image display panel includes arrays of pixels including a plurality of sub-pixels. The arrays of pixels include cyclically arranged columns of first columns each of which includes first sub-pixels, second columns that include second sub-pixels, and third columns. Third sub-pixels and fourth sub-pixels are alternately arranged in the third columns in the direction along the third columns, and are alternately arranged in a direction along the row in the same row of the third columns. Each of the scan lines is coupled to either of the third sub-pixels adjacent thereto or the fourth sub-pixels adjacent thereto, as sub-pixels to be selected thereby.
US09280943B2
The invention relates to a method for reducing imaging artifacts during a frame-changeover from a current frame to a following frame displayed by a display device comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein the artifacts are reduced by overdriving at least one control signal for controlling the pixel intensity of the related pixel during the frame-changeover, wherein the overdrive is carried out in dependence of the magnitude of an intensity step between a designated start intensity value of the pixel within the current frame and a designated target intensity value of the pixel within the following frame.
US09280936B2
An image display unit for displaying still or moving images, this unit having at least one ambient light sensor which is configured to detect a color and an intensity of an ambient light in the surroundings of the image display unit and this unit also having an intensity control device which is configured to adjust the intensity of each individual image point in the images displayed by the image display unit based on the detected color and intensity of the ambient light. Also described is a related mobile phone and a related method.
US09280925B2
A method for power-on sequence and a device with a low current power source are provided in the present invention. The method is used for enabling a device including a low current power source, a first circuit module and a second circuit module, wherein the low current power source is used for providing a power voltage. The method includes: switching a low voltage reset signal from a first logic voltage to a second logic voltage when the power voltage rise to a threshold voltage; enabling the first circuit module after a first preset time from the time when the low voltage reset signal switches from the first logic voltage to the second logic voltage; and enabling the second circuit module after a second preset time from the time when the first circuit module is enabled.
US09280921B2
A display device for displaying information comprises a display body having a front side and rear side and comprising at least one cavity between them. The cavity is connected in a closed fluid circuit comprising supply fluid lines, return fluid lines and a fluid reservoir and the circuit is suitable to contain a colored fluid. There is also arranged a pump for circulating colored fluid in the fluid circuit. The cavity is shaped to form symbols representing the information to be displayed when filled with colored fluid.
US09280917B2
A medical simulant applicable to training personnel in the treatment of a traumatic injury is presented. The simulant replicates the appearance of a body part and is mechanically responsive to externally applied pressure so as to mimic the response of a vascular element when a tourniquet or the like is applied to the body part. The simulant includes a compressible body, a structure, a compressible tube, and a pair of plates. The compressible body replicates an arm, a leg, or another body region. The structure replicates an injury, either penetrating or non-penetrating, and is disposed along the compressible body. The compressible tube replicates a vascular element. The plates are separately disposed within the compressible body about the compressible tube. The plates are configured to deform the compressible tube so as to interrupt flow of a liquid simulating blood therein when a compressive force is applied onto the compressible body by a tourniquet or the like.
US09280915B1
For use in training needle techniques such as spinal anesthesia and or lumbar epidural steroid injections, a spinal model includes a complete natural bone vertebral column that is embedded in a matrix of crystal clear ballistic gel. The synthetic gel does not harbor bacteria, can be reused and does not require refrigeration. Natural bone offers significantly better image contrast over radiopaque replicas. A transparent synthetic gel matrix permits observation of needle progression by both the trainee and the trainer and provides unique opportunities for coaching and intercession to prevent poor needle placement prior to its occurrence.
US09280909B2
Some embodiments provide a hydraulically assisted stationary motorcycle training device for teaching motorcycle riding skills in a controlled and supervised environment. In some embodiments, the stationary motorcycle training device includes a set of equipment for responding to operations of a motorcycle positioned on the stationary motorcycle training device. In some embodiments, the stationary motorcycle training device is hydraulically assisted for simulating a motorcycle riding experience to a person seated on the motorcycle. includes a set of operational motorcycle equipment for learning motorcycle riding skills.
US09280901B2
A method for displaying the vehicle safety distance, which is executed under the basic structure of a vehicle safety warning device, the vehicle safety warning device at least includes a display module and an image recognition module. The method displays various virtual icons of different situations on the road, to display in advance and warn the lane departure situation, to thereby ensure traffic safety.
US09280900B2
A vehicle exterior environment recognition device includes a three-dimensional position deriving module that derives three-dimensional positions of subject parts in a real space based on an image obtained by imaging a detection area, an object identifying module that groups the subject parts of which differences in the three-dimensional positions are within a predetermined range to identify an object, a positional point deriving module that derives a positional point based on positional information of the object, an appearance point deriving module that derives an appearance point based on appearance information of the object, and a pedestrian identifying module that identifies the object to be a pedestrian when a pedestrian point that is obtained by at least adding the positional point to the appearance point equals to or greater than a predetermined threshold.
US09280888B2
Systems and methods of scheduling and sending notifications to, and receiving acknowledgements from, patients regarding specific health care events, such as the taking of medications at scheduled times and in prescribed dosages. By directing a patient to take their prescribed dosages of medication at scheduled times based on a schedule of medications prepared for the patient by a health care provider, a caregiver, etc., and enabling the patient to provide acknowledgements of having taken their prescribed dosages of medication, improved health care outcomes can be achieved. Further, by allowing the patient to receive such directives to take their medication, as well as to send such acknowledgements, using a set top box connected to a television set, a mobile device such as a mobile phone, and/or a patient notification device such as a wireless pendant, desired improvements in health care outcomes can be achieved with an increased level of convenience.
US09280885B2
An integrated alarm device for a proximity detection system that is based on use of low frequency magnetic fields, to avoid conflicts in crowded work sites. A proximity detection system includes a magnetic field generator, and a personal alarm device. The personal alarm device includes an antenna configured to detect a magnetic field, a controller electrically coupled to the antenna, and a warning device electrically coupled to the controller. The warning device includes a sounder device and a shield, and the shield is adapted to attenuate EMI emitted from the sounder from reaching the antenna and/or from inducing current in electrical components in the personal alarm device.
US09280884B1
An environmental sensor device with alarms comprises a data bus, a multitude of sensors, at least one processing unit, a communications interface, and memory. The multitude of sensors may include particle counter(s), pressure sensor(s) and/or the like. The memory is configured to hold data and machine executable instructions. The machine executable instructions are configured to cause at least one processing unit to: collect sensor data from at least one of the multitude of sensors, generate processed sensor data from the sensor data, and set alarm(s) based, at least in part on processed sensor data. The communications interface is configured to communicate the report to at least one external device.
US09280883B2
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for visually and audibly indicating the setup and maintenance of a system.
US09280881B2
A cassette detecting device and a medium processing device using the same are provided. The cassette detecting device comprises: a main board comprising a first input unit and detecting and outputting at least one of whether at least one cassette connected to the first input unit is mounted and its mounting position; and a plurality of cassettes storing a medium, comprising a second input unit connected to the main board, and determining the mounting position of a corresponding cassette according to a signal from the second input unit, each of the plurality of cassettes and the main board comprises a comparing unit for determining the mounting position of a cassette.
US09280870B2
A gaming system comprises a wager input device for receiving a primary wager from a player, the player associated with a player account, and at least one display for displaying a primary wagering game and a secondary wagering game. Secondary wagering game outcomes are independent of the primary wagering game. The system further comprises a controller operative to cause the at least one display to display a randomly selected outcome of the primary wagering game; upon the occurrence of a first triggering event, enter a player into the secondary wagering game, wherein the player is represented in the secondary wagering game by a player avatar; upon the occurrence of a second triggering event, end the player's participation in the secondary wagering game; award the player any awards collected by the player avatar in the secondary wagering game; and credit the player account by the amount of the collected awards.
US09280864B2
A gaming system providing a tiered reward bonus promotion. A player's activity level is quantified to a value that adjusts over time. The value at the completion of a bonus period is compared to a plurality of tier values stored in memory at the central authority. Each tier value has an associated bonus award that is awarded to the player if the player reaches that tier at the completion of the bonus period. The award is indicated in the player's account and may be redeemed at a player kiosk.
US09280860B2
Various embodiments of access control systems and fingerprint sensing systems are disclosed. One or more fingerprints of an authorized person are recorded in a fingerprint database together with a sequence of angular positions. The authorized person may subsequently gain access to a secured item by scanning the authorized person's finger or fingers in accordance with the sequence of angular positions. Various embodiments of fingerprint sensors for determining the angular position of a finger on the sensor are also disclosed.
US09280856B2
A method generates a useful life indication of a lubricating fluid in an engine. Initially, a quantity of use of an engine and a time of use of the engine are measured. A useful life indication of a lubricating fluid in the engine is generated based upon a first relationship between the quantity of use of an engine and the time of use of the engine when an operating characteristic is at or below a predetermined amount, such as the average speed of a vehicle containing the engine. The useful life indication of the lubricating fluid in the engine is generated based upon a second relationship between the quantity of use of an engine and the time of use of the engine when the operating characteristic is above the predetermined amount.
US09280844B2
An animation system may allow users to create animations by accessing a matrix of possible animation images, in which images may be arranged to be adjacent to one another based on similarity, and allowing a user to select one or more images. The system may then determine an animation path through the matrix or group of images. A display system can retrieve and display images along the path to generate an animation.
US09280843B1
Hybrid images merge the benefits of map views and satellite images. A geographic information system includes a geographic information server and at least one database containing a plurality of map views and satellite images. A decomposition module of the geographic information server decomposes the map views and the satellite images into at least high frequency components and low frequency components. A map view and satellite image hybridization module blends the high frequency components from the map view and the high frequency components from the satellite image. Then, the hybridization module combines the low frequency components of the map view with the blended high frequency components from both the map view and the satellite image to form a hybrid image. The hybrid image can subsequently be stored in a database of the geographic information system and/or served to a client device via a network.
US09280838B2
A search apparatus includes a storage device storing for particle data, positional information and a deformation gradient tensor; and a processor configured to generate based on the positional information, circumscribing shape data that circumscribes an influence region of the particle data; set, as a deformation object, the circumscribing shape data or region data; deform the deformation object by the deformation gradient tensor; judge whether an overlap exists between the deformed deformation object and a deformation-exempt object that is among the circumscribing shape data and the region data, and not set as the deformation object; determine particle data in the region data, as a neighbor particle data candidate of the object particle data, upon judging that an overlap exists between the deformed deformation object and the deformation-exempt object; and store to the storage device, a determination result.
US09280820B2
Systems and methods are provided for using imagery depicting a timekeeping device to determine a clock offset for a particular image capture device. The clock offset can be used to correct timestamps associated with one or more images captured by such image capture device. One example method includes analyzing imagery depicting at least in part a timekeeping device to determine a first time displayed by the timekeeping device in the imagery. The method includes determining whether the first time comprises a 12-hour value or a 24-hour value. The method includes, when it is determined that the first time comprises a 12-hour value, determining a corresponding 24-hour value for the 12-hour value based at least in part on information contained within a plurality of images. The method includes determining a clock offset between the 24-hour value and the first timestamp. One example system includes a timestamp correction engine for correcting timestamps.
US09280817B2
Provided is an image diagnostic device with which the start and end of the in-flow of a contrast medium are automatically assessed. An image diagnostic device assesses the start and end times of the in-flow of a contrast medium into organs in a lifeform which is a subject.
US09280814B2
The charged particle beam apparatus automatically judges the good or bad of an observation object on the basis of information obtained from an image of the observation object on a wafer; displays a judgment result on a screen; displays the observation object, extracted from the judgment result, that requires to be corrected on the basis of the good or bad of the observation object from a user; and corrects the judgment result to the extracted and displayed observation object on the basis of an instruction from the user.
US09280808B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for processing an image to remove fog from the image. The apparatus for processing an image includes: a transmission estimation unit configured to calculate a transmission of an input image by synthesizing pixel-based transmissions of current pixels of the current image including a fog component, and block-based transmissions of a plurality of blocks of a previous image, each block including a plurality of pixels; an airlight estimation unit configured to calculate airlight of the input image; and an image restoration unit configured to generate, based on the transmission and the airlight, a restored image in which the fog component is removed from the current image.
US09280803B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method of processing a mosaicked image. First, the mosaicked image is up-sampled along a first direction to generate a first intermediate image. Then, the first intermediate image is resized along the first direction to generate a second intermediate image. Next, the second intermediate image is up-sampled along a second direction to generate a third intermediate image. Afterward, the third intermediate image is resized along the second direction to generate a resized and partly demosaicked image.
US09280800B2
A reconfigurable computation device for image processing, the device including a neighborhood-based computation matrix, generating pairing sub-scores between pairs of pixels resulting from a first series of operations configurable via a configuration register; a flexible reduction tree, carrying out a second series of operations configurable via the configuration register, on neighborhoods of pixels configurable via the configuration register; and an analysis matrix, carrying out computations configurable via the configuration register on the results arising from the flexible reduction tree.
US09280799B1
Methods disclosed for lead generation relate to matching prospective applicants with educational institutions. Prospective applicants provide personal information and educational background information which are used to find matching educational institutions. Methods include enhancing connections between education institutions and prospective applicants by setting up mutually agree appointments. Systems and apparatuses are also disclosed to implement the disclosed methods.
US09280794B2
Provided are computer program product, system, and method for providing access to documents in an online document sharing community in a network environment including a plurality of participant computers operated by participants in the online document sharing community and a storage system. Document content is processed to add search terms for the document and a document identifier to a search index accessible through a search engine over the network to participants not under an obligation of confidentiality to the owner with respect to the document. Access is provided to the content of the document to the participants in the online document sharing community. A determination is made of a publication time the document was included in the search index and made accessible to the participant computers operated by participants not under the obligation of confidentiality to the owner of the document content.
US09280789B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes accessing, by a computer system, information that describes use of one or more computer-based services by a particular user from one or more computing devices that are associated with the particular user; identifying one or more native applications that are associated with the one or more services, wherein the one or more native applications are configured to be installed and executed by one or more types of mobile computing devices; determining whether to recommend the one or more native applications based on the information and one or more threshold levels of use of the one or more computer-based services; and providing, based on the determining, a recommendation that is associated with the particular user and that identifies at least one of the one or more native applications.
US09280785B1
A computer-implemented method of allocating offline advertising, the method including receiving an offer price for audience-member responses for an offline advertising campaign and campaign information describing the offline advertising campaign, comparing the received campaign information to one or more other advertising campaigns to determine a portion of offline advertising inventory to allocate to the offline advertising campaign, and allocating the determined portion of advertising inventory to the offline advertising campaign.
US09280783B2
A system and method for providing a customized on-line shopping interface and/or manufacturing is disclosed. The system uses customer's computer, location, URL, IP address, email domain, embedded promotion code, or other predetermined criteria to provide special product offerings and pricing for a particular class or subclass of customers. If an unauthorized user attempts to access the system, a series of screens containing non-customized pricing is presented to the intruder so as not to alert the intruder that he or she has reached the restricted content. Based on the authentication information, automated manufacturing processes and equipment may be utilized to produce the customized products.
US09280770B2
Unauthorized copying of a transaction barcode is prevented by including a sensed condition or other publicly-accessible data with the transaction barcode for use as a comparison with the publicly accessible data determined at a barcode reader. If the sensed condition included in the transaction barcode indicates that the transaction barcode was generated for a different transaction, then the barcode reader invalidates the transaction. For instance, if the barcode was generated too distant in time, position, or sequential transactions, then the barcode reader invalidates the transaction barcode as an unauthorized copy of a transaction barcode generated for a different transaction.
US09280769B2
A mobile commerce system and components thereof are provided in which multiple wireless mobile communications devices (mobile devices) each has a unique electronic identification and processing circuit capable of encrypting data utilizing an encryption key and a first software application providing connectivity to commercial webpage servers for purposes that include the conduct of selected transactions involving a payment for goods or services. Each mobile device is independently enabled to conduct financial transactions in real time by communication with a financial institution. Each mobile device further has a second software application termed mobile payment application adapted to interact with the first application to receive data as to a payment required to conclude a transaction conducted by way of a commercial webpage server. The mobile payment application initiates an instruction to the financial institution to make a payment to a payee designated by way of such data wherein the instruction is encrypted utilizing the unique electronic identification and processing circuit.
US09280760B2
Systems and methods for providing a workspace are disclosed. In some aspects, a server provides, to a client computing device, access to a workspace, the workspace including one or more members and one or more content items, in response to verifying that the client computing device is associated with one of the one or more members of the workspace. The server provides, to the client computing device, within a display associated with the workspace, a first user interface element to initiate an online meeting with a first portion of the one or more members of the workspace or a second user interface element to join an ongoing online meeting with a second portion of the one or more members.
US09280758B2
A method and system is provided that may be used to dynamically modify membership of a collaboration group participating in a collaboration session using dynamic situational information associated with collaboration session and/or collaboration group member candidates. The dynamic situational information may include collaboration session information, environmental information and context information. A change in collaboration session purpose may trigger a modification of group membership in accordance with a concomitant change in group membership criteria. A change of situational information associated with any group member candidate may trigger the modification of group membership, to add or delete the candidate from the group. The method and apparatus of the present invention may advantageously be embodied in a service that is used by existing communication and collaboration systems to enhance workflow efficiency by exploiting system knowledge to improve the use of resources, reduce the incidence of errors and eliminate redundancy.
US09280757B2
A method comprising determining an inventory exception inference associated with a product, determining an inventory inspection directive for the product based, at least in part, on the inventory exception inference, receiving the inspected inventory state data based, at least in part, on the inventory inspection directive, and determining that an actual inventory exception exists for the product based, at least in part, on the inspected inventory state data is disclosed.
US09280752B2
Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for enabling a business process model (BPM) to be transparent (in whole or in part) from the source of data that triggers it. More particularly, certain example embodiments relate to techniques enabling transparent composition and decomposition of e-form data from one or more e-form formats into data that is directly usable by a Business Process Model Engine. Information from an e-form may, for example, be used in a business process, e.g., after a template or document type is created that represents the e-form in a format that the BPM Engine understands, and the e-form may be transparently composed into and decomposed out from the business data in certain example embodiments.
US09280751B2
Methods and systems for managing network communications are described. An example resource management system includes a communications manager configured to access information regarding communication protocols used by corresponding broker systems and to provide message translations based on an origin and/or destination of the message to be transmitted. A message processor is coupled to the communications manager and is configured to serialize incoming and/or outgoing broker messages and to facilitate queuing of incoming and outgoing message traffic with broker systems. A communications configurer is configured to track one or more communication attributes of broker systems and changes thereto to ensure communications between the resource management systems are broker systems are conducted in accordance with the communication attributes of the broker systems. A communications rules provider is configured to determine which broker system is to be communicated with in order to fulfill a resource request.
US09280750B2
A system and method for implementing a learning model for predicting the geographic location of an Internet Protocol (IP) address are disclosed. A particular embodiment of the system and method includes receiving a model to predict a geographic coordinates position of an Internet Protocol (IP) address, the model including one or more parameters and one or more variables associated with coordinates of the IP address and corresponding information associated with the IP address; receiving training data including a plurality of pairs of coordinates of a target IP address and corresponding information associated with the target IP address; determining, by use of a processor, the one or more parameters based on the training data and the model; and returning a result including information indicative of the determined parameters.
US09280739B2
The present invention envisages a system and method for automating the generation of business decision analytic models. The system uses a plurality of predictor variables stored in a plurality of data sets, to automatically create a business decision analytic model. The system includes a processor configured to process the data sets and determine the total number of records present in each of the data sets and the number of columns containing only numerical values. The processor selects a column containing only numerical values, from a dataset under consideration, and counts the number of unique numerical values in the selected column, and the total number of records present in the selected column. The two counts are compared and the selected column is transformed using a non-linear transformation to obtain a column of transformed values. The transformed values and corresponding time stamps are utilized for the purpose of model generation.
US09280736B2
The present method enables an RFID repeater to be used in conjunction with an RFID tag to allow data in the RFID tag to be read using wireless packet switched technologies. For example, the present method enables an RFID repeater to be coupled with an RFID tag. The RFID repeater reads and records the data from the RFID tag and then transmits the retrieved data from the RFID tag over a wireless packet network.
US09280731B2
An image forming system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a user registration portion, a user detection portion, and a printing control portion. The user registration portion is configured to register a user so as to associate the user with a print setting. The user detection portion is configured to detect that the user registered by the user registration portion has entered a specific area. The printing control portion is configured to cause an image forming apparatus to print a specific document with the print setting registered by the user registration portion so as to be associated with the user, when entry of the user into the area is detected by the user detection portion.
US09280729B2
A method of creating a sample page in an image system, the method includes: a step of holding a color measurement result of a colorimeter, with respect to an output image of a special color, as a history color measurement result; a step of determining whether a creation condition of the sample page is satisfied; and a step of creating the sample page having a first color sample image and a second color sample image formed on a recording medium, the first color sample image being according to printer device values calculated based on the history color measurement result of the special color, and the second color sample image being according to printer device values of the special color determined from a special color table, when the creation condition of the sample page is determined to be satisfied.
US09280725B2
An information processing apparatus includes a network creating unit that creates a network in which respective characters of plural character recognition results are represented as nodes, and in which nodes of adjacent character images are connected with a link, a first determining unit that determines a first candidate boundary in the network, a second determining unit that determines a second candidate boundary different from the first candidate boundary in the network, and an extracting unit that extracts, as to-be-searched objects, plural candidate character strings from a set of candidate character strings each formed of nodes between the first candidate boundary and the second candidate boundary.
US09280722B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for accelerating bitmap remoting by extracting non-grid tiles from source bitmaps. A server takes a source image, identifies possibly repetitive features, and tiles the image. For each tile that contains part of a possibly repetitive feature, the server replaces that part with the dominant color of the tile. The system then sends to a client a combination of new tiles and features, and indications to tiles and features that the client has previously received and stored, along with an indication of how to recreate the image based on the tiles and features.
US09280720B2
A method includes a state determination step of determining the quality of an object in image data, an extraction step of extracting feature information from the object, and a registration step of registering, in a dictionary, the feature information extracted in the extraction step. In the registration step, when the quality of the object determined in the determination step is lower than a predetermined reference, registration of the feature information of the object in the dictionary by the registration step is not performed.
US09280703B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for tracking a location of a hand, includes: a skin color image detector for detecting a skin color region from an image input from an image device using a predetermined skin color of a user; a face tracker for tracking a face using the detected skin color image; a motion detector for setting a ROI using location information of the tracked face, and detecting a motion image from the set ROI; a candidate region extractor for extracting a candidate region with respect to a hand of the user using the skin color image detected by the skin color image detector and the motion image detected by the motion detector; and a hand tracker for tracking a location of the hand in the extracted candidate region to find out a final location of the hand.
US09280696B1
A method for authenticating an object, comprising determining a physical dispersion pattern of a set of elements, determining a physical characteristic of the set of elements which is distinct from a physical characteristic producible by a transfer printing technology, determining a digital code associated with the object defining the physical dispersion pattern, and authenticating the object by verifying a correspondence of the digital code with the physical dispersion pattern, and verifying the physical characteristic.
US09280685B2
The system and method for portable medical records provides an electronic medical record that is stored in a key fob-sized portable device. A user can purchase the portable device and upload his/her medical record to the device over the Internet, after which the device is sent to the user. The user accesses the device for information in the portable electronic medical record and adds information when necessary. An encryption system controls health provider access to the information stored in the device. The ability to read, write or modify information can be made specific to a particular group of health care providers. Access to the portable electronic medical record can be limited to an individual patient and his/her designated authorized healthcare provider(s). Medical record information transfer is done via secure communication between a computer and the portable electronic device to assure compliance with applicable medical record privacy laws.
US09280681B2
An environmental monitoring device that monitors the operation of a legacy electronic device is described. In particular, a sensor in the environmental monitoring device provides sensor data that represents an environmental condition in an external environment that includes the environmental monitoring device. This environmental condition is associated with the operation of the legacy electronic device in the external environment. The environmental monitoring device analyzes the sensor data and provides feedback about the operation of the legacy electronic device based on the analyzed sensor data. Moreover, the sensor provides the sensor data without or excluding communication and/or electrical coupling between the environmental monitoring device and the legacy electronic device. In this way, the environmental monitoring device facilitates monitoring, analysis and feedback of the sensor data without directly interacting with the legacy electronic device.
US09280675B2
Data storage circuitry for securely storing confidential data and a data processing apparatus for processing and storing the data and a method are disclosed. The data storage circuitry comprises: a data store comprising a plurality of data storage locations for storing data; an input for receiving requests to access the data store; renaming circuitry for mapping architectural data storage locations specified in the access requests to physical data storage locations within the data store; encryption circuitry for encrypting data prior to storing the data in the data store, the encryption circuitry being configured to generate an encryption key in dependence upon a physical data storage location the data is to be stored in; and decryption circuitry for decrypting data read from the data store, the decryption circuitry being configured to generate a decryption key in dependence upon the physical data storage location the data is read from.
US09280659B2
A data processing system supports remeasurement of a virtual machine monitor (VMM). In one example process, the VMM may obtain a secret value from a trusted platform module (TPM) of the processing system. The VMM may provide the secret value from the VMM to a measurement agent executing in system management mode (SMM) of the processing system. The measurement agent may be a system management interrupt (SMI) transfer monitor (STM) that can create virtual machines to execute in SMM, for example. However, the VMM may verify the measurement agent before providing the secret value to the measurement agent. The measurement agent may generate a remeasurement value for the VMM, use the secret value that was obtained from the TPM to certify the remeasurement value, and communicate the remeasurement value to a requesting program, via the VMM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09280658B2
The present invention provides, in at least one embodiment, a system, and method for detecting fraud rings. The system gathers a small group of highly likely fraudsters. The system then looks for groups of these likely fraudsters who are interconnected. When the interconnections are strong, these groups are likely to be fraud rings. Once fraud rings are detected, the links can be applied to better prevent fraud and to help in criminal investigations.
US09280651B2
An invalid digital certificate can be saved and subsequently compared to an incoming digital certificate when performing a security check. If a subsequently provided digital certificate does not match the saved digital certificate, an error condition can be generated. Because a digital certificate can be invalid for non-malicious reasons, such technologies can be useful for improving software security.
US09280645B1
A method includes receiving a verification request in a verification agent running on a given device and determining whether the verification agent is able to invoke a verification platform application programming interface (API). The method also includes, in the event that the verification agent is able to invoke the verification platform API, performing remote verification of the verification request via the verification platform. The method further includes, in the event that the verification agent is unable to invoke the verification platform API, starting an internal timer and performing local verification of the verification request at the given device. The method further includes granting the verification request responsive to one of a successful remote verification and a successful local verification within a given time period specified by the internal timer, otherwise denying the verification request.
US09280641B2
A method for remotely facilitating labeling of laboratory media may include placing a user request at a computing system serving as a remote computing system, the user request including print content to remotely facilitate labeling of a laboratory media within a laboratory environment. The laboratory media may include at least one of a media cassette or a media slide to hold one or more laboratory samples. The method may further include communicating the user request from the computing system to a printing device over a network. The printing device representing a local computing system. The method may further include remotely facilitating the printing device to label the laboratory media.
US09280639B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating a patient with vascular disease. One method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's vasculature; creating an anatomic model representing at least a portion of a location of disease in the patient's vasculature based on the received patient-specific data; identifying one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model based on a modeled progression or regression of disease at the location; calculating one or more values of a blood flow characteristic within the patient's vasculature using a computational model based on the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model; and generating an electronic graphical display of a relationship between the one or more values of the calculated blood flow characteristic and the identified one or more changes in geometry of the anatomic model.
US09280636B2
Systems and methods for distributing Electronic Medical Records (EMR) from a private practice to authorized mobile devices are presented. EMR data can be exchanged from a private practice with a remote mobile device via an intermediary mobile access service. The service can include one or more servers that tunnel EMR data between the mobile devices and the practice, where a relay server located at the service communicates via an a priori instantiated persistent session with a relay client installed at the practice. The persistent session can be maintained by the relay client thus reducing the burden on the practice to configure or change local network infrastructure.
US09280634B1
In an electronic design automation technique for optical proximity correction, an optimized mask function that has values other than those allowed for a particular mask type, such as 0 and 1 for a chrome-on-glass binary mask, evolves it to a solution restricted to these values or narrow intervals near them. The technique “regularizes” the solution by mixing in a new cost functional that encourages the mask to assume the desired values. The mixing in may be done over one or more steps or even “quasistatically,” in which the total cost functional and the mask is brought from pure goodness-of-fit to the printed layout for given conditions to pure manufacturability by keeping the total cost functional minimized step-by-step. A goal of this gradual mixing-in is to do thermodynamically optimal work on the mask function to bring it to manufacturable values.
US09280633B2
A method of designing a content-addressable memory (CAM) includes associating CAM cells with a summary circuit. The summary circuit includes a first level of logic gates and a second level of logic gates. The first level of logic gates have inputs each configured to receive an output of a corresponding one of the plurality of CAM cell. The second level of logic gates have inputs each configured to receive an output of a corresponding one of the first level of logic gates. Logic gates in at least one of the first level of logic gates or the second level of logic gates are selected to have an odd number of input pins so that an input pin and an output pin share a layout sub-slot.
US09280631B2
Optical proximity correction techniques performed on one or more graphics processors improve the masks used for the printing of microelectronic circuit designs. Execution of OPC techniques on hardware or software platforms utilizing graphics processing units. GPUs may share the computation load with the system CPUs to efficiently and effectively execute the OPC method steps.
US09280616B2
A method includes obtaining a data file that includes print instructions for causing a three dimensional printer to print a three dimensional object, wherein the data file describes external surfaces of the object, and providing user instructions for positioning a preformed structure so that the three dimensional printer can print the object around the preformed structure, wherein the preformed structure has a size and a shape to be subsumed within the external surfaces of the object. The method further comprises modifying the print instructions so that the printer will print the object around the preformed structure, and printing material around the preformed structure using the modified print instructions to form the object.
US09280608B2
Group bookmarks are provided. A uniform resource locator (URL) is received and parsed to identify a URL domain, a parameter, and a first parameter value. Multiple bookmarks are examined to determine whether a pattern match is found for a bookmark including the URL domain and the parameter. The bookmark has a second parameter value. The first parameter value is stored with the bookmark as a group bookmark. The group bookmark includes: the URL domain, the parameter, and entries for the first parameter value and the second parameter value.
US09280586B1
Disclosed in an electronic database which enables athletes to see a dynamic list of colleges where the athlete's specific sports times would qualify them to compete. As the athlete's times improve over the course of their high school career, the list of colleges changes as more and more colleges become candidates for the athlete. The athletes can easily communicate their times to the college coaches, and monitor the status of schools of interest. Likewise, high schools and clubs can also assist students in the college search process given access to the same data as the athletes. College coaches can also have access to the athlete times and other recruiting information, and can customize their search so that athletes meeting the college recruiting guidelines (i.e. minimum times in specific events, grade point average of athlete, etc) are highlighted across the sea of recruits, while those not meeting the recruiting guidelines can be ignored.
US09280585B2
A semantic query over an RDF database is received with RDF database statistics and access methods for evaluating triple patterns in the query. The semantic query is expressed as a parse tree containing triple patterns and logical relationships among the triple patterns. The parse tree and access methods create a data flow graph containing a plurality of triple pattern and access method pair nodes connected by a plurality of edges, and an optimal flow tree through the data flow graph is determined such that costs are minimized and all triple patterns in the semantic query are contained in the optimal flow tree. A structure independent execution tree defining a sequence of evaluation through the optimal flow tree is created and is transformed into a database structure dependent query plan. This is used to create an SQL query that is used to evaluate the semantic query over the RDF database.
US09280580B1
Techniques for customizing search may include the following operations: outputting, to a computing device of a user, a Web page that enables selection of signals that are usable to generate search results; during a search session, receiving, through the Web page, a query and a selection corresponding to one or more of the signals, where the selection differs from a default set of search signals used by the search system for searching; obtaining, for output to the computing device, search results that are based on the query and the selection; and following the search session, configuring the search system to use the default set of search signals for searching.
US09280570B2
System and method to compact a NoSQL database, the method including: receiving, by a receiver coupled to a processor, an indication of a record to delete in the NoSQL database; for each file in the NoSQL database, perform the steps of: if said file does not contain the record to delete, placing said file in a first memory; if said file contains the record to delete: placing said file in a second memory; searching whether the record to delete from said file in the second memory matches a record in one or more files in the first memory; and if a searched files in the first memory contain the record to delete from said file in the second memory, compacting said file in the second memory with the files in the first memory that contain the record to delete.
US09280564B2
An information processing device includes a memory, a receiving unit, a decision unit, and a concealment unit. The memory stores a history of performing, on an image having an attribute, a process that conceals an area within the image. The receiving unit receives an image. The decision unit extracts from the memory a history of a process performed on an image having an attribute that matches an attribute of the received image, and on the basis of the extracted history of a process, decides a concealment area within the received image. The concealment unit conceals the concealment area decided by the decision unit.
US09280560B1
Various embodiments may increase scalability of image representations stored in a database for use in image matching and retrieval. For example, a system providing image matching can obtain images of a number of inventory items, extract features from each image using a feature extraction algorithm, and transform the same into their feature descriptor representations. These feature descriptor representations can be subsequently stored and used to compare against query images submitted by users. Though the size of each feature descriptor representation isn't particularly large, the total number of these descriptors requires a substantial amount of storage space. Accordingly, feature descriptor representations are compressed to minimize storage and, in one example, machine learning can be used to compensate for information lost as a result of the compression.
US09280559B1
Systems and methods for creating a database of geofences and registering geofences, with each geofence in the database being associated with an IP address, preferably an IPV6 address. Each geofence is defined using at least one geographic designator, preferably real property boundaries. Entitlements can be associated with geofences relating to permissive and prohibitive activities within the geofences.
US09280558B1
Revising a map area based on user feedback data is disclosed. In some embodiments, an initial map area corresponding to a prescribed location identifier is obtained from a third-party mapping service, and a revised map area corresponding to the location identifier is determined based on the initial map area and user feedback data associated with the location identifier.
US09280547B2
Support of end-user to view and operate computing resources through logically organized and graphically represented multi-layered item list (“hierarchical list”) has been fully realized on native window based computer user work environment with modern operating system such as Windows Explore of Microsoft. The present invention has implemented such a hierarchical list to represent structured resources, such as for a central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (CCDSVM), and to be displayable and operable via a browser on an end-user device for user to access and manage the actual structured resources. The implementation of the hierarchical list is accomplished by creating the hierarchical list in memory to mirror the actual structure resource, where the mirrored hierarchical list is sent to the end-user device, where the end-user device executes the browser to display the hierarchical list to allow the user to access the actual structured resources via the displayed hierarchical list.
US09280545B2
Exemplary methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for capturing, organizing, sharing, and/or displaying media. For example, using embodiments of the disclosed technology, a unified playback and browsing experience for a collection of media can be created automatically. For instance, heuristics and metadata can be used to assemble and add narratives to the media data. Furthermore, this representation of media can recompose itself dynamically as more media is added to the collection. While a collection may use a single user's content, sometimes media that is desirable to include in the collection is captured by friends and/or others at the same event. In certain embodiments, media content related to the event can be automatically collected and shared among selected groups. Further, in some embodiments, new media can be automatically incorporated into a media collection associated with the event, and the playback experience dynamically updated.
US09280541B2
A quick response (QR) proxy and protocol gateway for interfacing with a carrier network, a QR-equipped device, and a contact center and contact center database is disclosed. A data link is connected to a carrier network to receive QR codes and other data. Additional data links are connected to a contact center database and a QR-equipped device to obtain information used in determining routing and tagging instructions. A user interface is connected to the gateway to accept configurable conditions for determining routing instructions. There is a text conversion function and speech conversion function for each target enterprise contact center. Synchronization between stored user preferences to automated or semi-automated customer service routes is provided by a consumer preference template system.
US09280540B2
A network device may receive a request for content; determine a bandwidth of a communication link between a client device and the network device; select a download speed based on the determined bandwidth; and choose, for transmission from the network device to the client device, a content segment among a plurality of content segments in a directory associated with the download speed based on an amount of the content already downloaded. The plurality of content segments may include variable bit rate content segments. The network device may stream the chosen content segment to the client device.
US09280537B2
A computer-implemented method can include initializing, at a computing device including one or more processors, an input method editor for composing an electronic message. The method can include receiving, at the computing device, an input from a user identifying a recipient for the electronic message. The method can include obtaining, at the computing device, language information corresponding to the recipient, the language information indicating one or more suggested natural languages for composing the electronic message. The method can include selecting, at the computing device, a natural language for composing the electronic message based on the language information to obtain a selected natural language. The method can also include configuring, at the computing device, the input method editor based on the selected natural language.
US09280536B2
A technique includes obtaining a plurality of n-grams from a plurality of messages, determining a temporal histogram for each n-gram, and determining synonyms among the n-grams based on a combination of a correlation of the histograms and a distance measure between n-grams.
US09280535B2
A natural language query tool comprising cascaded conditional random fields (CRFs) (e.g., a linear-chain CRF and a skip-chain CRF applied sequentially) processes natural language input to produce output that can be used in database searches. For example, cascaded CRFs extract entities from natural language input that correspond to column names or column values in a database, and identify relationships between the extracted entities. A search engine can execute queries based on output from the cascaded CRFs over an inverted index of a database, which can be based on one or more materialized views of the database. Results can be sorted (e.g., according to relevance scores) and presented in a user interface.
US09280534B2
Particular embodiments determine that a textual term is not associated with a known meaning. The textual term may be related to one or more users of the social-networking system. A determination is made as to whether the textual term should be added to a glossary. If so, then the textual term is added to the glossary. Information related to one or more textual terms in the glossary is provided to enhance auto-correction, provide predictive text input suggestions, or augment social graph data. Particular embodiments discover new textual terms by mining information, wherein the information was received from one or more users of the social-networking system, was generated for one or more users of the social-networking system, is marked as being associated with one or more users of the social-networking system, or includes an identifier for each of one or more users of the social-networking system.
US09280530B2
A method and system to dynamically display a presentation of a time duration are described. The system includes a processor to receive comments associated with the presentation, the comments arranged in a first ordering, to identify a time reference comment among the comments, the time reference comment including a time reference referencing a time instant within the time duration of the presentation, and to dynamically change an ordering of the comments from the first ordering to a second ordering at the time instant. The system also includes a display device to display the presentation with the comments, the comments arranged according to the ordering.
US09280525B2
Illustrative embodiments improve upon prior machine learning techniques by introducing an additional classification layer that mimics human visual pattern recognition. Building upon classification passes that extract contextual information, illustrative embodiments look for hints of high-level semantic categorization that manifest as visual artifacts in the document, such as font family, font weight, text color, text justification, white space, or CSS class name. An improved lightweight markup language enables display of machine-categorized tokens on a screen for human correction, thereby providing ground truths for further machine classification.
US09280508B1
Provided is an apparatus and method for enabling interoperability between a serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) protocol with a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) protocol. A SAS-PCIe bridge includes a SAS component configured to communicate with a SAS device in a SAS domain and a PCIe component configured to communicate with a PCIe switch in a PCIe domain. The SAS component and the PCIe component are configured to convert data between the SAS protocol and the PCIe protocol.
US09280504B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for enhancing communication between compute resources and networks in a micro-server environment. Micro-server modules configured to be installed in a server chassis include a plurality of processor subsystems coupled in communication to a shared Network Interface Controller (NIC) via PCIe links. The shared NIC includes at least one Ethernet port and a PCIe block including a shared PCIe interface having a first number of lanes. The PCIe lines between the processor sub-systems and the shared PCIe interface employ a number of lanes that is less than the first number of lanes, and during operation of the micro-server module, the shared NIC is configured to enable each processor sub-system to access the at least one Ethernet port using the PCIe link between that processor sub-system and the shared PCIe block on the shared NIC.
US09280501B2
A network node is provided, including a device, in particular, an error detection logic, which is deactivated if it is detected that a signal according to a first protocol or a first version of a first protocol is received, and which is not deactivated if it is detected that a signal according to a second, different protocol or a second, different version of the first protocol is received.
US09280498B2
A CPU 80 controls data transfer from a first device to a second device in a kernel mode. A main memory 90 stores data to be transferred from the first device to the second device. The CPU 80 has: a first device control means 81 which controls the first device; a second device control means which controls the second device; and a data transfer control means 83 which makes a read instruction which instructs the first device control means 81 to store data read from the first device in the main memory 3, and makes a write instruction which instructs the second device control means 82 to write the data stored in the main memory 3 in the second device.
US09280488B2
An address translation capability is provided in which translation structures of different types are used to translate memory addresses from one format to another format. Multiple translation structure formats (e.g., multiple page table formats, such as hash page tables and hierarchical page tables) are concurrently supported in a system configuration. This facilitates provision of guest access in virtualized operating systems, and/or the mixing of translation formats to better match the data access patterns being translated.
US09280482B2
The present invention relates to a method of optimizing the provisioning of a bootable image onto a storage device. In some embodiments, a host device executes a provisioning application to image a storage drive as a bootable drive. During the provisioning process, the storage device is configured to disguise its use of write caching during the provisioning process. In one embodiment, the storage device is configured to suppress forced unit access commands and cache flush commands for the provisioning application. In another embodiment, the storage device is configured to reject forced unit access commands. The storage device may disguise its use of write caching based on various criteria, such as a length of time, a counter, and the like.
US09280473B2
A method and apparatus is described herein for accessing a physical memory location referenced by a physical address with a processor. The processor fetches/receives instructions with references to virtual memory addresses and/or references to physical addresses. Translation logic translates the virtual memory addresses to physical addresses and provides the physical addresses to a common interface. Physical addressing logic decodes references to physical addresses and provides the physical addresses to a common interface based on a memory type stored by the physical addressing logic.
US09280471B2
Systems, processors, and methods for sharing an agent's private cache with other agents within a SoC. Many agents in the SoC have a private cache in addition to the shared caches and memory of the SoC. If an agent's processor is shut down or operating at less than full capacity, the agent's private cache can be shared with other agents. When a requesting agent generates a memory request and the memory request misses in the memory cache, the memory cache can allocate the memory request in a separate agent's cache rather than allocating the memory request in the memory cache.
US09280462B2
A nonvolatile storage device in accordance with the inventive concepts includes a nonvolatile memory device comprising a first memory area, a second memory area, and a memory controller. The memory controller includes a first register configured to store reliable mode information, and a second register configured to store operating system (OS) image information. The memory controller is configured to receive a command from a host based on the reliable mode information; determine whether the command is a write request for an OS image and whether OS image information accompanying the command matches the OS image information stored in the second register; write the OS image to the first memory area if the OS image information accompanying the command matches the OS image information stored in the second register, and block data migration of the OS image from the first memory area to the second memory area.
US09280456B2
The present disclosure includes methods and apparatuses for mapping between program states and data patterns. One method includes mapping a data pattern to a number of program state combinations L corresponding to a group of memory cells configured to store a fractional number of data units per cell. The mapping can be based, at least partially, on a recursive expression performed in a number of operations, the number of operations based on a number of memory cells N within the group of memory cells and the number of program state combinations L.
US09280435B2
Three dimensional GPS or vehicle position data is used to determine a slope the vehicle is traveling over at a specific point in time. The slope data can then be combined with other metrics to provide an accurate, slope corrected vehicle mass. The vehicle mass can then be used along with other vehicle data to determine an amount of work performed by a vehicle, enabling s detailed efficiency analysis of the vehicle to be performed. To calculate slope, horizontal ground speed (VHGS) can be calculated using the Pythagorean Theorem. One can take the Z/Up magnitude and divide it by the horizontal ground speed. Replacing Z, x and y with directional vectors enables one to calculate slope. The slope data is then used to determine the mass of the vehicle at that time. Pervious techniques to calculate mass did not factor in slope, and thus are not accurate.
US09280433B2
Described is a headless server appliance configured with a secondary actuation mechanism that when actuated, enters the headless server appliance into a diagnostic mode. For example, the diagnostic mode may correspond to a secondary operating system booted from a BIOS component activated by the secondary actuation mechanism. In the diagnostic mode, primitives may be communicated between a client device coupled (e.g., via a network or USB connection) to the headless server appliance, such as to provide the client device with access to the headless server appliance's hard disk. Other primitives, such as communicated via APIs, may provide the client device with access to the BIOS. The secondary operating system and/or client device may perform diagnostics and recovery operations on the headless server appliance. For example, the client device or similar source may restore or update the primary operating system image to a storage medium of the headless server appliance.
US09280430B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing deferred replication of recovery information at site switchover are disclosed. A computer-implemented method may include receiving a first copy of logged data for storage volumes of a disaster recovery (DR) partner at a remote site from the DR partner, receiving a request to perform a site switchover from the remote site to the local site, receiving a second copy of logged data for the storage volumes from a local high availability (HA) partner in response to the switchover, and recovering the storage volumes locally by applying one or more of the copies of logged data to corresponding mirrored storage volumes at the local site.
US09280426B2
A system is provided. The system includes a plurality of nodes. One of the plurality of nodes is designated as a server node, and the others of the plurality of nodes are designated as Human Machine Interface (HMI) client nodes. The designated server node comprises a network interface configured to communicate with a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) either directly or through a network switch. Each of the designated HMI client nodes includes a network interface configured to communicate with the designated server node through one or more of a network switch, and another designated HMI client node. Also, the each of the designated HMI client nodes includes a failover module configured to detect a failure of the designated server node and designate a new server node from among the designated HMI client nodes based on detecting the failure of the designated server node.
US09280419B2
A data retention methodology for use in electrically rewritable nonvolatile storage systems is disclosed. The methodology collects characterization data of the storage system (e.g., time stamps, program/erase cycles, sensed temperature over time, and others) and uses at least a portion of that data to associate various data retention schemes with the collected characterization data. At power-on, the methodology determines a duration of a time during which power was not supplied to the storage system. The methodology also uses the power-on time to trigger the selection of an appropriate data protection scheme (e.g., enhanced ECC and/or read/scrub frequency). Dynamic selection and adjustment of the applied protection scheme may be based on the predetermined and/or calculated association between various protection schemes and the collected characterization data of the storage system.
US09280416B1
An improved data storage technique achieves a desired level of reliability by providing sufficient redundancy in erasure coded data to maintain the data, without repair, for a prescribed period of time. The improved technique employs a newly devised, continuous-time Markov chain model. The model can be applied in computerized systems to establish erasure coding parameters for storing and reliably maintaining data for a designated period of time, without any need to repair the data to reestablish an original or previous level of erasure coding redundancy.
US09280406B2
A method and associated system for automatically correcting an application based on runtime behavior of the application. An incident indicates a performance of the application in which a problem object produces an outcome that had not been expected by a user or by a ticketing tool. An incident flow for the problem object is automatically analyzed. Actual run of the application renders a forward data flow and at least one backward data flow is simulated from an expected outcome of the problem object. The forward data flow and the backward data flow(s) are compared to create a candidate fault list for the problem object. A technical specification to correct the candidate fault list and a solution to replace the application are subsequently devised.
US09280404B2
Processing a request from a sending computer that is a co-member of a message group of a sysplex coupled together using a signaling service includes the steps of: determining, by a receiving computer, that a signaling service message has been received from the sending computer, wherein the signaling service message relates to a data transfer between the sending computer and the receiving computer and wherein the data transfer relates to an exchange of one or more files between the sending and receiving computers using a communications channel other than the signaling service. This processing also includes decoding, by the receiving computer, a control block data structure associated with the signaling service message to determine contents of the control block data structure; and performing, by the receiving computer, an action related to the data transfer based on the contents of the control block data structure associated with the signaling service message.
US09280402B2
A method and system are provided for updating a dual layer browser which displays a hierarchy of nodes. The method or system provides a first layer or “browser provider” which receives various changed data notifications, determines which changed data notifications affect the current browser display, and sends the required notifications to a second layer or “browser.” The browser then makes the necessary adjustments to the current display.
US09280399B2
A services tool can detect, monitor, and manage software providing services in and for the network. The services tool can identify different types of software that provides services for the network (“services software”) and types of software that provide support (“support software”) to the services software. The services tool can determine configuration data for both the services software and the support software. The services tool can automatically identify when particular services software needs to be linked to particular support software. The services tool can configure the services software and/or support software to link the two according to the rules.
US09280396B2
Techniques for synchronization between data structures for original locks and mirror lock data structures are disclosed herein. The mirror lock data structures are being maintained during various scenarios including volume move and aggregate relocation, in order to preserve the non-disruptive persistent operation on storage initiated by clients. According to one embodiment, a storage node determines a plurality of data container locks to be synchronized to a partner node of the storage node and transfers metadata that indicates states of variables that represent the plurality of data container locks to the partner node in a batch. When a client initiates a data access operation that causes an attempt to modify a data container lock of the plurality of data container locks, the storage node sends a retry code to a client that prompts the client to retry the data access operation after a predetermined time period.
US09280394B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a system and method for managing computing resources in a cloud computing environment, wherein the system includes a data analysis module connected to a processor. The data analysis module predicts the demand for the computing resources, wherein the demand is predicted based on internet user activity. The internet user activity includes: the number of web pages that include at least one select term a predetermined amount of times, the number of times the web pages that include the at least one select term a predetermined amount of times are viewed, and the number of times the select term is entered into an internet search engine. The processor increases resource capacity in the cloud computing environment when the predicted demand is above a first threshold. The processor decreases resource capacity in the cloud computing environment when the predicted demand is below a second threshold.
US09280389B1
A device, such as a constrained device that includes a processing device and memory, schedules user-defined independently executable functions to execute from a single stack common to all user-defined independently executable functions according to availability and priority of the user-defined independently executable functions relative to other user-defined independently executable functions and preempts currently running user-defined independently executable function by placing the particular user-defined independently executable function on a single stack that has register values for the currently running user-defined independently executable function.
US09280387B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for assigning code lines to clusters with storage and other constraints in an on-demand service environment including, for example, receiving as input, a plurality of code lines for test within a host organization; determining available resource capacity for each of a plurality of clusters within the host organization; determining required resource capacity for each of the plurality of code lines for test within the host organization; sorting the plurality of clusters according to the determined available resource capacity for each; sorting the plurality of code lines according to the determined required resource capacity for each; and allocating the plurality of code lines amongst the plurality of clusters based on the sorting of the plurality of clusters and based further on the sorting of the plurality of code lines. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US09280381B1
A computer program product, apparatus and method comprising representing a worldwide job tracker, and representing worldwide task trackers; the worldwide task trackers communicatively coupled to the worldwide job tracker; wherein the worldwide job tracker is enabled to execute a worldwide job by distributing the job across the world wide task trackers.
US09280374B2
Drone virtual machines are leveraged to support asynchronous patch management by initiating a drone virtual machine in a maintenance environment to perform a patch management update, saving the updated virtual machine and then initiating the updated virtual machine in an operational environment accessible to clients. A drone is initiated in a maintenance environment for checking patch compliance in response to a request to initiate a virtual machine so that patch updates are performed before the virtual machine initiates in an operational environment accessible to operational clients.
US09280369B1
A particular method includes executing a software component on a virtual machine executing at a computing device. The method also includes monitoring kernel level events of an operating system executing on the virtual machine and monitoring application level events of the operating system. The method further includes analyzing effects of executing the software component on the virtual machine based on the kernel level events and the application level events.
US09280363B1
Mapping logic information associating a particular type of input with a particular response may be stored in memory. Data including information regarding a display of the host device may be received. Such information may be used to identify multiple descriptions of the host device display. Each description is mapped to a response based on the stored mapping logic. For example, a status bar may be used by the host device to show status updates. The map allows for a different type of response to status updates on the client device, such as a translucent pop-up window. Instructions may be generated for the client device, such that the client device response to input information is based on the mapped description.
US09280347B2
Emulation of instructions that include non-contiguous specifiers is facilitated. A non-contiguous specifier specifies a resource of an instruction, such as a register, using multiple fields of the instruction. For example, multiple fields of the instruction (e.g., two fields) include bits that together designate a particular register to be used by the instruction. Non-contiguous specifiers of instructions defined in one computer system architecture are transformed to contiguous specifiers usable by instructions defined in another computer system architecture. The instructions defined in the another computer system architecture emulate the instructions defined for the one computer system architecture.
US09280344B2
A processor includes a plurality of execution units. At least one of the execution units is configured to repeatedly execute a first instruction based on a first field of the first instruction indicating that the first instruction is to be iteratively executed.
US09280343B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system for operating a store queue, wherein the store queue buffers stores that are waiting to be committed to a memory system in a processor. During operation, the system examines an entry at the head of the store queue. If the entry contains a membar token, the system examines an unacknowledged counter that keeps track of the number of store operations that have been sent from the store queue to the memory system but have not been acknowledged as being committed to the memory system. If the unacknowledged counter is non-zero, the system waits until the unacknowledged counter equals zero, and then removes the membar token from the store queue.
US09280327B2
An aspect of the present invention simplifies development of user interfaces of applications. In one embodiment, specifications of user interfaces provided by applications are maintained, each specification containing interface definitions of UI elements in the corresponding user interface. A first user interface of a first application and a second user interface of a second application are displayed on a display unit. In response to receiving from a developer, an indication that a first UI element from the first user interface and a second UI element from the second user interface elements are to be included in a new user interface of a new application, a new specification for the new user interface incorporating the interface definitions of the first and second UI elements is created.
US09280326B1
Generating a description of compiler code selector rules from an architecture description. A method comprises accessing a target architecture model written in an architecture description language (ADL) and extracting semantic information therefrom to generate a plurality of semantic statements. Rules that map from source code operations to semantic patterns are accessed. The semantic statements are searched for matches for the semantic patterns to generate mappings that serve as a description of compiler code selector rules.
US09280324B1
Exemplary embodiments employ a mapping among entities that are related to each other. The entities may include a graphical model, generated code, a generated report, a requirements document and/or an intermediate representation. The mapping may facilitate graphical identifications between parts of one entity that maps to part of another entity. The graphical identification may occur based on a selection of a part in one of the entities.
US09280317B2
According to one embodiment, semiconductor memory device and a random number generator includes A semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor memory 30, a random number generator 10 generating a random number sequence, and a data writing unit 20 storing data in the semiconductor memory 30 using the random number sequence. The random number generator 10 includes: a random number generating unit generating an M-bit random number sequence; a coefficient selecting unit outputs a first coefficient or a second coefficient to the random number generating unit; and a bit selecting unit which outputs the random number sequence obtained by selecting N bits from M-bit random number sequence output from the random number generating unit.
US09280313B2
A target set of one or more audio samples is automatically expanded to include one or more additional audio samples or sets of audio samples. Multiple different audio samples or sets of samples that have a high compatibility rating with the target set are identified. The high compatibility rating is based on rhythmic compatibility with the target set, harmonic compatibility with the target set, and/or compatibility with various other characteristics or parameters of the target set. One or more of the audio samples or sets of audio samples having a high compatibility rating with the target set are automatically added to the target set. Thus, the user is able to have a set of audio samples automatically added to a particular target set of audio samples, resulting in an expanded set of audio samples that sound coherent (e.g., rhythmically and harmonically compatible).
US09280305B2
A device control system has a terminal 3 with an application 31, and a printer 5 that controls a device. The terminal 3 sends a request written in XML generated by the application 31. The printer 5 receives the XML request, the terminal 3 sends an XML response, and if the terminal 3 requested control of the device in the XML request, controls the device.
US09280303B2
A mobile terminal includes a motion detecting portion, a selection processing portion, and a transmission processing portion. The motion detecting portion is configured to detect a motion of shaking the mobile terminal. The selection processing portion is configured to select, as print targets, one or more documents. The transmission processing portion is configured to transmit a print request for the one or more documents selected by the selection processing portion when the motion detecting portion detects a motion of shaking the mobile terminal.
US09280302B2
An image forming apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image output unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, an original-image generating device, and a log-image generating device. The image output unit outputs an image. The nonvolatile storage unit stores information even in the event of a power interruption. The original-image generating device generates an original image in the nonvolatile storage unit. The log-image generating device generates a log image based on the original image. Further, when the image forming apparatus is started, if the original image is stored in the nonvolatile storage unit, the log-image generating device generates the log image based on the original image stored in the nonvolatile storage unit.
US09280301B2
A method for recovering erroneous data is disclosed, the method includes: when data in a storage block that is included in a solid state disk (SSD) is read, performing a first error check on data on a certain page of the storage block to acquire erroneous data on the page; if a first number of pieces of the erroneous data on the page is smaller than or equal to a preset first threshold, performing an error checking and correction (ECC) recovery on the data on the page; and if the first number is greater than the preset first threshold, acquiring data from spare space according to a storage position of the erroneous data on the page and a fixed entry corresponding to the storage block, and replacing the erroneous data on the page with the acquired data, where the fixed entry includes a storage position of each data stored in the spare space.
US09280300B2
Techniques for dynamically managing the placement of blocks of a logical file between a flash storage tier and an HDD storage tier are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can collect I/O statistics pertaining to the logical file, where a first subset of blocks of the logical file are stored on the flash storage tier and where a second subset of blocks of the logical file are stored on the HDD storage tier. The computer system can further generate a heat map for the logical file based on the I/O statistics, where the heat map indicates, for each block of the logical file, the number of times the block has been accessed. The computer system can then identify, using the heat map, one or more blocks of the logical file as being performance-critical blocks, and can move data between the flash and HDD storage tiers such that the performance-critical blocks are placed on the flash storage tier.
US09280297B1
A transactional memory (TM) includes a control circuit pipeline and an associated memory unit. The memory unit stores a plurality of rings. The pipeline maintains, for each ring, a head pointer and a tail pointer. A ring operation stage of the pipeline maintains the pointers as values are put onto and are taken off the rings. A put command causes the TM to put a value into a ring, provided the ring is not full. A get command causes the TM to take a value off a ring, provided the ring is not empty. A put with low priority command causes the TM to put a value into a ring, provided the ring has at least a predetermined amount of free buffer space. A get from a set of rings command causes the TM to get a value from the highest priority non-empty ring (of a specified set of rings).
US09280296B2
A primary storage controller receives an input/output (I/O) command from a host, wherein a host timestamp is associated with the I/O command. During a mirroring of storage volumes to a secondary storage controller, the primary storage controller communicates the host timestamp associated with the I/O command to the secondary storage controller, wherein mirrored copies of the storage volumes are timestamped based on at least the host timestamp and an elapsed time since a last host I/O command. A recovery is made from a failure of one or more of the storage volumes in the primary storage controller, by using the timestamped mirrored copies of the storage volumes.
US09280290B2
A system may include a processor which may include a cache memory and a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller, a peripheral device on an I/O expansion bus, and a bus interface coupled to the I/O expansion bus and the processor. The bus controller may determine if data packets sent from the peripheral device to the processor include a DMA write instruction to the cache memory with an optional desired cache location. Upon determining a DMA write instruction to the cache memory is included in the data packet, the bus controller may format the data in the data packet for storage in the cache and either receive the desired cache location or determine an appropriate location within the cache to store the formatted data. The bus controller may determine an alternate location within the cache if the desired location within the cache cannot accept more data from the peripheral device.
US09280287B2
A data compression method includes receiving an input data stream including a previous data block and a current data block, and executing a first comparison of a part of the previous data block with part of a previous reference data block, and a second comparison of the current data block with a current reference data block, where the first and second comparisons are executed in parallel. The method further includes selectively, based on results of the first and second comparisons, outputting the current data block or compressing an extended data block, where the extended data block includes the part of the previous data block and the current data block.
US09280277B2
A smart phone like gesture based interface for controlling weapon mounted system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a gesture input is detected via the gesture based interface. One or more inputs and/or one or more outputs associated with the detected gesture interface is then identified. The weapon mounted system is then controlled based on the identified one or more inputs and/or one or more outputs.
US09280276B2
A method for controlling an electronic device with a touch screen includes detecting a sequence of touch inputs within a predefined area on the touch screen; determining a sequence of dots and bars according to the sequence of touch inputs; and performing a predefined function on the electronic device when the sequence of dots and bars conforms to a predefined sequence of dots and bars.
US09280273B2
A method comprises causing at least one of a set of content items to be displayed in a first region of a display; causing at least one of the set of content items to be displayed in a second region of the display; in response to an input in relation to the second region, causing at least one other of the set of content items to be displayed in the second region; and, in response to determining that a selected one of the set of content items is not being displayed in the second region, causing an element associated with the selected content item to be displayed.
US09280272B2
Methods and systems for improved integration of an overhead representation (e.g., a map) with a street view representation. A user interface with at least two regions is output for display to a user. One region includes an overhead representation of an area and an interactive control overlaid onto the overhead representation. Another region includes a street view perspective that has a point of view corresponding to a position and directional orientation of the interactive control. Information about a user input that adjusts the interactive control is received and the street view perspective is updated to track the control as it is adjusted. The field of view of the street view perspective may be reflected in the appearance of the interactive control. Additionally, the street view perspective may follow the location of a marker as it is moved around the overhead representation.
US09280269B2
Methods and apparatus for generating a searchable electronic record of a locate operation in which one or more physical locate marks are applied by a technician to identify a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. A digital image of a geographic area comprising the dig area is electronically received, and at least a portion of the received digital image is displayed on a display device. One or more digital representations of the physical locate mark(s) applied by the locate technician are added to the displayed digital image so as to generate a marked-up digital image. Information relating to the marked-up digital image is electronically transmitted and/or electronically stored so as to generate the searchable electronic record of the locate operation.
US09280256B1
A system for displaying a hierarchical organization comprises a processor, memory, a data source, and a network interface. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a selected individual and provide a display. The display includes the selected individual within a group represented by a first circle. The display comprises one or more groups in the hierarchy, each represented by one of a set of circles above or below a level of the group that includes the individual. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions. The data source comprises detailed information about the hierarchical organization and its members. The network interface is configured to communicate with remote devices requesting displays comprising selected individuals.
US09280250B2
The present invention provides a calibration method of a touch screen which comprises a display module and a sensor module. The calibration method comprises the following steps: receiving coordinate values of multiple display points shown on the display module; receiving coordinate values of multiple sensing points received by the sensor module, wherein the multiple sensing points are corresponding to the multiple display points, respectively, for forming at least four multiple correspondences; calculating a first set of calibration formulas according to the multiple correspondences; adjusting the multiple sensing points according to the first set of calibration formulas; and calculating a second set of calibration formulas according to the adjusted sensing points.
US09280238B2
Apparatus, systems including an electrical touch screen sensor and methods for implementing an electrical touch screen sensor are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed including a display having an array of display pixels and a plurality of sensors distributed amongst the display pixels and embedded within the display, where the sensors act to detect changes in capacitance associated with objects placed in proximity to the display pixels. Other implementations are also disclosed.
US09280226B2
An information processing method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method is applied to an electronic apparatus including a touch unit. The method includes: if it is sensed that a first touch operation is performed on a surface of the touch unit by a first touch object, detecting a first contact area of a portion where the touch unit contacts with the first touch object; judging whether the first contact area satisfies a first preset condition; and in the case that the first contact area satisfies the first preset condition, controlling the electronic apparatus to switch from a first operating state to a second operating state and generate first prompt information for prompting that the electronic apparatus operates in the second operating state.
US09280222B2
The present disclosure discloses a touch panel, a touch electrode structure, and a manufacturing method thereof. The touch electrode structure comprises a plurality of first-axis sensing lines and at least one first laser etching line. The plurality of first-axis sensing lines are formed by laser etching a first conducting layer, wherein each first-axis sensing line at least has a first output pin. The first laser etching line is formed around the corresponding first output pin by laser etching the first conducting layer. Thus, the present disclosure can reduce overall production time by using a simplified manufacturing process in a laser etching process to form an improved touch electrode structure.
US09280215B2
Provided is a position tracing system using ultrasonic wave, where a distance between ultrasonic wave reception sensors can be adjusted. A distance between ultrasonic wave reception sensors can be freely adjusted by user's manipulation, so that a position of a signal generation device implemented by an input pen can be more accurately traced by adjusting the distance between the ultrasonic wave reception sensors according to a size of a moving area of the signal generation device.
US09280213B2
An optical navigation chip cooperated with a light source for being used in a mouse is provided. The mouse transmits a mouse signal to a computer for navigation control. The optical navigation chip includes an optical sensing array and a circuitry. The optical sensing array is utilized for receiving a reflected light from a surface indicating features of the surface for generating a digital frame corresponding to intensity variation caused by the reflected light. The circuitry is coupled to the optical sensing array, and utilized for generating a digital displacement signal by monitoring the intensity variation of two different digital frames, wherein the two digital frames are captured by the optical sensing array at two different times. Additionally, the mouse suspends the mouse signal to the computer if the intensity variation is flat.
US09280212B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer program products, may be used for content delivery. In particular implementations, methods, systems, and apparatuses may include the ability to identify that a content item request for a user device has been received, determine a position and velocity of the user device, select a content item to provide to the user device based at least on its position and velocity, and sending the content item to the user device.
US09280210B2
An optical input apparatus is provided. The optical input apparatus includes a body having an image sensor; a plurality of light sources provided in the body to emit light; and a controller configured to control emission of light by the plurality of light sources as a function of a pattern received by the image sensor, wherein the plurality of light sources selectively emit light according to a location of a local saturation of light received by the image sensor.
US09280209B2
A method of generating 3D coordinates includes: acquiring a target image including a finger region with a camera of a terminal; detecting the finger region in the target image using an image processing technique; detecting a fingertip region in the finger region; and calculating 3D coordinate values using the fingertip region. Also provided is a terminal suitable for performing such a method.
US09280204B2
A method for tracking a user's gaze point using a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes detecting the user's eye area from a camera that is mounted in the mobile terminal and selecting reference points of the eye area, detecting a pupil corresponding to an interest area that is obtained from the reference points, generating a first virtual grid of the eye area using a pickup image of a gaze point of the pupil corresponding to each corner of the display and generating a second virtual grid having the same division areas as those of the first virtual grid in the display, and mapping a position of the pupil within the second virtual grid area corresponding to a position of the pupil within the first virtual grid.
US09280195B2
A method for automatically generating user program code for a programmable logic controller configured to control a machine, includes providing, at a first earlier time, a plurality of selectable program code parts for the programmable logic controller; and automatically generating the user program code at, a second later time, by combining at least two of the plurality of selectable program code parts that have been selected by a user. At least one of the plurality of selectable program code parts is configured to activate at least one energy-saving function of an energy consumer of the machine. The at least one energy-saving function has energy-saving function properties.
US09280193B2
A server chassis includes an uninterruptible power supply, and a server including a controller. The uninterruptible power supply is configured to provide a reserve power when a primary power is lost, and to send a power loss signal when the primary power is lost. The controller is configured to receive a desired server uptime, to receive an indication that a power limit for the server is fixed or decreasing over the desired server, to receive the power loss signal from the uninterruptible power supply, to send a power capacity query to the uninterruptible power supply, to receive a reserve power capacity of the uninterruptible power supply in response to the power capacity query, to calculate the power limit for the server based on the reserve power capacity of the uninterruptible power supply and on the desired server uptime, and to enforce the power limit on the server.
US09280186B2
A modularized server includes a main housing, a first block unit, a second block unit, and a removable module. The main housing has a first inserting groove and a second inserting groove, and the removable module has a guide channel. When the removable module is disposed in the first inserting groove along a sliding direction, the first block unit is located in the guide channel. Moreover, the second block unit blocks the removable module from being installed to the second inserting groove.
US09280176B2
A display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display device comprises a display panel, a window, a plurality of partitions, and an adhesive. The display panel is configured to display an image. The window is placed over the display panel. The plurality of partitions interposed between the display panel and the window. The adhesive is formed between adjacent partitions.
