US08561901B2
An optical identification module device has a light pipe integrally formed with transparent material, a lens holder, a lens, a sensing circuit board and a light emitting diode. A light source container and a guiding recess are arranged on one side of the light pipe. A first light channel is defined in the light pipe. An engaging bump and a separating bump aligned with the engaging bump are arranged on one side of the lens holder. The engaging bump engages with the guiding recess. A second light channel corresponding to the first light channel is defined in the lens holder, and the lens is arranged in the second light channel. The sensing circuit board with a receiver soldered at a position corresponding to the second light channel is arranged at the bottom of the lens holder. The light emitting diode is placed in the light source container.
US08561893B2
Improved podcasts and techniques that facilitate their use are disclosed. The improved techniques can pertain to creating, publishing, hosting, accessing, subscribing, managing, transferring, and/or playing podcasts. According to one aspect, a client application can subscribe to podcasts and then automatically monitor the podcasts for updates to be downloaded. In the event that user interest in a podcast becomes inadequate, downloading of further updates can be restricted. According to another aspect, a podcast can be subscribed to through use of a portable subscription file. According to still another aspect, podcast feeds can be enhanced to include segment elements and other metadata.
US08561892B2
A method of completing a transaction with a payment terminal involves the payment terminal transmitting to a network gateway via a first communications network a transaction proposal identifying a proposed transaction with a network device, and receiving from the network gateway a transaction proposal response in response to the transaction proposal. The transaction proposal response specifies a pointer to the proposed transaction. The network gateway is configured to authenticate to the network device via a second communications network that comprises the network device. The payment terminal transmits over a payment network, distinct from the communications networks, payment particulars for the proposed transaction, and receives from the payment network a payment confirmation in response to the payment particulars. In accordance with the payment confirmation, the payment terminal initiates completion of the proposed transaction by generating a transaction completion request and transmitting the transaction completion request to the network device via the network gateway. The transaction completion request is generated from the transaction pointer, and requests completion of the proposed transaction with the network device.
US08561885B1
Non-currency items such as lottery tickets, coupons and the like may be recognized and reconciled by a retail store and a financial institution without having to physically transmit the non-currency item to a sponsor of the non-currency item or the financial institution. Instead, a retail store or other organization may electronically transmit information regarding the non-currency item to the sponsor for confirmation of payment and to the financial institution for recognition. In some configurations, the financial institution may be configured to request confirmation of payment from the sponsor (i.e., instead of the retail store). Reconciliation of a cash handling device or a portion thereof (e.g., a cash register drawer) my take into account both non-currency items and currency items so that non-currency items do not have to be separately and/or manually reconciled.
US08561881B2
There is provided a packing box having a taking-out opening which can be opened with ease with only one hand. The developed object of packing box comprises: first strip foldable inwardly on fold lines arranged equidistantly and perpendicularly to strip lengthwise direction, for forming inner-lateral surface; second strip including three separate square bottom-boards continuous with first strip via fold lines; third strip continuous with central bottom-board via fold line and foldable inwardly on fold lines arranged equidistantly, for forming outer-lateral surface; and fourth strip continuous with third strip via fold line, in which buckling portions and upper lids are arranged alternately in lengthwise direction. Central buckling portion has square hole, and the width of the lid is larger than one-half of one side of bottom-board. One of the lids has a lid-cutting line formed in location that corresponds to square hole when one lid is inserted under the other.
US08561879B2
Devices and methods for assembling co-planar electrical contacts in a connector are provided herein. In one aspect, an exemplary method of assembly comprises depositing solder in a connector plug enclosure, positioning electrical contacts on the solder deposits, advancing the hotbar toward the enclosure contacting each of the electrical contacts so as to planarize a top surface of each of the electrical contacts with the enclosure and melting the solder with the heated hotbar to solder the electrical contacts to the enclosure. In one aspect, an exemplary hotbar device includes a magnet for releasably coupling the electrical contacts to the hotbar. In another aspect, the hotbar includes metallic portions for heating the electrical contacts and insulated ceramic portions for contacting the enclosure. In another aspect, an electrically conductive hotbar includes side portions that extend away from the bottom heating surface facilitating more uniform current flow through the hotbar.
US08561874B2
A surgical instrument including a handle portion, a body portion, an articulating tool assembly and at least one coupling member is disclosed. The body portion extends distally from the handle portion and defines a first longitudinal axis. The articulating tool assembly defines a second longitudinal axis and has a proximal end including at least one recess therein. The articulating tool assembly is securable to a distal end of the body portion and is movable from a first position where the first and second longitudinal axes are substantially aligned to at least a second position where the first and second longitudinal axes are at an angle. The coupling member has at least one spring arm and is securable to the body portion. At least a portion of the spring arm is receivable in the recess of the articulating tool assembly to releasably retain the articulating tool assembly in the first position.
US08561868B2
An example hammer tacker includes a contact face for contacting a material and a firing mechanism adjacent the contact face. The firing mechanism drives a staple into the material when the contact face is brought into contact with the material. A curved staple guide extends from adjacent the contact face.
US08561864B2
A magnetic vehicle rack having an elongated body constructed from a flexible polymeric material. The elongated body generally including an arciform cross-sectional profile, an oblate top surface, a planar bottom surface having one or more permanent magnet(s) disposed flush with the bottom surface and an axially aligned aperture dimensioned to axially receive an incurvate spine therethrough. Positioning of the incurvate spine within the elongated body uniformly distributes static and dynamic loads throughout the magnetic vehicle rack.
US08561863B2
Devices, methods and systems described herein provide for removably attaching an electronic device holder to a set of headrest bars of a seat in a vehicle in a manner which allows the user, while seated in the backseat of the vehicle, to utilize the electronic device without holding the electronic device.
US08561861B2
A baby nursing and carrying device, specifically one that allows a mother to switch breasts when breastfeeding a baby while still remaining covered and while still supporting the baby. When not in use for breastfeeding purposes, a mother can use the device for easily carrying the baby without strain on the mother's back and without having to support the baby with her hands, thus allowing the mother's hands to be free to do other things.
US08561855B2
A fluid dispense system for use with a drum having a drum insert configured to couple with a bung included on a drum, the drum insert having an upper portion and a drum insert down tube extending therefrom into an interior of the drum. The system further having a dispense head configured to couple with the drum insert, the dispense head having first and second conduits, each having a valve assembly, the valve assemblies in operable communication with the drum insert when the dispense head is coupled with the drum insert. When the dispense head is coupled with the drum insert the first and second valve assemblies are effected to an open position enabling fluid to flow through the conduits. When the dispense head is not coupled with the drum insert the first and second valve assemblies are biased to a closed position inhibiting fluid from flowing through the conduits.
US08561847B2
A dispenser housing has a closure mechanism that serves to hold the dispenser housing closed. A key either can be carried by an individual to be employed to override the closure mechanism to permit the opening of the dispenser or can be selectively mounted to the dispenser housing to position a release mechanism appropriately to permit the release mechanism to be manipulated to override the closure mechanism. When the key is not mounted to the dispenser, the release mechanism cannot be appropriately manipulated to override the closure mechanism.
US08561844B2
A container of a flexible material web of weldable plastic. A reinforcing element is attached on the exterior of a wall of the container. The container may be formed by drawing a flat material web of weldable plastic material over a core tube and welding a longitudinal seam for closing the flat material web to form a tube. A reinforcing element is welded on an exterior of the tube while employing the core tube as an internal cooperating support. The tube is divided and separated along transverse seams into cut-off containers to form the containers. A dispensing system for flowable products includes at least one of the containers and a dispenser provided with a container receiving device for holding the container without closure. The container is formed with sliding guide and a displaceable closure, which is preferably opened when the container is placed on the receiving device.
US08561842B2
A valve apparatus includes a valve body having a first inlet, a second inlet, an outlet, and a passageway in communication with the inlets and outlet. A valve member disposed within the passageway inhibits communication between the first inlet and the second inlet and, in a first position, the second inlet and the outlet. The valve body includes a float chamber communicating with the first inlet and the outlet. A float member disposed within the float chamber is buoyant and is operatively engageable with the valve member. The float member is displaceable upwards by liquid in the chamber to enable communication between the first inlet and the outlet. When liquid from the first inlet is depleted, the float member lowers to seal the first inlet from the outlet. The valve member moves to a second position thereby to enable the second inlet to be in communication with the outlet for dispensing liquid from the second source.
US08561833B2
A device particularly suitable for feeding premature newborns consists of a cup with a raised colored graded scale placed on the cup side for easy visualization, a flow reducer composed of folds, a round spout formed from the cup rim facilitating contact with the mouth of the baby, and a lid of the cup rim which fits using pressure to avoid food contamination.
US08561825B1
A drinking vessel includes a first receptacle having a first circumferential side wall extending from a closed bottom end to a shoulder having a peripheral edge defining a first diameter. An externally-threaded attachment portion, defining a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, extends from the shoulder to a circumferential lip. A second receptacle configured to fit inside the first receptacle has a second circumferential side wall extending from a closed bottom end to an upper rim defining an open top end. A circumferential flange, depending downwardly from the rim and fitting coaxially around the attachment portion, has a lower end separated from the shoulder by a circumferential gap. The flange has an outer surface and an internally-threaded portion that mates with the attachment portion. A resilient element has a grip portion fixed to the outer surface of the flange and a sealing portion configured to seal the gap.
US08561819B1
A stand for holding and storing clothing accessories, such as neckties, belts and footwear in an easily seen accessible position has an elongate freestanding generally rectangular upright frame, a flat planar horizontal platform or shelf at a lower end thereof for holding and storing shoes and other footwear; a second flat planar platform or shelf disposed at an angle above the lower platform or shelf also for holding and storing shoes and other footwear, a tie rack at a top end of the frame for holding and supporting a plurality of neckties in laterally adjacent relation in a plurality of rows at various heights, and a plurality of hooks mounted on outer facing sides of the frame in parallel spaced relation at various heights for holding and storing a plurality of belts supported thereon by hooking their buckles on the hooks.
US08561815B2
Mounting frames for holding electronic devices are described. An example mounting frame for holding electronic devices includes an elongated extruded body having two substantially parallel wiring cavities extending along a length of the body and separated by a wall within the body. The wiring cavities have respective openings facing in opposite directions, and opposing faces of the body have respective process control device mounting rails and respective mounting channels. Each of the mounting channels is configured to hold the mounting frame to a structure.
US08561808B2
A filter assembly comprises a filter housing (23) into which a filter element is insertable. A core element (38) is provided extending within the housing (23). The filter assembly comprises a coupling assembly (200) that is insertable into the housing (23), the coupling assembly (200) comprising a leaf spring (201) having a span larger than an internal diameter of the filter housing (23), such that when the leaf spring (201) is inserted into the filter housing (23) the outer edge of the leaf spring (201) engages an inner surface of the filter housing (23) and the leaf spring (201) bulges in the direction of insertion of the leaf spring into the housing, preventing removal of the leaf spring, in a direction opposite to the insertion direction, from the filter housing (23), the coupling assembly (200) comprising a connecting part for connecting the core element (38) to the coupling assembly (200).
US08561806B2
A measurement apparatus includes a support frame to support a feed mechanism, an orientation mechanism, a measurement mechanism, a transfer mechanism, and an unloading mechanism. The feed mechanism includes a first holding assembly, a first elevation assembly, a second elevation assembly, and a first clipping assembly. The first elevation assembly and the second elevation assembly are positioned under the holding assembly, and the first clipping assembly is positioned over the holding assembly. The measurement mechanism includes a support stage and at least one calibration head. The transfer mechanism includes at least one pickup head. The orientation mechanism includes a driving member and a securing assembly driven by the driving member. The unloading mechanism has the same structure as the feed mechanism. The disclosure further provides a measuring method using the measurement apparatus.
US08561803B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for screening materials. A vibratory screening machine includes a first frame and a second frame. The second frame is attached to the first frame by elastomeric mountings. A vibratory motor is configured to vibrate the first frame and the second frame. An attachment arrangement is configured to secure a replaceable screen assembly to the first frame. The replaceable screen assembly is in contact with the second frame such that the second frame excites the replaceable screen assembly.
US08561802B2
Systems and methods for processing waste material are presented. For some embodiments, the system comprises a chamber, an inlet, a fluid outlet, a metal outlet, and a magnet. The inlet is configured to selectively open and close. The inlet injects waste material into the chamber when the inlet is open. The waste material is suspended in a fluid medium, and comprises both ferromagnetic substances and non-ferromagnetic substances. The magnet is a selectively activated magnet coupled to the chamber. The magnet is configured to activate when the inlet is open, and deactivate when the inlet is closed. The magnet attracts the ferromagnetic substances from the waste material when the magnet is activated. The attracted ferromagnetic substances are released from the magnet when the magnet is deactivated. The metal outlet configured to selectively open and close. The metal outlet opens and expels the released ferromagnetic material from the magnet when the magnet is deactivated. The fluid outlet configured to selectively open and close. The fluid outlet opens when the magnet is activated, and expels any remaining waste material after the magnet has substantially attracted the ferromagnetic substances from the waste material.
US08561797B2
A packaging container for a device comprising an enclosure assembled from separable front and back transparent shells the assembled shells defining a cavity for housing the device. A transparent insert configured with outer edges for abutting at least three inner walls of the enclosure and having an aperture conformed to a silhouette of the device for engaging and retaining the device around its periphery and in a generally central position in the cavity so that at least a back, front, top and sides of the device may be directly viewed within the cavity without visual obstruction.
US08561785B2
The system and method comprising at least one idler wheel for use with a drag chain mechanism. The device for use with the idler wheel has a rotatable shaft for receiving the rotational force of the idler wheel, and transmits that force to a rotation indicator which is external to the enclosed space where the idler wheel is located. The rotation indicator thus provides a reliable method for indicating to an external sensor or operator whether an idler wheel is rotating within acceptable operational parameters.
US08561778B2
An assembly for moving caps through a cap-lining machine includes a track for the downstream movement of the caps to a cap-lining location in the cap-lining machine. A first gate is mounted downstream from the cap-lining location for movement between first and second positions preventing and allowing downstream movement of the caps, respectively. A sensing location is formed in the track downstream from the cap-lining location. A second gate is mounted downstream from the sensing location for movement between first and second positions preventing and allowing downstream movement of the caps, respectively. The first gate moves to the first position in response to a sensor sensing the arrival of one of the caps at the sensing location, and the second gate moves to the second position in response to the first gate moving to the first position.
US08561777B2
A coin sensor performs time-domain eddy-current testing using an inductance in one arm of a Maxwell bridge which is driven by a bipolar square wave having randomly-selected intervals between transitions, the output of the bridge being sampled at a high frequency. A processor stores a model which receives the drive signal and adjusts coefficients of the model so that the output matches the sampled measurements. Acceptance criteria are applied to the adjusted coefficients for coin classification purposes.
US08561775B2
A vehicle drive device has an engine, a transmission, a clutch device and a clutch operating mechanism which operates the clutch device to drivingly connect the engine to the transmission. The clutch operating mechanism has a clutch drum secured to the outer circumferential surface of an input shaft of the transmission and holding a second clutch section which is engageable with a first clutch section held on an input member of the clutch device to which a driving power of the engine is transmitted. The clutch drum has a drum chamber, a fixed plate closing an opening of the drum chamber, a piston surrounded by the clutch drum and partitioning the drum chamber into a hydraulic chamber and a spring chamber, and an urging element provided inside the spring chamber to be surrounded by the clutch drum and urging the piston.
US08561768B2
A damper for use in vehicle and automotive applications can include a structure for sealing a top portion of the damper such that standing water is prevented from residing adjacent the cylinder/tube, piston rod, gaskets, o-rings, grommets, or other structures located at a top portion of the damper. The structure for sealing the top portion of the damper can include a seal that is located between a rod guide and the damper tube such that water and debris are kept from entering an inner portion of the damper mechanism.
US08561766B2
A piston-cylinder with a work cylinder filled with a fluid, a hollow piston rod displaceably arranged in the work cylinder along a longitudinal axis, a connection element at an end located outside the work cylinder and in the work cylinder, a piston that divides the work cylinder into first and second work spaces. A valve needle in the piston rod has a channel extending in axial direction arranged in the piston rod. The valve needle has a recess at one end. The valve needle is rotatable such that a flow of fluid is controllable. A lever extends in radial direction and is swivelably acted upon by an adjusting unit at the end of the valve needle outside the work cylinder. The adjusting unit is arranged at the connection element entirely outside the flow of force of the piston-cylinder unit.
US08561756B2
Systems and methods to remove heat from an acoustic enclosure are provided. An apparatus includes an enclosure and a free convection passage located within the enclosure. The convection passage includes a non-horizontal convection inlet acoustic port having an inlet opening to the ambient environment and a non-horizontal convection outlet acoustic port having an outlet opening to the ambient environment. At least one heat producing element is coupled to an acoustic port of the free convection passage via a low thermal resistance conduction path. Heat produced by the heat producing element initiates a unidirectional free convective airflow in a direction corresponding to a path between the convection inlet acoustic port and the convection outlet acoustic port.
US08561748B1
A seat suspension includes a lower support frame having a first slot, an upper support frame having a second slot, and a biasing member between the upper and lower support frames. A first suspension arm is connected to the lower support frame at a first end for rotation with respect to the lower support frame and connected to the upper support frame at a second end for rotation with respect to the upper support frame. A second suspension arm is connected to the first slot in the lower support frame for rotation with respect to the lower support frame and for translation with respect to the lower support frame along the first slot, and a second end coupled to the second slot in the upper support frame for rotation with respect to the upper support frame and for translation with respect to the upper support frame along the second slot.
US08561745B2
A saddle-type vehicle is provided with: a seat on which a driver sits; a fuel tank positioned in front of the seat; an engine positioned below the fuel tank and having a crankcase and a cylinder projecting upward from a front of the crankcase; and a fuel vapor passage that is connected to the fuel tank and emits evaporated fuel in the fuel tank to an outside of the fuel tank. At least a part of the fuel vapor passage passes behind the cylinder. The fuel vapor passage is connected to the crankcase mat a portion in a rear side of the cylinder and opens toward oil in the engine.
US08561736B2
Wheelchairs in various embodiments include a variable-position drive system that can automatically move the drive wheels fore and aft through an approximately 41 cm range. Such a system provides all the benefits of front-, mid-, and rear-wheel drive configurations in a single wheelchair, for example, to adjust the drive wheels toward the rear for stability and speed outdoors and toward the center for maneuverability indoors. The performance-optimal placement of drive wheels often depends on the physical environment (e.g., terrain), on the combined center of mass of the wheelchair and user, and on the user's cognitive functioning, trunk stability, and driving skills. One disclosed embodiment includes a pair of mid-position drive wheels that can automatically be repositioned forward or backward to accommodate changes in terrain and center of mass, which will improve the power wheelchair's stability and maneuverability and, consequently, safety and ease of use in a wider range of scenarios.
US08561733B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a load transporting apparatus that automatically aligns a support foot of the apparatus with a load-bearing frame connected to the load transporting apparatus during a recovery phase of an incremental walking movement. In particular, the load transporting apparatus includes a linking device attached to a support foot of the apparatus and a biasing device connected to the linking device that is deflected during non-linear load transporting movements, where the biasing device acts to automatically return the support foot to an aligned position relative to the load-bearing frame after a non-linear movement has been completed and the support foot is raised above a ground surface.
US08561725B2
A drill collar formed substantially entirely from a metal matrix material and one or more metal alloys, the drill collar being produced through a molding process. The metal matrix material of the drill collar minimizes lateral movement and vibration during drilling operations, while providing a weight greater than that of conventional drill collar materials, thereby enabling construction of drill collars and bottom hole assemblies having a reduced length.
US08561724B2
Downhole cutting tools comprise a mandrel, a housing, a sleeve and a cutting blade. The mandrel comprises an inner wall surface defining a bore, and an outer wall surface. The housing is secured to the outer wall surface of the mandrel and comprises an opening. The sleeve is engaged with the outer wall surface of the mandrel. The sleeve comprises a profile that is operatively associated with a profile of the cutting blade such that movement of the sleeve causes the profile of the piston to slide along the profile of the cutting blade. In so doing, the cutting blade is radially extended outward through the opening in the housing to abrade an object located outside the housing. Movement of the sleeve can be achieved by pumping fluid down a bore in the mandrel to slide the sleeve long the outer wall surface of the mandrel.
US08561722B2
A method of controllably milling a window in at least a portion of a cased wellbore comprises: interconnecting a mill advancing device and a mill; applying a pressure differential between the mill advancing device and the mill, wherein the application of the pressure differential causes a downward movement of the mill advancing device and the mill; and causing the mill to engage the at least a portion of the cased wellbore.
US08561718B2
A system for the thermal conditioning of a fluid, more particularly a drilling mud, in Preparation for subsequent cycles of analysis of the composition of the fluid. The system provides for the presence of at least one generator of microwaves for heating the fluid, and a cylinder of non-stick material. The fluid flows through the cylinder such that the heating of the mud takes place in less than 70 seconds.
US08561717B2
The present invention is an articulating hand power tool with a main housing having a longitudinal axis, a head portion rotatably engaged with the main housing for placement at a plurality of angles with respect to the longitudinal axis of the main housing, an integrated circuit board located within the main housing and at least one controller accessible from outside of the main housing for controlling the integrated circuit board.
US08561713B2
A movable soil aeration device with a machine frame, a main input shaft for connection to a drive, an output shaft, preferably a crankshaft, coupled to the main input shaft via a reduction gearing, in which the output shaft can move at least one piercing tool up and down, The piercing tool can be pushed into the soil and be pulled therefrom. Different transmission ratios can be set at the reduction gearing.
US08561708B2
An apparatus and methods of spacing a tool from walls of tubing are provided as embodiments of the present invention. The apparatus can include a centralizer that is inserted in the tubing, the centralizer having inwardly arched sides or inwardly arched bow springs so that an inner diameter of the centralizer increases from a longitudinal midpoint to a longitudinal end point of the centralizer. The centralizer has a smaller diameter than the tubing so that it can be positioned inside of the tubing downstream of a seating ring in a relaxed position so that when the tool passes through the centralizer, the inwardly arched sides or inverted bow springs expand towards an inner wall of the tubing to centralize and inhibit radial movement of the tool when deployed through the inwardly arched sides of the centralizer.
US08561701B2
According to an embodiment, a method of cementing in a subterranean formation comprises: introducing a cement composition into the subterranean formation, wherein the cement composition comprises: cement; water; and calcium silicate hydrate (C-S-H) seeds, wherein a test cement composition consisting essentially of: the cement; the water; and the C-S-H seeds, and in the same proportions as in the cement composition, develops a compressive strength of at least 1,200 psi (8.3 MPa) when tested at 24 hours, a temperature of 60° F. (15.6° C.), and a pressure of 3,000 psi (20.7 MPa); and allowing the cement composition to set. According to another embodiment, the C-S-H seeds are mesoscopic particles, nanoparticles, or combinations thereof, and wherein the C-S-H seeds are in a concentration in the range of about 1% to about 5% by weight of the cement.
US08561699B2
A well screen assembly with enhanced well treatment capabilities. A well screen assembly can include a well treatment substance secured to the well screen assembly, and at least one reactive component of a well treatment stimulant. The reactive component can also be secured to the well screen assembly. A method of treating a well can include expanding a well screen assembly outward in a wellbore of the well, thereby decreasing a distance between a well treatment substance and a wall of the wellbore. Another method of treating a well can include contacting multiple reactive components of a well treatment stimulant with each other in the well, thereby dispersing a well treatment substance about a well screen assembly.
US08561697B2
An apparatus for use in deployment of downhole tools is disclosed. Preferably, the apparatus includes at least an in-ground well casing, a housing providing a hermetically sealed electronics compartment, a tool attachment portion, and a first flow through core. The housing is preferably configured for sliding communication with the well casing. The hermetically sealed electronics compartment secures a processor and a location sensing system, which communicates with the processor while interacting exclusively with features of the well casing to determine the location of the housing within the well casing. A preferred embodiment further includes a well plug affixed to the tool attachment portion, the well plug includes a second flow through core capped with a core plug with a core plug release mechanism, which upon activation provides separation between the second flow through core and the core plug, allowing material to flow through said first and second flow through cores.
US08561680B2
A heat exchanger includes headers and tubes two ends of each of which are connected with and communicate the headers. Each of fins is disposed between adjacent tubes. An end cover is formed with a center hole and fixed to a proximal end of one of the headers. A distal end of a sleeve passes through the center hole to extend into the header, and a proximal end of the sleeve is held by a proximal end surface of the end cover. A first distribution-collection tube is fixed to the sleeve and defines an open proximal end and a closed distal end passing through the sleeve to extend into the header in which openings are formed along a longitudinal direction of the distribution-collection tube in a portion thereof extended into the header. A fixing nut is screwed onto the end cover to press the proximal end of the sleeve against the proximal end surface of the end cover.
US08561678B2
A heat exchanger (such as a radiator) that provides for a consistent tank-to-header joint location. The tank generally includes at least two indentations and at least one isolator having a base at least partially disposed in one of the indentations and a coupler extending from the base for coupling the tank to at least one other component of the heat exchanger.
US08561677B2
A cooling/heating panel has a planar radiation panel (12), a metallic holding member (18) arranged partially on a backside of the radiation panel (12), and a resin heat exchange pipe (16) held by the holding member (18). The holding member (18) has: a flat soaking plate (20) which is superimposed on the radiation panel (12); and a holding portion (22) which is erected on the soaking plate (20) and latches the heat exchange pipe (16). The heat exchange pipe (16) has an outside diameter larger than an inside diameter of the holding portion (22) before the heat exchange pipe (16) is attached to the holding portion (22) and in a state in which the heat exchange pipe (16) is attached to the holding portion (22), the holding portion (22) holds a side face of the heat exchange pipe (16) repulsively from both sides.
US08561674B2
A heat dissipation module includes a plurality of fins and a heat pipe connected with the fins. The heat pipe includes a body, which forms an enclosed space, and an inner ring. A wick structure is disposed on the inner surface of the body, and the inner ring is disposed in the enclosed space for increasing a structural strength of the heat pipe. The inner ring is pressed against the top and bottom of the body or in contact with the wick structure located at the top and the bottom of the body, respectively. The inner ring includes at least one opening located close to the top of the body for communicating inside and outside of the inner ring.
US08561670B2
An apparatus for direct chill casting of metal having an open ended mold cavity formed by a casting surface, a refractory sleeve adapted to receive molten metal, a coolant delivery system for supplying coolant to chill the descending hot metal body, and a boron nitride ring mounted between the refractory sleeve and the peripheral wall of the mold cavity. A downspout may be used instead of a refractory sleeve having a flow control rod or floating baffle to control the amount of molten metal entering the mold cavity. A process for direct chill casting of a metal including continuously filling the cavity with molten metal and permitting the metal to move downwardly through the mold to form an ingot, and simultaneously chilling the ingot by spraying coolant on the ingot from the coolant delivery system.
US08561666B2
An article of flexible furniture having a core formed from a plurality of laminar panels of a flaccid material and each panel having a pair of oppositely directed major faces, adjacent faces of said panels being inter-connected to provide a cellular structure upon movement of abutting faces away from each other, a pair of supports at opposite ends of said core and connected to respective ones of said faces, said supports being self-supporting to provide rigidity to said core whereby said supports may be moved apart to expand said cellular and extend the length of said partition.
US08561665B2
A window covering includes a first set of lift cords extending from a headrail to middle rail. The first set of lift cords is extendable between the headrail and the middle rail to a predetermined distance, which defines a lowermost position of the middle rail relative to the headrail. The first set of lift cords is also retractable to a wound position for defining an uppermost position of the middle rail. A second set of lift cords extends from the headrail to the bottom rail and is extendable from between the middle rail and bottom rail to define an extended position of window covering material. The predetermined distance that the first set of lift cords may extend is selected to help prevent children from becoming entangled in the first set of lift cords when the middle rail is lowered away from the headrail.
US08561660B2
A sipe extending in a tire width direction is provided in a land part (block) of a tread shoulder region, and the sipe is configured to include a first sipe part, a second sipe part having a groove width larger than the first sipe part and a third sipe part larger than the second sipe part. The first sipe part is formed over the whole of a sipe length direction in an opening side region of the sipe and the whole of a sipe depth direction in an inner region on the side of a tire equator; the third sipe part is formed in an outer region on the side of a tread ground contact end in a sipe bottom part region; and the second sipe part is formed in a region between the first sipe part and the third sipe part.
US08561655B2
An automatic ice vending apparatus including a holding vessel formed with an aperture, the holding vessel being configured and dimensioned to receive and house ice pieces produced by an operatively associated ice supply, an ice metering device, and an ice transferring device at least partially disposed within the holding vessel that facilitates movement of ice pieces located therein in a first direction toward the aperture thereof, and movement of ice pieces in a second different direction from the aperture to the ice metering device, which is adapted and configured to meter a quantity of ice pieces into a readily transportable container. Methods and automated methods of delivering ice to consumer(s) are also included.
US08561650B1
Weaving apparatus for use in weaving threads into a woven structure includes a base including a retaining structure, a support portion removably engaging with the retaining structure, and a first insert engaging with the support portion. The first insert includes an upper portion defining a receptacle, and a second insert includes a base having an upper portion and a wall projecting from a lower surface of the upper portion. The second insert is positionable in engagement with the first insert by positioning the wall of the second insert at least partly into the receptacle of the first insert. A weaving platform is operatively positioned between the first and second inserts and around at least part of the wall of the second insert. The weaving platform includes slits around its circumference adapted to secure threads during use of the apparatus for weaving.
US08561649B1
A weaving process for direct manufacture of three-dimensional structures with bidimensional walls with corners, without the need for sewing or other assembly between two ridges. The weaving is made by transforming weft threads into warp threads for making at least one face. The process is particularly adapted for the weaving of reinforcing elements for composite structures of corner fitting type.
US08561647B2
A pressure-relieving safety assembly, comprising a sleeve and collar, protects against human injury and loss of life by blocking flow of fluid from a ruptured high pressure conduit and provides pressure relief for escaping fluid. This pressure-relieving assembly includes a sleeve that encircles the high-pressure line and is secured to, at one or both ends of the line, a coupling. The sleeve is secured to the coupling(s) by a collar having raised portions that provides a path for fluid that has escaped from the conduit at a burst or pin-hole failure location, to flow towards the ends of the conduit, indicating to the user that a conduit failure has occurred. The sleeve lowers the fluid velocity while the path provided by the collar prevents the fluid pressure from building up behind the sleeve.
US08561644B2
A pulsator comprises a valve chamber and an armature arranged in the valve chamber. An electrically powered coil at least partially surrounds the valve chamber and generates a magnetic flux. A magnetic pole piece is arranged in the valve chamber and has a metal surface. The armature has a first end nearest the magnetic pole piece and a second end. The first end of the armature has a metal surface and the second end has a first sealing surface and a second sealing surface.
US08561640B2
A hydraulic valve including an inlet port for receiving a pressurized hydraulic fluid and an outlet port for expelling the hydraulic fluid. The valve also includes a displaceable spool for blocking and unblocking a flow path between the inlet and outlet ports, and a latching mechanism for displacing the spool in response to a pressure surge for the hydraulic fluid. The valve includes a first elastic element and a second elastic element, where the first elastic element urges the spool into a position blocking the flow path and the second elastic element urges the latching mechanism to displace the spool into a position out of the flow path. In an unlatched position of the latching mechanism, force from the second elastic element is transferred to the spool, and in a latched position of the latching mechanism, the spool is isolated from the second elastic element.
US08561627B1
Method for providing a fluid at a target pressure. In one implementation, the method may include providing a semiconductor solution at a velocity to a supply line through a dispenser, measuring a pressure of the semiconductor solution flowing through the supply line, comparing the measured pressure with the target pressure, and adjusting the velocity based on the results of the comparison.
US08561621B2
The present invention relates to an applicator (1) having an applicator element (8) for applying a product, conveyed to the application zone (5) from a separate reservoir, onto a strand of hair or of fibers comparable therewith, and having a strand gripper (12) movable back and forth between a closed position and a opened position. A strand gripper (12) of this kind serves to select and subsequently guide the hair or strands during actual product application. For improved guidance of the hair or strands during product application, the strand gripper (12) comprises a guidance surface (13) that, with the gripper (12) in the closed position, entirely overlaps the application zone (5) and holds the strand in contact with the application zone (5), by preference presses it onto the application zone (5).
US08561611B2
A gas delivery system including a pressure generator, a pressure sensor, a control valve, and a processor. The pressure generator pressurizes breathable gas for delivery to a patient. The pressure sensor measures a pressure difference between the pressurized breathable gas and atmospheric pressure. The control valve is disposed downstream from the pressure generator and is constructed and arranged to control a flow rate of the pressurized breathable gas. The processor controls the control valve to bring the flow rate of the pressurized breathable gas to substantially zero while the pressure generator is operating and, when the flow rate is substantially zero, determines at least one of atmospheric pressure, an atmospheric air density, or a density correction factor based at least in part on the pressure difference between the pressurized breathable gas and the atmospheric pressure.
US08561610B2
A medicament dispensing device, a medicament magazine thereof, and a method of removing a medicament from the medicament magazine. The inhaler has a mouthpiece (9) and an air channel (4) connected thereto, as well as a medicament magazine with at least one medicament chamber containing a powdered medicament. A drive current is produced in the air channel, while a vacuum flow (5′) can be produced by the drive current and a constriction formed in the air channel. This narrowest part of the air channel that produces the vacuum flow is connected to a removal opening (2) which communicates with a control opening (3), in order to form an emptying current through the control opening via the removal opening. In a preferred embodiment the at least one medicament chamber including the control opening, the removal opening and a fill opening are housing in the one-piece medicament magazine.
US08561603B2
A solar collector includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite to the upper surface, a sidewall, a transparent cover, and a heat-absorbing layer. The sidewall is arranged on the periphery of the top surface of the substrate. Thea transparent cover is disposed on the sidewall opposite to the substrate to form a sealed chamber with the substrate together. The heat-absorbing layer is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate and includes a carbon nanotube film having a plurality of carbon nanotubes. The carbon nanotubes in the carbon nanotube film are aligned along a same direction or along different directions.
US08561601B2
A clamshell heat exchanger includes a first clamshell half and a second clamshell half. The first and second clamshell halves each include a through-hole therein. The first and second clamshell halves form a passageway, with a seal region located between portions of the passageway. A fastener is located within the first and second through-holes within the seal region. The fastener is configured to rigidly join the first clamshell half to the second clamshell half while allowing relative lateral motion between said first and said second clamshell halves.
US08561589B2
Balance shaft for a piston engine comprises a bearing journal, on which the balance shaft is supported, a gear section, on which a gear is connected in a rotation-locked manner thereto via a press fit or another shaft-hub-connection, and an unbalanced section having an integrally connected unbalanced mass or an unbalanced mass fastened on this unbalanced section using machine elements or via another shaft-hub connection. The balance shaft can alternately comprise steel or cast iron material in the case of a friction mounting and its bearing journals can alternately be implemented as hardened or also unhardened. If the balance shaft is mounted in roller bearings and if the roller bodies have direct contact with the bearing surface, it is implemented in a suitable steel and the bearing journals are hardened. The gear comprises nodular cast iron and is not hardened.
US08561588B2
A method of operating an engine stop/start system includes connecting an armature of a starter motor to the engine through an overrunning clutch when the engine changes a rotational direction.
US08561587B2
A method for starting an internal combustion engine having direct fuel injection, comprising of adjusting a number of direct injections per combustion cycle based on a cylinder event number from a first cylinder event.
US08561586B2
A rocker arm unit which constitutes a valve gear of an internal combustion engine, includes a lash adjuster including a cylindrical body and a plunger formed into a cylindrical shape and accommodated in the body, a rocker arm extending in a direction perpendicular to a vertical direction, and a clip configured to be fixed to an upper end of the body and formed with a retainer having a retaining portion which is configured to be swaged onto an inner circumferential surface of the upper end of the body. The clip has an extension extending integrally from the retainer. The extension has an upper end engaged with the rocker arm to prevent the rocker arm from falling off the lash adjuster. The retaining portion is configured to abut against the stepped portion of the plunger from above to prevent the plunger from coming off upwardly out of the body.
US08561585B2
A rocker arm unit constituting a valve gear includes a support member, a rocker arm including a roller and walls opposed to each other with the roller being interposed between them and a wire member bridging the support member side and the rocker arm side with each other. The walls have shaft holes into which both ends of a shaft member rotatably supporting the roller extend respectively. The walls have lengthwise ends connected to each other via a receiving portion supported on a top of the support member so that the rocker arm is swung. The wire member has an extending portion extending from the support member side to the rocker arm side and having a distal end. The rocker arm side includes a part located away from the receiving portion. The distal end of the extending portion serves as an engagement portion engaging the rocker arm side part.
US08561579B2
An injection system for injecting one or both of water and alcohol into an internal combustion engine includes a system monitor, a control module and a mixture delivery system. The system monitor can have a parameter level display, the control module can be adapted to receive one or more user-supplied parameters and the control module can be further adapted to store the one or more user-supplied parameters. The control module can also be comprised of a plurality of connectors and at least one electrical signal generator. The injection system can also be comprised of electrical wiring and a mixture delivery system having a pressure source.
US08561575B2
A dulling assembly includes a corrugated bundle having a plurality of generally vertically oriented planar paperboard sheets with fluted paperboard sheets located therebetween, each fluted paperboard sheet being adhered to the two planar paperboard sheets it is located between, and a plurality of grains of sand adhered with glue to a top surface of the corrugated bundle. A method of creating a dulling assembly includes the steps of providing a corrugated bundle, applying glue to a top surface of the corrugated bundle; and applying sand to the top surface of the corrugated bundle.
US08561573B2
The present invention is a plastic litter box odor device that is an active recovery system that includes a removable hood that includes an interior perimeter pathway, an interlocking connection that removably attaches the removable hood to the device, a carbon container that is refillable and serves as a filter media to the device and an odorless exhaust vent that is an outlet point where odors are expelled away out of the device and a removable litter tray that is removably attached to the removable hood and contains cat litter used in combination with the device. The device also includes an air passage that includes odors emitted from the cat litter contained in the removable litter tray within the removable hood, a fan motor that is disposed within the removable hood and a motion sensor switch that senses incoming airflow and odors.
US08561567B2
The present invention is directed toward a food storage container comprising a body with a mechanism for denoting a time in which a food item was placed in the storage container for storage. In one embodiment, the time designation mechanism comprises a plurality of rings where each ring comprises at least one marker. Time is denoted by aligning the marker with a label located proximate to said ring.
US08561565B2
An anchor for mooring of objects in a marine environment for floating vessels, floating, grounded structures etc, which is resistant to hooking or snagging on underwater objects, such as pipelines The anchor comprises a fluke and a shank, and embeds itself into the seafloor when tension is applied to a line connected to the anchor In either a side or top profile view, the shape of the anchor presents a profile which does not have a hook shape, and therefore tends to nde over and slide off of, rather than hook onto, underwater obstructions that the anchor may be dragged over Embodiments disclosed include an anchor having a shank rigidly fixed to the fluke, and one in which the shank is rotatably connected to the fluke An elastic member, which may be a coil spring, biases the shank toward a relatively closed position with respect to the fluke.
US08561564B2
A method and a device for launching an underwater moving body. In order to reduce the expenses arising from furnishing watercraft, a land supported deployment of underwater moving bodies in coastal waters using a launching device is provided with a land-based carrier system for transporting the underwater moving body and a corresponding land-based deploying system.
US08561560B2
A workpiece holder is usable with an embroidery sewing machine including a needle bar movable upward and downward and a transfer mechanism transferring the workpiece in two directions. The workpiece holder holds the workpiece when the workpiece is engraved by striking the workpiece by a striking needle attached to the needle bar while the workpiece is transferred by the transfer mechanism. The workpiece holder includes a pair of connecting portions detachably attached to the transfer mechanism, a placement member on which the workpiece is placed and a holding mechanism which is located on the placement member to hold a part of the workpiece other than a worked surface of the workpiece which is engraved, so that the part is fixed.
US08561559B2
A sewing system that forms an embroidery pattern on the workpiece cloth by co-operating a sewing mechanism and a transfer mechanism using a count of thread colors determined by a count of thread color data found to match thread color data by a verifier. By removing a storage device attached to one of the plurality of multi-needle sewing machines and attaching the removed storage device to other one or more multi-needle sewing machines, unsewn portions of the embroidery pattern at each of the other one or more multi-needle sewing machines are sewn by reading the progress information by a data reader, verifying whether or not the thread color data contained in the progress information read by the data reader matches thread spool color data of other one or more multi-needle sewing machines and executing a sewing operation based on the verification.
US08561552B2
A foldable table includes a table top, two leg frames foldably coupling with a bottom side of the table top, and a torsion resistance frame including two longitudinal side frames parallelly provided along two longitudinal side portions of the table top respectively, and two lateral side reinforcing members laterally extended between the longitudinal side frames at two lateral side portions of the table top to form an anti-torsion frame for encircling with a peripheral portion of the table top. The torsion resistance frame is integrated with the bottom side of the table top, making it a one-piece table frame structure with increased rigidity at its maximum level, resistance to the external force of torsion and distortion. The table, having the maximum utility with minimum materials, has increased durability, comfort in usage and convenience for transportation and has lowered energy consumption in the manufacture of household furniture.
US08561546B2
The invention provides a bogie which comprises a bolster, two side frames and four constant contact dampers, two sides of two ends of the bolster are respectively provided with a wedge pocket; the four constant contact dampers are respectively arranged in four wedge pockets, and each of the four constant contact dampers comprises a wedge and a damping spring; the damping spring is arranged in an inner cavity of the wedge; one end of the damping spring bears against a top inner surface of the inner cavity of the wedge, and the other end of the damping spring bears against a bottom plate of the wedge pocket, wherein the bogie further comprises four through holes and four ejectors which respectively correspond to the four constant contact dampers; the through holes are arranged on the bottom plate, and the position of each of the four through holes on the bottom plate corresponds to the position where the damping spring bears against the bottom plate and a load spring of the bogie; and one end of the ejector penetrates into the damping spring, and the other end of the ejector bears against the load spring through the through hole. The bogie of the present invention solves the technical problem that the deformation of the damping springs keeps constant whether a car is empty or loaded in the prior art, and thus improves the damping effect of the bogie.
US08561544B2
The invention relates to a projectile (1) having a sub-caliber projectile core (2) and a guide cage or sabot (3) that comprises a driving element (4), which acts on the projectile core (2) at the rear thereof and is in the form of a plate composed of metal. In order to produce such a projectile (1) at low cost, the projectile core (2) and the driving element (4), which is in the form of a plate, are inserted as inserts into an injection-molding tool, and are extrusion-coated so that the injection-mold shape is chosen so that the contour of the guide cage or sabot (3) of the projectile (1) is produced after the injection-molding process.
US08561542B2
The invention includes a number of shotgun shells having colored projectiles. When each shooter in a party of shooters utilize shotgun shells which have a projectiles of a color which is uniquely distinctive to that shooter then one is able to determine, by post-shooting inspection of an animate or inanimate target which was fired at by multiple shooters of said party, which of said shooters actually struck the target, how many times and at what place on said target The invention is therefore useful in accurately crediting each shooter for the accuracy of their shooting.
US08561536B2
A film roller for offset printing having a surface with projections and recesses, characterized in that said projections and recesses form an irregular random pattern.
US08561533B2
An apparatus is provided for compressing a loose solid feedstock. The apparatus includes a two stage compressor. The first compression stage is a screw compressor. The second compressor stage is a reciprocating compressor. The reciprocating compressor operates co-axially with, and receives its feed from, the screw compressor. A choke cone maintains pressure in the outfeed from the compressor stages. The reciprocating compressor includes a piston that is driven by a pair of hydraulic rams. The position and operation of the hydraulic rams, the screw conveyor, and the choke cone is monitored by sensors. The reciprocating compressor, the screw conveyor, and the choke cone are all adjustable in real time to control the compression of the feedstock according to a pre-programmed schedule that need not have equal compression and retraction strokes. The operation of the screw conveyor may be advanced or eased off depending on the motion of the reciprocating compressor. The operation of the choke cone may be actively controlled to obtain a coordination with the compressor stages.
US08561529B2
In one aspect of the invention, a container for displaying, preparing and presenting food including a base having an integrated cutter having a plurality of blades and a central hub and a cover removably attached to the base for displaying the food prior to use and for storing the food during and after cutting, the cover having indentations to receive the central hub and possibly the blades to enhance the depth of cutting by the cutter through the food. The base and cover have side walls dimensioned so that the cover interfaces with the base after driving.
US08561526B2
A bread toaster includes an outer cover, a toaster base, a toaster frame mounted on the toaster base, a first sliding member slidably provided on a predetermined side of the toaster frame, a second sliding member also provided on the same predetermined side of the toaster frame, a front supporting frame and a rear supporting frame provided at a front side and a rear side of the toaster frame respectively, a lid arrangement, and a control circuitry, wherein the lid arrangement is arranged to be operated between a closed position and an opened position for closing and opening the toasting slots of the bread toaster.
US08561514B2
A braided carbon nanotube thread includes at least three carbon nanotube filaments braided into a thread. The carbon nanotube filaments include a plurality of carbon nanotubes, each of the carbon nanotubes having a length L. The carbon nanotube filaments are braided such that the carbon nanotube thread has at least 8 intersections per the length L of each carbon nanotube. The carbon nanotube thread has a tensile strength greater than the tensile strength of the constituent carbon nanotube filaments.
US08561511B2
A method and apparatus is provided for cutting an elastomeric laminate that may include a layer of reinforcement cords, into a desired length without cutting through the cords. The method includes the step of cutting through the gum portion of the elastomeric composite material at a desired skive angle, and then opening up the skived cut. Next, the cord reinforcement layer is cut without severing the reinforcement cords. An elastomeric composite strip cut to the desired length is produced and has cut ends. One of the cut ends has the gum portion cut at a desired skive angle adjacent an overhang portion of the reinforcement layer. The opposite end of the elastomeric composite segment also has a skived portion to mate with the skived portion of the first cut end, and a gap in the cord ply to mate with the cord overhang of the first end, resulting in a splice. An improved anvil having independently controlled vacuum zones and adjustable width vacuum zones is also provided, as well as improved cutting mechanisms.
US08561507B2
A screwdriver contains a front part including a connector and a number of ribs, between each two ribs being defined a chamber; a middle part including a central block and a plurality of extending wings, the central block including an orifice, each extending wing including a slot; a rear part including a cover, a shaft, and a plurality of pegs; a plurality of seats axially connected between the two extending wings and the two pegs and located at the chamber of the front part, and each seat being moved between a storing position and an operating position by an external force; a number of bits, each including one end to be inserted into the seat when the screwdriver is operated, the seat is moved toward an operating positions so that another end of the seats extends out of the chamber of the front part to take out a desired bit.
US08561503B2
An example mechanical transmission assembly receives an input rotating at a first rotational speed and provides an output rotating at a second rotational speed. The mechanical transmission selectively adjusts the second rotational speed. The input is provided by a prime mover. The output is provided to a hydraulic pump assembly that rotatably drives a motor-generator.
US08561492B2
A multi-stage transmission has driving gears m and driven gears n in constant mesh and supported for being individually engageable and disengageable with a hollow driven gear shaft. The transmission realizes a smooth speed change by providing cam rods within the driven gear shaft for engagement and disengagement between the driven gears n and the driven gear shaft and by providing compact lost motion mechanisms with axially acting springs for the cam rods, respectively. Swing pawl members each disengageably engage projections formed at circumferentially spaced positions on the inner peripheral surface of each driven gear n to control engagement and disengagement between each driven gear n and the driven gear shaft. The cam rods are moved in the driven gear shaft to operate the swing pawl members. Gear shift driving means includes a control rod moved in sliding contact with the inner surfaces of the cam rods.
US08561490B2
A farm vehicle power take-off device, in particular for a tractor, wherein an output shaft is connected selectively by a drive to a first and second input shaft rotating at different speeds. The selective connection is made by moving a selector sleeve between three settings, in a first and second of which, the output shaft is connected to the first shaft to rotate at a first and second angular speed respectively, and, in a third of which, the output shaft is connected to the second shaft to rotate at a third angular speed different from the first and second angular speed.
US08561484B2
Certain aspects and examples are directed to sorbent devices and methods of using them. In certain embodiments, a sorbent device comprising a body comprising a sampling inlet, a base and a longitudinal diffusion path between the inlet and the base is provided. In some embodiments, the sorbent device can include at least two sorbent materials fluidically coupled to the longitudinal diffusion path, in which the sorbent materials are arranged from a material with a weakest sorbent strength to a material with a strongest sorbent strength with the weakest sorbent strength material adjacent to the sampling inlet.
US08561476B2
A document handling device has a support frame with four legs, at least one of which is height-adjustable. The support frame includes a torsion meter and a display for displaying a torsion of the support frame. The display is arranged in a position where it is visible for a person adjusting the height of the at least one height-adjustable leg. In an embodiment, it is possible to perform state detection between subsequent droplet ejections, thereby obtaining a highly reliable inkjet process.
US08561463B2
A method is disclosed for the automatic detection and identification of errors in a balancing machine during operation, in which a rotor provided with an unbalance is rotatably mounted in a vibratory bearing in the balancing machine and is set in rotation by a drive, the rotational frequency of the rotating rotor and the vibrations stimulated by the rotor are measured and measurement signals which comprise the measured values of the rotational frequency and the vibrations are generated and delivered to an evaluation computer. The evaluation calculation is based on mathematical models of the dynamic properties of the balancing machine which describe stimulations of the machine structure due to the unbalance, in particular in the balancing planes, and/or due to the rotor geometry and/or due to the bearing and/or possible damage to the bearing. Features such as vibration characteristics and/or process parameters are calculated by a signal-model-based method from the measurement signals, and discrepancies are established by comparing the calculated features with predetermined normal features of an error-free process.
US08561461B2
A flow meter includes a heater for heating a fluid flow along a membrane. A temperature difference is measured between and upstream point and a downstream point. There are additionally provided one or more strips of material having a relatively high heat conductivity. Strips that are substantially perpendicular to the flow direction direct heat from the heater to the sides of the membrane, causing a large proportion of the heat that would otherwise drive heat flows to be dispersed and decreases inaccuracies or bias in the measured flow rate. Strips of material that are provided parallel to the flow direction act to direct heat from the heater along the direction of flow. This increases the proportion of heat that flows along this axis and guides the flow and hence reduces the proportion of heat available to drive heat flows that cause inaccuracies and bias in the measured flow rates.
US08561457B2
In order to count the number of steps without involving an increase in circuit size or in computational load, a mobile phone includes a three-axis acceleration sensor to detect accelerations in three directions of X axis, Y axis, and Z axis, which are different from each other, a gravity direction detecting portion to detect a gravity direction on the basis of the detected accelerations in the three directions, a gravity direction acceleration calculating portion to calculate an acceleration in the detected gravity direction on the basis of the detected accelerations in the three directions, and a step counting portion to count the number of steps on the basis of the calculated gravity direction acceleration.
US08561454B2
A photoacoustic gas sensor, system and method is generally described. In some examples, a photoacoustic gas sensor includes a MEMS-based wavelength-selective optical modulator and a ring array of acoustic sensors. The MEMS-based optical modulator can be adapted to provide flexible wavelength selectivity such that a large number of chemical compounds may be detected. The ring array of acoustic sensors can be adapted to measure photoacoustically generated acoustic signals without the need for resonant enhancement of a photoacoustic cell of the gas sensor. In some examples, a unique uncorrelated and deterministic signal may be used to modulate each light wavelength of interest. Signal processing may be used that allows the simultaneous measurement of the absorption spectra of multiple optical wavelengths as well as the rejection of unwanted acoustic noise.
US08561451B2
A system and method for producing flat tubes is described and illustrated. The flat tubes can be produced from at least one strip of endless band material having at least one wall part and an inner part formed with corrugations on a roller train provided with roller pairs, with the strip running in a longitudinal direction through the rollers and being shaped. The inner part of the flat tube can be formed with corrugations placed between the shaped wall parts, after which the closure of the flat tube is carried out. Production of the flat tubes can include forming spaced apart band thinning lines running in the longitudinal direction of the strip, and forming corrugation peaks and corrugation troughs at the band thinning lines.
US08561450B2
A system for annealing a formable panel includes a stamping press configured to pre-form the panel using a first die and a second die. The system also includes a transfer device configured to engage the pre-formed panel and transfer the panel from the stamping press. The transfer device includes a heating element configured to anneal the pre-formed panel. The heating element anneals the pre-formed panel in the stamping press after the first die is disengaged from the panel and while the panel is being supported by the second die. A method of processing a formable panel and a method of processing a pre-formed panel in a multi-stage stamping operation, each using the system, are also disclosed.
US08561446B2
Bonding wires for sophisticated bonding applications may be efficiently formed on the basis of a corresponding template device that may be formed on the basis of semiconductor material, such as silicon, in combination with associated fabrication techniques, such as lithography and etch techniques. Hence, any appropriate diameter and cross-sectional shape may be obtained with a high degree of accuracy and reliability.
US08561439B2
A fabric treating machine according to the present invention comprises a connector which is disposed at an outer tub and is connected to a driving part which is disposed at either the center or the off-center position of the connector optionally. Therefore, not only the direct driving motor but the indirect driving motor can be disposed without change of the outer tub and the connector. Because the common use of the outer tub is possible regardless of the connecting method of the driving part, there are the advantages that the cost is reduced and productivity and assembly are improved.
US08561424B1
Several air motors are powered by a refrigerant that is pressurized to drive an alternator or generator. The electrical output can be used to propel a vehicle or to drive any type of operating system for land, air or sea based systems. The system uses a dual charging system to move pressurized gas that is then injected into an air motor. The gas is then exhausted and condensed back to a liquid. The liquid is stored until it is needed. It is then heated back into a gas, and fed back into the air motor in a continuous cycle. Several of these systems can be installed and connected to a planetary gear system.
US08561417B1
A fluid-sensing switch system that can monitor pre-established threshold fluid levels in the primary drain pan inside an air conditioning unit or other condensate-producing unit, and also in a secondary drain pan positioned under the unit. Once the threaded plug of a sensing probe is connected to the unit's weep hole, it positions a center sensor providing a first power potential through a false-trigger-reducing resilient piece in a position to wait for rising fluid capable of breaching a weep hole dam. A substantially circular sensor is also present provides the second power potential needed for signal generation. A signal-generating member connected to both sensors is electrically connected to the unit to shut it off, and/or activate a pump that removes fluid from the secondary drain pan. The signal-generating member provides the redundant safety alarm capability, when mounted on a secondary drain pan. Anti-microbial elements are optional, but preferred.
US08561406B2
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) systems and methods utilizing the systems are disclosed for producing a useable form of energy utilizing warm surface seawater and cold seawater from depths up to 2 miles below the surface and utilizing a multi-component working fluid. The systems and methods are designed to maximize energy conversion per unit of cold seawater, the limited resource, achieving relative net outputs compared to a Rankine cycle using a single component fluid by at least 20% and even as high as about 55%.
US08561400B2
A hydraulic circuit of an injection cylinder in a die-casting apparatus, which can achieve IN restriction and OUT restriction in a quickly switchable manner with a single circuit and which allows manufacturing of a high-quality molded product. The hydraulic circuit includes: a first pressure oil path supplying pressure oil to the injection cylinder; a second pressure oil path returning the pressure oil from the injection cylinder; a first flow control valve controlling a flow of the pressure oil through the first pressure oil path; a second flow control valve controlling a flow of the pressure oil through the second pressure oil path; a bypass pressure oil path connected to the second pressure oil path for bypassing the second flow control valve; a bypass on-off valve provided on the bypass pressure oil path and opening/closing the bypass pressure oil path with the pressure oil; and a controller controlling each valve.
US08561395B2
An exhaust treatment system includes an emissions treatment device for treating exhaust emitted from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust treatment system includes a frame adapted to support first and second spaced apart portions of the exhaust treatment system. The emissions treatment device interconnects the first and second portions and is in receipt of exhaust from the first portion and provides treated exhaust to the second portion. A first bracket is fixed to the frame and includes one of a protrusion and a receptacle. A second bracket is adapted to be fixed to the emissions treatment device and includes the other of the protrusion and the receptacle. The protrusion is positioned within the receptacle when the emissions treatment device is properly positioned. The protrusion interferes with one of the second bracket and the emissions treatment device to preclude assembly when the emissions treatment device is improperly positioned.
US08561394B2
Suggested is a procedure for heating a catalyst in the exhaust gas system of a supercharged combustion engine with direct fuel injection and variable gas exchange valve control by producing a reactive exhaust gas fuel/air mixture in the exhaust gas system, whereby an air percentage of the reactive fuel/air mixture is thereby produced that air is rinsed from a suction system of the combustion engine over its combustion chambers into the exhaust gas system. The invention distinguishes itself thereby that the combustion engine is operated in idle mode after a cold start with a greater valve overlap and/or a greater valve overlap profile than in a normal operation where the catalyst is already heated as well as with an apportionment of a fuel amount that has to be injected before a combustion into at least two partial injections per ignition and combustion chamber and with a suboptimal ignition angle efficiency.
US08561393B2
A temperature of exhaust gas downstream of an oxidation catalyst is compared to a temperature of the exhaust gas upstream of the oxidation catalyst to determine if the downstream temperature is increasing over time or decreasing over time as hydrocarbons are injected into the flow of exhaust gas to regenerate a particulate filter. The oxidation catalyst is determined to be quenched when the temperature of the exhaust gas downstream of the oxidation catalyst remains constant or decreases over time as the rate at which the hydrocarbons are injected into the exhaust gas increases. The oxidation catalyst is determined to not be quenched when the temperature of the exhaust gas downstream of the oxidation catalyst increases over time as the rate at which the hydrocarbons are injected into the exhaust gas increases.
US08561392B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed for heating a reductant delivery line using coolant from an internal combustion engine where the reductant delivery line receives reductant from a reductant tank and a portion of a coolant line is positioned within the reductant tank. The apparatus includes a coolant temperature module that is configured to determine a reductant tank outlet coolant temperature target. Additionally, the apparatus includes a coolant flow rate module that is configured to generate a coolant valve flow rate command and transmit the command to a coolant valve. The coolant valve is controllable to regulate the flow rate of coolant through the coolant line. The coolant valve flow rate command is based on the reductant tank outlet coolant temperature target, a reductant tank inlet coolant temperature, and a reductant tank reductant temperature.
US08561388B2
A detection apparatus is used to detect a failure of a particulate filter. The detection apparatus includes a PM (particulate matter) sensor, a timing estimating unit, and a failure determining unit. The PM sensor is disposed at a downstream side of the particulate filter in an exhaust passage. The PM sensor includes a pair of electrodes and detects an amount of the PM based on current passing through the PM deposited between the electrodes. The estimating unit estimates a failure-state energization timing at which the PM sensor starts to be energized due to the PM deposited between the electrodes assuming that the particulate filter has failed. The determining unit determines that the particulate filter is in a failure state when an actual energization timing of the PM sensor based on an output of the PM sensor is earlier than the failure-state energization timing estimated.
US08561378B2
Provided is a tamper proof outer wrapping with a reinforced tear zone. The reinforced tear zone includes a tear tape affixed between two layers of the wrapping material. A perforated line runs parallel to the reinforced tear zone on each of the reinforced tear zone. A tab is formed at one end of the reinforced tear zone. The tab is pulled to separate the reinforced tear zone from the remaining wrapping material and open remove the outer wrapping. The wrapping can be used on packages containing smoking articles such as cigarettes or orally consumed products such as candy or pouched tobacco products.
US08561372B2
Thermally responsive walls can be formed of wall panels made from different materials and having staggered conduits with respect to each other when coupled together (e.g., pancaked or layered) to form a wall at one temperature. The staggered conduits in the different wall panels are configured such that they become aligned at a second temperature due to differences in expansion coefficients. The wall panels can be designed using a computing system that processes an algorithm that accounts for various parameters, such as the different thermal expansion coefficients.
US08561368B2
Embodiments of a carved solid face door and methods of fabrication are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a carved solid face door includes a solid base having a substantially flat face and an opposing rear surface, wherein the face has a design carved into at least one section of the face that emulates the appearance of a multiple-piece construction including at least one of a frame, a rail, a stile, a molding, a trim, a plurality of planks, or a panel. Optionally, a backing may be coupled to the solid base. Optionally, the solid base may comprise a plurality of horizontal sections.
US08561364B2
This invention provides support structures on roofs. Such support structure can be used to support a roof load, or a closure structure which doses an aperture in the roof, thus to provide access to the interior of a building through an aperture in the roof. The support structure can support a skylight to provide natural day-lighting, or a smoke vent, or a variety of other loads optionally relating to matter or energy communication between the inside and outside of the building. The support structure includes rails adapted to be supported by adjacent rib elevations on opposite sides of a flat of a roof panel, elevated above the water line of the panel flat. Where the support structure surrounds an aperture, a diverter seals a cut away portion of the rib structure and diverts water through the rib structure and laterally away from the rail and closure structure.
US08561359B2
A baffle vent incorporates an integral drift blocker portion that is connected to the main body portion of the baffle vent by a generally planar transition portion to allow the drift blocker portion to move relative to the main body portion. The main body portion is formed with transversely extending stiffening ribs, while the drift blocker portion is formed with longitudinally extending stiffening ribs with the transition portion being devoid of stiffening ribs to maintain flexibility in the transition portion. The baffle vent structure can be formed in large sheets that span several roof rafters with multiple integral drift blocker portions formed to be positioned between the roof rafters. A deck baffle panel is also provided in a configuration similar to the main body portion to be installed beneath attic flooring in manufactured housing to allow an air flow to remove moisture from beneath the attic flooring.
US08561357B2
A universal flashing is provided for windows and doors. A head flashing assembly is fabricated at a construction site to fit specific door or window widths. A center section which may be extruded with a sloped base, a rear flange, and a front lip. End caps may be provided to snap or glue on the center section. The end caps have a perpendicular fin which serves as an end dam to block the lateral movement of water. The assembly may be inverted for use as a sill pan. The center section may be cut to a desired length and installed over arched windows or doors by bending to shape as it is installed. For arched applications, a combination of rigid and flexible PVC may be coextruded to provide a desired cross sectional profile that is flexible enough to be bent around the arch, but stiff enough to retain its cross section for drainage.
US08561346B2
An automated seed sampler includes a sampling station; a sampler for removing material from a seed in the sampling station; a seed conveyer for conveying the seed from the sampling station to a compartment in a seed tray; and a conveyor for conveying the material removed from the seed to a corresponding compartment in a sample tray. The method of the present invention comprises feeding seeds individually to a sampling station, removing a sample from the seed in the sampling station; conveying the sample to a compartment in a sample tray, and conveying the seed to a corresponding compartment in a seed tray. The samples can be tested, and the seeds can be sorted according to the results of the testing of their corresponding samples.
US08561330B2
A mounting system and method for tautly mounting a flexible material sign includes a plurality of mounting springs affixed to an associated sign structure. Each of the plurality of mounting springs includes a base portion, a grasping portion and a spring portion. The base portion is adapted to be secured to an associated sign structure, such as a structure to which the flexible material sign is to be mounted, a frame or similar structure surrounding the flexible material sign, etc. The grasping portion includes a finger adapted to be received within an aperture of the flexible material sign. The spring portion is disposed between the base portion and the grasping portion for applying a tension to the flexible material sign.
US08561329B1
A rotation apparatus includes at least one magnet, and a flexible suspension coupled to the at least one magnet or to a moveable object. The at least one magnet is suspended from the suspension directly or via the moveable object. Moreover, when the flexible suspension causes rotation in a first direction via a force, the at least one magnet alternately rotates in the first direction and in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US08561327B2
An ironer bed comprising a pair of metal plates (6, 7) that are joined by welding in two layers such that, between the plates, passages (5) are provided for a heat medium; and are configured such that they are capable of partially enclosing an ironer roller (12-15). The plate (7) that faces towards the ironing roller (12-15) is made of non-alloy or low-alloy steel; and the plate (6) that faces away from the ironer roller (12-15) is a plate of stainless steel which is thinner than the former plate.
US08561326B2
A wear assembly for use on a material handling apparatus can include a base having an attachment surface which attaches to the material handling apparatus and an engagement surface which is substantially parallel to the attachment surface, and a cover which protects the base from wear, the cover including another engagement surface which complementarily engages the base engagement surface. Another wear assembly can include a base having an attachment surface which attaches to the apparatus, and engagement surfaces which are inclined and not perpendicular relative to the attachment surface. The wear assembly can also include a cover with engagement surfaces which complementarily engage the base engagement surfaces. Yet another wear assembly can include a base having an attachment surface which attaches to the material handling apparatus, a cover which protects the base from wear, and an internally threaded nut received in a recess in the base.
US08561310B2
A method of determining the launch angle of a putter by evaluating the roll performance of a golf ball after being struck by a golf putter during the execution a putting stroke. The golf ball is placed on a flat testing platform having a nap upper surface and a putting stroke is made by a golfer causing the golf ball to move forward along said platform. As the ball moves along the nap surface, the ball creates skid and roll marks on the nap surface. These marks are compared against a series of known marks to determine the precise launch angle of the putter face of the golf putter being used to execute the stroke.
US08561305B2
A knife includes a handle enclosing one or more of a blade, a blade shuttle, a transmission, and a trigger, where the handle includes a blade aperture. The blade shuttle is longitudinally moveable relative to the handle from a rest position to a first extended position and the blade shuttle is moveable longitudinally from the first extended position to a cutting position when the blade is engaged in a workpiece. The blade shuttle is automatically retracted from the cutting position to the rest position when the blade is disengaged from the workpiece. The blade is detachably secured within the blade shuttle and protrudes a first distance through the blade aperture at the first extended position. The blade is extended from the first distance a substantially fixed length when engaged in the workpiece. The blade is adapted to automatically retract within the handle when disengaged from the workpiece.
US08561304B2
A folding knife (or tool) having opposing handle halves and at least one knife blade (or tool) pivotally attached there between by an adjustable pivot. The adjustable pivot is configured to rigidly connect the opposing handle halves at the pivot point under load from fully tightened fasteners. The distance between opposing handle halves is both adjustable and rigidly fixable, resulting in improved assembly resistance to deflection from shear and torsion loads and reduced tendency of the blade (or tool) to loosen under hard use.
US08561301B2
Razor handles are provided for razors having a battery-powered functionality. Methods of manufacturing such handles are also provided. In one implementation, the handle comprises: a load comprising a motor coupled to a power source; a user-operable switch for controlling energy flow between the power source and the load; a control logic; an arming circuit to prevent the user-operable switch from causing drainage of the power source; and a locking circuit that receives a switch signal from the user-operable switch and an arming signal from the arming circuit, wherein the locking circuit outputs a motor control signal to the control logic in response to the states of the switch signal and the arming signal, wherein the arming circuit comprises a timer for changing the state following lapse of a time interval and an arming switch having a first state and a second state.
US08561296B2
In a first production process, firstly, a flat corrugate tube 23 having a necessary length for wiring is prepared. Next, a grommet 25 and a protector 24 are assembled with the flat corrugate tube 23 at predetermined positions. In a second production process, high-voltage power lines 22 and low-voltage electric wires 27 are inserted into the flat corrugate tube 23 from the one opening 40 toward the other opening 41. In a third production process, ends of the high-voltage power lines 22 and the low-voltage electric wires 27 exposed from the one opening 40 and the other opening 41 of the flat corrugate tube 23 are treated. When the third production process is finished, the production of the wiring harness 21 is finished.
US08561295B2
An adapter assembly is disclosed that enables a memory card having a smaller length than a standard ExpressCard to be compatible with the standard ExpressCard slot. The adapter assembly includes an adapter having side rails configured to disable the ExpressCard slot ejector mechanisms. The adapter assembly further includes a tongue provided for rigidly connecting the adapter to a finger grip, which gets positioned outside of the opening of the ExpressCard slot upon insertion of the adapter assembly into the slot. The adapter allows a memory card having the approximate size, look and feel of a conventional CompactFlash card to be used in a conventional ExpressCard slot.
US08561294B2
A method of manufacturing a circuit board includes the steps of preparing a fiber piece housing paste, fabricating a filtered recovery paste, fabricating a reuse paste, sticking a protective film, forming a hole, and filling the hole with the reuse paste. Furthermore, the method includes the steps of forming a protruded portion constituted of the reuse paste, disposing a metallic foil on both sides of a second prepreg to carry out pressurization, heating the second prepreg to cure the second prepreg and the reuse paste, and processing the metallic foil into a wiring pattern.
US08561273B2
A tool turret, with a base body (1) attachable to a machine tool defines a turret axis (13) around which the tool disk (7) is pivoted on the base body (1). The disk has a plurality of tool stations (45) distributed on its periphery. Turning the tool disk (7) can set it into at least one working position at a time. A tool drive (31, 35) located within the tool disk (7) with its output-side gear part (35) can be turned around an axis of rotation radial to the turret axis (13). By coupling, the tool device engages the tool-side coupling part for driving at least one tool located on the tool station (45) aligned to the working position. The output-side gear part (35) is located in the tool disk (7) to be pivotable around the turret axis (13). The tool disk (7) has a clutch (47) which can be switched between a first operating position in which the output-side gear part (35) for pivoting motion around the turret axis (13) is connected to the tool disk (7), and a second operating position in which the output-side gear part (35) is decoupled from the tool disk (7).
US08561262B1
A hinge assembly includes a housing, an arm and at least one spring. A damping device includes a damper having a piston rod, a maintaining member secured in the housing and an adjustment member. The adjustment member is movably connected to the maintaining member and has a protruded portion located corresponding to the piston rod of the damper. When the adjustment member is moved to a first position relative to the maintaining member, the protruded portion of the adjustment member is located toward the piston rod of the damper, so that the piston rod contacts the protruded portion and retracts to perform damping function. When the adjustment member is moved to a second position relative to the maintaining member, the protruded portion of the adjustment member is moved away from the piston rod of the damper, and no damping function is available.
US08561261B2
Disclosed is an enclosed needle bearing hinge mechanism having externally rotatable race surfaces, internal needle bearings, an internal pathway for introducing grease into the assembly for improved lubrication, reduced wear and a construction adapted to support large door or latch loads. The assembly comprises a housing having at least one needle bearing in contact with an outer rotating race, stationary or counter-rotating interior races, a central pin shaft and an internal pathway for lubrication to be communicated from a topmost grease fitting to the contact interface between the needle bearing and outer rotating race. One or plurality of needle bearing assemblies and counter-rotating outer races may be present within the assembly, each with an independent grease pathway branch. The pathway comprises a hollow internal conduit that allows lubricant to contact each needle bearing in the assembly, reducing friction and improving longevity of the hinge bearing assembly.
US08561252B2
A value document processing apparatus comprises an input for value documents to be processed, an output and/or a storage device for processed value documents, a transport device for singled transport of value documents from the input to the output or the storage device, a housing, a checking device arranged in the housing for checking value documents transported in singled form past it, and a suction conduit system for suction air which has a port for a suction unit for sucking air with dust out of the suction conduit system, and at least one hand cleaning portion connected to the port and having a suction opening movable in the area of the checking device, and/or at least two conduit portions connected to the port and having suction openings arranged at different portions of the transport path and directed onto the transport path.
US08561248B2
The flexible, ergonomic toothbrush with replaceable bristles has a handle, a bristle block having bristles extending therefrom, and a brush head frame configured to removably receive the bristle block. The brush head frame has a pair of parallel prongs that define a recess and that slidably engage opposite sides of the bristle block so that the bristle block can be selectively disposed in first and second operative positions in the recess, the bristles extending in opposite directions in the operative positions. A neck interconnects the handle and the brush head frame, the neck being flexible relative to the handle.
US08561243B2
A cleaning tool device (1) for a pipe (10), the cleaning tool (1) being moved internally in the pipe (10) while rotating about substantially the center axis (12) of the pipe (10), and the cleaning tool (1) being provided with a leading cleaning body (2) at its free end portion (4), and there being arranged, close behind the free end portion (4), a tool support (6) which is arranged to bear on the internal jacket surface (16) of the pipe (10), the tool support (6) being provided with at least one rotatable support cleaning body (8′, 8″, 8′″ and 8″″).
US08561240B2
Disclosed herein is a submersible pool cleaning vehicle having an endless loop track. The vehicle including a housing and the housing having members for moving the vehicle around the pool surface. The vehicle including an endless loop track. The track having an exterior and an interior, the interior having a series of ribs and ridges, the ribs having a predetermined width and pitch. The ribs being centrally located on the track while the ridges flank either side of the ribs. The vehicle including drive members for moving the vehicle around the pool surface. The drive members and associated members for moving the vehicle have an exterior surface with a series of grooves and ridges for compatible connection with the ribs. The width of the rib is substantially smaller than the width of the groove and the track ribs engaging the groves.
US08561234B1
A medical table and clamp apparatus provides a medical table having sides and at least one rail extending along a side. A specially configured clamp travels along the rail, the clamp having a non metallic clamp body. The clamp body has a pair of spaced apart appendages with a recess therebetween. An opening such as a metallic, internally threaded sleeve extends through the body. The sleeve has one sleeve end portion in communication with the recess. An externally threaded shaft threadably engages the internally threaded sleeve. A spherically shaped bearing is mounted on one end. A pusher or pressure plate is mounted on the spherically shaped bearing of the shaft with a connection. The pusher plate is supported by the shaft and the spherically shaped bearing within the recess. Each appendage has an end portion that grasps the rail. The pusher plate is movable toward or away from the sleeve.
US08561228B2
A device for covering a human or animal at rest on a surface comprising a support to reversibly fix the device relative to the surface, and an adjustable covering to cover the human or animal wherein the covering is reversibly fixable at a length so as to ensure that the human or animal's face is not covered by the device.
US08561226B1
An MRI transfer table is provided for transporting a patient and transferring a patient to an MRI table associated with an MRI apparatus. The MRI transfer table includes a mobile frame, a patient support and a series of connectors for detachably connecting the patient support to the mobile frame. In use, the MRI transfer table is aligned with the MRI apparatus and the MRI table is projected underneath the patient support of the MRI transfer table. The patient support is disconnected from the mobile frame and allowed to rest on the MRI table. Thereafter the mobile frame is moved from the MRI apparatus and the MRI table with the patient support thereon retracted into the MRI apparatus.
US08561223B2
According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a bathtub device including a bathtub 2, a jetting unit 3, a jetting driving unit 4, and a controller 5. The bathtub includes a first bathtub wall surface and a second bathtub wall surface opposed to the first bathtub wall surface. The jetting unit is provided in the second bathtub wall surface and configured to jet a jet flow to a sole of a bather bathing in the bathtub. The jetting driving unit is connected to the jetting unit and configured to adjust jetting flow rate of the jet flow jetted from the jetting unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit. The controller is configured to control the jetting driving unit to cause the jetting unit to intermittently jet the jet flow with a strength, a leg of the bather being passively bent by the jet flow with the strength.
US08561222B2
A pool cover device includes at least one platform (1, 2) forming the terrace and displacement elements (110, 111, 210, 211, 15, 16, 17) for this platform so as to enable displacement of the platform on each side of a support area anchored in the ground along an edge of the swimming pool, the platform performing coverage of the swimming pool and also acting as a terrace regardless of its position.
US08561219B2
A self-rinsing urinal and very low water-usage mist-dispensing means mountable in close proximity to a normally-interior portion of at least one positionable panel configured slidably or pivotally positionable from an opening of customary cabinetry of a room or a wall. The urinal is positionable from the customary cabinetry or wall opening, between a zero-footprint concealed state and a revealed-for-use state, such that an interior receptacle surface of the urinal is aligned with said very low water-usage mist-dispensing means during at least a revealed-for-use state, to receive from the mist-dispensing means a distributed misted spray aligned with the receptacle, to repel waste-liquid from and facilitate a self-rinsing of the receptacle while employing as little as single-digit ounce(s) of water, per use-cycle. Certain of the embodiments include the option to provide actuating means for positioning and/or aligning one or more urinal-related components in response to receiving a control signal.
US08561215B2
The girdle comprises two parts or halves (1-2), connected to each other by means of elastic elements (3) covered by adornments in the form of shells (6) coaxially interconnected, or any other type of unitary or fragmented adornment, wherein the plastic elements (3) are fastened to the parts (1) and (2) by means of pivots (7) selectively usable in order to vary the effective length of the girdle, length which also varies depending on the elasticity of the elements (3). Each said part or half (1) and (2) incorporates at the free end and back face thereof hooks (5) for fastening to the clasps (4) of the garment, in such a way that said elastic elements (3) cause traction between the clasps producing the girdling of the garment. The middle area of the elastic elements (3) or more specifically of the adornments encapsulating same, is visible when the parts (1) and (2) are substantially spaced, directly affecting the appearance of the girdle and constituting a changeable element.
US08566945B2
A recursive web crawling and analysis tool that includes conducting an initial crawl of a target to identify testable or analyzable objects. The objects are then parsed to identify vulnerabilities, as well as additional objects that can be analyzed. An attack is then launched against the analyzable objects in an effort to break or verify the vulnerabilities. During this attack, additional analyzable objects may be discovered. If such additional objects are discovered, the web crawler is invoked on the additional objects as well, and the results of the crawl are fed back into the parser and attacker functions.
US08566938B1
A system and method for analyzing electronic messages for phishing detection are disclosed. In one example, email characteristics are obtained by parsing a received email message from a sender/sender organization to a recipient/recipient organization based on a set of predetermined email characteristics; the email characteristics of the received email message are then compared with email characteristics associated with the recipient/recipient organization and/or the sender/sender organization, and the received email message is then declared as a phishing electronic message based on the outcome of the comparison.
US08566936B2
A method and system for protecting a protected entity using a multi-dimensional protection surface are provided. According to various embodiments, the multi-dimensional protection surface is generated by correlating multiple inputs related to the at least one detected attack. The inputs include at least one input identifying the detected attack and another input identifying each attack tool that performs the detected attack. The generated protection multi-dimensional surface includes protection points, where each such point defines at least one attack mitigation action to mitigate the detected attack.
US08566933B2
A state notification apparatus comprises: a holding unit that, when one or more secure runtime environments and one or more non-secure runtime environments are selectively executed in a foreground, holds an identifier of a runtime environment that is being executed in the foreground; a determination unit that determines a state of the runtime environment executed in the foreground based on the identifier held by the holding unit; and a notification unit that causes a hardware device that cannot be accessed from the one or more non-secure runtime environments to notify the state determined by the determination unit.
US08566923B2
The disclosed subject matter comprises an enhanced screen organizer component (ESOC) that can efficiently control organization and presentation of desired screens, which relate to an industrial control system, to a user. At design time, a designer employs the ESOC to select and organize one or more screens for a project relating to a control system, create and organize screen folders that can contain desired folders or screens in a hierarchical fashion, select a home screen or favorite screens, respectively, for the operator, role or group, wherein a home screen can be a screen a user views when authenticated into a terminal or the screen the user can be returned to in response to selection of a home control. During run time, the user can access desired screens, and use context menus to select a home screen, favorite screens, or other screens, in accordance with user access rights.
US08566918B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus may intercept a request to access a resource represented by a resource token. The apparatus may receive a hard token representing identification information of a device. The apparatus may determine, based at least in part upon the hard token and the resource token, at least one token-based rule specifying compliance criteria required to consume the resource. The apparatus may receive at least one token representing compliance information of the device in response to a request for compliance information of the device. The apparatus may then compare the compliance information against the compliance criteria to determine that the device is capable of consuming the resource. The apparatus may then generate a compliance token representing the determination that the device is capable of consuming the resource, and communicate the compliance token to facilitate the provisioning of a container to the device.
US08566917B2
Various techniques and procedures related to user authentication, identity providers, and single sign-on (SSO) are presented here. One approach creates an SSO link between two organizations in a streamlined manner using an internal cross-user systemwide digital certificate, and without processing any user-created, user-uploaded, or user-assigned digital certificates. Another approach presented here configures an identity provider service for an entity or organization by processing a single user command. The identity provider service is automatically configured in the background without processing any additional user commands, user instructions, or user-entered data.
US08566916B1
A method, system, and apparatus for agile generation of one time passcodes (OTPs) in a security environment, the security environment having a token generator comprising a token generator algorithm and a validator, the method comprising generating a OTP at the token generator according to a variance technique; wherein the variance technique is selected from a set of variance techniques, receiving the OTP at a validator, determining, at the validator, the variance technique used by the token generator to generate the OTP, and determining whether to validate the OTP based on the OTP and variance technique.
US08566908B2
A method allows access to a set of secure databases and database applications over an untrusted network without replicating the secure database. The method involves authenticating a user using a first authentication application. When the user is verified, then the user's credentials are directed to a second authentication application associated with a secure database based on a first set of user settings retrieved for the user. The second authentication application, based on a second set of user settings, grants the user access to the secure database and database applications associated with the secure database.
US08566905B2
An electronic device includes a display part, a system control part for designating a display target to be displayed by the display part and switch the display target to another display target, a display control part for instructing the display part to display an operation screen corresponding to the display target designated by the system control part, and a receiving part for receiving a request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part from a use restriction application and receiving a request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part from the use restriction application. In a case where the receiving part receives the request for initiating the exclusive use of the display part, the system control part ceases switching the display target to the other display target until the receiving part receives the request for terminating the exclusive use of the display part.
US08566893B2
Systems and methods for using tokens to link the television and the Internet platforms. The tokens are tightly encoded into the content and a registry controls the linking of the television content to specific Internet-based content. The registry also polices the validity of the tokens and optionally provides the token owner with continued control over the Internet content associated with that token. When the two platforms are linked successfully, the consumer receives quality content, while being protected from unwanted Internet content.
US08566888B2
In a system that is capable of operating in a broadcast mode and a switched mode, it is advantageous to be able to shift program delivery between the two modes. Thus when one video program is being delivered to at least a first customer in a first mode, this program may be delivered to at least a second customer in a second mode that is different from the first mode. In this manner, the video program that is being delivered to first customer will be maintained in the original mode while new requests for this program will be served in a different mode until the delivery of the program to the first customer has been completed. In other words, legacy program delivery is maintained until the program delivery has been completed or otherwise terminated, while delivery of the program in response to new requests for the same program will be delivered in a different mode instead.
US08566887B2
Apparatus and methods for efficiently and flexibly providing caption data (e.g., closed captioning) to subscribers of a content-based network, such as for example Internet protocol television (IPTV) subscribers. In one exemplary embodiment, the apparatus includes a server performing real-time extraction and encapsulation of caption data, transport of caption data to client devices over the network, and use of one or more applications running on the client devices to decode and display the caption data consistent with the multimedia (audio/video) content with which it is associated. In one variant, instant messaging (IM) infrastructure is used to authenticate clients and receive and display the caption data via a separate transport process. Server and client-side apparatus adapted for caption data receipt, decoding and display are also disclosed.
US08566884B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying user selection preferences of an identified user having accessed the network, the identifying based on an accumulation of user selection inputs executed by the identified user, relative to input options presented to the user and identifying respective available network items, the accumulation including an identification of the input options not having been selected by the identified user; determining a group of network users having a highest correlation of shared interests with the identified user, based on identifying preferred network items for the identified user, and identifying first network users providing highest relative user affinity values for each of the preferred network items; and determining at least one of new network items most likely to be preferred by the identified user, based on determining, from among network items not presented to the identifier user, the preferred network items for each of the first network users in the group.
US08566883B2
A hospitality establishment includes guest rooms having media devices installed therein. Each guest room has one or more in-room media devices for providing a pay-per-use media function. A media system controller dynamically associates a credit corresponding to a monetary value with a particular guest room in response to an occurrence of a first event, configures an in-room media device of the particular guest room to indicate the credit associated with the particular guest room and allow a guest of the particular guest room to utilize at least an amount of the credit toward an order of the pay-per-use media function, activates the pay-per-use media function on at least one of the in-room media devices of the particular guest room in response to a received order, and decreases the credit associated with the particular guest room according to the amount of the credit utilized toward the received order.
US08566882B2
Systems, method and apparatus are described for facilitating the collection of data from television receivers. First and second television receivers exchange data over a wireless communication link. The first television receiver transmits the data received from the second television receiver to a data collection system associated with a television provider. The data collection system processes the received data to analyze the operation of the second television receiver.
US08566879B2
Methods and apparatus for navigating video content. Digital markers may be placed at desired locations within recorded or cached video content. In one embodiment, these markers (or bookmarks) may be used to instantly jump to a particular scene or location within a video presentation. Such markers may be manually or automatically placed during live caching of video content or playback of previously recorded content. In another embodiment, selectable thumbnailed images that are representative of the video content at previously bookmarked locations may be presented to a user. Such selectable thumbnailed images may be integrated with a DVR status bar and, when selected, may be used to begin viewing stored video content from the bookmark corresponding to which ever thumbnail is chosen.
US08566872B2
Provided is a summary management method including: a step for receiving a program signal providing a program, a step for acquiring a summary of a web content associated with the program together with the summary management information, and a step for managing the acquired summary according to the management information.
US08566871B2
A multiple Interactive Program Guide (IPG) system provides different television programming and different IPGs to several different users respectively. A single set-top box is capable of providing programming and scheduling data to several different television sets. Each of the different IPGs share a common database. Therefore, a first IPG being viewed by a first user can display data added or modified via a second IPG by a second user of the system. Furthermore, the data added or modified by the second user can influence the viewing rights of the first user. Also, all the competing and conflicting requests for limited resources, such as VCR scheduled recordings, will be brought to the users' attention and will be displayed by the system.
US08566866B1
An identification server correlates the web browsing behavior of individuals with their use of social media systems. Based on these behaviors, web identifiers (referred to as identities or IDs) may be matched to social media identifiers; these matches being determined, stored, and output as a confidences that the web identity of the user corresponds to a social media identity. Each web identity may be associated with one or more social media identities. The identity correlations between web identities and social media identities may be used along with other alignments to provide information regarding the time-based media (e.g., advertisements) a user may have likely been exposed to, and to provide targeted advertisements.
US08566864B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a server having a controller operable to monitor for emergency messages over a broadcast network and over the Internet, obtain an emergency message based on the monitoring where the emergency message comprises text data, audio data, schedule data and location data and where the text and audio data correspond to a plurality of languages, generate an alert message comprising the schedule data, the location data and at least a portion of the plurality of languages of the text and audio data, and multicast the alert message over an Internet Protocol Television network to a plurality of set top boxes, wherein each of the set top boxes presents a text alert that is synchronized with an audio alert based on the multicast alert message when the location data corresponds with a location of the set top box. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08566863B2
An IPTV and a method of processing emergency alert system (EAS) data in an IPTV are provided. The method includes receiving the EAS data, processing an EAS message based on the received EAS data, and sending response information (RI) data to a server.
US08566859B2
A method for distributing geographical restriction data in an internet protocol television (IPTV) system is disclosed. The method includes accepting at an IPTV server, a request from an IPTV client for the geographical restriction data related to geographically restricted video data, determining at the server, a plurality of geographic restriction zones for the geographically restricted video data and sending from the server to the client a message containing the restriction data related to at least one of the restriction zones.
US08566853B2
Disclosed is a turn table for a spindle motor, the turn table including a clamping plate having a locking protrusion protruding from an inner surface of a first recess that is concavely formed in an outer circumference of the clamping plate, and a turn-table body having a second recess to receive the clamping plate and having protrusions that protrude from an inner surface defined by the second recess towards the first recess to lock an upper surface and a side surface of the locking protrusion.
US08566852B2
Disclosed is a disc clamp including a disc clamp body having a rotational axis hollow engaged with a rotational axis; a first disc balancer that is projected from the disc clamp body in the horizontal direction and formed in a first thickness A; and a second disc balancer that is bent downwards from an end of the first disc balancer in order to fix the disc and formed in a second thickness B, wherein an angle formed between a horizontal surface of the first disc balancer and the second disc balancer is from 92° to 95°.
US08566851B2
An optical disc drive according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a case; a tray for loading an optical disc; and a flexible flat cable for connecting a first connector installed at the rear of the case and a second connector of a printed circuit board installed at the rear surface of the tray, where insulating tape for impedance matching may be attached to the flexible flat cable. The insulating tape may be attached to a bottom surface of a fixed part of the flexible flat cable. Also, tape with meshed lines of conductive material may be attached to a surface of the moving part of the flexible flat cable come into contact with the printed circuit board while the tray stays in the case. Therefore, the present invention allows low cost flexible flat cables to be used for SATA interface without generating errors due to impedance mismatch.
US08566847B2
Techniques presented herein provide approaches for out-of-band host management via a management controller. In one embodiment, the management controller provides an application programming interface (API) specifying one or more functions for managing one or more applications executing on a host computer. The one or more functions may be invoked by a requesting entity.
US08566843B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided for sharing information in a distributed system. After information is received, it is stored on a bulletin board. In use, the information is shared, in real-time, among a plurality of heterogeneous processes.
US08566835B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to dynamically resizing a virtual machine container. According to one embodiment, an optimal utilization is determined based on a desired performance for a multi-tiered application and transaction mix information that describes a mix of transactions that result from executing the multi-tiered application. Automatic modification of an amount of a physical resource a virtual machine container is entitled to for executing a particular application component associated with the multi-tiered application is enabled where the amount is automatically modified based on the optimal utilization.
US08566834B2
The present disclosure provides, in some embodiments, a method for managing applications and resources. According to some embodiments, a power orchestrator may comprise (a) receiving information handling system resource status, (b) receiving one or more application registrations from one or more applications to be executed on the information handling system, (c) formulating a resource priority schedule using the received resource status and the one or more application registrations, (d) formulating a resource allocation schedule in accordance with the resource priority schedule, (e) communicating the resource allocation schedule to the one or more applications, and (f) allocating one or more resources to the one or more applications in accordance with the resource allocation schedule. A method may comprise, according to some embodiments, determining whether one or more of the one or more applications will submit a registration update and/or determining whether available resource(s) match demand and adjusting resource status to match demand.
US08566809B1
An apparatus, system, and method for the improved validation of information across a communications network provide a common validation rules library that may be accessed and executed either by a client or server. The provision of a minimal amount of logic either to the client or the server is achieved by generating only a requisite amount of validation logic. Furthermore, developers are enabled to reuse and build upon validation logic by subsequent validation logic inheriting validation logic from a parent rule.
US08566808B2
A system may include an application programming interface (API) layer, a cache layer, and an object storage/access layer. The API layer may expose an interface to store a business object and an interface to retrieve the business object, and may transmit a request to store the business object and a request to retrieve the business object, and the cache layer may cache the business object and transmit the request to store the business object and the request to retrieve the business object. The object storage/access layer may receive the request to store the business object and, in response to the request to store the business object, to invoke a serialization method exposed by the business object to store the data associated with the object in a data structure. The object storage/access layer may also receive the request to retrieve the business object and, in response to the request to retrieve the business object, to invoke a deserialization method of the business object to deserialize the data associated with the business object in the data structure.
US08566802B2
A method of holding information for identifying a cause for an object becoming problematic and presenting the information to a user. The method ascertains the cause of memory consumption by a program in a computer system. This method includes: acquiring a first call path related to the creation of an object from a memory; acquiring a second call path related to the connection to the object from the memory; and determining a common part of the acquired first and second call paths, wherein the common part indicates the cause in the program.
US08566801B2
Techniques for generating concurrent static single assignment (CSSA) are provided. The techniques include generating a clocked control flow graph of a program, for each thread of the program created through async instruction, determining each part of the program that can execute concurrently with each thread to create a pair comprising a thread and a parallel program part, for each pair that can execute concurrently, using one or more flow equations to perform node-by-node matching, and using the node-by-node matching to generate CSSA form for the program.
US08566796B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling interaction between a user and a software probe inserted into application code for monitoring and testing application performance. Communications are initialized with the software probe and a user interface is provided to the user. Command data is received from the user through the interface and forwarded to the software probe. In response, data communications are received from the software probe.
US08566794B2
A test module can be configured to initiate test scenario creation for a target application, and an interaction entry definition module can be configured to define, during the test scenario creation, a plurality of interaction entries representing a sequence of user interactions with a plurality of user interface elements of the target application. A test scenario compiler can be configured to include the plurality of interaction entries in a test scenario file representing a test scenario, and a checkpoint entry definition module can be configured to receive an indicator that a property of a user interface element from the plurality of user interface elements has been selected for verification, and configured to define a checkpoint entry configured to trigger verification of the property of the user interface element from the plurality of user interface elements based on the test scenario file during test scenario verification of the target application.
US08566790B2
A system includes a processor, a storage medium, an extensible markup language (XML) schema stored on the storage medium, and a script for manipulating an XML document stored on the storage medium. The script includes an import function to import the XML schema such that the definitions of the XML schema are used to interpret the script.
US08566788B2
In a system in which documents are generated dynamically in response to user requests, historical data is collected regarding data retrieval subtasks, such as service requests, that are performed to generate such documents. This data is used to predict the specific subtasks that will be performed to respond to specific document requests, such that these subtasks may be initiated preemptively at or near the outset of the associated document generation task. A subtask that would ordinarily be postponed pending the outcome of a prior subtask can thereby be performed in parallel with the prior subtask, reducing document generation times. In one embodiment, the historical data is included within, or is used to generate, a mapping table that maps document generation tasks (which may correspond to specific URLs) to the data retrieval subtasks that are frequently performed within such tasks.
US08566776B2
In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes automatically adding a first power line in a channel between at least two macros when less than two system power supply lines with opposite polarities are detected within the channel.
US08566774B2
A method is provided for optimized buffer placement based on timing and capacitance assertions in a functional chip unit including a single source and multiple macros, each having a sink. Placement of the source and macros with the sinks is pre-designed and buffers are placed in branches connecting the source with the multiple sinks. The method includes: calculating an estimated slack for each branch based on cycle reach, calculating a minimum slack for each branch, arranging branches according to the calculated slack to evaluate at least one most critical branch, inserting decoupling buffers in all branches except the most critical branch(es) and placing decoupling buffers close to the source, globally routing the most critical branch(es) and fixing slew conditions within this branch, globally routing at least one subsequent branch as arranged according to the calculated slack and fixing slew conditions within this branch(es), and routing all remaining branches.
US08566771B1
A computer identifies a metal layer, in a design, which contains routing track segregated by blockages. The sections of segregated routing track are removed and new routing track are added along the periphery of the blockage. It is determined if contact can be created between the component and the new routing track with the addition of a vertical interconnect access (VIA) structure. If contact can be created, then the VIA structures are added to create contact. If no contact can be created then another new routing track is added with (VIA) structures such that contact is created. Further routing track and VIA structures are added to higher metal layers to form a connection between a routing terminus located on a top metal layer and the new routing track and component.
US08566767B1
A system and method are provided for actuating static and dynamic analysis tools in parametrically intercoupled manner for synergistic optimization of an electronic system design. The system and method execute a timing designer process for selectively actuating the static analysis tool to conduct timing analysis based on at least one predetermined timing model and generate a plurality of estimated values for certain signal parameters to be in compliance with predetermined timing constraints. A signal exploration process is executed to receive the estimated values from the timing designer process and configure the resources of the dynamic analysis tool responsive thereto. The signal exploration process actuates the dynamic analysis tool to conduct electrical integrity analysis based on transient simulation and generate a plurality of simulated values for signal parameters. The simulated values are back annotated to the timing designer process for timing closure.
US08566766B2
System and method for effectively detecting small delay defects is disclosed. The method first loads layout information of an integrated circuit. Then, the nets and paths of the integrated circuit are partitioned into two groups based upon their physical information. The physical information comprises the length of each path and net and the number of vias at each path and net. A timing-aware automatic test pattern generator is configured to generate test patterns for the first group having paths and nets susceptible to small delay defects. A traditional transition delay fault test pattern generator is configured to generate test patterns for the second group.
US08566762B2
A worst-case temperature calculation unit calculates, based on heat value information of each layer of a three-dimensional integrated circuit to be designed and stack structure information of the three-dimensional integrated circuit, a worst-case temperature of a layer during operation that is targeted for logic synthesis. A logic synthesis library selection unit selects a library appropriate for the calculated worst-case temperature. A logic synthesis unit performs logic synthesis on the targeted layer with use of the selected library.
US08566761B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-based method and apparatus for determining datapath bit slices. A first two-way search is performed between an input vector and an output vector to identify gates in a datapath. A network flow is then constructed including the gates identified, and a min-cost max-flow algorithm is applied to the network flow to derive matching bit pairs between the input vector and the output vector. Next, the datapath bit slices are determined by performing a second two-way search between each of a starting bit in the input vector and an ending bit in the output vector of each of the matching bit pairs.
US08566760B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing thermal analysis of a multi-die integrated circuit (IC) design layout. The thermal analysis produces a temperature distribution for analyzing internal properties of each die within the multi-die design and for analyzing thermal interactions between two or more dies of the design based on an internal configuration of the two or more dies. Therefore, in some embodiments, the temperature distribution shows a temperature distribution for each die and the individual temperature distributions show varying temperature across each of the dies. Some embodiments reduce the number of iteration required to perform the thermal analysis by constructing a high quality preconditioner based on thermal conducting segments introduced to model thermal effects at the boundaries between two dies.
US08566757B2
A method for defining a full phase layout for defining a layer of material in an integrated circuit is described. The method can be used to define, arrange, and refine phase shifters to substantially define the layer using phase shifting. Through the process, computer readable definitions of an alternating aperture, dark field phase shift mask and of a complimentary mask are generated. Masks can be made from the definitions and then used to fabricate a layer of material in an integrated circuit. The separations between phase shifters, or cuts, are designed for easy mask manufacturability while also maximizing the amount of each feature defined by the phase shifting mask. Cost functions are used to describe the relative quality of phase assignments and to select higher quality phase assignments and reduce phase conflicts.
US08566751B2
A method and computer system for rapid and accurate automatic vectoring of a graphical user interface pointer to a selectable item on a display. Based upon pointer movement input from a pointing device (e.g., a mouse, touchpad or specially configured keyboard), a direction of travel vector from an initial anchor position towards a target item is determined. The location of the target item is extrapolated and the pointer is automatically moved to that target item. To ensure that the pointer moves to the intended target item, the location of the target item is extrapolated based upon the direction of travel vector and default and/or user defined parameters. Optional user defined parameters include initial pointer anchor position, vector sensitivity, automatic selection of target item, and user defined pointer limitations.
US08566748B2
A human-machine interface system for an industrial automation environment is provided. The human-machine interface system includes a communication interface configured to receive machine data from an aggregation server, a user interface configured to display graphical data to a user, and a processor coupled to the communication interface and the user interface. The processor is configured to process the machine data to produce first graphical data including a first human-machine interface including one or more tabs, transmit the first graphical data to the user interface for display, and detect a pointer indicating an interest over one of the one or more tabs. The processor is also configured to process the machine data to produce second graphical data including the first human-machine interface including an open drawer corresponding to the one of the one or more tabs, and transmit the second graphical data to the user interface for display. The drawer includes a thumbnail graphic of a second human-machine interface.
US08566738B2
A system for collecting data elements relating to events in an interventional procedure includes an input, a clock, a memory and a display. The input, during the interventional procedure, receives the data elements from at least two systems use in the interventional procedure. The clock registers a time of receipt of the data elements. The memory stores items relating to respective events, each item including the corresponding data element and the corresponding time of receipt. The display displays representations of the items sequentially along a timeline in accordance with the respective times of receipt.
US08566734B1
A system, method, and computer program product for creating a visual component in an application include a first functional unit operable to receive first input specifying logic functions of the visual component, a second functional unit operable to receive second input defining one or more visual assets to be included in a layout of the visual component, and a third functional unit operable to receive third input in alternate forms, said third input specifying one or more layouts of the visual component. The alternate forms may include tag input and script input.
US08566722B2
Methods and systems for presentation of content through an interface to provide personalized video feeds to a user. The video feeds are harvested from feed items gathered at various Internet sources. Those video feeds are referenced by icons or channels that rotate about, or scroll within, a first carousel. Video feeds are arranged in columns and/or rows that rotate about, or scroll within, a second carousel. Movement in one carousel causes movement in the other in a synchronous manner even though the movement may be at different speeds.
US08566701B2
System, apparatus and method for managing documents and metadata generated by a plurality of software application systems are provided.
US08566700B2
A client terminal acquires from a server terminal one or more document information which includes at least a thumbnail image and document identification information for identifying document data corresponding to the thumbnail image, and includes first annotation data and/or second annotation data associated with the document identification information. If first annotation data is included in respective acquired document information, the client terminal displays a thumbnail image with which the first annotation data is combined, as a list with thumbnail view, on a display unit. If the second annotation data is included in specified document data, the client terminal individually displays specified document data with which the second annotation data is combined, on a display unit.
US08566684B1
A plurality of columns for a check matrix that implements a distance d linear error correcting code are populated by providing a set of vectors from which to populate the columns, and applying to the set of vectors a filter operation that reduces the set by eliminating therefrom all vectors that would, if used to populate the columns, prevent the check matrix from satisfying a column-wise linear independence requirement associated with check matrices of distance d linear codes. One of the vectors from the reduced set may then be selected to populate one of the columns. The filtering and selecting repeats iteratively until either all of the columns are populated or the number of currently unpopulated columns exceeds the number of vectors in the reduced set. Columns for the check matrix may be processed to reduce the amount of logic needed to implement the check matrix in circuit logic.
US08566679B2
An error-correcting coding method generates code words of m bits from useful data blocks of n bits. The method adds k check bits to a block of n useful data bits in order to generate a code word of m=n+k bits, said check bits being defined according to the combination rules defined by a parity matrix H consisting of binary elements and having k rows and m columns such that H·V=0, V being a column matrix whose m elements are the m bits of the code word to be generated. The k check bits are separated into two groups, on the one hand a group of k1 bits called total parity bits PT and on the other hand a group of k2 bits called conventional check bits VC, the values of k, k1 and k2 satisfying the conditions k=k1+k2 and k>k1>2, the matrix H whose columns can be swapped being broken down into six submatrices A, B, C, D, E and F. Another method detects multiple errors in code words generated by the coding method.
US08566675B2
Methods and apparatus to facilitate determining or selecting a depth of error detection and/or error correction coverage, and detecting and/or correcting errors in data in accordance with the determined or selected depth of error detection and/or error correction coverage.
US08566656B2
A test interface circuit operates with different types of core circuits. As consistent with various embodiments, the test interface circuit includes a test input register (TIR) configured to select an operating mode and a plurality of test point registers (TPRs). Each TPR is configured to control signals passed from the input port to a mixed-signal core circuit, responsive to the received test input signals and the operating mode selected by a TIR. In a static mode, each TPR provides serial access to digital inputs and outputs of a mixed-signal core circuit. In a bypass mode, each TPR bypasses TPR slices to preserve test time in response to the TPR being chained to other ones of the TPRs during integration of at least two mixed-signal cores.
US08566653B2
A controller is used to provide a sharable, programmable and composable infrastructure. The controller includes a user manager to take input of user application programming interface calls that correspond to actions accepted from users. A physical manager fulfills requests from the user manager by manipulating distributed physical resources and logical devices in a network controlled by the controller. A configuration effector implements configuration changes to the physical resources and logical devices. A device monitor determines a status of the physical resources and logical devices, propagates the status to the physical manager for detecting a failure of the physical resources and logical devices in real-time, and mitigates the failure.
US08566651B2
An apparatus includes a data manager and interface logic with a plurality of interface ports including at least one network interface port. The data manager and interface logic is operative to obtain digital and analog data, via the plurality of interface ports, from a plurality of digital and analog device types, where the data includes device operating parameters and alert condition notifications related to device faults or potential device failure. The data manager and interface logic is also operative to write and email a report conforming to a plurality of configurable report settings in response to occurrence of a device alert condition or a specified reporting interval, obtain updates to the device operating parameters from a remote device over the at least one network interface port, and provide the updates to corresponding devices over the plurality of interface ports.
US08566648B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for testing a device. In some implementations, a request to perform a test instruction on one or more of a plurality of computing devices is received at a server. The test instruction may be configured to test an application or capability associated with the one or more computing devices. The test instruction may be written in accordance with a computer programming language capable of being translated into a plurality of different programming language instructions sets. A first computing device may be selected from the plurality of computing devices. The first computing device may be capable of performing instructions written in a first one of the computer programming language instruction sets. The test instruction may be transmitted to the first computing device via the network. A response message may be received from the first computing device.
US08566636B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to block layout and block allocation in a file system to support transparency of application processing. At least one copy of an application is replicated in a write affinity region of a secondary server, and at least one copy of the application is replicated in a wide striping region across a cluster file system. When the application is subject to failure, application processing is transferred from the failure location to the write affinity copy. At the same time, the failed application is rebuilt using the wide striping replication of the application. Once the application is rebuilt, processing may return to the failed location employing the rebuilt application.
US08566633B2
A method of dynamically allocating a task or a signal on a statically allocated and embedded software architecture of a vehicle includes identifying a faulty component. The faulty component may include a software component, a hardware component or a signal or communications link between components. Once the faulty component is identified, any tasks performed by or signals associated with the faulty component are identified, and the tasks performed by or the signals associated with the faulty component are re-allocated to an embedded standby component so that performance of the re-allocated task and/or signal for future system operations is performed by the standby component.
US08566632B2
Various embodiments relate to a network receiver using distributed clock synchronization. The network receiver may include a first timing engine that samples bits received by the receiver with a first clock having a first clock frequency (f1) with a first clock frequency tolerance (Δf1), and a second timing engine that samples bits received by the receiver with a second clock having a second clock frequency (f2) with a second clock frequency tolerance (Δf2). The second clock frequency is less than the first clock frequency. The network receiver may also include a third timing engine that samples bits received by the receiver with a third clock having a third clock frequency (f3) with a third clock frequency tolerance (Δf3). The third clock frequency may be greater than the first clock frequency. The network receiver may also include a timing engine resolver that determines which of the first, second, and third timing engines correctly samples the bits received by the receiver; wherein f1−Δf1
US08566619B2
A plurality of data queries that operate on a heat-intensive dataset is determined. A plurality of access plans that correspond to the plurality of data queries is determined. An overall power consumption of the plurality of access plans is computed. It is determined that the overall power consumption exceeds a power consumption threshold. A first cooling area of a plurality of cooling areas to accommodate the heat generation based, at least in part, on cooling characteristics of a plurality of cooling appliances of the plurality of cooling areas is selected. A target storage device associated with the first cooling area is determined. The heat-intensive dataset from the source storage device is moved to the target storage device.
US08566616B1
Use of an electronic design in a configurable device is controlled by a secure device. The configurable device includes an authorization code generator having a sequence generator and an encryption core implementing an encryption algorithm. The secure device uses the same sequence generator and encryption core in its own authorization code generator. The sequence generators in the configurable device and secure device generate identical streams of values that are encrypted using the encryption algorithm. The encrypted values are compared in the configurable device by a comparator. When the streams of encrypted values are not identical, the electronic design is prevented from operating. Where the period of the sequence generated by the sequence generators is long, such as 264, the output of the encryption cores will contain that many different encrypted values, a substantial amount of highly randomized output used as authorization code for the protection of the electronic design.
US08566610B2
Embodiments of methods for restoration an anti-theft platform are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08566608B2
The invention described herein provides a method and system for foiling a keylogger by creating a custom keyboard driver and passing the keystrokes directly to the browser in an encrypted format. The browser (which is used to access the Internet) has a component that decrypts the keystroke before it is sent to the website. Thus the present invention enables the user to go to any website and enter sensitive information (passwords, credit card numbers, etc.) without the keystrokes being intercepted by Keyloggers.In general terms, the invention described herein provides a method and system for (1) modifying the keyboard driver, (2) encrypting the keystrokes between the keyboard driver and the browser, and (3) notifying the user if the invention has been compromised.
US08566605B2
A method, system and computer readable media for dynamically updating current communication information, for enabling access to current communication based upon biometric information and/or for allowing communication information to be associated with biometric information and then allowing this communication information to be provided to desired recipients.
US08566583B2
A method of handling IP packets transmitted from a correspondent node to a mobile node via an intermediate node using the IPsec security protocol. The method comprises, at the correspondent node, identifying specified selector information within the part of the packet to be encrypted, and incorporating the identified information or a digest thereof into a header part of the packet which is to be sent unencrypted, transmitting the packet from the correspondent node to said intermediate node, and, at the intermediate node, receiving the transmitted packet and identifying a policy to be applied to the packet using said information or digest contained in the packet, and applying the policy to the packet.
US08566579B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward authentication systems, devices, and methods. Obfuscated executable instructions may encode an authentication procedure and protect an authentication key. The obfuscated executable instructions may require communication with a remote certifying authority for operation. In this manner, security may be controlled by the certifying authority without regard to the security of the electronic device running the obfuscated executable instructions.
US08566576B2
Mechanisms are provided for performing approximate run-ahead computations. A first group of compute engines is selected to execute full computations on a full set of input data. A second group of compute engines is selected to execute computations on a sampled subset of the input data. A third group of compute engines is selected to compute a difference in computation results between first computation results generated by the first group of compute engines and second computation results generated by the second group of compute engines. The second group of compute engines is reconfigured based on the difference generated by the third group of compute engines.
US08566572B2
A method of masking the end-of-life transition of a microprocessor electronic device including reprogrammable non-volatile memory containing an end-of-life state variable. On booting, the value of the variable is loaded into RAM. After executing any current command, it is verified whether the value of the variable stored in RAM is FALSE. If the response is negative, the end-of-life transition is executed. Otherwise, initialization or execution of the command is continued. On detecting an intrusive attack, it is instantiated by writing the TRUE value to the end-of-life state variable in RAM only and then deferring writing of the TRUE value to the variable in the non-volatile memory until the next write operation. The invention is applicable to any electronic device, smart card, etc.
US08566569B2
Machine-based filtering of a pattern history table includes identifying a matching previous occurrence of a current branch instruction in an address history vector (AHV), the AHV storing addresses, or partial addresses, of most recently occurring branch instructions. In response to determining a direction history of the previous occurrence matches a direction history of the current branch, the machine-based filtering includes comparing the outcome of the previous occurrence with the outcome of the current branch instruction, and preventing the pattern history table from being updated with the outcome of the current branch instruction when the outcome of the previous occurrence does not match the outcome of the current branch instruction.
US08566566B2
There is provided a vector processing apparatus and method allowing for the parallel processing of a plurality of different instructions while maintaining vector processing architecture. The vector processing apparatus includes an instruction memory storing a multiple instruction group including one or more instructions; an instruction fetch unit reading the multiple instruction group from the instruction memory; and a plurality of instruction processing units each receiving the multiple instruction group through the instruction fetch unit, selecting a single instruction from the multiple instruction group according to a previous arithmetic result, and performing a arithmetic operation.
US08566564B2
A method for caching attribute data for matching attributes with physical addresses. The method includes storing a plurality of attribute entries in a memory, wherein the memory is configured to provide at least one attribute entry when accessed with a physical address, and wherein the attribute entry provided describes characteristics of the physical address.
US08566563B2
Memory address translation circuitry 14 performs a top down page table walk operation to translate a virtual memory address VA to a physical memory address PA using translation data stored in a hierarchy of translation tables 28, 32, 36, 38, 40, 42. A page size variable S is used to control the memory address translation circuitry 14 to operate with different sizes S of pages of physical memory addresses, pages of virtual memory address and translation tables. These different sizes may be all 4 kBs or all 64 kBs. The system may support multiple virtual machine execution environments. These virtual machine execution environments can independently set their own page size variable as can the page size of an associated hypervisor 62.
US08566562B2
An operation method of a memory includes the steps of calculating an offset of sequential write commands and the beginning of pages of a block of a non-volatile memory; shifting the block by the offset; and directly writing data from a host to the pages except the first and last pages of the block by the sequential write commands. In an embodiment, the pages are logical pages providing optimal writing efficiency and are determined before calculating the offset. The step of shifting the block by the offset is to increase corresponding logical block addresses (LBA) in the pages by the offset.
US08566561B2
The subject matter disclosed herein describes a method of allocating and persisting memory in an industrial controller without requiring a battery backup or a large capacitive storage system. Each data object is identified as static or dynamic. Static objects are further classified by whether frequent access of that data object is required. Each of the data objects is stored in non-volatile memory. The dynamic data objects and static data objects requiring frequent access are stored in volatile memory. A record of static data objects is maintained in non-volatile memory and a record of dynamic data objects is maintained in volatile memory. Upon power loss, the present value of each dynamic data object is copied to non-volatile memory. When power is restored, the values of both the dynamic data objects and the static data objects that require frequent access at run-time are copied from non-volatile memory to volatile memory.
US08566560B2
A system and method for configuring storage resources for database storage are disclosed. A method may include mapping at least one first tablespace having a first block size to at least one first logical unit. The method may also include mapping the at least one first tablespace and the at least one first logical unit to a first cache having a size equal to the first block size. In addition, the method may include mapping at least one second tablespace having a second block size to at least one second logical unit. The method may further include mapping the at least one second tablespace and the at least one second logical unit to a second cache having a size equal to the second block size.
US08566558B2
To efficiently manage data including control information.A storage apparatus connected to a host requesting data writing includes one or a plurality of storage devices and a controller for allocating a storage area in page units to an area of a virtual volume to write the data in response to a request from the host to write the data wherein if the data regarding which the host makes the write request includes control information and data excluding the control information is specified data, the controller releases the allocation of the page allocated to the area for writing the relevant data.
US08566555B2
The data insertion system has a storage system 1, a backup storage 2 and a backup controller 3. The data insertion system has a first distribution index information obtaining unit 311 that obtains first distribution index information concerning arrangement in the storage system 1; a configuration information request unit 312 requests system configuration information indicating a configuration of disk drives 111 to 114 and second distribution index information of the storage system 1 from the storage system 1; a device distribution index information generation unit 1011 that generates the system configuration information and the second distribution index information; and, a new data arrangement information generation unit 314 that generates new data arrangement information on the basis of the generated system configuration information, the generated second distribution index information, and the first distribution index information.
US08566535B2
A system includes a cache and a processor coupled to the cache. The cache stores data in multiple storage tracks and each storage track includes an associated multi-bit counter. The processor is configured to perform the following method. One method includes writing data to the plurality of storage tracks and incrementing the multi-bit counter on each respective storage track a predetermined amount each time the processor writes to a respective storage track. The method further includes scan each of the storage tracks in each of multiple scan cycles, decrementing each multi-bit counter each scan cycle, and destaging each storage track including a zero count.
US08566534B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, to manage an address space for large caches are described. In some implementations, a method includes receiving data to be cached in a cache address space associated with a cache memory. The cache address space includes two or more designated portions of the cache address space, such that each of the two or more designated portions has an associated minimum amount of data allowed to be cached therein. Additionally, the respective minimum amounts of the two or more designated portions are different from each other. The method also includes selecting a cache address for caching the received data from one of the two or more designated portions of the cache address space that has an associated minimum amount of data allowed to be cached therein being less than the received data. Further, the method includes caching the received data at the selected cache address, and accessing at least a subset of the data cached at the selected cache address.
US08566532B2
An apparatus for controlling access to a pipeline includes a plurality of command queues including a first subset of the plurality of command queues being assigned processes the commands of first command type, a second subset of the plurality of command queues being assigned to process commands of the second command type, and a third subset of the plurality of the command queues not being assigned to either the first subset or the second subset. The apparatus also includes an input controller configured to receive requests having the first command type and the second command type and assign requests having the first command type to command queues in the first subset until all command queues in the first subset are filled and then assign requests having the first command type to command queues in the third subset.
US08566529B2
The exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a generalized LRU algorithm is provided that is associated with a specified cache associativity line set value that is determined by a system user. As configured, the LRU algorithm as presented can comprise n-levels for an LRU tree, each specified tree being individually analyzed within the LRU algorithm. Within each LRU tree level comprises the associativity line value can be further broken down into sub-analysis groups of any desired configuration, however, the total sub-analysis group configuration must equal the specified cache associativity line value.
US08566528B2
In an embodiment, a combining write buffer is configured to maintain one or more flush metrics to determine when to transmit write operations from buffer entries. The combining write buffer may be configured to dynamically modify the flush metrics in response to activity in the write buffer, modifying the conditions under which write operations are transmitted from the write buffer to the next lower level of memory. For example, in one implementation, the flush metrics may include categorizing write buffer entries as “collapsed.” A collapsed write buffer entry, and the collapsed write operations therein, may include at least one write operation that has overwritten data that was written by a previous write operation in the buffer entry. In another implementation, the combining write buffer may maintain the threshold of buffer fullness as a flush metric and may adjust it over time based on the actual buffer fullness.
US08566522B2
Systems and methods for management of a cache are disclosed. In general, embodiments described herein store access counts in file system metadata associated with files in the cache. By encoding access counts in the file system metadata, file I/O operations are reduced. Preferably, the reference count is encoded in an access count timestamp in the file system metadata. The access counts can be decoded based on the difference between the access count time stamp and a base time value, with larger differences reflecting a larger access count. The cache can be aged by advancing the base time value, thereby causing the access count for a file to drop. The base time value can also be stored in file system metadata, thereby reducing file I/O operations when performing aging.
US08566515B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to memory subsystems implemented within, or connected to and accessed by, parallel, pipelined, integrated-circuit implementations of computational engines designed to solve complex computational problems. Additional embodiments of the present invention are directed to memory subsystems implemented within, or connected to and accessed by, a variety of different types of electronic devices. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a memory controller implemented in a first integrated circuit or other electronic system and one or more separate memory devices. Alternative embodiments of the present invention incorporate the memory controller within one or more memory devices that are connected to, and accessed by, an integrated-circuit-implemented computational engine or another electronic device. In alternative embodiments of the present invention, the memory controller and memory are together integrated within a computational engine or another electronic device. Alternative embodiments of the present invention include a multi-access memory that interfaces to a simpler memory controller for connection to, or integration within, a computational engine or other electronic device.
US08566512B2
A method and system for automatically aligning the location of a write request of a guest operating system (OS) to a storage boundary of a computer system that hosts the guest OS. The computer system detects an indication of misalignment between a partition of the guest OS and a storage boundary in data storage. In response to the indication, the computer system shifts the partition by a number of bytes to align a starting location of the partition to the storage boundary, and shift locations of subsequent data access requests of the guest OS by the same number of bytes.
US08566511B2
A solid-state storage device with multi-level addressing is provided. The solid-state storage device includes a plurality of flash memory devices, a volatile memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to store data received from a host in the plurality of flash memory devices in response to a write command and to read the data stored in the plurality of flash memory devices in response to a read command. The controller is further configured to maintain a multi-level address table that maps logical addresses received from the host identifying the data stored in the plurality of flash memory devices to physical addresses in the plurality of flash memory devices containing the data. A first level of the multi-level address table is maintained by the controller in the volatile memory and second and third levels of the multi-level address table are maintained by the controller in the plurality of flash memory devices.
US08566510B2
A system and method for merging sectors of a flash memory module, the method includes: receiving multiple sectors, each received sector is associated with a current erase block out of multiple (L) erase blocks; accumulating the received sectors in a sector buffer, the sector buffer is stored in a non-volatile memory module; maintaining a merged sector map indicative of a sectors of the sector buffer that have been merged and sectors of the sector buffer waiting to be merged; finding a first sector waiting to be merged according to the merged sector map; merging the first sector and other sectors that belong to a same erase block as the first sector; and updating the merged sector map to indicate that that the first second and the other sectors that belonged to the same erase block were merged.
US08566504B2
A nonvolatile block erasable memory array links erase blocks together for programming with high parallelism as a metablock. Erase blocks are operated in banks, with each bank having a dedicated bus and controller. Sub-metablocks of different metablocks, in different banks, are accessed in parallel allowing different metablocks to be updated at the same time.
US08566501B2
A circuit for simultaneously analyzing performance and bugs includes a mapping unit and a USB 3.0 data flow analyzer. The mapping unit is used for mapping commands transmitted to a USB 3.0 host through a peripheral component interconnect express and internal events of the USB 3.0 host to a packet of a USB 3.0 bus. The USB 3.0 data flow analyzer is used for analyzing performance and bugs of the USB 3.0 host through the packet of the USB 3.0 bus.
US08566490B2
An automatic addressing bus system and method of communication comprising a main and an end device, wherein the respective bus controllers used in the main and end devices comprise multi-master capability. The main controlling device has an address known to the end device to be connected, the end device is able to actively initiate the address allocation procedure, without the need for user interaction. The method and system of the present system may be implemented using such known bus systems such as 2-wire serial buses, in particular I2C, and enables both automatic and dynamic address allocation.
US08566486B2
A controlling apparatus includes: a storage device arranged for storing at least one Byte Enable property compatible to a processing device; and a controlling circuit coupled to the storage device for generating at least one Byte Enable signal to the processing device according to the Byte Enable property compatible with the processing device.
US08566485B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first interface circuit, a direct memory access (DMA) controller coupled to the first interface circuit, and a host coupled to the DMA controller. The first interface circuit is configured to communicate on an interface according to a protocol. The host comprises at least one address space mapped, at least in part, to a plurality of memory locations in a memory system of the host. The DMA controller is configured to perform DMA transfers between the first interface circuit and the address space, and the DMA controller is further configured to perform DMA transfers between a first plurality of the plurality of memory locations and a second plurality of the plurality of memory locations.
US08566481B2
Systems and method embodiments of managing configuration data are disclosed. One method embodiment comprises storing account-specific configuration data at a device included among a group of devices, the account specific-configuration data capable of being shared among the group of devices common to a single account; and storing device-specific configuration data at the device, the device-specific configuration data not shared among the group of devices.
US08566472B2
A system and method for providing a password to a user on a network, the network having provider computer and a user computer, the provider computer comprising a password system configured to issue a password to a user of the user computer for use in accessing age-restricted content once a determination has been made that the user is age appropriate.
US08566469B2
A method and system for a predicting and streaming content utilizing multiple stream capacity. The method includes receiving a selection to change to a different channel, streaming data associated with the different channel from a source to a buffer at a destination, predicting a next channel selection based on the different channel, and streaming data associated with the predicted next channel selection from the source to another buffer at the destination.
US08566463B2
To improve efficiency of accessing and managing the central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (“CCDSVM”) of the present invention, the hundreds and thousands of systems in the CCDSVM can be organized into multiple groups (service pools) with a multi-layered hierarchy. The CCDSVM includes at least a control system to control and organize a management pool that comprises a plurality of middle level control systems, and each middle control system can control a service pool that comprises a plurality of servers (computing devices). In addition, different privileged users are permitted to log into each control system at different levels for further accessing the permitted servers in each pool. Specially, the present invention including a method of web based multi-tasking support to enhance the web based manageability and operations of the multi-layered CCDSVM.
US08566450B2
The present invention provides maintains site persistence in a hierarchical Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) deployment. Via configuration of GSLB services locally and remotely on each of the GSLB appliances and LB appliances at a site, a site appliance identifies and associates requests from the GSLB with the site. Furthermore, the site appliance may receive a GSLB cookie with the client request and confirms the request is from the expected GSLB in the site hierarchy. When the load balancers receives a response from a server, the appliance may include the GSLB cookie with the response back to the client. The appliance may also include an LB cookie to identify the server selected by the LB. When the client sends another request, the request may include the GSLB and LB cookie.
US08566449B2
Validation systems and methods are described to validate domain name services (DNS) or other configuration data for multiple network services provided by a common multi-tenant application server. A validation system suitably receives configuration data from the multi-tenant application server for each of the services provided. The validation system also performs a validation query to a domain name services or other public service on the network to obtain public data about each service. The publicly-available information is compared to the data received from the multi-tenant application server, and any anomalies are reported and/or repaired as appropriate.
US08566447B2
Virtual service switching includes contracting to provide a requestor with a unit of computing capacity to a service within a specific time period, creating one or more plans based at least in part on the contracting, scheduling execution of the one or more plans using the computing capacity, and if a bid for at least part of the unit of computing capacity is received prior to the end of the specific time period, allocating at least part of the computing capacity based at least in part on the bid. Each of the one or more plans comprises software code and associated data.
US08566444B1
A method and system for checking data against a plurality of rules simultaneously. A data string having keywords in the data string is received. All of the keywords in the data string are simultaneously examined against rule keywords using for example, a finite state machine constructed by the Aho-Corasick algorithm. The rule keyword represents at least one rule of the plurality of rules. It is determined which of the plurality of rules are satisfied by the data string based on whether each keyword matches the rule keywords. Such rules may be used for application such as negative security policies.
US08566442B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for testing a client for audio/video/subtitle playback capabilities. A computing device is configured to receive a virtual machine data file that includes an operating system, a web server, a content playback application, and a test program. The virtual machine data file is executed to cause the operating system and web server to initialize. The web server detects a communications connection to the client, transmits the content playback application to the client for execution, and transmits one or more tests included in the test program to test the audio/video playback capabilities of the client. The computing device is further configured to receive, from the client via the web server, test results associated with the one or more tests, and to store the test results in a memory.
US08566438B2
A communication system including a database adapted to store communication tag information; and a database agent. The database agent is adapted to determine if a communication has a task tag. The database agent is adapted to transfer predetermined communication tag information of the task tag of the communication to the database. The database agent is adapted to automatically send a communication based upon information stored in the predetermined communication tag information.
US08566414B2
A method may include receiving, via a first network, a message identifying an event, where the event is associated with an entity, and the event is destined for at least one user. The method may include determining, by a processor of a computing device, a type of the event, and accessing, by the processor, a user profile associated with a first user of the at least one user, where the user profile associates the first user with the entity. The method may include determining, by the processor, a communication channel for delivering information associated with the event to the first user, where the user profile includes an association between the communication channel and the type of the event. The method may include forwarding, via a second network, to the first user, the information associated with the event, where the information associated with the event is forwarded via the communication channel.
US08566413B2
The present invention relates to a system and method to facilitate communications of important messages, communications, or interactions. Policies are introduced that consider a user's current situation, including the cost of interrupting the user, or directly sensed surrogates for such a cost, and decide on a suitable time, within a deadline for delivering the information or establishing a communication. Deadlines for delivery are determined based on the urgency of the information that is inferred or detected from the message sender, type, and content. If a suitable context is not detected within a deadline, the information is delivered at the deadline. If it is determined that a suitable context will not achieved within a deadline, the information is transmitted immediately. Suitable contexts for delivery can be determined via the use of one or more sensors on or near endpoint devices, including accelerometers, microphones, touch sensing, and gaze and head pose detection. Other information, including appointment status as indicated on a user's calendar, the time of day, and previously assessed patterns of availability can be employed in decisions about the deferral of alerts. Endpoint sensors, calendar information, and patterns of availability also may be used to identify the likelihood that information will be received at a device. Such information can be passed back directly or in a summary form as the likelihood of transmission success to a central notification manager or used locally in decisions about the salience and repetition of alerting.
US08566411B2
Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic mail message by executing instructions contained in the electronic mail attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic mail message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic mail message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network.
US08566410B2
An automated system for delivery of messages to multiple recipients, and for processing of responses to the messages, includes a message client, message server, and a system database. A message is created using a universal message form. The message content can be translated into multiple formats and sent to one or more different recipients using one or more different types of messaging devices, including pagers, e-mail readers, telephones, cellular telephones, personal computers, fax machines, and voice mail systems. A recipient profile manager allows each recipient to select the messaging devices to be used for message delivery as well as preferred messaging schedules, priorities, and message security. Receipt of the messages by the recipients is verified, response requirements collected and consolidated from multiple sources and presented to the message originator in a structured format.
US08566405B2
Disclosed is a session control method in a Converged Internet Protocol (IP) Messaging (CPM) server for supporting a CPM session between a first client subscribing to a CPM service and a second client not subscribing to the CPM service, the session control method includes, after the CPM session is initiated between the first and second clients through the CPM server and an Interworking Function (IWF), receiving a session modification request message including specific media from the first client; sending the session modification request message including the specific media to the IWF through the initiated CPM session; and receiving a response message from the IWF, the response message including a reason for a rejection of the session modification request message including the specific media.
US08566403B2
Systems (and corresponding methodologies) capable of searching, pre-searching, fetching and pre-fetching multi-media content for inclusion into an SMS (Short Message Service), MMS (Multi-media Message Service), IM (Instant Message) or other message type based upon predictive- and rules-based searching techniques are provided. The systems can predict or infer an in-process message, for example, based upon a portion of the inputted text message. Thereafter, in real- or near real-time, content related to the topic of conversation can be retrieved from a local store, remote stores (e.g., servers) or cloud-based sources. The retrieved content can be incorporated into the SMS, MMS, or IM message as appropriate or desired thereby enhancing the messaging experience.
US08566402B2
A system for dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes includes a plurality of message queues, at least one topic/node table, a subscribing module, a publishing module, and other modules to send messages between one or more publisher and one or more subscribers. These modules are coupled together by a bus in a plurality of nodes and provide for the dynamic message routing on a topic between publishing nodes and subscribing nodes. The message queues store messages at each node for delivery to subscribers local to that node. The topic/node table lists which clients subscribe to which topics, and is used by the other modules to ensure proper distribution of messages. The subscribing module is use to establish a subscription to a topic for that node. The publishing module is used to identify subscribers to a topic and transmit messages to subscribers dynamically. The other modules include various devices to optimize message communication in a publish/subscribe architecture operating on a distributed computing system. The present invention also includes a number of novel methods including: a method for publishing a message on a topic, a method for forwarding a message on a topic, a method for subscribing to messages on a topic, a method for automatically removing subscribers, a method for direct publishing of messages, and methods for optimizing message transmission between nodes.
US08566397B2
A collaboration service operation method provides an efficient and flexible method for operating services implemented across multiple systems. In particular, the method includes determining a change in a master record, and determining the nature of the change. Based on the nature of the change, the method further determines services to be implemented according to business rules and also determines to which systems the services will be implemented.
US08566388B2
A method and apparatus for managing numerous messages are provided. The method includes: A. pulling, by a client terminal, a message index list from a server; B. pulling, by the client terminal, message bodies corresponding to message indexes in the message index list in batches; C. managing, by the client terminal, the pulled message bodies and message indexes by using a message pool mode; D. after receiving a finish indication triggered by a user, storing, by the client terminal, the message indexes and the message bodies in the message pool to a local disk. By using the present invention, numerous messages are managed.
US08566382B2
Apparatus and methods for storing data in a block to provide improved accessibility of the stored data in two or more dimensions. The data is loaded into memory macros constituting a row of the block such that sequential values in the data are loaded into sequential memory macros. The data loaded in the row is circularly shifted a predetermined number of columns relative to the preceding row. The circularly shifted row of data is stored, and the process is repeated until a predetermined number of rows of data are stored. A two dimensional (2D) data block is thereby formed. Each memory macro is a predetermined number of bits wide and each column is one memory macro wide.
US08566381B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for sequence detection. As an example, a method for data detection is disclosed that includes: receiving a series of data samples at a detector circuit; multiplying a portion of the series of data samples by a first correlator value corresponding to a first binary transition to yield a first value; multiplying the portion of the series of data samples by a second correlator value corresponding to a second binary transition to yield a second value; adding the first value to a prior state value to yield a first interim value; adding the second value to the prior state value to yield a second interim value; and selecting the larger of the first interim value and the second interim value to yield a surviving interim value.
US08566367B2
Provided is a medical image information system that prepares a diagnosis report for which link information for referring to a medical image stored in an image server is set, and displays a medical image not stored in the image server. The medical image information system includes a reservation request unit that makes a storage location reservation request for the medical image not stored in the image server prior to storing the medical image not stored in the image server, a reservation unit that receives the storage location reservation request and makes reservation for storage location of the medical image not stored in the image server, and a link information setting unit that sets the link information for the reserved storage location.
US08566366B2
A portion identifying a file attribute identifies an attribute of an unconverted file (e.g., a name of an application used to create a document). A file format converter converts the file in a selected format. A portion adding a file attribute and writing it to a file provides the identified file attribute in the form of text and adds it to the file. After a file is converted in format, an original file attribute can still be referred to. A file attribute, such as an application used to create a document, can be used to sort and search for a file.
US08566348B2
User-submitted content (e.g., stories) may be associated with descriptive metadata (intersection metadata), such as a timeframe, location, tags, and so on. Story content is presented in a virtual space, such as a forum, chatroom, or the like. Users submit collaborative content as the story is presented in the virtual space. The collaborative content is synchronized to presentation of the story. An author may replay the presentation and synchronized collaborative content and/or select portions of the collaborative content for inclusion in the story.
US08566337B2
Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include a plurality of search engine pipeline stages, each of the plurality of search engine pipeline stages being configured to submit a particular search request to a plurality of search engines. The apparatus may also include the plurality of search engines, each of said plurality of search engines being configured to provide search results to one or more of the plurality of search engine pipeline stages.
US08566327B2
A method for profile matching includes receiving a plurality of user profiles, each user profile comprising traits of a respective user. The method includes receiving a preference indication for a first user profile of the plurality of user profiles. The method also includes determining a potential match user profile of the plurality of user profiles based on the preference indication for the first user profile. The method also includes presenting the potential match user profile to a second user.
US08566326B2
Each of a plurality of Worker processes are allowed to perform any and all of the following tasks involving logged work items: (1) reading a subset of the work items from a log; (2) sequentially ordering work items for corresponding data objects; (3) applying a sequentially ordered set of work items to a corresponding data object; and (4) transmitting a subset of work items to a Worker process running on another database server in a cluster, if necessary. These tasks can be performed concurrently, at will, and as available, by the Worker processes. An improved checkpointing technique eliminates the need for the Worker processes to get to a synchronization point and stop. Instead, a Coordinator process examines the current state of progress of the Worker processes and computes a past point in the sequence of work items at which all work items before that point have been completely processed, and records this point as the checkpoint.
US08566322B1
A method of determining a clustering metric includes receiving a first set of transactions and a second set of transactions. For transaction i of the first set and transaction j of the second set, the method includes (a) determining an intersection set, (b) determining a union set; (c) computing a common linkage between transaction i and transaction j equal to the intersection set divided by the union set, and (d) incrementing index j and repeating steps (a)-(c). The method also includes (e) summing the common linkages between transaction i and the transactions of the second set, (f) normalizing the sum of the common linkages by a number of the second set, and (g) incrementing index i and repeating steps (a)-(f). The method further includes (h) summing the normalized common linkages and (i) normalizing the sum of the normalized common linkages by a number of the first set.
US08566321B2
A method and apparatus for mapping concepts and attributes to distance fields via rvachev-functions. The steps including generating, for a plurality of objects, equations representing boundaries of attributes for each respective object, converting, for a plurality of objects, the equations into greater than or equal to zero type inequalities, generating, for a plurality of objects, a logical expression combining regions of space defined by the inequalities into a semantic entity, and substituting, for a plurality of objects, the logical expression with a corresponding rvachev-function such that the resulting rvachev-function is equal to 0 on a boundary of the semantic entity, greater then 0 inside a region of the semantic entity, and less then 0 outside the region of the semantic entity. Also included is the step of generating a composite rvachev-function representing logical statements corresponding to the plurality of objects using the respective rvachev-functions of the objects.
US08566302B2
Consumer data that is submitted through a company's website is tagged and then monitored to assure that the consumer data is not used for unauthorized purposes. A filtering program is capable of identifying pre-authorized users and routing the consumer data only to those pre-authorized users. A banner logo or seal is used to identify websites that comply with pre-determined standards for maintaining the security and privacy of website submissions. The banner logo or seal is automatically removed from a company's website for the failure of the company to maintain compliance with security and privacy standards of consumer data.
US08566300B2
A method and apparatus for efficiently maintaining XML index structures in a database system is provided. Instead of immediately synchronizing the XML index structures for every change submitted to the database, the changes are stored in a PENDING table. The XML index structures are periodically synchronized, based on certain criteria or at a user's discretion. Between synchronizations, the XML index structures may be in stale mode or current mode. If in stale mode, a request to access indexed information will use the XML index structures to find the desired indexed information without checking the PENDING table. If in current mode, a request to access indexed information will search the XML index structures and also check the PENDING table to determine 1) whether the indexed information has been updated or deleted, and 2) whether information relevant to the request has been inserted or updated.
US08566298B1
A method and apparatus for sharing an exclusive lock for a resource amongst a defined plurality of applications. A first application to lock a resource is given a key. The first application may provide the key to other applications to allow those applications to simultaneously access the locked resource. Generally, the first application will only provide keys to applications that are compatible with the first application such that the applications having keys to a resource will be able to simultaneously access the resource without conflict.
US08566294B2
This disclosure relates to database systems and, more particularly, to database systems with version controlled data. A version controlled database program resides on a computer readable medium, having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include defining a version object software layer. The version object software layer may be configured to read and write data of a version controlled database to a physical storage medium, maintain one or more versions of at least one element of the data, and provide access to the data. The operations may also include defining a database management software layer. The database management software layer may be configured to read and write data to the version object software layer and provide a database access interface for accessing the data.
US08566293B2
An apparatus for creating and managing personalized services includes: a pre-processing unit for converting vendor- and device-specific sensor data into a normalized form; an analysis unit for determining a current state of entities being managed based on the normalized sensor data to thereby determine whether current services and/or resources that have been allocated to a user are being satisfied or not; and a personalization unit for examining state-related context data to determine what action to take. The personalization of the services and/or resources provided to a user or set of users is managed by context-sensitive policy rules. In addition, a set of abstractions, in the form of preferences, profiles, and subscriptions, are collectively used to determine the set of services and/or resources, as a function of context, that a user or set of users are entitled to receive.
US08566286B1
A system and method for backing up a database, where the system has read threads running simultaneously, write threads, and data buffers. Each read thread repeats the following operations until all the data is backed up: read a block of data from the database, compress the data using a dynamic compression ratio which is initialized and adjusted after every compression, write the data to an available data buffer until the data buffer is full, write to the next available data buffer once the data buffer is full, and determine a new compression ratio. A controller determines the new compression ratio using either a method that monitors the timing of system components and/or a method that monitors CPU consumption.
US08566283B2
A system and method for changing records associated with a software application. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a change command to change a record type for a record that is associated with code that is submitted for integration into a software application; receiving a selection of a new record type; populating a new record format with information that is associated with the code; and receiving a save command to save the record.
US08566264B2
A method for the computer-assisted control and/or regulation of a technical system is provided. The method is used to efficiently reduce a high-dimensional state space describing the technical system to a smaller dimension. The reduction of the state space is performed using an artificial recurrent neuronal network. In addition, the reduction of the state space enables conventional learning methods, which are only designed for small dimensions of state spaces, to be applied to complex technical systems with an initially large state space, wherein the conventional learning methods are performed in the reduced state space. The method can be used with any technical system, especially gas turbines.
US08566260B2
A structured prediction model learning apparatus, method, program, and recording medium maintain prediction performance with a smaller amount of memory. An auxiliary model is introduced by defining the auxiliary model parameter set θ(k) with a log-linear model. A set Θ of auxiliary model parameter sets which minimizes the Bregman divergence between the auxiliary model and a reference function indicating the degree of pseudo accuracy is estimated by using unsupervised data. A base-model parameter set λ which minimizes an empirical risk function defined beforehand is estimated by using supervised data and the set Θ of auxiliary model parameter sets.
US08566259B2
Methods for faster statistical inference in computation based recognition problems on highly parallel processors with multiple cores on-a-chip are disclosed, which include: selectively flattening levels of the recognition network to improve inference speed (improving the recognition model); selectively duplicating parts of the recognition network to minimize a critical section in atomic accesses to as few as one atomic instruction (improving the recognition procedure); and combining weight and source port into one 32-bit word to minimize the number of atomic operations. These methods have been implemented on an NVIDIA GTX 280 processor in a Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) embodiment, and achieve more than a 10× speed up compared to a highly optimized sequential implementation on an Intel Core i7 processor.
US08566245B2
A system is configured to receive a request for a customization packet associated with a user device; retrieve data associated with the device; encode portions of the network data using a group of keys, where each portion is encoded using a different one of the keys, and where each key corresponds to a different set of fields, of one or more sets of fields within the packet; store the encoded portions in the one or more sets of fields within the packet; and transmit, to a content provider, the packet, where the packet enables the content provider to decode all or a portion of the network data using one of the keys, and where all or the portion of the decoded network data enables the content provider to generate customized content for the device.
US08566241B2
Systems and methods for processing checks are described. In particular, an individual can submit a check to a check casher entity, in exchange for a stored-value card (SVC) with an associated pending deposit to be made available on a specified date. The check casher entity can provide the check to a check processor, which can process the check. If the specified date is reached without any problems with processing the check, then the pending deposit on the SVC can be made available to the individual. If the check bounces, then the pending deposit is not made available on the SVC. According to implementations, the SVC processing can be handled by an SVC processor entity.
US08566231B2
A system for conducting commercial transactions between buyers and sellers is disclosed. The system includes a transaction processing system for facilitating payment for transactions between buyers and the sellers. In addition to the buyer and the seller, the transaction processing system also interacts with issuers and acquirers. The transaction processing system monitors and manages payment information relating to transactions conducted between buyers and sellers. Using such information, the transaction processing system further offers a number of additional financing services including, for example, buyer payment assurance, buyer bank payment assurance, buyer bank payable discounting, buyer bank payable discount aggregation, seller/receivable financing and seller bank receivable discount aggregation.
US08566228B2
The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data.
US08566227B2
A method and system for offering credit to a prospective borrower are provided. A lender first determines a prospective borrower location, which may be a commercial outlet, such as a retail store where goods or services are offered. The lender then references a purchase history associated with the borrower at that particular location. The lender then determines the credit worthiness of the borrower. Based upon location, purchase history, and credit worthiness, the lender may deliver a customized offer of credit to the prospective borrower. The offer of credit may be location based, and may accompany a suggested good or service that is available at the prospective borrower's location.
US08566219B2
According to an embodiment for a risk check, a trading strategy may proceed when the order quantity for each leg of the trading strategy satisfies a certain condition. The quantity for each of the orders of the trading strategy, including the quantity of the initial order and subsequent orders, is compared to a corresponding risk value. When the order quantity for each of the orders is less than the corresponding risk value, the initial order can be sent. When the order quantity for any of the orders exceeds the risk value, the initial order is not sent. Additionally, quantity associated with the trading strategy is held or reserved for execution of the trading strategy regardless of the activity taken by the trader since initiating the trading strategy. The reserved quantity can be drawn from the trading strategy until the quantity is depleted, the trading strategy has ended, or both.
US08566213B2
According to one embodiment, a method of managing trading is provided. A trading order intended for a trading exchange is received from a trader, the trading order having an associated trading order price. A group of distributed trading orders is automatically generated based at least on the trading order price and a set of pre-configured distribution parameters associated with the trading order. The group of distributed trading orders is distributed over a multiple price levels. The generated group of distributed trading orders is automatically submitted to the trading exchange.
US08566203B1
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for identifying a user at a facility. In some embodiments, a system is configured to: determine a user has entered a facility or is a predetermined distance from the facility, wherein the user has a mobile device; communicate with the mobile device to identify the user; access information associated with the user, the information comprising information associated with the user's account; and perform an action based on identifying the user.
US08566202B2
A system and method for distributing and providing access to media and for extending such access to a desktop environment is described. A media player in a webpage or in a desktop environment may reference a centralized location to access a playlist of media files. The playlist itself may reference remotely-located media files that may be streamed to the media player. The media player may be distributed in multiple environments, and updates to the playlist may be automatically distributed to all instances where the playlist is referenced due to the centralized reference in the media player. The embodiments of the media player may also be used in advertising as a mechanism for increasing user contact with an advertising entity and as a mechanism for distributing announcements and information by the advertiser.
US08566199B2
According to some embodiments, a central controller receives a selection signal indicative of acceptance of an installment plan offer for a purchase. The central controller determines an installment charge amount to include in at least two bills for a financial account. Thereafter, bills may be generated that reflect installment charges to be paid.
US08566193B2
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction.
US08566181B2
One embodiment includes a computer-implemented system for incorporating a repair vendor into repair planning for a supply chain. The system accesses a logical representation of the supply chain, access an inventory plan for the supply chain, and generates a replenishment plan for meeting the inventory plan for the supply chain that includes suggested repair orders. Unserviceable parts in the supply chain are moved from the supply chain to the repair vendor, repaired at the repair vendor, and moved from the repair vendor back to the supply chain to meet the requirements for serviceable parts at the locations in the supply chain according to the suggested repair orders.
US08566178B1
A computing system for searching for and identifying data repository deficits includes an interactive database of items, a data repository that stores a first type of information related to items, a search engine configured to identify items that do not have an amount of the first type of information that meets a first threshold, a candidate selection interface that provides functionality for the user to select an item from recommended candidate items needing the first type of information, a user interface via which the user can provide the first type of information for an item selected by the user, a game system configured to calculate for a game scores and rankings based at least in part on data stored in the data repository.
US08566171B2
A system, sometimes called ShakyPlanet™ presents a collection of interactive digital objects, one of which is sometimes called ShakyGlobe™. The presented digital objects may be part of a series of eCollectibles™. A specialized and centralized communication and database system, sometimes called ShakyStore™ offers the sale of objects to buyers qualifying on the basis of various variables, such as being within a predefined geographic area or issuing a purchase request within a predefined time period. Additional conditions to purchase may include a willingness to pay more than standard established costs, purchasing before all units are sold and submission to the terms of sale that facilitate the collectable attributes of the objects. Each object is uniquely marked to identify its owner by registration with the communication and database system, which is the sole authority for the transfer ownership of the objects, the recording of ownership changes and for the authentication of the objects.
US08566168B1
A near field communication payment method using a proxy account number. The method comprises transmitting a proxy account number from a secure element of a mobile phone to a point-of-sale terminal using a near field communication radio link; transmitting the proxy account number from the point-of-sale terminal to a payment mediation server; transmitting the proxy account number from the payment mediation server to a proxy account manager; determining a selected payment account number by the proxy account manager based in part on retrieving a plurality of payment account numbers from a proxy account number data store using the proxy account number; transmitting the selected payment account number to the payment mediation server by the proxy account manager; and the payment mediation server completing a payment completion transaction with the point-of-sale terminal using the selected payment account number.
US08566163B2
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide for generating a trade calendar. A trade calendar module launches a query comprising search criteria for searching information pertaining to trade promotions. The trade calendar module then populates a trade calendar with information responsive to the query, including each trade promotion that meets the search criteria. The trade calendar module also causes the trade calendar to be displayed the trade calendar. The trade calendar simultaneously displays marketing activities corresponding to a portion of the information in the trade calendar.
US08566161B2
A method and system for determining a position of information related to a media or data content based on an intention of a client concerned are provided. The method includes transmitting the content to the client, determining the position of the information based on the intention of the client, transmitting the determined position of the information to the client, and displaying and providing the content and the information having the determined position for the client. The system includes a content server providing the content to the client, an account management server managing an account of the client and generating a bid value submitted by the client for providing the information to the client, and a service management server receiving the bid value from the account management server, positioning the information according to the bid value, and providing the information to the client.
US08566158B2
A method is disclosed for selecting advertising data at an end user device, the method comprising monitoring a plurality of advertising data items in a first video data stream at the end user device; correlating advertising characterization data for the advertising data item with end user profile data for an end user at the end user device; and selecting based on the correlating at least one of the plurality of advertising data items for presentation during display of a second video data stream at the end user device. A system is disclosed for performing the method. A data structure is disclosed for containing data used by the system and method.
US08566155B2
The method and apparatus for administering a reward program includes a central controller that stores a series of registrations, each of which corresponds to a purchaser of a product. The central controller calculates a measurement of product success, such as the number of products sold or the market share of the product, and determines if the measurement is within a predetermined range. The central controller may determine if the number of products sold exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a set of registrations are selected as “early-adopter” registrations that thereby define a set of early-adopter purchasers. The central controller may select a set of registrations having ordinal positions within a predetermined range of positions, so that early-adopter purchasers are defined. If the measurement of product success is within the predetermined range, a reward, such as a refund or a free product, may be provided to each early-adopter purchaser.
US08566153B2
Some described embodiments provide for selecting (e.g., by a server computer from a plurality of transaction records), a transaction record associated with a financial account of an account holder. In one example, the transaction record includes an indication of an amount due, by the account holder, for a previous purchase completed by the account holder with a first merchant. Some embodiments provide further for generating a billing statement for the account holder, the billing statement including an indication of the amount due by the account holder for the previous completed purchase and an indication of an acquisition offer, in which the acquisition offer comprises a promise from a second merchant to pay at least a portion of the amount due by the account holder, and transmitting the billing statement to the account holder.
US08566151B2
Techniques, for automatically determining frequent traveler award redemptions by rule are disclosed. The frequent travel award redemption program is encoded in rules using predefined data structures based on fare by rule data structures. The techniques automatically determine a travel itinerary based on a query and the rules. Also included is a graphical user interface that displays a plurality of possible travel options for redemption using a frequent travel award. The rules include fields to determine co-pay options and for calculating mileage purchase options.
US08566150B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method including receiving a first input from a publisher who has established an account with a content-distributing entity to publish content from others, the first input being generated based on a publisher media item configured to present at least part of the content and including code from the publisher media item for requesting the content. The method further includes obtaining the content from the content-distributing entity including using the code to generate a request for the content. The method further includes generating an analysis view available to the publisher, the analysis view generated using the content.
US08566149B2
The present invention shares revenue in an Internet printing system comprising a search engine provider, a host computer capable of browsing the Internet, and an advertisement sponsor. A user of the host computer registers with the search engine provider as a participant in an Internet advertisement revenue sharing system managed by the search engine provider. The user of the host computer conducts a search utilizing a web page of the search engine provider and the search results in a search result page being displayed on a browser of the host computer. The user of the host computer selects an option to print the displayed search result page on a printer connected to the host computer. The host computer generates print data to print out the search result page together with advertisement data and submits the generated print data to the printer for printing. The host computer receives a confirmation message from the printer confirming that the printout of the generated print data, which includes the advertisement data, was successful. The host computer notifies the search engine provider that the printout of the print data, that included the advertisement data, was successful. The search engine provider then charges the advertisement sponsor for the printing of the advertisement data included in the printout. Finally, the search engine provider credits an account of the registered user a portion of the amount charged to the advertisement sponsor for the printing of the advertisement data.
US08566145B2
The method and system includes selecting via an application one or more non-game tasks that need to be completed during a pre-determined amount of time. The one or more selected non-game tasks are associated with one or more graphical game entities. Events are periodically provided encouraging completion of the one or more selected non-game tasks via the one or more graphical game entities. Game points for completing all or a portion of the one or more selected non-game tasks. The game points include a measure of productivity for completing all or a portion of the one or more selected non-game tasks. Game points are displayed indicating how time spent on the one or more selected non-game tasks was utilized. The method and system functions as a time management tool for business objectives, business practices, personal objectives or activities or student objectives, etc. but is interactively played as a game.
US08566138B2
A method and computer program are disclosed to assist the user in constructing a decision-tree for outsourcing software development business processes. The tree contains a node for the cost of completing the business processes in-house, nodes containing the expected costs of outsourcing the complete business process to different vendors, and nodes containing the expected costs of outsourcing part of the business process to different vendors. The user calculates the expected cost of outsourcing a business process by multiplying the estimated costs for outsourcing the business process by probabilities that risks will occur in the outsourcing process.
US08566135B2
A method and a web-based system is provided that enables a customer service center of a company to provide its customers with a choice of different modes for establishing contact with customer service representatives. The different modes of contact are displayed on a single web page. The modes of contact include, but are not limited to call, chat, e-mail and Internet talk. Further, the system provides information regarding the estimated wait time and the less busy time for the modes of contact. In addition, the system and method provide means for conducting a search in a knowledge database for automated responses to queries from customers. The system and method enables the customer to provide feedback for each interaction with the customer service center through the web page. Further, the system and method enable the storage of all interaction between each customer and the customer service center.
US08566134B2
A travel information server estimates travel demand with mobility data. The server identifies activity types of users based, at least in part, on mobility data of the users. The mobility data has been collected over time and indicates at least locations and corresponding times at the locations. Travel information is generated with the mobility data for each of the activity types. The travel information for a first of the activity types is adjusted based, at least in part, on travel-related event data that corresponds to the first activity type to generate an adjusted travel information for the first activity type. The travel-related event data indicates an event that potentially influences travel for a short term. computing an estimated travel demand with a combination of the adjusted travel information for the first activity type and the travel information for at least a second of the activity types.
US08566133B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for identifying activity outliers from amongst employees/associates within a predetermined peer group of employees. The inventive concepts herein disclosed require establishing consistent peer groupings of employees/associates. In specific embodiments, the peer groupings may be defined by combining one or more and, typically two, line of business hierarchies and job title. Once the peer grouping is established, monitoring of pre-determined activities within designated applications is performed to determine the number of occurrence of the predetermined activities over a designated period of time. Activity outliers are subsequently determined based on the number of occurrence of the predetermined activities over the designated period of time. In specific embodiments, such determination of activity outliers includes determining peer group averages, an employee/associate's variance from the average, the employee/associate's standard deviation and the employee/associate's z-score.
US08566126B1
Apparatus and methods to process vehicle or driver behavior data are described herein. In some examples, the behavior data is used by a premium calculating engine to derive a premium for a vehicle insurance policy using the data. The behavior data may be associated with a single driver, or may be associated with all drivers of a vehicle without regard to the actual drivers, in some examples. Data received from the vehicle may also include vehicle performance data, in further examples. Additionally, a method of underwriting a dynamic vehicle insurance policy is described, in one example.
US08566124B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide a moveable summary column and/or row for an electronic medical flow sheet. The summary column and/or row can provide various summations of the patient's data records for any time period depending on where the moveable summation column and/or row is placed. The summation of the various patient data depends on a selected type of patient data. The summary column and/or row can be moved by the user to any spot in the patient data portion of the medical flow sheet to sum up different intervals of data. The moveable summation column and/or row presents summary data for patient parameters depending on the placement of the summation column and/or row.
US08566123B2
A medical records software apparatus and method is described that allows a clinician, e.g., nurse or doctor, to combine entry of new patient orders, prescriptions, flowsheet observations, etc. into the documentation process or workflow. A documentation user interface is provided that pulls patient data from a database into the display. The user can select on the user interface a category of a patient record, e.g., Significant Events or Orders, view or edit prior entries in the database in these categories, and add additional documentation for that category. The documentation is written or pushed to two areas of the database, one devoted to patient documentation and a second area corresponding to the selected category, e.g., Orders. The method and apparatus improves workflow efficiency and promotes a smooth transition from the thought process of the clinician to the ordering or prescription process, without the need for changing venues or screen displays.
US08566122B2
Certain embodiments present a system for navigating medical images of a patient file stored in an image database. An image labeler labels medical images based upon whether the images have previously been displayed on an interface. The system also provides an image search engine that searches the images based on the labels. The image search engine generates a subset of images from a larger group of medical images within a database based upon the labels. The interface includes a graphical meter that corresponds to medical images that have not previously been displayed on the interface. The graphical meter may enumerate the quantity of images that have not previously been displayed. The graphical meter may also illustrate the proportion of images that have not previously been displayed. The graphical meter may include a hyperlink that points to an image that has not previously been displayed. The graphical meter may also include a hyperlink that points to a location containing the images that have not been previously displayed.
US08566106B2
A method and device for searching an algebraic codebook during encoding of a sound signal, wherein the algebraic codebook comprises a set of codevectors formed of a number of pulse positions and a number of pulses distributed over the pulse positions. In the algebraic codebook searching method and device, a reference signal for use in searching the algebraic codebook is calculated. In a first stage, a position of a first pulse is determined in relation with the reference signal and among the number of pulse positions. In each of a number of stages subsequent to the first stage, (a) an algebraic codebook gain is recomputed, (b) the reference signal is updated using the recomputed algebraic codebook gain and (c) a position of another pulse is determined in relation with the updated reference signal and among the number of pulse positions. A codevector of the algebraic codebook is computed using the positions of the pulses determined in the first and subsequent stages, wherein a number of the first and subsequent stages corresponds to the number of pulses in the codevectors of the algebraic codebook.
US08566104B2
A method for a speech response system to automatically transfer users to human agents. The method can establish an interactive dialog session between a user and an automated speech response system. An error score can be established when the interactive dialog session is initiated. During the interactive dialog session, responses to dialog prompts can be received. Error weights can be assigned to receive responses determined to be non-valid responses. Different non-valid responses can be assigned different error weights. For each non-valid response, the assigned error weight can be added to the error score. When a value of the error score exceeds a previously established error threshold, a user can be automatically transferred from the automated speech response system to a human agent.
US08566103B2
A system, apparatus, and method is disclosed for receiving user input at a client device, interpreting the user input to identify a selection of at least one of a plurality of web interaction modes, producing a corresponding client request based in part on the user input and the web interaction mode; and sending the client request to a server via a network.
US08566102B1
A system and method of generating and operating a spoken dialog service for a web-site are disclosed. The system parses web-site data and organizes the web-site data in a task knowledge data bank. The system receives text associated with a user query; processes the received text in a spoken language understanding (SLU) module, the SLU module using the web-site data from the task knowledge data bank; generates a ranked list of relevant responses to the user query; generates a hierarchical tree using the web-site data and the ranked list of relevant responses to the user query, generates a response to the user query using the hierarchical tree; and presents the response to the user.
US08566101B2
An apparatus and method for generating an avatar based video message are provided. The apparatus and method are capable of generating an avatar based video message based on speech of a user. The avatar based video message apparatus and method displays information that corresponds to input user speech. The avatar based video message apparatus and method edits the input user speech according to a user input signal with reference to the displayed information, generates avatar animation according to the edited speech, and generates an avatar based video message based on the edited speech and the avatar animation.
US08566099B2
A system and method for improving the response time of text-to-speech synthesis using triphone contexts. The method includes identifying a set of triphone sequences, tabulating the set of triphone sequences using a plurality of contexts, where each context specific triphone sequence of the plurality of context specific triphone sequences has a top N triphone units made of the triphone units having lowest target costs when each triphone unit is individually combined into a 5-phoneme combination. Input texts having one of the contexts are received, and one of the context specific triphone sequences is selected based on the context. Input text is then synthesized using the context specific triphone sequence.
US08566083B2
An audio signal may have a BL and an EL, wherein the EL represents additional information for enhancing the quality of the BL audio content. Decoding of such dual-layer signals usually comprises partial decoding of the BL data, wherein frequency bins of the BL are restored, mapping the restored frequency bins to the MDCT domain, adding them to the decoded EL and performing inverse Integer MDCT. A low-complexity method for decoding comprises reverse mapping of the decoded EL data, adding the reverse mapped EL data to the partially decoded BL data and filtering the sum, using the inverse BL filter bank.
US08566082B2
A method for determining a speech quality measure of an output speech signal with respect to an input speech signal, wherein the input signal passes through a signal path of a data transmission system resulting in the output signal, includes the steps of pre-processing the output signal; determining at least one of an interruption rate of the pre-processed output signal and a measure for an intensity of musical tones present in the pre-processed output signal; and determining the speech quality measure from at least one of the interruption rate and the measure for the intensity of the musical tones.
US08566079B2
A retrieval result outputting apparatus evaluates degrees of matching on a character block basis between an input example sentence serving as a retrieval condition and retrieval example sentences retrieved using the input example sentence as the retrieval condition; extracts one of the retrieval example sentences as an extraction example sentence in accordance with the evaluation; selects a portion of the input example sentence as a reevaluation portion with reference to the extraction example. And then reevaluates on degrees of matching a character block basis between the retrieval example sentences and the reevaluation portion; re-extracts one of the retrieval example sentences as a re-extracted example sentence in accordance with the reevaluation; and outputs the extracted and re-extracted example sentences.
US08566077B2
A digital sign language translator has a case configured to be supported by a hand of a user, a touch screen display located on a face of the case, a microprocessor for selectively translating words, letters, and numbers into video clips of an actual person performing a sign language translation. The translator has an internal memory device for storing a standard database selected words, letters, and numbers and the corresponding video clip of an actual person performing a sign language translation of words, letters, and numbers. The translator further includes a memory card slot for receiving an external memory card, the external memory card having an expanded vocabulary to supplement the standard database contained on the internal memory. The translator further includes a battery for powering the translator and a keyboard selectively shown on the touch screen display. The digital sign language translator is small and portable so as to be conveniently transported by the user in order to be handily available to the user as desired.
US08566073B2
A simulation method for a cascade communication system comprising a nodes sequence numbered as 1 to N from a transmitter to a receiver, comprises: acquiring simulation parameters; calculating reverse transfer functions of the nodes; determining a current node in the sequence; adding noise that should be added at the current node to a simulation signal of a previous node; simulating the current node to generate a simulation signal of the current node, by using the simulation signal of the previous node added with the noise that should be added at the current node, based on the reverse transfer function of the current node; judging whether simulations of all the nodes are completed; if yes, repeating the adding and the simulating; if not, determining a cost of the based on the simulation signal of the current node.
US08566071B2
A system, method, and apparatus to train autopilots to fly a simulated aeronautical vehicle includes a three-degree of freedom gimbaled platform comprising a pitch, roll, and yaw axis; an autopilot comprising an inertial measurement unit mounted to the platform; motors that rotate the platform along the pitch, roll, and yaw axes; shaft encoders connected to the motors to calculate an angular position of the platform; motor drivers connected to the motors to power the motors; a microcontroller connected to the motor drivers; a quadrature encoder connected to the shaft encoders and the microcontroller; sensors that generate and sense environmental conditions affecting the platform and the autopilot; a flight simulator connected to the microcontroller; and a computer that executes the flight simulator causing actuation of the platform, causing the sensors to generate environmental conditions, and causing the autopilot to react to the environmental conditions.
US08566069B2
The present invention relates to a method for developing a geological model from previously collected seismic data, including the steps of: sampling seismic data according to at least one set of traces of a predetermined gradient, each of which have sampling points; analyzing similarities between the seismic data around sampling points; determining connections between sampling points that belong to different traces on the basis of analysis; and forming a geological model that attributes, to each sampling point, a relative geological age that is calculated at least on the basis of connections related to the sampling points and the relative geological age of other sampling points in the vicinity of the trace that includes the sampling point.
US08566059B2
A method of selecting fault candidates based on the physical layout of an Integrated Circuit (IC) layout, that includes, identifying failing observation points in an IC layout, determining the failing observation points proximity geometry in the IC circuit layout, determining if a proximity criteria for the failing observation points is met, and identifying faults associated with the failing observation points that meet the proximity criteria; and including the identified faults in a fault candidate set.
US08566055B1
A method is provided for removing gimbal periodic reorientation (indexing) readout errors in a navigation system having multiple IMUs mounted to a platform. Each IMU has multiple gyroscopes providing attitude outputs. Attitude readout errors bias due to periodic gimbal motions is determined in each IMU along each gyroscope attitude axis. Attitude outputs of the gyroscopes are time-aligned, as necessary. Onset times of indexing of each gyroscope is determined. A difference is formed between gyroscope attitude outputs. Steps in this difference of attitude outputs are assigned to the respective gyroscope causing the step in attitude. Cumulative sums of the steps associated with the respective gyroscopes are formed. The mean and linear trend in the respective cumulative sums are removed from the respective cumulative sums to form the final error correction, corresponding to the time interval associated with the steps. Each final error level correction is subtracted from the attitude output from the respective gyroscope at the time of indexing associated with that final correction.
US08566054B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus and method for managing an orientation of a tab of a control surface of an aircraft comprising an elongate structure having a number of members configured to position the elongate structure to a control surface, a bracket located on the elongate structure, a plurality of indicators located along the elongate structure, and a data processor in communication with the plurality of indicators. The bracket may be positioned against an edge of a tab of the control surface. Each of the plurality of indicators may be configured to generate a number of measurements about an orientation of the tab on the control surface. The data processor may be configured to present information about the orientation of the tab on the control surface.
US08566052B2
A probe shape detection apparatus includes first and second magnetic field detection sections that outputs a signal in accordance with an electromotive voltage group generated when the magnetic field emitted from a magnetic field generation element provided in a longitudinal direction of a probe is detected, a candidate vector calculation section that calculates a candidate vector based on the electromotive voltage group generated in the first magnetic field detection section and one piece of candidate position information, an estimated electromotive voltage calculation section that calculates an estimated electromotive voltage based on the one piece of candidate position information and the candidate vector and an estimated position acquiring section that acquires a candidate position that minimizes an error between the electromotive voltage group generated in the second magnetic field detection section and the estimated electromotive voltage as an estimated position of the magnetic field generation element.
US08566045B2
While displaying one or more views of a first software application, an electronic device detects a sequence of touch inputs. The electronic device, in accordance with a determination that at least one gesture recognizer in the first software application recognizes a first portion of the sequence, delivers the sequence to the first software application without delivering the sequence to a second software application, and in accordance with a determination that a first gesture recognizer in the first software application recognizes the sequence, processes the sequence with the first gesture recognizer. The electronic device, in accordance with a determination that no gesture recognizer in the first software application recognizes the first portion, delivers the sequence to the second software application, and in accordance with a determination that a second gesture recognizer in the second software application recognizes the sequence, processes the sequence with the second gesture recognizer.
US08566041B2
A method of determining face paper properties of all types of wallboard including providing a core strength value of the wallboard, determining a required nail pull value based the wallboard specifications and calculating a face paper stiffness value based on the provided core strength value and the determined nail pull value. The method includes displaying the calculated face paper stiffness value on a display device.
US08566038B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting a nucleic acid analyte in a sample. The present invention further provides a method for assigning a profile of a feature to a nucleic acid. The present invention further provides a computer program product for use in a subject method. The present invention further provides a system for detecting a nucleic acid in a sample; and a system for assigning a profile of a feature to a nucleic acid. The present invention further provides a method for immobilizing a nucleic acid onto an insoluble support; and further provides insoluble support having nucleic acid(s) immobilized thereon. The present invention further provides a method of diagnosing a disorder or condition in an individual, where the method involves use of a subject method for detecting a nucleic acid analyte.
US08566031B2
Provided is a map matching device, method and program. The map matching device may comprise a road grid dividing unit and a grid road combining unit. The road grid dividing unit is for deriving a grid obtained by the division of a region where a road network exists in a latitude direction and a longitude direction by equal spaces and correlating the grid and an arc crossing the grid. The grid road combining unit is for assigning a common arc ID to a plurality of grids which are adjacent to each other and whose sets of arcs correlated are coincident and assigning an arc ID to a grid whose set of arcs correlated is different from a set of arcs of any of adjacent grids to generate information indicative of a relationship among a range of a grid, a grid ID and an arc passing the grid.
US08566020B2
An approach is provided for presenting navigation information to a user. An image representing one or more three dimensional map objects is retrieved. A point on one of the map objects is selected. The one map object is transformed at the selected point to represent a navigational element. Presentation of the transformed map object is caused, at least in part, using a graphical user interface of a mobile device.
US08566018B2
The present invention relates to a piloting assistance method for an aircraft, the method consisting in using data from at least one active telemeter sensor (A) in order to construct a sensor safety cordon (B) for avoiding the terrain and obstacles that are overflown. The method; defines and calculates angular sectors (w) over the field of regard facing the pilot; constructs a terrain safety cordon (D) using at least one terrain database (C); for at least some of the angular sectors (w), constructs a hybrid safety cordon (E) that, in each of the angular sectors (w) in question, makes use of the higher of the sensor and terrain safety cordons (B, D); and displays one of the cordons selected from: the hybrid safety cordon (E), the terrain safety cordon (D), and the sensor safety cordon (B).
US08566015B2
System, method and computer program product for determining bearing using ADS-B and TCAS standard reply bearing estimates are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for determining bearing based upon ADS-B signals includes receiving ADS-B signals and standard transponder reply signals. A first bearing estimate is based on the ADS-B signal. A second bearing estimate is based on the standard transponder reply signals. A database is developed according to the first and second bearing estimates via the ADS-B and standard transponder reply signals. In one embodiment, where ADS-B signals are unavailable, associated ADS-B signals associated with the standard transponder reply previously stored in the database are used to determine bearing.
US08566012B1
A method for achieving and maintaining spacing between aircraft may include receiving by a following aircraft information related to a lead aircraft. The information is useable for achieving and maintaining spacing by the following aircraft from the lead aircraft. The method may also include determining spacing of the following aircraft from the lead aircraft. The method may additionally include receiving by the following aircraft a vertical profile for the traffic management environment. The method may further include automatically controlling throttle settings to achieve and maintain spacing by the following aircraft from the lead aircraft while maintaining the vertical profile of the following aircraft in response to an automatic spacing mode being enabled.
US08566011B2
Methods, systems, and devices for monitoring roadway traffic. A method includes transmitting wireless signals from a plurality of roadside equipment (RSE) devices, including from a first RSE device and from a second RSE device that are located at separated positions of an intersection. The method includes receiving responses by the first RSE device and second RSE device from a wireless device. The responses include a unique identifier corresponding to the wireless device. The method includes determining a signal strength of each of the responses by the first RSE and the second RSE and transmitting data from the first RSE device and the second RSE device to a control system. The data includes the unique identifier, the signal strength of each of the responses, and times that the responses were received. The method includes determining traffic information associated with the wireless device based on the received data.
US08566000B2
A controller receives a power-level command representative of a level of power to be transmitted by a single-spool turboshaft engine to a controllable load. A torque command determined responsive to a measure of inlet pressure, from a control schedule responsive to the power-level command, is representative of a level of torque to be transmitted by an element to drive the controllable load. Under some operating conditions, a rotational speed command provides for at least nearly minimizing a measure of associated fuel consumption when the transmitted torque is regulated to the level corresponding to the torque command by controlling one of the controllable load and a fuel flow to the engine, and the other of the controllable load and the fuel flow to the engine is controlled so as to regulate an associated rotational speed to a level corresponding to the rotational speed command.
US08565999B2
A method and apparatus for operating a gas turbine engine including determining a temperature of a working gas at a predetermined axial location within the engine. Acoustic signals are transmitted from a plurality of acoustic transmitters and are received at a plurality of acoustic receivers. Each acoustic signal defines a distinct line-of-sound path from one of the acoustic transmitters to an acoustic receiver corresponding to the line-of-sound path. A time-of-flight is determined for each of the signals traveling along the line-of-sound paths, and the time-of-flight for each of the signals is processed to determine a temperature in a region of the predetermined axial location.
US08565998B2
An on-engine data storage device for a gas turbine engine includes a housing, an interface device, and a memory device. The interface device can communicate with a peripheral device. The memory device is mounted within the housing and is operable to store engine data related to the gas turbine engine.
US08565993B2
An enhanced stability control system (200) for a vehicle includes a vehicle status sensor that generates a sensor signal. A driver input sensor that generates an input signal. A controller (214) may disable normal yaw stability control operation and enable body-force-disturbance (BFD) yaw stability control (YSC) operation, which includes at least partially reducing response functions of the normal yaw stability control associated with the input signal, in response to the sensor signal and performing BFD-YSC functions to achieve desired control performance upon the detection of BFD reception. The controller (214) may also or alternatively compare the sensor signal to a threshold and detect an improperly functioning/inoperative vehicle status sensor. The controller (214) disregards information associated with the improperly functioning/inoperative vehicle status sensor, and continues to perform enhanced yaw stability control operations.
US08565990B2
A vehicle includes a motor/generator, a starter motor, a disconnect clutch disposed between the engine and the motor/generator, and at least one clutch disposed between the motor/generator and the vehicle drive wheels. When an engine start is requested, various parameters are controlled to ensure a smooth engine start wherein driveline torque disturbances are minimized. The starter motor is used to crank the engine upon an engine start request, thereby eliminating the need to transfer torque from the motor/generator to the engine. This helps to further reduce torque disturbances in the driveline when the engine is started.
US08565989B2
A method of adjusting the characteristics of a clutch in a hybrid electric vehicle, more particularly to a method of adjusting characteristic of a clutch for a hybrid electric vehicle, which is capable of maintaining the characteristic of the clutch at an appropriate level while suppressing the frequency of the adjustment as possible, thereby a driver or passengers of the vehicle hardly feel annoyance caused by frequent adjustment of characteristic of a clutch.
US08565977B2
An apparatus to turn a vehicle in a low speed zero slip turning maneuver includes a vehicle body and a vehicle chassis including a plurality of wheels, wherein every wheel of the chassis is steerable, and an electric propulsion system. The apparatus also includes a low speed turning maneuver module monitoring a desired low speed zero slip turning maneuver, determining a desired instant center of rotation for the vehicle based upon the desired low speed zero slip turning maneuver, determining a wheel orientation for each of the wheels perpendicular to the desired instant center of rotation, and controlling each of the wheels according to the corresponding determined wheel orientation.
US08565968B2
A system for use in monitoring, measuring, computing and displaying the volumes of internal liquid and gas within a telescopic aircraft landing gear strut. Pressure sensors and temperature sensors and motion sensors are mounted in relation to each of the landing gear struts to monitor, measure and record the impact movement and rates of internal landing gear strut fluids; experienced by landing gear struts, as the aircraft landing gear initially come into contact with the ground. The computer of this system measures the compression experienced by each landing gear strut and determines if the landing gear strut is improperly serviced with either excess or deficient volumes of hydraulic oil and nitrogen gas. Additional features include automating the inspections required to aircraft landing gear, prior to flight, during flight and during landing events.
US08565967B2
Embodiments relate to tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS). In embodiments, a TPMS comprises a wheel unit and a control unit. Each wheel unit collects acceleration data and uses that data to determine a time at which the wheel unit will be at an angular position desired for signal transmission. Embodiments also include systems and methods for detecting vehicle acceleration by wheel units and determining robustness of acceleration data with respect to noise and vehicle acceleration.
US08565947B2
A method for regulating a charging state of an energy accumulator for a vehicle with a hybrid drive includes detecting a driving speed variable value of the vehicle and determining a nominal charging state of the energy accumulator as a function of the driving speed variable value by a control unit, detecting an actual charging state of the energy accumulator, comparing the actual charging state with the nominal charging state by the control unit, switching on an energy consumer by a charging state regulator, for at least partially discharging the energy accumulator when the actual charging state exceeds the nominal charging state, tabulating a first nominal charging state value as a function of the driving speed variable value by a characteristic curve, in order to determine the nominal charging state of the energy accumulator, and adapting the characteristic curve by the control unit when the vehicle is braked.
US08565945B2
A method for communicating safety critical train authorization under the conditions of limited communications capability is disclosed.
US08565944B1
Technologies are described herein for providing a list of alternate diversion airports that is based on up-to-date and accurate information received electronically at the aircraft. The list of alternate diversion airports may be prioritized according to a normal mode when the aircraft is operating under normal flight conditions, or a non-normal mode when the aircraft is operating in an emergency situation. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a system includes an alternate airport diversion planner program that generates the list of alternate diversion airports based on diversion planning information received at an aircraft. The alternate airport diversion planner program subsequently receives periodic updates of the diversion planning information, which is used to update the list of alternate diversion airports that is provided to a pilot of the aircraft.
US08565943B2
A low-cost fleet operations quality management system for use with one or more vehicles which includes a data recording unit and separate memory subsystem mounted on each vehicle, a remotely located data collection station to collect, store and pre-process data from multiple vehicles, a centralized data storage and retrieval system designed to accept and assimilate recorded trip data, a web application designed to provide access to and analysis of the recorded trip data, and a graphical software application that can be used to view the recreated trip in a realistic simulated environment.
US08565940B2
A method of transferring and processing flight data of an aircraft including recording the aircraft flight data in an onboard avionics system in a digital format so as to obtain digital data, the flight data including safety impact flight data and flight data having no recognized effect on safety. The method further includes recording at least the safety impact flight data in the onboard avionics system in an additional format dissimilar to the digital format so as to obtain additional flight data, storing the digital data and the additional flight data separately, transferring the digital data and the additional flight data to a monitoring computer on the ground, displaying the digital data on a screen in the form of display digital data, and transferring the digital data and the additional flight data to a complementary interpretation unit so as to generate one of display data and print data relating to the additional flight data.
US08565938B2
A method of optimizing a flight plan of an aircraft used in a flight management system of an aircraft is disclosed. This method makes it possible to constrain the real cost index of the mission executed to the optimal cost index CIopt predetermined by the aircraft operator, by acting on objectives ETAopt and EFOBopt of values of ETA and of EFOB to be achieved. Objectives are linked to this optimal cost index, in order to make the system return from a cost index CIm to the optimal cost index CIopt, while taking account of various constraints imposed by the ATC or the CTFM. Both constraints mext influence the cost index and constraints which limit the field of possible solutions.
US08565929B2
Methodology is provided for enhancing plant level support for grid reconstruction following a blackout. A plant based grid reconstruction manager develops solutions for reconstruction sequence steps to be carried out automatically or to be communicated to site personnel for manual implementation. The sequence steps are based on high-fidelity modeling of the capabilities all of the power production units present in a power plant and take into consideration grid specified load expectations, ambient conditions including ambient temperature and gas turbine operating levels. The methodology also provides for consideration of possible subsequent steps in the sequence to maximize the ability to pick-up additional load in such subsequent steps.
US08565917B2
An appliance having a housing including a body defining a compartment and a door attached to the body, a water supplier including a first valve actuator configured to cause water to be dispensed by the water supplier, a supply container holder configured to hold a supply container for a liquid supply, at least one user input device including a touch screen configured to enable a user to make an input to request dispensing of the liquid supply from the supply container, a supply dispenser including a second valve actuator and configured to cause the liquid supply in the supply container to be selectively dispensed from the supply container based on the input made by the user using the touch screen, and a dispensing computer configured to receive a dispense signal from the touch screen, in response to receipt of the dispense signal, cause the second valve actuator to cause the liquid supply in the supply container to be dispensed from the supply container for a first period of time to dispense an appropriate amount of liquid supply, and store data representative of the amounts of the liquid supply dispensed by the supply dispenser.
US08565914B2
Methods and systems for tracking product groups associated with orders through an automated packaging system are presented.
US08565904B2
A convenient, easy-to-use, water-saving, and labor-saving FROG irrigation controller and system are provided, which determine the appropriate water budget and schedule for the property's landscaping based on evapotranspiration data for the geographic area, regulation data (mandated and voluntary watering restrictions), and property-specific data (such as type of plant, zone number, emitter type, and plant environment), with consideration given to reduction in watering days, increase in soil watering depth, and day of year. Once set, the FROG provides incremental adjustments over the course of the year; the homeowner no longer needs to re-set the watering program seasonally to comply with local mandated and voluntary watering restrictions. Compliance is automatic and obligatory, meeting the water saving goals of the local water authority. Optionally presented is a web-based wizard used to determine a customized water budget/schedule that is input into the FROG controller through a data storage unit or wireless input.
US08565902B2
A method and apparatus, often implemented in a building management system, may include receiving data indicative of a threat level identifier, and subsequently receiving a user instruction to associate one or more sets of building system configuration data with the threat level identifier. Each set of building system configuration data may relate to a respective building system. The instruction may be processed to selectively associate the one or more sets of building system configuration data with the threat level identifier. Subsequently, in response to an instruction to implement a threat level corresponding to the threat level identifier, signals may be generated and transmitted thereby to instruct the relevant building systems to apply configuration data corresponding to the one or more data sets associated with the threat level identifier.
US08565896B2
An electrode assembly includes one or more electrode contact surfaces, and a cuff, to which the contact surfaces are fixed, and which comprises an electrically insulating material, is configured to assume open and closed positions, and, when in the closed position, is shaped so as to define a plurality of planar cross sections perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cuff, distributed continuously along an entire length of the cuff along the longitudinal axis, such that the perpendicular cross sections define respective inner closed curves that together define an inner surface that defines and completely surrounds a volume that extends along the entire length of the cuff. The inner closed curves of at least two of the perpendicular cross sections would cross, and not merely intersect, one another if superimposed while preserving orientation and position of the perpendicular cross sections with respect to the cuff. Other embodiments are also described.
US08565891B2
One aspect of the invention relates to an implantable medical device comprising a device housing (100), at least one radio frequency circuit (104) for radio frequency communication, at least one antenna, at least one terminal to electromagnetically couple said at least one antenna to said at least one radio frequency circuit, and a dielectric compartment (101, 1661) that encompasses at least a portion of said at least one antenna. The antenna comprises a conducting pattern, at least a portion of which is shaped as a curve, wherein said curve comprises at least five segments, wherein each of said at least five segments forms an angle with each adjacent segment in said curve, wherein at least three of the at least five segments of said curve are shorter than one-fifth of the longest free-space operating wavelength of the antenna, wherein each angle between adjacent segments is less than 180°, and at least two of the angles between adjacent sections are less than approximately 115°.
US08565881B2
A method and an apparatus for projecting an end of service (EOS) and/or an elective replacement indication (ERI) of a component in an implantable device is provided. The method comprises measuring the measured voltage of the energy storage device, and determining whether the measured voltage is less than a transition voltage. When the measured voltage is less than the transition voltage, determining a time period remaining until an end of service of the energy storage device is based upon a function of the measured voltage. When the measured voltage is greater than or equal to the transition voltage, determining a time period remaining until an end of service of the energy storage device is based upon a function of the total charge depleted. The transition voltage is a voltage associated with the transition point of non-linearity in the battery voltage depletion curve.
US08565879B2
An apparatus comprises a cardiac signal sensing circuit, a pacing therapy circuit, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit includes a safety margin calculation circuit. The controller circuit initiates delivery of pacing stimulation energy to the heart using a first energy level, changes the energy level by at least one of: a) increasing the energy from the first energy level until detecting that the pacing stimulation energy induces stable capture, or b) reducing the energy from the first energy level until detecting that the stimulation energy fails to induce capture, and continues changing the stimulation energy level until confirming stable capture or the failure of capture. The safety margin calculation circuit calculates a safety margin of pacing stimulation energy using at least one of a determined stability of a parameter associated with evoked response and a determined range of energy levels corresponding to stable capture or intermittent failure of capture.
US08565873B2
An implantable medical device operates according to a ventricular pacing protocol (VPP) that precludes ventricular pacing in any cardiac cycle where a sensed ventricular event has occurred in the preceding cycle. The implantable medical device facilitates improved ventricular sensing, detection and classification.
US08565863B2
An ECG front end and a method for acquiring ECG signals are disclosed. The front end comprises a plurality of parallel measurement branches, each measurement branch comprising a protection resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal is connectable to a respective ECG electrode. Each measurement branch comprises a first input amplifier operatively connected to the second terminal of the protection resistor and a capacitor having a first and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the capacitor is operatively connected to a point between the first input amplifier and the second terminal of the protection resistor and the second terminal of the capacitor is connected to a virtual ground of a second input amplifier. Each first input amplifier serves as a source of an ECG channel signal and each second input amplifier as a source of high frequency signal components.
US08565860B2
A radioactive emission probe in communication with a position tracking system and the use thereof in a variety of systems and methods of medical imaging and procedures, are provided. Specifically, wide aperture collimation—deconvolution algorithms are provided, for obtaining a high-efficiency, high resolution image of a radioactivity emitting source, by scanning the radioactivity emitting source with a probe of a wide-aperture collimator, and at the same time, monitoring the position of the radioactive emission probe, at very fine time intervals, to obtain the equivalence of fine-aperture collimation. The blurring effect of the wide aperture is then corrected mathematically. Furthermore, an imaging method by depth calculations is provided, based on the attenuation of photons of different energies, which are emitted from the same source, coupled with position monitoring.
US08565857B2
The present invention relates to a catheter (6) comprising: a connector (65, 66) at a proximal side of the catheter for connecting the catheter to an external signal transmission/receiving unit (10) for transmitting and/or receiving signals, an electrode (63, 64) at a distal side of the catheter, and an electrical connection including an electrical wire (61, 62) for electrically connecting the electrode and the connector for the transmission of signals between the electrode and the connector, wherein the electrical connection has a high electrical resistance of at least 1 kΩ, in particular of at least 5 kΩ. Thus, the present invention provides a solution to prevent excessive heating during EP interventions under MR guidance by using highly resistive wires and or lumped resistors as connections within catheters.
US08565853B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for performing tissue, preferably bone tissue manipulation. The system and method may include implanting markers on opposite sides of a bone, fractured bone or tissue to facilitate bone or tissue manipulation, preferably in-situ closed fracture reduction. The markers are preferably configured to be detected by one or more devices, such as, for example, a detection device so that the detection device can determine the relative relationship of the markers. The markers may also be capable of transmitting and receiving signals. An image may be captured of the bone or tissue and the attached markers. From the captured image, the orientation of each marker relative to the bone fragment may be determined. Next, the captured image may be manipulated in a virtual or simulated environment until a desired restored orientation has been achieved. The orientation of the markers in the desired restored orientation may then be determined. The desired relationship between markers may then be programmed into, for example, the detection device. Next, actual physical reduction and/or manipulation of the bone may begin. During the manipulation procedure, the orientation of the markers may be continuously monitored and when the markers substantially align with the virtual or simulated orientation of the markers in the desired restored orientation, an indicator signal is transmitted.
US08565852B2
Disclosed herein is an auricle-installed device including, a reference electrode to be placed on the ear lobe, a detection electrode to be placed on a surface exposed to bones surrounding the auricle of the ear, and a support body for supporting the reference and detection electrodes.
US08565846B2
A blood oxygen saturation measuring apparatus includes: a light emitter adapted to emit, to living tissue of a subject, at least two light beams which have different wavelengths from each other; a light receiver adapted to receive the light beams which are transmitted through or reflected from the living tissue, the light receiver which converts the received light beams to electric signals corresponding to receiving intensities of the light beams, respectively; an extractor which extracts frequency components corresponding to changes of the receiving intensities according to a variation of a blood volume of a vein in the living tissue due to respiration of the subject, from the electric signals, respectively; an attenuation ratio calculator which calculates a first attenuation ratio based on amplitudes of the extracted frequency components; and an oxygen saturation calculator which calculates a first blood oxygen saturation in the vein based on the first attenuation ratio.
US08565839B2
A method and apparatus for wireless device power management is provided. The method comprises providing a charge to an intermediate power cell by electrically connecting the intermediate power cell to a power source, disconnecting the intermediate power cell from the power source, and electrically connecting the wireless device to the intermediate power cell. Such electrical connecting enables power cell recharging within the wireless device.
US08565831B2
Disclosed herein are a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same, which provide a user with a frame-scale content playback progress status information from the related art time-scale content playback progress status information. As described above, the mobile terminal includes a touch screen configured to display a playback screen of a content including image, and a controller controlling operations associated to a playback of the content. Herein, the controller may detect whether or not a command for displaying a playback progress status of the content in one of a time scale and a frame scale is being inputted. And, when the command is inputted, the controller may switch and display the playback progress status of the content from the time scale to the frame scale, and vice versa.
US08565821B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, utilizing a first communication device for identifying a user interface adaptation according to operating characteristics of a second display of a second communication device, identifying first and second user interface portions according to the user interface adaptation, presenting the first user interface portion at a first display of the first communication device, transmitting the second user interface portion to the second communication device for presentation at the second display of the second communication device, and enabling user interface navigation that includes the first and second user interface portions as a single user interface based on user inputs received at the first communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08565810B1
A system and method for managing an event related message by a user of a mobile station connected to a network is disclosed. The system and method provides a user with the ability to pre record a message to be delivered at a date associated with an event pertinent to the recipient of the message. A reminder capability for other contacts about the event is provided as is a merchandizing capability for the network operator.
US08565809B2
An uplink radio resource allocation method allocates, at a radio base station, an uplink radio resource used for uplink user data transmission to a mobile station. The method includes: allocating, at the radio base station, the uplink radio resource, so that total received power in an particular cell of the radio base station is equal to a first target value assigned by a radio network controller; and allocating, at the radio station, the uplink radio resource, so that a ratio of first received power from a serving mobile station to second received power from a non-serving mobile station is equal to a second target value assigned by the radio network controller, a serving cell of the serving mobile station being the particular cell, a non-serving cell of the non-serving mobile station being the particular cell.
US08565804B2
Intelligent wireless dispatch systems are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a dispatch computer and mobile data terminals positioned on a vehicle and in wireless communication with the dispatch computer. The system displays a plurality of drivers arranged in a driver stack, receives exception information from each mobile data terminal, displays a formatted driver icon corresponding to each driver in the driver stack, and sorts the drivers in the driver stack by prioritized exception information. The system is configured to display a driver assignment list for each driver including one or more assignments and to wirelessly transmit an assignment message to the mobile data terminals according to an update to a driver assignment list. The mobile data terminals are configured to display the assignment message for acceptance or rejection. Additional embodiments may also include voice-over-IP capability for two-way communication between the dispatcher and driver.
US08565784B2
Methods and systems are provided to improve the input used in, e.g., an Enhanced Cell Global ID algorithm. Reducing the variation of the input can result in a more accurate position result for a mobile positioning system when determining the position of a mobile system.
US08565775B2
A mobile station that is configured to perform common channel cancellation may include a parameter estimation unit that is configured to estimate parameters for generating a common channel error. The mobile station may also include a common channel generation unit that is configured to generate the common channel error based on the parameters. The mobile station may also include an adder that is configured to subtract the common channel error from received data samples.
US08565768B2
A mobile telecommunications system comprises a network of a plurality of cells and at least one user equipment device operable to communicate in the system and to operate in a first RAT and a second RAT. The method comprises, in the user equipment device, determining whether the validity of data stored on the user equipment device will expire within an expiry period, the stored data being for use in handover of operation of the user equipment device from the first RAT to the second RAT.
US08565761B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes steps of: performing, at a mobile station (UE) having established a first connection in a first cell, a cell selection process when detecting failure in the first connection; transmitting, from the mobile station (UE) to a second cell selected by the cell selection process, a connection re-establishment request signal; determining, at the radio base station managing the second cell, whether or not to have stored context information of the mobile station (UE) having transmitted the connection re-establishment request signal; acquiring, at the radio base station managing the second cell, the context information of the mobile station from a radio base station managing the first cell, when the radio base station managing the second cell determines that it does not store the context information of the mobile station (UE).
US08565757B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for assessing call integrity of calls communicated via a mobile device. In particular, physical aspects of the mobile device that are related to call integrity are identified. The physical condition of the mobile device is then monitored based on the identified physical aspects. The data retrieved from monitoring the physical aspects of the mobile device is then provided to a physical condition assessment component that determines an assessed physical condition of the mobile device. Based on the assessed physical condition of the mobile device, call integrity of calls communicated via the mobile device is determined.
US08565745B2
A controlling device (e.g., a telephony device) can remotely control various tasks associated with a controlled device (e.g., a personal computer), including the navigation of user interfaces associated with applications or an operating system associated with the controlled device. A task can be controlled at the controlled device by mapping user input received at the controlling device to control commands suitable for execution at the controlled device.
US08565741B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes acquiring channel information of a broadcasting program received by at least one other mobile terminal through a client program, arranging and displaying the acquired channel information according to a specific standard, receiving a selection signal corresponding to a selection at least one channel information item from the displayed channel information, and receiving and displaying the broadcasting program corresponding to the selected channel information item.
US08565723B2
A mobile wallet and network system using onetime passwords for authentication is disclosed according to one embodiment of the invention. A onetime password may be generated at a mobile wallet server and transmitted to the mobile device. The onetime password may then be used to authenticate the user of the mobile wallet when completing a transaction. Authentication may require entry of the onetime password and confirmation that the onetime password entered matches the onetime password sent by the mobile wallet server. In other embodiments of the invention, a mobile wallet and a mobile wallet server are in sync and each generate the same onetime password at the same time. These onetime passwords may then be used to authenticate the user of the mobile wallet.
US08565717B2
A mobile telephone equipped for activation of an emergency mode comprises a housing, a detection circuit triggered, especially interrupted, from outside the housing and a strap member cooperating with the detection circuit for triggering, especially interrupting, the detection circuit upon pulling the strap member off the housing. An electronic control unit of the telephone monitors triggering of the detection circuit, to activate an emergency mode in case of such triggering and to automatically perform emergency operations in the emergency mode. The strap member comprises a strap, a first connector attached to the strap and a bridging circuit portion. The housing comprises a second connector that cooperates with the first connector for fastening the strap member to the housing. The connectors are configured as mating snap-fit connectors, with the connector or of the strap member comprising at least two bridging circuit terminals.
US08565710B2
A SAW-less transmitter includes an up-conversion mixing module, a frequency translated BPF (FTBPF), an output module, and a power amplifier driver. The up-conversion mixing module converts an outbound symbol stream into an up-converted signal. The FTBPF frequency translates a baseband filter response to an RF bandpass filter response and filter the up-converted signal in accordance with the RF bandpass filter response to produce a filtered up-converted signal. The output module conditions the filtered up-converted signal to produce a conditioned up-converted signal. The power amplifier driver amplifies the conditioned up-converted signal to produce an outbound RF signal.
US08565709B2
A passive filter circuit filters an input signal to attenuate an undesired frequency. The passive filter circuit includes a first stage and a second stage. The input to the first stage is the input signal. The first stage includes a first inductor and a first branch coupled to the output of the first inductor. The first branch includes a first capacitor and a second inductor. The first stage is coupled to the second stage. The second stage includes a third inductor and a second branch coupled to the output of the third inductor. The second branch includes a second capacitor. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08565702B2
A channel scanning technique and apparatus provides audio hole suppression in two-way radio communications. Upon detecting the absence of a carrier signal on a priority channel during a priority scan mode of operation, a training waveform is constructed upon returning to the home-channel. The training waveform is applied to audio shaping filters within an audio lineup to suppress transients and minimize or eliminate the occurrence of audio pops at a speaker output thereby reducing the audio hole.
US08565701B2
An antenna system is disclosed. A wireless device includes two antennas. The first antenna is optimized at a first frequency band. The second antenna is optimized at a second frequency band. The signals received from respective optimized frequency bands are used as primary received signals. The signals having frequencies beyond respective optimized frequency bands are used as diversity signals. Likewise, the signals transmitted from a transceiver to base stations are sent to respective antennas based upon their frequency bands. By employing this optimized antenna configuration, the wireless device can provide high quality wireless signals for both frequency bands.
US08565692B2
Embodiments related to analog front-ends for wireless and wired are described and depicted.
US08565687B2
Signal detection assisted by use of moving antennae. A signal of interest may be detected in signal samples measured by a single antenna installed on a moving platform. A first sample is collected at time T1 and a second signal sample at time T2 by the single antenna. The first signal sample is treated as having been received by a first antenna mounted on the moving platform and the second signal sample is treated as having been received by a second antenna mounted on the moving platform. The samples are processed by a receiver of the first and second signal samples to detect the signal of interest.
US08565686B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method includes determining signal quality for wireless communications received over each of a first antenna element and a second antenna element, and processing the signal quality and a power status of the wireless communication device to determine a first multipath search window for the first antenna element and a second multipath search window for the second antenna element.
US08565681B2
Embodiments of the invention may provide for reducing interference in the front-end of a communications receiver. The cancellation circuitry may be utilized in conjunction with a preliminary rejection filter for improved rejection of out-of-band interference from other radio services or circuitry. The cancellation circuit may be placed in parallel with the preliminary rejection filter and may enhance suppression at the interference frequency by matching the gain and phase of the preliminary rejection filter prior to subtracting the matched signal from the preliminary rejection filter output. The cancellation circuit need not necessary know beforehand the characteristics of the preliminary rejection filter, the interference source, or the coupling mechanism, as it may adapt to unknown or varying interferers by adapting the matching gain and phase values based on the output of the preliminary rejection filter at tap points occurring both before and after application of the cancellation signal.
US08565679B2
Provided is a communication system which includes a plurality of game apparatuses. Each game apparatus performs short-range wireless communication with another game apparatus among the plurality of game apparatuses. Through the short-range wireless communication, the game apparatus receives identification information of the other game apparatus (other-apparatus identification information) from the other game apparatus. The game apparatus detects the communication status of the short-range wireless communication with the other game apparatus. Based on the detection result, the game apparatus determines whether or not to register the other game apparatus which is associated with the received other-apparatus identification information. When determining to register the other game apparatus, the information processing apparatus registers the other game apparatus and performs communication with the registered other game apparatus.
US08565678B2
An information processing apparatus establishes a proximity wireless link with a partner device and utilizes instantaneous interruptions of the wireless link to control processing of data transfer between the information processing apparatus and the partner device. A control unit in the information processing apparatus determines a frequency of the instantaneous interruptions of the wireless link generated within a predetermined time based on a reception state of a plurality of signals transmitted from the partner device, and controls the processing of data transfer between the information processing apparatus and the partner device according to the determined frequency of instantaneous interruptions.
US08565674B2
A portable terminal operable in a tag mode a read mode and a method for operating the terminal are provided. The portable terminal includes a Near Field Communication (NFC) module including a plurality of amplifiers, a mode selector for controlling the plurality of amplifiers to perform a power supplying operation and a power cutting operation, a controller for outputting a control signal to the mode selector according to the tag mode and the read mode, and a selection signal line for transmitting the control signal to the mode selector.
US08565673B2
A hierarchical WRAN includes a relay station (RS) possessing dual roles. A RS acts from the perspective of a base station (BS) as a consumer premise equipment (CPE) terminal just as any other first tier CPE terminal. Simultaneously, the RS, from the perspective of other second tier CPEs, acts as a BS providing all of the functional capabilities of a BS. The RS includes dual medium access control (MAC) functions in which a first MAC function serves to interface the RS with the BS while the second MAC function serves to interface the RS with the at least one CPE terminal. The RS further includes a convergence layer that maps, at the RS, the first MAC to the second MAC. The dual MAC capability of the RS enables the RS to pipeline frame transmission in both single and multi-channel operations.
US08565671B2
This invention concerns a repeater for radio frequency signals having a channel filter and an active filter connected to the channel filter output. The active filter covers the channels adjacent to the channel filter and includes an amplifier and; two bandpass filters in parallel connected as a negative feedback loop around the amplifier. The first bandpass filter covers the lower adjacent channels and the second bandpass filter covers the higher adjacent channels. The invention notably applies to the development of domestic repeaters for mobile terminals meeting the DVB-H digital television standard.
US08565664B2
An image forming apparatus provided with a sheet feeding tray to store sheets for image forming; a sheet feeding section to feed the sheets form the sheet feeding tray so as to supply the sheets for the image forming; and a control section to individually administer remaining sheets stored in the sheet feeding tray in advance and replenishment sheets replenished when the sheet feeding tray is replenished with the sheets in a state where the sheets stored in the sheet feeding tray in advance is remaining. Whereby, a JOB can be continued or aborted appropriately with reference to information and remaining amounts of remaining sheets and replenishment sheets in one sheet feeding tray, since the information and the remaining amounts are administered individually.
US08565662B2
A hinge apparatus for a cover of an image forming apparatus has a hinge body with supporting brackets, movably inserted into a coupling hole positioned in a main body of the image forming apparatus, a hinge cam connected to the cover and pivotably connected to the supporting brackets, and a pressure device disposed at the hinge body to press the hinge cam. Accordingly, the hinge apparatus can be implemented with a simple and easy assembly operation, since it is not a complicated structural connection among the component parts of the hinge apparatus.
US08565661B2
A cleaning device that can be incorporated in an image forming apparatus which includes an image carrier configured to form a toner image, and a cleaning device configured to clean residual toner on the surface of the image carrier. The cleaning device includes a cleaning blade having a blade member provided to contact the surface of the image carrier and a holder to hold the blade member. The cleaning device further includes a frame to hold the cleaning blade and a vibration suppression member provided across the cleaning blade and the frame to couple the cleaning blade and the frame together and suppress vibration.
US08565641B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a drum unit which holds photosensitive drums in parallel, a developing cartridge which is detachably mounted in the drum unit, a translation member which is provided in the apparatus body to be movable linearly, a shaft which is provided on the tandem photosensitive drum unit for each developing cartridge; and a pivoting member which is rotatably supported by the shaft. The pivoting member includes an abutting portion which is provided on one side to abut the translation member, a pressing portion which is provided on the other side, and is configured to press a predetermined portion of the developing cartridge in a direction in which the developing roller is separated from the photosensitive drum; and a spring portion which applies a biasing force in a direction in which the pressing portion is separated from the predetermined portion.
US08565636B2
A member moving mechanism according to the present invention includes: a first moving member that moves in a first positive direction and a first negative direction opposite to the first positive direction; a second moving member that moves in a second positive direction that is different from each of the first positive direction and the first negative direction, and in a second negative direction opposite to the second positive direction; a belt member that connects the first moving member and the second moving member; and a belt-member guiding member that controls a moving direction of the belt member, and changes the moving direction of the belt member at least once.
US08565635B2
A printing device is provided with a printing unit configured to print images on sheets, a plurality of discharge trays configured to receive printed sheets, a detection unit configured to detect a switching instruction to switch among the plurality of discharge trays, and a discharge control unit. The discharge control unit stops a currently executed print job, selects one of following print jobs which does not designate a currently used discharge tray, and switches the discharge trays such that a discharge tray other than the currently used discharge tray as a selected discharge tray to be used, starts the selected one of following print job using the selected discharge tray, when the detection unit detects the switching instruction.
US08565629B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a charger for electrically charging the member, an electrostatic latent image forming device for forming an electrostatic latent image on the member, a developer for developing the electrostatic latent image into a toner image, a transferer for transferring the toner image from the member onto a recording material and including a transfer member to which a transfer voltage is to be applied, a transfer-voltage source variably setting the transfer voltage, and a circuit for detecting a current passing between the image bearing and the transfer members by the transfer voltage applied from the voltage source, and a controller for controlling the voltage source. The controller sets the transfer-voltage value, applied from the voltage source during a non-passing period of the recording material, so that a predetermined current is detected by the circuit.
US08565628B2
Non-uniformity of a rotatable electrophotographic imaging component is compensated. The component has an intentional periodic variation that produces density variations in a test target. The angular position on the component of the intentional variation is correlated with the amount of an unintentional variation at several points to produce a non-uniformity map. An image signal with multiple regions of data is received. For each region, the angular position of the intentional variation in that region is determined, and the non-uniformity map is used to determine the correction required for the unintentional variation. The image data in the region are adjusted to compensate, and corresponding toner is deposited.
US08565627B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus which shortens the time taken for circumference detection and measures the circumference at high precision without obstructing downsizing of the apparatus. To accomplish this, the image forming apparatus detects, at an arbitrary timing, the physical pattern of the image-formed surface of a rotation member that changes over time. In the second round, the image forming apparatus detects the second pattern at a timing a predetermined time after the arbitrary timing. By using the detected patterns, the image forming apparatus obtains information associated with the circumference of the rotation member.
US08565621B2
A method for detecting and measuring time skew in high-speed DP-QPSK coherent optical receivers is described.
US08565601B2
The control device includes a power-saving control unit that intermittently repeats, based on a power saving permission signal transmitted from the master station apparatus, power saving control in which the slave station stops or reduces power supply to a transmitter or a receiver for a predetermined pause duration while maintaining a communication link and a monitoring unit that monitors out of synchronization by comparing a synchronization signal received from the OLT and a time of the ONU. The control device shifts from a registered state to a deregistered state when the monitoring unit detects the out of synchronization. On the other hand, after the pause duration of the power saving control, the control device suppresses the shift to the deregistered state due to the detection of the out of synchronization.
US08565584B2
An editing apparatus for video data creates a bridge file for connecting a first file and a second file to be edited based on designation of an IN point of the first file, an OUT point of the second file, and connection points of the both files, a frame preceding the connection point of the first file being made an OUT point and a frame following the connection point of the second file being made an IN point, and the bridge file connecting the OUT point and the IN point, records the bridge file into a recording medium recording the first and second files, and creates an editing result file having file system information indicating recording positions: from the IN point to the OUT point in the first file; from the IN point to the OUT point in the second file; and of the bridge file, in the recording medium.
US08565582B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an image reproducing device in which energy saving characteristics and responsiveness are balanced. An image reproducing device according to this invention includes an operation-state-information acquisition unit for obtaining operation-state information of a display device for displaying the reproduced image signal, an operation input unit for inputting an operation command to operate the image reproducing device, and a mode setting unit for setting a mode for supplying electric power to the image reproducing device according to the operation-state information.
US08565580B2
An apparatus which easily discriminates 3D (stereoscopic vision) contents from non-3D contents among recorded program contents can be provided. Further, a unit to prohibit unintentional generation of a virtual play list where 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed can be provided. For these purposes, a 3D flag is recorded in a play list file. Further, upon virtual play list generation, the recorded 3D flag set values are obtained and it is checked whether or not 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed.
US08565573B2
A cable management assembly for cable clusters of network equipment includes a supporting and fixing component, at least one cable management component and cable constraint components. The fixing component is a metal bar, which may be removably hooked to a cable patch panel. The bar includes evenly distributed U-shaped sections, whose number corresponds to the number of cable management components. Each cable management components may be formed with a trough-shaped upper surface to cradle cables. The bottom of the surface may be provided with a U-shaped groove and two locking members. Each U-shaped section of the bar is passed into a corresponding U-shaped groove and two portions of the bar immediately adjacent to the U-shaped section are snapped into the two locking members so as to fix the cable management component to the bar. The cable constraint component may be a strap inserted through and hanging from a strap hole at a side of the corresponding cable management component. The free end of the strap may be looped over the cable cluster and passed through a via hole formed in the other end of the strap to secure the cable cluster into the trough-shaped surface of the cable management component.
US08565567B2
The present invention relates to a multi-mode optical fiber having a structure which can be produced with good stability with a communication bandwidth broader than that in the conventional structures, and in which both GeO2 and chlorine are added to a core thereof, and chlorine is also added to a cladding thereof. The cladding contains chlorine such that the average chlorine concentration therein becomes higher than the average chlorine concentration in the core.
US08565557B2
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate more efficient free view generation in Ray-Space by way of a Radon transform. The architecture can render virtual views based upon original image data by employing Ray-Space interpolation techniques. In particular, the architecture can apply the Radon transform to a feature epipolar plane image (FEPI) to extract more suitable slope or direction candidates. In addition, the architecture can facilitate improved block-based matching techniques in order to determine an optimal linear interpretation direction.
US08565556B2
An image interpolation method obtains an image line pixel value between two adjacent image lines. The method acquires a luminance change of pixels of two image lines and decides a region of two image lines where only one portion similar to a part of the luminance change of one of the image lines exists in the luminance change of the other image line in the vicinity of the image to be interpolated. Then, among pixel sets located at the symmetric positions about the object image to be interpolated with respect to the pixel within the region, the set having the highest similarity is selected. By using the pixel value of the selected set, the pixel value of the pixel to be interpolated is decided.
US08565555B2
An image processing apparatus for generating corrected image data from a plurality of input image data by performing an iterative calculation process includes an input unit configured to input the plurality of input image data, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a photographing parameter used for photographing to acquire the input image data, a setting unit configured to set for each image area a number of iterations for generating the corrected image data based on the photographing parameter, and a generation unit configured to generate correction data from the plurality of image data by performing an iterative calculation process on each image area based on the number of iterations set for each image area.
US08565554B2
Digital images are resized according to a prescribed image scaling factor. An original image is re-sampled according to the scaling factor, resulting in an initial resized image. A probability of text (POT) map is generated for the initial resized image, where the POT map specifies a smoothed POT value for each pixel in the initial resized image. A weighting factor (WF) map is generated which maps each different smoothed POT value to a particular WF value. The WF map is used to calculate an adjusted luminance value for each pixel in the initial resized image, resulting in a final resized image.
US08565553B2
Provided herein are systems methods including a design of a microscope slide scanner for digital pathology applications which provides high quality images and automated batch-mode operation at low cost. The instrument architecture is advantageously based on a convergence of high performance, yet low cost, computing technologies, interfaces and software standards to enable high quality digital microscopy at very low cost. Also provided is a method based in part on a stitching method that allows for dividing an image into a number of overlapping tiles and reconstituting the image with a magnification without substantial loss of accuracy. A scanner is employed in capturing snapshot images. The method allows for overlapping images captured in consecutive snapshots.
US08565547B2
The present disclosure relates to combination of images. A method according to an embodiment comprises: receiving a visual image and an infrared (IR) image of a scene; extracting high spatial frequency content from said visual image; and combining said extracted high spatial frequency content from said visual image with said IR image, wherein a resolution for the visual image and the IR image are substantially the same, to generate a combined image.
US08565544B2
In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a decoder. The decoder is configured to obtain first and second motion vectors of at least one block other than the current block. The other blocks neighbor the current block at one of a left, top and top right position. The decoder is configured to determine a direction of the first and second motion vectors of the other blocks. The decoder is configured to determine first and second predication motion vectors of the current block based on the determined directions. The decoder is configured to determine the first and second predication motion vectors by applying a median operation to the first motion vectors of the other blocks and applying a median operation to the second motion vectors of the other blocks.
US08565543B2
A video recording apparatus optimally records partial images made up of a partial area from an original image and containing a feature point such as person's face. An imaging unit acquires the original image by imaging at a resolution higher than the pixel count used for video recording. A feature point detector detects one or more feature points from the original image. A partial image clipper clips, from the original image, a partial image containing a feature point selected by the user. An encoder encodes the clipped partial image. A recording unit then records the encoded partial image to a recording medium. In so doing, the user is able to select a recording subject from a summary of detected feature points before or during video recording, and thus record a desired face.
US08565541B2
An image processing apparatus and method capable of compressing a current image using one of a plurality of compression algorithms based upon similarity (or fluctuation level) between a previous image and the current image are discussed.
US08565539B2
A system and a method are provided for determining an estimated age of an individual of interest based on images in an image collection. An example system includes a memory for storing computer executable instructions, and a processing unit for accessing the memory and executing the computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions include an age class estimator to classify a plurality of images of the individual into age classes, each age class corresponding to an interval of age, and each image having a known time stamp, a probability determination engine to determine, for each age class, a value of class probability that an image in the collection falls within the age class, an age determination engine to determine a transition time based on the values of class probability and the known time stamp, and to determine the estimated age of the individual based on the determined transition time.
US08565538B2
A system and method are disclosed for detecting and labeling places recognized in a video stream using change-points detection. The system includes a segmentation module and a label learning module. The segmentation module is configured to receive a video stream comprising multiple digital representations of images. The video stream is represented by a measurement stream comprising one or more image histograms of the video stream. The segmentation module segments the measurement stream into multiple segments corresponding to place recognized in the videos stream. The segmentation module detects change-points of the measurement stream and computes probability distributions of the segments over multiple pre-learned place models. The label generation module is configured to generate place labels for the places recognized by the place models.
US08565537B2
A processing system may receive an example image for use in querying a collection of digital images. The processing system may use local and global feature descriptors to perform a content-based image comparison of the digital images with the example image, to automatically rank the digital images with respect to similarity to the example image. A local feature descriptor may represent a portion of the contents of a digital image. A global feature descriptor may represent substantially all of the contents of that digital image. The global feature descriptor may be content based, not keyword based. Intermediate and final classifiers may be used to perform the automatic ranking. Different intermediate classifiers may generate intermediate relevance metrics with respect to different modalities. The final classifier may use results from the intermediate classifiers to produce a final relevance metric for the digital images. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08565536B2
A method of operating a computer system to perform material recognition based on multiple features extracted from an image is described. A combination of low-level features extracted directly from the image and multiple novel mid-level features extracted from transformed versions of the image are selected and used to assign a material category to a single image. The novel mid-level features include non-reflectance based features such as the micro-texture features micro jet and micro-SIFT and the shape feature curvature, and reflectance-based features including edge slice and edge ribbon. An augmented Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model is provided as an exemplary Bayesian framework for selecting a subset of features useful for material recognition of objects in an image.
US08565513B2
An image processing method for providing corresponding depth information according to an input image is provided. This method includes the following steps. First, a reference image is generated according to the input image. Next, the input image and the reference image are divided into a number of input image blocks and a number of reference image blocks, respectively. Then, according to a number of input pixel data of each input image block and a number of reference pixel data of each reference image block, respective variance magnitudes of the input image blocks are obtained. Next, the input image is divided into a number of segmentation regions. Then, the depth information is generated according to the corresponding variance magnitudes of the input image blocks which each segmentation region covers substantially.
US08565510B2
Methods for tracking the identity of die after singulation from a wafer. The product chips and die include a pattern of features formed in a metallization level of a back-end-of-line (BEOL) wiring structure. The features in the pattern contain information relating to the die, such as a unique identifier that includes a wafer identification used to fabricate the die and a product chip location for the die on a wafer. The features may be imaged with the assistance of a beam of electromagnetic radiation that penetrates into a packaged die and is altered by the presence of the features in a way that promotes imaging.
US08565508B2
A method and an inspection system may be provided. The inspection system may include (a) a hybrid sensor that may include a monochromatic portion that is arranged to obtain a monochromatic image of a first area of an object; a multiple-color portion that is arranged to obtain a multi-colored image of a second area of the object; wherein the monochromatic portion comprises monochromatic sensing elements that sense radiation of a same frequency band; wherein the multiple-color portion comprises color sensing elements of different types, wherein different types of color sensing elements are associated with different frequency bands; (b) a storage element arranged to store the monochromatic image and the multiple-color image; and (c) a defect detection module arranged to detect defects by processing at least one of the monochromatic image and the multiple-color image.
US08565496B2
An image editing apparatus includes a subject information extracting unit configured to extract subject information of a subject from an image, and a subject frame setting unit configured to set a subject frame based on the subject information extracted by the subject information extracting unit. The image editing apparatus also includes a region instructions detecting unit configured to detect a user's instructions as to a region of the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and a region instructions frame setting unit configured to set a region instructions frame based on the user's instructions detected by the region instructions detecting unit. The image editing apparatus further includes a storage processing unit configured to store the subject frame set by the subject frame setting unit, and the region instructions frame set by the region instructions frame setting unit, in a correlated manner.
US08565488B2
A motion analysis apparatus is provided that enables a contribution degree that suits analysis conditions to be set easily. A motion analysis apparatus (300) is provided with a motion data input section (310) that receives learning data as input, a motion feature extraction section (320) that extracts a motion feature amount from learning data, a principal component analysis section (330) that performs principal component analysis using a motion feature amount on part of the learning data, and learns a subspace, a learning data distance calculation section (340) that calculates a distance between a learning data motion feature amount and a subspace, and a contribution degree determination section (350) that determines the suitability of a contribution degree used in principal component analysis, from a distance calculated from learning data that is used in subspace learning and a distance calculated from learning data that is not used in subspace learning.
US08565486B2
A classification system and method are provided, wherein the classification system includes a memory device, a processor communicatively connected to the memory device, and an input communicatively connected to the processor, wherein the input is configured to receive data comprising at least one object that is to be classified as one of an object of interest (OOI) and a nuisance of interest (NOI) based upon at least one non-Boolean attribute of the object, wherein the processor is configured as a Bayesian classifier to classify the object based upon the non-Boolean attribute using a non-linear probability function.
US08565483B2
A sensor unit is installed to a target object and detects a given physical amount. A data acquisition unit acquires output data of the sensor unit in a period including a first period for which a real value of a value of m time integrals of the physical amount is known and a second period that is a target for motion analysis. An error time function estimating unit performs m time integrals of the output data of the sensor unit and estimates a time function of an error of a value of the physical amount detected by the sensor unit with respect to the real value of the value of the physical amount detected by the sensor unit based on a difference between a value of m time integrals of the output data and the real value for the first period.
US08565476B2
A target tracking method includes representing a human target with a machine-readable model configured for adjustment into a plurality of different poses. The machine-readable model includes a plurality of joints, including one or more magnetism joints, and each joint has a three-dimensional world space position. The method further includes receiving an observed depth image of the human target from a source. The observed depth image includes a plurality of observed pixels. A magnetism body part is assigned to one or more of the plurality of observed pixels, and a magnetism joint position is estimated based on world space positions of the one or more observed pixels assigned the magnetism body part. A joint of the machine-readable model is then shifted toward the magnetism joint position.
US08565474B2
An image processing apparatus for detecting paragraphs in a textual image includes an input component for receiving an input image in which textual lines and words have been identified and a page classification component for classifying the input image as a first or second page type. The apparatus also includes a paragraph detection component for classifying all textual lines on the input image as a beginning paragraph line or a continuation paragraph line. The apparatus is also provided with a paragraph creation component for creating paragraphs that include textual lines between two successive beginning paragraph lines, including a first of the two successive beginning paragraph lines. The paragraphs that have been identified may be classified by the type of alignment they exhibit. For instance, paragraphs may be classified according to whether they are left aligned, right aligned, center aligned or justified.
US08565466B2
There is provided an auditory canal earphone comprising a housing (120) for receiving an electroacoustic transducer and a sound guide unit (130) on the housing (120) for feeding audio signals produced by the sound transducer into an auditory canal of a user of the auditory canal earphone. The sound guide unit (130) has an outside (136). The auditory canal further has at least one ear adaptor (200) with an inside wall (220) for at least partial placement over the sound guide unit (130) and an outside wall (210) for sealing off the auditory canal. The auditory canal earphone further has a tube (400) between the outside (136) of the sound guide unit (130) and the inside wall (220) of the ear adaptor (200).
US08565464B2
In an audio signal transmission/reception device that receives and emits sounds so as to perform transmission and reception of audio signals via communications, user operability can be improved and the size of a main unit can be reduced. It is equipped with a speaker array for arranging a plurality of speaker units, which are arranged on the lower surface of the main unit, and a microphone array for arranging a plurality of microphones, which are arranged on the side surface of the main unit in its longitudinal direction. Legs having hollow structures are attached to the main unit so as to support the main unit at a prescribed height above the mount surface (e.g., the surface of a desk) and to secure good sound emission characteristics of the speaker array.
US08565458B2
A media player includes a processor configured to receive media content from a content source and to process the media content produce an audio signal. The media player further includes a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the audio signal to a hearing aid through a communication channel.
US08565457B2
An embodiment of a hearing assistance device comprises a housing, a power source, a radio circuit, an antenna and a transmission line. The radio circuit is within the housing and electrically connected to the power source. The antenna has an aperture, and the radio circuit is at least substantially within the aperture. The transmission line electrically connects to the antenna to the radio circuit. Various antenna embodiments include a flex circuit antenna.
US08565456B2
A hearing aid, that outputs a microphone input signal and an external input signal, improved includes a directional microphone, an external input terminal, a hearing aid processor that inputs sound signals from the microphone and the external input terminal, and a receiver that outputs sound signal that have undergone hearing aid processing by the hearing aid processor. The hearing aid processor has a mixer that mixes a sound signal from the microphone with a sound signal from the external input terminal and outputs a sound signal to the receiver, a mixing ratio decider that decides a mixing ratio between the sound signal from the microphone and a sound signal from the external input terminal, a front sound detector that is connected to the mixing ratio decider, and a similarity calculator that determines whether or not sound collected by the directional microphone is that of an external device.
US08565448B2
A dynamic bass equalization circuit has an amplitude dependent gain that is dependent upon the audio electrical signal amplitude and a dynamically adjusted frequency response that varies with the amplitude dependent gain. In one implementation, the dynamic bass equalization circuit includes a Sallen-Key high pass filter that includes an amplifier with a negative feedback path. The dynamically adjusted frequency response is provided by a parallel pair of reversed diodes connected in the negative feedback path.
US08565446B1
A noise suppression system includes plural microphones, a fixed beam former, a blocking matrix, plural adaptive filters, and a direction of arrival circuit coupled to the adaptive filters that prevents the filters from adapting in the presence of a signal in the look direction. The direction of arrival circuit causes the filters to adapt more quickly in the absence of a signal in the look direction. A pair of adjustable gain circuits is coupled to each microphone. A first adjustable gain circuit from each pair is calibrated during the presence of a desired signal and a second adjustable gain circuit from each pair is calibrated during the presence of an interfering signal. A fixed null-forming circuit is coupled to a first pair of variable gain circuits and an adaptive null forming circuit is coupled to a second pair of adjustable gain circuits. The ratio of the gains of the null forming circuits is used as a control signal. Successive ratios are averaged with a variable smoothing constant and a control signal is derived from the averaged ratios.
US08565445B2
A signal processing unit is provided. The signal processing unit includes an orthogonal transforming part including at least two sound input parts receiving input sound signals on a time axis, the orthogonal transforming part transforming two of the input sound signals into respective spectral signals on a frequency axis, a phase difference calculating part obtaining a phase difference between the two spectral signals on the frequency axis, and a filter part phasing, when the phase difference is within a given range, each component of a first one of the two spectral signals based on the phase difference at each frequency to calculate a phased spectral signal and combining the phased spectral signal and a second one of the two spectral signals to calculate a filtered spectral signal.
US08565441B2
A method and apparatus for reducing resonance of a loudspeaker by using a model derived from a software simulated loudspeaker are provided. The method includes generating a model to determine resonance characteristics of the loudspeaker based on physical parameters of the audio reproducing device; determining accuracy of the model of the loudspeaker by comparing calculated frequency characteristics of the model of the loudspeaker and measured frequency characteristics of the loudspeaker that is outputting sound; generating a resonance reduction filter based on the model of the loudspeaker according to the determined accuracy; and reducing the resonance characteristics of the loudspeaker by applying the resonance reduction filter to input audio data.
US08565440B2
A method of producing a plurality of broadband response files derived from empirical testing on at least one human subject, for convolving with an audio input signal represented as digital samples to produce a stereo output signal (having a left field and a right field) such that the stereo signal emulates the production of said audio signal from a specified audio source location relative to a listening source location. A reference signal is derived for each of a plurality of test positions. An originating signal is derived from at least one reference signal. Each reference signal is deconvolved with the originating signal to produce a broadband response file for each test position. A data storage facility having a plurality of broadband response files stored therein.
US08565433B2
A method and system for managing an air interface key are provided in the present invention, which relate to the communication field; the method including: a serving GPRS Support Node+ (SGSN+) or a Mobile Switching Centre/Visitor Location Register+ (MSC/VLR+) transmits a key distributing message to a Radio Network Controller+ (RNC+), wherein the message carries at least one of an intermediate key KASMEU, a ciphering key CKU or an integrity key IKU.
US08565424B2
A server computer system outputs a downloader component to a client computer. The downloader component enables the client computer to download an encrypted file. After outputting the downloader component, the server computer system cooperates with the downloader component to output the encrypted file to the client computer. The server computer system outputs a user profile to the client computer. The user profile contains a key to decrypt the encrypted file into a digital content item. The server computer system outputs a file management component to the client computer. The file management component is to manage usage of the encrypted file at the client computer based on one or more terms of usage associated with the encrypted file.
US08565417B2
A method and an apparatus for upgrading an existing service outlet (e.g. LAN, telephone, power or CATV outlet) in a house by adding functionality thereto. The functionality is added by an add-on module, connected electrically and secured mechanically to the existing outlet. Several attachment devices are exampled, including surface attachment, side clamping, snap locking, strap securing and fastening screws. The add-on module may include a service connector for retaining the basic existing outlet function. The module may be attached in a permanent way or by using a detachable solution.
US08565409B1
A method and apparatus for routing a call to a subject matter expert via a packet network is described. In one embodiment, a request to route said at least one call to the SME is received. A predefined location associated with the SME is also obtained. The call is then routed to a foreign Internet Protocol gateway associated with the predefined foreign location to communicate with the SME.
US08565407B1
An organization conducting transactions with customers may employ a private computer network to enable customers to place a telephone call to customer service agents (CSAs). To maintain high customer service, it may desirable to expand the private computer network's ability to respond to customer calls on-demand. One or more requests for additional telephony resources may be submitted to a telephony resource allocation service in communication with a configurable network service. The telephony resource allocation service may determine telephony resources available for allocation to the private computer network and facilitate communication between the configurable network service and the private computer network. In this manner, additional computer private network extensions executing instances of call distribution services may also be generated and configured. Thus, the capacity of the private computer network to respond to customer calls may be expanded, while the additional private network extensions may manage distribution of calls to the CSAs transmitted over the allocated telephony resources.
US08565403B2
A method for screening and routing incoming telephone calls includes extracting caller identification information from an incoming telephone call, providing a plurality of tables including a primary ring table, a secondary ring table, a voicemail table, a block call table, and a forward call table, and determining which one of the plurality of tables includes the caller identification information. The method further includes sending the incoming telephone call directly to voicemail without having a ring tone if the voicemail table includes the caller identification information, blocking the incoming telephone call if the block call table includes the caller identification information, and forwarding the incoming telephone call if the forward call table includes the caller identification information.
US08565402B2
A system and method for providing call-back options is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a call in a call routing system, providing at least one call-back option for a caller to receive a call-back, re-allocating resources in the call routing system based at least in part on the at least one call-back option, and calling the caller based on the at least one call-back option. The caller may specify a specific time, a relative time, or a time range when a call-back is preferred. The caller may also specify one or more telephone numbers in combination with the time preferences. The call-back may be initiated by a voice response unit (VRU) and additional call-back options may be presented to the customer who responds to the call-back.
US08565392B2
Methods and apparatus that permit two users to physically interact with one another from a distance using their telecommunication device are disclosed. In an exemplary method, a connection between the telecommunication devices may be established and an indication of inputs at the first and second telecommunication devices received. The inputs may be verified to have been input at the telecommunication devices either substantially simultaneously or overlapping in time. A signal may be sent to the telecommunication devices instructing them to provide a physically perceptible output responsive to verification of substantially simultaneous or overlapping inputs.
US08565389B2
Voicemail messages are transcribed to text in accordance with a subscriber preference. When a new voicemail message is detected or a request to retrieve a voicemail message is detected, a voicemail to text device may alter its behavior based on the voicemail to text subscriber preference and a mobile device status. Subscriber preferences can comprise location (e.g., GPS, AGPS, roaming, international, or national boundaries), date, time, and network resources. Voicemail to text can automatically be re-enabled/disabled based on subscriber preferences set by a subscriber or network provider. A subscriber or network provider can initiate a state change (enable/disable) of voicemail to text.
US08565388B2
Method of using a computerized smart phone to navigate remote auto attendant telephony systems with a menu structure. The auto attendant's menu structure is put into an online computer database. When the caller uses the smart phone to call and establish a voice channel with remote auto attendant telephony system (using the telephone number of that system), software applications running on the caller's smart phone communication device intercept the telephone number and along with the voice channel, also establish a data channel with the online computer accessible database. The caller's smart phone can then retrieve at least some of the menu structure of the auto attendant telephony system through this data channel. This application software can then display at least some of the menu structure of the remote auto attendant telephony system on the graphical user interface of the user's smart phone synchronized with the audio delivery of the menu structure, facilitating interactions with the auto attendant system.
US08565387B1
A method of delivering a story for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, includes the steps of recording onto a memory device a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to a user recipient and preferably displaying; telling a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view by means of the calls; and doing everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real. A system for engaging a user in an interactive, scripted, virtual reality story by generating calls from a group of actors or personalities called a clique, having a memory for storing a series of calls by multiple persons who pretend to be friends of a user recipient; a mechanism for communicating with the memory for making calls using the recorded calls in a predetermined sequence to the user recipient; a mechanism for receiving the series of calls, wherein the series of calls tell a story in the first person perspective from multiple points of view; and the calls simulate everything real friends do when they communicate with each other, except these friends are fictional, rather than real.
US08565386B2
Automatic configuration of soft phones that are usable in conjunction with special-purpose endpoints
The present disclosure is directed, in some embodiments, to automatic switching of a telephony module between different operational modes in response to the identification of different types of incoming contacts.
US08565379B2
Apparatus for inspection of a sample includes an X-ray source, which is configured to irradiate a location on the sample with a beam of X-rays. An X-ray detector is configured to receive the X-rays that are scattered from the sample and to output a first signal indicative of the received X-rays. A VUV source is configured to irradiate the location on the sample with a beam of VUV radiation. A VUV detector is configured to receive the VUV radiation that is reflected from the sample and to output a second signal indicative of the received VUV radiation. A processor is configured to process the first and second signals in order to measure a property of the sample.
US08565377B2
Imaging may be performed using a megavoltage (MV) radiotherapy treatment system. An electron beam directed at a low-Z target generates an imaging cone beam. The cone beam may be shaped to conform to projections of volumes of interest in a subject. Image filling may be performed to reduce artifacts in the volumes of interest. Image data for filling may be derived from digitally reconstructed radiographs.
US08565374B2
A system for multi-mode breast x-ray imaging which comprises a compression arm assembly for compressing and immobilizing a breast for x-ray imaging, an x-ray tube assembly, and an x-ray image receptor is provided. The system is configured for a plurality of imaging protocols and modes.
US08565372B2
A breast imaging system leverages the combined strengths of two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging to provide a breast cancer screening with improved sensitivity, specificity and patient dosing. A tomosynthesis system supports the acquisition of three-dimensional images at a dosage lower than that used to acquire a two-dimensional image. The low-dose three-dimensional image may be used for mass detection, while the two-dimensional image may be used for calcification detection. Obtaining tomosynthesis data at low dose provides a number of advantages in addition to mass detection including the reduction in scan time and wear and tear on the x-ray tube. Such an arrangement provides a breast cancer screening system with high sensitivity and specificity and reduced patient dosing.
US08565353B1
Unfolded adaptive/decision-directed loops and correction circuits therefor, architectures, apparatuses and systems including the same, and methods, algorithms and software for reducing latency in an adaptive and/or decision-directed loop. Disclosed embodiments advantageously reduce effects of loop latency, improve the accuracy of corrections in an adaptive loop, and minimize overhead and delays associated with such improvements.
US08565349B2
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.
US08565344B2
Provided is a transmission circuit which allows smooth switching of the operation mode when switching the operation mode of the transmission circuit. A power amplifier 14 includes: a first input terminal to which a direct-current voltage or a voltage in accordance with an amplitude signal M is supplied; a second input terminal to which an output signal from a first variable gain amplifier 171 or an output signal from a second variable gain amplifier 172 is inputted; and a third input terminal to which an output signal from a first bias circuit 15 or an output signal from a second bias circuit 16 is inputted. A control section 11 switches the operation mode of the transmission circuit so that at least one of the first input terminal, the second input terminal, and the third input terminal of the power amplifier is prevented from being in a no input state.
US08565340B2
Methods and devices for transmitting a burst of signals in a cellular radio system supporting data transmission using EGPRS/EGPRS2 are provided. The transmission involves providing additional symbols in the EGPRS/EGPRS2 burst thereby forming a long burst and pulse shaping the long burst to form a long baseband signal whose duration exceeds the duration of one EGPRS/EGPRS2 time slot. The long baseband signal is then shortened to a shortened burst having the duration of an EGPRS/EGPRS2 time slot wherein the shortened burst fulfills the same spectrum mask requirement as the EGPRS/EGPRS2 burst, which can be transmitted.
US08565337B2
A method of transmitting a data stream over a communication channel, the method comprising: providing symbol sets having different numbers of symbols; modulating data in the data stream that warrant different degrees of protection against noise onto symbols from symbol sets having different numbers of symbols, wherein which symbol set given data in the stream is modulated onto is independent of symbol sets onto which other data in the data stream is modulated onto; and transmitting the symbols.
US08565332B2
Provided are a fixed station receiver for a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system and an uplink adaptation method thereof. In the uplink adaptation method, a sounding reference signal (SRS) is received from a terminal including a plurality of transmission antennas. A complex channel matrix (H) corresponding to a channel response and a noise variance (σ2) corresponding to a noise power is calculated from the sounding reference signal. A signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR) on each transmission symbol is calculated with reference to the complex channel matrix (H) and the noise variance (σ2). A pre-coding matrix of the terminal is selected with reference to the signal-to-interference and noise ratio (SINR).
US08565328B2
An apparatus and method are provided for feeding back channel quality information and performing scheduling using the fed-back channel quality information in a wireless communication system based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). In the OFDMA wireless communication system, forward performance degradation due to a decrease in an amount of reverse channel quality information is reduced, and also an increase in the reverse load due to channel quality information feedback is suppressed. A base station controls power of a physical channel using information fed back from a mobile station. In a method for feeding back channel quality information from the mobile station, sub-band-by-sub-band channel quality information is measured and channel-by-channel quality information of a number of channels is transmitted in order of sub-bands of better channel quality information. Average channel quality information for a total band is measured and transmitted.
US08565326B2
A method for transmitting data represented by a plurality of coded bits includes: allocating the coded bits to a plurality of groups; rearranging, for a retransmission of the coded bits, ones of the coded bits allocated to a first one of the plurality of groups to a second one of the plurality of groups, and ones of the coded bits allocated to the second one of the plurality of groups to the first one or a third one of the plurality of groups; and changing, for the retransmission, a sequence of coded bits allocated to each of the plurality of groups after the rearranging.
US08565323B1
Disclosed are various embodiments that implement attention misdirection to conceal errors in streaming video. A video stream quality monitor executed in one or more computing devices determines that an error in a video stream may be user perceivable. The video stream is then configured to include a distraction to mask the error. The distraction is designed to induce a saccade in a user, which interferes with perception of the error by the user.
US08565318B2
In one embodiment, a network device analyzes an encoded stream to identify a timing value included in a packet before a splice point. Next, the device determines a difference between identified timing value and a timing value included in a packet of the encoded segment to be spliced. In conjunction with splicing, the network device formats timing values of packets according to the determined difference, which improves play out of the spliced stream.
US08565317B2
A user interface system comprises a server having a scene description converting device for converting scene description containing input user interaction into converted scene description while leaving parts containing the user interaction and a scene description decoding device for decoding converted scene description into decoded scene description, a remote terminal having a scene description decoding device for decoding scene description and converted scene description sent from the server and a display device for displaying decoded scenes and a user input device for receiving user input according to this display, and a display terminal for displaying decoded scenes sent from the server. Thus, decoding can be enabled at terminals having inferior decoding capabilities and display capabilities.
US08565309B2
System and method for motion vector collection for motion compensated interpolation of digital video
A system and method of collection motion vectors for motion compensated interpolation of digital video are disclosed. For example, one embodiment includes a method of identifying motion vectors for interpolating a portion of a digital video signal. The method comprises identifying a plurality of motion vectors indicative of differences between first and second frames of a digital video signal and projecting each of the motion vectors to a location within a third frame at a time associated with the third frame. The method further includes determining a measure of overlap of each projected location with a portion of a third frame to be interpolated, selecting at least one motion vector based on the measure, and generating at least a portion of a third frame based on the selected at least one motion vector selected. Other embodiments include a system and device configured to perform the method.
US08565308B2
A device for processing variable-size macroblocks to achieve high-speed interframe prediction. A predictor calculator determines a motion vector predictor (MVP) for a current macroblock from motion vectors of other macroblocks adjacent to the current macroblock. To achieve this, the predictor calculator specifies adjacent macroblocks to an address calculator. The address calculator calculates a vector memory address for each specified adjacent macroblock, based on the block size of that specified macroblock. The predictor calculator reads out motion vectors from the received addresses and determines MVP for the current macroblock.
US08565306B2
In the method of determining motion vectors for an image block, a motion vector of a co-located image block for a current image block is obtained, and then motion vectors of the current image block are determined based on a type of reference picture pointed to by the obtained motion vector.
US08565300B2
A method and device for controlling a code rate are provided, and this application relates to a video communication technology. The method for controlling a code rate includes the following steps. An output target bit of a current frame is acquired, where the current frame is a currently processed input frame. A target quantization parameter is acquired according to the output target bit by utilizing a nonlinear code rate control model. The present invention is applicable to transcoding between compressed videos.
US08565292B2
In communication method for communicating via a transmission channel to which first communication apparatuses communicating based on a first communication system, second communication apparatuses communicating based on a second communication system, and third communication apparatuses communicating based on a third communication system are connected, a data transmission domain and a notification domain for notifying a data transmission within the data transmission domain are allocated to the first communication apparatuses, the second communication apparatuses, and the third communication apparatuses, respectively. In the communication method, notices of the data transmission for each of the first communication apparatuses, the second communication apparatuses and the third communication apparatuses are transmitted within the notification domain, and the data transmission domain is reallocated in accordance with the notices transmitted from the first, second and third communication apparatuses.
US08565287B2
A wireless system may receive a plurality of multipath signals from a plurality of transmitters and allocate per-cell modules for generating an interference suppressed signal from the multipath signals. Data symbols may be sequentially processed in the received multipath signals utilizing the per-cell modules and subtracting the processed symbols from a residual buffer storing the received multipath signals. Desired information received from one or more of the transmitters may be recovered utilizing the interference suppressed signal. Timing of the data symbols may be correlated utilizing a cell chip combiner. The data symbols may be descrambled utilizing conjugated scrambling codes associated with one of the plurality of transmitters. Orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) codes may be generated utilizing a Walsh transform on the data symbols. Power levels of the OVSF codes may be estimated and estimated signals may be generated based on the OVSF codes and the estimated power levels.
US08565286B2
For channelization codes CC#1 to CC#15, the despreading circuit comprises an FHT circuit with a spreading factor of 16 which outputs the results of despreading of an HS-PDCH. An adder is connected to the FHT circuit at an output terminal thereof corresponding to channelization code CC#0. The adder is connected to a memory to which is input the value obtained by adding an output of the FHT circuit to an output of a selector connected to the memory via a feedback line. By performing the addition 16 times in the adder, the result of despreading of a PCPICH is output.
US08565284B2
A spread spectrum clock signal generator and an accompanying method provide a spread spectrum clock signal of a reduced electromagnetic interference. The spread spectrum clock signal generator includes (a) a state machine, which maintains a current state of the spread spectrum clock signal generator, receives as input value a next state of the spread spectrum clock signal generator and generates a clock phase selection signal based on the current and next states; (b) a random number generator for generating the next state; and (c) a waveform generation circuit for generating a spread spectrum clock signal based on the clock phase selection signal.
US08565280B2
This semiconductor laser element includes a semiconductor element layer including an active layer and having an emitting side cavity facet and a reflecting side cavity facet, and a facet coating film on a surface of the emitting side cavity facet. The facet coating film includes a photocatalytic layer arranged on an outermost surface of the facet coating film and a dielectric layer arranged between the photocatalytic layer and the emitting side cavity facet. A thickness of the dielectric layer is set to a thickness defined by m×λ/(2×n) (m is an integer), where a wavelength of a laser beam emitted from the active layer is λ and a refractive index of the dielectric layer is n, and at least 1 μm.
US08565275B2
A laser source assembly (210) for generating an assembly output beam (212) includes a first laser source (218A), a second laser source (218B), and a dispersive beam combiner (222). The first laser source (218A) emits a first beam (220A) having a first center wavelength, and the second laser source (218B) emits a second beam (220B) having a second center wavelength that is different than the first center wavelength. The dispersive beam combiner (222) includes a common area 224 that combines the first beam (220A) and the second beam (220B) to provide the assembly output beam (212). The first beam (220A) impinges on the common area (224) at a first beam angle (226A), and the second beam (220B) impinges on the common area (224) at a second beam angle (226B) that is different than the first beam angle (226A). Further, the beams (220A) (220B) that exit from the dispersive beam combiner (222) are substantially coaxial, are fully overlapping, and are co-propagating.
US08565268B2
The present application discloses a method in which a base station transmits a reference signal sequence in a wireless communication system. In detail, the method comprises the steps of: generating a pseudo-random sequence using a first m-sequence and a second m-sequence; generating the reference signal sequence using the pseudo-random sequence; and transmitting the reference signal to a mobile station via antenna ports different from one another. The second m-sequence has an initial value containing parameters for discriminating reference signal sequences among users.
US08565261B1
A system including a media access controller, a rate adaptation layer (RAL), and a physical extension module. The RAL module is configured to communicate with the media access controller using a plurality of signal interconnections. The physical extension module is configured to (i) communicate with the RAL module using XGMII, and (ii) communicate with an external device using a physical extension interface. The RAL module is configured to store (i) a first mapping of 10 Gbps media independent interface (XGMII) signals onto a first subset of the plurality of signal interconnections, and (ii) a second mapping of 1 Gbps media independent interface (GMII) signals onto a second subset of the plurality of signal interconnections. The RAL module is also configured to choose a selected mapping from the first mapping and the second mapping, and communicate with the media access controller over the plurality of signal interconnections according to the selected mapping.
US08565257B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting packets having quality of service requirement wherein the quality of service requirements associated with the packets are received at an input, said quality of service parameters include at least one of delay, bandwidth, peak bandwidth and retransmission bandwidth. The received quality of service parameters are mapped to radio protocol parameters including at least one of a priority slot interval, a priority slot phase, a packet duration and modulation format for the radio channel. The packets are transmitted on a radio channel according to the mapped radio protocol parameters.
US08565250B2
Described embodiments schedule packets for transmission by a network processor. A traffic manager generates a scheduling hierarchy having a root scheduler and N levels. The network processor generates tasks corresponding to received packets. The traffic manager enqueues tasks in an associated queue. The queue has a corresponding level M, with a corresponding parent scheduler at each of M−1 levels in the scheduling hierarchy, where M is less than or equal to N. In a single scheduling cycle, a parent scheduler selects a child node to transmit one or more tasks, and the child node responds whether the scheduling is accepted, and if so, with a number of tasks for scheduling. Starting at the parent scheduler and iteratively repeating at each level until reaching the root scheduler, statistics corresponding to the selected node are updated. Output packets corresponding to the scheduled tasks are transmitted, thereby achieving a superscalar task scheduling throughput.
US08565249B2
A system and method are provided for managing a queue of packets transmitted from a sender to a receiver across a communications network. The sender has a plurality of sender states and a queue manager situated in between the sender and receiver may have a corresponding plurality of queue manager states. The queue manager has one or more queue management parameters which may have distinct predetermined values for each of the queue manager states. When the queue manager detects an event that is; indicative of a change in the sender's state, the queue manager may change its sn tate correspondingly.
US08565241B2
A medium access control (MAC) architecture reduces transmission latency for data block retransmissions. A plurality of data blocks are received and temporarily stored in a first memory (e.g., queue, buffer). The plurality of data blocks are then transmitted. A determination is made as to whether each of the transmitted data blocks was received successfully or needs to be retransmitted because the data block was not received successfully. Each of the transmitted data blocks that needs to be retransmitted is marked and temporarily stored in a second memory having a higher priority than the first memory. The marked data blocks are retransmitted before data blocks stored in the first memory location.
US08565233B2
Aspects of mobility management within a wireless communications network including a plurality of sectors are disclosed. In an example, the wireless communications network includes a first cluster of sectors with at least one target sector and at least one supporting sector. The multicast communication session is carried within both the target and supporting sectors. In another example, a second cluster can be included within the network for supporting the same multicast communication session that includes its own target and supporting sectors. In this example, the first cluster transmits multicast media on a first interlace-multiplex (IM) pair of a downlink broadcast channel (BCH) and the second cluster transmits multicast media on a second IM pair of the downlink BCH. If sectors of the first and second clusters overlap, the network controls a manner in which the first and second clusters carry the multicast media.
US08565232B2
A method and apparatus for virtual circuit routes is described. A method in a network element comprises associating a virtual circuit to a layer 3 next hop, the virtual circuit being associated with a layer 2 protocol specific logical circuit, receiving a packet on the logical circuit, processing the packet with configuration information indicated by the virtual circuit, and forwarding the packet to the layer 3 next hop associated with the virtual circuit without processing the packet's layer 3 header.
US08565224B2
According to one embodiment, a telephone exchange apparatus includes a connector, a memory, a determination module and a controller. The connector performs a part of the function of the media server and connect a distribution server that distributes an input media packet to the telephone terminals. The memory stores a connection management table indicating a correspondence relation between a terminal ID, a server ID and codec information, when a call connection related to the unicast packet distribution is established. The determination module refers to the connection management table when performing the unicast packet distribution, and determines whether there is a call connection using the same codec information based on reference result of the connection management table. The controller dynamically connects a plurality of telephone terminals using the same codec to a media server via the distribution server.
US08565220B2
There is provided a method of signaling status information of an application service. The method is performed by a signaling gateway which interconnects an internet protocol network and a signaling system 7 network. The method comprises collecting application server status information of application servers associated with the application service and generating the status information of the application service from the collected application server status information by use of a given set of rules. The status information is generated for signaling the status information to at least one peer. The at least one peer can be comprised in the internet protocol network or in the signaling system 7 network.
US08565214B2
A hybrid communication network for a transportation safety system includes a fixed wired nodes and mobile wireless nodes. Because the wired nodes operate independently packets transmitted by the wired nodes to the wireless nodes need to be synchronized. A downlink travel time for downlink packets traveling from a controller to the wireless nodes is determined. Then, the controller schedules downlink data intervals (DDI) based on the downlink travel time; and transmits downlink packets to the wireless nodes during the DDI, such that a latency requirement of the transportation safety system is satisfied.
US08565202B2
A first wireless communication device may communicate specific data with a second wireless communication device by utilizing a wireless connection according to wireless communication setting information for communicating the specific data. The first wireless communication device may send second wireless setting information to the second wireless communication device by utilizing a first wireless connection according to first wireless setting information in a case where an instruction is input. The first wireless communication device may (A) newly set the second wireless setting information as the wireless setting information for communicating the specific data in a case where a predetermined signal is received, and (B) maintain the first wireless setting information as the wireless setting information for communicating the specific data in a case where the predetermined signal is not received.
US08565198B1
A system including i) first wireless communication circuitry to receive and transmit packets of a first type via an antenna, and ii) second wireless communication circuitry to receive and transmit packets of a second type via the antenna. The packets of the second type are transmitted and received during time slots having a predefined length, and the time slots are separated by time intervals during which no packets of the second type are transmitted or received by the second wireless communication circuitry. The system further includes an arbiter to control access of the first wireless communication circuitry and the second wireless communication circuitry to the antenna, wherein the arbiter causes the packets of the first type to be transmitted and received by the first wireless communication circuitry during the time intervals during which no packets of the second type are transmitted or received by the second wireless communication circuitry.
US08565193B2
The invention relates to a method of transmitting data in a communications system. The invention comprises: receiving from a user an uplink signal using multiple narrow antenna beams; measuring beam-specific pilot signal powers from the uplink signal for all the beams; and using the measured pilot signal powers to determine which one or ones of the downlink beams is to be used for a downlink signal for the user.
US08565182B2
The application relates to radio communications and discloses a method and apparatus for feeding back and receiving acknowledgment (ACK) information of semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) data packets. The method includes receiving downlink data packets and an uplink data assignment indicator (UL DAI) from a base station (BS), wherein a value of the UL DAI indicates a number (N) of all scheduled downlink sub-frames which scheduled by the BS for the UE, the number N is greater than 1, and a number k (k
US08565174B2
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies. A resource management method, apparatus, and system in a multi-carrier system are disclosed. The multi-carrier system includes at least one multi-carrier cell and the multi-carrier cell includes at least two single carrier establishing cooperation. The method includes the following steps: A base station measures the cooperative resource usage information of each cooperation established single carrier cell; the base station reports the cooperative resource usage information to a radio network controller for the radio network controller to perform resource management. The information measured and reported by the base station in the embodiment of the present invention can satisfy the needs of the multi-carrier performing resource management and make sure that the radio network controller can perform reasonable admission control over multi-carrier UEs.
US08565162B2
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method including: determining whether first allocation information has been transmitted from a first device towards a second device in a wireless communication system; and transmitting a message including transmittal information and second allocation information from the first device towards the second device, wherein the transmittal information corresponds to the determined transmittal of the first allocation information. In another exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method including: detecting whether a first signal is received on a dedicated resource of a wireless communication system; detecting whether a second signal is received on a shared resource of the wireless communication system; and determining, based on a detection outcome for the first signal and a detection outcome for the second signal, whether at least one allocation has failed.
US08565159B2
A mobile communications session is provided to a mobile node using an internet protocol. A home packet data network communicates with an affiliated mobile node. The home packet data network includes a home agent of the mobile node. A visited packet data network communicates with an affiliated mobile node. A packet data gateway controls communication between the home and visited packet data networks. Following a change of affiliation from the home packet data network to the visited packet data network, the packet data gateway and the home agent establish a route to the mobile node via the packet data gateway, which controls communication between the home packet data network and the mobile node affiliated with the visited packet data network. If the mobile node roams between a 3GPP network and a non-3GPP network; the packet data gateway controls communication, using resources on the 3GPP network by the mobile node.
US08565154B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that facilitate measuring frequencies for cell reselection. A base station providing a cell can be interfered by one or more closed subscriber group (CSG) cells over at least a portion of frequency utilized by the base station to serve one or more devices. The base station can determine and provide one or more parameters related to performing a measurement of a system bandwidth to one or more devices that are within range of the one or more CSG cells that includes at least a portion of the bandwidth utilized by the one or more CSG cells. The one or more devices can accordingly perform measurements of the system bandwidth of the base station for determining one or more communication metrics related to performing reselection and/or measuring other frequencies for reselection. The measurement can relate to a wideband measurement, a plurality of narrowband measurements, etc.
