US07886364B2
A file that has been encrypted using a symmetric key and that has a corresponding access control entry with the symmetric key encrypted using the public key of a public/private key pair can be accessed. An encrypted key cache is also accessed to determine whether an access control entry to symmetric key mapping exists in the cache for the access control entry corresponding to the file. If such a mapping exists in the cache, then the mapped-to symmetric key is obtained form the cache, otherwise the encrypted symmetric key is decrypted using the private key of the public/private key pair. The encrypted key cache itself can also be encrypted and stored as an encrypted file.
US07886363B2
A method and system is introduced for implementing a virtual memory mechanism that works internally to computer languages that prevent direct memory access. Virtual memory mechanism is implemented in a manner that is independent of executing environment. Virtual memory mechanism may include security features preventing program code and execution environment from being altered, viewed or copied.
US07886359B2
A method and apparatus for reporting policy violations in messages is described. In one embodiment, a violation is identified by detecting fragments in a message that match information from any one or more rows within a tabular structure of source data. The fragments that match this information are then specified as part of reporting the violation.
US07886346B2
To authenticate a user of a communications network, credentials from the user are centrally receiving. An authentication sequence is retrieved from a plurality of retrievable authentication sequences, and the retrieved authentication sequence is performed to authenticate the user based on the received credentials.
US07886344B2
A network device may provide secure fallback operations. The device includes a port allowing the device to communicate with a network and a processor to generate a security credential, provide the security credential to a call manager during initialization, and provide the security credential to a secondary device during fallback operations. The network device may include a memory to store the security credential and routing information for fallback operations.
US07886338B2
A system and method are provided for controlling access to local electronic devices in an automation network while maintaining failover capability. The method can include the operation of setting a state of a networked device to an online state. Another operation is sending a communication from the networked device to a controller requesting permission to change state of the networked device. The networked device may wait a predetermined amount of time to receive permission to change state. The state of the network device can change without permission from the controller after the predetermined amount of time has passed.
US07886337B2
Method and apparatus for protecting image content. In an embodiment, tags are used to identify how to alter image content. A graphics processor is configured to process the tags and to alter the image responsive to the tags. In another embodiment, a graphics processor is configured to alter image content unless a key is provided to the graphics processor.
US07886335B1
In general, techniques are described for managing multiple access policies in a network access control system. An endpoint device may send, to a policy decision point (“PDP”), a request to communicate on a network. When the PDP receives such an access request, the PDP typically identifies a set of access policies to be enforced with regard to the endpoint device and causes the identified access policies to be enforced with regard to the endpoint device. These access policies may specify rights to communicate on networks and/or rights to communicate with server resources and/or endpoint configuration requirements. However, because the endpoint device may issue multiple access requests, conflicting sets of access policies may potentially be enforced with regard to the endpoint device. The techniques described herein ensure that only a consistent set of access policies are enforced with regard to the endpoint device when accessing the network.
US07886333B2
An in-vehicle recording/reproduction device (121) records in a recording device a program which the user starts watching, and reads and reproduces the data when watching is permitted, such as, for example, when a vehicle is stopped. The in-vehicle recording/reproduction device (121) transmits recording information about recording, such as a program, a time, and the like, to an in-home recording/reproduction device (303). The in-home recording/reproduction device (303) records the same program as that recorded by the in-vehicle recording/reproduction device (121) based on the recording information. The in-vehicle recording/reproduction device (121) transmits to the in-home recording/reproduction device (303) reproduction information indicating which scene was last reproduced in the in-vehicle recording/reproduction device (121). The in-home recording/reproduction device (303) performs reproduction based on the reproduction information. Thereby, it is possible to watch the rest of the program which was watched in the vehicle, at home without missing a scene.
US07886329B2
A method and system for auxiliary data detection. Data is received on a hand-held device from a display of a signal on a monitor. The signal is visually displayed on the monitor at a frequency. A modulated video signal is received on the hand-held device from a display device. The modulated video signal contains auxiliary data modulated within a video signal in a substantially invisible way. The modulated video signal is demodulated to obtain the auxiliary data. At least one of the data or the auxiliary data is processed to identify a promotional opportunity available through the hand-held device. The user of the hand-held device is notified of availability of the promotional opportunity through the hand-held device.
US07886318B2
Media content is received for a plurality of devices based on a user selection. The media content includes digital rights for the plurality of devices. The media content is transferred to at least one of the plurality of devices in accordance with the digital rights.
US07886317B2
A vibration absorber provided on an optical disk drive module of a disk drive for suppressing vibration produced by the optical disk drive module at various speeds. The vibration absorber at least has a body, dampers, elastic members, an actuator and a controller. The body is secured on the optical disk drive module. The dampers elastically and vertically shift on the body. The elastic members are provided on the body for providing elasticity in shifting of the damper. The actuator is provided on the body and coupled to the damper for providing a driving force for the vertical shifting of the damper. The controller controls the driving force outputted by the actuator based on the change in rotational speed of the optical disk drive module, so as to change the elasticity in vertical shifting of the damper to reduce the shifting and corresponding vibration of the optical disk drive module.
US07886298B2
A system for communicating between two devices in a network in which a semi-persistent tunnel is established between the two devices in advance of data communication. The semi-persistent tunnel includes resources that are pre-allocated in a first device at a first end of the communication link by a second device at the second end of the communication link. The first and second devices implement a plurality of processes for handling data transfer operations. Preferably, the semi-persistent tunnel also includes resources that are pre-allocated in a device at the second end of the communication link by the device at the first end of the communication link to allow bi-directional communication. Data transfer operations transmitted through the tunnel include an identification of specific resources of the pre-allocated resources that are to handle the data transfer operation. Data transfer operations also include a vector identifying a particular process among the plurality of processes that implement the data transfer operation.
US07886294B2
A system and method for monitoring internal operation of a virtual machine (“VM”). The VM is operated to interpret and execute a program. During operation of the VM, status information regarding internal operation of the VM is stored to an internal memory buffer. The status information is subsequently extracted from the internal memory buffer during operation of the VM to monitor internal operation of the VM from a vantage point external to the VM.
US07886292B2
A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code are provided for individualized software deployment. A solution engine receives a set of software applications and a software legend from a customer. The software legend identifies which software applications are to be deployed to each of a set of personal computers. The solution engine forms a set of software images by associating the software applications to each of the set of personal computers. Then the solution engine associates an identifier to each of the set of software images to form individualized software images. The set of software images are deployed to the set of personal computers on an individual requirement basis.
US07886288B2
A method and apparatus for packaging, distributing, installing, deleting, or updating gaming software is disclosed. In one embodiment the method and apparatus of the invention identifies a plurality of files, which may exceed hundreds of files, to be distributed, installed, or provided as updates. The plurality of files are selected and processed into a reduced number of files, often a single file. The single file contains all of the plurality of files and is capable of being further processed to restore the plurality of files and the directory structure of the plurality of files.
US07886272B1
The present invention is directed to automatically analyzing software systems for identifying faults or bugs and/or detection of malicious code. In various embodiments, the present invention measures code coverage for high priority invocable program elements, uses a relaxed coverage estimation technique that, instead of guaranteeing which code units will be executed, guarantees that at least a certain number of code units will be executed, determines and solves constraints in code to identify infeasible paths containing one or more selected nodes, determines, for a composite data type, a range of values for each of at least two non-composite data fields, and/or translates, prior to code analysis complex code into simpler code having fewer operators.
US07886270B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for file version control management are provided. Methods include receiving a loadset of at least one data file and activating the loadset. For each data file in the loadset, the data file is written to a target system and identified by a base name and a generation number. A symbolic link with an activation number is created in a version control file index (VCFX) to the data file written to the target system. An application view to the symbolic link is provided as the base name of the data file, and the application view to the symbolic link is limited based on an activation number of the application corresponding to the activation number of the symbolic link.
US07886269B2
An extensible markup language (XML) application framework (XAF) may be provided. XAF applications are data driven such that all operations with a computer system are data focused. In addition, the components used in the XAF application are instantiated and connected according to how data is displayed and what data type is used. Applications within XAF comprise a user interface (UI) connector, an action module, and a data connector. UI connectors receive UI events and connect the UI event to an action module. The action module generates a standard format action from the UI event and sends it to the data connector. The data connector translates the standard format action into a data-specific action that changes data in a data store. A data connector then sends a standard format data representation corresponding to the changed data back to the UI connector to provide the changed data to the UI.
US07886268B2
An activation program first activates a basic program and a first functional program, which realizes a specific function, among a plurality of functional programs, and then activates at least one second functional program among the functional programs after the first functional program is completely activated.
US07886267B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods providing for autonomous extraction of original natural language strings from source code and insertion of translated strings therein. Some of the examples described herein additionally utilize a database suitable for containing translations of user -viewable material and for accessing that material from developer project sandboxes. Individual developer projects may provide for the extraction of natural-language strings from source code to a shared translations database. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.
US07886265B2
The embodiments of the invention described herein employ sophisticated techniques for managing distributed processes in a process automation system. Specifically, one embodiment of the invention implements a general purpose property mechanism in which arbitrary data is attached to any object in the system (e.g., projects, procedures, jobs, job steps, resources, etc), thereby providing a convenient way to configure the system without modifying the underlying program code. In addition, in one embodiment, a three-tier hierarchy of data object is employed: “projects,” “procedures,” and “steps” (or “projects,” “jobs” and “job steps” during runtime). A property may be attached to any object on any tier of the hierarchy to configure that object and (potentially) all of the objects which reference the property. The properties and property sheets may be attached both statically (before runtime) and dynamically (during runtime). Moreover, one embodiment of the invention employs a unique property substitution syntax to allow the value for a particular property to be located and substituted dynamically at runtime.In addition, advanced report generation techniques are described below in which the report generation process is logically separated into a data gathering stage and a report generation stage. The data gathering stage extracts certain specified properties and diagnostic information from each job step. The extracted information is then stored in a highly flexible, reusable data format which is used to create different types of user-configurable reports.
US07886263B1
State retention cells of a test circuit embedded in an electrical circuit are interconnected to form one or more scan chains. The scan chains are interconnected so that unknown states, or X-states, are shifted through the scan chains in an order other than the order in which the states were captured by the state retention cells of the scan chain. Such reordering of response states in individual scan chains may be used to align the X-states across multiple scan chains to achieve higher test compression scan register circuit testing.
US07886260B2
Embodiments employ a method to define points on selected nets in a netlist for a focused ion beam (FIB) to create open circuits. A selected net is partitioned into a set of sub-segments, and after considering all metal layers at and above that of the selected net, a subset of the set of sub-segments is formed as those sub-segments having minimum distances from the considered metal layers greater than some threshold. All contiguous sub-segments in the subset of the set of sub-segments are grouped into groups. The midpoints of such groups, and any isolated sub-segments, are possible candidate for FIB points. For some embodiments, the midpoint of the longest (or one of the longest) groups of sub-segments is chosen as the FIB point for the selected net. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07886259B2
The present invention relates to a method and circuit arrangement for determining power supply noise of a power distribution network. The power supply noise is determined by measuring the propagation delay of a delay circuit powered by the power distribution network, wherein the result of the measuring step is used as an indicator of the power supply noise. Thereby, a real-time power supply noise monitoring can be carried out at any point of a power distribution network of an observed circuitry.
US07886258B2
A method and apparatus to reduce occurrences of electrically non-functional elements, known as dummy features, from a source data structure is described. The source data structure may be image data, a vector based data structure or some other data format. Dummy features in the source data structure are detected and then deleted. Dummy features may be detected by selecting a representative dummy feature, using it as a reference pattern or polygon and comparing it to features in the source data structure. The step of comparing the selected reference to the comprises selecting a cut-off correlation threshold value, and computing the correlation coefficients between the reference and the feature. Features are selectively removed based on a comparison between their correlation coefficients and the selected cut-off correlation threshold value. This threshold value may require updating to remove all dummy features in the source data structure. When different shaped dummy features in the same data structure are encountered, a further reference feature may be selected and the process repeated.
US07886249B2
Printed circuit board (PCB) design support apparatus and method are provided. The target element disposed on a front surface of the printed circuit board is mirror-copied, and then the straight line distance between the mirror copied element and a back element disposed on the back surface of the PCB is calculated under the condition that the thickness of the PCB is zero. The resultant creepage distance between the target element and the back element is obtained by adding the thickness of the PCB to the straight line distance. The creepage distance can be obtained accurately and quickly by a calculation on a straight line distance.
US07886245B2
A design structure for designing an electronic circuit, especially a clock tree and a sub-clock tree, within a set of sinks with given target arrival time windows, preferably on an integrated circuit designed by an IC design house or other circuit design provider. The clock tree and the sub-clock tree are preferably connected through one or multiple fixed circuits which must not be altered, cloned or removed. Several alternative implementations of the at least one logic structure are built and for each of the several alternative implementations data is stored. A set of configurations is built, each configuration comprising a combination of the one or several alternative implementations and each configuration satisfying the target arrival time windows at the complete set of sinks. A configuration is selected according to an evaluation of the data, preferably latency data, for constructing the configuration. No manual interaction is needed and a configuration with minimum latencies is provided.
US07886244B2
An apparatus and computer program product for driving values to “don't care” (DC) adjusted/untimed nets of an integrated circuit design to thereby identify timing problems are provided. The apparatus and computer program product may be utilized, for example, with logical built-in self test (LBIST) testing of an integrated circuit in which the DC adjusted (dcadj) nets for normal functional mode of the integrated circuit may not be DC adjusted for LBIST mode. By using the apparatus and computer program product, timing related problems associated with DC adjusted/untimed nets can be made apparent either by using simulation or semi-formal/formal analysis. For example, with regard to DC adjusted/untimed nets, the apparatus and computer program product may identify any violations of these nets with regard to maintaining their DC adjusted values. Such identification of violations of DC adjusted/untimed nets may be made without interfering with the static timing analysis of timed nets.
US07886240B2
Modifying a layout of an integrated circuit (IC) based on a function of an interconnect therein and a related circuit and design structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a function of an interconnect in the layout from data of the layout embodied in a computer readable medium; and modifying the layout to form another layout that accommodates the function of the interconnect. A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium used in a design process, according to one embodiment, may include a circuit including a high voltage interconnect positioned in a dielectric layer, the high voltage interconnect positioned such that no fill is above or below the high voltage interconnect.
US07886232B2
A user of an instant messaging system may store names of other users of the instant messaging system on a participant list (which may be referred to as a “buddy list”), and the names may be categorized into one or more groups. Similarly, a user of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone, may store contact information about people on the mobile device. Information describing the on-line presence of the user within the instant messaging system or geographic location of a mobile device, such as a mobile telephone associated with the user system, may be disseminated to users on the participant list or people on the contact list based on notification information that is associated with groups of users or contacts. A delegation model is used to control whether a user is permitted to make modifications to the notification information.
US07886231B2
A system is provided for controlling and monitoring therapy modules of a medical workstation. The system includes a first control and display unit, at least another control and display unit and at least one therapy module, which is either a ventilation module or an infusion module. The control and display units and the therapy module or therapy modules are connected to one another via bidirectional communications connections. The control and display units have a settable first display area for alarm and status reports of the therapy module or therapy modules and a second area for the display and modification of therapy settings of the therapy module or therapy modules. The communication between the control and display units is such that the display of the alarm and status reports for the therapy module or therapy modules can be turned off on one of the control and display units only if the display of the alarm and status reports of the therapy module or therapy modules is turned on, on at least one of the other control and display units and/or the communication between the control and display units is such that the display and modification of therapy settings of the therapy module or therapy modules can be turned off only if the display and modification is turned on, on at least one of the other said control and display units.
US07886229B2
A content-management interface is implemented using superposition of graphical “widget” elements onto an on-screen display of the real-time image of a user. The widgets are motion-sensitive control elements which are responsive to user movement that produces motion of the user's displayed image at an on-screen location associated with that widget. The user can operate the widget virtually, for example by moving his hand over a widget, or pushing a widget along. Meta-data descriptive of the content to be managed is mapped onto widgets, enabling the user to interact with the meta-data, notably by changing it or by selecting content with reference to it.
US07886214B2
A description of techniques of determining a modular remainder with respect to a polynomial of a message comprised of a series of segments. An implementation can include repeatedly accessing a strict subset of the segments and transforming the strict subset of segments to into a smaller set of segments that are equivalent to the strict subset of the segments with respect to the modular remainder. The implementation can also include determining the modular remainder based on a set of segments output by the repeatedly accessing and transforming and storing the determined modular remainder.
US07886213B2
Methods and apparatus for providing linear erasure codes. In one aspect, a method is provided for encoding a set of data values into a code symbol. The method includes determining an index sequence that defines selected data values to be used to generate the code symbol, and determining a value sequence that defines factors to be multiplied by the selected data values to generate the code symbol. The method also includes generating a packet header that describes the index sequence and the value sequence.
US07886199B2
A data processing system, method, and computer-usable medium for recovering from a hang condition in a data processing system. The data processing system includes a collection of coupled processing units. The processing units include a collection of processing unit components such as, two or more processing cores, and a cache array, a processor core master, a cache snooper, and a local hang manager. The local hang manager determines whether at least one component out of the collection of processing unit components has entered into a hang condition. If the local hang manager determines at least one component has entered into a hang condition, a throttling manager throttles the performance of the processing unit in an attempt to break the at least one component out of the hang condition.
US07886195B2
Apparatus, system and method of efficiently utilizing hardware resources for a software test in system having at least one redundant component, at least a part of which is used for the software test.
US07886185B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable memory media for performing various computer configuration tasks are disclosed. One such configuration task is dissimilar system restore (DSR). Another such task is software deployment. In various embodiments, these configuration tasks operate on a target computer system using a utility operating system to perform detection of certain target system devices, determination of critical device classes on the source computer system, and updating of target computer configuration settings. Other tasks may be performed upon a computer system such as a backup server. These tasks include locating device drivers for the target operating systems and the installing utility operating system, as well as creating device driver packages that are usable to install device drivers for a plurality of devices.
US07886179B2
A method for adjusting the working frequency of a chip is provided. The method detects a frequency adjustment range of a graphic chip when a system is booted. Then, an application program in full screen mode is executed, and a control hot key is enabled. Afterwards, an input of the control hot key is received to display a user interface. Finally, an input frequency inputted from the user interface is received, and the working frequency of the graphic chip is adjusted according to the input frequency in the frequency adjustment range. Therefore, even though the application program is executed in full screen mode, the working frequency of the graphic chip can still be adjusted according to requirements in any time, which is convenient for the user.
US07886172B2
A program product and method of managing task execution on an integrated circuit chip such as a chip-level multiprocessor (CMP) with Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT). Multiple chip operating units or cores have chip sensors (temperature sensors or counters) for monitoring temperature in units. Task execution is monitored for hot tasks and especially for hotspots. Task execution is balanced, thermally, to minimize hot spots. Thermal balancing may include Simultaneous MultiThreading (SMT) heat balancing, chip-level multiprocessors (CMP) heat balancing, deferring execution of identified hot tasks, migrating identified hot tasks from a current core to a colder core, User-specified Core-hopping, and SMT hardware threading.
US07886161B2
The present invention is directed to a method and system for intercepting transactions for encryption. In accordance with a particular embodiment of the present invention, an application for a storage device is monitored. A transaction for the storage device is intercepted. An encryption request within the transaction is identified. Performance of the transaction is emulated by performing the encryption request in a predetermined exit point of the application.
US07886160B2
An information processing apparatus for processing encrypted data input as a byte stream with dynamically changing decryption keys includes the following elements. An encrypted data receiving section receives encrypted data input as a byte stream, identifies a range of data that is decrypted using an identical key as a unit of decryption, extracts information necessary for decryption from the byte stream, and outputs encrypted data sets in which the extracted information is added to segments of the encrypted data. An encrypted data decrypting section sequentially decrypts the encrypted data by queuing the encrypted data sets while distributing the encrypted data sets to generate plaintext data. A plaintext processing section processes the generated plaintext data.
US07886145B2
A method and system for including security information with a packet is disclosed. A packet is detected as it exits a first network and enters a second network. The first network is configured to support a network security technique, and the second network is not configured to support the network security technique. Network security information associated with the network security technique is included with the packet. A network device is configured to include network security information in overhead of a packet. A method for identifying a first network device in a network is also disclosed. Identification information of the first network is communicated to a second network device.
US07886140B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for booting a computer using a boot list. A determination is made as to whether a boot list is present in a non-volatile memory of the computer. The boot list is a set of paths, in which each path in the boot list is a path of a storage device. If the boot list is not present, a search is performed for the boot list in a reserved area of each storage device in a set of storage devices. When the boot list is found in the reserved area of a storage device in the set of storage devices, the boot list is copied from the reserved area of the storage device in the set of storage devices to form a copied boot list. The copied boot list is stored in the non-volatile memory to form a stored boot list. The computer is booted using the stored boot list in the non-volatile memory.
US07886137B1
Methods and computer-readable media provide for the creation of a basic input/output system (BIOS) project. Embodiments include a project creation wizard that guides a user through the project creation process. The project creation wizard utilizes a script file that includes entries corresponding to each category of BIOS component that should be included within a given project. Upon receiving a project type indicator from the user, the project creation wizard locates a corresponding script file and parses through each entry of the script file, systematically utilizing the corresponding information to search for applicable BIOS components and to allow or reject user selections of the located BIOS components according to the data within the script file entry. The BIOS components that are selected according to the script file data are copied to a designated location to create a BIOS project file.
US07886133B2
An apparatus comprises an instruction execution control unit which fetches an instruction executed according to a microinstruction, the instruction is classified into a plurality of types, from a memory, wherein the types include a first type indicative of generating a condition code and a second type indicative of not generating the condition code, the condition code corresponds to a result of execution of the instruction, and a condition code generation unit which generates the condition code of the instruction corresponding to the first type on condition that the instruction corresponding to the second type is executed next to the instruction corresponding to the first type.
US07886130B2
A system-on-a-chip integrated circuit has a field programmable gate array core having logic clusters, static random access memory modules, and routing resources, a field programmable gate array virtual component interface translator having inputs and outputs, wherein the inputs are connected to the field programmable gate array core, a microcontroller, a microcontroller virtual component interface translator having input and outputs, wherein the inputs are connected to the microcontroller, a system bus connected to the outputs of the field programmable gate array virtual component interface translator and also to the outputs of said microcontroller virtual component interface translator, and direct connections between the microcontroller and the routing resources of the field programmable gate array core.
US07886128B2
A shared memory network for communicating between processors using store and load instructions is described. A new processor architecture which may be used with the shared memory network is also described that uses arithmetic/logic instructions that do not specify any source operand addresses or target operand addresses. The source operands and target operands for arithmetic/logic execution units are provided by independent load instruction operations and independent store instruction operations.
US07886122B2
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving clock signals. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving, at a memory device, a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The frequency of the first clock signal may be less than the frequency of the second clock signal. The method further includes performing two or more data access operations using the second clock signal. One of the two or more data access operations may include a read operation and one of the two or more data access operations may include a write operation. The method also includes performing a command processing operation using the first clock signal.
US07886121B2
In a computer system including a plurality of data storage apparatuses and a management computer, a given data storage apparatus, upon receipt of a control request for a local data storage apparatus from a management computer, accesses the hierarchical relation information between the storage areas in the local data storage apparatus and the storage areas of the other data storage apparatuses, and in the case where a storage area in the local data storage apparatus is set to correspond to a level lower than the other data storage apparatuses, transmits an approval request to the other data storage apparatuses. The given data storage apparatus, upon receipt of the approval from the other data storage apparatuses, executes the control request of the management computer.
US07886114B2
When a first channel processor from among a plurality of channel processors receives an I/O request from a host system, a second channel processor, which is to execute a part of the processing to respond to the I/O request, is selected from among the channel processors based on the LM directories of the respective channel processors. The selected second channel processor checks whether there is a cache hit. If there is a cache hit, it transfers the data from the cache memory to the buffer memory. The first channel processor then processes the I/O request using the data transferred to the buffer memory.
US07886112B2
Methods and apparatus provide a hardware implemented cache refill circuit for managing at least one address translation table cache, the at least one address translation table cache containing data used to translate an external address into a physical address of a processing system; provide a software implemented cache refill function also for managing the at least one address translation table cache; and simultaneously refill the at least one address translation table cache using the hardware implemented cache refill circuit and the software implemented cache refill function.
US07886108B2
Methods and systems of managing memory addresses in a large capacity multi-level cell based flash memory device are described. According to one aspect, a flash memory device comprises a processing unit to manage logical-to-physical address correlation using an indexing scheme. The flash memory is partitioned into N sets. Each set includes a plurality of entries (i.e., blocks). N sets of partial logical entry number to physical block number and associated page usage information (hereinafter ‘PLTPPUI’) are stored in the reserved area of the MLC based flash memory. Only one the N sets is loaded to address correlation and page usage memory (ACPUM), which is a limited size random access memory (RAM). In one embodiment, static RAM (SRAM) is implemented for fast access time for the address correlation. LSA received together with the data transfer request dictates which one of the N sets of PLTPPUI is loaded into ACPUM.
US07886105B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for coupling Fiber Channel (FC) storage devices and serial attached SCSI (SAS) storage device to a computer system through a single host bus adapter (HBA). The HBA includes a SAS storage controller four coupling to one or more SAS storage devices and an FC interface for coupling to one or more FC storage devices. The HBA also includes translation logic to translate information exchanged between the SAS storage controller and the FC storage device(s). Translation may include translation of addressing information between FC protocols and formats used by the SAS storage controller, may include use of a buffer to enable exchanges at different data rates, and may include use of a buffer to aggregate an inbound FC multiframe sequence into a single data buffer for use by the SAS storage controller.
US07886100B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a CPU; a controller including a signal transmission unit configured to supply an SMI (system management interrupt) signal to the CPU; a multifunctional device having a plurality of functions each potentially causing an SMI; and a plurality of signal lines provided between the controller and the multifunctional device. Each of the signal lines corresponds to one of the plurality of functions and is configured to send a notification of occurrence of an SMI event from the multifunctional device to the controller.
US07886094B1
A system for implementing handshaking configuration to enable coordinated data execution in a computer system. The system includes a core logic component coupled to a system memory and a graphics processor coupled to the core logic component via a graphics bus. The graphics processor and the core logic component implement a configuration communication to selectively configure coordinated data execution between the graphics processor and the core logic component via communication across the graphics bus.
US07886090B2
A method for managing under-runs and a device having under-run management capabilities. The method includes retrieving packets from multiple buffers, monitoring a state of a multiple buffers, determining whether an under-run associated with a transmission attempt of a certain information frame from a certain buffer occurs; if an under-run occurs, requesting a certain information frame transmitter to transmit predefined packets while ignoring packets that are retrieved from the certain buffer, until a last packet of the information frame is retrieved from the certain buffer; and notifying a processor that an under-run occurred after at least one predefined packet was transmitted; wherein each buffer out of the multiple buffers is adapted to store a fraction of a maximal sized information frame.
US07886088B2
A mechanism is provided for locking an end device for the period of time that the device is needed, thus disabling access by any other application or process. Having the device locked, rather than the bus, allows other applications to use the bus to access other devices at the same time. This is achieved by providing a virtual bus arbitration, which arbitrates applications' use of the physical bus. The virtual bus arbitration algorithms allow bus operations from different applications to overlap on the physical bus as long as their target devices and associated bus locks are on different end devices.
US07886087B2
A method of and apparatus for communicating between a host and an agent. The method includes the step of performing a first transaction between a host controller and a hub. The hub is operable to perform a single transaction with an agent based on the first transaction. The method then includes the step of performing a second transaction between the host controller and the hub. The second transaction is based on the single transaction.
US07886084B2
Optimizing collective operations using direct memory access controller on a parallel computer, in one aspect, may comprise establishing a byte counter associated with a direct memory access controller for each submessage in a message. The byte counter includes at least a base address of memory and a byte count associated with a submessage. A byte counter associated with a submessage is monitored to determine whether at least a block of data of the submessage has been received. The block of data has a predetermined size, for example, a number of bytes. The block is processed when the block has been fully received, for example, when the byte count indicates all bytes of the block have been received. The monitoring and processing may continue for all blocks in all submessages in the message.
US07886074B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for a receiver to autonomously allocate bandwidth among its incoming communications flows. The incoming flows are assigned priorities. When it becomes necessary to alter the allocation of bandwidth among the flows, the receiver selects one of the lower priority flows. The receiver then causes the selected flow to delay sending acknowledgements of messages received to the senders of the messages. In most modern protocols, senders are sensitive to the time it takes to receive acknowledgements of the messages they send. When the acknowledgement time increases, the sender assumes that the receiver is becoming overloaded. The sender then slows down the rate at which it sends messages to the receiver. This lowered sending rate in turn reduces the amount of bandwidth used by the flow as it comes into the receiver. This frees up bandwidth which can then be used by higher priority flows.
US07886067B2
A system and method for use by website operators and advertisers to place interstitial advertisements on websites. The system uses an Internet dispatcher server and a mass storage device containing one or more databases storing advertisement command files pertaining to placements of advertisements that are stored in an advertisement server. The method comprises the steps of selecting ad files stored in a computer ad server, designating the url for the ad file, the url for the website page where the ad will be displayed, the url for the websites to which a user will be directed depending on the user's reaction to the advertisement, storing in a dispatcher server database a data string representing the ad placement commands with a url representing a dispatcher server-based application to execute said ad placement commands, and including said data string on said website for launching said dispatcher server command file.
US07886057B2
A method for communicating video data between at least a first host and a second host comprises: identifying, at a server, an address of the first host, to which the second host may communicate video data, and a sequence number expected by a network security system coupled between the first host and the server; and communicating, from the second host to the first host, video data using the address of the first host and the sequence number expected. The method may further comprise: identifying, at the server, an address of the second host, to which the first host may communicate video data, and a second sequence number expected by a network security system coupled between the second host and the server; and communicating, from the first host to the second host, video data using the address of the second host and the second expected sequence number. The second host may be adapted to perform the act of communicating without use of an intermediate server. The method may also further comprise communicating periodically, from the first host to the server, through the network security system, so as to maintain an open communication channel through the network security system to the first host at the address of the first host. The address of the first host may include address information and port information.
US07886049B2
In general, the invention provides for analyzing a target computer for computer crimes such as illegal sharing of files or sharing of illegal files on peer-to-peer clients. The target computer may have software for a plurality of peer-to-peer clients. Only one extensible forensic device may be necessary to analyze the plurality of peer-to-peer clients for downloaded or shared files. For example, the invention may provide for a method comprising determining whether one or more peer-to-peer clients are or have been installed on a target device by identifying information associated with one or more peer-to-peer modules, wherein each module is associated with a different one of the one or more peer-to-peer clients. The method further includes, gathering usage information for the one or more peer-to-peer clients that had been determined to be installed on the target computer, analyzing the usage information, and automatically generating a report of the analyzed usage information.
US07886041B2
In accordance with certain aspects of the design time validation of systems, a description of a system being designed and a description of an environment are received. Both of the received descriptions are used to validate the system against the environment while the system is being designed and prior to attempting to deploy the system.
US07886038B2
An identity management system can reside within the cloud computing environment. The identity management system can be linked to systems, such as virtual machines, applications, and/or appliances, both inside and outside the cloud computing environment to provide identity management to those systems. In order to provide identity management, the identity management system can be configured to link to the systems in order to receive, store, maintain, and provide identity information. The information can identify items (users, devices, products, services) associated with the systems. The identity management system can be configured to store and maintain the information in records. The identity management system can also be configured to charge owners and operators of the systems for the identity management.
US07886037B2
An information delivery system or the like which autonomously distribute and arrange contents as many as a number necessary inside the delivery system at appropriate positions inside the delivery system without providing a server or the like which administrates ubiety and number of the contents.There is provided an information delivery system having a plurality of information processing apparatuses which can mutually communicate through a network and a registration apparatus which holds at least one or more common information pieces so as to be used in common with the plurality of information processing apparatuses.
US07886028B2
A system transition support system guides design of a new system comprised of merged items from a source system and a destination system. The configuration management database (CMDB) provides hardware and software configuration information inherent to each system. A system configuration optimization module is in communication with the CMDB and generates work items required for the system transition and a recommended hardware and software configuration for the new system.
US07886027B2
Methods and arrangements for activating Internet Protocol (IP) configurations are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic for activating in an end node an IP configuration suitable for IP communications between the end node and another end node upon the detection of a direct IP connection of the end node to another end node. In some embodiments, the other end node may have a direct IP connect only to the end node. In some embodiments, the suitable IP configuration may involve a static IP address which has been published. In some embodiments, detecting a direct IP connection with another node may be accomplished by detecting a crossed-over Ethernet connection. In some embodiments, an operating system device driver may activate the suitable IP configuration. In other embodiments, an embedded system may activate the suitable IP configuration.
US07886023B1
Server selection is optimized using randomness, feedback, and fanout. A central server maintains a vector of server selection probabilities and provides a subset of candidate servers from the vector for the client in response to receiving from a client a request for a server address to provide substantive service. An interrogating node (i.e., the client or DNS proxy) probes the candidate servers and selects a best server based on at least one criterion. The client accesses the selected server for the substantive data, and the selected server updates a counter used to keep track of the number of times the server is selected. The servers feedback the number of times selected to the central server, which, in turn, updates weightings in the vector of server selection probabilities.
US07886016B1
The present invention provides a highly scalable system for fault tolerant distributed data file storage over a set of functionally equal network servers linked through a local network with network servers and client computers. Data files are represented as a set of transactional records, each record is disassembled into redundant, functionally identical data pieces with original file reassembly dependent only upon the number of data file pieces and not on the presence or absence of any particular data file piece. Local algorithms generate unique data file identifiers upon file creation and disassembly. Changes to the data file storage system are ranked by creation time and stored as separate records with unique transaction identifiers in addition to unique data file identifiers. A transactional data file record is stored by disassembling the transactional file into pieces placed at the network servers. Low-level transactional files are collected to reassemble the data file contents.
US07886013B2
Presence communications are selectively controlled to reduce signaling traffic associated with one or more presence attributes without impacting when or how frequently presence messages associated with other presence attributes may be sent. A first threshold condition is determined that is associated with sending a presence publication message including first presence information from a presence entity to a presence server. A second threshold condition is determined that is associated with sending a presence publication message including second different presence information from the presence entity to the presence server. How frequently a presence publication message including the first presence information is sent to the presence server by the presence entity is selectively controlled based on the first threshold condition so that at least some presence publication messages including the second presence information are sent to the presence server by the presence entity more or less frequently than presence publication messages including the first presence information.
US07886008B2
A first party (e.g. educational testing service) provides through the internet to a control server information (e.g. test server) relating to a second party (e.g. a student taking tests prepared by the service). The server provides and may store a verification (e.g. an encrypted digital signature) of, but does not store, the second party information. The server transmits the information and the verification through the internet to the second party. The second party transmits to the server through the internet the information and the verification with a request to transmit the information to a designated third party (e.g. a college or university to which the student has applied for admission). The server authenticates the information through verification comparisons (or through comparison of the information with the reconstruction and decryption of the verification) and transmits the information, authenticated by the server and the testing service, to the third party.
US07886003B2
An interactive Internet-based system and method provides a number of components that can be used to provide interactivity, including chat, polling, and trivia functionalities, particularly for use in enhancing other events, such as television programs.
US07885980B2
Techniques are provided for indexing XML documents using path subsetting. According to one embodiment, a PATH table created for storing one row for each indexed node of the XML documents using user-defined criteria. The user-defined criteria are used to determine which nodes of XML documents to included in The PATH TABLE. The PATH table row for a node includes (1) information for locating the XML document that contains the node, (2) information that identifies the path of the node, and (3) information that identifies the position of the node within the hierarchical structure of the XML document that contains the node. Use of the user defined criteria is transparent to any query improves DML indexes overhead costs.
US07885978B2
The subject invention relates to systems and methods that extend the network data access capabilities of mark-up language protocols. In one aspect, a network data modeling system is provided. The system includes a protocol component that employs a computerized mark-up language to facilitate data interactions between network components. An extension component operates with the protocol component to support the data transactions, where the extension component supplies various commands above standard network and database protocols. An object model is provided as a wrapper to the extensions in order to support various online and offline database development applications.
US07885975B2
A mechanism is disclosed for implementing file access control using labeled containers. With this mechanism, it is possible to implement file access control without storing a sensitivity label with each file, and without checking a sensitivity label each time a file is accessed. Rather, by virtue of the manner in which the containers are labeled, and the manner in which a portion of the file system of one container is incorporated into the file system of another container, file access is effectively controlled. Thus, with this mechanism, it is possible to implement file access control simply and efficiently.
US07885971B2
Various embodiments provide ways to collect, organize, and process metadata associated with particular instances of media content. Metadata can be collected from a variety of metadata providers and organized in individual content folders that can be provided to various client devices. The client devices can process the content folders to provide an electronic program guide for its users. Methods and systems can also make use of user-specific data to evaluate various media content and then make recommendations as to which content a user would most likely wish to experience. Such user-specific data can comprise one or more user preference files that contain information associated with individual users, and one or more significance files that hold values, for individual users, that can be used to determine the significance of any matches found between the user preference files and media content.
US07885963B2
Subject matter includes a search engine for electronic program guide (EPG) data and related methods. In an exemplary method, a text search string can be normalized into searchable terms and the terms interpreted as either text search terms or attribute search terms. One or more queries having search conditions of varying degrees of complexity are created according to the interpretation of the terms of the search string. One or more searches in EPG databases and/or web-resources are performed based on interpretation of the text and attribute terms and results are given a relevancy ranking according to the interpretation. The combined search results may be grouped, ranked, and filtered for display to the user. Results may also be displayed progressively as each character of a search string is entered by the user.
US07885961B2
A method comprises grouping a plurality of building system controllers into at least one control system group, the at least one control system group corresponding to at least one connected group of building system controllers. The method also comprises grouping the at least one control system group into at least one site group, the at least one site group corresponding to a physical location of the at least one control system group. The method also comprises selecting a group from the at least one site group and the at least one control system group, and performing an activity on each controller within the selected group.
US07885956B2
A technique for displaying and searching databases provides a user interface that displays a list of attribute values of a product along with corresponding user interface elements, each containing a set of clickable sub-elements corresponding to subsets of possible attribute values with different ranks. The sub-element whose corresponding rank matches a corresponding rank of the attribute value is displayed as highlighted. Clicking a sub-element constrains a current selected set of products to those whose attribute values have the same rank as the clicked sub-element. On mouse-over of a selected sub-element, pop-up text is displayed containing a set of possible attribute values whose rank corresponds to that of the selected sub-element, and decision support information associated with each of the displayed possible attribute values, e.g., a percentage of users who have selected the attribute value, a percentage of users who have purchased a product with the attribute value, or a price range of product records having the attribute value.
US07885955B2
A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system and associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g., printed paper as a first medium and digital content and/or web link as a second medium). In one particular embodiment, the MMR system includes a method, system, and computer program product for shared document annotation. A shared annotation is received or retrieved for a source document displayed in a browser. A modified document comprising a hotspot corresponding to the shared annotation is displayed in the browser, and upon a printing command, coordinates are captured corresponding to a printed representation of the modified document and the hotspot, resulting in a rendered page layout comprising the printed representation including the hotspot.
US07885950B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating search enabled Web pages. A search engine crawler requests a Web page. A Web server receives the request and constructs a Web page that includes client-side script configured to obtain a portion of content at a Web browser. The Web server inserts textual (e.g., HTML) hinting data for the client-side script into the Web page. When analyzed at the search engine, the textual hinting data provides similar analysis results to analysis results obtained from analyzing the portion of content that is to be obtained at through execution of the client-side script. Thus, the Web server can provide the search engine with information to sufficiently index the Web page even when the search engine lacks the capability to execute the client-side script.
US07885938B1
Techniques for granular recovery of data from local and remote storage are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for recovery of data from local and remote storage comprising determining a recovery location, determining a location of backup data, hard linking one or more portions of the backup data to the recovery location in the event that the one or more portions of the backup data to be hard linked are determined to be on a volume of the recovery location, virtually linking one or more portions of the backup data to the recovery location in the event that the one or more portions of the backup data to be virtually linked are determined to be on a volume different from the volume of the recovery location, and performing recovery utilizing one or more portions of recovery data.
US07885928B2
Methods and systems are provided relating to a decentralized algorithm for managing replicas of a resource in a peer-to-peer network to satisfy quality of service requirements. Individual nodes within the network storing a resource replica continually monitor the node performance against quality of service (QoS) parameters and when necessary, take appropriate action to either add or delete the resource, all the while informing the other nodes within the network that maintain a replica of the resource of the particular action for dynamic fluctuation of the count of resource replicas therein.
US07885922B2
A method of processing data includes identifying a capture redo byte address, initiating a capture process at the capture redo byte address, creating a clone of a source database to a logical change number, and initiating an apply process at a target database.
US07885915B2
Methods and computer apparatus are disclosed for deriving first order logic language rules for use in analyzing new data to identify anomalies in the new data. Historical data is formatted to be in a form suitable for application of a machine-learning algorithm thereto. The machine-learning algorithm is applied to the formatted historical data to generate a set of first order logic language rules that cover the formatted historical data. The set of first order logic language rules are analyzed to obtain a subset of said set of first order logic language rules which can be used as first order logic language rules in analyzing new data.
US07885913B2
System and method related to a distributed collaborative knowledge generation system are disclosed. The distributed collaborative knowledge generation system includes one or more databases configured to store content information related to the distributed collaborative knowledge generation system, a search services module configured to search for the content information, a web services module configured to retrieve and gather the content information, a presentation services module configured to share the content data with multiple users, and a data services module configured to manage the content information by providing interfaces between the one or more databases, the search services module, the web services module, and the presentation services module.
US07885903B2
Method for generation and sale of frankings, which can be used for sending mail from a customer to a receiver. The frankings are thus preferably produced on an electronic mailbox, whereby the generation and the printing out can be carried out in a highly personalized manner by using stored customer data and receiver addresses entered by the customer concerned. In addition to personalized address input a franking comprises a unique identification code which can be used for franking security as well as transport control and monitoring.
US07885899B1
There is disclosed a method for performing secure electronic transactions on a computer network, the network comprising a buyer's computer, a vendor server, a creditor server and a security server. The buyer's computer has a fingerprint file stored in the memory thereof. The method includes the steps of: i) the buyer computer requesting to purchase merchandise to the vendor server, the purchase request including said buyer computer's IP address; ii) the buyer computer selecting a predetermined form of secured payment method; iii) the payment method selection causing the vendor server to transmit to the security server a request for confirmation of the buyer computers identity at the buyer computer's IP address; iv) the confirmation request causing the security server to send a retrieval request to the IP address, the retrieval request including a retrieval program for detecting and retrieving the buyer's computer's fingerprint file, and the retrieval request further comprising a response request asking for confirmation of the purchase request; whereby a positive response from the buyer's computer to the security server accompanied by the fingerprint file causes the security server to confirm the buyer computer's identity to the vendor server and to approve the purchase.
US07885898B2
A mobile information processing device includes a display driver for displaying a bar code, the bar code including a representation of a user's acceptance of a price requested by a store for a selected item for purchase. The bar code may be one-dimensional or two-dimensional.
US07885897B2
An intellectual property trading exchange is disclosed for facilitating the trading of intellectual property rights. The exchange includes at least one intellectual property license contract relating to intellectual property rights and a forum configured to allow a plurality of participants to trade the license contract. The plurality of participants includes at least one seller, which may be the owner, having the license contract and desiring to trade the license contract. The plurality of participants also includes at least one buyer desiring to obtain the license contract. The buyer may be an investor, speculator, market maker, or arbitrageur, who purchases the license contract to achieve appreciation. The buyer also may be a licensee, who purchases the license contract to practice the intellectual property rights.
US07885895B2
A content providing server connected to a home network or the like is configured in such a way as to store a content key, which is encrypted by a network key shared by network-connected devices and appropriately updated, in a storage together with encrypted content, and as to hold a network key table in which all network keys including all pre-update network keys, which are being applied to encrypted content keys, are registered and stored. This server performs a key changing operation of changing a content key, which is encrypted by a pre-update network key, to an encrypted key, to which an updated network key is applied, only when needed, for example, at an occurrence of utilization of the content. Consequently, this configuration prevents key changing operations from being wastefully performed. Thus, the processing load on the server is alleviated.
US07885889B2
A data processing system for processing loan data for a plurality of loans including a data storage system configured to store loan data for the plurality of loans and a user interface including one or more web pages configured to enable a servicer using a remote computing system to transfer loan data over the Internet to and from the data processing system. The user interface includes a loan activity processing function configured to receive servicer loan data including loan activity data from the servicer, a trial balance processing function configured to enable the servicer to submit servicer loan data for comparison with the stored loan data, and a loan level browsing function configured to allow the servicer to view stored loan data. The data processing system further includes loan process and compare logic which includes an amortization/calculation processor configured to perform validation calculations on servicer loan data based on stored loan data, a loan activity processor configured to process the loan activity data, validate the loan activity data based on the stored loan data, and update the stored loan data based on the loan activity data. The loan process and compare logic further includes a trial balance processor configured to compare servicer loan data with stored loan data.
US07885886B1
A current mortgage price indicator futures contract (“Mortgage Futures Contract”) that can be traded on a futures exchange is described. The contracts add value over existing hedging and speculating alternatives by meeting the needs of a wide range of mortgage and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market participants such as portfolio managers, dealers, hedgers, originators, speculators and arbitrageurs. The Mortgage Futures Contract is based upon conventional MBS and has a relatively current coupon composition, thereby resulting in risk properties that appeal to market participants more so than prior contracts based on non-conventional MBS that were not correlated to current MBS production. The Mortgage Futures Contract has a cash settlement feature designed to eliminate complicated and largely uneconomic physical delivery of the underlying security. A options contract corresponding to the Mortgage Futures Contract and that can be traded on a futures exchange is also described.
US07885881B2
System and method of estimating a wallet share for one or more advisors for investment banking deals involving equity-related products that occurred during an evaluation time period. Method may comprising determining a fee estimate for the one or more advisors for the deals involving equity-related products during the evaluation time period, wherein the fee estimate for the one or more advisors for each deal is determined based on one or more look-up tables specific to the type of equity-related product and the geographic region for the deal, and wherein the one or more look-up tables indicate a fee estimate for the one or more advisors based on the deal size, the number of advisors, and the role of the one or more advisors. Method may also comprise determining a wallet share for the one or more advisors over the evaluation time period based on an aggregation of the fee estimates for the one or more advisors during the evaluation time period.
US07885877B2
A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual is prompted by the computer to consent to the computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional compliance information can be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a file attachment to an email message.
US07885874B2
A method and related system obtains consent from an individual for computer-aided delivery of compliance information. Initially, a computer-readable data storage device is provided to the individual. The device stores the compliance information and computer-executable instructions. By inserting the device into a computer, the instructions are executed and the individual is prompted by the computer to consent to the computer-aided delivery of additional compliance information. Once consent is indicated, it is communicated from the individual's computer to another computer such as a server over, for example, a modem connection. Having secured the individual's consent, the additional compliance information can be delivered to the individual's computer as, for example, a file attachment to an email message.
US07885870B2
A system for providing banking services by use of a mobile communication system, in which a variety of financial transactions including inquiry of at least one financial account of at least one financial institution, transfer and remittance, and loan and its interest payment are processed by the mobile communication system. The system includes: the mobile communication system, provided with an integrated circuit (IC) card and a memory device to which a banking application is installed, for transmitting and receiving data by wireless, the IC card being stored with information on a personal identification number (PIN) and information related to financial accounts including a loan account. The banking application processing the financial transactions including the financial account inquiry, the transfer and remittance, and the loan and its interest payment by mobile banking; a base station transceiver system (BTS) for executing a wireless interface with the mobile communication system and a base station controller (BSC) for performing call processing and for providing a core network interface with the BTS. A packet data switching network (PDSN) for providing a packet data transfer service using a transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP); and at least one banking server for, when being requested to process the financial transactions including the financial transactions including the financial account inquiry, the transfer and remittance, and the loan and its interest payment by the banking application of the mobile communication system.
US07885868B2
A financial reporting system for reading, organizing and manipulating any accounting data and producing financial reports that may be customized to the preferences of the user. In one embodiment there is an organizational data structure for accounting data, including a trial balance data structure having a plurality of trial balance data structure elements containing accounts of the accounting data, wherein the trial balance data structure elements are linked by a distinct doubly linked list of trial balance data structure elements pointers, further comprising sub-lists of trial balance data structure elements pointers to group the accounts of the accounting data into financial statement items.
US07885863B2
A review writing tool guides a user through the process of writing an enhanced product review. The review writing tool can include a web user interface, which breaks the review writing process down into multiple stages so the review writer can incrementally write the review. In addition, the review writing tool provides prompts, examples, and instructions to guide the review writer through the writing process. The review writing tool also allows a review writer to add a list of related products from a related product database to the review. For example, a review writer may have evaluated a number of products before selecting the product the review writer ended up purchasing. Accordingly, the review writer can add information about those other products to his review. Doing so allows subsequent consumers to browse not only the product a review writer purchased, but also products the review writer recommends.
US07885859B2
Techniques are described for assigning, to target categories of a target scheme, items that have been obtained from a plurality of sources. In situations in which one or more of the sources has organized its information according to a source scheme that differs from the target scheme, the assignment may be based, in part, on an estimate of the probability that items from a particular source category should be assigned to a particular target category. Such probability estimates may be based on how many training set items associated with the particular source category have been assigned to the particular target category. Source categories may be grouped into clusters. The probability estimates may also be based on how many training set items within the cluster to which the particular source category has been mapped, have been assigned the particular target category.
US07885856B1
Systems and methods enabling suppliers to control the distribution of products to consumers in a network environment while accommodating the concerns of its brick and mortar distribution channels are described. Consumer orders for products are received, and consumer product orders are routed in accordance with fulfillment policies respectively selected by the supplier(s). The system includes a graphical consumer interface configured to receive consumer orders for products, and an order flow controller configured to route consumer product orders in accordance with fulfillment policies respectively selected by the supplier(s). The system also includes a graphical consumer interface that is accessible over the Internet and is configured to display price and availability information for the products of each of the suppliers organized by product category and is configured to receive consumer orders for products. A consumer may search through displayable product information within a given category by supplier, by product type, by product feature, or by a combination of two or more of these identifiers using a search engine.
US07885852B2
A method, system, and computer program product for providing products to a user via an automated product dispensing machine is provided. In once embodiment, an automatic product dispensing machine in a micronetwork of proximally located diverse automatic product dispensing machines receives a request for an item. Responsive to a determination that the item is unavailable at a current automatic product dispensing machine, the automatic product dispensing machine provides a user with an alternative redemption product, such as, for example, a coupon that may be redeemed at another automatic product dispensing machine or at a nearby store.
US07885843B2
The invention concerns a computer-implemented decision support system and method, that determines the availability of work items and areas of responsibility, determines the feasibility of completing the work item tasks based on the determined availability of work items and the determined areas of responsibility, determines precedence of the work item tasks to be performed based on the determined feasibility, the determined availability of work items, and the determined areas of responsibility, and outputs one or more worklists that list work item tasks to be performed based on the determined precedence and the determined feasibility of the work item tasks.
US07885841B2
An audit planning system enables users to plan effective audits by identifying audit units having potentially large impacts and risks on an enterprise and enabling users to select audit units to include in audits based on a variety of different criteria. The audit planning system displays the audit units of the enterprise and a visual indicator of the impact and risk associated with each audit unit. The audit planning system enables users to select the displayed audit units to plan an audit. The audit planning system may display audit units in an impacted financial statement, a tree map, a graph, and/or a table. The audit planning system may sort and/or display audit units with visual indicators specifying associated risks, impacts, materiality values, exposures, coverages, and/or audit costs. The audit planning system can further display visual indications of the changes in audit units' associated attributes over time.
US07885837B1
A pension insurance plan system and method protect the outstanding balance of a defined contribution plan loan secured by participant's plan assets, eliminating adverse tax consequences to the plan beneficiary in the event of the death or disability of the participant and ensuring that the full plan account balance passes intact to beneficiary in such event.
US07885834B2
A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and benefit payments. The system predetermines a series of payout periods, wherein the number of years of each payout period is greater than one year, for predetermining a maximum total withdrawal percent for each payout period. The product of the maximum total withdrawal percent and the payment base value is a maximum benefit payment amount that may be withdrawn during the payout period without reducing the payment base value.
US07885828B2
A system and method may generate a radiological request by which to conduct a radiological procedure that employs a series of procedural steps to acquire internal images of a patient. Each step may have a corresponding protocol item which affects image quality and the time required to complete the step. A database may be maintained that includes protocol items and patient characteristic data. A rule-based algorithm may accept patient characteristic data as input. Based upon one or more patient characteristics, an overall protocol by which to conduct the radiological procedure may be determined. The tailored protocol may include steps that are selected, omitted, and/or altered based upon a patient characteristic. The patient characteristics may be medical restrictions, such as age, pregnancy, allergies, artificial joints, or other limitations. As a result, the protocol items may be automatically selected based upon patient specific characteristics, and/or an anatomical structure to be examined.
US07885827B1
A system and methods are provided for delivering to a patient a substitute medical therapy with restricted distribution or access. One example is a medical therapy provider, such as a pharmacist, receiving a prescription for a medical therapy for a patient and describing these procedures and the substitute medical therapy to the patient. The patient and patient's prescribing physician will determine whether the proposed substitute medical therapy is desired and would be indicated for this patient, including obtaining data and informed consent from the patient. The method also provides a distributor or third party reviewer the prescription and certification from a qualified patient's physician, data and consent from a qualified patient, including an authorization for the substitute medical therapy and confirming the informed consent from a qualified patient by the distributor or a third party reviewer. From this data, the distributor or third party reviewer determines the qualified patient's eligibility for access to the medical therapy and, if the qualified patient is found eligible, delivers the medical therapy to the patient.
US07885819B2
An audio decoder provides a combination of decoding components including components implementing base band decoding, spectral peak decoding, frequency extension decoding and channel extension decoding techniques. The audio decoder decodes a compressed bitstream structured by a bitstream syntax scheme to permit the various decoding components to extract the appropriate parameters for their respective decoding technique.
US07885813B2
Systems and methods for analyzing communication sessions are provided. A representative method includes: recording the communication session; identifying those portions of the communication session not containing speech of at least one of the agent and the customer; and performing post-recording processing on the recording of the communication session based, at least in part, on whether the portions contain speech of at least one of the agent and the customer.
US07885804B2
An Enterprise Service Delivery Technical Architecture includes a Technical Model, and a Technical Delivery Framework, and is designed to facilitate the development of complete enterprise service management solutions. The use of the Enterprise Service Delivery Technical Architecture as the framework for an enterprise systems management technical solution results in solution designs created to be independent of the technology platform being managed with a view that meets the overall business requirements that span the technology platforms within a business environment. An information technology infrastructure already in place for a customer is analyzed and broken down to its very lowest level building blocks. Then the building blocks within the model of the technical architecture are mapped with the building blocks of the customer's information technology infrastructure to determine which of the building blocks of the model are to be used for the customer's information technology operation. A technical delivery framework is then established specific to a customer.
US07885801B2
Asynchronous behavior of a circuit is emulated by modifying a netlist to insert additional logic at a driving element such as a latch. The additional logic outputs one of (i) a present output from the driving element, (ii) a delayed output from the driving element, or (iii) a random value, which drives downstream logic. The output of the additional logic is selectively responsive to a user-controlled skew enable input. The invention allows for simpler data skew logic transformations which are applicable to both latches and primary inputs, with no dependencies on any clock net.
US07885800B1
Methods and systems for providing a synchronous model in a modeling environment are disclosed. The predetermined operations of the model, such as a transition to a state in a state-based modeling environment, are implicitly synchronized with a signal selected by users, such as a clock signal. The predetermined operations of the model may be synchronized on a rising and/or falling edge of the clock signal. The synchronization of the operations is guarded in which the predetermined operation of the model occurs only on the synchronization signal selected by the users while other operations may occur at any time when the model is activated.
US07885796B2
A method for executing calculation of the Hartree-Fock method in a molecular orbital method by a distributed memory parallel computing system includes the steps of: using a computer cluster made up of a plurality of computers; dividing a density matrix into multiple density submatrixes and distributing them to the individual computers and storing therein; and executing calculation processes such as two-electron integration or the like relating to density submatrixes in each computer while sequentially transferring the multiple density submatrixes between the multiple computers.
US07885795B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining data center cooling and power requirements and for monitoring performance of cooling and power systems in data centers. At least one aspect provides a system and method that enables a data center operator to determine available power and cooling at specific areas and enclosures in a data center to assist in locating new equipment in the data center.
US07885794B2
Object comparison is disclosed, including: adapting N universal mixture model components to a first object to generate N corresponding first object mixture model components, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two; and generating a similarity measure based on component-by-component comparison of the N first object mixture model components with corresponding N second object mixture model components obtained by adaptation of the N universal mixture model components to a second object.
US07885787B2
The present invention provides an improved magnetic winding and method of calculating desired winding parameters (winding layer thickness, number of winding layers and number of turns per winding layer) for a winding in a magnetic component. The invention may be applied to general boundary conditions in a magnetic winding or component and considers relative phase displacement for sinusoidal and nonsinusoidal winding currents. Ratios of magnetic surface field intensities at corresponding inner and outer boundaries of one or more winding layer(s) are calculated, and considered with relative phase displacement to select magnetic winding configurations having desired or optimal power dissipation. In certain aspects, a normalized loss function f(H,R,B,Φ) is utilized to determine a preferred construction among a plurality of iteratively generated selections.
US07885763B2
A system and method for tracking movements of an object of interest using an contact or contactless tag, having a writable memory. A plurality of scanners are dispersed throughout an environment in which movement of the object is to be tracked, wherein when a scanner detects the tag an entry is added to the tag. The entry can include a variety of data including, for example, the location entry indicating a time the tag was detected and a location of the detection. The system and method are particularly, but not exclusively, suited for use with airline travel.
US07885756B2
A control system is provided and includes a catalyst module that generates a multi-mode enable signal based on a catalyst light off enable signal. A transition control module controls transitions between a single pulse mode and multi-pulse mode based on the multi-mode enable signal. The transition control module receives a first torque signal and generates a second torque signal based on the first torque signal. The engine torque control module generates an air per cylinder signal, a throttle area signal, and a spark timing signal based on the second torque signal. The single pulse mode is associated with a single fuel injection pulse per combustion cycle. The multi-pulse mode is associated with multiple fuel injection pulses per combustion cycle.
US07885755B2
A fuel injection amount control apparatus controlling an amount of fuel supplied to an internal combustion engine is disclosed. An intake passage extends from the engine, and the intake passage is branched into a plurality of branch passages in an upstream section. The apparatus includes a plurality of intake air temperature sensors and an ECU. Each of the intake air temperature sensors is provided in one of the intake passages and detects an intake air temperature in the corresponding intake passage. The ECU selects an intake air temperature that most directly expresses the engine state or the environment from the intake air temperatures detected by the intake air temperature sensors. The ECU controls the amount of the fuel supplied to the engine by using the selected intake air temperature.
US07885753B2
In a first operating state, the fuel metering of one of the cylinders is controlled in first metering pulses with the same pulse characteristic during a respective one working cycle, and the metering of fuel into the other cylinders by at least one second metering pulse with a different pulse characteristic. The first pulse number and characteristic is predefined such that the same fuel mass should be metered based on an assumed injection valve characteristic as with the one second metering pulse. Depending on the measurement signal, a correction value for the one cylinder is determined. To meter the fuel based on the assumed injection valve characteristic, a single first metering pulse would be generated during a respective one working cycle. The correction value for the one cylinder is used during the rest of the operation to adapt the first metering pulse in the second operating state.
US07885752B2
A control system for an internal combustion engine in which fuel containing alcohol is used. In the control system, a maximum opening of a throttle valve of the engine is set, and a target opening of the throttle valve is set to a value which is equal to or less than the maximum opening. An opening of the throttle valve is controlled so as to coincide with the target opening. The maximum opening is according to a concentration parameter indicative of a concentration of alcohol in the fuel, a temperature parameter indicative of a temperature of the engine, and a number of ignitions performed after start of the engine.
US07885746B2
A transmission control system for a vehicle includes a first module that generates a first modified signal based on a first position of a driver input device and a second module that receives the first modified signal from the first module. The second module generates a second modified signal based on a second position of the driver input device and regulates operation of a transmission of the vehicle based on the first and second modified signals.
US07885739B2
An apparatus and method are provided that allow a user to increase the functionality of a vehicle data recorder. An option card can be connected to the option card connector on the vehicle data recorder. The option card includes at least one component thereon, such as a software, a processor, a FPGA, a memory, a power supply, a data port, a communication protocol controller, pins, a multiplexer, a hardware and a combination thereof. The components can allow the vehicle data recorder to communicate with new communication protocols that are developed, with current ones that may not have been included in the vehicle data recorder or additional functions required by the user.
US07885733B1
The present application provides systems and methods for providing navigational guidance during off-course operations, and techniques to revert back to a desired flight destination upon completion of such operations. In one aspect, an aviation navigational and/or flight management system is configured to alter guidance instructions from a predetermined flight plan for a desired destination to a particular set of radar vectors resulting in off-course flight operations. In another aspect, the system is configured to recalculate a flight plan to the desired final destination upon completion of the off-course operations without resulting in the loss of current historical flight data.
US07885731B2
A mobile unit input control apparatus can include an operation member, output means, determining means, display control means, input control means, and driving control means. A mode determining unit of the mobile unit input control apparatus can determine whether a driving mode is to be set or not and whether a text input mode is to be set or not in accordance with an operation signal supplied from an operation input apparatus and notifies it to an operation detecting unit. The operation detecting unit detects and analyzes the operation signal supplied from the operation input apparatus and outputs operation information as the analysis result to a text input control unit, for example. On the basis of the operation information, the text input control unit outputs a text input screen, for example, to the multi-display apparatus.
US07885725B2
Devices and systems for controlling the dispensing of medication and methods for using the devices and systems are provided. The system can include a dispenser device capable of holding and delivering at least one medication. A controller can be operatively connected to the dispenser. The controller can automatically operate the dispenser for movement to a dispensing position at a predetermined time. An electronic communication device for connecting the system to a remote facility can be provided. An identification verification device for restricting access to the system can be in communication with the controller of the system. A location determination device for determining the location of the system can also be provided.
US07885724B2
An automatic vending machine (1) is provided with a vending machine main unit (10), with a play device (20) including a stuffed toy (21) on which a user can ride and a drive mechanism (24) for driving the stuffed toy (21), and with a control device that controls the vending machine main unit (10) and the drive mechanism (24) in the play device (20). The vending machine main unit (10) and the play device (20) are interconnected via the control device. The vending machine main unit (10) includes a product dispensing mechanism ((14a (14)), and payment accepting mechanisms ((13a), (13b) (13)) for accepting payment for the item, wherein the control device activates the product dispensing mechanism ((14a (14)) so as to deliver the item to the outside, as well as activates the drive mechanism (24) in the play device (20).
US07885723B2
Technology is provided for changing a mounting angle of a component to reduce the amount of relative displacement between a mounting head and a board. A component, for which a mounting angle can be changed, is specified based on information stored in a mounting data storage area and a component data storage area according to a predetermined component mounting order. A mounting time in a mounting path with the mounting angle of the specified component being changed is calculated for each mounting angle to specify the mounting path requiring the shortest mounting time.
US07885718B2
A service receiving method for receiving a component library generated from mounted component data, including component size and mounting conditions, via a communication system that includes the Internet. The method includes the service provider receiving mounted component data having mounting conditions actually realized by a fabrication of non-defective products. The method also includes the service provider deriving a component library from a mounted component database.
US07885716B2
The present invention provides an audio/visual data communication system including an audio/visual data reproducing device capable of changing the type of data to be transmitted. Further, the present invention provides an audio/visual data transmitting device and an audio/visual data reproducing device forming the audio/visual data communication system. An audio data reproducing speaker 3 includes an instruction input unit 33 that inputs an instruction to change data transmitted from an audio data transmitting device, a message generating unit 32 that generates a message for requesting to change data on the basis of the instruction, and a message transmitting unit 31 that transmits the message. The audio data transmitting device includes a message receiving unit that receives the message transmitted from the message transmitting unit 31, a data setting unit that sets data on the basis of the message, a data generating unit that generates transmission data on the basis of the data set by the data setting unit, and a data transmitting unit that transmits the transmission data.
US07885712B2
Techniques for increasing the safety of medical device programming using general purpose hardware, such as a general purpose personal computer, are described. In some embodiments, a system includes an intermediate computing device comprising an applications module. Information from the applications module, such as instructions for an implantable medical device (IMD), may be presented to a user via a user input terminal that is separate from the intermediate computing device. A user may interact with the user input terminal to select an instruction from the applications module, and the intermediate computing device may transmit the selected instruction to the IMD. In some embodiments, the intermediate computing device comprises a web server and the user input terminal comprises a web browser configured to access the web server. In other embodiments, the intermediate computing device comprises a client server and the user input terminal comprises a client.
US07885710B2
A stimulation system delivers stimulation to protect an ischemic region of a body from tissue damage caused by ischemia. The stimulation is delivered to one or more stimulation sites remote from the ischemic region to elicit a physiological effect that protects the ischemic region from the tissue damage caused by ischemia. In one embodiment, the stimulation system delivers cardioprotective stimulation to one or more stimulation sites remote from the heart to protect the heart from injuries associated with cardiac ischemic events. In another embodiment, the stimulation system delivers remote conditioning stimulation to one or more stimulation sites in or on the heart to protect a non-cardiac region from injuries associated with non-cardiac ischemic events.
US07885708B2
A device for iontophoresis. A first battery-powered array is submerged into a liquid contained in a first reservoir and a second battery-powered array is submerged into a liquid contained in a second reservoir. Each array has one or more degradable electrodes that releases ions into the liquid in the reservoir. The electrodes can be copper, zinc, steel, nickel, or a combination thereof. At the first array one of the electrodes can be positively charged while at the second array one of the electrodes can be negatively charged. Alternatively, an electrode at the second array can be positively charged while an electrode at the first array is negatively charged. The solution in the reservoir may also contain positively or negatively charged ions. Powering the arrays causes the charged molecules contained in the liquid to transport through a patient's skin. The device uses a current and voltage regulator to deliver a regulated amount of current through the arrays regardless of the conductivity of the liquid, and electronic circuitry is used to control the duration, polarity, electrode choice, and intensity of the treatment. Excessive heat is dissipated with a heat sink.
US07885703B2
Systems and methods for using a patient display is described. The described system includes a medical imaging system. The medical imaging system includes a gantry, a patient display, and a computer. The gantry at least partially circumscribes a patient viewing area. The patient display is viewable from the patient viewing area. The patient display is communicatively coupled to the computer. The computer is programmed to receive scan protocol instructions and control the patient display according to the predetermined scan protocol. It is further programmed to prompt the patient, using the patient display, to perform a bodily action that facilitates the scan and to provide the patient with at least one of entertainment and distraction using the patient display.
US07885701B2
A registration pointer includes a camera located in an elongated shaft having a distal end configured to be contacted to a bone of a patient to register the bone to a computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system. The camera may be a hemispherical camera and may include a panoramic camera and a wide-angle camera equipped with a fish-eye lens. The registration pointer is configured to transmit images received by the cameras to the computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system for display thereon. The computer assisted orthopaedic surgery system may be configured to generate an image, such as a hemispherical image, based on the images received from the registration pointer.
US07885700B2
An electrodynamic sensor comprises a high input impedance electrometer adapted to measure small electrical potentials originating from an object under test and having a pair of input probes, characterized in that at least one of said pair of input probes has no direct electrical contact with said object, wherein the circuit arrangement of said electrometer comprises an amplifier which includes a combination of ancillary circuits cumulatively to increase the sensitivity of said electrometer to said small electrical potentials whilst not perturbing the electrical field associated therewith.
US07885693B2
A dual sliding-type portable communication apparatus having a housing configured to slide in a twofold manner is provided. The apparatus includes a main housing, a sliding housing which is configured to slide on the main housing to expose/hide the main housing, a slider, and a dual sliding guide slidably coupled to the slider to enable the sliding housing to slide towards or away from the main housing in the longitudinal or perpendicular directions.
US07885688B2
A signal of interest (SOI) may be selected from among a plurality of cochannel signals based on one or more internal or external structural feature/s of the SOI, e.g., automatically selected based on any one or more internal or external structural features of the SOI that is known a priori. Examples of such internal structural features include, but are not limited to, number, frequency and/or absolute or relative signal strength (signal to noise ratio) of one or more transmitted signal components (e.g., pilot tones, squelch tones, etc.) present in the SOI; absence of a signal component at a given frequency in the SOI (i.e., present as a “dead spot” at a given frequency within the SOI); signal strength versus frequency profile of the SOI, signal strength versus time domain profile of the SOI, transient characteristics, time versus frequency profile, etc.
US07885687B2
In one aspect, a digital device comprises a wireless station, a universal serial bus (USB) port, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a coupling of a flash device to the USB port and obtain wireless network configuration information from the flash device. The wireless network configuration information comprises a network name and a security key for a wireless communications network. The processor is further configured to store the wireless network configuration information in the memory, configure the wireless station using the wireless network configuration information, and connect the wireless station to the wireless communications network based on the wireless network configuration information.
US07885682B2
Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency, and/or amplitude characteristics of the desired time-varying complex envelope signal. In another embodiment, a time-varying complex envelope signal is decomposed into a plurality of constant envelope constituent signals. The constituent signals are amplified equally or substantially equally, and then summed to construct an amplified version of the original time-varying envelope signal. Embodiments also perform frequency up-conversion.
US07885681B2
Introduced is a method for using mobile communications devices for monitoring purposes. In one embodiment the method includes (1) a first mobile communications device to transmit a control signal to a second mobile communications device directing the second mobile communications device to capture an image with its camera and transmit the image to the first mobile communications device; and (2) displaying the image on a screen on the first mobile communications device.
US07885677B2
A radio channel control method for controlling, in a radio communication system having a transmitter and a receiver, a radio channel from the transmitter toward the receiver. The method includes measuring a reception condition of a specific signal transmitted from the transmitter, obtaining control signals which indicate a changing in transmission power and another transmission parameter of the transmitter by measuring reception condition of the specific signal, and transmitting the control signals from the receiver.
US07885670B2
The invention discloses a communication method of a dual-mode terminal, including: a Mobile Switch Centre (MSC) sends a message containing calling party information to an access functional entity of a High Rate Packet Data (HRPD) network via an InterWorking Solution (IWS) after receiving an initiated paging to a dual-mode terminal in the HRPD network; the access functional entity of the HRPD network sends a message containing the calling party information to the dual-mode terminal; the dual-mode terminal performs a subsequent communication according to the received calling party information. In the invention, upon receiving initiated paging from a dual-mode terminal in an HRPD network, the MSC sends a message containing the calling party information to an access functional entity of the HRPD network via the IWS, complexity of message processing is decreased, time of message processing is reduced.
US07885664B2
Triggers for the provision of location based services in a mobile communication network supporting a plurality of mobile terminals over a given territory, are generated by defining a set of target areas within the territory covered by the network, each target area being identified by respective geographic data, transforming the geographic data in a respective set of values of network related entities, the respective set of values being expected to be encountered by a mobile terminal when located in the corresponding target area, monitoring the values in the respective set as experienced by at least one monitored mobile terminal in the mobile communication network, checking whether the values as monitored match with the set of values are expected to be encountered, and when a match is found, which is indicative of the monitored mobile terminal being located in a given target area of the set, generating a trigger for prompting delivery of location based services related to the target area considered toward the monitored mobile terminal.
US07885651B2
A newly-installed wireless base station collects, in an on-demand manner, cell setting information that includes position information, transmission power information, and radio frequency information from one or more neighboring base stations without using radio wave information, and determines its own radio frequency and transmission power level based on the cell setting information.
US07885643B2
A system of plural vehicles is organized by transmitting information through communication devices being capable of establishing direct intercommunication respectively installed in the plural vehicles. The transmission of the information is controlled by a control unit in the system as well as a memory for storing a vehicle ID, an information generation unit for generating offer information including the vehicle ID, a display unit for displaying information, an output unit for outputting information, and a vehicle-to-vehicle communication unit for establishing communication. The control unit provides a user in the vehicle that has transmitted the offer information with an information fee or an information point by performing an information fee/point payment process.
US07885637B2
The invention relates to a network part and a method for generating billing data in a mobile communications system employing a wireless application protocol. The network part of the mobile communications system comprises: means for setting up a bi-directional wireless data transmission connection to a subscriber terminal; means for transmitting a service request sent by the subscriber terminal to a contents server providing the service; means for transmitting response data generated in the contents server on the basis of the service request to the subscriber terminal; identifying means for identifying transactions associated with the service from among the service requests and the response data on the basis of the identification of the Internet address of the service referred to in the service request and the response data; and billing means for generating billing data for the service using the transactions identified on the basis of the service's Internet address.
US07885617B2
A base station (10) according to the present invention includes: a plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b) configured to amplify radio frequency signals; a plurality of antennas (16a, 16b) configured to transmit the RF signals amplified by the plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b); a judging unit (123) configured to judge whether or not to transmit the RF signals by applying a transmission diversity using the plurality of antennas (16a, 16b); and a baseband signal processor unit (12) configured to generate baseband signals having an identical symbol pattern and an identical amplitude, as baseband signals that are bases of the RF signals to be transmitted from the plurality of antennas (16a, 16b), when the judging unit (123) determines not to apply the transmission diversity.
US07885615B2
In a push-to-talk device having two processors where one of the processors is a radio chip and one of the processors is a microprocessor, a method and apparatus for synchronizing the microprocessor and the radio chip includes the steps of checking the status of a radio push-to-talk key on the radio chip when a user push-to-talk button is turned on or off on the microprocessor; if the user push-to-talk button is on and the radio push-to-talk key is off, performing the steps of sending a command to the radio chip to turn on the radio push-to-talk key; and waiting for a response from the radio chip, and if the response indicates the radio push-to-talk key is on, remaining in this synchronized state, otherwise repeating the sending and waiting steps; if the user button is off and the radio push-to-talk key is on, performing the steps of: sending a command to the radio chip to turn off the radio push-to-talk key; and waiting for a response from the radio chip, and if the response indicates the radio push-to-talk key is off, remaining in this synchronized state, otherwise repeating the sending and waiting steps; if the user push-to-talk button is off and the radio push-to-talk key is off, remaining in this synchronized state; and if the user push-to-talk button is on and the radio push-to-talk key is on, remaining in this synchronized state.
US07885607B1
A transceiver includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal via a wireless communication link. The wireless link has a predetermined link characteristic. The RF signal includes a plurality of encoded Orthogonal Frequency Division Modulation (OFDM) symbols. A receive baseband processor recovers each OFDM symbol encoded within the RF signal. The baseband processor includes an estimation unit configured to continuously measure a signal quality of the wireless communication link based on each recovered OFDM symbol. A MAC layer controller is configured to selectively alter the predetermined link characteristic of the wireless link on an ongoing basis based on the continuously measured signal quality of the wireless communication link.
US07885598B2
Generating a visual three-dimensional model specific to a user for personal care education. A request for instruction regarding a personal care product is received from a user. Data defining physical characteristics of the user that relate to the personal care product is also received from the user. A three-dimensional model demonstrating use of the personal care product is generated. The three-dimensional model is a function of the received data and the personal care product. The generated three-dimensional model is provided to the user for display.
US07885590B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier to carry a toner image and a fixing device to fix the toner image transferred from the image carrier onto a recording medium by applying at least heat to at least one of the toner image and the recording medium. Such a fixing device includes: a magnetic flux generator to generate a magnetic flux; and a heat generating member disposed at least partially in the magnetic flux. The heat generating member includes a heat generating layer to generate heat via eddy currents therein induced by the magnetic flux, magnitudes of the eddy currents varying according to positions thereof in a width direction of the heat generating layer. Included within the heat generating layer is a magnetic layer having a Curie point in a range, e.g., from about 100 degrees centigrade to about 300 degrees centigrade.
US07885588B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers and a transfer assembly. The transfer assembly includes a plurality of transferees, a supporter, and a plurality of transferee holders. The plurality of transferers is each configured to electrostatically transfer a toner image carried on one of the image carriers onto an intermediate transfer member or a recording medium. The supporter is configured to support the transferers. The transferer holders are each configured to hold one of the transferers. Each of the transferee holders and the transferer held thereby form an integrated individual unit independently attachable to and detachable from the supporter.
US07885586B2
An image forming apparatus capable of always performing image registration adjustment with a high accuracy and realizing a higher image quality without lowering the productivity and deteriorating a cleaning member. A first conveying speed of a sheet being conveyed on a conveying path is changed to a second conveying speed at a predetermined position to thereby perform registration of an image on an image bearing member with the sheet, at a position of the image being transferred to the sheet. Detecting an registration-use image on the image bearing member causes a first reference signal to be generated, and detecting a top end of the sheet conveyed on the conveying path causes a second reference signal to be generated. The predetermined position is determined on the basis of the first reference signal when the registration-use image sensor has successfully generated the first reference signal, and the predetermined position is determined on the basis of the second reference signal when the registration-use image sensor does not successfully generate the first reference signal.
US07885585B2
An objective is to provide a developing roller in which increase of residual potential is inhibited during repetitive operation without deteriorating adhesion to an elastic layer, scattering and leakage of toner are prevented, appropriate elasticity is exhibited and a resin layer capable of preventing uneven charging of toner and image unevenness is prepared, and also to provide a image forming method employing the developing roller. Disclosed is a developing roller possessing an elastic layer made of silicone rubber provided around a conductive shaft, and a resin layer further provided on the elastic layer, wherein the resin layer contains polyurethane resin-silica hybrid as a principal component.
US07885583B2
An aspect of the invention provides a development device including a rotatable development sleeve which supplies developer to a photosensitive drum, the development sleeve being disposed such that a rotational axis of the development sleeve is orientated toward a vertical direction; a conveying screw which conveys the developer along a rotational axis direction of the development sleeve; and a developer supply guide which guides the developer conveyed by the developer conveying device to the development sleeve. The plural developer supply guides are disposed at predetermined intervals in the rotational axis direction of the development sleeve and between the development sleeve and the conveying screw.
US07885580B2
An image forming apparatus includes developing units designed to have an appropriate developer storage capacity in consideration of developer consumption, and improved convenience of use. The image forming apparatus also includes an image carrier, and plural developing units arranged along a rotating direction of the image carrier to supply developers to the image carrier. The plural developing units include a first developing unit having the largest developer storage capacity and a second developing unit having the second largest developer storage capacity after the first developing unit.
US07885579B2
There is provided a charging technique in which the generation of ozone is suppressed and charging efficiency can be improved. A charging device includes a contact unit configured to include a magnetic brush coming in contact with a body to be charged, the contact unit including, as a magnetic particle forming the magnetic brush, the magnetic particle containing at least a particle having a negative electronegativity, and a voltage application unit configured to negatively charge the body to be charged by applying a specified bias voltage through the magnetic brush in the contact unit to the body to be charged.
US07885577B2
A rotation transmission device including a driving member configured to input a driving force; a rotatable member; and a joint configured to transmit the driving force to the rotatable member, wherein the driving member, joint and rotatable member are coaxially arranged, and wherein the driving member are connected with the joint in such a manner that the phase of one-revolution fluctuation of the driving member is different from the phase of one-revolution fluctuation of the joint by an angle of π.
US07885572B2
A corona discharge device (10) comprises a discharge electrode (1) for causing electric discharge, a discharge product removing member (4) provided around the discharge electrode (1), and containing a material capable of removing a discharge product, and a shield plate (3) interposed between the discharge electrode (1) and the discharge product removing member (4), having a through-hole (3a) open toward the discharge electrode (1), and having a surface opposed to the discharge electrode (1) and at least the surface being made of a metallic material. With this, a corona discharge device, a photoreceptor charger, and a method for making a discharge product removing member which realize high trapping efficiency for discharge products and a long life of a discharge product removing filter are provided.
US07885550B2
The invention provides an optical transmitter comprising a differential encoder having first and second outputs, the first and second outputs being of opposite polarity to one another, a first RZ converter connected to the first output of the differential encoder and a second RZ converter connected to the second output of the differential encoder, and a dual electrode Mach Zehnder modulator to which an unmodulated coherent light source is coupled, wherein the output of the first RZ converter is connected to a first electrode of the Mach Zehnder modulator and the output of the second RZ converter is connected to a second electrode of the Mach Zehnder modulator. The invention provides improved signal integrity as compared with existing RZ-DPSK solution through the use of high quality RZ drivers. Furthermore, the invention gives rise to controllable RZ pulse edge chirping, providing rapid pulse compression or broadening through a dispersive fibre length. This can be used to mitigate pulse distortion in non-linear transmission links.
US07885546B2
A method and apparatus for multiplexing multiple Ethernet-based data streams in an optical network reduce the number of optical transceivers required by the optical network. Multiple data streams are multiplexed into a combined data stream, transmitted from a node in the optical network as the combined data stream, and demultiplexed at the receiving node. Data streams are multiplexed and demultiplexed at the bit level, and packets from each data stream are routed based on a VLAN tag that is contained in the header of each packet. By transmitting the information contained in multiple data streams as a single multiplexed data stream, the number of optical transceivers required for the optical network may be reduced by more than half. An optical supervisory channel may also be bundled with one of the data streams to eliminate the need for a dedicated transceiver for the optical supervisory channel.
US07885544B2
The invention concerns a device for temporal subsampling of an OTDM optical signal at a predetermined subsampling frequency, comprising a generator (10) for generating clock pulses transmitted at the predetermined subsampling frequency and at a conversion wavelength λH and a wavelength converter device (16) adapted to receive at its input the OTDM optical signal and the clock pulses in order to deliver at its output a subsampled OTDM optical signal at the conversion wavelength. The converter device comprises a linear optical amplifier (18) adapted to receive the OTDM optical signal and the clock pulses propagating in the opposite direction, the maximum linear power of the conversion being adjusted so that it can be less than the peak power of the OTDM optical signal, and a converter (20) of phase modulation into amplitude modulation.
US07885540B2
Techniques for measuring optical modulation amplitude (OMA) are disclosed. For example, a technique for measuring an OMA value associated with an input signal includes the following steps/operations. The input signal is applied to a photodetector, wherein the photodetector is calibrated to have a given responsivity value R, and further wherein the photodetector generates an output signal in response to the input signal. The output signal from the photodetector is applied to a radio frequency (RF) power meter, wherein the RF power meter measures the root mean squared (RMS) power value of the output signal received from the photodetector. The OMA value associated with the input signal is determined in response to the root mean squared (RMS) power value measured by the RF power meter. The OMA value may be determined as a function of a factor F derived from a relationship between an amplitude of a data signal and the RMS value of the data signal.
US07885537B1
A remote viewfinder display device using an image capturing device including a sensor positioned at an existing camera's viewfinder in communication with a remote display device which shows the viewfinder image at an alternative location to allow a photographer to frame the photograph in the viewfinder when the viewfinder is in an inaccessible or inconvenient position. The display can also provide a larger image for easier viewing. The remote viewfinder display device eliminates the constraints of a near eye view finder and provides for the ability to frame pictures with the alternatively positioned viewable screen or display independent of the existing camera's limited viewfinder position.
US07885529B2
A lens position calculator is provided that determines a phase of a driving signal as a reference position of an imaging lens when an output value of a position detection sensor reaches a threshold value. The lens position calculator determines a position obtained by performing addition or subtraction on the reference position read out from a reference position storage as a judgment position, detects an output value of the position detection sensor at a timing in synchronization with the driving signal that drives a driver and at the judgment position, and judges whether the output value of the position detection sensor at the judgment position reaches the threshold value or not, so as to determine the reference position again.
US07885517B2
A television receiving system displays an advertisement for a future television program. If the future television program is identified as recordable, the system also displays an option to set a reminder for the advertised program and/or an option to record the advertised program on a video recorder. If a viewer of the advertisement selects the reminder option, then a reminder is programmed in the system. If the viewer selects the record option, then the system automatically programs the video recorder to record the advertised program. If the viewer has established an interactive session during a television advertisement, and has not completed the interactive session when the advertisement ends, then the current television program is paused until the interactive session is completed.
US07885514B2
This invention provides a method and an apparatus for determining a rendering duration. An audio/video recording system is used for recording an audio bit stream and a video bit stream. The audio bit stream includes a plurality of audio frames. The video bit stream includes N video frames. According to this invention, the rendering durations of the first and the last video frames are determined based on the moments when the system starts to record the audio frames and the video frames. According to this invention, when the (i+1)th video frame through the (i+NL)th video frame are lost, the rendering duration of the ith video frame is determined based on NL. According to this invention, when the system receives a command of synchronization correction for the ith video frame, the rendering duration of the ith video frame is determined based on a correction value.
US07885509B2
A system and method is disclosed by which two or more information processing apparatus having a recording reservation function are linked in recording reservation setting to each other. The information processing apparatus exchange schedule information such as recording reservations with each other. The recording reservation program information of all of the information processing apparatus are displayed in a merged form on a GUI of any of the information processing apparatus. When a user wants to reserve a number of programs for recording within the same time zone, the user can confirm, on the GUI of a particular information processing apparatus, a recording reservation situation of another information processing apparatus or an unoccupied situation of an external recording section and perform setting of a reservation for a further information processing apparatus.
US07885507B2
An image reproducing apparatus for selectively reproducing and outputting image data of an arbitrary angle from image data of a plurality of angles including a plurality of reproduction units, comprising: an angle position information determination section which determines whether or not angle change is available based on angle change position information representing an address of an angle change destination recorded in the reproduction units; control means which changes an angle of a reproduced image data by using the angle change position information representing the address of the angle change destination recorded in the reproduction units; and angle change position information storage means which stores the angle change position information recorded in the reproduction units excluding a currently-reproduced reproduction unit at a currently-reproduced angle, wherein, if the angle position information determination section determines that the angle change cannot be performed by using the angle change position information recorded in the currently-reproduced reproduction unit, the control means changes the angle of the reproduced image data by using the angle change position information stored in the angle change position information storage means.
US07885506B2
A display device comprises a light source to provide an input light beam, a substrate having an input surface to form an in-coupled light beam by receiving light of the input light beam, wherein the in-coupled light beam is confined to the substrate by total internal reflections, the substrate further comprising a plurality of out-coupling features to form an illuminating light beam by diffracting light of the in-coupled light beam out of the substrate, a display element having a plurality of reflective polarization-rotating pixels arranged to form reflected light beams by reflecting light of the illuminating light beam, and imaging optics to form an image by focusing or collimating light of the reflected light beams transmitted through the out-coupling features.
US07885503B2
A cable exit trough defining an insert aperture for receiving a modular cable management inserts. The modular insert providing an additional cable management device such as a curved guidewall. The cable management device may alternatively be fixed to the cable exit trough. Removable snap-mounted flanges may also be included in the exit trough. The exit trough may also include an exit cover having a cover plate and a pivot plate hingedly mounted thereto for easy access to the trough.
US07885498B2
A sample slide, launch system, and method for microscopy having two optical fibers positioned proximate a sample slide with optical fiber mounting elements to deliver EMR to a surface of the sample slide at a critical angle for total internal reflection microscopy. In one exemplary embodiment, the EMR from the first optical fiber and the EMR from the second optical fiber may have different polarization states and/or wavelengths.
US07885496B2
Disclosed herein is a light receiving apparatus, including: a light receiving section including a light receiving element; a transparent part; and a light guiding part inserted in the groove; the groove having, on the front face side, a side face formed as an arcuately curved face convex toward the front face side and having the same shape in any cross section perpendicular to the front face and also to the depthwise direction of the groove; the light guiding part having a side face opposing to the side face of the groove on the front face side and formed as an arcuately curved face which is convex toward the front face side in a state wherein the light guiding part is inserted in the groove and which has the same shape in any cross section perpendicular to the front face and also to the depthwise direction of the groove.
US07885494B2
A package-on-package stack may include an upper package, an optical interface, and a lower package. The upper package may send an optical signal from a first component in the upper package. The optical interface may receive the optical signal from the upper package, and may transmit the optical signal. The lower package may receive the optical signal from the optical interface, and may relay the optical signal to a second component in the lower package or at the motherboard.
US07885492B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip comprising an array of modulated sources, each providing a modulated signal output at a channel wavelength different from the channel wavelength of other modulated sources and a wavelength selective combiner having an input optically coupled to received all the signal outputs from the modulated sources and provide a combined output signal on an output waveguide from the chip. The modulated sources, combiner and output waveguide are all integrated on the same chip.
US07885491B2
At least one sensing region is formed on the bending sensor by providing a flexurally elastic base cover which is interrupted in at least one partial region of the sensing region or is structured using elevations and/or depressions. At least one planar optical fiber core is generated on the base cover. The optical fiber core has a greater index of refraction than the base cover. The optical fiber core is covered by a shroud. The optical fiber core has a greater index of refraction than the shroud.
US07885484B2
A method for processing an image includes: determining a reduction ratio that falls within a predetermined range; generating reduced image data indicative of a reduced image based on original image data indicative of an original image by dimensionally reducing the size of the original image to the size of the reduced image by the determined reduction ratio, the reduced image data indicating density values of pixels contained in the reduced image; and emphasizing edges in the reduced image by amplifying a change in the density values of pixels belonging to the edges in the reduced image based on the density values of the pixels contained in the reduced image. The emphasizing edges includes: correcting the density values of the pixels in the reduced image data by using correction data; and modifying the correction data to be used for correction of the density values of the pixels in the reduced image data, the correction data being modified dependently on the reduction ratio, to thereby vary a level of amplification of the change in the density values dependently on the reduction ratio.
US07885477B2
A face portion of an input image, an example of a predetermined structure, is applied to a mathematical model by the image recovery/addition section to recover a missing element of the face portion in the input image. The mathematical model is generated by a predetermined statistical method, such as the AAM scheme or the like, based on a plurality of sample images representing the face portion including the recovery target element. Thereafter, the face portion is reconstructed to include the missing element based on the parameter corresponding to the face portion obtained by applying the face portion to the model, and the face portion of the input image is replaced by the reconstructed face portion to produce a restored image by the image reconstruction section.
US07885471B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream comprising encoded image coefficients and encoded block pattern (Cbp) information wherein the Cbp information identifies regions in said bitstream that comprise transform coefficients.
US07885469B2
Encoded HDR textures are described. In one aspect, a HDR image comprised is preprocessed such that HDR information is represented in a single color channel. The preprocessed image is quantized in view of two luminance ranges to retain HDR in the single color channel. Each block of quantized channel information is then encoded across two textures (encoded HDR textures). Specifically, when encoding a block of the quantized information, pixels in a first range of the two luminance ranges are put into a color channel associated with a first texture. Additionally, pixels in a second range of the two luminance ranges are stored into a color channel associated with a second texture.
US07885468B2
A system and method for grouping cluster spines into a two-dimensional visual display space is provided. Clusters of concepts, each extracted from documents, are obtained. Spines are formed by placing the clusters sharing at least one of the concepts along a spine. The spines are ordered based on a length of each spine. One or more of the spines are selected as unique spines and placed into a visual display space. A similarity is determined between one of the spines not placed and each of the placed unique spines. The placed unique spine most similar is identified. An anchor cluster on the most similar unique spine that satisfies a threshold similarity with the unplaced spine is selected. A cluster on the unplaced spine that is most similar to the selected anchor cluster is identified and grafted to the selected anchor cluster as a group of cluster spines.
US07885459B2
An image processing method includes sampling image data of an original image, analyzing an image that includes the image data sampled in the sampling step, based on luminance and color components of the image data, determining a rotation matrix for a color balance correction based on an analysis result obtained in the analyzing step, and executing the color balance correction on the image data of the original image, based on the determined rotation matrix.
US07885457B2
An image processing device is provided for processing image data in order to display an image at an image display medium which is capable of displaying white, black, and colors at individual pixels, which are structured by pluralities of sub-pixels. The judgment component acquires the image data and judges whether there is a chromatic color or a non-chromatic color at each pixel. When a pixel is judged to be non-chromatic, the selection component selects a pre-specified black-and-white sub-pixel set in accordance with a gray level of the non-chromatic color. When a pixel is judged to be chromatic, the conversion component converts color data to a sub-pixel set of black and the color in accordance with a pre-specified condition. Of results of conversion, the replacement component replaces a pre-specified sub-pixel set of colors, in an individual pixel or in a pre-specified sub-pixel group, with a pre-specified black-and-white sub-pixel set.
US07885456B2
A forward pass through a sequence of strokes representing a handwritten equation is performed from the first stroke to the last stroke in the sequence. At each stroke, a path score is determined for a plurality of symbol-relation pairs that each represents a symbol and its spatial relation to a predecessor symbol. A symbol graph having nodes and links is constructed by backtracking through the strokes from the last stroke to the first stroke and assigning scores to the links based on the path scores for the symbol-relation pairs. The symbol graph is used to recognize a mathematical expression based in part on the scores for the links and the mathematical expression is stored.
US07885445B2
A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The method may further include storing the first portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record and/or associating and storing a common portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record, the common portion consisting of data common to each person whose data is shown on the image. In one embodiment, the method may further include modifying the received diagnostic image and associating and storing the modified image with an electronic record. A computer system for associating at least a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record is also provided.
US07885444B2
A method for determining a response of each probe zone on a test strip is provided. The present invention selects an average pixel value of each section of reference white respectively adjacent to the image of a target line to serve as a reference for determining a color response of the target line. When the color response is not less than a predetermined value, representing the target line has a positive response in response to a specific component of a tested solution tested by the test strip, and the specific component is present in the tested solution. The content of the specific component is proportional to the color response. When the color response is less than a predetermined value, representing the target line has a negative response in response to the specific component of the tested solution, and the specific component is absent in the tested solution.
US07885441B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for virtual implant review. Certain embodiments provide a method for virtual implant review. The method includes registering a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image. The method includes detecting an implant or instrument in the two-dimensional image. The method also includes performing an initial implant registration of the implant or instrument with respect to the three dimensional image based on navigation information and refining the initial implant registration based on image data analysis to generate a refined implant registration. Additionally, the method includes displaying a representation of the implant or instrument with respect to the three-dimensional image based on the refined image registration and the refined implant registration.
US07885428B2
An automatic reader system, apparatus, and method for the identification and authentication of articles enabling automatic collection and processing of code data associated with microparticle marks, automatic determination of the code from the code data associated with microparticle marks, and automatic retrieval of reference information associated with the code.
US07885426B2
Described system makes it possible to charge copy fees related to the amount of copyrighted material being copied and to provide those fees to the appropriate copyright holder. The scanned information is passed through an OCR filter that produces a stream of text, which is then passed to a full-text search service that identifies matching passages in its index. Sufficiently long passages found in the copied document that match previously indexed documents held by the service constitute copyrighted materials. In addition, the scanned image may be processed to identify instances of copyrighted images present in the scan.
US07885424B2
An audio signal supply apparatus which can broaden a listening area in the directions of directivity axes of acoustic beams output from a speaker array and directions other than the directions of the directivity axes. A listening area is set, propagation paths to be followed by sounds output from speakers constituting the speaker array until the sounds reach the listening area are identified, propagation path information related to the propagation paths is obtained, window function information giving wide directivities covering the entire listening area to the sounds output from the speakers is identified based on the propagation path information and the listening area size, and weighting on the signal levels of audio signals to be supplied to the speakers is carried out using the window function information.
US07885422B2
The present invention provides a method of operating a digital audio device, the method comprising: receiving a voice call; receiving another digital audio signal which is not a voice call; mixing the two received signals; transmitting the mixed signal wirelessly to another device.
US07885420B2
The invention includes a method, apparatus, and computer program to selectively suppress wind noise while preserving narrow-band signals in acoustic data. Sound from one or several microphones is digitized into binary data. A time-frequency transform is applied to the data to produce a series of spectra. The spectra are analyzed to detect the presence of wind noise and narrow band signals. Wind noise is selectively suppressed while preserving the narrow band signals. The narrow band signal is interpolated through the times and frequencies when it is masked by the wind noise. A time series is then synthesized from the signal spectral estimate that can be listened to. This invention overcomes prior art limitations that require more than one microphone and an independent measurement of wind speed. Its application results in good-quality speech from data severely degraded by wind noise.
US07885409B2
A multichannel communications device is disclosed. The multichannel communications device includes more than one transceiver. The multichannel communications device also includes a first switch configured for switching between transceivers. Further still, the multichannel communications device includes more than one cryptographic element. Yet further still, the mulitchannel communications device includes a second switch which is configured to switch between the cryptographic elements. A switch policy is configured to control communications between the cryptographic elements, including restricting communications between the cryptographic elements.
US07885407B2
Video data exploitation by alteration of data is prevented. An extractor 111 extracts valid video data in data 110 and predetermined data in the data. An inserter 114 inserts an arithmetic operation result of the predetermined data by an arithmetic operation unit 113 into the valid video data encrypted by an encryptor 112. An output of the inserter 114 is supplied to an extractor 144 through a transmission path 120. The encrypted valid video data and arithmetic operation resultant data of the arithmetic operation unit 113 are extracted. An arithmetic operation unit 143 executes the same arithmetic operation as that of the arithmetic operation unit 113 to data corresponding to the data used in the arithmetic operation unit 113 from the valid video data decrypted by a decryptor 141 and extracted by an extractor 144. A comparator 145 compares an output of the arithmetic operation unit 143 with an arithmetic operation result extracted from data 140. When both of them do not coincide, it is determined that there is a possibility that the transmission data has been altered. An output of an another-output generator 146 is outputted as output data 148.
US07885404B2
Cryptographic systems and methods that support multiple modes of operation, such as CBC, CTR and/or CCM modes. In one aspect, a method for encrypting data includes reading a plaintext data block from a memory, storing the plaintext data block in an input buffer, encrypting the plaintext data block in the input buffer using a first mode to generate a first ciphertext, storing the first ciphertext in an output buffer, encrypting the plaintext data block in the input buffer using a second mode to generate a second ciphertext. For example, in a CCM mode of operation wherein the first mode is a CTR (counter) mode and the second mode is a CBC (cipher block chaining) mode, the block of plaintext that is initially read from memory and stored in the data input register is applied to both the CTR and CBC modes, thereby reducing a number memory read operations as in conventional CCM modes.
US07885395B2
Inbound calls to an enterprise are handled by a call-handling component, by identifying the calling party from intrinsic information about the call, by identifying a potential recipient from non-intrinsic information about the calling party, and by automatically routing the inbound call to a potential recipient.
US07885386B2
Systems and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments a compact X-ray generator having a cylindrical shape has a power supply located directly behind the cathode and/or anode inputs to the X-ray tube in some embodiments.
US07885385B1
A method for the production of X-ray bunches tunable in both time and energy level by generating multiple photon, X-ray, beams through the use of Thomson scattering. The method of the present invention simultaneously produces two X-ray pulses that are tunable in energy and/or time.
US07885370B2
A method of early sensing of water leakage, through chemical concentration monitoring, in a nuclear reactor system using a liquid metal and molten salt, the method including: measuring an electrical conductivity and a mass spectrum of a first channel and a second channel of a heat-related device included in the nuclear reactor system using the liquid metal and the molten salt; calculating a first identification value associated with the water leakage in the heat-related device using the measured electrical conductivity; calculating a second identification value associated with the water leakage in the heat-related device using the measured mass spectrum; and sensing the water leakage by comparing a predetermined reference value and a summed identification value, the summed identification value being the sum of the first identification value and the second identification value.
US07885369B2
A PLL frequency generator is disclosed for generating an output signal with a settable target frequency, comprising a) a voltage-controlled oscillator for generating the output signal depending on a control voltage, b) a switchable frequency divider, which is connected to the voltage-controlled oscillator and is designed to derive a frequency-divided signal whose instantaneous frequency depends on a value of an adjustable divisor, from the output signal c) a switchable delay unit, which is connected to the frequency divider and is designed to generate a delayed signal in that the frequency-divided signal is delayed by delay times that in each case depend on a control word and a control signal, and d) a phase detector, which is connected to the switchable delay unit and is designed to determine the phase difference between a reference signal and the delayed signal and to provide it for the generation of the control voltage. According to the invention, a calibration unit is provided, which is connected to the switchable delay unit and is designed to derive the control signal from the reference signal.
US07885366B2
When recording stream data, index information and time correction information are recorded in correspondence with the stream data. The index information specifies a position of an invalid section in the stream data. The time correction information specifies a time which, supposing that a PCR included in the invalid section was able to be got, a time clock would have shown in synchronization with the PCR. When reproducing the stream data recorded together with the time correction information and the index information, at a position where the invalid section ends, the time clock can be set to a time intended by a broadcasting system, by referencing the index information and the time correction information.
US07885364B2
In a wireless communication system having a receiver which receives, through plural reception antennae, signals transmitted from plural transmission antennae, bit likelihood can be surely calculated without requiring a selection processing. A transmitter has M transmission antennae, and transmits signals through the transmission antennae, respectively. A receiver has N reception antennae, and receives signals. K nulling devices perform nulling with use of signals received, and output part of nulling signals. K demodulation devices are inputted with nulling signals, demodulate signals, and output demodulated signals. A parallel-serial conversion device is inputted with demodulated signals, converts the parallel format thereof into a serial format, and outputs the result as demodulated data.
US07885360B2
A wireless communication apparatus receives an quadrature modulated signal, generate a local signal having a frequency different from a center frequency of the quadrature modulated signal, performs quadrature demodulation on the quadrature modulated signal by using the local signal, to obtain an I channel signal and a Q channel signal, performs Fourier transform on the I channel signal and the Q channel signal, to obtain signals in a frequency domain, and calculates a first correction coefficient for correcting phase distortion and amplitude distortion caused by the quadrature demodulation by using pairs of signals among the signals, each of the pairs are located at symmetrical frequency positions with respect to the frequency of the local signal.
US07885358B2
A digital broadcast system including a broadcast receiving system and data processing method are disclosed. In the broadcast receiving system receiving broadcast signals, the broadcast receiving system includes a transmission parameter decoding unit, a known sequence detector, and a burst controller. The transmission parameter decoding unit detects information on a burst of a received signal from broadcast data having main service data and mobile service data multiplexed therein within a field of the received signal and outputs the detected information on the burst. The known sequence detector receives burst information from the transmission parameter decoding unit and uses the received burst information and known data position information included in the received data, so as to output burst control information. The burst controller uses the burst control information to control power supply of the broadcast receiving system.
US07885355B2
The present invention is a system and a method of filtering a signal at a receiver, the signal having at least a desired channel and blockers. A first converter converts a first copy of the signal resulting in a relatively narrow band, high-resolution first signal. A second converter converts a second copy of the signal resulting in a relatively wide band, low-resolution second signal. Once each copy of the signal is converted, the copies are passed to a combiner. At the combiner, the two copies of the signal are analyzed and the desired channel is extracted from the first copy of the signal by removing any inter-modulation product caused by any interference detected in the second copy from the blockers (not detected in the first copy).
US07885348B2
Embodiments of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system and methods for beamforming using polar-cap codebooks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, beamforming is based on codewords of a polar-cap codebook which represents deviations in the channel with respect to codewords of a full-manifold codebook.
US07885344B2
A wireless communication apparatus utilizing an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication method includes an antenna transmitting and receives a radio-frequency signal; a receiver frequency converter frequency-converting the radio-frequency signal into a baseband signal in accordance with a low-intermediate frequency method; an analog-to-digital converter converting the baseband signal into a digital signal; an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing demodulator acquiring a plurality of subcarriers in a frequency domain; a data reproduction unit reproducing data; a transmission data generator generating transmission data; an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulator performing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing modulation of the plurality of subcarriers; a digital-to-analog converter converting the digital orthogonal frequency division multiplexing signal into an analog signal; and a transmitter frequency converter converting the analog transmission baseband signal into a transmission radio-frequency signal in accordance with a zero-intermediate frequency method.
US07885343B2
A device and a method for clipping multicarrier signal are provided. The method for clipping multicarrier signal includes: detecting whether an Idle Period in DownLink (IPDL) starts in each subcarrier forming a multicarrier joint signal and generating an IPDL flag just when the IPDL starts in a subcarrier; detecting power of each subcarrier to get a detection result; selecting a clipping filter coefficient according to the IPDL flag and the detection result; performing a clipping processing of the received multicarrier joint signal according to the clipping filter coefficient and outputting the multicarrier joint signal after the clipping processing. Embodiments of the present invention meet demands of an IPDL time template and effectively support an IPDL mechanism in a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) system on the premise of no multicarrier signal clipping performance is affected.
US07885341B2
An apparatus, method, and carrier medium carrying computer-readable code to implement a method that includes generating a difference picture of an accepted picture of a time sequence of pictures minus an estimate of the previous picture in the sequence. The generating of the difference picture includes forming quantized coefficients and passing the quantized coefficients via a prediction loop to generate the estimate of the previous picture. A spatial filter is applied to at least a component of the difference picture such that the forming of quantized coefficients is from a spatially filtered difference picture. The spatial filter is a noise reducing spatial filter configured such that there is a fixed delay between the filter input picture and the filter output picture. The fixed delay is significantly less than the time between consecutive pictures in the time sequence.
US07885340B2
The present invention provides a system and methods for producing multiple encoded representations of a video input sequence. The multiple representations produced each contain identified synchronization frames that allow a server and a client to switch between streamed representations in real time without interruption. Synchronization frames are frames of encoded video that can be independently decoded. A representation can thus be decoded starting at a synchronization frame. Each synchronization frame in one representation has a corresponding synchronization frame at a substantially similar temporal location in any other generated representation of the same video input sequence. The temporal co-location of synchronization frames in all representations facilitates the dynamic switching between representations during the streaming process. The present invention also provides a video encoder application that shares data during the encoding of multiple representations of a video input sequence by reusing data calculated in the encoding of one representation to encode other representations. The application can also generate the multiple encoded representations simultaneously.
US07885338B1
A module may provide codec-independent services including determining frame display order, frame dependency sets, and queuing the dependency frames in advance so as to enable display of a video. The module enables a video to be played forwards or backwards at a variety of playback speeds from any position within the video. In one implementation, a device communicatively coupled to a plurality of decoders accesses a video that includes a plurality of frames. One or more of the frames are decodable by one or more of the communicatively coupled decoders. The device identifies a frame in the video that is to be displayed, and determines a plurality of dependency frames in the video upon which decoding of the frame to be displayed depends. The device provides an indication that one or more associated dependency frames are to be decoded.
US07885320B1
A device and a method for processing high data rate serial data includes circuitry for recovering a clock based on the high data rate input data stream and for providing the recovered clock to a circuit portion, for example, a portion of a field programmable gate array fabric, to enable the circuit portion to use either a reference clock or the recovered clock for subsequent processing. The invention specifically allows for different circuitry portions to utilize different clocks, including different recovered clocks, for corresponding functions that are being performed. Applications for the present invention are many but include multi-gigabit transceiver, switching devices, and protocol translation devices. More generally, the device and method provide for application specific clock references to be utilized in order to minimize or eliminate timing mismatch in serial data processing.
US07885317B2
An AltBoc receiver accumulates power measurements over code chip ranges that are associated with time slots that span the code chips. The receiver combines a received signal with code and carrier phase offsets that correspond to the time slots to produce the power measurements, with the code phase offsets determined from compressed signals representing one or a combination of the codes in the AltBoc signal. The receiver recovers navigation data from the data channels of the received signal and combines the recovered data with the corresponding locally generated PRN codes to produce a locally generated 4 code signal that is then used track the full 8PSK AltBoc received signal. The receiver rotates and shifts the phase of the received signal in order to line up the subcarrier splitting code zero crossings. The pulse shape of this rotated and shifted signal is measured. The resulting sharp edges of the recovered subcarrier are used to control the code phase of the receiver.
US07885316B2
The invention relates to a sending method for multiple users requiring to transmit digital data over a frequency-selective channel with a plurality of send antennas and a plurality of receive antennas, characterized in that it applies to coded and interleaved data (d[n]): demultiplexing (105) into K channels, where K is strictly greater than the number T of send antennas, and modulation (107) of the demultiplexed data; internal linear coding (108) defined by an N×K generator matrix (W,Wn) where N is strictly greater than T, this internal coding being applied to the K-dimensional vectors of the modulated data. The invention also relates to a sending system for implementing said method.
US07885312B2
A surface emitting laser is provided with an upper reflecting mirror having a photonic crystal structure with a point defect at the center, and emits a laser beam from the side of a lower reflecting mirror. An upper electrode is formed on the point defect at the center, and element resistance is reduced. A material transparent to a wavelength of the laser beam is used for a substrate. The emission efficiency is improved by reducing the element resistance of the photonic crystal surface emitting laser.
US07885309B2
A method and apparatus may comprise a line narrowed pulsed excimer or molecular fluorine gas discharge laser system which may comprise a seed laser oscillator producing an output comprising a laser output light beam of pulses which may comprise a first gas discharge excimer or molecular fluorine laser chamber; a line narrowing module within a first oscillator cavity; a laser amplification stage containing an amplifying gain medium in a second gas discharge excimer or molecular fluorine laser chamber receiving the output of the seed laser oscillator and amplifying the output of the seed laser oscillator to form a laser system output comprising a laser output light beam of pulses, which may comprise a ring power amplification stage.
US07885307B2
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting (VCSEL) device has a layer structure including a top DBR mirror, an active layer, a current confinement oxide layer, and a bottom DBR mirror, the layer structure being configured as a mesa post. The current confinement oxide layer has a central current injection area and a peripheral current blocking area oxidized from the sidewall of the mesa post. The mesa post has a substantially square cross-sectional shape, thereby allowing an oxidation heat treatment to configure a substantially circular current injection area in the current-confinement oxide layer.
US07885306B2
What is specified is an edge emitting semiconductor laser chip comprising a carrier substrate (1), an interlayer (2) promoting adhesion between the carrier substrate (1) and a component structure (50) of the edge emitting semiconductor laser chip, and the component structure (50) comprising an active zone (5) provided for generating radiation.
US07885294B2
An ability to compress packets is announced from a customer edge router (CE) to other CEs through a routing protocol packet. An announcement of that ability is received from another CE through a routing protocol packet. A compression technique is then matched. The CE receives compression information from the other CE in a routing protocol packet, and determines that a compression technique identified therein matches any compression technique the CE is programmed to use. The CE then flags packets transmitted from/received by the CE to be compressed/decompressed according to the matched compression technique. Alternatively, the CE may match by transmitting compression information identifying a compression technique to the another CE in a routing protocol packet; the another CE receives the routing protocol packet and determines that a compression technique identified in the compression information of the routing protocol packet matches any compression technique the another CE is programmed to use.
US07885293B2
A base station selects a maximum rate option indicator value for an uplink communications segment, e.g., uplink traffic channel segment, and transmits the selected indicator value, e.g., as part of the assignment message. The maximum rate option indicator value indicates to the wireless terminal a maximum allowed data rate option that the wireless terminal is permitted to use for the corresponding assigned uplink communications segment, the wireless terminal determining the actual uplink rate option used. Each uplink data rate option corresponds to: a number of information bits to be communicated in an uplink communication segment, a coding rate, and a modulation method. Some embodiments include multiple types of maximum uplink rate option indicators, e.g., a first type using a single bit and a second type using at least three bits. Different modulation methods are, in some embodiments, used for communicating the different types of maximum uplink rate option indicators.
US07885282B2
A control system controls a physical layer quality of user data transmitted between first and second ends of a serial bus. The control system comprises a first line driver that has a control input that controls the physical layer quality at the first end. A physical layer quality sensor senses the physical layer quality at the second end and generates control primitives that are fed back over the serial bus to the control input to provide closed loop control of the physical layer quality.
US07885274B2
In one embodiment, a method includes generating by a mobile router a home test message that includes a prefix option field specifying at least one mobile network prefix claimed to be owned by the mobile router. The method also includes outputting the home test message by the mobile router to a correspondent node via a prescribed home agent assigned to the mobile router, for initiation of a reverse routability test between the mobile router and the correspondent node that verifies the mobile router owns the at least one mobile network prefix. In another embodiment, the home agent is configured for forwarding a route optimization message, for example the home test message, to the correspondent node if the home agent determines that the at least one mobile network prefix is owned by the mobile router.
US07885267B2
There are provided a network system and a network connection device which are adapted for handling a plurality of default routes. The network system includes a plurality of network connection devices, and each network connection device is configured to associate each of one or more default routes with an identifier respectively, enabling setting of one or more default routes by the association.
US07885266B2
A method in a communication of establishing the existence of quality of service preconditions in a communication network, the method comprising the steps of sending (206) an SIP registration request message; and receiving (208) a registration acknowledgement message having a QOS precondition preference indication. Then sending (406) an invite that includes a quality of service precondition message that corresponds with the QoS precondition preference indication of the registration acknowledgement message.
US07885261B2
Packet classification and routing in a data communication network with static routing procedure, wherein the routing is performed without using a routing table. First values for each common address bit of end service points adjacent to a switch as a response to a local subnet mask of the switch are defined. Then the packet flows from the current switch to the adjacent switches are forwarded in response to a value of differentiation bits. Unprocessed packets are forwarded to the main adjacent switch according to the main adjacent switch definition. Unforwarded are processed packets locally as exceptions.
US07885250B2
A method and apparatus for synchronizing timing of Access Points (APs) and/or Synchronization Units (SUs) includes (a) arranging a cable having at least four pairs of twisted wires connected between two or more fixed APs and/or SUs in a network; (b) assigning a first pair of the twisted wires to carry a positive D.C. voltage to at least one AP or SU; (C) assigning a second pair of the twisted wires to carry a negative D.C. voltage to at least one AP or SU; (d) providing to the first and second pairs of rails a series of synchronization pulses generated from a synchronization source and capacitively-coupled to the first and second pairs of twisted wires so as to supply a composite signal; and (e) reconstructing the generated synchronization pulses by detecting pulses on the positive and negative D.C. voltages at a receiving end by at least one AP or SU.
US07885245B2
A method and apparatus for enhanced uplink multiplexing are disclosed. A set of combinations of MAC-d flows (and/or logical channels) that are allowed to be multiplexed within a MAC-e PDU is defined for a WTRU. The WTRU MAC-e entity selects a combination among a set of allowed combinations for multiplexing MAC-d flows for each MAC-e PDU. Certain MAC-d flow combinations may be defined that can not be blocked from transmission even when the WTRU is in a transmit power restricted state. The amount of data from each logical channel or corresponding MAC-d flow that can be multiplexed within a MAC-e PDU may be defined to ensure guaranteed data rates. When the WTRU is in a restricted power condition, an indication of the restricted power condition may be passed to the Node-B with the EU transmission.
US07885244B2
A method for communicating in a network including a coordinator node and a set of leaf nodes transmits periodically, from the coordinator node to the set of leaf nodes, a beacon defining a superframe, wherein the supper frame includes an active period and an inactive period, and wherein the active period includes a first contention access period (CAP-1), a first contention free period (CFP-1), a first group acknowledgement (GACK-1), a second CFP-2, a second GACK-2, and a second CAP-2, and wherein each CFP includes a guaranteed time slot (GTS) assigned to each leaf node. Then, each leaf node transmits to the coordinator node only during the GTS assigned to the leaf node during each CFP.
US07885239B1
An improved mechanism for managing allocation of air interface timeslots for transmission of data to access terminals. When an access terminal requests an access network to transmit data to the access terminal in a first sector, the access terminal will identify within its request a second sector that the access network can optionally use instead. The access network will then determine whether a threshold number of upcoming timeslots in the first sector are already scheduled to carry data to other access terminals and whether at least one of those timeslots is available for use in the second sector. If so, the access network will then responsively transmit the data to the access terminal in the at least one timeslot on the second sector. Advantageously, this process can help to increase sector throughput.
US07885235B2
Since OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing), which is a downlink access scheme used for an LTE (Long Term Evolution) communication system, is weak at interference, it is preferable that the number of base stations for transmitting the same E-MBMS (Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service) data be not excessive.Thus, the mobile terminal performs: processing of obtaining measurement quality values by measuring reception quality of each base station; processing of deciding on whether the measurement quality value of a serving base station exceeds a certain receiving level; processing of adding measurement quality values of other base stations to the measurement quality value of the serving base station until the sum exceeds the certain receiving level; and processing of notifying the serving base station of the serving base station and other base stations as candidates for an active set for E-MBMS. This makes it possible to select as the active set for E-MBMS an appropriate number of base stations that make it compatible to maintain good reception quality and to prevent interference.
US07885234B2
A method and system for providing circuit-switched to IP Multimedia Subsystem voice call continuity with a single radio are provided. The exemplary embodiment takes advantage of a standard RANAP signaling procedure called “directed retry” to perform a much better coordination between the change in radio mode and the transfer of the media path. With the use of “directed retry”, the transfer of the media path does not begin until the handover procedure is complete, thus significantly reducing the likely amount of media disruption.
US07885204B1
Methods and systems have been provided for testing network topologies. A network management system converts multiple types of static and dynamic network hardware data sources into a single unified format and provides a uniform mechanism for data access. The network management system identifies attributes of the topology of a network that are required for testing. The network management system further compares the identified attributes, optional and required, with the attributes of a test network. Based on the comparison, a test-bed is created in the test network for testing the resources.
US07885193B2
To augment a network by adding a network element, network services affected by the augmentation, and a temporary route for transmitting network services determined as affected by the augmentation via the temporary route are determined. A new route through the augmented network, and a spanning tree corresponding to the new route are determined. Memberships of a virtual local area network (VLAN) in ports of network elements of the temporary route are configured. Cost factors at these ports are changed such as to direct the network services determined as affected by the augmentation through the temporary route. A VLAN membership is calculated for each port in the new route for a network service that passes through the augmented network. The new route through the augmented network is re-calculated based on the spanning tree, and VLAN memberships in the ports of network elements which are no longer needed are deleted.
US07885192B1
A media selection system includes a plurality of media ports. Each of the plurality of media ports is coupled to a corresponding physical medium, is configured to generate an activity signal, and is configured to generate a link status signal. A priority storage module is configured to contain priority information, which sets forth a priority for establishing a link through each of the plurality of media ports. A media selector module is configured to select a first media port through which a link will be maintained based on the activity signal generated by each of the plurality of media ports. The media selector module is configured to link the signal generated by each of the plurality of media ports and the priority information. The media selector module is configured to block all other links through media ports of the plurality of media ports other than the first media port.
US07885182B2
The range delay of each of a plurality of user devices of an HFC is monitored. If the delay of a number of devices shifts by about the same amount and at about the same time, then the number of devices having such a shift is compared to a predetermined threshold. If the number exceeds the threshold, it is assumed that a leg of a fiber ring in the HFC has been severed, and a ring switch is determined to have occurred.Upon this determination, granting of bandwidth requests to a group of user devices is suspended, and a ranging and register process for all devices in the group begins. The group may comprise all user devices affected by the broken fiber ring. Following ranging and registering, granting of bandwidth requests to the affected devices begins according to a normally-provisioned request grant schedule.
US07885180B2
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request mirroring can provide a mechanism for synchronizing link-layer adjacency information among network elements. This application can be useful, for example, for internet protocol (IP) routing network elements in a high-availability configuration.
US07885177B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for transmitting symbols in a multiple antenna communication system according to a frame structure, such that the symbols can be interpreted by a lower order receiver (i.e., a receiver having a fewer number of antennas than the transmitter). The disclosed frame structure comprises a legacy preamble having at least one long training symbol and N-1 additional long training symbols that are transmitted on each of N transmit antennas. The legacy preamble may be, for example, an 802.11 a/g preamble that includes at least one short training symbol, at least one long training symbol and at least one SIGNAL field. A sequence of each of the long training symbols on each of the N transmit antennas are time orthogonal. The long training symbols can be time orthogonal by introducing a phase shift to each of long training symbols relative to one another.
US07885175B2
The present invention relates to a transmitting device and a receiving device in a wireless orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) communication system with space time transmit diversity (STTD). Further, the present invention relates to a channel estimation method for performing a channel estimation in such a wireless communication system, in which the transmitting device comprises a first and a second antenna for transmitting signals with space time transmit diversity. The first and the second antenna means are arranged spaced apart from each other in a space diversity arrangement, whereby first and second pilot symbols are transmitted via said first and said second antenna means, respectively. Some of the second pilot symbols are orthogonal to corresponding ones of the first pilot symbols, so that a channel estimation to separately determine the transmission quality of signals transmitted from the first and the second antenna means, respectively, can be performed in a receiving device which receives the signals with only one single antenna.
US07885174B2
A method is provided for operating a wireless local device. In this method a local device receives a beacon for a current superframe in a common signal format. The beacon includes time slot assignment information. The local device then determines a device format for the transmission of data to a remote device based on format determination information. The device format can be one of a common signal format, and one or more wireless formats. The local device then determines one or more remote device time slots in the superframe assigned for transmission of the data to the remote device based on the time slot assignment information. Finally, the local device transmits the data in the one or more remote device time slots to the remote device using the device format.
US07885173B2
According to one embodiment, a write-once information recording medium includes a transparent resin substrate having concentric or spiral grooves and lands, and a recording film formed on the grooves and lands of the transparent resin substrate, wherein the recording film includes an organic dye layer containing a metal complex monomer and a metal complex polymer, a recording mark is formed in the organic dye layer by emission of a short-wavelength laser beam, and a light reflectance of the recording mark formed by emission of the short-wavelength laser beam is higher than that before emission of the short-wavelength laser beam, and the grooves wobble within a predetermined amplitude range.
US07885163B2
A recording medium, a recording/reproducing apparatus, and a recording/reproducing method are disclosed. The apparatus uses the number of record layers contained in a recording medium and a multi-wavelength light source including a plurality of optical signals having different wavelengths, and irradiates an optical signal emitted from a light source on each recording medium according to wavelengths of the light beams. As a result, the apparatus can effectively gain access to the recording medium including a plurality of record layers, such that it can simultaneously record/reproduce data in/from the recording medium.
US07885156B2
A method for controlling the recording power of an optical disc apparatus. The method can search for an optimum recording power using a starting power stored in a recordable high density optical disc based on a manufacturer thereof, and perform recording operations with the optimum recording power while the start power is properly varied through an Optimum Power Control (OPC) procedure. The method comprises the operations of: obtaining an initial start power for performing the OPC procedure of a recordable optical disc; performing the OPC procedure, and judging whether the initial start power is within a range of allowable levels for determining the optimum recording power of the optical disc; re-performing the OPC procedure by varying the initial start power when the initial start power deviates from the range of allowable levels; and storing the new start power when within the range of allowable levels for improved subsequent OPC procedures.
US07885143B2
Various technologies for a seismic acquisition system, which may include an acquisition central system configured to determine a desired start time for a sweep cycle in one or more vibrators and a recorder source system controller in communication with the acquisition central system. The recorder source system controller may be configured to receive the desired start time from the acquisition central system. The seismic acquisition system may further include one or more vibrator units in communication with the recorder source system controller. Each vibrator unit may be configured to start a sweep cycle in a vibrator at the desired start time.
US07885142B2
An acoustic logging system that measures distribution of foam cement and other material in a casing-borehole annulus. The distribution is preferably displayed as map. A borehole tool utilizes at least one acoustic transducer with a known frequency response and mounted on a rotating scanning head that is pointed essentially perpendicular to the borehole wall. The response of the transducer is used to measure an original impedance map of material within the borehole-casing annulus. A fast Fourier transform is used to generate a FFT map from the data comprising the original impedance map. The original impedance map is then combined with the FFT map using logic rules to obtain a final impedance map that is indicative of material within the casing-borehole annulus.
US07885138B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a memory array of dual part cells and design structure thereof. The memory array has a pair of twisted write bit lines and a pair of twisted read bit lines for each column. The twist is made by alternating the vertical position of each bit line pair in each section of a column, with the result of generating common mode nose and of reducing differential mode noise.
US07885128B2
Memories and methods for replacing memory sections of a main memory array by mapping memory addresses for an entire main memory section to at least one memory section of a redundant memory array. One such memory includes a fuse block having programmable elements configured to be programmed to identify main memory sections to be mapped to redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array. The memory further includes a redundant memory logic circuit coupled to the redundant memory array and the fuse block. The redundant memory logic is configured to map the memory for a main memory section identified in the fuse block to at least one of the redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array.
US07885127B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a reference strobe signal generator configured to generate a reference strobe signal having a reference pulse width in response to a bank information signal and a column command signal, and a main strobe signal generator configured to generate a main strobe signal by controlling the reference pulse width in response to the reference strobe signal and a bank grouping signal that is activated in a bank grouping mode where columns are continuously accessed in a plurality of logically grouped banks.
US07885126B2
An apparatus for controlling an activation of semiconductor integrated circuit includes: an active control unit configured to generate active control signal for determining activation of banks; and a plurality of active signal generating units configured to input the active control signal commonly, and generate active signals for activating the banks to according to the active control signal. According to this structure, it is possible to reduce current consumption to a minimum in a refresh mode, to easily arrange signal lines, and thus to effectively use extra space.
US07885123B2
An integrated circuit for storing data, and for application in a memory card that operates in cooperation with at least one of an external acquisition system and an external processing system includes input/output terminals for receiving the data to be stored, and an electrically programmable non-volatile memory for storing the data in digital format. The memory includes a first terminal for receiving a programming signal for enabling storage of the data, and a second terminal for receiving a reading signal for enabling output of the stored data via the input/output terminals. A memory control circuit is connected to the first and second terminals of the electrically programmable non-volatile memory, and to the input/output terminals for generating programming and reading signals based upon the command signal. The electrically programmable non-volatile memory is erasable by electromagnetic radiation for permitting a non-electrical erasure of the stored data.
US07885121B2
A resistance change memory device including: a cell array having a resistance change type of memory cells disposed at the cross-points of word lines and bit lines, the resistance value of the memory cell being reversibly settable; a word line driver circuit configured to apply a selecting drive voltage to one selected in the word lines; and a bit line driver circuit configured to drive multiple bit lines in such a manner that a set mode and a reset mode are set simultaneously for multiple memory cells selected by the selected word line, the set mode being for changing a selected memory cell from a first resistance state into a second resistance state while the reset mode is for changing a selected memory cell from the second resistance state into the first resistance state.
US07885120B2
A method for double programming of multi-level-cell (MLC) programming in a multi-bit-cell (MBC) of a charge trapping memory that includes a plurality of charge trapping memory cells is provided. The double programming method is conducted in two phrases, a pre-program phase and a post-program phase, and applied to a word line (a segment in a word line, a page in a word line, a program unit or a memory unit) of the charge trapping memory. A program unit can be defined by input data in a wide variety of ranges. For example, a program unit can be defined as a portion (such as a page, a group, or a segment) in one word line in which each group is selected for pre-program and pre-program-verify, either sequentially or in parallel with other groups in the same word line.
US07885119B2
Shifts in the apparent charge stored on a floating gate (or other charge storing element) of a non-volatile memory cell can occur because of the coupling of an electric field based on the charge stored in adjacent floating gates (or other adjacent charge storing elements). To compensate for this coupling, the read or programming process for a given memory cell can take into account the programmed state of an adjacent memory cell. To determine whether compensation is needed, a process can be performed that includes sensing information about the programmed state of an adjacent memory cell (e.g., on an adjacent bit line or other location).
US07885118B2
Disclosed is a flash memory device which includes a memory core, a high voltage generating circuit and a reference voltage generating circuit. The high voltage generating circuit is configured to generate a high voltage to be supplied to the memory core. The reference voltage generating circuit is configured to generate at least one reference voltage to be supplied to the high voltage generating circuit. The reference voltage generating circuit includes a first reference voltage generator configured to generate a first reference voltage in response to a supply voltage, and a second reference voltage generator configured to generate a second reference voltage in response to the first reference voltage. The at least one reference voltage supplied to the high voltage generating circuit includes the second reference voltage.
US07885116B2
A sense amplifier for nonvolatile memory cells includes a reference cell, a first load, connected to the reference cell, and a second load, connectable to a nonvolatile memory cell, both the first load and the second load having controllable resistance; a control circuit of the first load and of the second load supplies the first load and the second load with a control voltage irrespective of an operating voltage between a first conduction terminal and a second conduction terminal of the first load.
US07885107B2
A method of programming a non-volatile memory cell includes programming a first bit of multi-bit data by setting a threshold voltage of the non-volatile memory cell to a first voltage level within a first of a plurality of threshold voltage distributions. A second bit of the multi-bit data is programmed by setting the threshold voltage to a second voltage level based on a value of the second bit. The second voltage level is the same as the first voltage level if the second bit is a first value and the second voltage level is within a second of the plurality of threshold voltage distributions if the second bit is a second value. A third bit of the multi-bit data is programmed by setting the threshold voltage to a third voltage level based on a value of the third bit.
US07885105B2
Magnetic tunnel junction cell including multiple vertical domains. In an embodiment, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure is disclosed. The MTJ structure includes an MTJ cell. The MTJ cell includes multiple vertical side walls. Each of the multiple vertical side walls defines a unique vertical magnetic domain. Each of the unique vertical magnetic domains is adapted to store a digital value.
US07885103B2
A configuration bit array including a hybrid electromechanical and semiconductor memory cell, and circuitry for addressing and controlling read, write, and erase accesses of the memory.
US07885102B2
In a memory array MCA which includes memory cells MC each having a variable-resistance-based memory device RQ and a select transistor MQ, an object is to receive a fixed quantity of storage data for a short time, and to realize writing operation to the memory cell, with suppressed peak current. In order to achieve the object, the data bus occupation time in rewriting operation is shortened by using plural sense amplifiers and storing storage data temporarily, and plural programming circuits are provided and activated using the control signals with different phases. By the above, the phase change memory system with low current consumption can be realized, without causing degradation of the utilization ratio of the data bus.
US07885099B2
The leakage current and power consumption of phase change memories may be reduced using adaptive word line biasing. Depending on the particular voltage applied to the bitline of a programmed cell, the word lines of unselected cells may vary correspondingly. In some embodiments, the word line voltage may be caused to match the bitline voltage of the programmed cell.
US07885093B2
A method testing an SRAM having a plurality of memory cells is disclosed. In a first step, a bit value is written into a cell under test (CUT). Subsequently, the first and second enabling transistors are disabled and the bit lines are discharged to a low potential. Next, the word line (WL) coupled to the memory cell under test is activated for a predetermined period. During a first part of this period, one of the bit lines (BLB) is kept at the low potential to force the associated pull up transistor in the CUT into a conductive state, after which this bit line (BLB) is charged to a high potential. Upon completion of this period, the bit value of the first cell is determined. The method facilitates the detection of weak or faulty SRAM cells without requiring the inclusion of dedicated hardware for this purpose.
US07885085B2
A control unit controls cascaded PFC and LLC converters, the LLC converter having an input coupled to an output, of the PFC converter and providing an output voltage that decreases with increasing switching frequency. The control unit produces a sawtooth waveform with a linear ramp for controlling the LLC converter switching frequency, and hence its output voltage, in dependence upon a feedback signal. It also produces for the PFC converter a PWM signal with a frequency that is the same as or an integer fraction of the LLC converter switching frequency, by comparing two thresholds with the linear ramp in respective different cycles of the sawtooth waveform to turn on and off a switch of the PFC converter during these different cycles. Logic circuits prevent PFC converter switch transitions from occurring simultaneously with switching transitions of the LLC converter.
US07885084B2
A control circuit for soft switching and synchronous rectifying is provided for power converter. A switching-signal circuit is used for generating drive signals and a pulse signal in response to a leading edge and a trailing edge of a switching signal. The switching signal is developed for regulating the power converter. Drive signals are coupled to switch the power transformer. A propagation delay is developed between drive signals to achieve soft switching of the power converter. An isolation device is coupled to transfer the pulse signal from a primary side of a power transformer to a secondary side of the power transformer. A controller of the integrated synchronous rectifier is coupled to the secondary side of the power transformer for the rectifying operation. The controller is operated to receive the pulse signal for switching on/off the power transistor. The pulse signal is to set or reset a latch circuit of the controller for controlling the power transistor.
US07885081B2
A component incorporating module includes an insulation resin layer, a plurality of lands arranged to mount components and wiring patterns connected to the plurality of lands, which are arranged along a first main surface of the resin layer, and circuit components connected to the lands to mount components. The circuit components are embedded in the resin layer. The plurality of lands have thicknesses that are greater than those of the wiring patterns adjacent to the corresponding lands.
US07885078B2
An electrical card (100) includes an insulative frame (1) having a pair of detachable side bars (112) spaced from each other and a transverse bar (116) assembled onto the side bars to interconnect the side bars; a detachable upper cover (12) attached to a rear end of the frame; an upper shell (2) and a lower shell (3) mounted to an upper side and a lower side of the side bars respectively; a detachable lower cover (4) attached to the lower shell and disposed beneath the upper cover; a circuit board (5) supported by the frame and located between the frame and the upper shell; and an electrical connector (6) attached to a front end of the frame and electrically connected to the circuit board.
US07885076B2
An electronic device such as an AC/DC power adapter includes a conductive heat dissipation system. The device contains heat generating components and is powered via power supply leads by an external power supply circuit. The device further contains a thermally conductive mass that is thermally coupled to both the heat generating components and to the power supply leads. When the power supply leads are coupled to receive electricity from the external power supply circuit, heat generated by the device is thermally conducted into the external power supply circuit via the power supply leads.
US07885075B2
A heat dissipation device comprises a heat spreader and heat pipe soldered thereon via a heat conducting material. The heat spreader defines a plurality of cavities in an inner side surface thereof, the heat conducting material is received in the cavities, and the heat pipe contacts and is soldered to the inner side surface of the heat spreader.
US07885072B2
A fixing device fastens a heat sink having a base on one of motherboards with different specifications. Each motherboard with a corresponding specification defines a plurality of extending holes therethrough. The fixing device comprises a plurality of slats each having an end thereof pivotally connecting to the base of the heat sink and the other end thereof defining an elongated slot for corresponding to one of the extending holes of the one of the motherboards, a back plate defining a plurality of mounting holes corresponding to the extending holes of the motherboards, and a plurality of fixing units extending through the slots of the slats, the extending holes of the one of the motherboards and corresponding mounting holes of the back plate to mount the heat sink on the one of the motherboards.
US07885069B2
A modular line filter connector is provided for implementing adaptable three-phase power filtering. A plurality of selected modular components defines the modular line filter connector. The modular line filter connector includes a pair of outer cylinders providing power filtering connections including, for example, line-to-line connections, line-to-common connections, common-to-protective earth connections, and line-to-protective earth connections. The selected modular components are mounted between the pair of outer cylinders and disposed along the length of the modular line filter connector. Different modular components are selected to adapt the modular line filter connector for different filtering applications.
US07885062B2
The present invention pertains to a computer chassis with improved airflow to reduce the occurrence of trapped air pockets and increase heat transfer from components within the chassis. The computer chassis includes a plurality of chambers, wherein each of the chambers is separated by a partition. The partitions are operable to reduce the occurrence of trapped air pockets and increase heat transfer from components of the chassis by causing air to flow through each of the chambers. The computer chassis further includes at least two air vents, wherein each of the chambers is coupled to at least one of the at least two air vents through which air enters the chamber, and wherein each of the chambers is coupled to at least one of the at least two air vents through which air exits the chamber.
US07885059B2
A portable computer including a housing having first and second sections, the first section having an information input device and the second section having a case having a first fastening element; a display panel including a second fastening element at a rear surface of the panel, the case and the display panel being attached through the first and second fastening elements; a hinge coupling the first and the second sections to each other; and a display panel support member having a third fastening element, the display panel support member being attached to the display panel through the third fastening element.
US07885058B2
A cover assembly used in a portable electronic device is described. The cover assembly includes a body member defining an earphone hole and a cover member defining a through hole. The cover member is rotatably mounted to the body member to cover or expose the earphone hole.
US07885057B2
An electronic device includes an accommodation section that detachably accommodates a portable device, an engagement part engaged with a side of the portable device at a given position where the portable device is accommodated in the accommodation section, and a guide mechanism that guides the portable device to the given position.
US07885056B2
According to one embodiment, a center pedestal display includes a plurality of mounting faces, one or more display switches, and a screen. The plurality of mounting faces include a first mounting face that is substantially parallel with a first surface of a pedestal mounting block of an existing instrument pedestal and a second mounting face that is substantially parallel with a second surface of the pedestal mounting block. The existing instrument pedestal includes one or more pedestal gauges and one or more pedestal switches. The one or more display switches are located on the display and configured to provide one or more functions of the one or more pedestal switches. The screen is configured to display information that includes at least some of the information provided by the one or more pedestal gauges.
US07885030B2
A system in one embodiment includes a global PLL circuit comprising multiple inputs, each input being for receiving an error signal associated with an individual channel; and a delay compensation circuit coupled to the global PLL circuit. A method in one embodiment includes receiving multiple error signals, each error signal being associated with an individual channel; applying one or more delay compensation signals to the error signals; and outputting phase error output signals for each of the channels.
US07885028B2
A hard disk drive with a disk that has a plurality of data bits. The drive includes a circuit that reads each data bit n times and selects a value for the bit based on the most frequent occurrence of one of a plurality of values. This process provides a voting technique that enhances the quality of accurately captured data.
US07885025B2
A data storage system includes a storage medium having a plurality of data sectors and a head that communicates with the data storage medium. The head produces a readback signal when reading information from the data storage medium. A computation unit extracts a distortion component of the readback signal and generates a position error signal from the distortion component.
US07885021B2
In one embodiment, an actuator for positioning of mirrors in an optical system is provided and includes an actuator base and a reaction mass assembly. The reaction mass assembly includes a reaction mass support member having biasing features formed as a part thereof and a reaction mass that is coupled to the biasing features such that the reaction mass is suspended on biasing elements in six degrees of freedom (DOF). The support member is fixedly connected to the actuator base; however, the reaction mass is not directly attached to the actuator base but rather is supported in the reaction mass support member in a manner that allows it to have six DOF.
US07885014B2
A zoom lens system including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; a third lens unit having a negative refractive power; an aperture stop; and a fourth lens unit having a positive refractive power and including a front lens subunit and a rear lens subunit in which Abbe numbers of lenses in the rear lens subunit satisfy the following expression, 0.400<νm/(νrp−νrn)<0.630, where νm represents the Abbe number of the material of a first positive lens having the largest dispersion of the positive lenses included in the rear lens subunit, νrp represents the average Abbe number of materials of positive lenses other than the first positive lens in the rear lens subunit, and νrn represents the average Abbe number of materials of negative lenses in the rear lens subunit.
US07885011B1
A wide angle hybrid refractive-diffractive endoscope objective is provided. The objective comprises a negative meniscus lens having a first surface and a second surface; a stop adjacent to the negative meniscus lens; a positive lens adjacent to the negative lens and having a first surface and a second surface; and a hybrid refractive-diffractive element adjacent to the positive lens and having a first surface and a second surface, wherein one of the first surface, or the second surface comprises a diffractive surface, wherein the objective has an effective focal length in a range from about 0.8 mm to about 1.6 mm.
US07885007B2
An optical element includes: an element body including a resin containing a polymer having an alicyclic structure. The optical element is treated by one of heat treatment and wet-heat treatment for 15 hours or longer at a temperature lower by 10° C. to 30° C. than a glass transition temperature of the resin after being formed by injecting the resin in a mold. The optical element body has a length along an optical axis of the optical element in a range of 0.5 to 3 mm, and a length in a perpendicular direction to the optical axis in a range of 3 to 5 mm.
US07885002B2
A floor projection screen to be installed in front of department stores, shops, shopping malls, and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The floor projection screen is formed by overlapping a hard screen material, which is obtained by mixing white cement with a light diffuser such as glass beads, silica, etc. having a particle of 400 to 800 mesh, or by mixing plastic resin with white cement, calcium material, pigments, etc., and a soft material such as urethane, rubber, or non-woven fabrics, thereby achieving vivid imaging, an anti-skid function, and durability for friction. The floor projection screen is manufactured by stacking a screen material on a surface of a tape-shaped soft material and rolling and hardening the screen material to complete a screen having a centric ring pattern, or by stacking a screen material on a surface of a tape-shaped soft material, repeating the stacking step until a desired size of the screen is obtained, and hardening the resulting stack to achieve a screen surface having a particle size of 40 to 800 mesh.
US07884994B2
Provided is an electrochromic device (ECD) that includes: a first transparent electrode having a first substrate having thereon a first electrically conductive layer; a second transparent electrode having a second substrate having thereon a second electrically conductive layer; a first polymeric layer on the first transparent electrode, wherein the first polymeric layer includes a cathodic electrochromic polymer and a first non-electrochromic polymeric matrix; a second polymeric layer on the second transparent electrode, wherein the second polymeric layer includes an anodic electrochromic polymer and a second non-electrochromic polymeric matrix; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the first polymeric layer and the second polymeric layer. Also provided is a process of producing the ECDs, as well as the electrochromic layers themselves.
US07884990B2
An actuator, includes: a weight part; a supporting part supporting the weight part; a connecting part coupling the weight part rotatable to the supporting part and having an elastic part; a driving member for driving and rotating the weight part; and a semiconductor circuit for driving the weight part. The driving member is operated to torsionally deform the elastic part and rotate the weight part. The elastic part has a first silicon part that is mainly made of silicon and a first resin part that is mainly made of resin and coupled to the first silicon part. The supporting part has at least a second silicon part made mainly of silicon and coupled to the first silicon part of the elastic part. The semiconductor circuit is provided on the second silicon part of the supporting part.
US07884988B2
A micromechanical device and system utilizing a supplemental reset pulse to ensure deflectable members deflect to the desired position. After loading data into a micromechanical device, a reset pulse is used to position the deflectable member to a position indicated by the data. A supplemental reset pulse is then applied to ensure the deflectable member is driven to the position indicated by the data. The method and system are also used to ensure the deflectable members are driven to a neutral position.
US07884976B2
An image sensing apparatus having a large depth of focus (DOF) and being compact in size is provided. The image sensing apparatus includes a plurality of light sources that shines light beams on an illumination portion of a document; a first mirror that receives incident light scattered by reflection from the document, to reflect the scattered light in the secondary scan direction; a plurality of first concaved aspheric mirrors that collimates light beams from the first mirror, to reflect therefrom the collimated light beams as substantially collimated light fluxes; an aperture mirror that reflects therefrom the light beams from the respective first aspheric mirrors, through apertures each having a light-shielded portion formed therearound and selectively passing the light beams therethrough; a plurality of second concaved aspheric mirrors that receives the light beams incident from the respective aperture mirror, to reflect the incident light beams as converging light beams; a second mirror that reflects the light beams in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the document, disposed on a path of the light beams to be converged by means of the second aspheric mirrors; a plurality of light receivers each having a light-receiving area that receives the light beams from the second mirrors, to form images according to the light beams from the respective apertures; and a casing where the first and second aspheric mirrors are disposed on a first side of the casing in the secondary scan direction, and the aperture mirror is disposed on a second side thereof in the secondary scan direction.
US07884968B2
A graphical scanner for scanning a graphical image includes a source for producing an optical beam, a monochromator for dividing the optical beam into a plurality of component beams for hyperspectral bandpasses, a director for directing the component beams to illuminate portions of the graphical image, a sensor for measuring a light intensity for the one or illuminated portions, and a translator for transforming the measured light intensities for each of the one or more portions into hyperspectral traces each representing a spectral power distribution. The translator further transforms the hyperspectral traces into one or more device-independent representations of color.
US07884966B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes a conversion unit that performs color conversion of an input image by employing correlation information denoting color coordinates of grid points in an input color space and color coordinates corresponding to those grid points in an output color space; a first adjustment processing unit that performs first adjustment processing with respect to an image output from the conversion unit; a calculation unit that calculates a total color material amount corresponding to each of the grid points based on the color coordinates of the grid points in the output color space denoted by the correlation information; and a judgment unit that judges whether or not the first adjustment processing is to be applied to an image output from the conversion unit based on a comparison between the total color material amount corresponding to each grid point and the limit value.
US07884964B2
Methods and systems in an image processing device for controlling colors that are located external to a gamut are disclosed. A plurality of color values can be automatically provided as input to said image processing device, wherein said image processing device is under a control of a particular dimensional order, typically a three-dimensional order, but alternatively can be a two-dimensional order. Next, an operation can be performed dynamically determining which color value among the plurality of color values has attained a gamut limit. Thereafter, the particular dimensional order can be automatically reduced, thereby providing improved control for colors that are located external to said gamut. The plurality of color values analyzed is generally associated with three colors—cyan, magenta, and yellow.
US07884961B2
Following the insertion of a trial key or a license key into a port, authentication thereof is executed (S4, S22); if the trial key authentication is successful, a trial time limit is obtained by adding a trial permission period to a current time and is stored into a nonvolatile memory (S25); if the current time exceeds the trial time limit (S12, S13), or the license key authentication is successful, the trial state information is changed to indicate “trailed” (S4); if the license key authentication is successful (S14), or the trial key authentication is successful (S15) and the trial state information does not indicate “trialed” (S16), an optional routine is executed following an instruction from a control panel. In that routine, if the trial state information does not indicate “trialed”, the trial time limit is displayed on a control panel.
US07884957B2
The present invention provides an image forming apparatus, an image management method and an image management program in which a security of image data to which anti-counterfeit information and the like is added can be ensured. The image forming apparatus connected to the network has an image data forming unit which forms the image data, and a control unit which prohibits transference of anti-counterfeit added image data in which the anti-counterfeit information is added to the image data between devices connected to the network. Thus, since the transference of the anti-counterfeit added image data is prohibited in general, security of the anti-counterfeit added image data can be improved.
US07884952B2
A print control apparatus that can improve the performance and quality of a printer driver and a Win32 application and can improve usability for users. A Win32 application that operates on the print control apparatus handles print settings as a print ticket in XML format, and a printer driver that operates on the apparatus manages print settings as a DEVMODE structure in binary format. A conversion process between the print ticket and the DEVMODE structure is carried out in a submodule. The submodule constructs a public portion of the DEVMODE structure based on the print ticket and incorporates the print ticket into a free space in a private portion of the DEVMODE structure. Further, the submodule extracts the print ticket incorporated in the DEVMODE private portion.
US07884945B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to a method of acquiring optical coherence tomographic data from a sample. The method includes the steps of scanning a first location on the sample to obtain a first set of optical coherence tomographic data, scanning a second location on the sample to obtain a second set of optical coherence tomographic data, and defining a fiducial position relative to a location on the sample using one of the two sets of optical coherence tomographic data. In one embodiment, the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is survey data. However, in another embodiment the first set of optical coherence tomographic data is sample measurement data.
US07884944B2
A tunable optical spectrometer includes a medium configured to perform polarization rotation within a frequency band on a linearly polarized test beam, wherein the medium is circularly birefringent, and wherein the polarization rotation is achieved based on two-photon-absorption. The medium includes a gaseous substance, a first reference laser beam having a first reference frequency, and a second reference laser beam having a second reference frequency, wherein the first reference laser beam and the second reference laser beam have a same circular polarization state.
US07884937B2
A method and apparatus for measuring target gas concentrations in an atmosphere. The method and apparatus emit in the atmosphere a laser beam tuned to a molecular absorption line of a target gas, receive a reflected signal affected by gas absorption of the target gas in the atmosphere, divide and direct the received signal into a first optical path and a second optical path including in one of the paths a correlation gas cell filled with a predetermined concentration of the target gas, detect transmitted signals through the first optical path and the second optical path, and calculate a target gas concentration by comparing a first signal transmitted through the first optical path to a second signal transmitted through the second optical path. The apparatus includes a laser source tunable to a specific molecular absorption line of a target gas and configured to emit in the atmosphere a laser beam having a spectral bandwidth greater than a full width of the molecular absorption line of the target gas, a receiver configured to receive a reflected signal affected by gas absorption of the target gas in the atmosphere, and at least one detector configured to detect transmitted signals through the first optical path and the second optical path.
US07884933B1
An apparatus and method for determining an analyte concentration of a sample, such as a tissue sample. The apparatus may comprise an emitter, close proximity detectors laterally located less than about 2 mm away from the emitter, and far away detectors laterally located greater than about 0.5 cm away from the emitter. A plurality of wavelengths may be sent from the emitter to the sample, reflected off of the sample, and received by the detectors. The reflectance value measured by the close proximity detectors may be used to calculate one or more scattering coefficients. The reflectance value measured by the far away detectors may be compared with a reflectance value calculated using the scattering coefficients in a numerical inversion of a diffusion model to determine the analyte concentration of the sample.
US07884921B2
An illumination optical apparatus, used in a projection exposure apparatus for projecting and exposing a pattern arranged in a first plane to a second plane, for supplying the first surface with illumination light from a light source comprises an optical path combiner arranged in an optical path between the light source and the first surface, for combining a plurality of light beams different from each other from the light source such that the first and second light beams illuminate the first surface closely to each other. The optical path combiner includes a discrete point positioned on or near a third surface optically conjugate with the first surface. The plurality of light beams travel by way of a plurality of regions sectioned by the discrete point, respectively.
US07884920B2
A mirror assembly to interact with a beam of radiation of a lithographic apparatus is disclosed. The mirror assembly includes a mirror, a piezo electric actuator, and a mover structure, the mover structure connected to the mirror, an assembly of the mirror and the mover structure being pivotable about a pivot point, the piezo electric actuator having a contacting surface to establish a slip-stick contact with the mover structure.
US07884919B2
A device manufacturing method includes transferring a pattern from a patterning device onto a substrate. The method includes bringing the patterning device and the support together, and applying a substantially stationary force between the patterning device and the support to hold the patterning device. The patterning device is now excited by a substantially dynamic force to enable a micro slipping thereof. Then, the patterning device is aligned, and the pattern is transferred from the patterning device onto the substrate. The patterning device may be excited with an alternating acceleration. When the patterning device is excited, the patterning device is allowed to settle with respect to the support, thereby improving a friction therebetween to reduce a risk of slipping or local slipping of the patterning device.
US07884917B2
The present invention relates to a spacer and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel with the same. The LCD panel comprises a color filter substrate, a thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the color filter substrate and the thin film transistor array substrate. At least one spacer is disposed between the color filter substrate and the thin film transistor array substrate. Each spacer can comprise a first sub-spacer and a second sub-spacer. Elasticity of the first sub-spacer is smaller than elasticity of the second sub-spacer, and height of the first sub-spacer is smaller than height of the second sub-spacer.
US07884909B2
A substrate for a transflective liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines on a substrate; at least one data line crossing the plurality of gate lines to define a pixel region including a transmissive portion and a reflective portion; a thin film transistor connected to one of the plurality of gate lines and the at least one data line, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode; a first insulating layer covering a portion of the thin film transistor, the first insulating layer uncovering the pixel region and a portion of the drain electrode; a transparent electrode in the pixel region, the transparent electrode directly contacting the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer; and a reflective layer in the reflective portion, the reflective layer having a first uneven surface.
US07884908B2
Each pixel has a transmissive area and a reflective area. A first alignment process area and a second alignment process area are placed such that an overlapping region is created in part of the reflective area. A region where the liquid crystal alignment direction shifts continuously is created in a boundary between the transmissive are a and the reflective are a without exception. A first liquid crystal alignment region is formed wider than the transmissive area, and a second liquid crystal alignment region is formed narrower than the reflective area.
US07884904B2
An image display device provided with a panel comprising a substrate comprising glass or resin, a front side laminated body and a back side laminated body, and an optical member adjacent to the back side laminated body, wherein the surface of the optical member going to contact with the back side laminated body has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) of 6 μm or more. The image display device can maintain excellent display performance under conditions with significant circumstance variations.
US07884898B2
An optical sheet for a backlight is provided on a surface light source in the backlight. An optical reflection layer has a plurality of through grooves formed on a transparent substrate and arranged at a prescribed interval. The width of the through hole is narrowed from the upper surface opening to the lower surface opening. Each of the cylindrical lenses is filled within a corresponding through groove, and its surface is a cylindrical surface that covers the upper surface opening of the through groove. Light from the light source comes in only from the lower surface opening, so that the angle of incidence of light when the light reaches the cylindrical surface can be controlled, and an increased amount of light deflected toward the front surface can be emitted. Therefore, the optical sheet for a backlight can collect light from the surface light source in the front surface direction.
US07884891B2
In a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD), a connection is formed between the gate line and the common electrode line with TFTs. During scanning in one frame, a high voltage signal is applied to the pixels in a next row before the next row is turned on, i.e., a black image is inserted in the normal white mode. When the pixels in one row are in operation and the pixels in the next row are not turned on, a black image data is inserted into the next row. A high voltage is applied before the pixels in a row of the TFT-LCD are turned on, so that a black image is inserted and tailing of motion picture can be alleviated.
US07884872B2
A driving method is applied to a solid-state imaging apparatus having photoelectric conversion portions, transfer portion for reading out signal charges, and an excess charge draining portion for draining charges exceeding a saturation charge amount that is set by a reference voltage. One of driving modes is selected from a full pixel mode in which accumulated signal charges are detected individually for each pixel and a pixel mixing mode in which signal charges of a predetermined number of pixels are mixed to be detected. In the full pixel mode, the draining portion is supplied with the reference voltage having the same value during a charge accumulation period and a read transfer period for read transferring charges. In the pixel mixing mode, the draining portion is supplied with the reference voltage having a low level during the charge accumulation period and the reference voltage having a high level during the read transfer period. An appropriate driving for the pixel mixing mode can be performed by avoiding a limitation of a substrate voltage, without deteriorating the spectral characteristics, the sensitivity, nor the linearity.
US07884871B2
A digital frame transfer imager having an image sensor and frame memory in the same chip. The image sensor has an integrated memory controller for controlling transfers of data between the sensor and the memory array. The imager utilizes a rolling shutter and multiple groups of analog-to-digital processing circuitry to readout data from the sensor and to output digital images substantially free from image smear, kT/C noise and other unwanted image artifacts.
US07884870B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus is disclosed. A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel array in which pixels including photoelectric conversion units are arrayed in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of first column signal lines which are electrically connected to the pixels arrayed in the pixel array in the column direction, respectively, a plurality of column amplification units which amplify signals provided via the plurality of the first column signal lines, respectively, a power supply line which provides a power supply voltage to the plurality of column amplification units, and a plurality of second column signal lines which are electrically connected to output sides of the plurality of column amplification units, respectively. Each column amplification unit includes a current limiting unit which limits the flow of an excessive current to each of the plurality of second column signal lines.
US07884866B2
First YUV data produced from a pixel output in which one RAW-RGB data is read out from an SDRAM and is compensated in a dynamic range expansion compensating section of a YUV converting section and second YUV data produced from a pixel output which is equal to or more than a predetermined saturation level without performing a compensation process in the dynamic range expansion compensating section are loaded in a YUV compositing section, and then third YUV data is produced by compositing brightness data taken out from the first YUV data and color difference data taken out from the second YUV data.
US07884864B2
A noise reduction device comprises a first signal reading-out unit for reading out a video signal of a target pixel for which a noise reduction is performed; a second signal reading-out unit for reading out video signals of external peripheral pixels arranged around internal peripheral pixels arranged at positions closest to the target pixel, the external peripheral pixels being arranged at positions closest to the target pixel in radial directions from the target pixel and outputting the same color signals as the video signal of the target pixel; a selection controller for judging presence of a correlation between the video signal of the target pixel and a video signal of each of the external peripheral pixel based on a relation between a signal value of the video signal of the target pixel and a signal value of the video signal of each of the external peripheral pixels; a signal calculator for calculating the signal value of the video signal of the target pixel by use of the signal values of the video signals of the external peripheral pixels; and a selector for selecting the signal value of the video signal of the target pixel determined by the signal calculator when it is judged by the selection controller that the number of the video signals of the external peripheral pixels having correlations with the video signal of the target pixel is large.
US07884863B2
A CPU 200 reads out an image file GF from a memory card MC and stores the read out image file GF temporarily in an RAM 210. The CPU 200 acquires shooting information EI from the read out image file GF and determines the noise reduction level according to the ISO speed. When the ISO speed or the shutter speed exceeds a predetermined value, the CPU 200 increases the noise reduction level and executes noise reduction process.
US07884860B2
A content shooting apparatus is provided, in which thresholds for generating metadata concerning shot images can be calibrated in accordance with shooting conditions.In a content shooting apparatus (Acc) for converting content data (Dc) into a stream (AV) and recording the stream (AV) to a recording medium (214) in combination with content-related metadata (Dm), a camera (101) shoots a subject (105) and generates the content data (Dc), a camerawork statistics portion (206s) detects movement (σ) of the camera, a camera microcomputer (206) compares the detected movement (σ) with a predetermined value (Th) to generate the metadata (Dm), and an automatic threshold setting portion (206t) changes the predetermined value (Th) in accordance with the detected movement (σ).
US07884859B2
A digital camera including a layout inputting unit that inputs a layout in drawing a digital image, an internal memory stored with the inputted layout, a selection receiving unit (S400) that receives selection of the layout stored in the internal memory, an object image outputting unit (S410, S420) that outputs the digital image outputted by the converting unit to a removable memory by being related to the layout selected by the selection receiving unit, and a layout unit (S440) that outputs the layout stored in the internal memory in the removable memory stored with the digital image by the object image outputting unit.
US07884857B2
A histogram detecting unit detects a distribution of numbers of pixels by luminance level of a picked-up image signal. A maximum luminance value calculating unit calculates a maximum luminance value of the inputted image signal. A high luminance proportion calculating unit calculates a proportion of a high luminance signal out of all of the pixels composing one or a plurality of frames based on the detected distribution of numbers of pixels by luminance level. A knee point calculating unit calculates a knee point based on the calculated maximum luminance value and proportion of the high luminance signal. A knee processing unit generates a knee slope with a predetermined inclination starting at the calculated knee point. The knee processing unit does not change the value of the predetermined inclination, regardless of the value of the calculated knee point.
US07884849B2
A method of operating a video surveillance system is provided. The video surveillance system including at least two sensing units. A first sensing unit having a substantially 360 degree field of view is used to detect an event of interest. Location information regarding a target is sent from the first sensing unit to at least one second sensing unit when an event of interest is detected by the first sensing unit.
US07884845B2
A minutes taking system includes a change detection portion that detects a change of a displayed image for a description object out of displayed images that are a plurality of stream images serving as information displayed in a conference, a separation detection portion that detects a separation temporally separates a content of the displayed image; and an extraction portion that extracts a recorded time segment to be recorded as minutes information composing a minutes, on the basis of a change time when the change detection portion detects the change of the displayed image for the description object and a separation time when the separation detection portion detects the separation according to the plurality of streams.
US07884844B2
A videoconferencing system includes a camera, a microphone, and an interface module. The module is coupled a modem connected to a television network and is coupled to a television set and a set-top box. The module decodes encoded audio video signals received from the modem that are part of a videoconferencing session. The module also encodes audio and video signals received from the camera and the microphone and sends the encoded audio video signals to the modem to be part of the videoconferencing session. The module can selectively send decoded audio signals to the television set or can selectively send video received from the set-top box to the television display. In addition, the module can send compressed audio and video signals received from the microphone and camera to the set-top box for processing and delivery to the television display.
US07884837B2
A method and display device for correcting spatial non-uniformity in a display device are provided. The method includes receiving color signals of a pixel to receive the pixel, extracting correction data for correcting adjacent representative color signals which represent areas adjacent to the received pixel, and correcting the adjacent representative color signals using correction data and correcting the color signals of the pixel using the corrected adjacent representative color signals.
US07884830B1
A graphics system supports arrays of cube map textures. In one implementation, a cube map texture is utilized as an index into a set of cube map textures. The set of cube map textures may further be arranged into an atlas of two-dimensional textures.
US07884824B2
A method for processing status information on determined functions in a wireless terminal device. Reference information on the appearance of an element of a display, such as a selection or a background element, and the status of status information is determined. The status of the status information, such as availability, on pointable targets is determined. When a target is pointed by a selection element, the appearance of the element of the display is selected in a predetermined manner in accordance with the status of the status information. The method can be implemented by a wireless terminal device or by a software product arrangeable in a terminal device.
US07884811B2
A hand-holdable, durable digital writing and sketching device or assembly having rugged construction that houses an on-board camera with a view through an optical window of a writing surface brought in view by a user moving the device. The device is rugged, sealed, and is capable of withstanding dropping, water submersion, abrasive incursions, and resistance to chemical and fungal degradation. The optical window and optic channel to the camera is protected by a durable and replaceable light-transmitting shield that provides a sealed barrier to the environmental elements harmful to the functioning of the device. The writing and sketching device oscillates between a stowed and a deployed state. The deployed state includes the camera being in view the writing surface and the stowed state includes the camera being either masked from viewing the writing surface or aimed internally from viewing the writing surface. Other versions of the digital writing and sketching device include replaceable styli and pens that are removable and interchangeable with a sealed chamber in the device. The stylus point or pen ends are substantially in view of the on-board device camera. Signal transmissions communicated from the digital writing and sketching device convey pressures experienced by the inserted stylus or pens and are represented in proportion to a microprocessor based display that conveys changing field of view experienced by the on-board camera.
US07884810B2
Unevenness detecting apparatus for compensating for threshold voltage and method thereof is provided with a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines and a pixel circuit arranged in each point which the scan lines and the data lines are intersected. The unevenness detecting apparatus for compensating for the threshold voltage and method thereof may accurately sense a state of minute unevenness such as fingerprints by using an active element (e.g., TFT) as an element of which pixel circuit is composed.
US07884796B2
A lamp driving structure for backlight module includes a backlight module implemented for disposing a first circuit board and a second circuit board thereon, the first circuit board couples with the second circuit board through a transmission line; the structure further includes at least a square wave controller, two square wave switches, a mutually coupled transformer, a plurality of driving transformers and a plurality of connectors disposed selectively on the first circuit board and the second circuit board, thereby reducing the number of driving transformers and connectors and the area of circuit boards to further reduce the manufacturing cost of the lamp driving device.
US07884795B2
A display device is set forth that comprises a display panel having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix. A data driver supplies pixel drive signals to data lines that are connected to drive the individual pixels of at least one row of pixels with corresponding pixel drive signals. The display device also includes a gate driver that supplies gate drive signals to the gate lines of the matrix. Each gate line may be connected to concurrently drive at least one row of pixels with a respective gate drive signal. The gate driver may comprise a sequence of shift registers that are connected in cascade with one another and two or more phase clocks that are connected to drive the sequence of shift registers. The shift registers of the gate driver may be interconnected with one another so that a shift register to which a given phase clock is applied is reset using an output signal from a next occurring shift register in the sequence of shift registers that is also connected to the given phase clock.
US07884784B2
Described herein is a transparent-display device for motor vehicles, to be used for presentation of information to the driver and/or to the passengers, said device comprising a plurality of LED sources, addressable individually or in groups through a series of conductive paths, deposited on a transparent underlayer and connected to a control electronics, in which: i) said LED sources are integrated in the form of dice, i.e., of elements obtained by dividing up a semiconductor wafer and without package; ii) said dice are integrated on, and electrically connected to, said underlayer via technologies of the chip-on-board type; and iii) said transparent underlayer 1 is pre-arranged for being at least in part superimposed on the windscreen of the vehicle, in such a way that at least part of the information presented to the user is superimposed on the background, said background being visible to the user through said windscreen.
US07884783B2
A data driver including a first digital-to-analog converter configured to select first and second reference voltages depending on upper bits of data and supply the first and the second reference voltages to a first line and a second line, respectively, a second digital-to-analog converter having the first line and the second line to receive the first and the second reference voltages, respectively, a first group of voltage dividing resistors between the first line and the second line and configured to generate a plurality of gray scale voltages, a voltage dividing resistor unit between the first line and the second line, and at least one switch positioned between the voltage dividing resistor unit and one of the first line and the second line, and including a decoder unit configured to control on and off state of the at least one switch depending on lower bits of data.
US07884776B2
In one embodiment, an integrated circuit antenna array is provided that includes: a low voltage substrate supporting an RF transmission network, and a high voltage substrate bonded to the low voltage substrate, the high voltage substrate supporting a plurality of antennas coupled to the RF transmission network through power amplifiers integrated into a surface of the high voltage substrate.
US07884773B1
A method for making a horn antenna array includes the steps of making planar boards with surface conductor or metallization defining a plurality of side-by-side horns, and with horn feed conductors extending to an edge of the boards. The edges of the board are metallized in a pattern to define feed pads in contact with the feed conductors. Slots are cut in the boards on the axes of the horns so that two orthogonal boards can be joined together for “radiation” in mutually orthogonal planes. A surface-conducive dielectric support defines surface pads in a pattern that matches the pattern of feed pads in a set of joined boards, and through vias connect from the surface pads to lower layers, which may include a beamformer, for making individual connections to the horns.
US07884769B2
A planar antenna assembly (AA), for an RF communication module, comprises i) a ground plane (GP) and a feeding circuit (FC) defined on a lace of a printed circuit board (PCB), ii) a feed tab (FT1) and a first shorting tab (ST1) coupled to the feeding circuit (FC) and the ground plane (GP) respectively, and iii) a radiating element (RE) comprising a first part (P1) connected to the feed tab (FT) and first shorting tab (ST1), located in a first plane approximately perpendicular to the ground plane (GP) and in which a slot (SO), comprising opened (OE) and closed (CE) ends, is defined, and a second part (P2) extending approximately perpendicularly from the first part (P1) to be located in a second plane lacing and approximately parallel to the ground plane (GP). The feed tab (FT) and first shorting tab (ST1) are parallel and close to each other and connected to the first part (P1) at a chosen place located at a chosen distance away from the slot opened end (OE) in order to define a chosen input impedance.
US07884768B2
A dual beam electronically scanned phased array antenna architecture including a plurality of antenna modules orthogonally connected to a signal distribution board. Each module includes a radiator board orthogonally connected to a first end of a support mandrel. Each radiator board includes RF radiators and a pair of chip carriers mounted to opposing sides of the respective mandrel and interconnected to the respective radiator board. Each module includes a signal transfer board formed to fit around a second end of the mandrel such that it is compressed between the mandrel and the signal distribution board, and a pair of signal distribution bridges mounted to the opposing sides of the mandrel. Each signal distribution bridge interconnects respective chip carriers with the signal transfer board and distributes digital, DC and/or RE signals received from the signal transfer board to a plurality of beam scanning circuits included in the respective chip carrier.
US07884766B2
An antenna and antenna array are provided. A radiating elements and corresponding feed lines are provided over a variable dielectric constant material sandwiched between two panels. The sandwich may be in the form of an LCD. The dielectric constant in a selected area under the conductive line can be varied to control the phase of the radiating element. The dielectric constant in a selected area under the radiating element can be varied to control the resonance frequency of the radiating element. The dielectric constant in a selected area under the conductive line can be varied to also control the polarization of the radiating element.
US07884765B2
An array antenna and an electronic apparatus using the array antenna are provided. The array antenna includes a plurality of antenna units, a first connection line, and a second connection line. Each of the antenna units includes a rectangular radiation region, a first feeding line and a second feeding line. The first and second feeding lines are connected to two adjacent feeding corners of the rectangular radiation region. The first connection line and the second connection line are disposed at two sides of the antenna unit for connection with the other ends of the first feeding line and the second feeding line, respectively.
US07884764B2
An antenna oscillator includes a first strip line type resonator and a second resonator functioning as an antenna. The first resonator is fabricated by stacking a first conductor onto a grounding conductor with a first dielectric part including a gain part therebetween. The second resonator is fabricated by stacking a second conductor, emitting electromagnetic waves to the exterior, onto the first resonator with a second dielectric part therebetween so as to function as an antenna with the configuration between the grounding conductor and the second conductor. The first conductor and the second conductor are separated from each other in a stacking direction with the second dielectric part or the second dielectric part and the grounding conductor therebetween. The first resonator and the second resonator are electromagnetically connected together so as to form a resonance circuit that makes the electromagnetic waves resonate.
US07884759B2
A reception environment is determined to be a multipath environment when the difference (positioning altitude difference) between the maximum value (maximum altitude) and the minimum value (minimum altitude) of the altitudes of candidate present positions P of respective satellite sets exceeds a given threshold value (e.g., 200 m), and is determined to be an open-sky environment when the positioning altitude difference is equal to or less than the given threshold value. When the reception environment is the open-sky environment, an evaluation point E of each satellite set is calculated using a known evaluation method based on the number of satellites, a PDOP value, and the like. When the reception environment is the multipath environment, the evaluation point E of each satellite set is calculated in the same manner as in the open-sky environment, and a change amount ΔE corresponding to the difference (altitude difference) between the altitude corresponding to the preceding located position acquired from an altitude table and the altitude of the candidate present position of the target satellite set is subtracted from the evaluation point E.
US07884757B2
In one embodiment, an ultra wide band (UWB) radar includes: a substrate; a plurality of antennas adjacent the substrate, the plurality of antennas being arranged into a plurality of sub-arrays; an RF feed network adjacent the substrate, the RF feed network coupling to a distributed plurality of amplifiers integrated with the substrate, wherein the RF feed network and the distributed plurality of amplifiers are configured to form a resonant network such that if a timing signal is injected into an input port of the RF feed network, the resonant network oscillates to provide a globally-synchronized RF signal across the network; a plurality of pulse-shaping circuits corresponding to the plurality of sub-arrays, each pulse-shaping circuit being configured to receive the globally-synchronized RF signal from the network and process the globally-synchronized RF signal into pulses for transmission through the corresponding sub-array of antennas; and an actuator for mechanically scanning the UWB radar so that the pulses transmitted by the antennas scan across a desired area.
US07884751B2
A TDC circuit having a small scale circuit and high resolution is disclosed, which is a time-to-digital converter that detects a phase with respect to a reference clock of a signal to be measured, comprising a first delay line in which a plurality of first delay elements with a first delay amount is connected in series, a second delay line group that is connected to a plurality of connection nodes of the first delay line or an input node in the first stage and in which at least one or more second delay elements with a second delay amount different from the first delay amount are connected in series, a plurality of judgment circuits that judge whether the changing edge of the signal to be measured is advanced or delayed with respect to the changing edges of a delayed clock output from the first delay element and the second delay element, and an operation circuit that calculates a phase with respect to the reference clock of the changing edge of the signal to be measured from the judgment results, wherein a difference between the first delay amount and the second delay amount is smaller than the first delay amount and the second delay amount.
US07884748B2
The invention provides an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the single ramp type, comprising a ramp generator (101), a clock (102), a digital counter (103) timed by the clock (102), and at least one channel (101, . . . , 10i, . . . , 10n) for data processing, the or each channel comprising a comparator (201, . . . , 20i, . . . , 20n) having an input connected to the ramp generator (101) and the output of which causes for each conversion cycle the storage of the current counter value as a coarse conversion data. According to the present invention, the or each channel (101, . . . , 10i, . . . , 10n) further comprises a delay-chain time interpolator (401, . . . , 40i, . . . , 40n, 501, . . . , 50i, . . . , 50n) responsive to the output of the comparator and to the clock (102), for interpolating time within a clock period from the triggering time of the comparator, said interpolator delivering a time-interpolation output signal as a fine conversion data which is combined to the coarse conversion data for each conversion cycle. Application to an increased resolution without excess power consumption or increased conversion period.
US07884738B2
A visual warning assembly for disposal at an intersection of a plurality of roadways is disclosed herein. The visual warning assembly includes a housing with first and second openings facing first and second directions. The first and second directions are transverse to one another. The visual warning assembly also includes a first light assembly positioned in the first opening and having a plurality of light emitting diodes arranged in pattern representing an emergency vehicle. The visual warning assembly also includes a second light assembly positioned in the second opening and having a plurality of light emitting diodes arranged in pattern representing an emergency vehicle. The visual warning assembly also includes a signal receiver physically supported by the housings or one or both of the first and second light assemblies. The signal receiver or sensor is operable to receive and communicate a signal emitted by a signal emitter associated with an emergency vehicle. The visual warning assembly also includes a controller physically supported by the housing or one or both of the first and second light assemblies. The controller is in communication with the first and second light assemblies and the signal receiver. In response to receiving the signal from the signal receiver, the controller is operable to selectively direct power to the first and second light assemblies from a power source such that only one of the first and second light assemblies is illuminated at any particular time to limit power consumption and heat generation by the visual warning assembly.
US07884735B2
A patient care equipment support includes power and data connectors configured to be coupled to power and data connectors of patient care equipment when the patient care equipment is coupled to the equipment support to provide a power coupling and a data coupling between the patient care equipment and the equipment support. The equipment support is transferable between a first device, such as a hospital bed, and a second device, such as an overhead support arm.
US07884727B2
A system to control energy consumption in a room uses a wireless mesh network that allows for continuous connections and reconfiguration around blocked paths by hopping from node to node until a connection can be established, the mesh network including one or more wireless area network transceivers adapted to communicate data with the wireless mesh network, the transceiver detecting motion by analyzing reflected wireless signal strength.
US07884726B2
A method for efficiently producing a plurality of EAS or RFID tags or inlays that form a label ready for use. The process utilizes a first web of RFID chip straps or capacitor straps that are releasably secured to a liner using only a low tack adhesive and utilizes a second web of coils or antennas which are secured to a second liner. After indexing these two webs, selective heat and pressure are applied to the chips straps or to the capacitor straps to transfer them and electrically couple them to a corresponding coil or antenna. Where both chip straps and capacitor straps are applied to a common antenna, a third web of the additional strap is used in the process.
US07884721B2
The invention is a system for remotely identifying sound amplification devices and other electronic devices. This system introduces the ability for sound technicians to remotely identify which electronic devices have entered the stage or performance area. The system includes an identification tags, visual markers, sensors, receiver, and monitor. Remote identification can be achieved through RFID (radio frequency identification) or Line of sight (like infrared). Using directional sensors or sensors of adjustable sensitivity.
US07884719B2
An antenna web can include an RFID antenna on a first side of a substrate. An adhesive can be laminated on a second side of the substrate. The antenna web can then be cut into individual segments for use in constructing an RFID label.
US07884715B2
A method for implementing program execution integrity (PEI) for a communication-based sensor includes receiving an output communication message from the sensor, the output communication message including sensor output data internally processed within the sensor. The output communication message further includes raw data used by the sensor in internally processing the sensor output data. The raw data is independently processed, and the results thereof are compared with the internally processed sensor output data so as to verify the processing integrity of the sensor to a desired tolerance.
US07884709B2
A system and method for providing synergistic alert condition processing in an automated patient management system is presented. An alert condition is classified along a continuum that includes adverse outcome potential versus medical intervention impact potential. The alert condition is managed by assigning a disposition based on relative placement of the alert condition along the continuum. An alert notification is communicated over a selectable mode of communications and is conditioned upon the assigned disposition being actionable.
US07884705B2
The present invention is to provide a safety-drive assistance device that can judge whether a driver recognizes an object to which a driver should pay an attention or not even if an accuracy of detecting a visual-line direction is almost equal to once degree. A traffic environment detecting unit 11 detects an object such as an automobile, a pedestrian, a road mark and a traffic signal. A watched target judging unit 12 judges a watched target among the objects, to which a driver pays attention. A visual-line direction detecting unit 13 detects a visual-line direction of a driver. A visual recognition judging unit 14 judges whether a driver visually recognizes the watched target or not, based on the watched target and a fluctuation pattern of a direction of either or both eyes of the driver. A non-safety recognition judging unit 15 judges whether a driver recognizes non-safety or not, based on the result of visual recognition judged by the visual recognition judging unit 14. A presentation unit 16 informs the content of non safety, based on the result of judging on safety judged by the non-safety recognition judging unit 15.
US07884699B2
A variable resistor element comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and a variable resistor positioned between the first and second electrodes, and changing in electric resistance when a voltage pulse is applied between the both electrodes, has posed problems that it has a restriction of having to use noble metal electrodes as an electrode material and is not compatible with a conventional CMOS process. A variable resistor element using an oxynitride of transition metal element as a variable resistor exhibits a stable switching operation, is satisfactory in data retaining characteristics, and requires a small programming current. Since it does not necessarily require noble metal as an electrode material, it is high in compatibility with the existing CMOS process and easy to produce. It can be formed by a simple step of forming a variable resistor material into a film by oxidizing a lower electrode surface consisting of conductive nitride.
US07884698B2
An electronic component is provided in which: impact-absorbing layers are provided so as to cover at least the corner portions of both end portions of a base which is made of an insulating mixture of ceramic and glass; a conductive film is formed so as to cover the surface of these impact-absorbing layers and the surface of the base; the portions of this conductive film which cover the surfaces of the impact-absorbing layers are formed into electrodes; and a resistance-adjusting groove is provided in an other portion of the conductive film than the portions serving as the electrodes.
US07884696B2
A lead frame-based discrete power inductor is disclosed. The power inductor includes top and bottom lead frames, the leads of which form a coil around a single closed-loop magnetic core. The coil includes interconnections between inner and outer contact sections of the top and bottom lead frames, the magnetic core being sandwiched between the top and bottom lead frames. Ones of the leads of the top and bottom lead frames have a generally non-linear, stepped configuration such that the leads of the top lead frame couple adjacent leads of the bottom lead frame about the magnetic core to form the coil.
US07884695B2
A low-resistance inductor is made from a plurality of first inter-abutting insulated electrode coil sub-segments that is coupled to a plurality of second intra-abutting insulated electrode coil sub-segments that are contiguous to the plurality of first intra-abutting coil sub-segments. The first plurality and the second plurality form an helical inductor unit cell. A process of forming the low-resistance inductor includes heat curing. A system includes a low-resistance inductor and a mounting substrate.
US07884679B2
A voltage reference connects to a voltage-to-current converter to generate a reference current dependent on the reference voltage. Outputs of a toggle-type flip flop connect to switching transistors controlling the reference current charging capacitors. The toggling of the flip-flop is controlled by comparing the capacitor voltages to the reference voltage, such that the toggle frequency is proportional to the time charging the capacitors. Optionally, temperature compensation data, representing a magnitude and direction rotation of the frequency versus temperature characteristic is stored and, based on a sensed temperature, retrieved to modify the reference current.
US07884676B1
An FLL circuit having a capability of configuring a desired loop bandwidth in a short period of time is provided. An FDC 17 generates a feedback of an output signal of a VCO 15. An error detector 11 detects an error of the output signal of the VCO 15. A voltage retainer 13 retains an output of a control voltage of the VCO 15. A reference signal generator 16 generates a reference signal. An adder 14 adds the reference signal to a control voltage outputted by the voltage retainer 13. A Kv calculator 18 calculates a gain Kv of the VCO 15 based on a degree of transition of an output frequency of the VCO 15. A loop bandwidth controller 19 adjusts, based on the gain Kv of the VCO 15, a gain of a loop filter 12 to an optimum value, and configures a desired loop bandwidth.
US07884670B2
A Class D amplifier includes a ramp generator configured to generate a first signal and a second signal. Each of the first signal and the second signal oscillate between a minimum value and a maximum value. A signal generator is configured to receive an input signal, the first signal and the second signal. The input signal has a value that is between the minimum value and the maximum value. A signal generator is configured to generate a third signal and a fourth signal. The third signal is generated based on each of the first signal and the second signal transitioning from a value above the value of the input signal to a value below the value of the input signal. The fourth signal is generated based on each of the first signal and the second signal transitioning from a value below the value of the input signal to a value above the value of the input signal. An output stage is configured to drive a load based on the third signal and the fourth signal.
US07884669B2
The present invention relates to an amplification device for a satellite in order to amplify a plurality of n transmission channels to an output corresponding to a beam, the device comprising: frequency band combining means comprising n inputs in order to receive the n transmission channels and q outputs in order to supply respectively the channels grouped together within q frequency bands, a power amplification unit including p active amplifiers in parallel for the distributed amplification of the n channels, gain and phase adjustment means corresponding to the p power amplifiers on the q frequency bands.
US07884668B2
The present invention relates to an integrated Doherty type amplifier arrangement and an amplifying method for such an arrangement, wherein a lumped element hybrid power divider (12) is provided for splitting input signals of main and peak amplifier stages (20, 30, 40) at predetermined phase shifts and non-equal division rates and at least one wideband lumped element artificial line (Z 1, Z2) combined with wideband compensation circuit for receiving said first amplified signal and for applying said predetermined phase shift to said first amplified signal and its higher harmonics. Thereby, the low gain of the peak amplifier is compensated by providing the non-equal power splitting at the input. Moreover, the use of the lumped element hybrid power divider leads to an improved isolation between the input ports of the main and peak amplifiers decreasing final distortions of the output signal.
US07884667B2
A linear power amplifier system using pulse area modulation includes: an envelop/phase decomposer for decomposing an input signal into an envelop signal and a phase signal; a pulse area modulator for modulating the envelop signal such that an area of the modulated envelop signal is proportional to an amplitude of the envelop signal; a control signal generator for converting the modulated envelop signal into a control signal; an automatic gain adjuster for equalizing pulse height of the modulated envelop signal; a mixer for mixing the phase signal with the output of the automatic gain adjustor to produce a RF pulse train; a power amplifier for amplifying the RF pulse train, to generate an amplified RF pulse train; and a band pass filter for restoring the original input signal from the amplified RF pulse train. The output level of the power amplifier is controlled by the control signal.
US07884666B1
A method and apparatus is provided for reducing interference in circuits. A management strategy is provided to reduce reference spurs and interference in circuits. The management strategy uses a combination of one or more techniques which reduce the digital current, minimize mutual inductance, utilize field cancellation, prevent leakage current, and/or manage impedance. These techniques may be used alone, or preferably, used on combination with one another.
US07884658B2
Circuits for forming the inputs of a latch are provided. In some embodiments, circuits for forming inputs of a latch comprise: a first transistor having a first gate terminal, a first drain terminal, a first source terminal, a first gate length, and a first common mode level at the first gate terminal, wherein the first gate terminal provides a data input to the latch; and a second transistor having a second gate terminal, a second drain terminal, a second source terminal, a second gate length, and a second common mode level at the second gate terminal, wherein the second gate terminal provides a clock input to the latch, the second drain terminal is coupled to the first source terminal, and the first gate length and the second gate length are sized so that the first common model level and the second common mode level are substantially equal.
US07884655B2
Control circuitry, comprising: first control means operable to generate a first control signal, the first control signal being indicative of a relationship between an output signal and a first reference signal, and to generate said output signal in dependence upon said first control signal, the first control means being configured to tend to maintain a first desired relationship between the output signal and the first reference signal in response to said first control signal; and second control means configured to influence operation of said first control means in response to said first control signal by way of a second control signal so as to tend to maintain a second desired relationship between said first control signal and a second reference signal.
US07884647B2
There is provided an output driver, which includes a pre-driver configured to generate a main driving control signal in response to a data signal, a main driver configured to drive an output terminal in response to the main driving control signal, an auxiliary driving control signal generator configured to generate an auxiliary driving control signal having an activation interval corresponding to the data signal and an interval control signal, and an auxiliary driver configured to drive the output terminal in response to the auxiliary driving control signal.
US07884634B2
An improved interconnection system and method is described, such as for connectors, socket assemblies and/or probe card systems. An exemplary system comprises a probe card interface assembly (PCIA) for establishing electrical connections to a semiconductor wafer mounted in a prober. The PCIA comprises a motherboard parallel to the semiconductor wafer having an upper surface and an opposing lower planar mounting surface, a reference plane defined by a least three points located between the lower surface of the motherboard and the wafer, at least one component located below the motherboard mounting surface, and a mechanism for adjusting the planarity of the reference plane with respect to the wafer. A probe chip having a plurality of spring probes extending there from is mountable and demountable from the PCIA, without the need for further planarity adjustment. The interconnection structures and methods preferably provide improved fabrication cycles.
US07884629B2
Multi-touchdown, parallel test probe cards having probe elements arranged to provide greater efficiency during testing of a substrate having a plurality of die thereon. Probe elements may be arranged in a number of configurations that allow for efficient usage of the probe elements.
US07884627B2
A stiffener assembly for use with testing devices is provided herein. In some embodiments, a stiffener assembly for use with testing devices can be part of a probe card assembly that can include a stiffener assembly comprising an upper stiffener coupled to a plurality of lower stiffeners; and a substrate constrained between the upper stiffener and the plurality of lower stiffeners, the stiffener assembly restricting non-planar flex of the substrate while facilitating radial movement of the substrate with respect to the stiffener assembly.
US07884626B2
A cathodic protection monitor to be electrically connected to a cathodic protection rectifier that is adapted to prevent rust, corrosion and possible leakage in an underground pipe or storage tank above which the rectifier is supported. The cathodic protection monitor includes a CPU that reads, digitizes and stores analog current and voltage signals which are supplied from the DC output of the rectifier and are indicative of the effectiveness thereof. The monitor includes an ISM band transceiver and antenna by which the CPU is polled and from which packets of stored data are transmitted to a data collector at an overhead airplane or nearby motor vehicle for retransmission and analysis by the pipe owner or maintenance crew. Synchronized timing signals are supplied (from the National Bureau of Standards) to a stable auxiliary clock by way of a WWVB transceiver and antenna so that a plurality of cathodic protection rectifiers can be turned on and off at the same time as may be required to compile ground voltage readings along the pipeline as part of a government-mandated survey.
US07884625B2
Apparatus, method and program product may detect an attempt to tamper with a microchip by detecting an unacceptable alteration in a measured capacitance associated with capacitance structures proximate the backside of a microchip. The capacitance structures typically include metallic shapes and may connect using through-silicon vias to active sensing circuitry within the microchip. In response to the sensed change, a shutdown, spoofing, self-destruct or other defensive action may be initiated to protect security sensitive circuitry of the microchip.
US07884624B2
A capacitance sensing structure includes a substrate, a sensing electrode layer, at least one stack layer and a conductive body. The sensing electrode layer is formed on or in the substrate. The stack layer is formed on the sensing electrode layer. The conductive body is disposed over and corresponding to the sensing electrode layer and the stack layer.
US07884622B2
In the present invention, a position detecting substrate having a capacitive sensor is supported on a transfer arm and transferred by the transfer arm and mounted on a mounting part. The capacitive sensor on the position detecting substrate then detects a position of a target object on the mounting part to detect a mounting position of the position detecting substrate on the mounting part. Based on the mounting position of the position detecting substrate, the moving position of the transfer arm when transferring a substrate is then adjusted.
US07884616B2
An automatic multi-cable continuity tester. The multi-conductor electrical continuity tester includes a controller that is configured to generate a first serial stream of input test signals. The first serial stream of input test signals includes a plurality of signals equal in number to a plurality of conductors in a cable. A data input module is configured to convert the first serial stream of input test signals into a first parallel stream of test signals. A data output module is configured to receive and convert the first parallel stream of test signals to a first serial stream of output test signals. The controller is further configured to receive the first serial stream of output signals, store the first serial stream of output signals to a memory, generate subsequent serial streams of input test signals corresponding to each possible combination and permutation of conductors, determine whether each possible combination and permutation of conductors includes an open circuit condition and/or a short circuit condition, and determine whether at least one predefined relationship between input and output test signals includes an open circuit condition and/or a short circuit condition, wherein the predefined relationship defines a stream of output test signals that are different than a stream of input test signals.
US07884615B1
A network interface includes a physical layer (PHY) device that provides an interface to a cable. The PHY device includes an autonegotiation module that selectively performs autonegotiation to establish a link with a link partner based on link parameters and a cable test module that performs a cable test before the autonegotiation begins, that determines a cable performance parameter during the cable test, and that compares the cable performance parameter to a predetermined threshold. The autonegotiation module selects at least one of the link parameters based on the comparison.
US07884611B1
In one aspect of the present invention, an induction resistivity tool includes an induction transmitter and an induction receiver located along the length of the tool. The transmitter is located adjacent at least one induction bucking coils of the tool. When activated the bucking coils are configured to direct a field transmitted by the induction transmitter away from the tool at an angle from the central axis of the tool.
US07884601B2
A magnet is contained in a display housing and is supported by a slidable operating member. A control housing contains a magnetoresistance effect element. Slidable shifting of the operating member causes an external magnetic field in a positive (+) direction and an external magnetic field in a negative (−) direction to enter the magnetoresistance effect element from the magnet at different timings, thereby changing the electric resistance of the magnetoresistance effect element. Accordingly, when the operating member is slidably shifted, a switching operation between predetermined modes is performed on the basis of a change in the resistance of the magnetoresistance effect element.
US07884596B2
A self-balancing Wheatstone bridge that provides frequency and power information. The frequency information obtained can be applied to correct the power measurement to provide excellent match, excellent frequency insensitivity, good dynamic range, good frequency range, and adequate frequency accuracy. The system is highly responsive, simple, and cost effective.
US07884594B2
Inventive embodiments described here provide for accurately distributing a voltage reference to multiple cores of an integrated circuit (IC). A quasi-differential interface is used to transmit the voltage reference, and a virtual ground is established at a receiver located at each core location on the integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the receiver is an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) that converts a virtual-ground-referenced voltage input to a current. In one embodiment, the OTA converts the virtual-ground-referenced voltage into three currents via three driving current sources operating relative to the virtual ground and the local ground of the core. Negative feedback controls the accuracy of this conversion and provides a way to cancel the effects of the distribution resistance. The current is sourced across the voltage domains between the virtual ground and the VSS, which is the IC ground. An I*R drop across a resistor converts the current to a voltage referenced to VSS at the output.
US07884589B2
A controllable power supply device with a step-up function including a constant voltage generator, a programmable voltage generator, a first switch and a linear regulator is provided. The constant voltage generator is used to provide an initial voltage. The programmable voltage generator is used to receive the initial voltage and adjust the received initial voltage to boost the initial voltage to a power supply voltage. The first connecting terminal of the first switch is used to receive the initial voltage, the second connecting terminal of the first switch is used to receive the power supply voltage, and the third connecting terminal of the first switch is coupled to one of the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal. Therefore, the voltage from the third connecting terminal of the first switch is stabilized and is outputted as the output voltage of the controllable power supply device by the linear regulator.
US07884587B2
A charging unit charges a capacitor that is configured to be charged and discharged to drive a load. A switching unit switches on and off between the capacitor and the charging unit. A delay control unit delays an output of a switching control signal for controlling the switching unit until an output voltage of the charging unit exceeds a voltage of the capacitor, and outputs a delayed switching control signal. An output unit receives the delayed switching control signal from the delay control unit, and outputs the delayed switching control signal to the switching unit so that the charging unit charges the capacitor.
US07884577B2
An apparatus, which controls the temperature of a secondary battery formed by combination of a plurality of single cells or a plurality of battery modules each made by series connection of multiple single cells, prevents variations in the temperature or voltage of the single cells or the battery modules, which could otherwise be caused when the secondary battery is heated. A temperature control section controls the quantity of heat by means of which a heater heats a secondary battery formed by combination of a plurality of battery modules made by series connection of multiple single cells. The temperature control section detects a rate of temporal changes in an open circuit voltage of the secondary battery. When a detected rate of temporal changes in open circuit voltage has exceeded a predetermined threshold voltage value, the heater is controlled to thus diminish the quantity of heat used for heating the secondary battery.
US07884571B2
Systems and methods are provided for charging a USB device. A USB connector may be used to couple the system to a USB port on the USB device, the USB connector including a bus voltage (Vbus) connector, a positive data (D+) connector, and a negative data (D−) connector. Charger circuitry may be used to receive a source voltage and convert the source voltage into the bus voltage (Vbus), wherein the bus voltage (Vbus) is used to charge the USB device. Presence detect circuitry may be used to compare a first voltage present on the D+ connector with a second voltage present on the D− connector in order to detect when the USB connector is coupled to the USB port of the USB device.
US07884570B2
A battery charger may include a charger connector to be coupled to a corresponding device connector of a portable device including a rechargeable battery. The battery charger may also include a charging circuit connected to the charger connector, and a controller connected to the charger connector and the charging circuit. The controller may be for causing a portable device connected to the charger connector to identify its corresponding portable device type and its corresponding rechargeable battery type from among a plurality of different portable device types and different battery types, and for causing the charging circuit to charge the rechargeable battery based thereon.
US07884567B2
Fuel cell systems and methods for controlling fuel cell systems. In one embodiment, the method includes supplying power produced by operating the fuel cell stack in a maximum output mode to the load while concurrently charging the secondary cell with the produced power when an amount of charge of the secondary cell is smaller than a first standard value, supplying both power produced by operating the fuel cell stack in a stable output mode and the power discharged by the secondary cell to the load when the amount of charge of the secondary cell is larger than a second standard value, and maintaining an existing output mode among the output modes when the amount of charge of the secondary cell is larger than the first standard value and smaller than the second standard value.
US07884565B2
A human-machine interface assembly includes a user interface and a passive force feedback mechanism. The user interface is configured, upon receipt of an input force that exceeds a null breakout force, to move from a null position to a first control position and, upon receipt of an input force that exceeds a soft stop force, to move beyond the first control position. The passive force feedback mechanism is coupled to the user interface and is configured to supply the null breakout force to the user interface when the user interface is in the null position, and supply the soft stop force to the user interface when the user interface is in the first control position. The soft stop force exceeds the null breakout force and is not supplied to the user interface unless the user interface is in the first control position.
US07884564B2
A control circuit of a sensorless motor includes a first coil, a second coil, a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit and an auxiliary switch circuit. The first switch circuit is electrically connected to the first coil and controls a direction of a current flowing through the first coil. The second switch circuit is electrically connected to the second coil and controls a direction of a current flowing through the second coil. The auxiliary switch circuit is electrically connected to and between the first coil and the second coil and controls the directions of the currents flowing through the first coil and the second coil by cooperating with the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit. A control method of a sensorless motor is also disclosed.
US07884548B2
A PDP comprises: front and back glass substrates facing each other across a discharge space; a plurality of row electrode pairs and column electrodes disposed between the front and back glass substrates and extending in directions at right angles to each other to form discharge cells in positions corresponding to the intersections in the discharge space; and an electride compound in which electrons are substituted for part of anions in the crystal lattice and which is disposed in an area facing the discharge cells and exposed to each discharge cell.
US07884543B2
A method of forming a wiring of a light emitting device having an electrode on a light emission surface is disclosed. The method includes: forming the electrode nearly in a linear shape in which the width is narrower than the light emission surface; and forming a wiring that is connected to the electrode nearly in a linear shape in which the width is narrower than the light emission surface to cross the electrode.
US07884541B2
An organic electroluminescent apparatus includes a plurality of light-emitting elements each having an organic layer held between a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, and a partition pattern with which the organic layers of the individual light-emitting elements are defined. The partition pattern has a plurality of openings in which the organic layers are respectively provided, the plurality of openings including first openings provided in a peripheral region of a element area, in which the light-emitting elements are arranged, and second openings provided in a region closer to the center of the element area than the region where the first openings are provided. The first openings have larger planar dimensions than those of the second openings.
US07884536B2
A light emission device and a display having the light emission device are provided. The light emission device includes a light emission panel for emitting light, a diffuser plate facing the light emission panel to diffuse the light emitted from the light emission panel, and a heat dissipation plate disposed between the light emission panel and the diffuser plate.
US07884532B2
A backlight unit using a microwave plasma ultraviolet lamp as a light source and a liquid crystal display including the backlight unit. The backlight unit for a liquid crystal display comprises a tube filled with discharge gas, a cavity resonator in which one end of the tube is inserted, a magnetron for generating microwaves and supplying the generated microwaves to the cavity resonator, a magnetron driver for driving the magnetron, and a phosphor layer for converting ultraviolet light generated in the tube into visible light.
US07884526B2
A driving apparatus (100j) is provided with: a base portion (110); a stage portion (130) on which a driven object (12) is mounted and which can be displaced; an elastic portion (120) which connects the base portion and the stage portion and which has elasticity to displace the stage portion in one direction (Y axis); a first applying device (161, 162, 22) for applying an excitation force for displacing the stage portion such that the stage portion is resonated in the one direction at a resonance frequency determined by the stage portion and the elastic portion; and a frequency adjusting device (170) for dynamically adjusting the resonance frequency.
US07884524B2
Provided is a brushless alternator for preventing water from penetrating further inside through a gap between a distal end portion of a spool and a concave portion of a bracket. According to the brushless alternator of the present invention, a rotor includes: a rotor main body; and a coil body (30) fixed to a rear bracket (21). The coil body (30) includes: a bobbin (32); a field coil (13); a yoke portion (10) of a second magnetic pole, the yoke portion (10) having one lateral surface being in close contact with a lateral surface of the bobbin (32) and another lateral surface being bonded to the rear bracket (21); a spool (31) provided on an inner circumferential surface of the yoke portion (10) and an inner circumferential surface of the bobbin (32); and a rubber bush (101) provided to a projecting portion (312) at a distal end of the spool (31). The rubber bush (101) is fitted into a concave portion (21a) formed at a portion of the rear bracket (21), the portion being opposed to a distal end surface of the spool (31).
US07884517B2
A two-phase electric motor includes first and second coil groups and a magnet group. In the magnet group, N poles and S poles are disposed alternatively opposite the first and second coil groups. The first and second coil groups are disposed at positions that are out of phase with each other by an odd multiple of π/2 in electrical angles. The coils of the first and second coil groups have substantially no magnetic material cores, and the electric motor has substantially no magnetic material yoke for forming a magnetic circuit.
US07884514B2
In a method for winding the stator of a multiphase electric motor a plurality of mutually spaced stator teeth are assigned to each phase, wherein all the teeth of the stator are wound without a break in the winding wire, and wherein the winding wire is taken via a contact-making element of a contact-making device before or after the winding of all the stator teeth assigned to a phase.
US07884513B2
A rotor includes a hub, a permanent magnet and a shaft. The hub has an inner surface and an outer surface, with an assembling hole being formed at the center of the inner surface. The permanent magnet is mounted on the inner surface of the hub. The shaft has two ends, with one end being a connecting end. The connecting end is fixed in the assembling hole of the hub. An extending member is arranged at the connecting end and extends radially from a radial surface of the shaft. The extending member is embedded in a wall of the hub. Consequently, a contact area between the hub and the shaft is radially extended and increased to provide a reliable combination of the hub and the shaft, and the rotor can be applied to a motor with minimizing dimensions.
US07884508B2
A linear motor comprising a stator core and/or a mover. The stator core of said linear motor comprising an inner perimeter, an outer perimeter essentially encircling the inner perimeter, a first and a second tooth being arranged along one of the inner perimeter or the outer perimeter, a slot for receiving a stator coil, said slot being a cavity arranged within the stator core, wherein said stator core is divided into a first stator part and a second stator part, said first stator part including the first tooth, being arranged to partially define the slot, and being made of soft magnetic powder, and said second stator part including the second tooth, being arranged to partially define the slot, and being made of soft magnetic powder. The mover of said linear motor comprising at least one section of soft magnetic material and at least one permanent magnet, the at least one section of soft magnetic material and the at least one permanent magnet being aligned in an axial direction of the mover, wherein a polarization vector of said at least one permanent magnet is directed axially.
US07884487B2
Provided are a rotation joint capable of compensating for a mismatch due to thermal expansion and a semiconductor device having the same. The rotation joint can include a support member and a first contact member coupled to a first portion of the support member such that a surface of the first contact member is moveable relative to a surface of the support member adjacent to the first contact member. The first contact member can include solder material.
US07884483B2
A method of electrically joining a first contact on a first wafer with a second contact on a second wafer, the first contact, a rigid material, and the second contact, a material that is malleable relative to the rigid material, such that when brought together the rigid material will penetrate the malleable material, the rigid and malleable materials both being electrically conductive involves bringing the rigid material into contact with the malleable material, applying a force to one of the first contact or the second contact so as to cause the rigid material to penetrate the malleable material, heating the rigid and malleable material so as to cause the malleable material to soften, and constraining the malleable material to within a pre-specified area.
US07884470B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to semiconductor packages in which electrical power is delivered to die-side components removably installed in sockets formed between a package stiffener and an electrical conductor. To this purpose, the package stiffener and the electrical conductor may be electrically coupled to the power and ground terminals of the semiconductor package.
US07884468B2
A cooling device is provided for liquid cooling a power semiconductor device. The device includes a coolant diverter for guiding liquid coolant to the power semiconductor device. The coolant diverter has a first plate for dividing the coolant diverter into a first cavity and a second cavity. The second cavity positioned adjacent the power semiconductor device. The first plate further includes an opening to fluidly couple the first cavity with the second cavity such that the liquid coolant flows into the first cavity, through the opening in the first plate, and into the second cavity to cool the power semiconductor device. The first cavity has a cross-sectional area that generally decreases in a downstream direction, and the second cavity has a cross-sectional area that generally increases in the downstream direction.
US07884463B2
On a semiconductor element loading face, wiring patterns are drawn out from those formed in the vicinity of the edge of the semiconductor element of the loading pads formed to correspond to the electrode terminals of the semiconductor element, and connected to via pads formed in the vicinity of the edge of the semiconductor element loading face; area pads constructed of the loading pads corresponding to the electrode terminals formed in the central region of the semiconductor element and its vicinity are electrically connected to external connecting terminal pads formed in the central region on the other side of the wiring board and its vicinity, through the nearest area pad vias encircled by the external connecting terminal pads and passing through the wiring board and the wiring patterns; and a plurality of the loading pads constituting the area pads commonly use one of the area pad vias.
US07884462B2
An insulation covering structure for a semiconductor element with a single die dimension includes: a semiconductor element with a single die dimension and an insulation covering layer. The semiconductor element has a front side surface, a rear side surface, a left side surface, a right side surface, a bottom surface, and a top surface. The top surface of the semiconductor element has two metal pads. The insulation covering layer covers the front side surface, the rear side surface, the left side surface, the right side surface, and the bottom surface of the semiconductor element. A manufacturing process for covering the semiconductor element with a single die dimension is also disclosed.
US07884455B2
A power module includes: an encapsulation-target portion having at least one semiconductor element; and an encapsulation member that has first and second planes between which the encapsulation-target portion is interposed, and that encapsulates the encapsulation-target portion. The encapsulation member has, on the at least one semiconductor element, at least one opening that exposes part of a surface of the encapsulation-target portion the surface being on a side of the first plane. Thus, a semiconductor device of which size can be reduced can be provided.
US07884447B2
A microelectronic assembly in which a semiconductor device structure is directionally positioned on an off-axis substrate (201). In an illustrative implementation, a laser diode is oriented on a GaN substrate (201) wherein the GaN substrate includes a GaN (0001) surface off-cut from the <0001> direction predominantly towards either the <1120> or the <1100> family of directions. For a <1120> off-cut substrate, a laser diode cavity (207) may be oriented along the <1100> direction parallel to lattice surface steps (202) of the substrate (201) in order to have a cleaved laser facet that is orthogonal to the surface lattice steps. For <1100> off-cut substrate, the laser diode cavity may be oriented along the <1100> direction orthogonal to lattice surface steps (207) of the substrate (201) in order to provide a cleave laser facet that is aligned with the surface lattice steps.
US07884445B2
An apparatus and method for holding a semiconductor device in a wafer. A bar is connected to the wafer. A first sidewall comprises a first end and a second, and is connected to the bar at its first end. A first tab comprises a first end and a second end, and is connected to the second end of the first sidewall at its first end and connected to the first side of the semiconductor device at its second end. The thickness of the first tab is less than the thickness of the bar and the thickness of the first sidewall.
US07884439B2
In one aspect, the present invention provides a silicon photodetector having a surface layer that is doped with sulfur inclusions with an average concentration in a range of about 0.5 atom percent to about 1.5 atom percent. The surface layer forms a diode junction with an underlying portion of the substrate. A plurality of electrical contacts allow application of a reverse bias voltage to the junction in order to facilitate generation of an electrical signal, e.g., a photocurrent, in response to irradiation of the surface layer. The photodetector exhibits a responsivity greater than about 1 A/W for incident wavelengths in a range of about 250 nm to about 1050 nm, and a responsivity greater than about 0.1 A/W for longer wavelengths, e.g., up to about 3.5 microns.
US07884434B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus has a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of wiring layers arranged on the semiconductor substrate through the first and second insulation layers, and a high refractive index region which is arranged in an opening part that is arranged in the interlayer insulation layer so as to correspond to the photoelectric conversion element and has a higher refractive index than the interlayer insulation layers, wherein an area of a cross section parallel to a photoreceiving plane of the photoelectric conversion element in the high refractive index region increases as the position approaches to an upper part of the substrate from a photoreceiving plane of the photoelectric conversion element, namely, as the position approaches to a light-incident plane, and the increasing rate continuously increases with the increase of the area.
US07884432B2
Systems and methods are provided for shielding integrated circuits from electromagnetic or electrostatic fields by locating an active device layer between two conductors that are electrically coupled together. In certain embodiments, a sensor comprises a conductive substrate that provides structural support and shielding to circuit elements in a semiconductor device layer. The device layer is between the conductive substrate and a shield layer that are electrically coupled together to create a shield or “Faraday box.” In certain embodiments, the device layer is substantially isolated from the conductive substrate and the shield layer by insulative layers. In certain embodiments, an input voltage powers the device layer and is also coupled to the substrate and the shield layer. Thus, the conductive substrate and the shield layer absorb and/or repel electrostatic charges or ions in a medium surrounding the sensor.
US07884427B2
A process for forming active transistors for a semiconductor memory device by the steps of: forming transistor gates having generally vertical sidewalls in a memory array section and in periphery section; implanting a first type of conductive dopants into exposed silicon defined as active area regions of the transistor gates; forming temporary oxide spacers on the generally vertical sidewalls of the transistor gates; after the step of forming temporary spacers, implanting a second type of conductive dopants into the exposed silicon regions to form source/drain regions of the active transistors; after the step of implanting a second type of conductive dopants, growing an epitaxial silicon over exposed silicon regions; removing the temporary oxide spacers; and forming permanent nitride spacers on the generally vertical sidewalls of the transistor gates.
US07884426B2
Design time (TAT) is reduced in a layout design of a semiconductor integrated circuit having a well supplied with a potential different from a substrate potential. A layout design method of the present invention includes preparing a first cell pattern placed on a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type, preparing a second cell pattern having a deep well of a second conductive type, placing the first cell pattern in a first circuit region, and placing the second cell pattern in a second region different from the first circuit region. This reduces TAT in chip design.
US07884423B2
CMISFETs having a symmetrical flat band voltage, the same gate electrode material, and a high permittivity dielectric layer is provided for a semiconductor device including n-MISFETs and p-MISFETs, and a fabrication method thereof, the n-MISFETs including: a first metal oxide layer 20, placed on the 1st gate insulating film 16, having a composition ratio shown with M1xM2yO (where M1=Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd, Th, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb or Lu, M2=Hf, Zr or Ta, and x/(x+y)>0.12); a second metal oxide layer 24; and a second metal oxide layer 24, the p-MISFETs including: a second gate insulating film 18 placed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 10; a third metal oxide layer 22, placed on the 2nd gate insulating film 18, having a composition ratio shown with M3zM4wO (M3=Al, M4=Hf, Zr or Ta, and z/(z+w)>0.14); a fourth metal oxide layer 26; and a second conductive layer 30 placed on the fourth metal oxide layer 26.
US07884408B2
One-transistor RAM technology compatible with a metal gate process fabricates a metal gate electrode formed of the same metal material as a top electrode of a MIM capacitor embedded isolation structure. A gate dielectric layer is formed of the same high-k dielectric material as a capacitor dielectric of the MIM capacitor embedded isolation structure.
US07884406B2
A semiconductor device includes a ferroelectric capacitor formed above the lower interlevel insulating film covering a MOS transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate, including lamination of a lower electrode, an oxide ferroelectric film, a first upper electrode made of conductive oxide having a stoichiometric composition AOx1 and an actual composition AOx2, a second upper electrode made of conductive oxide having a stoichiometric composition BOy1 and an actual composition BOy2, where y2/y1>x2/x1, and a third upper electrode having a composition containing metal of the platinum group; and a multilayer wiring structure formed above the lower ferroelectric capacitor, and including interlevel insulating films and wirings. Abnormal growth and oxygen vacancies can be prevented which may occur when the upper electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor is made of a conductive oxide film having a low oxidation degree and a conductive oxide film having a high oxidation degree.
US07884393B2
Affords high electron mobility transistors having a high-purity channel layer and a high-resistance buffer layer. A high electron mobility transistor (11) is provided with a supporting substrate (13) composed of gallium nitride, a buffer layer (15) composed of a first gallium nitride semiconductor, a channel layer (17) composed of a second gallium nitride semiconductor, a semiconductor layer (19) composed of a third gallium nitride semiconductor, and electrode structures (a gate electrode (21), a source electrode (23) and a drain electrode (25) for the transistor (11). The band gap of the third gallium nitride semiconductor is broader than that of the second gallium nitride semiconductor. The carbon concentration NC1 of the first gallium nitride semiconductor is 4×1017 cm−3 or more. The carbon concentration NC2 of the second gallium nitride semiconductor is less than 4×1016 cm−3.
US07884391B2
Embodiments relate to an image sensor. According to embodiments, an image sensor may include a metal interconnection, readout circuitry, a first substrate, a metal layer, and an image sensing device. The metal interconnection and the readout circuitry may be formed on and/or over the first substrate. The image sensing device may include a first conduction type conduction layer and a second conduction type conduction layer and may be electrically connected to the metal layer. According to embodiments, an electric field may not be generated on and/or over an Si surface. This may contribute to a reduction in a dark current of a 3D integrated CMOS image sensor.
US07884389B2
Bipolar power semiconductor component comprising a p-type emitter and more highly doped zones in the p-type emitter, and production method. The invention relates to a bipolar power semiconductor component comprising a semiconductor body (1), in which a p-doped emitter (8), an n-doped base (7), a p-doped base (6) and an n-doped main emitter (5) are arranged successively in a vertical direction (v). The p-doped emitter (8) has a number of heavily p-doped zones (82) having a locally increased p-type doping.
US07884388B2
A light emitting diode (LED) and a method for fabricating the same, capable of improving brightness by forming a InGaN layer having a low concentration of indium, and whose lattice constant is similar to that of an active layer of the LED, is provided. The LED includes: a buffer layer disposed on a sapphire substrate; a GaN layer disposed on the buffer layer; a doped GaN layer disposed on the GaN layer; a GaN layer having indium disposed on the GaN layer; an active layer disposed on the GaN layer having indium; and a P-type GaN disposed on the active layer. Here, an empirical formula of the GaN layer having indium is given by In(x)Ga(1−x)N and a range of x is given by 0
US07884387B2
An epitaxial wafer for a semiconductor light emitting device according to the present invention in which at least an n-type cladding layer formed with a mixed crystal made of an AlGaInP material, an active layer, a p-type Mg-doped cladding layer, and a p-type contact layer are stacked successively in that order on an n-type GaAs substrate, and the p-type contact layer is formed as at least two layers that are an Mg-doped contact layer and a Zn-doped contact layer stacked thereon when viewed from the n-type GaAs substrate, comprises a Zn-doped layer which is inserted between the p-type Mg-doped cladding layer and the p-type contact layer.
US07884386B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element including a first multilayer reflector, an active layer having a light-emitting region, and a second multilayer reflector in the stated order; a semiconductor light-detecting element disposed opposite the first multilayer reflector in relation to the semiconductor light-emitting element and including a light-absorbing layer configured to absorb light emitted from the light-emitting region; a transparent substrate disposed between the semiconductor light-emitting element and the semiconductor light-detecting element; a first metal layer having a first opening in a region including a region opposite the light-emitting region and bonding the semiconductor light-emitting element and the substrate; and a second metal layer having a second opening in a region including a region opposite the light-emitting region and bonding the semiconductor light-detecting element and the substrate.
US07884383B2
A radiation-emitting semiconductor chip (1) comprising a thin-film semiconductor body (2) which has a semiconductor layer sequence with an active region (4) suitable for generating radiation, and a reflector layer (5) arranged on the thin-film semiconductor body. The semiconductor chip has a Bragg reflector in addition to the reflector layer, and the Bragg reflector (6) and the reflector layer are arranged on the same side of the active region.
US07884382B2
An LED lamp including an LED and one or more phosphors, wherein for each phosphor, a figure of merit (FOM) defined as the product of (incident LED flux)×(excitation cross-section of the phosphor)×(phosphor material decay time) is less than 0.3. Such an arrangement provides a light emitting device with improved lumen output and color stability over a range of drive currents.
US07884377B2
A light emitting device including: at least one light emitting stack including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers and an active layer disposed there between, the light emitting stack having first and second surfaces and side surfaces interposed between the first and second surfaces; first and second contacts formed on the first and second surface of the light emitting stack, respectively; a first insulating layer formed on the second surface and the side surfaces of the light emitting stack; a conductive layer connected to the second contact and extended along one of the side surfaces of the light emitting stack to have an extension portion adjacent to the first surface; and a substrate structure formed to surround the side surfaces and the second surface of the light emitting stack.
US07884373B2
In one aspect, a method includes fabricating a gallium nitride (GaN) layer with a first diamond layer having a first thermal conductivity and a second diamond layer having a second thermal conductivity greater than the first thermal conductivity. The fabricating includes using a microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to deposit the second diamond layer onto the first diamond layer.
US07884362B2
An array substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing each other on a substrate to define a pixel region, an insulating layer between the gate line and the data line, a gate electrode extending from the gate line, and a transistor in the pixel region having an active layer on the insulating layer, ohmic contact layers of a first material that are adjacent to ends of the active layer, buffer layers of a second material, which is different from the first material, on the ohmic contact layers, a source electrode contacting one of the buffer layers and a drain electrode contacting another one of the buffer layers, wherein the active layer is in an island shape over the gate electrode and within a boundary defined by a perimeter of the gate electrode.
US07884355B2
A transistor including a semiconductive layer; and a gate dielectric layer comprising an insulating polymer, characterised in that the insulating polymer is crosslinked and comprises one or more units having a low cohesive-energy-density and one or more crosslinking groups and the insulating polymer includes substantially no residual —OH leaving groups.
US07884349B2
A memory cell including a memory element and a non-ohmic device (NOD) that are electrically in series with each other is disclosed. The NOD comprises a semiconductor based selection device operative to electrically isolate the memory element from a range of voltages applied across the memory cell that are not read voltages operative read stored data from the memory element or write voltages operative to write data to the memory element. The selection device may comprise a pair of diodes that are electrically in series with each other and disposed in a back-to-back configuration. The memory cell may be fabricated over a substrate (e.g., a silicon wafer) that includes active circuitry. The selection device and the semiconductor materials (e.g., poly-silicon) that form the selection device are fabricated above the substrate and are integrated with other thin film layers of material that form the memory cell.
US07884344B2
A phase change memory device resistant to stack pattern collapse is presented. The phase change memory device includes a silicon substrate, switching elements, heaters, stack patterns, bit lines and word lines. The silicon substrate has a plurality of active areas. The switching elements are connected to the active areas. The heaters are connected to the switching elements. The stack patterns are connected to the heaters. The bit lines are connected to the stack patterns. The word lines are connected to the active areas of the silicon substrate.
US07884339B2
The present invention provides a color indicator dosimeter system to detect and quantify a dosage of ionizing radiation in a wide range wherein said system comprises phenolic glycoside as one of the components. The present invention also relates to a method for using dosimeter system as described hereinabove for detecting and quantifying a dosage of ionizing radiation in a wide range.
US07884338B2
A first light source emits a light signal along a measurement optical path that includes a sample and a second light source emits a light signal along a dummy measurement optical path. A measurement circuit receives the light signals and provides outputs separated in time which are indicative of the phase of the respective light signals. A phase shift is induced in light in the measurement optical path by the sample. A reference circuit receives a signal indicative of the phase of the light signals emitted by the first and second light sources. Circuitry compares the phases of light output from the two circuits to provide output indicative of a first measured phase difference during operation of the first light source. Correction is applied to this measurement by taking a similar phase difference measurement during operation of the second light source and comparing the two phase differences.
US07884326B2
A manipulator for use in e.g. a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) is described, said manipulator capable of rotating and translating a sample holder (4). The manipulator clasps the round sample holder between two members (3A, 3B), said members mounted on actuators (2A, 2B). Moving the actuators in the same direction results in a translation of the sample holder, while moving the actuators in opposite directions results in a rotation of the sample holder.
US07884312B2
A sensor device includes a base wall, a plurality of sidewalls cooperating with the base wall to define a receiving space that has an open end, an emitter disposed in the receiving space and having an emitter element to emit a light signal, a receiver disposed in the receiving space and having a receiver element to receive the light signal, a cover body disposed in the receiving space between the emitter and the receiver, a ball chamber formed between inner surfaces of the base wall and the cover body, a ball member disposed movably in the ball chamber, an emitter light passage optically communicating with the ball chamber and the emitter, and a receiver light passage optically communicating with the ball chamber and the receiver. The cover body, the emitter, and the receiver cooperatively close the open end of the receiving space.
US07884307B2
An electric heating textile is provided. The electric heating textile includes an electric heating layer, plural heat-insulating layers and a protective layer. The electric heating layer includes at least one conductive yarn capable of generating heat and plural aromatic polyamide fibers. The heat-insulating layers are under the electric heating layer. The protective layer is on the electric heating layer. A method for manufacturing the electric heating textile is also disclosed in the specification.
US07884295B2
A silicone rubber composition having such selective adhesiveness that shows high adhesion to an organic material than to a molding die is bonded to a sheet of the organic material and is vulcanized and cured in the mold. Thus, an elastomer keypad of double-layer structure is produced in which an organic material layer, which can be easily subjected to coating, bonding with an adhesive or pressure-sensitive adhesive, or the like, has been united and bonded as a surface layer to the rubber. Keytops are bonded to the elastomer keypad to produce a covering member for push-button switches. A polyurethane elastomer sheet is preferably used as the organic material.
US07884287B2
A connecting device for the electrically conductive connection of electronic components and a substrate. The connecting device is formed as a film composite formed of at least one insulating film and at least two electrically conductive films disposed on opposite sides of the insulating film. The film composite is formed as a layer construction of a conductive film alternating with an insulating film, wherein at least one conductive film is structured and thus forms conductor tracks. Furthermore, at least one conductive film of a main area of the film composite is made of a first metal and has at least one film section having a layer of a second metal that is thinner in comparison with the thickness of the first layer.
US07884277B2
An apparatus is described that converts electromagnetic radiation into electric current, of the type comprising a plurality of junctions between a first element (11; 111) of material with conduction through carriers of positive charge and a second element (12; 112) of a material with conduction through carriers of negative charge, said plurality of junctions defining a plurality of couples (10; 111, 112) comprising a hot junction (19) and a cold junction (18), said plurality of couples (10; 110) receiving a thermal flow (FT) generated by a radiation (R) incident in the direction of a region (172) including the hot junction (19), said apparatus (20; 30; 70; 170; 190) including a device (25; 75; 175) to guide said radiation (R) towards said plurality of couples (10; 111, 112). According to the invention, said first element (11; 111) of material with conduction through carriers of positive charge and/or said second element (12; 112) of material with conduction through carriers of negative charge comprise nanostructured materials and in that said device to guide said radiation (R) comprises a plurality of guiding elements (25; 75) that guide said radiation (R) onto faces (19; 39; 119) exposed to said radiation (R) of the respective first element (11) and second element (12) of the couples (10).
US07884273B2
An instructional system and method for students of wind instrument that include audio/video depictions for viewing by users of the system and method an instructor performing steps on a wind instrument, an animated breathing bar presented at least during a time period over which a user is to attempt to replicate the steps demonstrated by the instructor, such breathing bar to visually command a user to alternatively inhale or exhale (while producing tones on his or her wind instrument), and visual indicia instructing in textual form the step or steps to be carried out by a user. A system can include one or many steps being demonstrated and prompted for recreation by a user, as well as additional presentations, such as metronomes, interactive tuners, and the like.
US07884266B2
A soybean cultivar designated 6238359 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 6238359, to the plants of soybean 6238359, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 6238359 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 6238359 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 6238359, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 6238359 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 6238359 with another soybean cultivar.
US07884265B2
A novel plant belonging to the Stevia Rebaudiana Bertoni variety which contains at least 4 parts by weight or more of Rebaudioside A with respect to one part by weight of Stevioside, and allows a sweetener of a good quality to be easily produced from said plant or dried leaves thereof.
US07884255B2
Chemical Production Processes and Systems. Chemical production processes are provided that include replacing a halogen of an unsaturated halocarbon to produce an unsaturated hydrohalocarbon. Chemical production systems are provided that include a reaction zone coupled to first and second reservoirs, the first reservoir containing an unsaturated halocarbon and the second reservoir containing a hydrogenating reagent with the system being configured to expose the unsaturated halocarbon of the first reservoir to the hydrogenating agent of the second reservoir within the reaction zone.
US07884252B1
A process for making trans-isocarveol, an intermediate useful in the manufacture of perillyl alcohol, is disclosed. The process comprises isomerizing a mixture comprising cis-limonene oxide (cis-LMO) and trans-limonene oxide (trans-LMO) in the presence of a phenolic modifier and a chromium catalyst. The process is performed at a temperature less than 220° C. to convert more than 50% of the cis-LMO to trans-isocarveol and less than 50% of the trans-LMO to cis-isocarveol. We surprisingly found that a mixture of cis- and trans-LMO can be selectively isomerized to produce mostly trans-isocarveol, which we discovered is the preferred isomer for making perillyl alcohol by direct isomerization.
US07884251B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a specific industrial separation process that enables an alcohol to be separated out efficiently and stably for a prolonged period of time from a large amount of a low boiling point reaction mixture containing a by-produced alcohol when mass-producing aromatic carbonates on an industrial scale by subjecting a dialkyl carbonate and an aromatic monohydroxy compound to transesterification reaction in a reactive distillation column in which a catalyst is present. Although there have been various proposals regarding processes for the production of aromatic carbonates by means of a reactive distillation method, these have all been on a small scale and short operating time laboratory level, and there have been no disclosures whatsoever on a specific process or apparatus enabling mass production on an industrial scale to be carried out stably for a prolonged period of time. Moreover, there have been no disclosures on a specific process or apparatus enabling the alcohol by-produced when producing aromatic carbonates the an industrial scale using a reactive distillation system to be separated out efficiently and stably for a prolonged period of time on an industrial scale of not less than 200 kg/hr. According to the present invention, there is proposed a specific process using a continuous multi-stage distillation column having a specified structure enabling the above object to be attained.
US07884249B2
A method for producing highly purified fused aromatic ring compounds with high yield by a simpler method. A method for producing a fused aromatic ring compound comprising irradiating the bicyclo compound containing at least one bicyclo ring represented by formula (1) in a molecule with light to detach a leaving group X from a residual part to form an aromatic ring: wherein R1 and R3 each denotes a group to form an aromatic ring or a heteroaromatic ring which may be substituted, together with a group to which each thereof is bonded; R2 and R4 each denotes a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an ester group or a phenyl group; and X is a leaving group, which denotes a carbonyl group or —N═.
US07884246B2
Disclosed is a process for preparing substituted anisidines of formula I starting from substituted cyclic hydroxy-ketones II via aromatization through a substituted oxime intermediate IV in which R is C1-C6 alkyl or halogen, and Alk is C1-C6 alkyl. The substituted anisidines of formula I have been found to be useful as intermediates in the preparation of agents for the treatment of hepatitis C viral (HCV) infections.
US07884238B2
A process for the long-term operation of a heterogeneously catalyzed partial gas phase oxidation of an organic starting compound, in which the reaction gas input mixture is partially oxidized over a fixed catalyst bed which is accommodated in two successive temperature zones A, B whose temperature is changed with increasing operating time such that the initially lower temperature increases and the difference between the two temperatures decreases.
US07884232B2
Disclosed is an optimized process and apparatus for more efficiently and economically carrying out the liquid-phase oxidation of an oxidizable compound. Such liquid-phase oxidation is carried out in a bubble column reactor that provides for a highly efficient reaction at relatively low temperatures. When the oxidized compound is para-xylene and the product from the oxidation reaction is crude terephthalic acid (CTA), such CTA product can be purified and separated by more economical techniques than could be employed if the CTA were formed by a conventional high-temperature oxidation process.
US07884229B2
A method for making a polyether monomer having at least one unsaturated site per molecule and having a desired number of alkoxyl repeating units includes the steps of reacting an active hydrogen-containing monomer having at least one unsaturated site per molecule with an alkyl oxide in the presence of an alkoxylation catalyst and a polymerization inhibitor at a temperature from about 30° C. to less than 45° C. to produce a polyether monomer. In one embodiment, from about 5 to about 1000 parts by weight of a phenothiazine polymerization inhibitor per one million parts by weight of the active hydrogen-containing monomer phenothiazine compound is used as the polymerization inhibitor.
US07884225B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 3-chloropropyldimethylchlorosilane by hydrosilylation reaction in a reaction medium comprising dimethylhydrochlorosilane and allyl chloride, in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of di-μ-chlorobis(η-1,5-cyclooctadiene)diiridium, the said process being characterized in that at least one auxiliary in the free or supported state selected from the group of compounds consisting of: (i) ketones, (ii) ethers, (iii) quinones, (iv) anhydrides, (v) unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds (UHC) having an aromatic nature and/or comprising at least one C═C double bond and/or at least one C≡C triple bond, it being possible for these unsaturated bonds to be conjugated or nonconjugated, the said UHCs being linear or cyclic (mono- or polycyclic), having from 4 to 30 carbon atoms, having from 1 to 8 ethylenic and/or acetylenic unsaturations and optionally comprising one or more heteroatoms, (vi) and their mixtures, is added to the reaction medium, with the condition according to which, when the auxiliary comprises one or more UHCs as defined above, then this (these) UHC(s) is (are) mixed with at least one other auxiliary other than a UHC.
US07884220B2
A method for decoloring 2-phenyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)phthalimidine (“p,p-PPPBP”) is disclosed. The method comprises contacting a liquid solution containing p,p-PPPBP and the common impurities o,p-PPPBP and aminophenone with activated carbon fibers. The activated carbon fibers adsorb the impurities, resulting in a purified solution of p,p-PPPBP. The activated carbon fibers can then be regenerated, such as with a methanol solution having a highly basic pH.
US07884218B2
A benzoindole-based compound represented by Formula 1 below, a dye including the benzoindole-based compound, and a dye-sensitized solar cell including the dye: is prepared at a low cost, has a high molar absorption coefficient, and high photoelectron conversion efficiency, as compared to a conventional ruthenium dye. The benzoindole-based dye is an organic dye including an N-aryl electron donor and an acidic functional group an electron acceptor.
US07884215B2
Inhibitors of RSV replication of formula (I) the addition salts and stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein Q is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl optionally substituted with a heterocycle or Q is C1-6alkyl substituted with both —OR4 and a heterocycle; wherein said heterocycle is oxazolidine, thiazolidine, 1-oxo-thiazolidine, 1,1-dioxothiazolidine, morpholinyl, thiomorpholinyl, 1-oxo-thiomorpholinyl, 1,1-dioxothiomorpholinyl, hexahydrooxazepine, hexahydro-thiazepine, 1-oxo-hexahydrothiazepine, 1,1-dioxo-hexahydrothiazepine, pyrrolidine, piperidine, homopiperidine, piperazine; which heterocyle may be substituted with 1-2 substituents; each Alk is C1-6alkanediyl; R1 is Ar2 or optionally substituted piperidinyl, piperazinyl, morpholinyl, thiomorpholinyl, pyridyl, pyrazinyl, pyridazinyl, pyrimidinyl, furanyl, tetrahydro-furanyl, thienyl, pyrrolyl, thiazolyl, oxazolyl, imidazolyl, isothiazolyl, pyrazolyl, isoxazolyl, oxadiazolyl, quinolinyl, quinoxalinyl, benzofuranyl, benzothienyl, benzimidazolyl, benzoxazolyl, benzthiazolyl, pyridopyridyl, naphthiridinyl, 1H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridinyl, 3H-imidazo[4,5-b]pyridinyl, imidazo[1,2-a]pyridinyl or 2,3-dihydro-1,4-dioxino[2,3-b]pyridyl; R3 is hydroxyC1-6alkyl, C1-6alkoxyC1-6alkyl, cyanoC1-6alkyl, aminocarbonyl-C1-6-alkyl, mono- or di(C1-6alkyl)aminocarbonyl-C1-6-alkyl, carboxyl-C1-6-alkyl, C1-6alkoxycarbonyl-C1-6alkyl; R2 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl; R3 and R4 are hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, Ar2, Ar2C1-6alkyl, C1-6alkylcarbonyl, Ar2carbonyl, Ar2C1-6alkylcarbonyl, C1-6alkylsulfonyl, aminosulfonyl, Ar1sulfonyl, Ar1C1-6alkylsulfonyl, C1-6alkyloxyC1-6alkyl, aminoC1-6alkyl, mono- or di(C1-6alkyl)-aminoC1-6alkyl, hydroxyC1-6alkyl, aminocarbonylC1-6alkyl, C1-4alkyloxycarbonyl-C1-6alkyl, hydroxycarbonylC1-6alkyl, aminosulfonylC1-6alkyl, Het, Het-C1-6alkyl, Het-carbonyl, Het-sulfonyl, HetC1-6alkylsulfonyl, Het-C1-6alkylcarbonyl; Het is an optionally substituted heterocycle; pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds (I) and processes for preparing compounds (I).
US07884214B2
The present invention encompasses a method for the preparation of Telmisartan comprises, through Telmisartan dihydrochloride comprises i) Condensing 4-Methyl-2-n-propyl-1H-benzimidazole-6-carboxylic acid with N-Methyl-O-phenylenediamine dihydrochloride to yields 4-methyl-6 (1-methyl benzimidazol-2-yl)-2-n-propyl 1H-benzimidazole ii) Treating 4-methyl-6-(1-methylbenzimidazol-2-yl)-2-n-propyl-1H-benzimidazole with 4′-(bromomethyl)-2-biphenyl-2-carboxylate in presence of a base in an organic solvent and isolating the ester as acid addition salt iii) Converting ester acid addition salt to Telmisartan dihydrochloride and iv) Converting Telmisartan dihydrochloride to Telmisartan.
US07884213B2
A process for the preparation of anastrozole.
US07884207B2
Imidazo-quinoline, -pyridine, and -naphthyridine ring systems (particularly quinolines, tetrahydroquinolines, pyridines, [1,5]naphthyridines, [1,5]tetrahydronaphthyridines) substituted at the 1-position with a cyclic substituent, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, methods of making these compounds, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases are disclosed.
US07884199B2
The present invention is directed to mutants of HCV NS3/4A protease. More particularly, the present invention identifies mutant of HCV NS3/4A protease that are resistant to drug treatment.
US07884196B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods using mammalian, dsDNA (Double Stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid) vaccination for the induction and maintenance of regulator suppressor T cells resulting in suppression of non infectious, and post infectious, inflammatory, allergic, auto-immune, vasculitic, certain degenerative vascular, and graft versus host diseases, with or without the use of IL-10, and with or without the use or TGFβ, with or without the use of anti-IL 6 receptor antibody, anti TNF antibody and or Plasmapheresis, IVIG, Corticosteroids, Methotrexate, Bromocriptine, and or vitamin D analogues.
US07884195B2
The present invention provides a method of extracting ginsenoside Rg2, which is applied to mass production. The method of the present invention employs gradient salting-out instead of conventional silica gel chromatography, and therefore enables convenient performance and mass production of ginsenoside Rg2. Provided are also a pharmaceutical composition comprising ginsenoside Rg2 as an active ingredient, and prophylactic and therapeutic agents for preventing and treating dementia, depression, peripheral circulation disorder and related diseases, utilizing the pharmaceutical composition.
US07884188B2
The invention relates to complement inhibitors that inhibit both the classical and alternative complement pathways. In particular, the invention relates to complement inhibitors derived from the salivary glands of haematophagous arthropods that inhibit both the classical and alternative complement pathways. The invention also relates to the use of such complement inhibitors in the treatment and prevention of diseases.
US07884185B2
The present invention provides novel hydrogels and methods of making and using such hydrogels. The present invention provides hydrogels that may be formed by the self-assembly of peptides in solution. Such self-assembly may be brought about by a change in one or more characteristics of the solution. Characteristics of the solution that may be changed include pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions. In addition, hydrogels of the invention may be disassembled by changing one or more characteristic of the hydrogel such as pH, ionic strength, temperature, and concentration of one or more specific ions.
US07884184B2
The invention is directed to T cell epitopes wherein said epitopes comprises a peptide or polypeptide chain comprising at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant or variable region. The invention also relates to methods of using and methods of making the epitopes of the invention.
US07884169B2
A method for producing a thermoplastic cellulose composition according to the present invention includes a process of ring-opening polymerization of cyclic ester with a cellulosic material or oligoesterified cellulose after mechanochemical pretreatment or during mechanochemical treatment, to improve thermoplasticity of the resultant thermoplastic cellulose composition.
US07884150B2
Flame retardant polymeric blend compositions including a synergistic combination of flame retardants, including a halogenated flame retardant and a nanoparticulate, such as an organically modified clay or a natural nanoclay. The compositions are thermoplastic elastomers, include a polyolefin and a styrenic block copolymer, and exhibit high char formation upon burning as well as desirable vertical burn characteristics. In a preferred embodiment, the flame retardants include at least a halogenated flame retardant and a metal oxide.
US07884143B2
The present invention relates to a power and/or telecommunications cable including at least one component element made of a material extruded from an extrudable composition, wherein said extrudable composition comprises a biopolymer selected from polymers of cellulose ester, polymers of starch complexed with a biodegradable polyester, polymers of polyhydroxyalkanoate, and/or polymers of polylactic acid comprising a mixture of polylactic and of polyester.
US07884140B2
Techniques for creating recycled plastic materials from waste plastic materials are described. A recycled plastic material contains at least a primary polymer, a secondary polymer, and residual additives. Predetermined properties of the recycled plastic material can be controlled by selecting the types of waste plastic materials used in the recycling feed, determining the types and amounts of recycled plastic material recovered from a separation process and blending the recycled plastic material with other materials.
US07884128B2
Process for producing compound of Formula: wherein P2, P3 and R2 are the same as defined below, characterized by comprising reacting a compound represented by Formula (7): wherein P3 means a protecting group for hydroxy group; and Het means a 1-phenyl-1H-tetrazol-5-yl group, with a compound represented by Formula (8): wherein P2 means a protecting group for hydroxy group; and R2 means a phenyl group which may be substituted, in the presence of a base.
US07884123B2
Compounds of formula (I), wherein R1 and R3 have the meanings given in the description, said compounds being in all isomeric forms; and salts thereof; processes for the preparation of the compounds and intermediates; compositions containing them, and the use thereof as medicaments, particularly as anti-cancer agents.
US07884115B2
Methods and compositions for the treatment of conditions including stress-associated, chronic pain, and neurodegenerative conditions in a mammal using a composition comprising NB-DNJ or a compound structurally similar thereto.
US07884108B2
Compounds of Formula I that inhibit Btk are described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one compound of Formula I, together with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle chosen from carriers, adjuvants, and excipients, are described. Methods of treating patients suffering from certain diseases responsive to inhibition of Btk activity and/ or B-cell activity are described. Methods for determining the presence of Btk in a sample are described.
US07884104B2
The present invention is directed to novel substituted aminopiperidines which are inhibitors of the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme (“DPP-IV inhibitors”) and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved, such as diabetes and particularly Type 2 diabetes. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which the dipeptidyl peptidase-IV enzyme is involved.
US07884094B2
The invention relates to compounds of structural formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate, clathrate, and prodrug thereof, wherein Ra, Rb, and R2 are defined herein. These compounds inhibit tubulin polymerization and/or target vasculature and are useful for treating proliferative disorders, such as cancer.
US07884090B2
The present invention provides compositions, combination of medicaments, and methods for the treatment of certain conditions such as arthritis, and in particular, reactive arthritis, osteoarthritis, and bursitis, among others.
US07884089B2
An antimicrobial coating composition consisting essentially of 70 to 80 wt. percent water; 5 to 10 wt. percent methyl alcohol; 3 to 8 wt. percent octadecyl dimethyl trimethoxy silylpropyl-ammonium chloride; 1 to 5 wt. percent chloropropyl trimethoxysilane; 0.5 to 1.5 wt. percent aminopropyltrialkoxysilane; 0.5 to 1.5 wt. percent of a surfactant; 1 to 1.5 wt. percent of an anti-microbial agent; and 0.5 to 2.5 wt. percent sulfuric acid.
US07884083B2
The invention relates to new immunomodulatory compositions which comprise a cationic condensing agent, an immunomodulatory compound, and a stabilizing agent. The compositions of the invention typically form particles which have increased immunomodulatory activity as compared to immunomodulatory compounds not formulated in the compositions of the invention. Also provided are methods of making the compositions and methods for therapeutic use of the compositions.
US07884082B2
A medicinal combination of one or more nucleic acids that at least partially inhibit oncogenic cell signalling pathways, and a therapeutic anticancer agent, for use simultaneous, separate or over a period of time to treat hyperproliferative diseases.
US07884081B2
The present invention provides methods for identifying agents that modulate a level or an activity of tubulin deacetylase polypeptide, as well as agents identified by the methods. The invention further provides methods of modulating tubulin deacetylase activity in a cell. The invention further provides methods of modulating cellular proliferation by modulating the activity of tubulin deacetylase.
US07884079B2
A composition is provided having the formula where R1 and R2 are each independently H or a C1-C4 hydrocarbon; R3 is H, and R4 is a moiety capable of crossing the blood brain barrier selected from the group consisting of: an amino acid, a peptide, transferrin, gluconate, lactate, citrate, malate, fumarate, benzoate, salicylate, pyruvate and propionate. The composition includes 4-aminopyridine and a transporter species which allows for improved transport of the aminopyridine across the blood brain barrier thereby reducing systemic side effects of aminopyridine administration.
US07884077B2
The invention features methods of treating mood disorders, such as manic disorders, and stabilizing moods by administering a kappa agonist or partial agonist to a subject in need thereof.
US07884074B2
The invention is directed to compounds and methods for prevention and/or treatment of inflammation using the same.
US07884073B2
Provided are modified growth hormone polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules encoding modified growth hormone polypeptides and methods of generating modified growth hormone polypeptides. Also provided are methods of treatment using modified growth hormone polypeptides.
US07884068B2
A composition comprising an albumin-based colloid composition having at least one protected thiol region, method of making the same, and method for use, including treating hypovolemic conditions such as capillary leak syndrome and shock, are disclosed.
US07884059B2
The present disclosure relates to organic molybdenum complexes prepared by reacting a Mannich base with a source of molybdenum. The complexes may be useful in lubricating oil compositions as at least one of an antioxidant, a deposit control additive, and a friction modifier. The organic molybdenum complexes may show a reduced tendency to color finished oils.
US07884055B2
A method and apparatus for manufacturing ceramic microspheres from industrial slag. The microspheres have a particle size of about 38 microns to about 150 microns. The microspheres are used to create a cement slurry having a density of at least about 11 lbs/g. The resultant cement slurry may then be used to treat subterranean wells.
US07884054B2
The invention provides methods for screening multimeric antibodies produced by mammalian cells to find those that exhibit a biological function. The methods can be used to screen large numbers of antibodies, which may be cell surface, secreted, or intracellular antibodies. Antibodies can be screened to find those that bind antigen more avidly or those that compete with a ligand that binds to the antigen for binding. Any biological function that can be tested in vitro can be used to screen the antibodies. Nucleic acids encoding the antibodies that exhibit the biological function can be obtained in a number of ways.
US07884051B1
The invention herein is directed towards a method of making material exhibiting superconductivity characteristics which includes a laser processed region of a metal oxide crystal. The material has a transition temperature greater than a transition temperature of the metal oxide crystal, preferably greater than 140K. The transition temperature of the material may be considered greater than the transition temperature of the metal oxide crystal if the material has a transition temperature and the metal oxide crystal has no transition temperature. The present invention is also directed to a material which includes a laser processed strontium ruthenate crystal wherein the material has a greater oxygen content than the starting strontium ruthenate crystal. The present invention is also directed towards a method for manufacturing a material exhibiting superconductivity characteristics that includes providing a metal oxide crystal and laser ablating the metal oxide crystal and a material made by this process.
US07884047B2
The invention relates to a structure, comprising a substrate supporting a layer with a photocatalytic and anti-soiling property, said layer being based on titanium dioxide (TiO2), on at least part of the surface thereof. Said structure is characterized in that the photocatalytic layer is coated with a non-porous thin layer, containing silicon and oxygen and having a coating capacity, providing a chemical and mechanical protection to the underlying photocatalytic layer, while maintaining the TiO2 photocatalytic activity.
US07884045B2
A process for regenerating a used acidic ionic liquid catalyst, comprising: a. contacting the catalyst and hydrogen with a supported hydrogenation catalyst under hydrogenation conditions; and b. recovering a conjunct polymer that is a clear and colorless oil from the catalyst. A process for regenerating a used acidic ionic liquid catalyst which has been deactivated by conjunct polymers comprising the steps of contacting the used catalyst and hydrogen with a supported hydrogenation catalyst in a reaction zone under hydrogenation conditions in the presence of an inert hydrocarbon in which saturated conjunct polymers are soluble for a time sufficient to hydrogenate at least a portion of the conjunct polymers; and recovering the saturated conjunct polymers. Also, a process comprising: contacting the used acidic ionic liquid catalyst and hydrogen with a hydrogenation catalyst comprising a hydrogenation component under hydrogenation conditions; and recovering a conjunct polymer that is a clear and colorless oil.
US07884041B2
An optical glass has optical constants of a refractive index (nd) within a range from 1.73 to less than 1.80 and an Abbe number (νd) within a range from 43 to 55, comprises SiO2, B2O3, Y2O3, La2O3, ZnO and Li2O as essential components, is substantially free of lead component, arsenic component and fluorine component, has a ratio of SiO2/B2O3 of 0.30 to 1.55 and a ratio of Y2O3/La2O3 of 0.15 to 1.00, and has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 620° C. or below.
US07884034B2
A silicon nitride film including stoichiometrically excessive silicon with respect to nitrogen is formed. The silicon nitride film may be formed by supplying dichlorosilane to a substrate under a condition where CVD (chemical vapor deposition) reaction is caused to form a silicon film including several or less atomic layers on the substrate, supplying ammonia to the substrate in a non-plasma atmosphere to thermally nitride the silicon film under a condition where the nitriding reaction of the silicon film by the ammonia is not saturated, and alternately repeating the supplying of dichlorosilane and the supplying of ammonia.
US07884033B2
An apparatus for processing microelectronic topographies, a method of use of such an apparatus, and a method for passivating hardware of microelectronic processing chambers are provided. The apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to support a microelectronic topography and a rotatable case with sidewalls arranged on opposing sides of the substrate holder. The method of using such an apparatus includes positioning a microelectronic topography upon a substrate holder of a processing chamber, exposing the microelectronic topography to a fluid within the processing chamber, and rotating a case of the processing chamber. The rotation is sufficient to affect movement of the fluid relative to the surface of the microelectronic topography. A method for passivating hardware of a microelectronic processing chamber includes exposing the hardware to an organic compound and subsequently exposing the hardware to an agent configured to form polar bonds with the organic compound.
US07884032B2
A system, method and apparatus is capable of producing layers of various materials stacked on one another on a substrate without exposing the substrate to the pressure and contaminants of ambient air until the stack is complete. In one aspect, the stack of layers can include both an insulative layer of one or more insulative films, and a conductive metal layer of one or more conductive metal layer films. In another aspect, a bias signal of positive and negative voltage pulses may be applied to a target of a deposition chamber to facilitate deposition of the target material in a suitable fashion. In yet another aspect, one or more of the deposition chambers may have associated therewith a pump which combines a turbomolecular pump and a cryogenic pump to generate an ultra high vacuum in that chamber. Other features are described and claimed.
US07884031B2
The semiconductor device includes an interconnect having a width of 0.1 μm or less and formed in an insulating layer constituted of a low relative dielectric constant film having a relative dielectric constant of 3.0 or lower, a via having a diameter of 0.1 μm or less and connected to the interconnect, and a dummy metal provided in the insulating layer. The dummy metal is located close to an end portion of the interconnect along an extension thereof, and the dummy metal and the interconnect are spaced by a distance of 0.3 μm or less.
US07884028B2
A method of removing material layer is disclosed. First, a semiconductor substrate is fixed on a rotating platform, where a remnant material layer is included on the surface of the semiconductor substrate. Afterward, an etching process is carried out. In the etching process, the rotating platform is rotated, and an etching solution is sprayed from a center region and a side region of the rotating platform toward the semiconductor substrate until the material layer is removed. Since the semiconductor substrate is etched by the etching solution sprayed from both the center region and the side region of the rotating platform, the etching uniformity of the semiconductor substrate is improved.
US07884024B2
An apparatus and method for processing an integrated circuit employing optical interference fringes. During processing, one or more wavelength lights are directed on the integrated circuit and based upon the detection of interference fringes and characteristics of the same, further processing may be controlled. One implementation involves charged particle beam processing of an integrated circuit as function of detection and/or characteristics of interference fringes. A charged particle beam trench milling operation is performed in or on the substrate of an integrated circuit. Light is directed on the floor of the trench. Interference fringes may be formed from the constructive or destructive interference between the light reflected from the floor and the light from the circuit structures. Resulting fringes will be a function, in part, of the thickness and/or profile of the trench floor. Milling may be controlled as a function of the detected fringe patterns.
US07884023B1
An electronic apparatus is disclosed that comprises a silicon nitride material that has an increased silicon content. The silicon nitride material is manufactured by exposing plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) silicon nitride to an increased flow of silane while the PECVD silicon nitride is being deposited. The material has anti-reflective coating (ARC) properties and can also be used as a hard mask. When the material is covered with cobalt the material forms conductive cobalt silicide when the cobalt is annealed. A method for siliciding the PECVD silicon nitride is also disclosed.
US07884020B2
A polishing cloth used in the chemical mechanical polishing treatment comprises a molded body of (meth)acrylic copolymer having an acid value of 10 to 100 mg KOH/g and a hydroxyl group value of 50 to 150 mg KOH/g.
US07884016B2
In some embodiments, a low-k dielectric film liner, preferably comprising benzocyclobutene, is deposited on the sidewalls of through-silicon vias used in three-dimensional (3-D) integration of integrated circuits. A semiconductor workpiece having a via is provided. A dielectric film liner, preferably comprising benzocyclobutene, is deposited on the sidewalls of the via by chemical vapor deposition. Following the deposition of the dielectric film liner, conductive material is deposited into the via. The conductive material on the bottom of the via can be exposed by thinning the back of the semiconductor workpiece, thereby forming a through-silicon via. The semiconductor workpiece can form a stack with one or more additional semiconductor workpieces having vias filled with conductive material to form a 3-D integrated circuit. The conductive material electrically interconnects the integrated circuits at different levels of the stack.
US07884009B2
A semiconductor device with an improved solder joint system is described. The solder system includes two copper contact pads connected by a body of solder and the solder is an alloy including tin, silver, and at least one metal from the transition groups IIIA, IVA, VA, VIA, VIIA, and VIIIA of the Periodic Table of the Elements. The solder joint system also includes, between the pads and the solder, layers of intermetallic compounds, which include grains of copper and tin compounds and copper, silver, and tin compounds. The compounds contain the transition metals. The inclusion of the transition metals in the compound grains reduce the compound grains size and prevent grain size increases after the solder joint undergoes repeated solid/liquid/solid cycles.
US07884007B2
A wafer level package, and a semiconductor wafer, electronic system, and a memory module that include one or more of the wafer level packages, and methods of fabricating the die packages on a wafer level, and integrated circuit modules that include one or more packages are provided. In one embodiment, the die package comprises a redistribution layer interconnecting two or more dies disposed on a substrate, typically a semiconductor wafer, the redistribution layer including a first trace connecting a bond pad of each of two dies, and a second trace connecting one of the bond pads of the two dies to a ball pad. The die package of the invention can comprise memory devices such as static random access memories (SRAMs), and can be incorporated into a variety of electronic systems as part of a memory package such as single in line memory modules (SIMMs) or dual in line memory modules.
US07883994B2
A process for transferring a thin film includes forming a layer of inclusions to create traps for gaseous compounds. The inclusions can be in the form of one or more implanted regions that function as confinement layers configured to trap implanted species. Further, the inclusions can be in the form of one or more layers deposited by a chemical vapor deposition, epitaxial growth, ion sputtering, or a stressed region or layer formed by any of the aforementioned processes. The inclusions can also be a region formed by heat treatment of an initial support or by heat treatment of a layer formed by any of the aforementioned processes, or by etching cavities in a layer. In a subsequent step, gaseous compounds are introduced into the layer of inclusions to form micro-cavities that form a fracture plane along which the thin film can be separated from a remainder of the substrate.
US07883987B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a workpiece and a trench formed within the workpiece. The trench has an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion having a first width and the lower portion having a second width, the second width being greater than the first width. A first material is disposed in the lower portion of the trench at least partially in regions where the second width of the lower portion is greater than the first width of the upper portion. A second material is disposed in the upper portion of the trench and at least in the lower portion of the trench beneath the upper portion.
US07883986B2
This invention includes methods of forming trench isolation. In one implementation, isolation trenches are provided within a semiconductor substrate. A liquid is deposited and solidified within the isolation trenches to form a solidified dielectric within the isolation trenches. The dielectric comprises carbon and silicon, and can be considered as having an elevationally outer portion and an elevationally inner portion within the isolation trenches. At least one of carbon removal from and/or oxidation of the outer portion of the solidified dielectric occurs. After such, the dielectric outer portion is etched selective to and effective to expose the dielectric inner portion. After the etching, dielectric material is deposited over the dielectric inner portion to within the isolation trenches.
US07883974B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a trench in an interlayer dielectric film on the semiconductor substrate, the trench reaching a semiconductor substrate and having a sidewall made of silicon nitride film; depositing a gate insulation film made of a HfSiO film at a temperature within a range of 200 degrees centigrade to 260 degrees centigrade, so that the HfSiO film is deposited on the semiconductor substrate which is exposed at a bottom surface of the trench without depositing the HfSiO film on the silicon nitride film; and filling the trench with a gate electrode made of metal.
