US08132266B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying and enforcing software feature limits across different hardware platforms, software releases, and tiers are disclosed. According to one method, a feature limit data structure is stored on the hardware platform. Each entry in the feature limit data structure is indexed by at least a software program identifier, a software release level identifier, and a feature name. When software is initialized, its release level is determined. A feature limit manager separate from the software being initialized is invoked. At least the software program identifier, the release level, and the feature identifier are provided as input to the feature limit manager. The feature limit manager provides a feature limit value. The feature limit value is stored and the software uses the feature limit value to enforce the feature limit during execution.
US08132265B2
Techniques for multilingual password challenge response, password reset, and/or password recovery are presented. When a password reset or password recovery request is received, a series of challenge questions are serially asked such that each question has to be answered correctly before the next question in the series is even presented. Furthermore, at least two questions are asked in different languages from one another.
US08132262B2
An objective is to prevent a downloaded application from accessing data in an external memory unrelated to the application, and to achieve safer management of access to the external memory. An external memory function module 15 is a function module that controls access of an application downloaded in a cell phone 1, to an external memory 2. This external memory function module 15 has a bind ID acquirer 156 for acquiring a bind ID to specify the application downloaded, a discrimination ID acquirer 157 for acquiring a directory discrimination ID to specify an application permitted to access a directory, and an access controller 158 for checking the bind ID against the directory discrimination ID and for, when they coincide with each other, performing such control as to permit access of the application to the directory.
US08132258B1
A client computer may be configured to perform computer security operations in conjunction with a remotely located security server. Upon detection of a computer security event, such as reception of a file, the client computer may generate a query input and determine if the query input has corresponding security information in the security server. When the query input has corresponding security information, the client computer may forward the query input to the security server. In response, the security server may retrieve the security information using the query input and provide the security information to the client computer. As a particular example, the security event may be reception of a file in the client computer and the security information may indicate whether or not the file is infected with a computer virus.
US08132254B2
A data processing apparatus and method for protecting system control registers is provided. Processing logic is providing for executing software routines and a plurality of system control registers are used to store access control information for a plurality of system resources available to the processing logic when executing at least some of those software routines. Additionally, at least one write control register is provided, with each field of that register being associated with one or more of the system control registers. Disable control logic is used to generate a disable signal, and when that disable signal is clear access control information can be written into the system control registers, and write restriction data can be written into each of the fields of the at least one write control register. Then, when the disable control logic sets the disable signal, the at least one write control register becomes read only, and for each field that has write restriction data therein those associated system control registers indicated by the write restriction data also become read only. This mechanism provides a very flexible approach for programming which system control registers are to be treated as read only registers.
US08132251B2
Firewall system for interconnecting two IP networks managed by two different administrative entities
Firewall system for interconnecting a first IP network (10) to a second IP network (16), these networks belonging to two different entities having each a different administration wherein any data packet transmitted/received by the first IP network is filtered by using a first firewall function and any data packet transmitted/received by the second IP network is filtered by using a second firewall function. The system comprises essentially a single firewall device (20) including filtering means (41, 43) performing both first firewall function and second firewall function, a console port (37) enabling the administrator in charge of each IP network to enter filtering rules for updating the associated firewall function and control means (39, 47, 49) interconnecting the console port and the filtering means for transmitting thereto the filtering rules so that each administrator may independently manage the system from the console port.
US08132249B2
The invention enables the different access links between a local network and a remote network to be used in a common and transparent manner. The invention is based on the use of various IP tunnels using the different access links between an appliance on the local network of the user and an appliance on the remote network. Said tunnels are embodied as a single link providing access to the remote network.
US08132248B2
A method and system for managing multiple firewall configurations are disclosed. The method uses a pointer on a packet object representing a packet to reference a configuration object representing a configuration of the firewall which is assigned to the packet. By using a pointer to link each packet entering a computer system to the most recent configuration, the method can maintain multiple configurations and enable the firewall processing modules to process each packet according to its assigned configuration even if new configurations are released during the transition of the packet through the system. A reference count is also used as a variable by the configuration object to track the number of packets assigned to the configuration. A corresponding system is also provided.
US08132247B2
The SSL VPN session failover solution of the appliance and/or client agent described herein provides an environment for handling IP address assignment and end point re-authorization upon failover. The appliances may be deployed to provide a session failover environment in which a second appliance is a backup to a first appliance when a failover condition is detected, such as failure in operation of the first appliance. The backup appliance takes over responsibility for SSL VPN sessions provided by the first appliance. In the failover environment, the first appliance propagates SSL VPN session information including user IP address assignment and end point authorization information to the backup appliance. The backup appliance maintains this information. Upon detection of failover of the first appliance, the backup appliance activates the transferred SSL VPN session and maintains the user assigned IP addresses. The backup appliance may also re-authorize the client for the transferred SSL VPN session.
US08132241B2
A method for performing at least one evolution operation in a dynamic, evolutive community of devices in a network comprising at least a first device. The method comprises a step of sending at least one message over the network from the first device to a second device, wherein the first device continues the method without acknowledgement of the at least one message from the second device. The method is suitable for execution on clockless devices. A device for performing the method is also claimed.
US08132228B2
Based on the security policy set in the original document and the security policy supported by the format of conversion destination, it is judged whether or not the security policy set in the original document is inheritable to the electronic document after format conversion. If it is judged that the security policy is inheritable, the security policy set in the original document is inherited to the electronic document after format conversion. If it is judged that the security policy is not inheritable, a process for inheriting the security policy set in the original document to the electronic document after format conversion is not performed.
US08132224B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving multimedia broadcasting in order to provide multimedia broadcasting services and interactive broadcasting services are provided. An apparatus for receiving multimedia broadcasting includes a reference clock receiver, which receives a reference clock value, i.e., a current time value, of real-time multimedia broadcasting; a multimedia document receiver/storage, which receives and stores a first multimedia document; a media data receiver/storage, which receives and stores first media data; and a multimedia document renderer, which when the first multimedia document is scheduled at the reference clock value and the first media data is a rendering material used to render the first multimedia document, renders the first multimedia document using the first media data.
US08132223B2
A method for controlling presentation of items of enhanced content in an interactive television system comprising at least one distribution unit and a plurality of decoder units arranged to store items of enhanced content and cause them to be presented to a user on receipt of a trigger signal from the distribution unit, the method comprising: storing the items of enhanced content at the decoder units; storing at the distribution unit a schedule indicating a desired synchronisation between the items of enhanced content and a running program with which the enhanced content is associated, the running program comprising a timing stream and a series of periodic indications of the identity of the running program; transmitting the running program to the decoder units over a transmission channel via the distribution unit; and at the distribution unit analysing traffic passing over the transmission channel so as to determine whether the said periodic indications of the identity of the running program continue to be detected as passing over the transmission channel, and generating trigger signals in respect of the enhanced content associated with the running program only whilst it is determined that the said periodic indications continue to be detected as passing over the transmission channel.
US08132218B2
An access/edge network node (300) according to the invention includes a single proxy function (301) to terminate on the subscriber side a single requesting protocol for a plurality of streaming video services.
US08132215B2
A broadcast signal receiving apparatus, which is capable of simultaneously processing a plurality of transport streams in an appropriate manner, is comprised of: a pre-processing unit 1202 that determines and extracts a piece of viewing-related data from each of a plurality of transport streams; a multiplexing unit 1203 that multiplexes the extracted pieces of viewing-related data, and outputs the resulting multiplexed data to an adapter 1204; and a demultiplexing unit 1205 that obtains, from the adapter 1204, the multiplexed data processed by the adapter 1204, and demultiplexes the received data.
US08132205B2
An enhanced electronic program guide (EPG) for television programming may allow access to program information based on a specified date. In embodiments, the EPG may be output for display with timeslots containing program information corresponding to television programs being broadcast currently and to television programs scheduled for future broadcast, and a header indicating a plurality of dates for accessing corresponding program information. User input received while the EPG is being output for display with the header indicating a plurality of dates that identifies one of the plurality of dates may cause program information in the EPG corresponding to the identified date to be accessed and the EPG to be output for display with the program information corresponding to the identified date and with a header indicating times of the timeslots. In embodiments, the header indicating times of the timeslots may replace the header indicating a plurality of dates.
US08132198B2
An apparatus includes an optical data storage medium comprising a longitudinal portion at a resting location and a counterweight attached to the optical data storage medium. Unless the longitudinal portion is locked in place, the counterweight causes the longitudinal portion to move from the resting location when the optical data storage medium is rotated thereby rendering at least some data on the optical data storage medium unusable.
US08132194B2
A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes at least an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from a disk, and a disk conveying device which conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. The control device includes a single control member for controlling conveyance of the disk by the disk conveying means, for centering of the disk relative to the traverse unit, and for clamping or unclamping the disk relative to a turn table of the traverse unit.
US08132193B2
A disk ejecting unit to manually ejecting a disk and a disk device including the disk ejecting unit are provided. A disk ejecting unit for use in a disk device for recording and/or reproducing data with respect to a disk, includes a driving motor, a slider that moves toward a first position or a second position in response to a driving force of the driving motor, an eject lever to press the disk inserted into the disk device so as to eject the disk where the slider is moved toward the second position, and a gear assembly to transmit the driving force of the driving motor to the slider.
US08132190B2
This invention relates to a management method, more particularly by logging and replay, for software operations performed during the execution of an application process executed on a computer. The method applies in particular to internal operations sending a result datum to the managed process, and comprises the following steps: —carrying out a deterministic software processing, termed prediction function (FH), based on the state of a managed process or of the application (AOP, ASB), to provide a predict result (RP) for said operation; —comparative test to establish whether the value of the predict result (RP) corresponds or does not correspond to the value of the actual result (DR, RRJ); —performance of a complementary management depending on the result of the preceding test.
US08132185B2
Some embodiments include, for example, devices, systems, and methods of classifying a workload of a software service. A method of classifying a workload of a software service may include, for example, sampling a plurality of values of at least one parameter of the software service by performing out-of-band monitoring of the at least one parameter; and classifying the workload of the software service by selecting a workload classification from a plurality of predefined workload classifications based on the plurality of values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08132180B2
Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for determining run-time dependencies between logical components of a data processing environment. Components of the data processing environment are monitored by monitoring agents accessing run-time activity data via APIs of the managed system. A dependency generator identifies correlations between the run-time activity of the monitored components. For synchronous monitored systems, the dependency generator calculates an activity period for monitored components and determines which component's activity periods contain the activity periods of other components. Containment is used as an indicator of a likely dependency relationship, and a weighting is computed for each dependency relationship based on the consistency of containment.
US08132176B2
In a method for accessing, by application programs, resources provided by an operating system, a process receives a request for a resource and an identifier associated with the resource. It is determined that the requested resource resides inside an application isolation environment. The request for the resource and the identifier associated with the resource is redirected to the application isolation environment. The request for the resource is responded to using an instance of the resource residing inside the application isolation environment.
US08132171B2
A method of controlling thread access to a synchronization object is described. The method comprises waking a sleeping first thread after release, by a second thread, of a synchronization object in a normal state and causing, by the first thread, the synchronization object to transition to a want-lock state, the synchronization object being acquirable by the first thread prior to being acquirable by the second thread.
US08132163B2
A method and apparatus for automatic second-order predictive commoning is provided by the present invention. During an analysis phase, the intermediate representation of a program code is analyzed to identify opportunities for second-order predictive commoning optimization. The analyzed information is used by the present invention for apply transformations to the program code, such that the number of memory access and the number of computations are reduced for loop iterations and performance of program code is improved.
US08132159B1
A method finds an error in a computer program. A sequence of machine instructions performed by a processor is recorded as trace data. Further, at least one event is selected from a plurality of events. In addition, an operating system instruction address is determined for the at least one event. Further, at least a portion of the trace data is searched for the operating system instruction address. The execution time for an operating system instruction stored in the operating system instruction address is determined. The execution time is searched through in the database to find task related data. The task related data is displayed.
US08132155B2
A computer readable media, includes instructions capable of being interpreted for execution by a computer processor. The instructions provide information sufficient for: reading a master telemetry definition data file; producing a source code for implementing a data stream telemetry method, and generating documentation files for the source code. The source code includes a get component, a format component, and a blocks component. The get component includes source code for accessing flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for scaling the flight software variable values according to the master telemetry definition data file. The format component includes source code for formatting the values as telemetry stream parameters according to the master telemetry definition data file. The blocks component includes source code for placing telemetry parameters into a data stream according to the master telemetry definition data file.
US08132154B2
A system, method and program product for statistically analyzing comments in one or more program code listings. A system is disclosed that includes a process for associating comments to blocks of code at different programmatic levels in a code listing; a process for assigning weights to different code blocks, and a process for generating a statistical analysis at the different programmatic levels of the comments in the code listing.
US08132145B2
A method used for supporting designing of a printed circuit board including a plurality of conductive layers having conductive areas to which a constant potential is applied, includes specifying conductive areas having a predetermined wiring from the conductive areas for each of the plurality of conductive layers, extracting areas that overlap each other in a planar view from the specified conductive areas, specifying an interlayer connection member that electrically connects at least two of the plurality of conductive layers in the extracted area, and clearly specifying an area within a predetermined distance from a center of the specified interlayer connection member and in the extracted area.
US08132142B2
Various methods and apparatuses are described in which an integrated circuit is organized into rows and columns of macro cells having a layout architecture that includes at least two metal layers and a plurality of traces carrying three or more different potentials of voltage routed by the metal layers. A first, a second, and a third adjacent metal layers extend across the integrated circuit. The plurality of traces carry three or more different potentials of voltage and are routed in the metal layers. A first power trace supplies a VDD voltage potential. A second power trace supplies a VSS voltage potential. A third power trace supplies a third voltage potential to support sleep modes and retain data during sleep modes. All three power supply traces connect to one or more transistors in a first macro cell.
US08132139B2
A semiconductor device has an interconnect structure that includes a main interconnection and a contact structure. Parameters contributing to parasitic capacitance and interconnect resistance of the interconnect structure include: main parameters including width/thickness of the main interconnection; and sub parameter. Variation of each parameter from a design value caused by manufacturing variability is represented within a predetermined range. A method of designing the semiconductor device includes: calculating the maximum capacitance value, the minimum capacitance value, the maximum resistance value and the minimum resistance value of the interconnect structure under a condition that respective variation amplitudes of the main parameters do not simultaneously take maximum values and variation of the sub parameter is fixed to a predetermined value; generating a CR-added netlist; and performing operation verification of the semiconductor device by using the CR-added netlist.
US08132131B2
Disclosed is design structure including an integrated circuit having a system for moving a failing address into a new FAR by utilizing the functional compare circuitry during BIST of redundant memory elements. Disclosed is an any-for-any scheme that eliminates the tri-state address bus. The design structure allows for easy, discrete scaling with the addition of more FARs, while also allowing larger addresses with no additional control circuit overhead.
US08132124B2
A method and apparatus for representing Web service activity utilizes a user interface. Components of the user interface present a changing graphical feature based on an activity indicator of the associated web service. The components may vary color or text indicators. Activity indicators may include loading of the Web service object or other states and activities of interest.
US08132123B2
The present invention is a system that provides an orientation indicator graphical user interface element in a display view of a three-dimensional scene. The orientation indicator can be used to automatically change a view of the scene to a predetermined viewpoint. The indicator includes view direction indicating controls that when activated cause the view of the scene to change to a view direction indicated by the control. The direction can be indicated by a shape of the control, such as by a cone with a point pointing in the direction of the view, or by the location of the control, such as being located on a marked scene axis of the indicator. The view of the scene is also automatically adjusted at the view position to center an object of interest in the scene and zoomed in/out to fit the object to the display view. The indicator is part of the three-dimensional scene and moves with the scene as the scene is manipulated by a user, such as in tumbling the scene. The indicator is held at a fixed position and size in the display view, such as in a corner of the display view, by moving the indicator about within the scene and changing the size of the indicator.
US08132122B2
A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and line to represent a data field, nodes representing data values, and links showing correlations among fields and values. Other visualization methods and apparatus are disclosed.
US08132115B2
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide for displaying per-instance dynamic properties of an object. A reference to an object instance having a dynamic property that is supplied at runtime for the object instance on a per-instance basis and is not stored with the object is received. A reference to a property source instance, that maintains knowledge of the dynamic property, associated with the object, is retrieved. The references are provided to a control that retrieves and displays the dynamic property. Additionally, the object may provide/specify a custom ActiveX control that defines a user interface for displaying and editing one or more properties. The custom control is instantiated and used to display the property in the defined user interface.
US08132108B2
A portable media playing device incorporating a menu structure. The device includes a display mechanism, a navigation database, including a navigation record with a navigation description, and an action database, including an action record with an action description. The action database is customizable. A display driver displays the navigation description. When the navigation description is selected, the display driver displays the action description. When the action description is selected, a digital synchronization system generates an extra action request (EAR) record that includes an action identifier and action data for storage in an EAR database. When the device is synchronized with a computer, a synchronization manager accesses the EAR database and updates the action database with any new action records.
US08132094B1
An electronic input device such as an electronic pen is provided to annotate a document. The device may include a recording component that electronically records an annotation of the document, a recognition component that analyzes the annotation and determines whether the annotation includes an electronically-executable instruction, and a processing component that automatically causes an execution of the electronically-executable instruction when the annotation is determined to include an electronically-executable instruction. In another embodiment, a method for processing an annotation of a physical printed version of a document may include obtaining an electronic version of an annotation from a physical printed version of a document, determining if the annotation includes an electronically-executable instruction, and automatically causing an execution of the electronically-executable instruction if the annotation includes an electronically-executable instruction.
US08132085B2
A method and apparatus for decoding a frame control header message in a wireless communication transmission are disclosed. The method comprises assuming at least some of the bits comprising the frame control header message are constant across multiple frames or are known a priori and generating metrics at least from the bits of the frame control header message that are assumed to be constant or are known a priori. The method further comprises decoding the metrics, for example, with a Viterbi decoder or using chase combining, to yield the decode frame control header message.
US08132065B2
A hybrid sphere decoding method is disclosed. Received data is processed to obtain preliminary parameters. Mbf layers are determined to use breadth-first search and Mdf layers to use depth-first search. A search process is implemented based on the preliminary parameters, in which Mbf layers are searched using breadth-first search and Mdf layers are searched using depth-first search.
US08132063B2
To realize a fast and highly reliable phase-change memory system of low power consumption, a semiconductor device includes: a memory device which includes a first memory array having a first area including a plurality of first memory cells and a second area including a plurality of second memory cells; a controller coupled to the memory device to issue a command to the memory device; and a condition table for storing a plurality of trial writing conditions. The controller performs trial writing in the plurality of second memory cells a plurality of times based on the plurality of trial writing conditions stored in the condition table, and determines writing conditions in the plurality of first memory cells based on a result of the trial writing. The memory device performs writing in the plurality of first memory cells based on the writing conditions instructed from the controller.
US08132051B2
A method and system for sampling input data. The method includes: buffering input data; recording an execution path of the buffered input data in an online operation module; determining whether the buffered input data passes through a desired execution path, and responsive to the buffered input data passing through the desired execution path, sampling the buffered input data to a data set. The system includes: buffering means for buffering input data; recording means for recording an execution path; sampling means for determining whether the buffered input data passes through a desired execution path.
US08132049B2
A failure diagnosis method diagnoses a failure occurring in a diagnosis target apparatus including a drive mechanism having a drive member that receives power supply to operate and a power transmission member that transmits drive force of the drive member to another member. The method includes automatically acquiring by a sensor an operation state signal indicating an operation state during the drive mechanism operating for a predetermined period; and analyzing the automatically acquired operation state signal based on a failure probability model, which is obtained by modeling a cause of failure occurring in the diagnosis target apparatus with using probabilities, to execute failure diagnosis with respect to each of constituent members of the drive mechanism.
US08132045B2
In a nonvolatile memory system, data received from a host by a memory controller is transferred to an on-chip cache, and new data from the host displaces the previous data before it is written to the nonvolatile memory array. A safe copy is maintained in on-chip cache so that if a program failure occurs, the data can be recovered and written to an alternative location in the nonvolatile memory array.
US08132043B2
A method and system for multi-staged recovery of a distributed computer system. The method includes receiving a failure event notification from at least one node of the distributed computer system and executing a plurality of recovery stages upon receiving the failure event notification by using a recovery manager, wherein each of the plurality of recovery stages performs a defined recovery task. The progress of recovery is tracked by using at least one state machine executed by the recovery manager, wherein the state machine reflects progress of each of the recovery stages. The progress of recovery is monitored to a completion by using the state machine and the recovery manager.
US08132035B2
A network adaptor is disclosed that uses Power over Ethernet (PoE) protocols to derive power from an Ethernet port and provide the derived power to a field device. The network adapter communicates analog data with the field device and converts the analog data to digital data using an analog to digital converter before transmitting the digital data through the Ethernet port to a central office. The network adapter is uniquely assigned to the field device allowing an IP address to be assigned to the network adapter/field device system which may be accessed using IP protocols from any suitable browser.
US08132024B2
A recording and reproduction apparatus for preventing illegitimate use of contents. A recording medium stores an inherent number in an unrewritable area. The recording apparatus writes media key data and an encrypted content onto the recording medium. The media key data includes encrypted media keys generated by (i) for each of unrevoked reproduction apparatuses, encrypting a media key using a device key of the unrevoked reproduction apparatus respectively, and (ii) for each of revoked reproduction apparatuses, encrypting detection information using a device key of the revoked reproduction apparatus. The reproduction apparatus decrypts the encrypted media key using a device key to generate a decryption media key, judges whether the decryption media key is the detection information, and prohibits the encrypted content recorded on the recording medium from being decrypted when judged in the affirmative.
US08132022B2
A method for performing hash operations including: receiving a hash instruction that is part of an application program, where the hash instruction prescribes one of the hash operations and one of a plurality of hash algorithms; translating the hash instruction into a first plurality of micro instructions and a second plurality of micro instructions; and via a hash unit disposed within execution logic, executing the one of the hash operations. The executing includes first executing the first plurality of micro instructions within the hash unit to produce output data; second executing the second plurality of micro instructions within an x86 integer unit in parallel with the first executing to test a bit in a flags register, to update text pointer registers, and to process interrupts during execution of the hash operation; and storing a corresponding intermediate hash value to memory prior to allowing a pending interrupt to proceed.
US08132019B2
Arrangements which permit the employment of dedicated user-access management architecture with more than text-based access. Particularly contemplated herein are arrangements for accepting user identifiers that are then communicated to an intermediate user-delineating architecture (i.e., architecture configured for permitting access to encrypted data or sections of a computer on a user-specific basis) in a manner to permit the user-delineating architecture to perform its own task of unlocking data or sections of a computer.
US08132016B1
A first information handling system (“IHS”) receives identification information of a first user of a second IHS. The first IHS initiates a network session in response to authenticating the identification information of the first user. Within the network session, the first IHS receives identification information of a second user of the second IHS. The first IHS authenticates the identification information of the second user.
US08132012B2
An authentication system is provided that includes a portable device and a decryption node. An individual uses the portable device, such as a portable device like a cell phone to compute a challenge and a response. The challenge and response is sent to a decryption node. In response, the decryption node computes a presumed response and compares the presumed response to the response of the portable device, in order to authenticate the individual associated with the portable device.
US08132011B2
A system and method allows some or all of an e-mail message, such as the sender or its contents, to be authenticated, for example, to identify a message as potential spam.
US08132008B2
A security panel includes a processor, memory, and a network interface having a unique MAC address, and is configured to communicate over a network with a server. A method for registering the security panel with the server includes contacting the server utilizing a network address stored in the memory. A dealer ID, a line number, and a unique account number is sent to the server. The dealer ID, the line number, and the unique account number are stored in the memory. An encryption key is received for encryption of additional communication between the security panel and the server. The unique MAC address is sent to the server in an encrypted session to verify the security panel to the server.
US08132007B2
A Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access (PANA) authentication system is provided. The system includes: a PANA client (PaC) which establishes, with a PANA authentication agent (PAA), a first PANA session and a second PANA session independent of the first PANA session, and transmits, to the PAA, a PANA update request packet requesting a binding of the first PANA session and the second PANA session; and a PAA which determines whether the first PANA session and the second PANA session are associated with an identical PaC in response to the PANA update request packet received from the PaC.
US08131994B2
A dual cryptographic keying system. In particular implementations, a method includes responsive to an initial session key negotiation, storing security association information for a tunnel in a security association memory; responsive to a session key renegotiation, storing security association information for the tunnel in a cache; decrypting received packets associated with the tunnel conditionally using the security association information in the cache or the security association information in the security association memory; and upon an expiration condition, overwriting the security association information, for the tunnel, in the security association memory with the security association information, for the tunnel, copied from the cache.
US08131993B2
A system and method for securing intellectual property rights in distributed intellectual property. Rights are granted and policed in electronically distributed intellectual property. Use limitations are established by agreement by the content provider and the client. The use limitations are reflected in time-based, usage-based and player based component codes that are used to determine if the client is entitled to use the intellectual property. Intellectual property is protected from unauthorized use by encrypting the intellectual property with a key created from some or all of the component codes. As the component codes are known to both the client and the content provider, no key exchange is required.
US08131988B2
An electronic device includes a power supply unit, a control unit, a first boot circuit, and a data encryption unit. The control unit outputs a boot signal for causing the power supply unit to start supplying power. The first boot circuit interconnects the power supply unit and the control unit for transmitting the boot signal. The data encryption unit is for interconnecting the power supply unit and the control unit so as to form a second boot circuit through which the boot signal is transmitted and for cutting off the first boot circuit.
US08131987B2
A system for pre-boot authentication of a virtual appliance includes one or more subsystems to receive a command to power-on an information handling system (IHS). After receiving the command to power-on the IHS, the system initializes a power-on self test (POST), passes control of the IHS to a hypervisor, loads a concurrent service environment (CSE), requests user credentials, receives user credentials, authenticates user credentials using the CSE and authorizes a specific operating system image from a plurality of images to run on the IHS via the virtual appliance after the user credentials are authenticated.
US08131984B2
A microprocessor includes a control register that stores a control value that affects operation of the microprocessor. An instruction set architecture includes a conditional branch instruction that specifies a branch condition based on the control value stored in the control register, and a serializing instruction that updates the control value in the control register. The microprocessor completes all modifications to flags, registers, and memory by instructions previous to the serializing instruction and to drain all buffered writes to memory before it fetches and executes the next instruction after the serializing instruction. Execution units update the control value in the control register in response to the serializing instruction. A fetch unit fetches, decodes, and unconditionally correctly resolves and retires the conditional branch instruction based on the control value stored in the control register rather than dispatching the conditional branch instruction to the execution units to be resolved.
US08131983B2
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for performing timeout waits of process threads. Generally, a thread requesting access to locked resource sends a timeout request to a timeout handler process, and then goes to sleep. The timeout request is received by a receiving thread of the timeout handler process. The receiving thread may insert the timeout request into a minimum heap of timeout requests, and may determine whether the inserted request is due earlier than any of the existing timeout requests. If so, the receiving thread may interrupt a timing thread of the timeout handler process. The timing thread may then wait until reaching the requested timeout, and then send a wakeup message to the sleeping thread.
US08131981B2
A data processing system, apparatus and method for performing fractional multiply operations is disclosed. The system includes a memory that stores instructions for SIMD operations and a processing core. The processing core includes registers that store operands for the fractional multiply operations. A coprocessor included in the processing core performs the fractional multiply operations on the operands and stores the result in a destination register that is also included in the processing core.
US08131973B2
A computer dumps information stored in a storage space used by a program, into a file when the program ends abnormally, by determining a priority representative of an order in which the information is dumped into the file, for storage areas which are predetermined areas into which the storage space is divided; compressing the information stored in each storage area in decreasing the order of priority and outputting the compressed information to the file in an order in which the information is compressed.
US08131972B2
The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing memory in a shared environment. Upon receiving a file open event associated with a file, a tag value is generated based on the attributes of the file. Upon receiving a file read or write event associated with the file, a memory object is created to hold data associated with the file. The tag value is associated with the memory object. The tag value and the associated memory object are provided to a virtual hosting platform layer as hints to the underlying page coalescing mechanisms.
US08131970B2
Techniques a generally described for creating a compiler determined map for the allocation of memory space within a cache. An example computing system is disclosed having a multicore processor with a plurality of processor cores. At least one cache may be accessible to at least two of the plurality of processor cores. A compiler determined map may separately allocate a memory space to threads of execution processed by the processor cores.
US08131965B2
The present invention provides a portable file-copying apparatus which includes a first connecting unit, a second connecting unit, and a control unit. The first connecting unit can receive a first portable storage media which includes an original file. The second connecting unit can receive a second portable storage media. Furthermore, the control unit is connected to the first connecting unit, the second connecting unit, and a memory. The control unit is applied for storing the original file in the memory, and copying the file to the second portable storage media in accordance with a control signal.
US08131964B2
Described herein are systems and methods for multiplexing pipelined data for backup operations. Various data streams are combined such as by multiplexing by a multiplexing module. The multiplexing module combines the data from the various data streams received by receiver module(s) into a single stream of chunks. The multiplexing module may combine data from multiple archive files into a single chunk. Additional modules perform other operations on the chunks of data to be transported such as encryption, compression, etc. The data chunks are transmitted via a transport channel to a receive pipeline that includes a second receiver module and other modules. The data chunks are then stored in a backup medium. The chunks are later retrieved and separated such as by demultiplexing for restoring to a client or for further storage as auxiliary copies of the separated data streams or archive files.
US08131963B2
Even when a host does not give a write time to write data, consistency can be kept among data stored in secondary storage systems. The present system has plural primary storage systems each having a source volume and plural secondary storage systems each having a target volume. Once data is received from a host, each of the plural storage systems creates write-data management information having sequential numbers and reference information and sends, to one of the primary storage systems, the data, sequential number and reference information. Each of the secondary storage systems records reference information corresponding to the largest sequential number among serial sequential numbers and stores, in a target volume in an order of sequential numbers, data corresponding to reference information having a value smaller than the reference information based on the smallest value reference information among reference information recorded in each of the plural secondary storage systems.
US08131956B2
The storage system includes a plurality of storage devices and a controller that manages a virtual volume including a plurality of virtual storage areas, and manages a storage pool including a plurality of storage areas prepared on the storage devices in order to allocate a storage area in the storage pool to the virtual volume in response to receiving a write command to the virtual volume for writing data corresponding to the write command. In response to receiving a specific write command to write a specific data to a first virtual storage area to which a first storage area is allocated, the controller releases the first storage area from the first virtual storage area.
US08131954B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a memory array formed by a plurality of multi level cells, a determining circuit and a data reading circuit. The memory array includes a plurality of page units, each including a main data and an auxiliary data corresponding to the main data, wherein the auxiliary data includes a plurality of flag bits. The determining circuit generates a determination bit according to the flag bits. The data reading circuit obtains information corresponding to the main data according to the determination bit.
US08131946B2
In one embodiment, a processor may be configured to write ECC granular stores into the data cache, while non-ECC granular stores may be merged with cache data in a memory request buffer. In one embodiment, a processor may be configured to detect that a victim block writeback hits one or more stores in a memory request buffer (or vice versa) and may convert the victim block writeback to a fill. In one embodiment, a processor may speculatively issue stores that are subsequent to a load from a load/store queue, but prevent the update for the stores in response to a snoop hit on the load.
US08131945B2
Caching where portions of data are stored in slower main memory and are transferred to faster memory between one or more processors and the main memory. The cache is such that an individual cache system must communicate to other associated cache systems, or check with such cache systems, to determine if they contain a copy of a given cached location prior to or upon modification or appropriation of data at a given cached location. The cache further includes provisions for determining when the data stored in a particular memory location may be replaced.
US08131941B2
A number of coherence domains are maintained among the multitude of processing cores disposed in a microprocessor. A cache coherency manager defines the coherency relationships such that coherence traffic flows only among the processing cores that are defined as having a coherency relationship. The data defining the coherency relationships between the processing cores is optionally stored in a programmable register. For each source of a coherent request, the processing core targets of the request are identified in the programmable register. In response to a coherent request, an intervention message is forwarded only to the cores that are defined to be in the same coherence domain as the requesting core. If a cache hit occurs in response to a coherent read request and the coherence state of the cache line resulting in the hit satisfies a condition, the requested data is made available to the requesting core from that cache line.
US08131939B2
A method and system for a decentralized distributed storage data system. A plurality of central processors each having a cache may be directly coupled to a shared set of data storage units. A high speed network may be used to communicate at a physical level between the central processors. A coherency protocol may be used to communicate at a logical level between the central processors.
US08131938B2
In a computer system with a memory hierarchy, when a high-level cache supplies a data copy to a low-level cache, the shared copy can be either volatile or non-volatile. When the data copy is later replaced from the low-level cache, if the data copy is non-volatile, it needs to be written back to the high-level cache; otherwise it can be simply flushed from the low-level cache. The high-level cache can employ a volatile-prediction mechanism that adaptively determines whether a volatile copy or a non-volatile copy should be supplied when the high-level cache needs to send data to the low-level cache. An exemplary volatile-prediction mechanism suggests use of a non-volatile copy if the cache line has been accessed consecutively by the low-level cache. Further, the low-level cache can employ a volatile-promotion mechanism that adaptively changes a data copy from volatile to non-volatile according to some promotion policy, or changes a data copy from non-volatile to volatile according to some demotion policy.
US08131937B2
Improved access to retained data useful to a system is accomplished by managing data flow through cache associated with the processor(s) of a multi-node system. A data management facility operable with the processors and memory array directs the flow of data from the processors to the memory array by determining the path along which data evicted from a level of cache close to one of the processors is to return to a main memory and directing evicted data to be stored, if possible, in a horizontally associated cache.
US08131932B2
In general, the invention relates to a system that includes a UUID cache and a UUID caching mechanism. The UUID caching mechanism is configured to, using a first thread, monitor the number of UUIDs stored in the UUID cache, determine that the number of UUIDs stored in the UUID cache is less than a first threshold, request a first set of UUIDs from a UUID generator, receive the first set of UUIDs from the UUID generator, and store the first set of UUIDs received from the UUID generator in the UUID cache. The UUID caching mechanism is further configured to provide a second set of UUIDs to a first application using a second thread, where at least one of the UUIDs in the second set of UUIDs is from the first set of UUIDs, and where the first thread and the second thread execute concurrently.
US08131930B1
A method and computer program product for receiving a newly-received data portion for storing within a cache memory system. A determination is made concerning whether the newly-received data portion corresponds with at least one data portion previously written to and currently resident on the cache memory system. If the newly-received data portion does not correspond with at least one previously-written and currently resident data portion, the newly-received data portion is written to the cache memory system.
US08131928B2
According to one embodiment, a backup is searched for data to be restored from a striped volume. The backup comprises multiple disks divided into stripes. The stripes that contain data to be restored from the striped volume are identified as desired stripes, and a current disk is searched for the desired stripes. The content of a first subset of desired stripes is read from the current disk. A second subset of desired stripes that are not on the current disk are recorded on an unread list. The remaining content is read from the remaining disks according to the unread list.
US08131925B2
A computer system includes a disk space comprising at least one type of memory and an operating system for controlling allocations and access to the disk space. A runtime machine runs applications through at least one of the operating system or directly on at least one processor of the computer system. In addition, the runtime machine manages a selected runtime disk space allocated to the runtime machine by the operating system and manages a separate method cache within the selected virtual disk space. The virtual machine controls caching within the method cache of a separate result of at least one method of the application marked as cache capable. For a next instance of the method detected by the runtime machine, the runtime machine accesses the cached separate result of the method in lieu of executing the method again.
US08131922B2
The storage system includes a disk controller for receiving write commands from a computer, and a plurality of disk devices in which data is written in accordance with the control of the disk controller. The size of the first block which constitutes the data unit handled in the execution of the input/output processing of the data in accordance with the write command by the disk controller is different from the size of the second block which constitutes the data unit handled in the execution of the input/output processing of data by the plurality of disk devices. The disk controller issues an instruction for the writing of data to the disk devices using a third block unit of a size corresponding to a common multiple of the size of the first block and the size of the second block.
US08131913B2
A method and system for the selective broadcasting of commands to a subset of a plurality of devices connected in series to a memory controller, where each of the plurality of devices has a unique identification number (ID). The memory controller designates the subset of devices to execute the command, excluding the non-selected devices from executing the command. The memory controller encodes the ID numbers of the designated devices into a single coded address, and sends the command along with the coded address in a packet to the series connected devices. Each device receives the packet in a serial bitstream and decodes the coded address using its ID number in order to determine whether it is selected or not. If the device is selected, the command is executed. Otherwise, the packet is forwarded without executing the command.
US08131910B2
Provided are a system and article of manufacture for device selection. A command is generated in a host, wherein the command is for a library manager not directly connected to the host. A device is selected from a subsystem in a storage library based on a preference order, wherein the storage library is coupled to the host and the library manager. The command is sent from the host to the selected device for communicating with the library manager.
US08131908B2
Disclosed is a wireless universal serial bus system that includes a device; a first host communicating with the device according to a wireless universal serial bus protocol; and a second host communicating with the device according to a wireless universal serial bus protocol, wherein when the first host receives a beacon from the second host, the first host provides new host information read out from the beacon to the device.
US08131906B2
The present invention provides for a system comprising a peripheral component interface (PCI) host bridge. The PCI host bridge is configured to be coupled to a PCI bus, and to receive a system reset signal, to generate a PCI bus reset signal based on the received system reset signal, to detect a PCI operational mode of the PCI bus, and to generate a voltage indicator signal based on the detected PCI operational mode. A voltage regulator is coupled to the PCI host bridge and configured to receive the voltage indicator signal and to regulate a signaling voltage for the PCI bus based on the voltage indicator signal.
US08131902B2
An apparatus and method is provided for determining the orientation of a blade server with respect to a blade chassis, whenever the blade is inserted into a chassis with either vertical or horizontal slots. In an embodiment, wherein the blade server has opposing first and second edges, first and second connectors are located in pre-specified corresponding relationship with the first and second blade server edges. A first device in the blade chassis generates an information signal, wherein the information signal has an element that indicates the spatial location of a reference feature of the chassis. The embodiment includes a path for sending the information signal to either the first connector or the second connector, according to the orientation of the blade inserted into the chassis. A second device identifies the connector that receives the information signals, and uses the connector identity and the signal element together to determine the orientation of the inserted blade with respect to the chassis.
US08131900B2
A memory control unit controls writing and reading of data to the slave device according to an instruction from the master device. A bus diagnosis line is directly connected from the bus signal control circuit to a bus signal receiving terminal of the slave device without passing through the address bus and the control signal line. A bus signal abnormality processing unit compares an output bus signal output from the bus signal control circuit to the address bus and the control signal line with a feedback bus signal fed back through the bus diagnosis line to determine the presence/absence of a difference. The memory control unit elongates a bus cycle period of a bus cycle of operation being executed when it is determined in the bus signal abnormality processing unit that the difference is present.
US08131892B2
A storage apparatus is provided that is capable of reducing data maintenance management costs with a performance that is both highly reliable and fast. The present invention is storage apparatus where an intermediary device is arranged between a controller and a plurality of disk devices of different performances arranged in a hierarchical manner. The controller unit carries out I/O accesses to and from the disk devices via the intermediary devices based on access requests sent from host apparatus. The intermediary device includes a power saving control function for the disk device and carries out operation control such as spin off and spin up of disk devices in accordance with conditions set in advance.
US08131891B2
A hosting partition update mechanism allows updating I/O capability of a logically-partitioned computer system in a way that minimally affects the performance and availability of I/O in the computer system. When an update is needed, a new hosting partition is created with the desired update(s). I/O adapters in the current hosting partition are then migrated to the new hosting partition. The migration of an I/O adapter from the current hosting partition to the new hosting partition is relatively fast, thereby minimally impacting system performance and availability of I/O. Once all of the I/O adapters have been migrated to the new hosting partition, the current hosting partition may be kept as a backup, or may be eliminated. Providing a new or backup hosting partition allows updates to be performed in the new or backup hosting partition in a non-disruptive manner while the current hosting partition continues to service I/O requests.
US08131886B2
A disclosed image forming apparatus includes an image processing device including plural image processing units; a control device configured to control the plural image processing units; and a connection unit configured to connect the image processing device to the control device. Each of the plural image processing units is connected to the control device by one of plural channels; the image processing device is connected to the control device by a first bus including the channels; and the connection unit is provided on the first bus so that the image processing device is connected to the control device by a single connection unit.
US08131884B1
Reusing system configuration information and metadata for related operations is disclosed. It is determined that a group of content management system commands may be treated as a related set for purposes of updating content management system configuration information and/or metadata. The content management system configuration information and/or metadata are updated once for purposes of processing the group.
US08131877B2
A method allowing for flexible modification of a data packet in a data network is presented. A data packet is parsed based on one or more attributes and sent to a buffer memory and a user modifiable lookup table. Using extracted packet data, information required to modify the data packet as desired is located in the lookup table and forwarded to a packet modification engine. Within the packet modification engine, a novel rewrite constructor module generates unique packet rewrite information based on the information forwarded from the lookup table and one or more additional inputs. This unique packet rewrite information is forwarded to a packet rewrite engine, wherein the packet rewrite engine modifies the data packet accordingly.
US08131860B1
Serialization is disclosed. It is detected if a component included in a graph of components associated with a user session on a first system has not changed since a prior serialization to a second system. A token is sent to the second system during a current serialization, instead of the component, indicating the component has not changed since the prior serialization. De-serialization is disclosed. a token is received at a first system from a second system, in a stream of serialized data from the second system, that indicates that a component on the second system has not changed since a prior serialization. A cached version of the component is retrieved. The cached copy is used to reconstruct on the second system a state of a user session with which the component is associated on the second system.
US08131851B2
Software agents are assigned goals in accordance with network policies that define a desired operational characteristic of a computer network. A software agent achieves its assigned goal by executing a predefined task. An assigned goal may be dynamically modified as necessary based on the actual operational characteristics of the network. The software agent may request further policy if it cannot achieve its assigned goal by performing the predefined task.
US08131841B2
A method and apparatus for detecting predefined signatures in packet payload is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of string matching in a network packet payload includes performing hash on a current search string received in the network packet payload to generate respective search string hash values, storing the search string hash values in a hash buffer, performing rehash using the search string hash values to generate an associated search string rehashed value, performing a parallel search of the search string rehashed value against Content Addressable Memory (CAM) entries to determine if the search string rehashed value matches with one of the CAM entries, and identifying the current search string in the network packet payload as a match with one of the CAM entries based on the outcome of performing the parallel search.
US08131840B1
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a data stream device at a packet level. In one embodiment, design logic is embedded within a target data stream processing device such as a networking device or video device. The embedded design logic is configured to start and stop the target data stream processing device and to inject data into the target data stream processing device for evaluation. The embedded design may also be configured to detect a user selected data value in a packet within the target data stream processing device before the packet is transmitted through the device's physical layer or passed up the device's networking stack. In addition, or in another embodiment, at least a portion of the design logic, including the ability to detect the user selected value in the packet, may be located external to the data stream processing device. In one embodiment, a controlled client/server interfaces with the physical layer of the target data stream processing device and provides packet-level analysis of the data stream.
US08131837B1
A computer memory attached to a user computer system that is used by a user is described. The memory contains an advertising characterization data structure that can be used to select advertising for the user. The data structure contains a identifier passed to the user computer system by a remote computer system. The identifier is mapped by a dictionary that is resident on the remote computer system to a set of actions performed by the user.
US08131836B2
Managing TCP anycast requests at content delivery network nodes is disclosed. In some embodiments, managing traffic includes receiving a request at a first node of a content delivery network, determining at the first node that the request should be serviced by a second node of the content delivery network, and redirecting the request to the second node, wherein the first node and the second node of the content delivery network comprise endpoints for serving content and wherein the content delivery network is at least in part an anycast network.
US08131835B2
A method and system of load balancing application server resources operating in a distributed set of servers is described. In a representative embodiment, the set of servers comprise a region of a content delivery network. Each server in the set typically includes a server manager process, and an application server on which edge-enabled applications or application components are executed. As service requests are directed to servers in the region, the application servers manage the requests in a load-balanced manner, and without any requirement that a particular application server spawned on-demand.
US08131832B1
The subject innovation provides for systems and methods that facilitate locating components of a unified plant model at runtime (e.g., specifying a search criteria), via a message engine that searches for modules/applications dynamically at run time. When a control module in a program needs to find another control module, a search can be performed by specifying a criteria and performing a search in the controller, via the message engine.
US08131824B2
The invention aims at providing a method, a subscriber terminal, a computer program product and a communication system, wherein a sender has the possibility of influencing the signaling signal in a terminal of a recipient and configuring individually and with greater freedom a signaling signal by choosing one or more data formats that can be sent in an MM standard, particularly when transmitting an MM. According to the invention, this is achieved in that an element causing immediate display of said element is identified as a signaling signal (S) when the data and/or a predetermined partial amount of data have arrived.
US08131813B2
An email review tool gives users a simple, quick, and safe method of initiating review of an email document. The email review tool may provide a window to a user which allows the user to select another person to review the email or skip the review process and send the email directly to the recipients. Transmission of the email is thus deferred until the email has been reviewed.
US08131812B2
The disclosure relates to a system, method and device for providing information relating to a received communication for a device. The method comprises generating and providing a message on a display of the device indicating receipt of an inbound communication, after determining that the device is to receive the inbound communication while the device is composing an outbound communication and after determining the inbound communication is related to the outbound communication by an analysis of information of the inbound communication against information of the outbound communication. The message provides options for processing the inbound communication depending on whether the outbound communication is initiated as either a reply to the inbound communication or a forwarding of the inbound communication.
US08131810B2
A server realizes reachability from a first user to a second user. The server (100, 200) includes a real-address-information receiving section (110) that receives real-address information, which is capable of contacting therethrough to the second user, from a second terminal (10) used by the second user; and a post-conversion-address-information generation section that generates post-conversion-address information, which the first user cannot specify, based on the real-address information received by the real-address-information receiving section.
US08131805B2
There is disclosed a system and method for managing spam within an email message stream. In an embodiment, a method comprises defining a plurality of anti-spam filter levels where each anti-spam filter level includes at least one anti-spam module configurable for filtering spam messages. An anti-spam request including a user preferred anti-spam filter level is generated and communicated to the preferred anti-spam filter level. The anti-spam request is implemented on at least one anti-spam module in the preferred anti-spam filter level based on at least one predetermined criterion. If the anti-spam request cannot be implemented at the preferred anti-spam filter level, the anti-spam request is implemented on at least one anti-spam module at another anti-spam filter level.
US08131801B2
A meeting record, including identified participant information associated with each of the group of meeting participants, and a topic for a meeting is generated via a social network computing device. A meeting notification, including a link to the meeting record, is sent to each of the group of meeting participants.
US08131799B2
A technique for uniquely identifying devices without explicitly provided device or user identifying information in a networked client-server environment, e.g., the Mobile Internet. In one aspect, a system retrieves a profile of a client device, retrieves all device profiles existing in a profile database, and sequentially eliminates profiles not matching until a single profile is left or all profiles have been used.
US08131798B2
This invention provides an image processing system and information processing apparatus, which can improve user's operability upon execution of a workflow without causing any productivity or reliability drop, and control methods thereof. To accomplish this, an information processing apparatus included in this image processing system receives digital data of a document read by an image processing apparatus, specifies feature information of the received digital data, and executes matching between the specified feature information and a plurality of templates. The information processing apparatus acquires a processing status of a workflow which is being currently executed from a workflow server. When a process indicated by attribute information of a template whose matching has succeeded matches a process indicated by the acquired processing status, the information processing apparatus registers the digital data in a document server as a document.
US08131793B2
An apparatus and method for angle is disclosed to rotate a complex input by the angle θ to produce a rotated complex output signal. A memory storage device generates control information based on a coarse angle θM. A coarse rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the complex input signal by the coarse angle θM to produce an intermediate complex number. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the coarse rotation butterfly circuit to information to rotate the complex input signal. The fine rotation butterfly circuit uses the control information to rotate the intermediate complex number by a fine angle θL to produce the complex output signal. The control information controls one or more multiplexers and/or adders in the fine rotation butterfly circuit to rotate the intermediate complex number.
US08131780B2
A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the media agent to monitor for the addition or removal of a piece of media in the library. When the media agent determines that the piece of media has been added to the library or removed from the library, the media agent causes the library to read a media label stored as data on the piece of media, the media label including an identifier identifying the piece of media. When a backup or restore is performed, the system checks the media label to ensure that the correct media is being used. Inventory procedures are disclosed. Media labels are stored in a database along with an indication of the corresponding slot where the media is stored, a time when the label was put on the medium, and a confidence parameter indicating how confident the system is that the particular medium is stored in the respective slot.
US08131775B2
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes of content of files. In one exemplary method, notifications to update a metadata database or an index database are combined into a combined notification. According to other aspects, an order among logical locations on a storage device is determined in order to specify a sequence for scanning for files to be indexed. According to another aspect, a method includes determining whether to index a file based on a path name of the file relative to a plurality of predetermined path names.
US08131773B2
A search information analyzing unit (101) separates search information (15) into structured search information (152) representing a structure of moving image contents, semantic search information (153) representing characteristics in semantic context of the moving image contents, and signal search information (154) representing physical characteristics of signals of the moving image contents, and outputs the results. A structural search information disassembling unit (102) extracts and outputs, from the applied structural search information, information corresponding to at least one of the semantic search information and signal search information as structural information (50). A unit search information forming unit (103, 104) adds, to at least one of the applied semantic search information and signal search information, to form a small unit of search information (153A, 154A). Such a small unit of search information can be used as search information for the moving image contents, and hence, the amount of search information can be reduced.
US08131769B2
Computer-assisted methods and systems of processing a drug information source. Characterizing the drug by the set comprising: syntax-parsed drug rule elements, adverse event data, mapped terms, and metadata. A method includes: creating a drug rule syntax; extracting metadata from the drug information source; extracting verbatim adverse event data from the drug information source; identifying drug rule content from the drug information source; mapping terms from verbatim data to a reference source; and parsing drug rule elements from at least one identified instance of drug rule content into the drug rule syntax, retaining associations between those drug rule elements that form a drug rule.
US08131761B2
By having a file data storage section that stores file data of a file; a management information storage section that stores management information identifying the file, the management information being related to the file data; a control information storage section that stores control information on a file to be blocked on which a predefined specified processing is to be executed; a management information retrieval section that retrieves the management information stored in the management information storage section; a control information retrieval section that retrieves the control information stored in the control information storage section; an execution section that, when the management information retrieved by the management information retrieval section corresponds to the control information retrieved by the control information retrieval section, executes the predefined processing on the file data related to that management information, proliferation of an important file distribution of which should be restricted over a network can be restricted.
US08131758B2
Techniques for recognizing multiple patterns within a string of characters are presented. A dictionary is hierarchically organized, such that leaf nodes within the dictionary represents words defined in the dictionary. A string of characters are received. Each character within the string is traversed by attempting to match it with a character defined in the dictionary. As long as a match continues with the dictionary the characters within the string are traversed. Once a longest possible match to a word within the dictionary is found, the next character following the last matched character for the string is processed.
US08131750B2
Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that annotate experience data in real-time are provided. The real-time annotated experience data can be employed in accordance with augmented reality systems which are capable of overlaying virtual data upon real-world data. The system employs ‘smart-tags’ that are capable of identifying data that relates to and/or is associated with the real-world scenarios and situations.
US08131744B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for processing an abstract query and generating well organized user results are disclosed. Well organized user results preserve the cardinality of one-to-one and one-to-many between data elements retrieved using a database query. Embodiments of the present invention use an abstract database that separates a user from the physical representation of data stored in a data repository by providing a plurality of logical fields based on the substantive information stored in the underlying data repository. During query processing, query results generated from an abstract query are generated and organized according to the one-to-one and one-to-many relationships. Subsequently, query results are presented to users according to the intuitive relationships between data understood by users of an abstract database.
US08131743B1
The method of object searching in a data storage system includes receiving, by an object search machine, a search criteria, the search criteria including a plurality of parameters and storing, by the object search machine, the search criteria as a persistence query having a first query format. The method also includes creating, by the object search machine, a protocol query based upon the persistence query, the protocol query having a second query format, the second query format distinct from the first query format. The method additionally includes utilizing, by the object search machine, the protocol query to request at least one object associated with the protocol query from the data storage system.
US08131742B2
Methods and systems for processing fraud notifications allow an organization to classify, monitor, and shut down fraudulent websites. A system may receive reports of suspicious network sites via electronic mail, and parse such reports in order to obtain one or more attributes (e.g., an address) corresponding to the suspicious network sites. In addition, information related to these suspicious network sites may be stored in a database, and algorithms may be used in order to classify, monitor, and respond to a particular suspicious network site. Before responding to a suspicious network site, such a website may first be classified as legitimate, fraudulent or ignore. If the suspicious network site is classified as legitimate or ignore, further action might not be needed. If, however, the suspicious network site is classified as fraudulent, the fraudulent website may be monitored and further action may be taken.
US08131716B2
Determining a relevancy ranking score is disclosed. An indication is received that a relevancy ranking score algorithm is to be tuned to a selected preference. The relevancy ranking score algorithm is updated based at least in part on the selected preference, wherein the relevancy ranking score of a search result resulting from a search query is based at least in part on one or more constraints of the search query.
US08131712B1
A corpus of documents is identified, such as a large corpus of web documents. A quality score is applied to each, and at least some of the documents in the corpus of documents are identified based on their respective quality scores. At least one query characteristic, for instance, the language of a query, associated with a plurality of search queries is identified. A subset of documents in the corpus of documents is identified that satisfy the at least one query characteristic. An index is built that includes the identified at least some documents and the identified subset of documents.
US08131707B2
Provided is a multiple information retrieval apparatus and method using a language chain to provide directly executable multiple information when a search result regarding a query word is provided. The retrieval apparatus includes: an I/O display window inputting query words; a search button which approves the input query words over the Internet; a search engine database containing information about the query words; a search query word information source having information which sets the query words as a title; a language chain which connects the grouped words with at least one connector; a parsing key for selecting the grouped words, and an image or video display window which can display images or videos using a web-browser. Accordingly, the retrieval apparatus provides multiple domains regarding query words, indices of electronic publishing materials and home page lists.
US08131706B2
The present invention relates to a method and respective system for binding a portlet into a web portal infrastructure comprising at least one portal and a plurality of portlets. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes: storing a portlet profile data structure, wherein the portlet profile data structure is associated with a portlet and is deployed at a portal server, and wherein the portlet profile data structure declares a portlet class and at least one portlet characteristic; storing a portlet binding policy data structure, which is associated with the portlet class and is deployed at a portal server, wherein the portlet binding policy data structure declares relations or conditions specifying the at least one portlet characteristic; during processing of an incoming request for a portlet, automatically selecting the portlet class, all stored portlet profile data structures, and the portlet binding policy data structure associated with the requested portlet; performing a cross-checking of the relations or conditions of the selected binding policy data structure against the portlet characteristics of the selected portlet profile data structures; automatically selecting a favorite portlet out of the selected portlets, which best matches best the cross-checking; and invoking the favorite portlet for rendering in response to the incoming request.
US08131702B1
A system graphically plots articles. The system executes one or more search queries to search stored articles and receives results of the executed one or more search queries, where the results identify selected articles of the stored articles. The system further designates a graphical marker for each of the selected articles and plots each of the graphical markers on a graphical display.
US08131701B2
In one embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for probabilistically quantifying a degree of relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects, such as patent documents, non-patent documents, web pages, personal and corporate contacts information, product information, consumer to behavior, technical or scientific information, address information, and the like. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel method for visualizing and displaying relevance between two or more citationally or contextually related data objects. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that utilizes an iterative self-organizing mapping (“SOM”) technique to automatically generate a visual map of relevant patents and/or other related documents desired to be explored, searched or analyzed. In another embodiment the present invention provides a novel search input/output interface that displays and/or communicates search input criteria and corresponding search results in a way that facilitates intuitive understanding and visualization of the logical relationships between two or more related concepts being searched.
US08131699B2
Disclosed is a menu distribution system that provides a menu, which is viewable in a conventional manner and is customized for each customer. A customer allows a read/write device to read a customer ID information storage medium storing customer ID information. The read/write device transmits the customer ID information to a menu server. The menu server has a customer information storage unit that stores, for each customer, attribute information such as food preferences. The menu server selects a menu item most suitable for the customer identified by the transmitted customer ID information, by comparing customer attribute information and menu items stored in a menu item information storage unit. Menu image data is generated based on the selected menu item and is transmitted to the read/write device. The read/write device writes the received menu image data to a memory of a paper like display.
US08131697B2
A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and decision logic at the mass storage medium level for determining a key identifying the data of interest, continuously comparing the key to a signal generated from a reading of the data from the mass storage medium with an approximate or exact matching circuit to determine a pattern match, determining a correlation value between the key and the data as it is read in a continuous fashion, and determining a match based upon a preselected threshold value for the correlation value. The pattern matching technique eliminates any need to compare data based on its intrinsic structure or value, and instead is based on an analog or digital pattern. The key and data may be either analog or digital. This device and method may be provided as part of a stand-alone computer system, embodied in a network attached storage device, or can otherwise be provided as part of a computer LAN or WAN.
US08131694B2
The present invention relates in general to a data object model for describing objects within systems. To allow unambiguous classification, the data model comprises a property definition including at least one property name, at least one property value and at least one process value for storing at least one process identifier identifying processes assigned to the property.
US08131693B2
Methods and systems for managing the transfer of large data files across electronic data networks optimally in accordance with the desired results of the users. The present invention takes into consideration the user-defined transfer requirements, the data characteristics, and the characteristics of the entirety of the network, including both the access links and the backbone and processing and storage resources in the backbone. The present invention the enables users to more optimally transfer data within the limitations of the existing network capabilities, negating requirements to update local or remote network facilities.
US08131691B1
Various methods and systems for updating a search engine index based on a file change log are disclosed. One method involves accessing a file, which stores a file change log maintained by a file system. The file change log identifies one or more recently modified files. The method also involves updating an index, based on a recently-modified file identified in the file change log. The index is used to search files maintained by the file system. An application external to the file system accesses the file storing the file change log and updates the index.
US08131689B2
A system and method for performing policy-based storage management using data related to access frequency and file attribute accumulation. A switch device provides transparency for transactions between a client and a storage network. The transparency allows objects (e.g., files or directories) to be moved (e.g., migrated) on the storage network without affecting a reference to the object used by the client (e.g., a file handle). A monitoring module generates accumulation data associated with the transactions for use in policy-based management. The accumulation data can describe uses of the file such as how often certain files are accessed, modifications to files such as creations of new directories or files, and other uses.
US08131686B2
A method, apparatus and system for data migration is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes staging data associated with a legacy system, mapping the data, integrating a tool to facilitate migration of the data, viewing and correcting records associated with the data, and moving the records from the legacy system to a target system. The staging data associated with the legacy system may include discovering and identifying issues associated with data migration, defining a combination of locations, servers, and data migration objects, managing the data migration objects, extracting data from a source, initially and incrementally loading the data into a staging area, and enabling history tracking for incremental data processing.
US08131681B1
Aspects of the present invention provide a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup method and system responsive to a combined backup request to backup a dataset to a backup disk according to a disk backup schedule and then to backup the dataset from the backup disk to a backup tape according to a tape backup schedule. The combined backup method completes a backup of the dataset to the backup disk and then to a backup tape device in accordance with a resolved schedule that considers potential conflicts between the schedules. To restore, aspects of the invention receive a request to restore a backup of the dataset from a backup-tape and the resolved schedule derived from the tape backup schedule and the disk backup schedule. The restoration verifies that a backup tape holds the target dataset by matching a combined backup identifier from the request against a corresponding combined backup identifier held in storage.
US08131673B2
A peer-to-peer file sharing client with background file sharing is provided in a segmented peer-to-peer file sharing network. Each file sharing participant may designate an amount of bandwidth and/or storage space for background file sharing. Peer-to-peer file sharing clients then share file data and content in the background automatically. The client may participate in additional swarms, in the background, to generally increase the number of peers in file sharing networks, thus increasing the speed of downloading desired files for other users.
US08131672B2
A system and method for synchronizing data records between multiple databases is provided. Each database includes data records that are modified to include at least one pair of synchronization parameters. In a two-database system including a first database and a second database, each data record is modified to include synchronization parameters for both the first and second databases. When an update is made to a data record at one of the databases, an update message is transmitted to the other database including both synchronization parameters from the database where the update is made, along with the updated data record. An efficient master-slave configuration between the databases then enables either database to resolve conflicts without further communications. The system and method scale to systems having more than two databases by modifying the data records in at least one of the databases to include a pair of synchronization parameters for each of the other databases to which it is being synchronized, and by providing a multi-level master-slave configuration. The system and method permits the ability to add and delete records and to securely communicate between all synchronized databases.
US08131661B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for deciding a satisfiability problem with linear and non-linear operations by: encoding non-linear integer operations into encoded linear operations with Boolean constraints by Booleaning and linearizing, combining the linear and encoded linear operations into a formula, solving the satisifiability of the formula using a solver, wherein the encoding and solving includes at least one of following: a. Booleanizing one of the non-linear operands by bit-wise structural decomposition b. Linearizing a non-linear operator by selectively choosing one of the operands for Booleanization c. Solving using an incremental lazy bounding refinement (LBR) procedure without re-encoding formula, and verifying the linear and non-linear operations in a computer software.
US08131655B1
In some embodiments, a spam filtering method includes computing a pattern relevance for each of a set of message feature patterns, and using a neural network filter to classify incoming messages as spam or ham according to the pattern relevancies. Each message feature pattern is characterized by the simultaneous presence within a message of a specific set of message features (e.g., the presence of certain keywords within the message body, various message header heuristics, various message layout features, etc.). Each message feature may be spam- or ham-identifying, and may receive a tunable feature relevance weight from an external source (e.g. data file and/or human operator). The external feature relevance weights modulate the set of neuronal weights calculated through a training process of the neural network.
US08131650B2
A system for marketing real estate includes a property data device and a personal data device. The property data device is to be located in the vicinity of a real estate property, and the personal data device is to be provided to a user. The property data device is operable to transmit the property information data, and the personal data device operable to receive and store the property information data transmitted by the property data device.
US08131647B2
Methods and systems for receiving and distributing annotations of a digital work include receiving an annotation of the digital work, storing the annotation, and providing the annotation to a user. The user may be required to submit a valid authorization credential for the annotation. Annotations may be textual or graphical, and may be associated with particular content in a digital work. Indicators may be displayed to identify content in the digital work for which annotations are available. A user may exchange compensation or perform a specified action for access to an annotation. Some or all of the compensation received for an annotation may be distributed to the author of the annotation. Multiple annotations may be listed in an order based a criterion, such as ranking, price, or date of receipt. Users that purchase a digital work may automatically receive an authorization credential to receive annotations of the digital work.
US08131640B2
A method for performing a money transfer receive transaction involving a desired amount of money to be transferred from a sender to a recipient includes receiving transaction identifying information provided by the recipient; comparing the transaction identifying information with transaction data stored on a host computer system; providing a confirmation code, to be issued to the recipient, if the transaction identifying information matches the transaction data stored on the host computer system; storing the confirmation code on the host computer system; receiving at the host computer system input corresponding to the confirmation code from a dispensing terminal in communication with the host computer system; comparing the input to the stored confirmation code; and allowing funds, corresponding to at least a portion of the desired amount of money, to be dispensed by the dispensing terminal if the input matches the stored confirmation code.
US08131631B2
A graphical interface and method are provided for selectively displaying market information corresponding to a plurality of tradeable objects. According to one example method, a scanning feature is provided in relation to a number of tradeable object indicators. Upon detecting a predefined movement of a user input device in relation to the plurality of indicators, a graphical interface dynamically displays market information corresponding to the tradeable objects as a predefined movement of the user input device is detected in relation to the tradeable object indicators.
US08131618B2
A system and method are provided for managing financial market information. According to certain embodiments, the system includes a computer having a memory, processor, and display. The processor is capable of generating a graphical depiction of the financial market information on the display. The graphical depiction includes a multidimensional representation of a broad range of market information for at least two financial instruments. The graphical depiction resides in a single window on the display. The financial instruments may include multiple different classes of financial instruments, such as treasuries and futures. Different instruments may be selected and information, including basis information, relevant to the selected instruments may be displayed in a second window.
US08131612B1
A computer-based method for generating a program for hedging guaranteed benefits of a set of variable annuity (VA) contracts, including automatically generating interpreted and compiled contract value projection code; generating vectorized integrated scenario sets including arbitrage-free interest rate, hedging instrument, and VA fund values based on financial market data and regression and cointegration analysis of the VA funds and user-selected hedging instruments; multi-threaded vectorized calculating of present value PVGij of projected VA benefit guarantee cash flows for each VA contract i for each vectorized integrated scenario set j; calculating of differences of PVGij to determine sensitivities to financial parameters (“Greeks”) for each contract; calculating of present value PVAij of projected asset cash flows for each asset i for each vectorized integrated scenario set j; calculating of differences of PVAij to determine sensitivities to financial parameters (“Greeks”) for each asset; and, presenting of summary and detail asset and liability Greeks.
US08131610B2
Systems and methods are provided for computerized processing of invoices which a company has presented to, for example, two or more customers. The systems and methods may be configured to select, from a plurality of invoices, invoices which are due within a preselectable time or on a preselectable date and the balance of which is larger than a preselectable first value, and to assign a first state to the selected invoices.
US08131604B2
Methods and apparatus provide for routing goods from a source location to a final destination through an intermediate location. An intermediate warehouse task or transfer order is generated with reference to the movement of the goods to the intermediate location rather than movement to the final destination. A routing table can provide information for generating the intermediate warehouse task. A routing path that indicates the intermediate location can correspond to a location determined by a layout-oriented routing path or a process-oriented routing path.
US08131603B1
A method and system for determining, storing, and analyzing product country classifications is disclosed. In one embodiment, a classification for a part is accessed. In addition, a country information database having a list of countries for shipment of the part is accessed wherein the list of countries is based on the classification of the part. Next, country classification information is generated for the part automatically, wherein the country classification information is generated in conjunction with the classification and the list of countries designated for the part.
US08131600B2
The invention comprises a financial management program and one or more databases containing information on merchants and their products. The program interacts with the databases containing the product information to return the prices and availability of goods located in a designated area. The program compares prices from various merchants and displays the results to the consumer. The program also allows the consumer to compare the prices with a household budget an financial data, while keeping track of trends in the consumer's spending and buying habits.
US08131595B2
In a disclosed embodiment of the invention, a customer of a vending machine is provided with an offer to establish a membership at a vending machine. After receiving an acceptance of the offer, a membership identifier is determined. The membership identifier is stored in association with the term of the membership.After the step of storing, the membership identifier is received. The term of the membership is determined. A selection of a product that the customer intends to purchase is received from the customer, and a transaction is processed at the vending machine in accordance with the term and the selection.
US08131588B2
Methods, computer readable media and systems are described wherein a security deposit is used to facilitate a transaction with a customer. In an embodiment, a process includes receiving an indication that a customer is interested in making a purchase during a transaction from a merchant, and transmitting an offer for a benefit to be applied to the transaction in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer and a security deposit. The task is associated with a subsidy provider other than the merchant. The method also includes providing the offer to the customer, receiving the security deposit, applying the benefit to the transaction before performance of the task, and returning at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer based on the performance of the task. For example, a subsidy provider may offer to apply a subsidy amount to a transaction involving the purchase of a lawn mower in exchange for a future performance of a task by the customer such as test driving a new car. It is also arranged for the customer to provide a security deposit. When the customer performs the task by test driving the car, arrangements are then made to return at least a portion of the security deposit to the customer.
US08131569B2
The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating a secure network connection between the first and second medical facility, modifying a header portion of the medical files based on patient identification information created by the first medical facility, and other processing steps.
US08131561B2
An on-line approach to coordinating intradepartmental anatomic pathology consultations, including coordinating access to physical case materials and/or electronic case materials, is provided. In accordance with one method in a clinical computing environment, a command to initiate a share event for an anatomic pathology case is received. One or more share recipients are determined manually and/or automatically for the share event. In addition, whether any physical case materials and/or electronic case materials are associated with the anatomic pathology case is determined. If any physical case materials and/or electronic case materials are associated with the anatomic pathology case, share recipient access to the materials is coordinated. After each share recipient reviews the case, the share recipient may enter comments.
US08131560B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for managing regulatory data pertaining to a healthcare product. For example, the system may include a network interface for receiving, from a client terminal, a request for regulatory data related to regulatory activity about a product as it pertains to a regulatory authority. The system also includes interconnected information stores for storing regulatory data associated with the product, where the information stores may include: contact records associated with respective contacts with the regulatory authority; commitment records associated with respective commitments made to the regulatory authority; and product information records associated with respective documents associated with the product. The system also includes a processing module for identifying, in response to the received request, each contact record, commitment record, product information record, and central files record associated with the product related to the received request.
US08131555B1
A method of funneling user responses in a voice portal system to determine a desired item or service includes (a) establishing an attribute value associated with a particular attribute of a desired item or service and (b) determining if the attribute value satisfies an end state. If the end state is not satisfied, steps (a) and (b) are performed with a new particular attribute.
US08131551B1
A system and method of controlling the movement of a virtual agent while the agent is speaking to a human user during a conversation is disclosed. The method comprises receiving speech data to be spoken by the virtual agent, performing a prosodic analysis of the speech data, selecting matching prosody patterns from a speaking database and controlling the virtual agent movement according to the selected prosody patterns.
US08131548B2
A speech processing method can automatically and dynamically adjust speech grammar weights at runtime based upon usage data. Each of the speech grammar weights can be associated with an available speech command contained within a speech grammar to which the speech grammar weights apply. The usage data can indicate a relative frequency with which each of the available speech commands is utilized.
US08131537B2
To improve the processing speed of a morphological analysis system, an analysis processing part retrieves words constituting a natural language sentence from a word dictionary, retrieves concatenation rules from a grammar dictionary, creates an automaton based on the words and the concatenation rules, and obtains a morphological analysis. The grammar dictionary stores rules integrating concatenation rules representing non-null transitions and concatenation rules representing null transitions in which transition sources of the first concatenation rule are their transition destinations. To create the automaton, an optimal solution searching part of the analysis processing part generates, responsive to an input word entered into the automaton, states necessary for transition according to the concatenation rules corresponding to the input word without generating any state that can be transited by pursuing a null transition succeeding the generated states.
US08131534B2
Systems and methods provide for emulating a host architecture in guest firmware. One aspect of the systems and methods comprises determining whether an emulated instruction would cause a transition into a legacy mode. A current execution context is converted into a legacy mode context, and the firmware emulator proceeds to a group of legacy mode instructions in a native mode for the processor. The firmware emulator detects an end instruction and converts the legacy context back to the guest firmware context.
US08131532B2
A system and method is disclosed for formal verification of software programs that advantageously bounds the ranges of values that a variable in the software can take during runtime.
US08131523B1
A system and method of exposing debugging information in a graphical modeling and execution environment is disclosed. The present invention allows a user to view debugging information in the same window as the graphical view of the model being executed. Debugging data is associated with relevant components of the model displayed in the graphical view. A separate execution list view shows the methods called during the execution of the block diagram in the current time step up until the current point in execution. User-set breakpoints and conditional breakpoints may be set in both the model view and the execution list view. Values may be obtained for all of the displayed methods. The debugging tool may be implemented by using it in conjunction with a graphical modeling and execution environment, such as a block diagram environment or state diagram environment.
US08131521B1
This invention is directed to a circuit simulation using multi-rate harmonic balancing. Specifically, this invention enables effective reduction of analysis dimensions, e.g. frequency or time. The methodology converts N-dimensional problems to local (N-x)-dimensional problems. The method enables simultaneous solving of all local problems, each of these problems having a dimension less than or equal to N, thus approximating the original system to be solved. In practical situations, N could be the number of independent frequencies in an N-tone harmonic balance analysis.
US08131513B2
Method of computer-assisted assessment of seat design. The method being applicable to any type of seating, including but not limited to vehicle seating commonly employed in automobiles, watercraft, aircraft, etc. The method may include overlaying a shaped data object relative to an architectural drawing to facilitate assessing component comportment with desired structural boundaries.
US08131504B2
A system includes a serial connection mode for obtaining a first approximation to a zero error result by means of a negative rough precision for manufacturing a plurality of first semi-finished products, and a measurement apparatus for measuring a precision value of each first semi-finished product, and a Full-9 Principle for sifting the first semi-finished products. A parallel connection mode is used for obtaining a second approximation to the zero error result by means of a positive rough precision by division to manufacture a plurality of second semi-finished products, and the measurement apparatus is used to measure a precision value of each second semi-finished product, and an error sift formula is utilized to sift the second semi-finished products.
US08131501B2
An analyzing method for a sensor system determining the position of a shifting fork in a shift transmission is suggested wherein a shifting fork can be moved from a neutral position into at least one gear position. The position of the shifting fork is determined by a sensor system comprising at least one magnet and at least one magnetic field sensor that can be moved relative to the magnet. The method includes storing a base diagram for a base output signal in relation to position s and correcting the measured output signal so that the base diagram can be used for determining with high accuracy the position of the shifting fork.
US08131497B2
The invention comprises a system for calculating a value for the effective thermal mass of a building. The climate control system obtains temperature measurements from at least a first location conditioned by the climate system. One or more processors receive measurements of outside temperatures from at least one source other than the control system and compare the temperature measurements from the first location with expected temperature measurements. The expected temperature measurements are based at least in part upon past temperature measurements obtained by said HVAC control system and said outside temperature measurements. The processors then calculate one or more rates of change in temperature at said first location.
US08131493B2
Method and system providing an automated workflow for installing and/or calibrating laboratory equipment. The workflow empowers an end user to perform installation and calibration thereby reducing the costs associated with such activities. The automated workflow taught herein, can greatly reduce the incidence of calibration error by providing for verification of certain events during the calibration process.
US08131486B2
A battery monitoring system for simultaneously managing the batteries in 100 or more remote locations, each with 100 or fewer cells, has an individual battery monitor operatively engaged with at least one of the cells, a network access module in communication with the battery monitor, and a battery manager that has a fixed IP address that can be connected via an M2M data protocol to the battery monitor. The network access module is programmed to periodically transfer battery monitor data, including ohmic measurements, to the battery manager at a frequency of not less than once per week and with a total rate of data transfer of not more than 1 Mb per month. When the network access module initiates contact with the battery manager, the M2M data communication protocol assigns a variable IP address to the modem of the network access module.
US08131483B2
A yarn entanglement strength tester includes first and second rolls that apply incrementally increasing elongation levels on a yarn in order to remove entanglements from the yarn. The yarn entanglement strength tester also includes a third roll, where the second and third rolls apply a constant tension on the yarn which enables optimum diameter measurements of the yarn by a camera. The camera captures images of diameters of the yarn after each of the incrementally increasing elongation levels is applied to the yarn. The yarn entanglement strength tester further includes a computing device that controls operation of the camera and the first, second, and third rolls, and determines an entanglement strength of the yarn based on the captured images of the diameters of the yarn after each of the incrementally increasing elongation levels is applied to the yarn.
US08131481B2
Candidate structures for nanocrystal and other specimens are obtained based on a specimen complex spectrum that is determined as a Fourier transform of a phase-contrast electron micrograph. The specimen can also be assessed based on an amplitude portion of the complex spectrum using a lattice-fringe fingerprint. In some examples, the specimen complex spectrum is compensated based on an electron microscope transfer function, a specimen tilt, or based on other crystallographic compensation. Amplitude or phase portions of the compensated complex spectrum can be compared with reference structures stored in one or more reference structure databases.
US08131478B2
The present invention provides a data processing system and a data collection method by which measurement data can be read in and transmitted easily, without connecting a terminal for transmitting data with various types of measurement apparatuses, and further provides a measurement apparatus to be used for the data processing system and the data collection method. The data processing system at least uses: a measurement apparatus (10) provided with a display screen (13); a terminal (20); and a server (30). The measurement apparatus (10) includes: a measurement portion for obtaining measurement data; a code transforming portion for transforming the measurement data into a bar code, a two-dimensional code (8) or a composite code; and a display portion for displaying the code on the display screen. The terminal (20) includes; an image pickup portion for picking up an image on the display screen (13) that displays the code; an analysis portion for generating measurement data for transmission by analyzing the code that is picked up; and a transmission portion for transmitting, to the server (30), the measurement data for transmission. The server includes a memory portion for storing the transmitted measurement data for transmission.
US08131473B1
The present invention provides data analysis methods for the rapid location of subsets of large, multivariable biological datasets that are of most interest for further analysis, for the investigation of molecular modes of action of biological phenomena of interest, and for the identification of sets of data points that best distinguish between experimental groups in larger datasets as putative biomarkers. While existing methods for analyzing large biological datasets generally provide too much information to the user, or not enough, the methods of the present invention entail taking user input on what kinds of trends are of interest and then finding results that match the designated trend. In such manner, the methods of the invention allow a user to quickly pinpoint the subset of data of most interest without a concomitant loss of a large percentage of relevant information, as is typical with standard methods. The methods of the invention allow for identification of molecular entities that are involved in a biological phenomenon of interest, entities that may have otherwise gone undiscovered in a large, multivariable dataset.
US08131470B2
Automated monitoring and management of well tests of hydrocarbon wells in a production field. Routing of the output of a well to a flow meter, separated from the output from other wells in the field, is detected by a computer system such as a server. Measurement data including the flow as measured by the flow meter, and also other measurements such as temperatures and pressures contemporaneous with the flow meter measurements, are acquired by the computer system; a stable period is identified, over which the flow test measurement data are considered valid. Upon completion of a specified duration or upon a change in the flow environment, the computer system notifies the user of the completion of the flow test. The flow test results can be used to modify predictive well models, with the modification dependent on validation by the user. The system can also plan and schedule future flow tests.
US08131466B2
When a vehicle travels along a guidance path and approaches an intersection, a vehicle navigation system determines crossing points between a circle having its center set to the intersection and a predetermined radius, and an approach link and an exit link for the intersection. The system also sets a direction connecting the crossing point for the approach link and the intersection as an approach direction, and sets a direction connecting the intersection and the crossing point for the exit link as an exit direction. The system determines a traveling direction at the intersection based on an angular difference between the approach direction and the exit direction, and determines a display position of the intersection on a screen. Further, an enlarged intersection image is drawn such that the approach direction is aligned with a 12 o'clock direction on the screen.
US08131463B2
Disclosed is a method for providing a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation position solution with guaranteed integrity in non-controlled environments, the method including processing a (GNSS) signal including multiple satellites generating at least one signal to obtain carrier phase and pseudorange measurements; pre-processing the measurements to detect and characterize local errors in the measurements, wherein the local errors cannot be ascertained a priori, the characterization including providing error bounds estimated by measuring the carrier phase and pseudoranges measurements, thereby providing a set of measurements rejections when the characterization is not possible; and using the estimated error bounds, together with error bounds provided by the GNSS signal concerning satellite and ionospheric errors, to build in each measurement an estimated noise level in the measurements as input to a weighted Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM) algorithm in order to compute position coordinates and associated protection levels in the non-controlled environments.
US08131460B2
A GPS navigation code device has GPS features and easy address retrieval means built in, enabling a driver to retrieve and request directions to an address without taking his eyes off the road. The user pre-programs the GPS navigation code device with a plurality of addressees or points of interest and assigns unique navigation codes for each as keyboard entry and speech, all stored in local database within the GPS in three linked databases. While driving, the user presses a special address search mode key and inputs the unique navigation code by keyboard or speech pattern, views displayed address and accepts the same. When an unknown navigation code is entered the GPS accesses a remote database through the Internet to recover the associated company name and uses Internet based map service to locate closest list of specified business providing directions by map and speech on a turn-by-turn basis.
US08131453B2
Methods and systems are provided for expediting engine spin-down in an engine that is shutdown during engine idle-stop conditions and restarted during restart conditions. In one example, the method comprises, during an automatic engine idle-stop, turning off spark, operating a first cylinder with a rich ratio of air to injected fuel richer than a rich flammability limit, operating a second cylinder with a lean ratio of air to injected fuel leaner than a lean flammability limit, and mixing un-combusted exhaust from the first and second cylinders with exhaust, the exhaust mixture being substantially stoichiometric.
US08131450B2
A method of sensing the air/fuel ratio in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine that may be easily implemented by a respective low-cost device includes a pressure sensor and a learning machine that generates a sensing signal representing the air/fuel ratio by processing the waveform of the pressure in at least one cylinder of the engine. In practice, the learning machine extracts characteristic parameters of the waveform of the pressure and as a function of a certain number of them generates the sensing signal.
US08131447B2
A variety of methods and arrangements for improving the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines are described. Generally, selected combustion events are skipped during operation of the internal combustion engine so that other working cycles can operate at a better thermodynamic efficiency. In one aspect of the invention, an engine is controlled to operate in a variable displacement mode. In the variable displacement mode, fuel is not delivered to the working chambers (e.g. cylinders) during selected “skipped” working cycles. During active (“non-skipped”) working cycles, a maximum (e.g., unthrottled) amount of air and an optimized amount of fuel is delivered to the relevant working chambers so that the fired working chambers can operate at efficiencies closer to their optimal efficiency. A controller is used to dynamically determine the chamber firings required to provide the engine torque based on the engine's current operational state and conditions. The chamber firings may be sequenced in real time or in near real time in a manner that helps reduce undesirable vibrations of the engine.
US08131443B2
An acceleration control system controls acceleration of a vehicle to match the driver's feeling. In this control, the vehicle is controlled so that acceleration remains constant at the initial stage and then a differentiated value of a square power of a vehicle speed remains constant. This control is based on the finding of a normal acceleration operation attained by a driver. A linear relation exists between the acceleration in the initial stage of acceleration and the differentiated value of the square power of the speed. Switching of control from the constant acceleration to the constant differentiated value of the square power of the speed is made at a change-over speed determined by the linear relation.
US08131441B2
In at least one embodiment, a device for controlling an amount of torque generated by a powertrain in a vehicle is provided. The controller is configured to receive a driver status signal indicative of the status of the driver, a driver condition signal indicative of the driving conditions of the vehicle, and a driver mode signal indicative of the driving mode of the vehicle. The controller is further configured to control the powertrain to adjust the amount of torque that is generated based on the driver status signal, the driver condition signal, and the driver mode signal.
US08131435B2
A control system for a transmission of a vehicle comprises an actuation module and an upshift control module. The transmission has a first gear that corresponds to a first transmission ratio and a second gear that corresponds to a second transmission ratio that is less than the first transmission ratio. The actuation module controls an amount torque transferred to the second gear using a friction device. The upshift control module selectively increases the amount of torque transferred to the second gear based on a comparison of the first transmission ratio and a measured transmission ratio at a predetermined period of time after an upshift to the second gear is commanded, wherein the measured transmission ratio is determined based on an input speed of the transmission divided by an output speed of the transmission.
US08131431B2
In a method for controlling cooling of an auxiliary brake on a vehicle, the auxiliary brake is cooled by a cooling member. The method comprises the steps of: determining if the vehicle is travelling down a slope or is to be driven down a slope, and activating the cooling member automatically for cooling the auxiliary brake provided that at least one predefined downhill slope condition is determined.
US08131426B2
A control section (10) of a vehicle steering system has a steer-by-wire mode, a power steering mode, and a transition mode. In the steer-by-wire mode, a steering actuator (19) is controlled for steering and a reaction force actuator (11) is controlled for reaction force. In the power steering mode, steering assistance control is performed with either of the steering actuator (19) and the reaction force actuator (11) caused to function as an assistance unit. In the transition mode, in a transition period from either of the steer-by-wire mode and the power steering mode to the other, the reaction force actuator (11) is controlled for reaction force.
US08131421B2
A removable media tracking apparatus that is used to track a media case containing at least one data storage device is provided. The apparatus includes a removable media storage enclosure configured to be positioned within the media case, and a tracking device hardware positioned within the removable media storage enclosure. The tracking device hardware is operable to provide a geographical location of the media storage enclosure. A media tracking system is also provided. The system includes a media case, a plurality of media enclosures configured to be positioned within the media case, a data storage device contained in at least one of the media enclosures, a tracking device hardware contained in at least one of the media enclosures, and a tracking software program. The tracking device hardware is operable to communicate a geographical location of the media case to the tracking software program.
US08131406B2
One embodiment is directed to a method for testing an aircraft prior to flight. The method includes receiving a user signal from a pre-flight test input source, the user signal indicating that a pilot of the aircraft has directed engine control circuitry, which is arranged to electronically control operation of a set of piston engines of the aircraft during flight, to begin testing the aircraft in an automated manner. The method includes, in response to the user signal, conducting a pre-flight test of the aircraft from the engine control circuitry. The method includes, upon completion of the pre-flight test, outputting a result of the pre-flight test from the engine control circuitry.
US08131405B2
An adaptive guidance system (AGS) regulates the altitude and heading of a parasail to arrive at a target at a prescribed altitude. Since the altitude profile depends both on unknown wing loading, and wind magnitude and direction, the AGS estimates the glide slope and wind on the fly and provides a command to a stability augmentation system (SAS) that results in the desired glide slope and heading by performing a sequence of maneuvers and sensing the response. According to one embodiment, the SAS operates in the linear region and includes a PID controller that uses the difference between the actual heading and heading command to create an actuator output. The actuator output is limited by a position/rate limiter that imposes the physical limitations of the response time of the actuator/servos and position limits to prevent entering the nonlinear region. Alternatively, an adaptive SAS operates in both the linear and nonlinear region and includes a neural network (NN) that receives an error signal (difference between a reference model and actual heading) which is used to adapt the weights of the NN.
US08131400B2
One embodiment comprises a method of providing accurate mass flow controller flow rate data for a non-manufacturing-tuning-gas. The mass flow controller may be operated at a setpoint greater than 50%. Data may be recorded to a mass flow controller memory. The setpoint may then be changed to 0%. The recorded data may then be analyzed and one or more non-manufacturing-tuning-gas correction algorithm parameters may be calculated. The one or more non-manufacturing-tuning-gas correction algorithm parameters may be stored in a mass flow controller memory and subsequently used in at least one future mass flow controller operation involving the non-manufacturing-tuning-gas.
US08131397B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described related to the assignment and management of patient-specific bins. A dispensing device at a healthcare facility includes a number of bins for storage of medical supplies, with some of the bins designated as patient-specific bins allocated to be assigned to patients for storage of their medications or certain other supplies. A central server computer system, in communication with a computer of the dispensing device, may monitor and assign current and future patient-specific use of the bins for the dispensing device. The assignment and management of patient-specific bins may be performed by devices distributed through the system.
US08131390B2
The present invention is a network speaker 100 for an audio network distribution system 20. The present invention includes a network interface 110 that couples the network controller 120 to the audio network distribution system 20. The present invention additionally includes an audio format converter 121, a digital to analog converter (DAC) 122, a pre-amplifier 123, an amplifier 125, and may also include an analog to digital converter (ADC) 128. Additionally, the present invention includes speaker sensors 124 and a speaker/microphone driver 126.
US08131385B2
A positioning device includes a driver which moves a positioning object and a sensor which measures the distance to the positioning object in a non-contacting manner and outputs a detection signal if the positioning object is detected only in a length measuring area within a predetermined range from any detection position, shaft controller which stops the driver by detecting the detection signal from the sensor and automatically correcting for an overshoot amount between the stop position and any detection position, when the driver moves the positioning object and the sensor, and the positioning controller that stores the coordinate value after the automatic correction by the shaft controller and that performs the positioning based on the reference coordinate value.
US08131379B2
A system and method are provided for assessing the compliance of internal patient tissue for purposes of catheter guidance and/or ablation procedures. Specifically, the system/method provides for probing internal patient tissue in order to obtain force and/or tissue displacement measurements. These measurements are utilized to generate an indication of tissue elasticity. In one exemplary embodiment, the indication of elasticity is correlated with an image of the internal tissue area and an output of this image including elasticity indications is displayed for a user.
US08131378B2
The present invention is a power and data transmission system for an implantable device. In particular, it is an inductive system with a passive repeater coil pair to improve efficiency of the device.
US08131352B2
Methods and systems for detecting neurological events and approximating a target detection rate are disclosed. A target detection rate may be identified for the neurological event. Electrographic signals incident on a neurological event detector may be monitored. Each signal may be compared to a threshold value for a parameter. As the threshold value varies, it has a predictable effect on a detection rate of the neurological event. A rate at which the electrographic signals exceed the threshold value may be measured and compared to the target detection rate. The threshold value may be adjusted to minimize the difference between the measured detection rate and the target detection rate.
US08131349B2
A lesion extracting device having a control unit for changing an amount of the excitation light emitted toward a subject body, a measuring unit for measuring a change in the intensity of fluorescence generated from the subject body with respect to a change in the amount of the excitation light, and an extracting unit for calculating a ratio of the change in the intensity of fluorescence on the basis of a ratio of the change in the amount of the excitation light to the change in the intensity of fluorescence and for extracting a lesion part of the subject body on the basis of the ratio of the changes in the amount of the excitation light to the ratio of the changes in the intensity of fluorescence.
US08131341B2
In a method and a magnetic resonance system for positioning a patient support device of the magnetic resonance system, wherein the magnetic resonance system also has a coil device and the patient support device that has a mounting for accommodation of the coil device at a predetermined position, a detector unit is provided for detection of information describing the coil device and a control device controls a drive unit of the support device to move the support device to a determined position in the magnetic resonance apparatus using only information detected by the detector unit.
US08131334B2
The present invention relates to an intra-body communication (IBC) device and a method of implementing the IBC device. The IBC device is fabricated as a system-on-a-chip (SOC) and comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, an IBC module and a biomedical chip. The first electrode is connected to a patient's skin. The second electrode is connected to the patient's skin. The IBC module is connected to the first electrode and comprises a wireless communication device. The biomedical chip is connected to the second electrode and communicates with the IBC module through the patient's skin to receive external commands and transmit sensed biomedical parameters to a faraway location.
US08131332B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus suitable for determining properties of in vivo tissue from spectral information collected from various tissue sites. An illumination system provides light at a plurality of broadband ranges, which are communicated to an optical probe. The optical probe can be a flexible probe in some embodiments, allowing ease of application. Light homogenizers and mode scramblers can be employed to improve the performance in some embodiments. The optical probe in some embodiments physically contacts the tissue, and in some embodiments does not physically contact the tissue. The optical probe receives light from the illumination system and transmits it to tissue, and receives light diffusely reflected in response to the broadband light, emitted from the in vivo tissue by fluorescence thereof in response to the broadband light, or a combination thereof. The optical probe can communicate the light to a spectrograph which produces a signal representative of the spectral properties of the light. An analysis system determines a property of the in vivo tissue from the spectral properties.
US08131331B2
A foldable portable radio device adapted to a plurality of frequency bands has a good antenna performance in all the use frequency bands even in both open and folded states. In the foldable portable radio device, a control section (24) controls switching means (20) to connect a sub-matching circuit (19) and a first circuit element (21) when a first use frequency band is used and further when the foldable portable radio device is in the open state and to connect the sub-matching circuit (19) and a second circuit element (22) when a first use frequency band is used and further when the foldable portable radio device is in the closed state, or when a second use frequency band is used irrespective of the open/closed state of the foldable portable radio device.
US08131323B2
A handsfree apparatus notifies a user of the reception of a mail if the reception of the mail by a cellular phone happens during a call, and stores an unread history of the received mail in a memory unit if a mail content display operation is not performed. Further, the handsfree apparatus notifies the user of the unread history of the received mail when Bluetooth connection link to the cellular phone having received the mail is disconnected, thereby enabling the received mail to be recognized by the user.
US08131322B2
Apparatuses and methods of using a speaker phone mode of a portable voice communications device having a built-in camera are described herein. In one embodiment, the speaker phone mode is activated if it is determined that an image captured by the device is black or nearly black, which indicates that the device is placed flat or nearly flat against surface. In one embodiment, the speaker phone mode is activated based on the results of comparing the captured image to a plurality of previously stored captured images wherein the previously stored captured images include images captured by the device in situations where it would be desirable for the speaker phone mode to be activated. In one embodiment, the speaker phone mode is activated based on a comparison of a captured image and previously stored captured images and their respective speaker phone mode statuses. Other embodiments are also described.
US08131315B2
An electronic device such as a handheld electronic device may include wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include a radio-frequency receiver circuit or other circuitry that is sensitive to noise. Audio amplifier circuitry may be provided in the electronic device to amplify audio signals for a speaker. The audio amplifier circuitry may include class AB amplifier circuitry for operating in a low noise mode and class D amplifier circuitry for operating in a low power mode. The audio amplifier circuitry may include a control input path that receives control signals in real time. When it is determined that the wireless receiver or other sensitive circuit is active, the audio amplifier can be configured to operate in its low noise mode using the class AB amplifier. When it is determine that the wireless receiver is not being used, the class D circuitry may be switched into use to conserve power.
US08131314B2
A method of socially-based station navigation can include receiving station selection information from each of a plurality of mobile nodes within a mobile ad-hoc network, wherein station selection information comprises, for each mobile node, a station to which the mobile node is tuned. The method can include identifying each station from the received station selection information for each mobile node and determining a measure of popularity for each station according to a number of mobile nodes, from the plurality of mobile nodes, tuned to the station. A list specifying at least one of the stations and the measure of popularity of each station on the list can be output.
US08131303B2
Embodiments provide a wireless network with several access points connected to a communication infrastructure. Residential or business customers of the Internet are provided an Internet interface (e.g., a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem) having a wireless transceiver. Two or more users may access the Internet or other network through the Internet interface. Each user can be assigned a unique Service Set-Identifier (SSID) with each SSID associated with a type of service (e.g., user video service, backhaul service, etc.). The amount of bandwidth assigned to the type of service (and user) may be governed by the equipment according to the assigned SSID.
US08131289B2
A mobile communication terminal holds a frequency cancellation list that is information related to cells that cannot be connected, and controls execution/non-execution (frequency cancellation) of the cell search according to the content of the cancellation list. In a case where a frequency is not assigned in a unified manner (when a frequency is assigned to different communication providers in some cells), a frequency cancellation time is set shorter than a case where the frequency is assigned in a unified manner. For example, a frequency f3 is rejected in a cell represented by “another” surrounded by a broken line when the mobile communication terminal moves from an area A to an area B. When the mobile communication terminal further moves to an area C, the frequency cancellation process initiated in the area B terminates. This is because a short frequency cancellation time is set. Therefore, the frequency cancellation time expires while the mobile communication terminal is moving from the area B to the area C. The frequency cancellation terminates, so as to be connectable in the area C of the frequency f3.
US08131287B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for diagnosing fault and processing data of a satellite ground system. The apparatus and a method can prevent data loss of a satellite, and efficiently operate the satellite ground system using data buffer and penalty method when a temporary fault occurs. Data buffer stores data in fault situation and penalty method imposes high penalty in critical fault and low penalty in minor fault. System is managed according to penalty degree. The apparatus, includes: a satellite data processing and controlling means; a signal transforming means; a fault detecting and controlling means; a state displaying means for displaying a state of the satellite and the system; a penalty managing means for being notified whether the device has fault or not; a data storing means for storing and transmitting the data; and a system recovery supporting means.
US08131272B2
This invention relates to generating a list of devices in physical proximity of each other and utilizing said list, for example, for sharing of content between a plurality of mobile devices applying individual media items such as address book entries, calendar entries, and/or Short Messaging Services (SMS) or Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS) messages.
US08131268B2
Disclosed are a method, system and computer program product for managing unintentional disconnection of a communication device. A system detects a first device to a transmission has been unintentionally disconnected from an ongoing communication with a second communication device. The connected second device is signaled regarding the disconnection. Recording of a disconnection voicemail message for the disconnected first communication device is enabled before disconnecting the second communication device. The second device may set an expiration time on the disconnection voicemail message. Upon resumption of service, the disconnected first device is informed of a new voicemail message left by the second device during the disconnection. A disconnection-specific voicemail greeting may be recorded by a user of the disconnected first device's system for use when a disconnection occurs. The disconnection-specific voicemail greeting is played to the connected second device when disconnection occurs.
US08131266B2
A system, method, and device for securely forwarding SMS messages in a communication system, for example in a communication system including an IMS network accessible to wireless devices via a radio access network. The communication system forwards SMS messages from a sending station to a receiving station via a network node. The network node, which may be an SMSC in an IMS network, is operable to determine whether the SMS message is encrypted and whether the intended recipient supports encryption, and then the network node selectively encrypts and decrypts received SMS messages prior to forwarding to the intended recipient; SMS messages received unencrypted are encrypted by the SMS message encrypter/decrypter if the intended recipient supports encryption, and SMS messages received encrypted are decrypted by the SMS message encrypter/decrypter if the intended recipient does not support SMS message encryption. SMS messages intended for a recipient determined not to support SMS message encryption may be stored in a holding database, and an alert send to the intended recipient, if the sender requires that the SMS message be sent only in encrypted form.
US08131242B2
A system and method for implementing an IQ generator includes a master latch that generates an I signal in response to a clock input signal, and a slave latch that generates a Q signal in response to an inverted clock input signal. A master selector is configured to provide a communication path from the master latch to the slave latch, and a slave selector is configured to provide a feedback path from the slave latch to the master latch. The foregoing I and Q signals are output directly from the respective master and slave latches without any intervening electronic circuitry.
US08131241B2
A variable attenuator and method of attenuating a signal is presented. The variable attenuator contains an input that receives an input signal to be attenuated. A voltage divider between a resistor and parallel MOSFETs provides the attenuated input signal. The MOSFETs have different sizes and have gates that are connected to a control signal through different resistances such that the larger the MOSFET, the larger the resistance. The control signal is dependent on the output of the attenuator. The arrangement extends the linearity of the attenuation over a wide voltage range of the control signal and decreases the intermodulation distortion of the attenuator.
US08131232B2
A method for tuning a transmitter in order to improve impedance matching to an antenna or to intermediate radio frequency stages uses an error detector that senses a deviation of the amplitude or phase angle of a load current of a power amplifier driver or of a power amplifier. A controller calculates a correction and dynamically adjusts tunable transmitter parameters, which may include values of components in matching networks or bias voltages in the power amplifier or the power amplifier driver, so as to reduce the deviation and thereby improve the impedance matching. The load current of the power amplifier may alternatively be sensed by measuring the duty cycle of its switching mode power supply. A transmitter having a power amplifier and one or more tunable circuit elements incorporates an error detector that senses the amplitude or phase of a load current and a controller that adjusts one or more tunable parameters to reduce impedance mismatch. An integrated circuit device suitable for use in a transmitter includes a power amplifier driver circuit and a detector circuit capable of sensing a load current, and a controller circuit that can adjust tunable parameters either within or external to the integrated circuit. By eliminating directional couplers and integrating the detectors and power amplifier drivers, the size, complexity, and cost of wireless transceivers can be reduced, while efficiency and power consumption are improved through the dynamic adjustment of operating points and impedance matching.
US08131228B2
In a radio network a determination is made whether to implement cyclical delay diversity (CDD) for a radio frequency connection involving a radio base station (26) and a wireless terminal (30). The determination whether to implement cyclical delay diversity (CDD) is made in accordance with interference distribution at the wireless terminal (30), as such interference distribution is measured or otherwise perceived. When a determination is made to implement the cyclical delay diversity for the connection, plural transmit antennas (38) of the radio base station (26) are employed to implement the cyclical delay diversity for the connection. One or more indications of the interference distribution may be received and used to make the determination. The indication(s) of interference distribution can take the form of information received from the wireless terminal, and/or the form of frequency reuse plan information for interfering cells. For example, the determination to implement the cyclical delay diversity can be made affirmatively if the frequency reuse for interfering cells is above a predetermined frequency reuse number. In differing embodiments, either the radio base station (26) or the wireless terminal (30) can make the CDD implementation determination.
US08131224B2
Phase and gain of a transmit signal are measured at a transmitter by determining a first time delay having a first resolution at a measurement receiver between a reference signal from which the transmit signal is generated and a measured signal derived from the transmit signal by comparing amplitudes of the reference signal and the measured signal. A second time delay having a second resolution finer than the first resolution is determined at the measurement receiver between the reference signal and the measured signal based on the first time delay. The reference signal and the measured signal are time aligned at the measurement receiver based on the second time delay and the phase and gain of the transmit signal are estimated after the reference signal and the measured signal are time aligned.
US08131223B2
A test equipment for testing a wireless communication device includes a wireless transceiver, memory, and a controller. The wireless transceiver transmits a first and second series of packets. The wireless transceiver receives a power level indicator that is based on at least one of the first series of packets. The memory stores the power level indicator. The controller performs a signal strength test. More specifically, the controller controls the transceiver to transmit the first series of packets at a first power level. The controller stores the power level indicator in memory when the power level indicator is received by the transceiver. The controller controls the transceiver to transmit the second series of packets at a second power level.
US08131212B2
A controlled satellite link, comprising a reference unit for measuring signal attenuation over said link, and a control unit, associated with said reference unit, configured for controlling at least one link transmission parameter to dynamically adapt to changes in said measured signal attenuation.
US08131211B2
A system is provided for enhancing coverage for a mobile satellite service, the system comprising a signal threshold comparator module for monitoring a predetermined threshold for a satellite service signal received on a first frequency band, a signal gain block operable to vary amplification of the satellite service signal received on a second frequency band in response to the threshold, and a satellite receiver for decoding the satellite service signal received on the first and second frequency bands.
US08131197B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a fixing device including: a heating roller that generates a heat and is formed to have a mold releasing property; a pressure belt that is brought into contact with the heating roller and is driven according to a rotation of the heating roller; an arm that presses the pressure belt toward the heating roller; and a belt regulating member that contacts an end face of the pressure belt to regulate a shift thereof and is configured to be swingable with respect to the arm.
US08131196B2
The image forming apparatus has a configuration in which a secondary transfer roller guides a leading end of a recording material which enters a secondary transfer nip to be led to the secondary transfer nip and the leading end of the recording material is prevented from coming into contact with a toner image on an intermediate transferring member before the recording material enters the secondary transfer nip. Further, in the image forming apparatus, a surface of a transfer roller is smoothened so that the leading end of the recording material is guided to the secondary transfer nip without being caught. As a result, the present invention is intended to prevent the leading end of the recording material which enters the secondary transfer nip from distorting the toner image on the intermediate transferring member.
US08131189B2
If a user is not familiar with the operation for the developer supply container, the rotating operation for the developer supply container may be insufficient, so that developer supply container does not reach a predetermined operating position, with the result of abnormal developer supply. by increasing a rotation load of a second gear 6 which is in an operable connection with a drive gear member 12 of the developer receiving apparatus 10 by a function of a locking member 7, the developer supply container 1 mounted to the developer receiving apparatus 10 is rotated toward the supply position. After the developer supply container 1 rotates to the supply position, the locking by the locking member 7 is released, by which the rotation load applied to the second gear 6 is reduced, so that drive transmission, thereafter, to the feeding member 4 for developer supply is smooth.
US08131188B2
A developer container is provided. The developer container includes a first housing having an agitating member; and a second housing covering the first housing and being rotatable around the agitating member relative to the first housing. The first housing includes a first cylinder portion that has a first opening; and a first end portion that extends substantially perpendicular to the shaft. The second housing includes a first cover member that covers a part of the first housing; and a second cover member that is separated from the first cover member and covers a remaining part of the first housing. The first cover member includes a first cover cylinder portion that has a second opening corresponding to the first opening; and a first cover end portion provided at each end. The second cover member includes a second cover cylinder portion; and a second cover end portion provided at each end.
US08131185B2
A charging device includes a charging member and a charging power source portion. The charging member, in a sheet shape, is secured by contacting a region of an electrostatic latent image to be formed on a rotatable image carrier. The charging power source portion applies charging voltage to the charging member. The charging member includes a plurality of holes.
US08131182B2
An imaging cartridge has a process unit and a toner box unit formed by integrating a new toner box and a waste toner box. The toner box unit is attachable to and detachable from the process unit. Shutters which open and close a connecting section between the new toner box and a developing device included in the process unit can be opened by manual operation when the toner box unit is attached to the process unit. Shutters and which open and close a connecting section between a cleaning device included in the process unit and the waste toner box are opened when the imaging cartridge is in the process of being moved to a prescribed position in an apparatus body.
US08131177B2
An image forming apparatus includes a secondary transfer roller that is supported by a secondary-transfer-unit supporting unit and transfers a toner image onto a recording medium, a lubricant applying brush that comes into contact with the secondary transfer roller and applies a lubricant to the secondary transfer roller, a solid lubricant that is housed in a lubricant-applying-brush housing unit and supplies the lubricant to the lubricant applying brush, and a lubricant holding member that elastically holds the solid lubricant. The lubricant is supplied to the secondary transfer roller according to a material of the lubricant, a pressing amount of the lubricant against the secondary transfer roller, a configuration of the secondary transfer roller, a configuration of the fur brush, and a relation among fur brush circumferential speed, secondary transfer roller circumferential speed, a pressing amount of a blade against the secondary transfer roller, and a blade material.
US08131174B2
The fixing device is provided with: a fixing member that has a rotating member which rotates and a heat source which heats the rotating member; a pressure member that is driven to rotate while pressing the fixing member, and that forms a nip portion where a recording medium passes, between the fixing member and the pressure member; a separation unit that separates the fixing member and the pressure member from each other; and a cooling unit that cools a face of the pressure member separated by the separating unit. The face is opposed to the fixing member.
US08131163B2
An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form an image onto an image forming medium based on received print data by using a cartridge removably provided, a cartridge determination unit configured to determine whether an MICR cartridge is inserted as the cartridge, a determination unit configured to compare a password input by an password input unit and a password registered in a password storage unit and determine whether an image forming process of the received print data is allowed to be performed, and a control unit configured to temporarily stop processing the print data, cause the notification unit to send the notification to input the password, and perform an MICR image forming control process that causes the image forming unit to resume the processing of the print data.
US08131162B2
In a case where a qualified cartridge is not mounted, a toner supply controller stops driving of a toner supply motor. A controller calculates the toner density in a toner tank in accordance with a detection signal of a TC sensor to determine whether the toner density is within an allowable range. In a case where the toner density is out of the allowable range, the toner supply controller allows the toner supply motor to start driving. After that, in a case where the toner density in the toner tank becomes high, a cartridge mounting status determining section determines that a non-qualified cartridge is mounted. On the other hand, in a case where the toner density in the toner tank does not change or becomes lower, the cartridge mounting status determining section determines that the cartridge is not yet mounted.
US08131160B2
A switch is to be inputted a modulation signal including the synchronization signal extracted from a received communication signal as a control signal, is to be inputted a detection signal detected by a photodetector that receives a polarization modulation signal adjusted to a polarization direction of a quantum cipher signal, and selectively switches and outputs one of the detection signal and an inverted signal of the detection signal according to the control signal. A low-pass filter outputs the output signal of the switch, whereby a plus level signal is outputted when a relative angle difference Δθ between polarization axes on a transmission side and a reception side is larger than a predetermined polarization angle, a 0 level signal is outputted when Δθ is equal to the predetermined polarization angle, and a minus level signal is outputted when Δθ is in a range of the predetermined polarization angle from 0 degree.
US08131148B2
Described is a method of reducing transmitter error in an optical communications channel. An optical signal transmitted from an optical transmitter that has impairment due to transmitter error is processed to generate a digitally-equalized signal. A nonlinear characteristic of the digitally-equalized signal that relates to the transmitter error is determined. An optical control signal comprising data that are based on the nonlinear characteristic is transmitted to the optical transmitter. The optical transmitter modifies a transmitter parameter in response to the optical control signal to change the nonlinear characteristic and thereby reduce the impairment.
US08131143B2
A focus control circuit is installed in an image pickup apparatus including a lens, a driver element for adjusting the position of the lens, and a position detecting element for detecting the position of the lens. An equalizer included in the focus control circuit generates a drive signal used to adjust the position of the lens to a position to be set, based on a difference between the position of the lens identified by the position detecting element and the set position. When an instruction to vary a target position of the lens is received externally, a position setting unit included in the focus control circuit sets sequentially a plurality of positions in a range covering a new target position and a previous target position, to the equalizer before the new target position is reached from the previous target position.
US08131141B2
A lens position detecting device 200 has a position detecting magnet 202, a magnetic force detecting sensor 204, a positional information generating means 206, etc. The position detecting magnet 202 is mounted on a rear surface of a lens holder frame 1460. The magnetic force detecting sensor 204 serves to generate a detected signal having a magnitude depending on the intensity of a magnetic force generated from the magnetic poles of the position detecting magnet 202. The magnetic force detecting sensor 204 is disposed on a straight line that passes through the position detecting magnet 202 parallel to the optical axis. The magnetic force detecting sensor 204 outputs a detected signal having a voltage corresponding (proportional) to the intensity of the magnetic force. An amplifying circuit 208 of a positional information generating means 206 amplifies the detected signal Ss from the magnetic force detecting sensor 204.
US08131130B2
A BD-ROM playback apparatus simultaneously executes reproduction of a title including an AVClip and executes an application. The BD-ROM playback apparatus includes a BD-J module (35) executing an application, a playback control engine (32) for playing the AVClip belonging to one title, and a module manager (34) for controlling branching between a plurality of titles. The title includes a data management table. The data management table indicates an application read priority level for each title. The BD-J module (35) includes a java virtual machine (38), a local memory (29), and an application manager (36) for loading the application to the local memory (29). The application manager (36) reads in the application into the local memory (29) according to the read priority level of each application and the memory size of the local memory (29).
US08131123B2
An optical system comprising two or more optical switches co-packaged together comprising discrete sets of input fiber ports (N per set) and an output fiber port (1 per set), and wherein λn from said set of multiple input fiber ports (N) is focused on λn mirror via the use of shared free space optics, wherein at least a first array of MEMS mirrors is utilized to select and switch selected wavelengths from the first set of input fiber ports (N) to an output fiber port of the same set, and wherein at least a second array of MEMS mirrors using and sharing the same free space optics is utilized to select individual wavelengths or spectral components from its input fiber ports to send to its output fiber port for optical power or other monitoring purposes, thus, enabling an N×1, or alternatively a 1×N switch capable of internal feedback monitoring.
US08131112B1
A method for distinguishing a normal cell from an abnormal cell, such as, for example a cancer cell or diseased cell, of the same tissue type using mitochondrial correlation microscopy.
US08131102B2
A method for processing a digital gray value image includes the steps of: generating a binary edge image from the gray value image so that edges present in the gray value image are determined as line areas around the edges; applying a sharpness algorithm in the gray value image within regions which correspond to the line areas; and, carrying out a smoothing process in the gray value image within regions which lie outside of the line areas so that an additional smoothed, sharpened gray value image is generated.
US08131100B2
Representing high-resolution media content in a lower resolution system is disclosed. For a first portion of a high-resolution media content which is associated with a content boundary that does not align with an interval boundary of the lower resolution system, a new media content file that includes at least said first portion of the high-resolution media content is created. The new media content file and a second file comprising at least a second portion of the original media content file, which second portion begins at a first interval boundary and ends at a second interval boundary of the lower resolution system, are provided to the lower resolution system.
US08131099B2
A noise elimination method capable of handling even beat noise occurring in an oblique direction is proposed. In an image processing apparatus that is provided with a correcting unit that subtracts cyclic data of beat noise from effective pixel data included in inputted digital image data, the correcting unit comprises: a distributing unit that sequentially and cyclically distributes optical black area pixel data included in the digital image data; an integrating unit to which the optical black area pixel data distributed by the distributing unit is sequentially inputted; a first calculating unit that divides the integration result of the integrating unit by the number of integrations; a minimum value detecting unit that detects a minimum value of the output of the first calculating unit; and a second calculating unit that calculates the minimum value and the division result to obtain the cyclic data of the beat noise.
US08131098B2
The present invention executes color correction that improves the feeling of depth of a 2D image with ease and by using a preexisting device. Input image data is first converted into brightness information by a brightness information calculation portion. The interest level within the image is then estimated by an interest level estimation portion based on that information. The vanishing point is then estimated by a vanishing point estimation portion. Next, a depth estimation portion estimates the degree of depth based on the distance from the vanishing point to a pixel i and the interest level of the pixel i, and calculates a depth correction gain value. A corrected image, obtained by controlling a depth correction image process based on the depth correction gain value, is converted to a predetermined image format and outputted by an output portion.
US08131097B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for restoring an image captured through an extended depth-of-field lens. Preprocessed data relating to image degradation is stored and used during an image restoration process.
US08131096B2
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.
US08131095B2
The process of compression of a block of a size L.times.H of a sequence of images comprises, in a repetitive manner, for said block: a search step, in one of the images of the sequence of images, for the zone L.times.H pixels the most similar to said block; a step of determining whether the resemblance between said zone and said block responds to predetermined criteria; if said resemblance responds to said criteria, a step of storing the motion vector which indicates the distance between the block and the most similar zone found; if said resemblance does not respond to said criteria, and if the block does not have a predetermined minimum size, a step of cutting out said block into sub-blocks and a supplemental repetition, for each of said sub-blocks, and if said resemblance does not respond to said criteria, and if the block has a predetermined minimum size, a step of storing the block in the course of which the block is compressed without reference to a reference image.
US08131092B2
When inputted pixels from an input DMA unit, a packing unit outputs data package. One data package consists of α inputted pixels. A memory control unit writes, on a write line memory at a write interval, the data package that is outputted by the packing unit. The write interval is α times longer than an input interval at which the pixels are inputted into the packing unit. During the writing process, the memory control unit reads out another data package from a read line memory at a read interval that is the same as the input interval. In addition, the memory control unit treats the write line memory as the read line memory, after completing the writing process. Alternatively, the memory control unit treats the read line memory as the write line memory, after completing the reading process.
US08131091B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for compressing a text and an image. When compressing the text and image, it is possible to group valid lines with data into each line having a common element, and compress and encode the data of the valid lines. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a data loss that may occur in a tactical communication environment with a poor channel state due to a bit sleep or a burst error. In the case of the text, it is possible to perform lossless compression on only a valid line with data and thereby improve compression efficiency. In the case of the image, it is possible to perform loss compression on valid lines, and then restore the partially damaged data using an ECC even when data is partially damaged. Accordingly, it is possible to improve compression efficiency and the entire data transmission success rate.
US08131089B2
Non-adjacent rows (i) in the visibility matrix (Msr) that have a large number of common elements are automatically detected (E7) and any such detected rows are permutated to put the lines detected as having a large number of common elements into sequence to form a modified visibility matrix (M′sr), and digital image coding is applied (E8) to the Boolean elements of the modified visibility matrix (M′sr).
US08131080B2
A handwriting apparatus includes unit acquiring first-handwriting data, unit storing one-stroke-handwriting data and a first command as an instruction, the instruction corresponding to the one-stroke-handwriting data and being executed with a device, unit, when the first-handwriting data corresponds to one stroke, searching the storage unit for the first command corresponding to the one-stroke-handwriting data corresponding to the one stroke, unit planning to execute the first command when the corresponding first command is searched out from the storage unit, unit storing one-stroke-handwriting data and a second command as an instruction which corresponds to the one-stroke-handwriting data, the second command being different from the first command, unit regarding the first-handwriting data as one-stroke-handwriting data at time intervals and search the storage unit for the second command corresponding to the one-stroke-handwriting data, and unit, when the corresponding second command is searched out from the storage unit, planning to execute the corresponding second command.
US08131079B2
A near-infrared night vision device to which a pedestrian detection device is applied includes a near-infrared projector, a near-infrared camera, a display and an ECU. By executing programs, the ECU constitutes a pedestrian candidate extraction portion and a determination portion. The pedestrian candidate extraction portion extracts pedestrian candidate regions from near-infrared images. The determination portion normalizes the sizes and the brightnesses of the pedestrian candidates extracted by the pedestrian candidate extraction portion, and then computes the degrees of similarity between the normalized pedestrian candidates. The determination portion determines that a pedestrian candidate having two or more other pedestrian candidates whose degree of similarity with the pedestrian candidate is greater than or equal to a predetermined value is not a pedestrian.
US08131076B2
A method for processing an object in image data includes the steps of drawing a contour on a pre-segmentation of an object in image data, generating at least one seed point on the pre-segmentation from an intersection of the contour and the pre-segmentation, providing a weighting factor between the seed points and the pre-segmentation, and segmenting the pre-segmentation using the seed points and the weighting factor to generate a new pre-segmentation.
US08131074B2
In one embodiment, a method for specific emitter identification includes receiving a signal from an emitter indicative of a hardware characteristic of the emitter. A computer-readable representation of the received signal is generated. A plurality of gradients for each partition of a plurality of partitions of the computer-readable representation is computed. Each gradient is indicative of at least the angular orientation of a respective portion of the computer-readable representation. A histogram is computed for each partition by assigning each computed gradient to a bin based at least in part on the magnitude of the computed gradient. One or more Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features are extracted from a concatenation of the bins of all of the computed histograms. The one or more HOG features are compared to one or more corresponding HOG features stored on a computer-readable medium. Based at least in part on the comparison, a determination is made regarding whether the emitter has a particular identification.
US08131067B2
An image processing apparatus that receives mosaic image data having settings of only one color component, R, G, or B, in each pixel and subjects the received mosaic image data to a series of image processing to generate color image data with settings of all the three color components, R, G, and B, in each pixel; wherein the mosaic image data has the form of a Bayer color filter array; and the image processing apparatus includes: a vertical-direction color difference component computation module; a horizontal-direction color difference component computation module; an edge direction determination module; a color component interpolation module; an oblique edge pixel detection module; an oblique edge direction determination module; and an oblique edge pixel interpolation correction module.
US08131061B2
An apparatus for inspecting solder printing includes a memory medium, an ideal solder information generation unit, and an image processing unit. Design data are stored in the memory medium. The ideal solder information generation unit generates “ideal solder position information” and “ideal solder sizes” from the ideal solder regions in the design data. The image processing means extracts the actual solder regions of solder on the printed board K from image data imaged by the CCD camera and generates “actual solder position information” from the actual solder regions. The image processing unit generates “position misalignment amounts” between the “ideal solder position information” and “actual solder position information,” generates “print misalignment rates” indicating the extents of the “position misalignment amounts” relative to the “ideal solder sizes,” calculates a correction value relating to print position based on the “print misalignment rates,” and outputs a correction value signal to the solder printing machine.
US08131059B2
In an apparatus for photographing an image of a product to judge whether or not a defect is present, a manufacturing desirable image is formed from data acquired when the product was designed, which could be obtained if no defect was present when the product was photographed, an inspection portion where a defect may occur is selected from the formed manufacturing desirable image, a defect pattern is superimposed on the selected inspection portion so as to form a template equipped with the defect pattern. The image of the product is photographed, a template matching operation is carried out as a template having the defect pattern, and judgement is made whether or not a defect is present based upon a matched evaluation value. As a result, the judgement for judging whether or not the defect is present can be directly carried out based upon the evaluation value.
US08131055B2
A method for assembly inspection is disclosed. The system may include obtaining a digital image of an assembled product, extracting images of one or more objects from the digital image of the assembled product, and recognizing each of the one or more objects as a component based on its extracted image and a library of standard components. The method may further include identifying one or more features of each recognized component, comparing each of the one or more identified features with a corresponding standard feature of the corresponding standard component, and determining an assembly fault if at least one of the one or more identified features does not match the corresponding standard feature.
US08131052B2
A method of processing an input image produces an output image emphasizing peak-like structures. The input image comprises input pixels and each input pixel has an intensity characteristic. The output image comprises corresponding output pixels and each output pixel has a value. The method comprises the step of calculating for an input pixel the second derivative of the intensity characteristic in two orthogonal directions, one of the directions being the direction of maximum curvature. The product of the two second derivatives is calculated and the value of the output pixel corresponding to the input pixel is determined in dependence on the product.
US08131049B2
Systems and methods that facilitate the presentation and assessment of selected features in projection and/or reconstructed breast images, such as calcifications that meet selected criteria of size, shape, presence in selected slice images, distribution of pixels that could be indicative of calcification relative to other pixels or of other image features of clinical interest.
US08131041B2
A system and method for simultaneously imaging a structure using two different imaging modalities and blending the images into a single blended two dimensional image, is provided. The system and method include obtaining two dimensional (2D) x-ray image data (132) using an x-ray system (102) and three dimensional (3D) ultrasound image volume data (134) using an ultrasound imaging system (122). A 2D representation of the 3D ultrasound image volume data (134) is created with respect to an area of interest corresponding to the 2D x-ray image data (132). The 2D representation of the 3D ultrasound image volume data (134) is blended with the 2D x-ray image data (132) using a computer (130) to render a 2D blended image (140) of the structure that can be displayed in real-time. The computer (130) may be part of the x-ray system (102), part of the ultrasound system (122) or a standalone unit with its own display device (136).
US08131035B2
A computer implemented method for differentiating between elements of an image and a background includes inputting an image comprising pixels forming a view of the elements and a background, providing a model for assigning a probability of belonging to a predefined class to each of the pixels, assigning a probability to each of the pixels of belonging to the predefined class, labeling each of the pixels according to a corresponding probability and a predefined threshold, determining boundaries between groups of like-labeled pixels, and outputting a visualization of the boundaries.
US08131031B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an improved method for automatically labeling an image using an intraoperative imaging system. The method includes acquiring a first image at a first position, labeling the first image with a first label, acquiring a second image at a second position, automatically labeling the second image with a second label based at least in part on the first label, the first position, and the second position.
US08131020B2
A new application of machine vision for process industries is proposed. The invention consists of: (1) estimation of visual quality of products, (2) modeling causal relationship between estimated quality and process variables, and (3) optimization of visual quality using the causal model. This invention can handle the stochastic nature in visual appearance of products that process industries provide, which has been a main obstacle for the success of machine vision in process industries. Also, it opens new tasks in machine vision such as modeling and optimization of visual quality of products.
US08131010B2
The present invention is directed to the measurement of attributes of a queue. A method for measuring an attribute of a queue in accordance with an embodiment includes: acquiring a plurality of images of a queue; extracting features from the images of the queue; analyzing the extracted features; and measuring the attribute based on the analysis of the extracted features; wherein the analyzing further comprises analyzing the extracted features at a plurality of successive time points to determine successive correspondences between the extracted features, and wherein the measuring further comprises measuring the attribute based on the successive correspondences
US08131006B2
A MEMS microphone has a backplate and a movable diaphragm that together form a variable capacitance. The backplate has a backplate surface and, in a corresponding manner, the diaphragm has a diaphragm surface that faces the backplate surface. At least one of the backplate surface and the diaphragm surface has at least a portion with a Hurst exponent that is less than or equal to about 0.5.
US08131003B2
The present invention discloses a spring reverberator and an assembling method thereof, in which the spring reverberator comprises: a casing, a driving transducer received in the casing, a pickup transducer received in the casing, and coil springs vibratingly coupled to the driving and pickup transducers. The driving and pickup transducers respectively include a vibration unit and a magnetic core. The vibration unit comprises a support plate including at least one cut-out groove, through which a wire is soldered directly to the support plate. The vibration unit and the magnetic core are prepared in a modular type to be inserted in a sliding manner and fixed in the casing.
US08131000B2
A cooling arrangement for voice coil of speaker is disclosed to include a first bearing cup, a second bearing cup inserted into a top opening of the first bearing cup with a top flange thereof stopped at the top side of the first bearing cup to support a voice coil inside the first bewaring cup, and a conical outer holding down cup sleeved onto the first bearing cup to hold down a damper on a bottom flange of the first bearing cup and having a top edge bonded to a cone paper.
US08130997B1
A speaker assembly includes a frame and a surround that suspends a diaphragm from the frame. An outer portion of the surround is disposed, dimensioned, and configured to permit the mounting of the surround to the frame such that the surround, itself, does not need to include an outwardly extending flange and/or clamp. Rather, the outer portion of the surround is generally disposed on the frame, with the mounting surface of the outer portion of the surround extending inward relative to the outer periphery of the surround.
US08130995B2
An earpiece device includes a housing having a sound output portion, a speaker and a microphone. The speaker disposed in the housing includes a diaphragm and a sound transmitting hole. The diaphragm is located between the sound output portion and the sound transmitting hole. The microphone is disposed in the housing and covers the sound transmitting hole. A sound wave generated within an ear canal would be received by the speaker and delivered through the sound transmitting hole to the microphone for pickup.
US08130989B2
The spontaneous acceptance by a hearing device wearer in respect of a new hearing device is to be improved. To this end, a method for adjusting the amplification of a hearing device to an individual hearing device wearer is proposed, with which a target amplification for the hearing device wearer is determined on the basis of his/her hearing loss. Data relating to the gender of the hearing device wearer is provided in order to improve the adjustment. The target amplification is then also determined on the basis of the gender of the hearing device wearer. With the gender-specific target amplification, it is possible for instance to take account of the fact that women exhibit a more sensitive perception for average voice levels than men, thereby allowing the target amplification to correspondingly drop much lower.
US08130987B2
A speaker system has a laterally extending body portion for supporting the back of the head of a user and a pair of right and left side portions respectively connected to the right and left ends of the body portion. A plurality of openings in side wall of each of two speaker boxes for making communication between the inside and the outside of each speaker box, for preventing sound leakage from each speaker unit and ensuring the sound pressure level in a low-frequency range of the audio frequencies reproducible by the speaker unit.
US08130984B2
An acoustic vibration sensor, also referred to as a speech sensing device, is provided. The acoustic vibration sensor receives speech signals of a human talker and, in response, generates electrical signals representative of human speech. The acoustic vibration sensor includes at least one diaphragm positioned adjacent to a front port and at least one coupler. The coupler couples a first set of signals to the diaphragm while isolating the diaphragm from the second set of signals. The coupler includes at least one material with acoustic impedance matched to the acoustic impedance of human skin.
US08130978B2
This disclosure describes techniques of automatically identifying a direction of a speech source relative to an array of directional microphones using audio streams from some or all of the directional microphones. Whether the direction of the speech source is identified using audio streams from some of the directional microphones or from all of the directional microphones depends on whether using audio streams from a subgroup of the directional microphones or using audio streams from all of the directional microphones is more likely to correctly identify the direction of the speech source. Switching between using audio streams from some of the directional microphones and using audio streams from all of the directional microphones may occur automatically to best identify the direction of the speech source. A display screen at a remote venue may then display images having angles of view that are centered generally in the direction of the speech source.
US08130971B2
A manually switching dual-mode hearing protector including an active hearing protection device that does not only provide for acoustic attenuation of ambient sound in order to protect hearing of a user in a noisy environment but in addition provides electro-acoustically bypassing of this acoustic attenuation function in order to provide the user with a communication function in order to enable the user to perceive speech signals even when wearing the manually switching dual-mode hearing protector in a noisy environment.
US08130970B2
An ear cup for a hearing protection unit including an inner cup portion which defines a noise damping space facing towards the user. The ear cup further has an outer cup portion for accommodating electronics and/or a current source. The inner cup portion and the outer cup portion are separated by a partition which is of one piece manufacture with the inner cup portion. The partition is substantially closed, with the exception of an opening in which a fixing portion on a bracket is disposed. The fixing portion (9) has a central channel (15) for the passage of supply conductors to a loudspeaker. The supply conductors have a contact placed on the outside of the partition for connection of the electronics. The bracket also has a baffle plate which extends along the periphery of the loudspeaker.
US08130959B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for rekeying encryption keys for removable storage media. A rekey request is received for a coupled removable storage media, wherein encryption on the coupled removable storage media uses a first key and wherein the rekey request indicates a second key. The first key and the second key are accessed in response to the rekey request. The first key is used to perform decryption for the coupled removable storage media and the second key is used to perform encryption for the coupled removable storage media.
US08130957B2
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for securing data for transmission to a wireless device. The disclosed systems and methods may include an electronic messaging system used to send and receive data over a first network and also used to forward data to a wireless device operable in a second network. The electronic messaging system may receive an electronic message encrypted with a first encryption algorithm and addressed to a message recipient in the first network, the message recipient having an associated wireless device operable in the second network. The electronic messaging system may determine that the electronic message is to be transported across the second network to the wireless device, and in response to determining that the electronic message is to be transported across the second network, encrypt the electronic message using a second encryption algorithm and transmit the encrypted message over the second network to the wireless device, with the second encryption algorithm being a stronger encryption algorithm than the first encryption algorithm.
US08130953B2
Authentication of an electronic communication apparatus capable of communicating data messages with a server according to a synchronization protocol includes providing an authentication method indicator that specifies an authentication method according to which the authentication is to be executed. The authentication method indicator is incorporated into a message that includes a plurality of authentication capabilities of the communication apparatus. The message is transmitted to the server according to an authentication protocol of the synchronization protocol.
US08130951B2
A network device includes a content processing module that is configured to perform intelligent document content processing, such as confidential information processing, content optimization and workflow optimization. The network device authenticates a user and determines electronic document data that is to be processed. The electronic document data may be created at the network device, e.g., by a scanning module on the network device, or at a client device, e.g., by a word processing application executing on the client device. The content processing module retrieves particular user preference data based upon the user authentication. The particular user preference data may specify confidential information preferences, content optimization preferences and/or workflow preferences. The content processing module performs intelligent document content processing on the electronic document data based upon the particular user preference data and generates processed electronic document data.
US08130945B2
A public key cryptography (PKI or other similar system) is used to sent partial or multiple of encryption or decryption algorithm (cipher or decipher) to the data sender or receiver to encrypt or decrypt the data to be sent or received and destroy itself after each or multiple use. Since the encryption algorithm is protected, it can be devised very small in size in compare to the data to be sent and the user can afford to use large key size in it's transmission to increase protection without significant compact to the overall speed. Without knowing the encryption algorithm, which may also be changing from time to time, it will be impossible to use brut force to break the code provided that the algorithm scheme is designed properly. It is due to that there are unlimited numbers of new or old algorithms with countless variations and it takes years of supper fast computing time to break even few algorithms. Under this condition, many fast encryption algorithms can be easily devised for use, thus speed and safety can be greatly enhanced.
US08130944B2
A method and apparatus for enabling and/or providing delayed decryption is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving encrypted information and additional information and decrypting the encrypted information, using the additional information, no sooner than a specified time. The additional information includes data indicative of the time.
US08130930B2
A ring-back tone generator system provides a customized ring-back tone to a calling party (attempting to reach a called party) while the ring-back tone generator system participates in alerting the called party of the call connection request. Upon acceptance of the call connection by the called party answering his phone, the ring-back tone generator system can temporarily bridge the caller party with the called party. After at least temporarily providing the bridge, the ring-back tone generator system communicates with a remote phone switch system for purposes of offloading the bridge to a remote device that instead provides the bridge between the caller and the called party. Accordingly, the ring-back tone generator system can participate in a process of providing a customized ring-back tone to a caller, initiate alerting of a called party of the call, bridging a call, and a handing off a call.
US08130929B2
Methods and systems using voice recognition can obtain complex data from a database using simple data obtained from a user. The database associates and stores complex data with simple data. The interactive voice response system prompts the user for simple information, such as a phone number, which can be interpreted using voice recognition. The speech-obtained simple data is then matched with the simple data stored in the database. If a match is found, the complex data (e.g., a street address) stored with the simple data is communicated to the IVR system. The IVR system communicates the complex data to the user and prompts the user to confirm whether the complex data is accurate. The database can be a third-party database such as a computer accessible phone directory or a credit bureau.
US08130928B2
A method and system for number indexing for advertising. Alphanumeric identifiers (e.g., telephone number, voice-over-Internet Protocol identifier, an Internet Protocol identifier, an instant message identifier or an e-mail address identifier) are used to categorize and associate pre-determined advertising with the alphanumeric identifiers. When the alphanumeric identifier is received on a communications network, the pre-determined advertising associated with the alphanumeric identifier is sent to a target device.
US08130925B2
Included are embodiments for recording data from a communication. At least one embodiment includes receiving media data associated with the communication from a first communications device at a first receive port and sending the received media data to a first transmit port, wherein the first transmit port is coupled to a second receive port. Some embodiments include sending the received media data to a recording device via a connection with the recorder, the connection being located on the coupling of the first transmit port and the second receive port.
US08130919B2
Voicemail systems and methods can provide a user with means for receiving categorized messages from parties. The categories can be independent of the intended recipients of the messages, such that multiple users can receive the same message. A user can subscribe to receive categorized messages within selected categories or from selected parties. A registered party, including a merchant, an organization, a government agency and/or another party, can input messages to selected categories and can input distribution parameters for the messages. Expiration dates can be associated with the messages such that messages can be deleted once expired.
US08130911B2
A system, method, and transceiver unit for determining one or more properties of a digital subscriber line (DSL) utilizing a time-variable finite impulse response (FIR) filter. The transceiver unit sends a loop test signal to the line and calculates an impulse response of a reflection of the loop test signal from the line. The calculated impulse response is filtered utilizing the time-variable FIR filter and properties of the line are determined. Characteristics of the FIR filter may be controlled by a set of parameters that vary as a function of time according to a predetermined formula. As a result, the FIR filter provides both high time resolution of closely separated pulses and amplification of far-end pulse reflections.
US08130908B2
X-ray diffraction apparatus and technique for measuring grain orientation using x-ray focusing optic
An x-ray diffraction apparatus for measuring crystal orientation of a multiple grain sample. An x-ray excitation path is provided having a focusing optic for collecting x-rays from an x-ray source and redirecting the collected x-rays into an x-ray beam converging on a single grain of the multiple grain sample. At least one point detector and the sample are rotated relative to each other; and a grain orientation is obtained based upon diffraction patterns collected from first and second grain crystal planes within the apparatus.
US08130904B2
Systems, methods, and other modalities are described for (a) obtaining an indication relating to an emission module (which may be dangerous, e.g.) or its user (who may be untrained, e.g.) and for (b) configuring the module or causing an irradiation (for imaging, e.g.) in response to the indication.
US08130903B2
A device, system and method for nondestructively obtaining qualitative and/or quantitative information relating to the material properties of a region in a diamond body comprises directing x-rays onto the body. The body can comprise sintered or unsintered diamond. The body can ultimately be in the form of a cutting element used with a subterranean drill bit. The x-rays penetrate the body and cause a target element within the desired region including the same to emit x-ray fluorescence. The emitted x-ray fluorescence is received and information relating to content, location, and/or distribution of the target element in the region within the body is determined therefrom. The measured region can extend axially or radially from a surface of the body, and the target elements are nondiamond materials that can be constituents of a substrate attached to the body, or of a container used during HPHT sintering of the body.
US08130898B2
A computed tomography scanner (10) acquires prospectively gated cardiac projection data. A scan controller (42) causes the scanner (10) to acquire projection data at the predicted location of a target cardiac phase in a cardiac cycle of the patient. An error determiner (44) determines an error between the target phase and the phase at which the projection data was actually acquired. Depending on the error, the patient is rescanned in a subsequent cardiac cycle.
US08130881B1
Systems, methods, and devices for MIMO communications with reduced compute complexity are disclosed. Spectrally whitened communications are received, magnitude distortion is removed and phase distortion is corrected. The magnitude distortion is removed separately from the correction of the phase distortion, thereby reducing the compute complexity.
US08130875B2
The present invention discloses a method for estimating a channel response of data subcarriers in a wireless communications network. The method comprises estimating a first plurality of channel responses of pilot subcarriers carrying pilot signals at the time instance using pilot signals, generating a pseudo time instance for pilot subcarriers according to a predetermined rule, approximating a second plurality of channel responses at the pseudo time instance using the first plurality of channel responses, computing a rate of change in the channel response using the first and second plurality of channel responses, calculating a third plurality of channel responses of pilot subcarriers carrying data at the time instance using the first plurality of channel responses and the rate of change in the channel response, estimating the channel response of the data subcarriers from the first and third plurality of channel responses using a predetermined conventional two-dimensional channel estimation algorithm.
US08130872B2
A system includes an input node, a frequency translatable impedance (FTI) filter, and a radio frequency (RF) downconverter module. The input receives an input signal having first and second components. The FTI filter filters the second components. The RF downconverter module receives the first components and downconverts the first components. Both the FTI filter and the RF downconverter module communicate with the input node.
US08130871B2
An integrated circuit includes a radio receiver for receiving a received radio signal having a plurality of channel signals, each of the plurality of channel signals being modulated at one of a corresponding plurality of carrier frequencies. The radio receiver converts a selected one of the plurality of channel signals into a demodulated signal. An interface clock generator generates a first interface clock at a first interface clock frequency that varies based on the selected one of the plurality of channel signals. The first interface clock frequency, and integer multiples of the first clock frequency are not substantially equal to the carrier frequency of the selected one of the plurality of channel signals. A driver module drives a device interface with a device based on the first interface clock.
US08130869B2
In the present invention, data generated from a source unit are distributed to at least one bandwidth; the data distributed to the respective bandwidths are encoded in order to perform an error correction; the encoded data are distributed to at least one antenna; a subcarrier is allocated to the data distributed to the respective antennas, and an inverse Fourier transform is performed; a short preamble and a first long preamble corresponding to the subcarrier are generated; a signal symbol is generated according to a data transmit mode; and a frame is generated by adding a second long preamble between the signal symbol and a data field for the purpose of estimating a channel of a subcarrier which is not used.
US08130861B2
A radio communication apparatus and an associated method are provided. The apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive first data and second data, which are transmitted from a plurality of antennas for spatial-multiplexing using a plurality of blocks, into which a plurality of consecutive subcarriers in a frequency domain are divided. The apparatus further includes a calculating unit configured to calculate a first absolute CQI value per each of the blocks for the first data and a second absolute CQI value per each of the blocks for the second data, and calculate a relative value of the second absolute CQI value with respect to the first absolute CQI value, per each of the blocks. The apparatus still further includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit the first absolute CQI value and the relative value of the second absolute CQI value in the same block.
US08130844B2
A synchronized playback apparatus for outputting a video and audio signal from superimposed video and audio data respectively that includes a video buffer for temporarily holding video data separated by the data separation unit, an audio buffer for temporarily holding audio data separated by the data separation unit, a video decoder for decoding video data temporarily held in the video buffer and outputting a video signal, an audio decoder for decoding audio data temporarily held in the audio buffer and outputting an audio signal, and a synchronization control unit for determining a timing for an audio signal to be outputted by the audio decoder according to an amount of video data accumulated in the video buffer and a bit rate for video data decoded by the video decoder.
US08130841B2
Single instances of individual codecs are instantiated on different processing elements, and blocks of video frames are interspersed or ‘striped’ across the multiple instances. An apparatus according to the invention comprises a demultiplexer for receiving the incoming uncompressed video stream and parsing it into blocks, each containing an integer multiple of the inter-frame coding distance, and each block is alternately sent to a different processing element for compression. This allows the output compressed signal to be generated in real-time without dropping frames.
US08130839B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an input unit which inputs moving picture signal, a processing load detecting unit which detects a processing load, a motion estimation unit which detects the inter-frame motion of blocks obtained by dividing an input picture constituting the input moving picture signal in a square region which is set according to the processing load detected at the processing load detecting unit and whose diagonal line is parallel to one side of the blocks, a motion compensation prediction unit which generates a prediction signal based on the result of the detection at the motion estimation unit, a conversion unit which converts a prediction residual error signal obtained from a residual error in the prediction signal and the input picture signal, and an output unit which encodes a conversion coefficient converted at the conversion unit, and outputs an encoded stream.
US08130824B2
The moving images under reproduction are displayed in a main screen and a plurality of thumbnail images that serve as indexes by which to search for a desired scene are displayed. Moreover, the thus displayed thumbnail images are updated at a predetermined timing according as the moving images progress.
US08130822B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining layers in a multi-layer bitstream.
US08130814B2
Orthogonal Code Division Multiplexing (OCDM) transceiver system with Complementary Code Keying (CCK) and method for baseband OCDM-CCK encoding and decoding are provided. The OCDM-CCK method comprises a serial-to-parallel data converter converting a stream of M*n-bit serial data to n-bit parallel data in ‘M’ parallel baseband paths, and encoding each n-bit data segment with a distinct complementary code using CCK modulation for spreading. The CCK encoded baseband signals are all summed and transmitted simultaneously on the same carrier frequency and spread spectral bandwidth. The OCDM-CCK method of encoding and transmission of information, results in enhanced datarates of 33 Mbps, 88 Mbps, 176 Mbps and higher multiples of 5.5 Mbps with backward compatibility for IEEE 802.11b WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network), and wireless communication networks supporting real time Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS).
US08130811B2
The disclosure details methods of measuring the quality of service of received media signals by analyzing digital watermarks embedded in such signals. The quality of a received video or audio signal can thereby be assessed without having the original version of the signal before transmission. Instead, the strength or quality of the embedded digital watermark is analyzed to determine the quality of the received signal. The degradation of a watermark signal is used to assess quality of service of signals, such as audio and video. Several other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US08130810B2
A laser apparatus comprises a laser having a lasing chamber an inlet to the lasing chamber for a lasing gas containing a heavy noble gas and an outlet from the lasing chamber for the discharge of a flow of lasing gas, wherein the outlet is able to be paced in communication with the atmospheric through an adsorptive trap containing a selective adsorbent of the heavy noble gas.In operation, the heavy noble gas (xenon or krypton) is adsorbed in the trap. The trap may be taken to a remote site for the recovery of the heavy noble gas when it is approaching saturation.
US08130784B2
A communication terminal used in a mobile communication system complying with a carrier sense multiple access scheme is disclosed. The communication terminal includes: a receiving unit configured to receive a wireless packet transmitted by another communication terminal or a base station; a determination unit configured to determine periodic transmission timing of the communication terminal based on determination criterion information included in the wireless packet; and a transmission unit configured to periodically transmit wireless packets to the base station based on the transmission timing.
US08130783B2
A method of joining a cell by using a proxy coordinator. The method of joining a cell by using a proxy coordinator includes requesting a second device to operate as a proxy coordinator from a first device positioned out of a beacon frame reachable area of the cell, transmitting a time period to operate as the proxy coordinator allocated by a coordinator of the cell, informing the first device that the second device can operate as the proxy coordinator, transmitting a cell join request to the proxy coordinator from the first device through the second device, and transmitting a beacon frame including time allocation information from the coordinator to the first device through the second device.
US08130780B2
A method and apparatus of signaling radio resource allocation in a wireless communication system includes transmitting at least one region boundary to a mobile station indicating a division of the time-frequency resources into at least two regions, determining a time-frequency resource assignment for the mobile station, transmitting an indication of the determined time-frequency resource to the mobile station in the same region as the determined time-frequency resource, and transmitting a packet to the mobile station using the physical time-frequency resources corresponding to the determined time-frequency resource.
US08130778B2
Systems and methods are provided for processing forward link only (FLO) signals. A device for receiving forward link only (FLO) wireless communications comprises a receiver for receiving a forward link only (FLO) signal, a demodulator for demodulating the FLO signal, a processor for processing the FLO signal according to a protocol stack; and a memory for storing the protocol stack. The protocol stack comprises an application layer, a control layer, a stream layer, a MAC layer, and a physical layer, the application layer interfaces with the control layer and stream layer, the control layer further interfaces with the MAC layer, the stream layer further interfaces with the MAC layer, and the MAC layer further interfaces with the physical layer.
US08130777B2
In a communication system comprising a link layer device connectable to one or more physical layer devices, the link layer device is configured using an efficient shared architecture for processing data associated with a plurality of links including at least one ingress link and at least one egress link. The link layer device comprises an ingress data clock processor configured to generate an ingress clock signal for processing data associated with said at least one ingress link, an egress data clock processor configured to generate an egress clock signal for processing data associated with said at least one egress link, and a control and configuration unit shared by the ingress data clock processor and the egress data clock processor. Another aspect of the invention relates to a buffer adaptive processor that in an illustrative embodiment limits clock variability in the presence of cell delay variation or cell loss.
US08130776B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing network based flow control is presented. A linear combination of packets to transmit from a transmit queue is determined. The linear combination of packets is transmitted across a network using a sliding window protocol. An acknowledgement (ACK) is generated, wherein a packet is acknowledged when a receiving node receives the linear combination of packets and determines which packet of the linear combination of packets has been newly seen.
US08130768B1
A network gateway is disclosed, wherein for a received communication, the gateway determines a network component to which information for the communication is routed based upon one or more of: (a) a characterization of the source of the communication, (b) a characterization of non-address data in the communication, and (c) services applied to the communication by the gateway. The characterization of the communication source can be related to a perceived risk that the communication may be illicitly compromised or may cause a malfunction in a network component. The characterization of non-address data identifies a use of the communication, or service to be applied to the communication prior to reaching its destination, or a security feature (or lack thereof) of the communication. The services applied by the gateway are generally generic services for facilitating appropriate non-malicious communications, e.g., such services can be for a firewall, secure communications (virtual private network), FTP communications, voice over IP, email, and general Internet communications.
US08130765B2
An apparatus and associated methodology for processing at least one data packet received by a receiving entity from a machine after transmission via at least one data transmission network. Identification data is obtained of a device involved in the transmission of said data packet. A decoding function associated with said device is identified using the identification data. The decoding function is an inverse function of an encoding function applied by the device to a packet before transmission. The received packet is decoded through the application of the decoding function.
US08130758B2
A method for low latency data comprises receiving a data stream comprising data from a data source, receiving the data via one or more queues, where each of the one or more queues is associated with one or more filters adapted to filter the data based at least upon a time predicate to create filtered data. Each of the one or more filters is established by one or more subscribers. The method also comprises receiving a portion of the filtered data that was filtered by a filter established by a particular one or more subscribers, and publishing the portion of the filtered data for the particular one or more subscribers.
US08130749B2
A computerized telephony bridge unit has a Data Network Telephony (DNT) Port and a Connection Oriented/Switched Telephony (COST) trunk port, each associated with circuitry for receiving a placing calls in the data format required by connected networks. The bridge unit further comprises conversion circuitry for converting data dynamically between network protocols compatible with each connected network. Control routines executable on the computerized bridge unit are adapted to receive a first call from one of the COST and DNT networks, to place a call associated with the received call on the network other than the network on which the call is received, and to dynamically convert data between a call connected at one port and a call connected at the other port. The data network can be the Internet, and the COST network can be any publicly or privately switched dedicated-connection-oriented telephone network. Association between calls between two otherwise incompatible networks can be by a locally-stored lookup table, by negotiation with a caller, or by retrieval of data from incoming calls. Methods for practicing the invention are taught in the disclosure.
US08130747B2
A peering relationship among two or more network appliances is established through an exchange of control messages among the network appliances. The peering relationship defines a cluster of peered network appliances, and at each network appliance of the cluster traffic flow state information for all the network appliances of the cluster is maintained. Network traffic associated with traffic flows of the network appliances of the cluster is managed according to the state information for the traffic flows. This managing of the network traffic may include forwarding among the network appliances of the cluster (i.e., to those of the appliances handling the respective flows) at least some of the network traffic associated with one or more of the traffic flows according to the state information for the one or more traffic flows. The traffic flows may be TCP connections or UDP flows.
US08130739B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for managing and allocating bandwidth in a communication medium. Some aspects relate to the determination of bit usage patterns for use in allocating bandwidth. Some aspects relate to the further determination of a derived usage pattern from the bit usage patterns and allocation of tone-slots within the derived usage pattern.
US08130738B2
Provided is a method for enabling a mobile device to subscribe and acquire services, including the steps of: detecting available services/connections or service/location tags which are selectable by the mobile device within the short-to-medium range from the mobile device; triggering the mobile device to connect to a corresponding service/connection provider and/or to issue related commands thereto based on the detected result; performing other actions required to be triggered to acquire services in the mobile device, so as to acquire services from the service/connection providers. The present invention also discloses an apparatus for enabling a mobile service to subscribe to and acquire services, and a mobile device capable of subscribing and acquiring services.
US08130733B2
A method of providing interoperability among communications network nodes. Interoperability types, including a basic type of interoperability, are defined. For each interoperability type, a support capability is defined for implementation on a node without modification to the node application layer. On each node is provided at least the basic interoperability type support capability. Each node can use the basic interoperability type support capability to obtain, on an ad-hoc basis, a support capability for another type of interoperability with another node. This method facilitates system-of-systems interoperability while lowering complexity and risk.
US08130725B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods for forwarding data packets towards a mobile node roaming in a foreign packet-switched data network are disclosed. The data packets having been addressed to a home address of the mobile node, the mobile node being provided with a care of address for use in the foreign network, the systems, apparatus, and methods comprise various features.
US08130719B2
An access node anchoring a connection to, e.g., a PDSN in a core network establishes a session with a mobile station and assigns the mobile station an identifier such as a UATI. The anchor node sends the UATI to the PDSN, such as in a GRE key where the data link is a GRE tunnel. If the anchor node fails and data addressed to the mobile station comes to the PDSN, it may initiate a page for the mobile using the UATI. The anchor node may additionally send the PDSN the session seed and optionally the mobile station's network location. A registration zone may be defined to include access nodes within a predetermined distance of the anchor node, and the mobile station forced to re-register when moving outside of the registration zone. In this case, the PDSN may initiate a page for the mobile station only within the registration zone.
US08130718B2
A method and system for interworking between cellular networks and wireless local area networks (WLANs) are disclosed. At least one cellular network, at least one WLAN and an IP network are deployed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) first establishes a connection to a WLAN and a tunnel between an access point (AP) and a packet data gateway (PDG) is established. The PDG further establishes a tunnel to an IP network. The WTRU then invokes a service which is delivered through the WLAN. As signal quality from the AP degrades below a predetermined threshold, a handover from the WLAN to the cellular network is performed. A new connection to the cellular network may be established either before or after breaking the current connection to the WLAN or the two connections may be maintained simultaneously.
US08130709B2
A method for transmitting control information for uplink data in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes defining a plurality of transmission data having different priorities, and determining whether there is a need for transmission of particular transmission data, for which a minimum data rate should be guaranteed, among the plurality of transmission data, and when there is a need for transmission of the particular transmission data, transmitting control information indicating a highest priority among priorities of the plurality of transmission data, along with the particular transmission data.
US08130699B2
Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.
US08130695B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating operation of a radio communication system that provides for multi rate data communications, such as a CDMA 2000 system that provides for 1xEV-DV communication services. A supplemental pilot, or control, signal generator embodied at a mobile station generates a supplemental pilot, or control, signal that is sent on a newly defined supplemental pilot, or control, channel. As the data rates of data communicated upon a reverse supplemental channel changes, corresponding changes are made to the power level of the reverse supplemental pilot, or control, signal.
US08130691B2
A relay apparatus (110) includes a communication I/F (113) that receives an IP packet from a source terminal (120A) via a communication network (101), a broadcast wave interface (114) that transmits the IP packet received via the communication network I/F (113) to a destination terminal (120B) by a digital broadcast wave, and a receiving and transmitting unit (111) that transmits the IP packet that is received by the communication I/F (113) and transmitted by the transmitting communication terminal (120A) to the destination terminal (120B) via the broadcast wave I/F (114).
US08130687B2
A system for providing a service is provided. The system includes a central control to promote a plurality of cells to use a first counting method to determine whether user equipment within the plurality of cells are interested in the service. Based on responses from at least one of the cells having interested user equipment, the central control promotes the at least one of the cells to either provide the service via point-to-multipoint broadcast, or use a second counting method to determine whether to provide the service via point-to-multipoint broadcast or point-to-point communication.
US08130685B2
There is provided a mobile communication system that can prevent a situation in which, although there is no occasion to receive packets for a mobile station, the reception processing is continued and useless power is undesirably consumed. The mobile communication system includes a base station that repeats a transmission period and a transmission halt period with a constant control cycle, and mobile station that repeats a reception period and a reception halt period with a constant control cycle (antenna, duplexer, reception unit, user data separation unit, packet transmission determination unit, reception period determination unit, packet reception determination unit, and signal synthesis unit). The mobile station alternately repeats the reception period and reception halt period, sends the reception result to the base station, and starts the reception period according to the start of the transmission period of the base station to receive packets. In case all the packets cannot be correctly received during the reception period, the reception period is extended by a predetermined period in the control cycle. Furthermore, in case all the packets can be correctly received during the reception period, the mobile station transfers to the reception halt period to halt the reception.
US08130676B2
A method for managing communication in a peer-to-peer network in which overlay information is updated on-demand such that neighboring node information is updated at least periodically and other overlay information is updated on-demand (from standard communications). For example, in one aspect, the network includes a plurality of nodes, and the method includes sending a leaving message from a leaving node to the predecessor and successor nodes of the leaving node, the leaving message including information relating to the leaving node, updating each of the predecessor and successor nodes exclusive of any other nodes of the plurality of nodes.
US08130675B2
In an example embodiment, a method of service discovery and correlation is provided. In example embodiments, a network management system discovers, categorizes, and stores data on network elements (e.g., devices, provisioning, relationships, protocols, and topology) in a carrier network. Using a unique set of rules, relational groupings based on the discovered network elements may be created. The relational groupings, in turn, facilitate creation of a centralized carrier service view. By correlating the results of the discovery process with the centralized carrier service view, fault management, availability of service, and other observations of services can be deduced.
US08130673B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for using predefined network addresses in wireless sensor networks. In one exemplary embodiment, a system comprises a first node and a plurality of nodes defining a wireless sensor network. The wireless sensor network is configured to allow nodes to dynamically join, and each of the plurality of nodes has a respective network address for the wireless sensor network. The first node has a predefined network address that identifies the first node in the wireless sensor network, and the predefined network address is known to the first node prior to the first node joining the wireless sensor network such that the first node is able to immediately communicate via the wireless sensor network using the predefined network address upon joining the wireless sensor network.
US08130670B2
A mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver that receives a first inbound RF signal and that transmits a first outbound RF signal based on a first power supply signal. A second wireless transceiver receives a second inbound RF signal and that transmits a second outbound RF signal based on a second power supply signal. A processing module generates at least one power mode signal based on first transmit power control data received via the first inbound RF signal. A power management circuit adjusts a first power consumption parameter of the first power supply signal and a second power consumption parameter of the second power supply signal based on the at least one power mode signal.
US08130669B2
A sensor network has a plurality of wireless sensors which transmit to an intermediate receiving device which relays data to a central server. A method is provided for receiving data packets at the intermediate receiving device from a plurality of the transmitting devices. Data packets are sensed on a communication medium at the receiving device and the total traffic intensity of data packets from the transmitting devices is estimated. A detection threshold for data packets is provided and adapted as a function of the total intensity. The receiving device receives data packets with a signal strength above the current detection threshold.
US08130657B2
A system computes link costs for a multi-hop wireless network. During operation, the system receives topological information for the multi-hop wireless network which includes a set of nodes, a set of links, and a success probability for a respective link. The system then obtains an average media access time for the multi-hop wireless network. The system also obtains a retransmission time for a respective node in the set of nodes. Next, the system computes a link metric value for a respective link based on the corresponding link success probability, the average media access time, and the corresponding retransmission time. The system then produces a link cost for the link based on the associated link metric value.
US08130653B2
Network circuitry and a method of operating the same in establishing and deleting a service flow in a wireless network. A network station receives a request, from an initiating network station, to establish a service flow. The network station receiving the request issues a response to that request, following which it expects an acknowledgement from the initiator. Upon absence of such an acknowledgement, the receiving station transmits a message, to the initiator, to explicitly delete the service flow. This ensures that the initiator is not placed into an ambiguous state of transmitting payload traffic to a receiver that is ignoring or not receiving that traffic, in the case in which the initiator is also the transmitter of the payload traffic. This circuitry and method also ensures that the initiator is not in an ambiguous state, in the case in which it is the intended receiver of the payload traffic.
US08130651B2
A system and method for providing a hybrid fiber network (HFN) means to identify a fiber node by a unique address. An addressing module is installed in proximity to, or collocated with, a fiber node. The addressing module comprises an addressing module identifier that associates the addressing module with a particular fiber node. Network parameter values are received from the fiber node by the addressing module and reported to a reporting station.
US08130640B2
A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.
US08130638B2
The present invention elects an area border router from a plurality of potential area border routers by determining a full set of all areas attached to a router. A determination is made as to a full set of area pairs from the determined full set of areas. Routers are identified in a first area of the determined full set of areas that are reachable through an intra-area route in the first area, and routers are identified in a second area of the determined full set of areas that are reachable through an intra-area route in the second area. If there is a router that is unreachable through either an intra-area route in the first area or an intra-area route in the second area, then declare the first router to be an area border router, else new first and second areas are selected.
US08130636B2
A communication control system is provided that performs communications satisfying a request for industrial applications and a request for open protocol communications at the same time. To this end, in the invention, a high-priority communication section performing critical communications to provide real time property and reliability, and a low-priority communication section performing communications based on an open standard protocol coexist in a same communication station.
US08130634B2
A provider device determines that a failure has occurred in a link or path and notifies a customer device of the failure. The notifying causes the customer device to become aware of the failure in less than one second.
US08130631B2
Embodiments are directed to first and second OFDM pilot symbols. The first and second pilot symbols may have first and second sets, respectively, of allowed, forbidden, and active carrier frequencies. The second sets of carrier frequencies may be formed by frequency shifting the respective first sets by a predetermined frequency, such as the frequency difference between adjacent carriers. An embodiment is directed to frequency translating part of a first received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a first direction, frequency translating part of a second received pilot symbol by one carrier interval in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction, and forming a correlation by multiplying the frequency translated parts of the first and second pilot symbols by complex conjugates of parts of the pilot symbols upon which frequency translation has not been performed, and summing the multiplication results.
US08130613B2
The present invention makes it possible to reproduce reproduction images without a break without having to use any additional identification information even when real-time recorded data is not completely continuous. A control circuit references a data identification flag (“Recording Type”) which is attached to each sector of reproduction data to indicate the type of recorded data, and counts the number of sectors to which the data identification flag representing real-time recorded data is attached. When the count is not smaller than a threshold value, the control circuit reproduces all the sectors of the target reproduction block in a real-time reproduction mode. In the real-time reproduction mode, the control circuit masks a portion of reproduction data that is found to be defective, changes the value of the defective data to 0 (zero), and transfers the resulting reproduction data to a host device.
US08130612B2
A recording apparatus which records information on a write once recording medium sequentially including a user data area, a first management information area, an indicator area and a second management information area on a recording layer thereof. The recording apparatus includes an optical head; and a control section for instructing the optical head to record information. The control section instructs to record management information in the first management information area; instructs to record indicator information indicating whether or not the management information has been recorded, in the indicator area; and instructs to record the same management information as recorded in the first management information area, in the second management information area.
US08130609B1
A system and method of laser bias control in optical recording media applications are disclosed. In some implementations, bias control for output power may be based upon a detected ratio of erase power to write (or peak) power, i.e., the Pe/Pw (or Epsilon, ε) ratio.
US08130601B2
This optical disk device includes a pickup, an offsetting means, a focus servo means, a layer jump means, and a shift means. The pickup irradiates laser light upon an optical disk having a plurality of recording layers via a correction lens and an objective lens, and detects light reflected back from the optical disk. The offsetting means generates a focus error (FE) signal on the basis of the reflected light, and applies an offset voltage to the focus error signal. The focus servo means performs focusing servo on the basis of the FE signal. And, before layer jumping is executed by the layer jump means, the focus servo means displaces the correction lens to an intermediate position after having adjusted the offset voltage to a balance value. Then the layer jump means performs layer jumping.
US08130593B2
A pressure wave generator (1) includes a thermally conductive substrate (2), a heat insulating layer (3) formed on one main surface of the substrate (2), an insulator layer (5) formed on the heat insulating layer (3), and a heat generator (4) formed on the insulator layer (5) to generate heat when a current containing an alternating component is applied thereto. The heat insulating layer (3) is formed containing at least one of silicon nitride (Si3N4), silicon dioxide (SiO2), aluminum oxide (Al2O3), magnesium oxide (MgO), diamond crystalline carbon (C), aluminum nitride (AlN), and silicon carbide (SiC). The heat generator (4) is formed containing, for example, gold (Au) or tungsten (W).
US08130588B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array arranged in rows and columns, a row decoder and a control circuit. The row decoder drives word lines connected to the memory cell array by decoding a received row address and being synchronized with an internal clock signal. The control circuit receives a clock signal, a chip select signal and a mode signal, and generates the internal clock signal. The control circuit generates the internal clock signal so that the row decoder does not operate for a predetermined time in response to the chip select signal when the mode signal transitions from a power saving mode to a normal mode.
US08130582B2
A unit operator cell includes a plurality of SOI (Silicon on Insulator) transistors, write data is stored in a body region of at least two SOI transistors, and the storage SOI transistors are connected in series with each other to a read port or each of the storage SOI transistors is singly connected to the read port. Therefore, an AND operation result or a NOT operation result of data stored in the unit operator cells can be obtained, and operation processing can be performed only by writing and reading data. A semiconductor signal processing device that can perform logic operation processing and arithmetic operation processing at high speed is implemented with low power consumption and a small occupation area.
US08130577B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a sub memory cell array region having memory cells each connected between word lines extending in a first direction and bit lines extending in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction of extension of the word lines and a sub word line driver region disposed at a side of the sub memory cell array region in the first direction and including sub word line drivers that activate the word lines. A sensing region is disposed at a side of the sub memory cell array region in the second direction and including an equalizer that precharges the bit line in response to a signal transferred through a drive signal line and at least one first control signal driver that activates an inverted control signal line in response to a signal transferred through a control signal line. A conjunction region disposed at an intersection between the sub word line driver region and the sensing region, in which the inverted control signal line is connected to the drive signal line.
US08130571B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has a central processing unit and a rewritable nonvolatile memory area disposed In an address space of the central processing unit. The nonvolatile memory area has a first nonvolatile memory area and a second nonvolatile memory area, which memorize information depending on the difference of threshold voltages. The first nonvolatile memory area has the maximum variation width of a threshold voltage for memorizing information set larger than that of the second nonvolatile memory area. When the maximum variation width of the threshold voltage for memorizing information is larger, since stress to a memory cell owing to a rewrite operation of memory information becomes larger, it is inferior In a point of guaranteeing the number of times of rewrite operation; however, since a read current becomes larger, a read speed of memory information can be expedited. The first nonvolatile memory area can be prioritized to expedite a read speed of the memory information and the second nonvolatile memory area can be prioritized to guarantee the number of times of rewrite operation of memory information more.
US08130564B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided that is capable of reading out mode register information stored in a register adapted for LPDDR2 (Low Power DDR2), through DQ pads. The semiconductor memory device includes a mode register control unit configured to receive address signals, a mode register write signal and a mode register read signal and generate a flag signal and at least one output information signal, and a global I/O line latch unit for transferring the output information signal to a global I/O line in response to the flag signal.
US08130563B2
A memory error signal detecting system including a signal extracting circuit, a flip-flop, a latch circuit, and a light sign is provided. The signal extracting circuit receives a memory error signal to output a pulse signal when the memory error signal switches from a first level to a second level. When the preset end of the flip-flop receives the pulse signal, and the maintaining time of the pulse signal is maintained for a predetermine time, the flip-flop output end is set to a high voltage level. The latch circuit determines whether to output the state of the flip-flop output according to the reset signal. The light sign operates according to the state of an output end of the latch circuit. Furthermore, a computer apparatus including the memory error signal detecting system is also provided.
US08130557B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory which includes a first original block composed of n (n being natural number) write unit areas and a first subblock composed of a plurality of write unit areas. A controller writes data having one of first to p-th (p being natural number smaller than n) addresses into the first original block. The controller writes data which has a first write address of one of the first to p-th addresses into the first subblock when the controller receives request to write data having the first write address and data having the first write address exists in the first original block.
US08130550B1
A non-volatile memory comprising a NOR block with a first sub-block independently addressable from a second sub-block, the two sub-blocks sharing a physical substrate of the NOR block, and a first memory to store execution status information to reflect an erase status of the first sub-block. A method to selectively erase the first sub-block while inhibiting the second sub-block from erasing, comprising updating execution status information associated with the first sub-block and resuming erasing upon an occurrence of an interruption event depending on the indication of the execution status information.
US08130538B2
A memory circuit including a voltage divider with a first phase change memory (PCM) device and a second PCM device coupled to the first PCM device is described. In one embodiment, the first PCM device is in a set resistance state and the second PCM device is in a reset resistance state. Also, in one embodiment, the voltage divider further includes a first switch coupled to the first PCM device and a second switch coupled to the first switch and the second PCM device. In one embodiment, the memory circuit further includes a half latch coupled to the voltage divider and a cascade transistor coupled to the half latch and the voltage divider.
US08130536B2
Using a shorter read pulse width may increase read window in some embodiments. This may allow the use of higher voltages with less likelihood of a read disturb where a bit unintentionally changes phase.
US08130535B2
A method for generating a variable pulse width signal on an integrated circuit (IC) chip, includes receiving a first clock signal on the IC chip and receiving a second clock signal on the IC chip having a variable delay relative to the first clock signal. A signal having a rising edge triggered by a rising edge of the first clock signal and a falling edge triggered by a rising edge of the second clock signal is output. The output signal is provided to circuitry on the chip, such as a magnetoresistive junction (MTJ) cell of a spin torque transfer magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM).
US08130534B2
A system and method to read and write data in magnetic random access memories are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a device includes a spin transfer torque magnetic tunnel junction (STT-MTJ) element and a transistor with a first gate and a second gate coupled to the STT-MTJ element.
US08130533B2
A system, device and method for electrically addressing an element include providing a thermoelectric layer in proximity with an area to be addressed and positioning a probe in proximity of the thermoelectric layer. Electrical activity is induced in the thermoelectric layer by applying heat from the probe. A response is caused in the area to be addressed.
US08130525B2
A method for producing a configurable content-addressable memory (CAM) cell design, in which the method includes: inputting the configurable CAM cell design to a computer, the configurable CAM cell design capable of being configured as one of a binary CAM design and a ternary CAM design, depending on connections of a metal overlay; selecting one of a first metal overlay design for the binary CAM design and a second metal overlay design for a ternary CAM design; if the first metal overlay design is selected, then combining the first metal overlay design with the configurable CAM cell design to produce a binary CAM design including two binary CAM cells with a single search port, and outputting the binary CAM design; and if the second metal overlay design is selected, then combining the second metal overly design with the configurable CAM cell design to produce a ternary CAM design including a single ternary CAM cell with two search ports, and outputting the ternary CAM design by the computer.
US08130514B2
A mounting structure includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a first terminal being formed on the first substrate and having a plurality of terminal portions arranged with a gap therebetween; a different terminal being formed on the first substrate and being adjacent to the first terminal; and a second terminal being formed on the second substrate and being electrically connected to at least one of the terminal portions of the first terminal. Here, the first terminal is supplied with a potential higher than that supplied to the different terminal.
US08130513B2
A radio-frequency package includes a radio-frequency device, a multilayer dielectric substrate, and an electromagnetic shield member. The multilayer dielectric substrate includes an internal conductor pad, a first signal via-hole connected to the internal conductor pad, an external conductor pad, a second signal via-hole connected to the external conductor pad, and an inner-layer signal line that connects between the first signal via-hole and the second signal via-hole. The internal conductor pad includes a leading-end open line having a length of substantially a quarter of a wavelength of a radio-frequency signal used in the radio-frequency device.
US08130505B2
This invention patent is a utility type of car fan controller. The controller has a housing and inside the housing is a circuit. The housing has a top cover forming a cavity and flat bottom plate. The circuit has a circuit board and an adjustment device with other electronic components. The circuit board has a socket connector and a wire harness connector. The top cover has socket connector aligned with socket connector opening. The top cover also has a wire harness connector aligned to wire harness connector socket. The modular practical new type of invention design facilitates faster assembly and more convenient flexible use.
US08130503B2
A mounting structure comprises at least one semiconductor device having solder bumps on a lower surface thereof as outer terminals and a flexible wiring board with wiring formed thereon. The semiconductor device is wrapped in a flexible wiring board; the mounting structure is provided with outer electrodes on both of a side on which the outer terminals of the semiconductor device are formed and an opposite side thereto; at least one wiring layer is formed on the flexible wiring board; and a supporting member is affixed between a lower surface of the semiconductor device on which the outer terminals are formed and the flexible wiring board.
US08130484B2
A monolithic ceramic electronic component includes a first internal electrode including a first region which extends to a first end surface and which has a relatively large dimension in a width direction and a second region which is located at the side closer to a front end than is the first region and which has a relatively small dimension in a width direction, wherein d1>c1+ng (n represents a constant determined in accordance with the size of the monolithic ceramic electronic component) is satisfied, where the distance from a first end point which is closest in the first region to the first side surface and which is closest to the second end surface to the second end surface is d1, the distance between first and second wraparound portions and is g, and the distance between a front end of the second wraparound portion and the second end surface is c1 while a first side surface defines a mounting surface.
US08130475B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a DFL type thin film magnetic head. The method includes laminating each of the layers from the lower magnetization control layer to the upper exchange coupling layer above the substrate; laminating an auxiliary magnetization control layer including at least a CoZrTa layer above the upper exchange coupling layer; forming at least each of the layers from the lower exchange coupling layer to the auxiliary magnetization control layer in pillar shape, and disposing the bias magnetic field application layer at an opposite position with respect to the ABS of each of the pillar shaped layers; trimming the auxiliary magnetization control layer by removing a part of the auxiliary magnetization control layer that is formed in the pillar shape, and disposing the upper shield layer such that the trimmed auxiliary magnetization control layer is at least covered.
US08130470B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a suspension assembly having a dielectric limiter. According to one embodiment, the suspension assembly includes a load beam and a flexure assembly. The flexure assembly includes a metal layer where there are formed a fixing portion fixed to the load beam, main rings, and extending from the fixing portion, sub-rings, and a flexure tongue having moving-side limiter coupling portions defined thereon. Fixing-side limiter coupling portions are defined at the main rings. Dielectric limiters each have a gross length larger than a between-coupling-portions distance between a fixing-side limiter coupling portion and a moving-side limiter coupling portion, and couple the fixing-side limiter coupling portion to the moving-side limiter coupling portion.
US08130464B2
A method for compensating for tape deformation in a tape drive includes determining location of deformation on a tape; processing the tape in a first manner before and after the deformation; and processing the tape proximate the deformation in a second manner different than the first manner. The step of processing the tape in the first manner comprises recording data on the tape.
US08130461B2
A recording system controller according to one embodiment includes a controller capable of selecting a level of a current or voltage applied to a first writer during the creation of a magnetic transition based on a current in at least one nearby writer. A recording system controller according to another embodiment includes a controller capable of selecting a timing of a current change applied to a first writer based on a current in at least one nearby writer for compensating for an effect of crosstalk from the at least one nearby writer. A method according to yet another embodiment includes selecting a level of a current or voltage applied to a first writer or selecting a timing of a current change applied to the first writer based on a current in at least one nearby writer for compensating for an effect of crosstalk from the at least one nearby writer.
US08130453B2
Provided is a zoom lens system including a compact focusing lens unit and having a suppressed change in image magnification at the time of movement of the focusing lens unit. The zoom lens system of the present invention, in order from an object side to an image side, includes a first lens unit G1 having positive optical power, a second lens unit G2 having negative optical power, a third lens unit G3 having negative optical power, and a fourth lens unit G4 having positive optical power. At the time of zooming, all lens units moves in a direction along the optical axis such that intervals among respective lens units varies. Further, at the time of zooming, the third lens unit G3 moves in the direction along the optical axis such that the interval between the second lens unit G2 and the third lens unit G3 is made longer at a telephoto limit than the interval at a wide-angle limit. Still further, condition (6): −1.6
US08130450B2
A liquid lens system comprises a liquid drop 10 whose shape can be influenced by electrical fields. A plurality of electrodes are arranged annularly around the liquid drop. The liquid lens system may be employed in an artificial eye, an accommodation measuring instrument and a dioptric telescope.
US08130444B2
A telescope imaging system includes a first lens group for receiving a spot light and generating a first refracted beam, a second lens group for receiving the first refracted beam and generating a second refracted beam, a third lens group having a convex lens disposed at a side of the third lens group distant from the spot light for receiving the second refracted beam and generating a parallel beam by an effective focus formed by the first lens group, the second lens group and the third lens group, a first reflective mirror having an opening, receiving the parallel beam and generating a reflected beam, and a second reflective mirror adjacent to the third group lens and reflecting the reflected beam for allowing the reflected beam passing through the opening and focused as an image.
US08130441B2
An electrophoretic light modulator includes a plurality of similarly charged particles comprising a first optical characteristic. The electrophoretic light modulator also includes at least one reflecting surface comprising a second optical characteristic different that the first optical characteristic. The electrophoretic light modulator further includes a pair of electrodes that create an electric field that causes the plurality of charged particles to obscure or expose the reflecting surface based on the polarity of the electric field.
US08130436B2
Implementations of actuators that use flexures to provide support to the actuators and pivoting mechanisms to the actuators. Such actuators can be electromagnetically activated actuators that include a magnet stator and a coil rotor mounted on a flexure.
US08130435B2
An optical scanner is disclosed that has an optical source unit that emits a laser beam; a vibration mirror by which the laser beam from the optical source unit is deflected to scan; a driving circuit that vibrates the vibration mirror based on a driving signal generated from a reference clock; a light-receiving element that receives the laser beam within the scanning area of the laser beam; and a controlling unit that corrects the driving signal so as to make a phase deviation between the reference phase clock and the output signal of the light-receiving element constant.
US08130424B2
An aspect of the invention provides an image scanner which can continuously transfer image data of one surface to an external device (image forming apparatus) without performing control such as interruption and resumption of an original scanning operation. The image scanner includes a size detection unit which detects an original size and a determination unit which determines whether or not the image data relating to an original of the size detected by the size detection unit can be stored in a storage unit. The image scanner also includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to set operation in a first mode when the determination unit determines that image data relating to the original can be stored in the storage unit, and the control unit is configured to set operation in a second mode when the determination unit determines that image data relating to the original cannot be stored in the storage unit.
US08130423B2
An image scanning device for scanning an image on a document comprises a document table on which a document to be scanned is placed, a scanning unit which is installed in the document table for scanning an image on a document by projecting light from a light source onto the document in a time-sharing manner and detecting reflected light from the document, a moving unit which moves at least one of the document and the scanning unit to let them move relatively with each other, and a document type judgment unit which judges the type of the document in regard to transmission of light through the document based on a non-lighting period image signal which is outputted by the scanning unit by scanning the document for one line in a main scanning direction in a non-lighting period of the light source.
US08130422B2
An image processing device is provided which comprises an input unit and an analog front end circuit with DC inputs. According to the invention, no capacitor is installed in the input unit and no clamper is installed in the AFE circuit with DC inputs. By appropriately selecting a comparing voltage and adding a level shifter or a compensation circuit, the invention can still generate an accurate digital signal.
US08130421B2
An image reading apparatus for reading a document by causing an image sensor having a plurality of light receiving pixels to scan the document including an encoder configured to output pulses according to rotation of a motor, a generating unit configured to generate a read synchronizing signal for the image sensor based on the pulses, an obtaining unit configured to obtain first shading data corresponding to at least two data accumulation time points from the image sensor, and a storage unit configured to store the first shading data, wherein a function is generated with second shading data corresponding to a read data accumulation time point and is corrected on the basis of the first shading data.
US08130419B2
Techniques for creating an identity document are provided. The techniques include obtaining two or more identity-linked images, deriving one or more at least partially transparent regions from one of the two or more identity-linked images, combining the two or more identity-linked images to create a combined image, and embedding authentication data into the combined image, inside the one or more at least partially transparent regions, to create an identity document.
US08130411B2
Stored reference patch data are outputted, and a gray level of the reference patches obtained by scanning the outputted reference patches is compared with a reference level, such that a conversion table for storing gray level setting information is modified according to the comparison result. A driving condition of a light source for the light exposure is set by a user interface to newly set a print density of an image forming apparatus. Moreover, prior to the user setting, test printing is performed and the print density can be set according to a result of the test printing.
US08130407B2
When changing a size of a QR code, rather increasing or decreasing a size of cells to thereby scaling up or down an entirety of the QR code respectively, than a size of the entirely of the QR code is increased or decreased by upgrading or downgrading a version of the QR code respectively.
US08130391B2
A system for printing documents 100 having a position identifying pattern 108 on them comprises a memory 403 arranged to have a document definition 410 stored therein which defines a document having at least one pattern area 107 and a printing control system 400, 408, 306, 307, 309 arranged to print a document instance from the definition by allocating an identity to the document instance, associating an area 700, 718, 720, 721, 722 of pattern space with the document instance, and printing the document instance, wherein the printing control system is arranged to move the boundaries of the defined pattern area before printing the document instance.
US08130388B2
There is disclosed a method executed in a printing apparatus operable to read out data from a recording medium and to execute printing based on the read-out data with respect to a printing medium. A first mode for selecting a type of the printing is effected. A prescribed command is received after the first mode is effected. A second mode for adjusting a printing position relative to the printing medium is effected when the prescribed command is received. The printing position is adjusted when the second mode is effected. The first mode is effected when the adjusting of the printing position is finished, with a condition that is effected when the prescribed command is received.
US08130386B1
This invention provides a position measuring method for measuring a surface level of melt in a crucible arranged in the inside of a Czochralski furnace based on a principle of triangulation, in which a light source and a photo detector are provided; light emitted from the light source is applied to the surface of the melt; and the light reflected by the surface of the melt is received by the photo detector, the method comprising: providing a member in the vicinity of the surface of the melt; and causing the emitted light to be reflected by the member, applying the reflected light to the surface of the melt, and causing the light reflected by the surface of the melt to be received by the photo detector.
US08130384B2
The invention is related to an apparatus for the representation of a geometrical figure on the surface of a patient's body that is situated on a support, comprising at least one projection device, by which a given geometrical figure can be projected onto the three-dimensional surface of the patient's body, at least one control device and at least one optical sensor device, by which the geometrical figure projected onto the surface of the patient's body can be acquired and the acquired data can be supplied to the control device, wherein the control device is realized to determine the three-dimensional coordinates of the geometrical figure projected onto the patient's body from the data acquired by the sensor device, and wherein the control device is realized to compare the determined three-dimensional coordinates of the geometrical figure projected onto the patient's body with desired three-dimensional coordinates.
US08130378B2
A phase retardance inspection instrument, comprising: a light source module for generating a single-wavelength light beam; a circularly polarized light generating module, comprising a polarizer and a first phase retarder, for receiving the single-wavelength light beam as it is guided to pass through the polarizer and the first phase retarder in order; and a detecting module, comprising a second phase retarder, a polarizing beam splitter, a first image sensor and a second image sensor, for receiving and guiding a circularly polarized light beam to travel through the second phase retarder and the polarizing beam splitter in order after it passes through a substrate under inspection, wherein the polarizing beam splitter splits an elliptically polarized light beam into intensity vector components of a left-hand circularly polarized light beam and a right-hand circularly polarized light beam, which are to be emitted into the first image sensor and the second image sensor, respectively.
US08130377B2
In one embodiment, the invention is a spectrophotometer with a modular 45/0 head. One embodiment of an apparatus for measuring a reflectance of a sample includes a plurality of light emitting diodes for emitting light, a reflective housing positioned above the plurality of light emitting diodes, where the reflective housing is a dome having a plurality of apertures formed around its perimeter, a sample channel for capturing a first portion of the light, where the first portion of the light interacts with the sample, and a reference channel for capturing a second portion of the light, where the second portion of the light is independent of the sample.
US08130375B1
A small internal volume cell having fluid entry, and exit ports wherein at least one bubble trap is present in a fluid pathway which is continuous with the fluid exit port. There further being present an input/output aperture, for entering and exiting electromagnetic radiation, positioned to allow causing an input beam of electromagnetic radiation to impinge on a sample substrate at a location thereon at which, during use, fluid contacts; and a mirror for directing electromagnetic radiation which reflects from said sample substrate, toward and out of said input/output aperture; as well as methodology of its use.
US08130366B2
A method for alignment of a substrate, in which the substrate includes a mark in a scribe lane, and the scribe lane extends along a longitudinal direction as a first direction. The mark has a periodic structure in the first direction. The method includes providing an illumination beam for scanning the mark in a direction perpendicular to a direction of the mark's periodic structure along a first scan path across the mark, scanning the spot of the illumination beam along a second scan path across the mark, the second scan path being parallel to the first scan path, wherein the second scan path is shifted relative to the first scan path over a first shift that corresponds to a fraction of the repeating distance of the periodic structure.
US08130365B2
An immersion flow field maintenance system for an immersion lithography machine. The machine includes a projection objective lens, a wafer stage for supporting the wafer, and an immersion supplying system distributed around the lens for producing an immersion flow field under the lens. The system includes a horizontal guideway, a flat board connected with the horizontal guideway through a cantilever, and drivers for moving the board. When the wafer is unloading and the wafer stage is moving out of the exposure area under the lens, the board connects to and moves synchronously with the wafer stage to transfer the flow field from above the wafer stage to above the board. When the wafer is loaded and the wafer stage is moving into the exposure area, the board connects to and moves synchronously with the wafer stage to transfer the flow field from above the board to above the wafer stage.
US08130361B2
An exposure apparatus includes a substrate stage movable while holding a substrate, a substrate alignment system which detects an alignment mark (1) on the substrate held by the substrate stage and detects a reference mark (PFM) provided on the substrate stage, and a mask alignment system which detects, via a projection optical system, a reference mark (MFM) provided on the substrate stage. The reference mark (PFM) on the substrate stage is detected without a liquid by using the substrate alignment system, and the reference mark (MFM) on the substrate stage is detected using the mask alignment system via the projection optical system and the liquid. Then, a positional relationship between a detection reference position of the substrate alignment system and a projection position of an image of a pattern is obtained, thereby accurately performing alignment processing in the liquid immersion exposure.
US08130357B2
A TFT array panel includes a substrate, a first gate line and a second gate line disposed on the substrate, a storage electrode line disposed on the substrate, a first data line intersecting the first and second gate lines, a second data line intersecting the first and second gate lines and spaced apart from the first data line, a drain electrode facing a part of the first data line and the second data line, an organic insulating layer disposed on the first data line and the second data line, the organic insulating layer having a contact hole exposing the drain electrode, a pixel electrode disposed on the organic insulating layer, the pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode, and a storage electrode making a storage conductor with the pixel electrode, wherein the pixel electrode comprises a first part overlapping the first data line, and a second part overlapping the second data line, and wherein the width of the first part is different from that of the second part.
US08130343B2
The main object of the present invention is to provide a color filter for a transflective type color liquid crystal display which is easily produced and capable of displaying the same color tone with both of a reflecting light and a transmitting light, and shows light scattering in a reflective light region. In order to attain the above mentioned object, the present invention provides a color filter for transflective type color liquid crystal display comprising a transparent substrate and a reflective light coloring layer and a transmissive light coloring layer formed on the transparent substrate, wherein, a convex-concave is formed on a surface of a liquid crystal layer side of the reflective light coloring layer, and an average thickness of the reflective light coloring layer is formed to be thinner than the thickness of the transmissive light coloring layer, and a refractive index difference between the reflective light coloring layer and a layer in contact with the surface of the convex-concave formed side of the reflective light coloring layer, is 0.1 or more. Further, a main object of the present invention is to provide a color filter for transflective type liquid crystal display comprising a transparent membrane pattern region obtained by laminating: a transparent substrate; a transparent membrane pattern layer comprising a transparent membrane formed in a pattern on the transparent substrate; and a coloring layer formed so as to cover the transparent membrane pattern layer.
US08130333B2
An electric optical device includes a transistor that includes a semiconductor layer having a source region connected to a data line, a drain region connected to a pixel electrode, and a channel region, and a gate electrode, a first light blocking film that is formed to be wider than the gate electrode and that is connected to the gate electrode via a first contact hole which is opened in a first insulating film disposed on the gate electrode, and a second light blocking film that is provided between the semiconductor layer and a substrate and is connected to the first light blocking film via a second contact hole which is opened to penetrate the first insulating film, a gate insulating film, and a second insulating film.
US08130326B2
A television broadcast signal receiving system including an antenna apparatus including a first antenna which can receive a broadcast signal in a first frequency band and a second antenna which can receive a broadcast signal in a second frequency band and a television broadcast signal receiving apparatus including a selection unit for selecting the first antenna or the second antenna according to a frequency of a broadcast signal which is to be received, a detecting unit for detecting a receiving level of a received signal which is received by the first antenna or the second antenna, a channel setting unit for setting a channel of the broadcast signal in which the receiving level detected by the detecting unit is not less than a predetermined value as a receivable channel, and a control unit for controlling each operation of the selection unit, the detecting unit, and the channel setting unit.
US08130324B2
An AGC circuit is provided which includes a first AGC detector circuit that switches whether the AGC voltage is output or not, a second AGC detector circuit that always outputs the AGC voltage, a first resistor with a high impedance compared to a tuned frequency of which one end is connected to an output port of the first AGC detector circuit and the other end is connected to an output port of the second AGC detector circuit, and a switching element that is provided between the other end of the first resistor and a ground, in which an output source that outputs the AGC voltage to the amplifier can be switched to the first AGC detector circuit or the second AGC detector circuit by an On/Off operation of the switching element.
US08130314B2
A solid-state image capturing apparatus includes: an insulation substrate including an external lead terminal; a solid-state image capturing element fixed on the insulation substrate and including a microlens; and a transparent glass member positioned above the insulation substrate for sealing the solid-state image capturing element fixed on the insulation substrate, and an electrode of the solid-state image capturing element and the external lead terminal of the insulation substrate being connected by a wire, wherein the transparent glass member is positioned in such a manner that a hollow space is formed between a microlens of the solid-state image capturing element and the transparent glass member, and wherein portions of the insulation film, the solid-state image capturing element and the wire, which are exposed in the hollow space, are all covered with a protective film.
US08130309B2
In a light spot position detection device, in one frame of operation, under control of a control unit, pixel data obtained in a pixel section in exposure of a solid-state image sensor in synchronization with light emission of a light emitting element are added to corresponding storage portions in a memory unit, and pixel data obtained in exposure of the image sensor asynchronous to the light emission of the light emitting element are subtracted from the corresponding storage portions, to store pixel data of only signal light in the storage portions. A given number of frames of operation are repetitively performed to accumulate pixel data of only the signal light in the storage portions. The position of a light spot on the pixel section is calculated based on the pixel data of only the signal light and outputted whether the storage portions are saturated or not with the pixel data.
US08130308B2
The object is to provide an image capture device capable of carrying out good image capture in electronic viewfinder mode. When the electronic viewfinder mode is set in a single lens reflex digital camera a quick return mirror is driven so as to direct light from a photographic subject onto a CCD, and control is also carried out such that images captured by the CCD are displayed as a through image on a liquid crystal monitor at specific time intervals, with the through image display conditions being adjusted so that the image displayed as a through image is an image equivalent to an image that would be captured during main image capture with the set main image capture conditions.
US08130306B2
An electronic appliance includes a display. A screen of the display on which an image from a video camera is displayed is divided horizontally by N and vertically by M, to define a plurality of detection zones. A detection unit of the electronic appliance includes detectors assigned to the detection zones, respectively. In response to a motion conducted by an operator, the detectors generate first detection signals. From the first detection signals, a signal generator of the electronic appliance generates second detection signals. Each of the second detection signals is accumulated. If any one of the cumulative values exceeds a threshold, a flag is set. A plurality of detectors including the detector related to the flag-set cumulative value are chosen to receive timing pulses from a timing pulse generator.
US08130299B2
Combo lines having one odd line and one even line are utilized for generating an interlaced preview from an image sensor. Odd combo lines are read out to generate an odd field. Even combo lines are read out to generate an even field. Interpolation is performed on a plurality of odd field lines generated from the plurality of odd combo lines to generate a plurality of odd interpolated lines. Interpolation is performed on a plurality of even field lines generated from the plurality of even combo lines to generate a plurality of even interpolated lines. The interlace preview is generated from the plurality of odd interpolated lines and the plurality of even interpolated lines.
US08130295B2
An analog-to-digital converter converting an analog input signal into a digital signal includes a comparator comparing a reference signal with an input signal and, if the reference signal matches the input signal, inverting an output; and a counter counting a comparison time. The counter includes flip flops that perform serial input/output. An input and an output of the counter are interconnected. The counter operates in a counter mode and a shift register mode. In the counter mode, a data output of each flip flop is supplied to a clock input of the next flip flop, and, if the output of the comparator is at a predetermined level, the counter functions as a counter synchronized with a counter clock signal. In the shift register mode, the flip flops are cascade-connected, and the counter functions as a shift register synchronized with a shift register clock signal.
US08130290B2
A black level compensation (BLC) circuit is disclosed. The BLC circuit includes a switched-capacitor (SC) integrator configured to compensate a readout amplifier of an image sensor. An output of the readout amplifier is clamped to a reference voltage at which a black level of the image sensor is defined. According to one aspect, a bad pixel detector is used to detect a bad pixel or pixels and disconnect the BLC loop when the bad pixel or pixels are detected.
US08130286B2
A luminance signal in which the occurrence of spatial aliasing in a diagonal direction component has been suppressed for a red or blue imaging subject is generated from an image signal read from an image sensor. A V-LPF and a H-LPF generate a first luminance signal in which the spatial frequency bandwidth has been limited. Also, a V-LPF and a H-LPF, which limit the spatial frequency bandwidth so as to be even lower than the V-LPF and the H-LPF, generate a second luminance signal in which the bandwidth has been limited. A first GR weighted-addition circuit generates a final luminance signal for a pixel of interest by performing weighted-addition on the first luminance signal and the second luminance signal such that the ratio of the second luminance signal increases as the intensity of the redness or blueness of the pixel of interest increases.
US08130284B2
An imaging apparatus has: a white balance control circuit for detecting an achromatic portion of an image of an object and controlling gains of the chrominance; an object distance detecting circuit for detecting a distance to the object; and a zoom value detecting circuit for detecting a zoom value of the optical system. The imaging apparatus further has: an object brightness detecting circuit for detecting brightness of the object; and a white balance control amount adjustment value setting circuit for forming a white balance control amount adjustment value to adjust a control amount in the white balance control circuit on the basis of object brightness information, object distance detection information, and zoom value information, wherein the white balance control amount is adjusted on the basis of the white balance control amount adjustment value.
US08130283B2
A method for monitoring set parameters of a motion-picture camera is provided. Film images, which are extracted from a recording beam path of the motion-picture camera and which are converted into digital assist signals by an optoelectronic transducer are arranged in an assist beam path of the motion-picture camera. Digital assist signals are output to a processing unit with an image frequency matching the image recording frequency of the motion-picture camera or with an assist image frequency, to which processing unit recording, control and/or status signals of the motion-picture camera or of devices connected to the motion-picture camera are additionally fed as metadata. The processing unit analyzes digital assist images composed of the digital assist signals and outputs digital output data and control signals to control modules of the motion-picture camera and/or to a network, and/or as analog or digital video signals to a monitor connected to the processing unit.
US08130275B2
An information-processing apparatus stores in advance a photographing application program. Further, the information-processing apparatus comprises photographing processing means which has a function different from that of the photographing application program. In a launch acceptance state, the information-processing apparatus accepts a first launch operation for selectively launching a plurality of application programs, and a photographing enabling operation for setting a state of the information-processing apparatus to a photographing enabled state. The photographing enabling operation is different from the first launch operation, and is the same as a photographing operation.
US08130274B2
A video quality objective assessment device includes a temporal/spatial feature amount derivation unit (12) which derives a temporal/spatial feature amount (PC) which is the feature amount of deterioration which has occurred in a deteriorated video signal (PI), from the deteriorated video signal (PI) to be assessed and a reference video signal (RI) which is a signal before deterioration of the deteriorated video signal, and a subjective quality estimation unit (14) which weights the temporal/spatial feature amount (PC) according to the relationship between the deteriorated video obtained in advance and the user subjective assessment value, thereby estimating the subjective quality (Y) of the deteriorated video signal (PI). Thus, it is possible to estimate a video subjective quality even when deterioration occurs locally in the video in the temporal/spatial direction.
US08130270B2
Images captured by multiple cameras installed on a vehicle are combined, and an image of the ground is projected onto a plane and is displayed around a vehicle display portion. In the vehicle display portion, actual images of portions of the vehicle may be displayed in a front area, a rear area, a left-side area, and/or a right-side area. A vehicle illustration image is displayed in the area surrounded by the actual images of the portions of the vehicle. Since the vehicle actual images are displayed at the perimeter of the vehicle display portion, it is easy for an operator who views a display screen to recognize the positional relationships between the perimeter of the vehicle and obstacles outside the vehicle perimeter.
US08130269B2
Around-vehicle visual recognition apparatus, methods, and programs acquire circumstances of a vehicle, including the vehicle's location and cause a camera to take images around the vehicle. The apparatus, methods, and programs determine at least one first area around the vehicle that is more relevant to a driver based on the circumstances of the vehicle than another area around the vehicle and display an image of the at least one first area on a display.
US08130246B2
A point at which the luminance varies between successive frames is detected with respect to an input image signal whose one-frame period is represented by a given gradation level. In a frame in which the luminance has just varied (i.e., in a post-change frame), the gradation level is corrected so that the lack of response of an image display panel is remedied (overshoot driving). In at least one embodiment, a sub-frame signal is generated in accordance with the signal whose gradation level has been corrected, so that an output gradation level to be outputted to the image display panel is obtained.
US08130244B2
Video signals which represent a scene as viewed by a camera are processed to combine a computer generated object with the video signals with the effect that the computer generated object appears within the scene when the video signals are displayed. The scene includes a first object. The process includes mapping a virtual model of the first object to a position of the first object within the scene so that the virtual model substantially corresponds with the real object. The virtual model has a degree of transparency such that the virtual model can be rendered as a substantially transparent virtual object within the scene. The process further includes detecting occluded regions of the virtual model. The occluded regions correspond to regions of the virtual model which are hidden from a virtual light source by the computer generated object. The process also includes modifying the degree of transparency of the virtual model at the occluded regions so as to generate modified transparency regions, and rendering the scene in combination with the computer generated object and the virtual model such that the modified transparency regions of the virtual model appear as shadows on the first object.
US08130238B2
The present invention is directed to the realistic three-dimensional presentation of images in scenes, and is particularly useful for easily illustrating how artwork would appear on a surface in a scene, such as on a billboard. In one embodiment, image files are provided for use in an imaging application, such as ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® CS2. The files permit the placement of artwork on scene background, and include embedded surface data that instructs the imaging application to alter the appearance of the artwork according to its placement within the scene. Also described are methods of generating image files for use as templates, and the use of the image files.
US08130235B2
Disclosed is a means for adjusting color gamut data associated with a digital media file to compensate for changing ambient light conditions at a display screen. Ambient light conditions at the display screen are detected using a light sensor and converted into ambient light data. Alternate color gamut data is then selected according to the current ambient light data from a color gamut look-up table that contains optimized color gamut data for a variety of ambient light data associated with the digital media file. Display correction parameters are then determined based on the alternate color gamut data. The display correction parameters are applied to present a more optimal rendition of the digital media file. The light sensor periodically re-detects the ambient light conditions so that any changes can be re-processed to update a rendition of the digital media file as it is displayed.
US08130232B2
A drawing control method, a drawing control apparatus, and a drawing control system for embedded system are provided. The present invention adopts an independent drawing control apparatus to control a drawing unit to draw a frame, and move the drawn frame to an external frame buffer in advance, and therefore the number of lines that can be drawn is not restricted by the capacity of the memory of the drawing unit. Further, the present invention employs a counter to accumulate a counting number upon each time completion of drawing frame or moving frame. Whenever the counting number is accumulated, the drawing unit is controlled to perform a next stage of frame drawing or frame moving. In this concern, the present invention eliminates the time for external accessing, and thus achieving parallel processing, and instant displaying.
US08130224B2
Graphical user interface objects are specified by a collection of attribute-value pairs, the collection of which comprise a complete description of the object and may be used by a rendering element to create a visual representation of the object. In practice, each of a first portion of attributes may be associated with two or more values—each value (for a given attribute) specifying that attribute's value for a unique resolution. A second portion of attributes are associated with a single value and are, therefore, display resolution independent. Accordingly, the target object may be displayed at any of the specified design display resolutions or accurately displayed at any resolution between the specified design display resolutions.
US08130221B2
A method of repairing a three dimensional surface mesh model to be watertight and manifold generally includes identifying a plurality of hole edges in the surface mesh model, selecting one of the hole edges, creating a cycle of hole edges that defines a hole in the surface mesh model, converting the cycle of hole edges into two or more cycles of exactly three edges each, and adding a triangular facet to the surface mesh model for each of the cycles of exactly three edges. The process may be repeated until the model is substantially watertight. Non-manifold vertices may be repaired by selecting a vertex of the model, identifying a number of independent cycles of triangular facets sharing the selected vertex, and redefining the selected vertex for at least all but one of the number of independent cycles. This process may be repeated until the model is manifold.
US08130219B2
A method of provisioning avatars comprises receiving at a first computer system associated with a first user, a metadata file relating to an avatar of a second user. In particular, the metadata file comprises data for use with an avatar generator process that is in execution on the first computer system. Data is extracted from the metadata file, and is provided as input data to the avatar generator process, thereby generating locally to the first computer system the avatar of the second user. The avatar of the second user so generated is displayed to the first user within a virtual environment.
US08130209B2
A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) panel includes a touch spacer formed in a first substrate, a common electrode formed to cover the touch spacer, a first touch conductive line formed in a first direction in a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, a second touch conductive line formed in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first touch conductive line, and first and second contact electrodes respectively electrically connected to the first and second touch conductive lines and portions of the first and second contact electrodes formed at a same height, wherein the portions of the first and second contact electrodes contact the common electrode by the touch spacer in a contact position. A method for manufacturing the LCD panel is also provided.
US08130202B2
A touch-sensitive display device includes a display. A transparent plate is provided in front of the display. A tactile sensor senses a touch event. One or more infrared sensors are positioned in front of the transparent plate. The one or more infrared sensors identify a location of the touch event when the tactile sensor detects a touch event.
US08130199B2
A keyboard type input device used in conjunction with a wristwatch or a portable telephone has multiple key positions provided as character entry keys. Each key corresponds to one key in the selected row of the conventional QWERTY keyboard. A second set of control buttons provide for the selection of which row of a conventional QWERTY keyboard are represented by the character keys in addition to other functions such as case shift, and alpha-numerical control functions. A selected row is shown on a display, as visual feedback. Alternatively the keys are implemented as LCDs with pressure sensors and the characters of the selected row are displayed directly on the corresponding key positions. The keyboard finds particular use in portable devices as it demands less space than traditional keyboards.
US08130196B2
A game performing method realizable of finer and easier operational input with a joy stick. The game performing method for an apparatus comprising an input section having an operating handle capable of inputting an inclination of a desired angle in a desired direction, has: controlling a virtual handle of a player character according to operation inputted through the operating handle; detecting an inclined direction and an inclined angle of the operating handle; and changing a handle angle of the virtual handle in a direction according to change in the inclined direction when the change in the inclined direction is detected by detecting the inclined direction and the inclined angle of the operating handle.
US08130190B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display controller device and method which provides for a full and/or partial display with good display quality and/or low power consumption based on the scanning period for an active scan line being dependent upon a number of reference clock pulses. Some embodiments of the present invention include one or more of the following features: keeping the frequency substantially constant for different numbers of active scan lines, allowing change of the frequency due to characteristics of the LCD, displaying gradation with near linear effective voltage characteristics, displaying graduation data with lower power, or displaying a partial or full screen in a mobile device, for example, a cell phone.
US08130189B2
The invention relates to a gate driving device for Thin Film Transistor liquid crystal display comprising: a plurality of shift registers directly deposited on an array substrate, said shift registers being composed of effect transistors and a capacitor, obtaining a gate driving signal voltage by controlling an input signal. Said shift register can be realized by 5-layer mask process or 4-layer mask process, by arranging the field effect transistors on the margin part outside the active region on the substrate or at the edge of the substrate, and then directly depositing them on an array substrate. The invention obtains a gate driving signal voltage by the shift registers directly deposited on the substrate, thus overcoming the shortage of the need of driving chips and film layers in the prior art, substantially reducing the production cost for LCD.
US08130183B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of stages coupled to each other in series, each of the stages configured to receive a clock signal, a clock bar signal, and an input signal, wherein each stage includes a first circuit that is configured to store a first voltage and a second voltage in response to the input signal and one of the clock signal or the clock bar signal, the first voltage and the second voltage each corresponding to a voltage of the input signal, and provide a first output signal that corresponds to the second voltage in response to the second voltage and the other of the clock signal or the clock bar signal.
US08130174B2
The present invention relates to an organic electroluminescent display device for preventing a voltage drop and a short between power supply elements by simultaneously forming a reflective film and a power supply element using a low resistance metal. The invention provides an organic electroluminescent display device comprising gate lines, data lines and a power supply element formed on an insulating substrate, a pixel region limited by the gate lines, the data lines and the power supply element, and pixels arranged on the pixel region and comprising of a reflective film and a pixel electrode, wherein the reflective film is formed on the same layer as the power supply element.
US08130162B2
The invention describes a broadband multi-dipole antenna that has low input reflection coefficient, low cross polarization, rotationally symmetric beam and constant beam width and phase center location over several octaves bandwidth. The dipoles are fed from one or a few feed points, and they may with advantage have log-periodic dimensions. The antenna is more compact, has lighter weight and is cheaper to manufacture than other solutions. It is very well suited for feeding single, dual or multi-reflector antennas.
US08130159B2
An antenna generating an electromagnetic field for an electromagnetic transponder and a terminal provided with such an antenna. The antenna comprises a first inductive element designed to be connected to two terminals employing an energizing voltage, and a parallel resonant circuit coupled with the first inductive element.
US08130157B2
There is provided a less fragile feeding apparatus for an antenna that can be fitted to clothing. The feeding apparatus uses a coaxial cable for feeding. A center conductor of the coaxial cable is connected to a first radiating element in terms of alternating current at least through capacitive coupling, and an outer conductor of the coaxial cable is connected to a second radiating element in terms of alternating current at least through capacitive coupling.
US08130154B2
An electronic device includes a housing that has a rectangular plate section and a sidewall section provided with a control opening for slide control member provision, and an antenna housing groove extending in a longitudinal direction of the sidewall section; a protrusion that is provided upright at a point adjacent to one end of the antenna housing groove; a plate piece-like antenna unit that has a length to be completely housed in the antenna housing groove and including a radio communication antenna; a cable that is connected to the one end of the antenna unit and wound about the insertion hole, and that extends from the insertion hole further inward of the housing away from the antenna unit; and a cable guide member that holds the portion of the cable wound about the insertion hole between itself and the antenna unit.
US08130150B2
A multi-band antenna includes a grounding element, a first antenna connected to the grounding element, a second antenna connected to the grounding element and a coupling radiating arm extending from the grounding element. The grounding element extends along a lengthwise direction and includes first and second lengthwise sides. The first antenna includes a first connecting element extending from the grounding element and a first radiating element electrically connected to the first connecting element. The second antenna includes a second connecting element extending from the grounding element and a second radiating element electrically connected to the second connecting element. The first radiating element includes a first radiating portion extending from the first connecting element in both a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and a second radiating portion substantially being leptosomatic. The second radiating element substantially extends in a lengthwise direction and forms a first radiating section operating on a first frequency band and a second radiating section operating on a second frequency band. The first antenna is located between the first antenna and the second antenna in a vertical direction. The coupling radiating arm is between the first radiating section of the second radiating element of the second antenna and the grounding element in a vertical direction.
US08130149B2
A microstrip patch antenna comprises a patch antenna element comprising a first conductive layer; dual probe feeds separate from each other and spaced from and field coupled to the patch antenna element for transmitting or receiving RF signals, each of the dual probe feeds having a conductor segment and a deltoid shaped conductive strip orthogonal to the conductor segment; the deltoid shaped conductive strips being coplanar; and a first dielectric material layer separating the first conductive layer and the coplanar deltoid shaped conductive strips.
US08130148B2
This disclosure describes a system and method for using a satellite positioning system to filter WLAN access points in a hybrid positioning system. In some embodiments, the method can include detecting WLAN APs in range of the WLAN and satellite enabled device, obtaining satellite measurements from at least two satellites to provide a plurality of possible satellite locations of the device, and providing a weight for each AP based on the distance from the WLAN APs to the possible satellite locations of the device.
US08130144B1
A method, apparatus and system for globally referenced positioning in a shielded environment includes integrating and correlating information from a UWB receiver, a GPS receiver, and a bent-path GPS receiver adapted to extract a GPS radio frequency wave from a heterodyned GPS signal. The method, apparatus, and system is resistant to interference and can be used in a shielded environment such as indoors or behind a line-of-sight barrier.
US08130142B2
A heading determination system comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU) coupled with at least two GNSS receivers, each receiver paired with and receiving signals from a corresponding GNSS antenna, wherein the GNSS antennas are separated by an ultra-short baseline. The heading determination system receives signals broadcast by a plurality of GNSS satellites and calculates the phase difference in the signal seen among the separate GNSS antennas. Using this phase difference information, derived from comparing the signals received from a plurality of GNSS satellites, along with attitude data generated by the IMU, the heading determination system calculates a highly-accurate heading solution. A method is provided for determining a heading of a system including an IMU coupled with at least two GNSS receivers, with each receiver being paired with and receiving signals from a corresponding GNSS antenna and the antennas being separated by an ultra-short baseline.
US08130117B2
In one aspect of the invention a downhole drill bit with a body intermediate a shank and a working surface. Extending from the work surface is a wear resistant electric transmitter electrically isolated from the drill bit body. A wear resistant electrically conductive receiver, also electrically isolated from the bit body, may be connected to a tool string component. The working surface may also have at least two wear resistant electrodes located intermediate the transmitter and receiver that are adapted to measure an electric potential in the formation.
US08130103B2
A method of reducing power consumption of a radio badge in a boundary detection localization system is disclosed, in which the radio badge is carried by a tracked target and performs location sampling communication with an infrastructure component of the localization system at the start and end of sampling time intervals such that positions of the radio badge can be estimated. The method includes: determining a velocity of the radio badge; estimating a critical time for the radio badge to reach a critical region through division in which a critical distance from an estimated position obtained at the end of a most recent sampling time interval to the critical region is the dividend, and the velocity of the radio badge is the divisor; and controlling the radio badge to perform location sampling communication with the infrastructure component of the localization system at the end of the critical time.
US08130102B1
An advanced food and/or drink organization and/or handling system that greatly facilitates food management and handling to help streamline household operations as relate to foods and related functions and events.
US08130099B2
Sensor light having a light unit which can be activated in response to a sensor output signal from a motion sensor unit (16), and is provided on a support unit (10, 12) for installing the sensor light inside or outside, wherein that the motion sensor unit is modular, can be removed from the support unit when the latter is installed and has at least one actuating element (28) which can be manually operated and can be operated when the motion sensor unit has been removed.
US08130095B2
Systems and methods are described for configuring and using displays, speakers, or other output devices positioned by an article of clothing or other such structure wearable by a healthcare recipient, for example, in a clinic or residential care facility.
US08130088B2
A vehicle controller for a straddle type vehicle includes a portable device that transmits a code signal and control unit comprising a receiver and an authenticator that respectively receive and authenticate the code signal. If the authentication is determined to be successful, a release signal is issued from a control unit to actuate a release structure of a steering lock to automatically release the steering lock. When a power source of the control unit is turned off, manual locking is allowed. Manual locking of the steering lock is actuated through a user's operation of a push-type locking switch. A manual lock structure is provided to manually lock the steering lock. The manual lock structure can be integrated with the automatic release structure that automatically releases the steering lock.
US08130087B2
An imaging module that generates a plurality of display images respectively based on a plurality of pieces of state information different from each other, in accordance with an instruction signal from a controller, and allows the plurality of display images to be displayed simultaneously on a display screen of a liquid crystal display device, and a recording and reproducing unit that performs a capture operation, in accordance with the instruction signal from the controller are provided. The recording and reproducing unit records the display screen on the recording medium as screen data through the capture operation.
US08130084B2
A method, system, and computer program product are provided for communicating to a powered element in a rack system. A controller injects communication data onto power lines that provides power to a plurality of powered elements. The powered elements determine if the communication data transmitted via the power lines should be used for configuration using an address embedded within the communication data. The powered elements compare an embedded target address within the communication data to the address of the particular element. If there is a match between the addresses, the corresponding powered element processes the communication data to configure the powered element. As a result, data may be communicated over the power lines thereby eliminating the need for separate communication lines. Thus, the amount of cables required to interconnect the powered elements of the distributed data processing system may be reduced by eliminating the communication lines from the system configuration.
US08130081B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data on an intermittently connected sensor. A data management system manages the data on radio frequency identification tags. The data management system comprises a radio frequency identification tag capable of storing the data, program code stored on the radio frequency identification tag, and a reader data processing system. The reader data processing system is capable of receiving the data and the program code from the radio frequency identification tag in a radio frequency signal and capable of executing the program code to read the data.
US08130073B2
A push-button switch test device having a flexible tab fixedly attached to a pushing member. The flexible tab is made of a flexible material and includes a deformation sensitive resistor mounted on a surface. The push-button switch test device may be used to test a push-button by imposing a known force on the flexible tab while receiving a signal level across the deformation sensitive resistor. As the known force pushes on the flexible tab, the signal level indicates when the push-button has engaged. The force may then be reversed to permit sensing of the disengagement of the switch. Configurations of a plurality of push-button switch test devices may be arranged in a test frame that mirrors a configuration of push-button switches.
US08130070B2
A multiple fuse device for a vehicle includes a circuit board with a battery-side bus bar portion and an alternator-side bus bar portion connected together by a temporary joint portion at a position apart from a fusing portion that provides charging current protection. An insulator housing is placed over the circuit board but the temporary joint portion is left uncovered by the insulator housing. A temporary joint portion is then at least partially removed. This partial removal may leave behind two temporary joint portion remnants, one on the battery-side bus bar portion, and one on the alternator-side bus bar portion. The temporary joint portion thus enhances the strength of the circuit board while the fuse device is being manufactured, which prevents the fusing portion from being accidentally deformed or broken during the device's assembly.
US08130068B2
[Problems]To provide a planar inductor that can be easily designed in any size without restricting coil characteristics, that supplies the necessary power corresponding to the area when a pair of inductors are placed facing each other to carry out non-contact power transmission, and that has greater design flexibility that allows for setting separation cut-off lines with relative freedom.[Means for Solving Problems]A planar inductor comprising a flat coil support layer that supports multiple flat coils arrayed in a plane and a first interconnection layer provided on one side of said flat coil support layer and a second interconnection layer provided on the other side of the flat coil support layer, wherein each flat coils start point is connected through the first interconnection layer and each flat coils end point is connected through the second interconnection layer, and a parallel electrical connection of the multiple flat coils arrayed in a plane is thereby achieved between the first interconnection layer and the second interconnection layer.
US08130065B2
The present invention discloses an electromagnetic coil device including a coil body having a connection terminal portion projecting from a circumferential surface of the coil body, a buckle having a positioning flat plate portion and an inserting flat plate portion fixedly connected to the positioning flat plate portion. The inserting flat plate portion is pottedly connected to the connection terminal portion with potting material. The electromagnetic coil device can, on the one hand, reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the reliability of the connection between the coil body and the buckle, and on the other hand, prevent the coil body from being damaged by welding and thus improve the life thereof.
US08130059B2
An on-chip slow-wave structure that uses multiple parallel signal paths with grounded capacitance structures, method of manufacturing and design structure thereof is provided. The slow wave structure includes a plurality of conductor signal paths arranged in a substantial parallel arrangement. The structure further includes a first grounded capacitance line or lines positioned below the plurality of conductor signal paths and arranged substantially orthogonal to the plurality of conductor signal paths. A second grounded capacitance line or lines is positioned above the plurality of conductor signal paths and arranged substantially orthogonal to the plurality of conductor signal paths. A grounded plane grounds the first and second grounded capacitance line or lines.
US08130055B2
A high-frequency device having a high-frequency circuit comprising a high-frequency amplifier, and an output-matching circuit receiving high-frequency power output from the high-frequency amplifier, in and on a multilayer substrate obtained by laminating pluralities of dielectric layers, the output-matching circuit comprising a first transmission line transmitting the high-frequency power from the high-frequency amplifier side to the output terminal side, and at least part of the first transmission line being formed by series-connecting pluralities of conductor patterns formed on pluralities of dielectric layers in a laminate direction.
US08130045B1
A process that provides the ability to incorporate a self exciting loop (SEL) algorithm into a digital LLRF system. The present digital SEL provides for conversion from the Cartesian domain to the Polar domain, wherein most signal processing is accomplished, and back to Cartesian. By handling most signal processing in the Polar (phase & amplitude) domain, a perfect amplitude limiter can be realized and simpler logic operations can be used. When operational, cavity recovery from faults will be tuner-less. At high gradients, ˜20 MV/m, like those needed for the upgraded cryomodules, the Lorentz detuning will be many bandwidths, making cavity turn-on problematic with out some tuner based compensation or other algorithmic solution. The present SEL solves this problem and allows cavity recovery from cryogenic trips, wherein cavities have been known to detune 1000's of Hz. Other applications such has He processing can also be implemented in situ without additional electronics.
US08130044B2
Configurable phase-locked loop circuitry is provided. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include a buffer having a buffer output and a multiplexer having inputs and an output. The phase-locked loop circuitry may include multiple voltage-controlled oscillators. The phase-locked loop circuitry may be configured to switch a desired one of the voltage-controlled oscillators into use. Each voltage-controlled oscillator may be controlled by control signals applied to a control input for that voltage-controlled oscillator. The control input of each voltage-controlled oscillator may be connected to the buffer output. The output of each voltage-controlled oscillator may be connected to a respective one of the multiplexer inputs. Power-down transistors may be used to disable unused voltage-controlled oscillators to conserve power. The power-down transistors and the multiplexer may be controlled by signals from programmable elements. One or more of the voltage-controlled oscillators may be implemented using a separate integrated circuit connected using through-silicon vias.
US08130039B2
An RF power amplifier includes a first amplifier module comprising a first push-pull amplifier including a first plurality of field effect transistors and a first output transformer. An output impedance of the first amplifier module is 25 ohms. A second amplifier module includes a second push-pull amplifier including a second plurality of field effect transistors and a second output transformer. An output impedance of the second amplifier module is 25 ohms. A combiner is connected to the first amplifier module and the second amplifier module. The combiner combines an output from the first amplifier module and an output from the second amplifier module into a combined signal. An output impedance of the combiner is 50 ohms.
US08130037B2
An input bias current cancellation circuit includes reference transistors placed in series and a current summation network. The current summation network can be configured to sum the base currents of the reference transistors to produce a summed current. A current mirror can be provided to attenuate the summed current to produce input bias cancellation currents. The input bias cancellation currents can be provided to the base inputs of an input bipolar differential pair, thereby reducing input current noise.
US08130029B2
A switching circuit for switchably connecting an input node and an output node. The switching circuit comprises a switch operable to switchably connect the input node to the output node in response to a switching signal. A sensor is provided for sensing the voltage between the input and output nodes and providing a sense signal in response thereto. A driver coupled to the sensor adjusts the switching signal in response to the sense signal.
US08130028B2
A CMOS charge pump with improved latch-up immunity is provided. The CMOS charge pump includes a blocking transistor that disconnects first and second boost nodes from a bulk node in response to a blocking control signal, such that a bulk voltage can be maintained at a predetermined level or higher. The CMOS charge pump in a power-up period first precharges the bulk voltage before the main pump performs a boosting operation and prevents a latch-up phenomenon.
US08130025B2
A system includes a bandgap temperature sensor to generate multiple base-emitter voltages. The system also include a controller to detect the base-emitter voltages generated by the bandgap temperature sensor and to generate a bandgap reference voltage according to the multiple base-emitter voltage signals, the bandgap reference voltage having a voltage level that remains substantially constant relative to environmental temperature variations.
US08130021B2
A system according to one embodiment includes an analog input for receiving an analog signal; a variable gain amplifier coupled to the analog input; a first integrator coupled to the variable gain amplifier for controlling the gain of the analog signal; a second integrator generating control signals for controlling functions of the first integrator; a serializer for serializing the control signals; and a deserializer coupled to the serializer for deserializing the control signals and passing the deserialized control signals to the first integrator.
US08130016B2
A feedback loop circuit includes a phase detector and delay circuits. The phase detector generates an output signal based on a delayed periodic signal. The delay circuits are coupled in a delay chain that delays the delayed periodic signal. Each of the delay circuits comprises variable delay blocks and fixed delay blocks that are coupled to form at least two delay paths for an input signal through the delay circuit to generate a delayed output signal. Delays of the variable delay blocks in the delay circuits vary based on the output signal of the phase detector. Each of the delay circuits reroutes the input signal through a different one of the delay paths to generate the delayed output signal based on the output signal of the phase detector during operation of the feedback loop circuit. Each of the variable delay blocks and the fixed delay blocks is inverting.
US08130008B2
An integrated circuit comprises a circuit used for storing or processing data and a radiation-sensitive thyristor structure configured to conditionally short two power supply terminals of the integrated circuit. The thyristor structure is configured to turn on in response to a region of the thyristor structure being irradiated with radiation to which the thyristor structure is sensitive, in order to establish an electrically conductive connection between a first power supply terminal of the power supply terminals of the integrated circuit and a second power supply terminal of the power supply terminals of the integrated circuit. The thyristor structure is further configured so that a power density of the radiation needed for turning on the thyristor structure is lower than a power density of the radiation needed for a change of data of the circuit used for storing or processing data.
US08130005B2
A method of fabricating a guard structure can include depositing an insulating material over at least a portion of electrical signal conductors disposed on a component of a probe card assembly, and depositing an electrically conductive material onto the insulating material and at least a portion of electrical guard conductors disposed on the component of the probe card assembly. Each signal conductor can be disposed between a pair of the guard conductors. The probe card assembly can include a plurality of probes disposed to contact an electronic device to be tested. The signal conductors can be part of electrical paths within the probe card assembly to the probes.
US08129998B2
An AC impedance meter measures an AC impedance of fuel cells against at least a specific frequency. A sensor group detects at least one operating condition of the fuel cells. A detection unit compares a degradation reference value corresponding to the detected operating condition with a resistance value led from the measured AC impedance and detects performance degradation in the fuel cells based on a result of the comparison. This arrangement enables easy detection of performance degradation in the fuel cells, irrespective of a variation in operating condition of the fuel cells.
US08129995B2
An apparatus for measuring a battery cell voltage includes a battery having a cell group; a first switching unit for selectively connecting both terminals of each battery cell of the cell group to conductive lines; a first voltage charging unit connected between the conductive lines to primarily charge a cell voltage; a second voltage charging unit for relaying the charged voltage in the first voltage charging unit for secondary charging; a cell voltage sensing unit for sensing the voltage charged in the second voltage charging unit; and a second switching unit for interconnecting the voltage charging units in the charged voltage relaying mode and isolating the voltage charging units in the charged voltage sensing mode. This apparatus realizes isolation between a high voltage battery and a voltage sensing unit, thereby allowing voltage sensing of each battery cell included in a high voltage battery using a part with low withstanding voltage.
US08129990B2
An image processing apparatus includes a recognition unit that recognizes each cell area corresponding to a living cell from a series of observation images captured at observation time points; a measurement unit that measures cell characteristic amounts of each cell; a tracking unit that determines whether a cell area captured at a processing target time point and a cell area captured earlier than the processing target time point has an identity with each other, and associates the cell areas which have an identity with each other; and a cell division detection processing unit that measures relative position information between a target cell area to be processed and a peripheral cell area positioned around the target cell area, determines whether cell division has occurred in a living cell based on at least the relative position information, and detects a target cell area on which cell division has occurred.
US08129981B2
An apparatus can be coupled to at least two lines for transmitting a differential signal, which is substantially symmetrical to a predefined reference potential, and/or for receiving such a differential signal. The apparatus includes a balancing unit, which can be coupled to the at least two lines and which includes a center tap. A monitoring unit is coupled to the center tap on the input side and is configured such that it monitors a center tap voltage between the center tap and the predefined reference potential and detects errors if the center tap voltage is greater than a predefined threshold value.
US08129974B1
A power system includes a switch, a capacitor and a comparator circuit. The power system receives a signal to turn off power supplied to the power system, turns off the switch that is used to supply power to the system and discharges the capacitor. The power system also compares a voltage across the discharging capacitor to a threshold voltage value, and turns on the switch to allow power to be supplied to the power system when the compared voltage across the discharging capacitor equals the threshold voltage value.
US08129971B2
In some embodiments, the number of active cells in a multi-cell voltage regulator is controlled so that the current-per-active-cell approaches a predefined target or to be within an acceptable range so that the active cells operate with suitable efficiency.
US08129970B2
A switching regulator that includes an inductor, a first step-down switch to store charge in the inductor, a second step-down switch to discharge the charge, a first step-up switch to store charge in the inductor, a second step-up switch to discharge the charge, a reverse current detector to detect a reverse current from an output terminal to the inductor through the second step-up switch, or an indication of the reverse current, based on a detection voltage, and a controller to control the first and second step-down switches, and the first and second step-up switches to output a predetermined constant voltage, and to shut off the second step-up switch to make shutdown condition when the detector detects the reverse current or an indication of the reverse current. The reverse current detector may have a threshold value in the step-down operation that is different from a threshold value in the step-up operation.
US08129959B1
In one embodiment, circuitry is provided for startup of a power converter. The circuitry includes a bias capacitor operable to be charged for providing energy to a controller of the power converter. A divider circuit is coupled to a voltage source. Current flows through the divider circuit. A switch, coupled to the divider circuit, is operable to be turned on and off to divert current flow in the divider circuit for charging the bias capacitor. This provides energy to the controller of the power converter at startup without employing an external bias source or high value bleeder resistor.
US08129957B2
An alternator system includes a field circuit, a regulator that regulates a field circuit electrical flow through the field circuit, and an output current sensor that detects an actual current output from the alternator system. The alternator system further includes a controller that communicates with the regulator to vary the field circuit electrical flow based on the actual current detected by the output current sensor.
US08129952B2
This disclosure includes battery systems and operational methods. According to one aspect, a battery system includes conversion circuitry, a plurality of main terminals configured to be coupled with a load, a charger and a plurality of rechargeable battery modules which are coupled in series with one another intermediate the main terminals, switching circuitry configured to couple a first of the battery modules with an input of the conversion circuitry, and the conversion circuitry being configured to modify an electrical characteristic of electrical energy received from the first of the battery modules and to output the electrical energy having the modified characteristic to a second of the battery modules.
US08129943B2
An induction charger for charging an electronic device includes a carrying car, a transmission assembly, a permanent magnet, an alternating current power supply, and an induction coil. The carrying car includes a base defined at least four slots scatted therein, a cover defining a through hole, at least two rotatable shaft, and at least two pairs of wheels positioned on a corresponding rotatable shaft and received in and passed through one corresponding slot. The transmission assembly includes a gear case defining a first through hole and a second through hole, a first hollow shaft non-rotatably fixed to the permanent magnet, and a second hollow shaft being inserted into a corresponding rotatable shaft. The induction coil is positioned in the base and aligned with and substantially parallel to the permanent magnet, and is electrically connected to the alternating current power supply.
US08129938B2
The present invention discloses a multi power supply system for a portable device, particularly a power supply system having a multi power input interface and a universal serial bus (USB) power output interface and capable of receiving a solar electric power and a general battery power. The invention not only provides a multiple of power transmission interfaces of a rechargeable battery of an electric backup power source for supplying power to the portable device, but also achieves the rectification and protection effects.
US08129936B2
An open-loop and/or closed-loop control device for operating an asynchronous machine which is fed by a 3-phase power converter. The open-loop and/or closed-loop control structure has a stator flux controller and a pulse pattern generator for generating pulse signals based on mean values. An output of the stator flux controller is connected to an input of the pulse pattern generator, with the result that the pulse pattern generator can generate the pulse signals as a function of a manipulated variable which is generated by the stator flux controller. The stator flux controller is configured so as to generate the manipulated variable as a function of a desired value of the stator flux of the asynchronous machine and as a function of a desired value of the torque of the asynchronous machine. The stator flux controller has a dead-beat control response.
US08129934B2
A motor driver that supplies a drive current to a stepping motor includes a decay rate controller configured to mix a first decay rate and a second decay rate smaller than the first decay rate with each other, and set a plurality of mix decay rates, a control logic circuit configured to create magnetization patterns for attenuating the drive current at the mix decay rates, and a drive current output circuit configured to output the drive current to the stepping motor in accordance with the magnetization patterns.
US08129924B2
A controller for optical transducers uses stochastic signal density modulation to reduce electromagnetic interference.
US08129923B2
A switching circuit adapted in an LED circuit and an LED circuit are provided. The switching circuit has a mode-selecting circuit, a comparator and a control module. The mode-selecting circuit has a voltage-dividing module and a switch. The voltage-dividing module receives and divides a reference voltage to further generate a working voltage. The switch is connected to the voltage-dividing module, wherein the switch has an output. The comparator comprises a first input connected to the switch, a second input and a comparator output. During a measuring mode, the switch transfers the reference voltage and the second input is connected to the comparator output. During a working mode, the switch transfers the working voltage, the second input of the comparator receives an output voltage of the LED circuit and the control module generates a control signal according to the voltage of the comparator output to switch the LED circuit.
US08129917B2
An AC light emitting device is disclosed. The AC light emitting device includes at least four substrates. Serial arrays each of which has a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series are positioned on the substrates, respectively. Meanwhile, first connector means electrically connect the serial arrays formed on respective different substrates. At least two array groups each of which has at least two of the serial arrays connected in series by the first connector means are formed. The at least two array groups are connected in reverse parallel to operate. Accordingly, there is provided an AC light emitting device capable of being driven under an AC power source.
US08129911B2
A magnetron has an anode 3 surrounding a tubular hollow cathode 4 which contains a heater 9. The cathode is supported by radial arms at each end. At one end of the cathode, the heater is supplied with one terminal of its D.C. supply by means of a radial arm 5, which also serves to support that end of the cathode. The arm has a portion 5a offset towards the cathode, and a cover of conducting material is interposed between the heater connection and the adjacent end wall 1 of the vacuum envelope. The cover may have a folded portion so that it can be carried by the arm.
US08129910B2
A system and method of magnetically insulating the cathode of a cold-cathode electron gun is achieved. A strong magnetic field is applied in the vicinity of the cold cathode to deflect and constrain the flow of electrons emitted from structures within the electron gun. The magnetic field largely prevents re-reflected primary and secondary electrons from reaching the cathode, thereby improving the operation and increasing the life of the cold-cathode electron gun. In addition, the insulating magnetic field improves electron beam focusing and enables a reduction in the magnitude of static electric focusing fields employed in the vicinity of the cold cathode, further reducing the electron gun's susceptibility to destructive arcing.
US08129883B2
A piezoelectric stack (1) has alternately successive piezoelectric layers (2) and inner electrode layers (3, 4) which are alternately electrically connected to two outer electrodes (7, 8) which are arranged on the outer side (5, 6) of the piezoelectric stack (1). The piezoelectric stack (1) also has at least one safety layer (9, 40, 50) which is arranged between two successive piezoelectric layers (2) instead of one of the inner electrode layers (3, 4). The safety layer (9, 40, 50) is structured in such a manner that it has an internal interruption (13, 44, 45, 53) which is configured in such a manner that the safety layer (9, 40, 50) does not form an electrical contact between the two outer electrodes (7, 8) if it contact-connects both outer electrodes (7, 8) and is electrically conductive.
US08129880B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improving operational characteristics of a concentrated winding machine. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus comprises stator teeth having distal ends, the stator teeth arranged in an annular fashion about an axis to define stator slots between adjacent teeth and slot openings between the distal ends of the adjacent teeth, the stator teeth structured to prevent relative movement between adjacent teeth. The apparatus further comprises magnetic wedges structured to be inserted between the distal ends of the adjacent teeth to close the slot openings.
US08129879B2
Connector side terminals 43b and 44b protruding from a connector portion 36, and front-side and back-side power supply terminals protruding from the holder main body 34 are provided to first and second lead plates 43 and 44 formed by metal plates with a conductive property, and they are embedded into a brush holder 31 formed integrally with the connector portion 36 and a holder main body 34 via a coupling portion 35. The connector side terminals 43b and 44b are disposed so as to match their width directions with an axial direction of a commutator 23 and to be mutually aligned in the width directions, and the main body portions 43a and 44a are twisted perpendicularly to the connector side terminals 43b and 44b with reference to their axes at a base end of the connector portion 36, and are disposed in the coupling portion 35 so as to match their thickness directions with the axial direction of the commutator 23 and to be mutually aligned in the width directions.
US08129872B2
An impeller and at least a portion of a cooperating peripheral volute may be integrated are integrally injection molded with, concentric outer rotor and inner stator assemblies, respectively, to achieve a low profile precision impeller mechanism based on an improved brushless D.C. motor with low length to diameter ratio and suitable for use in a variety of other applications. A rotating cap has an inner circumference which is molded about an outer ferromagnetic back ring that in turn supports a rotor magnet having a number of poles of alternating polarity and separated by a relatively small cylindrical air gap from a fixed stator assembly. The fixed stator assembly is integrally molded into a base housing having a bearing support that extends upwardly through the center of the stator assembly and that is rotatably coupled to a rotating shaft that extends downwardly from the center of the rotating cap.
US08129870B1
An asymmetric folded spring flexure suspension system can enable an ultra-compact linear reciprocative device wherein a reciprocative mass suspended from a base by a single folded flexure assembly extends in a single generally radial direction perpendicular to the intended travel path. The folded flexure assembly can be configured as three side-by-side stacks of flexure strips of spring material, tied together at a “yoke-idler” end; at the opposite “working” end, a central stack of nominal width is tied to the mass, and, flanking the central stack, a pair of half-width stacks are tied to opposite sides of the base. In an embodiment for active vibration control, a cylindrical enclosure, of magnetically-permeable material and attached to the working end of the flexure assembly, contains a driver system including an internally-mounted pair of permanent magnets that provide a magnetic flux gap and also constitute the main portion of the mass. Also within the enclosure, but supported from the base by rods extending up through clearance holes in the bottom cover/pole plate of the enclosure, is a single bobbin-mounted coil which, being located in the magnetic flux gap, drives reciprocation of the armature/mass enclosure in response to alternating electrical current applied to the coil.
US08129869B2
To provide an electret having high stability with time and thermal stability of retained electric charge and having excellent charge retention performance, and an electrostatic induction conversion device comprising such an electret. This has been done by providing an electret obtained from a composition comprising a compound (A) having a molecular weight of from 50 to 2000 and having at least two polar functional groups, and a polymer (B) having a number average molecular weight of more than 2000 and having reactive functional groups reactive with the above polar functional groups and an electrostatic induction conversion device comprising such an electret.
US08129867B2
A system and method for overcoming the parasitic elements associated with off the shelf or general purpose solid-state devices configured to operate as RF AC/DC signal coupling networks. An AC/DC signal coupling network may comprise a general purpose solid-state relay device and two inductors having values carefully chosen to compensate for the imperfections and intrinsic parasitic elements associated with the solid-state relay. The inductors may also have values carefully chosen to compensate for the parasitic elements of the neighboring or coupled circuit, and for the capacitance that is associated with the printed circuit board bond pad that is directly dependent upon the area of the pad and distance to the neighboring conductors. The inductors may cause the input path to become inductive as the signal frequency increases, and also improve the input return loss over the RF input range.
US08129866B2
A circuit for a fill-level measuring device is for the fast switching-on of a high-frequency element on a ground port is disclosed. The circuit comprises a switching unit with a circuit mass; a high-frequency element with a high-frequency mass; and a coupling element that couples the two masses together and at the same time insulates them from each other in a direct-current manner. In this way the switching unit can be arranged on the GND port of the HF-element, without influencing the HF characteristics of said HF element.
US08129864B2
An inductive power supply that maintains resonance and adjusts duty cycle based on feedback from a secondary circuit. A controller, driver circuit and switching circuit cooperate to generate an AC signal at a selected operating frequency and duty cycle. The AC signal is applied to the tank circuit to create an inductive field for powering the secondary. The secondary communicates feedback about the received power back to the primary controller. The power transfer efficiency may be optimized by maintaining the operating frequency substantially at resonance, and the amount of power transferred may be controlled by adjusting the duty cycle.
US08129859B2
In an extension cord with wireless timing function, there are included a receptacle housing having more than one flush plug receptacles and internally including a current converter, a power switch and a plurality of electronic relays corresponding to the receptacles; a programmable logic controller in the receptacle housing for controlling the ON/OFF state of the receptacles; a wireless transmission module in the receptacle housing for receiving a wireless signal from a remote device; a power cord connected at an end to the power switch; and an operation and control module located on the receptacle housing and connected to the controller. Thus, timed power supply by each of the receptacles can be set and recorded at the remote device. When the power switch is turned to off, the controller automatically resets the receptacles to ON; and when the power switch is turned to on again, the receptacles will remain to “ON”.
US08129853B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a turbine to generate mechanical energy from kinetic energy, a generator coupled to the turbine to receive the mechanical energy and to output multiple isolated supply powers, and multiple power stages each coupled to the generator. Each of the power stages may receive at least one of the isolated supply powers.
US08129848B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device having a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series and a method of fabricating the same. The light emitting device includes a buffer layer formed on a substrate. A plurality of rod-shaped light emitting cells are located on the buffer layer to be spaced apart from one another. Each of the light emitting cells has an n-layer, an active layer and a p-layer. Meanwhile, wires connect the spaced light emitting cells in series or parallel. Accordingly, arrays of the light emitting cells connected in series are connected to be driven by currents flowing in opposite directions. Thus, there is provided a light emitting device that can be directly driven by an AC power source.
US08129845B2
A semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of semiconductor die. Contact pads are formed on an active area of the semiconductor die and non-active area of the semiconductor wafer between the semiconductor die. Solder bumps are formed on the contact pads in both the active area of the semiconductor die and non-active area of the semiconductor wafer between the semiconductor die. The I/O terminal count of the semiconductor die is increased by forming solder bumps in the non-active area of the wafer. An encapsulant is formed over the solder bumps. The encapsulant provides structural support for the solder bumps formed in the non-active area of the semiconductor wafer. The semiconductor wafer undergoes grinding after forming the encapsulant to expose the solder bumps. The semiconductor wafer is singulated to separate the semiconductor die. The semiconductor die is mounted to a package substrate with solder paste or socket.
US08129842B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor interconnect structure with improved mechanical strength at the capping layer/dielectric layer/diffusion barrier interface. The interconnect structure has Cu diffusion barrier material embedded in the Cu capping material. The barrier can be either partially embedded in the cap layer or completely embedded in the capping layer.
US08129835B2
A package substrate having a semiconductor component embedded therein and a method of fabricating the same are provided, including: providing a semiconductor chip with electrode pads disposed on an active surface thereof; forming a passivation layer on the active surface and the electrode pads; forming on the passivation layer metal pads corresponding in position to the electrode pads, respectively, so as for the semiconductor chip to be fixed in position to an opening of a substrate body; forming a first dielectric layer on the semiconductor chip and the substrate body; forming dielectric layer openings by laser and preventing the electrode pads from being penetrated by the metal pads; removing the metal pads and the passivation layer in the dielectric layer openings so as to expose the electrode pads therefrom; and forming a first wiring layer on the first dielectric layer for electrical connection with the electrode pads.
US08129826B2
Provided is a semiconductor package apparatus having a redistribution layer. The apparatus includes at least one or more semiconductor chips, a packing part protecting the semiconductor chips, and a support part supporting the semiconductor chips. The apparatus also includes external terminals extending outside the packing part, redistribution layers installed between the semiconductor chips and the support part and including redistribution paths, first signal transmitting units, and second signal transmitting units. The first signal transmitting units transmitting electrical signals generated from the semiconductor chips to the redistribution paths of the redistribution layers, and the second signal transmitting units transmit the electrical signals from the redistribution paths to the external terminals. Therefore, a size and a thickness of the semiconductor package apparatus can be reduced, and processes can be simplified to improve productivity.
US08129797B2
Embedded DRAM MOSFETs including an array NFET having a gate stack comprising a high-K dielectric layer upon which is deposited a first metal oxide layer (CD1) then a conductive layer (TiN), and then a polysilicon layer (Poly). A logic PFET having substantially the same gate stack as the array NFET, and a logic NFET having a third gate stack comprising the high-K dielectric layer upon which is deposited the conductive layer (TiN) and then the polysilicon layer (Poly), without the first metal oxide layer (CD1) between the high-K dielectric layer and the conductive layer (TiN). The array NFET may therefore have a higher gate stack work function than the logic NFET, but substantially the same gate stack work function as the logic PFET.
US08129787B2
A method and apparatus for use in improving the linearity characteristics of MOSFET devices using an accumulated charge sink (ACS) are disclosed. The method and apparatus are adapted to remove, reduce, or otherwise control accumulated charge in SOI MOSFETs, thereby yielding improvements in FET performance characteristics. In one exemplary embodiment, a circuit having at least one SOI MOSFET is configured to operate in an accumulated charge regime. An accumulated charge sink, operatively coupled to the body of the SOI MOSFET, eliminates, removes or otherwise controls accumulated charge when the FET is operated in the accumulated charge regime, thereby reducing the nonlinearity of the parasitic off-state source-to-drain capacitance of the SOI MOSFET. In RF switch circuits implemented with the improved SOI MOSFET devices, harmonic and intermodulation distortion is reduced by removing or otherwise controlling the accumulated charge when the SOI MOSFET operates in an accumulated charge regime.
US08129782B2
A high-voltage transistor is provided with a well of a first conductivity type, which is arranged in a substrate (10) of a second conductivity type, with a source (14), a drain (12), and a gate electrode (18) above a channel region (KN, KP) formed between the source and the drain, wherein several staggered and nested wells (11, 13, 15, 17) of the same conductivity type extend from the source (14) or the drain (12) into the substrate (10) and wherein the doping concentration (log c) of the wells essentially decreases and is smoothed from the substrate surface with increasing depth (T) and also laterally. In this way, field-strength increases and also unintentional breakdown are prevented. Furthermore, a production method is specified.
US08129771B2
In a full CMOS SRAM having a lateral type cell (memory cell having three partitioned wells arranged side by side in a word line extending direction and longer in the word line direction than in the bit line direction) including first and second driver MOS transistors, first and second load MOS transistors and first and second access MOS transistors, two capacitors are arranged spaced apart from each other on embedded interconnections to be storage nodes, with lower and upper cell plates cross-coupled to each other.
US08129765B2
An image sensor includes a logic region and an APS region having a first gate electrode, a photo-detector, a first protecting layer, first spacers, and a second protecting layer. The first gate electrode is formed over a semiconductor substrate. The photo-detector is formed to a side of the first gate electrode within the semiconductor substrate. The first protecting layer is formed over the first gate electrode and the photo-detector. The first spacers are formed over the first protecting layer to the sides of the first gate electrode. The second protecting layer is formed over the first protecting layer and the spacers. The first and second protecting layers are for preventing a contaminant from reaching the photo-detector.
US08129764B2
Imager devices have a sensor array and a peripheral region at least partially surrounding the sensor array. At least one transistor in the peripheral region has a gate stack sidewall spacer that differs in composition from a gate stack sidewall spacer on at least one transistor in the sensor array. Imaging systems include such an imager device configured to communicate electrically with at least one electronic signal processor and at least one memory storage device. Methods of forming such imager devices include providing layers of oxide and nitride materials over transistors on a workpiece, and using etching processes to form gate stack sidewall spacers on the transistors.
US08129763B2
A MOS device includes first and second source/drains spaced apart relative to one another. A channel is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains. A gate is formed in the device between the first and second source/drains and proximate the channel, the gate being electrically isolated from the first and second source/drains and the channel. The gate is configured to control a conduction of the channel as a function of a potential applied to the gate. The MOS device further includes an energy filter formed between the first source/drain and the channel. The energy filter includes a superlattice structure wherein a mini-band is formed. The energy filter is operative to control an injection of carriers from the first source/drain into the channel. The energy filter, in combination with the first source/drain, is configured to produce an effective zero-Kelvin first source/drain.
US08129762B2
A method is provided for processing a substrate. The substrate has at least one filter region, a plurality of bond pads, and a plurality of scribe lines arranged around the filter region and bond pads. A first planarization layer is formed above the substrate. The planarization layer has a substantially flat top surface overlying the filter region, the bond pads and the scribe lines. At least one color resist layer is formed over the first planarization layer and within the filter region while the first planarization layer covers the bond pads and the scribe lines.
US08129761B2
Low leakage contacts on leakage sensitive areas of a CMOS imager, such as a floating diffusion region or a photodiode, are disclosed. At least one low leakage polysilicon contact is provided over a leakage sensitive area of a CMOS imager. The polysilicon contact comprises a polysilicon region in direct contact with the area of interest (the leakage sensitive area) and a metal region located over the polysilicon region. The polysilicon contact provides an improved ohmic contact with less leakage into the substrate. The polysilicon contact may be provided with other conventional metal contacts, which are employed in areas of the CMOS imager that do not require low leakage.
US08129760B2
A structure which meets a high-quality reading requirement and realizes high-speed color reading when the reading section of a color image forming apparatus adopts a color contact image sensor using CCDs as reading element arrays is disclosed. The image sensor of a color image reading section uses a color contact image sensor in which a plurality of CCDs are aligned as reading element arrays in the main scanning direction. In this case, each CCD has one analog shift register for RGB time-division reading, and three R, G, and B reading apertures arranged parallel to each other at a pitch corresponding to the reading resolution. The pixel pitch in the main scanning direction is constant.
US08129759B2
Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor integrated circuit package that includes a substrate which can have an integrated circuit die attached thereto. The package includes a dedicated high-speed ground plane that is electrically isolated from the ground plane used to ground the low speed circuitry of the package.
