US07909519B2
A single-lens reflex camera including a mirror driving device comprises: a mirror; a first biasing spring that biases the mirror downward; a drive lever for performing charge drive and a mirror drive; a second biasing spring that biases the drive lever in a mirror up direction; a locking lever that swings around a pivoting shaft on the drive lever; a mirror up and down lever engaged with the locking lever, the mirror up and down lever pivoting with the drive lever to raise the mirror by the second biasing spring against the first biasing spring, the mirror up and down lever releasing the engagement with the locking lever, and the mirror up and down lever pivoting in a direction opposite the direction during the mirror up by the first biasing spring to thereby lower the mirror; a locking spring that engages and biases the locking lever to the mirror up and down lever; and a charge gear that includes a charge abutment that pivots the drive lever in a charge direction against the second biasing spring and a release abutment that releases the engagement between the locking lever and the mirror up and down lever.
US07909517B2
A wheel support bearing assembly with a hub axle of enhanced strength and a durability under a rotational bending condition as well as weight reduction, and without changing a shape and a dimension of a wheel mounting flange nor deteriorating a surface runout, and a manufacturing method thereof. A surface hardness is set to 20 HRC or more and than 35 HRC or less by applying an air cooling or a thermal refinement after hot forging a raw material of the hub axle, and a shot peening treatment is applied to an inner diameter portion of the hub axle.
US07909514B2
A bearing arrangement with rolling elements is arranged between an outer bearing race and an inner bearing race. The inner bearing race includes a first half-race fastened to the rotating shaft and a second half-race. The bearing arrangement includes a maintaining unit which maintains the two half-races together. The maintaining unit is designed to break or deform when the bearing is subjected to a misalignment or a moment above a predetermined value, so as to allow an axial displacement of the second half-race with respect to the first half-race. The invention may be applied to a bearing for a rotating shaft of a turbine engine.
US07909509B2
A sensor configuration (1) for measuring the temperature of a surface, in particular of a screen (2), comprises a temperature sensor (3) which is disposed on a circuit board (4) and is positioned in the area of a front face (4′) of the circuit board (4) in the vicinity of the surface to be measured, and a further circuit board (6). The circuit boards (4) and (6) are connected by means of at least two connecting elements (5), at least one of which is designed in a resilient fashion.
US07909494B2
A side directional signal includes a base and a cover that together define a compartment receiving a circuit board on which first and second groups of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are mounted. Mounted between the LEDs and the cover is a light-guiding plate including an inner face with a plurality of semispheres aligned with the LEDs. The light-guiding plate further includes an outer face with grooves. A portion of the semispheres concentrates the light beams emitted from the first group of LEDs to provide enhanced brightness. The concentrated light beams transmit through the outer face and then the cover after being reflected by sidewalls of the grooves. A reflective plate is mounted between the first and second groups of LEDs. The light beams emitted from the second group of LEDs are concentrated by a remaining portion of the semispheres, reflected by the reflective plate, and transmitted through the cover.
US07909492B2
A mounting apparatus for reflectors such as reflector umbrellas for lighting used in motion picture and still photography. The apparatus secures the reflector by retaining elements and the reflector may be removed efficiently from the apparatus and replaced by another reflector if desired by rotating one of the retaining elements about a hinge. The angular position of the reflector may be adjusted by rotating supports for the retaining elements to desired angular configurations by activation of a gear mechanism in a housing. The apparatus includes an indicator that indicates the position or angular orientation of the reflector and allows a user to orient the reflector into one or more desired angular configurations and remove the reflector while maintaining the orientation of the supports.
US07909491B2
A chain support (10) is provided which includes a substantially planar body (12) which defines a plurality of seats (14) spaced apart in a predetermined configuration, and a plurality of passages (20) from the seats (14) to the edges (18) of the body (12). A plurality of chains (22) may be suspended from the body (12), one from each seat (14), so as to create a curtain (36) of chains (22). The support (10) with chains (22) suspended therefrom may be used as a lampshade (42), curtain, or the like.
US07909480B2
A light source module includes a mounting substrate including at least two exposed metal lines, a light-emitting diode (LED) including two electrodes disposed corresponding to the at least two exposed metal lines, and an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) provided on the mounting substrate, the ACF electrically connecting the at least two exposed metal lines to the two electrodes, wherein the ACF comprises an insulation body, and a plurality of conductive particles dispersed in the insulation body and insulated from each other, and an insulation of the conductive particles disposed between the two exposed metal lines and the two electrodes of the LED is prevented in at least a first direction.
US07909479B2
The invention relates to a lighting arrangement for illuminating a surface. The lighting arrangement has a supporting element and a lighting unit (1) which is supported by the supporting element. The lighting unit (1) has a housing (2) which is designed to accommodate a solid-state light source (4). The housing is also transparent on at least one side. The solid-state light source (4) is suitable for generating light having wavelengths from a first wavelength region and a second wavelength region. The first wavelength region comprises wavelengths of 500-550 nm. The second wavelength region comprises wavelengths of 560-610 nm. The lighting unit (1) is designed to generate light having a dominant wavelength from the first wavelength region in such a way that the eye sensitivity of the human eye is dominated by rods.
US07909478B2
The invention relates to a portable lighting device including a body having a battery compartment, a head coupled to the body, a light source coupled to the head, the light source requiring a first voltage, and a circuit coupled to the light source. The battery compartment is configured to selectively receive batteries of different sizes. The circuit converts voltages of different magnitudes to the first voltage.
US07909477B2
An LED night light includes a liquid optics medium arrangement that lets visible wavelength light beams pass through the liquid optics medium to a viewer. The liquid optics medium may include miniature floating objects made from textile, metal, plastic, porcelain, ceramic, dry flower, wood, plants, and/or potpourri in the shape of toys, stuffed animals, blow-molded units, seasonal items, dolls, etc. for a variety of gift, toy, sports, seasonal, or holiday applications. The night light may further incorporate a heater element to cause the liquid medium to flow and cause movement of the miniatures.
US07909471B2
A rear projection type display apparatus, comprises an output unit that modulates a light from a light source to output a projection light; an image formation unit that has one or more optical elements, and that subjects the projection light that is output from the output unit to form an image; a Fresnel screen that displays the projection light that is subjected to form an image; a light detection unit that is disposed at a position on which a reflected light from the Fresnel screen focuses, and that detects rays; and a control unit that controls an output of the projection light by the output unit based on the rays that are detected at the light detection unit.
US07909469B2
Disclosed herein is an image projecting apparatus, including: a one-dimension type light modulating device for modulating a light in accordance with image information; a projection optical system; and a light deflecting device for deflecting an image light in a direction approximately perpendicular to an extension direction of a one-dimensional image light emitted from the one-dimensional light modulating device; wherein the light deflecting device is composed of a first light deflecting device arranged between the projection optical system and the one-dimension type light modulating device, and a second light deflecting device arranged on an emission side of the projection optical system; the second light deflecting device is detachably mounted.
US07909463B2
Apparatus for determining defects of the retina of the eye by interaction between a patient and an examiner, which apparatus comprises an electronically-controlled, adaptive optical system configured to form an image in the eye of the patient.
US07909449B2
An ink jet recording apparatus is provided with a plurality of inks and includes a unit configured to perform a recovery operation by suction of inks from a plurality of ink ejection portions using a suction cap, wherein the plurality of inks include an ink set including a combination of at least a first ink and a second ink, the first ink containing (i) a self-dispersion pigment having at least one hydrophilic group directly or through another atomic group bonded to the surface of the pigment, and (ii) ammonium ions, the second ink containing a pigment, a polymer having an acid value of 160 mg KOH/g or less, and alkali metal ions, and the suction cap used in the recovery operation is individually provided for each of the first ink and the second ink.
US07909436B2
An inkjet head has a first substrate having first groove portions formed on one surface of the first substrate and an ink supply path connected to the first groove portions and opening toward another surface of the first substrate. A second substrate has second groove portions and is connected to the first substrate so that the first and second groove portions jointly form ink chambers. First drive electrodes are formed on sidewalls of the first groove portions. Second drive electrodes are formed on sidewalls of the second groove portions. Conduction members are formed only adjacent to the ink supply path of the first substrate and electrically connect the respective first and second drive electrodes to one another.
US07909434B2
A printhead having a plurality of drop generators formed on a substrate. Each drop generator includes a nozzle, and the nozzles are arranged in a dual inline architecture. In one embodiment, a column of nozzles includes a first group of nozzles located at a first axial position relative to a scan axis and a second group of nozzles located at a second axial position relative to the scan axis so that all nozzles in the column are located at either the first axial position or the second axial position. The distance along the scan axis between the first axial position and the second axial position is set to reduce dot placement error.
US07909432B2
A print head that ejects ink supplied through an ink supply port can prevent the size of satellites from being reduced while inhibiting an increase in resistance to an ink flow. In the print head, ink supply ports are arranged on both sides of a plurality of channels. A predetermined number of ink supply ports are arranged at least at one side of the ink channel all over the range of the arrangement of the channels. One side of each of the plurality of channels is connected via the common liquid chamber to the liquid supply port located so as to extend in a direction in which the channels are arranged.
US07909427B2
A device for printing a droplet onto a substrate includes: a droplet generating member which is needle-shaped and comprises a receiving portion disposed vertically to receive a solution, and a discharge hole connected to the receiving portion and formed on a bottom of the receiving portion so that the solution can be discharged from the receiving portion; a substrate disposed below the droplet generating member, the substrate includes a target portion to which the droplet discharged from the discharge hole of the droplet generating member is dropped and attached; a voltage applier applying a voltage to the droplet so that the droplet can be dropped onto the target portion of the substrate; a volume measuring unit measuring the volume of the droplet; and a droplet control unit maintaining the volume of the droplet at a predetermined level based on the measured volume of the droplet.
US07909422B2
A printing method includes: (A) creating print data by rearranging an order in which a plurality of pieces of pixel data which make up image data are arranged; and (B) based on the print data, alternately repeating a dot-forming process for forming, on a medium, a row of dots along a movement direction by ejecting ink from a plurality of nozzles which move in the movement direction and a carrying process for carrying the medium in a carrying direction with respect to the nozzles, to form, on the medium, a plurality of the rows of dots arranged in the carrying direction. Every time the print data for performing a dot-forming process is to be created, positions, on the medium in the carrying direction, of the rows of dots to be formed by the nozzles during that dot-forming process are calculated and stored in a table, and the pixel data corresponding to the positions in the table are extracted from the image data, to create the print data.
US07909421B2
An entertainment center includes a base that expands horizontally to accommodate different width home theater displays; and, a light bridge that rests on top of one or more cabinets placed on either side of the base. The side cabinets provide a vertical column of open space for accommodating wiring among the entertainment system components and ventilation for heat generated by those components. The base includes casters to facilitate moving the base in and out from between the side cabinets. Sliding portions of the base extend horizontally yet continue to transfer all load weight onto the casters. The front woodwork of the base presents a pleasing seamless appearance as a consequence of overlapping trim pieces.
US07909416B2
According to the present invention, when at least one of a target braking/driving force and a vehicle target yaw moment required to a vehicle cannot be achieved by a braking/driving forces of wheels, a target braking/driving force after a modification and a target yaw moment after a modification are calculated to be values attainable by the braking/driving forces of the wheels. When the magnitudes of the target braking/driving force after a modification and the target yaw moment after the modification exceed the corresponding limit value, these magnitudes are limited to the limit values. Alternatively, when the magnitudes of rates of change of the target braking/driving force after a modification and the target yaw moment after the modification exceed the corresponding limited rates of change, these magnitudes of the rates of change are limited to the limited rates of change.
US07909411B2
The invention is directed to a rim such as a rim for a cycle. The rim includes a circularly extending hollow box-shaped element, in the form of a radial profile of revolution about a transverse axis, with two end surfaces of such element being joined end-to-end at a junction and affixed via a sleeve that is positioned within the hollow box-shaped element, on each side of the junction. The sleeve includes a pair of bearing portions, which exert an internal force inside and against the walls of the hollow box-shaped element, such force being generated by a relative spacing apart of the bearing portions via a spreading device, such as at least one spacing member. The spacing member can be a wedging member or a screw, configured and arranged in association with the bearing portions so as to direct the bearing forces along an essentially transverse direction toward the side walls of the rim. The invention is also directed to a wheel having such a rim, as well as to a method of manufacturing such rim and wheel.
US07909406B2
The invention disclosed herein is securely supported resting apparatus that includes a resting platform sufficient to support the leaning weight of the user and a configuration of straps to provide support in a limited or enclosed space.
US07909403B2
A manipulable seat bolster including an active material actuator configured to selectively cause or enable a condition, such as the geometric configuration, or position of the bolster to be modified, when the active material is activated.
US07909402B2
An self adjusting back support assembly for a seat is provided comprising a plurality of pivotally adjustable back support members juxtaposed one another such that each of said back support members is able to pivot about an axis contained wholly within an adjacent back support member allowing the back support assembly to adopt a serpentine contour substantially following a contour of an occupant's back.
US07909399B2
An orthopedic back support for displacing a person's weight from the lower area of the spine by providing support for the upper torso and for use with a chair or seat having a seat base and a seat back. A flexible fabric cross piece is connected between vertical axillary support members to provide back support. The cross piece may include vertical channels or sleeves at opposite sides to receive and support the vertical members. The entire unit is portable and when in use facilitates unobtrusive intermittent use and easy ingress and egress from the seat to relieve discomfort after long periods of use. A rib band may be attached to the flexible fabric by means of hook and loop fabric strips such as Velcro to form a detachable connection. A hook strip is disposed on the back of the rib band and is adapted to cooperate with a mating soft loop strip on the forward side of the flexible fabric member which supports the user in a seated position by the combined action of the flexible fabric and rib band. Alternatively, the rib band may be used separate from flexible fabric back support in which case the detachable connection is made between the rib band and the seat back. The connections are such that the force of connection is greater in sheer than in tension.
US07909396B2
An automobile entertainment system includes a video system mounted within an automobile headrest. The headrest includes a headrest body and a first downwardly extending headrest extension arm having a passage therethrough. The video system includes a multi-wire cable extending therefrom and the multi-wire cable passes through the first extension arm, wherein the multi-wire cable includes a connection assembly at a distal end thereof. The connection assembly is coupled to distal ends of wires making up the multi-wire cable and the distal ends of the wires are staggered facilitating passage of the multi-wire cable through the headrest extension arm.
US07909393B2
A plastic spacer/riser to increase useable height of a reclosable fastening system, such as 3M™ Dual Lock™ or Velcro® hook and loop products. The spacer/riser is adapted to be held in place on an external substrate with hot-melt glue, sonic welds, pressure-sensitive adhesives, acrylic foam tape, or screws.
US07909383B2
A mirror module for a vehicle component, for example a sun visor, includes a module frame, a mirror connected to the module frame and a having a mirrored surface and a mirror cover supported at the mirrored surface of the mirror. The mirror cover includes a guide that allows the mirror cover to be selectively displaced along a track that is separate from the mirror module between a first position in which the mirrored surface is substantially covered by the mirror cover and a second position in which the mirrored surface is at least partially not covered by the mirror.
US07909380B2
A skip for the transport, storage and handling of granular materials (such as sand, gravel and earth) including a base and lateral walls. At least part of the base is a sheet of metal that has been imprinted with one or more relief patterns on one face thereof, with the sheet being disposed such that the pattern is in contact with the granular material during the transport or unloading of the granular material.
US07909379B2
A kit from which a plurality of parts are selected and arranged in a cargo vehicle to obtain bulkhead assembly for the cargo vehicle is provided. The assembly partitions or divides a cargo area from a driver area in the vehicle. The kit includes a reinforced composite first panel of a cellular core sandwich-type for positioning proximate a first side of and within the vehicle. The kit also includes a reinforced composite second panel of a cellular core sandwich-type. The second panel includes a first portion for positioning proximate a second side of and within the vehicle, a door portion disposed between the first panel and the first portion and a living hinge portion disposed between the first and door portions to allow the door portion of the second panel to pivot between open and closed positions to allow the driver to move between the areas in the open position of the door portion.
US07909371B1
A vivarium cover locking clip prevents removal of a cover from a vivarium tank. The clip includes first and second brackets matingly engaging each other in a detent locked position and respectively engaging the cover and the tank and preventing separation thereof. The brackets have a released position permitting separation of the cover and the tank.
US07909366B1
A universal mounting coupling may be inserted into and through the support structure of a self-contained swimming pool to allow for use of a removable externally driven hydraulic propulsion system to produce a self-contained swimming pool for containment of water and generation of water currents therein for exercise, therapy and or rehabilitation of a user.
US07909361B2
A steering wheel and column assembly is provided for deployment on a vehicle. In one embodiment, the steering wheel and column assemblies comprises: (i) a steering column housing, (ii) a rotatable steering assembly, and (iii) a torsional damper device. The rotatable steering assembly includes a steering column shaft, which is rotatably coupled to the steering column housing, and a steering wheel, which is fixedly coupled to the steering column shaft. The torsional damper device includes a stator body, which is fixedly coupled to the steering column housing, and a rotor body, which is fixedly coupled to the rotatable steering assembly. The rotor body frictionally engages the stator body to produce a predetermined coulomb torque frictional resistance.
US07909357B2
An airbag 33 has a plurality of vertical inflatable cells 37 to 40 each serving as an inflatable portion and non-inflatable portions 41, 45, each of which is arranged between a corresponding adjacent pair of the vertical inflatable cells 37 to 40 and formed by a fabric sheet 34B. The vertical inflatable cells 37 to 40 are deployed and inflated by inflation gas at positions beside corresponding headrests 14L, 14R of the rearmost seat. In contrast, the non-inflatable portions 41, 45 deploy behind the headrests 14L, 14R without inflating. The vertical inflatable cells 37 to 40 include vertical inflatable cells 38, 39 located at the center of the direction of the width of the vehicle and side vertical inflatable cells 37, 40 arranged at both sides of the direction of the width of the vehicle. A slit 43 and a slit 47, each serving as a displacement permitting portion that permits outward displacement of the corresponding side vertical inflatable cell 37, 40 in the direction of the width of the vehicle, are defined in the non-inflatable portion 41 and the non-inflatable portion 45, respectively. The slits 43, 47 each extend from a distal edge 42, 46 of the corresponding non-inflatable portion 41, 45 toward a proximal portion 33A of the airbag 33.
US07909353B2
A stroller frame has a front, a back, and a ready for use configuration. The stroller frame includes a spine having a forward end, a rear end, an underside, and a top side. The spine is positioned generally along a center lengthwise axis of the stroller frame with the forward end coinciding with the front of the stroller frame and the rear end elevated above the forward end and coinciding with the back of the stroller frame. A pair of rear legs each has a proximal end coupled to the spine and a distal end located below, laterally outward, and rearward of the respective proximal end. The proximal ends are laterally spaced apart from one another. A pair of support arms each has a proximal end coupled to the spine. Each support arm has a distal end portion located above, laterally outward, and forward of the respective proximal end. A seat is frame coupled to the stroller frame and positioned on the top side of the spine. The stroller can be collapsible in three dimensions. The spine can be lengthwise extendable or retractable, which in turn can move the legs and support arms in concert between the ready for use configuration and a folded or collapsed configuration.
US07909352B2
An article, such as an alpine or cross-country binding, provided to be associated with a sports apparatus, such as a ski, the article including a control mechanism movable between at least two positions. The control mechanism includes an arrangement for attracting an actuating member, such as the end of a ski pole, that is separate from the article.
US07909337B2
A gasket which can uniformize the facial pressure on the thickened part more securely is to be provided. A gasket comprises a pair of base plates and stacked above and underneath, in which combustion chamber holes and bolt holes are bored, a doubling plate and shim plates intervene between these base plates. On this doubling plate, a second bead, which permits plastic deformation, extends in the circumferential direction of each combustion chamber hole. As the second bead is deformed according to the magnitude of the fastening load, the gasket height lowers where the fastening load is heavy and the facial pressure on the peripheries of combustion chamber holes is uniformized after fastening.
US07909336B2
An arrangement of a shaft with a slip-ring seal mounted thereon is disclosed. The slip-ring seal (3) comprises a pair of cooperating slip rings (4,5), the sealing faces of which define a sealing gap (6) between them. One of the slip rings is mounted on the shaft (2) with torque transmission from a drive element (9) mounted on the shaft, whilst the other slip ring is provided for fixed mounting on a stationary component. The arrangement is characterised in that the drive element (9) comprises a tubular drive housing (11), extending over the external circumference of the slip ring (4) with a radial gap (12) and a passage (13) for introduction of a flow medium is provided, opening out at one end in a chamber (A), defined by the drive housing (11), which drains out through the radial gap (12), whereby the radial gap forms a flow path for the flow medium which terminates at or near the sealing gap (6).
US07909331B2
Disclosed is a modular, expandable, and portable shooting range system. The system can include one or more shooting modules that mount together to provide different numbers of shooting lanes with various lengths. The shooting modules are pre-engineered with removable panels to permit additional shooting modules to be added on as customer orders. This configuration also permits adding to the length of the shooting range to accommodate firing of different weapons. The shooting range system can further include a control booth which is divided from the shooting lanes. The control booth can be integrally formed with the shooting modules, or can be separate. The control booth can include a module control which allows a person to control lighting, air, and target control systems of the shooting range system, and can further provide a safe location to view the range.
US07909311B2
The present invention includes a baluster assembly system comprising: (a) a first baluster portion comprising a first tubular section and having a first attachment adapted to be attached to a surface, and a first engagement end; (b) a second baluster portion comprising a second tubular section and having a second attachment adapted to be attached to a surface, and a second engagement end; the first tubular section adapted to slidingly engage the second tubular section, and (c) a locking fixture adapted to fix the position of the first baluster portion with respect to the second baluster portion after the first tubular section and the second tubular section have been engaged.
US07909310B2
Portable barrier apparatus including a reel head supported by a post and including a reel mounted barrier tape. A foot stake is connected to the bottom of the post and can be alternatively positioned in the ground or in a support base. The reel head may be removed from the post and replaced by a reel head with a different reel mounted barrier tape.
US07909302B2
An aft attachment for an aircraft engine assembly. The attachment has a double boomerang structure including two three-point shackles that are duplicated: only four attachment points are present at the engine mount and two at the engine, the failsafe function being ensured by the dual structure. This attachment design does not sacrifice safety criteria, while providing a more lightweight structure.
US07909300B2
A bracket assembly for securing a transition segment to a combustion liner of a gas turbine engine includes at least one flange mounted to the transition segment. The at least one flange includes a channel that extends radially from the transition segment. The bracket assembly further includes a bracket fixedly mounted relative to the gas turbine engine. The bracket includes an elongated section having at least one end section that is received by the channel to establish an axial floating interface that secures the transition segment to the combustion liner.
US07909299B2
A holder for a beverage container, for example a beverage can has a first support in the form of a ring and a second support projecting into the ring, which supports are, for the purpose of raising and lowering, pivotally mounted on a common axis and connected in terms of drive so that, when the second support is pivoted, the first support is moved along with it. A locking element for the first support is unlocked as a result of pivoting the second support.
US07909292B2
The invention relates to a wing unit, in particular a spar box for forming aerodynamically active surfaces of an aircraft, in particular airfoils, horizontal tail units, or rudder units of a plane.Aerodynamic improvements can be obtained due to a surface geometry of the aerodynamically active surfaces, which surface geometry is adapted to the respective operating state of the plane by using the actuating members and/or weight savings due to minimizing of structural mechanical loads of the wing unit.
US07909291B2
A system and method for detecting debris on the surface of a member are provided, for example, for detecting ice or other debris on an outer surface of an aircraft. The detection system includes a heating device in thermal communication with the member, an infrared sensing device configured to sense infrared radiation emitted from the member, and a monitoring device in communication with the sensing device. The monitoring device is configured to monitor a change in emission from the member and thereby detect the presence of debris on the surface of the member.
US07909288B2
What is described is a locally yielding structure (1) with high energy absorption for aeronautical applications, the said structure being substantially closed and substantially rigid, characterized in that at least one wall (3) of the said substantially closed structure comprises at least one vent valve (8) which can be opened when a pressure exceeding a predetermined value is present within the substantially closed structure (1). In a particularly advantageous application, the invention is used in connection with a helicopter tank and enables the subfloor to be used to absorb energy by being deformed during any impact on the ground. The present invention is also advantageous for limiting the damage caused by explosions in an aircraft fuselage.
US07909287B2
A super-transporter aircraft for transporting at least one element of a secondary aircraft, wherein the structural rigidity of a fuselage of the super-transporter is at least partly imparted by the transported element. The super-transported aircraft can be equipped with a securing device for securing the transported element to the fuselage of the super-transporter aircraft, the securing device adapted to pick up the loads to which the super-transporter aircraft is subjected.
US07909277B2
A comminution device including at least one comminution cylinder supported rotating in a machine frame with at least one comminution tool arranged on it, and at least one counter cutter interacting with the comminution tool, and at least one sieve device for the comminuted material the housing of which encircles the comminution cylinder at least partly, the sieve device and the counter cutter forming a common structural component. The counter cutter is designed like a plate and has recesses designed corresponding to the shape of the comminution tools of the comminution device.
US07909276B2
In various embodiments, an agricultural sample grinding system is provided. The system includes a grinder unit for grinding and uniformly mixing an agricultural sample. The system additionally includes a collection chamber connected to a transfer spout extending from a side of the grinder unit. The collection chamber is for collecting the ground and uniformly mixed agricultural sample dispensed from the grinder unit via the transfer spout. The system deposits the ground and uniformly mixed agricultural sample into the collection chamber such that the uniform mixture of the sample is maintained.
US07909261B2
A device including a primary fluid inlet, a secondary fluid inlet, a mixing chamber connected to the primary fluid inlet via en ejector nozzle and to the secondary fluid inlet, a fluid outlet connected to the mixing chamber for outflow of gas from the mixing a chamber, a valve arrangement having a valve member arranged to influence the secondary fluid inlet so as to adjust the amount of gas entering the mixing chamber from the secondary fluid inlet and a a temperature-dependent regulator connected to the valve arrangement for controlling the position of the valve member and thereby the amount of gas entering the mixing chamber from the secondary fluid inlet in dependence upon the temperature of the gas flowing through the primary fluid inlet or the fluid outlet. An aircraft anti-icing system including such a device and the use thereof.
US07909257B2
The invention features an image reader and a corresponding method for capturing a sharp distortion free image of a target, such as a one or two-dimensional bar code. In one embodiment, the image reader comprises a two-dimensional CMOS based image sensor array, a timing module, an illumination module, and a control module. The time during which the target is illuminated is referred to as the illumination period. The capture of the image by the image sensor array is driven by the timing module that, in one embodiment, is able to simultaneously expose substantially all of the pixels in the array. The time during which the pixels are collectively activated to photo-convert incident light into charge defines the exposure period for the sensor array. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the exposure period occurs during the illumination period.
US07909256B2
A method and system for automatically focusing an image received by an image capturing unit (100) relative to a target is disclosed. The target is present in a sequence of one or more scanned frames. The method includes dividing (302) each frame from the sequence of one or more scanned frames in a plurality of sections. The method further includes iteratively determining (304) a relative focus of the target within each section of the plurality of sections. The method further includes adjustment (306) of a position of at least a first light path adjustment element in response to the determined relative focus.
US07909255B2
The present invention relates to a system for mobile retrieval of information over a wireless or mobile network. Information to be retrieved is stored in packets or files in a remotely located server. Each packet of information is assigned a specific serial number, and the serial number is encoded into a coded image. A camera enabled mobile device is used to capture the coded image, then proceeds to decode the coded image into the serial number using an application pre-installed on the mobile device. The mobile device then transmits the serial number over a wireless network to the server where the information to be retrieved is stored. The server then processes the serial number and retrieves the information packet previously associated with this serial number from an internal database.
US07909254B2
A document with indexes and associated document reader system. The document is constructed by printing plural pixels and divided into plural areas. Each of the areas has plural indexes respectively consisting of a group of indexing dots to represent an area code corresponding to the area. The indexes and the pixels have different optical reflection features. The system includes a filter, a pattern sensor and a pattern decoder. The filter allows a light with special wavelengths to pass through, so as to obtain a desired light corresponding to the indexes of the document. The sensor is connected to the filter for sensing the light passed through and accordingly forming a pattern to output. The decoder is connected to the sensor for decoding and thus obtaining corresponding indexes in accordance with the pattern outputted by the sensor.
US07909248B1
A system and method is disclosed for using object recognition/verification and weight information to confirm the accuracy of a UPC scan, or to provide an affirmative recognition where no UPC scan was made. In the preferred embodiment, the checkout system comprises: a universal product code (UPC) scanner configured to generate a product identifier; at least one camera for capturing one or more image of an item; a database of features and images of known objects; an image processor configured to: extract a plurality of geometric point features from the one or more images; identifying matches between the extracted geometric point features and the features of known objects; generate a geometric transform between the extracted geometric point features and the features of known objects for a subset of known objects corresponding to matches; and identify one of the known objects based on a best match of the geometric transform; and a transaction processor configured to execute one of a predetermined set of actions if the identified object is different than the product identifier.
US07909246B2
A system and method for establishment of rules governing child accounts may include associating, in a database, a first transaction card through which access to monetary funds is extended with a second transaction card through which access to the monetary funds is extended. Also, in the database, the second transaction card is associated with one or more rules governing access to the monetary funds by the second transaction card. Finally, an individual owning the first transaction card is permitted to specify the rules governing access to the monetary funds by the second transaction card.
US07909243B2
A system and method for completing a financial transaction using a wireless communication device is provided. A transaction authorization request is sent from the device to an issuer using SMS. An authentication message is sent from the issuer to the device, and a response is sent by a user of the device to confirm the identity of the user. Once the identity of the user is verified, a surrogate account number, in a bar code format, is sent to the mobile communication device to be read by a POS device to complete the financial transaction. A computer program product enabling the systems and methods described is also provided.
US07909239B2
Systems and methods allow units of produce to be traced back to the fields in which the produce was grown. In the field, a harvest form is completed with harvest information at the time of the harvest. In some instances, labels having unique codes are used to label the produce in the field, and two additional labels are placed on the harvest form to associate a range of unique codes with the harvest information on the form. In other instances, the produce packages arrive at the field already marked with the unique codes. The empty marked packages are themselves packed in boxes, where each box has a unique box code. The unique codes on the empty marked packages are associated in advance with the unique box code on the box, and in the field the unique box code is associated with the harvest information.
US07909237B2
A payment system is provided having an internet interface. In one embodiment, the payment system issues instruments having control codes. The system may issue a first portion of the control code, and retain a second portion of the control code for later issuance. Such later issuance activates the instrument. Some embodiments have a role-based security access scheme. For example, one embodiment provides a security verification score to be used in assigning user permissions on the payment system. Customer service representatives having different security permissions complete different portions of the security scoring and permission assignment process. Some embodiments have automated processing of security verification items submitted by users.
US07909234B2
A compact storage organizer comprising an outer casing having a front panel, a bottom panel, a rear panel, an extension panel portion and a closure cover, all hinged and serially connected to each other at adjoining edges. The outer casing further includes a pair of side panel sheets that extend between the front panel and the rear panel defining an enclosed opening. A closure mechanism is provided to fasten the closure cover to the front panel. A file assembly is disposed in the compact storage organizer that includes at least one divider with a magnetic tab system disposed in the enclosed opening between the front and rear panels defining at least two envelope containers sequentially disposed adjacent to each other. The magnetic tab system may be pre-printed and personalized according to a user's preference.
US07909224B2
A surgical stapler is provided having a pair of jaws including a staple containing cartridge and an anvil. Buttress material is releasable affixed to the staple containing cartridge and the anvil. One of the jaws includes a pair of longitudinal projections at a first end of the jaw and configured to frictionally engage corresponding slots in a first end the buttress material. One of the jaws includes a post at a second end of the jaw. The buttress material includes a hole in a second end of the buttress material for receipt of the post.
US07909223B2
Described herein are endoscopic staplers used to apply one or more fasteners to body tissue. In one embodiment, a fastener-applying device, which is preferably a stapler, is passed transorally into the stomach and used to plicate stomach tissue by engaging tissue from inside of the stomach and drawing it inwardly. In the disclosed embodiments, the tissue is drawn inwardly into a vacuum chamber, causing sections of serosal tissue on the exterior of the stomach to be positioned facing one another. The disclosed staplers allow the opposed sections of tissue to be moved into contact with one another, and preferably deliver staples for maintaining contact between the tissue sections at least until serosal bonds form between them. Each of these steps may be performed wholly from the inside of the stomach and thus can eliminate the need for any surgical or laparoscopic intervention. After one or more plications are formed, medical devices may optionally be coupled to the plication(s) for retention within the stomach.
US07909220B2
An articulation mechanism for use with a surgical instrument includes a shaft, a first member disposed in mechanical cooperation with the articulation shaft, a second member disposed in mechanical cooperation with the shaft, and a flexible shaft having proximal and distal portions. The flexible member is operatively coupled to the first and second members. Upon rotation of the articulation shaft, at least one of the first and the second members moves longitudinally with respect to the other of the first and second members between a first position where the first and second members are approximated to each other and a second position where the first and second members are spaced apart from each other. This longitudinal motion causes the distal portion of the flexible member to articulate relative to the proximal portion.
US07909210B2
A dispenser for a bottle that is adapted to contain a consumable beverage. The dispenser includes a dispenser body defining a chamber therein. The chamber is adapted to hold a flavoring component. The dispenser body has a first dispenser end, suitable for drinking therefrom, and has a second dispenser end, adapted to be positioned within the bottle when the dispenser is engaged with the bottle. The plunger is slidably disposed at least partially within the dispenser body for movement from a first plunger position to a second plunger position, in which the plunger penetrates a portion of the dispenser body to create a passageway. When the plunger is in the second plunger position and a cap is in a first cap position, the plunger end cooperates with the cap to seal the cap opening.
US07909205B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic container having a rotatable cover including a mirror so that a user may look at the mirror from a desired direction. In a configuration of the cosmetic container, a body and the cover of the cosmetic container are connected by a shaft penetrating a pivot bearing and hinges formed on one side of the body or the cover, and the cover may be horizontally rotated with respect to the body by a pivot head integrally formed with the cover or the pivot bearing and divided in two.
US07909199B2
A receptacle lid assembly includes a receptacle that has an open top end and a closed bottom end respectively. The receptacle has a hollow chamber formed therein for receiving debris introduced into the receptacle. A receptacle lid is fitted over the top end of the receptacle. A mechanism maintains the lid in close proximity to the receptacle while the lid is detached from the receptacle, and the lid maintaining mechanism is directly connected to the lid and the receptacle.
US07909196B2
A can end for a container has a curl defining an outer perimeter of the can end. A chuckwall extends downwardly from the curl. A means for increasing the strength of the can end is integral with the chuckwall, and a center panel is integral with the means for increasing the strength of the can end. The center panel has a product side, a public side, a rivet, and a displaceable tear panel. A non-detachable tab is staked to the central panel wall by the rivet. First and second void regions of the tab are separated by a narrow strip of the central webbing. A portion of the narrow strip extends downwardly and approaches the public side of the central panel wherein a height of the lift end of the tab above the public side of the central panel is maintained at a predetermined height.
US07909194B2
An article for sealing the contents of a container, the article comprising a member adapted for sealing the container, where the member includes a thermoplastic vulcanizate including a dynamically cured butyl rubber, a thermoplastic polyurethane having a glass transition temperature of less than about 60° C., and a synthetic oil.
US07909193B2
A cap for a package containing granular or particulate food, such as pet food, for example includes a measuring cup portion, which is shaped to cover a sealable cap on the container, and a holding portion designed to be held in one hand while filling the measuring cup portion with the granular food. The holding portion includes a wall thickness, which is the same wall thickness found in other portions of the cap. The top and bottom surfaces of the holding portion have top and bottom protrusions, respectively. The top and bottom protrusions are aligned with each other to provide added thickness in the holding portion that makes it easier to grip the holding portion and that conveys a more substantial feel to the hand to make it easier to hold the cap.
US07909190B2
For a storage, transport, stacking, and order-picking box (1) having a floor (2) and four walls (3a and 3b; 4a and 4b), of which at least one wall (4b) is designed as a movable element and in such a way that it can be latched to the adjacent walls (3a and 3b), wherein after being unlatched the one wall (4b) can be moved away to open up a large unloading opening (18) into the box interior, the movable box wall (4b) on at least one of its two outer edges has latching and unlatching means (9; 119) that are integrated into the wall structure, are freely accessible from the front, can be pivoted in a vertical plane in the clockwise and counterclockwise directions, and can be latched to the respective associated adjacent wall (3a and 3b).
US07909185B1
A lightweight storage device for objects strung on a cord or cords includes an elongated rod having two ends and being made of lightweight material, a foot on each end of the elongated rod; and a plurality of separating elements spaced along the elongated rod where each plurality of separating elements includes a number of pegs circumferentially disposed about a plane intersecting with the elongated rod and wherein the length of each peg in each separating element is approximately the same and is of a length so that at least two of the pegs are capable of holding the elongated rod stationary and the length of each peg is such that a string of objects wrapped about the elongated rod are spaced from the ground when the lightweight storage device is placed on the ground.
US07909184B2
A merchandising system for displaying products in a retail environment includes a panel structure extending upwardly from a floor, the panel structure forming a plurality of regularly, or uniformly, spaced insertion areas. The system also includes an annular cage supported over the floor by the panel structure such that it projects outwardly from the front of the panel structure. The annular cage optionally includes a first loop defining a front and a back with the back facing toward the panel structure and the front facing away from the panel structure.
US07909179B2
The invention provides novel polymer matrices and methods for preparing polymer matrices.
US07909177B2
A braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane is disclosed. The braid-reinforced composite hollow fiber membrane comprising a reinforcing material of a tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface of the tubular braid is characterized in that: the tubular braid comprises multifilaments made of monofilaments having a fineness of 0.01 to 0.4 denier, and the peeling strength of the tubular braid and a polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface thereof is 1 to 10 MPa. In the composite hollow fiber membrane, the fineness of the mono filaments constituting the tubular braid of the reinforcing material is small, that is, 0.01 to 0.4 denier, thus the surface area of the tubular braid contacted with the polymer resinous thin film is increased. Thus, the peeling strength of the tubular braid and the polymer resinous thin film coated on the surface thereof is excellent, and at the same time, the initial wetting property of the composite hollow fiber membrane is excellent, that is, 80 to 120%, due to a capillary tube phenomenon or the like.
US07909171B2
A single vane slat design for use in a sieve or chaffer of a harvester combine. The single vane slat has a weld pocket, preferably on its bottom surface, for receiving a wire on a frame. The single vane slat may be formed of a 26 gage material, and may be attached to the wire using two small welds. The weld material is configured to flow into the weld pocket upon being welded, and achieve direct and incidental contact between the wire and the slat. The weld pocket of the slat is configured such that the slat is self-fixturing to the wire, which lends to the ability to weld the slats to the wires while fixed in the frame. This facilitates accommodating a large number of frame types and sizes.
US07909169B1
Various embodiments of methods and systems are provided for mining alluvial gold deposits. The methods can comprise collecting feed from alluvium and washing the feed at high pressure. The feed can be separated into a plurality of separate fractions. At least one fraction is transferred to a metal sensor system using a conveyer, wherein when gold is detected in a piece of the fraction, an air blast can be targeted and delivered at the piece, with the air blast diverting the piece to a receiving container.
US07909167B2
A wafer container includes a container body, the internal of which is disposed with a plurality of slots for supporting a plurality of wafers and an opening is formed on one sidewall of which, and a door, which is joined with opening of the container body for protecting the plurality of wafers in the container body, the characteristic in that: a magnetic member is formed at the inner edge of the opening of the container body and a magnet is disposed at the inner surface of the door corresponding to the magnetic member, the magnet being disposed in a magnetic yoke with recessed cross section, with the design of which the magnet on the door attracts the magnetic member at the opening of the container body for the door and the container body to be lock-fastened to each other.
US07909160B2
A mixing cap and method for use thereof, wherein the mixing cap is preferably pre-loaded during time of manufacture with selected dry or liquid ingredients to facilitate subsequent consumer use. The mixing cap comprises an apertured inner tube threadably-engageable to the mouth of a bottle, and an outer housing cooperatively-engaged with the inner tube and slidably-restricted thereover via a ridge and slotted flange arrangement. Preloaded ingredients contained within the outer housing may be introduced or discharged into the bottle by simply depressing the outer housing over the inner tube when the ridge is aligned with the slot, thereby permitting the ingredients to flow through the apertures of the outer housing and inner tube and into the liquid contents of the bottle. The combined ingredients and liquid within the bottle may subsequently be shaken without fear or risk of leakage or spillage.
US07909141B2
A vibration damping system for an elevator is provided with a damping device (5) that is provided between a cab (1) and a car frame (2) for supporting the cab (1) and whose damping coefficient can be changed. A speed detector detects the traveling speed of a reference elevator car, and a calculation unit (15) receiving the traveling speed detected by the speed detector calculates a control signal for the damping device (5), and outputs the control signal to the damping device. The calculation unit (15) controls the damping device (5) in such a way that, in the case where the traveling speed exceeds a predetermined value, the damping coefficient of the damping device (5) is larger than that in the case where the traveling speed is the same as or smaller than the predetermined value.
US07909140B2
There is provided a lubricating structure of a planetary gear mechanism which can simplify the outer shape of an introducing section formed by an oil catch plate, for introducing lubricating oil, and ensure a high degree of design freedom. In a double pinion type planetary gear mechanism, the distance from the axis of a carrier to the outermost edge of an opening in the direction of the carrier's diameter in an lubricating oil introducing hole formed in an outer diameter side pinion shaft and the distance from the axis of the carrier to the outermost edge of an opening in the direction of the carrier's diameter in an lubricating oil introducing hole formed in an inner diameter side pinion shaft are equal to each other. Therefore, lubricating oil can be supplied to the inner diameter side pinion shaft through the introducing section irrespective of the amount of lubricating oil that can be supplied to the outer diameter side pinion shaft. Also, the shape of a centrifugal cancel piston as the oil catch plate forming the introducing section can be simplified to increase the degree of design freedom.
US07909134B2
A screening element for motor vehicles is disclosed with a lead-in element which provides a preferred heat, sound and vibration uncoupling in the body region. The screening element supplied in this case comprises at least two separated outer layers between which an insert is arranged, wherein the at least two separated outer layers and the insert have coaxial openings which form a common opening in which a lead-in element is received or mounted, wherein the openings of the respective outer layers have a larger cross-sectional area than the opening of the insert, where the lead-in element is connected to the insert in such a manner that there is no contact with the outer layers. The screening element or heat shield therefore has a sufficient heat, sound and vibration uncoupling, can be produced at low cost without manual operations, and is simple to assemble. Moreover, a heat and vibration transmission of hot components from the engine compartment or underfloor to the body is prevented at the fastening points of the screening element.
US07909127B1
A two piece wheel hub assembly includes a hub cartridge assembly and a vehicle-mounted carrier. The cartridge assembly can be readily attached to and removed from the carrier without removal of the carrier from the vehicle.
US07909124B2
A hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) power system is provided that includes a vehicle electrical system (VES), an inverter-controller unit (ICU) and an AC electric motor/generator unit (MGU). The VES includes a first DC voltage source and a second DC voltage source coupled in series with the first DC voltage source. The VES also includes a first electrical load coupled across the first DC voltage source, and a second electrical load coupled across the second DC voltage source. The ICU is coupled across the first DC voltage source and the second DC voltage source and is designed to convert DC power from the first DC voltage source and the second DC voltage source to generate AC power for the AC electric MGU. Together the DC voltage sources can replace a conventional high-voltage DC voltage source. In some implementations, techniques are provided for “charge balancing” the first DC voltage source and the second DC voltage source without expensive devices.
US07909123B2
In a hybrid vehicle, an ECU performs speed-change control and selectively changes a speed-change mode between a stepless speed-change mode and a fixed speed-change mode in accordance with the travel condition of the hybrid vehicle. At this time, in the condition that the fixed speed-change mode is selected, if an accelerator off operation is performed, a release preparing process is performed, and a reaction element which receives the reaction torque of engine torque in a power dividing mechanism is changed to a sun gear on a motor generator side. Moreover, if an accelerator off speed or a brake pedal operation amount exceeds its own reference value, the speed-change mode is transferred into the stepless speed-change mode, predictively and unconditionally, before a normal speed-change condition is met.
US07909122B2
Methods for steering mobile medical equipment are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes supporting medical equipment with a base above a floor over which a left steerable wheel, a right steerable wheel, and a pair of front wheels roll; receiving an input steering angle other than zero; linearly sweeping a long link in response to the input steering angle, pivoting a pair of short links in response to the linearly sweeping of the long link; pivoting a pair of cam plates in response to the pivoting of the pair of short links; transferring the pivoting of one of the pair of cam plates to a left wheel assembly to position the left steerable wheel at a left wheel angle; and transferring the pivoting of another one of the pair of cam plates to a right wheel assembly to position the right steerable wheel at a right wheel angle.
US07909116B2
A system and method for excavating a subterranean formation, according to which a suspension of liquid and a plurality of impactors is introduced into at least one cavity formed in the body member. The suspension is discharged from a nozzle disposed in the cavity towards the formation so that the impactors remove at least a portion of the formation.
US07909115B2
A shaped charge includes: a charge case; an explosive disposed inside the charge case; and a liner for retaining the explosive in the charge case, wherein the liner is fabricated from a material soluble with a selected dissolving fluid (e.g., an acid, an acid matrix, an injection fluid, a completion fluid, and/or a wellbore fluid). A method for perforating in a well includes the steps of: disposing a perforating gun in the well, wherein the perforating gun comprises a shaped charge having a charge case, an explosive disposed inside the charge case, and a liner for retaining the explosive in the charge case, wherein the liner is fabricated from a material soluble with a selected dissolving fluid; detonating the shaped charge to form a perforation tunnel in a formation zone; and exposing the material comprising the liner to the selected dissolving fluid.
US07909110B2
An apparatus includes a casing and a sealing element that is retained in the casing. The sealing element has an unset state in which the sealing element has a first radial thickness and a set state in which the sealing element has a second radial thickness that is greater than the first radial thickness to form a seal between the casing and an inner tubular member.
US07909105B2
An assembly for connecting a drilling adapter to a wellhead comprising external threads on an end portion thereof.
US07909085B2
Process and ultracompact plant for continuous production of hot rolled steel strip comprising an ingot mould (15) which produces a very thin slab at a speed between 4 and 16 m/min, wherein the thickness of the narrow sides is between 15 and 50 mm with a central swelling. Such slab has a core in which the steel is still liquid; it is run through a vertical pre-rolling device (16) which reduces the thickness of the slab, flattening it. The solidified slab can thus undergo a first light rolling process using a pinch roll (17) and, by forming a free curve, it moves to a horizontal position where it can undergo a second light rolling process by another pinch roll (22′). A heating process (if required) includes an inductor (50). A superficial descaling process and a series of reductions in a rolling mill made up of at least three stands (20′, 20″, 20′″) are provided maintaining a slab temperature along the train above the Ar3 recrystallization point. Downstream of the rolling mill, there is a conveyor (31) with cooling showers (32), flying shears (33) for cutting the strip to the required size, pinch rolls and at least two coilers (34) for forming coils of the hot rolled strip.
US07909084B2
The invention relates to a casting tool for producing workpieces from light metal alloys. The system includes a positioning element, a core part, a first mold part structured to carry the positioning element and be movable toward the core part, and a core part support structured to support the core part. The system also includes at least one stop structured to limit movement of the front mold part toward the core part and to allow the positioning element to be introduced into the core part, whereby the positioning element holds the core part in a predetermined position for casting.
US07909083B2
A method of fastening a flexible sheet-like structure on a tubular winding shaft including: introducing, in a circumference of the tubular winding shaft, at least one aperture which passes through a wall of the winding shaft, a width of the aperture being greater than the thickness of the flexible sheet-like structure, cutting into the flexible sheet-like structure to produce at least one angleable tab, and inserting the tab into the aperture of the winding shaft. Additionally, a roller blind includes a winding shaft and a flexible sheet-like structure fastened thereon.
US07909076B2
A tire pressure control system for a tire mounted to a wheel of a vehicle is disclosed. The tire pressure control system comprises a servo system mounted to the wheel that includes a servo mechanically connected to a vent valve that is in fluid communication with a gas inside the tire. The vent valve is adapted for bleeding the gas out of the tire and into the ambient atmosphere. A pressure sensor is in fluid communication with the gas inside the tire, and a control circuit is electrically connected to the servo and the pressure sensor. The control circuit further includes a signal receiving means and a memory for storing a commanded pressure signal. The control circuit actuates the servo to open the vent valve when the pressure sensor indicates a tire pressure of greater than the commanded pressure. A master control unit is adapted to transfer the commanded pressure signal to the control circuit through a transmission means. The servo system further includes a second servo mechanically connected to a fill valve that is in fluid communication with compressed gas inside a gas supply tank. The fill valve is adapted for bleeding gas out of the gas supply tank and into the tire. The control circuit actuates the second servo to open the fill valve when the pressure sensor indicates a tire pressure of less than the commanded pressure.
US07909074B2
A workbench includes a wheel device secured to a work table, four floor engaging extremities attached to the work table, four rotary members rotatably attached to the work table and engaged with the floor engaging extremities respectively for adjusting the work table up and down relative to the floor engaging extremities, and a coupling device for coupling the rotary members together and for allowing the rotary members to be rotated relative to the floor engaging extremities simultaneously and thus for allowing the work table to be adjusted up and down relative to the floor engaging extremities simultaneously. A hand wheel may be coupled to the coupling device for operating the coupling device.
US07909069B2
A system and method for automatically adjusting an ORVR-compatible Stage II vapor recovery system to maintain the air-to-liquid (A/L) ratio within desired tolerances or limits to meet regulatory and/or other requirements. An air flow sensor (AFS) or vapor flow meter measures the amount of recovered vapor for a dispensing point to calculate the recovery efficiency of the system in the form of the A/L ratio. Volume or flow rate measurements can be used. ORVR fueling transactions are either minimized or excluded from the A/L ratio, so that the A/L ratio is not artificially lowered due to a blocked or altered recovery. The A/L ratio is then compared to a desired or nominal A/L ratio. Adjustments to the recovery system are made within prescribed safety tolerances if the A/L ratio differs from the desired ratio.
US07909064B2
An isolating manifold fluidly connected between a hydraulic valve and a hydraulic manifold operates to automatically isolate the valve from the hydraulic manifold as the valve is removed from the manifold, without requiring any particular blocking and bleeding procedures to be implemented on the valve or the manifold prior to the removal process. The isolating manifold includes an adaptor removably mounted onto a base with various pressure, control and tank fluid channels disposed in alignment through the adaptor and base portions to allow fluid to flow through each of the channels between the hydraulic manifold and the valve. During operation, the valve is mounted onto the adaptor while the base is mounted onto the hydraulic manifold. The valve may be removed from the hydraulic manifold by removing the adaptor from the base, during which process, the isolating manifold operates automatically to block the pressure and control ports of the hydraulic manifold and to bleed pressurized fluid from the pressure and control channels of the valve to a tank channel so as to automatically isolate the valve from the hydraulic manifold as the valve is removed from the hydraulic manifold.
US07909063B2
There is described a microchip inspection system, which makes it possible not only to correct the influence of the viscosity change of the liquid, but also to accurately conduct the liquid conveyance controlling operation. The microchip inspection system includes: a micro pump to inject a driving liquid from a liquid flow path into a microchip; a liquid temperature adjusting section to adjust a liquid temperature of the driving liquid; a driving liquid detecting section to detect presence or absence of the driving liquid at two predetermined positions located in the liquid flow path, so as to output detection signals; a fluid velocity calculating section to calculate a fluid velocity based on the detection signals outputted by the driving liquid detecting section; and a liquid temperature controlling section to control the liquid temperature adjusting section, based on the fluid velocity calculated by the fluid velocity calculating section.
US07909061B2
A faucet including a faucet head, a body and a magnetic coupling releasably coupling the faucet head to the faucet body.
US07909059B2
The invention relates to an automatic concrete pump with an articulated mast (14) serving as a support for a supply line and with two forward and two backward support extensions (16′,16″,18′,18″) which can be supported on a base platform (32) and which can be lowered from a driving position into a support position, each with a telescopic support leg (30). According to the invention, each support extension comprises one inner support position near to the chassis, and at least one outer support position away from the chassis, which can be freely selected by forming defined support configurations (V,SL,SR,YL,YR,N) for the four support extensions. Further, a control device for the movement of the mast arm is provided which comprises a software program corresponding to the selected support configuration, which program limits the pivot angle of the first bending arm (1) about its bending axis (A) and an associated range of angular rotation of the rotatable head (24) about the vertical axis (22), according to the specification of the selected support configuration.
US07909057B1
A valve insert including a ring made of a resilient material. The ring has a shape that is defined by the rotation of an irregular polygon around a central axis. Superposing a quadrilateral and a circle forms the irregular polygon.
US07909056B2
A connector for transferring fluid and method therefor. The connector may have a first port, a second port, and a third port which may be coupled together at a main channel with a first valve element therein controlling fluid flow through the first port. The first valve element is supported by a valve element support positioned between the first port and the third port, and the second port joins the main channel to provide a fluid path around the first valve element and through the third port.
US07909051B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a cover (11) for an outdoor clothes airer (10) having at least three radially-extending arms (2) supporting an array of clothes lines (7), the cover comprising a sheet (3) of waterproof material which is resistant to ultra-violet rays and dimensioned to extend radially beyond the ends of said radial arms above the clothes lines, arranged to drain outwards, and provided with a central supporting means (16) and a peripheral tensioning means (5) such as a drawstring or plurality thereof for securing the sheet to the airer and a circumferential skirt (6) of an air permeable netting material finished with a weighted hem (9). Access to the laundry contained within the invention is easily achieved by lifting a side or sides of the circumferential skirt and laying it or them on top of the cover sheet, after which the laundry may be laced within the skirt of removed therefrom and the skirt may be let down again.
US07909042B2
A metal-toothed comb is provided having elongated identical teeth each with a square cross-section along substantially the entire length, elongated edges of each tooth being slightly rounded, free ends of each of the teeth being slightly rounded, whereby the teeth are successively positioned juxtaposed in a common plane, with elongated edges of each tooth opposing one another, and the distance between the teeth being a constant 0.004 inch along the entire length of the gap therebetween, except for a relatively small portion proximate the distal ends of each tooth, which are tapered down to a rounded tip.
US07909038B2
An airway implant device for maintaining and/or creating an opening in air passageways is disclosed. Methods of using the device are also disclosed. The implant is an implant for stabilizing the tongue, the implant having an anchoring portion for securing a first end of the implant with the mandibula; a control portion connected with the anchoring portion, configured for selectively activating the implant; a flexible portion connected at its proximal end with the control portion, where the flexible portion has three-dimensional flexibility in a first state and where the flexible portion has a lesser three-dimensional flexibility in a second state, and where the flexible portion is selectively switchable between the first and second state by the control portion; an anchoring portion for connecting the implant with the base of the tongue connected with the flexible portion, and a latch mechanism coupled with the control portion and configured to maintain the flexible portion in either of the first and second states. Methods of treating airway disorders such as sleep apnea and snoring with the airway implant device are disclosed herein.
US07909036B2
A head holder made of radiolucent material is attached near an end of a table to support a head of a patient during a CT scan. The head holder includes a base portion that supports the shoulders and upper back of the patient and a head rest that supports a patient's head. The head holder is moveable relative to the table in a direction that is generally parallel to a length of the table. A position of the head rest is adjustable in a vertical direction relative to the base portion. The radiolucent material of the head holder does not affect the quality of a resulting CT scan.
US07909035B2
A multi-chamber mask includes a shell and a partition. The shell is adapted to cover portions of a user's face including the mouth and at least portions of the nose including the nostrils, the shell adapted to contact the face surrounding the covered portions of the face to substantially prevent gas from escaping between the shell and the contacted portions of the user's face, and the shell is adapted to couple to a gas supply source. The partition is coupled to the shell and cooperates with the shell to define a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber adapted to be positioned proximate the user's nose to direct inflow of gas from the gas supply source to the user's nasal passages, the second chamber adapted to be positioned proximate the user's mouth, the partition adapted to restrict flow of gas between the first and the second chamber.
US07909034B2
The present invention relates to a method of delivering combined positive and negative pressure assist ventilation to a patient, wherein a positive pressure is applied to the patient's airways to inflate the patient's lungs, a negative pressure is applied around the patient's ribcage and/or abdomen in order to reduce a load imposed by the ribcage and/or abdomen on the patient's lungs, and application of the positive and negative pressures is synchronized. The present invention also relates to a system for delivering combined positive and negative pressure assist ventilation to a patient, comprising a positive pressure ventilator connected to the patient's airways for applying a positive pressure to the patient's airways to inflate the patient's lungs, a negative pressure ventilator installed on the patient's ribcage and/or abdomen for applying a negative pressure around the patient's ribcage and/or abdomen in order to reduce a load imposed by the ribcage and/or abdomen on the patient's lungs, and a controller for synchronizing operation of the positive and negative pressure ventilators.
US07909029B2
The radiation selective absorber coating of the invention includes two or more barrier layers arranged over each other on a substrate surface, an infrared-range reflective layer arranged on the two or more barrier layers, and at least an absorption layer arranged over the infrared-range reflective layer and a final antireflection layer arranged over the absorption layer. The absorber pipe, especially for a parabolic trough collector, is a steel pipe, on whose outer side the radiation selective absorber coating is applied. In the method of making the absorber pipe a first oxide barrier layer is provided on the outer side of the steel pipe by thermal oxidation, and then a second barrier layer, an infrared-range reflective layer, an absorption layer and a final antireflection layer are applied by gas-phase physical deposition.
US07909021B2
A fuel damper fixing clip includes a clip main body formed from a sheet member having a plurality of flat portions, and formed in a generally square cylindrical shape. The clip main body surrounds portions of the outer peripheries of a cup portion and a fuel damper and deforms in a tightening direction. The clip main body includes two ends overlapped on an outside and an inside surface thereof. Slits are disposed in the plurality of flat portions of the clip main body, and the collar portions of the cup portion and the fuel damper are disposed therein and locked in a diameter-reduced state of the clip main body in which the clip main body is tightened. A receiving hole is formed in one of the ends of the clip main body. A claw portion is disposed on the other end of the clip main body obliquely projecting in a direction opposite to the tightening direction. The claw portion is disposed in the receiving hole in the diameter-reduced state in which the clip main body is tightened, and locks the clip main body in the diameter-reduced state in which the collar portions are fixed.
US07909017B2
Apparatus for modifying engine valve lift to produce an engine valve event in an internal combustion engine, the engine including at least one exhaust valve and an exhaust valve lifter for cyclically opening and closing the at least one exhaust valve, includes (a) an actuator for operating the at least one exhaust valve to produce said modified engine valve lift, said actuator having an inoperative position and an operative position; in said inoperative position said actuator being disengaged from the operation of the at least one exhaust valve, and in said operative position said actuator opening the at least one exhaust valve for said engine valve event; and (b) a controller for moving said actuator between said inoperative position and said operative position.
US07909016B2
A valve timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a variable valve timing mechanism. The valve timing control apparatus sets target valve timing based on an operational state of the engine. The valve timing control apparatus detects actual valve timing. The valve timing control apparatus computes a control amount based on a deviation between the target valve timing and the actual valve timing, and based on a hold control amount. The valve timing control apparatus determines whether a learning execution condition for executing a learning operation of the hold control amount is satisfied based on a change direction of the detected actual valve timing. The valve timing control apparatus executes the learning operation when the learning execution condition is satisfied.
US07909005B2
This exchanger comprises a pair of primary tubular bundles (5a, 5b) surrounding a fuel or gas burner (4a, 4b), and a secondary tubular bundle (6) on which condensation of the steam contained in the burned gases discharged from the primary bundles occurs, wherein the three bundles (5a, 5b, 6) are mounted parallel, side-by-side inside a gas-tight casing (10), and communicate with one another, with means being provided in order to circulate the water to be heated, between the tubes forming the secondary bundle (6) and the tubes forming the primary bundles (5a, 5b); the casing (10) is subdivided at the level of the secondary bundle (6) by a partition (7-70) that extends both inside and outside said bundle (6), with the arrangement being such that a only a circumferential section of the latter is capable of being contacted and traversed by the hot gases coming from one of the two primary bundles (5a), and its remaining section being capable of being contacted and traversed only by the hot gases coming from the other primary bundle (5b).Household or industrial heating installation with high efficiency and low bulk.
US07908999B2
A teat rubber for use on a milking cup of a milking apparatus, is made up of a head part having provided thereon a sealing lip that forms an insertion opening for a teat, a holding edge for grasping a milking cup sleeve, a suction connecting piece connected to the head part as well as a planar teat bearing section which is formed on the sealing lip provided on the head part and which defines the insertion opening, characterized in that the teat rubber has an adhesion element that improves the adhesion between the teat and the teat rubber without affecting the milking process.
US07908982B2
An apparatus is provided for introducing a discrete, predetermined amount of material into soil at a plurality of predetermined points in the soil which includes a container for holding the material to be introduced into the soil, and tubing in fluid communication with the container at a first end thereof. At least one electrically controlled injector is provided in fluid communication with a second end of the tubing. Also, at least one shank is provided, which includes a base, and an injector mounting member attached to a surface of the base that is adapted for detachably mounting the electrically controlled injector onto the base. In addition, a controller is provided for activating the electrically controlled injector to introduce the material into the soil. Accordingly, enhanced control of the injection of the material into soil is achieved, and maintenance can be performed easily.
US07908980B2
A pallet for a pallet container for storing and for transporting liquid contents has an upper deck made of profiled sheet steel and a substructure having a plurality of plastic feet or runners. The pallet is grounded electrically. In order to ensure a reliable electrical discharge (electrical grounding) of, for example, electrostatic charging, accompanied by the properties of a high resistance to mechanical loading, fewer than half the plastic feet or runners are made of plastic material which is electrically conductive and more than half the plastic feet or runners are made of plastic material which is not electrically conductive.
US07908963B2
A hydraulic pressing unit includes a hydraulic pump, supply and hydraulic chambers, moving and stationary parts, a restoring spring, and a return valve provided within or attached to a housing. The moving part is displaced from a starting position into a pressing position as a result of filling the hydraulic chamber with a hydraulic medium from the supply chamber by using the hydraulic pump. The return valve is automatically displaced into an open position as a result of a hydraulic pressure corresponding to the pressing position, and the restoring spring moves the moving part. A piston acts on the flow of the hydraulic medium and lowers the pressure such that the return valve is displaced into the closed position.
US07908960B2
A return to neutral mechanism includes a hub, a lever and a biasing member. The hub is configured to connect fast to a control rod of an associated hydraulic pump. The lever connects to the hub and includes a location configured to connect to an associated linkage that is connected to an associated steering mechanism. The biasing member connects to the lever for biasing the lever and the control rod toward a neutral position.
US07908953B2
A cutting tool for flexible line, the cutting tool being attached to the package for the flexible line, comprises a base member having a groove adapted to receive the flexible line when the cutting tool is in use and a blade recessed within the groove, the blade being adapted to cut the flexible line when the line is forced into the blade during use of the cutting tool. The cutting tool further includes an arm member in operative relationship with and complementary to the base member, which arm member is capable of producing and applying mechanical advantage in a manner that forces the flexible line received within the groove against the blade to thereby sever the flexible line.
US07908952B2
The present invention provides an anti-kickback for arresting movement of a rail accommodated within an elongate channel. The anti-kickback device includes a slide member arranged to slide along a slide surface between an extended position and a retracted position. The device further includes a resilient member which biases the slide member along the slide surface. The slide member, when in the extended position, is designed to urge the rail into abutment with a wall of the channel to arrest movement of the rail accommodated within the channel. The device further includes a manually operable button coupled to the slide member to enable user-operated movement of the slide member towards the retracted position and a lock mechanism for holding the slide member in the retracted position.
US07908950B2
A table saw having an adjustable blade, a detection system to detect contact between a person and the blade, and a brake mechanism to engage and stop the blade upon detection of contact between the person and the blade is disclosed. The saw includes a brake positioning system that adjusts the position of the brake mechanism to maintain the brake mechanism in an operative position relative to the blade as the position of the blade is adjusted. The saw also may include a retraction system that urges the blade downward, away from a user, upon detection of contact between a person and the blade. The retraction system may include a releasable gear. The saw may be constructed so that the blade is adjustable up and down around a pivot point downstream of the blade relative to the feed direction.
US07908943B2
Through putting the coils of a tattoo machine in an angle and mounting an equivalently bent hammer on a, although in a (little more than the before mentioned ones), angle fixed spring mount we obtain a machine that is stronger than other machines compared in size and lighter and shorter than other machines that are comparable in power.A marking device with an oscillating needle. The needle is attached through a needle bar on an armature bar which is attracted by an electromagnetic assembly. A from rear to front ascending angled stair-like milled yoke supports the electromagnetic assembly, which consists of one lower and one higher coil. A spring mount with an adequate angle is mounted to the side plates. An inversely proportional bent armature bar levels that before mentioned angle. The armature bar is attached through a spring to the spring mount. The angle of the set-up procures the oscillating armature bar with a both forth and downward motion, following a so called arc principle. The air gap between the front coil and the armature bar is effectively smaller. The needle hits the skin not in a straight motion but in a diving motion. Thus, the resistance of the skin is easier to overcome.
US07908938B2
Provided is a ball screw module including a screw shaft, a nut member, a ball connector, and a circulating device inside the nut member. The screw shaft and the nut member constitute a first load rolling groove. The circulating device, being connected with the first load rolling groove, has a first turning section and a second turning section, and includes a first guiding groove and a second guiding groove. The first guiding groove has a radius of curvature greater than that of the second guiding groove when the ball connector passes the first turning section. The first guiding groove has the radius of curvature smaller than that of the second guiding groove when the ball connector passes the second turning section.
US07908936B2
A system and method for providing a destination point with a gas having a selectable known humidity. A gas having an initial relative humidity is alternately directed in accordance with a duty cycle along a wet path effective for humidifying the gas to provide a wet gas, and a dry path effective for either maintaining the initial relative humidity of the gas or dehumidifying the gas to provide a dry gas. The wet and dry gas is blended to produce a blended gas having a selected relative humidity based upon the selected duty cycle.
US07908932B2
A measuring transducer including a measuring tube for conveying a fluid; a measuring electrode arrangement for registering electric voltages produced in the flowing fluid; as well as a magnetic field system situated externally on the measuring tube for producing a magnetic field at least partially passing through the measuring tube as well as the therein conveyed fluid during operation, for inducing an electric field in the flowing fluid, wherein the magnetic field system has at least one field coil, through which an electrical exciter current flows at least at times during operation. A coil holder is also including serving for holding the at least one field coil externally on the measuring tube, wherein the measuring tube and coil holder are connected joint-freely with one another, so that the coil holder is embodied as an integral component of the measuring tube.
US07908926B2
An apparatus and method of pressure sensing. The system can include a sensing apparatus connectable with a supply conduit and a mounting plate. The apparatus can include a coupling device for receiving the supply conduit, a housing having first and second openings in fluid communication with each other where the first opening receives at least a portion of the coupling device, and a sensing device having an insertion portion and a sensing area. The insertion portion can be received in the second opening of the housing. A first connection between the housing and the mounting plate can be remote from the sensing area, and a second connection between the housing and the sensing device can be remote from the sensing area.
US07908898B2
The invention proposes a method for the integral molding of a flange (5) onto the end of a round or oval pipe (11) of thin-walled sheet metal. This method takes place in two stages. In a first stage, for the purpose of accumulating material, a sectionally circular or spiral-shaped bead (17) is molded on by means of a pre-forming roller tool (9), comprising a combination of rollers (13 to 15) (Figure a). In a second stage, the molded-on bead is compacted with the aid of a final-forming roller tool (18), comprising the rollers (19) and (20), to produce an at least partly solid flange (5) (Figure b).
US07908897B2
A spline rolling tool including a plurality of forming teeth that are to bite into a cylindrical workpiece so as to roll splines in the workpiece. Each of the forming teeth has an incomplete toothed region in which a crest of each forming tooth is removed such that an upper end of each forming tooth in the incomplete toothed region is defined by an incomplete-toothed region surface that includes a curved surface portion, a flat surface portion and a slant surface portion. The incomplete-toothed region surface is defined at its periphery by a chamfered edge that has a surface roughness of not larger than about 3.2 μm. Also disclosed is a process of manufacturing the spline rolling tool, which includes a chamfering step of forming the chamfered edge by using a wire brush having abrasive grains that are fixed to bristles of the wire brush.
US07908890B2
A needle for transferring stitches therefrom to adjacent needles for hosiery knitting machines comprises a shank, a head, arranged at a longitudinal end, or upper end, of the shank, and a latch which is pivoted to the shank proximate to the head, about a pivoting axis which is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the shank and can rotate about the pivoting axis in order to open or close the head. The needle comprises at least one elastically flexible lamina, which is associated with the shank and forms, on the two opposite sides of the shank, below the latch, two receptacles, one for each side of the shank. The head of an adjacent needle can be inserted in each of the receptacles, in order to transfer the loop of knitting, from the needle being considered to the adjacent needle.
US07908889B2
A method and apparatus are provided for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller, or the like, having a pile extending from an outer surface of the covering, through use of a dial needle knitting arrangement. A cylinder needle knitting arrangement may be utilized in conjunction with the dial needle knitting arrangement for forming a tubular-shaped knitted covering for a paint roller having a pile formed from a combination of sliver and yarn fibers in successive courses of the tubular-shaped knitted covering.
US07908874B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for cooling heat-generating structure disposed in an environment having an ambient pressure. The heat-generating structure includes electronics. The method includes providing a coolant, reducing a pressure of the coolant to a subambient pressure at which the coolant has a boiling temperature less than a temperature of the heat-generating structure, and bringing the heat-generating structure and the coolant at the subambient pressure into contact with one another, so that the coolant boils and vaporizes to thereby absorb heat from the heat-generating structure. In a more particular embodiment the coolant is either pure water or pure methanol with an electrical resistivity level of greater than one million Ohms-cm. Further, in another particular embodiment the method includes filtering the coolant to maintain its purity above a particular level.
US07908869B2
A gas turbine engine has a compressor assembly and a turbine assembly rotationally mounted on a shaft, the turbine assembly being driven by hot gases discharged from a combustion chamber disposed between the compressor and turbine assemblies, the compressor having a centrifugal impeller for pressurizing and impelling air into the combustion chamber. The engine also includes an impeller shroud covering the bladed portion of the centrifugal impeller, the impeller shroud having a support bracket having a thin and curved load-isolating profile for supporting a strut that secures the impeller shroud to a case of the engine.
US07908868B2
A device for mounting a dividing wall for separating the main air stream and the bypass air in a bypass turbojet engine afterburner is disclosed. The device includes an attachment unit which attaches the upstream end of the wall to a guide vane casing and a supporting unit which supports the downstream end of the wall provided on flame holder arms of the afterburner radially on the inside of the dividing wall.
US07908861B2
A heat energy supply system and method capable of drastically increasing energy efficiency and energy supply efficiency, as well as a reconstruction method of the heat energy supply system. The heat energy supply system comprises a boiler for heating a heat medium and producing steam including water and other vapors, a heat pump including a steam turbine driven by the steam supplied from the boiler and a heat exchanger for heating the heat medium by employing waste heat or heat obtained from environment, thereby producing the steam at a setting temperature, and a steam supply line for supplying the steam discharged from the steam turbine and the steam heated by the heat exchanger to a heat utilization facility.
US07908854B2
The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for recovering energy contained by waves. In the arrangement, a plurality of collecting devices (8) is coupled in series. Each collecting device comprises a float (7) coupled by means of a power transmission member (10, 11) to a motion converter (13). The coupling between the collecting devices may be mechanical, the motion converters being coupled up by means of an intermediate shaft (60).
US07908845B2
A mixing apparatus mountable within a generally cylindrical passage defined by an exhaust gas conduit of an exhaust gas after-treatment system is provided. The passage includes an outer region and an inner region operable to convey an exhaust stream and a liquid stream, such as a urea stream. The mixing apparatus includes a retainer ring operable to retain the mixing apparatus within the passage. A first plurality of fins extends from the retainer ring and is operable to impart a rotational velocity component in a first direction to the exhaust stream and urea stream in the outer region of the passage. A second plurality of fins extends from the retainer ring and is operable to impart a rotational velocity component in a second direction, opposite the first direction, to the exhaust stream and urea stream in the inner region of the passage.
US07908841B2
A direct-fired coal combustion system includes a swirl chamber having an input configured to receive a coal-water slurry and causing the coal-water slurry to mix with discharge air from a compressor to gasify the coal-water slurry and create a synthesis gas. The system also includes a cyclone separator directly coupled to the second end of the swirl chamber and a second stage combustion input coupled to an output of the cyclone separator.
US07908834B2
A grass cutting unit (1) includes a frame (2) and, provided in connection with the frame: a cutter (3) for cutting grass and support elements (4; 41, 42) for supporting the cutting unit (1) against the ground, particularly when cutting grass. The cutting unit (1) is provided with a cutting height setting device. In a most preferred embodiment of the invention, the cutting height setting device includes two lead screws (7; 71, 72; 73, 74) that are connected to the ends of both support reels (4; 41, 42), and the corresponding nut elements are connected to the frame; by rotating the lead screws by driving motors, advantageously electric motors (6; 61, 62), each support reel can be moved essentially in the vertical direction, and simultaneously the cutting height can be adjusted within the desired limits.
US07908819B2
A device for bridging a difference in height between two floor surfaces (1, 3) is described, with said device comprising a profiled cover (4) that is provided with a covering flange (5) which covers the edge of each of the two floor surfaces (1, 3), with at least one clamping extension (6) that protrudes downward from the covering flange (5), extends longitudinally with respect to the profiled cover (4), and clamps into and engages with a fixture (7), with said device also comprising a compensating strip (10) located between the covering flange (5) of the profiled cover (4) and the lower of the two floor surfaces (1, 3). In order to create advantageous construction conditions it is proposed that the fixture (7) forms a clamping seat (11) for the compensating strip (10).
US07908812B2
The present invention is an anchoring device for joining three boards. It includes a substantially flat horizontal top element having a top view configuration which includes two sides and has a first predetermined width as measured wide to side at its maximum width between the two sides. There is at least one substantially vertical support member attached to the underside of the top element along an imaginary center line and extending downwardly from the top element for a predetermined length, which has two sides and a second predetermined width as measured at its maximum width. There is a substantially flat horizontal bottom element with two sides and has a third predetermined width at its maximum width. The first predetermined width is greater than the second predetermined width and the third predetermined width, and the third than the second. The invention also includes a decking system utilizing the anchoring device.
US07908796B2
A fenestration assembly which includes; an exterior panel section configured to receive and locate an exterior panel, an interior panel section configured to receive an interior panel, wherein the interior panel section includes at least one linkage system configured to connect to an interior panel to be received by the interior panel section, this linkage system being configured to cover at least a portion of a track formed within said interior panel section. The fenestration assembly may in other instances include an interior panel section where a portion of this interior panel section is associated with a cladding material and where a portion of the interior surface of an exterior panel received by the exterior panel section is covered by cladding material associated with the interior panel section.
US07908788B2
An apparatus for reducing by-catch of seabirds or turtles during fishing include a fish hook (220) and a barrier or shield (227) mounted in a position relative to the fish hook (220) such that the barrier (227) reduces or prevents hooking of a seabird or turtle by the fish hook or ingestion of the hook by a seabird or turtle. The apparatus includes a degradable component (226) that degrades when placed in water such that when the degradable component degrades the barrier moves away from the position relative to the fish hook or no longer exists to allow the fish hook to be taken by a fish. The degradable component (226) may be a retaining means or a mounting means. The degradable component may form part of, or all of, the barrier.
US07908787B2
An artificial fishing lure includes a base assembly, a spring-biased hook assembly, a movable hook-setting post, a fixed retention member, and a pivoted actuation lever. The base assembly has spaced apart leading and trailing ends. The hook assembly is carried by the base assembly, and is adapted for sudden movement from a loaded condition to a released condition. The hook assembly has a proximal end and a pointed distal end adapted for piercing a fish. The hook-setting post is located adjacent the leading end of the base assembly, and is adapted for temporarily engaging the proximal end of the hook assembly in the loaded condition. The fixed retention member is located adjacent the trailing end of said base assembly, and is adapted for cooperating with the hook-setting post to temporarily hold the hook assembly in the loaded condition. The actuation lever is connected to the hook-setting post, and is adapted for moving the hook-setting post away from the hook assembly when actuated. The hook-setting post then disengages the proximal end of the hook assembly, and thereby releases the hook assembly for sudden rearward movement outwardly from the retention member from the loaded condition to the released condition.
US07908784B2
Block-bracing apparatus including at least three plugs threadedly engageable through a block, and retaining rings engaging the block threaded oppositely to the threaded plugs and retainably engaging the plugs. A key tool is provided to tighten the plugs and retaining rings. A longitudinally oriented T-rail projects radially from the block. A slide body engages the T-rail and includes a locking mechanism, a lamp assembly, a logically switched power control, a power cable, and a control cable with interchangeable switches.
US07908783B2
An aiming sight has a base, two oppositely facing light emitting elements on the base, a pivot upon which the base rotates, a detent that holds the base at selected positions, and a spring, magnet or other structure that presses the sight towards the aimed device upon which the sight is mounted. The sight is selectively rotated so that one of the light emitting elements faces the user for aiming, without removing the sight or the light emitting elements from the aimed device.
US07908777B1
A detachable alert device, and method of use to remember a child left in a child safety seat, has an anchor element adapted to semi-permanently attach to the child safety seat. A reminder bracelet is adapted to removably attach to the anchor element and has a user engaging element adapted to removably attach the reminder bracelet to a user in a visible position.
US07908774B2
An insole (102) for a shoe is provided, having a display surface (116), preferably disposed on an insert, for the display of information when the insole is in place in a shoe. A shoe (10), for example a sports shoe, is also provided having a receiver disposed on its external surface. The receiver retains an insert having a display surface, visible when the shoe is being worn and adapted for the display of information. The display surface may carry a brand or other design and/or emit light or sound by means of a suitable emission device. An accessory for a shoe comprises a mount for securing to a shoe, the mount having a display surface adapted to be visible when the shoe is being worn. The mount preferably holds an insert of the kind mentioned above.
US07908769B2
Footwear with a lace fastening includes an opening with a first edge and a second edge. The first and second edges are juxtaposed and each edge carries a respective plurality of lacing eyes. At least two laces extend through respective pairs of the lacing eyes. The ends of both of the laces converge on both of the edges of the opening, with at least one end of each lace extending through a respective end lacing eye of the fastening provided on each of the opposite edges.
US07908766B2
A clothes dryer is provided. In the dryer, air flowing into a drying container is provided with heat from heat pump. The clothes dryer comprises a cabinet, a drying container rotationally mounted in the cabinet, a motor providing the container with rotational force, a first air path connected to a side of the container, a second air path connected to another side of the container and to the outside of the cabinet, and a first heat exchanging member and a second heat exchanging member in the first air path. A damper may be additionally included in the second air path.
US07908762B2
A device for measuring the relative position of a material measure (10) and a reading head (12) is described, in which the material measure (10) has an incremental scale (14); in which the incremental scale (14) is non-magnetically scanned at a high resolution by a scanner (16) belonging to the reading head (12); in which the material measure (10) has permanent magnets (18), which are positioned at equidistant intervals in the direction of measurement and which establish continuous and adjoining segments (20) within the incremental scale (14); in which the magnetic field created by the permanent magnets (18) following each other in succession is recorded by at least one magnetic sensor (24) belonging to the reading head (12); in which the magnitude of the recorded magnetic field (22) is used to assign the position of the reading head (12) to a step of the incremental scale (14) within the segment (20) defined by these permanent magnets (18); and in which a Wiegand wire device (26, 28) belonging to the reading head (10) produces segment-counting pulses upon traversing the permanent magnets (18) and these pulses are counted and permanently stored in the storage component.
US07908754B2
The Linear Marking Apparatus that which includes an embedded marking substance (chalk) reel during use, allowing a single worker to effectively snap a marking line over the work surface. In various embodiments, the Linear Marking Apparatus the tool can also be utilized as a measuring device, a straight edge, or a level. Potential uses of the Linear Marking Apparatus include marking lines on walls, ground, vehicles, concrete, roofing, floors, window, boats, furnishings, ceilings.
US07908747B2
Upon an assembly of a probe head unit, the relative positions of the probe pins 28ai to those of the electrode group 24E in the pitch-changing substrate 24 are determined by making the positions of the through-holes 26A, 26B, 26C and 26D in the contact block 26 to coincide with the positioning marks 24MA, 24MB, 24MC and 24MD in the pitch-changing substrate 24.
US07908742B2
A system and method for forming a wire harness covering having a predetermined three-dimensional geometry is provided. The system and method make use of a mold and a post-molding fixture. In a first phase, the mold is used during an injection molding process to form a substantially flat and partially-cured harness covering having an intermediate, substantially two-dimensional shape. In a second phase, the post-molding fixture is used after the injection molding process to orient the harness with covering to a predetermined three-dimensional geometry corresponding to the desired final shape.
US07908739B2
In a manufacturing method, energy beam heat is radiated to a target area of the motor assembly which is used for a storage disk drive. By radiating energy beam thereto, a portion of the motor assembly is deformed in a non-contact manner, thus, without being affected by elastic recovery of a portion of the motor assembly to be deformed, the machining accuracy of the motor assembly is adjusted in a precise manner.
US07908735B2
The object of the invention is a method and installation means for installing an electrical machine, particularly for installing a rotor within a stator. According to the invention, two or more spacer elements (32) are fitted on the outer circumference of the rotor (6), the distance between the outermost part of these spacer elements and the rotor's central axis of rotation (7) being smaller than the inner radius of the stator (2) and greater than the outer radius of the rotor (6), and the rotor is inserted into the stator in the direction (S) of its shaft.
US07908724B2
A tool for removal of a reverse osmosis membrane from a high-pressure vessel (150) includes a plunger (105) fitting within the high-pressure vessel (150); a clamp to secure the tool to the outside of the high-pressure vessel (150); a drive hub (135) secured to the clamp such that an internally threaded passageway (405) in the hub is parallel with the longitudinal axis of the high-pressure vessel (150); and a drive rod (115) threaded to advance within the drive hub (135) through the threaded passageway (405) and push the plunger (105) along the longitudinal axis of the high-pressure vessel (150). Preferred embodiments include a bearing plate (110) affixed to the plunger (105) to spread the load from the drive rod (115) and one or more extension rods (125) to extend the length of the drive rod (115).
US07908723B1
A reinforcement bar clip applicator includes an applicator body having a handle and a receiver tip. The receiver tip is adapted to receive reinforcement bar clips made of two opposing clasp assemblies. With the second clasp assembly of the bar clip removably affixed to the receiver tip, the assembly forms a bar clip application system adapted to allow the user to remotely attach the first clasp assembly of the bar clip to a reinforcement bar.
US07908722B2
A process for the preparation of piezoelectric single crystal elements involving the steps of mechanically finishing of a single crystal element with cuttings such as zxt±45°, coating electrodes on a pair of Z surfaces, poling the single crystal in a direction along the <011> axis under a 500V/mm electric field.
US07908721B2
An improved ultrasound transducer assembly, e.g. a thickness-mode transducer assembly includes a plurality of elements comprising piezoelectric material, and a backing material disposed adjacent to a back surface of the plurality of elements. The piezoelectric material and backing material define at least a portion of a side surface, wherein an electrically conductive material is disposed upon and in contact with at least a portion of the side surface. The elements may comprise one or a plurality of front electrodes, and one or a plurality of back electrodes, wherein the front electrode(s) is electrically interconnected to the electrically conductive material disposed on the side surface portion. In a mass processing method, a plurality of thickness-mode ultrasound probe transducer assemblies may be produced, wherein a plurality of interconnected transducer subassemblies comprising a mass backing are processed in tandem.
US07908719B2
A product package clip has tamper evident protection which is formed integrally with the clip. Breakage of a frangible occluding portion indicates that the integrity of the package has been jeopardized.
US07908713B2
An operating knob to be attached to a supporting member includes an operating part and a connector. The connector is attached to the operating part and includes a fitting cylindrical portion, a stopper disposed at an inner circumferential side of the fitting cylindrical portion to protrude on a radial inside, and housing portion. When the operating part is applied with a load greater than or equal to a predetermined value from an exterior in a direction toward the supporting member in a state where a fitting portion of the supporting member is fitted into the fitting cylindrical portion, the stopper is bent from the radial inside to a direction approximately parallel to the rotation axis so as to be housed in the housing portion and the fitting cylindrical portion moves toward the supporting member along an outer circumference of the fitting portion.
US07908710B2
A device for articulating a stopper or lid to a frame, in particular of a man hole. The male articulating member may optionally be mounted either removably in its housing of the frame to enable the stopper to be extracted from the frame in its upright position or secured in its housing such that the stopper is not detachable from the frame.
US07908707B2
A floor cleaning apparatus includes a housing and a dirt collection vessel carried on that housing. The dirt collection vessel includes a dirty air inlet, a clean air inlet, a dirt collection chamber and a clean air outlet. A filter is received in the dirt collection vessel. A suction generator is carried on the housing. The floor cleaning apparatus also includes a flow control valve assembly. The flow control valve assembly is selectively displaceable between a first position wherein dirt and debris are captured in the dirt collection vessel and a second position wherein clean air is drawn through at least a portion of the filter to clean the filter. An activator is provided for automatically displacing the flow control valve assembly between the first and second positions.
US07908704B2
The invention relates to a windscreen wiper system, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising at least one wiper arm provided with an elastic blade (21) and a fixing element (60). The known wiper arms comprise a tension spring which presses the wiper blade against a pane along with the windscreen wiper operation and maintains said wiper blade in a folded position with respect to the pane when the wiper blade is changed. Said wiper arms require a relatively important number of components and, for this reason, are relatively expensive. The aim of said invention is to make it possible to produce the windscreen wiper system in a more economical manner. For this purpose, the inventive elastic blade (21) is arranged in such a way that it is pivotable about the fixing element (60).
US07908695B2
A manually operated ramp assembly includes a ramp platform and a drive assembly. The ramp platform is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position, and the drive assembly is coupled to and affords movement of the ramp platform. A shaft extends away from the drive assembly and defines a shaft axis. The shaft is coupled to the drive assembly to cause movement of the ramp platform between the stowed position and the deployed position in response to rotation of the shaft about the shaft axis. A handle is disposed at a distal end of the shaft for manual rotation of the shaft about the shaft axis. A biasing member biases the ramp platform toward the stowed position.
US07908692B2
A support for the neck and head of a human being, such as a travel pillow, comprises a right and a left elongate support member (101,102; 201,202; 302;303; 401,402; 400A,401A; 500,502; 504,506; 906,908), and a collapsible intermediate section (100,106; 200; 300,305; 400; 510,512; 910). The support members are adapted to extend in the human being's cranial-caudal direction and to support a right and a left portion of the back head and neck, whereby the support members define left and right edges for engaging the human being's neck and mastoid bones behind the human being's ears to provide a stable support for the human being's head when the support is under pressure from the human being's head and neck. Each of the support members and the intermediate section is sufficiently bendable to conform to the natural contour of the left and right neck and head portions of the human being.
US07908682B2
A pool shell molding system that enables accessories such as tables, chairs, parasols, basketball rims, and volleyball nets to be selectively and easily attached and removed. The pre-formed mold includes a recessed section with an outer edge that contacts and grips the various pool accessories. The depth of the recess is reduced by including a lip section extending from the bottom of the pool accessory, forming a contact and seal with the pool shell. Additionally, the pre-formed mold also includes an extended section with an outer edge that contacts and is gripped by the various pool accessories. The pre-formed mold can also secure a pole structure that includes a pole and a base member attached to the pole that facilitates a flexing locking relationship with the pool surface.
US07913312B2
Access to digital content may be controlled by determining a digital content specification and associated authenticated rights locker access request, sending the authenticated rights locker access request and the digital content specification, and receiving a new authenticated rights locker access request and a Web page with clickable links in response to the sending, where at least one of the clickable links is associated with an authenticated digital content request. When an indication of a user selection of one of the clickable links is received, an authenticated digital content request associated with the user-selected clickable link is sent to a digital content repository. The digital content is received in response to the sending of the authenticated digital content request.
US07913308B1
A solution for a remote service provider outside a customer's controlled network to reference an object of service (OOS) that is part of the customer's controlled network using a globally unique identifier (GUID) which is derived independently of network information associated with the OOS. A GUID generator module within the customer's controlled network generates a GUID for each device in the customer's controlled network and stores each GUID with a reference to its network information (e.g., IP addresshost name) in a lookup datastore accessible by an object of service management system (OOS) within the customer's controlled network. For service instances (e.g., data harvesting, software upgrades), the OOS management module sends the GUID in lieu of network information for the OOS. Thus the remote service provider can uniquely identify a device and reference it in a customer's network without the security implications of transferring customer network information outside the customer's network.
US07913301B2
A system for providing a user with authorization to perform one or more functions using or otherwise involving a computational component is provided. The system includes an authentication file system 100 operable to (a) receive a request from a user for a second set of authentication information permitting a second set of operations to be performed on a computational component, wherein the computational component is operable to be installed by the user on the computational system, wherein the computational component contains a first set of authentication information permitting a first set of operations to be performed on the computational component; and wherein the first and second sets of operations are different; (b) generate an authentication file containing the second set of authentication information; and (c) transmit the authentication file to the computational system.
US07913299B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for firewall use of certified binaries. Exemplary embodiments include a method including reading a plaintext component from a digital signature, searching the plaintext component for an identifier, reading in a TotalTCPIPPorts field for a total number of sockets to be opened for an application, reading in ports and descriptions for each of the ports, displaying information from the plaintext component up to a block including the identifier, the port being opened and the port description, prompting an instruction, displaying on the screen information from the plaintext component up to a block including the identifier, displaying a warning that the application is opening additional ports beyond the default number specified displaying a warning that opening the additional ports should be avoided and prompting the instruction.
US07913293B2
The present invention discloses a method for communicating between communication apparatuses and a communication unit. The method includes: sending, by a first communication apparatus, a first request for establishing a Peer to Peer (P2P) connection to a second communication apparatus through a server; initiating, by the first communication apparatus or the second communication apparatus, a command for establishing a P2P connection with the other side; establishing directly a P2P channel between the first communication apparatus and second communication apparatus based on the command for establishing a P2P channel and transmitting data packets over the P2P channel. In the present invention, a P2P channel is directly established between the communication apparatuses to communicate, so data can be forwarded without a server. Thus, the load of the server may be reduced and information interaction rate of users may be improved.
US07913289B2
In multimedia systems that implement secure access techniques, a method and apparatus for a security policy and enforcing mechanism for a set-top box security processor are provided. A security policy may be determined for a multimedia terminal based on high-level requirements by various system users. A default mode of operation may be generated based on the security policy and may be stored in a security policy memory. An access control matrix that indicates the operation of security components in a security processor for various user modes may be stored in the security policy memory. Control and/or access operations not supported by the access control matrix may be supported by the default mode of operation. The user modes in the access control matrix may include composition user modes. Accessing the information in the security policy memory may be utilized to enforce the security policy in the multimedia terminal.
US07913284B2
A current mobile multimedia signal time slice is captured using a mobile MM receiver in response to a current mobile multimedia stream-identifying command input. The current mobile multimedia signal time slice contains at least one portion of a currently selected mobile multimedia stream. At least one anticipated mobile multimedia time slice is selectively captured. The at least one anticipated mobile multimedia time slice contains at least one portion of a corresponding anticipated mobile multimedia stream.
US07913255B2
Techniques for the design and use of a digital signal processor, including processing transmissions in a communications (e.g., CDMA) system. The disclosed method and system provide background thread processing in a multithread digital signal processor for backgrounding and other background operations. The method and system form a background thread interrupt as one of a plurality of interrupt types, the background thread interrupt initiates a low-priority background process using one of a plurality of processing threads of a multithread digital signal processor. The process includes storing the background thread interrupt in an interrupt register and a background processing mask for associating with a processing thread of the multithread digital signal processor, which associates with at least a subset of said plurality of processing threads. Upon sensing a cache miss in one of the processing threads during multithread processing, the interrupt register issues the background thread interrupt and the digital signal processor initiates background processing using one of the processing threads having an associated background processing mask.
US07913245B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for modular distribution and maintenance of non-“object code only” (OCO) dynamic components. OCO components comprise compiled executable modules. Non-OCO components comprise user readable and/or editable components. The modular distribution of non-OCO components comprises updating a skeleton data set comprising text and component fields such that user customizations and developer customizations are preserved. The modular distribution further allows for the generation of an output data in response to a reportable operational event, wherein the output data set is based on the skeleton data set and user customizations and developer customizations stored in customization data sets.
US07913240B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for transforming JAVA Native Interface function calls to constants, internal just-in-time (JIT) compiler operations or simpler intermediate representation. A compiler generates plurality of intermediate representations for a plurality of native interface function calls. During inlining of native code, matching is performed on each native function call (against this list) and a list of native interface function calls is generated. For each native interface function call, a (JIT) call transformer attempts to replace the native interface function call with a constant, internal JIT compiler operation or a simpler intermediate representation depending on the type of native interface function call.
US07913238B2
A system and method for compiler error recovery, comprising analyzing the syntactic structure of a first program in a first programming language, wherein the first program can be represented by a first set of tokens, detecting a syntax error in the first program, remedying the syntax error by adding at least one token to the first set of tokens according to one of: 1) a prefix definition; and 2) an idiom definition, and wherein the detection of the syntax error occurs at the behest of an extensible compiler framework.
US07913237B2
The current invention describes a virtual machine designed to run on a variety of platforms of varied capabilities, and in particular describes support in the coding and development environment for assessing and managing the variation in capability and performance among the platforms.
US07913235B2
A method for creating a specific POSIX style locale source file, on demand, suitable for compilation in a computer is provided the method comprising, receiving a request submitted for the specific POSIX style locale, and obtaining a plurality of localization values related to the specific POSIX style locale. Next, determining a category within the plurality of localization values and selecting process routines dependent upon the category, and then selectively extracting the category information. After extracting the category information is stored into a memory of the computer. A determination is made regarding more categories to process, which might result in processing the remaining categories, otherwise assembling the extracted information into the POSIX style locale source file. Assembling may entail addition of no files or files such as LC-CTYPE and LC_COLLATE to form a locale source suitable for compilation.
US07913233B2
A method for performance analysis of a system may include capturing data including callee stack information and persisting the callee stack information in a form that can be queried. The method may also include generating a performance analysis report in response to a query.
US07913224B2
A device for automated generation of program code of a user program which can be run on a run unit on a user side is provided. The device includes a editing unit configured for programming access by an operator, a code generator and/or code converter unit and a code memory unit. The code generator and/or code converter unit converts an output signal of the editing unit with respect to data and in automated fashion in such a way that input and/or output data types of the user program are converted to classes and/or methods of a C# programming environment and are stored by the code memory unit in a source code programming database of the code memory unit. A run code generating unit is configured for generating executable program code of the user program and converting contents of the source code program database to the program code of the user program.
US07913220B2
An FPGA-design-CAD interface unit retrieves pin assignment information created by an FPGA-designing CAD apparatus. An FPGA-pin-information managing unit manages the pin assignment information as FPGA pin information. A temporary-library creating unit creates a temporary component shape type library by using the FPGA pin information and outputs the temporary component shape type library in a form capable of being read by a package-designing CAD apparatus to a file.
US07913216B2
Disclosed is a method of estimating interconnect wire parasitics in integrated circuits which includes obtaining a circuit layout having circuit components placed thereon including source input/output (I/O) pins and sink I/O pins, the circuit layout having a circuit hierarchy, bubbling up of the I/O pins until all I/O pins are on a same level of the circuit hierarchy, and then estimating interconnect segments to be employed in interconnecting at least some circuit components of the placed circuit components of the circuit layout. Also disclosed is a circuit design system and program storage device.
US07913207B2
A method and an apparatus for verifying a logic circuit, capable of quicker operation, being applied to a logic gate-level or transistor-level circuit design, and verifying timing and analog signal characteristics of a signal. The logic circuit verification method includes a wave file generation stage and a logic circuit verification stage. The wave file generation stage generates a wave file that includes the waveforms of all nodes of the logic circuit using a design source file of the logic circuit. The stage of verification of the logic circuit verifies the logic circuit using a design reference file, which includes ideal operations of all the nodes of the logic circuit, and the wave file.
US07913204B2
A high-level synthesis apparatus for automatically generating a register transfer level (RTL) logic circuit from a behavioral description has a scheduling unit configured to perform data flow analysis and scheduling to generate a data flow graph showing an operation cycle of an operation from the behavioral description, a scheduling result inputting/outputting unit configured to extract a point to be allocated to a register from the data flow graph and output register information indicating the point, the scheduling result inputting/outputting unit being provided with dynamic analysis data that includes at least one of the number of times that data at the point has been substituted and the number of times that a value stored at the point has changed by a predetermined simulation, an allocating unit configured to consult dynamic analysis data and allocate circuit elements to the behavioral description, and an RTL description generating unit configured to generate the logic circuit based on the allocation of circuit elements by the allocating unit.
US07913203B1
A method for designing a system to be implemented on a target device includes generating a register transfer language (RTL) representation of the system from a description of the system without pipelined delays. The RTL representation of the system includes pipelined delays to facilitate timing of the system as implemented on a target device identified by a designer.
US07913192B2
One method involves causing a viewable map region of a map to be displayed, the viewable map region having points of interest (POI) indicators; monitoring to detect a user selection of one of the POI indicators; causing information corresponding to the POI indicator to be displayed in response to detecting the user selection, the information including a file identifier corresponding to a file; monitoring to detect a user selection of the file identifier; and causing, with use of a file link, file contents information of the file to be requested and received through a wireless network from a file server in response to detecting the user selection. The file contents of the file are provided in a converted XML format. Preferably, data associated with the files are maintained in one or more private databases separate from the public network database which stores the map data.
US07913187B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for providing Unified Communication (UC) service, which includes obtaining communication information displayed on a terminal where a mouse locates; triggering a corresponding UC service based on the communication information. The present invention also discloses a UC client. The UC client includes a communication information obtaining unit, capable of capturing communication information displayed on a terminal where a mouse locates, and a UC service unit, capable of triggering a corresponding UC service based on the communication information. In this way a user needs to move a cursor or press a key in the active interface to enter corresponding communication information into the UC client, therefore the complicated operations of manually keying in communication information or searching an address book in the UC client interface according to conventional technique are avoided and the users' burden will be relieved.
US07913178B2
Examples of a method and system for collaborative and private sessions are provided. A cursor movement request may be received from at least two users of a plurality of users of a collaborative session during a time period. The cursor may move on a common interface according to the cursor movement request from a first user selected from the at least two users that has satisfied a movement criterion. A completion criterion and a private session parameter may be designated for a private session. A number of user interactions may be processed from a participant of the private session. The private shopping session may be terminated for the participant when the completion criterion is satisfied.
US07913174B2
An image forming apparatus having a display function and a method of displaying a user interface display are provided. The method includes searching for interface information corresponding to screen layout information from a stored interface information, and displaying a plurality of user interfaces indicated by the found interface information. The displayed plurality of user interfaces are included in one or more layers and indicate one or more functions among multiple data processing functions that can be performed by the image forming apparatus.
US07913164B1
A method and system for serving an image in multiple formats from a photohosting site is disclosed. The method and system include storing a set of format parameters and respective parameter values in a configuration file. When a request for a modified image containing one or more of the formats is received, each of the format parameters are looked-up in the configuration file and the value corresponding to each of the format parameters is retrieved. A command line is then automatically generated in which the retrieved format values are used as command line options, and the command line is then interpreted to invoke image processing library calls to generate the modified image. The modified image is stored in a file system, and at least a portion of the command line option is used as an identifier for the modified image. In a further aspect of the present invention, the format parameters in the configuration file are also retrieved and displayed to the user on a web page for selection when the user is requesting a modified image from the photohosting site.
US07913159B2
A system and method validating entry of data into a structured data file in real-time is described. The system and method also described a real-time validation tool that enables a developer to create custom validation rules. These custom validation rules can include preset validation rules, which the real-time validation tool enables a developer to create in an easy-to-use way.
US07913150B2
An integrated circuit communications interface operable consistent with multiple data transmission protocols includes error detection circuitry that implements a cyclic redundancy check (i.e., CRC) function. The error detection circuitry generates a checksum based, at least in part, on a selected one of the multiple data transmission protocols. The error detection circuitry includes at least one circuit that generates a digital code according to an operation including terms common to the multiple data transmission protocols. That digital code is combined with a selected digital code to generate the CRC. The selected digital code is generated by an individual circuit corresponding to a respective one of the multiple data transmission protocols. The individual circuit generates the selected digital code according to an operation including at least terms exclusive to the respective one of the multiple data transmission protocols.
US07913146B2
Optical discs are adapted to be used with a light beam having a wavelength of 405 nm for recording or reproducing data. Error correcting blocks for recording BMID including copy protection key information are defined on optical discs (1) dedicated to data reproduction. A data string of BMID to be recorded has 64 bytes. An error correcting block is constituted by 304 columns of error correcting code words (LDC). A BMID data string of 64 bytes is inserted to predetermined 64 error correcting code words (LDC) of a block (304 columns of error correcting code words). The total code length of the predetermined 64 error correcting code words (LDC) is 248 bytes, of which a predetermined byte (symbol) is replaced by a predetermined byte (symbol) of the BMID data string.
US07913132B2
A digital system and method for scanning sequential logic elements are disclosed. The digital system may comprise a plurality of sequential logic elements subdivided into power domains, wherein at least one of the power domains is power gated; a scan chain configured for processing a scan data sequence; a scan enable switch configured for controlling a scan mode; and at least one shadow engine, wherein the at least one shadow engine comprises a control circuit. At least some of the power domains may be interconnected to the scan chain with the scan enable switch, and the scan enable switch may control the scan mode by asserting a scan enable signal. The at least one power gated power domain with one or more sequential logic elements to be power gated may be bypassed via the at least one shadow engine.
US07913130B2
A data storage device includes non-volatile memory; and a read circuit for performing multi-sample read operations on the memory during a normal mode of operation. The read circuit includes a digital counter having an output that indicates a single bit (e.g., a sign-bit). The read circuit allows an external device (e.g., a memory tester) to supply test clock pulses to an input of the digital counter during a test mode. The test clock pulses can be counted to determine a state of the digital counter.
US07913128B2
A system includes a plurality of devices that are connected in series and a controller that communicates with the devices. Each of the devices has a plurality of input ports and corresponding output ports. The outputs of one device and the inputs of a next device are interconnected. The controller is coupled to the first device and the last device of the series-connection. The controller applies a test pattern to the plurality of input ports at the first device connected in series, by the controller. Each data channel defines a data path between corresponding pairs of input and output ports of the first and last devices. A data channel is enabled if the test pattern is detected at its corresponding output port.
US07913127B2
A method and system for performing diagnostic tests on a real-time system controlled by a state machine. A sequence of states recorded as the state machine operates is used to determine error conditions. The sequence of states is compared to expected sequences of states to determine what, if any, errors have occurred. If the real-time system, such as a transceiver in a communication system, has adaptive components, the status of the adaptive components is used to estimate the condition of any external systems coupled to the real-time system.
US07913118B2
An in-circuit debugging (ICD) system includes at least a first target processor, an embedded debug mode with a debug information memory (DIM), a debug host, and an ICD bridge. The first target processor has an embedded debug module (EDM) and performs a program code in normal mode, where the first EDM controls the first target processor in debug mode. The DIM stores debug information for debugging in debug mode, and is invisible to the first target processor when the first target processor operates in normal mode. The debug host has debug software, and is utilized for debugging the program code by using the debug information in debug mode. The ICD bridge has a host debug module (HDM) coupled to the first EDM, and is coupled between the first target processor and the debug host and utilized for bridging information communicated between the first target processor and the debug host.
US07913114B2
In a method for repairing a corrupt data segment used by a de-duplication engine, a data segment indexed by a de-duplication index is identified as being as a corrupt data segment. A search is made to find a duplicate data segment with which to replace the corrupt data segment, where the duplicate data segment comprises an uncorrupted version of the data segment. The corrupt data segment is replaced with the duplicate data segment.
US07913110B2
An apparatus comprises a memory with a matrix (10) with rows and columns of memory cells. A read access circuit (14, 16, 18) executes a read command to read a retrieval unit comprising data from a row of the memory cells from the matrix (10) and to output data from the retrieval unit. A processing circuit (12) coupled to the read access circuit (14, 16, 18) is configured to execute an extra read operation involving issuing the read command, receiving the extra data (24), performing error detection on only the extra data (24), using an error detecting code in which the extra data is coded, conditionally performing error correction on the data from the extra data (24) using data from the retrieval unit including the payload data (22), according to an error correcting code in which the retrieval unit is coded, if the error detection indicates an error in the extra data (24). The processing circuit (12) performs further processing using the data from the extra data (22) or the corrected extra data, dependent on whether the error detection indicates an error in the extra data (22).
US07913102B2
A variable frequency clock output circuit, comprising: a target value register which stores a target value corresponding to an arbitrarily set target frequency; an increase/decrease value register which stores an arbitrarily set increase/decrease value; an adder-subtractor which has an input portion into which a current output value is inputted and outputs a calculation result obtained by adding/subtracting the increase/decrease value stored in the increase/decrease value register to/from the current output value inputted into the input portion based on an addition/subtraction instruction signal; a comparator which compares an output value of the adder-subtractor to the target value stored in the target value register, and outputs an addition/subtraction instruction signal to the adder-subtractor until the output value of the adder-subtractor and the target value coincide; and a clock generator which outputs a clock signal having a frequency proportional to the output value of the adder-subtractor.
US07913098B2
A fixing unit fixes a toner image transferred onto a recording medium to the recording medium by heating and pressurizing the toner image. An auxiliary power supply unit includes a charging element that is charged by a power supplied from a main power supply unit. Each of the main power supply unit and the auxiliary power supply unit supplies a power to the fixing unit. A power control unit controls the main power supply unit and the auxiliary power supply unit, so that the power supplied from at least one of the main power supply unit and the auxiliary power supply unit to the fixing unit is kept sufficient.
US07913089B2
An ID creating apparatus includes a derivative value creating unit for creating a derivative value, a user ID encrypting unit for creating encrypted ID by encrypting information including the user ID and the derivative value based on an encryption key, and a derivative ID creating unit for creating derivative ID based on the encrypted ID. An ID resolving apparatus includes an encrypted ID extracting unit for extracting the encrypted ID included in the derivative ID, an encrypted ID decrypting unit for decrypting the encrypted ID based on a decryption key corresponding to the encryption key and thereby creating decrypted ID, and an ID judging unit for determining that the derivative ID is created from the user ID when part of the decrypted ID coincides with information created based on the user ID.
US07913083B2
A combinatorial key-dependent network suitable for the encryption/decryption of data on buses and in memories of data-processing devices, has a number of layers, where each layer has a number of elementary building blocks operating on very small block sizes. A generic building block acts on a small number of input data bits, which are divided into two groups of m and n bits, respectively. The m input bits, which are passed to the output intact, are used to select k out of 2mk key bits by a multiplexer circuit; the k bits are then used to select an (n×n)-bit reversible transformation acting on the remaining n input bits to produce the corresponding n output bits. The total number of the key bits in the building block is thus 2mk, which can easily he made larger that m+n. An inverse building block is the same except that the reversible transformations are replaced by their inverses.
US07913077B2
Mechanisms for preventing IP spoofing and facilitating parsing of private data areas in system and network connection requests are provided. With these mechanisms, an identifier, such as the high order bit of a Q_Key, is utilized to determine if a communication connection request originates with a privileged process. A second identifier is used to specify whether a private data area of a communication connection request utilizes predefined fields of a predefined structure or format. Only when the first identifier specifies that the request originates from a privileged process is the processing of the request permitted to be performed. Based on the setting of the second identifier, specific information is retrieved from the predefined fields of the private data area for use in establishing the requested communication connection.
US07913070B2
Tracking the order of issued instructions using a counter is presented. In one embodiment, a saturating, decrementing counter is used. The counter is initialized to a value that corresponds to the processor's commit point. Instructions are issued from a first issue queue to one or more execution units and one or more second issue queues. After being issued by the first issue queue, the counter associated with each instruction is decremented during each instruction cycle until the instruction is executed by one of the execution units. Once the counter reaches zero it will be completed by the execution unit. If a flush condition occurs, instructions with counters equal to zero are maintained (i.e., not flushed or invalidated), while other instructions in the pipeline are invalidated based upon their counter values.
US07913069B2
A computer array (10) has a plurality of computers (12). The computers (12) communicate with each other asynchronously, and the computers (12) themselves operate in a generally asynchronous manner internally. Instruction words (48) can include a micro-loop (100) which is capable of performing a series of operations repeatedly. In a particular example, the series of operations are included in a single instruction word (48). The micro-loop (100) in combination with the ability of the computers (12) to send instruction words (48) to a neighboring computer (12) provides a powerful tool for allowing a computer (12) to utilize the resources of a neighboring computer (12).
US07913068B2
A system and method for asynchronous dynamic millicode entry prediction in a processor are provided. The system includes a branch target buffer (BTB) to hold branch information. The branch information includes: a branch type indicating that the branch represents a millicode entry (mcentry) instruction targeting a millicode subroutine, and an instruction length code (ILC) associated with the mcentry instruction. The system also includes search logic to perform a method. The method includes locating a branch address in the BTB for the mcentry instruction targeting the millicode subroutine, and determining a return address to return from the millicode subroutine as a function of the an instruction address of the mcentry instruction and the ILC. The system further includes instruction fetch controls to fetch instructions of the millicode subroutine asynchronous to the search logic. The search logic may also operate asynchronous with respect to an instruction decode unit.
US07913067B2
A system and method for overlapping execution (OE) of instructions through non-uniform execution pipelines in an in-order processor are provided. The system includes a first execution unit to perform instruction execution in a first execution pipeline. The system also includes a second execution unit to perform instruction execution in a second execution pipeline, where the second execution pipeline includes a greater number of stages than the first execution pipeline. The system further includes an instruction dispatch unit (IDU), the IDU including OE registers and logic for dispatching an OE-capable instruction to the first execution unit such that the instruction completes execution prior to completing execution of a previously dispatched instruction to the second execution unit. The system additionally includes a latch to hold a result of the execution of the OE-capable instruction until after the second execution unit completes the execution of the previously dispatched instruction.
US07913054B2
A digital electronic device capable of memory formatting, a method for memory formatting, and a digital electronic device having a storing function and a storing method thereof are provided. The memory stores data, and the control unit formats the memory such that the memory includes a plurality of storage regions which store the data, a basic information region which stores basic information regarding the data, and a plurality of supplemental information regions which periodically store supplemental information updated according to the storing of the data.
US07913048B2
A system supporting producer-consumer pre-fetch communications includes a first processor, wherein the first processor is a producer node, and a second processor, wherein the second processor is a consumer node. The system further includes a data subscribe mechanism for performing a data subscribe operation at the consumer node, wherein the data subscribe operation records that a memory address is subscribed at the consumer node, a data publish mechanism for performing a data publish operation at the producer node, wherein the data publish operation sends data of the memory address from the producer node to the consumer node if the memory address is subscribed at the consumer node, and a communication network coupled to the producer node and the consumer node for enabling communicating between the producer node and the consumer node.
US07913042B2
A virtual storage system control apparatus, a virtual storage system control program and a virtual storage system control method can move one or more than one virtual volumes without suspending the services being provided. The virtual storage system control apparatus comprises a plurality of storage device control sections that assign virtual volumes to the storage devices of the virtual storage clusters, generate information on the virtual volumes, set up a link between the virtual volumes of the own virtual storage clusters and the virtual volumes of other virtual storage clusters by way of the network and copy data on the basis of the link and a management node that directs a move of a virtual volume by having the link set up according to the information on the virtual volumes.
US07913037B2
The computer system of the present invention has a plurality of SAS target devices, an SAS initiator device, and a service delivery subsystem that is connected to each SAS target device by means of a physical link that is physical wiring and connected to the SAS initiator device by means of a wide link constituted by a plurality of physical links. The SAS initiator device controls how many physical links in the wide link are allocated to a particular SAS target device, whereby access from the SAS initiator device to the SAS target device is made via a physical link that is allocated to the SAS target device and is not made via a physical link that is not allocated to the SAS target device.
US07913012B2
A LINBUS communication network comprises a microcontroller unit containing processing circuitry for performing predefined digital processing functions. LINBUS communication network hardware is located within the microcontroller unit for digitally communicating with an off-chip LINBUS device for transmitting data thereto and receiving data therefrom. A plurality of LINBUS communication network interfaces selectively connects one of a plurality of groups of slave devices to the LINBUS network communications hardware.
US07913007B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for preemption in asynchronous systems using anti-tokens are disclosed. According to one aspect, configurable system for constructing asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits with preemption includes a plurality of modular circuit stages that are connectable with each other and with other circuit elements to form multi-stage asynchronous application specific integrated data pipeline circuits for asynchronously sending data and tokens in a forward direction through the pipeline and for asynchronously sending anti-tokens in a backward direction through the pipeline. Each stage is configured to perform a handshaking protocol with other pipeline stages, the protocol including receiving either a token from the previous stage or an anti-token from the next stage, and in response, sending both a token forward to the next stage and an anti-token backward to the previous stage.
US07912999B2
A buffering apparatus to process digital communication signals includes a plurality of buffers, a processing unit, and programmed memory. The programmed memory has instructions directing the processing unit to process the digital samples corresponding to a group of symbols to be processed in a plurality of buffers. The digital samples start in a first buffer of the plurality of buffers and end in a second buffer of the plurality of buffers. The digital samples are received at a third buffer of the plurality of buffers during the processing of the digital samples.
US07912992B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a disk-drive automatic recognition/setting apparatus for a disk system including a controller, a disk drive, and an expander attached to the controller, the disk drive, or another expander, provides an information obtaining requesting unit issuing a request for obtaining information regarding a device attached to each attachment port of the expander, an information obtaining unit obtaining the information requested, and a routing reset request transmitting unit determining based upon the information obtained, whether a routing method of the attachment port is correctly set, and, if the routing method is wrong, transmitting a reset request for correctly resetting the wrong routing method.
US07912991B1
A storage subsystem comprises a set of zone definitions that uses physical block addresses to divide a memory array in the storage subsystem into zones or segments. A set of zone parameters defines user access modes and security levels for each of the segments. Defining zones for the memory array provide flexibility and increased protection for data stored in the memory array. For example, data of one zone can be quickly erased without affecting data stored in other zones and critical data can be stored in read-only zones to prevent inadvertent overwrite.
US07912990B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for safe parameterization in accordance with IEC 61508 SIL 1 to 3 or EN 954-1 Categories 1 to 4 of safe electronic appliances.One object of the invention is to describe a way which overcomes the explicit reading back of the parameters from the safe electronic appliance and confirmation of each of these parameters by the user.For this purpose, the invention proposes that parameter values which are intended for parameterization, are selected or entered via a user interface of an electronic control device and are then transmitted to the electronic appliance, to be kept in at least one memory which can be accessed by the control device, and be read back at least once from the memory for verification of the safe parameterization.
US07912977B2
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for always-on wireless IP communication. An access provider network (APN) that includes an always-on packet data serving node (PDSN) may be used to communicate over a wireless communication link with a mobile station. The PDSN may include an inactivity timer and may be used to set the inactivity timer to an inactivity timer starting value and send a starting value estimate to the mobile station over the wireless communication link, wherein the starting value estimate is a function of the inactivity timer starting value. The mobile station may include an inactivity timer estimate and may be used to receive the starting value estimate and set the inactivity timer estimate to the starting value estimate. The mobile station may also be used to reset the inactivity timer estimate to the starting value estimate when the mobile station communicates with the APN.
US07912975B2
Methods and systems are presented for controlling application layer message traffic at a central web services resource in which a web services gateway associated with the central resource sends a backoff message to a gateway associated with a remote web service client, which in turn slows the application layer message traffic to the central resource.
US07912972B2
A method, system, and device for controlling a device connected to a UPnP (universal plug and play) home network using the Internet is provided. This method includes: subscribing to the external device outside the UPnP home network and informing the external device of control information about the device connected to the UPnP home network; converting a third-party notification message about control of the device connected to the UPnP home network, the third-party notification message being received from the external device via the Internet, into a control message with respect to a device that provides a web-based user interface or a device that provides no web-based user interfaces; and transmitting the control message to the device that provides a web-based user interface or the device that provides no web-based user interfaces.
US07912971B1
In a network computing environment, a user-centric system and method for controlling access to user-specific information maintained in association with a web-services service. When a web-services client desires access to the user-specific information, the client sends a request. The request identifies the reasons/intentions for accessing the desired information. The request is compared to the user's existing access permissions. If there is no existing access permission, the request is compared to the user's default preferences. If the default preferences permit the requested access, an access rule is created dynamically and the client's request is filled, without interrupting the user. If the default preferences do not permit the request to be filled, a consent user interface may be invoked. The consent user interface presents the user with one or more consent options, thereby permitting the user to control whether the client will be given access to the user-specific information.
US07912966B2
A remote communication system and method are disclosed. An environment is identified defining a plurality of parameters communicated between an electronic device (or a computer-based device) and a remote computer as part of a remote session (i.e., the electronic device remotely controlling the remote computer via the remote session), with each parameter defining an action associated with the remote session. A first application (associated with the electronic device), via a unidirectional communication with the environment, modifies at least one parameter associated with the environment (e.g., modifying keyboard scan codes, cursor position, mouse position, clipboard data, screen resolution, or channel administration), wherein the modified parameter is extracted by an interceptor associated with the remote computer and, the interceptor, based on a look-up, executes a pre-defined action affecting the remote session, wherein the pre-defined action being different than the modified parameter's associated action.
US07912962B2
A server device sends a list of account holders together with an invitation to bind to the server. A client device can decide to present the invitation to a user for decision only if the client device finds a match between the list and the user.
US07912961B2
A method for controlling a computer is disclosed wherein one or more remote locations disposed on a network are accessed in response to scanning an optical code. A first computer disposed on the network connects to a scanner for scanning the optical code of a product by a user. The scanner is uniquely identified with a scanner distributor by a scanner identification number. A second computer disposed on the network is accessed in response to the user scanning the optical code with the scanner, wherein a lookup operation is performed at the second computer to match the scanner identification number with the scanner distributor to obtain remote routing information of the one or remote locations. The remote routing information is returned from the second computer to the first computer in order to access the one or more remote locations disposed on the network. The one or more remote locations are accessed to return remote information to the first computer for presentation.
US07912957B2
A service request routing system and method includes a model table configured to store resource models. A monitor is coupled to the model table and programmed both to model resource consumption in a service providing infrastructure, and also to store the modeled resource consumption in the model table. A router is coupled to the model table, and the router is programmed to route each service request to a corresponding service instance disposed in an associated service host having a service providing infrastructure. The associated service host includes a grid host in a grid computing system.
US07912950B1
An adaptive polling facility that dynamically determines which types of management objects are available for monitoring the functioning of a network element is discussed. Based on the availability determination, subsequent polling requests are adapted. The dynamic adaptation allows partial information to be collected and used in certain circumstances and saves polling communications directed to non-supported objects. The adaptive polling facility may adjust to poll one object over another based upon current values retrieved from the device or may poll based on the presence or absence of an object. The adaptation of the polling requests may include changing the rate of the polling requests based on the speed of the device response and number of queued requests, interleaving the requests for several devices and/or switching the requests from one device to another if the first device is too busy.
US07912948B2
A wire protocol is described which implements connection management and other methods to give enhanced peer-to-peer content distribution. Connections between nodes can be placed in a “notify” state when they are idle but may soon yield useful content. This notify state is also used together with a content request/response cycle to allow a peer to evaluate content available at a neighbour. If no suitable content is available a notify state is entered. When new content is later received at the neighbour it is able to inform the requesting node to allow it to restart the content request/response cycle.
US07912946B2
Techniques for monitoring one or more transaction instances in a real-time network are provided. The techniques include obtaining one or more system log files, wherein one or more footprints left by one or more transaction instances are recorded in the one or more system log files, obtaining a transaction model, wherein the transaction model comprises one or more transaction steps and a footprint pattern corresponding with each transaction step, and using the one or more system log files and the transaction model to monitor the one or more transaction instances in a real-time network at least one of an individual level and one or more aggregate levels.
US07912942B1
A method and an apparatus to automatically create storage resource management (SRM) paths have been presented. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring a data storage system to collect configuration data of storage objects in the data storage system and automatically creating a storage resource management (SRM) path for a storage object in the data storage system using at least a portion of the configuration data in response to a user request to scan the storage object.
US07912940B2
The role of a system in a network may be categorized as a networking system, a security system, a systems management system, a mail system, a database system, a web system, a file/print system, a communication and collaboration system, and/or any other system in the network. The role of a target system may be determined by sending test probes to one or more systems in a target network. The test probes may be data packets crafted to produce a particular response from a target system. The received responses may be compared to signature responses of a basis system with known operating system, services, and/or roles. By matching the received responses with signature responses, a role resolver may associate a role with the target system.
US07912937B2
Remote analysis method and system for Home Phoneline Networks (HPNs), i.e., local area networks made up of telephone wiring in residential premises. In such a network connected to the Internet, a host computer collects measurements of the frequency response of the local network as well as values of addresses and other important network parameters of devices also located on the local network. The results of this data collection, having been sent via the Internet, may be displayed within a web browser on a remote computer external to the local network in a web. This data can then be monitored conveniently by a service technician or the like at any location.
US07912934B1
A system identifies a plurality of probes used for verifying network operation, and classifies the plurality of probes into probe groups, according to at least one parameter associated with the network operation. The system schedules operation of the probe group in accordance with a classification associated with each probe group, and operates the probe group to verify network operation.
US07912928B2
An object of the present invention is to provide network devices and a network device control method which enable control network devices connected to an IP network, AV devices connected over 1394IF through gateway devices from the IP network, and home devices connected to ECHONET to be controlled without distinction among them. To achieve this object, a network device to serve as a controller comprises a controller application that detects a service of a target network device, using a message complying with an information exchange protocol common to the network, collects information such as an access method for the service, a function name, and parameters, and controls the network device upon request, and an information exchange protocol processing part that exchanges messages according to a protocol common to the network devices. The network device targeted for control comprises service that provides information for the controlling network device to perform control to the controller, and the information exchange protocol processing part.
US07912927B2
Automation of actions on a server system (e.g., web server, FTP server) is facilitated by a server system that is ready for actions to be performed upon it. Because there are scenarios when a server system is not in a state to be acted upon (e.g., web page changed due to navigation, script execution, asynchronous request through dynamic web extensions), an automated action needs to be synchronized to when then server system is in a ready state for that action to occur. A wait-for-ready state can be initiated that detects when a server system is ready for a next action.
US07912926B2
A method for changing network configuration parameters that includes generating a request to change a network configuration parameter by a user, determining whether the user is allowed to change the network configuration parameter using a network configuration database, if the user is allowed to change the network configuration parameter, updating the network configuration database to reflect the change in the network configuration parameter, updating a container associated with the network configuration parameter to reflect the change in the configuration parameter, and if the user is not allowed to change the network configuration parameter, dropping the request.
US07912925B2
A method includes receiving, from a user, publication data to be published and location data identifying a storage location at which an image to be associated with the publication data is stored. The image to be included in the publication data is retrieved from the storage location identified by the location data. A reduced-size image using the retrieved image is generated and the reduced-size image is aggregated with further reduced-size images for presentation at a remote site.
US07912915B1
A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a web page. For the story line, the system may receive objects that tell a story according to the story line and successively provide the objects on the web page for predetermined or random amounts of time. For the special event company logo, the system may modify a standard company logo for a special event to create a special event logo, associate one or more search terms with the special event logo, and upload the special event logo to the web page. The system may then receive a user selection of the special event logo and provide search results relating to the special event.
US07912913B2
A method, system, and program for facilitating presentation and monitoring of electronic mail messages with reply by constraints are provided. Within a network environment, a server receives electronic mail messages with separate selected reply by dates, wherein each electronic mail message is addressed for delivery by the server to at least one particular recipient. The server enables, for display within a user interface accessible to the particular recipient, a separate record for each electronic mail message within an inbox. The inbox include at least one selectable sublevel, wherein upon selection of the particular selectable sublevel of the inbox, only a selection of records for electronic mail messages with a same reply by date as the selectable sublevel are displayed within the user interface.
US07912911B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for dynamically modifying at least one connection parameter between a client and a server connected via a network and thereby increasing throughput rate between the server and the client are provided.The method comprises determining a first parameter value based on one or more characteristics of the network and a connection between the client and the server. The method further comprises determining whether a second parameter value encoded in a connection parameter field of the first packet received from the client is optimum based on a comparison with the first parameter value and overwriting the second parameter value with the first parameter value, if the second parameter value is not optimum.
US07912904B2
A system and method for displaying electronic messages is disclosed that includes receiving a query from a requestor and transmitting the query to a conversation management system. A number electronic messages are received from the conversation management system, each message having a unique message identifier. A number of conversations are generated from the messages such that each conversation includes a unique subset of the messages and a respective conversation identifier. A list of conversations is selected from the number of conversations in accordance with a predefined query. The list of conversations is displayed in an order determined in accordance with predefined criteria. Each conversation is displayed as a single item in the list.
US07912898B2
A system and method is provided for enabling respondents at their computer systems to connect via a browser with a server computer over a network, such as the Internet, and receive an initial set of survey questions on one or more pages during which primary images are downloaded into the browser's cache but are not presented to each respondent as they are each displayed into a small (e.g. 1 by 1) pixel area on display of the respondent's computer system and thus are not detectable by respondents. After receiving answers to such questions for each of the respondents, the server computer directs the browser of each respondent computer with at least one survey question in which the primary image is displayed from the browser's cache for a brief interval of time to the respondent, and the respondent answers the question with respect to the primary image. Different survey questions may be presented to the respondent having different timed displayed primary images. The results of the survey questions and the answers after each timed displayed primary image are registered at the server computer. The primary images may be images of store shelves of different product packages, advertisements, or product having different features, in which the questions relate to recall or findability of a target element, such as a product package, a feature of an advertisement, or a product feature, respectively, in the primary image.
US07912896B2
A data access, replication or communications system is distributed across a terminal-side executable running on a terminal and a server-side executable. Together the terminal-side executable and the server-side executable form a client to a larger server and collaborate by sending messages using a message queuing system over a network. The larger server can be, for example, a mail server. Splitting the client into a terminal-side executable and a server-side executable allows a terminal, such as mobile device with limited processing capacity, power, and connectivity, to enjoy the functionality of full-featured client access to a server environment using minimum resources on the mobile device by distributing some of the functionality normally associated with the client onto the server side executable, which is not so resource constrained.
US07912886B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for performing modular exponentiation. The method includes loading a first word of a vector from memory into a first register and subsequently loading the first word from the first register to a second register. The method may also include loading a second word into the first register and loading at least one bit from the second register into an arithmetic logic unit. The method may further include performing modular exponentiation on the at least one bit to generate a result and generating a public key based upon, at least in part, the result. Of course, many alternatives, variations and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07912879B2
Embodiments of the invention are methods for applying clothoid curve values to roadways in a geographic data information system. One embodiment is a method, comprising: selecting database segments in the geographic data information system, wherein the database segments describe roadways; determining segment chains from the selected database segments; preparing the segment chains for transition to curvature space; transitioning to a curvature function in the curvature space, by computing heading change at points along the segment chain, resulting in a transformation of the segment chains into clothoids; smoothing the curvature function; fitting the smoothed curvature function with a more generalized form which remains within a selected tolerance of the smoothed curvature function; and storing identified segments of straight lines, transition zones, and segments of constant curvature in the geographic data information system.
US07912878B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for storing messages in a directory executing in a data processing system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A message is received over a network and identified in the directory. A base message entry that corresponds to the message is selected in a hierarchy of entries in the directory. A message instance entry for the message is created, such that the message instance entry becomes a child entry of the base message entry in the hierarchy.
US07912873B2
A multitier topology map describes a multitier compute infrastructure. The multitier topology map identifies components from at least two different tiers of the multitier compute infrastructure and indicates relationships between components including at least one cross-tier relationship between components. An interface module accesses the multitier topology map.
US07912870B2
A database of data can be leveraged to automatically generate profiles for use in modeling. The data may be specific to one or more domains and/or general to multiple domains. A mapping scheme is established to map structure of the database to a structure of a profile. The mapping scheme is read and the database is read in accordance with the mapping scheme to automatically generate one or more profiles.
US07912869B1
A computer-based database processing system contains a database, as well as a number of other components, including one or more user applications and an application interface which communicates data to and from each user application. An entity manager communicates data to and from the application interface, while a constraint manager communicates data to and from the application interface. An attribute description manager communicates data to and from the application interface, and a component manager communicates data to and from the entity manager, the constraint manager, the attribute description manager, and the database. A free space manager transmits data to and from the component packet manager and the database.
US07912863B1
A set of syntactic extensions that are compiled with a type-directed translation method to facilitate lifting member access on base types to a newly constructed type. The extensions are processed with a type system that facilitates seamless data access to relational and semi-structured data in an object oriented host language.
US07912859B2
An information processing apparatus includes a document information storage unit that stores a derivation relationship designating a first document as a parent and a second document generated after an operation as a child, and an operator that performed the operation; an organization information storage unit that stores a structure of an organization hierarchy and members belonging to each of organizations; and a document output permission/prohibition determination unit that, upon receiving a document output request, determines whether or not to permit output of the requested document, by checking an operator of the requested document or an operator of a document corresponding to an ancestor of the requested document in a tree structure of the derivation relationships against members belonging to an organization including a requesting person as a member or an organization being located at a higher level than the organization including the requesting person in the organization hierarchy.
US07912858B2
The invention concerns a method of synchronizing a distributed system comprising a server (2) having a master data base (21) and a set of clients (31 to 35) having respective client data bases (41 to 45), as well as a server and a computer program product for executing this method. The client data bases (41 to 45) are incrementally updated from the master-data base (21) of the server (2). A trace of transaction (22) is maintained at the server (2) for recovery. The server (2) synchronizes the client data bases (41 to 45) in case of a failure by coordinated rollback transactions from the trace (22).
US07912835B2
A method system and program for performing a query in which context and information including opcodes accompanies an execution plan for the query. The opcodes determine operations to retrieve a set of bind variables. The execution plan and context information shared by a plurality of application programs.
US07912828B2
A computer-based method for identifying patterns in computer text using structures defining types of patterns which are to be identified, wherein a structure comprises one or more definition items, the method comprising assigning a weighting to each structure and each definition item; searching the computer text for a pattern to be identified on the basis of a particular structure, a pattern being provisionally identified if it matches the definition given by said particular structure; in a provisionally identified pattern, determining those of the definition items making up said particular structure that have been identified in the provisionally identified pattern; combining the weightings of the determined definition items and optionally, the weighting of the particular structure, to a single quantity; assessing whether the single quantity fulfils a given condition; depending on the result of said assessment, rejecting or confirming the provisionally identified pattern.
US07912826B2
To construct an ontology for a target data by re-using an existing ontology, from an aspect of the structure of the class hierarchy according to an object-oriented method and an aspect of the levels of relevance with other properties, the properties that correspond to the data items in the data serving as an ontology construction target and the extraction classes of the properties are determined as property extraction destination candidates for the ontology to be constructed. As a result, it is possible to re-use even a fine difference in the meanings among the properties in the classes. Consequently, it is possible to provide a support for constructing an effective ontology, while reducing the load on the user.
US07912816B2
In one embodiment, input is received from a user defining a classification and an analytic for the classification. Multiple classifications and analytics may be defined by a user. A definition of relevance parameters is determined that characterize the classification and a set of analytics measures associated with the analytic. The definition may be for the classification. Unstructured data and structured data are analyzed based on the definition of the relevance parameters to determine relevant data in the unstructured data and the structured data. The relevant data being data that is determined to be relevant to the classification defined by the user. An index of the terms from the relevant data is determined. The index is useable by an analytics tool to provide results for queries of the unstructured data and structured data. The query may be used within the classification such that targeted results are provided using the index and the relevant data to the classification. Thus, queries from different classifications may be performed efficiently using data determined to be relevant to the classification.
US07912815B1
A monitoring server remotely communicates with a storage server in order to monitor utilization of storage space of a write out-of-place file system on the storage server, the file system including a persistent point-in-time image (PPI) of its active file system, the PPI including at least part of the active file system, but does not duplicate said part of the active file system.
US07912814B2
A storage system includes a first storage node and a second storage node. The first storage node has a first logical unit to which a first target is set, and the second storage node has a second logical unit.To migrate data from the first logical unit to the second logical unit, the first storage node forwards data stored in the first logical unit to the second storage node, and the second storage node stores the data into the second logical unit. The first storage node also forwards information about the first target to the second storage node, and the second storage node sets a target to the second logical unit using the received information.
US07912811B2
A computer-based system for collaborative editing of documents has a computer-based control module and computerized workstations. The system has a database connected to the control module that stores a document in the database as linked character objects. Each character object represents one particular character of the document, includes a unique object identifier, and represents a type of the particular character. The character object represents the particular character being linked to a first character object representing a character preceding directly the particular character in the document and to a second character object representing a character following directly the particular character in the document. The control module receives and processes editing commands. The system has a propagation module for transmitting propagation messages to the workstations participating in the collaborative editing of the document, propagation messages including the character objects inserted or deleted in the database.
US07912809B2
A method, system, and interface for managing data in a manufacturing enterprise that provides a visual indication of projected results of currant activities. Method includes collecting multi-dimensional data comprising planned values and dynamically updated actual values, processing the values, projecting future events based on records of present and past events and comparison between the planned values and the processed actual values, and displaying an extrapolated status report indicating discrepancies between the planned values and the actual values. The system includes the interface comprising dynamically updated two-dimensional graphic display, a first dimension attribute corresponding to a preset interval of first dimension value from a present first dimension value onward, an array of second dimension attributes, sets of feature attributes that are associated with the second dimension attributes and presented as data in graphic or alphanumeric forms. The sets are located substantially within boundaries of the second dimension attributes.
US07912804B1
A method for providing change management in a distributed system is provided. The method includes compiling a policy for change management in the distributed system, the policy includes at least one policy rule based on an event-condition-action (ECA) framework with a pre-condition and a post-condition to an action in the policy rule, wherein the pre-condition is separate from a condition of the policy rule and indicates a prior condition in the distributed system that enables the action, and the post-condition indicates a subsequent condition in the distributed system that results from the action; receiving at least one event indicating a change in the distributed system; determining that the at least one received event triggers the at least one policy rule; generating a workflow to manage the change in the distributed system based on the at least one triggered policy rule; and initiating one or more actuators in the distributed system to dynamically configure or deploy components in the distributed system to execute the workflow.
US07912795B2
Predictive models are developed automatically for a plurality of modeling variables. The plurality of modeling variables is transformed, based on a transformation rule. A clustering of the transformed modeling variables is performed to create variable clusters. A set of variables is selected from the variable clusters based on a selection rule. A regression of the set of variables is performed to determine prediction variables. The prediction variables are utilized in developing a predictive model. The development of the predictive model may include modification of the predictive model, review of the plurality of transformations, and validation of the predictive model.
US07912792B2
Systems and methods for generating margin sensitive pricing quotation in an integrated price adjustment system including: a) selecting products in selected product sets; b) providing pricing data corresponding to the products in selected product sets; c) providing guidance elements for products in selected product sets wherein guidance elements are margin sensitive; d) calculating guidance prices for products based upon guidance elements; e) selecting one of either pricing data or guidance prices; and f) generating a quotation based upon selections made such that margin sensitive pricing adjustments are incorporated into quotations. In some example embodiments, the present invention further includes providing predetermined suggestions for modifying the quotation.
US07912787B2
There are provided an information processing apparatus and a license distribution system including the information processing apparatus in which the reproduction or duplication of a content can be limited to the interior of a domain and a benefit based on the fact that an external device has participated in the domain can be made available at the time of reissuing a license.A reproducing device 1 transmits a request for reissuing the license for permitting the reproduction of the content in the domain, and participation information (S201). A server 2 receives the request for reissuing the license and the participation information (S202), and confirms validity of the transmitted participation information (S203). When the validity of the participation information is confirmed, the server 2 determines information on a specific privilege related to the license, transmits the information to the external device (S206), and reissues the license (S210).
US07912777B2
The present invention provides a system and method for facilitating a bid transaction over a computerized network using a rewards account balance from any type of cash rewards program. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a participant applies rewards from their rewards account to bid on items in a closed online auction over a computerized network such as the internet. The online auction is open only to participants of a sponsoring or participating cash rewards program and only bids made with accumulated cash rewards are accepted. Further, the present invention provides a system and method for facilitating online management of a rewards account by the participant.
US07912771B2
A computer program that can be installed on a web server to assemble web pages that can be accessed over the Internet by password to prepare financial planning reports for a client. The program takes gross income, subtracts income taxes, subtracts all money put into savings programs, and whatever is left is what the client spends in a given year or month. It further itemizes and subtracts the monthly payments for debt service since these items will be fully amortized or paid off at some point in the future and should not be included in baseline living expenses that will continue through a person's lifetime. The balance left after these calculations are completed represents the individual's current annual living expenses or standard of living that needs to be sustained throughout their lifetime with adjustments for inflation. The program can produce three major reports: (1) an income and expense report; (2) an asset and liability report or balance sheet; and (3) a cash flow report that shows all of items that impact cash flow on a year by year basis throughout the rest of the individual or client's lifetime. If there are cash flow shortfalls in any year, the program uses a two step present value calculation to determine how much the individual would need in a lump sum today or contribute monthly or annually to provide sufficient funds in the year needed to fill the shortfall.
US07912759B2
A system and method for providing a subscription-based, electronic signage advertisement service to retailers may include establishing a retailer as a subscriber for use of an electronic display. A subscription agreement may enable the retailer to use the electronic display and receive communications services for content to be distributed to the electronic display. The electronic display may be provided to the retailer and configured to receive and display the content by configuring the electronic display as a network node for content to be distributed. The content may be stored in a data repository and distributed to the electronic display at the retailer. The content may be distributed via a communications network to the electronic display and displayed at the retailer.
US07912758B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request to display at least one product. A substitute product for the at least one product is selected from a plurality of substitute products. The selection may be based on, for example, expected revenue from display of the selected substitute product, expected revenue for purchase of the selected substitute product, or a substitution success rate. The selected substitute product is then displayed.
US07912738B1
A pension insurance plan method governs the establishing and administering of a loan premium towards a 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 borrower-participant and ensures that the full plan account balance passes intact to beneficiary in such event.
US07912736B2
A method and a system for optimizing hospital beds and ambulance allocations via a computer network are provided. The method and the system determine the status of emergency rooms and/or the status of beds in emergency rooms of hospitals via a computer network. The system and the method allocate emergency rooms and/or the beds in the emergency rooms of the hospitals to ambulances and/or ambulance services. The system and the method diverts or bypasses patients to emergency rooms of other hospitals for medical treatment.
US07912733B2
A system, program product, and methods related to enhanced medical services delivery to geographically distributed patient populations by remotely located physicians are provided. An embodiment of the system includes a remote medical services server, a plurality of patient electronic medical records stored in the memory of the remote medical services server, and a remote medical services program product stored in the memory of the remote medical services server adapted to access the plurality of patient electronic medical records to thereby allow display of and data entry in a selected patient electronic medical record. A patient medical service delivery station captures patient video images and displays remote physician video images. A remote physician medical service delivery suite in communication with the patient medical service delivery station through the communications network captures remote physician video images and displays patient video images and patient electronic medical records, to allow the remote physician to perform remote patient medical service delivery.
US07912726B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to a system and method for providing speech-enabled application programs. The speech-enabled programs automatically execute requests input by users. One or more natural language variants may be mapped with at least one natural language exemplar. The natural language exemplar may correspond to a typical way to express a request relevant to the speech-enabled application program. The natural language variant may correspond to an alternative way of expressing the same request. A recognized input string is received and a prospective variant that most resembles the received recognized input string is selected from the natural language variants. The natural language exemplar mapped to the prospective variant is identified. An action instruction associated with the identified natural language exemplar is executed to fulfill the user's request.
US07912721B2
A system and method for automatic recognition of foreign speakers by performing analysis of a speech sample to produce a signal representative thereof and attempting to match the representative signal to one of a plurality of predetermined sounds to produce recognition; and determining whether a gap exists in a table of predetermined sounds in a predetermined language and, if a gap exists, substituting for matching a sound from a position in the table near the gap. This automatic substitution of known foreign pronunciation characteristics improves and modifies the output from standard, monolingual automatic speech recognition. There is no requirement to implement either adaptation or to impose additional manual modification of the baseform pool on the application developer. In addition, the danger of increased ambiguity is removed by introducing an explicit accent and/or language checker which queries known differences across accents.
US07912711B2
There is disclosed a speech processing device in which prediction taps for finding prediction values of the speech of high sound quality are extracted from the synthesized sound obtained on affording linear prediction coefficients and residual signals, generated from a preset code, to a speech synthesis filter, speech of high sound quality being higher in sound quality than the synthesized sound, and in which the prediction taps are used along with preset tap coefficients to perform preset predictive calculations to find the prediction values of the speech of high sound quality. The speech of high sound quality is higher in sound quality than the synthesized sound. The device includes a prediction tap extracting unit (45) for extracting, from the synthesized sound, the prediction taps used for predicting the speech of high sound quality, as target speech, the prediction values of which are to be found, and a class tap extraction unit (46) for extracting class taps, used for classifying the target speech to one of a plurality of classes, from the above code. The device also includes a classification unit (47) for finding the class of the target speech based on the class taps, acquisition unit for acquiring the tap coefficients associated with the class of the target speech from among the tap coefficients as found on learning from class to class, and a prediction unit (49) for finding the prediction values of the target speech using the prediction taps and the tap coefficients associated with the class of the target speech.
US07912710B2
A method for changing reproduction speed of speech sound, includes the steps of: storing an input sound signal in a buffer; leaving a sound signal from the buffer as it is or extending the sound signal from the buffer in a sound section where a power of the input sound signal exceeds a threshold value; leaving the sound signal from the buffer as it is, compressing the sound signal from the buffer, or extending the sound signal from the buffer, in a no-sound section, so that the reproduction speed of speech sound is changed; wherein a speech head protection section is set prior to the sound section being set to be a storing amount of the buffer limited by a designated limited value; and compression or deletion of the sound signal is adjusted by a compression ratio or prevented if there is the sound section in the speech head protection section, so that speech head protection is performed.
US07912702B2
An intelligent query system for processing voiced-based queries is disclosed, which uses a combination of both statistical and semantic based processing to identify the question posed by the user by understanding the meaning of the user's utterance. Based on identifying the meaning of the utterance, the system selects a single answer that best matches the user's query. The answer that is paired to this single question is then retrieved and presented to the user. The system, as implemented, accepts environmental variables selected by the user and is scalable to provide answers to a variety and quantity of user-initiated queries.
US07912698B2
The invention relates to a method for automatically analyzing data and constructing data classification models based on the data. In an embodiment of the method, the method includes selecting a best combination of methods from a plurality of classification, predictor selection, and data preparatory methods; and determining a best model that corresponds to one or more best parameters of the classification, predictor selection, and data preparatory methods for the data to be analyzed. The best model; and returning a small set of predictors sufficient for the classification task.
US07912696B1
A natural language processing apparatus includes an input section for inputting natural language, a representation converting section for converting representation of the natural language, a display section for displaying, for confirmation, sentence converted at the representation converting section, a machine translation section for carrying out machine translation of the confirmed sentence, and a control section for controlling these respective sections, thus to provide natural language processing in which confirmation operation of user is reduced.
US07912695B2
Simulation techniques for measuring the performance of J2EE applications are described. Simulation models for J2EE systems are generated which utilize one or more simulation components comprising queuing centers. The queuing centers employ logic to emulate J2EE thread models by locking on threads when messages are received by simulation components and waiting to unlock until a response is received from every subsequent component in the system. Additionally, simulation components which correspond to J2EE system components running on java virtual machines employ logic which emulates overhead introduced during memory allocation and garbage collection. The simulation models are also utilized during software development in a continuous performance evaluation process which gives feedback at each software development stage based on simulations run using the models described.
US07912694B2
According to a method of simulation processing, one or more HDL source files describing a digital design including a plurality of hierarchically arranged design entities are received. The one or more HDL source files include one or more statements instantiating a plurality of print events within the plurality of hierarchically arranged design entities, where each print event has an associated message and at least one associated signal in the digital design. The one or more HDL source files are processed to obtain a simulation executable model including a data structure describing the plurality of print events defined for the simulation executable model and associating each of the plurality of print events with its respective associated signal.
US07912683B2
The tire transient response data obtained while cornering with a slip angle is calculated based on a tire dynamic model. The deformation response of a tread part in the tire dynamic is set as a first-order-lag response. The value of the transient response parameter is initialized in order to define the first-order-lag response. The time-series data of the transient response of the slip angle between the tread part and the road surface in the tire dynamic model is obtained by computing the convolution integral of the defined response function of the first-order-lag response with a time gradient of the time-series data of the slip angle. The value of a lateral force is calculated by using the tire dynamic model based on the time-series data of the transient response of the slip angle thus obtained. Accordingly, the transient response data is calculated and the value of the transient response parameter is obtained.
US07912676B2
A system for detecting abnormal operation of at least a portion of a process plant includes a model to model at least the portion of the process plant. The model may be configurable to include multiple regression models corresponding to multiple different operating regions of the portion of the process plant. The system may also include a deviation detector configured to determine if the actual operation of the portion of the process plant deviates significantly from the operation predicted by the model. If there is a significant deviation, this may indicate an abnormal operation.
US07912675B2
A system for analyzing steam trap data includes a steam trap monitoring device operable to monitor a parameter of a steam trap, transform the parameter into data, and transmit the data to a computer; and includes a computer operable to receive the data, the computer including an algorithm for evaluating the data. A method of analyzing steam trap data includes the steps of: providing a steam trap monitoring device operable to monitor a parameter of a steam trap, transform the parameter into data, and transmit data to a computer, and providing a computer operable to receive the data, the computer including an algorithm for evaluating the data; using the steam trap monitoring device to monitor a parameter of a steam trap, transform the parameter into data, and transmit the data to the computer; and using the computer to receive the data, and evaluate the data with the algorithm.
US07912674B2
A method for processing a chronological sequence of measurements of a time dependent parameter measured in or on a human body, in particular of a physiological glucose concentration, and a system thereof are disclosed. A database stores a plurality of chronological sequences of measurements of the time dependent parameter and computing and display equipment graphically displays on a user interface display at least three of the measurements of a stored sequence simultaneously. The method as well as the system enable a patient to improve self-management skills concerning a therapy that affects the behavior of the parameter.
US07912668B2
A system and method for determining the true electrical characteristics of a device. A codec is configured to measure at least one electrical characteristic of a device connected to a jack and to identify the device based on the measured electrical characteristics. An updateable database is populated with application circuit information and a software routine is responsive to the measured electrical characteristic and configured to adjust the electrical characteristics measured by the codec based on the application circuit information in the database.
US07912663B2
Disclosed is a method of improving the recognition of a tire pressure loss in a tire pressure monitoring system in which at least one reference value (A) is formed on the basis of signals representing the rotational speeds of several vehicle wheels. A pressure loss is concluded by comparing a currently determined reference value with at least one reference value if the currently determined reference value exceeds or falls short of a predefined value. A noise analysis of the reference value(s) (101) is executed and at least one threshold value (T, S) is adjusted (108) based on the result of the noise analysis (102).
US07912658B2
Systems and methods for determining two or more characteristics of a wafer are provided. The two or more characteristics include a characteristic of the wafer that is spatially localized in at least one dimension and a characteristic of the wafer that is not spatially localized in two dimensions.
US07912656B2
A system and method for providing amplitude spectroscopy is provided. Generally, the system contains a generator for providing a waveform for analysis of a multilevel quantum system, wherein the generator has the capability of changing amplitude of the waveform provided and driving the multilevel quantum system at a fixed frequency while sweeping amplitude. A detector is also provided for reading population in different energy states of the multilevel quantum system, wherein the detector plots an amplitude spectroscopy response of the multilevel quantum system. A memory and processor are provided within the system where the processor is configured by the memory to perform the step of plotting an energy-level diagram of the multilevel quantum system from the amplitude spectroscopy plot of the multilevel quantum system.
US07912654B2
A computer readable medium comprising atomic coordinates for the human β2 adrenoreceptor is provided. The computer readable medium programming for displaying a molecular model of the human β2 adrenoreceptor, programming for identifying a compound that binds to said human β2 adrenoreceptor and/or a database of structures of known test compounds. Also provided is a method comprising computationally identifying a compound that binds to the human β2 adrenoreceptor using the atomic coordinates.
US07912642B2
Traffic notification systems include a location determination system that is configured to determine a geographic location of a subscriber and an automated traffic notification system that is configured to automatically transmit a traffic notification message that is based on the geographic location of the subscriber to a wireless terminal that is associated with the subscriber.
US07912636B2
A navigation apparatus displays a trend of house number increase or house number decrease when a vehicle is traveling on a street from one intersection to another intersection. By displaying the trend of the house number increase or the house number decrease as a clue of currently traveling position of the vehicle, the navigation apparatus makes it possible for a driver of the vehicle to easily understand where the driver is going and/or where the driver is traveling.
US07912635B2
The present invention aims to provide a technique that can download traffic information in a more efficient manner, in a navigation system including a traffic information distribution server and a terminal unit. The information distribution server narrows down possible traffic information to be used for processing at the terminal unit before downloading the information to the unit. For example, the traffic information distribution server may include a traffic information obtaining unit for obtaining traffic information pertaining to a link configuring a route or the periphery of the link (e.g., mesh area including the link), and to a predicted running duration of the link; and a sending unit for downloading the obtained traffic information to the terminal unit. The server or the terminal unit may narrow down the object for download.
US07912634B2
A map user interlace is described, including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a map, and a location marker placed at the selected location on the map upon receiving a placement request indicating selection of a selected location for placement of a location marker.
US07912632B2
A navigation system stores setting record information related to places designated as destination or reached place. The setting record information includes setting frequencies with which corresponding places were designated. A control unit searches a map database for places meeting a keyword inputted by a user and causes a display unit to present the places in the descending order of their corresponding setting frequencies in the stored setting record information. The user then selects as a destination a certain place from the presented places. The control unit stores the selected certain place to update the setting record information. Thus, the names of places meeting the keyword inputted are directly displayed in the descending order of the setting frequency with which they have been designated in the past. Therefore, the user need not perform an operation to hierarchically select a desired place by region or facility name.
US07912622B2
A fuel injection amount learning and controlling method capable of learning the amount of fuel injection independent of whether accessories are operated or not and without being affected by environmental conditions such as coolant temperature. The fuel injection amount learning and controlling method obtains, using an idle injection amount standard value as the standard, a fuel injection amount learning value so that the speed of an internal combustion engine (1) is a target idle speed. The method has a learning correction function that obtains in advance a relationship between load by accessories (3, 4) driven by the engine (1) and a fuel injection incremental amount that is due to the load imposed by the accessories (3, 4) and is relative to a no-load condition as the standard. To obtain the fuel amount learning value, the learning correction function measures the load by the accessories (3,4), derives a fuel injection incremental amount relative to the measured load, and corrects the idle injection amount standard value by using he incremental amount.
US07912618B2
A battery protection system is provided in a vehicle having an ignition system for selectively starting and stopping an engine of the vehicle and an electrical system including an electrical load and a battery that selectively delivers electric current to said load via a first device that protects said load from receiving excessive current. The battery protection system includes: a second device that selectively connects and disconnects the load from the battery; and a controller that controls said second device in response to a detected number of ignition cycles.
US07912616B2
A work machine gear shifting control device is capable of readily identifying the cause of failure in learning the clutch hydraulic pressure for operating a transmission clutch. A transmission gear shifting control section 46 is provided for each of clutches 61-65, and performs a learning process in which each of a plurality of handling processes learns the clutch hydraulic pressure for each of the clutches 61-65 and determines the clutch hydraulic pressure characteristic values for operating the individual clutches. Further, the transmission gear shifting control section 46 performs a learning monitoring process in each of the plurality of handling processes to formulate an error judgment, which indicates whether learning has failed in each of the plurality of subprocesses, and displays the result of the judgment.
US07912608B2
An arrangement for triggering a motor vehicle safety device. The arrangement incorporates a proximity sensor (1) which is configured to provide a proximity signal related to the distance to an object and/or the relative speed between the object and the sensor (1). The arrangement also includes an accelerometer (2) and a first processing unit (3) which is configured to perform an arming algorithm on signals received from the proximity sensor (1) and the accelerometer (2). A second processing unit (6) is provided to perform a crash algorithm on signals received from the proximity sensor (1) and the accelerometer (2). The arrangement incorporates a logic gate (4) to generate a triggering signal (5) in response to simultaneous output of signals from the first processing unit (3) and the second processing unit (6).
US07912604B2
It is the purpose of the present invention to provide a method, apparatus and program for alarming abnormality in tire air-pressure capable of precisely detecting decrease in tire air-pressure even at actuation of air suspension in a vehicle equipped with air suspensions.The present invention discloses a method for alarming abnormality in tire air-pressure informing decrease in tire air-pressure mounted on a vehicle, comprising a step of judging whether loads applied on respective tires are changed by the influence of air suspensions based on the difference of the heights of strokes between left wheel and right wheel in a vehicle equipped with the air suspensions and affect the rotational wheel speeds of tires or not, and increasing threshold for carrying out the judgment of decrease in tire air-pressure when the air suspensions provide influence.
US07912601B2
A diagnostic tool for simultaneously communicating with a plurality of motor vehicle control units and implements at least two different communication protocols within a single motor vehicle. The diagnostic tool includes a processor and a field programmable gate array. The processor simultaneously executes a plurality of diagnostic routines and thereby provides messages to at least two of the plurality of motor vehicle control units. The field programmable gate array provides a selectable multiple protocol interface to simultaneously accommodating the at least two different communication protocols. The field programmable gate array is coupled between the plurality of motor vehicle control units and the processor. The selectable multiple protocol interface simultaneously converts the messages from the processor into a format readable by the selected motor vehicle control units and simultaneously converting received control unit information into a format readable by the processor.
US07912598B2
An apparatus and method are provided and include a formula server having formulas and conversion modules that are separate from a diagnostic application of a diagnostic tool. The diagnostic tool receives the diagnostic data and transmits it to a remote computer, where the data is converted using a formula. The resulting data is then transmitted back to the diagnostic tool for display.
US07912597B2
In an on-vehicle network diagnosis system, a master data storage stores master data, which includes reference connection information of a plurality of electronic control apparatuses with respect to an on-vehicle network. Current connection information of the plurality of electronic control apparatuses with respect to the on-vehicle network is obtained based on a response, which is transmitted from the plurality of electronic control apparatuses in reply to a response request. A validity of a connecting state of the plurality of electronic control apparatuses relative to the on-vehicle network is diagnosed by comparing the current connection information with the master data and thereby determining whether the current connection information matches with the master data.
US07912594B2
A surveillance system detects potential hazards and alerts the pilot to them. The alerts can be modified to indicate proximity to the predicted path of the aircraft. An autopilot receives instructions from a flight management system (FMS) regarding a planned path and is subject to constraints preempting the planned path. The surveillance system selects which of the planned and a constrained path will be followed for alerting and hazard coding purposes. Means are disclosed to determine when the constrained path will be followed by evaluating the current position of an aircraft, the planned path, and the constraint data.
US07912592B2
A system and method which implement automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) programs to permit pilots, co-pilots, and other persons to more quickly and easily perform control and monitoring tasks on aircraft. The system may be used to automatically change the frequency of an aircraft radio when a pilot or co-pilot is instructed to do so by ATC.
US07912589B2
The present disclosure relates to monitoring of electromechanical oscillations in electric power systems, and their identification by an adaptive algorithm based on a repeatedly measured and evaluated signal. In order for an estimation of parameters of a model of the power system to reasonably converge, proper initialization of the recursive calculation is required, including the definition of tuning parameters constraining the model and the calculation. Initialization for a second signal to be exploited can then be simplified by copying the set of tuning parameters tuned previously for a different signal. A conditioning gain multiplying the second signal establishes compatibility between the different signals, and a signal pre-filter in turn discards contributions beyond a frequency band comprising typical electromagnetic oscillations.
US07912583B2
An environment map building method and an environment map building apparatus can express the surrounding embodiment with a high resolution in the height direction in a manner robust relative to observation noises. The present invention provides an environment map building apparatus for building a three-dimensional environment map to be used for three-dimensionally determining a region allowing a moving body to move therein according to external environment conditions, which comprises an external environment conditions detecting section that detects external environment conditions, a three-dimensional map building section that builds a three-dimensional map showing the state of occupancy of a three-dimensional grid on the basis of the external environment conditions detected by the external environment conditions detecting section, a relative-to-base-plane height map building section that builds a relative-to-base-plane height map showing heights from a two-dimensional base plane on the basis of the external environment conditions detected by the external environment conditions detecting section, and a height map information modifying section that modifies the information of the relative-to-base-plane height map on the basis of the information on the three-dimensional map.
US07912582B1
A self-contained, fully automated system for dispensing medicants into vials. Prescriptions are entered using a built-in workstation. Vials of several sizes are each contained in preloaded cassettes. Upon command from a computer, a vial is released and labeled with the prescription information. A robotic system moves the labeled vial to the output chute of one of many automated dispensing units that has previously been commanded to count a predetermined number of tablets, pills, or capsules. The filled vial is robotically moved to an optional capping station where a cap is applied if needed. The vial is then moved to an output region where it is sorted with other prescriptions for a customer. The prescription may be checked using the built-in computer workstation. Optionally, the automated dispensing system may be linked to pharmacy control software.
US07912571B2
The shape of a leather sheet is inputted though a digitizer. The shape of the leather sheet is disposed inside a rectangle, and dummy parts are arranged around the leather sheet. Assuming the dummy parts as arranged parts, other parts are blocked and other parts are arranged inside the shape of the leather sheet. Attributes such as the orientation and presence/absence of the scratch are added to the shape data on the leather sheet, and parts are so arranged as to match the orientation and scratch allowability suited to the parts. Even a patterning device which handles only a rectangular shape can produce patterns on a sheet of irregular shape such as a leather sheet.
US07912561B2
A system for monitoring an industrial process and taking action based on the results of process monitoring. Actions taken may include process control, paging, voicemail, and input for e-enterprise systems. The system includes an input module for receiving a plurality of parameters from a process for manufacture of a substance or object. The system also includes a library module. The library module includes a plurality of computer aided processes. Any one of the computer aided processes is capable of using each of the plurality of parameters to compare at least two of the plurality of parameters against a training set of parameters. The training set of parameters is generally predetermined. The computer aided process is also capable of determining if the at least two of the plurality of parameters are within a predetermined range of the training set of parameters. Additionally, the system includes an output module for outputting a result based upon the training set and the plurality of parameters.
US07912557B1
A cardio electrotherapy lead is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the lead includes a tubular body, a conductor cable and an electrode. The conductor cable longitudinally extends through the tubular body and includes a distal end. The electrode is located on the tubular body and includes an attachment mechanism mechanically coupling the lead distal end to the electrode.
US07912545B2
A tachyarrhythmia detection and classification system classifies tachyarrhythmias based on an analysis of morphological features of a cardiac signal enhanced by using one or more physiological parameters indicative of hemodynamic stability and/or activity level. The tachyarrhythmia detection and classification system computes a measure of similarity between an arrhythmic waveform of the cardiac signal, a template waveform for that cardiac signal, such as a correlation coefficient representative of the correlation between morphological features of the arrhythmic waveform and morphological features of the template waveform. A detected tachyarrhythmia episode is classified by comparing the measure of similarity to a threshold that is dynamically adjusted using the one or more physiological parameters.
US07912542B2
Methods and systems, including computer readable mediums, are provided for transforming a measurement made relative to a first reference frame into a corresponding measurement relative to a second reference frame. Sensor signals that are produced by sensors in response to the sensors' motion relative to the first reference frame are transformed using a transformation matrix. The transformation generates corrected sensor signals that are relative to the axes of the second reference frame.
US07912540B2
An article of clothing is provided for selectively destroying dividing cells in living tissue formed of dividing cells and non-dividing cells. The dividing cells contain polarizable intracellular members and during late anaphase or telophase, the dividing cells are connected to one another by a cleavage furrow. The article of clothing includes insulated electrodes to be coupled to a generator for subjecting the living tissue to electric field conditions sufficient to cause movement of the polarizable intracellular members toward the cleavage furrow in response to a non-homogeneous electric field being induced in the dividing cells. The non-homogeneous electric field produces an increased density electric field in the region of the cleavage furrow. The movement of the polarizable intracellular intracellular members towards the cleavage furrow causes the breakdown thereof which adversely impacts the multiplication of the dividing cells.
US07912527B2
A medical imaging apparatus for imaging subcutaneous body temperature that comprises a detector (22) for sensing millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation and a collector for collecting radiation emitted from a patient's body and directing it along a collection path (20) to the detector. The collector is configured so that the collected radiation has a defined sensitivity profile across and along substantially the entire length of that path. The collected radiation may have a Gaussian or a Bessel sensitivity profile.
US07912526B2
A system for detecting and analyzing electrical activity in the anatomy of an organism underlying an electrode array provides signals corresponding to electrical activity adjacent each electrode. Such signals are correlated to the underlying anatomy of the organism and representative outputs presented through various types of output devices. Such outputs may include variations in coloration or other qualities in correspondence with representations of underlying anatomical structures. The system includes electrode structures and methods for producing and attaching electrode arrays to the organism. The exemplary form of the invention is used in connection with the diagnosis of muscle activity in the lower lumbar regions of humans. Levels of muscle activity detected are analyzed by correlation with the muscular structures underlying the electrode array. Forms of the invention may be used in other applications.
US07912521B2
A mobile terminal having a first body, a second body pivotally attached to the first body, the second body being movable between an open and a closed position, and an input device at an exterior surface of the mobile phone that is exposed when the second body is in the closed position. The input device being located on located on the first body and includes a roller member and at least one button adjacent the roller member. Alternatively, the input device is located on the pivot portion.
US07912516B2
The invention deals with a controlling device (22) for an electrical device such as for example a hearing aid (20). The hearing aid (20) includes a power supply (23) and a functional unit (21) controlled by the controlling device (22) via a reset signal (2). In order to reduce undesired behavior of the hearing aid in case of transients, brown-out or other oscillations of the input voltage (1), the controlling device (22) is built such that the functional unit (21) is resetted as long as the rising supply voltage (1) is lower than a startup threshold. Once the functional unit (21) is enabled, it remains enabled as long as the supply voltage (1) does not fall below a shutdown threshold where the shutdown threshold voltage is lower than the startup threshold voltage. This hysteresis is implemented via a reference generator (24) generating a constant reference voltage (27) and a modifiable voltage divider (28) which generates different output voltages (1.1) in dependency of the output of the comparator (25).
US07912509B2
A method for automatically switching an incoming call signal output mode in a mobile communication terminal is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining whether or not a present incoming call signal output mode is a vibration mode when receiving incoming call, driving a vibrator to output vibration if it is determined that the present incoming call signal output mode is set to the vibration mode, detecting an intensity of actual vibration of the terminal via a vibration detection sensor when the vibration is output, followed by calculating transfer energy using the intensity of the actual vibration on the terminal, and automatically switching the incoming call signal output mode from the vibration mode to a ringtone mode according to comparison of the calculated transfer energy with a reference value. With the method, a user can easily recognize the incoming call signal.
US07912508B2
A wireless communication device, such as a cellular telephone 2, and a method of displaying information on such a device are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the wireless communication device includes a primary exterior surface 6 having first and second dimensions 26, 28, and first and second secondary exterior surfaces 14, 16, 18, 20 each having at least one respective dimension 24 that is substantially less than each of the first and second dimensions. The first and second secondary exterior surfaces 14, 16, 18, 20 are substantially non-coplanar relative to one another and with respect to the primary exterior surface 6, and each of the first and second secondary exterior surfaces includes a respective display portion 8. In at least some additional embodiments, the display portions 8 are capable of displaying information 40 in a streaming manner, and/or capable of accepting input commands from an operator 42 when the operator touches the display portions.
US07912507B2
A base transceiver station (BTS) identifies the number of currently connected antenna units by receiving a signal to which 1 is added in each antenna unit via a signal line (16) connecting the antenna units (AU1 to AUn) in series. The target output power of each antenna unit, which is obtained by dividing the total target output power of the antenna units by the number of currently connected antenna units, is passed to each antenna unit via a signal line (14) connecting the antenna units in series. Each antenna unit controls the gain of a variable gain amplifier so that its output power becomes equal to the target output power.
US07912503B2
A universal smart interface and peripheral management system for portable devices such as mobile phones. The smart system includes a connector interface that connects peripherals to a phone and/or personal digital assistant (PDA), through the smart system. The smart system includes a cradle for receiving a cell phone and interfacing the phone to external systems such as peripherals, networks and other systems through a USB hub and other suitable connector interfaces. The peripheral devices to which the smart system can interface include, but are not limited to, large displays (e.g., television), external monitors, input devices such as mice and keyboards, external storage devices, and networks (wired and/or wireless). The smart system also facilitates connectivity to large display systems such as TVs, computer displays and monitors.
US07912492B2
Particular embodiments provide techniques for controlling power in a channel. The power being consumed in a channel may not always be fully used. For example, bursty or Aloha traffic may limit the power being used to transmit data in a channel. Thus, particular embodiments allow transceivers to increase the power used to transmit data in a channel. For example, many transceivers may be allowed to send data in a channel. If all transceivers were transmitting at once at an increased power level, the aggregate power level may be exceeded for the channel. All the transceivers may be allotted a fixed percentage of the aggregate power so as to guarantee not exceeding the power limit. However, not all transceivers may be using their allotted power at the same time. Thus, when the allotted aggregate power in the channel is not fully utilized, a transceiver may increase its traffic beyond its normal portion. For example, the transceiver may use a power-demanding high order modulation scheme to send data.
US07912491B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a base station (BS) operable to communicate with at least one mobile station (MS), wherein said base station is adapted to use a need-based common channel for the transmission of control messages to idle mode and sleep mode mobile stations.
US07912484B2
A system and method for providing zone-based personalized information to a user of mobile communication terminal located in a specific zone are presented. The system comprises a zone management system which acquires MIN information of a mobile communication terminal entering a specific zone, a zone information management server which receives the MIN information and zone identification information, requests location registration of the terminal to HLR and retrieves transmission information to be transferred to the terminal, and a SMS server which receives the transmission information and the MIN information from the zone information management server, gets location information of the terminal corresponding to the MIN information from the HLR, and transfers the transmission information and the MIN information to base station of the cell where the terminal is located. According to the system, distinct information according to the present location of the user can be provided for the user.
US07912479B2
The network system of the present invention comprises a plurality of base transceiver stations, a plurality of antenna systems, and a radio-channel connection controller. The radio-channel connection controller comprises a connection switching unit switching the connection between the plurality of base transceiver stations and the plurality of antenna systems, and a switching control unit controlling the connection switching of the connection switching unit according to a loaded state of the network.
US07912478B2
Admission control wireless resources including abase station which obtains a down wireless resource available rate based on a down QoS requested bandwidth Bi requested by a terminal i during QoS communication and a data rate Ri which the terminal can receive. A down wireless resource usage rate is obtained by dividing a down QoS requested bandwidth B requested by the terminal trying to perform QoS communication by the data rate R which the terminal can receive. An up wireless resource available rate is obtained based on ROT of an up channel and a threshold value T1 indicating an allowable upper limit of the ROT. The QoS communication is performed on the terminal in which the up and down wireless resource available rates are respectively equal to or more than the up and down wireless resource usage rates.
US07912477B2
A visited policy controlling device decides the amount of a visited network bearer resource that is provided by a visited user plane device for an end-to-end service based on the amount of a bearer service resource requested to be used in the end-to-end service. A home policy controlling device decides the amount of a core network bearer resource that a home gateway device provides for the end-to-end service based on the amount of the bearer service resource requested to be used in the end-to-end service. Further, a home policy controlling device performs processing to match the amount of the core network bearer resource decided by itself and the amount of the visited network bearer resource decided by visited policy controlling device, if they do not match.
US07912476B2
A method of controlling base stations that is capable of suppressing inter-cell interference and efficiently utilizing available resources. According to one aspect, information received on path loss from a terminal is used to determine a time region for the terminal based on the path loss information. Communication with the terminal is performed within the determined time region. According to another aspect, information received on path loss from a terminal is used to determine a frequency region for the terminal based on the path loss information. Communication with the terminal is performed within the determined frequency region. According to yet another aspect, information received on path loss from a terminal is used to determine a code region for the terminal based on the path loss information. Communication with the terminal is performed within the determined code region.
US07912472B2
The invention relates to management of radio resources allocated to communication channels each associated with requested QoS parameters in a mobile communication network, consisting of the following if there is a lack of resources when accepting a new channel request: a—identify (30, 35) channels that might be preempted and among them, select (40) the lowest priority channel using an associated priority level; b—evaluate (50, 55) the gain in resources obtained by at least partially reconfiguring it, said channel and said gain being memorized; c—check (70) if the gain achieved by memorized channels is sufficient to support said new request, d—repeat steps a to c: until the gain obtained is sufficient, in which case memorized channels are reconfigured and the new request is accepted (80), or until all channels that could be preempted have been evaluated without obtaining sufficient gain, in which case the new request is refused (90).
US07912471B2
A method, user equipment, network equipment and a system for initiating a wireless connection and subsequent communication over a shared physical resource in a wireless communication system between user equipment and network equipment comprising: processing a UE-derived temporary identifier; determining a set of channels that the user equipment will monitor; implicitly or explicitly communicating this channel set; communicating the temporary identifier as an identifier to the network equipment; communicating a downlink message on a channel belonging to the determined channel set conveying the temporary identifier and a description of a scheduled resource on a shared channel, the scheduled resource comprising a resource allocated to the user equipment by the network equipment; and communicating data on the scheduled resource in response to the downlink message.
US07912470B2
A method of partitioning resources in a CR wireless communication system and a system supporting the same are provided. A new BS receives radio resource status information from a prior BS using a particular frequency band, and requests resource partitioning to the prior BS using a new uplink subchannel defined for communications between BSs. Resource negotiation messages are exchanged over a channel defined between the two BSs so as to efficiently partition resources between the BSs.
US07912468B2
A system and method for performing multi-communication pathway addressing in a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise at least one communication interface module adapted to communicate with at least a first plurality of communication networks. At least one module may be adapted to utilize the at least one communication interface module to conduct a particular type of communication over any of the first plurality of communication networks. A user interface module may be adapted to receive user input indicative of a desired communication. In response to such a received user input, the at least one module may be adapted to identify, from the received user input, at least one communication network of the first plurality of communication networks and utilize the at least one communication interface module to conduct the desired communication (e.g., of the particular type of communication) over the identified at least one communication network.
US07912454B2
Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, a communication device enables real-time communications by generating a representation of an analog input signal that is suitable for communication over a real-time communication channel to a remote communication device. In addition, the communication device stores and processes an alternative representation of the input, which is communicated to the remote device in a reliable, out-of band channel. Accordingly, the remote communication device initially stores the real-time data, but later automatically replaces the real-time data with the enhanced data that it receives over the reliable, out-of-band communication channel. The communication device similarly stores, and replaces, data received from the remote communication device.
US07912431B2
RF signal amplifiers are provided that include an RF input port, a first RF output port, a second RF output port and a power input for receiving electrical power. These amplifiers include a first communication path between the RF input port and the first RF output port that has a power amplifier that amplifies signals that are transmitted from the RF input port to the first RF output port. These amplifiers also have a second non-interruptible communication path between the RF input port and the second RF output port. The amplifiers further include a selective termination circuit that is configured to pass signals between the RF input port and the first RF output port over the first communication path when electrical power is received at the power input and to terminate the first communication path to a matched termination when an electrical power feed to the power input is interrupted.
US07912424B2
Arrangement for providing operational settings to an electronic device including a data storage, including at least one data storage element including instructions needed to perform one or more functions in the electronic device. The electronic device includes reading means for reading one or more of the plurality of data storage elements, the electronic device further including controlling means for performing one or more functions defined by the instructions included in the read data storage element included in the data storage.
US07912423B2
A wireless communication system enabling multihop communication while maintaining the system throughput and preventing degradation of the user throughput. In the system, a BS (base station) determines the relaying method (whether an RS performs reproduction relay or nonreproduction relay) of the RS (relaying station) and the MCS of multihop communication according to the reception quality (the line quality among an MS2, the RS, and the BS) of the pilot for nonreproduction relay, the reception quality (the line quality between the RS and the BS) of the pilot 2 for reproduction relay, and the line quality (the line quality between the MS2 and the RS) measured at the RS. The determination result is transmitted as relay information to the RS and to the MS2 (a mobile station (2)) through the RS. The MS2 encodes and modulates the uplink data with the MCS based on the relay information and transmits the data to the RS. The RS relays the uplink data while selecting nonreproduction relay or reproduction relay according to the relay information.
US07912415B2
An image forming apparatus has a first toner image forming portion which forms a toner image at a recording material and heats the recording material at which the toner image is formed, a second toner image forming portion which forms a toner image at the recording material heated at the first toner image forming portion and heats the recording material to which the toner image is formed, and a preliminary heating member which heats the toner image on an image bearing member of the second image forming portion before the toner image is transferred to the recording material.
US07912397B2
A fuser, an image forming apparatus, and a method to control the apparatus includes a power supply unit to supply power to a plurality of heat sources provided in the fuser, and is controlled to gradually increase and change in a stepwise manner an amount of current supplied alternately to the plurality of heat sources, thereby preventing an inrush current and uneven fusing of images.
US07912386B2
Systems and methods are provided for using a sensor to determine a charge-to-mass ratio, and a concentration, of a mixture including a first component and a second component. A base resonance frequency of the sensor in an unloaded state is measured. A surface of a vibrating element of the sensor is loaded with the mixture. A first resonance frequency, of the loaded sensor is measured and a mass of the mixture is calculated. A first component is attracted to, and a second component is removed from, the vibrating element of the sensor. A second resonance frequency, and a first charge, of the sensor are measured. The first component is removed and a second charge is measured. A mass and charge of the first component are calculated. Charge to mass ratio, and the concentration, of the first component are then derived from the calculated values.
US07912384B2
A laser printer forms images on a recording sheet fed from a paper cassette. A conveying gap between consecutively fed recording sheets is adjusted such that a conveying gap between consecutively fed thin sheets is larger than a conveying gap between consecutively fed thick sheets.
US07912383B2
Configurable amplifiers for optical receivers and transceivers are disclosed. In one aspect, a configurable amplifier may be coupled with an output of a current-to-voltage converter to receive a voltage. The configurable amplifier may be capable of being configured to use either a substantially linear amplifier portion or a substantially non-linear amplifier portion to amplify the voltage.
US07912380B2
The present invention provides an optical receiver able to monitor the level of the optical input signal in accurate even when the level is quite small. The optical receiver comprises a photodiode to generate a photocurrent Ipd, a current mirror circuit to reflect the photocurrent into a mirrored current Imon, a current-to-voltage converter to convert the mirrored current Imon to a voltage signal, switch to connect/cut the current mirror circuit with the current-to-voltage converter, and a correction unit for subtracting a signal when the switch is connected from a signal when the switch is cut.
US07912375B2
An optical transceiver performs an optical transmitting and receiving operation, and has a first memory and an external interface. The external interface receives information from a host device and writes the received information in the first memory. The external interface reads the information from the first memory in response to an external command and transfers externally the read information. The information includes at least one of an operation start date, when the optical transceiver starts the optical transmitting and receiving operation, and an operation termination date, when the optical transceiver terminates the optical transmitting and receiving operation.
US07912373B2
In a known wavelength multiplexer, optical signals to pass are passed with their wavelengths held identical. Therefore, unless an unused wavelength common to all zones exists in case of setting an optical channel, the channel cannot be set. According to the present invention, a drop/add type wavelength multiplexer includes a wavelength converting section (50 in FIG. 5) which converts the wavelengths of optical signals to pass from the input side of the multiplexer to the output side thereof. In a network employing the wavelength multiplexers at individual nodes, a new optical channel can be easily set by utilizing wavelengths not used at the nodes.
US07912367B2
The table 200 represents that only small dots should be formed in the range Cd1 of relatively small tone values. In the range Cd2, the production rate of small dots gradually decreases, while the production rate of medium dots increases. In the range Cd3, the production rate of small dots and medium decreases, while the production rate of large dots increases. Consequently, small dots, medium dots, and large dots are intermingled, with the proportion of large dots increasing in association with higher tone values. According to the present invention, printing is able to be implemented while switching among dot apportionment tables depending on the object represented in one set of image data, and printing using small dots is able to be implemented efficiently in areas where low grainy appearance is required, namely areas corresponding to human faces.
US07912365B2
A charged capacitor switching device for a photoflash is provided and includes a flash control unit, a capacitor charging/discharging unit, a charged capacitor switching unit and an illumination modulator. The capacitor charging/discharging unit coupled to the flash control unit includes a plurality of capacitors connected in parallel and switches coupled thereto respectively. The charged capacitor switching unit determines whether each switch is opened or closed according to a compensation parameter. The illumination modulator compares an environmental illumination and a pre-flash illumination to generate a compared result, determines whether the compared result has reached a threshold, obtains the compensation parameter according to the compared result when the compared result is below the threshold, and drives the flash control unit to generate a flash illumination corresponding to the compensation parameter.
US07912361B2
The present invention relates to an image stabilizing apparatus for a camera module capable of effectively stabilizing an image of the camera module, implementing miniaturization and slimness, and reducing a manufacture cost of the camera module by supplying a two-axial correction structure to perform correction in an X axial direction or an Y axial direction of an automatic focusing unit through a ball holder having upper balls and lower balls.To achieve the object, the present invention provides an image stabilizing apparatus for a camera module including; an automatic focusing unit with slide grooves having lengths in an X axial direction or in an Y axial direction perpendicular to an optical axis on a bottom surface; a driving unit for moving the automatic focusing unit in the X axial direction or the Y axial direction; a ball holder installed on the bottom surface of the automatic focusing unit and provided with upper balls slidably coupled to the slide grooves on a top surface and lower balls on a bottom surface; and a lower guide which is installed on the bottom surface of the ball holder and includes slide grooves on a top surface, wherein the slide grooves are slidably coupled with the lower balls of the ball holder and have lengths in the Y axial direction or the X axial direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the slide grooves of the automatic focusing unit.
US07912356B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07912355B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07912353B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07912352B2
When playing an AV Clip recorded on a BD-ROM, a judgment is made, for each elementary stream, which of a plurality of predetermined conditions the elementary stream satisfies. The plurality of predetermined conditions include (a) a condition that a playback apparatus has a capability of playing the elementary stream, (b) a language attribute of the elementary stream matches a language setting of the playback apparatus, and (c) a channel attribute of the elementary stream is surround sound and the playback apparatus has a surround output capability. The playback apparatus assigns a priority to each elementary stream based on which conditions the elementary stream satisfies, selects an elementary stream having a highest priority, and plays the selected elementary stream.
US07912349B1
The operation of a video playback application supporting display of an encoded video may be validated using a special-purpose video decoder. The decoder compares pre-determined indications of dependency frames for frames of the video with dependency frames that are identified based on an order in which the frames are provided to the decoder. Based on the comparison, the decoder verifies that the frames may be decoded with correct dependencies. In one implementation, a frame of a video is accessed. A first description and a second description identifying frames of the video upon which decoding of the accessed frame depends are accessed. The first description is compared to the second description, and whether the first and second descriptions identify a common set of frames is determined based on the identifying.
US07912347B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07912346B2
This invention provides a DVD-ROM includes an image information area for DVD-Video playback apparatus and an image information area for computer processing. A CD-ROM includes an image information area for Video-CD playback apparatus and an image information area for computer processing. In the image information area for DVD-Video playback apparatus is written digital image information which can be played back on DVD-Video playback apparatus. In the image information area for Video-CD playback apparatus is written digital image information which can be played back Video-CD playback apparatus. In the image information areas for computer processing is written in the DCF standards digital image information having a data format supporting recording, playback and printing on a computer such as a personal computer.
US07912341B2
There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07912337B2
Some embodiments allow a video editor to spatially and temporally align two or more video sequences into a single video sequence. As used in this application, a video sequence is a set of images (e.g., a set of video frames or fields). A video sequence can be from any media, such as broadcast media or recording media (e.g., camera, film, DVD, etc.). Some embodiments are implemented in a video editing application that has a user selectable alignment operation, which when selected aligns two or more video sequences. In some embodiments, the alignment operation identifies a set of pixels in one image (i.e., a “first” image) of a first video sequence and another image (i.e., a “second” image) of a second video sequence. The alignment operation defines a motion function that describes the motion of the set of pixels between the first and second images. The operation then defines an objective function based on the motion function. The operation finds an optimal solution for the objective function. Based on the objective function, the operation identifies a transform, which it then applies to the first image in order to align the first image with the second image.
US07912327B2
A hybrid strip-loaded EO polymer/sol-gel modulator in which the sol-gel core waveguide does not lie below the active EO polymer waveguide increases the higher electric field/optical field overlap factor Γ and reduces inter-electrode separation d thereby lowering the modulator's half-wave drive voltage Vπ, reducing insertion loss and improving extinction. The strip-loaded modulator comprises an EO polymer layer that eliminates optical scattering caused by sidewall roughness due to etching. Light does not encounter rough edges as it transitions to and from the sol-gel and EO polymer waveguides. This reduces insertion loss.
US07912323B2
A first edge width correction process (2) is carried out in which edge widths are corrected by an interpolation process using zoom ratio control values (RZC) generated according to the edge widths in image data; an enlargement processing process (3) that enlarges the image data with edge widths corrected by the first edge width correction process (2) is carried out; a second edge width correction process (4) similar to the first edge width correction process is carried out on the enlarged image data; and an edge enhancement process that enhances edges in the image data with edge widths corrected by the second edge width correction process is carried out. An image processing apparatus is obtained that mitigates the loss of sharpness in an enlarged image and accordingly makes it possible to provide better picture quality.
US07912322B2
A screen magnification tool to scale the content of a computer display screen by distinguishing text and non-text elements of the content and applying different scaling methods to the text and non-text elements. Information about the text elements is stored in a database. Other embodiments are also described.
US07912318B2
This invention provides a lossless 4-point Hadamard transform circuit which can minimize the number of times of addition/subtraction calculations, and reduce the number of times of round processing required to convert data including a fractional part into an integer. To this end, a DC coefficient generating unit summates four input data, and shifts the summation result 1 bit to the right to halve the summation result and to round the halved result by truncating a fractional part of the result. This 1-bit shift right result is output as a DC coefficient. An intermediate data generating unit generates, as intermediate value, a difference value between one input data of the four input data and the DC coefficient obtained by the DC coefficient generating unit. An AC coefficient generating unit generates three AC coefficients by adding the intermediate data generated by the intermediate data generating unit to other three input data.
US07912314B2
An image contrast evaluation method is disclosed. First, focusing is performed based on the contrast value of an image rendered by a lens on optical sensors, wherein the calculation of the contrast value comprises: selecting an area of the image, calculating the absolute value of brightness difference between each neighboring pixel, and selecting a specific value there from as the contrast value of the image based on a distribution of the calculated absolute values of the brightness differences.
US07912313B2
A shading correction is employed for a scanner to correct shading distortion. However, an image corrected with the shading corrective curve has shading noise lines due to the effects of various factors in the producing process of the shading corrective curve. The characteristic of the shading noise is that the each value of any primary color channel, of each pixel in a line is higher or lower than of the adjacent two pixels in other lines, wherein a color channel is one of red, green, or blue channel Hence, the quality of the image is improved by removing the shading noise detected from the characteristic described above.
US07912306B2
Coding quantized transform coefficients as occur in image compression combines a position identifying method to identify the relative position of clusters of consecutive non-zero-valued coefficients, an amplitude event identifying method to identify amplitude events in the clusters of non-zero-valued coefficients, and a coding method to code the position events, amplitude events, and signs of the amplitudes in the clusters. The method is particularly applicable to a series of quantized transform coefficients where clusters are likely to occur.
US07912292B2
A system and method for determining the presence or absence of candidate objects in a digital image by computing a gradient field of the digital image and then applying predetermined filters to the gradient field to obtain a response image which can be further processed to detect the objects. The application of these filters to the digital image can be performed by convolution and the filters can be adapted based on the shape of the object to be searched.
US07912289B2
Image text enhancement techniques are described. In an implementation, graphically represented text included in an original image is converted into process capable text. The process capable text may be used to generate a text image which may replace the original text to enhance the image. In further implementations the process capable text may be translated from a first language to a second language for inclusion in the enhanced image.
US07912288B2
During a training phase we learn parts of images which assist in the object detection and recognition task. A part is a densely represented area of an image of an object to which we assign a unique label. Parts contiguously cover an image of an object to give a part label map for that object. The parts do not necessarily correspond to semantic object parts. During the training phase a classifier is learnt which can be used to estimate belief distributions over parts for each image element of a test image. A conditional random field is used to force a global part labeling which is substantially layout-consistent and a part label map is inferred from this. By recognizing parts we enable object detection and recognition even for partially occluded objects, for multiple-objects of different classes in the same scene, for unstructured and structured objects and allowing for object deformation.
US07912285B2
A digital segmentation method and apparatus determines foreground and/or background within at least one portion of a captured image. The determining includes comparing a captured image to a pre-captured or post captured reference image of nominally the same scene. One of the images is taken with flash and the other without. The system can be implemented as part of a digital camera acquisition chain having effective computation complexity.
US07912282B2
An image processing apparatus includes a face detector and a gamma corrector. The face detector detects a subject area or areas out of image data output from an image sensor. A correction table is produced on the basis of luminance values of the subject area and a frequency distribution of luminance, i.e., distribution information derived from the entire or part of an area represented by the image data. The gamma corrector uses either one of the above correction table and a basic correction table to correct the tone of the image data.
US07912281B2
In remote control systems (as in many other circumstances) the color representation of a bitmap is one of the heaviest factor in term of storage occupation and speed of transmission. Often, only a limited number of colors is actually used by a bitmap, so that the bit pattern of the single pixels is bigger than what is really needed to represent all the possible different colors.With the present invention, in case the number of colors does not exceed a predetermined thresholds, a palette table containing all the colors used in the bitmap is created. The pixel representations in the bitmap are then replaced by a pointer to the corresponding entry in the palette table. This allows to reduce the total size of the bitmap. The reduced bitmap is then transmitted together with the associated palette table. The receiving computer (the controller in a remote control system) is able to rebuild the original bitmap with the help of the palette table.
US07912280B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus for applying an adjusting process to an image including multicolor image signals. An image area including a pixel to be processed is extracted, and one representative signal value is generated from signal values corresponding to a plurality of colors of pixels included in the image area (S2501). A feature amount associated with the image area is calculated based on the representative signal value (S2503, S2505, S2511), and a substitute candidate pixel common to the plurality of colors is selected from the image area based on the calculated feature amount (S2512). Signal values of the pixel to be processed are substituted by new pixel values, which are calculated from the signal values of the pixel to be processed and signal values of the substitute candidate pixel.
US07912279B2
Automatic white balance of captured images can be performed based on a gray world assumption. One aspect relates to an apparatus comprising a collection module and a processor. The collection module is configured to accumulate (a) red/green and blue/green color ratio values of a plurality of pixels in a captured image for each cluster of a plurality of clusters and (b) a number of pixels having red/green and blue/green color ratios associated with each cluster, the clusters comprising daylight, fluorescent, incandescent, and a outdoor green zone. The processor is configured to determine which cluster has a highest accumulated number of pixels, and use the cluster with the highest accumulated number of pixels to perform white balancing for the captured image.
US07912278B2
A method and system correlate candidate information and provide batch classification of a number of related candidates. The batch of candidates may be identified from a single data set. There may be internal correlations and/or differences among the candidates. The candidates may be classified taking into consideration the internal correlations and/or differences. The locations and descriptive features of a batch of candidates may be determined. In turn, the locations and/or descriptive features determined may used to enhance the accuracy of the classification of some or all of the candidates within the batch. In one embodiment, the single data set analyzed is associated with an internal image of patient and the distance between candidates is accounted for. Two different algorithms may each simultaneously classify all of the samples within a batch, one being based upon probabilistic analysis and the other upon a mathematical programming approach. Alternate algorithms may be used.
US07912259B2
An image registration method for use in medical imaging includes the steps of: providing a sequence of images each one including a digital representation of a body-part under analysis, selecting a reference image within the sequence, the remaining images of the sequence defining moving images, and re-aligning at least one portion of a moving image with respect to the reference image. The step of re-aligning may include: defining a delimitation mask identifying a region on the reference image with which the at least one portion of the moving image has to be re-aligned, and a feature mask identifying a further region on the reference image within which the re-alignment is calculated, determining an optimized transformation for compensating a displacement of the moving image with respect to the reference image by optimizing a similarity measure, and transforming the at least one portion of the moving image according to the optimized transformation.
US07912255B2
Fingerprint processing system providing inpainting for voids in fingerprint data and related methods
A fingerprint processing system may include a fingerprint database for storing fingerprint data having at least one void therein. At least one processor may cooperate with the fingerprint database for inpainting data into the at least one void in the fingerprint data based upon propagating fingerprint contour data from outside the at least one void into the at least one void.
US07912247B2
The present invention provides for simple and streamlined boresight correlation of FLIR-to-missile video. Boresight correlation is performed with un-NUCed missile video, which allows boresight correlation and NUC to be performed simultaneously thereby reducing the time required to acquire a target and fire the missile. The current approach uses the motion of the missile seeker for NUCing to produce spatial gradient filtering in the missile image by differencing images as the seeker moves. This compensates DC non-uniformities in the image. A FLIR image is processed with a matching displace and subtract spatial filter constructed based on the tracked scene motion. The FLIR image is resampled to match the missile image resolution, and the two images are preprocessed and correlated using conventional methods. Improved NUC is provided by cross-referencing multiple measurements of each area of the scene as viewed by different pixels in the imager. This approach is based on the simple yet novel premise that every pixel in the array that looks at the same thing should see the same thing. As a result, the NUC terms adapt to non-uniformities in the imager and not the scene.
US07912238B2
A speaker attenuation system includes an attenuating member comprised of suitable material and having a size and a shape capable of attenuating a speaker when positioned in a central beam region of the speaker. A positioning mechanism is capable of positioning the attenuating member predominantly in the central beam region of the speaker in such a manner that it is between the speaker and an audience in a performance setting. The suitable material, such as open cell foam (i.e., acoustic foam), preferably has a property that it is capable, at one or more thicknesses, of reducing amplitudes of a majority of frequencies between one-thousand and eight-thousand Hertz by at least six decibels without reducing amplitudes of any frequencies in that range by more than eighteen decibels. Accordingly, the “beaminess” of the speaker can be reduced without creating a “hole in the sound.”
US07912224B2
A wireless network system and a communication method, where an external network device easily and temporarily logs in and out of the wireless network. A key management device of the wireless network system includes a limited communication unit that receives encryption information from a wireless network device, a storage unit that stores authentication information for authenticating the wireless network device, and a key creating unit that creates an encryption key using the received encryption information to allow the wireless network device to log onto the wireless network. The key creating unit also transmits the created encryption key to the wireless network device.
US07912220B2
Aspects of the present invention may be found in one or more systems and/or methods to encapsulate or packetize non-MPEG and MPEG data. The encapsulation or packetization allows both the non-MPEG and MPEG data to be utilized by a set-top-box that conforms or complies with the OpenCable™ Advanced Multi-Stream POD Interface Specification and/or the OpenCable™ Multi-Stream CableCARD Interface Specification. In one embodiment, a method of processing video data, by a set-top-box that is communicatively coupled to a POD card, comprises receiving video data from a provider, first packetizing the video data using a first header to generate a first packet, wherein the first header comprises a first indicator. In one embodiment, a system for providing MPEG and non-MPEG video to a subscriber comprises a circuitry and a POD card capable of receiving, processing, and facilitating the display of non-MPEG and MPEG data.
US07912219B1
Essential data elements, particularly entitlement control messages (ECMs), are inserted in a manner that reduces the overhead bit rate without effecting overall tuning time at the customer receiver or security in satellite, cable or other programming networks. ECMs are inserted into the transport stream by detecting random access points (RAPS) in the encoded programming and inserting the ECM packets in a window just ahead of the RAP.
US07912208B1
An on-hold interface system is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes an interactive voice response system for providing a plurality of audio signals to a telecommunications device of a calling party, wherein the calling party has been placed on-hold. The system also includes a server for checking accessibility of a network connection of a network device, wherein the network device is associated with the telecommunications device of the calling party. The system also includes an enhanced on-hold interface system for providing a plurality of signals to the network device. In addition, the system includes an automatic call distributor for receiving a signal indicating the accessibility of the network connection of the network device, and for instructing the enhanced on-hold interface system and the interactive voice response system to provide the plurality of signals to the network device and the telecommunications device based the accessibility of the network connection.
US07912205B2
A method and apparatus are provided for automatic call distributors that route calls based in part on timely business information. The method includes providing a simulation model for calculating information and using this information from the model together with key process indicators information to generate decisions for routing calls.
US07912198B2
A system for implementing multimedia ring back tone service is disclosed, which includes a communication network, an MRBT platform storing multimedia ring back tones in the communication network and a VIG. The MRBT platform is respectively connected to the Service Switch Center dominating the terminal and an MGW in the communication network through the VIG; when a calling terminal initiates a call through the Service Switch Center, the VIG establishes a communication link from the terminal to the MRBT platform through the MGW and the VIG before the call is put through; and MRBT platform plays multimedia ring back tones for the calling terminal via the established communication link. The present invention also provides a method for implementing multimedia ring back tone service is also disclosed. The system and the method can implement multimedia ring back tone service in 3G communication networks.
US07912196B2
A voice conference apparatus includes: a communication unit that transmits and receives a first voice signal to and from another apparatus via a network; an output unit that reproduces the first voice signal received by the communication unit and outputs the reproduced first voice signal as a first voice; an input unit that collects the first voice and a second voice generated by a voice source, as a second voice signal; a separating unit that separates the second voice signal into a third voice signal originated from the first voice and a fourth voice signal originated from the second voice; and a selecting unit that selects one of the third voice signal and the fourth voice signal. The communication unit transmits the one of the third voice signal and the fourth voice signal selected by the selecting unit to the other apparatus.
US07912194B2
A system and method for providing caller ID in a multi-region cable network. Caller identifying (CID) information of an incoming VoIP call is provided to a digital telephone subscriber through a video termination device (VTD) using a path that is different from the path by which the VoIP call packets are delivered to the digital telephone subscriber. The telephone number of a digital telephone subscriber is associated with the IP address and/or MAC address of the subscriber's VTD. The called number of the incoming VoIP call is used to select the VTD to which the CID information is delivered. A message is then sent through an out-of-band channel to the digital telephone subscriber's VTD comprising the CID information for display on video display equipment. Alternatively, the VTD is DOCSIS-compliant and a message is addressed to the VTD using the IP address of the VTD DOCSIS modem.
US07912183B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, user devices and computer program products for providing network status information. Methods include receiving alarm data for an event from a plurality of sources. The alarm data includes a plurality of alarm records each including a site identifier. The alarm data is processed to create report data. The processing includes assigning an attribute of failed to each of the site identifiers that are specified in more than a threshold number of the alarm records. The report data comprises at least digital loop carrier information. The report data is transmitted to a mechanized loop test (MLT) testing system capable of generating MLT test results. The MLT test results are used to adjust the digital loop carrier information included in the report data, wherein the digital loop carrier information specifies a quantity of digital carrier loop lines that are out of service.
US07912179B2
A radiosurgery system is described that is configured to deliver a therapeutic dose of radiation to a target structure in a patient. In some embodiments, inflammatory ocular disorders are treated, specifically macular degeneration. In some embodiments, other disorders or tissues of a body are treated with the dose of radiation. In some embodiments, the target tissues are placed in a global coordinate system based on ocular imaging. In some embodiments, the target tissues inside the global coordinate system lead to direction of an automated positioning system that is directed based on the target tissues within the coordinate system. In some embodiments, a treatment plan is utilized in which beam energy and direction and duration of time for treatment is determined for a specific disease to be treated and/or structures to be avoided. In some embodiments, a fiducial marker is used to identify the location of the target tissues. In some embodiments, an eye is held with force and in alignment with the system. In some embodiments, the device automatically turns off with excessive movement outside of alignment along an axis of the eye. In some embodiments, radiodynamic therapy is described in which radiosurgery is used in combination with other treatments and can be delivered concomitant with, prior to, or following other treatments.
US07912173B2
A reference structure tomography device is provided which includes a reference structure configured to intercept and modulate energy in the form of waves or otherwise propagating from a source to a sensor, along longitudinal and traverse directions. The reference structure modulates or otherwise conditions the propagating wave to simplify an inversion process on the data set created by the interaction between the wave and the sensors. The reference structure can modulate a wave through multiple types of interactions with the wave including obscuring, defracting, defusing, scattering, and otherwise altering any characteristic of a portion of the wave. By selecting a reference structure that is compatible with the sensors, the number of measurements needed to resolve the source through the source wave is reduced. The reference structure can also increase the resolution of an imaging system. Thus, by reducing or altering the data collected by the sensors, the reference structure tomography device can improve the imaging abilities of the system.
US07912172B2
A programmable divider apparatus comprises a first divider, a second divider, a feedback control unit, and a plurality of control signals. The first divider provides a frequency division operation of division by at least three integers, the second divider is cascaded to the first divider to provide a frequency division operation of division by two integers. The feedback control unit is coupled to between the first divider and the second divider to provide a feedback control signal to selectively supply an output of the second divider to an input of the first divider. The apparatus control signals and the feedback control signal are used to execute the first divider or the second divider.
US07912154B2
A baseband processing method based on double sampling, including: subjecting a received signal to root raised cosine-filtering process; sampling said signal; conducting channel estimation for every user based on the sampled data; and conducting multi-user joint detection and demodulation for said data. Wherein, the step of sampling said signal includes the following steps: conducting double sampling for said signal, and the interval of the sampling being ½ chip; each chip selecting the average value of two sampling values as the sampling value of the chip; assembling the sampling value of every chip into a data stream. According to the present invention, in the case that the complexity of computation is not increased and only the memory space is doubled, the gain of the received signal in the system is improved effectively, especially when the synchronization of signals is bad, relatively large gain of the signals can be obtained, the system delay is reduced, and the real-time property of signal processing is improved. The method according to the present invention is suitable to the mobile communication system in a bad communication environment.
US07912151B1
Methods and apparatus for reducing sensitivity to nonlinearities in the receiver of a digital communications system are disclosed. One aspect can be referred to as a Post-Distortion Decision Feedback Equalizer (PDFE). A gain stage is often implemented as a variable gain amplifier (VGA), and can introduce significant nonlinearities, a problem exacerbated by signals with a large peak-to-average ratio (PAR). One embodiment provides feed forward information from the VGA regarding its status to a DFE, and the DFE adjusts its filtering based on the provided information. The advantages are also applicable to fixed-gain amplifiers and to transversal filters.
US07912138B2
A multipoint-to-point, orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) communication system is provided. The system includes a plurality of remote units and a host unit that includes a demodulator. Each of the remote units transmits an upstream OFDM signal using a multiple access scheme to the host unit demodulator using at least one of a plurality of orthogonal tones within an OFDM waveform. The host unit receives the upstream OFDM signals from a plurality of the remote units, the tones of the upstream signals being substantially orthogonal when received at the host unit. Portions of upstream OFDM signals from at least two of the remote units arrive at the host unit at the same time. The host unit demodulator demodulates the portions of the upstream OFDM signals. The upstream signals from the remote units each include a plurality of symbols and each remote unit times its upstream signal transmission so that when multiple upstream signals arrive at the host unit the symbols of the multiple upstream signals are aligned.
US07912126B2
System or methods may include loading information associated with a window of pixels from memory into a matrix of processing elements, the window of pixels being selected from a plurality of pixels associated with a reference frame, determining a current frame comprising a plurality of pixels, determining a first block of pixels from the plurality of pixels of the current frame, comparing each pixel of the first block of pixels to each pixel of the window of pixels by comparing the first block of pixels to portions of the window of pixels in an exhaustive manner, wherein comparing comprises calculating a first deviation result for each pair of compared pixels and aggregating the first deviation results for each position of the first block of pixels in the window of pixels, the calculating being performed by the matrix of processors.
US07912125B2
A hybrid scalable encoder, method, and media are disclosed for processing video signal data as a plurality of block transform coefficients for each of a base layer and an enhancement layer included on a dual standard-definition and high-definition disc. The encoder includes a two-layer decomposition unit for decomposing an original high-definition signal data sequence into base layer data and enhancement layer data, a standard-definition encoder coupled to the decomposition unit for encoding the base layer data as a base layer bitstream embodying a standard-definition data sequence, and a high-definition encoder coupled to the decomposition unit and the standard-definition encoder for encoding the difference between the high-definition data and the standard-definition data as an enhancement layer bitstream embodying a high-definition data sequence.
US07912123B2
The present invention discloses a simple low cost framework for robust operational control of video encoders. The framework comprises a two-layer architecture that effectively decouples the processes of video bit rate control and video quality/distortion control. The upper layer includes a video bit rate controller that operates on a single picture/picture-slice, or a set of pictures/picture-slices, and is based on feedback control techniques used in automatic control systems. The lower layer includes a video quality/distortion controller that operates at the level of blocks of pixels, and reduces distortion artifacts. The decoupled nature of the encoder control architecture of the present invention provides the flexibility of combining various feedback control algorithms and various distortion reduction schemes.
US07912122B2
Picture coding method, picture decoding method, picture coding apparatus, picture decoding apparatus
The picture coding method according to the present invention is a picture coding method for coding a picture on a block-by-block basis through orthogonal transformation and quantization, and coding a quantization matrix that is used to derive quantization steps for frequencies of orthogonal transformation coefficients, the method comprising: calculating a difference value between each of frequency components included in the quantization matrix and a predetermined value corresponding to said each of the frequency components; and coding the difference value into a variable length code, wherein a code length of the variable length code is shorter as the difference value is smaller, or equal to a code length of a neighboring difference value of said difference value.
US07912120B2
A method and apparatus for estimating and correcting baseband frequency error in a receiver are disclosed. An equalizer performs equalization on a sample data stream and generates filter tap values based on the equalization. An estimated frequency error signal is generated based on at least one of the filter tap values. A rotating phasor is generated based on the estimated frequency error signal. The rotating phasor signal is multiplied with the sample data stream to correct the frequency of the sample data stream. Alternatively, a channel estimator performs channel estimation and generates Rake receiver finger weights based on at least one of the finger weights. An estimated frequency error signal is generated based on at least one of the finger weights.
US07912117B2
A method of measuring transport delay and jitter with a realtime oscilloscope using cross-correlation acquires waveforms from two test points in a system under test. Clock recovery is run on both waveforms to obtain respective rates and offsets. A time offset between the two waveforms is computed. The jitter from the two test points is filtered and a mean-removed cross-correlation coefficient is computed from the filtered jitters. A fractional delay is computed using interpolation based on LMS error, and the respective computational components are summed to compute a transport delay between the two test points. The transport delay may be used to adjust clock edges from one waveform for comparison with data transition edges of the other waveform to measure jitter.
US07912109B1
Spread spectrum frequency synthesizer with first order accumulation for frequency profile generation
A frequency synthesizer is described illustrating a system and method for modulation. In particular, the frequency synthesizer includes a control circuit for producing a plurality of input signals that is scalable to a frequency profile. Each of the input signals includes a slope and a direction of the slope. An accumulator is coupled to the control circuit and receives the plurality of input signals. The accumulator sums the plurality of input signals to generate a standard curve. A frequency spreading control pattern generation modulator is coupled to the accumulator and modulates the standard curve to generate the desired frequency profile.
US07912108B2
A solid-state laser emitting material for use in conjunction with a light source includes a polymer matrix functioning as host materials, containing laser dye of rhodamine 590 or rhodamine 610 as gain materials and nano-submicron particles as scatters therein. The lowest lasing threshold of the laser emitting material is approximately 5 mJ/cm2 for 585 nm emission and 2 mJ/cm2 for 630 nm emission.
US07912100B2
A femtosecond laser based laser processing system having a femtosecond laser, frequency conversion optics, beam manipulation optics, target motion control, processing chamber, diagnostic systems and system control modules. The femtosecond laser based laser processing system allows for the utilization of the unique heat control in micromachining, and the system has greater output beam stability, continuously variable repetition rate and unique temporal beam shaping capabilities.
US07912096B2
An add/drop multiplexer where a first signal converter converts first-low-order-group signals received from DSn network, into high-order-group signals, which are transferred to SDH (SONET) network and to which second-low-order-group signals, slower in transmission speed than the first-low-order-group signals are added. A second signal converter converts high-order-group signals, received from SDH (SONET) network, into first-low-order-group signals. A selector selectively outputs first-low-order-group signals received from the DSn network, or first-low-order-group signals obtained by the second signal converter, as the input signals to the first signal converter.
US07912094B2
Systems and methods for network clock synchronization are provided. In one embodiment, a method for clock synchronization in a braided ring network comprises: providing a schedule for a braided ring network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein at least two nodes comprise a self-checking pair of a first node and a second node, the first node performing a method comprising: determining when a first rendezvous message is received from the second node; when the second rendezvous message is received, calculating a time difference between the send instance of the first rendezvous message and a local time; when the time difference is not greater than a reference bound, calculating a sending point for transmitting a synchronization message, wherein the sending point is calculated based on the time difference; and selectively sending the synchronization message to the braided ring network when the sending point is reached based on the time difference.
US07912092B2
A method for transmitting a transmission time interval signal in a cellular network is described. A multiplexed data signal is received. A demultiplexer is applied to the data signal. The data signal from the demultiplexer is encoded. A linear transform is applied to the data signal. A plurality of uplink transmission time interval signals, which include the data signal, are reformatted. The placement of one or more reference signals are staggered within each of the plurality of transmission time interval signals. Each of the plurality of uplink transmission time interval signals are transmitted.
US07912086B2
Methods and apparatus for bridging network protocols are disclosed. A protocol bridge may be used to function as a target for a network processor while performing a target mode operation, while functioning as an initiator on behalf of the network processor while performing an initiator mode operation. In one embodiment, the protocol bridge determines the mode of operation based on information in a received frame's header. In another embodiment, the protocol bridge couples a Fiber Channel device to a storage processor on a packet-over-SONET network.
US07912083B2
A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes selecting, from a primary sequence group that includes respective primary sequences, one of the respective primary sequences as a first portion of a cell identification (ID). In this case, the respective primary sequences are each associated with respective secondary sequence subgroups included in a secondary sequence group. Each of the respective secondary sequence subgroups include secondary sequences. One of the secondary sequences is selected (from one of the respective secondary sequence subgroups that is associated with the selected one of the respective primary sequences) for a second portion of the cell ID. At least some of the secondary sequences are only included in one of the respective secondary sequence subgroups. The first portion of the cell ID is encoded on a first downlink waveform that is to be transmitted and the second portion of the cell ID is encoded on a second downlink waveform that is to be transmitted. The first and second downlink waveforms are then transmitted.
US07912066B2
In a wireless communication system, a multi-source data multiplexing system (e.g., a media access control (MAC)) accepts information packets from a plurality of signal sources, evaluates the relative efficiencies of data transmission, and transmits the information packets in provided grant regions for maximum efficiency. The multi-source data multiplexing system may accept any form of information packet from any form of signal source. The system receives a grant region, typically including a transmission time on a data channel, and inserts an information packet into the grant region. The actual information packet placed in the grant region may be one other than the packet for which the grant region was intended. Further, the multi-source data multiplexing system may fragment an information packet and transmit only a portion of the information packet in the grant region. Alternately, the multi-source data multiplexing system may concatenate multiple information packets, or information packet fragments, from any combination of signal sources and transmit the concatenated result in the grant region. As long as any signal source is active, the composite flow of information packets remains active, and the composite flow then serves as the primary mechanism for requesting and transmitting additional bandwidth in the wireless communication system.
US07912065B2
A system and method are disclosed for automatically registering various system attributes with a VoIP device such as an VoIP phone. The system attributes are provided by a network, preferably an adjacent switching device made aware of the system attributes through one of a number of learning mechanisms. The system attributes may include one or more of the following: the VLAN identification used for VoIP communications in the subnet in which the VoIP phone is connected; the switching device identification, switching device slot, and switching device port number to which the VoIP phone is connected. The switch, slot, and port are used in some embodiments by an IP PBX system to construct a relational database that associates the geographic location of the connection with the IP phone for purposes of reporting the physical location of the VoIP user to emergency response personnel. The system and method for automatically registering various system attributes enables the relational database to be updated prompt and accurate.
US07912063B2
Techniques for secure communications among wireless mesh network access points are described herein. According to one embodiment, a wireless mesh network includes multiple wireless mesh access points communicatively coupled to each other via multiple mesh links and multiple end-user clients, each being associated with one of the wireless mesh access points. In response to a packet received at a first mesh access point of the wireless mesh access points from a local end-user client of the first mesh access point destined to another end-user client associated with a second mesh access point of the wireless mesh access points, the packet is routed via a tunneling protocol from the first mesh access point to the second mesh access point. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07912062B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an IP packet associated with a first virtual partition defined at a session exchange device. The first virtual partition is associated with a first IP address space. The method also includes receiving an IP packet associated with a second virtual partition defined at the session exchange device. The second virtual partition is associated with a second IP address space having a portion that corresponds with the first IP address space. The IP packet associated with the first virtual partition is modified such that the IP packet associated with the first virtual partition has an IP address value from a third IP address space different from the portion of the second IP address space.
US07912058B1
The present invention provides a technique for achieving reliable delivery of bulk data from a single origin to multiple destinations such that the origin only sends the data once to the network, without waiting for the destinations to be connected to the network. The data is delivered from the network to each destination, thereby creating a point-to-multipoint connection between the origin and the destination. To achieve such data delivery, both the origin and each delivery site execute site connection-manager software that allows the origin and the intended destinations to create the needed connections to facilitate data delivery and the network switches execute a network connection manager. Once the origin transmits the data and receives an acknowledgement from the network, the origin disconnects and does not wait for actual receipt by each destination. The destinations are referred to as “late” on two instances. One instance occurs when the destination connects to the network after the origin has already begun sending data to the network. The other instance occurs when the destination connects to the network after the origin has sent all the data to the network and the origin is disconnected from the network.
US07912056B1
A network device keeps track of multicast replication that is occurring at a later link in the network. The device may then intelligently adjust traffic to various end-users based on the bandwidth that is to be allotted to each end-user and based on the bandwidth that is expected to be “created” at the later link in the network. In one exemplary implementation, a device includes logic to process network traffic that includes multicast streams by performing traffic shaping functions that are based on, for each of a number of subscribers, a bandwidth of each of the multicast streams that is being subscribed to by a subscriber and a bandwidth of unicast traffic to the subscriber.
US07912055B1
A method and apparatus for operating on a system containing a plurality of components in communication using multicast communication protocol is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of representing selected ones of the plurality of components, the relationship among the components and the associated with the communication protocols, determining a mapping between a plurality of events and a plurality of observable events occurring among the components and among the communication protocols, wherein the mapping is represented as a value associating each event with each observable event, and performing the system operation in conjunction with the relationship between the events and observable events. The operations may be selected from the group of monitoring, discovering, managing, analyzing and displaying the components associated with the multicast protocols.
US07912042B2
A method and arrangement in a telecommunication system for facilitating communication between a first terminal A configured to use a first session model and a second terminal B configured to use a second session model for media transportation. A first feature tag representing a contact between the first terminal A and the second terminal B is registered in a control domain in the system. When setup of a first voice media session between the first terminal A and the second terminal B is initiated, the registered first feature tag is detected and the first media session is detected and the first media session is routed via a circuit-switched domain.
US07912041B2
A method, terminal and system for controlling VCC functions are discussed. According to an embodiment, the terminal includes a controller to generate a register message including VCC capability information of the terminal, a transmitting unit to transmit the register message including the VCC capability information to the first network server, and a receiving unit to receive a response message to the register message from the first network server, the response message selectively including the VCC capability information.
US07912033B2
A method to enable scheduling communications activities for an electronic communication device configured to communicate across a communication network is provided. The method comprises the steps of scheduling a communication activity during a scheduling window such that the communication activity is scheduled to occur toward the end of a communication window; entering a power-save mode after the scheduling step; and transitioning from the power-save mode prior to the scheduled communication activity. In one embodiment the method can further include a step of conducting the scheduled communication activity and transitioning back to the power-save mode after a next communication activity is scheduled or be implemented to allow the step of conducting the scheduled communication activity and transitioning back to the power-save mode at the end of the next communication window. In one embodiment the transitioning step comprises the steps of awakening from the power-save mode and synchronizing with the communication network, wherein synchronizing can comprise the step of synchronizing with electronic communication device associated with the communication network.
US07912019B1
The creation of a variety of upgradeable scalable switching networks are set forth including multistage switching networks as well as novel multidirectional architectures. Systems and methods exploiting the properties such as fault tolerance, upgradeability without service disruption and path redundancy are incorporated into a variety of systems. A wide range of methods for upgrading and reconfiguring the scalable switching networks are presented including manifestations of implementations of these networks and methods. Methods for designing new upgradeable scalable switching and the novel architectures derived thereof including architectures built from the redundant blocking compensated cyclic group networks are set forth.
US07912012B2
A method and apparatus are provided for performing acquisition, synchronization and cell selection within an MIMO-OFDM communication system. A coarse synchronization is performed to determine a searching window. A fine synchronization is then performed by measuring correlations between subsets of signal samples, whose first signal sample lies within the searching window, and known values. The correlations are performed in the frequency domain of the received signal. In a multiple-output OFDM system, each antenna of the OFDM transmitter has a unique known value. The known value is transmitted as pairs of consecutive pilot symbols, each pair of pilot symbols being transmitted at the same subset of sub-carrier frequencies within the OFDM frame.
US07912010B2
A control unit of a wireless connection terminal compares the received signal strength indicator of an access point currently connected to by the wireless connection terminal with the received signal strength indicator of a neighboring access point. If the difference between the two received signal strength indicators is higher than or equal to 40%, the connection to the current access point is severed and roaming in which the connection is switched to the neighboring access point is performed. Even when the difference between the two received signal strength indicators is not higher than or equal to 40%, roaming in which the connection is switched to the neighboring access point is performed if the received signal strength indicator of the access point to which the wireless connection terminal is currently connected becomes lower than or equal to 20%.
US07911991B2
An apparatus and method for controlling data communication in a wireless local area network (LAN) can check a remaining power level of a host computer battery and determine a data transmission characteristic such as a data transfer speed and/or power save mode period based on the checked battery power, and then adjust the current data transfer speed or power save mode period according to the determined value. For example, a controller of a wireless LAN can transmit information corresponding to the determined transmission characteristic to an access point or another station. Therefore, a station of the wireless LAN card can reduce or prevent power of the battery from being abruptly diminished because of use of the wireless LAN.
US07911988B2
Different types of position solutions may be used to determine the position of a mobile station (104) in a wireless communication system (101). The position solutions include terrestrial, or network (102, 103), based techniques and non-network, such as satellite (160), based techniques. An apparatus and method whereby different position solutions are selected based on a figure of merit of the different solutions in determining a position of a mobile remote unit (104).
US07911982B1
A method may include receiving a reconfiguration to a first Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)/spanning tree table, where the first VLAN/spanning tree table has a first identifier and is associated with a region of a network; updating the first VLAN/spanning tree table to generate a second VLAN/spanning tree table based on the reconfiguration; determining a second identifier of the second VLAN/spanning tree table; and generating a list of identifiers associated with the region of the network, the list including the first identifier and the second identifier.
US07911981B2
A method of configuring a multicast agent and a 1:N overlay multicast network considering a wireless local area network (WLAN) environment of the same are provided. The method includes: a session manger generating a first database with entries of multicast agents subscribing to a session and multicast agents that have applied for subscription to a session but have not been confirmed for normal operation; a multicast agent generating a second database with entries of a path from the root of a tree to which the multicast agent belongs, a hierarchical relation in the tree, the list of probed neighboring nodes, and a list of not-probed neighboring nodes; the multicast agent subscribing to the overlay network; obtaining information on neighboring multicast agents; setting a multicast agent which is determined to be optimal based on the obtained information, as a parent node; and if a multicast agent providing a tree improved from the current tree is found, changing the parent node. According to the method, multicast communication can be easily introduced into a wireless environment without particular modification of existing Internet router equipment.
US07911973B2
When first mobile router, which has a MNP, generates a key which corresponds to that MNP and transmits a registration request packet including the key to home agent, home agent stores the MNP and key of the first mobile router, and sends main mobile router registration approval. When first mobile router receives this response, it distributes the MNP and key to second mobile router in moving network. Second mobile router, which receives this, transmits a registration request packet including the MNP and key to home agent, and thereby, home agent registers second mobile router as a subsidiary mobile router. By this means, it is possible to prevent illegal acquirement of a packet addressed to a moving network by use of a mobile router which shares the network prefix (MNP).
US07911966B2
A wireless device, system, and method that determines data rate capability for communicating packet data is described. The wireless device comprises a RF component, a controller, and a means for enabling communications. The RF component is configured to communicate a plurality of packet data at a first data rate capability and a second data rate capability, in which the second data rate is faster than the first data rate. The controller is communicatively coupled to RF component, and the controller is configured to monitor a physical layer data field value, a forward traffic channel data field value, and a reverse traffic channel data field value. The physical layer data field value is associated with the physical transmission of packets from the RF component. The forward traffic channel data field value is associated with forward channel communications, and the reverse traffic channel data field value that is associated with reverse channel communications. The means for enabling communications at the second data rate capability occurs when the physical layer data field value, the forward traffic channel data field value, and the reverse traffic channel data field value indicate that communications are supported for the second data rate capability.
US07911964B1
A quality management system comprising an interface configured to receive quality information for a session having traffic transported by a communication network between a first end system and a second end system, and transmit a feedback message, and a processing system configured to process the quality information to determine an entity associated with the session, a required service level for the entity, and a delivered service level for the session, process the delivered service level with the required service level to determine a response for the session, and generate the feedback message indicating the response.
US07911961B2
A method and apparatus for handling an overload condition in a communication network are disclosed. For example, the method calculates a call target rate by at least one core signaling network element for at least one edge signaling network element. The method then sends the call target rate by the at least one core signaling network element to the at least one edge signaling network element, when a processor occupancy of the at least one core signaling network element exceeds a predefined high threshold within a measurement interval, wherein the call target rate is used by the at least one edge signaling network element in an overload control that throttles signaling traffic.
US07911956B2
A method and apparatus for packet level prioritization in interconnection networks. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a transmitter to transmit a data stream to a recipient apparatus, the data stream including a plurality of data packets, the data packets including data packets of a first priority and data packets of a second priority. The apparatus further includes a network unit to direct the operation of the transmitter, the network unit to divide the data stream into multiple sub-streams, including a first sub-stream for data packets of the first priority and a second sub-stream for data packets of the second priority.
US07911947B2
A gateway apparatus relays a data packet only when a network that is connected to the gateway apparatus itself is identical to a network that is connected to a node associated with a sender's address. The sender's address is carried in the data packet received. Even if there are accesses from a plurality of nodes to a certain node (e.g., sensor node), the gateway apparatus can relay the data packet such that data retrieval takes place appropriately and/or such that node control takes place appropriately.
US07911946B2
A method (400) for managing a data stream (30) encoded according to a digital transmission protocol and configured for broadcasting to a consumer network device (14) within a broadband communications network (10). A message relating to the data stream is encapsulated (402) within a transport layer data packet (502). The packet has a destination port number field. A value associated with a predetermined parameter of the digital transmission protocol is created (404) within the field. Based on the value, the packet is forwarded (406) to the consumer network device according to a network layer protocol. When the forwarded message is received by the consumer network device, the consumer network device processes the data stream based on the message, and establishes an application layer communication socket based on the destination port number value. The socket is usable to receive further messages associated with the predetermined parameter of the digital transmission protocol.
US07911944B2
A consistent tie-breaking decision between equal-cost shortest (lowest cost) paths is achieved by comparing an ordered set of node identifiers for each of a plurality of end-to-end paths. Alternatively, the same results can be achieved, on-the-fly, as a shortest path tree is constructed, by making a selection of an equal-cost path using the node identifiers of the diverging branches of the tree. Both variants allow a consistent selection to be made of equal-cost paths, regardless of where in the network the shortest paths are calculated. This ensures that traffic flow between any two nodes, in both the forward and reverse directions, will always follow the same path through the network.
US07911936B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising reducing overhead in OFDMA based Wireless Networks by determining the highest CIDs to be transmitted in a particular DL/UL MAP and determining the number of leading zero bits of the highest CID and removing the leading zero bits from each CID prior to transmission. Further, an embodiment of the present invention provides removing the CID field in the header of the message identified by a particular CID.
US07911927B2
A Bi4Ti3O12 nanoplate, an array of such Bi4Ti3O12 nanoplate and their making methods as well as their applications are provided. Using a vapor phase growth method, a flux layer of VOx is deposited on a SrTiO3 (001) faced substrate and then Bi4Ti3O12 is deposited on the flux layer. A Bi4Ti3O12 single crystal nanoplate is formed standing up on the flux layer in the form of a rectangular solid whose independent three sides are crystallographically oriented in directions coincident with particular crystallographic directions of the single crystal substrate, respectively. The nanoplates as a nanostructure grown by the bottom-up method are substantially fixed in shape and are densely arrayed not in contact with one another, and are applicable to a low-cost ferroelectric memory and the like.
US07911926B2
A tracking error signal is generated with stability without being easily affected by a distribution fluctuation of light reflected from an optical disc or by a lens shift.An optical disc drive according to the present invention includes: an objective lens 5 with an aperture radius r0 for converging a light beam emitted from a light source 1; a polarizing hologram substrate 2 for dividing the beam reflected from the optical disc 6 into branched light beams; a photodetector substrate 6, on which at least some of the light beams are incident to generate signals representing the intensities of the light beams; and a shielding mask 16 for cutting off the beam partially. If xy coordinates are defined on a virtual plane, passing the center of the lens 5 and intersecting with the optical axis 7 at right angles, such that an x-axis is parallel to the disc radial direction and a y-axis crosses the x-axis at right angles, the shielding mask 16 prevents the beam from passing through areas of the virtual plane defined by coordinates (x, y) satisfying |x|>a, |y|>b and a2+b2
US07911922B2
A lens-side grating diffracts, in a direction of an emitter-side grating, two laser beams passed through the lens-side grating from an optical disk side. The emitter-side grating substantially passes the laser beam having a longer wavelength than the other laser beam, and directs it to a desired region of the light receiving element. The emitter-side grating diffracts the laser beam having a shorter wavelength than the other laser beam to direct a +1st diffracted beam of the laser beam thus diffracted to the same light receiving region as a 0th diffracted beam of the other laser beam. Such a structure may be employed that a −1st diffracted beam of the laser beam of the longer wavelength is directed to the same light receiving region as the 0th diffracted beam (passed beam) of the laser beam of the short wavelength.
US07911921B2
A diffraction optical element is provided to reduce harmful lights and also suppress deterioration in the optical characteristics of the element. The diffraction optical element 22 is formed with a plurality of diffraction gratings 17′, 18′, 19′ and 20′. From these diffraction gratings, there are selected the diffraction gratings 18′, 19′ and 20′ whose groove apex angles are less than a predetermined angle. The diffraction gratings 18′, 19′ and 20′ has chamfer surfaces 18c′, 19c′ and 20c′ formed on the lower side of respective slanted surfaces 18a′, 19a′ and 20a′. The chamfer surfaces 18c′, 19c′ and 20c′ are slanted to the slanted surfaces 18a′, 19a′ and 20a′, respectively.
US07911908B2
An optical data processing apparatus reads and/or writes data from/on a data storage medium, in which first and second data storage layer are stacked. The apparatus includes: a light detector including at least one photodetector for generating a light quantity signal; a detecting optical system for guiding reflected light beams from a storage layer; and a signal processor for generating a layer sensing signal from the light quantity signal and determining, by the layer sensing signal, the type of data storage medium. The light detector includes a layer sensing photodetector arranged in view of an of an area of the light detector, and further includes a photodetector which is different from the layer sensing photodetector which receives the reflected light beam to generate a focus signal.
US07911907B2
An optical disk apparatus according to the present invention is an optical disk apparatus for performing at least one of: recording data to a plurality of types of optical disks including a recordable optical disk and a read-only optical disk which are produced according to the BD specifications; and reproducing data from the optical disks. This apparatus includes: a means (506, 507) for irradiating a management area 502 of an optical disk 501 with a light beam while not performing tracking control, and generating a track position signal (push-pull TE or phase difference TE) from light which is reflected by the management area 502; and a disk determination means for determining, based on the track position signal obtained from the management area 502, whether the optical disk 501 mounted in the optical disk apparatus is a recordable optical disk or a read-only optical disk.
US07911901B2
A control system for a rotating data storage device includes a drive module configured to at least one of (i) process data, (ii) store data, and (iii) control operation of the rotating storage device; and an audio monitoring module configured to (i) communicate with the drive module and (ii) analyze audio signals that are based on noise generated by the rotating storage device during operation, The rotating storage device includes a first component The audio monitoring module is configured to selectively adjust a rotational speed of the first component by (i) a predetermined value or (ii) a predetermined percentage of the rotation speed in response to detecting resonance of the first component. The drive module is integrated with the audio monitoring module in an integrated circuit (IC). The IC is arranged on a drive printed circuit board (PCB) of the rotating storage device.
US07911898B2
The drive apparatus of the present invention includes a recording/reproduction section and a drive control section. The drive control section determines a physical address indicating a location at which data can be recorded next in the determined track of a write-once recording medium as a next writable address, based on the last recorded address in the track; compares the physical address corresponding to the logical address included in the recording instruction with the next writable address; when the physical address corresponding to the logical address is smaller than the next writable address, controls the recording/reproduction section to record the data at a specific location in the user data area other than the location indicated by the physical address corresponding to the logical address in the recording instruction; generates new disc management information; and controls the recording/reproduction section to record the new disc management information in the disc management information area.
US07911897B2
A recording medium for storing defect management information to record real time data, a defect managing method therefor, and a method of recording real time data. The recording medium stores information representing use or non-use of linear replacement defect management in which a defective area on the recording medium is replaced with the spare area, in order to record real time data. While maintaining compatibility between the defect managing method and a defect managing method based on a current DVD-RAM standard, i.e., while allowing a report of the fact that there are blocks which have not been linearly replaced, linear replacement is not performed when real time data is recorded. Thus, real time data can be recorded and reproduced.
US07911895B2
The current invention is directed to a method and optical storage media reading device for restoring data stored along a data storage path of an optical storage media, the data being stored on the optical storage media and being at least in part unreadable by a conventional optical storage media reading device due to chemical or physical changes within a recording layer or a reflective layer of the optical storage media. The method and device includes detecting deformations of a shape of a groove and lands of the groove extending along the data storage path, the deformations having been generated by a laser beam during a recording process of the optical storage media, and determining the data to be restored from the detected deformations and lands.
US07911889B2
An optical disc apparatus includes a laser diode, a first optical component which branches beams from the laser diode into a first beam and a second beam, an objective lens which focuses the first beam on an optical information recording medium, an actuator which drives the objective lens in an optical axis direction, a reference mirror provided in an optical path of the second beam, an optical path length varying unit which varies an optical path length of the second beam, a first photo detector, a second photo detector, a second optical component which branches beams obtained by combining the first beam which is reflected by the optical information recording medium and the second beam which is reflected by the reference mirror and which makes the branched beams incident on the first and second photo detectors, and a signal processing part.
US07911888B2
Provided is an actuator for a pickup, in which end parts of a plurality of suspensions (550A to 550F) of five or more are positioned on a virtual circle (X) formed on a plane by being projected onto the plane including both a focusing direction and a tracking direction. A rolling center (O) defined as a center of the virtual circle (X) is made to coincide with all three, two, or one of a center (Os) of the gravity of a lens holder (600), a center (Os) of the drive force of the lens holder (600), and a center (Os) of the translational force of the suspensions (550A to 550F). Since the rolling center (O) coincides with all three, two, or one of those centers (Os), a rotational moment is not generated on the lens holder (600) and, therefore, generation of unnecessary resonance can be prevented.
US07911887B2
A recording medium has a user-data zone in which a plurality of fragments can be reserved by recording the start and end addresses of the fragments, and a management information zone in which management information having recorded-area-indicator (RAI) information indicating whether each of partial areas into which the user-data zone is divided by a fixed size is a recorded area and fragment information concerning each fragment reserved in the user-data zone is recorded. RAI information and fragment information are acquired from the management information zone. A recording end position in the reserved fragment is searched for using the entirety of an area in a reserved fragment as a search range. A search range in an unreserved fragment whose end address is not defined is determined on the basis of the RAI information, and a recording end position in the unreserved fragment is searched for within the determined search range.
US07911880B2
An AD2CP includes at least one transducer assembly emitting sets of slanted directional acoustic beams and receiving the echoes; and electronics that processes the echoes into depth cells and computes velocity in each depth cell. The AD2CP is configured so that each beam set has a profiling catenation, at least two of which are different, and the AD2CP is configured so that the emitting, receiving and processing operate contemporaneously.
US07911878B2
A walkaway VSP survey is carried out with receivers located in a borehole near the base salt. Reflection tomographic inversion of data from the walkaway VSP is used to derive a velocity model for the subsurface and may be used for imaging of sub-salt reflections.
US07911874B2
An interface conversion macro converts a signal compliant with a system interface specification output from a controller to a signal compliant with a memory interface specification, and outputs the same to a memory interface part, and it also converts a signal output from the memory macro to a signal compliant with the system interface specification and outputs the same to the controller. By converting the system interface specification and the memory interface specification to each other by an interface conversion macro, a common memory macro can be mounted on a semiconductor integrated circuit even when the system interface specification differs. Accordingly, when designing a system, the design verification time, evaluation time, and test time of the semiconductor integrated circuit can be reduced. As a result, the design time and design cost of the semiconductor integrated circuit can be reduced.
US07911871B2
A thin film magnetic memory includes a size-variable Read Only Memory (ROM) region and a size-variable Random Access Memory (RAM) coupled to different ports for parallel access to the ports, respectively. A memory system allowing fast and efficient data transfer can be achieved.
US07911863B2
According to a semiconductor device of the present invention, a differential potential between a sense amplification level and a precharge level of a sense amplifier is set to a power supply potential (VCC-GND) so as to improve resistance against degradation of hold characteristics. Further, low power consumption can be realized along with the improvement. Additionally, the precharge level is set to a power supply of GND or VCC so as to realize a stable supply of the precharge level. Further, a chip size can be reduced since a power supply circuit for precharge is not needed.
US07911861B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a memory that stores data, an input/output unit and a loopback circuit. The input/output unit inputs and outputs data of a predetermined number of bits in synchronization with a clock signal. The input/output unit may include, but is not limited to, the same number of data input/output terminals as the predetermined number of bits. The loopback circuit performs loopback operation to read data of the predetermined number of bits out of a first optional area of the memory and to write the data into a second optional area of the memory.
US07911860B2
A method and system for high speed testing of memories in a multi-device system, where individual devices of the multi-device system are arranged in a serial interconnected configuration. High speed testing is achieved by first writing test pattern data to the memory banks of each device of the multi-device system, followed by local test read-out and comparison of the data in each device. Each device generates local result data representing the absence or presence of a failed bit position in the device. Serial test circuitry in each device compares the local result data with global result data from a previous device. The test circuitry compresses this result of this comparison and provides it to the next device as an updated global result data. Hence, the updated global result data will represent the local result data of all the previous devices.
US07911857B1
A memory controller, such as a memory controller for reading data received from a DDR SDRAM memory, may detect the beginning and end of a read cycle. The memory controller may include a preamble detection circuit to receive a strobe signal and output a first control signal indicating detection of a preamble window in the strobe signal that indicates a beginning of the read cycle, where the first control signal is delayed based on a selectable delay period applied to the first control signal. The memory controller may further include a first gate to, based on the first control signal, either output the strobe signal for reading of the data lines or block the strobe signal, and the control logic to set an amount of the selectable delay period for the preamble detection circuit.
US07911856B2
A method of accessing memory cells is disclosed. A first signal is sent to at least one layer select transistor. The at least one layer select transistor is activated based on the first signal. Signals are communicated to or from one or more memory cells based on the activated at least layer select transistor.
US07911848B2
A memory device and a memory data determination method are provided. The memory device may estimate a threshold voltage shift of a first memory cell based on data before the first memory cell is programmed and a target program threshold voltage of the first memory cell. The memory device may generate a metric of a threshold voltage shift of a second memory cell based on the estimated threshold voltage shift of the first memory cell. Also, the memory device may determine data stored in the second memory cell based on the metric.
US07911840B2
A flash memory system includes a path selector to determine to write to a non-volatile memory, a volatile memory or both the non-volatile memory and the volatile memory when the flash memory system is to write data. A record is stored in the non-volatile memory which is updated the status of the non-volatile memory after each one or more writing operations. When the flash memory system is powered on after a power loss, it could be recovered to a command executed prior to the power loss or to any checkpoint prior to the power loss by using the record.
US07911831B2
Under one aspect, non-volatile transistor device includes a source and drain with a channel in between; a gate structure made of a semiconductive or conductive material disposed over an insulator over the channel; a control gate made of a semiconductive or conductive material; and an electromechanically-deflectable nanotube switching element in fixed contact with one of the gate structure and the control gate structure and is not in fixed contact with the other of the gate structure and the control gate structure. The device has a network of inherent capacitances, including an inherent capacitance of an undeflected nanotube switching element in relation to the gate structure. The network is such that the nanotube switching element is deflectable into contact with the other of the gate structure and the control gate structure in response to signals being applied to the control gate and one of the source region and drain region.
US07911829B2
A magnetic memory cell is provided. The magnetic memory cell includes at least one fixed magnetic layer, and a plurality of free magnetic layers, separated from the at least one fixed magnetic layer by at least one barrier layer. The free magnetic layers include a first free magnetic layer adjacent to the barrier layer, a second free magnetic layer separated from the first free magnetic layer by at least one first parallel coupling layer, and a third free magnetic layer separated from the second free magnetic layer by at least one second parallel coupling layer. A magnetic moment of the second free magnetic layer is greater than both a magnetic moment of the first free magnetic layer and a magnetic moment of the third free magnetic layer. The magnetic memory cell may be used in conjunction with a magnetic random access memory device.
US07911822B2
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of bitlines (b1) and a plurality of word-lines (w1) as well as a plurality of memory-cells (MC) coupled between a separate bit-line/word-line pair of the plurality of bit-lines (b1) and wordlines (w1) for storing data in the memory cell. Each memory cell (MC) comprises a selecting unit (T) and a programmable resistance (R). The value of the phase-change resistance (R) is greater than the value of a first phase-change resistance (Ropt) defined by a supply voltage (Vdd) divided by a maximum drive current (Im) through said first phase-change resistor (Ropt).
US07911811B2
A switching power supply with the increased efficiency at light load has a switching power circuit, a power monitoring circuit and a light load power supplying circuit. The switching power circuit converts an AC power to a stable DC power and sends the DC power to a load according to voltage variation of the load. When the power monitoring circuit detects the AC power and determines that the load is in a light state, the power monitoring circuit controls the light load power supplying circuit to output a small-power DC to the load. As the DC power provided by the light load power supplying circuit is small, the switching loss ratio is lower in its light load state. Therefore, the operating efficiency at the light load state is higher.
US07911803B2
An electrical structure and method of forming. The electrical structure comprises an interconnect structure and a substrate. The substrate comprises an electrically conductive pad and a plurality of wire traces electrically connected to the electrically conductive pad. The electrically conductive pad is electrically and mechanically connected to the interconnect structure. The plurality of wire traces comprises a first wire trace, a second wire trace, a third wire trace, and a fourth wire trace. The first wire trace and second wire trace are each electrically connected to a first side of the electrically conductive pad. The third wire trace is electrically connected to a second side of the electrically conductive pad. The fourth wire trace is electrically connected to a third side of said first electrically conductive pad. The plurality of wire traces are configured to distribute a current.
US07911798B2
A memory heat sink device having an enlarged heat dissipating area is provided. The memory heat sink device includes two cooling fins that are respectively attached to a front side and a back side of a memory. Raised dots are protruded from a front (or back) side of the cooling fin attached to the front (or back) side of the memory. Each of the raised dots on the cooling fin has at least one sectional area and at least one connection portion. Thus, the heat sink area of the cooling fin increases and heat generated by the memory is easily dissipated by the sectional area through thermal convection.
US07911797B2
An apparatus is disclosed that may include a printed circuit board (PCB) and an electronics package may be disposed about the first surface of the PCB. The PCB may include a metal layer and a core, and, in some aspects, may include multiple cores interposed between multiple metal layers, and in some embodiments a backplane may be disposed along the core. The metal layer may be disposed on a core first surface. The metal layer may comprise metal or other conductive material suitable to define traces, which may be circuit paths for electronic components affixed to the PCB. In some aspects, the core may be electrically non-conducting, and may be thermally insulating, and, accordingly, inhibit the transfer of heat from the electronics package through the PCB. However, pins may be configured to pass through the PCB including the core from the core first surface to the core second surface to conduct heat generated by the electronics package away for dispersion. In some embodiments, the pins may pass into the backplane. A pad may be disposed between the electronic package and the core in some embodiments, the pins passing into the pad.
US07911795B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic component device in which an electronic component and a heat dissipating member are connected by a heat conducting member, the method comprising forming one of a plate shape metallic member and a recessed metallic member on the electronic component by a selected one of vapor deposition processing and plating processing, forming the other of the plate shape metallic member and the recessed metallic member on the heat dissipating member by a selected one of vapor deposition processing and plating processing, and filling a liquid metal in the recessed part of the recessed metallic member thereby to form the liquid metal, the plate shape metallic member, and a part of the recessed metallic member into a solid solution.
US07911794B2
A semiconductor package includes a package main body having a base portion and a semiconductor device accommodating portion, electric terminals electrically connected to a semiconductor device in the accommodating portion and exposed to an outer surface, and a high heat transfer element disposed in the base portion to extend from a heat generation site corresponding position corresponding to a heat generating site of the semiconductor device to a position in an outside of the heat generation site corresponding position. The base portion is configured by bringing a plurality of thin plates in close contact with each other to bond them integrally, and the high heat transfer element includes at least one combination of fluid passage formed in the base portion and a heat transfer fluid sealed in the passage, or at least one heat pipe.
US07911789B2
In the disk array system, in the basic chassis, HDD modules are installed from a front surface in a front part of a backboard, and duplex CTL modules are installed up and down from a rear surface in a rear part, and duplex power source modules containing fans are installed in the left and right sides thereof. By the operation of the fans, in the rear part, the cooling air flows separately into each CTL module and into each power source module, and the cooling air having passed through the area of the duct by a block in the CTL module is drawn by the fans in the power source module through a ventilation hole and is then exhausted outside. The cooling air flow path to the plurality of ICs is divided by the block. The rotation speed of the fans is controlled by using a temperature sensor.
US07911785B2
A rack mounted computer system. In one variation the computer rack is configured for side-by-side placement of computers. In another variation, the computer rack includes flanges for supporting the placement of computer units within the rack. In another variation the computer rack is configured with retaining clips. In yet another variation, the computer rack is configured to receive computers with chassis that are adapted for side-by-side placement.
US07911783B2
A portable computer with a projecting function includes a main body, a display module, a pivot, and a projection module. The display module is connected to the main body via the pivot and capable of rotating relative to the main body. The projection module is disposed on the pivot for projecting the information of the main body. The portable computer is, for example, a laptop computer, or a tablet computer.
US07911779B1
A computer docking station is provided for supporting and electrically coupling to a portable computer that includes a docking connector and an aperture at least partly defining a carrying handle for the computer. The docking station includes a body with a cradle portion configured to support a portion of the computer and having a connector operable to electrically couple with the docking connector of the computer. The body further includes an arm portion sized and configured to be received in the aperture in the computer. A latching member is coupled with the arm portion and is movable between a first position relative to the arm portion, in which the arm portion can be inserted into or removed from the aperture in the portable computer, and a second position relative to the arm portion, in which the arm portion cannot be removed from the aperture in the portable computer.
US07911777B2
A computer drive cage (10) includes a pair of side support panels (14) that are separated by a space (38) to accommodate receipt of one or more computer drives (86). At least one of these support panels (14) includes a computer drive installation slot (46). One or more contacts (62) are aligned with and disposed outside of this slot (46) in a direction that is at least generally away from the computer drive space (38) between the side support panels (14). Each contact (62) for may be integrally-formed with its corresponding side support panel (14).
US07911775B2
According to one embodiment, a display apparatus includes a main body including a display and a front panel unit which covers a front surface of the display. The front panel unit includes a protection plate, a frame body formed into a frame shape such as to support an edge portion of the protection plate and including a plurality of through holes used to fix the protection plate, a plurality of pins which project from the protection plate in a direction crossing the protection plate and are to be put through the plurality of through holes, respectively, and screws which fix the protection plate and the frame body together.
US07911768B2
A drawout system with an interface proving a lower ingress protection rating is provided. The system includes a flange mounted to a door. A sleeve is movably mounted to the door adjacent to the flange. As the circuit breaker is moved from a racked-in position to a test position to a racked-out position, the sleeve moves with the circuit breaker and avoids creating exposure to electrical components within the drawout. The drawout system allows the operator to operate the circuit breaker with the door open or closed.
US07911767B2
Provided is an electric double-layer capacitor. The electric double-layer capacitor includes an electrode portion composed of an anode and a cathode; a separator for providing electrical isolation between the anode and cathode; and an electrolyte solution which is filled in a space between the anode and cathode so as to form electric double-layers on surfaces of the anode and cathode upon application of a predetermined voltage, and in which a solvent and a solute are mixed so as to have a concentration of 1.25 to 2.5 mol/L.
US07911766B2
An electric energy storage component having coil windings and at least one connector. A plate of the connector is in contact with the coil windings. The plate of the connector has a surface which is provided with a terminal wherein the shape thereof is essentially that of a revolution. The plate also forms a series of bosses extending in a raised manner along a surface of the plate opposite to that containing the terminal. The terminal has at least one inner recess and at least one boss which penetrates into the recess.
US07911764B2
A dielectric ceramic contains a BaTiO3-based compound as a main ingredient, and can be represented by the general formula: 100AmBO3+aNiO+bROn+cMOv+dMgO+eXOw where R represents a rare earth element such as Dy, M represents a metal element such as Mn, and X represents a sintering aid component containing Si. Ni is uniformly solid-solved in crystal grains, and the solid-solution region of the rare earth element in the crystal grains is an average 10% or less in terms of a cross section ratio. 0.96≦m≦1.030, 0.05≦a≦3, 0.1≦b≦1.5, 0.1≦c≦1.0, 0.1≦d≦1.5, and 0.05≦e≦3.5 are satisfied. A laminated ceramic capacitor has dielectric layers formed of the dielectric ceramic. As a result, a dielectric ceramic, and a laminated ceramic capacitor having excellent AC voltage characteristics, capable of keeping desired dielectric characteristics and excellent temperature characteristics, and having excellent withstand voltage and capable of ensuring reliability can be realized.
US07911762B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover terminals.
US07911760B2
An electronic blasting system (1) comprising a control unit (3), a surface harness and electronic detonators (4) connected to the surface harness by a 2-wire lead, the detonators (4) being adapted to provide information to the control unit (3) in response to command signals transmitted by the control unit (3) along the surface harness; wherein the surface harness comprises a primary line (2) with trunk lines (5) connect to it, wherein each trunk line (5) has connected to it individual detonators (4) making up the same row, wherein each trunk line (5) is connected to the primary line (2) by an actuator (6), and wherein each trunk line (5) includes an actuator (7) between adjacent detonators (4).
US07911753B2
Apparatus and method are described, illustratively in an LVLS master/slave system, for detecting a circuit failure, shutting down the system as if a normal power down function has occurred, but restarting the system. Signals, including power and ground lines are monitors, mal-functions detected and the apparatus put into a power down sequence. Illustratively in the LVLS system, driving a signal line to either the power or ground rails is used as a signal to the apparatus to enter the power down sequence. The present invention, after a programmable time, then drives the signal line to the opposite rail thereby signaling the system to restart—a wake up mode. After a programmable time, the signal line is released and the system resumes normal operation.
US07911751B2
The present invention discloses an electrostatic discharge device for ensuring a pin capacitance using a metal option. The electrostatic discharge device includes an electrostatic discharging unit formed between a power source voltage line and a ground voltage line to discharge static electricity input from a pad. A MOS capacitor of the electrostatic discharge device has a gate terminal connected to the pad via a metal option. A protection unit is formed between the electrostatic discharging unit and the ground voltage line to protect an internal circuit from static electricity stored in the electrostatic discharging unit.
US07911745B2
A thin-film magnetic head includes a magneto-resistive effect device of the CPP structure including a multilayer film comprising a stack of a fixed magnetization layer, a nonmagnetic layer and a free layer stacked one upon another in order, with a sense current applied in the stacking direction of the multilayer film, and an upper shield layer and a lower shield layer with the magneto-resistive effect device held between them in the thickness direction, and further comprises a bias magnetic field-applying layer located at each end of the multilayer film in the widthwise direction and a re-magnetizer unit designed such that when the bias magnetic field-applying layers malfunction, they are re-magnetized to go back to normal.
US07911743B2
Provided is a multichannel thin-film magnetic head having a plurality of read head elements neighboring with each other, each of which includes shield layers having a desired stable magnetic-domain structure. The head comprises at least one read head part comprising a plurality of read head elements aligned in the track width direction, wherein each of the plurality of read head elements comprises a lower shield layer and an upper shield layer, and the at least one read head part comprises: a lower shield part comprising a plurality of the lower shield layers aligned in the track width direction; and an upper shield part comprising a plurality of the upper shield layers aligned in the track width direction, and wherein dummy shield layers are provided respectively on both sides of at least the lower shield part.
US07911742B1
A novel head stack assembly is disclosed. The novel head stack assembly includes a stamped actuator arm and a head gimbal assembly attached to the stamped actuator arm. The head gimbal assembly includes a trace suspension flex having a metal base layer and a plurality of conductors supported by the metal base layer. The stamped actuator arm includes an actuator arm side surface that extends longitudinally along the stamped actuator arm. The stamped actuator arm also includes two or three longitudinally spaced-apart stamped protrusions. The stamped protrusions are in contact with the trace suspension flex, and each stamped protrusion extends from the actuator arm side surface.
US07911739B2
A method and apparatus for writing magnetization states in a pair of magnetic islands of a multi-level patterned magnetic recording medium and a method and apparatus for reading readback waveforms representing the written magnetization states of a pair of magnetic islands of a two-level patterned magnetic recording medium. Writing each magnetization state includes selecting the magnetization state, determining a write current sufficient to write the magnetization state, and applying the write current to a magnetic write head to write the magnetization state by simultaneously writing associated magnetic states in each magnetic island of the pair of magnetic islands. Reading the readback waveform representing the written magnetization state is implemented through use of a magnetic read head and includes: identifying the written magnetization state by decoding the readback waveform; and displaying and/or recording the written magnetization state.
US07911737B1
The method and system for providing a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head are described. The method and system include providing a metal underlayer and a PMR pole on the metal underlayer. The metal underlayer is amorphous. The PMR pole has a bottom and a top wider than the bottom. The PMR pole includes at least a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a third ferromagnetic layer. The first ferromagnetic layer is antiferromagnetically coupled with the second ferromagnetic layer. The second ferromagnetic layer is antiferromagnetically coupled with the third ferromagnetic layer.
US07911722B2
A composition for forming a prism layer and a prism film manufactured using the same. The composition for forming a prism layer includes a UV-curable monomer A, including a fluorene derivative diacrylate monomer represented by Formula 1 or 2; a UV-curable monomer B, including at least one acrylate monomer; a photoinitiator; and an additive, and thus is excellent in surface strength, adhesion to a substrate film and anti-yellowing properties, with a viscosity suitable for formation of the prism layer.
US07911712B2
An imaging lens includes, in order from an object side, a first lens having a negative power and including a concave image-side surface, a second lens having a positive power, a stop, a third negative lens, which is a biconcave lens, a fourth lens having a positive power, and a fifth lens having a positive power and including a convex image-side surface. The imaging lens satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.18<(D4+D5)/f<0.44, and 0.18
US07911708B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, which are disposed in order from an object along the optical axis, wherein the third lens group comprises: a pre-group, which has a first positive lens, a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object, a second positive lens, and which has a positive refractive power; and a negative meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object, which are disposed in order from the object; at least one of three surfaces of an object side and image side lens surfaces of the first positive lens and an object side lens surface of the negative meniscus lens is aspherical; and at least one of three surfaces of an object side lens surface of the second positive lens, and an object side and image side lens surfaces of the negative meniscus lens is aspherical.
US07911705B2
An object of the invention is to provide a projection lens capable of sufficiently correcting lateral chromatic aberration at both of the wide-angle end and the telephoto end, with an increased zoom ratio, a less number of lens elements, and less variation in telecentricity.
US07911703B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method for a wafer lens module including the steps of providing a plastic material with high thermal resistance, wherein the high temperature plastic material can be used at a reflow temperature above 250□; and forming the high temperature plastic material into a wafer lens module integrally. The method can form an integrated wafer lens module and simplify the manufacturing procedures. Furthermore, a wafer lens unit formed by stacking another wafer lens module on the wafer lens module manufactured by the method can have improved optical image quality.
US07911700B2
A light guiding film is provided including a main body, and a light diffusion structure comprising a plurality of micro concave lenses arranged in a first direction and a second direction to form a second dimensional array and the curvature of each concave lens and the junction of the concave lenses are different from zero. Light from a light source passes through the light diffusion structure and is refracted into the main body and then propagates in the main body by total reflection.
US07911696B1
A large scale polarizer having one or more quartz substrate parts formed as a rectangle, a triangle, or a parallelogram, and a polarizer holder supporting the quartz substrate part. The polarizer holder may be in a lattice structure holding a plurality of quartz substrate parts. A polarizer system employing the large scale polarizer includes a lens making an incident light to a parallel light, the large scale polarizer, and a moving control part coupled to and moving the large scale polarizer.
US07911694B1
A screen includes: a screen substrate; a first area disposed on the screen substrate and containing a first main line which has a plurality of first concaves for reflecting light and a first supplementary line which is disposed on the screen substrate at a position adjacent to the first main line and has the same number of second concaves as that of the first concaves formed adjacent to the second concaves, the first main line and the first supplementary line being alternately and repeatedly arranged; and a second area disposed on the screen substrate in a region where an angle of incidence of projection light with respect to the screen substrate becomes larger than in the first area and containing a second main line which has a plurality of third concaves for reflecting light and a second supplementary line which is disposed on the screen substrate at a position adjacent to the second main line and has a larger number of fourth concaves as that of the third concaves formed adjacent to the fourth concaves, the second main line and the second supplementary line being alternately and repeatedly arranged.
US07911693B2
A method of creating a projection screen includes forming on a substrate a set of reflective areas directed to a first set of angles and forming on the substrate a set of absorptive areas directed to other than the first set of angles.
US07911687B2
A sighted device has a sight that includes an objective lens lying on an optical axis of the sight so that an input beam is coincident with the optical axis, an eyepiece lens lying on the optical axis, an imaging detector having a detector output signal, a signal processor that receives the detector output signal from the imaging detector, modifies the detector output signal, and has a processor output signal, and a video display projector that receives the processor output signal and has a video display projector output. An optical beam splitter lies on the optical axis. The beam splitter allows a first split subbeam of the input beam to pass to the eyepiece lens and reflects a second split subbeam of the input beam to the imaging detector. An optical mixer mixes the first split subbeam and the video display projector output prior to the first split subbeam passing through the eyepiece lens.
US07911682B2
A nonlinear optical crystal having a chemical formula of YiLajAlkB16O48, where 2.8≦i≦3.2, 0.8≦j≦1.2, i and j sum to about four, and k is about 12 is provided. The nonlinear optical crystal is useful for nonlinear optical applications including frequency conversion. Nonlinear optical crystals in a specific embodiment are characterized by UV blocking materials (e.g., some transition metals and lanthanides) at concentrations of less than 1,000 parts per million, providing high transmittance over portions of the UV spectrum (e.g., 175-360 nm).
US07911679B2
An apparatus for use with a digital micro-mirror 100 includes a hinge 116 disposed outwardly from a substrate 102. The hinge 116 is capable of at least partially supporting a micro-mirror 104 disposed outwardly from the hinge 116. The micro-mirror 104 is capable of being selectively transitioned between an on-state position and an off-state position. In one particular embodiment, the hinge 116 comprises a substantially flat profile for at least a portion of the hinge 116 disposed between a first hinge post 108 of the hinge 116 and a mid-point of the hinge 116. The apparatus also includes a plurality of process control voids formed within a conductive layer 120 disposed inwardly from the hinge 116. In one particular embodiment, the substantially flat profile is at least partially created from the plurality of process control voids.
