US08813257B2
A download terminal acquires and stores a content from a content server, acquires from a license server, a writing-out license including a use condition for writing out of the content to an exchangeable medium and writes out the content to the exchangeable medium according to the writing-out license. The writing-out license includes a pack identifier given to a content group to which the content belongs, and viewing term information of the content, as the use condition. The download terminal determines based on the viewing term information, a viewing time limit of the content to be written out, and synchronizes a viewing time limit of other content having a same pack identifier as that of the content.
US08813236B1
A method for detecting hidden malicious network nodes. Starting from a pool of seed nodes that have previously been identified as malicious, a two-phase score propagation algorithm is employed to propagate threat scores from the seeded nodes to other nodes in an IP-address connectivity graph. Nodes with high threat score after propagation are declared to be malicious.
US08813235B2
An instance of a vulnerability risk management (VRM) module and a vulnerability management expert decision system (VMEDS) module are instantiated in a cloud. The VMEDS module imports scan results from a VRM vulnerability database and saves them as vulnerabilities to be reviewed in a VMEDS database. The VMEDS module converts vulnerabilities into facts. The VMEDS module builds a rule set in the knowledge base to verify whether certain vulnerabilities are false positives. Rules related to a vulnerability are received in plain English from a web-based front-end application. The VMEDS module tests each rule against all of the facts using the Rete algorithm. The VMEDS module executes the action associated with the rule derived from the Rete algorithm. The VMEDS module stores the results associated with the executing of the action in the VMEDS database and forwards the results to the VRM module.
US08813233B1
Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate the evaluation of machine images. A machine image inspection component processes requests for evaluation of machine images hosted on a virtual machine instance. In response to the request, the machine image inspection component selects executable code that can evaluate the requested machine image prior to instantiating the virtual machine instance with the requested machine image. Based on execution of the selected executable code, the machine image inspection can then process the results of the evaluation of the requested machine image accordingly.
US08813229B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for preventing infection by malicious code, comprising: a database in which files installed in an agent system, DNA values for each part of the files, and index information for indicating whether each file is normal or malicious are stored; a calculation unit which calculates a DNA value for a part of a file for which an execution is requested in the agent system; and a file inspection unit which searches the database to extract, in a group, files having the DNA value calculated by the calculation unit, inspects whether an object file is normal or malicious on the basis of the index information on the files extracted in a group, and allows the execution of the object file or makes a request for the calculation of DNA values of other parts which selectively include one part of the object file.
US08813223B2
Generally, this disclosure describes a secure network topology on a virtualized server (and methods thereof). A virtualization management module is deployed as part of a software layer of a virtualized server system. The virtualization management module generates an internal network among the virtual machines and controls access to the network. The virtualization management module translates incoming and outgoing traffic between the virtual machines and an external internet IP address, thus keeping the virtual machines indirectly coupled to the external network. The virtualization management module also provides remote administration and control over each virtual machine (or collection of virtual machines).
US08813211B2
A system includes a storage device for storing details of a plurality of reservations of a hospitality establishment. A particular reservation includes a registered device setting for affecting behavior of a computer network at the hospitality establishment toward a user device having a specified device identifier. The system further includes a clock unit for tracking time, and a system controller coupled to the computer network and having access to the storage device and the clock unit. The system controller automatically configures one or more network components of the computer network when a start time of the particular reservation is reached in order to activate the registered device setting, and automatically configures the one or more network components when an end time of the particular reservation is reached in order to deactivate the registered device setting.
US08813201B2
An apparatus and method establish a secure, direct, station-to-station communication between a first station and a second station in a topology (e.g., PBSS) having a central secret holder/provider that allows secure, direct, station-to-station communications and that allows secure station-to-station broadcast communications. The first station and the second station will have previously established a security association (SA) with a topology control point (PCP). The method includes creating pair-wise unique material for the first station. The pair-wise unique material is computed as a function of (i) a known shared secret associated with the PCP, (ii) a first piece of unique data associated with the first station, and (iii) a second piece of unique data associated with the second station. The method includes securely communicating the pair-wise unique material from the first station to the second station.
US08813196B2
A conference collaboration system has a server connected to a network and configured to generate a page view requested by a client device over the network and provide dynamic content associated with the requested page view for display on the device; and a database configured to store the dynamic content, update the dynamic content in response to commands from the server, and provide the dynamic content to the server in response to requests from the server, wherein the dynamic content is associated with a plurality of services, each shown in a page view, and the dynamic content and the services are associated with a conference. The server can determine an authorization level of a user interacting with the client device and provide a page view and dynamic content in response to the authorization level, and the dynamic content is updated or created in response to or for actions during the conference.
US08813195B2
The present invention relates to a Femtocell providing services to a UE, and it proposes a method for authenticating a UE registered in a first operating domain of a communication network (e.g. a mobile core network), when the UE requests the service provided by a second operating domain (e.g. a fixed access network, a backhaul network). An authentication server in the first operating domain allocates the needed information to access the service provided by the second operating domain for the UE, and stores. After receiving the needed information, the UE sends an authentication request message to an authentication server in the second operating domain, wherein the authentication server in the second operating domain forwards the authentication request message to the authentication server in the first operating domain.
US08813194B2
A particular method includes receiving a request to access a secured wireless local network at a security device of the secured wireless local network from a wireless-enabled device that is not authorized to access the secured wireless local network when the request is received. The method includes receiving identification information from the wireless-enabled device at the security device. The method also includes automatically sending an access request message from the security device to at least one messaging address. The access request message provides a recipient of the access request message with at least a portion of the identification information and a selectable option to allow the wireless-enabled device access to the secured wireless local network without requiring user input of a network password associated with the secured wireless local network via the wireless-enabled device.
US08813193B2
An information security method for a mobile terminal. The method includes setting security information for a content associated with a first user, uploading the content to a Social Network Service (SNS) site, and uploading the security information to the SNS site to permit the SNS site to register the security information in order to display the content according to the security information when the content is accessed by a second user via the SNS site.
US08813188B2
Pairing is achieved between a host communications device and a peripheral communications device, in order to establish an ad hoc wireless or wired network. A device identification, relating uniquely to the peripheral device, is displayed on the host device. In order to accept the pairing, the user confirms that the device identification displayed on the host device matches that printed on the peripheral device, and then completes the pairing procedure by pressing a key on the peripheral device, or, if Near Field Communication (NFC) techniques are implemented in the devices, by placing the peripheral device in contact with, or sufficiently close to, the host device. Thus, secure pairing is achieved, without requiring a complex user interface on the peripheral device.
US08813187B1
A system that includes at least one processor and computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to host at least one affluent social networking web site, provide at least one artificial intelligence assistance service to a user of the at least one affluent social networking web site, and use a biometric identifier to verify the identity of the user or restrict access to at least a portion of the affluent social networking website.
US08813184B2
Technologies are generally described for authentication systems. In an example, an authentication system can be built among devices by sharing an image that is virtually torn into pieces. Each participant in the authentication system receives a piece of the image. The participants are authenticated when the pieces are later joined to form the original image.
US08813182B2
A method of activation and authorization of a near field communication (NFC) enabled device comprising: receiving login information from an NFC enabled device; sending packet data via a network in response to receiving the login information from the NFC enabled device; and receiving corresponding data from the NFC enabled device in response to the sending of the packet data, the sending of the packet data and the receiving of the corresponding code facilitates the activation and authorization of the NFC enabled device, and the subsequent activation of the NFC device via a NFC link without further authorization of the NFC enabled device, is described herein.
US08813172B2
Data management techniques are provided for handling information resources. A data management process can account for attributes of information resources by analyzing or interpreting the workspace location, source, channel and device associated with an information resource, and effectuating policies, based on the attributes. Rules govern the attribute determination and policies for access restriction to the information resource. The attributes and policies determined are tagged to the information resource and is dynamically updated based on the attributes related to the information resource within different workspaces, such as a corporate workspace and a personal workspace.
US08813171B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for facilitating authorization of a roaming mobile terminal. A method may include receiving a request for security key related policy information for a user equipment device. The request may be sent by a service providing node on a visited network. The method may further include causing a service authorization information request including a user security settings package to be sent to a policy decisioning server. The method may also include receiving, in response to the service authorization information request, a service authorization information answer including a modified user security settings package including the authorization policy information for the user equipment device. The method may additionally include causing the requested security key related policy information to be sent to the service providing node. Corresponding systems and apparatuses are also provided.
US08813162B2
An information receiving apparatus includes: a communication unit; a storage unit that stores data; a data acquisition unit that acquires distribution data that are received via the communication unit and stores the distribution data in a prescribed storage area of the storage unit that is determined in advance; and a control unit that, prior to the communication unit receiving the distribution data, performs a storage area securing process that secures a storage area by deleting data that are stored in the prescribed storage area of the storage unit or by transferring the data to another storage area of the storage unit.
US08813161B2
A method for transmitting service data of a handset TV is disclosed in the present invention, wherein, an audio part and a video part of a handset TV program are split into an audio sub-service and a video sub-service respectively, and when transmitting the service data of the handset TV program, a transmitting terminal splits the service data into audio sub-service data and video sub-service data; the transmitting terminal respectively transmits the audio sub-service data and the video sub-service data on different transmission resources, and transmits association relationship information of the audio sub-service and the video sub-service to a terminal. In the present invention, a transceiver operates in a DRX mode in a long time to effectively save the handset power energy; in addition, in implementation, the present invention only needs to update the software in the existing system, which causes very small changes to the system and is low in cost, thus the overall performance of the handset TV is effectively improved.
US08813153B2
An intelligent device is configured to receive a DTV signal that includes audio/visual information as well as data signals in a datacast format. The datacast format includes web pages, e.g., in the HTML (hypertext markup language) format of the world wide web. An intelligent filter modifies itself based on user behavior and user preferences in terms of the web pages that a viewer routinely visits. The intelligent filter is then used to identify certain web pages of the pages that are being broadcast and these identified web pages are stored in a cache memory for later use by the viewer. A second tuner can be used to poll multiple channels when updating the cached contents. Cached web pages avoid broadcast latencies (due to periodic updating) and thereby are displayed faster to the viewer.
US08813120B1
A method executed on a processor for controls audio during playing of a video segment. The method includes receiving a request to play one or more main videos; noting a request for audio matching among the main videos and one or more interstitial videos; determining requested audio parameters for the audio matching; identifying a first interstitial in the main videos in which the interstitial videos may be served, the first interstitial in proximity to a first main video; locating one or more candidate interstitial videos to serve in the first interstitial by matching audio parameters of each of the candidate videos and audio parameters of at least the first main video; and selecting to serve in the first interstitial, one or more interstitial videos having a closest audio match to the first main video.
US08813118B2
In one of many possible embodiments, a system includes a content delivery subsystem providing an enhanced content data stream, which includes media content from a first source and interactive advertising content from a second source. The system further includes a content processing subsystem communicatively coupled to the media content delivery subsystem. The content processing subsystem is configured to receive the enhanced content data stream, provide at least a component of the media content instance for presentation to a user, and provide at least a subset of the interactive advertising content for concurrent presentation of both the component of the media content and the subset of the interactive advertising content to the user.
US08813117B1
The invention provides secure playback on a client of a selected version of content with files downloaded from a corresponding package stored on a content server. The package includes a plurality of video and audio files for the available versions of the content. Each package of files includes a master manifest that lists the files included in the package. Also, each file listed in the master manifest includes a separate hash value. Separate packages include other video and audio files and other master manifests for available versions of other/different content. In at least one embodiment, one or more subset manifests are generated from the master manifest. Each subset manifest lists a portion of the files listed in the master manifest and the corresponding hash values for these files.
US08813113B1
A method for adding a conditional access system to a digital audio/video transmission system that delivers content from a source to a security device associated with an audio/video processing device by providing at the broadcast source a datastream having system information data including an unused identifier reserved for security data associated with the additional conditional access system.
US08813111B2
A system and a method for playing a photograph-based game are provided. The method includes establishing a communication link between a game playing system and one or more game playing devices, each of which is operated by a respective player. Game rules are presented to the player(s) on the respective game playing device(s). The game rules include at least one task for the submission of at least one photographic image. Provision is made for receiving a photographic image in the game playing system which has been submitted via the established link from the game playing device in response to the presented task. An image signature is computed for the submitted photographic image based on visual features extracted from the image and a relevance to the task is computed, based on the computed image signature. A score for the game is output for each player, based on the computed relevance of the submitted images for each of the tasks.
US08813105B1
A clamping apparatus for being disposed in an optical disk drive and carrying a disk is provided. The clamping apparatus includes a base, a spindle assembly, a pawl and a buffer element. The spindle assembly is disposed on the base and rotating about an axis. The pawl is assembled to the spindle assembly. The disk is configured to be locked to the pawl, such that the spindle assembly drives the pawl and the disk to rotate about the axis. The buffer element is assembled to the spindle assembly, and the buffer element is located above the pawl. The buffer element interferes with the disk when the disk is separated from the pawl.
US08813098B2
A method to interact with a local USB device is disclosed. Messages are transmitted to a remote host controller driver from a host controller associated with the local USB device. Messages are received from the remote host controller driver for the host controller. In some embodiments, a transfer descriptor prototype is received from the remote host controller driver. A completed transfer descriptor is received from the remote host controller driver. The completed transfer descriptor and the transfer descriptor prototype are transformed into a modified transfer descriptor in part by using a collection of rules. The modified transfer descriptor is submitted to the local host controller without intervention from the remote host controller driver.
US08813094B2
The present invention is directed to a method, medium and system for use in a computing environment for managing input information. The system for facilitating input management in a computerized environment may include an input manager for processing events received from an input provider. The system may additionally include a staging area including a stack of events created by the input manager. The staging area allows access by external components. The external components may include a set of filters capable of accessing and manipulating the stack of input events and a set of monitors capable of monitoring manipulation of the stack of events.
US08813087B2
Determining an equivalent capacity (ECP) of a computing system comprising multi-type operational resources. The multi-type operational resources comprises at least one general type of resources and at least one specialized type of resources Parameters characteristic of the performance of the system is determined. Assignment of work units to the various resources subject to pre-defined constraints is simulated. Utilization of said general type of resources of the computing system when executing the work units is calculated.
US08813086B2
A computer implemented method, system and/or computer program product schedules execution of work requests through work plan prioritization. One or more work packets are mapped to and assigned to each work request from a group of work requests. A complexity level is derived for and assigned to each work packet, and priority levels of various work requests are determined for each entity from a group of entities. A global priority for the group of work requests is then determined. The global priority and the complexity levels combine to create a priority function, which is used to schedule execution of the work requests.
US08813080B2
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method to enhance an operating system's ability to schedule ready threads, specifically to select a logical processor on which to run the ready thread, based on platform policy. Platform policy may be performance-centric, power-centric, or a balance of the two. Embodiments of the present invention use temporal characteristics of the system utilization, or workload, and/or temporal characteristics of the ready thread in choosing a logical processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08813078B2
An information handling system includes a first power detector that detects a first power level of the information handling system, a second power detector that detects a second power level of the information handling system, and a virtual machine manager. The virtual machine manager is operable to receive the first power level and the second power level, apportion a first portion of the first power level to a first workload instantiated on the information handling system, apportion a second portion of the first power level to a second workload instantiated on the information handling system, apportion a first portion of the second power level to the first workload, and apportion a second portion of the second power level to the second workload.
US08813077B2
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for processing virtualization events in a layered virtualization architecture are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a event logic and evaluation logic. The event logic is to recognize a virtualization event. The evaluation logic is to determine whether to transfer control from a child guest to a parent guest in response to the virtualization event.
US08813071B2
Efficient and effective storage reclamation systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a storage reclamation method comprises: receiving an indication from a virtual machine that a reclamation opportunity for reclamation of a physical storage resource is available; and performing a reclamation process of the physical storage resource in accordance with the indication from the virtual machine that the reclamation opportunity is available, wherein the reclamation process is performed while the virtual machine is running. The indication can be received from a virtual communication protocol (e.g., can include an in-band communication protocol, out-of band communication protocol, a socket based communication protocol or a serial character device communication protocol).
US08813063B2
A computerized method, program product, system, and service to verify installation of computer software onto an endpoint machine. The software to be installed is evaluated to determine what operating parameters of the endpoint machine may be affected by the software deployment, installation, and execution. Acceptable ranges of these operating parameters are included with the list of potentially affected parameters, distributed with the software module or sent as a separate script. Metrics are collected during the software installation, e.g., before deployment, after deployment but before installation, after installation, during execution, etc. How and when these operating parameters are monitored can be programmable. If and when the operating parameters extend beyond the acceptable ranges, a message that the software was not successfully installed is generated. The endpoint machine can be rolled back to a prior configuration.
US08813050B2
A system for electronic crime reduction is provided, comprising a computer system, a database, a malware de-compiler, a malware parser, and an inference engine. The database contains information that associates electronic crime attack signature data with at least one of an individual, a group, and a location. The malware de-compiler, when executed on the computer system, translates a first malware executable to an assembly language version. The first malware is associated with an electronic crime that has been committed. The malware parser, when executed on the computer system, analyzes the assembly language version to identify distinctive coding preferences used to develop the first malware. The inference engine, when executed on the computer system, analyzes the distinctive coding preferences identified by the malware parser application in combination with searching the database to identify one of an individual, a group, and a location associated with the electronic crime.
US08813041B2
In one embodiment, a method for inserting advertising into an application includes removing first application code from a first input executable file and placing it into an output executable file, wherein the first application code represents code part of the application. Then a first set of proxies is inserted into the first input executable file, wherein the first set of proxies, when run, makes calls to the first application code. Second application code is added into the output executable file, wherein the second application code represents code executable to display the advertising. The output executable file is compressed. Then, the first input executable file and the output executable file are provided to a device such that the device may load and execute the files.
US08813032B2
Customizing a target system. The target system may include a first device with a first programmable hardware element (PHE) and a second device with a second PHE. Synchronization modules may be provided for implementation on the first and second PHEs. The synchronization modules may provide a standard interface for interacting with other code. A user may specify user-created code for the first and second PHEs which utilizes the synchronization modules. The user-created code may interact with the synchronization modules using the standard interface. Accordingly, hardware descriptions may be generated for the first and second PHEs of the target system. Different modules may be used for different interconnects. Additionally, multiple synchronization modules may be used, e.g., dynamically, during operation of the target system.
US08813027B2
Static type checking is performed against external data sources in an interacting editing environment. A rich editing experience can be provided to users for external data equivalent to that provided for internal static, typed data. An extensible compiler is provided so that a user or third party can extend type checking facilities to any external data source. An extensible language service is provided so that a user or third party can extend the language service to provide a consistent, current static view of external data. The extensible compiler and language service allow language extensions to plug into the type checking process. This enables the compiler and language service to provide an extension point that allows extensions of the compiler and allow the language service to render dynamic information statically.
US08813026B1
Method and apparatus for representing data for components of a system in respective model components, generating model sub components from model components for at least some of the system components, and accumulating information from the model components and model sub components to determine a world view of the system. In one embodiment, model components can be updated during system operation.
US08813025B1
Systems and methods for objective Deployment Failure risk assessments are provided, which may include fault trees. Systems and methods for the analysis of fault trees are provided as well. The risk assessments system may involve the development of a fault tree, assigning initial values and weights to the events within that fault tree, and the subsequent revision of those values and weights in an iterative fashion, including comparison to historical data. The systems for analysis may involve the assignment of well-ordered values to some events in a fault tree, and then the combination those values through the application of specialized, defined gates. The system may further involve the revision of specific gates by comparison to historical or empirical data.
US08813016B1
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems for performing design layout are provided. In an example, a design layout corresponds to a layout of a standard cell whose connectivity is described by a netlist. For example, the netlist specifies net types for respective vias of the standard cell. One or more connectivity rings are formed within the design layout to provide connectivity for one or more vias of the design layout. For example, a first connectivity ring is generated, such as from mandrel, to connect one or more ring one vias. A second connectivity ring is generated, such as from passive pattern, to connect one or more ring two vias. One or more cuts are generated within the design layout to isolate vias having different net types. In this way, the design layout is self-aligned double patterning (SADP) compliant.
US08813015B2
A system includes a memory and a controller. The controller may include a group of pads and an allocation register. The controller is configured to receive input signals corresponding to the group and allocate each one of the pads to output one of the input signals based on a configuration of pins of the memory. The controller is also configured to redirect the input signals, within the controller, based on the allocation of the pads and output the input signals from the controller into the pads.
US08813012B2
Self-aligned via interconnects using relaxed patterning exposure. In accordance with a first method embodiment, a method for controlling a computer-aided design (CAD) system for designing physical features of an integrated circuit includes accessing a first pattern for first metal traces on a first metal layer, accessing a second pattern for second metal traces on a second metal layer, vertically adjacent to the first metal layer and accessing a precise pattern of intended interconnections between the first and second metal traces. The precise pattern of intended interconnections is operated on to form an imprecise via pattern that indicates a plurality of general areas in which vias are allowed. The imprecise via pattern is for use in an integrated circuit manufacturing process to form, in conjunction with operations to form the first and second metal layers, a plurality of self-aligned vias for interconnecting the intended interconnections.
US08813010B2
A timing analysis program for performing analysis condition generation processing which generates a first analysis condition in which the variation width of a first delay value of a first circuit cell is shifted on the basis of a first variation coefficient and a second analysis condition in which the variation width of a second delay value of a second circuit cell is shifted on the basis of a second variation coefficient.
US08813008B2
Systems and methods for detecting design conflicts of a product or process are disclosed. A method for detecting design conflicts includes processing a function model of a product or process to identify a plurality of descriptions of functions to be performed by the product or process. The method includes detecting in the plurality of descriptions a first description and a second description in which the first description includes a first design component name that matches a second design component name of the second description, a first descriptive noun that matches a second descriptive noun of the second description, and a first active verb that does not match a second active verb of the second description. The method further includes flagging a relationship between the first description and the second description as a first conflict type and displaying, on a display device, information regarding the first conflict type.
US08813005B1
Approaches for testing a module of a circuit design include tagging flip-flops in a netlist of the module with respective path names of the flip-flops from a hardware description language specification of the module. In simulating with the netlist, event data are captured to a first file. A process determines whether or not event data in the first file matches event data in a second file of event data. In response to a difference determined between the first file and the second file, an earliest occurrence of an event in the first file having an associated signal value of a first signal that does not match an associated signal value of a corresponding event in the second file is determined. The one of the plurality of flip-flops that output the first signal is determined, and the respective path name of the one flip-flop is output.
US08812998B2
Described herein is a method for obtaining a preferred layout for a lithographic process, the method comprising: identifying an initial layout including a plurality of features; and reconfiguring the features until a termination condition is satisfied, thereby obtaining the preferred layout; wherein the reconfiguring comprises evaluating a cost function that measures how a lithographic metric is affected by a set of changes to the features for a plurality of lithographic process conditions, and expanding the cost function into a series of terms at least some of which are functions of characteristics of the features.
US08812996B1
An apparatus may include one or more memories and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to execute instructions to facilitate providing a first application window for display. The instruction may facilitate receiving a switching input. The instructions may facilitate, in response to the switching input, providing a plurality of application windows for concurrent display. The providing a plurality of application windows may include changing a display view from the first application window to the plurality of application windows. The plurality of application windows include the first application window and one or more additional application windows. The instructions may facilitate touching and sliding, off the display view, one of the plurality of application windows. The sliding may cause permanently removing the one of the plurality of application windows from application windows available for display. Methods for displaying windows and machine-readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US08812986B2
A method of displaying available multimedia content items includes receiving a request to display a set of available content items. In response to the request, a first set of icons are provided for display, where each icon corresponds to a type of available multimedia content. The icons are displayed in an approximately circular arrangement, providing for easy viewing and manipulation. In response to selection of an icon, a second set of icons is displayed in an approximately circular arrangement, where each icon of the second set corresponds to a sub-type of the available multimedia content. The user can continue to select icons based on the type of desired multimedia content until a list of available multimedia content items are displayed. Accordingly, the user is able to quickly locate and view multimedia content of a desired type, resulting in an improved user experience.
US08812982B2
Users of a social networking system post questions for other users to answer. Questions are automatically tagged based on keywords extracted from text within the posted questions as well as user-selected tags. Users also browse questions asked by other users on the social networking system using an interface that displays questions by topics and sub-topics. Answers may be voted on and sorted by social information related to the browsing user. Affinities for tags are recorded based on users' interactions with the question and answer service. Affinities for tags may also be used to target questions to other users and sort answers.
US08812977B2
In one embodiment, a method of accessing multi-page data via a user interface can include: displaying a scrollbar on the user interface, where the scrollbar includes a page index and a scroll indicator; receiving a selection of a page of the data using the page index in the scrollbar on the user interface, where the data is arranged as a plurality of pages; indicating the selected page in the scrollbar with a predetermined indicator, such as a highlight indicator; receiving a selection of a portion of the selected page using the scroll indicator in the scrollbar on the user interface; and displaying the selected portion of the selected page in a main window on the user interface.
US08812973B1
This disclosure is directed to techniques for text entry/modification using a touch-sensitive device. In one example, the techniques include presenting, by a touch-sensitive device, a graphical keyboard. The graphical keyboard includes at least one character image that represents at least one text character and that is selectable by a user to input the at least one text character. User input may be detected that indicates user selection of at least one formatting option associated with text that is presentable by the touch-sensitive device. A presentation of the at least one character image may be modified to display an indication of the selected formatting option.
US08812972B2
Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to improving the efficiency of text input by dynamically generating a visually assistive virtual keyboard. Exemplary variations display a soft keyboard on a touchscreen of a text-entry device. The touchscreen works with the soft keyboard as a form of text input. Keyboard logic on the text-entry device is programmed to change the visual appearance of each key within the soft keyboard based on the prior entry. The keyboard logic assigns a prediction value to each key based on a statistical probability that the key will be entered next. The touchscreen displays a visually enhanced keyboard based on these prediction values. Enhancements include resizing keys relative to their prediction value, rearranging the keys a distance from the previous key entered inverse to its prediction value, etc.
US08812966B2
A configurator using structure and rules to provide a user interface. According to one embodiment of the invention, a customizable product class is created. The customizable product class includes a set of one or more attributes to define the customizable product class. A component product class is added to the customizable product class, where the component product class is a subclass of the customizable product. A customizable class rule is associated to the customizable product class, the customizable class rule including expressions which provide conditions on component products added to the customizable product. A customizable UI is mapped to the customizable product class, where the customizable UI provides access structure to the configurator.
US08812956B1
A video curation platform displays curated video channels in the form of markup language pages. A page delivered to client machine includes thumbnails of video content that an end user may select and view. The markup language page includes a first container for supporting a first media player, and a second container for supporting a third party media player that is embedded from a content source. The containers are aligned, one in front of the other. The markup language page also includes control logic adapted to be executed in hardware at a client machine when an end user selects video content to be viewed (i) to render first content in the first media player, (ii) upon completing the first content, to automatically hide the first media player and reveal the third party media player; and (iii) to render the video content in the third party media player.
US08812951B1
Content providers may specify special formatting instructions to manage formatting of content that is ultimately displayed by electronic devices. The formatting instructions may include formatting that is not apparent from an original format of the content. The formatting instructions from a content provider may override default formatting that is used by a viewing application on the electronic device or a host (intermediary) that formats the content for the electronic device, which would otherwise control a format of the content. The formatting instructions may be based on attributes of the electronic devices, such as display size, display type, etc. By enabling content providers to specify these special formatting instructions, the content providers may retain control of an ultimate look and function of the content when the content is formatted for a particular electronic device.
US08812946B1
Generally, the systems and methods described herein are directed to rendering a document containing textual elements and graphical elements. The systems and methods include separating the graphical elements from the textual elements, and generating a bitmap rendering of the graphical elements and an HTML rendering of the textual elements. The HTML rendering may then be overlaid on the bitmap rendering to generate a composite document having textual elements that are accessible to screen reader software.
US08812944B2
A method of providing content to a user uses a browser, connects to a server; and performs a check. The method provides a set of modules, and thereby forms a page of modules. The method customizes a first module in the set of modules, saves the customization, and executes a function provided by a module in the set of modules. Initially, the set of modules may include a default set of modules, which includes the first module and a second module. The first module may assume several shapes, and content presented by the first module automatically adjusts according to the shape of the first module to maximize a field of view of the content for the user. Preferably, the first and second modules are stacked such that a horizontal dimension of the first and second modules spans the width of a browser window.
US08812939B2
Systems and methods for decoding data using a decoder that includes a primary decoder and an auxiliary decoder are provided. A codeword is retrieved from a storage device. A primary decoder attempts to decode the codeword using hard data associated with the codeword. If the primary decoder fails, an indication of the failure may be received by a decoder controller, which activates an auxiliary decoder. The auxiliary decoder attempts to decode the codeword using either hard data or soft data associated with the codeword. The primary decoder is designed to consume less power, consume less silicon area, and have a higher throughput than the auxiliary decoder. The primary decoder is configured to have a higher probability of successfully decoding a codeword, stored in the storage device, in the first attempt to decode the codeword, than failing and requiring the auxiliary decoder to decode the codeword.
US08812938B2
Disclosed herein is a coding apparatus, including: a calculation section adapted to calculate, based on information of a transmission object, a linear code to be used for error detection of the information; a production section adapted to produce coded data including a plurality of sets of the information and the linear code calculated by the calculation section; and a transmission section adapted to transmit the coded data to a reception apparatus.
US08812931B2
A memory system including a first memory for storing data and an ECC unit for accessing the first memory and for detecting errors in data retrieved from the first memory, and characterised by an error further processing arrangement operable to process errors detected by the ECC unit, the error further processing arrangement including a second memory for recording information relating to the detected errors. Also described is a method of operation in the memory system.
US08812908B2
Techniques for providing fast, non-write-cycle-limited persistent memory within secure containers, while maintaining the security of the secure containers, are described herein. The secure containers may reside within respective computing devices (e.g., desktop computers, laptop computers, etc.) and may include both volatile storage (e.g., Random Access Memory (RAM), etc.) and non-volatile storage (NVRAM, etc.). In addition, the secure containers may couple to auxiliary power supplies that are located externally thereto and that power the secure containers at least temporarily in the event of a power failure. These auxiliary power supplies may be implemented as short-term power sources, such as capacitors, batteries, or any other suitable power supplies.
US08812902B2
Methods and systems for two device failure tolerance in a RAID 5 storage system. Features and aspects hereof provide for allocating a spare storage device in the storage system for use with a standard RAID level 5 storage volume to form an enhanced RAID level 5 volume. Additional redundancy information is generated and stored on the spare storage device such that the enhanced RAID level 5 volume is operated by the storage controller so as to survive a failure of up to two of the storage devices of the enhanced volume. The allocated spare storage device may be reallocated by the storage controller for another purpose in which case the storage controller continues to operate the enhanced volume as a standard RAID level 5 volume that can only tolerate a single failure of a storage device of the volume.
US08812897B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for distributing data items within a plurality of nodes. A data item update request is replicated from a master node in a plurality of nodes to a plurality of slave nodes within the plurality of nodes. The replicated data item update request is determined to be locality-based durable. Responsive to the determination that the replicated data item update request is locality-based durable, the data item update request is confirmed to a client, wherein the client had originated the data item update request. Upon failover of the master node to another node within the plurality of nodes, a fault-tolerant failover quorum ensures that all previously confirmed updates are found and recognized by the new master node.
US08812895B2
A method may include receiving an order associated with processing a media file and forwarding the order to a resource management system. The method may also include identifying, by the resource management system, tasks associated with fulfilling the order, storing the plurality of tasks and identifying an execution system to execute the tasks. The method may further include forwarding, by the resource management system, the tasks to the execution system.
US08812894B2
Disclosed is a method for recovering from the failure of a gateway server. In some embodiment, the method includes: receiving, at a backup gateway server, a message transmitted from a client, the message comprising a network resource previously allocated to the client by the gateway server that failed; determining whether the network resource is free; and transmitting, from the backup gateway server to the client, an acknowledgment indicating that the client may continue using the network resource in response to a determination that the network resource is free.
US08812892B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for performing high-performance clock training. One clock training sweep operation is performed to determine phase relationships for two write clocks with respect to a command clock. The phase relationships are generated to satisfy timing requirements for two different client devices, such as GDDR5 DRAM components. A second clock training sweep operation is performed to better align local clocks operating on the client devices. A voting tally is maintained during the second clock training sweep to record phase agreement at each step in the clock training sweep. The voting tally then determines whether one of the local clocks should be inverted to better align the two local clocks.
US08812890B2
For controlling power sequence in a blade center environment, a relationship component module creates a topology of interdependent relationships of devices in the blade center environment. The devices include server blades, storage blades, and switch modules. A sequence module defines a sequence of the devices in the blade center environment to power off and on based on the topology of interdependent relationships. The sequence includes an order of a first independent blade server, each dependent storage blade of the first independent blade server, and a second independent blade server. A monitor component module monitors a command from an Advanced Management Module (AMM) to regulate power for the devices in the blade center environment. The AMM regulates power within the blade center. A validation module validates that the command does not violate the interdependent relationships and the sequence of devices or else blocks the command if the command is not validated.
US08812886B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods that enable a memory controller to choose a particular operation mode for virtual memory devices of a memory module based on dynamic program behavior. In one embodiment, a method for determining an operation mode for each virtual memory device of a memory module includes selecting a metric (1001) that provides a standard by which performance and/or energy efficiency of the memory module is optimized during execution of one or more applications on a multicore processor. For each virtual memory device (1005), the method also includes collecting usage information (1006) associated with the virtual memory device over a period of time, determining an operation mode (1007) for the virtual memory device based on the metric and usage information, and entering the virtual memory device into the operation mode (1103, 1105, 1107, 1108).
US08812876B1
An administrator may set restrictions related to the operation of a virtual machine (VM), and virtualization software enforces such restrictions. There may be restrictions related to the general use of the VM, such as who may use the VM, when the VM may be used, and on what physical computers the VM may be used. There may be similar restrictions related to a general ability to modify a VM, such as who may modify the VM. There may also be restrictions related to what modifications may be made to a VM, such as whether the VM may be modified to enable access to various devices or other resources. There may also be restrictions related to how the VM may be used and what may be done with the VM. Information related to the VM and any restrictions placed on the operation of the VM may be encrypted to inhibit a user from circumventing the restrictions.
US08812869B1
Techniques of the present invention impede power consumption measurements of an encryption engine on a logic device by running the encryption engine with an independent clock. This clock produces a signal that is decoupled from and asynchronous to clock signals feeding other circuits on the device. The clock feeding the encryption engine is not accessible externally to the device. Circuits may be employed to intentionally slow down or add jitter to one or more of the clock signals.
US08812863B2
In one embodiment, a biometric device includes a first portion having a processor and a second portion releasably coupled to the first portion. The processor is configured to determine whether the second portion is coupled to the first portion. The processor is configured to operate in an enrollment mode while the first portion is coupled to the second portion and operate in an authentication mode while the first portion is decoupled from the second portion. In one embodiment, a method of biometric authentication includes, first, coupling two portions of a biometric device to put it into an enrollment mode, collecting a biometric sample, and generating and storing a corresponding enrollment code; and second, decoupling the two portions of the biometric device, collecting a biometric sample, generating a corresponding access code, and granting or denying access to an asset based on comparison of the enrollment code and the access code.
US08812859B2
A method, comprising: acquiring candidate data in association with a request for accessing a resource, the candidate data comprising first data and second data; processing the first data with a first key in an attempt to effect decryption of the first data, thereby to obtain first processed data; processing the second data with a second key in an attempt to effect decryption of the second data, thereby to obtain second processed data; and granting the request if a pre-determined portion of the first processed data is derivable from the second processed data. The method may further comprise extracting from the first processed data a group identifier and the pre-determined portion of the first processed data, and effecting a comparison of the group identifier to a reference group identifier in order to conclude whether the first data has been successfully decrypted based on an outcome of the comparison.
US08812847B2
A system and method for authenticating a resource-constrained client are provided. The method includes transmitting, by the server, a query message including a first modified secret key to the client, wherein the first modified secret key is generated using a first secret key and a first blinding value; receiving, from the client, a response message including a response value, wherein the response value is generated using the first blinding value, a second secret key, and an error value; calculating the error value from the response value; and determining, based on the error value, whether authentication of the client is successful.
US08812840B2
A method of pre-authentication of a first entity (10) by a second entity (1) communicating with each other via a wireless connection. The second entity (1) sends (23′) a challenge value (c). If the first entity (10) receives (23) a challenge value (c′), it applies to the received challenge value a predefined transformation (g) known to the second entity to obtain a first transformed value (r) and then sends (24) the first transformed value (r) obtained. If the second entity receives (24′) a transformed value (r′), it compares (25′) the received transformed value to a second transformed value (r″) obtained by applying the predefined transformation (g) to the challenge value sent and considers the pre-authentication to have succeeded if the result of comparing the second transformed value obtained and the transformed value received is below a predefined threshold (m).
US08812832B2
Modifying system configuration data. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including changing operation of a program on a computer system that comprises a native operating system stored on a long term storage device. In some cases, the changing by: reading system configuration data of the native operating system, the reading by a scan program executed under a non-native operating system booted on the computer system; identifying, by the scan program, the program on the long term storage device; and modifying, by the scan program, the system configuration data of the native operating system such that the change in operating of the program is implemented on a subsequent boot of the computer system under the native operating system.
US08812824B2
There are provided methods and apparatus for multi-bit cell and SMT thread groups. An apparatus for a register file includes a plurality of multi-bit storage cells for storing a plurality of bits respectively corresponding to a plurality of threads. The apparatus further includes a plurality of port groups, operatively coupled to the plurality of multi-bit storage cells, responsive to physical register identifiers. The plurality of port groups is responsive to respective ones of a plurality of thread identifiers. Each of the plurality of thread identifiers are for uniquely identifying a particular thread from among a plurality of threads.
US08812822B2
A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design for minimizing unscheduled D-cache miss pipeline stalls is provided. The design structure includes an integrated circuit device, which includes a cascaded delayed execution pipeline unit having two or more execution pipelines that begin execution of instructions in a common issue group in a delayed manner relative to each other, and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive an issue group of instructions, determine whether the issue group is a load instruction, and if so, schedule the load instruction in a first pipeline of the two or more execution pipelines, and schedule each remaining instruction in the issue group to be executed in remaining pipelines of the two or more pipelines, wherein execution of the load instruction in the first pipeline begins prior to beginning execution of the remaining instructions in the remaining pipelines.
US08812816B2
Systems and methods are provided for handling uncorrectable errors that may occur during garbage collection of an index page or block in non-volatile memory.
US08812812B2
A dispersed storage unit within a dispersed storage network is configured with registry information including a slice name assignment indicating a range of slice names assigned to a vault associated with at least one user of the dispersed storage network. The slice names further corresponding to a plurality of potential data slices to be subsequently created and received for a pillar of the vault. The dispersed storage unit allocates a portion of physical memory therein to store the potential data slices based on the slice name assignment.
US08812806B2
Method and system for migrating a virtual storage system from a source storage system having access to a source storage device to a destination storage system having access to a destination storage device is provided. A processor executable management application estimates a likelihood of success for a migration operation before the migration operation enters a cut-over duration during which client access to the source storage system and the destination storage system is restricted. The migration operation enters the cut-over duration if there is high likelihood of success for completing the migration during the cut-over duration or aborted, if there is a low likelihood of success for completing the migration during the cut-over duration.
US08812801B2
A replication set of k storage devices is defined, that stores a particular data item. Each device in the replication set has an associated timer for which a timeout value for disconnection is determined based on individual downtime data distribution of the device. A new device for storing the data item is added to the replication set when the timer expires for a device in the replication set, and if the number of devices in the replication set that are still connected is below a predetermined threshold. Timeout values are adapted according to a factor of criticalness determined for the replication set, resulting in a more reactive, or on the contrary, a less reactive replacement of devices in the replication set. The factor of criticalness is determined according to a difference between the connected devices in the replication set and the predetermined number k.
US08812798B2
A disk drive receives a request to write at least one block of a first block size, wherein the disk drive is configured to store blocks of a second block size that is larger in size than the first block size, and wherein the disk drive stores via emulation a plurality of emulated blocks of the first block size in each block of the second block size. The disk drive generates a read error, in response to reading a selected block of the second block size in which the at least block of the first block size is to be written via the emulation. The disk drive performs a destructive write of selected emulated blocks of the first block size that caused the read error to be generated. The disk drive writes the at least one block of the first block size in the selected block of the second block size. The disk drive sends a notification to indicate the performing of the destructive write.
US08812796B2
Private or shared read-only memory regions. One embodiment may be practiced in a computing environment including a plurality of agents. A method includes acts for declaring one or more memory regions private to a particular agent or shared read only amongst agents by having software utilize processor level instructions to specify to hardware the private or shared read only memory address regions. The method includes an agent executing a processor level instruction to specify one or more memory regions as private to the agent or shared read-only amongst a plurality of agents. As a result of an agent executing a processor level instruction to specify one or more memory regions as private to the agent or shared read-only amongst a plurality of agents, a hardware component monitoring the one or more memory regions for conflicting accesses or prevents conflicting accesses on the one or more memory regions.
US08812785B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for managing track discard requests to include in discard track messages. A backup copy of a track in a cache is maintained in the cache backup device. A track discard request is generated to discard tracks in the cache backup device removed from the cache. Track discard requests are queued in a discard track queue. In response to detecting that a predetermined number of track discard requests are queued in the discard track queue while processing in a discard multi-track mode, one discard multiple tracks message is sent indicating the tracks indicated in the queued predetermined number of track discard requests to the cache backup device instructing the cache backup device to discard the tracks indicated in the discard multiple tracks message. In response to determining a predetermined number of periods of inactivity while processing in the discard multi-track mode, processing the track discard requests is switched to a discard single track mode.
US08812775B2
A memory system, comprises a nonvolatile memory comprising multiple memory cells, and a memory controller configured to control respective cell levels of the memory cells by assigning a logical address of each memory cell to one of multiple address groups according to a frequency with which the logical address has been accessed, determining a cell level for each address group, and controlling each memory cell to have the cell level of the address group to which its logical address is assigned.
US08812774B2
According to an embodiment, a memory system includes semiconductor memories each having a plurality of blocks; a first table; a receiving unit; a generating unit; a second table; and a writing unit. The first table includes a plurality of memory areas each associated with each block and in each of which defect information is stored. The generating unit generates a set of blocks by selecting one block to which data are to be written in each semiconductor memory based on an index number indicating one of a plurality of rows in the first table and the first table. In the second table, an index number and a channel number are stored for each logical block address in association with one another. When a write command is received by the receiving unit, the writing unit writes data to a block associated with a selected channel number among blocks constituting the set.
US08812770B2
Methods and devices are provided for adapting an I/O pattern, with respect to a processing device using a non-volatile block storage device based on feedback from the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include information indicating a status of the non-volatile block storage device. In response to receiving the feedback, a storage subsystem, included in an operating system executing on processing device, may change a behavior with respect to the non-volatile block storage device in order to avoid, or reduce, a negative impact to the non-volatile block storage device or to enhance an aspect of the non-volatile block storage device. The feedback may include performance information and/or operating environmental information of the non-volatile block storage device. When the non-volatile block storage device is not capable of providing the feedback, the processing device may request information about the non-volatile block storage device from a database service.
US08812767B2
A method of controlling a memory including a first storage area and a second storage area. The method includes determining, in response to a request for writing a write data string, whether the write data string changes a logical value stored in the memory from a first logical value to a second logical value, writing, to the first storage area, a logical value that is located in a position of the write data string and does not change an existing logical value of the memory from the first logical value to the second logical value, and writing the second logical value that is located in a position of the write data string and changes an existing logical value of the memory from the first logical value to the second logical value to the second storage area which is different from the first storage area.
US08812764B2
An apparatus including a plurality of internal devices that communicates concurrently with a controller by one of the MDIO protocol and the SPI protocol is disclosed. The controller of the invention couples with respective devices by the point-to-point arrangement. The controller couples with the external apparatus by the MDIO protocol and receives a packet containing an address of one of internal devices, the controller communicates with the device defined by the address by the protocol attributed to the device.
US08812737B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating a shortened context-specific URL are provided. An exemplary method for generating a shortened context-specific URL includes identifying a first service associated with a first URL, where the first URL includes a first quantity of characters, and the first service maps to a first Unicode character that provides context for underlying subject matter found at the first URL. The exemplary method further includes generating a second URL that includes a second quantity of characters, where the second URL includes the first Unicode character as part of the domain name and at least one additional character outside the domain name, and the second quantity of characters is less than the first quantity of characters. The exemplary method also includes mapping the second URL to the first URL.
US08812726B2
Apparatus, methods and computer programs enable carrying service insertion architecture data plane packets in IPv4 or IPv6 networks by packaging destination addresses using IPv6 mechanisms. For example, a data processing apparatus is configured for receiving, from a service broker, a service label and an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address of a first service node; receiving an IPv4 packet requesting a service associated with the first service node; creating an IPv6 packet comprising a service label in a Flow Label field of the IPv6 packet, the IPv6 address of the first service node in a destination address field of the IPv6 packet, and the IPv4 packet in a payload field of the IPv6 packet; forwarding the IPv6 packet to the first service node. Approaches allow service insertion architecture support for all-IPv6 traffic including tunneled and non-tunneled techniques for environments in which user applications place data in the flow label field.
US08812725B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment that includes identifying a foreground flow that has a higher priority than at least one background traffic flow in a network. The method also includes determining (e.g., periodically) a latency metric associated with the foreground flow, and activating a latency reduction response if the latency metric exceeds a threshold. In more particular embodiments, the latency reduction response may include diverting background flows in the network to a buffer for a delay period and/or delaying acknowledgements for background flows until the latency metric is below the threshold. In yet more particular embodiments, the latency metric may be a round-trip time.
US08812721B2
A system and method for conveying data include the capability to determine whether a transaction request credit has been received at a computer module, the transaction request credit indicating that at least a portion of a transaction request message may be sent. The system and method also include the capability to determine, of a transaction request message is to be sent, whether at least a portion of the transaction request message may be sent and to send the at least a portion of the transaction request message if it may be sent.
US08812719B2
A method for distributing notifications to a plurality of recipients is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one notification for distribution to the recipients, and identifying a distributor configured to transmit the notification to the recipients. The method also includes determining a notification distribution capacity of the distributor, and transmitting the notification to the distributor based on the notification distribution capacity of the distributor. A system for distributing notifications to a plurality of recipients is also provided.
US08812717B2
A system and method provide random access to a multimedia object over a network. One embodiment of the invention includes a streaming media server that is connected to a client computer over a network. The streaming media server includes at least one multimedia object that is adapted for transmission (“streaming”) across the network. A pre-roll calculation program determines a pre-roll for each segment of the multimedia object and generates a modified multimedia object which includes a pre-roll for each of its segments, a pre-roll identifying a portion of the multimedia object to be transmitted by the streaming media server and received by the client computer prior to playback of the multimedia object at a selected segment. The pre-roll allows the client computer to present, starting at a selected segment, the multimedia object in its entirety without interruption. The pre-roll calculation program further facilitates the design of the multimedia object to minimize delays associated with random accesses to segments of the multimedia object.
US08812715B2
A method for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming media data distribution includes: receiving a media resource request message sent by a Client node, and sending a media resource query request corresponding to the message to multiple resource networks; obtaining response messages to the media resource query request; confirming Cache nodes storing the media resource according to the response messages; and requesting the media resource from the Cache nodes. The present invention further provides a system and a Proxy node for streaming media data distribution, thereby expanding an application range of live/on-demand service of a user, and increasing the flexibility of a system for streaming media distribution.
US08812714B2
The present solution is directed towards embodiments of a feature generally referred to as Application Templates or AppTemplates, which allows a administrator of an intermediary, such as an appliance, to configure and manage settings per application on a basis of a subset of application network traffic. Once configured, the application settings can be exported in a file called the Application Template, and imported into other intermediary systems. The Application Template includes the settings for the application as configured via the intermediary.
US08812708B2
In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a change in network topology and broadcasting a transient unconditional unpruning message to all nodes in the network. The message is configured to instruct each network element receiving the message to start a phase timer in response to the broadcast message; unprune its operational ports; and, upon expiration of the phase timer, prune its ports in accordance with the results of a pruning protocol.
US08812707B2
A system may include information handling system devices connected together to form a computing cluster utilizing a SCSI interface. Each one of the information handling system devices may include an operating system kernel having a SCSI networking module for encapsulating Internet Protocol (IP) packets for transmitting between the information handling system devices. The system may also include SCSI hardware for connecting the information handling system devices together. The SCSI hardware may be configured to transmit the encapsulated IP packets between the information handling system devices.
US08812706B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product embodied on a hardware computer readable storage medium for compensating mismatched delays in at least two signals of a mobile display digital interface (MDDI) system. The method, apparatus, and computer program product embodied on a hardware computer readable storage medium sends a skew calibration packet from a host to a client. The host begins a calibration pattern; then toggling a data signal and a strobe signal at a substantially similar time which strobe signal is used by the client as a clock source. The method, apparatus, and computer program product embodied on a hardware computer readable storage medium also aligns a timing of the strobe signal and the data signal by providing varying delays and resetting the client to an original clock source before a next packet reception.
US08812703B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for guaranteeing network client-server response time while providing a way of putting the client on-hold when the response time temporarily prohibits access to the requested server. The apparatus is implemented within an interface unit connecting a plurality of servers and an on-hold server to the Internet, which is connected to a plurality of clients. According to one aspect of the invention, the method includes the steps of opening a connection between a client and the interface unit; determining which server the client desires a page from; determining the current response time of the requested server; if the response time is acceptable then opening a connection between the interface unit and the requested server if no free connection is open between the interface unit and the requested server; allowing the client to access information on the requested server-via the connections; and closing the connection between the client and the interface unit while keeping open the connection between the interface unit and the requested server. Alternatively, if the response time is not acceptable, then putting the client on-hold by redirecting the client to an on-hold server until the response time of the requested server becomes acceptable. According to a “on-hold distribution” aspect of the invention, the interface unit determines the on-hold preference of the client and selects the server hosting that on-hold preference. According to another aspect of the invention, instead of utilizing the interface unit, each server has the intelligence to put the client on-hold when applicable.
US08812700B2
Many of the current IMS standards and enriched services were originally designed for the individual subscribers that are serviced by the wireless network. However, the IMS standards do not fully address the problem of providing the IMS enriched services and features to business PBX customers or wholesale customers that do not directly register to the IMS network. The present invention discloses a method for providing IMS enriched services and features to business PBX customers or wholesale customers through the use of a static provisioning and registration method.
US08812696B2
An Extensible Markup Language (XML) document management method includes: receiving an XML document management operation request sent via an XCAP protocol, by an XML Document Management Server (XDMS); determining that the XML document management operation request is in an entrustment mode, and determining whether to perform an operation described in the XML document management operation request in accordance with access permission information corresponding to an XML document, by the XDMS.
US08812684B1
Systems and methods that facilitate messaging capabilities within a unified plant model (UPM) via employing a plurality of core messaging primitives for configuration of messages that interact with a message engine of the industrial plant. In a related aspect, initially messaging host modules can be located on a network and associated policies identified. Next, data type ID and name syntax can be defined and unique UPM system identifiers generated by the system.
US08812683B2
Receiving and executing at a server a script provided by a client, e.g., in a service request sent by a web services or other service client and/or consumer, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the script is configured to cause the server to do one or more of the following: pre-process at least a portion of the services request; post-process a response data associated with the services request; and replace an operation comprising the service at least in part with a replacement operation defined or identified at least in part in the script.
US08812682B2
The web based computing system did no support user space multitasking, therefore, if a task is submitted by a user from a web browser window via a user interface (“UI”), the user has to wait the task to be completed before the user can submit another task. Thus a problem associated with the issue of lack of web based user space multitasking will be escalated and become apparent to the user in many instances. For example the web browser window will experience being blocked or hanged and the user cannot do anything but wait. A method is disclosed herein for controlling each user initiated task to be run in background of the web based computing system and causing display of the UI again for the user without waiting the completion of said task in order to submit another task.
US08812675B2
Provided is a method of a multi-node cooperation considering a delay in a wireless communication system. A frame format may perform scheduling so that uplink cooperation terminals having a similar delay attribute may be classified into an uplink cooperation zone, to thereby prevent interference between the uplink cooperation zone and a non-cooperation zone. An extended cyclic prefix may be applied according to a delay attribute occurring due to an application of the multi-node cooperation. A cooperation base station of an uplink and a downlink may be determined based on the extended cyclic prefix.
US08812673B2
The present invention provides a method for content rate selection. The method includes selecting a content rate for play out of at least one frame transmitted from a media server to a media client via a wireless access network. Selection of the content rate is performed based on a statistical representation of a bandwidth available for transmission of frames.
US08812670B2
A method implemented by a network element of an Internet service provider to provide network access through a visited network associated with a visited network owner to a device of a visiting user connecting to the visited networker. The visited network owner is a customer of the Internet service provider. The network element configures the visited network to provide access to resources of a remote home network to the device of the visiting user. The remote home network is in communication with the visited network over a wide area network. Connecting to a virtual gateway controller of the remote home network to obtain configuration information to establish a connection between the device and the remote home network. Establishing a connection between the device of the visiting user and a second access point. Providing access to the resource of the remote home network through the second access point.
US08812667B1
Methods and apparatus for transparently processing files that are manipulated between a server computer and a client computer using the CIFS protocol. The transparent processing employs an in-line CIFS proxy and may include virus scanning, content scanning, and/or security policy implementation.
US08812665B2
A method for providing broadband communications over a multi-layer network having a plurality of Open System Interconnection layers. The method stores information in a memory, the information indicating for each of a plurality of communication resources within the multi-layer network, one or more layers of the network with which that communication resource is associated. The method monitors the multi-layer network to detect a quality of service event that has occurred at a first of a plurality of communication resources, and in response to the monitoring, uses the information to determine a layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources. The method responds to the quality of the service event by changing provisioning of the multi-layer network at a layer that is different from the layer of the multi-layer network that is associated with the first of the plurality of communication resources.
US08812662B2
Systems and methods for determining available bandwidth and performing initial stream selection when commencing adaptive bitrate streaming using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes measuring network bandwidth using a playback device, determining an initial network bandwidth estimate using the network bandwidth measurements, selecting an initial stream from said plurality of streams of encoded media that are encoded at different maximum bitrates rates using the playback device based upon the maximum bitrates of the plurality of streams and the initial bandwidth estimate; and commencing streaming of encoded media by requesting portions of the encoded media from the initial streams using the playback device.
US08812661B2
In one embodiment, a social networking system maintains a moving average of the number of connection problems, including socket timeouts and failed uploads, per client in a geographic area to determine whether the wireless data network serving the geographic area is overloaded. In response to detecting a network overload, the social networking system may transmit an instruction to the clients in the particular geographic area to enter one of a plurality of traffic throttling modes. In particular embodiments, the social networking system maintains a historical log of network overload conditions, and uses the historical log to generate an estimate of the wireless network capacity serving a geographic area. Thus, the social networking system may preemptively transmit instructions to clients to enter a bandwidth-conservation mode when the estimated traffic demand exceeds the estimated capacity for a particular geographic region.
US08812659B2
Feedback data can be received from client agents running on client computer systems. The feedback data can include data on the symptoms and conditions for rules that relate computer system symptoms to computer system conditions. The feedback data can be analyzed to produce correlation information that quantifies a degree of correlation between the symptom(s) and condition(s) related by the rule(s). It may be determined whether analysis of the feedback data warrants including one of the rules in correlation mappings to be applied to monitored computer systems. If so, then that rule can be included in the mappings. Information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s). Additionally, information representing the correlation mappings may be transmitted to the monitored computer system(s), and types of feedback data collected from the client agents can be altered on the basis of the correlation information.
US08812657B2
Techniques for performing network-assisted peer discovery to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) communication are described. In one design, a device registers with a network entity (e.g., a directory agent) so that the presence of the device and possibly other information about the device can be made known to the network entity. The network entity collects similar information from other devices. The device sends a request to the network entity, e.g., during or after registration. The request includes information used to match the device with other devices, e.g., information about service(s) provided by the device and/or service(s) requested by the device. The directory agent matches requests received from all devices, determines a match between the device and at least one other device, and sends a notification to perform peer discovery. The device performs peer discovery in response to receiving the notification from the network entity.
US08812656B2
A system and method for automatically forming and/or maintaining a network of user-selectable devices, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US08812649B2
An approach for supporting automated fault isolation and recovery is provided. An alarm indicative of a fault within a customer network is received. An event within a workflow is created in response to the alarm, wherein a new trouble ticket is generated as part of the workflow. Communication with a trouble management system is performed to correlate the alarm with an existing trouble ticket. The new trouble ticket is associated with the existing trouble ticket.
US08812646B1
Techniques are described for performing automated predictions of program execution capacity or other capacity of computing-related hardware resources that will be used to execute software programs in the future, such as for a group of computing nodes that execute one or more programs for a user. The predictions that are performed may in at least some situations be based on historical data regarding corresponding prior actual usage of execution-related capacity (e.g., for one or more prior years), and may include long-term predictions for particular future time periods that are multiple months or years into the future. In addition, the predictions of the execution-related capacity for particular future time periods may be used in various manners, including to manage execution-related capacity at or before those future time periods, such as to prepare sufficient execution-related capacity to be available at those future time periods.
US08812644B2
A system for enabling a customized function to be implemented at at least one device in a domain, including: a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) coupled with a system, wherein the system is coupled with a server managing a premises, wherein the system is configured for interacting with at least one third party application that has a set of instructions thereon, via the set of APIs, such that the at least one third party application can communicate with a device driver at the premises without having knowledge of a protocol thereon and without having knowledge of the at least one device, wherein the premises comprises the at least one device; and an instruction translator coupled with the set of APIs which translates the set of instructions received from the at least one third party application to be an action and protocol that the at least one device understands.
US08812638B2
A method of controlling an apparatus comprising a plurality of features and adapted to receive messages via a first network interface, wherein said method is implemented in a filter superposed on the top of an existing architecture of the apparatus. The method comprises the following steps: receiving network management message via said first network interface; interrogating said message in order to identify a feature said network management message relates to and filtering the received management message such that said management message is rejected if the identified feature is classified as disabled and said management message is allowed top go through if said feature is classified as enabled.
US08812637B2
A media stream aggregation mechanism receives and analyzes multiple media streams and creates an aggregate media stream output based on user preferences. In this manner a media provider that uses the media stream aggregation mechanism potentially may provide a customized presentation to each user based on user preferences. By providing the aggregation of multiple media streams to a user, the user's experience is customized according to user preferences.
US08812636B2
An apparatus and method is provided for managing a communication device using Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When a developer creates an SNMP interface header file through an application program at a compile time, an extractor generates a management information base (MIB) file and object identifier information (OIDInfo) on the basis of the interface header file. When a manager makes an SNMP request at a run time, an agent sends the OIDInfo included in the SNMP request message to an OIDInfo processor. The OIDInfo processor refers to an OIDInfo memory and delivers general message service (GMS) information to the agent. A GMS request/response process between the agent and the application program is then performed on the basis of the GMS information.
US08812632B2
An arrangement is disclosed for operating a computer cluster distributed over multiple locations using quorum mechanism. The cluster includes interconnected defined system instances. The arrangement includes distributing the cluster configuration to each system instance, and constantly checking system instance connectivity to determine reachable system instances. Each healthy system instance determines a subcluster of itself and all reachable system instances. Information of the distributed cluster configuration is used to calculate a corresponding subcluster configuration. Subcluster configuration information and the cluster configuration information is used for computing a new quorum decision for the corresponding subcluster, using a location quorum function considering proportions of connected locations containing reachable system instances, and weights of the reachable system instances in the locations. Workload placement decisions are made based on the new quorum granting permission to place workload to system instances in a specific subcluster, or refusing the permission, whenever the subcluster changes.
US08812621B2
In one embodiment, a method that receives at a cache server device a request from a client device for a first representation of a content chunk; determines whether the first representation is available at the cache server device; responsive to determining that the first representation is available at the cache server device, provides the first representation to the client device; responsive to determining that the first representation is unavailable at the cache server device, determines whether a congestion-like condition is present in an upstream network; and responsive to determining that the congestion-like condition is present in the upstream network, provides a second representation of the content chunk.
US08812615B2
A host computer splits a display of the host computer into a grid including a plurality of grid areas. The host computer tracks a rate of display updates in each grid area. In addition, the host computer calculates a weighted average of all of the grid areas that an updated region of the display overlaps. The weighted average is based on the rate of display updates of each overlapped grid area and the percentage of the updated region that overlaps each overlapped grid area. The host computer compresses the updated region using a compression method selected from plural different compression methods. The selected compression method is selected based on the weighted average. The host computer transmits the compressed updated region to the remote client device.
US08812610B2
A parallel computer includes nodes that include a network adapter that couples the node in a point-to-point network and supports communications in opposite directions of each dimension. Optimized communications include: receiving, by a network adapter of a receiving compute node, a packet—from a source direction—that specifies a destination node and deposit hints. Each hint is associated with a direction within which the packet is to be deposited. If a hint indicates the packet to be deposited in the opposite direction: the adapter delivers the packet to an application on the receiving node; forwards the packet to a next node in the opposite direction if the receiving node is not the destination; and forwards the packet to a node in a direction of a subsequent dimension if the hints indicate that the packet is to be deposited in the direction of the subsequent dimension.
US08812596B2
The so-called M2M solutions for the remote management of a machine or a process by users of a telecommunication network are addressed using an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem platform by equipping both authorized users and a machine to be controlled with IMS clients supporting presence and messaging services as minimum requirements. The client of an authorized user sees the client of the machine as a buddy of its contact list, and interaction between the users and the machine takes place by publishing presence information by the apparatus and via instant messaging between the users and the apparatus.
US08812590B2
A method and system for sharing an asset in a peer-to-peer network. Meta data and a source node identification are received. The meta data specifies properties and content of the asset to be shared by the source node. The received source node identification and the meta data are locally stored as a couple in a catalog. Subsequently, content specifying the asset and a request to search for and retrieve the asset based on the content is received. The locally stored catalog is loaded and searched to detect the couple that includes the source node identification and meta data, where the received content matches the meta data. The source node is identified based on the detected couple. A request is sent to the source node to retrieve and share the asset, and in response, the asset is received.
US08812588B2
A computer program for directing operation of a computer system for use in collecting data for special needs students. The computer program comprises a code segment for receiving data representative of an incident for a special needs student from a portable electronic device operated by a first person; and a code segment for sending a notification of the incident to a portable electronic device operated by a second person to prevent duplicate reporting of the incident by the first and second persons.
US08812587B2
A method includes receiving at a directory server a notification from a client system, where the notification indicates that the first client received a corrupt packet of a playfile from a first peer. The method also includes determining if the first peer is a poor quality peer, updating a first peer score for the first peer if the first peer is not a poor quality peer, identifying a second peer that is not on a blacklist, and providing a peer identification associated with the second peer to the client system.
US08812576B1
Circuitry for performing QR decomposition of an input matrix includes multiplication/addition circuitry for performing multiplication and addition/subtraction operations on a plurality of inputs, division/square-root circuitry for performing division and square-root operations on an output of the multiplication/addition circuitry, a first memory for storing the input matrix, a second memory for storing a selected vector of the input matrix, and a selector for inputting to the multiplication/addition circuitry any one or more of a vector of the input matrix, the selected vector, and an output of the division/square-root circuitry. On respective successive passes, a respective vector of the input matrix is read from a first memory into a second memory, and elements of a respective vector of an R matrix of the QR decomposition are computed and the respective vector of the input matrix in the first memory is replaced with the respective vector of the R matrix.
US08812572B2
The present invention provides a technique for changing the number of taps in filter processing without the need for execution of branch processing. A filter processing device comprises: an arithmetic circuit that performs arithmetic processing for filtering operation; an internal register that retains data to be subjected to arithmetic processing in the arithmetic circuit and that receives the result of arithmetic processing from the arithmetic circuit as data to be written back thereto; and a data generator that generates data to be fed to the arithmetic circuit through use of the data retained in the internal register. Further, in the filter processing device, there is disposed a tap number control circuit that is capable of controlling the number of taps in filter processing according to a tap control signal applied thereto. In this configuration, no branch processing is required for controlling the number of taps by the use of the tap number control circuit.
US08812563B2
A system for permanent data deletion is provided. The file deletion system consists of a permanent deletion unit, an analysis module, a database of rules for forming deletion algorithm and an algorithm forming unit. A file to be deleted is passed into the system and the system permanently deletes the file. The system dynamically forms the deletion algorithm based on algorithm forming rules. The rules are selected from the database according to file parameters and user criteria. The file parameters are determined by the analysis module. A user has an access to algorithm forming rules and can edit the rules. Algorithm forming rules can be based on an arbitrary number of complex conditions.
US08812560B2
The present disclosure includes techniques for storing indexed values that may increase computing performance. In one example, a method includes receiving a request to store an input value in a data structure. The method also includes determining the input value is not represented by an index value of the first group of index values, generating an index value that represents the input value, and determining the generated index value is not included in the first group of representations. The method also includes generating a second group of index values wherein a first size of index values of the first group is different than a second size of index values of the second group. The method also includes modifying a storage capacity of the data structure to store the index values of the second group of the second size and storing the second group of index values in the data structure.
US08812555B2
A table update component may perform updates on a dynamic linear hash table, the updates requested by clients based on request item values. A table capacity status component may determine first capacity indicators associated with the dynamic linear hash table, based on results of the update requests. A table maintenance component may initiate lock-free merges and lock-free splits of hash table buckets associated with the dynamic linear hash table, based on initiating lock-free merges and lock-free splits of linked lists included in hash table buckets associated with the dynamic linear hash table, based on the determined first capacity indicators, the linked lists including hashed items stored in the dynamic linear hash table.
US08812553B2
A method for populating a data system is provided. The method includes the step of mapping at least one application path of the data system to at least one conceptual path of an ontology system. The application path addresses parts of the structure of the data system, and the conceptual path addresses parts of the structure of the ontology system. The method further includes the step of automatically populating the data system at a location addressed by the application path with data values contained in the conceptual path.
US08812552B2
A computer database having adaptive storage space architecture is provided. The database has a storage space architecture which has a grid having grid lines, intersections of the grid lines forming nodes which provide space for storing data, each node being assembled from a plurality of cells arranged in at least one group of cells forming a storage space structure of the node, each cell being suitable for storing simple data. Additionally, selected groups of cells within the nodes may be designated as replicable, i.e. being able to replicate itself in response to an external signal. A corresponding database processing unit for processing data stored in the database, a graphical user interface for input and output of the data, and method of forming the database are also provided.
US08812541B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving from a user, by a search system, a search query comprising terms. Using at least one association graph comprising terms, the search system generates a suggested replacement query by designating one or more of the terms of the search query as anchor terms, and the remaining terms of the search query as non-anchor terms, and replacing one or more of the non-anchor terms of the search query with one or more suggested replacement terms, to generate the suggested replacement query that includes the one or more anchor terms and the one or more suggested replacement terms. The suggested replacement query is presented to the user. Responsively to a selection of the suggested replacement query by the user, the search query received from the user is replaced with the suggested replacement query, and search results are generated responsively to the suggested replacement query and presented.
US08812538B2
Story generation methods, story generation apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one aspect, a story generation method includes displaying a user interface which is configured to assist a user with writing a story; accessing a plurality of words of the story inputted by the user interacting with the user interface; using at least one of the words of the story, selecting one of a plurality of different graphical images which corresponds to the at least one word of the story; and generating a plurality of pages of the story which include the words of the story, and wherein at least one of the pages includes the one graphical image which corresponds to the at least one word of the story.
US08812536B2
A method and a system provide regional content to users by associating data files with geographical properties and matching the geographical property of a data file with the geographical property of the user. The system extracts geographical information from a data file, and associates the data file with a source geographical property corresponding to the extracted geographical information according to a geographical information database. Upon obtaining a user geographical property of a user, the system provides the data file to the user if the source geographical property matches the user geographical property. The method and the system may be implemented using a geographical name lexicon or a geographical name suffix lexicon.
US08812532B2
Systems and methods of tracking and rewarding users of search engines, content networks, communication networks, other networks and/or combinations of networks are described. In many embodiments, users create accounts and control when and the type of information that is tracked. The tracked information can be used to provide rewards, customize offers and rewards and to improve services provided to the user. One embodiment includes receiving secure identification information from the user, retrieving user account information using the secure identification information, receiving a search query from the user, crediting the user account with a reward that is directly related to providing the search query, and returning search results.
US08812530B2
When a failure occurs in data matching processing, a quick data backup processing is required. For such an object, the data processing apparatus includes a data distribution part which stores a file data group in a normal data holding area of the j-th matching node and performs a backup processing by dividing the file data included in the file data group in the backup data holding area in the matching nodes other than the j-th matching node. The backup processing is performed by distributing each of the file data in the file data group to the backup data holding area in turn from a least backup data holding area where a file data being currently stored is least among the matching nodes.
US08812527B2
An approach for augmenting a real-time collaboration is presented. Content of a real-time collaboration is received. A key word which is included in the content or a theme of the content is determined. A match between the key word or theme of the real-time collaboration content and a theme of post(s) in a threaded discussion forum is determined. Based on the match, a display, on a monitor used for the real-time collaboration, of link(s) to the post(s) is initiated.
US08812525B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from a mobile client system for an event attendee list and transmitting a request to a data store for the event attendee list. If the event attendee list is available on the data store, then receiving the event attendee list from the data store, else transmitting a request to a data store for the event attendee list and receiving the event attendee list from a module. After receiving the event attendee list, the method includes transmitting the event attendee list to the mobile client system.
US08812523B2
In token compression, a column value is represented by a encoded token. During early predicate evaluation, the result that a decoded token in a column does not satisfy a predicate condition in a predicate conjunction is recorded in a cache as a “FALSE”. Such a result not only means that when the column contains that token that the predicate condition is not satisfied, but also that a predicate conjunction containing the predicate condition is not satisfied. When performing early predicate evaluation on a subsequent row on a token in a column, the conjunction result cache is referred to. If the cache records a FALSE for that token in that column, then it is known the predicate conjunction cannot be satisfied by the decoded token.
US08812514B2
In one example, a method for ranking items such as contest entries is provided. An exemplary method includes displaying sequential subsets of entries from a plurality of entries for a first user to vote on, e.g., making a selection of their preference of one over the other. The method further includes generating a first preference ballot of displayed entries based on selections by the first user, and ranking the plurality of entries based upon the first preference ballot and at least a second preference ballot received from another user. The ranking may be determined based on the first and second preference ballot by a Condorcet algorithm. Additionally, display of the entries may be determined based on previous selections associated with the contest entries, e.g., based on the state of the contest and/or the history of particular contest entries.
US08812508B2
Systems and methods for extracting phrases from text are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method may include preprocessing desired phrases into at least one phrase indexing data structure for efficient matching. The method may also include scanning text to construct a hash table including keys and corresponding entries. The method may also include locating suffix trie trees for each word in the hash table. The method may also include matching each position in the hash table against the suffix trie trees, and outputting phrases matched in the scanned text.
US08812506B2
Systems and methods are provided for processor-assisted indexing and searching, in which categories or individual documents within a database are annotated to the terms of an ontology, searched and then prioritized by rank. Items of the domain of interest, as well as the ontologies that describe attributes of those items, are embedded into a Bayesian network. Search queries correspond to user activations of items. An error model mimics incomplete or falsely specific items. Search results correspond to a subset of the items to which the query items are semantically-related. A probabilistic inference is performed to obtain marginal probabilities of each search result to explain the presence of the queries. These probabilities can then be used for ranking the search results.
US08812502B2
Music contents assigned to play lists are reproduced so as to correspond to user's preference. A music content database 7 has stored a plurality of music contents. A CPU 3 creates genre ranks such that music contents that have been more frequently, for example, reproduced are more highly ranked. In addition, the CPU 3 creates play lists corresponding, for example, to tempos and stores the created play lists in a play list database 8. The CPU 3 selects a play list corresponding to a moving tempo obtained from a tempo detection section 9 and selects music content categorized as a highly ranked genre in the genre ranks from those corresponding to the selected play list. The selected music content is supplied to a decoder and amplifier section 12 and then reproduced from a head phone 14.
US08812498B2
A podcast parsing application is disclosed which may provide podcast content of interest to a user. The podcast parsing application may generate a compilation of podcast content from a plurality of podcasts. When playing a podcast to a user, the podcast parsing application may identify portions of podcast content and provide only those portions of the podcast determined to be of interest to the user. Information derived from user input, metadata tags, viewing histories, popularity data, search results, audio processing techniques or other information sources may be used by the podcast parsing application to distinguish, identify or otherwise provide podcast content of interest to the user.
US08812491B2
Provided are a computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for re-writing a query. A query including a query predicate is received. It is determined that the query predicate includes one column with an associated predicate mapper. An equivalent predicate is generated for the query predicate using the predicate mapper that provides a mapping from the one column to another column. A cost of the query with the equivalent predicate is evaluated. In response to determining that the cost of the query is optimal, the query is rewritten to replace the query predicate with the equivalent predicate.
US08812484B2
There is provided a computer-executable method of executing an outer join on a parallel database management system. An exemplary method comprises receiving an outer skewed values list (SVL). The outer SVL may comprise values that are indicated to be skewed. The exemplary method further comprises receiving an inner SVL. The inner SVL may comprise values that are indicated to be skewed. Additionally, the exemplary method comprises partitioning the outer table and the inner table across a plurality of join instances, based on the outer SVL and the inner SVL. A missing skew value is identified. The missing skewed value may be a value of the inner SVL that is not found in the inner table. The outer join is performed using the plurality of join instances, based on the missing skewed value.
US08812475B2
A mechanism is provided for facilitating object search in a virtual world environment where each object is defined by a plurality of attributes and the search is performed on any attributes of the object however is not limited to a 3-D search. The co-ordinate location of each object in the virtual world is also provided in the search result and the range within which to perform the search may also be specified. Optionally, the user has the ability to teleport/transport to the location of the object using the search result.
US08812462B2
Dynamic generation of target files is described. A user can select a template file. The template file includes: at least first and second changeable fields configured to be changed persistently, and a third changeable field. The second changeable field is configured to receive a security-related value. A third changeable field includes a first value configured to be changed temporarily to receive an encrypted version of the first value. The template file is parsed to generate a user interface, including: a first prompting label, corresponding to the first changeable field, requesting the user to enter the user content value, a second prompting label, corresponding to the second changeable field, requesting that the user enter audit data and/or access control data. An encrypted version of the first value corresponding to the third changeable field is generated. The first value is temporarily replaced with the encrypted value. The target file is then generated.
US08812458B2
Provided is a method for the adaptive updating of building block architectures and designs in the event of a change to a component of the building block architecture. When a specific component of the architecture, or SBB, is replaced or modified, the metadata associated with the new or modified component is placed in a building block repository. The system captures or recognizes the event and automatically makes updates to dependent components of the specific component. Such updates may include, but are not limited to, a substitution or replacement of one component with another, generally if the replacement component is a better fit in the solution architecture than the original component. A new or updated system architecture is generated to reflect the replaced and/or modified components and the associated metadata. In the alternative, the system notifies an administrator to make specific changes in components rather than implementing the changes automatically.
US08812456B2
A method performed in a system that has a plurality of volumes stored to storage hardware, the method including generating, for each of the volumes, a respective space saving potential iteratively over time and scheduling space saving operations among the plurality of volumes by analyzing each of the volumes for space saving potential and assigning priority of resources based at least in part on space saving potential.
US08812454B2
A data block storage management capability is presented. A cloud file system management capability manages storage of data blocks of a file system across multiple cloud storage services (e.g., including determining, for each data block to be stored, a storage location and a storage duration for the data block). A cloud file system management capability manages movement of data blocks of a file system between storage volumes of cloud storage services. A cloud file system management capability provides a probabilistic eviction scheme for evicting data blocks from storage volumes of cloud storage services in advance of storage deadlines by which the data blocks are to be removed from the storage volumes. A cloud file system management capability enables dynamic adaptation of the storage volume sizes of the storage volumes of the cloud storage services.
US08812448B1
A method for migrating source material comprising meta data and electronic file content from source location folders to destination location folders using an administrative processor with administrative data storage which can be based in a computing cloud to create a migration profile, a file inventory using only metadata and the migration profile, optionally copying electronic file content based on the file inventory, optionally simulating a migration; and then performing an actual migration using the migration profile and a migration management console.
US08812446B2
For block level backup, a full image level backup is created of a file system from production storage at a production server to random access storage at a backup server. A mounted image is created from the full image that exposes a block level representation of the file system of the production server for read operations in a file level format. File enumeration is performed on the mounted image for files. Block level read operations are monitored while the files are being enumerated. During monitoring, blocks that are read for the read operations are marked as meta-data blocks. Blocks that are not marked as meta-data blocks are identified as data blocks. The data blocks are migrated to sequential storage, while leaving the meta-data blocks on the random access storage, wherein the data blocks form a backup image.
US08812443B2
An apparatus for collecting dump data collection receives an on demand data (ODD) dump request, pauses one or more scan loops, transfers dump data to an ODD dump buffer space, unpauses the scan loops, and offloads dump data from the ODD dump buffer space to the storage device. The apparatus may also prioritize dump data for transfer to the ODD dump buffer space, load balance dump data for transfer to the ODD dump buffer space, and schedule offloading of the dump data from the ODD dump buffer space to non-volatile storage.
US08812442B1
One implementation of a method for providing backup storage services for encrypted data includes receiving signatures of convergently encrypted portions of data from client computers, determining whether the encrypted portions are already present on a backup storage, and obtaining only the needed portions. Users unassociated with a particular user account are denied access to information backed up in that account. The backup storage also stores password protected key files holding signatures of the unencrypted portions of data. One implementation of a system includes a memory, a single-instance storage circuit, a user account management circuit, and a signature index. The memory holds a user-account database and backup copies of convergently encrypted portions of data. The single-instance storage circuit uses the signature index to prevent duplicative backup copies. The user account management circuit responds to download requests after authenticating the user information associated with the requested data.
US08812435B1
A system, method, and computer program product for learning objects and facts from documents. A source object and a source document are selected and a title pattern and a contextual pattern are identified based on the source object and the source document. A set of documents matching the title pattern and the contextual pattern are selected. For each document in the selected set, a name and one or more facts are identified by applying the title pattern and the contextual pattern to the document. Objects are identified or created based on the identified names and associated with the identified facts.
US08812433B2
Multi-dimensional surrogation systems and methods are provided that generate at least one up-to-date data surrogate using information of data and numerous data changes received from at least one data source, including a production system. Embodiments described further perform bulk-to-brick transformation of the up-to-date data surrogate. Brick-level data, or item data, is further indexed and stored in an application-aware manner. The stored item data is easily accessible by many data management applications for integrated item search and recovery functions, audit functions, monitoring and supervision functions, legal discovery functions, compliance functions, archival functions, backup functions, disaster recovery functions, and more. Bulk-to-brick transformation and access of the stored item data occur off of the production system, thus contributing no performance degradation to the production system.
US08812432B2
A large-scale data processing apparatus, method, and non-transitory tangible machine-readable medium are provided. The large-scale data processing apparatus includes a storage unit, an interface, and a processor. The storage unit is stored with a measure table comprising at least one measure. Each of the at least one measure includes a value corresponding to a key attribute and a piece of data corresponding to a data field. The interface is configured to receive a level order of N attributes, wherein N is a positive integer and the N attributes comprise the key attribute. The processor is configured to create a measure tree object for the measure table by following the level order so that the measure tree object has N levels corresponding to the N attributes in a one-to-one fashion.
US08812431B2
A method and system for providing medical decision support based on virtual organ models and learning based discriminative distance functions is disclosed. A patient-specific virtual organ model is generated from medical image data of a patient. One or more similar organ models to the patient-specific organ model are retrieved from a plurality of previously stored virtual organ models using a learned discriminative distance function. The patient-specific valve model can be classified into a first class or a second class based on the previously stored organ models determined to be similar to the patient-specific organ model.
US08812430B1
To directly compare two or more network perturbation amplitude scores and identify whether the difference between them is meaningful, an Uncertainty (confidence interval) for each of the scores is computed. According to this disclosure, experimental replicates of the measurements are used to compute the score Uncertainty, based on an assumption that variability between measurement replicates represents a largest source of error in the score. Preferably, at least three (3) experimental replicates for both treated and control conditions are used to compute Uncertainty.
US08812429B2
Decision trees may be created and executed to manage calls in an interactive voice response (IVR) system. Users may be provided with one or more user interfaces to design, create, and modify decision trees. User may add and edit the rules, logic, and instructions of the decision tree, as well as additional information such as labels, headers, comments, and formatting. One or more decision tree files may be created including the rules, logic, and instructions of the decision tree, which are compatible with an execution engine. One or more decision tree development files also may be created including additional information to be used by a decision tree development application to provide the development environment.
US08812427B2
Systems and methods of disaggregating power load are provided. An example of a method is carried out by program code stored on non-transient computer-readable medium and executed by a processor. The method includes receiving time series data representing total energy consumption. The method also includes identifying distinguishing features in the time series data. The method also includes identifying energy consumption constituents of the total energy consumption based on the features.
US08812425B2
Methods and systems for rule-based context acquisition are disclosed herein. The method includes accepting a request for target context from an application at a context acquisition system and identifying context rules relating to the target context using a rule-based inference cache. The method also includes determining an inferred value of the target context based on previously-acquired contexts and the context rules. If the inferred value of the target context cannot be determined, the method further includes executing a first step of a sensing plan for acquiring an inferred value of the target context using a rule-based acquisition planner, as well as executing any of a number of subsequent steps of the sensing plan until the inferred value of the target context is obtained.
US08812422B2
The invention provides a system and method for describing polymorphisms or genetic variants based on information about mutations and relationships among them. The invention uses object-oriented concepts to describe variants as variant objects and relations among those variants as variant relation object, each object being an instance of an abstract class of genomic feature and able to contain any number of other objects. Information about genetic disorders is stored in association with the object that represents the pathogenic variant. Genetic test results are used to access corresponding objects to provide a report based on variants or polymorphisms in a patient's genetic material.
US08812419B1
Exemplary methods and systems are disclosed that apply feedback-based machine learning in order to more intelligently use context information to automate certain actions. An exemplary method involves: determining a first context based on a combination of two or more context signals, using a context-to-action mapping to determine a first action that corresponds to the first context, initiating the first action, after initiating the first action, receiving a data signal corresponding to a user-action, analyzing the data signal to determine a feedback relationship between the user-action and the first action, and based at least in part on the feedback relationship, updating the context-to-action mapping.
US08812413B2
A first array of simulated neurons having trees of output branches and a second array of simulated neurons having trees of input branches are generated. Thereafter, the output branches of one or more of the simulated neurons of the first array and the input branches of one or more of the simulated neurons of the second array are grown and connections are formed between individual output branches of the simulated neurons of the first array and individual input branches of the simulated neurons of the second array that grow to within a vicinity of each other.
US08812411B2
The subject disclosure relates to a knowledge-driven data quality solution that is based on a rich knowledge base. The data quality solution can provide continuous improvement and can be based on continuous (or on-going) knowledge acquisition. The data quality solution can be built once and can be reused for multiple data quality improvements, which can be for the same data or for similar data. The disclosed aspects are easy to use and focus on productivity and user experience. Further, the disclosed aspects are open and extendible and can be applied to cloud-based reference data (e.g., a third party data source) and/or user generated knowledge. According to some aspects, the disclosed aspects can be integrated with data integration services.
US08812406B2
An approach is provided in receiving risk feedback from a social network. Feedback transmissions are received by a user's system with each of the feedback transmissions being received over a computer network from a social network contact. The received feedback transmissions are analyzed and, based on the analysis, a risky action that was performed by the user is identified. The user performs a risk avoidance measure to counteract the identified risky action. In one embodiment, the risk avoidance measure is reported back to the user's contacts.
US08812402B2
In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a request from a customer to temporarily associate a token issued to the customer with a payment account associated with the customer, and temporarily associating the token with the payment account in response at least in part to the request. In some embodiments, a method comprises issuing a token to a customer before the token is associated with a payment account; and arranging for the customer to have an ability to request that the token be associated with a payment account and usable as a payment token. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a mapping associating an identifier of a token with a payment account; receiving the identifier from a point of sale system; and determining the payment account based at least in part on the mapping and the identifier received from the point of sale system. In some embodiments, apparatus comprises: a processing system to: receive a request from a customer to temporarily associate a token issued to the customer with a payment account associated with the customer, and temporarily associate the token with the payment account in response at least in part to the request. In some embodiments, apparatus comprises: a processing system to: receive a mapping associating an identifier of a token with a payment account; receive the identifier from a point of sale system; and determine the payment account based at least in part on the mapping and the identifier received from the point of sale system.
US08812398B2
A user sets up an account including radio identification, billing information, etc. via a web-based account creation device, or over the telephone with an account representative. An activation key is provided to the user that identifies the radio device and the users account. An activation screen is displayed to a user at the start of wireless activities. The activation screen requires the activation key before continuing with wireless services. Since the key identifies both the radio and user's account (which was approved prior to provision of the activation key), rejection traffic is eliminated and non-active account traffic is significantly reduced.
US08812394B1
A cash recycler or other currency handling device includes a flexible capacity module for adding additional storage capacity to the cash handling device. In some arrangements, all bills of one denomination, i.e., all one dollar bills, may be stored in, deposited into, and/or dispensed from the flexible capacity module. The bills stored in the flexible capacity module may not be debited or credited to a client account at a financial institution because the bills may not be considered part of the inventory of the cash handling device. However count data for the bills in the flexible capacity module may be integrated with data from the cash handling device in order to facilitate balancing, reconciliation, and the like.
US08812392B2
The embodiments herein generally relates to a method for interacting and trading among users of an online social commercial network. A user registers with a web portal and joins to a preferred group of users with a similar interest. The user completes the profile and adds an asset in the web portal. The asset includes an intellectual asset and a product. The user trades the assets with one or more users from a preferred interest. The asset is transacted in terms of a currency. The currency is stored in an online account. The online account is an online user account for keeping transaction related information. The user provides scores to the traded assets and a trading subscriber within the group. The web portal secures the user information in the web portal.
US08812389B2
The present invention comprises a system and method for dividing assets in an estate. First, the assets of the estate are populated in a catalog. A survey is distributed to all parties to gain pertinent information relating to their interests in the estate. The system will incorporate the party's intent when determining a course of action for division of assets. The system will gather the party's interest in items, establish an agreed monetary value for all items, receive bids for items based on emotional interest, offer parties the opportunity to bid on items with real currency, and finally divide remaining assets by means of selection. The parties will have the opportunity to barter their items with each other. If a party has received more than their fair share of the estate, they must pay the balance to the estate.
US08812388B2
Systems and methods are provided for multi-style portfolio cash flow enhancement. The systems and methods include identifying a first set of one or more investment sleeves within an investment account as underweighted relative to a desired target and identifying a second set of one or more investment sleeves within the investment account as overweighted relative to the desired target, where the investment account includes a plurality of investment sleeves and where each investment sleeve includes at least one asset. The systems and methods further include generating one or more sell orders in the second set to rebalance at least one overweighted investment sleeve of the second set to the desired target, associating one or more cash flows with each sell order, where each of the one or more cash flows is further associated with one of the underweighted sleeves of the first set, and performing at least one of the one or more cash flows to flow cash to one or more of the underweighted sleeves if the corresponding sell order is successfully executed.
US08812372B2
A method is provided of anonymizing an interaction between a user entity and a service provider node wishing to provide a service to the user entity in dependence upon characteristics of the user entity determined or revealed as a result of the interaction, the method comprising: assigning the user entity to at least one set, each set comprising as members a plurality of user entities sharing a characteristic associated with that set; ensuring that the intersection of the at least one set comprises at least a predetermined minimum number of user entities; and providing to the service provider node information relating to the or each characteristic associated with the at least one set, the information being for use at the service provider node in providing a service to the user entity that is appropriate in view of the characteristics of the user entity but insufficient to identify the user entity.
US08812366B2
A method for automatically generating change orders may be performed at a point of sale system. The point of sale system may determine an amount of funds in the point of sale system and whether additional funds are necessary. If so, a change order may be automatically requested from a back office system (e.g., a cash recycler) or a financial institution. The back office system may determine whether it is able to fulfill the change order request and if not, forward the request to the financial institution. In one or more arrangements, a notification that a change order request has been received may be transmitted to a manager or other change order personnel. The change order request and funds delivered to the point of sale system in response thereto may be reconciled with the back office system.
US08812360B2
A social networking system generates socially-relevant ads for a user based on actions taken by other users to whom the user is connected. These may be actions taken on, and determined by, an external system, information about which actions can be received by the social networking system and used for matching to an advertisement request. The social networking system may determine a social context for advertising to a user based on the action and may generate an advertisement for the matched ad request that includes an informational message communicating the social context (i.e., an ad with the information message appended to it, a news story for the informational message, etc.). The ad may be targeted to the user based on user affinity for the ad, based on an object interacted with or an action taken by the user's connections on or external to the social networking system, among other criteria.
US08812359B2
The usefulness, and consequently the performance, of advertisements are improved by allowing businesses to better target their ads to a responsive audience. For example, location information may be used in ad relevancy determination, and in attribute (e.g., position) arbitration. Such location information may be associated with price information, such as a maximum price bid, and/or with ad performance information. Ad performance information may be tracked on the basis of location information. The content of an ad creative, and/or of a landing page may be selected and/or modified using location information. Tools may be provided to enter and/or modify location information, such as location-dependent targeting information and price information. The location information used to target and/or score ads may be, include, or define an area. The area may be defined by at least one geographic reference point (e.g., defined by latitude and longitude coordinates) and perhaps additional information.
US08812352B2
A method and system for managing driving patterns by charging a variable incentive and/or disincentive based on individual driving behaviors. Distances detected between a vehicle and other vehicles are detected within a time period. N tailgating incidents are identified based on the detected distances being less than a threshold value for distance. A variable toll is determined by evaluating a function of a base amount and N. The driver of the vehicle is charged the variable toll. Charging the variable toll provides an incentive to the driver to encourage driving that does not include tailgating or a disincentive to the driver to deter tailgating.
US08812333B2
An enhanced travel search tool aimed at providing travel opportunities includes a ticket splitter operating from a list of flight connections provided by a front-end flight search engine. The ticket splitter comprises a unit for valuating all ticket partitions generated from the provided list of connection flights and a tree of split criteria updated in a cache for determining the partitions and attributing to each partition a probability value of obtaining a split-ticket solution. The ticket splitter also includes a unit for selecting those of the valuated partitions that have a probability value higher than a defined threshold and provides a sorted list of recommended partitions to a back-end fare search engine to price all the selected partitions including a reference single-ticket solution. Travel search tool offering of travel opportunities is enhanced by automatically including multi-ticket travel solutions.
US08812326B2
A computer-driven device assists a user in self-regulating speech control of the device. The device processes an input signal representing human speech to compute acoustic signal quality indicators indicating conditions likely to be problematic to speech recognition, and advises the user of those conditions.
US08812324B2
The invention relates to a method for speech signal analysis, modification and synthesis comprising a phase for the location of analysis windows by means of an iterative process for the determination of the phase of the first sinusoidal component and comparison between the phase value of said component and a predetermined value, a phase for the selection of analysis frames corresponding to an allophone and readjustment of the duration and the fundamental frequency according to certain thresholds and a phase for the generation of synthetic speech from synthesis frames taking the information of the closest analysis frame as spectral information of the synthesis frame and taking as many synthesis frames as periods that the synthetic signal has. The method allows a coherent location of the analysis windows within the periods of the signal and the exact generation of the synthesis instants in a manner synchronous with the fundamental period.
US08812323B2
A method for executing a fully mixed initiative dialogue (FMID) interaction between a human and a machine, a dialogue system for a FMID interaction between a human and a machine and a computer readable data storage medium having stored thereon computer code for instructing a computer processor to execute a method for executing a FMID interaction between a human and a machine are provided. The method includes retrieving a predefined grammar setting out parameters for the interaction; receiving a voice input; analyzing the grammar to dynamically derive one or more semantic combinations based on the parameters; obtaining semantic content by performing voice recognition on the voice input; and assigning the semantic content as fulfilling the one or more semantic combinations.
US08812322B2
Systems and methods for semi-supervised source separation using non-negative techniques are described. In some embodiments, various techniques disclosed herein may enable the separation of signals present within a mixture, where one or more of the signals may be emitted by one or more different sources. In audio-related applications, for instance, a signal mixture may include speech (e.g., from a human speaker) and noise (e.g., background noise). In some cases, speech may be separated from noise using a speech model developed from training data. A noise model may be created, for example, during the separation process (e.g., “on-the-fly”) and in the absence of corresponding training data.
US08812311B2
Methods, devices, systems and tools are presented that allow the summarization of text, audio, and audiovisual presentations, such as movies, into less lengthy forms. High-content media files are shortened in a manner that preserves important details, by splitting the files into segments, rating the segments, and reassembling preferred segments into a final abridged piece. Summarization of media can be customized by user selection of criteria, and opens new possibilities for delivering entertainment, news, and information in the form of dense, information-rich content that can be viewed by means of broadcast or cable distribution, “on-demand” distribution, internet and cell phone digital video streaming, or can be downloaded onto an iPod™ and other portable video playback devices.
US08812298B1
In a method of creating a natural language (NL) macro, a first term/phrase and a second term/phrase in an imprecise syntax are obtained, and an association between the first and the second terms/phrases is created. The association is stored as an NL macro. In a method of using an NL macro in an NL query, it is determined that an original NL query includes an NL macro, and the NL macro is replaced with its corresponding NL value to form a revised NL query. The revised NL query is processed to generate one or more answers.
US08812293B2
An apparatus and a method for supporting many languages in a mobile communication terminal are provided. In the method, at least two installable languages are determined from a multi language image file comprising language packages of at least two languages. One of the at least two installable languages is selected and installed. The multi language image file is stored. When a language is to be changed, at least two changeable languages are determined from the multi language image file. The installed language is changed by selecting one of the at least two changeable languages. Therefore, a language to be used can be easily changed without separately downloading installation information of languages.
US08812289B1
Approaches for simulating an electronic system. In one approach, a software co-simulation platform is configured to produce a first time sequence of values of a plurality of input ports of a design block of the electronic system, consume a second time sequence of values of a plurality of output ports of the design block, and generate access transactions for transferring the first and second sequences of values. The software co-simulation platform generates a plurality of reconfiguration transactions for transferring reconfiguration data for the design block. A PLD is configured to implement a communication block and a control block. The communication block receives the reconfiguration and access transactions from the software co-simulation platform, and the control block reconfigures programmable logic and interconnect resources of the PLD in response to the reconfiguration transactions. The control block also controls the emulation of the design block in response to the access transactions.
US08812281B2
A method for designing a secondary cutting structure for use in a bottom hole assembly, the method including defining initial design parameters for the secondary cutting structure and analyzing forces acting on the secondary cutting structure. Additionally, the method includes modifying at least one design element of the secondary cutting structure and simulating an effect of the modifying on both the secondary cutting structure and a primary cutting structure to determine if an improved condition is met. Also, a method for designing a drilling tool assembly, the method including defining initial drilling tool assembly design parameters including a primary cutting structure and a secondary cutting structure, and simulating a dynamic response of the drilling tool assembly. Additionally, the method includes adjusting at least one design element of the secondary cutting structure based on the dynamic response of the drilling tool assembly, determining if the adjusted design element improved a condition of the drilling, and repeating the simulating and adjusting until the condition is optimized.
US08812279B2
Network simulation equipment for determining routes across a multi-layer system, the network simulation equipment comprising: an adaptor module configured to convert a multi-layer system into a multi-layer network of nodes and links; a first routing engine configured to determine a plurality of populations of paths, each population of paths corresponding to a route across a layer of the multi-layer network; a second routing engine configured to determine a plurality of multi-layer populations of paths, each multi-layer population of paths corresponding to a route across the multi-layer network and comprising populations of paths for at least two different layers of the multi-layer network selected from the plurality of populations of paths determined by the first routing engine; and an evolving module configured to mate at least two multi-layer populations of paths from the plurality of multi-layer populations of paths to create a third multi-layer population of paths.
US08812269B1
Remote monitoring tools are provided for non-intrusively and synchronously interacting with graphical models. The remote monitoring tools are dynamically connected to the graphical model without requiring the addition of components to the model definition. The remote monitoring tool can perform dynamic range assessment on the graphical model.
US08812264B2
Disclosed herein is an approach that uses a wattmeter to determine hydraulic fluid parameters. In one aspect, a controller uses the electric power measured by the wattmeter to determine the power delivered to hydraulic fluid delivered by a hydraulic pump unit to a hydraulic fluid consuming device and the volumetric flow rate of the hydraulic fluid delivered to the hydraulic fluid consuming device by the hydraulic pump unit.
US08812263B2
Design COP is iteratively computed. Provided is a centrifugal chiller performance evaluation system including a data acquisition section for acquiring operating data from a centrifugal chiller as input data; a storage section storing a design COP estimation formula obtained by adding correction values corresponding to losses occurring in an actual environment to a computational formula for ideal actual-machine COP expressed using COP characteristics of a reverse Carnot cycle; and a computing section for estimating a design COP at a current operating point using the operating data acquired by the data acquisition section and the design COP estimation formula stored in the storage section. The correction values include a first correction value calculated from a first computational formula including the load factor of the centrifugal chiller as a variable and a second correction value calculated from a second computational formula including a difference between cooling water outlet temperature and chilled water outlet temperature as a variable. The second correction value contains an offset from the first correction value depending on cooling water inlet temperature.
US08812260B2
A method includes obtaining a first geo-location and a second geo-location. The first and second geo-locations are associated with a monitoring device. The monitoring device is configured to be used by a user. The first geo-location is determined at a first time and the second geo-location is determined at a second time. The first time and the second time are associated with a rate of obtaining geo-location data. The method includes calculating a difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations and changing the rate of obtaining a third geo-location associated with the monitoring device based on the difference in distance between the second and first geo-locations.
US08812259B2
A device configured for capture of activity data for a user includes a housing, a sensor, a motor, a memory, and a processor. The sensor is disposed in the housing to capture physical contact upon the housing. The motor causes vibration of the housing. The memory stores an alarm setting that defines a time of day for triggering an alarm on the device. The processor activates the alarm upon reaching the time of day defined by the alarm setting, with the alarm causing the motor to produce the vibration of the housing. The sensor, which is interfaced with the processor, is configured to detect a physical contact upon the housing. The processor is configured to deactivate the alarm if the physical contact qualifies as an input to deactivate the alarm. The deactivating of the alarm causes the vibration of the device to be suspended.
US08812257B2
In order to determine a virtual sensor tool center point sensor TCP of a light section sensor, the invention provides that: the sensor TCP is placed in sufficient concordance with a point on a line on a surface a so-called feature of a reference part with a known location; a normal to the surface of the reference part is determined; the Z direction of the sensor is brought in concordance with the normal of the surface of the reference part, and; a defined alignment of the sensor with the line of the feature is determined.
US08812245B2
Embodiments include a system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. The system may include at least one computer system configured to receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's heart, and create a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the patient's heart based on the patient-specific data. The at least one computer system may be further configured to create a physics-based model relating to a blood flow characteristic of the patient's heart and determine a fractional flow reserve within the patient's heart based on the three-dimensional model and the physics-based model.
US08812242B2
The present invention provides a melatonin suppression extent measuring device, which is able to receive and process a light signal to a spectral data, process the spectral data to a percent value of melatonin suppression based on a reference wavelength parameter and a reference quanta parameter through a conversion module, and display the percent value of melatonin suppression; therefore, users can exactly know how many melatonin suppression extent are caused by the light environment which is exposing themselves body.
US08812241B1
A computerized method for normalizing the results of clinical laboratory tests to a reference scale includes providing a measured value of a clinically significant parameter, providing a set of patient data, and providing a set of method data, including an indication of a method used by a testing instrument used to measure the measured value. One or more correlation factors are retrieved including a method correlation factor from a computer readable database based on the method data. The method correlation factor corresponds to the method used by the testing instrument used to measure the measured value. A normalized value of the clinically significant parameter is calculated based upon the one or more correlation factors. The normalized value may correspond to a value on the reference scale regardless of the method used by the testing instrument.
US08812234B2
A device to aid navigation comprises: at least one inertial navigation unit; an integration module estimating the position, speed and orientation of the carrier on the basis of the data supplied by the inertial navigation unit; a digitized map of the locations in which the carrier moves, said map storing a navigable network along which the carrier may move; a module for generating position pseudo-measurements on the basis of the position estimated by the integration module and cartographic data supplied by the digitized map, a position pseudo-measurement indicating the position which should be estimated by the integration module in the presence of movement constraints imposed by the digitized map of the locations; an indirect extended Kalman filter connected to the module for generating position pseudo-measurements by a switch, said filter estimating the errors relating to the position, speed and orientation, and also any other variable associated with the inertial navigation unit, estimated by the integration model on the basis of the position pseudo-measurements produced by the module; a module indicating the availability of a pseudo-measurement of the module controlling the closing of the switch when a pseudo-measurement is available and opening it in the opposite case; the output of the integration module, indicating the position, speed and orientation estimation, being connected to the module for generating position pseudo-measurements, to the Kalman filter and to the positive input of a filter of a subtractor.
US08812230B2
A navigation device is provided including a data storage unit for storing data, and a service information reception processing unit for receiving service information distributed from an external registration destination facility with which member registration is made, and a service information analyzing processing unit performs a predetermined process on the service information received by the service information reception processing unit to register the service information in the data storage unit. The navigation device further includes a notification condition customization setting unit for setting a notification condition, and a facility icon display processing unit displays whether or not there is an update in service information of a registration destination facility on a map according to the notification condition set by the notification condition customization setting unit.
US08812226B2
A method for controlling a vehicle operating during a dynamic vehicle event includes monitoring a first input image, monitoring a first tracked object within the first input image in a first tracking cycle, monitoring a second input image, monitoring a second tracked object within the second input image in a second tracking cycle, and determining a dissimilarity measure comparing the first tracked object to the second tracked object. The dissimilarity measure estimates whether the first tracked object and the second tracked object represent a single tracked object proximate to the vehicle. The method further includes associating the first tracked object and the second tracked object based upon the dissimilarity measure, and utilizing the associated objects in a collision preparation system to control operation of the vehicle.
US08812225B2
An electronic navigation device for a human user may include a housing to be carried by the human user, and at least one accelerometer carried by the housing and configured to sense acceleration during motion of the human user. The electronic navigation device may also include a controller carried by the housing and coupled to the at least one accelerometer. The controller may be configured to generate a plurality of acceleration sample values as the human user moves over a given distance, and determine an estimated distance traveled by the human user during movement over the given distance by at least multiplying each acceleration sample value by a scaling constant. The controller may also be configured to sum results thereof.
US08812212B2
A system and method for correcting brake knockback in a vehicle disk brake system. Brake knockback can occur when a vehicle is driven through an aggressive turn or in other environments that exert a significant amount of lateral force on the vehicle's wheels. This can cause the rotors to deflect and push brake pistons into retracted positions, where they remain even after the vehicle exits the turn. According to one embodiment, the present method first estimates or predicts brake knockback by using lateral acceleration readings from the vehicle and a brake knockback model, and then corrects brake knockback by generating command signals for a hydraulic pump.
US08812209B2
A dynamic model is stored in memory that defines torque transmitted by a lockup clutch in a torque converter as a function of a plurality of torque converter operating parameters. A lockup clutch command to control engagement the lockup clutch is asserted, and thereafter a number of the plurality of torque converter operating parameters are monitored. The model is continually solved using the monitored operating parameters to determine torque transmitted by the lockup clutch over time, and a lockup clutch on-coming capacity signal is produced if the torque transmitted by the lockup clutch exceeds a torque threshold.
US08812207B2
Method of addressing and correcting mismatches between E-shift position and actual transmission gear
A method and apparatus for detecting and correcting mismatches between an electronic shifter position and a vehicle's actual transmission gear. The method and system implement a correction scheme that may initially set a period for manual correction, if possible, then initiate automatic correction if correction is required.
US08812201B2
A hydraulic control system for an automatic transmission. The hydraulic control system is applied to an automatic transmission adapted to vary a torque capacity of a transmission member by an actuator. The hydraulic control system includes: a discharging device configured to discharge compressible gas entrained in the hydraulic fluid in the actuator; an interrupting device that interrupts power transmission; and a controller configured to determine an entrainment of the compressible gas in the hydraulic fluid, disconnect the power transmission via the interrupting device in a case that an entrained compressible gas is determined, and cause the entrained compressible gas to be removed from the hydraulic fluid by rotating the actuator while interrupting the power transmission.
US08812194B2
A system for preventing a steering pull in a vehicle includes: a sensor unit configured to generate at least one sensing value for at least one of a steering torque, a steering angle, a vehicle speed and a yaw rate of a vehicle; an ECU configured to determine whether or not the vehicle is in a straightforward driving state, based on a predefined straightforward driving state determination criterion by using the at least one sensing value provided from the sensor unit, determine whether or not a steering pull occurs in the vehicle, based on a predefined steering pull determination criterion when it is determined that the vehicle is in the straightforward driving state, and compensate for the steering torque of the vehicle when it is determined that the steering pull occurs in the vehicle; and a motor driving unit configured to generate steering power under the control of the ECU.
US08812192B2
A lane departure prevention system is provided with a lane departure tendency detection section, a yaw moment calculating section and a yaw moment control section. The lane departure tendency detection section detects a degree of a lane departure tendency of a host vehicle exhibiting a tendency of departing from its driving lane. The yaw moment calculating section calculates a base yaw moment to be applied to the host vehicle based on the degree of the lane departure tendency. The yaw moment control section applies the base yaw moment calculated by the yaw moment calculating section to the host vehicle when the base yaw moment is equal to or larger than a first prescribed minimum yaw moment, which is greater than zero, and applies the first prescribed minimum yaw moment to the host vehicle if the base yaw moment is smaller than the first prescribed minimum yaw moment.
US08812191B2
A control device for an adjustable chassis system includes a connection to at least one sensor arrangement which provides at least one vehicle condition parameter of a vehicle. The measured vehicle condition parameter is spatially related to a position outside of the control device. The sensor arrangement is arranged inside the control device and forms a virtual miniature measurement plane which is extrapolated to an actual measurement plane.
US08812190B2
A vehicular input manipulation apparatus has a target parameter switchover manipulating device and a setup changeover manipulating device in order to change setup contents of several control parameters for drive control of an in-vehicle apparatus. The target parameter switchover manipulating device executes switchover to designate one of the control parameters as a change target control parameter. The setup changeover manipulating device changes a setup content relative to the change target control parameter. When a control mode of the in-vehicle apparatus is changed into a predetermined control mode, a control circuit automatically enforces switchover relative to the change target control parameter by automatically replacing the control parameter, which has been designated as the change target control parameter, with an enforcement change target control parameter, which is a predetermined control parameter associated with the predetermined control mode.
US08812180B2
The vertical profile management device includes a flight management system unit that selects a plurality of successive standard cruise sections, each comprising a level phase and a transition phase. The cruise sections are defined by a plurality of features, including waypoints corresponding to a section starting point and a section ending point, a transition type, a transition mode, a transition speed, a level altitude, and a level speed. The flight management system unit also joins together the successive cruise sections in order to form a vertical profile of a flight plan. The cruise sections are configured to be added, removed, or re-sequenced in the flight plan because each section ending point is configured to be the section starting point of a next cruise section in the series.
US08812174B2
A controller system for vehicle which has a plurality of driving modes which influence driving feeling, and performs selection from the driving modes and the regulation by inputs from a selecting switch, a forward sequence regulating switch, and a reverse sequence regulating switch. For each input from the selecting switch, changing to the driving mode according to a predetermined normal order. For each input from each of the regulating switches, the current controlled step is changed in a predetermined tendency direction. In a state where the controlled step reaches a final step, the state of the final step is maintained even when the same regulating signal is inputted.
US08812163B2
A controllable multiple-channel chemical transport bus routes and transports fluids, gasses, aerosols, slurries and the like within a larger system. The system and methods are applicable for use in Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC) technology, and can be useful in the implementation of reconfigurable LoC devices. Routes through the bus are determined by control signals and/or sequences of control signals issued under algorithmic control. Several independent flows may occur simultaneously. Adaptations of Clos, Banyan, and other related multi-stage switching architectures in the flow topology can be supported. Sensors are placed at various locations along bus path segments. Information gathered by the sensors can be used for one or more of controlling measured flows, clearing operations, cleaning operations, and control of the timing flow transport. The sensors can be of one or more types such as presence sensors, flow sensors, pressure sensors, temperature sensors, conductivity sensors, optical sensors, ion sensors, and affinity sensors.
US08812161B2
There is provided a robot apparatus that can rapidly obtain an ellipse indicating a stiffness characteristic, even if lengths of two links are different from each other.
US08812159B2
A process includes defining, in a memory, arm-occupied regions including robot arms and a workpiece and tool attached to a robot wrist, a virtual safety protection barrier with which the arms are not allowed to come into contact, and movable ranges of robot axes; estimating the coasting angle of each robot axis for which the axis will coast when the robot is stopped due to an emergency stop while moving to a next target position, from an actually measured amount of coasting and the like; determining a post-coasting predicted position of the robot by adding the estimated coasting angles to the next target position; checking whether or not the arm-occupied regions at the post-coasting predicted position will come into contact with the virtual safety protection barrier, or whether or not the robot axes are within the movable ranges; and performing control to stop the robot immediately upon detection of abnormality.
US08812141B2
An system, method, and method of encoding/decoding a multi-channel audio signal, including a decoding level generation unit producing decoding-level information that helps a bitstream including a number of audio channel signals and space information to be decoded into a number of audio channel signals, wherein the space information includes information about magnitude differences and/or similarities between channels, and an audio decoder decoding the bitstream according to the decoding-level information. Accordingly, even a single input bitstream can be decoded into a suitable number of channels depending on the type of a speaker configuration used. Scalable channel decoding can be achieved by partially decoding an input bitstream. In the scalable channel decoding, a decoder may set decoding levels and outputs audio channel signals according to the decoding levels, thereby reducing decoding complexity.
US08812136B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a location automation system via computing device having access to a calendar database is provided. Calendar data, from the calendar database, is processed to determine that at least one location automation event controlled by the location automation system is affected by the calendar data. The location automation setting data is updated, based on the calendar data, such that the at least one location automation event occurs according to the calendar data.
US08812133B2
A burr hole plug comprises a plug base configured for being mounted around a burr hole. The plug base includes an aperture through which an elongated medical device exiting the burr hole may pass. The plug base is configured to accommodate a variety of cranium forms without requiring deformation of the plug base. A plug base holding tool is used to secure the plug base to the cranium, wherein the tool aligns fasteners with the plug base for insertion through the plug base and into the cranium. The burr hole plug further comprises a retainer configured for being mounted within the aperture of the plug base to secure the medical device. The retainer includes a clamping mechanism that secures the elongated medical device in the burr hole plug, wherein the movement of the clamping mechanism is controlled to prevent skewing of the clamping mechanism.
US08812126B2
One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes storing a volume of tissue activation (VTA) data structure that is derived from analysis of a plurality of patients. Patient data is received for a given patient, the patient data representing an assessment of a patient condition. The VTA data structure is evaluated relative to the patient data to determine a target VTA for achieving a desired therapeutic effect for the given patient.
US08812123B2
A patient programmer can have a progress module, wherein the progress module may obtain progress input from a patient in which the generator is implanted. The progress module may include sensors that are able to obtain progress input based on patient interactions with sensors coupled to the patient programmer. The progress module may also include an interface that poses progress-related questions to the patient and obtains responses to the questions from the patient. The patient programmer is also able to store the progress input for reporting purposes.
US08812122B2
Apparatus and method for at least partially fitting a medical implant system to a patient is described. These apparatuses and methods comprise executing a genetic algorithm to select a set of parameter values for the medical implant system. This genetic algorithm may comprise executing a tabu search wherein value sets that are determined to be bad are added to a tabu list that may be consulted to exclude tabu value sets from successive generations of the genetic algorithm.
US08812115B2
A method and neurostimulator for providing therapy to a patient is provided. In one technique, electrical background energy is conveyed to a first tissue region of the patient in accordance with stochastic parameter, thereby modulating the excitability of the first tissue region, and electrical stimulation energy is conveyed to the first tissue region when its excitability is modulated. In one example, the stimulation energy may be conveyed to a second tissue region of the patient, thereby therapeutically stimulating the second tissue region. In this case, the excitability of the first tissue region is decreased, thereby reducing any adverse effect that the conveyed stimulation energy has on the first tissue region. As another example, the conveyed stimulation energy stimulates the first tissue region, in which case, the excitability of the first tissue region may be increased, thereby enhancing the stimulation of the first tissue region by the conveyed stimulation energy.
US08812097B2
A non-invasive blood glucose concentration sensing system and method includes sensing neurophysiological brain activity of the user during visual pigment regeneration in an eye of the user, and correlating the sensed neurophysiological brain activity to the glucose concentration in the blood of the user.
US08812091B1
An automatic method of determining local activation time (LAT) in multi-channel cardiac electrogram signals including a plurality of cardiac channels, the method comprising: (a) storing the cardiac channel signals; (b) selecting a mapping channel, a ventricular channel, and a reference channel from among the plurality of cardiac channels; (c) using the selected channels to compute first LAT values at a plurality of mapping-channel locations; (d) monitoring the quality of at least one selected channel; (e) if the quality of a monitored cardiac channel falls below a standard, replacing the sub-standard channel with another channel of the plurality of channels having an above-standard quality; and (f) computing second LAT values based on the replacement cardiac channel.
US08812087B2
A spectrally encoded imaging device having a light transmission path arrangement which propagates light to illuminate a target object, a light collection path arrangement having a light collection waveguide which propagates a spectrally encoded portion of the light from the target object to a detector which forms an image of the target object accordingly, and a diffractive element which spectrally disperses at least one of the light and the spectrally encoded portion. The light transmission path arrangement and the light collection path arrangement are optically isolated from one another.
US08812084B1
The present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting biomaterial anomalies in a test subject for diagnosing existing and potential medical conditions. The general technique utilized is to expose a portion of the test subject to low doses of RF electromagnetic energy. Different biomaterials in a test subject may be differentiated and identified by characterizing their electromagnetic properties based on observed parameters, e.g., electromagnetic energy absorbed, thermal energy created, and electromagnetic energy emitted, during irradiation of the test subject.
US08812075B2
A contoured bioelectrical signal electrode and a sensor headset are disclosed. A contoured bioelectrical signal electrode that also includes a conductive fabric is also disclosed. In some embodiments, a contoured bioelectrical signal sensor is provided that includes an electrode set and is connected to a holder that is connected to a headset.
US08812067B2
A multi-orientation cryostat 5 for a superconducting magnet 4 for use in a plurality of orientations. The cryostat 5 comprises a vessel 6 for holding cryogenic liquid and, leading away from the vessel, a quench duct 7 for allowing escape from the vessel of gas generated by boiling of the cryogenic liquid due to quenching of the magnet. The quench duct 7 is sinuous so as to provide at least to differently orientated anti-convection portions 71, each portion for functioning as an anti-convection portion with the cryostat in a respective corresponding orientation.
US08812065B2
A system for locating a personal communication device (PCD) in a vehicle is provided. A controller is configured to receive a first signal from the PCD at a first antenna in a driver zone and to generate a first signal strength value for the first signal. The controller is configured to receive the first signal from the PCD at the second antenna and to generate a second signal strength value for the first signal. The controller is configured to determine whether the first signal at the first antenna and the second signal at the second antenna are received within a predetermined amount of time of one another and to compare the first signal strength value to the second signal strength value if the first signal at the first antenna and the second signal at the second antenna are received within the predetermined amount of time.
US08812060B2
The use of a digital camera in communication with a mobile device to determine the intensity of ambient light conditions is described herein. In one example, the digital camera receives light energy representing ambient light. The intensity of the ambient light is determined and, based upon a comparison of that intensity to a setpoint, the mobile device is reconfigured. In another example, a mobile device is described that uses a digital camera to measure ambient light conditions. The mobile device can be configured in various ways based upon a determination of the intensity and/or wavelengths of the ambient light.
US08812053B2
According to the present invention, a mobile electronic device includes: a housing; a projecting unit for projecting an image, the projecting unit being mounted on the housing; a detecting unit for detecting a positional relation between the projecting unit and a projection surface on which an image projected by the projecting unit is to be displayed; a position changing unit for changing a position of the housing; and a control unit for controlling the position changing unit on the basis of the positional relation between the projecting unit and the projection surface detected by the positional-relation detecting unit.
US08812051B2
A wireless communication device is provided that includes modules to access a cellular network, a non-cellular network, a plurality of communication networks. A mobile network selector can access network information comprising one or more of network speed, network reliability, network performance, network bandwidth, network throughput, and data transmission cost and receive, and select a compatible and currently accessible communication based on the network information.
US08812039B2
A system and method of cancelling downlink inter-channel interference between a first selected UE in one sector of a cell and a second selected UE in a second sector of said cell by using intra-eNB DL CoMP is described. UEs which are affected by ICI are identified in sectors which are adjacent to each other in the cell. A downlink CoMP operational set is formed for the identified UEs. Channel matrix blocks are estimated for the first and second selected UEs. The channel matrix blocks are representations of the channel characteristics between the first and second UE, in their respective sectors and the serving base station. The estimated channel matrix blocks are then loaded into a cross-sector channel block matrix. The inverse values of the channel matrix blocks are then calculated to form a sector specific cross-sector pre-coding matrix which is used to enable interference cancellation.
US08812032B2
A low cost cordless telephone system including a base unit, connected to a telephone network, which can transmit and receive RF signals to and from sub-communicating devices. The sub-communicating devices include a cordless microphone for converting acoustical signals to electrical signals and providing same to a transmitter which transmits corresponding simplex RF signals on a cordless telephone frequency to a base unit attached to a telephone network; and a cordless speaker which receives simplex RF signals from a base unit and broadcasts a corresponding telephone conversation. The base unit may connect directly to a telephone network or, in an alternate embodiment, to the handset jack of an existing telephone, thereby interfacing to existing phones including those connected to digital telephone systems. The base unit may also include a speaker used to broadcast the telephone conversation. The base unit speaker and the cordless speaker each may optionally broadcast both sides of the phone conversation, including the presenter's speech received from the cordless microphone. The system may also be interfaced to an existing sound system via a remote interface unit or a base unit.
US08812031B2
Map tile data for displaying graphic elements of a web-based mapping system in a mobile computing device may be pre-fetched to the device based on an analysis of the historical uses of a mapping module at that mobile device. The mobile device may retrieve user mapping activity data and extract geographic location data from the mapping activity data. This geographic location data may then be used to retrieve map tile data that is related to another request for map tile data. This related map tile data may then be stored in cache storage to be retrieved during periods of reduced communication with a map tile server or other periods.
US08812030B2
Disclosed is an apparatus, system and method for determining a location of a mobile device based on a location of a wireless network node, a distance between the wireless network node and the mobile device, and a bearing from the wireless network node to the mobile device, wherein the bearing is determined based on a directional signal and magnetometer measurements.
US08812028B2
A proximity matching system may use broadcast wireless identifiers transmitted by users' devices to match users with other nearby users. The identifiers may be collected by a plurality of agents, then the identifiers may be matched with pre-defined profiles to generate physically proximate users by a remote service. The group of proximate users may be provided to various applications and consumed with summarized properties or individual properties, depending on the approved privacy settings as selected by the users. In some embodiments, the broadcast wireless identifiers may be personal area network identifiers, local area network identifiers, cellular network identifiers, or other broadcast identifier. In some embodiments, the agents may not establish a peer to peer or other connection with the broadcasting device. The agents may be fixed or mobile agents, and the proximity of users may be generated through links between nearby agents in a meshed fashion.
US08812022B2
An indoor location measuring method and apparatus are provided. An apparatus for sectionalizing an indoor area for indoor location measurement includes a reference coordinate inputting unit which receives an input of a reference coordinate corresponding to the indoor area; a sector number inputting unit which receives an input of a number of sectors per column or row in the indoor area; and a sectionalization calculating unit which sectionalizes the indoor area into a predetermined number of sectors based on the reference coordinate and the number of sectors per column or row, and calculates a coordinate of a point of a sector among the sectionalized predetermined number of sectors.
US08812008B2
A method of operating a wireless device includes determining an energy on each of a plurality of resources for broadcasting CIDs, sending information to a base station based on the determined energy for each of the CIDs, and receiving a CID from the base station. The received CID is one of the CIDs determined based on the information. A method of wireless communication includes receiving first information about a first plurality of CIDs from a first wireless device, receiving second information about a second plurality of CIDs from a second wireless device, comparing the first information and the second information to determine a subset of CIDs based on the first plurality of CIDs and the second plurality of CIDs, selecting a CID based on the subset of CIDs, and sending the selected CID to at least one of the first wireless device or the second wireless device.
US08812004B2
The present invention provides a method for handling a call conflict at a call processing apparatus in a communication network, said call processing apparatus comprising a first call processing element which handles a first call initiated by a first terminal and a second call processing element which handles a second call initiated by a second terminal, when said second call processing element receives an incall message initiated by said first terminal and directed to communicate with said second terminal while said second terminal is in busy state, the method comprising: inquiring the called number in the call record of said second terminal; comparing initiating times of said first call and said second call, if said called number in said call record of said second terminal is the number of said first terminal contained in said incall message; and releasing the call with later initiating time and continuing setting up of the call with earlier initiating time, based on result of the comparison. Corresponding call processing apparatus and program product are also disclosed.
US08812000B2
The present invention provides a method of initiation a mobile originating service-based inter-system handover, and devices enabling the method. A communication network comprises at least two radio access networks (RANs) of different types, i.e. a radio access network (RAN) of a first type and a radio access network (RAN) of a second type. A dual-mode mobile terminal designed to be operable with both the RAN of the first type and the RAN of the second type communicates with the communication system via the RAN of the first type. The initiation of the inter-system handover is included in a transmission, which comprises at least one bearer capability (BC) field. The bearer capability (BC) field is set to indicate that a requested service is only operable with the RAN of the second type. In particular, at least one bearer capability (BC) field is set to a parameter value, which serves as indication for the receiving network and its processing entities, respectively, which receiving network indicated to carry out the inter-system handover initiated by the mobile terminal.
US08811997B2
A first handoff is for an inter-AN cell selection where a source AN allows the AT to add a cell under the control of a different AN to its active set and then allows the AT to switch to the target AN. A bearer path is established between the source and target AN to transfer the data traffic using an exchange of messages to register the AT's movement from one BTS to another BTS. The A8/A10 connections remain anchored at the source AN so a bearer path is needed between the source and target AN to transfer the data traffic. The second handoff occurs when the source AN specifies a move of the AT to a new AN proactively. New connections are established at the target AN to support the AT, and the AT is subsequently moved to the target AN via the relevant air-interface messaging.
US08811989B2
Method and apparatus for transmitting paging message for M2M device in wireless communication system
A method and apparatus of receiving a paging message in a wireless communication system is provided. A machine-to-machine (M2M) device monitors paging messages including a group paging message and an individual paging message, and receives both the group paging message and the individual paging message from a base station (BS).
US08811987B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for creating an association between a first user equipment and at least one access point assisted by a registration server in a telecommunication network are disclosed. The registration server responds to a first contact request carried out using a first association number for the access point, provided by the first user equipment, receives a first association request for the association with the access point, provided by the first user equipment, authorizes the first association request based on a first authorization information provided by the first user equipment; registers the association between the first user equipment and the access point responsive to authorization of the first association request. The first user equipment is associated with the access point and the association is administered by the registration server.
US08811986B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for cell selection in a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08811978B2
Apparatus and a method for sending measurement report messages from a wireless telecommunications device to a wireless telecommunications network are disclosed. The method comprises at the wireless telecommunications device: generating a measurement report in respect of a first event; transmitting a first message including the measurement report in respect of the first event to the network; generating a subsequent measurement report for another event; determining whether conditions for the first event are still satisfied and, if so, including in a subsequent message the measurement report for the first event as well as the measurement report for the other event; and transmitting the subsequent message to the network.
US08811976B2
A mobile communication system according the present invention including a mobile station UE configured to detect a cell using CC with a measurement target frequency designated by the radio base station eNB, in a measurement gap designated by the radio base station eNB within a predetermined time period TIdentify_Inter, and when the mobile station UE is not performing CA, the predetermined time period TIdentify_Inter is determined based on the number Nfreq of the CCs with the measurement target frequencies, and when the mobile station UE is performing CA, the predetermined time period TIdentify_Inter is determined based on the number Nfreq of the CCs with the measurement target frequencies and the number M of CCs in each of which the measurement gap is set.
US08811975B1
A wireless communication device (WCD) may transmit a first sequence of access probe messages to a radio access network (RAN) via a first wireless coverage area. The WCD may then transmit a second sequence of access probe messages to the RAN via a second wireless coverage area. Based on the first wireless coverage area being more preferable to the WCD than the second wireless coverage area, the WCD may use a negative inter-sequence power step for the power levels at which the WCD transmits the access probe messages of the first and second sequences. Thus, the WCD may transmit the first access probe message of the second sequence at a lower power than the first access probe message of the first sequence.
US08811972B2
A communication terminal (10) including a first communication unit (11) and a second communication unit (12) with a shorter communication distance than the first communication unit (11) includes a presence status detection unit (13) that detects that a distance from a personal computer (50) has changed from a state possible to communicate to a state not possible to communicate for the second communication unit (12), and a communication status control unit (14) that causes a standby interval in intermittent reception performed by the first communication unit (11) to become shorter when a change of the second communication unit (12) from the state possible to communicate to the state not possible to communicate is detected by the presence status detection unit (13). This enables more detailed and accurate tracking of the connection status of the first communication unit (11), which can advance the timing to bring the first communication unit (11) to transition to a disconnection state or a standby state, allowing reduction of power consumption in the first communication unit (11).
US08811971B2
A mobile communication device (1) is connectable to a memory device (MIF) that comprises a plurality of memorysectors (0-F), wherein at least one application is stored in at least one memory sector. the memory sectors are protected against unauthorized access 5 by sector keys (key A, key B, 4). The mobile communication device (1) comprises an applications manager (MAM) being adapted to disable the stored applications (TK1, AC1, AC2, TR2, TR3, CP1, TR4, AC3, TK3) when triggered by an external trigger event.
US08811959B2
A smart card is disclosed which includes a mass storage memory for storing biometric information of a user and private data. A radio is used as an interface to the card. When the user of the card wishes to invoke an application for the private data, biometric information about the user is provided to a device in communication with the card, enabling the card to authenticate the user as an authorized user of the private data, and in response to that authentication provide the data to the application in a manner that maintains privacy and integrity of data.
US08811946B2
A communication apparatus includes: an interface for reading out identification information regarding a communication carrier from a storage medium in which the identification information is stored; a communication unit for deciding the communication carrier based on the identification information read out by the interface and making communication by using the decided communication carrier; an authentication unit for making an authentication by using the identification information read out by the interface; a control unit for enabling a communicating operation by the communication unit according to a success in the authentication by the authentication unit; and a display control unit for allowing an authenticating display screen for making the authentication to be displayed onto a display apparatus. The display control unit decides a display language based on the identification information read out by the interface and changes a display language on the authenticating display screen according to the decided language.
US08811945B2
The present invention is to provide individual and payment information to a service server by recognizing whether the service server is to be trusted when individual identification information provided by a user is received from the service server. So, the invention provides an authentication method of the service server and a payment method by using the same, which can prevent the individual identification information and payment from being accessed by a distrusted server in wireless Internet. This present comprises acts of: storing individual identification information provided from a user in an authentication server; authenticating the service server when request of the stored individual identification information is received from the service server, and transmitting the stored individual identification information to the service server when the authentication has succeeded; transmitting a message of requesting a service access to a mobile terminal of the user from the service server; and transmitting the individual identification information sent from the authentication server to the mobile terminal by means of a transmitting query of the individual identification information from the mobile terminal.
US08811940B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for establishing incident communications networks. In an embodiment, the system includes an incident controller, a communications resource database that stores communications resources information and a marshalling rules module that stores a set of marshalling rules. A marshalling rule identifies how to select the communications resources to be marshaled into the incident communications network based on an incident trigger. Upon receipt of an incident trigger, the incident controller is configured to establish the incident communications network by obtaining a marshalling rule based on the incident trigger. The incident controller marshals communications resources based on the marshalling rule and the communications resources determined to be available. A wide variety of information sources can be used to determine an incident trigger. Information sources can either provide an incident trigger (e.g., a hurricane warning) or provide data to be analyzed to determine an incident trigger.
US08811937B2
A redirection method, a redirection device, and a communication system in the field of communication technology are provided. The redirection method includes the following steps: A femto access point (FAP) receives a message, in which the message contains information of a service required by a terminal. After the FAP determines that it does not support the service, the FAP acquires information of base stations supporting the service. The FAP sends the information of the base stations supporting the service to the terminal, so as to enable the terminal to determine a target base station according to the information of the base stations supporting the service. Therefore, the terminal is redirected to the target base station supporting the service required by the terminal, and efficiency of implementing the required service by the terminal is increased.
US08811935B2
A user equipment (UE) comprising a processor configured to cause the UE to transmit an emergency calls required indicator (ECRI) to a network component responsive to the UE receiving an instruction to place an emergency call; and to receive an emergency calls supported indicator (ECSI) prior to placing an emergency call, wherein a value of the ECSI indicates a type of emergency services supported by a femtocell, where the processor is further configured to cause the UE to transmit the ECRI before receiving the ECSI.
US08811923B2
Methods and systems for an integrated voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based transmitter and on-chip power distribution network are disclosed and may include supplying bias voltages and/or ground to a chip utilizing conductive lines. One or more VCOs and low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) may each be coupled to a leaky wave antenna (LWA) integrated in the bias voltage and/or ground lines. One or more clock signals may be generated utilizing the VCOs, which may be transmitted from the LWAs coupled to the VCOs, to the LWAs coupled to the LNAs. RF signals may be transmitted via the LWAs, and may include 60 GHz signals. The LWAs may include microstrip and/or coplanar waveguides, where a cavity length of the LWAs may be dependent on a spacing between conductive lines in the waveguides. The LWAs may be dynamically configured to transmit the clock signals at a desired angle from a surface of the chip.
US08811905B1
Power savings and interference reduction for multimode devices (e.g., base stations and relay nodes) is disclosed. In some embodiments, power savings and interference reduction for multimode devices includes selecting a power state of the multimode device selected from a plurality of power states, in which the multimode device is in a first power state (e.g., an active or serving power state), and in which the selected power state is a second power state (e.g., a reduced power state), and transitioning the multimode device from the first power state to the second power state.
US08811890B2
A hopping wireless medical caring and monitoring system, which is an ANT multiple nodes hopping network, includes at least one hopping node, at least one physical status measuring apparatus, a server and at least one user-end apparatus. The server communicates with the at least one user-end apparatus via the ANT network. The user-end apparatus reads a medical measurement result from the physical status measuring apparatus and transmits the results to the server via the ANT network. The wireless remote health and medical caring and monitoring system is suitable for home-care or a hospital.
US08811886B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, determining that a communication device is outside of a restricted viewing area associated with media content and transmitting the media content for presentation at the communication device responsive to that determination. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08811879B2
An image forming method that can obtain a high fixing strength and reduce the occurrence of a document offset phenomenon is provided.In the image forming method the polyester resin forming the binder resin of the toner is obtained by condensing and polymerizing a carboxylic component containing at least one compound selected from chemical formula (1), (2) and (3) shown below that is an addition reactant of abietic acid and a carboxylic compound having an unsaturated double bond and an alcohol component, and the content of at least the one compound selected from the chemical formula (1), (2) and (3) in the carboxylic component is 5% by mass or more, and the fixing agent contains an alkylene carbonate which may have a substituent group or an aliphatic alkyl carboxylic acid ester which may have a substituent group.
US08811861B2
A developer container includes a containing portion that is capable of containing a developer therein, the containing portion having an opening through which the developer passes; a first opening/closing member that is movable between a first open position at which the opening is open and a first closed position at which the first opening/closing member closes the opening; and a second opening/closing member that is movable between a second closed position at which the second opening/closing member doubly closes the opening by covering an outside of the first opening/closing member and a second open position at which the first opening/closing member is exposed to the outside, wherein a direction in which the second opening/closing member moves between the second open position and the second closed position is different from a direction in which the first opening/closing member moves between the first open position and the first closed position.
US08811856B2
An image forming device may include a process unit including: cartridges arrayed side by side in an array direction; and a support unit supporting the cartridges and movable in the array direction between an accommodated position where the support unit is accommodated in a main casing and a pulled out position, away from the accommodated position, for detachment and attachment of the support unit. The support unit includes: a frame; a first handgrip including a leg portion having a portion connected to the frame, and a grip portion connected to the leg portion and positioned downstream of a most upstream end of a most upstream side cartridge in a pulling out direction along the array direction for pulling out the support unit when the support unit is at the accommodated position; and a second hand grip positioned downstream of the first hand grip in the pulling out direction.
US08811849B2
At the start of paper conveyance, a gate is turned upwards to a first position to thereby close a sixth conveying path and establish communication between a first conveying path and a second conveying path so that the paper having passed through a fixing unit starts to be conveyed from first conveying path to second conveying path. At the same time, air is exhausted from an exhausting mechanism arranged upstream of a cooling mechanism. When a first paper sensor detects the leading end of the paper, a cooling fan starts to rotate at a predetermined rotational rate to start blowing air at a predetermined volume of cooling airflow.
US08811845B2
In a registration mark, when toners of plural colors are divided into two groups of a low-reflectance group having a relatively low spectral reflectance and a high-reflectance group having a relatively high spectral reflectance in accordance with high and low levels of spectral reflectances with respect to light emitted by an optical sensor, a toner pattern that gives information of a toner-image formation position of a toner-image forming unit using the toner that belongs to the low-reflectance group includes a first pattern in which the toner that belongs to the high-reflectance group is distributed without a gap in a moving direction of the transferred member, and second patterns formed with the toner used by the toner-image forming unit, the second patterns being arranged on both sides of the first pattern in the moving direction of the transferred member without a gap with respect to the first pattern.
US08811844B2
An image forming device, comprising: a recovering member that is provided for the at least one photosensitive body and recovers adhered substances adhered to the at least one photosensitive body; a belt cleaner that removes the adhered substances adhered to the transfer belt; a cleaning process execution unit that executes a cleaning process in which the adhered substances are transferred from the recovering member to the transfer belt via the at least one photosensitive body; a use amount calculation unit that divides a developer image for transferring to the sheet-like medium into a plurality of areas in a main scanning direction so as to calculate a developer use amount in each of the plurality of areas; and a cleaning time determination unit that determines a time for which the cleaning process is executed, based on a maximum value of the developer use amounts of the plurality of areas.
US08811843B2
An image forming apparatus for performing a copier job and a printer job includes a controller operatively connected to a fixing rotary body heater and a pressing rotary body heater to control the fixing rotary body heater and the pressing rotary body heater. The controller activates a standby mode after the copier job and the printer job are finished in which the controller turns off at least the fixing rotary body heater and a subsequent off mode in which the controller turns off the pressing rotary body heater and the fixing rotary body heater, and identifies which of the copier job and the printer job is to be performed to turn on and off the pressing rotary body heater in the standby mode according to the identified job.
US08811837B2
A fixing device includes a substantially cylindrical metal member, a heater, an endless, flexible fixing member, a rotary pressing member, a stationary member, a first temperature detector, and a second temperature detector. The first temperature detector is disposed upstream from a nip in a rotation direction of the fixing member to detect a surface temperature of the fixing member. The second temperature detector is disposed downstream from the nip in a rotation direction of the pressing member to detect a surface temperature of the pressing member. When a difference between a surface temperature of the fixing member detected by the first temperature detector and a surface temperature of the pressing member detected by the second temperature detector after a predetermined time has elapsed since the first temperature detector detects the surface temperature of the fixing member is greater than a predetermined threshold, the heater stops heating the metal member.
US08811836B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control portion. The control portion determines a developer near end when the residual amount of a developer is in a range from a first predetermined amount to a second predetermined amount, and determines a developer end when the residual amount of the developer is equal to or lower than the second predetermined amount. Besides, in a case where the control portion determines the developer end after a predetermined number of printings are executed in a developer near end state, the control portion supplies the developer from a developer supply device to a development device via a first supply opening, and in a case where the control portion determines the developer end after more than the predetermined number of printings are executed, the control portion supplies the developer from the developer supply device to the development device via a second supply opening.
US08811823B2
The invention provides an optical device, including a light-transmissive substrate, and a pair of different, parallel gratings including a first grating and second grating, located on the substrate at a constant distance from each other, each of the pair of parallel gratings including at least one sequence of a plurality of parallel lines, wherein the spacings between the lines gradually increase from one edge of the grating up to a maximum distance between the lines, and wherein the arrangement of lines in the second grating is in the same direction as that of the first grating. A system utilizing a plurality of such optical devices is also disclosed.
US08811817B2
Restrictions, due to wavelength paths which are non-alternative combinations of wavelengths and paths, are solved. An optical-signal-transmission device comprises M optical-output means outputting optical signals having different wavelengths; optical-switch means having M input ports respectively connected to the optical-output means and output ports, and switching connections between the input ports and the output ports; and wavelength-multiplexing means having M acceptance ports respectively connected to the output ports, N forward ports switchably connected to the acceptance ports corresponding to wavelengths of optical signals inputted to the acceptance ports and transmitting multiplexed-optical signals corresponding to the optical signals accepted by the acceptance ports, wherein when Y particular input ports of the input ports are connected to one particular output port of the output ports, the switch means combines Y optical signals inputted to the particular input ports to generate a combined signal, and outputs the combined signal to the particular output port.
US08811799B2
A system for and method of storing sneak peeks of upcoming viewing content is presented. The system and method provides that the sneak peek clips may be recorded and stored onto a subscriber's digital video recorder (DVR) in response to a determination of the viewing preferences of the subscriber. The sneak peek clips may also be recorded and stored onto the subscriber's DVR in response to a user selection of content. The user may select content by browsing through a graphical user interface and indicating selections. The user may also select content when viewing a program by selecting an advertisement for an upcoming movie or series that the subscriber may be interested in viewing. The clips may be recorded and stored on the subscriber's DVR, and then later retrieved and viewed by using an interface to navigate and select the stored sneak peek clips. After viewing the sneak peek clips, the user may be provided with the option of viewing the content in full.
US08811797B2
In an embodiment, if a number of segments of a video in a buffer after a buffer position is less than a play threshold, then a first plurality of segments is sent into the buffer in time order; and if the number of the segments in the buffer at the buffer position is not less than the play threshold, a second plurality of segments is sent to the buffer in popularity order, wherein the second plurality of segments are stored into the buffer in time order.
US08811790B2
A method for manufacturing an optical waveguide, in which a waveguide structure including a waveguide layer of ZnS—SiO2 is deposited on a first layer, wherein a first refractive index of the first layer is lower than the refractive index of the waveguide layer. A sensor arrangement includes a planar optical waveguide, a light source, a sensor, an application unit for applying an analyte on top of the planar waveguide and a processor connected to the sensor.
US08811789B2
An optical transmission fiber including a core having a first index of refraction, a cladding material located around the core and having a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction, a first coating material located around a first portion of the cladding material and having a third index of refraction greater than the second index of refraction, and a second coating material located around a second portion of the cladding material and having a fourth index of refraction less than the second index of refraction.
US08811771B2
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for performing content based transitions between images. Image content within each image of a set of images are analyzed to determine at least one respective characteristic metric for each image. A respective transition score for each pair of at least a subset of the images is determined with respect to each transition effect of a plurality of transition effects based on the at least one respective characteristic metric for each image. Transition effects implementing transitions between successive images for a sequence of the images are determined based on the transition scores. An indication of the determined transition effects is stored. The determined transition effects are useable to present the images in a slideshow or other image sequence presentation.
US08811759B2
A system and method for effectively performing an intra prediction procedure with an electronic device includes an encoder that utilizes a delta value comparison procedure to identify optimal delta values for creating optimal predicted blocks of image data corresponding to original blocks of image data. The encoder then utilizes the original blocks and the optimal predicted blocks to generate residual blocks that represent the original blocks in an encoded format. The encoder then generates a bitstream containing the delta value information and the residual block for storage or transmission purposes. A decoder may decode the delta values and the residual block to reconstruct the image block.
US08811751B1
Method, system, device and computer program product for projective correction of an image containing at least one text portion that is distorted by perspective. The method includes the steps of image binarization, connected component analysis, horizontal vanishing point determination, vertical vanishing point determination and projective correction. The horizontal vanishing point is determined by estimating text baselines by means of position determining pixels of pixel blobs, identifying horizontal vanishing point candidates from the baselines, and determining a horizontal vanishing point from the candidates. The vertical vanishing point is determined on the basis of vertical features of the text portion. The method includes a first elimination step on the level of position determining pixels, a second elimination step on the level of text baselines and a third elimination step on the level of horizontal vanishing point candidates.
US08811723B2
A user input method and apparatus may comprise a two line object imaging sensor having a primary line scan-sensor providing a primary line scan-sensor output and a secondary line scan-sensor providing a secondary line scan-sensor output, representing pixels in a current primary scan row and a current secondary scan row, and adapted to scan an object; storing for each scan time each current primary line scan-sensor output and each current secondary line scan-sensor output and a correlation unit correlating at least one of the current representations of pixels in a primary line sensor output with stored representations and the current representations of pixels in a secondary line sensor output with stored representations and, the correlation unit providing as an output a motion indicator.
US08811707B2
A system and method for distributed and coordinated image processing of tomographic images utilizing processors on a medical imaging device and a separate workstation is disclosed. The system includes an image acquisition device to acquire image data of a subject and an image processor to receive the image data therefrom. The image processor is programmed to reconstruct initial images of a region-of-interest (ROI) from the image data, identify initial images on which to perform image correction, and generate an image correction request for the images identified for image correction, with the image correction request specifying a processing operation to be performed on the respective images. The image processor is further programmed to transfer the reconstructed initial images to a separate workstation that automatically initiates the image correction upon verifying a presence of an image correction request on the initial images so as to generate corrected images.
US08811701B2
Automatic prostate localization in T2-weighted MR images facilitate labor-intensive cancer imaging techniques. Methods and systems to accurately segment the prostate gland in MR images are provided and address large variations in prostate anatomy and disease, intensity inhomogeneities, and artifacts induced by endorectal coils. A center of the prostate is automatically detected with a boosted classifier trained on intensity based multi-level Gaussian Mixture Model Expectation Maximization (GMM-EM) segmentations of the raw MR images. A shape model is used in conjunction with Multi-Label Random Walker (MLRW) to constrain the seeding process within MLRW.
US08811694B2
A self-navigating technique designed to detect motion in segmented sequences is disclosed. Certain embodiments compare a plurality of segments containing adjacent sets of k-space lines and produce an aliased error function which corresponds to a correlation of the segments. A global shift of the aliased error function may indicate the presence of in-plane rigid-body translation while other types of motion are evident in the dispersion or breadth of the error function. Some embodiments may then replace motion corrupted data with reacquired data. Further, some embodiments may correct or remove corrupted data retrospectively.
US08811689B2
An authentication device including: a finger presenting unit to which a finger to be authenticated is presented; an opening formed on the finger presenting unit; a light source that irradiates light onto the finger; an image capture unit that captures a picture including a vein of the finger, by the light; and a finger placement table capable of placing a finger thereon, except the finger to be authenticated, wherein the finger placement table has a surface, a height of which is higher than the finger presenting unit, wherein the light source is placed inside the finger placement table, and wherein the finger placement table has a sidewall having a window that is used to allow an irradiation axis of the light from the light source upon the image capture unit.
US08811684B2
The present invention provides an image recognition method for recognizing a plurality of objects in an image, wherein each object is composed of a plurality of image segments. The image recognition method includes the steps of: sequentially acquiring every pixel of the image; identifying a start point of a newly detected image segment; recording information of the newly detected image segment pixel-by-pixel from the start point; identifying an end point of the newly detected image segment; recognizing an object to which the newly detected image segment belongs according to the start point and the end point of the newly detected image segment; and identifying an invalid object or a merged object thereby releasing the data space thereof.
US08811681B2
A biometric authentication apparatus includes an image shooting unit to capture a vessel image of a person to be authenticated and an authentication unit to verify verification vessel position information of the captured vessel image of the person to be authenticated against registered vessel position information of a registered vessel image registered in advance. When the verification vessel position information is not identical with the registered vessel position information, the authentication unit performs authentication using vessel size information of the registered vessel image registered in advance.
US08811674B2
A moving object tracked within a field of view environment of a two-dimensional data feed of a calibrated video camera is represented by a three-dimensional model. An appropriate three-dimensional mesh-based volumetric model for the object is initialized by using a back-projection of a corresponding two-dimensional image. A texture of the object is projected onto the three-dimensional model, and two-dimensional tracks of the object are upgraded to three-dimensional motion to drive a three-dimensional model.
US08811671B2
A processor of an image processing apparatus designates a target region. When an image is divided into a plurality of small regions which are smaller than a target region, the processor calculates a centroid obtained by weighting the central coordinates of each of the plurality of small regions by a likelihood of each of the plurality of the small regions and calculates a covariance matrix that depends on the centroid, the likelihood being based on characteristic value histograms of respective small regions inside and outside the target region. The processor detection unit detects a degree of separation according to a histogram, a likelihood, a centroid, and a covariance matrix. The processor also determines a post-update target region according to a degree of separation.
US08811668B2
In a method for controlling a headlamp system for a vehicle, the headlamp system having two headlamps, set apart from each other, road users are detected in front of the vehicle in the driving direction, and a first total light pattern is able to be produced, in which the illumination range on a first side of a center axis is greater than on the other, second side of this center axis, and a second total light pattern is able to be produced, in which the total light pattern is controllable such that it has an illumination range in the direction of at least one detected road user that is less than the distance to the detected road user, and which has an illumination range in another direction that is greater than the distance to the detected road user. During the switch from the first total light pattern to the second total light pattern, the illumination range of at least one headlamp on the first side of the center axis is first reduced to at least such an extent that it is less than the distance to the detected road user, the second total light pattern being produced subsequently.
US08811662B2
The present disclosure relates to acquiring image data of a subject with an imaging system that has been calibrated. The imaging system can include an ultrasound imaging system that collects one of more images based on a plane of image acquisition. The plane of image acquisition can be calibrated to a tracking device associated with the ultrasound transducer.
US08811653B2
A speaker unit includes a frame that secures a diaphragm of a speaker at an outer circumference of the diaphragm, a magnetic circuit, a first leg that extends from a portion of an inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a front of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame, and a second leg that extends from a portion of the inner wall of the frame in a vicinity of a rear of the speaker to the magnetic circuit, and that secures the magnetic circuit to the frame.
US08811652B2
An electrodynamic speaker in which the number of steps of forming a tinsel wire to be connected to a voice coil and connecting the tinsel wire to a terminal can be reduced is provided.A frame of the electrodynamic speaker includes an edge mounting section, a magnetic circuit mounting section, a coupling section for coupling the edge mounting section and the magnetic circuit mounting section so as to define a plurality of window sections, a terminal fixing section for fixing a terminal, and at least one void for dividing the edge mounting section having an approximately annular shape, the void being communicatively connected to the window sections of the coupling section. A middle portion of the tinsel wire passes through the void or the window sections communicatively connected to the void, and the other end of the tinsel wire is connected and fixed to the terminal.
US08811639B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for wireless hearing assistance devices and in particular to a controllable range control for wireless hearing assistance device systems. An advertisement is used to allow the receiver to quickly receive streaming information, thus conserving power. In various embodiments, a system for communications with a hearing assistance device includes a wireless streaming device having a range control. The range control is configured to provide a first range for an advertisement transmission and a second range for a streaming information transmission. The first range is less than the second range, in various embodiments.
US08811630B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to filter audio are disclosed. An example device includes first and second audio speakers having first audio characteristics, a third audio speaker having second audio characteristics, wherein the third speaker is positioned between the first and second audio speakers, a first audio filter to process an audio input signal to have a first frequency response including a first cutoff frequency, the first audio filter to output a first audio output signal to the first audio speaker, and a second audio filter to process the audio input signal to have a second frequency response to compensate for interference between the first and second frequency responses caused by a position of the first audio speaker relative to the second audio speaker.
US08811627B2
Coefficient generator generates a crosstalk coefficient that is a predetermined value and that is used to calculate the amount of crosstalk of an echo. Converter uses either the output signal of a sound pickup device or the signal obtained by subtracting the output signal of an echo canceller from the output signal of the sound pickup device as a first signal, corrects the first signal based on the crosstalk coefficient generated in coefficient generator, and produces a near-end signal obtained by removing the echo from the first signal.
US08811623B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a first signal input unit configure to receive a first signal, a second signal input unit configure to receive a signal, a first control unit configure to acquire system resources, a second control unit configure to select, in accordance with information of the system resources acquired by the first control unit, a processing method for suppressing at least one of echo and noise of the second signal input from the second signal input unit containing the echo due to the first signal input from the first signal input unit, a third control unit configure to generate an output signal by suppressing at least one of the echo and the noise from the second signal by the processing method selected by the second control unit, and a signal output unit configure to output the output signal generated by the third control unit.
US08811618B2
A ciphering key management technique for use in a WLAN receiver is provided where a hash table is stored that has a first and a second table portion. The first table portion stores transmitter address data and the second table portion stores at least one cipher key. It is determined whether a transmitter address matches transmitter address data in the first table portion, and if so, a corresponding cipher key stored in the second table portion is determined for use in decrypting the received data. The hash table technique allows for a fast search for the correct cipher key. Embodiments are described that allow for dynamically adding and removing keys without blocking the search.
US08811615B2
Outputs from at least one pseudo-random source are used to encode hidden value. The hidden value is encoded using index based quantities, for example, based on numerically ordering a sequence of outputs from pseudo-random source(s). In some examples, the numerical ordering of re-generated device-specific quantities is used to re-generate the hidden value, without necessarily requiring additional error correction mechanisms. Information leak may be reduced by constructing system whose “syndrome” helper bits are random, as measured, for example, by NIST's Statistical Tests for Randomness In some examples, index based coding provides coding gain that exponentially reduces total error correction code complexity, resulting in efficiently realizable PRS-based key generation systems. In some examples, index based coding allows noisy PRS to be robust across conditions where conventional error correction code cannot error correct.
US08811602B2
A telecommunication system including a fall duplex speakerphone, comprising a first microphone to generate a coupled signal including uplink information and non-linear distortion sensed by the first microphone in a speaker phone mode, a second microphone to generate a reference signal including downlink information and the non-linear distortion sensed by the second microphone in the speaker phone mode, and an acoustic echo canceller (AEC) to receive the coupled signal from the first microphone, to receive the reference signal from the second microphone, and to cancel out the non-linear distortion included in the coupled signal based on the non-linear distortion included in the reference signal.
US08811600B2
An apparatus comprising a transmitter at a digital subscriber line (DSL) Cabinet configured to transmit a downstream signal in a subscriber line according to a power spectral density (PSD) configuration, wherein the PSD configuration comprises a cutoff frequency based on a required data-rate of the subscriber line. Also included is an apparatus comprising at least one processor configured to implement a method comprising determining a downstream PSD for a PSD mask for a DSL, determining a cutoff frequency for the PSD profile based on a data-rate required for the DSL, and adjusting a downstream signal power on the DSL according to the PSD mask. Included is a method comprising configuring a plurality of transmitted PSDs for a plurality of Exchange deployed lines and Cabinet deployed lines by varying a plurality of cutoff frequencies corresponding to the transmitted PSDs, wherein the cutoff frequencies are varied by line, with time, or both.
US08811598B2
When a customer communicates with a contact center, a history of the communication is stored. The communication from the customer can be in various media, such as a voice call, a video call, an email, an Instant Message (IM), a text message, and/or a blog posting. The history includes a context such as a reason for the communication and a time of the communication. The history of the communication is used to determine a pattern of the communication based on the context. Using the pattern, a time that the customer will communicate with the contact center is predicted. An agent associated with the customer is scheduled to be available at the predicted time. The predicted time can also be based on future events such as a product release or an event such as a political event, a sports event, and/or a convention.
US08811597B1
A contact center is provided that includes a plurality of agents for servicing incoming contacts and an a performance analysis module that compares a proposed contact center configuration and/or change in secondary contact center performance parameter against a set of contact center templates, the contact center templates defining a historical contact center configuration as of respective points in time and, based on the results of this operation, predicts an impact on a primary contact center performance parameter if the proposed contact center configuration and/or change in secondary performance parameter were to be implemented.
US08811595B2
The solution described herein provides an innovative use of remote services technology integrated with service personnel onsite at the point of service, such as a consumer repair outlet, to provide a pool of technical support resources to service a widely distributed resource need, such as support and repair resource needs of a chain of consumer outlets or an aggregated group of single proprietor consumer outlets. With this solution, qualified technical resources are provided from a central location to service a widely distributed retail environment. This is on-demand online remote support service is called or referred to as “support from a spigot.” The distribution method enables the delivery of higher quality, more reliable and overall lower cost services. Instead of requiring dedicated technical resources at each location, lower skilled labor may be deployed at the location to enable the remote technical support services process.
US08811580B2
An interactive interface facilitates the setting of preferences and other programmable parameters of an automotive appliance. The interface is hosted by a server on a global computer network. The automobile owner initiates a connection to the server and is presented with a graphical user interface for setting the preferences and features of the automotive appliance. Once the desired settings have been made, they are downloaded to the automobile either directly from the server or the automobile owner's computer or indirectly using a portable transfer device.
US08811578B2
A system and method for providing local interactive voice response (IVR) services is provided. A local computer system having associated telephony equipment and installed at a local facility (e.g., a retail store of a chain, etc.) receives telephone calls to the local facility. The local computer system generates IVR prompts locally, and is controlled by a central IVR server. Reduced bandwidth is required between the local computer system and the central IVR server since no voice traffic is communicated between the central IVR server and the local computer system.
US08811577B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an ATCA data exchange system which includes: a backboard, at least one exchange board and service board. The exchange board includes at least one Fabric port group, each of which is connected to a service board through the backboard to form a first exchange channel for broadband service, the Fabric port group includes four difference sending and receiving port pairs, and each port pair includes a pair of difference receiving and sending ports. A connector 20 in the Fabric interface of the exchange board includes at least one port pair, and each port pair is connected to a service board through the backboard to form a second exchange channel and is configured for a separate narrowband service data exchange that is independent of the broadband data exchange. Thus to simplify the processing of narrowband data and to decrease the time delay.
US08811553B2
A device implements data reception with edge-based partial response decision feedback equalization. In an example embodiment, the device implements a tap weight adapter circuit that sets the tap weights that are used for adjustment of a received data signal. The tap weight adapter circuit sets the tap weights based on previously determined data values and input from an edge analysis of the received data signal using a set of edge samplers. The edge analysis may include adjusting the sampled data signal by the tap weights determined by the tap weight adapter circuit. A clock generation circuit generates an edge clock signal to control the edge sampling performed by the set of edge samplers. The edge clock signal may be generated as a function of the signals of the edge samplers and prior data values determined by the equalizer.
US08811549B2
An apparatus and method for automatically controlling a gain in a portable communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a channel determiner for controlling a fading margin depending on the channel variation amount to control the limited total dynamic range of the ADC.
US08811546B2
A method uses a set of reference symbols. The method includes receiving a first symbol, comparing the first symbol to the set of reference symbols, and selecting a reference symbol from the set of possible reference symbols. The set of reference symbols are adjusted by a set of respective error factors for each of the reference symbols. The reference symbol is selected when it matches the first symbol. The method also includes adjusting the respective error factor for the reference symbol in accordance with a difference between the first symbol and a remodulated reference symbol in one embodiment.
US08811541B2
A signal demodulation module is disclosed. The signal demodulation module includes an injection-locked oscillator, an envelope detector and a data slicer. The injection-locked oscillator has a central oscillating frequency equal to a frequency of a digital modulation signal received, and outputs a phase-locked oscillating signal which is in phase to the digital modulation signal. When input phase of the digital modulation signal changes, output phase of the injection-locked oscillator changes synchronously. The envelope detector is used for detecting an envelope line of the phase-locked oscillating signal and outputting an envelope signal accordingly. The data slicer is used for receiving the envelop signal and outputting a first digital signal according to a reference voltage and the envelop signal.
US08811540B2
A receiver and method is provided for sigma-delta converting an RF signal to a digital signal and downconverting to a digital baseband signal. The RF signal is split into N phases, as can be accomplished using a sample and hold circuit, and each phase is digitized, as can be accomplished using an analog-to-digital (A/D) sigma-delta converter. Polyphase decimation techniques and demodulation are applied to the phased signals to generate a demodulated digital signal. The demodulated digital signal is further downconverted to the appropriate baseband signal.
US08811535B2
A computer-implemented method and system for generating large families of sequences with desirable properties for many applications, including communications and radar applications, applies constraints to a sequence in the Zak space, modulates the constrained sequence in the Zak space, and determines permutations of the modulated sequence in the Zak space. The constraints are associated with predetermined properties, including predetermined autocorrelation and cross-correlation properties. Other embodiments of the computer-implemented method and system transform an input sequence into a transformed sequence using the finite Zak transform and determine at least one other different sequence based on the transformed sequence. The at least one other different sequence can be determined by collecting a plurality of sequences that are finitely supported on an algebraic line in the Zak space and modulating and/or determining permutations of some or all of the sequences.
US08811534B2
A receiver timing error recovery loop expands the bandwidth of a received signal and determines the timing error based on the bandwidth expanded received signal.
US08811531B2
Embodiments include but are not limited to apparatuses and systems including a quadrature lattice matching network including first path having a series inductor and a shunt inductor, and a second path having a series capacitor and a shunt capacitor. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08811523B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising selecting, by a user equipment (UE), a preferred interference precoding matrix from a plurality of candidate precoding matrices included in a codebook; and transmitting, by the user equipment to a communication node, a preferred interference precoding matrix index (PMI) corresponding to the preferred interference precoding matrix included in the codebook. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08811504B2
Data transmission is disclosed over a transmission channel that is subject to narrowband interferers. An increased overall bit or data transmission rate is achieved by an exemplary method of determining a channel capacity of plural sub-channels of the transmission channel based on a net background noise power estimation. The net background noise power contains only white noise-like contributions and excludes, to a reasonable extent, noise contributions or signal power from narrowband interferers. Hence, the net background noise power can be reduced. For example, an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal code construction or bit allocation scheme can be chosen that provides for optimized data transmission at a data rate that approximates or approaches the more realistic channel capacity of an individual sub-channel, resulting in an increased overall bit or data transmission rate.
US08811503B2
A method and system for generating a space frequency block code relay signal includes a signal detection unit which detects a received signal by receiving a first and second source signals transmitted from a first and second source nodes, a relay signal generation unit which generates a relay signal cooperating with the first and second source signals using a space frequency block code (SFBC) scheme based on the received signal, and a signal transmitter which transmits the relay signal to a destination node.
US08811499B2
A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video inputs and a multiviewer video processor coupled to the plurality of video inputs for generating video data based upon the plurality of video inputs. The system may further include a display coupled to the multiviewer video processor for displaying multiple video windows based upon the video data, and at least one user input device. The multiviewer video processor may permit scrolling among the multiple video windows displayed on the display at a given instant and at least one other video window not displayed on the display at the given instant based upon the at least one user input device.
US08811496B1
Devices, systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with decoding image data are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus decoding a bitstream includes a parser that parses a command that includes instructions for decoding a syntax element bitstream from the bitstream. The parser functions to identify a number times to repeat the command and to identify a table associated with the syntax element bitstream based, at least in part, on a table identification (ID) in the command. A decoder decodes the syntax element bitstream as specified by the command based, at least in part, on retrieving a value in a table associated with the table ID to generate a syntax element.
US08811492B2
A video encoder and corresponding method are described for enabling fast channel change of compressed video, where a video encoder for receiving input pictures and providing compressed stream data includes a normal encoding portion for receiving input pictures and providing normal stream data, a lower-quality encoding portion for receiving input pictures and providing channel change stream data, and a multiplexor in signal communication with each of the normal and lower-quality portions for receiving and combining the normal and channel change data streams.
US08811479B2
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a residual block are provided. The method of encoding the residual block includes: generating a prediction block of a current block; generating a residual block based on a difference between the prediction block and the current block; generating a transformation residual block by transforming the residual block to a frequency domain; splitting the transformation residual block into frequency band units; and encoding effective coefficient flags indicating frequency band units, of the frequency band units, in which nonzero effective transformation coefficients exist.
US08811471B2
A moving picture decoding method of an embodiment according to the present invention is a moving picture decoding method for decoding encoded data of an interlaced scanned picture including Top field and Bottom field, and the method includes a stereo information acquisition step for acquiring stereo information indicating whether Top field and Bottom field are two pictures forming a stereo picture from the encoded data, a decoding step for decoding two fields corresponding to each other from the encoded data and generating two decoded fields, and an output step for outputting the two decoded fields. In the output step, the stereo information is referred to and the two decoded fields are outputted simultaneously.
US08811467B2
A finite sequence of code values is formed, and can be used for example in communications or remote sensing. A code value in said finite sequence of code values has a validity period specific to that code value. There are code values of different validity periods in said finite sequence of code values. Each of said validity periods is longer than or equal to a predetermined minimum baud length.
US08811463B2
A phase adjuster 2a receives a trigger clock synchronized with a data signal to be measured as input, and controls the phase of the trigger clock such that the trigger period of samples of the data signal to be measured becomes one sample per bit. An adjustable frequency divider 2b has a frequency division ratio which is set such that a trigger pulse is generated at the fixed timing of the waveform pattern of the data signal to be measured. An interleaving unit 4d uses a discrete value which is in prime relation to the measured pattern length of the data signal to be measured, and acquires data for the number of samples corresponding to the measured pattern length from a sampler 3 by the trigger pulse from the adjustable frequency divider 2b.
US08811462B1
A receiver device detects a plurality of symbols in a signal and determines, based on the one of the plurality of detected symbols, an estimated beginning of a subsequent frame. The receiver device determines whether the estimated start of the subsequent frame corresponds to an actual start of the subsequent frame. When the estimated start of the subsequent frame corresponds to the actual start of the subsequent frame, the receiver is synchronized to the actual start of the frame. When the estimated start of the subsequent frame does not corresponds to the actual start of the subsequent frame, the receiver device determines, based on a further one of the plurality of detected symbols, an estimated beginning of another subsequent frame. The receiver device determines whether the estimated start of the other subsequent frame corresponds to an actual start of the other subsequent frame.
US08811459B1
In a modular signal mirroring system each point-to-point RF transceiver end has a controller module coupled to one or more I/O modules. The I/O modules have various input and output circuits. A signal received at the near end is reconstructed at the far end after being transmitted in an RF packet. The reconstructed signal may be the same as the input signal, inverted from the input signal or level-shifted from the input signal. It is representative of the input signal following the input signal's state after a time-quantization latency. Transmission between the two ends is via a periodic transmission controlled in a master slave protocol. If a transmission is not received in a timely manner or, in some systems, if intentional interference with transmissions is detected, the reconstructed signal is forced to a safe state determined by local switch settings. The settings include the last known good state.
US08811458B2
A digitally controlled jitter injection apparatus for built in self-testing includes a transceiver circuit having a transmitter circuit and a receiver circuit. The digitally controlled jitter injection apparatus also includes a generator that generates a composite jitter including multi-tone jitter components. The digitally controlled jitter injection apparatus also includes a processor operable to digitally inject the composite jitter into a receiver circuit and/or a transmitter circuit of the transceiver circuit.
US08811452B2
A receiver capable of decoding encoded transmissions. The receiver includes a number of receive antennas configured to receive data; a plurality of memory units that store the received data; and a plurality of decoders configured to perform a Turbo decoding operation. Each of the plurality of decoders decodes at least a portion of the received data using at least a portion of a decoding matrix. The receiver also includes a data switch coupled between the plurality of decoders and the plurality of memory units. The data switch configured to vary a decode operation from an long term evolution (LTE) based operation to a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) operation.
US08811449B2
The invention relates to a light source, comprising an optical resonator (1) and an optical medium (2) arranged therein that can be excited so as to emit light, wherein the optical medium (2) comprises at least one two-level system, in particular a two-level system that is not population-inverted, having an at least metastable lower state, and the optical length of the resonator (1) comprising at least one curved mirror (1) is selected such that the free spectral bandwidth of the resonator is equal to or greater than the absorption bandwidth and/or fluorescence bandwidth of the optical medium (2) and only a single longitudinal mode and a plurality of transversal modes of the resonator (1) are arranged within the fluorescence bandwidth. The invention further relates to a method for producing light by means of an optical resonator (1) and an optical medium (2) arranged therein that can be excited so as to emit light, wherein at least one two-level system, in particular a two-level system that is not population-inverted, having an at least metastable lower state is selected as the optical medium (2), and the optical length of the resonator (1) comprising at least one curved mirror (1) is set in such a way that the free spectral bandwidth of the resonator is greater than the absorption bandwidth and/or fluorescence bandwidth of the optical medium (2) and only a single longitudinal mode (3) and a plurality of transversal modes (4) of the resonator (1) within the fluorescence bandwidth of the optical medium (2) are produced by means of excitation.
US08811439B2
A system for self-aligning assembly and packaging of semiconductor lasers allows reduction of time, cost and testing expenses for high power density systems. A laser package mounting system, such as a modified TO-can (transistor outline can), has modifications that increase heat transfer from the active laser to a heat exchanger or other heat sink. A prefabricated heat exchanger assembly mounts both a laser package and one or more lenses. Direct mounting of a fan assembly to the package further minimizes assembly steps. Components may be physically and optically aligned during assembly by clocking and other indexing means, so that the entire system is self-aligned and focused by the assembly process without requiring post-assembly adjustment. This system can lower costs and thereby enable the use of high powered semiconductor lasers in low cost, high volume production, such as consumer items.
US08811436B2
A laser apparatus may include a master oscillator configured to output a laser beam, at least one amplifier disposed in a beam path of the laser beam from the master oscillator, at least one power source for applying a high-frequency voltage to the at least one amplifier, and a controller for varying the high-frequency voltage to be applied to the at least one amplifier from the at least one power source.
US08811430B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a fabric on a first semiconductor die to communicate with at least one agent on the die according to an on-chip protocol and a packetization layer coupled to the fabric to receive command and data information from the fabric on multiple links and to packetize the information into a packet for transmission from the die to another die via an in-package packetized link. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08811423B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a network system includes a boundary router, a second router, and an upstream link of the second router coupled between to the output port of the boundary router and an input port of the second router. The second router includes an admission control function and a data plane. In response to a request to reserve resources for a flow through the second router, the admission control function performs admission control for both the upstream link and its downstream link. In a preferred embodiment, the second router performs admission control for the upstream link only if the second router is a receiving edge router for the flow. Because the second router performs admission control for its upstream link, the boundary router transmits the request toward an upstream router without performing admission control for the link.
US08811420B2
A system and method for wireless communication is disclosed. One aspect of the system includes wireless devices, wherein the wireless devices are capable of establishing a peer-to-peer link by contention-based channel access, and wherein the wireless devices are free to contend any time for accessing a wireless channel. The system may include first and second wireless devices, each of which has a directional antenna system. The first wireless device can determine whether the wireless channel is available for establishing a peer-to-peer link, by repeating sensing whether the channel is idle in different directions each during different slot time periods. The first wireless device can also sequentially transmit multiple requests each in different directions for establishing a link with the second wireless device. The second wireless device can sequentially transmit multiple replies each in different directions for establishing the link with the first wireless device.
US08811411B2
A method and apparatus for receiving packets from a node within a first network in accordance with a first protocol. A descriptor associated with each received packet is read by a direct memory access (DMA) controller that stores the received packet. A value for a controllable parameter is selected to efficiently communicate the content of the received packet over a second network that operates in accordance with a second protocol. The information in the received packet is then organized into newly formed packets, the size of which makes them efficient for communication over the network in the second protocol. The newly formed packets are stored in a transmit line buffer and associated with a Protocol Descriptor. The Protocol Descriptor provides information to a transmit controller to allow the transmit controller to select and aggregate packets from the transmit line buffer in order to make efficient use of the second protocol.
US08811406B2
A distributed switch may include a plurality of sub-switches. These sub-switches may be arranged in a hierarchy that increases the available bandwidth for transmitting multicast data frames across the switch fabric. Moreover, the distributed switch may be compatible with link aggregation where multiple physical connections are grouped together to create an aggregated (logical) link. Link aggregation requires similar data frames to use the same data path when traversing the distributed switch. With a unicast data frame, the sub-switch in the distributed switch that receives the data frame typically identifies the destination port (during a process called link selection) and forwards the data frame to the sub-switch containing that port. However, with multicast data frames, instead of the receiving sub-switch performing link selection to determine the destination port, link selection may be done by a different sub-switch or not done at all.
US08811404B2
Systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided. In some embodiments, a method for configuration of scheduling policy to facilitate distributed scheduling is provided. The method can include receiving configuration information for configuring the scheduling policy for traffic. The scheduling policy can be configured according to a provisioned priority function. The configuration information can be received at a plurality of base stations in a respective plurality of different cells for provisioning a priority function at the plurality of base stations.
US08811400B2
Datalink frames or networking packets contain protocol information in the header and optionally in the trailer of a frame or a packet. We are proposing a method in which part of or all of the protocol information corresponding to a frame or a packet is transmitted separately in another datalink frame. The “Separately Transmitted Protocol Information” is referred to as STPI. The STPI contains enough protocol information to identify the next hop node or port. STPI can be used avoid network congestion and improve link efficiency. Preferably, there will be one datalink frame or network packet corresponding to each STPI, containing the data and the rest of the protocol information and this frame/packet is referred to as DFoNP. The creation of STPI and DFoNP is done by the originator of the frame or packet such as an operating system.
US08811396B2
A system for and method of securing a network are described herein. A receiving device listens for packets with proper credentials. If a transmitting device sends the correct credentials, the receiving device will respond with an acknowledgment and further data is able to be transmitted. However, if the transmitting device does not send a packet with the proper credentials, then the receiving device will drop the packet and not respond. Thus, the transmitting device will be unaware of the presence of the receiving device, in particular when hackers are using scanning software to locate target devices.
US08811395B2
A system and method to use network flow records to generate information about changes in network routing and to understand the impact of these changes on network traffic. The inferences made can be determinative, if sufficient information is available. If sufficient information is not available to make determinative inferences, inferences may be made that narrow the range of possible changes that may have occurred to network traffic and the underlying network.
US08811393B2
Systems and methods are provided for supporting IPv4-IPv6 interworking of SIP messages in wireless networks and IMS networks. The interworking can be provided to smooth migration to an all-IPv6 IMS network by allowing the use and support of existing legacy IPv4 infrastructure. This functionality may be provided by a call session control function (CSCF) interposed between a user equipment (UE) and an IMS core network with interworking functionality or an interworking module. This device serves as a back-to-back user agent (B2BUA), allocates IP addresses from a pool, performs next-hop route protocol discovery, and maintains and stores information within the gateway as well as interworking and rewriting IP addresses within network messages, while proxying and maintaining sessions between the UE and the IMS core network. This allows for faster call setup, reduced capex/opex, improved debuggability, increased capacity and subscriber density by call processing distribution, and better user experience.
US08811390B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for providing data transmission speeds at or in excess of 10 gigabits per second between one or more source devices and one or more destination devices. According to one embodiment, the system of the present invention comprises a first and second media access control (MAC) interfaces to facilitate receipt and transmission of packets over an associated set of physical interfaces. The system also contemplates a first and second field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) coupled to the MAC interfaces and an associated first and second memory structures, the first and second FPGAs are configured to perform initial processing of packets received from the first and second MAC interfaces and to schedule the transmission of packets to the first and second MAC interface for transmission to one or more destination devices. The first and second FPGAs are further operative to dispatch and retrieve packets to and from the first and second memory structures. A third FPGA, coupled to the first and second memory structures and a backplane, is operative to retrieve and dispatch packets to and from the first and second memory structures, compute appropriate destinations for packets and organize packets for transmission. The third FPGA is further operative to receive and dispatch packets to and from the backplane.
US08811389B2
A base station apparatus, methods of receiving and sending data, and a computer readable article of manufacture. A computer implemented method includes the following for receiving and sending data: receiving the data by an RF header module; grouping data received; transferring the grouped data to a data processing apparatus; distributing the grouped data into an uplink sub-channel; merging the distributed data using at least one downlink sub-channel; transferring the merged data to a transceiving apparatus; degrouping the merged data; and sending the merged data by RF header module. A method of receiving data, a method of sending data, and computer readable non-transitory articles of manufacture are also provided.
US08811368B2
A reception apparatus used by a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) system base station includes a path detection unit performing path detection on a selected user equipment. Also included is a deriving unit using the detected path timing to despread incoming signals from said selected user equipment and deriving one or more multipath components. Also included is a providing unit Rake combining said one or more multipath components to provide a demodulation signal. Also included is a scheduling unit selecting one or more user equipments at predetermined intervals according to one or more judgment criteria and reporting to the path detection unit. The one or more judgment criteria includes criteria for selecting the user equipment with the demodulation signal which has a higher fading frequency.
US08811367B2
Data rate allocation decisions are made for a communications channel. A message is sent on a communication channel such as on a paging channel. The message indicates a forward Effective Radiate Power (ERP) of a pilot signal transmitted. The remote station then determines the received signal strength of this pilot signal, taking into account receiver gains. The path loss may be estimated as the difference between the forward ERP data value received and the detected received pilot power. This transmit power level information is encoded as a digital data word together with the forward path loss information. Upon transmission, the forward path loss estimate as calculated and the output power value can then help determine the amount of excess power available. This is indicative of the amount of dynamic range available in the transmit power amplifier. Coding rates which require a higher dynamic range may be acceptable for use.
US08811365B2
A intelligent backhaul radio is disclosed that is compact, light and low power for street level mounting, operates at 100 Mb/s or higher at ranges of 300 m or longer in obstructed LOS conditions with low latencies of 5 ms or less, can support PTP and PMP topologies, uses radio spectrum resources efficiently and does not require precise physical antenna alignment.
US08811360B2
A method and apparatus for flexible Mobile IP foreign agent architecture for enabling converged services are described herein. According to one embodiment of the invention, a packet is received over a circuit bound with a converged services domain of a network element. The converged services domain enables forwarding of wired and wireless traffic to a plurality of destination network elements. Upon determining that the circuit is capable of carrying Mobile Internet Protocol (IP) packets, the packet is processed according to an entry in a Mobile IP forwarding information base upon determining that the packet has a corresponding entry in the Mobile IP forwarding information base, and the packet is processed according to a different entry in an IP forwarding information base upon determining that the packet does not have an entry in the Mobile IP forwarding information base. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08811337B2
A radio terminal 10 includes a radio communication unit 11 configured to receive packets at predetermined intervals through a first network 100 or a second network 200, a buffer 15 configured to temporarily store packets received by the radio communication unit 11, another radio communication unit 11 configured to transmit a preparation request requesting a preparation of handover from the first network 100 to the second network 200, and an application processor 16 configured to reproduce the packets stored in the buffer 15 at a predetermined rate determined according to the predetermined interval. The application processor 16 decreases the amount of the packets stored in the buffer 15 by changing a packet reproducing rate to a rate higher than the predetermined rate in response to the transmission of the preparation request.
US08811335B2
Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting the transmission time interval (TTI) for a communications system are presented. The described aspects provide for dynamically adjusting the TTI in a communication session between a base station or nodeB and a wireless device or user equipment between a shorter TTI, which can provide increased data throughput and lower power consumption, and a longer TTI, which can provide more rugged communication link connections. By dynamically adjusting the TTI, the communications link can be optimized for the given communication channel conditions. Determinations, based on indicia related to the communications system conditions, can be employed in dynamic TTI adjustment. These determinations can be formed centrally at the Radio Network Controller (RNC), at the RNC supplemented with user equipment (UE) available information, or formed in a distributed manner between the RNC and UE across a communications system.
US08811327B2
The present invention discloses a method, a system and a C-RNC for determining the support capability of a local cell, the method comprising the following steps of: a controlling radio network controller (C-RNC) receiving from a node B capability support information about the local cell of the node B, wherein the capability support information comprises uplink multi-carrier capability support information and shared interconnection of type B (IUB) transport bearer capability support information; and the C-RNC determining by default that the local cell supports a separate IUB transport bearer, and determining an uplink multi-carrier support capability and a shared IUB transport bearer support capability of the local cell according to the capability support information. The present invention accelerates the processing of the C-RNC, thereby improving the system performance.
US08811325B2
The present invention discloses a method for transmitting path loss power threshold configuration information and a network side device. The method includes: the network side increasing or reducing the weighted sum value currently selected by the cell according to the scenario of resources which can be allocated in a current cell, updating the random access preamble group B power offset value and the power offset value between the random access preamble and the first scheduled transmission (Msg3) sent over the uplink channel resources respectively according to the increased or reduced weighted sum value, sending the updated random access preamble group B power offset value and the updated power offset value between the random access preamble and Msg3 to a terminal of the cell.
US08811311B2
An approach for performing a random access procedure using soft-dedicated preambles is disclosed. A module designates one of a plurality of preambles, associated with one or more random access channels, as a soft-dedicated preamble. The soft-dedicated preamble is used by a user equipment that is either contention-based or non-contention-based.
US08811302B2
In an embodiment, a network communication entity obtains a location associated with an access terminal that is attempting to participate in a communication service, determines whether the obtained location satisfies a relationship with a defined location region, the defined location region establishing a first level of service restriction for the communication service within the defined location region and establishing at least a second level of service restriction for the communication service outside of the defined location region, and restricts the access terminal in accordance with the first or second level of service restriction for the communication service based on the determination. The network communication entity may correspond to the access terminal, an access network or an application server. If the access terminal detects a current, imminent or future service restriction, the given access terminal can initiate handoff to another service mechanism and/or inform the user of the service restriction.
US08811301B2
Provided is a method of efficiently transmitting an acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) bit supporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless communication system supporting multi-user multi-input and multi-output (MIMO). The method transmits the same downlink code and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) multiplexed ACK/NACK bit to two mobile stations using the same uplink resource block. Accordingly, the method can efficiently transmit the ACK/NACK bit for multi-user MIMO and efficiently use downlink radio resources.
US08811288B2
A method and apparatus for enabling delivery of a message in a communication system comprising an IMS domain and a circuit switched domain. Upon receiving a registration message in the IMS domain from a user equipment operated by a user, wherein the message comprises an Equipment Identifier valid for the user equipment and an IMPI valid for the user, the Equipment Identifier and the IMPI are extracted from the received message. Then a creation or an update of a mapping of the Equipment Identifier to the IMPI and a C-MSISDN is initiated. Upon receiving a message, relating to the user, which is to be communicate between the IMS and circuit switched domains in the communication system, a use of the mapping for translating between the Equipment Identifier, IMPI and the C-MSISDN is initiated.
US08811282B2
A system and method to provide call delivery to an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network for a Mobile Directory Number (MDN) homed in a second generation (2G) wireless network, without requiring Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) operations and associated Mobile Switching Center emulation (MSCe) translations for routing the call request. A Home Location Register (HLR) determines whether the subscriber has subscribed to the IMS services. The HLR-based subscriber profile is enhanced with new IMS-related subscriber information. Enhanced American National Standards Institute-41 (ANSI-41) Mobile Application Part (MAP) operations and a new ANSI-41 parameter allow the MSCe to re-route the call origination request from a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to an entry point for the IMS network based upon the new IMS-related subscriber information received from the HLR. A Domain Name Server (DNS) supports routing-related traffic distribution.
US08811281B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving a request at a packet gateway to allocate a new bearer for a mobile device on a wireless telecommunications network; identifying, at the packet gateway, existing bearers that have a quality of service (QoS) that can be reduced without dropping the existing bearers; reducing, at the packet gateway, the QoS of the existing bearers; reclaiming resources at the packet gateway that were previously in use by the existing bearers; and allocating the new bearer for the mobile device using the reclaimed resources at the packet gateway without causing any of the existing bearers to be disconnected, wherein the existing bearers have a lower priority than the new bearer, and wherein the existing bearers have previously been designated as capable of being preempted.
US08811277B2
A method of an efficient low duty mode (LDM) operation for a femto base station is disclosed. The method of a low duty mode (LDM) operation for a femto base station comprises operating at an available interval of a first length according to a default LDM pattern; and operating at an unavailable interval of a second length according to the default LDM pattern, wherein the available interval begins with a frame including a first preamble, the first preamble including information of carrier configuration and system bandwidth.
US08811272B2
A network is provided comprising at least one access point and one access-controlling node whereby the identity of the station can be approved by the access controlling node. The at least one access-controlling node issues at least one Inter-Access Point Protocol message causing the access point with which the station is currently associated to disassociate the given station thereby terminating the access for the given station.
US08811270B2
The present invention, generally speaking, provides for sharing of bandwidth of a shared medium between multiple devices. In one embodiment, the shared medium is structured in accordance with a frame or superframe structure, each frame or superframe having medium access slots of specified time duration defined therein, groups of N contiguous medium access slots defining different allocations zones, groups of M medium access slots defining coordinated sets of medium access slots, wherein the medium access slots of a coordinated set belonging to different allocation zones are equally spaced in time. A device identifies a reservation as regular or irregular, wherein a regular reservation causes the entire medium access slots in one or more coordinated sets to be allocated. In the case of either a regular or an irregular reservation, allocating medium access slots such that a number of unallocated contiguous medium access slots within each allocation zone is maximized. The contiguous unallocated medium access slots separate the group of regular allocations and the group of irregular allocations within each allocation zone.
US08811266B2
A wireless communications system and, more particularly, a method for uplink transmission control and an apparatus for the same in a wireless communications system are disclosed. In a method for performing uplink scheduling for a first user equipment by a first base station, the method includes the steps of receiving, from the first user equipment, information on a frequency band having an uplink interference occurring therein with respect to a second base station; and allocating an uplink resource for the first user equipment based upon the frequency band. Herein, the frequency band having an uplink interference occurring therein with respect to the second base station may be decided based upon uplink scheduling information on a second user equipment of the second base station, and the uplink scheduling information on the second user equipment of the second base station may be acquired by the first user equipment and transmitted to the first base station.
US08811259B2
A method for configuring a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) within a Wireless Metropolitan Area Network (WMAN) and a wireless communication system supporting the same are provided. A dual-mode terminal is used as a relay for relaying between the WMAN and the WLAN and the relay divides a total service period into a WMAN period and a WLAN period. For the WMAN period, the relay accesses the WMAN and implements a WMAN service and for the WLAN period, it accesses the WLAN and implements a WLAN service.
US08811255B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly, to a method for allocating a resource for multicast and/or broadcast service data in a wireless communication system and apparatus therefore. The present invention includes the steps of dividing a downlink frequency band into a plurality of frequency partitions, allocating one or more subbands in a certain frequency partition among the plurality of frequency partitions to the MBS data, and c) allocating one or more subbands in each remaining frequency partitions one by one to the MBS data, if the number of subbands required for transmitting the MBS data (KSB,E MBS) is larger than the number of subbands in the certain frequency partition.
US08811254B2
A method for networked communications includes determining a group identifier associated with a received request for multicast data, determining an available upstream bandwidth and an available downstream bandwidth, adding an entry for the identified group into a multicast forwarding table, allocating bandwidth from the available upstream bandwidth and available downstream bandwidth, the allocated bandwidth corresponding to bandwidth required by the requested multicast data, and forwarding the received request to an upstream network destination. The method includes, if no response is received in response to the received request within a designated timeout period, removing the entry for the identified group in the multicast forwarding table, and restoring the allocated bandwidth to the available upstream bandwidth and available downstream bandwidth.
US08811251B2
An apparatus comprises a network physical layer and an activity sensor for sensing a packet and activating the network physical layer from shutdown. The network physical layer decodes a PHY header portion and a media access control header portion of a packet header. A MAC has a fixed hardware media access plane implementing IEEE 802.11 series MAC functionality and couples to a microprocessor. A MAC address parser receives the MAC header portion of the packet, for processing the MAC header portion of the packet, and for activating the MAC from a shutdown in response to recognizing a MAC address within the MAC header portion of the packet, such that the MAC is not activated if the MAC parser does not recognize the MAC address, wherein the MAC is operable, after activation, to perform MAC functionality without the microprocessor and to provide data from the packet to the microprocessor.
US08811248B2
A method to extend battery life of a mobile device in a wireless network by means of specifying the wake-up condition at user level.
US08811244B2
In one design, a method to change a network-assigning mechanism and to use a distributed UE-selecting mechanism with the minimum possible information transferred from the network to the UE is proposed. In particular, it provides mechanism to define a lower bound and an upper bound for the extended wait time. For instance, the method comprises transmitting a RRC connection request message to a network, wherein an establishment cause of the RRC connection request message is set to be delay tolerant or low priority; receiving information associated with a first wait time included in an RRC connection reject/release message from the network; and performing a radio access to the network with a delay which is determined based on a lower bound of the first wait time and a upper bound of the first wait time.
US08811243B2
An apparatus and method are provided for controlling a wireless feeder network which connects access base stations to a communications network. The wireless feeder network comprises a plurality of feeder base stations connected to the communications network and a plurality of feeder terminals connected to the plurality of access base stations. A sounding schedule is determined for the wireless feeder network in dependence on a visibility matrix, the visibility matrix indicative of visibility via the wireless feeder network between each of the plurality of feeder base stations and each of the plurality of feeder terminals. Then a sounding procedure within the wireless feeder network is controlled in accordance with the sounding schedule. The visibility matrix enables a coordinated sounding procedure to be carried out, allowing more accurate channel metrics for the wireless channels of the network to be determined which are not adversely affected by interference between elements of the network.
US08811242B2
A method and an arrangement for providing a wire-free mesh network are provided. An approval procedure is carried out in situations in which a subscriber who is registering on the mesh network transmits an MAC address which already exists in the mesh network, such that two different subscribers within the mesh network never have identical MAC addresses.
US08811236B2
The present invention relates to an interaction method and device between resource and admission control systems, which is applied in a case that a mobile user equipment accesses a network at a fixed network side and deploys a service of the fixed network, the method includes: the resource and admission control system of the fixed network performing, after receiving a resource request sent from an application function of the fixed network, an authorization check on the resource request, and interacting with the resource and admission control system of a mobile network to make the resource and admission control system of the mobile network perform another authorization check on the resource request; if both the authorization checks are passed, the resource and admission control system of the fixed network formulating final policy rules, and returning a resource response to the application function of the fixed network. The device comprises the resource and admission control system of the fixed network and the resource and admission control system of the mobile network. The method and device of the present invention can solve the resource and admission control problems when a mobile user equipment accesses the network at the fixed network side and deploys a service in the fixed network.
US08811235B2
In one embodiment, a spanning tree protocol (STP) is executed to assign a first port of an intermediate network device to a Root Port Role, a second port of the intermediate network device to an Alternate Port Role, a third port of the intermediate network device to a Designated Port Role, and a fourth port of the intermediate network device to a Backup Port Role. At least one bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) message is periodically sent from the first port assigned Root Port Role, the second port assigned Alternate Port Role and the fourth port assigned Backup Port Role, irrespective of receipt of any BPDU messages from neighboring intermediate network devices. In response to a failure to receive a BPDU message from a neighboring intermediate network device on the third port assigned Designated Port Role within a threshold amount of time, one or more actions are taken.
US08811231B2
Wireless communication systems using transmitter initiated communications methods. Several devices in the system listen by following a common frequency hopping sequence. When communication is desired, a transmitting device sends a request to send signal to an addressee; if available, the addressee sends a clear to send signal, and the transmitting device and the addressee then perform communications using a separate frequency hopping sequence. Methods for adding new devices are also included. In an example, a new device uses a discovery frequency hopping sequence to ping a number of frequencies until the common frequency hopping sequence is discovered. In another example, a new device listens on a single frequency forming part of the common frequency hopping sequence until the common frequency hopping sequence overlaps the single frequency.
US08811226B2
In a packet communication network comprising a plurality of nodes connected by respective links according to a routing topology, ordered metrics are respectively associated with links each connecting two nodes together directly. On detection of a modification of the routing topology, at the level of a first node connected by a link to at least one second node, a timer value associated with the second node is determined. Next, the timer is set. Finally, on expiring of this timer, a topology update message is emitted destined for the second node. The timer value is provided by an increasing function taking as parameter the metric associated with said link connecting the first node to the second node, so that the larger the metric, the larger the timer value.
US08811219B2
Streams of data traffic from various applications may be handled by a network-aware adapter module as part of a greater platform for filtering communicating the streams to intelligent network components. A distinguishing factor associated with a given data stream may be determined and used as a basis for selecting a QoS policy setting for the given data stream. The selected QoS policy setting may then be signaled to a media access control layer to take advantage of the QoS function of the embedded underlying active media type that is active and optimal (both from technical and business perspective) to carry out the communication for the application.
US08811218B2
A method and a device for allocating a persistent resource in a mobile communication system are provided. In a broadband mobile communication system such as an IEEE 802.16m system, when allocating a persistent resource, because the terminal may transmit a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) sub packet in a continuous frame without receiving the HARQ feedback from the base station, uplink coverage may be extended. When persistent resource allocation is used in uplink, the base station may transmit an HARQ sub packet without receiving the HARQ feedback during the persistent resource allocation period to improve uplink coverage of an allocated persistent resource.
US08811215B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for detecting signals in a spatial multiplexing system. An embodiment of the invention provides a signal detection apparatus for a single receiver unit equipped with a plurality of antennas in a system having at least one transmitter unit configured to transmit data streams by spatial multiplexing, where the signal detection apparatus includes: a partial linear coefficient generator unit configured to generate a linear weighting matrix by using a preset algorithm on a channel matrix formed between the transmitter unit and the single receiver unit; a partial symbol remover unit configured to generate a first symbol vector by removing all transmittable symbols for each transmitting antenna from all received data streams; and a partial symbol detector unit configured to generate a transmission symbol candidate vector by using the linear weighting matrix and the first symbol vector.
US08811207B2
A user equipment UE reports its UE-specific channel quality to the network. The network uses this to narrow a search space in which the UE looks for its downlink control signaling. In one embodiment the search space is defined by downlink signaling the network sends. The width of the search space may also select between types of downlink control signaling (for example, between PDCCH and E-PDCCH). In the specific examples described the poorest channel qualities result in the whole-bandwidth PDCCH being used while better channel qualities result in progressively narrower search spaces to look for an E-PDCCH.
US08811205B2
The invention relates to a wireless mobile communication system (400), such as a mobile telephone network. Network configuration data may contain inaccuracies, such as an error in the location of a base station (432, 434). These inaccuracies may lead to errors in estimating the location of a mobile communication unit (410). The invention creates probability density functions for the location of a mobile communication unit, based on communications with the mobile communication network (430). A confidence score may be calculated for each probability density function. A combined function can then be derived from the individual confidence scores. Maximization of the combined function may then lead to a corrected value for a network parameter of the network configuration data. Corrected network configuration data leads to more accurate measurements of the location of mobile communication units. In addition, upgrades to the antennae and base stations can be planned more effectively.
US08811203B1
In a communication system that utilizes at least a primary channel, a secondary channel. and a tertiary channel, it is determined whether the primary channel is idle, and it is determined that a composite channel includes a set of one or more channels chosen from at least i) the primary channel, ii) the secondary channel, and iii) the tertiary channel based at least on a determination of whether the primary channel is idle. A signal is transmitted via the composite channel after determining the composite channel.
US08811199B2
A first node sends a first message to a second node. The second node sends a second message to the first node. A first elapsed time is measured from the beginning of the transmission of the first message to the beginning of receipt of the second message. A second elapsed time is measured from the beginning of the receipt of the first message to the beginning of the transmission of the second message. The second node sends a third message to the first node containing the second elapsed time. The distance between the first and second node is calculated based on these elapsed times and a calibration count multiplier contained in the second or third message. A node may be moved within a wireless mesh network. Positional information about the node and distances to its neighbors is determined and transmitted to the network manager where it is stored.
US08811194B2
A method for testing a packet data signal transceiver via its packet data signal interface. The packet data signal interface is used to convey test packet data signals from the test equipment to the DUT, and response packet data signals responsive to such test packet data signals from the DUT to the test equipment.
US08811184B2
A bandwidth management system includes a plurality of queues respectively corresponding to a plurality of zones. An enqueuing module receives network traffic from one or more incoming network interfaces, determines a belonging zone to which the network traffic belongs, and enqueues the network traffic on a queue corresponding to the belonging zone. A dequeuing module selectively dequeues data from the queues and passes the data to one or more outgoing network interfaces. When dequeuing data from the queues the dequeuing module dequeues an amount of data from a selected queue, and the amount of data dequeued from the selected queue is determined according to user load of a zone to which the selected queue corresponds.
US08811181B2
After statically provisioned paths are created through an Ethernet network, trunks may be created to extend along those paths. The trunks extend between pairs of NNI interfaces on either end of the path, and Ethernet OAM may be run over the trunks to detect connectivity along the paths. Service instances and service groups may be provisioned over particular paths through the network. Each service instance/service group is associated with a trunk and the Ethernet OAM service on the trunk may be used to provide Ethernet connectivity OAM for the service instance/service group. Upon detection of a failure on the trunk, the service instances/service groups associated with the trunk may be caused to failover to an alternate path through the network. Thus, a single Ethernet OAM service instance may be used to provide connectivity verification so that connectivity detection does not need to be performed on each individual service instances/service group.
US08811179B2
The disclosure provides an authentication network. In one embodiment the authentication network includes: (1) an authentication server for receiving authentication requests, (2) at least one network node for forwarding authentication requests from user devices to the authentication server, and (3) a flooding disabler in the at least one network node for selectively disabling the flooding of packets from the user device by the at least one network node.
US08811174B2
A data communication method includes: a Radio Network Controller (RNC) sends a notification message to a Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations after a specific event occurs on the User Equipment (UE). A data communication system, a data sending apparatus and a data receiving apparatus are also provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure. Through the technical solution under the present disclosure, when specific events such as cell handover, disconnection and state transition occur on the UE, the RNC that obtains the event information may send a notification message to Node B to instruct the Node B to perform proper operations. Therefore, the Node B is prevented from continuing to send the buffered UE data from the source cell; and in the Cell_FACH state, the present disclosure saves the radio channel resources, shortens the transmission delay, and reduces the transmission packet loss ratio.
US08811172B1
In an embodiment, a system routes a new data stream from a source to a destination through a plurality of forwarding devices interconnected with links. The system includes a control device that receives a request to create a path through the plurality of interconnected forwarding devices for a new data stream and determines a type of the new data stream. A data flow database stores historical usage characteristics of data streams having the determined type. A path computation module determines, based on the historical usage characteristics of data streams having the determined type, the requested path through plurality of interconnected forwarding devices from the source to the destination.
US08811164B2
In the context of a communications system, means are disclosed for ensuring that invocation of redirect features, such as call forwarding, do not circumvent call blocking settings. User profile information associated with a party controls the invocation of features for the party and controls the screening of redirect contacts resulting from feature invocation. The behavior of feature-associated contact screening for the party is configurable independently of the originating calling permissions of the party.
US08811163B2
In one embodiment, a method, comprising receiving at a receive side of a physical link a request to suspend transmission of data from a queue within a transmit side of a first stage of queues and to suspend transmission via a path including the physical link, a portion of the first stage of queues, and a portion of a second stage of queues. The method includes sending, in response to the request, a flow control signal to a flow control module configured to schedule transmission of the data from the queue within the transmit side of the first stage of queues. The flow control signal is associated with a first control loop including the path and differing from a second control loop that excludes the first stage of queues.
US08811159B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving configuration information of a plurality of cells in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A method for receiving configuration information of a plurality of cells by a terminal in a wireless communication system based on a carrier aggregation includes detecting a radio connection failure, transmitting a radio connection reestablishment request message to a cell from among a first plurality of aggregated cells, and receiving a radio connection reestablishment message including configuration information of a second plurality of aggregated cells from the cell from among the first plurality of aggregated cells.
US08811141B2
An OFDM/OFDMA frame structure technology for communication systems is disclosed. The OFDM/OFDMA frame structure technology comprises a variable length sub-frame structure with efficiently sized cyclic prefixes and efficient transition gap durations operable to effectively utilize OFDM/OFDMA bandwidth. Furthermore, the frame structure provides compatibility with multiple wireless communication systems. An uplink frame structure and a downlink frame structure are provided.
US08811137B2
In a multilayer optical disc having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, because the type of each information layer is not recorded in the other information layers, in read and write operations by a compatible optical disc device conforming to a plurality of optical disc standards, every time the information layer being accessed changes, it has been necessary to read the type of the information layer and select a method of generating a tracking error signal adapted to the type of information layer, so access has taken time. In order to solve the above problem, in the optical multilayer disc according to the present invention, having information layers conforming to a plurality of different optical disc standards, in an area in one of the information layers, information about the other information layers is recorded. The time required to access the other information layers can be reduced by using this information to select a tracking error signal generating method.
US08811129B1
A magnetic recording media is disclosed. The media comprises a substrate, a recording layer disposed over the substrate, and a metallic layer disposed between the recording layer and the substrate. The recording layer is configured to receive an electromagnetic radiation, absorb a first portion of the electromagnetic radiation, and transmit a second portion of the electromagnetic radiation. The metallic layer comprises a non-magnetic metal and configured to reflect at least some of the second portion of the electromagnetic radiation towards the recording layer.
US08811127B1
A magnetic head includes a reading part, a recording part that is laminated on the reading part in a planer view, a recording part expansion heater, a reading part expansion heater, and a thermal expansion promoting layer that is prepared at a position closer to the reading part than to the recording part and extends to an air bearing surface.
US08811117B2
Systems and methods for seismic data acquisition employing a dynamic multiplexing technique. The dynamic multiplexing technique may include advancing one or more modules in a seismic array through a multiplexing signature sequence in successive transmission periods. The multiplexing signature sequence may be random or pseudo-random. A shared multiplexing signature sequence may be used at all the modules in the seismic array. As such, modules belonging to a common collision domain may operate out of phase with respect to the shared multiplexing signature sequence.
US08811113B2
A merged particle velocity signal is generated by merging a recorded vertical particle velocity signal, scaled in an upper frequency range using a time-dependent arrival angle as determined by velocity analysis, with a simulated particle velocity signal, calculated in a lower frequency range from a recorded pressure signal using a time-varying filter based on the time-dependent arrival time. Combined pressure and vertical particle velocity signals are generated by combining the recorded pressure and merged velocity signals.
US08811112B2
Apparatus, computer instructions and method for processing seismic data related to a subsurface of a body of water. The method includes inputting data indicative of recordings made by detectors provided on a depth-changing profile in response to an acoustic wave reflected from the subsurface; applying a matched mirror migration procedure to the data, where (i) actual positions of the detectors on the depth-changing profile and corresponding recordings, and (ii) fictitious mirror positions of the actual detectors on the depth-changing profile and corresponding recordings with a changed sign are added in the matched mirror migration; and generating a final image of the subsurface based on the matched mirror migration procedure.
US08811099B2
A period signal generation circuit includes a period signal generator configured to alternately charge and discharge a control node according to a level of the control node to generate a period signal, a discharge controller configured to discharge a first current having a constant value from the control node in response to a temperature signal and discharge a second current varying according to an internal temperature thereof from the control node in response to the temperature signal, and a tester configured to control a charging speed and a discharging speed of the control node.
US08811097B2
A semiconductor device includes: a memory cell array comprising a plurality of blocks each comprising a memory cell arranged at an intersection between a word line and a bit line; and a block state information storing unit configured to store state information of the respective blocks. The block state information storing unit stores lock state information to partially limit access to each of the blocks in response to a power-up signal.
US08811093B2
An array of non-volatile memory cells in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type. Each memory cell comprises first and second regions of a second conductivity type on a surface of the substrate, with a channel region therebetween. A word line overlies one portion of the channel region, is adjacent to the first region, and has little or no overlap with the first region. A floating gate overlies another portion of the channel region, and is adjacent to the first portion and the second region. A coupling gate overlies the floating gate. An erase gate overlies the second region. A bit line is connected to the first region. A negative charge pump circuit generates a negative voltage. A control circuit generates a plurality of control signals in response to receiving a command signal, and applies the negative voltage to the word line of unselected memory cells.
US08811091B2
A nonvolatile memory with a multi-pass programming scheme enables a page of multi-level memory cells to be programmed with reduced floating-gate to floating-gate perturbations (Yuping effect). The memory cells operate within a common threshold voltage range or window, which is partitioned into multiple bands to denote a series of increasingly programmed states. The series is divided into two halves, a lower set and a higher set. The memory cells are programmed in a first, coarse programming pass such that the memory cells of the page with target states from the higher set are programmed to a staging area near midway in the threshold window. In particular, they are programmed closer to their targeted destinations than previous schemes, without incurring much performance penalty. Subsequent passes will then complete the programming more quickly. Yuping effect is reduced since the threshold voltage change in subsequent passes are reduced.
US08811089B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to the embodiment comprises a memory cell array including plural memory cells operative to store data nonvolatilely in accordance with plural different threshold voltages; and a control unit operative to, in data write to the memory cell, execute write loops having a program operation for changing the threshold voltage of the memory cell and a verify operation for detecting the threshold voltage of the memory cell after the program operation, the control unit, in data write for changing one threshold voltage of the plural threshold voltages, executing the verify operation, when the number of write loops to the memory cell becomes more than a certain defined number, using a condition that can pass the verify operation easier than that when the number of write loops is equal to or less than the certain defined number.
US08811080B2
Provided are a flash memory system and a word line interleaving method thereof. The flash memory system includes a memory cell array, and a word line interleaving logic. The memory cell array is connected to a plurality of word lines. The word line (WL) interleaving logic performs an interleaving operation on WL data corresponding to at least two different wordlines and programming data, including the interleaved data, to the memory cell array.
US08811079B2
A volatile memory area includes a plurality of second memory cells, a third select transistor, and a fourth select transistor. The plurality of second memory cells are electrically connected in series, and stacked above the substrate. The third select transistor is connected to one end of the plurality of second memory cells, and connected to a second bit line. The fourth select transistor is connected to the other end of the plurality of second memory cells, and unconnected to a second source line. A controller is configured to supply a first voltage to all gates of the second memory cells. The first voltage is capable of turning on the plurality of second memory cells.
US08811070B1
A write-tracking circuit for a writable memory array has one or more dummy memory cells and is configured to write different values to the one or more dummy memory cells. Durations of pulses applied to word lines of the memory array during write operations are controlled based on durations of writing the different values to the one or more dummy memory cells. In at least some embodiments, the write-tracking circuit is configured to write the different values to the one or more dummy memory cells during a single write operation. In at least some embodiments, the write-tracking circuit is configured to write the different values to at least one of the one or more dummy memory cells during different write operations.
US08811067B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a novel structure. A first wiring; a second wiring; a third wiring, a fourth wiring; a first transistor including a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; a second transistor including a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode are included. The first transistor is provided over a substrate including a semiconductor material and a second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.
US08811052B2
A system, includes a controller comprising a plurality of first external terminals configured to supply a command and an address, and communicate a data, and communicate a strobe signal related to the data; and a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of second external terminals corresponding to the plurality of first external terminals, at least one of the plurality of first external terminals and at least one of the plurality of second external terminals each being capable of supplying an information specifying a length of a preamble of the strobe signal before the semiconductor memory device communicates the data between the controller and the semiconductor memory device, the semiconductor memory device further including a preamble register configured to be capable of storing the information.
US08811038B2
A switching and control arrangement are provided along with a transformer arrangement such that semiconductor-based switches can be used in a medium DC voltage to AC inverter in a medium voltage to low voltage DC to DC converter. The switching arrangement on the secondary side of the transformer arrangement controls a current ramp up or down of switches on the primary side of the transformer that are used to convert DC to AC, thereby permitting for soft switching of those switches.
US08811001B2
A casing 1, a terminal plate 30 that is exchangeably mountable in an opening 23 formed in the casing 1; and a water sealing component 50 disposed around a terminal 31 formed on the terminal plate 30, are provided. A flange 24 is formed inside the opening 23 so as to surround a center of the opening and project toward the center of the opening. When the terminal plate 30 is mounted on the flange 24, an outer side surface of the terminal plate 30 is flush with a surface 21 of the casing in a portion where the opening is formed. With this structure, an electronic device can be obtained that is reliably waterproof and/or dustproof in a connection terminal portion that is exchangeable so as to enhance an expandability.
US08811000B2
An electronic device includes a bottom cover and a front panel. The bottom cover includes at least one first wall. The at least one first wall includes a locking portion set on an inner surface of the at least one first wall. The front panel defines at least one hole. The at least one hole is locked to the locking portion to secure the front panel to the bottom cover.
US08810992B2
There is provided an electrostatic chuck an electrostatic chuck in which it is hard for the power of suppressing residual adsorption to deteriorate over time. There is provided an electrostatic chuck including an insulating substrate, and an adsorption electrode, wherein a region which includes at least an upper face of the insulating substrate containing Mn is made of ceramics containing a first transition element composed of at least one of Fe and Cr, and a ratio C2/C1 of a content C2 (mol) of the first transition element to a content C1 (mol) of Mn contained in the insulating substrate is 1 or more.
US08810988B2
A voltage suppression device for suppressing voltage surges in an electrical circuit having a voltage sensitive assembly comprised of a plurality of tubular sections within a tubular casing.
US08810978B2
Disclosed herein is a Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL) for suppressing a bus voltage drop in an electric power system. A primary winding, a secondary winding, and a tertiary winding are wound around an identical iron core, and a superconductor is connected to any one of the primary winding and the secondary winding. A first switch is connected to any one of the primary winding and the secondary winding and is configured to be opened so as to separate a faulty section when a fault current is generated and to be shorted when the fault current is eliminated. A second switch is connected in series to the tertiary winding and is configured to be shorted so as to stably supply power when the fault current is generated and to be opened when the fault current is eliminated. According to the present invention, there are advantages in that a fault current is limited using magnetic coupling between two coils that are connected in a non-isolated type (in parallel or in series) or in an isolated type and in that a faulty section is separated using a switch and power is stably supplied to a section, in which a bus voltage drop has occurred due to the fault current, using a tertiary winding and a switch connected thereto, thus improving the stability of the system and obtaining economic effects.
US08810977B2
A power supply system for a display panel includes a power supply regulator that regulates a power supply voltage of a display driver of a power supply circuit connected to the display panel, and a protection circuit that protects the display driver against an overvoltage.
US08810971B1
A piezoelectric (PZT) microactuator directly attached to a head slider, for mounting on a suspension for use as a third stage actuator in a hard disk drive, is fabricated from and comprises a single sheet of a piezoelectric material with the top and bottom covered with an electrically conductive material to form the electrodes. The piezoelectric material is differential-poled so that one lateral portion is poled in one direction and another lateral portion is poled in the opposite direction. When a drive voltage is applied between the top and bottom electrodes, one portion of the piezoelectric material expands while the other portion contracts, thereby providing a rotational movement. The direction of motion of each respective portion is determined by the direction of the applied voltage and the respective direction of poling.
US08810957B1
An apparatus that is capable of reading, writing and/or servo following a tape using a tilted head, where the tape is written in a format that specifies reading, writing and/or servo following using a non-tilted head.
US08810954B1
According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes a magnetic head and a controller. The controller determines at regular intervals whether a recording density of a write signal belongs to a low-density region or a high-density region with reference to a reference density. In addition, the controller relatively reduces a current to energize a high-frequency-assisted element at a timing of the low-density region to be less than a current of the high-density region, in accordance with the low-density region or the high-density region in recording the data.
US08810951B2
Data of a target capacity calculated by a nominal capacity of a tape medium minus a data capacity lost due to execution of backhitchless writing is written to the tape medium. In a tape drive, a command processing unit 41 receives a synchronization command, and a buffer management unit passes data in a buffer to a channel input-output unit. Upon completion of writing the data to the tape, a backhitch determination unit determines whether a mode information storage unit stores information indicating that a high data rate mode is on, whether data of a target capacity can be written to the tape, and whether the written data can be read at a target read data rate. An operation signal output unit issues a command to execute backhitch in case these conditions are not satisfied.
US08810950B1
A method for data sequence detection includes generating a first sample stream, equalizing the first sample stream to generate a first equalized sample stream, and buffering the first equalized sample stream. The first sample stream is interpolated to generate a second sample stream. The second sample stream is equalized to generate a second equalized sample stream. In a first processing path, the samples of the buffered first equalized sample stream are filtered using a first noise predictive filter bank to generate a first set of noise sample streams. In a second parallel processing path, the samples of the buffered first equalized sample stream are interpolated using a second interpolation filter to generate an interpolated sample stream and the interpolated sample stream is filtered to generate a second set of noise sample streams. The first equalized sample stream and the second equalized sample stream are processed to generate adapted filter coefficients for the second interpolation filter. The first and second set of noise sample streams are diversity combined to generate a set of combined noise sample streams. A data sequence is detected using the set of combined noise sample streams.
US08810948B2
An apparatus comprises read channel circuitry and signal processing circuitry associated with the read channel circuitry. The signal processing circuitry is configured to: equalize an oversampled digital data signal to determine an equalized digital data signal, filter the equalized digital data signal, determine a hard decision and reliability of the filtered digital data signal, and decode the filtered digital data signal based at least in part on the hard decision and reliability. The oversampled digital data signal comprises a first set of sampled digital data and a corresponding second set of sampled digital data, each of the samples in the first set of sampled digital data being offset from a corresponding one of the sample in the second set of sampled digital data by a phase difference.
US08810941B2
Selection of disk drive data tracks for the location of reserved area include providing a media disk with data tracks comprising a user data region. A location is assessed on the media disk with a highest frequency of adjacent track interference and far track interference-refresh potential. The location is then configured to be a reserved area where no user data is written. The reserved area has parameters that are read out first before the disk drive enters an operation enabled state for user interface.
US08810929B2
Disclosed herein is an imaging lens unit, including: a first lens having a positive (+) power; a second lens having a negative (−) power; a third lens selectively having one of a positive (+) and negative (−) power; a fourth lens having a negative (−) power; and a fifth lens having a negative (−) power, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and fifth lens are arranged in order from an object to be formed as an image, and the fourth lens is concave toward an image side.
US08810920B2
A lens barrel (3) comprises a drive frame (30) and a first lens frame (50). The first lens frame (50) has first to third cam followers (54a to 54c) that are respectively inserted into first to third outer cam grooves (34a to 34c), and first and second auxiliary pins (55a and 55b) disposed so as to be able to come into contact with first and second auxiliary grooves (35a and 35b). When viewed in the Y axis direction, the first and second auxiliary pins (55a and 55b) are disposed between the first to third cam followers (54a to 54c) in the peripheral direction. The positions of the first and second auxiliary pins (55a and 55b) are offset from the positions of the first to third cam followers (54a to 54c) in the Y axis direction.
US08810917B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first lens unit having a negative refractive power, a second lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a third lens unit including a lens. The distance between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is smaller at the telephoto end than at the wide angle end, and the distance between the second lens unit and the third lens unit changes during zooming from the wide angle end to the telephoto end. The first lens unit consists, in order from the object side, of a front sub lens unit having a negative refractive power, an optical path bending member, and a rear sub lens unit having a positive refractive power. The front sub lens unit includes a biconcave single lens, and the rear sub lens unit includes one or two single lenses.
US08810914B2
There is provided a light-guide, compact collimating optical device, including a light-guide having a light-waves entrance surface, a light-waves exit surface and a plurality of external surfaces, a light-waves reflecting surface carried by the light-guide at one of the external surfaces, two retardation plates carried by light-guides on a portion of the external surfaces, a light-waves polarizing beamsplitter disposed at an angle to one of the light-waves entrance or exit surfaces, and a light-waves collimating component covering a portion of one of the retardation plates. A system including the optical device and a substrate, is also provided.
US08810906B2
The invention relates to an illuminating device for a microscope with an illumination magazine comprising a plurality of light emitting units. A mechanical illuminator changer can change the light emitting unit currently active in the operative position. A filter magazine having a plurality of filter units is present, wherein a mechanical filter changer for changing the filter unit currently in the active operative position is associated with the filter magazine. At least one mechanical coupling component is provided for cooperation with the filter changer and the illuminator and for uniquely assigning each filter unit to a specific light emitting unit.
US08810901B2
In at least one embodiment of the wavelength-tunable light source (1), it comprises an output source (2), which is capable in operation of generating electromagnetic radiation (R). Furthermore, the light source (1) has a wavelength-selective first filter element (5), which is situated downstream from the output source (2). Moreover, the light source (1) contains a first amplifier medium (3), which is situated downstream from the first filter element (5) and is capable of at least partial amplification of the radiation (R) emitted by the output source (2). The light source (1) further comprises at least one wavelength-selective second filter element (6), which is situated downstream from the first amplifier medium (3), the second filter element (6) having an optical spacing (L) to the first filter element (5). The first filter element (5) and the at least one second filter element (6) are tunable via a control unit (11), which the light source (1) has. The filter elements (5, 6) are tuned for this purpose so that first filter element (5) and second filter element (6) are transparent to a partial radiation (P) of the radiation (R) in a time delay (T) to one another, the delay (T) being equal to the quotient of the optical spacing (L) and the speed of light in vacuum (c).
US08810891B2
The present disclosure relates to a deformable mirror including a deformable membrane with a reflecting face and an opposite face, a stiff plate and a structure of at least one actuator at least a part of which is fixed to the stiff plate and able to locally deform the membrane, wherein the deformable mirror also includes a not necessarily uniform adhesive layer against the opposite surface of the membrane, and a structure of at least one flexible coupling including a mechanical connection and upper and lower linking means coupling respectively the upper and lower ends of the mechanical connection to the adhesive layer and to the stiff plate. The disclosure also relates to a tool and a method making it possible to produce such a mirror.
US08810890B2
A laser light shaping and wavefront controlling optical system 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises an intensity conversion lens 24 for converting and shaping an intensity distribution of laser light incident thereon into a desirable intensity distribution; an optical modulation device 34 for modulating the laser light emitted from the intensity conversion lens 24 so as to control a wavefront thereof; a condenser optical system 36 for converging the laser light issued from the optical modulation device 34; and an image-forming optical system 30, arranged between the optical modulation device 34 and the condenser optical system 36, having an entrance-side imaging plane between a plane 24x where the laser light emitted from the intensity conversion lens 24 attains the desirable intensity distribution and a modulation plane 34a of the optical modulation device 34 and an exit-side imaging plane on a pupil plane 36a of the condenser optical system 36.
US08810888B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to electrochemical devices including an electrochemically active layer having the ability of electrochemically altering its redox state. By providing a portion of an electrode of corrosion resistant material between an electrolyte and an electrochemically active layer, undesired discoloration due to the electrochemical reaction of an electrochemical device is reduced.
US08810882B2
Electrofluidic and electrowetting display pixels, electrofluidic and electrowetting displays, and methods of operating electrofluidic and electrowetting display pixels. The pixel includes a hydrophobic channel formed between first and second substrates and containing a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid, of which at least one is visible through at least one substrate. An electrode with a dielectric is electrically connected to a voltage source. A Laplace barrier defines a fluid pathway for fluid movement in the channel. The polar fluid moves a first position when the voltage source is biased at a first voltage of less than or equal to a threshold voltage to provide a first display state. The polar fluid moves to a second position when the voltage source is biased with a second voltage, greater than the first voltage, to provide a second display state.
US08810880B2
An optical scan unit (10) is configured to include a light source (11), a divergent light conversion element (12) having such positive power as to convert divergent light from the light source (11) into convergent light to form a spot on a projection plane, an optical deflector (13) deflecting a light beam from the divergent light conversion element (12) to a first scan direction and a second scan direction which is orthogonal to the first scan direction, and a deflection angle conversion element 14 (14) having such negative power as to convert a deflection angle of the light deflected by the optical deflector (13).
US08810871B2
An image reading apparatus including a feed mechanism configured to feed a sheet member; a scanner including a reading portion and being configured to read an image on a surface of the sheet member in synchronism with the feeding of the sheet member by the feed mechanism; a cleaning sheet comprising a single sheet including a cleaning portion configured to clean the reading portion, and a reference portion configured to be used in evaluating contamination of the reading portion; an evaluator configured to evaluate the contamination of the reading portion based on read data pertaining to an image of the reference portion of the cleaning sheet read by the scanner; and a controller configured to control the feed mechanism to execute a cleaning operation in which the cleaning sheet is fed so that the cleaning portion cleans the reading portion based on the evaluation of the evaluator.
US08810867B2
An LED module includes first through third LED chips and two Zener diodes for preventing excessive voltage application to the first and the second LED chips. A first lead includes a mount portion on which the first through third LED chips and the two Zener diodes are mounted. A resin package covers part of the first lead and includes an opening for exposing the three LED chips and two Zener diodes. A single insulating layer bonds the first and second LED chips to the first lead. A single conductive layer bonds the third LED chip and two Zener diodes to the first lead. The Zener diodes are arranged between the first, second LED chips and the third LED chip.
US08810861B2
An image processing apparatus includes a reflection member configured to reflect scanning light; a scanner unit configured to scan a document to generate image data and scan the reflection member with the scanning light to generate detection-reference image data; and a detecting unit configured to detect image noise in the generated detection-reference image data in a detection range of a desired number of contiguous pixels in a sub-scanning direction so that the image noise extending in the sub-scanning direction of the generated detection-reference image is detected.
US08810856B2
In an image processing device, a processor is configured to perform: (a) acquiring target image data representing an image including a plurality of pixels, where the target image data includes a plurality of sets of pixel data corresponding to the plurality of pixels, where the image includes an object having at least one pixel of the plurality of pixels; (b) detecting the object in the image based on the target image data; (c) determining characteristic data indicating a potential for an occurrence of banding in the object based on the target image data; (d) determining a parameter based on the characteristic data; and (e) executing a halftone process to determine, for each of the plurality of pixels, a dot to be found based on the corresponding set of pixel data by using the parameter.
US08810854B2
An image forming apparatus includes a drawing process controller and a hardware processor useable for drawing processes. In a first drawing process, print data including main image data input-able to the image forming apparatus is processed to convert the main image data to output-able data of the image forming apparatus based on an image drawing command. The hardware processor conducts a second drawing process for pre-set image data settable to the image forming apparatus and expressed in an output-able data format output-able by the image forming apparatus, based on an image drawing command, to prepare the pre-set image data as output-able data of the image forming apparatus, and further combines the main image data expressed as the output-able data and the pre-set image expressed as the output-able data as an output image.
US08810851B2
In an image processing apparatus, the generating unit generates print data indicating whether a dot having one of a plurality of sizes is formed or not, by performing a halftone process on original image data. The correcting unit generates corrected print data by correcting the print data. The dividing unit divides the edge part data of the print data into a plurality of block data. The index value determining unit determines, for each block data, an index value relating to an amount of ink to be used based on the plurality of dot data included in the each block data. The changing unit changes, for each block data, the size information of at least one dot data among the plurality of dot data included in the each block data based on the index value such that the amount of ink to be used becomes reduced.
US08810844B2
A workflow construction apparatus, comprising: a memory; a unit process register to store and register settings of unit processes that are workflow components classified by functions, in said memory; a constructer to construct a workflow by combining indications that each specifies one of said registered settings of unit processes; and a workflow register to store and register said constructed workflow with the indications that specify said combination, in said memory.
US08810843B2
A method for generating digital imaging data for an imaging unit, in which digital imaging data are defined from a signature of input image data, in that a section of the signature corresponding to the imaging format of the imaging unit is processed (24) into a raster image by a raster image processor, the section being defined on the basis of geometric parameters of an image area of the input image data. A raster image processor for implementing the method includes a raster-image-processor program having at least one section, in which geometric parameters for defining the section to be processed, are assigned (16) to input variables for the rasterization.
US08810821B2
A cloud administration system for managing service information in a network printing context may include a processing module in communication with a plurality of print devices and a plurality of remote systems, and one or more storage modules in communication with the processing module. The processing module may be configured to receive fault information, store the received fault information, send at least a portion of the fault information to the remote systems, receive response information associated with the at least a portion of the fault information, aggregate the received response information into a set of response information, and cause at least a portion of the set of response information to be displayed at one or more of the print device from which the fault information was received, and a computing device associated with a service technician servicing the print device from which the fault information was received.
US08810819B2
An image forming system includes plural image forming devices each of which forms an image corresponding to image data. Each image forming device includes a memory, a determining unit, a selecting unit, a specifying unit, and a transferring unit. The memory stores one or more pieces of image data. The determining unit determines whether or not usage of the memory is larger than a threshold. The selecting unit selects, if the determining unit determines that usage of the memory is larger than the threshold, a piece of image data to be transferred from among the pieces of image data stored in the memory. The specifying unit specifies a specific image forming device to which the selected piece of image data is to be transferred among the other image forming devices. The transferring unit transfers the selected piece of image data to the specific image forming device.
US08810818B2
A document reading unit performs a first reading mode for generating image data by reading a document fed by ADF and a second reading mode for generating image data by reading a document set on platen. A first reading receiver receives a first reading instruction to cause the document reading unit to continue reading a plurality of documents in the first reading mode when a jam is detected. A second reading receiver receives a second reading instruction to continue reading the plurality of documents in the second reading mode after the reading of the plurality of documents is continued in the first reading mode by the document reading unit. The document reading unit continues reading the plurality of documents in the first reading mode when the first reading instruction is received and continues reading the plurality of documents in the second reading mode when the second reading instruction is received.
US08810814B2
An image processor including a memory to store information on the file format and the maximum file size of image data processable by the image processor and image data processable of one or more external devices; a judging device to judge whether image data input to the image processor can be processed by the image processor or one of the external devices in terms of the file format and file size; an image converter; a transfer controller to transfer the input image data to the external device when the input image data cannot be processed by the image processor but can be processed by the external device while transferring the image data to the image converter when the image data can be processed by the image processor; and an output device to output an image based on the image data processed by the external device or the image converter.
US08810813B2
A print document processing system includes a cache apparatus and plural data processing apparatuses. Each data processing apparatus includes an image data creating unit and a reservation request transmission unit. The cache apparatus includes a cache memory, a memory, and an area reservation unit. The image data creating unit creates image data for each document element of print document data. The memory stores use condition information and cache priority of the document element for each document element. Upon receipt of a reservation request for reserving a storage area for image data of a first document element from a data processing apparatus, the area reservation unit reserves the storage area by selecting a second document element, which has a lower cache priority than the first document element and which is currently being used by any of the data processing apparatuses, as a document element to be evicted from the cache memory.
US08810811B2
Until now, manual sorting of a print job and corresponding media on which printing is to take place has been necessary in order to assign them to printing presses provided for that purpose, if required properties of the printed product were to be achieved with different machines and components. That is simplified by a method for producing a printed product in accordance with a print job in which a rule set having at least one rule is provided, by which reference objects are assigned to lists based on input variables and output variables. The printed product is produced on corresponding printing systems in accordance with the output variables. An apparatus for carrying out the method includes a job splitter for splitting up the lists in accordance with the rule sets, and an assignment module for assigning the lists to corresponding printing systems.
US08810809B2
A character output apparatus includes an intermediate character information generating section, an intermediate character information modification section and a character output section. The intermediate character information generating section generates intermediate character information indicating a certain character. The intermediate character information is formed by element information pieces. And each element information piece has a start point and an end point in an X-axis direction in a two-dimensional coordinate system for characters. The intermediate character information modification section performs modification processing for changing a thickness of the certain character onto each element information piece of the generated intermediate character information, by changing the start point and the end point of each element information piece in accordance with a modification amount. The character output section outputs the certain character based on the changed start point and the changed end point of each element information piece.
US08810802B2
A drilling apparatus and control method is disclosed. An auxiliary device can be connected to a drilling machine. The auxiliary device includes a camera aligned in a working direction for recording an image of a working surface and a drill hole generated by the drilling machine. An image processing device is provided for identifying the drill hole in the image. Based on a distance from the drill hole to a reference point in the image, an evaluation device determines a distance from the drilling machine to the workpiece. A display device serves to indicate the determined distance.
US08810796B2
A portion of a first portion of light (13, 90, 90′) from a source of light (11) is masked by a mask (138), and the resulting masked first portion of light (90″) is combined using a beam splitter optic (136) with at least one second portion of the light (30) that had been subject to scattering by a medium (20, 20′, 20″). The mask (138) is configured so that interference patterns (104, 47) generated from the first and at least one second portions of light are substantially mutually exclusive even though those interference patterns (104, 47) would otherwise overlap one another absent the mask (138).
US08810792B2
A beam sampling system, includes a first beam splitter adapted to split a laser beam having a primary polarization component and a secondary polarization component, into a first intermediate sample beam, and a first beam splitter output beam, the intermediate sample beam including first percentage of the primary polarization component and a second percentage of the secondary polarization component. A 90-degree polarization rotator is positioned in the intermediate sample beam line. A second beam splitter is mounted so that the intermediate sample beam is split into an output sample beam on an output sample beam line, and a second transmitted beam, the output sample beam including substantially said first percentage of the secondary polarization component and substantially said second percentage of the primary polarization component.
US08810770B2
An apparatus for exposing a substrate to an energy in a vacuum includes a substrate stage having a mirror surface; a mirror configured to deflect a light into a Z axis direction; a measuring device configured to measure the stage position in the Z axis direction with the light in which the mirror surface is irradiated; a driving device configured to move the measuring device so that the mirror surface is irradiated with the light; an optical system configured to project the energy onto the substrate; and a cooling device including a radiation plate (arranged between the optical system and the stage in the Z axis direction and having a first opening which the energy passes and a second opening which the light passes), including a cooler configured to cool the first radiation plate, and configured to perform radiation cooling of the substrate.
US08810767B2
A lithography apparatus includes a part having a photocatalytic coating. The lithography apparatus can be an extreme ultraviolet lithography apparatus or an immersion lithography apparatus.
US08810755B2
A display panel and a liquid crystal display device, in which one of a plurality of color filters is a net-shaped color filter and the other color filters are island-shaped color filters, are provided. According to this approach, a thickness uniformity of the display panel may be achieved.
US08810744B2
A liquid crystal display panel is disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel includes: a first substrate with a conductive layer formed on one surface thereof; a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters formed on the conductive layer; a conductive light shielding layer formed between the plurality of color filters; a second substrate with a pixel array formed on one surface thereof; and a liquid crystal layer filled between the conductive light shielding layer and the pixel array, wherein the conductive layer is electrically short-circuited with the pixel array. Since a voltage is applied to the conductive layer formed on the front surface of the first substrate, liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer between the conductive layer and the pixel array can be prevented from being vertically aligned, thus improving liquid crystal efficiency.
US08810714B2
A camera system is provided. The camera system includes a first housing, a lens module accommodated in an inner space of the first housing, a support panel engaged to a side surface of the first housing, a magnet which is mounted on the lens module and confronts the support panel, and a drive portion which is arranged on the support panel and linearly moves the lens module in a direction of an optical axis, wherein the drive portion comprises a hall sensor portion for detecting displacement of the lens module, a coil fixed on a circuit board of the drive portion, and a controller for controlling current applied to the coil according to output of the hall sensor portion, and wherein the controller and the hall sensor portion are integrated in one chip.
US08810712B2
The invention provides a camera system. In one embodiment, the camera system comprises a camera module and a processor. The camera module photographs a target object according to a focal length to generate an image. The processor comprises an extending-lens-depth-of-filed (EDOF) module and an auto focus module. The EDOF module processes the image according to an EDOF process to generate an EDOF image. The auto focus module adjusts the focal length of the camera module according to an auto focus process.
US08810703B2
A solid-state image pickup device includes: a plurality of unit pixels including at least a photoelectric converting section, a charge-to-voltage converting section, and one or more transfer means for transferring a charge in a predetermined path; a light shielding film for shielding a surface of the plurality of unit pixels excluding at least a light receiving section of the photoelectric converting section from light; and voltage controlling means for controlling a voltage applied to the light shielding film; wherein transfer of the charge by one of the transfer means is controlled by controlling the voltage applied to the light shielding film.
US08810698B2
A solid-state image sensor according to the present invention includes: a semiconductor layer (100 with first and second surfaces (100a, 100b), the second surface (100b) being opposite to the first surface (100a); a plurality of photosensitive cells (1a, 1b, etc.), which are arranged two-dimensionally in the semiconductor layer (100) between the first and second surfaces thereof (100a, 100b); a first array (200) of micro condenser lenses, which are arranged on the same side as the first surface (100a) to focus incoming light onto a first group of photosensitive cells that are included in those photosensitive cells; and a second array (300) of micro condenser lenses, which are arranged on the same side as the second surface (100b) to focus incoming light onto a second group of photosensitive cells that are also included in those photosensitive cells but that are different from the first group of photosensitive cells.
US08810697B2
In an image pickup element, basic array patterns are repeatedly arranged in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, each of the basic array patterns being made of I×J color filters, the color filters of each of three or more colors being arrayed in a mixed state, an arrangement cycle (I×J) of a basic array pattern is different from an arrangement cycle (2×2) of a sharing configuration pattern, the basic array pattern includes at least one same-color square array pattern which is made of 2×2 color filters of a same color respectively arranged on the 2×2 pixels of the sharing configuration pattern, a characteristic information storage unit stores information on sensitivity calculated from output values of the 2×2 pixels, and a control unit and a digital signal processing unit correct a sensitivity difference between all the pixels of the image pickup element with use of the information on the sensitivity.
US08810684B2
An improved image tagging system that tags images in a mobile handheld communications device, based on the user's contacts list stored therein. The image tagging system compares a face in a given picture (that the user has just taken using the built-in camera) to faces in the user's contacts list images. A matching contact is found in the contacts list. The picture is then tagged with information from the matching contact. The picture is tagged by inserting identification information into a header of the picture.
US08810683B2
An image capturing apparatus and a control method thereof relate to an image capturing apparatus such as a camera array. The image capturing apparatus comprises a plurality of image capturing units. An image capturing unit to be activated out of a plurality of image capturing units is decided based on the capturing distance of an object included in a captured scene. Electricity is supplied to the image capturing unit decided to be activated.
US08810678B2
An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state imaging device and a driving unit. The solid-state imaging device has a plurality of pairs of first and second photoelectric conversion elements having different spectral sensitivity characteristics. The driving unit independently controls an exposure time of a first group of the plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements and an exposure time of a second group of the plurality of second photoelectric conversion elements. A wavelength range where the first photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has a spectral sensitivity and a wavelength range where the second photoelectric conversion element of each pair mainly has spectral sensitivity fall within the respective wavelength ranges of specific colors of visible light. A half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each first photoelectric conversion element is wider than a half width in the spectral sensitivity characteristic of each second photoelectric conversion element of the pair.
US08810675B2
An image processing apparatus is provided which offers higher versatility than conventional image processing apparatuses. When an input signal to a spatial filtering block is a monochrome signal that contains Y component only, a selector selects its input terminal and a selector selects its input terminal. Then, a low-pass filter output signal of a programmable spatial filter is inputted to a spatial filter, and a low-pass filter output signal of the spatial filer is inputted to a spatial filter. That is, the programmable spatial filter and the spatial filters are connected in series (in cascade), and the cascade-connected three spatial filters perform filtering operation. In this example, low-pass filters with 5×5 taps are connected in cascade in three stages, which enables low-pass filtering with 13×13 taps.
US08810670B2
An example image sensor system includes an image sensor having a first terminal and a host controller coupled to the first terminal. Logic is included in the image sensor system, that when executed transfers clock signals from the host controller to the image sensor through the first terminal of the image sensor and also transfers one or more digital control signals between the image sensor and the host controller through the same first terminal.
US08810660B2
Management of files stored on a digital camera includes a user interface for a windowing application for viewing system objects in a first area for displaying a hierarchical tree of system objects, a second area for displaying a thumbnail image corresponding to a system object selected in the first area, a third area adjacent to the second area for displaying a sound icon indicating that a sound file is associated with the displayed thumbnail image, and a fourth area which surrounds the second area and the third area. An item may be dragged to an icon representing a storage device in order to copy the item to the storage device.
US08810654B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of identifying a criminal e.g. when the image pickup apparatus has been broken, without additionally providing a dedicated sensor for detecting an abnormality. A panhead unit supports a camera unit and rotates the same. A rotary encoder detects a rotating state of the panhead unit. A motor control circuit controls the rotating state of the panhead unit based on the rotating state detected by the rotary encoder. A system control circuit stores an image periodically picked up by the camera unit in the controlled rotating state of the panhead unit in a buffer memory. When the rotating state of the panhead unit is not being controlled based on the rotating state detected by the rotary encoder, a memory control circuit reads out images picked up, respectively, before and after a detection time at which the rotary encoder detected the rotating state, and stores the images in an auxiliary memory.
US08810651B2
A digital security camera system and method for pseudo-color covert night vision is provided. The system includes one or more light sources adapted for providing selective illumination at a plurality of infrared wavelengths, such as 730 nm, 830 nm and 940 nm. A monochrome digital image capture device records multiple images of a target illuminated in the plurality of wavelengths and stored in a storage device. A processor retrieves the set of recorded images and assigns each wavelength to a specific color channel. The color channels are combined into a composite color image.
US08810649B2
An apparatus and method for providing a direction based on an angle of a reference wall is provided. A mobile device uses an angle of a horizontal feature from an image to calibrate a sensor and future sensor measurements. The angle of the horizontal feature is determined by image processing and this angle is mapped to one of four assumed parallel or perpendicular angles of an interior of a building. A sensor correction value is determined from a difference between the sensor-determined angle and the image-processing determined angle. The image processing determined angle is assumed to be very accurate and without accumulated errors or offsets that the sensor measurements may contain.
US08810646B2
A system and method for detecting defects on a reticle is disclosed. The method may comprise determining a best focus setting for imaging the reticle; obtaining a first image of the reticle, the first image obtained at the best focus setting plus a predetermined offset; obtaining a second image of the reticle, the second image obtained at the best focus setting minus the predetermined offset; generating a differential image, the differential image representing a difference between the first image and the second image; and identifying a defect on the reticle based on the differential image. The method in accordance with the present disclosure may also be utilized for detecting defects on at least a portion of the reticle.
US08810645B2
A system and method for calibrating a production film scanner is provided. The system and method provides for providing at least one first calibration frame on an intermediate film stock providing at least one second calibration frame on a negative film stock, scanning the at least first and second calibration frames with a reference film scanner, scanning the at least first and second calibration frames with a production film scanner, and determining a compensation calibration factor from a first result of the scanning with the reference film scanner and a second result of the production film scanner.
US08810642B2
In a pupil detection apparatus, based on a calculated value of red-eye occurrence intensity that is relative brightness of brightness within a first pupil image detected by a pupil detector with respect to brightness of a peripheral image outside the first pupil image, and a correlation characteristic of red-eye occurrence intensity and a pupil detection accuracy value, a switching selector selectively outputs a detection result of the first pupil image or a detection result of a second pupil image detected by a pupil detector. The pupil detection apparatus has a first imaging pair including an imager and an illuminator separated by a separation distance, and a second imaging pair whose separation distance is greater than that of the first imaging pair.
US08810639B2
An endoscopic video measurement system having a proximal operating part, an insertion part, and a replaceable head that can be inserted thereon, and where the operating part contains a connection for supplying electrical and optical power, optical transmission means for the lens illumination are provided in the insertion part for an electronic image sensor positioned in the distal end portion, and the replaceable head contains optical transmission means for the lens illumination and lens imaging, is characterized in that, in the insertion part, for transmitting a measurement beam a single-mode optical fiber is provided, with which an optical system positioned in the distal end part of the insertion part for producing a collimated sample beam bundle is associated.
US08810636B2
A control signal for selectively outputting a frame of image data can be initiated using an inspection apparatus, and an inspection apparatus can process one or more frames of image data for determining a motion parameter. Responsively to the processing, the inspection apparatus can selectively output a frame of image data, improving the quality of a frame of image data output subsequently to an initiation of a control signal to selectively output a frame of image data.
US08810634B2
A method and an apparatus for generating an image with shallow depth of field, suitable for a three-dimensional imaging system having a left lens and a right lens, are provided. First, the left lens and the right lens are used to capture a left-eye image and a right-eye image. Next, a disparity between each of a plurality of corresponding pixels in the left and right-eye images is calculated. Then, the depth information of each pixel is estimated according to a focus of the left and right lens, a lens pitch between the left lens and the right lens, and the calculated disparity of each pixel. Finally, the pixels in the left-eye image and the right-eye image are blurred according to the focus of the left lens and the right lens and the estimated depth information of each pixel, so as to obtain the image with shallow depth of field.
US08810631B2
An endoscope with a stereoscopic optical channel is held and positioned by a robotic surgical system. A capture unit captures (1) a visible first image and (2) a visible second image combined with a fluorescence second image from the light. An intelligent image processing system receives (1) the visible first image and (2) the visible second image combined with the fluorescence second image and generates at least one fluorescence image of a stereoscopic pair of fluorescence images and a visible second image. An augmented stereoscopic display system outputs a real-time stereoscopic image including a three-dimensional presentation including in one eye, a blend of the at least one fluorescence image of a stereoscopic pair of fluorescence images and one of the visible first and second images; and in the other eye, the other of the visible first and second images.
US08810630B2
Disclosed are a video processing apparatus, a content providing server, and control methods thereof. The video processing apparatus includes: a receiver which receives a two-dimensional (2D) video signal; a communication unit which communicates with a content providing server providing a supplementary video signal for a three-dimensional (3D) video signal corresponding to the 2D video signal; a signal processor which processes the 2D video signal and the supplementary video signal; and a controller which controls the communication unit to receive the supplementary video signal corresponding to the received 2D video signal from the content providing server, and the signal processor to generate the 3D video signal based on the received supplementary video signal and the received 2D video signal. Accordingly, it is possible to generate and reproduce the 3D video signal corresponding to the 2D video signal.
US08810621B2
An optical scanning device includes a rotating body having a rotating polygon mirror that deflects a light beam; a circuit board having a supporting member that supports the rotating member and a driving unit that drives the rotating body; a container containing the rotating body and the circuit board and having a positioning portion that positions a positioned portion of the rotating body, the positioned portion projecting from the circuit board; first and second fastening portions that fasten the circuit board to the container; and an adjusting portion that adjusts an angle of a rotating shaft of the rotating body with respect to the container. A virtual straight line connecting the first and second fastening portions passes through the rotating body when seen in an axial direction of the rotating shaft. The adjusting portion resides on a side of the virtual straight line opposite the rotating shaft.
US08810620B2
A printer including a supply roll of receiver media and a plurality of rollers to feed the receiver media through the printer. Means for maintaining a preselected tension of the receiver media between the supply roll and a pair of the plurality of rollers includes a motor with a torque limiter. The motor can be attached to the supply roll or to an optional pair of rollers adjacent the supply roll. A capstan roller having a high traction, non-marking surface is used in conjunction with the tension control.
US08810611B2
A method is disclosed for controlling a light source installed in a liquid crystal display device. An embodiment includes a liquid crystal display panel for displaying an image by virtue of having liquid crystals whose orientation changes in response to application of a voltage; a backlight unit with a built-in PWM light modulation type LED for emitting light to be supplied to the liquid crystal display panel; and a control unit for controlling the liquid crystal display panel and the backlight unit. When the response speed of liquid crystal molecules is relatively high, the LED is driven at a relatively low drive frequency, and when the response speed of the liquid crystal molecules is relatively low, the LED is driven at a relatively high drive frequency.
US08810606B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a pixel including a first subpixel and a second subpixel; a first signal line connected to the first subpixel and transmitting a first signal; a second signal line connected to the second subpixel and transmitting a second signal; a third signal line intersecting the first and the second signal lines, connected to at least one of the first and the second subpixels, and transmitting a third signal; and a fourth signal line intersecting the first and the second signal lines and transmitting a fourth signal, wherein the first subpixel and the second subpixel are supplied with data voltages having different magnitude, and the data voltages applied to the first and the second subpixels are originated from a single image information.
US08810603B2
Techniques for automatically adding special effects to an image to be overlaid on a low-contrast background are presented. A stroke or an intervening layer of a color contrasting with the background color is automatically added to provide a contrasting color around the edges of visible image content in an image container of an electronic document. The technique may be applied to entire libraries of images to generate variant images that are visually perceptible when displayed or printed on low-contrast background colors.
US08810602B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus, medium, and method. The image processing apparatus may include a first calculator and a second calculator. The first calculator may calculate a first weight of a first frame depth value of a first pixel of a depth image and a second weight of a second frame depth value of the first pixel, based on an obtainment time difference between the first frame depth value of the first pixel and the second frame depth value of the first pixel among a plurality of frame depth values of the first pixel. The second calculator may determine a corrected first frame depth value of the first pixel using a linear sum that is calculated by applying the first weight to the first frame depth value of the first pixel, and by applying the second weight to the second frame depth value of the first pixel.
US08810599B1
A computer-implemented augmented reality method includes obtaining an image acquired by a computing device running an augmented reality application, identifying image characterizing data in the obtained image, the data identifying characteristic points in the image, comparing the image characterizing data with image characterizing data for a plurality of geo-coded images stored by a computer server system, identifying locations of items in the obtained image using the comparison, and providing, for display on the computing device at the identified locations, data for textual or graphical annotations that correspond to each of the items in the obtained image, and formatted to be displayed with the obtained image or a subsequently acquired image.
US08810595B2
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can support a declarative model-based approach to designing, constructing, and rendering visualizations. By complying with a declarative descriptor, components can be readily customized by way of modifications to the model—declaratively specifying suitable features, behaviors, appearances and so forth. The descriptors that conform to the model can also facilitate connecting to various data sources and performing data transformation operations. Moreover, the descriptors that conform to the model can declaratively specify relationships based upon a scene layout. Accordingly, the architecture can further describe the scene layout and provide features based upon the layout.
US08810593B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing data. In one aspect, a mixer server receives a request for a visualization of television reporting data, translates the request for the visualization of the television reporting data into sharded requests, and provides each sharded request to a respective shard server. Each shard server processes a respective proper subset of the television reporting data to generate data representing the visualization, and provides the data representing the visualization to the mixer server. The mixer server aggregates the data representing the visualizations received from each of the shard servers, and provides the aggregated data representing the visualization as a response to the request for the visualization of the television reporting data.
US08810584B2
A method includes automatically acquiring, through a resource manager module associated with a driver program executing on a node of a cluster computing system, information associated with utilization of a number of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs associated) with the node, and automatically calculating a window of time in which the node is predictably underutilized on a reoccurring and periodic basis. The method also includes automatically switching off, when one or more GPUs is in an idle state during the window of time, power to the one or more GPUs to transition the one or more GPUs into a quiescent state of zero power utilization thereof. Further, the method includes maintaining the one or more GPUs in the quiescent state until a processing requirement of the node necessitates utilization thereof at a rate higher than a predicted utilization rate of the node during the window of time.
US08810582B2
A lighting module of a hair/fur pipeline may be used to produce lighting effects in a lighting phase for a shot and an optimization module may be used to: determine if a cache hair state file including hair parameters exists; and determine if the cache hair state file includes matching hair parameters to be used in the shot, and if so, the hair parameter values from the cache hair state file are used in the lighting phase.
US08810581B2
A system, method and apparatus are described herein for input of characters into a mobile device. In one implementation, a user can input representations of character strokes of logographic characters, such as Chinese characters, using a trackpad module. The system can then associate the character strokes with a character the user desires to input based on the received inputs and a series of well-known rules for writing the logographic characters. One implementation of the trackpad includes an optical trackpad comprising a plurality of sub-sections that can be used to determine the direction of movement of an object over the optical trackpad, for example, a finger over the optical trackpad.
US08810571B2
Methods and systems for generating surface data from polygonal data are disclosed. The methods and systems receive polygonal data which describe discrete points on an object. The methods and systems analyze and use the data to calculate and define a continuous BREP object which accurately represents the original polygonal object. In some embodiments, the generated BREP is G2 continuous at substantially all points.
US08810569B2
An image display device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of subpixels and selectively displays a 2D image and a 3D image, a patterned retarder for dividing light from the display panel into first polarized light and second polarized light, and a control voltage generator, which generates a first DC control voltage of an OFF-level and a second DC control voltage of a slight-on level, which is higher than the OFF-level and is lower than a full-on level, and selectively outputs the first DC control voltage and the second DC control voltage depending on a driving mode.
US08810565B2
A monoscopic 3D video generation device, which comprises one or more depth sensors, may be operable to store captured 2D video image data as a base layer and store captured corresponding depth information separately as an enhancement layer. The 2D video image data may be captured via one or more image sensors and the corresponding depth information may be captured via the one or more depth sensors in the monoscopic 3D video generation device. The monoscopic 3D video generation device may determine whether to transmit the enhancement layer to a video rendering device. The monoscopic 3D video generation device may encode the base layer. The monoscopic 3D video generation device may encode the enhancement layer based on the determination of transmitting the enhancement layer. The encoded base layer and/or the encoded enhancement layer may be transmitted to the video rendering device for 3D video rendering and/or 2D video rendering.
US08810564B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method for reducing 3D visual fatigue that a user feels when viewing a 3D image. An optimal 3D image may be regenerated and displayed without causing 3D visual fatigue and thus, it is possible to significantly reduce the 3D visual fatigue.
