US09277682B2
A power module includes a power unit equipped with plural power semiconductor devices, heat sinks, and a housing case. The power unit includes the power semiconductor devices, lead frames, and a sealing resin. The lead frames are coupled to the surfaces of each of the power semiconductor devices, and parts of the external surfaces of the upper and lower lead frames are bared out of the sealing resin. The housing case includes a housing base and a housing cover. The housing base, heat sink, power unit, heat sink, and housing cover are layered in that order. Assuming that S1 denotes the outline size of the housing base, S2 denotes the outline size of the housing cover, S3 denotes the size of the lead frame bared part of the power unit, the relationship of S1>S2>S3 is established. The housing cover is pressed and fixed to a receiving part of the housing base.
US09277680B2
A blade computer system comprises side-by-side computer blades (44, 144), a connectivity module (50, 150, 350) extending across and connected to each of the plurality of side-by-side computer blades (44, 144) along the ends of the computer blades (44, 144) and at least one first power supply-fan unit (46, 146) extending perpendicular to the first axis and directly connected to each of the first plurality of side-by-side computer blades (44, 144) along ends of the plurality of side-by-side computer blades (44, 144) such that the at least one power supply-fan unit (46, 146) draws air across the first plurality of side-by-side computer blades (44, 144) and into the first connectivity module (50, 150, 350).
US09277678B2
A multi-chip socket including multiple cavities. The multiple cavities include support surfaces. The support surfaces may be disposed at different heights relative to a reference plane. A first thermal interface is to thermally contact a top surface of the first component, and a second thermal interface is to thermally contact a top surface of the second component.
US09277662B1
An electronic device connection can include the connection points upon an external surface of a connection system of a first electronic device and the connection points upon the external surface of a connection system of a second electronic device. The connection points of the second electronic device can correspond to the connection points on the first electronic device. Contact between the corresponding connection points can allow a transmission of a data signals and power signals between the first and second electronic devices.
US09277658B2
Provided is an electronic controller which enables an opening direction of a connector to be set along an electronic circuit board. The electronic controller includes first guiding projections (7a) and second guiding projections (7b) formed on a cover (2), and first guiding grooves (8a) to be brought into engagement with the first guiding projections (7a) and second guiding grooves (8b) to be brought into engagement with the second guiding projections (7b), which are formed on pin headers (4). The first guiding projections (7a) and the second guiding projections (7b) move respectively along the first guiding grooves (8a) and the second guiding grooves (8b). As a result, the pin headers (4) turn to be assembled to housings (14).
US09277649B2
An electrical connector includes a printed circuit board that includes a body that carries a plurality of ground conductors that define respective ground contact pads, and a plurality of signal conductors that define respective signal contact pads. The contact pads are configured to mate with electrical contacts of a complementary electrical connector. The printed circuit board includes a ground coupling assembly that electrically connects at least a pair of the ground conductors.
US09277648B2
A printed wiring board having a land for surface-mounting of an electronic component, includes the land having a pair of land pieces arranged in an opposing manner, and each of the land pieces including a plurality of land portions having widths different from each other, and a coupling portion partially coupling a boundary portion between a pair of adjacent ones of the land portions.
US09277647B2
A circuit board includes a wiring board on which is mounted first and second laminated ceramic capacitors near or adjacent to each other, arranged along a direction parallel or substantially parallel to a main surface of the wiring board, and electrically connected in series or in parallel via a conductive pattern provided on the wiring board. One width direction side surface of the first laminated ceramic capacitor and one length direction end surface of the second laminated ceramic capacitor oppose each other perpendicularly or approximately perpendicularly.
US09277641B2
Techniques for routing and shielding signal lines to improve isolation between the signal lines are disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes first, second, and third signal lines and a switch. The first, second, and third signal lines are configurable to carry first, second, and third signals, respectively. The switch is coupled between the second signal line and AC ground and is closed when the second signal line is not carrying the second signal. The second signal line isolates the first and third signal lines when the switch is closed. Adjacent signal lines are not active at the same time. A signal line may include positive and negative signal lines, which may have at least one cross over in order to cancel coupling between the positive and negative signal lines.
US09277630B2
Configurable LED light improving community safety and the environment by providing illumination as function of internal self-diagnostics and status of ambient environment, comprising: controller, sensors, LED's, interfaces, enclosure. Sensors include: ambient light, proximity, temperature, voltage, current. Interfaces include: wireless, INTERNET. LED's configurations include: single color, multicolor, flexible PCB. Enclosure configurations include: water-proof, recess, surface mounting, hidden magnets for latch-in mounting. Controller configurations define real-time control algorithm based on: sensor status; time based controls; apparatus operating acceptance criteria. Apparatus acceptance criteria include: operation within specifications; optimization of energy consumption; contribution to environmental safety. Control algorithm includes: real-time internal and external diagnostics; and controls sustaining operation within acceptance criteria. Apparatus configurations stored in non-volatile memory. LED's produce illumination parallel to the viewing surface. Apparatus in compliance with local and national regulations, and compatible with patent pending plug and power distribution. Installations include: ceilings, walls, floors; furniture; appliances; lamps; aquariums; billboards; backlighting art.
US09277622B2
Each stage of an emission control line driver includes a first transistor connected to a first node, a first power source, and a first output terminal; a second transistor connected to second node, the first output terminal, and a second power source; a third transistor connected to a second input terminal, a first input terminal, and the first node; a fourth transistor connected to the first node, the first power source, and the second node; a first controller connected to the first to third input terminals to supply sampling signal to a second output terminal; and a second controller connected to the second input terminal and a fourth input terminal to control the voltage of the second node. The first controller includes a fifth transistor connected between the first power source and the second output terminal, and to the second controller or the first output terminal via a protection unit.
US09277621B2
A light emitting system in which a light emission control apparatus wirelessly communicates with at least one controlled light emitting apparatus, the controlled light emitting apparatus comprising a first transmission unit which wirelessly transmits charging state information to the light emission control apparatus, and the light emission control apparatus comprising a receiving unit which receives the charging state information from the controlled light emitting apparatus, an informing unit which informs the image capture apparatus that a charging operation is complete, a second transmission unit which transmits a signal to stop transmitting charging state information, and a third transmission unit which transmits a light emission command to the controlled light emitting apparatus.
US09277616B1
The present invention discloses a light emitting device driver circuit. The light emitting device driver circuit drives a light emitting device circuit. The light emitting device circuit includes plural light emitting devices connected in series and a diode circuit, wherein the plural light emitting devices are divided to plural groups. The light emitting device driver circuit includes: a first switch circuit, a second switch circuit, a current source circuit, and a control circuit. The first switch circuit includes plural first switches connected in parallel to the corresponding groups respectively. The second switch circuit includes plural second switches coupled to a forward end and a reverse end of the diode circuit respectively, wherein the second switch circuit determines whether to conduct the forward end or the reverse end to the current source circuit according to the voltages of the forward end and the reverse end.
US09277612B2
A control circuit of a switching converter includes a current detection comparator for comparing a detection voltage corresponding to a voltage drop of a detection resistor with a reference voltage and generating a peak current detection signal asserted when the detection voltage reaches the reference voltage, a driving logic unit for generating a pulse signal indicating a turn-on/off operation of a switching transistor and changing the pulse signal to an OFF level indicating the turn-off operation of the switching transistor when the peak current detection signal is asserted, a driver for driving the switching transistor based on the pulse signal, and a reference voltage setting unit for measuring time (TRECT) for which a current flows through a secondary coil and a switching period (T) of the switching transistor and adjusting the reference voltage (VREF) according to an equation: VREF=K×T/TRECT where K is a coefficient.
US09277610B2
A power converter circuit of a low power illumination device includes a boost converter circuit, a buck converter circuit, and a control circuit, for cooperating with a dimmer and an electric transformer. The control circuit configures the boost converter circuit to alternatively operate in a current conducting mode and an off mode, to draw current from the electric transformer in the current conducting mode, and to stop drawing current from the electric transformer in the off mode. The control circuit further configures the buck converter circuit to generate the required output signals to the low power illumination device according to the configuration of the dimmer so that the low power illumination device may perform the required dimming function.
US09277605B2
A lighting apparatus includes a string of light emitting diode (LED) sets coupled in series, each set including at least one LED. The apparatus further includes a plurality of current diversion circuits, respective ones of which are coupled to respective nodes of the string and configured to operate responsive to bias state transitions of respective ones of the LED sets. In some embodiments, a first one of the current diversion circuits is configured to conduct current via a first one of the LED sets and is configured to be turned off responsive to current through a second one of the LED sets. The first one of the current diversion circuits may be configured to conduct current responsive to a forward biasing of the first one of the LED sets and the second one of the current diversion circuit may be configured to conduct current responsive to a forward biasing of a second one of the LED sets.
US09277604B2
A linear light-emitting diode (LED)-based solid-state lamp using an AC current control scheme and shock protection switches operates normally with an electronic ballast. Due to the use of shock protection switches in the two lamp bases at two opposite ends, the ballast-compatible LED lamp fully protects a person from possible electric shock during initial installation, maintenance, and re-lamping no matter what the rated power and the brand of the LLT lamp are and no matter whether the electronic ballast is existing used ones that may be incompatible with the lamp or faulty, leading to an unacceptable leakage current.
US09277601B2
Method and computer program product for using an RFID antenna of a cooking appliance to read a plurality of cooking instruction sets from a single RFID tag associated with a food product that is positioned to be cooked by the cooking appliance. The cooking appliance selects one of the plurality of cooking instruction sets that the cooking appliance is capable of performing. Furthermore, the cooking appliance may then automatically cook the food product by controlling the cooking appliance according to the selected cooking instruction set. The selection of a cooking instruction set may consider the temperature of the food product or a determination whether the food product is frozen. Alternatively, cooking appliance settings may be interpolated between two cooking instruction sets or calculated on the basis of physical property information about the food product.
US09277593B2
A downlink transmission/reception apparatus and a method are provided for improving a data rate in a mobile communication based on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA). The downlink transmission method of a base station in a mobile communication system including at least one femto cell deployed in a macro cell includes generating signals to be mapped to at least one short symbol and a plurality of long symbols in a second type of subframe for the femto cell which differs from a first type of subframe for the macro cell in frequency, the first and second types of subframes being identical with each other in the time domain, and transmitting the at least one short symbol and the plurality of long symbols at predetermined positions in the second type of subframe.
US09277587B2
Integrated voice and data services are provided that utilize wired cordless access with unlicensed/unregulated connectivity sources. A digital cordless telephone operates over unlicensed/unregulated spectrum in conjunction with one or more wireless access points (WAPs) that are installed in homes, businesses, entertainment venues, and the like. The WAPs are connected to a communications service provider's broadband packet data network. A user may use the device when they are in range of another wireless access point in a public or private building that also is connected to their communications service provider's broadband packet data network.
US09277586B2
A method for maintaining network lifetime of a wireless network in wireless communication system, the network including a plurality of device nodes. Selected ones of the wireless nodes have assigned roles in the wireless network. To improve and maintain network lifetime the method includes determining a below threshold operating condition of a first sensor node assigned to a first role and re-assigning the first role to another second node in said network. In other aspects of the invention a method, system and a computer program for carrying out the method are described.
US09277580B2
Improved non-cellular (e.g., Wi-Fi) link integration with a cellular (e.g., LTE) network is described. The improved link integration can relate to utilizing an eNodeB device (e.g., residing in a radio access network portion of a cellular network) as an anchor point rather than a packet data network gateway device (e.g., residing in a core network portion of the cellular network) utilized by other approaches. The improved link integration can maintain full compliance with or support for other approaches, and can reduce signaling overhead, simplify quality-of-service management, and/or provide a more rapid reaction to changes of access, particularly in cases where the eNodeB device and a non-cellular access point device are co-located.
US09277578B2
A combinational service is made enjoyable on the terminal of a user of a communication network in a simplified way. The user establishes a call on the circuit domain, and on his/her terminal, menu options are made available related to the enjoyment of the combinational service in consequence of the establishment of such call on the circuit domain.
US09277575B2
A method, a device, and a network system of establishing a tunnel are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method of establishing the tunnel includes: obtaining, by a WTP, an address of an AC and an address of a BRAS from a DHCP server; using, by the WTP, the address of the AC to establish a CAPWAP control tunnel with the AC; and using, by the WTP, the address of the BRAS to establish a CAPWAP data tunnel with the BRAS. By using the technical scheme provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, the CAPWAP data tunnel may be established between the WTP and the BRAS.
US09277574B2
In one embodiment, a secure communication is initiated between two devices by generating a pairing message from a pre-determined static identification on the first device, transmitting the pairing message to the second device, generating a pairing identification from the static identification, and initiating a secure communication between the first and second device if the pairing message corresponds with the pairing identification.
US09277571B2
A method in a communication system processes incoming requests at a controller entity. The method comprises the steps of registering a plurality of contact addresses for a user in a controller entity, receiving a request at the controller entity for a communication link to the user, querying a user information storage for information regarding a manner regarding how to handle the request, and processing the request in accordance with the information from the user information storage.
US09277570B2
A mobile terminal in a wireless communication network may be one of several modes of operation. When in an idle mode, the mobile terminal may avoid a lengthy random access procedure normally associated with responding to a page from a base station, if the base station includes in the page an indication of a resource that the mobile terminal may utilize when responding to the page. Additionally, the mobile terminal may transmit an efficient location update MAC header to a base station, whether prompted to by a page from the base station or not. Furthermore, without leaving the idle mode or a sleep mode, the mobile terminal may exchange short data burst messages with a base station.
US09277566B2
Certain aspects of the disclosure relate to performing cross-subframe control channel signaling for wireless communications. A method may be provided for signaling downlink control channel resource allocations and/or physical control format indications in a subframe different from the subframe in which a downlink data transmission may be performed. In one aspect, the method may include transmitting PDCCH and/or PCFICH during a first subframe to allocate resources for a PDSCH during a second subframe and transmitting the PDSCH during the second subframe.
US09277555B2
A data transmission apparatus in a communication system includes a verification unit configured to verify a basic frequency band capable of being used for transmitting and receiving data to and from a plurality of terminals, and a multi-bandwidth mode in the basic frequency band; a generation unit configured to generate data packets in the multi-bandwidth mode; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data packets in the multi-bandwidth mode, wherein the multi-bandwidth mode includes a ½× bandwidth of the basic frequency band, a basic bandwidth, a 2× bandwidth of the basic frequency band, a 4× bandwidth of the basic frequency band and an 8× bandwidth of the basic frequency band.
US09277545B2
A base station includes a transmitter configured to transmit a downlink controlling formation to a user equipment, the downlink control information being generated based on an uplink allocation information indicating a first frequency block corresponding to a first plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency and a second frequency block corresponding to a second plurality of subcarriers which are contiguous in frequency, wherein at least a subcarrier, which is not indicated by the uplink allocation information, is located between the first frequency block and the second frequency block; and a receiver configured to receive a reference signal including a reference signal sequence having a sequence length corresponding to a first bandwidth which is a summation of a second bandwidth of the first frequency block and a third bandwidth of the second frequency block.
US09277544B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for wireless communication. Control symbols are mapped to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs) which is not assigned to a physical channel format indication channel (PCFICH) or a physical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH). The mapped control symbols are transmitted on a packet dedicated control channel (PDCCH). A number of a plurality of resource elements (REs) in each of the REGs depends on an index of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a number of configured reference signals. A number of the REGs in a physical resource block (PRB) on an OFDM symbol depends on the index of the OFDM symbol and the number of configured reference signals.
US09277542B2
Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: receiving, at the PCRN, a request message from an Evolved Packet Core node; determining whether the request message includes a request for a modification to an IP-CAN session; and if the request message includes a request for a modification to the IP-CAN session: determining a current bearer control mode for the IP-CAN session, determining a previous bearer control mode for the IP-CAN session, comparing the current bearer control mode to the previous bearer control mode, and if the current bearer control mode is different from the previous bearer control mode, modifying the IP-CAN session according to the current bearer control mode.
US09277537B2
A method for triggering an aperiodic sounding reference symbol, a base station and a user equipment. Including not releasing by a user equipment a resource used for transmitting an aperiodic sounding reference symbol configured by a base station for the user equipment, if the user equipment desynchronizes or the user equipment fails to transmit a scheduling request to the base station; executing a random access procedure by the user equipment; and transmitting by the user equipment the aperiodic sounding reference symbol on the unreleased resource used for transmitting an aperiodic sounding reference symbol configured by a base station for the user equipment according to indication information issued by the base station for indicating the user equipment to transmit an aperiodic sounding reference symbol if the random access succeeds.
US09277528B1
A method and corresponding system is provided help establish a zone-based paging configuration. In accordance with the method, a RAN entity may evaluate the level of traffic in several small cells of the RAN, identify those small cells that have at least a threshold level of traffic, and responsively construct a new tracking area that includes the identified small cells. In another aspect of the method, a UE that is registered in a current tracking area, may move into coverage of a new sector and receive from a base station associated with the new sector two or more tracking area IDs. The UE may then determine that at least one of the tracking area IDs is indicative of the tracking area in which the UE is currently registered, and responsively operate in the new sector without transmitting a tracking area update message.
US09277526B2
A gateway can be configured to receive measurement data that can characterizes measurements taken at a mobile device. The measurement data can include location information for the mobile device. The gateway can also be configured to calculate a location trust score for the mobile device. The location trust score can characterize the likelihood that the location information is at least one of accurate and trustworthy. The gateway can be further configured to generate trusted location information that characterizes a location of the mobile device based on the location trust score.
US09277524B2
A method, computing device and computer readable memory for cooperative localization of a portable electronic device is provided. Location identification messages are received each providing a known location of a respective portable electronic device and an associated transmitter identification (ID) of the respective portable electronic device and stored. Location request messages providing one or more transmitter IDs in communication range with a query portable electronic device and a transmitter ID of the query portable electronic device are received and location information from the stored location information associated with the one or more transmitter IDs received in the location request message is retrieved. A location of the query portable electronic device is estimated based on the retrieved location information and stored with the associated transmitter ID of the query portable electronic device.
US09277520B2
A method, User Equipment (UE), and network node in an ad-hoc network. The UE determines a node in the ad-hoc network that is able to provide a reference signal comprising a pattern that can be used for synchronization purposes when the UE is in DRX mode in the ad-hoc network. The node is determined by requesting the node to indicate whether the node is able to provide the reference signal, and receiving an accept signal or message from the node. The UE then receives the reference signal from the determined node, enters DRX mode, and uses the received reference signal to maintain synchronization while in the DRX mode.
US09277518B2
A synchronization method by a device is provided in a device-to-device direct communication. The device receives synchronization signals from a plurality of other devices at a current frame, and estimates a synchronization time at a next frame based on the synchronization signals received from the other devices.
US09277515B2
A system for precise timing and synchronization of events is provided. The system includes a first terminal including one or more first counters and a packetizer configured to create a packetized data stream having one or more event tags. The system also includes a second terminal that includes one or more second counters and a depacketizer. The second counter(s) is/are configured to count clock pulses generated by a first clock of the first terminal at a first clock rate. The depacketizer is configured to receive the packetized data stream and detect the event tag(s). When the at least one event tag is detected, the second terminal calculates a time at which the first terminal created the packetized data stream based on a count value of the second counter(s) and a count value of the first counter(s) of the first terminal.
US09277511B2
A UE communication device is provided having a transmitter architecture that transmits SRS transmissions and PUSCH transmissions. A reference mode chosen from a LPM, an MPM and an HPM is selected based on a present power mode of the SRS transmission or based on a predicted power mode that the PUSCH transmission following the present SRS transmission will likely operate in. The transmitter architecture has an exemplary extended switching point structure allowing the RPD between the SRS transmission used for pre-quarter selection and the subsequent PUSCH transmission applying the pre-quarter to be minimized.
US09277508B2
A method for dynamically adjusting transmit power is disclosed, including: acquiring strength of a signal received by a receiver of a first system; determining whether the acquired strength is less than a sensitivity of the receiver corresponding to strength of a signal currently transmitted by a transmitter, based on correspondence information of strength of signals transmitted by the transmitter and sensitivities of the receiver, and the strength of the currently transmitted signal; if yes, then decreasing the strength of the currently transmitted signal to be equal to or less than the strength of a signal transmitted by the transmitter corresponding to a sensitivity of the receiver being regarded as the strength of the received signal. Corresponding control device and communication system are also provided. The manufacture cost of the device is reduced by the present invention. Meanwhile, better performance can be kept for the receiver.
US09277500B1
Described herein are systems and methods for reducing power consumption in a device while maintaining a wireless local area network connection. An interface processor of a wireless interface is configured to maintain a network connection while an application processor is in a low power mode. The interface processor may awaken the application processor to a high power mode upon receipt of a wakeup signal, loss of network connection, detection of a network suitable for connection, or other pre-determined event.
US09277497B2
Technologies are generally described for reducing the from-power-grid energy consumption of a wireless network such as a cellular network over a period of time through cell size adaptations. According to some examples, cell sizes for the base stations may be optimized by decomposing the cell size optimization into two approaches: a multi-stage energy allocation approach and an energy consumption minimization approach. By implementing an energy allocation policy based on available energy type (e.g., from-power-grid or renewable) and an approximation technique for the energy consumption minimization, cell size optimization for each base station may be achieved resulting in network-wide enhancement of renewable energy usage vs. from-power-grid energy usage.
US09277495B2
A method embodiment includes receiving, by an access point (AP), a request for an access network query protocol (ANQP) element, and multicasting the ANQP element as an ANQP information element (IE), wherein the ANQP IE is configured in accordance with a format transmittable by the AP in a multicast.
US09277489B2
A mobile device performs a scanning operation for identifying a wireless network and receives from the wireless network a hotspot aggregator service identifier which identifies a hotspot aggregator service made available via the wireless network. The mobile device compares the received hotspot aggregator service identifier with one or more hotspot aggregator service identifiers stored in memory. When there is a match between the received and the stored hotspot aggregator service identifiers, the mobile device initiates a connection with the wireless network for receiving the hotspot aggregator service.
US09277479B2
A wireless communication system includes first and second wireless communication apparatuses. The first wireless communication apparatus includes a plurality of communication units that perform communication in different frequency bands. The plurality of communication units transmits the same control signal and data in the different frequency bands to keep allocation of communication slots for the second wireless communication apparatus on a plurality of paths. When detecting a communication failure while connecting to and communicating with one communication unit through one path, the second wireless communication apparatus switches to another communication unit and continues the communication through another path.
US09277473B2
Devices and methods for intelligent handover requests and management are disclosed. IRAT handover failure can be prevented by ensuring that user equipment (UE) is asked to handover to a target cell that it has already measured, and that resource allocation in the base station sub-system (BSS) is made in the correct cell. For instance, a radio network controller (RNC) can maintain cell identification and corresponding node information when an updated measurement control message is sent to the UE. According to certain aspects, a relocation cancellation message can be sent from an RNC to a mobile switching center (MSC) if a new measurement report, such as a 3a report, is received by the RNC.
US09277469B2
A method for cell reselection and cell handover in a wireless communication system.The method comprises performing a cell reselection or handover between a user equipment connected to a radio access node and a neighbor cell, said neighbor cell having a subscriber list of subscribed user equipments.Said user equipment is not in said subscriber list and the method further comprises: a. generating, said radio access node, a closed subscriber group (CSG) list containing said user equipment and at least one neighbor cell detected; b. communicating, said radio access node, said CSG list to a management entity; c. reporting, said management entity, to said at least one neighbor cell included in said CSG list an invited neighbor subscriber group list, or INSG list, containing said authorized user equipment; and d. performing said cell reselection or handover between said authorized user equipment and the neighbor cell if said authorized user equipment is included in said INSG list.
US09277464B2
A method and an apparatus for interworking between base stations using a GateWay (GW) in a wireless communication system of a hierarchical cell structure are provided. In the method, a message requesting Internet Protocol (IP) information of a target eNB is received from a source eNB. The IP information of the target eNB is obtained. The source eNB is mapped to the target eNB and the mapping is stored. IP information of the GW is transmitted to the source eNB instead of the IP of the target eNB.
US09277458B2
A device receives roaming information associated with a user equipment (UE), a current eNodeB conducting a current Internet protocol (IP) session with the UE, and a plurality of eNodeBs that are neighboring the current eNodeB. The device also selects, based on the roaming information and from the plurality of eNodeBs, an optimal eNodeB to which to handover the UE, and establishes a preemptive IP session with the optimal eNodeB. The device further initiates a handover of the current IP session and the UE from the current eNodeB to the optimal eNodeB, where the current eNodeB acts as an anchoring point for a bearer path associated with the UE during the handover.
US09277452B1
Adaptive modulation and priority-based flow control in wireless communications are disclosed. Ingress communication traffic is modulated for transmission over a wireless communication link. A modulation rate of modulation to be applied to the ingress communication traffic is controlled by adaptive modulation. A rate at which the ingress communication traffic is received is controlled through Priority-based Flow Control (PFC), but the PFC is based on the adaptive modulation. Adaptive modulation and PFC are thus linked together. PFC messaging could be sent when a change in modulation rate due to the adaptive modulation would not meet the rate at which the ingress communication traffic is received. If a change in modulation rate due to the adaptive modulation would still meet the rate at which the ingress communication traffic is received, then PFC messaging might not be sent.
US09277448B2
Systems and methods are presented that a STA that has not set up a target wake time (TWT) schedule with an AP to use a control frame without incurring the overhead of the Next TWT field in order to determine AP changes or to sync with the AP's time synchronization function without receiving a beacon. In an embodiment, the configuration may include using one bit in a frame control (FC) field of a control frame to indicate a presence of a Next TWT field, such that the Next TWT field is optionally present in the control frame and contains the next target wake time value for an intended recipient of the control frame.
US09277446B2
Embodiments of the invention concern a method for mitigating interference between near field communication and an audio stream in a mobile user equipment (1), wherein the method includes a step (S5) of replacing at least part of the interfered audio stream by a sound representative of an interfering near field communication transaction.
US09277439B2
Device-to-device (D2D) contention management systems and methods provide managed offloading of cellular network traffic through a contention-based network. For each link in a group of links between nodes in the contention-based network, a link cost is calculated to determine a number of potential links that may interfere with the link, if activated. Each link is evaluated in the order of ascending link cost to determine whether it complies with predefined conditions and whether activating the link increases or decreases D2D network throughput. If the link increases throughput, the link is activated.
US09277436B2
This disclosure pertains to a method in a network node, a method in user equipment, a network node and user equipment in a wireless communications network. More particularly, there is provided methods and platforms for network based control of report messages comprising logged measurements in a wireless communications network. In accordance with some example embodiments, a UE (30) that has stored logged data i.e. logged measurements that are bigger than a single transmission packet, i.e. report message, segments the logged measurements and sends only a portion of the logged measurements that fits into a single report message. The UE (30) also indicates to a network node (28) that additional logged measurements exist at the UE buffer (44).
US09277432B2
Methods and systems for measuring the performance of a mobile application and its associated user page flows include a communication link configured to connect a plurality of mobile client devices to an application server running the mobile application. The system includes a first module configured to implement a plurality of mobile network protocols; a second module configured to implement a plurality of mobile carrier protocols; a third module configured to implement a plurality of mobile operating systems; and a processing module configured to download the application and user pages from the application server and measure performance on each of the plurality of mobile client devices using different combinations of the plurality of mobile network protocols, the plurality of mobile carrier protocols, and the plurality of mobile operating systems.
US09277431B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating mobile subscriber network experience indicators based on geo-located events. In use, one or more call trace logs are received including protocol flow information between User Equipment and one or more network elements associated with a network. Additionally, one or more call detail records are generated utilizing the one or more call trace logs, each of the one or more call detail records including an associated international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI). Further, the one or more call detail records are geo-tagged with location information associated with the one or more call trace logs. In addition, the one or more geo-tagged call detail records are aggregated based on the international mobile subscriber identity associated with the one or more geo-tagged call detail records, such that a subscriber corresponding to the international mobile subscriber identity is associated with at least one of the aggregated geo-tagged call detail records. Furthermore, a plurality of key performance indicators are identified for the subscriber, utilizing the at least one aggregated geo-tagged call detail record associated with the subscriber. Moreover, a network experience indicator associated with the subscriber is generated utilizing one or more of the plurality of key performance indicators. Still yet, the network experience indicator associated with the subscriber is displayed utilizing a graphical user interface.
US09277428B2
A radio controller monitors a radio channel for a first period of time and determines a first indication of signals received without detecting synchronization or with detecting synchronization but failing error correction during that time. Responsive to determining that the first indication is above a predetermined threshold indicative of an interference condition, causing an instruction to be broadcast identifying a subset of subscriber devices allowed transmitting random access requests on the radio channel. The radio controller monitors the radio channel for a second period of time and determines a second indication during that time. If the second indication is an improvement over the first indication, the radio controller determines that the interference condition is caused by the mass random access event.
US09277422B2
The present invention provides a system and method for an online optimization for a non-linear cognitive wireless. The optimization is achieved by using qualitative model on the system which provides information in the form of monotonic influence diagram. The influence graph represents the state (control variables, goal variables and intermediate variables) and their dependency information using a graphical model incorporating monotonicities information. The present invention also incorporates learning features to build a compact history for reducing bad configurations online. The invention also provides a control engine which achieves the near optimum control of the cognitive wireless network by using the network state information along with the qualitative model.
US09277411B2
A system and method for converting a non-cognitive radio into a cognitive radio is presented. A cognitive radio system includes, a non-cognitive radio; an electronic device, a spectrum sensing logic and configuration and management logic. The electronic device is connected to the non-cognitive radio so that it receives and/or transmits messages to/from a wireless network. The configuration and management logic is connected between the non-cognitive radio and the spectrum sensing logic. The spectrum sensing logic and the configuration and management logic are removable from the non-cognitive radio allowing the cognitive radio to operate in a non-cognitive mode. The spectrum sensing logic senses a wireless environment to determine available frequencies and available channels. The configuration and management logic transmits available frequencies, available channels or other spectrum data to a remote spectrum manager that is managing access to the wireless network.
US09277410B2
A method and a device for optimizing the assignation of network activity of a cellular communications network to land areas in a simple and accurate way. This technique allows representing the activity of a cellular network on a set of tiles in a grid covering a certain land area, instead of representing it associated to antenna cells that might or might not overlap. The activity dispersed and assigned to non-overlapping grid tiles is much simpler and clearer to understand and allows visualizing how the network activity is distributed over the space and how it varies along time allowing therefore an efficient network design and management optimization.
US09277409B2
The invention concerns a security chip of a communication device, comprising: a near field communication interface (37), a first processing unit (42), a first non volatile storage capability (45), adapted to store first information related to near field communication, and connected to be accessed, from outside the security chip, through said near field communication interface (37), under the control of said first processing unit (42), wherein it also comprises a second non volatile storage capability (48), adapted to store second information related to near field communication different from said first information, and connected to be accessed, from outside the security chip, independently from said first processing unit (42).
US09277407B2
Authentication methods are used to authenticate, a device1 having an ESN1 (electronic serial number), a device2 having an ESN2, and/or a user of the devices. In one implementation, device1 receives the ESN2 in a near-field signal; derives an authentication result as a function of the ESN1 and ESN2; and sends the authentication result to an authenticator device to use in completing authentication. Authentication is confirmed when the device1 authentication result matches an authentication result independently generated by the authenticator device, which is provisioned with the ESN1 and ESN2. In a second implementation, device1 generates a RAND1 (random number) and sends the RAND1 to device2 over a near-filed link. An authenticator device confirms authentication upon receiving the same RAND1 from both device1 and device2.
US09277392B2
A method and apparatus for a micro Base Station (BS) to provide a terminal with communication service in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes forwarding, in the micro BS, an attach request message received from the terminal to a local Mobility Management Entity (MME), determining, at the local MME, whether the terminal has performed at least one of authentication and registration processes, transmitting, at the MME, to a local registration processor a service provision check request message asking for whether the terminal is registered with the communication service to a local registration processor, and providing the terminal with the communication service in response to a service provision check acknowledge message accepting the attach request which is received from the local registration processor and no communication service in response to the service provision check acknowledge message rejecting the attach request which is received from the local registration processor.
US09277387B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for managing an emergency call between a terminal and a network by using a non-access stratum protocol in a mobile communication network. A method for providing an emergency call service by a terminal in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: enabling the terminal to transmit an access request message including an emergency call identifier to a mobility management entity; enabling the terminal to attempt to authenticate the mobility management entity after the step of transmitting the access request message; enabling the terminal to receive an access grant message including the emergency call identifier from the mobility management entity; and enabling the terminal which receives the access grant message, to provide an emergency call service through the mobility management entity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the emergency call is enabled.
US09277386B1
A system for tracking the location of an object in an area having a plurality of electronic devices, connected via a network through a variety of communication protocols, comprises a location server in communication with the network and each of the plurality of electronic devices. Each of the electronic devices is associated with a last-known device location within the area that is stored in the location server. An electronic tag that is fixed with the object has a control circuit that enables wireless communication with the network both through any of the electronic devices and through any of the variety of communication protocols. The control circuit maintains at least periodic contact and GPS location reporting with the location server through the network, preferably through one of the electronic devices designated as the owner device, or any of the other electronic devices.
US09277368B2
The disclosure is directed to determining whether or not a mobile device is indoors. The mobile device obtains a position fix based, at least in part, on an outdoor positioning system, and obtains one or more shape-files for one or more objects that are in proximity of the position fix.
US09277364B2
Privacy evaluation in a mobile electronic device. Location data collected by one or more applications operating on the electronic device is evaluated to determine the precision with which a user's location and movements can be reconstructed based on the location data collected by one or more of the applications. Information relating to such precision may be presented to the user, suitably by a graphic display representing a circle or ellipse within which the user's movement cannot be determined or a set of streets within which the user's movement cannot be determined.
US09277360B2
A method involves an MNO receiving data from a mobile device representing a current situation of a user of the device. The MNO stores data characterizing products and services represented in a solution knowledgebase. The MNO stores data characterizing the user in a user knowledgebase. An inference engine analyzes the data in order to determine if the data corresponds to an actionable event relevant to the user. If so, a search of information relevant to the event and the mobile device data at least in the solution knowledgebase is conducted and the results are pushed to the mobile device. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09277357B2
Method and system for map generation for location and navigation with user sharing/social networking
Methods and systems for map generation for location and navigation with user sharing/social networking may comprise a premises-based crowd-sourced database that receives images and location data from a plurality of users of wireless communication devices, and for each of said plurality of users: receiving a determined position of a wireless communication device (WCD), where the position is determined by capturing images of the surroundings of the WCD. Data associated with objects in the surroundings of the WCD may be extracted from the captured images, positions of the objects may be determined, and the determined positions and the data may then update the premises-based crowd-sourced database. The position of the WCD may be determined utilizing global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. The elements may comprise structural and/or textual features in the surroundings of the WCD. The position may be determined utilizing sensors that measure a distance from a known position.
US09277353B2
A system and method for locating peripheral devices by determining a current location of a computing device, searching for peripheral devices based on the current location of the computing device, displaying an indication of the peripheral devices based on the current location of the computing device, receiving a selected peripheral device of the peripheral devices, and transmitting information to the selected peripheral device.
US09277346B2
This document discloses methods, apparatuses, and computer programs for operating a wireless apparatus during a service period between two wireless apparatuses. The service period comprises a first period during which only one of the apparatuses may terminate the service period and another period during which the other apparatus may terminate the service period.
US09277344B2
A method for creating a multi-dimensional audio map is provided. The method includes assigning a first audio attribute to a multi-dimensional space comprising at least three dimensions. The method also includes creating, by a computer processor responsive to user input, a first audio attribute layer within the multi-dimensional space, including a first dimension representing an audio attribute value of the first audio attribute for a location defined by at least two other dimensions. A method for generating a mixed output using the multi-dimensional audio map is also provided.
US09277341B2
An apparatus may include a signal generation module for generating a signal to test a loudspeaker. The signal generating module may be configured to receive a plurality of inputs identifying parameters relating to a test signal for the loudspeaker, generate a plurality of narrowband signals based on the plurality of inputs, sum the narrowband signals together to produce a broadband test signal, and transmit the broadband test signal to the loudspeaker to generate sound based on the broadband test signal.
US09277338B2
An audio control system installed on an electronic device includes a switch switching between a first mode and a second mode, a switching module, a microphone, a microphone control module, a speaker, a speaker control module, a signal radiating module, and a signal receiving module. When the switch is switched to the first mode, the switching module controls the microphone control module to transmit audio data of microphone to the signal radiating module to radiate the audio data via a wireless network. When the switch is switched to the second mode, the switching module controls the microphone control module to transmit the audio data of microphone to the speaker to make sound via the speaker control module.
US09277335B2
An implantable device is configured for placement in the eardrum to transmit an audio signal to a user. The device may be configured to improve transmission of an electromagnetic signal from an input assembly on a lateral side of an eardrum to an output assembly positioned on a medial side of the eardrum, for example, at least partially in the middle ear of the user. The output assembly may comprise a transducer or at least two electrodes configured to stimulate the cochlea, for example. The device may include an opening to transmit the light signal or an optic to transmit the light signal. Alternatively, the device may be configured to support a transducer of the output assembly with the eardrum when the device is implanted in the eardrum, such that the eardrum vibrates in response to the electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal may include light energy.
US09277332B2
A hearing apparatus includes a coil and a coil operation mode selector configured to select either a first coil operation mode for communicating with a wireless communication terminal, or a second coil operation mode for wirelessly charging a battery of the hearing apparatus.
US09277329B2
An implementation for an electret in a capacitive MEMS element including a pressure-sensitive diaphragm, which is produce-able using standard methods of semiconductor technology for easy integration into the manufacturing process of MEMS semiconductor elements. Such MEMS elements include at least one pressure-sensitive diaphragm including at least one deflectable diaphragm electrode of a capacitor system for signal detection and one fixed non-pressure-sensitive counter-element including at least one counter-electrode of this capacitor system, at least one electrode of the capacitor system being provided with an electrically charged electret, so that there is a potential difference between the two electrodes of the capacitor system. The electret includes at least two adjacent layers made from different dielectric materials, electrical charges being stored on their boundary surface.
US09277327B2
An acoustic generator includes a vibrating body. The acoustic generator includes a frame member attached by a bonding material to an external peripheral portion of the vibrating body. The acoustic generator has an exciter provided on the vibrating body inside of the frame member. In this case, the acoustic generator further includes an extended portion of the bonding material provided to be extended on the vibrating body inside of the frame from the frame member.
US09277316B2
A sound processing apparatus which can improve precision of analyzes on ambient sounds, carries out analysis on the ambient sounds based upon collected sound signals acquired by two sound collectors. The sound processing apparatus is provided with a level signal converter that converts the collected sound signal into a level signal, which indicates an absolute value of the collected sound signal from which phase information is removed. A level signal synthesizer generates a synthesized level signal in which the level signals acquired from the collected sound signals of the two sound collectors are synthesized, and a detector/identifier carries out analysis on the ambient sounds, based upon the synthesized level signal.
US09277313B2
A counter balancing apparatus for moving-iron bone-conducted sound receiving device; the baseboard is configured in a planar structure, with open notch on its front end; two counter-balancing blocks configured in a planar structure and provide symmetry on both sides of the baseboard, and an open notch formed on the front end of each of the counter-balancing blocks aligns with the open notch on the front end of the baseboard. The invention increases effective moving mass of its counter balancing apparatus and optimizes space occupied by its counter balancing apparatus, enhancing transduction efficiency and output vibration level of the corresponding moving-iron bone-conducted sound receiving device; controlling the product size; the baseboard split type design and counter-balancing blocks; reduces difficulty of manufacturing its counter balancing apparatus, and flexibly meets the requirement of moving mass for various moving-iron bone-conducted sound receiving devices by selection of different thickness and shapes of counter-balancing blocks.
US09277307B2
A smart tablet device holder incorporating two cup-shaped speakers. The housing of each speaker is shaped and sized as a cup and can be placed inside commonly seen cup holders. The two cup-shaped speakers are connected by a bridge member between them which is designed to hold a smart tablet device such as a tablet computer, an e-reader, etc. The bridge member is integrally connected with the two speakers or is a separate piece cooperating with the two speakers. The two cup-shaped speakers can be inserted into two cup holders of, for example, a parent tray of a baby stroller. The holder has electrical connectors for electrically connecting to the audio output of the smart tablet device. Two sound producing devices are disposed within each speaker housing and face upwards and downwards so that the sound can be heard by both the baby and the parent.
US09277296B2
This invention relates to a device for displaying information concerning a part such as a chair or keyboard tray having articulating components as well as a method of displaying information on the use of the components of a chair or keyboard tray. In particular this invention relates to a device for displaying video information concerning a part such as a chair or keyboard tray having articulating components as well as a method of displaying video information on the use of the components of a chair or keyboard tray.
US09277292B2
A system, method and device for providing a mobile application across smart phone platforms to enable consumer connectivity and control of media. The viewing experience of the individual is improved by the added control and the advertising experience is enhanced by ensuring advertisements are relevant and actionable. A system for providing interactivity between a mobile device and content includes a content provider providing content for presentation on a display device and a mobile device configured with a media management module communicating to provide user interactivity with the content. The media management module enables individualized consumer media services for the mobile device.
US09277289B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to broadcast advanced television system committee (ATSC) video in switched digital video (SDV) systems. An example SDV broadcast method includes configuring a de-multiplexer to de-multiplex at least one of the plurality of MPTSs into a plurality of program streams, the at least one of the plurality of program streams comprising a first program stream and a second program stream, wherein the first program stream is selected and the second program stream is excluded based on a rating region table (RRT), independent of any user provided program stream request, and independent of any contractual commitment associated with any user. The example method includes configuring a switch to deliver the first program stream to an SDV broadcast engine.
US09277287B2
Example methods and apparatus to generate relevance rankings for use by a program selector of a media presentation system are disclosed. An example method comprises tabulating a plurality of occurrence counts for respective ones of a plurality of terms of a program guide, each of the occurrence counts indicating a corresponding number of times each of the terms appears in the program guide, computing a plurality of relevance ranking scores for respective ones of a plurality of programs listed in the program guide based on the plurality of occurrence counts, selecting a list of programs from the program guide based on the relevance ranking scores, and outputting the list of programs
US09277286B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor; a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories.
US09277276B1
An audience measurement or personalized recommendation system may be actively trained for each panel member for a training period, during which the presence of each member is recorded while content is displayed. Panel members may carry or wear portable devices with wireless transmitters which may be detected by the measurement system. For example, each panel member may wear a wristband including a wireless transmitter broadcasting an identification code, and a measurement device may include a wireless receiver to receive broadcast identification codes and determine that the corresponding one or more panel members are present during display of content. An inference engine may create personalized profiles of each panel participant during the training period. After the training period, panel participants may stop carrying or wearing the devices, and the inference engine may determine, based on the profiles, which participants are likely present when content is being viewed.
US09277275B1
A method executes at a server system with one or more processors and memory. The server receives demographic information for a plurality of household members. The demographic information includes at least age and gender. The server receives television viewing information for the household. The server identifies one or more television viewing sessions from the television viewing information and selects one of the television viewing sessions. The server identifies one or more television programs tuned during the selected televisions viewing session and accesses demographic skew data for at least a subset of the television programs tuned. The demographic skew data for a television program identifies fractions of viewers of the television program from predefined demographic segments. The server associates a household member with the television viewing session at least in part by correlating the demographic skew data of the television programs tuned with the demographic information of the first household member.
US09277274B2
A method of processing television content metadata in a communications system. The system includes a consumer device (e.g., a set-top box and/or television) in communication with an auxiliary display device (e.g., webpad). A broadcast television channel video image signal and the metadata are received by the consumer device. A single video image frame of the broadcast television channel video image signal is captured when a predefined indicator is detected in the metadata. The metadata is modified by changing the predefined indicator to an image identifier associated with the single video image frame. The single video image frame is converted to a well-known format, and the consumer device sends the modified metadata and the converted single video image frame to the auxiliary display device for display thereon.
US09277273B2
A video data conversion method is provided. The video data conversion method comprises the following steps. Video images currently played on a video source are captured, and are converted into dynamic texture data having a size and a format that meet requirements of a three-dimensional (3D) engine. The dynamic texture data is sent to the 3D engine, which then generates a map from the dynamic texture data. The map is mapped to a 3D user interface (UI) to generate a dynamic texture map.
US09277272B2
The present invention relates to a content providing system, a receiving apparatus and method, a storage medium, and a program, which enable to perform a variety of contents provisions. An operational terminal 21 can obtain, from a storage terminal 1, contents corresponding to utilization information sent from an operational terminal 11 that is receiving provision of predetermined contents from a storage terminal 1. That is, if a user 23 is interested in contents that a user 13 is watching and listening to on the operational terminal 11, and desires to watch and listen to it, the user 23 can watch and listen to on the operational terminal 21, the contents that the user 13 is watching and listening to, by holding the operational terminal 21 very close to the operational terminal 11, or holding the operational terminal 11 very close to the operational terminal 21.
US09277262B2
There is provided a content orchestration system and a method for use by the content orchestration system to enable assembly of one or more customized content streams. In one implementation, such a content orchestration system includes a computing platform having a processor, and a content orchestration engine for execution by the processor. The content orchestration engine is configured to receive data describing multiple content sources capable of providing content for use in assembling a customized content stream. The content orchestration engine is also configured to identify customization guidelines corresponding to a destination of the customized content stream, and to determine instructions for assembling the customized content stream based on the data and the customization guidelines.
US09277255B1
A processor-implemented method meters IP video streams. The processor implements a meter. The method includes detecting, by the processor, a video watch page; harvesting, by the processor, data from the video watch page; storing, by the processor, the harvested data as current page data; detecting, by the processor, a video play button operation indicating a video playing; and inferring, by the processor, the video playing correlates to a video referenced in the current page data.
US09277253B2
A server receives metadata associated with an advertisement in a transport signal stream from an encoder, the metadata identifying a specified frame of the transport signal stream corresponding to a point in time of the advertisement. The server instructs an encoder, by a server, to insert a marker into the specified frame of the transport signal stream, the marker identifying the point in time of the advertisement. The server receives data from a smart appliance. The server detects the marker in the data. The server identifies the marker as the specified frame of the transport signal stream played by the smart appliance. The server maps the marker to the identified point in time of the advertisement.
US09277245B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for constrained transforms for video coding and decoding having transform selection. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding at least a block in a picture by selecting a particular transform from at least a first transform and a second transform that is different than the first transform, and applying the particular transform to a residue of the block. Transform coefficients for the second transform are selected responsive to a deblocking filter that is present in the video encoder.
US09277241B2
A reduction in the number of binarizations and/or contexts used in context adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) for video coding is proposed. In particular, this disclosure proposes techniques that may lower the number contexts used in CABAC by up to 56.
US09277237B2
Methods, techniques, and systems for user interface remoting using video streaming techniques are provided. Example embodiments provide User Interface Remoting and Optimization System (“UIROS”), which enables the efficient remoting of pixel-oriented user interfaces on behalf of their guests using generic video streaming techniques, such as H.264, to send compressed user interface image information in the form of video frame encoded bitstreams. In one embodiment, the UIROS comprises server side support including a UI remoting server, a video encoder, and rendering support and client side support including a UI remoting client, a video decoder, and a display. These components cooperate to implement optimized UI remoting that is bandwidth efficient, low latency and CPU efficient.
US09277235B2
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus and method that can improve encoding efficiency while preventing an increase in load.An extraction circuit 71 of a filtering prediction circuit 64 extracts motion compensation images for generating a prediction image in a high-resolution enhancement layer from reference frames in a low-resolution base layer. A filtering circuit 72 of the filtering prediction circuit 64 performs filtering, which involves upconversion and which uses analysis in the time direction, on a plurality of motion compensation images in the base layer extracted by the extraction circuit 71 to generate a prediction image in the enhancement layer. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an encoding apparatus and a decoding apparatus.
US09277229B2
An image decoding method for decoding a bitstream including a coded signal resulting from coding tiles and slices into which an image is partitioned, the method including decoding the coded signal, wherein each of the slices is either a normal slice having, in a header, information used for an other slice or a dependent slice which is decoded using information included in a slice header of another slice, and when the normal slice starts from a position other than a beginning of a first tile, a second tile coded next to the first tile does not start from the dependent slice.
US09277223B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a decrypt unit configured to decrypt an encrypted, compressed video stream; an on-chip buffer; and a decompressor coupled to the decrypt unit and the on-chip buffer. The decompressor is configured decompress the video stream, and to store a first portion of each of a first plurality of frames decompressed from the video stream in the on-chip buffer. The decompressor is further configured to store a remaining portion of each of the first plurality of frames in an external memory, wherein each frame as stored in the external memory is incomplete because the first portion is not stored in the external memory.
US09277214B2
A method including: dividing a first video frame into a predetermined plurality of regions; assigning a quantization parameter to each of the predetermined plurality of regions in accordance with a first predetermined pattern of quantization parameters, the quantization parameters not being all the same; dividing video frames, subsequent to the first video frame, into the predetermined plurality of regions; and assigning a quantization parameter to each of the predetermined plurality of regions in the video frames subsequent to the first video frame, in accordance with another predetermined pattern, different from the first predetermined pattern.
US09277199B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for generating a video clip and associated closed-captioning (CC) data. An example method involves accessing a first video clip demarcated into frames; accessing CC data demarcated into CC blocks, identifying a starting frame from among the frames; determining a first set of frames that are within a range of the starting frame; determining a first set of CC blocks that correlate to the first set of frames; receiving a selection of a starting position from among the first set of CC blocks; identifying an ending frame among the frames; using the ending frame to identify an ending position; and generating a second video clip and associated CC data, wherein the second video clip includes the frames spanning from the starting frame to the ending frame, and wherein the generated CC data includes the CC blocks spanning from the starting position to the ending position.
US09277196B2
A method to encode high dynamic range and wide color gamut video content with a backward compatible base layer. The base layer may be an HDTV or UHDTV program with Rec.709 colorimetry coded with AVC/H.264 or HEVC/H.265. The coding method provides information for properly rendering the content on displays with a wide range of color and brightness capabilities.
US09277194B2
A method and apparatus for image coding using hierarchical sample adaptive band offset. The method includes decoding a signal of a portion of an image, determining a band offset type and offset of a portion of the image, utilizing the band offset type and offset to determine a sub-band, and reconstructing a pixel value according to the determined offset value.
US09277193B2
A system for receiving satellite signals for display on a monitor. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises an antenna, a server receiver, coupled to the antenna, and at least one client receiver, coupled to the server receiver, wherein the server receiver maintains a list of satellite video signals to be recorded by the server receiver, the satellite video signals including network recorded data and metadata associated with the network recorded data, and wherein the list can be accessed by the server receiver and the at least one client receiver.
US09277186B2
Methods and systems for generating a wafer inspection process are provided. One method includes storing output of detector(s) of an inspection system during scanning of a wafer regardless of whether the output corresponds to defects detected on the wafer and separating physical locations on the wafer that correspond to bit failures detected by testing of the wafer into a first portion of the physical locations at which the defects were not detected and a second portion of the physical locations at which the defects were detected. In addition, the method includes applying defect detection method(s) to the stored output corresponding to the first portion of the physical locations to detect defects at the first portion of the physical locations and generating a wafer inspection process based on the defects detected by the defect detection method(s) at the first portion of the physical locations.
US09277185B2
A method of monitoring a point of sale (POS) transaction including: receiving non video data regarding the POS transaction; defining exceptional transaction rules based at least on predetermined non video POS data events; inferring a potentially exceptional transaction based on a corresponding exceptional transaction rule and the received POS non video data; and verifying the inferred potentially exceptional transaction with video data regarding a corresponding POS transaction.
US09277184B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media server and parsing engine, 3rd party mobile aggregator, client servers, and a plurality of communication devices that are each associated with a user and a user profile. The media server can provide one or more of the plurality of communication devices with access to media content, with the access being provided at a time selected by the user. At least one of the one or more of the plurality of communication devices can transmit a critique of the media content. The media server can award points to the user based on performing the critique, and can transmit the critique and user information from the user profile to the client server. The media server can provide the at least one of the one or more of the plurality of communication devices with access to at least one of services or goods to be purchased with the points. The media server can redeem the points based on a purchase of the at least one of the services or goods using the points. Other embodiments such as the obtaining of end user preferences of content in a natural environment are disclosed.
US09277175B2
A temperature of a mobile telephone set is detected, and when the temperature exceeds a predetermined first threshold, a video signal encoding unit (21) is changed from the predetermined normal encoding rate to a reduced encoding rate, which is lower than the predetermined normal encoding rate.
US09277174B2
In a video communication performed by using an imaging unit and a video display device, a communication terminal acquires a video captured by the imaging unit, stores at least a part of the acquired video in a storing unit, and determines a video of a predetermined interval after a start of the video communication being currently in progress from the stored video, as a replacement video. Then, the communication terminal is triggered when a predetermined start condition is satisfied during the output of the video captured by the imaging unit, and outputs the replacement video instead of the video.
US09277168B2
A new motion adaptive deinterlacing method and apparatus detects motion corresponding to a pixel to be interpolated. The method and apparatus generates a subframe level motion map based on at least a portion of a current field and at least a portion of a plurality of previous fields. Based on the generated subframe level motion map, the apparatus and method generates a plurality of motion vectors associated with the subframe level motion map by applying a plurality of motion masks, associated with the pixel to be interpolated, to the subframe level motion map. The apparatus and method further generates deinterlaced content by adaptively interpolating the pixel to be interpolated for the current field based on the plurality of motion vectors produced by applying a plurality of motion masks to the subframe level motion map.
US09277158B2
A remote control device sends an arrangement change to a display device. The display device responsively changes an arrangement of video feeds displayed thereon. The display device transmits the arrangement to every remote control device. The arrangement change transmitted to the display device and the arrangement transmitted by the display device do not include any of the video feeds.
US09277147B2
An image sensor having image sensor pixels operable in multiple gain modes is provided. An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, a charge transfer transistor, a reset transistor, a source follower (SF) transistor, a row select transistor, and a capacitor that is directly connected across the gate terminal and a selected source-drain terminal of the SF transistor. The SF transistor and the row select transistor may be selectively coupled to a power supply line and a column output line by asserting either a first control signal or a second control signal. The first control signal is asserted to place the pixel in a low conversion gain mode, whereas the second control signal is asserted to place the pixel in a high conversion gain mode. The charge transfer transistor may always be activated during the low conversion gain mode and may be selectively activated during the high conversion gain mode.
US09277146B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array having a plurality of layers and a control unit. Each of the plurality of layers including pixels having a photoelectric conversion element and a transmission transistor therein. The photoelectric conversion element is configured to collect charges during an associated charge collection time period and the transmission transistor is configured to transmit the charges to a respective floating diffusion node at an end of the charge collection time period. The control unit configured to individually instruct the transmission transistors associated with different ones of the layers to transmit the charges to the respective floating diffusion nodes such that the charge collection time periods associated with the photoelectric conversion elements implemented in at least two of the layers differs in length.
US09277143B2
A thermal imaging camera with a repositionable focal plane array (FPA) is disclosed. An active portion of the FPA is used by the camera to generate a thermal image. The FPA may be positioned such that a defect in the FPA is located in an unused and inactive portion of the FPA.
US09277140B2
An audio and video control device is disclosed. In some embodiments, the audio and video control device may include one or more of a first Wi-Fi transceiver; a second Wi-Fi transceiver; a Bluetooth® transceiver; a microphone input; an HDMI input; a video output; an audio output; an IR output; an Ethernet connection; a paging input; and/or a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a video signal from at least one of the first Wi-Fi transceiver, the second Wi-Fi transceiver, and the HDMI input; output at least a portion of the video signal through the video output; output at least a portion of an audio portion of the video signal through the audio output; receive audio data from the microphone input; and/or output the audio data through the audio output.
US09277135B2
An image-pickup apparatus includes an exposure condition calculator configured to calculate an exposure condition of an image sensor determined by accumulation time of the image sensor, an amplification amount and an aperture value of an image signal, and an image generator configured to generate a high dynamic range image. When the plurality of exposure conditions have equal exposure differences, the exposure condition calculator changes the accumulation time so as to follow a change of the object brightness from a first value to a second value, and the exposure condition calculator calculates the plurality of exposure conditions by fixing the accumulation time and by changing the amplification amount so as to follow a change of the object brightness from a third value smaller than the first value to a fourth value smaller than the second value.
US09277131B2
An image stabilization apparatus is provided that includes a fixed back-plate 101, a movable barrel 103 that holds a correction lens 102 and is movably supported by the fixed back-plate 101 in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, a first rotary body 104 that is rotatably supported by the fixed back-plate 101 and moves the movable barrel 103 in a first direction depending on rotation thereof, and a first drive motor 106 that drives the first rotary body 104. The center axis of the first rotary body 104 is arranged within the optical path of an image capturing optical system.
US09277127B2
A waterproof camera includes an image pickup section, a display section that displays image data, a mode setting section that sets a semi-underwater mode in which both objects under water and above water are simultaneously photographed, and a display control section that limits a display range of the display section when the semi-underwater mode is set, wherein the mode setting section controls the position of a photographing lens or the like to adjust a focus balance of at least one of under water and above water, and the display control section displays both object images under water and above water within a limited display range of the display section.
US09277118B2
An image pickup apparatus includes continuous shooting means, position acquisition means, and direction acquisition means, wherein the continuous shooting means performs multiple shooting operations and obtains multiple images, the position acquisition means acquires position information, the direction acquisition means acquires direction information, and in the multiple shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, the position acquisition means does not acquire position information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means, and the direction acquisition means acquires direction information for each of the shooting operations performed by the continuous shooting means.
US09277117B2
Control is made in such that in a case where an attitude detected by an attitude detection unit is a first attitude, if a trace of a detected touched position satisfies a specific condition, a function corresponding to the detected trace is executed, and in a case where the detected attitude is a second attitude opposite to the first attitude, even if the trace of the detected touched position is a trace which satisfies the specific condition, the corresponding function is not executed. Thus, when an electronic apparatus is upside-down, a specific gesture operation by a touch operation is invalidated.
US09277103B1
A wireless speaker and digital camera device comprises a speaker, a lens, and image sensor, a processor, a wireless transceiver, a digital memory device, a battery and a shutter button to cause the at least one processor to capture a still image or video from the image sensor and store a captured image or video in the digital memory device. The processor and the wireless transceiver being configured to pair with a portable, hand-held computer. The device also having a play button to cause the processor and the transceiver to wirelessly receive music data from the portable, hand-held computer and play the music data through the speaker. The device can have a microphone and the processor can be capable of suspending operation of the speaker during operation of the microphone.
US09277084B2
A data processing device including a first reception unit configured to receive data and store the data in a first storage unit; a process control unit configured to acquire the stored data and sequentially execute process units with respect to the acquired data; a second storage unit configured to store data corresponding to an execution result obtained up to one of the process units, when the one of the process units is suspended; and a moving unit configured to move the data stored in the second storage unit to the first storage unit in response to receiving a request to process the data stored in the second storage unit. The process control unit executes the process units from and beyond the suspended one of the process units, with respect to the data that has been moved from the second storage unit to the first storage unit.
US09277080B2
In an image reading device, a storing device stores reference dark output data and reference correction data. A control device, after a command receiving unit receives an instruction to read an original document, generates dark output data based on read data while the light source does not emit light. The control device determines whether the dark output data is within a first prescribed range into which the reference dark output data falls. The control device selects the reference correction data as selected correction data, when determining that the dark output data is within the first prescribed range. The control device generate correction data to correct the image data when determining that the dark output data is not within the first prescribed range, and selects the generated correction data as the selected correction data. The control device corrects the image data by using the selected correction data.
US09277069B2
To display a real image forming apparatus together with job information about printing jobs accumulated in this image forming apparatus. A mobile terminal acquires an identification number of an image-captured image forming apparatus by image recognition processing of image data. Further, mobile terminal generates a screen layout corresponding to a detection location of image forming apparatus obtained from the image data. Further, mobile terminal transmits, to a server, an inquiry request for address information, including the identification number. Server has address information about each image forming apparatus. When server receives the inquiry request for address information, it identifies image forming apparatus corresponding to the identification number, and transmits an IP address of identified image forming apparatus to mobile terminal. Mobile terminal uses the acquired IP address to acquire job information about printing jobs from image forming apparatus, synthesizing the job information with the image data for display.
US09277066B2
In a communication terminal, a transmission control unit transmits, by a first wireless communication method to the information processing apparatus, instruction for executing wireless communication by a second wireless communication method using communication information stored in the information processing apparatus. In an information processing apparatus, a storage unit stores the communication information. A communication unit executes wireless communication by the second wireless communication method using the communication information stored in the storage unit, in a case where the instruction is transmitted by the transmission control unit.
US09277065B2
A facsimile apparatus includes a first interface configured to connect to a telephone line; a second interface configured to connect to a network, and a controller. The controller is configured to execute: a detection processing in which the controller detects reception of a signal indicating transmission of facsimile data, and an upload processing in which the controller transmits facsimile data, which is received from a transmission source apparatus to an upload destination server, which is an upload destination apparatus. When executing the upload processing, the controller is configured to further execute an obtaining processing in which the controller obtains a reception capability of the upload destination server, a determining processing in which the controller determines capability information on the basis of the reception capability, and a notification processing in which the controller notifies the transmission source apparatus of the capability information determined in the determination processing.
US09277059B2
Echo removal techniques are described. As part of the echo removal, a first model estimate of the echo in the received audio signal is determined using a first model and a second model estimate of the echo is determined using a second model. A first accuracy value of the first model is determined according to a model accuracy measure, and a second accuracy value of the second model is determined according to the model accuracy measure. It is then determined if the first model is more accurate than the second model based on a comparison of the first accuracy value and the second accuracy value and the second model is selectively updated based on said comparison. Echo removal is applied to the received audio signal using only the second model estimate of the echo.
US09277056B2
A cable management hub for use in providing an interface between one or more pieces of audio-visual presentation equipment and a laptop. The cable management hub comprises a first portion that includes one or more cables that mate with respective cables from the laptop. The cable management hub further includes one or more buttons, each of which is configured to generate an electrical signal when pressed by a user that indicates a desire by the user to transfer control of the audio-visual presentation equipment from a previous user, if one exists, to the user that pressed the button. If no one had control, then the user that presses the button would gain control of the audio-visual equipment. The cable management hub further includes one or more illuminated indicators configured to illuminate in a manner indicative of a received status condition signal.
US09277054B2
Call center, automatic call distribution (ACD), with computer telephony integration (CTI) providing a search engine that is automatically fed with the calling line identifier (CLI) such that a search can be performed to find related documents, emails, URLs using private or public databases that may be accessed for free or only after having paid a subscription. The application also mentions that the system can be applied to outgoing calls in which case the dialed number is used for performing the search.
US09277045B2
A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel.
US09277044B2
A transportable wireless loudspeaker 110 and system 100 for managing multi-user wireless media playback over a media playback system 100. Allows for multiple users on user devices 150 to share their media wirelessly by seamlessly switching between users (501, 601, 701) connected to the media playback system 100. The ability to have multiple users sharing their media provides for more sources of media to be played.
US09277043B1
Systems and methods that can be utilized to convert a voice communication received over a telecommunication network to text are described. In an illustrative embodiment, a call processing system coupled to a telecommunications network receives a call from a caller intended for a first party, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. At least a portion of the call signaling information is stored in a computer readable medium. A greeting is played the caller, and a voice communication from the caller is recorded. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text, which is analyzed to identify portions that are inferred to be relatively more important to communicate to the first party. A text communication is generated including at least some of the identified portions and including fewer words than the recorded voice communication. At least a portion of the text communication is made available to the first party over a data network.
US09277040B2
Methods and apparatus for using a presence status to generate a list of possible contacts based on a partial entry of a contact address are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes obtaining at least a partial entry of a destination address that identifies a first destination to be accessed. The method also includes identifying a plurality of potential destinations that each includes the partial entry, and determining a presence status of each potential destination. Finally, the method also includes ordering the potential destinations based on the presence status of each potential destination.
US09277039B2
There is provided a headset having a head band, at least one fork for receiving an earpiece and a receiving portion between an end of the head band and one of the forks. The fork is arranged pivotably about a pivot axis. The fork has a first end having a support element. The receiving portion has a slider having at least two receiving positions. The support element engages into one of the at least two receiving positions of the slider and thus limits the maximum deflection of the fork about the pivot axis.
US09277031B2
In a method for communicating between a number of first services and a number of second services. The number of first services belongs to a service-oriented architecture, in which a respective first service is provided by messages based on a question-answer mechanism by a first protocol. The number of second services belongs to a data-based architecture, in which second services can be switched together by a second protocol. The second protocol specifies data input and data output of the second service and transfers the data between the second services. A message of a first service, entering into the service converter, is converted into data input of a second service associated with the first service and/or data output of a second service, entering into the service converter is converted into a message emitted by the service converter, of a first service associated with the second service.
US09277024B2
A method of suppressing content of a social network, the method comprising monitoring for a number of gestures of rejection of content on the social network from a number of users, generating suppression data based on the gestures of rejection, receiving input from a first user among the number of users indicating that the suppression data is to be leveraged, and suppressing content based on the suppression data.
US09277021B2
One or more participants in a communication are authenticated using an authentication metric such as a face print or voice print. A single telecommunication address (or one for each participant) that is not associated with a communication device and is associated with at least one of the participants is determined. The telecommunication address (or addresses) is sent during the initiation of a communication session.Other embodiments provide for sending a single associated telecommunications address, individual identifiers of each of the participants, and a communication device name to better identify exactly who is calling. The system can also detect when an additional participant has joined the communication session and when a participant leaves the communication session.
US09277019B2
Methods and apparatuses to present communication references to connect people for real time communications in response to requests to terminate the presentation of documents. One embodiment includes: responsive to a request from a user to terminate a presentation of a document, determining a reference to an entity based on a content of the document; presenting the reference with information about the entity to terminate the presentation of the document; and responsive to a request made via the reference, establishing a connection for real time communications between the entity and the user.
US09277009B2
A method for managing a plurality of files in a communication network having a plurality of clients includes a server receiving (502) metadata associated with a secured file stored in a virtual data drive of a first client. The server also receives (504) data segments associated with the file from the virtual data drive of the first client. The server stores the metadata and data segments associated with the file at the server. The server generates (506) a first representation of the file based on the received metadata and data segments associated with the file and sends (508) the first representation of the file to the plurality of clients. Next, the server receives (510) a request from a second client for at least one data segment of the file. The server authenticates the request based on a plurality of access rights of a user of the second client and sends (512) the at least one data segment of the file to the second client when the request is authenticated.
US09277005B2
Some embodiments provide a proprietary 64-bit consistent distribution scheme that preserves the efficiencies of CARP while providing a significantly more balanced distribution of requests that is on par with schemes reliant on computationally expensive cryptographic hashes. The scheme performs hashing of requested URLs and identifiers of available servers over a 64-bit space while optimizing the hashing to remove computationally expensive operations. Some embodiments provide a variant of the scheme to provide a differentiated distribution on the basis of one or more differentiating factors. A first variant utilizes load factor values to adjust the resulting hashes and to produce a first distribution of differentiated content that varies from a second distribution of undifferentiated content. A second variant identifies requests for differentiated content from requests for undifferentiated content and utilizes a first scheme to distribute the differentiated content and a second altered scheme to distribute the undifferentiated content.
US09277004B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates connectivity within a peer-to-peer networking environment. A client can transmit a request to connect with a host for peer-to-peer networking. A server can generate a list that includes at least one host that matches the request from the client. A predictor engine can reduce the list by at least one matched host based upon a predictor, wherein the predictor is at least one of an Internet Protocol history predictor, a prefix history predictor, or a geography predictor.
US09276991B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for providing a tool menu based upon a document displayed on an endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method opens the document requested by a user in the endpoint device, detects one or more portions of the document that require data entry, determines a type of data entry that is required for the one or more portions of the document that are detected to require data entry, detects one or more configuration settings of the endpoint device and displays one or more tools selected from a plurality of tools on the tool menu based upon the type of data entry that is required for the one or more portions of the document and the one or more configuration settings of the endpoint device.
US09276990B1
A virtual execution environment for software applications and other code objects. In one implementation, the present invention allows for virtual execution of applications by transparently capturing the rendered output of natively executed applications, and delivering the output to other processes on the same platform or to remote devices in a platform agnostic manner.
US09276980B2
Technology is disclosed herein for data synchronization based on file system activities. According to at least one embodiment, a computing device monitors one or more file system operations for a file stored in the computing device. The computing device records the file system operations for the file sequentially into a log data structure. The computing device synchronizes the file with a server by sending the log data structure to the server. The server can apply the file system operations recorded in the log data to an instance of the file stored in the server such that data of the file stored in the computing device are consistent with data in the instance of the file stored in the server after the file system operations are applied.
US09276977B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining encoding media station fingerprints and determining if media station fingerprints are related. Also disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for allowing client devices to preview sample media stations prior to actually creating a media station, receiving user interaction data relating to the user's activity with a sample media station, storing sample station fingerprints along with client device interaction data and using the client device interaction data to influence media item sequence generation rules for an additional related media station.
US09276973B2
A determination is made of users that form a group within a social network in which the users communicate with each other over a network with electronic devices in a client-server architecture. The users in the group within the social network form a peer-to-peer (P2P) storage group within a P2P storage network. In the P2P storage network, users are peers that act as a client and a server for each other.
US09276971B1
Methods and apparatuses for enabling electronic communication with an audibly-impaired user are disclosed. A communication device receives a call from a video endpoint associated with a calling party, wherein the call is intended for the audibly-impaired user. If the audibly-impaired user is unavailable to receive the call, information is selected from a database with one or more entries associated with the audibly-impaired user. The one or more entries include a video greeting previously recorded by the audibly-impaired user and a text greeting previously entered by the audibly-impaired user. The video greeting and the text greeting are combined as a merged video stream. The merged video stream is then presented on the video endpoint associated with the calling party.
US09276970B2
Method and user equipment and network node for sending a SIP request message having alerting information associated therewith from an originating user equipment having an originating SIP-UA associated therewith to a receiving SIP-UA associated with a receiving user equipment in a SIP based communications network, including setting a condition which must be met in order for the receiving SIP-UA to be allowed to receive the alerting information, checking whether the condition has been met, and f the condition has been met, passing the alerting information on to the receiving SIP-UA.
US09276957B2
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for managing SSL session persistence and reuse in a multi-core system. A first core may indicate that an SSL session established by the first core is non-resumable. Responsive to the indication, the core may set an indicator at a location in memory accessible by each core of the multi-core system, the indicator indicating that the SSL session is non-resumable. A second core of the multi-core system may receive a request to reuse the SSL session. The request may include a session identifier of the SSL session. In addition, the session identifier may identify the first core as an establisher of the SSL session. The second core can identify from encoding of the session identifier whether the second core is not the establisher of the SSL session. Responsive to the identification, the second core may determine whether to resume the SSL session.
US09276954B2
A network-based publication system, to publish data over a communications network, includes an interface to receive, via the communications network and from a first user, user data to be published by a network-based publication system. The publication system further includes a publisher component to generate publication data (e.g., an HTML document) including the user data and function modifying code. The publisher component generates the publication data in accordance with a publication format. The interface publishes the publication data via the communications network. The function modifying code is interpreted and executed, at a browser application, to disable (or modify) least one function of programming language supported by the browser application.
US09276950B2
A method, apparatus and medium are provided for detecting anomalous payloads transmitted through a network. The system receives payloads within the network and determines a length for data contained in each payload. A statistical distribution is generated for data contained in each payload received within the network, and compared to a selected model distribution representative of normal payloads transmitted through the network. The model payload can be selected such that it has a predetermined length range that encompasses the length for data contained in the received payload. Anomalous payloads are then identified based on differences detected between the statistical distribution of received payloads and the model distribution. The system can also provide for automatic training and incremental updating of models.
US09276947B2
A query is received from a client device regarding an object. The query includes an identifier of the object and a set of associated usage attributes describing a usage of the object on the client device. A set of usage facts associated with the identified object is identified. The set of usage facts describe typical usages of the object on a plurality of client devices. A determination is made whether the usage of the object on the client device is suspicious based on the set of usage facts associated with the object and the set of usage attributes included in the query. A report is provided to the client device based on the determination.
US09276942B2
A multi-tenant identity management (IDM) system enables IDM functions to be performed relative to various different customers' domains within a shared cloud computing environment and without replicating a separate IDM system for each separate domain. The IDM system can provide IDM functionality to service instances located within various different customers' domains while enforcing isolation between those domains. A cloud-wide identity store can contain identity information for multiple customers' domains, and a cloud-wide policy store can contain security policy information for multiple customers' domains. The multi-tenant IDM system can provide a delegation model in which a domain administrator can be appointed for each domain, and in which each domain administrator can delegate certain roles to other user identities belong to his domain. Service instance-specific administrators can be appointed by a domain administrator to administer to specific service instances within a domain.
US09276934B2
A first user device and second user device may be coupled, such as by an audio interface included in the second user device. The second user device is unable to generate a registration request, and the first user device may acquire device data associated with the second user device and form the registration request. The registration request may include the device data and information associated with the first user device. The registration request may be authenticated, and activation data may be generated based on the information associated with the first user device and the device data. The activation data is forwarded to the second user device to enable the second user device to access a restricted service or data.
US09276917B2
An apparatus, system, and method for authorizing endpoints of a push pathway for push notifications are described herein. In one example embodiment, an identity provider element authenticates a first endpoint of the push pathway, determines an authentication token associated with the first endpoint, and determines a channel identifier in response to a successful validation of the authentication token associated with the first endpoint. In this embodiment, the identity provider element also authenticates a second endpoint of the push pathway, determines an authentication token associated with the second endpoint, and determines a handle for the push pathway in response to a successful validation of both the authentication token associated with the first endpoint and the authentication token associated with the second endpoint. The push pathway is established for transmission of push notifications from the first to the second endpoint upon establishing the handle for the push pathway.
US09276916B2
In a content supply system, in order to use a streaming server to perform a live distribution, a user PC used makes a reservation for a time zone, etc. to a server reservation control center. When the user PC sends desired reservation information to the server reservation control center via the Internet, if the reservation is accepted, a reservation ID only used for authentication of the reservation is created and sent from the server reservation control center to the user PC via the Internet. When a distribution request is sent from the user to the streaming server, authentication processing using this reservation ID is performed.
US09276915B2
The disclosure relates generally to mobile device applications, and more particularly, to a privacy system for a mobile device application. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of sending and receiving encrypted messages between users within an associated group of users is provided. The method includes: receiving a first message from a first user within the group of users, wherein the first message includes proprietary information; encrypting the first message into ciphertext; transforming the ciphertext into a second message, wherein the second message includes quotidian information; and sending the second message to a second user within the group of users. Once the second user receives the second message, the second user will assay the second message to be an encryption of an unknown first message. The second message is received from the second user, and is decrypted into the first message, which is displayed to the second user.
US09276912B2
An integrity record is appended to data slices prior to being sent to multiple slice storage units. Each of the data slices includes a different encoded version of the same data segment. An integrity indicator of each data slice is computed, and the integrity record is generated based on each of the individual integrity indicators, and may be, for example, list or a hash of the combined integrity indicators. When retrieving data slices from storage, the integrity record can be stripped off, a new integrity indicator of the data slice calculated, and a new integrity record created. The new integrity record can be compared to the original integrity record, and used to verify the integrity of the data slices.
US09276910B2
Systems and methods for conducting convenient and secure mobile transactions between a payment terminal and a mobile device, e.g., in a fueling environment, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the payment terminal and the mobile device conduct a mutual authentication process that, if successful, produces a session key which can be used to encrypt sensitive data to be exchanged between the payment terminal and the mobile device. Payment and loyalty information can be securely communicated from the mobile device to the payment terminal using the session key. This can be done automatically, without waiting for the user to initiate a transaction, to shorten the overall transaction time. The transaction can also be completed without any user interaction with the mobile device, increasing the user's convenience since the mobile device can be left in the user's pocket, purse, vehicle, etc.
US09276907B1
Methods and systems for balancing load among firewall security devices (FSDs) are provided. According to one embodiment, session data, including session entries representing previously established traffic sessions from a particular source to a particular destination and forming an association between the previously established session and a particular FSD, is maintained for each port of a session-aware switching device. When a TCP SYN packet is received, the switching device: (i) reduces its vulnerability to a DoS attack by foregoing installation of a forward session entry for the forward traffic session within the session data until a processed TCP SYN/ACK packet associated with the corresponding reverse traffic session is received; (ii) selects an FSD to associate with the forward traffic session and a corresponding reverse traffic session by performing a load balancing function on the TCP SYN packet; and (iii) causes the TCP SYN packet to be processed by the selected FSD.
US09276903B2
Apparatus for recording multi-party Internet Protocol (IP) sessions at a branch, the apparatus comprising: a data capturer, deployed on a device in a local network of the branch, configured to capture at least one data packet of a multi-party IP session involving the branch; and a recorder, deployed on the device, associated with the data capturer, and configured to receive at least one of the captured data packets from the data capturer and to record the received data packets.
US09276899B2
Balancing workload distributed between nodes in a cluster through allocations of IP addresses by determining, for each node, an imbalance metric for each possible pairing of the plurality of an IP address assignable to the node based upon the distances between the IP addresses in each pairing and selectively distributing a plurality of IP addresses between the nodes in a cluster based upon minimizing the sum of the imbalance metrics of the IP addresses for each of the nodes in the cluster resulting from the selected distribution.
US09276886B1
A server with a tile construction module has instructions executed by a processor to collect communication threads associated with a user. Tiles representative of the communication threads are dynamically configured in accordance with specified policies to form a tile configuration. The tile configuration is supplied to the user.
US09276874B1
A system and method of delineating GFP data. The GFP framer comprises a candidate generator for generating an array of core header candidates from a data word received on a data bus, a candidate processor for generating a plurality of candidate tours and a frame delineator for identifying a candidate tour as an active tour and delineating the boundaries of the GFP frames defined by the active tour. Each core header candidate defines a reference position of one of the plurality of candidate tours. Each of the plurality of candidate tour comprises a record of core header positions for a series of GFP frames from the data word.
US09276870B2
A packet switching node is coupled by links to other nodes of a network, and receives and assembles packets belonging to a specified packet flow, into bursts of packets with a burst control packet indicating a sequence of the burst in the flow. The node determines whether to distribute the flow across several links. If so, the bursts are then forwarded for switching to the output ports of the selected links. Distributing the flow over multiple links can enable more flexible and efficient filling of allocated bandwidth on links, as traffic increases. To reduce the risk of losing the order of packets the sequence of the bursts is indicated for use in reordering at intermediate nodes during transmission through the network.
US09276861B2
Methods and systems for selecting among multiple concurrently active paths through a network are provided. According to one embodiment, a method is performed by a network interface of a source node within a loop-free, reverse-path-learning network. The network is divided into multiple virtual networks. A packet destined for a destination node and specifying an address for the destination or including information from which the address can be derived is received from the source. A set of virtual networks that can be used to transport the packet from the source node to the destination node is determined. Each virtual network in the set of virtual networks provides a different path through the network from the source to the destination. A particular virtual network from the set of virtual networks is selected, thereby effectively selecting a particular path from multiple selectable paths between the source and the destination.
US09276853B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for efficient storing and retrieval of captured data packets. The packets are parsed to extract flow defining parameters such as source and destination addresses, the extracted addresses are hashed and the address hash numbers are reversibly combined, for example concatenated in a pre-defined order of their values to obtain a single hash index for a flow. The packets are then saved in a packet store in accordance and/or association with their hash index. The packets may be efficiently retrieved based on the two addresses or on a single network address.
US09276849B2
A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information may be used to route a data packet over a packet-switched network according to the service classes, feature sets, and/or CUGs selected. At the destination, the layer 3 data packet may again be enclosed in a layer 2 frame with a DLCI indicating the service classes, features sets, and/or CUGs. Because the use of conventional permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) is not required in aspects of the invention, new methods of measuring and managing network traffic are presented.
US09276845B2
In one embodiment, a quality of one or more links of a particular node in a communication network may be determined, and then whether the quality of the one or more links is below a threshold may also be determined. In response to determining that the quality of at least one of the one or more links is above the threshold, a select one of the at least one of the one or more links with quality above the threshold may be utilized for communication with the particular node. Conversely, in response to determining that the quality of each of the one or more links is below the threshold, multi-path forwarding over a plurality of links of the particular node may be utilized for communication with the particular node.
US09276843B2
In one embodiment, a method for providing virtual link aggregation (vLAG) in a transparent interconnection of lots of links (TRILL)-enabled network, includes creating a virtual routing bridge logically connected to a first physical routing bridge and a second physical routing bridge to form a vLAG group at an edge of the TRILL-enabled network; determining a first distribution tree linking the first physical routing bridge to every other routing bridge in the TRILL-enabled network in a non-repeating fashion, ending with the second physical routing bridge; determining a second distribution tree linking the second physical routing bridge to every other routing bridge in the TRILL-enabled network in a non-repeating fashion, ending with the first physical routing bridge; receiving a multicast packet at the virtual routing bridge from one of the physical routing bridges; and distributing the multicast packet according to either the first or the second distribution tree thereby preventing looping.
US09276840B2
A network device can process a payload in an Interest packet. During operation, the network device can receive an Interest packet that includes a name or a name prefix associated with one or more target entities for the Interest. If the network device determines that the Interest packet includes a payload, the network node can analyze the Interest's name and/or payload to determine an operation to perform for processing the payload. The network device then proceeds to process the payload by performing the determined operation.
US09276839B2
An apparatus and method for network routing is provided. Synchronized networks are disclosed which enable fast connection set up and release in a tiered hierarchy of circuit switched nodes. Nodes in the network can aggregate and disaggregate data according to a transform algorithm allowing for dynamic frame and frame segment sizing. Connections within the network can be organized by paired connections performing aggregation and disaggregation according to control vectors.
US09276838B2
A computer program product comprising computer executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium such that when executed by a processor cause a service specific virtual topology base, positioned in a network stratum, to receive a virtual service negotiation initiation message from an application stratum component, wherein the initiation message comprises a plurality of network source addresses, a plurality of network destination addresses, and a service specific objective, obtain a plurality of computed network paths that traverse a network of network stratum Network Elements (NEs) between the network source addresses and the network destination addresses and meet the service specific objective, and calculate service specific virtual topology that abstractly represents the computed service specific network paths.
US09276832B2
A wireless network node can include a wireless network antenna, a processor in communication with the wireless network antenna, and a non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer-executable code. The processor can be configured to calculate an initial buffer size. The processor can be configured to adjust the initial buffer size to a current buffer size based on a current network load.
US09276822B2
A method is disclosed for transmitting messages in a communications network with at least three communications nodes. At least one communications node always remains active and stores messages sent by a second communications node. If the second communications node switches to an idle state, the caching node is informed thereof by means of a sleep-event and takes over the sending of the messages for this node. By means of a wake-up event, the caching node obtains information that the second node has switched back into the active state and ceases sending the stored messages. Further nodes, which likewise can switch to the idle state at any time and possibly not receive messages sent by the second node during their own idle phase, thus do not notice anything about the idle state of the second node and operate on the assumption of an up-to-date status in the network at all times.
US09276814B2
Migration of profiles between virtual connect domains is described. In an example, a plurality of validations are performed on a profile from a first virtual connect domain virtualizing devices using a first configuration. The profile is updated based on a second virtual connect domain virtualizing devices using a second configuration. The profile is moved for use by a device in the second virtual connect domain.
US09276808B2
An application, peer and method for determining a faulty peer in a structured Peer-to-Peer overlay network. The overlay network includes plural peers besides the faulty peer. The method includes determining that a message sent from a given peer to a target peer along a first path did not reach the target peer; determining an intermediate peer at which the message had arrived; using a second path to send the message from the given peer to the target peer; determining that the message had arrived at the target peer on the second path; adjusting a node identifier (nodeID) of at least one of the target peer and the intermediate peer to obtain a new target peer or a new intermediate peer; and reusing the first and second paths to send the message to the new target peer or the new intermediate peer until the faulty peer is detected.
US09276805B2
The present disclosure provides a method for backing up a link state advertisement (LSA) for use in a distributed device comprising a main control board and an interface board. The main control board comprises a primary board and a standby board. The method comprises: receiving by the standby board LSA related information sent by the primary board; and generating by the standby board an LSA according to the LSA related information.
US09276804B2
A method and system for providing a payment network via a plurality of multiprotocol label switching networks using a network interface device are provided. The method includes receiving, a first network message containing financial transaction data from a first one of a plurality of multiprotocol label switching networks, determining a destination of the financial transaction data from the network message, transmitting the financial transaction data to a second one of the plurality of multiprotocol label switching networks using a second network containing the financial transaction data, where at least one of the first one and the second one of the plurality of multiprotocol label switching networks is an Internet-based network that provides back-up access for transmitting the financial transaction data between a payment card interchange network and at least one of an issuer bank and a merchant bank using a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel inside an IPSec connection.
US09276800B2
The present invention relates to a single frequency synthesizer based FDD transceiver. A single frequency synthesizer generates and provides a carrier frequency so that frequency up-conversion and frequency down-conversion can be performed at the time of transmission and reception. Accordingly, the area, power consumption, and design complexity of the entire system can be reduced, and the performance of the system can be improved.
US09276793B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; receiving a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; receiving a cyclic shift indicator (CSI) indicating a cyclic shift for a sequence and an orthogonal covering code; acquiring the reference signal for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), based on the third parameter and the CSI; and transmitting the reference signal on the PUSCH. Sequence hopping and group sequence hopping are disabled for the reference signal, regardless of values of the first parameter and the second parameter, if the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled. The sequence hopping includes hopping between two sequences in a group, and the group sequence hopping includes hopping among different groups.
US09276788B2
A method of joint demodulating and demapping of a digital signal includes receiving a first sequence of the digital signal. The digital signal has a pattern in which a norm of an ideal transmitted sequence of symbols for zero is equal to a norm of an ideal transmitted sequence of symbols for one. The method also includes defining a portion of the first sequence as a third sequence, determining, for each element of a set of the third sequence, one of a real part of a value or an imaginary part of the value of the element, calculating a value for a combination of the determined one of the real part of the value or the imaginary part of the value for the each element of the set, and setting a bit equal to one in response to the value for the combination being less than zero.
US09276776B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to establish at least a portion of a media session between a session exchange device and a network entity based on at least a portion of a session description. The session exchange device and the network entity being associated with a media over internet protocol (MoIP) network. The method includes receiving an indicator at the session exchange device that the portion of the session description is not associated with a predefined data-transfer-rate value. A request for a user-defined data-transfer-rate value is sent in response to the indicator.
US09276769B2
A device having circuit bundles and a method of configuring the network device to provide resiliency and protection for network circuits. A circuit bundle provides the ability to group multiple circuits of the same type for resiliency/protection. There is an active virtual circuit that is selected based on a user configured priority value defining priority for carrying circuit traffic. When the active virtual circuit fails, alternative virtual circuits are selected to carry the circuit traffic, again based on user configured priority. Virtual circuits included in the circuit bundle can have different destinations, and include at least multipoint virtual circuits.
US09276763B2
The communication apparatus intermittently carries out receiving operation during a predetermined reception period. The apparatus includes a wireless communication section for carrying out wireless communication, which includes a carrier sensor for sensing a carrier at the beginning of the communication, and a carrier sense switching section for using carrier sense levels different between packet transmission and reception to switch the carrier sense level of the carrier sensor according to the packet. Thus, the apparatus can use and flexibly adjust the optimum carrier sense level for the intermittent receiving operation within the reception period.
US09276756B2
Techniques that enable a network device such as a router to provide multicast routing services without interruption, even in the event of a switchover. An incremental updates technique is used to synchronize multicast information maintained by a first processor and multicast information maintained by a second processor. The first processor may be a management processor operating in active mode in a network device and the second processor may be a management processor operating in standby mode in the network device. The second processor may also be a processor on a linecard of the network device.
US09276732B2
Frequency synchronizing a local oscillator in a remote unit in a distributed antenna system (DAS) used for frequency shifting communications signals based on a received digital pulse signal from a central unit. A remote unit receives a frequency shifted downlink communications signal and a reference pulse signal indicative of a frequency of a reference oscillator from a central unit. To recover the original signal, a mixing frequency signal generated by a local oscillator is used. To recover a signal having the same frequency as the original signal, the local oscillator should be the same or substantially the same frequency as the frequency used to create the frequency shifted version. A time difference signal indicating the frequency difference between the oscillators is calculated. A frequency adjustment signal is provided to the local oscillator based on the time difference signal to decrease the frequency difference between the oscillators.
US09276718B2
A method and a system for providing communication between at least one wireless client device through a connectivity to a corresponding dedicated access point, as well as locating and recognizing a plurality of neighboring access points, the method including notifying, by the dedicated access point, a predetermined absence period to a wireless client device to which the dedicated access point communicates, the dedicated access point becoming a client to a second access point during the predetermined absence period, receiving, by the dedicated access point as a client, data corresponding to a backhaul bandwidth of the at least second access point and aggregating the received backhaul data from the second access point to the dedicated access point's own backhaul data, and sending, by the dedicated access point, the aggregated backhaul bandwidth data to the wireless client device after the predetermined absence period has lapsed.
US09276716B2
In one embodiment, sensor data is transported in a network to a rendezvous point network node, which consolidates the information into a consolidated result which is communicated to the destination. Such consolidation by a network node reduces the number of paths required in the network between the sensors and the destination. One embodiment includes acquiring, by each of a plurality of originating nodes in a wireless deterministic network, external data related to a same physical event; communicating through the network said external data from each of the plurality of originating nodes to a rendezvous point network node (RP) within the network; processing, by the RP, said external data from each of the plurality of originating nodes to produce a consolidated result; and communicating the consolidated result to a destination node of the network. In one embodiment, the network is a low power lossy network (LLN).
US09276708B2
After an evolved Node-B (eNB) has selected primary component carriers and secondary component carriers, the eNB can transmit (for example, by broadcast), the information for secondary usage (such as certain conditions) to devices. The devices can also be machines or the like that are able to operate on cellular system resources, for example, machine-to-machine type communication in a cellular system. The devices can figure out component carrier utilization in the cells they can detect. Furthermore, the devices can estimate the interference caused by themselves based on the eNB's broadcasting conditions as well as upon additional information, in some circumstances. Finally, the devices can then decide whether to establish device-to-device (D2D) or other secondary communication connection themselves by using the secondary component carriers.
US09276707B2
A method of transmitting data from a wireless network node over a MIMO channel to a wireless terminal may include transmitting first and second transport data blocks to the wireless terminal over the MIMO channel. Responsive to receiving a NACK message from the wireless terminal corresponding to the first and second transport data blocks, the first and second transport data blocks may be retransmitted to the wireless terminal over the MIMO channel.
US09276705B2
A data transportation/reception apparatus and method in a mobile communication system. The data transportation apparatus and method divides transport data bits into bits having higher priority and bits having lower priority, maps the bits having higher priority to bit positions having higher reliability, and maps the bits having lower priority to bit positions having lower reliability. The data reception apparatus and method demodulates received modulated symbols, divides the demodulated coded bits into two coded bit groups according to priority, deinterleaving the coded bit groups using different deinterleavers, and decodes the deinterleaved coded bits.
US09276702B2
A method is provided for transmitting an Application Layer-Forward Error Correction (AL-FEC) packet by an AL-FEC packet transmission apparatus in a multimedia communication system. AL-FEC packets are generated. The AL-FEC packets are transmitted to an AL-FEC packet reception apparatus. Each of the AL-FEC packets includes an AL-FEC codeword symbol and an AL-FEC header, and the AL-FEC codeword symbol is one of AL-FEC codeword symbols included in an AL-FEC codeword block. The AL-FEC header includes order information indicating an order of an AL-FEC codeword symbol into which the AL-FEC header is inserted among the AL-FEC codeword symbols included in the AL-FEC codeword block.
US09276700B2
Methods and apparatus to report link quality measurements for downlink dual carrier operation are disclosed. Example methods and apparatus disclosed herein implement one or more example techniques for reporting link quality measurements involving, for example, modifying measurement reporting messages to increase the number and/or types of link quality measurements that can be reported, permitting mobile stations, when appropriate, to use different reporting messages capable of supporting more link quality measurements, and/or prioritizing certain link quality measurements to be reported when the reporting messages do not contain sufficient space to report all requested and/or specified link quality measurements.
US09276699B2
A method and apparatus for controlling wireless communications by a multi-radio communication device is disclosed. An error control mechanism can be operated in accordance with a first mode of operation. Switching to a second mode of operation is provided in response to determining occurrence of a period of communication restrictions that is longer than a threshold. The error control mechanism is then operated in accordance with the second mode of operation during the period.
US09276698B2
A system and method may provide user equipment (UE)-implemented inter-cell interference mitigation. In some implementations, a method in a user equipment for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) indicator determination includes separating received Physical HARQ Indicator Channel (PHICH) modulation symbols into two data streams: (1) PHICH modulation symbols including interference from Cell-specific Reference Symbol (CRS) transmissions, and (2) PHICH modulation symbols including substantially no interference from the CRS transmissions. The UE separately evaluates the PHICH modulation symbols including interference and the PHICH modulation symbols including substantially no interference. The UE determines a Hybrid ARQ indicator based upon a combination of the separate evaluations of the PHICH modulation symbols including interference and the PHICH modulation symbols including substantially no interference.
US09276678B1
A signal distribution system includes global positioning system receivers in communication with optical line terminals and a system manager. Each global positioning system receiver receives a signal from a corresponding global positioning system satellite. Each optical line terminal includes a management card and a line card. The management card receives a signal from a corresponding global positioning system receiver. Each line card receives a signal from each management card and determines a signal drift and a phase precision for each signal. The system manager receives a failure communication for a global positioning system signal from a line card when the signal drift of the global positioning system signal is above a threshold signal drift or the phase precision of the signal is below a threshold phase precision. The system manager identifies a failure location of the signal within the system based on one or more received failure communications.
US09276677B2
According to one embodiment, a photo detector-combined illuminance sensor includes a circuit for a Photo Detector (PD) function to detect the illuminance of the ambient environment. The illuminance sensor operates under the control of a controller in a visible light communication terminal. When an optical signal detected by the illuminance sensor is a visible light communication signal, the controller switches to cause the illuminance sensor to operate as the photo detector for the visible light communication in a visible light communication mode.
US09276670B2
A self-diagnostic method for PON protection system, in which optical switch-related failure can be previously inspected, and a PON protection system. A circuit is configured while an optical switch is switched so that signal light from an ONU is input to both a normal system OSU and a redundancy system OSU of an optical access network including the ONU, and there are conducted a circuit configuration test in which the signal light to the normal system OSU and the signal light to the redundancy system OSU are monitored for a predetermined period of time, and when the signal light to one of the OSUs and the signal light to the other do not correspond to each other, it is judged as abnormality and an open state test in which an optical switch is opened so that the signal light from the ONU is input to only the normal system OSU of the optical access network including the ONU, a circuit of the redundancy system OSU and the ONU is brought into an open state, the signal light to redundancy system OSU is monitored for a predetermined time of period, and when the signal light to the redundancy system exists, it is judged as abnormality.
US09276668B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for fast-synching a wireless Bluetooth connection using a first device's wireless identifier is provided. One implementation of the present invention modulates the wireless identifier as a sonic Bluetooth code over a sonic carrier signal. To send the wireless identifier, one implementation accesses a storage area associated with the first wireless device holding the sonic carrier signal. Aspects of the invention then transmit the sonic Bluetooth code as modulated over the sonic carrier signal. A sonic transducer, such as a microphone on the second wireless device, receives the sonic carrier signal and wireless identifier for demodulation. In response, the second wireless device requests to establish a physical channel with the first wireless device using the wireless identifier received over the sonic carrier signal.
US09276666B1
A wireless-communication system includes a first network and a second network (e.g., an EV-DO network and a 1xRTT network, respectively). A wireless-communication-system entity determines that a mobile station is engaged in a first type of communication (e.g., a voice call) via the first network. In response to making the determination, the entity configures the second network to send second-network data (e.g., 1xRTT page messages) to the mobile station via an inter-network connection interface.
US09276665B1
Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing network access services to mobile users via mobile terminals over a satellite system. In embodiments, dynamic multiplexing of traffic from fixed terminals and mobile users on the same satellite beam can take advantage of statistical multiplexing of large numbers of users and on different usage patterns between fixed terminals and mobile users. In embodiments, quality-of-service (QoS) is controlled for mobile devices at a per-user level. Mobile users may be provisioned on the satellite system according to a set of traffic policies based on their service level agreement (SLA). System resources of the satellite may be allocated to mobile users based on the demand of each mobile user and the set of traffic polices associated with each mobile user, regardless of which mobile terminal is used to access the system.
US09276663B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing layer-2 connectivity through a non-routed ground segment network, are described. A system includes a non-autonomous gateway in communication with a satellite configured to relay data packets. The non-autonomous gateway is configured to receive the data packets from the satellite at layer-1 (LI) of the OSI-model, generate a plurality of virtual tagging tuples within the layer-2 packet headers of the plurality of data packets. The non-autonomous gateway is further configured to transmit, at layer-2 (L2) of the OSI-model, the virtually tagged data packets. Each of the packets may include a virtual tagging tuple and an entity destination. The system further includes a L2 switch in communication with the non-autonomous gateway. The L2 switch may be configured to receive the data packets and transmit the data packets to the entity based on the virtual tuples associated with each of the data packets.
US09276657B2
Although orthonormal space-time coding matrices provide for optimal communication system performance in that associated correlation matrices include no non-zero off-diagonal elements, unity code rate orthonormal coding matrices are difficult to identify for arbitrary communication network equipment. According to embodiments of the present invention, non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices, for which associated correlation matrices include non-zero off-diagonal elements, are used to encode data symbols. The non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices are more easily determined, and undesirable effects of the non-zero off-diagonal components are reduced by selecting a coding matrix from among a number of such matrices. For example, a particular space-time coding matrix may be selected from a number of generated space-time coding matrices based on a number of non-zero off-diagonal elements or a power of a trace of the associated correlation matrices.
US09276653B2
A system that facilitates antenna selection and pilot reduction in a multi-antenna system is provided. During operation, in response to an activating event, the system performs a full pilot transmission by transmitting pilot signals through all available transmit antennas at a base station. The system then determines the selected subset of transmit antennas by receiving lists of selected antennas from mobile stations associated with preferred users, wherein a given mobile station selects a list of antennas in response to pilot signals received during the full pilot transmission. The system then combines the received lists to produce the selected subset, wherein the selected subset includes all antennas which appear in the received lists of selected antennas. Next, during normal system operation, the system periodically performs a selected pilot transmission by transmitting pilot signals through a selected subset of the available transmit antennas.
US09276650B2
A wireless communication apparatus and a response control method wherein in a case of applying Persistent Allocation (PA) to MU-MIMO, the increase in the resources to be used in the feedback can be precluded. In a terminal, a response control unit causes, based on the type of downstream allocation control information, on an error detection result obtained by an error detecting unit and on a response rule table, a response signal to be transmitted by use of an upstream response resource designated in the downstream allocation control information. In the response rule table used in reception of a notification of MU-MIMO reallocation, respective different types of response signals are associated with a first case where there are no errors in the received downstream data of the designated resource designated in the downstream allocation control information received before that notification, a second case where the notification of MU-MIMO reallocation is successfully received and further there are no errors in the received downstream data of the designated resource, and a third case where the notification of MU-MIMO reallocation is not successfully received and further there are any errors in the received downstream data of the designated resource.
US09276649B2
The present invention relates to transmit power allocation in multi-carrier, multiplexing MIMO communication systems. The present invention especially relates to a MIMO communication device, a method of assigning transmit power to two or more communication channels and a software program product. A multiple-input-multiple-output, MIMO, communication device according to the present invention comprises a link controller adapted to assign transmit power to two or more transmission channels, each of said transmission channels having preassigned a portion of transmit power for each of a group of subcarriers, said link controller being further adapted to assign, for each subcarrier of said group of subcarriers, at least part of the preassigned transmit power portion of a transmission channel that is not used for transmitting information at the subcarrier, to one or more transmission channels that are used for transmitting information at the subcarrier.
US09276644B2
A system has a boundary conductor unit, which is intended to emit a boundary signal, and an at least partially independent mobile unit, which is intended to detect a boundary provided by the boundary conductor unit by means of cross-correlation. It is proposed that the mobile unit has at least one receiving unit which is intended to receive data transmitted by means of the boundary signal.
US09276643B2
A mobile wireless communications device may include a near field communication (NFC) transceiver and a controller coupled with the NFC transceiver. The controller may be configured to receive tag data from at least one NFC tag when in close proximity thereto via the NFC transceiver, verify the tag data, and when the tag data is successfully verified, perform at least one device unlock operation. The controller may be further configured to determine whether the tag data should be changed based on a predetermined schedule, and if it is determined that the tag data should be changed, communicate with the at least one NFC tag to change the tag data.
US09276616B2
An integrated circuit chip including a first inductor; a second inductor having n1 turns and located a distance r1 from the first inductor; and a third inductor having n2 turns and located a distance r2 from the first inductor; wherein the second and third inductors are coupled so as to cause current to circulate around the second inductor in a first rotational direction and around the third inductor in a second rotational direction opposite to the first rotational direction; and wherein n1, n2, r1 and r2 are such that current induced in the first inductor due to magnetic coupling from the second inductor is negated by current induced in the first inductor due to magnetic coupling from the third inductor.
US09276611B2
A low-density parity check convolution code (LDPC-CC) is made, and a signal sequence is sent after being subjected to an error-correcting encodement using the low-density parity check convolution code. In this case, a low-density parity check code of a time-variant period (3g) is created by linear operations of first to 3g-th (letter g designates a positive integer) parity check polynomials and input data.
US09276606B2
Various embodiments provide a method for processing encoded data bits transmitted over a lossy communication channel. In some embodiments, the method receives the encoded data bits over the communication channel, the encoded data bits including redundant data units; decodes the encoded data bits at an error correction decoder, wherein the recovery of lost data is implemented at the error correction decoder using at least one of the redundant data units; determining if at least one data bit is unable to be recovered due to the decoder finding a plurality of candidate bit values for the at least one data bit; receives information relating to the transmitter; analyzing the plurality of candidate bit values to exclude at least one of the candidate bit values for the at least one data bit using information relating to the transmitter; and resolves the at least one data bit based on the analysis.
US09276600B2
An output changing method of an A/D conversion apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a pulse delay circuit in which delay units are connected in series, and an encoding circuit which detects the number of stages of the delay units, through which a pulse signal passes during predetermined measurement time, and generates numeric data corresponding to the number of stages. The apparatus receives an analog input signal as power supply voltage of the pulse delay circuit to perform A/D conversion for the analog input signal. The method includes determining whether or not the analog input signal is within an allowable voltage range in which the apparatus operates normally, outputting the numeric data as an A/D conversion value if the analog input signal is within the range, and outputting numeric data formed of a specified value as the A/D conversion value if the analog input signal is not within the range.
US09276599B2
A method and apparatus for converting an analog input into a final digital output. A first digital output is generated in response to receiving an analog input at a first converter. A second digital output is generated in response to receiving the analog input at a second converter. The first digital output is output to form the final digital output when an amplitude of the analog input is within a first portion of an overall range of amplitudes for the analog input and the second digital output is output to form the final digital output when the amplitude is within a second portion of the overall range of amplitudes.
US09276598B1
One or more high-order bit linear branches of a segmented DAC are implemented as R-2R networks geometrically down-scaled from the DAC binary portion by a selected factor. The resulting increase in closely-located mismatch is compensated for by implementing a trim circuit at a low-order end of each such linear branch. The trim circuit is designed with a number of trim steps to compensate for the selected linear branch down-scaling factor. Each trim step switches a resistance into the low-order end of the linear branch resulting in an even resistance increment or decrement at the lumped linear branch output. The trim circuit is calibrated to provide an amount of trim at the linear branch output such that the lumped resistance of the trimmed linear branch matches the lumped resistance of the binary portion within a selected tolerance (e.g., generally +/−0.5 LSB).
US09276594B2
Noise may be reduced by delaying signal propagation outside of a time window when a change in another signal is expected. A time window may be defined between the change of the first clock signal and the change of the second clock signal during which a third signal, such as a data signal, does not propagate through the circuit. When a change occurs in a third signal after the first clock signal change while the first clock signal is at a different level than a second clock signal, propagation of the third signal change may be delayed until a change in the second clock signal is received. Delayed propagation may be achieved through a latch and hold circuit with no metastability.
US09276588B2
According to one embodiment, a phase estimating device includes a periodic signal obtaining unit that obtains a first periodic signal, and a wireless time synchronizing unit that synchronizes a reference time with that of a signal generating device by wirelessly communicating with the signal generating device that outputs a second periodic signal according to phase information. The phase estimating device includes a reference time storing unit that stores the reference time synchronized with that of the signal generating device by the wireless time synchronizing unit. The phase estimating device includes a phase determining unit that obtains sampled times from the reference time storing unit at timing at which the first periodic signal rises above or falls below a predetermined level, and determines phase information on a phase of the first periodic signal based on the obtained sampled time and period information on a period of the first periodic signal.
US09276584B2
An oscillator includes a compensated current source that adjusts an output current based on process, supply voltage, and temperature (“PVT”) variations of an integrated circuit device. The oscillator generates an output signal having a frequency based, in part, on the output current of the compensated current source. Accordingly, the output signal has a relatively low sensitivity to PVT variations.
US09276583B1
Embodiments of an invention for soft dark bit masking are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a basic physically unclonable function (PUF) cell, a load, and a masking circuit. The load is selectively connectable to the basic PUF cell to determine whether the basic PUF cell is unstable. The masking circuit is to mask the output of the basic PUF cell if the basic PUF cell is determined to be unstable. Embodiments of the invention also include mechanisms to reinforce the stability of stable cells, while further destabilizing unstable cells.
US09276579B2
A dynamic logic gate includes a nano-electro-mechanical-switch, preferably a four-terminal-nano-electro-mechanical-switch. The invention further refers to dynamic logic cascade circuits comprising such a dynamic logic gate. In particular, embodiments of the invention concern dynamic logic cascade circuits comprising single or dual rail dynamic logic gates.
US09276571B2
System and method are provided for driving a transistor. The system includes a floating-voltage generator, a first driving circuit, and a second driving circuit. The floating-voltage generator is configured to receive a first bias voltage and generate a floating voltage, the floating-voltage generator being further configured to change the floating voltage if the first bias voltage changes and to maintain the floating voltage to be lower than the first bias voltage by a first predetermined value in magnitude. The first driving circuit is configured to receive an input signal, the first bias voltage and the floating voltage. The second driving circuit is configured to receive the input signal, a second bias voltage and a third bias voltage, the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit being configured to generate an output signal to drive a transistor.
US09276568B2
A reference voltage (Vref) generator for a single-ended receiver in a communication system is disclosed. The Vref generator in one example comprises a cascoded current source for providing a current, I, to a resistor, Rb, to produce the Vref voltage (I*Rb). Because the current source isolates Vreffrom a first of two power supplies, Vref will vary only with the second power supply coupled to Rb. As such, the Vref generator can be used in systems employing signaling referenced to that second supply but having decoupled first supplies. For example, in a communication system in which the second supply (e.g., Vssq) is common to both devices, but the first supply (Vddq) is not, the disclosed Vref generator produces a value for Vref that tracks Vssq but not the first supply.
US09276564B1
A nanomechanical device, operating as a reprogrammable logic gate, and performing fundamental logic functions such as AND/OR and NAND/NOR. The logic function can be programmed (e.g., from AND to OR) dynamically, by adjusting the operating parameters of the resonator. The device can access one of two stable steady states, according to a specific logic function; this operation is mediated by the noise floor which can be directly adjusted, or dynamically tuned via an adjustment of the underlying nonlinearity of the resonator, i.e., it is not necessary to have direct control over the noise floor. The demonstration of this reprogrammable nanomechanical logic gate affords a path to the practical realization of a new generation of mechanical computers.
US09276560B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data filter tuning. As an example, a method for filter tuning is disclosed that includes: providing a tunable filter having an operation filter and a calibration filter; applying a low frequency test input to the operation filter in place of an input signal to yield a first filter output; calculating a low frequency magnitude value corresponding to the first filter output; applying a high frequency test input to the operation filter in place of an input signal to yield a second filter output; calculating a high frequency magnitude value corresponding to the second filter output; modifying a tuning factor of the calibration filter when a ratio of the high frequency magnitude value and the low frequency magnitude value is outside of a defined range; and storing the tuning factor of the calibration filter when the ratio of the high frequency magnitude value and the low frequency magnitude value is within the defined range.
US09276558B2
In a surface acoustic wave device, a plurality of surface acoustic wave elements include piezoelectric bodies having the same cut-angle. A propagation azimuth of a surface acoustic wave in at least one of surface acoustic wave elements is different from a propagation azimuth of a surface acoustic wave in at least another one of the surface acoustic wave elements. In each of the surface acoustic wave elements, a confinement layer configured to confine the surface acoustic wave inside the piezoelectric body is disposed on the piezoelectric body at the side opposite to the side where an electrode is located.
US09276552B2
A directional coupler that provides directional coupling and an impedance transformation is disclosed. In one embodiment, the directional coupler includes a low pass filter having a filter inductor that is coupled between an input port and an output port and a filter capacitor coupled between the output port and ground. The directional coupler also includes detector circuitry wherein the filter inductor is magnetically coupled to a detector inductor in the detector circuitry such that current passing through the filter inductor generates a detector current through the detector inductor. Furthermore, the low pass filter and the detector circuitry cooperate to transform a first impedance presented at the output port to a second impedance presented at the input port. Accordingly, the filter inductor is used in the low pass filter to provide an impedance transformation so as to operate with the detector circuitry to provide a detector current for directional coupling.
US09276549B1
A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a top outer layer, a bottom outer layer, a signal transmission layer, an inner signal transmission layer, and a via system defined in the PCB. The via system includes two pairs of vias configured to transmit signals from a transmitter to a receiver. A signal transmission pathway is defined in the top outer layer, the signal transmission layer, and the inner signal transmission layer. Signals are sent from the transmitter to a first pair of vias, the signals are transmitted from the first pair of vias to a second pair of vias, and the signals are sent from the second pair of vias to the receiver. The two pairs of vias and the signal transmission pathway provide impedance matching to the signals.
US09276547B2
A cascaded arrangement of resonant tanks capable of widening frequency selection and tuning within an RF circuit is presented. Moreover, usage of DTC allows for larger frequency tuning per tank as well as handling of higher voltage swings while maintaining high linearity across the tuning range.
US09276545B2
Various embodiments described herein relate to a power management block and one or more amplification blocks used in the transmitter of a communication subsystem. The power management block provides improved control for the gain control signal provided to a pre-amplifier and the supply voltage provided to a power amplifier, both of which are included in a selected one of the amplification blocks. The power expended by the power amplifier is optimized by employing a continuous control method in which one or more feedback loops are employed to take into account various characteristics of the transmitter components and control values. Post power amplifier transmission power is detected for input into the one or more feedback loops executed in the power management block. A controller for the power amplifier is design to stabilize the system with respect to gain expansion in the power amplifier.
US09276535B2
A transconductance amplifier comprises a set of amplifier stages. The last stage of the amplifier is split with a certain ratio whereby one part is used to deliver output current and other part to deliver feedback current to the input.
US09276533B2
A distortion compensation apparatus compensates for non-linear distortion of a power amplifier. The distortion compensation apparatus includes a pre-distorter, a learning unit, and a gain control unit. During training of the pre-distorter, the learning unit repeatedly updates a compensation coefficient on the basis of signals output from the power amplifier. While the training continues after update of the compensation coefficient, the gain control unit performs gain control on a signal before input to the power amplifier.
US09276530B1
A class-D audio amplifier incorporates an overcurrent protection scheme implementing two overcurrent thresholds to avoid a dynamic impedance drop. When output current reaches the first threshold as a result of an impedance drop across the speaker, the overcurrent protection circuitry limits the output current to the value of the first threshold, but does not shut down the circuit. The second threshold is used to detect an overcurrent condition to shut down the circuit. Current limiting logic of a first channel monitors the overcurrent condition of a second channel and controls the first channel output in response thereto. This permits the second channel output current to reach the second threshold if the circuit is experiencing a short-circuit condition. This scheme also allows the output current to drop below the first threshold if the overcurrent condition of the second channel is caused by an impedance drop across the output speaker.
US09276521B2
A clamp for securing photovoltaic panels to a support tube of a photovoltaic panel array has a lower brace for positioning on the support tube perpendicular to the support tube. The lower brace has a central web with a pair of side walls depending from opposite edges of the web. Support shoulders are formed in the side walls. Straps have tabs on an upper end that land on the support shoulders. An upper brace has flanges for engaging upper edge surfaces of adjacent ones of the panels. At least one deflectable standoff positions the upper brace a distance from the lower brace that is selected to be greater than a thickness of the adjacent ones of the panels. Tightening bolts between the braces deflects the standoff and draws the upper brace toward the lower brace to clamp the adjacent ones of the panels between the lower and upper braces.
US09276508B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an inverter device for driving an electric motor, which allows control stability and efficiency to be ensured over a wide region of the speed of the electric motor. The inverter device includes a rotational-speed detection section which detects a rotational speed of the electric motor, a carrier-frequency calculation section which calculates a carrier frequency on the basis of the detected rotational speed, and a carrier-frequency switching section which switches, on the basis of the calculated carrier frequency, the carrier frequency used for performing PWM control on the electric motor. The carrier-frequency calculation section calculates, as the carrier frequency, a frequency increased with an increase in the electric-motor rotational speed detected by the rotational-speed detection section.
US09276494B2
In some aspects of the invention, a zero current detecting circuit of a switching power supply device detects a gradient of the current flowing in an inductor in the OFF state of the switching element and detects the timing at which the current through the inductor becomes zero corresponding to the detected gradient of the inductor current. Specifically, the zero current detecting circuit receives a signal for controlling ON/OFF driving of the switching element and a voltage signal proportional to the current flowing through the inductor in an OFF state of the switching element. The voltage signal can be compared sequentially with first and second comparison reference voltages to control charging and discharging of a capacitor. Further, the zero current detecting circuit can detect a timing at which the charging and discharging voltage of the capacitor as the timing of zero current flowing through the inductor.
US09276490B2
Embodiments herein relate to setting a voltage of an adapter (100, 200). In an embodiment, the adapter is to measure a current output by the adapter, compare the measured current at the adapter to a first current and to output a DC voltage. The adapter is to set a level of the DC voltage output by the adapter based on the comparison.
US09276487B2
The present invention relates to a method of generating various alternating current waveforms, at power level. The AC mains power supply is rectified, processed by various circuits, controlled by a control unit and inverted as required at the output. This method may be employed with converter isolation from the mains. It is also possible to employ the system so that the input current is sinusoidal and the power factor of the converter is unity. The present invention produces preferably the sinusoidal output waveform with fundamental component at the desired frequency, where this waveform is produced employing a DC bus from which output voltage with the fundamental component at the desired shape and frequency is obtained using pulse width modulation techniques. The output stage is simply an inverter which inverts this waveform at zero-crossings of the rectified waveform to obtain an AC output.
US09276469B2
A DC-DC converter controls a supply current (IIN) provided to a rechargeable battery. The converter comprises an electrical input terminal that receives supply current (IIN). An electrical output terminal is connected to the battery through a coil with a resistor in series therebetween. A controllable selector connects the input terminal to the output terminal during a first time interval in order to supply the battery and to connect the input terminal to a ground potential during a successive second time interval. Also, a feedback module generates a control signal for the selector from a resistor feedback signal, indicative of a variation of a battery charge current (IOUT). The feedback module has an electronic block that receives the feedback signal. The electronic block processes the feedback signal to measure a variation of the supply current (IIN) and provide the control signal to adjust the duration of the first time interval.
US09276465B2
A switching regulator includes: a switching element that controlling supply of power supply voltage according to a control signal; a smoothing circuit smoothing the power supply voltage supplied via the switching element and supplying the smoothed power supply voltage as an output voltage to an output terminal; an error amplifier outputting an error signal according to a difference between the output voltage supplied to the output terminal and a reference voltage; a delta sigma modulation circuit generating a delta sigma modulation signal according to the error signal; and a power supply abnormality detection circuit outputting the delta sigma modulation signal as the control signal and detecting an abnormality in the power supply voltage based on the delta sigma modulation signal.
US09276463B2
A method and apparatus for low voltage conversion and energy storage uses a charge pump array including a first set of capacitors in parallel with a second set of capacitors and switches for selectively coupling the first and second set of capacitors to a variable input DC voltage. A data processor programmably controls one or more of the switches to couple the first and second set of capacitors to the variable input DC voltage for a variable first time period during which the input DC voltage charges the first and second set of capacitors to a DC voltage level. An energy storage device is switchably coupled to an output of the charge pump array. The data processor programmably controls one or more of the switches to couple the charge pump array output to the energy storage device for a variable second time period during which a voltage stored across each of the capacitors during the first time period is combined to produce a higher voltage significantly higher than the input DC voltage, the higher voltage being provided to the energy storage device.
US09276461B2
In an electric power steering driving unit provided with an electric motor that outputs auxiliary torque to a handwheel of a vehicle, a control apparatus having semiconductor switching devices that each control a current to the electric motor, and a noise filter that prevents noise, produced when the semiconductor switching devices each control a current to the electric motor, from being emitted, the noise filter is configured with a plurality of coils, capacitors that make pairs with the respective corresponding coils, and a bus bar that performs connections among the coils and the capacitors, and part of or all of the noise filter is configured as a structural member that is different from the control apparatus.
US09276454B2
An electromagnetic actuator includes a stator unit having N poles having the width LP, and at least one coil surrounding one of the poles, wherein N≦3, and a magnetic portion, which is movable, relative to the stator unit, in a direction of relative movement and over a course of travel C, and including N+1 magnetized areas, the magnetizations of which are perpendicular to the relative movement direction and in alternate directions. The magnetic portion includes a yoke for closing off the magnetic fluxes passing through the magnetized areas, the course of travel C of the magnetic portion being less than or equal to the width LP of each pole, and the thickness of the magnetized areas perpendicular to the direction of movement being less than the course of travel C of the magnetic portion.
US09276448B2
In order to enable simple, low-cost monitoring of a motor, a switch box cover for the motor, a condition monitoring system has a sensor unit for detecting a measured variable of the motor, a communication device, which is designed to provide a characteristic value that characterizes the measured variable to a reading device, and a supply unit for supplying the sensor unit with energy.
US09276442B2
A stator element is disclosed. The stator element includes a yoke including laminated metal plates and radially protruding teeth from one side of the yoke. A cooling cavity is arranged on a back side of the yoke. The cooling cavity provides a path for a flow of a cooling medium. A plated metal layer of the cooling cavity is disposed on the yoke only in a region where the cooling cavity contacts the back side of the yoke. The cavity is disposed in direct contact to the back side of the yoke.
US09276439B2
A power supply system includes one or more power transmitters and one or more power receivers: the one or more transmitters transmitting identification information and a power transmitting condition to the one or more receivers, receiving identification information and a power receiving condition from the one or more receivers, wirelessly transmitting power to the one or more receivers on the basis of the power transmitting and receiving conditions, and generating power transmission amount information indicating the amount of the transmitted power; the one or more receivers receiving identification information and a power transmitting condition from the one or more transmitters, transmitting identification information and a power receiving condition to the one or more transmitters, wirelessly receiving power from the one or more transmitters on the basis of the power transmitting and receiving conditions, generating power reception amount information, and transmitting the identification information and the power reception amount information.
US09276430B2
A multi-phase charging circuit comprises a device that can be configured for master mode operation or slave mode operation. In master mode operation, the device generates a control signal and a clock signal to control operation of a switching circuit for generating charging current. In slave mode operation, the device receives externally generated control and clock signals to control operation of its switching circuit.
US09276429B2
An apparatus for supplying power to a portable electronic device is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first receptacle to which an AC/DC adaptor is connectable, a second receptacle to which an electronic device is connectable, a battery charger for charging a battery using power supplied by the AC/DC adaptor, an output circuit for supplying power to the electronic device from the AC/DC adaptor when the AC/DC adaptor is connected to the apparatus, and supplies power to the electronic device from the battery when the AC/DC adaptor is not connected to the apparatus, and a control circuit for controlling the battery charger to supply power to the electronic device while charging the battery when the AC/DC adaptor is connected to the apparatus.
US09276426B2
An apparatus for charging a battery of an electric device that has a motor by not charging the battery before the electric device is used and a method of charging a battery of an electric device that has a motor by using the apparatus. The apparatus includes a load, a motor for driving the load, a battery that provides a power supply to the motor, a generator that converts a kinetic energy that is generated by the motor to an electric energy, and a control unit that senses an amount of the load of the load and, if the amount of the load is less than a reference value, charges the battery by a first charging mode by using the electric energy output from the generator.
US09276421B2
Embodiments include a portable rechargeable battery pack, system, and external adapter that allow the portable rechargeable battery pack to both power a host device though a set of host contacts and provide power through a set of charging contacts. The portable rechargeable battery pack includes a charge protection circuit that prevents an excessive discharge current through the charging contacts and allows high charge current when charging the portable rechargeable battery pack. A discharge circuit allows a low level discharge current through the charging contacts to provide power to other devices.
US09276415B2
A charging station which has a battery cell balancing system is disclosed. The charging station includes: a number of balancing charging units, each has: a detecting element for detecting a state of charge of a battery cell; and a charging element for processing charging to the battery cell; a power unit for providing electric power; and a charging control unit, linked to the balancing charging units, and the power unit, for controlling the electric power from the power unit to the charging element to charge the battery cell. The battery cell is linked in serial or parallel with other battery cells in a battery pack. The charging control unit stops the power unit to charge the battery cell when the state of charge of the battery cell detected by the detecting element is full or exceeds a predetermined value.
US09276413B1
A control scheme and architecture for a wireless electrical energy transmission circuit employs two solid-state switches and a zero voltage switching (ZVS) topology to power an antenna network. The switches drive the antenna network at its resonant frequency and simultaneously energize a separate resonant circuit that has a resonant frequency lower than the antenna circuit. The resonant circuit creates out of phase voltage and current waveforms that enable the switches to operate with (ZVS).
US09276408B2
A power system includes a first power source, a second power source, an automatic transfer switch, and a number of loads powered by an output of the automatic transfer switch. The automatic transfer switch includes a first input structured to receive power from the first power source, a second input structured to receive power from the second power source, the output, a transfer mechanism structured to electrically connect only one of the first input and the second input to the output, and a receiver structured to receive a serial communication message and cause the transfer mechanism to electrically connect only the second input to the output.
US09276404B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit and its operating method are provided. The present circuit has first and second supply terminals capable of supplying first and second power supply voltages respectively, an input voltage selection circuit coupled to the first and second supply terminals, and first and second power supply switches. The input voltage selection circuit includes a power-on reset circuit, an input voltage detection circuit and a control circuit. When the supply of the first or second power supply voltage to one of both supply terminals is detected upon completion of a power on reset operation, one of both power supply switches and the other thereof are controlled to on and off respectively. When the supply of both power supply voltages to both supply terminals is detected, the one thereof and the other thereof are respectively controlled to on and off according to the preset order of precedence.
US09276393B2
Circuit interrupting devices are provided. One circuit interrupting device includes a fault sensor configured to output a sensor signal; a voltage sensor configured to sense a reference voltage; and a controller configured to determine an occurrence of an actual fault based on the sensor signal and the reference voltage. The circuit interrupting device further includes an amplifier configured to receive the sensor signal and the reference voltage and output an amplified signal; an analog-to-digital converter configured to receive the reference voltage and the amplified signal and output respective digital signals corresponding to the reference voltage and the amplified signal; and a line interrupt assembly configured to interrupt current flow through a conductive path when a characteristic of the sensor signal exceeds an actual fault threshold.
US09276390B2
In a bus bar assembly includes a magnetic body having at least a first insertion hole and a second insertion hole and a bus bar. The bus bar is configured so that directions of electrical current flowing through it are opposed to each other at least once. The magnetic body includes a middle leg in the middle region located between portions of the bus bar. At least the middle leg defines a gap rendering a magnetic field discontinuous. The bus bar is configured to extend through the first insertion hole of the magnetic body from a first side of the magnetic body to a second side opposed to the first side with respect to an extending direction of the bus bar and further through the second insertion hole from the second side to the first side. The middle leg is located between the first and second insertion holes.
US09276386B2
A lead frame assembly having a lead frame made of a single layer, a housing substantially surrounding the lead frame, and a plurality of leads formed as part of the lead frame. The lead frame assembly also includes a plurality of interfaces, allowing various devices to interact with the lead frame, such as sensors, thermistors, solenoids, engine controllers, or electronic control units, or the like. The interfaces may be formed as part of the lead frame, oriented in different directions, and may be located in different planes, making the lead frame assembly suitable for applications with different packaging requirements. The interfaces may be a plurality of connectors, where one of the connectors has multiple rows of pins which are in communication with the rest of the connectors, facilitating the communication between the connector and various devices.
US09276384B2
An ignition plug includes a tubular ceramic insulator and a metallic shell having a protrusion protruding radially inward. The ceramic insulator has an engagement portion which is engaged with a receiving surface of the protrusion and an intermediate trunk portion extending rearward from the rear end of the engagement portion. A≦1.70 and B ≧1.20 are satisfied, where A is the thickness (mm) of the metallic shell along a direction which passes through the center of the receiving surface and is orthogonal to the axial line on a cross section including the axial line, and B is the minimum thickness (mm) of the metallic shell 3 at the tube portion along the direction orthogonal to the axial line.
US09276383B2
A spark plug includes a ceramic insulator having an engagement portion, and a metallic shell provided around the ceramic insulator and having a protrusion. The protrusion has a diameter-decreasing portion, which seats on the engagement portion via an annular seat packing. On a cross section including an axial line, θs>θp is satisfied, where θp represents an acute angle (°) between a straight line orthogonal to the axial line and the contour of the engagement portion, and θs represents an acute angle (°) between a straight line orthogonal to the axial line and the contour of the diameter-decreasing portion. In the aforementioned cross section, Hvo>Hvi is satisfied, where Hvo represents the Vickers hardness (Hv) of the seat packing at the midpoint of a first line segment, and Hvi represents the Vickers hardness (Hv) of the seat packing at the midpoint of a second line segment.
US09276380B2
A device for controlling light emissions and a method for fabricating the device are disclosed herein. A quantum well of an active region of a semiconductor device may comprise a quantum structure lattice having lattice geometries that satisfies the Bragg condition, such that inter-quantum structure distance d between a first quantum structure and a second quantum structure within the quantum structure lattice is an integer multiple of a emission half wavelength mλo/2n, where m is an integer, λo is a wavelength in free space, and n is a refractive index of a cladding material of the quantum well.
US09276370B2
Embodiments of the present invention are generally related to a high-power liquid-cooled pump and signal combiner and methods thereof for fiber optic applications. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a pump and signal combiner capable of conveying several kilowatts of pump laser power for kilowatt class rare-earth doped fiber amplifiers without suffering thermal damage. In one embodiment of the present invention, a high-power, heat dissipating optical fiber device comprises a section of optical fiber configured to propagate light, a cooling chamber, substantially encapsulating the optical fiber, and a fluid within the cooling chamber having a refractive index selected to control the interaction and propagation of the light in the fluid.
US09276365B2
An electrical connector includes an upper contact module, a lower contact module, an outer insulative housing inject-molded with the upper contact module and the lower contact module, a shielding mechanism at least partly fixed in the outer insulative housing and a metallic outer shell enclosing the outer insulative housing. The upper contact module includes a number of upper contacts and an upper housing inject-molded with the upper contacts. The lower contact module includes a number of lower contacts and a lower housing inject-molded with the lower contacts. The shielding mechanism and the metallic outer shell are in mechanical contact with each other for achieving a relative larger grounding area.
US09276364B2
The receptacle connector includes a central terminal mechanically and electrically connecting with a core wire of a coaxial cable connected to a plug connector, and an outer terminal mechanically and electrically connecting with an external conductor surrounding the core wire with an internal electrical-insulator being sandwiched therebetween, the central terminal including a first contact making contact with the core wire, and a second contact electrically connected to the first contact, passing through under the outer terminal and extending to the outside of the outer terminal, the second contact being formed with at least one of a cut-out and an opening in an area where the second contact overlaps the outer terminal.
US09276359B2
A cord coupling securement device secures a male plug to a female plug to prevent unintended disconnection of coupled extension cords. The device includes a first cable tie configured for coupling to a first cord adjacent to a first cord plug and a second cable tie configured for coupling to a second cord adjacent to a second cord plug engageable to the first cord plug. A strap extends transversely from a loop formed by coupling the first cable tie to the first cord. The strap is insertable through a receiver such that the strap is coupled to the receiver and the first cable tie is secured to the second cable tie.
US09276352B2
A lever (70) is rotatably mounted on a second lever-side connector (L2) connectable to a mating connector to extend between facing side surfaces. The lever (70) is rotatable substantially along a connecting direction between a connection surface of the second lever-side connector (L2) and a wire drawing surface (H). A correcting portion (71A) of a wire cover (71) mounted to cover the wire drawing surface is formed to rise at a position displaced toward a central part from a base portion (71B), and collects and accommodates wires (W) in the correcting portion (71A).
US09276350B1
A waterproof electric plug is provided with a housing including two forward prongs, an open rear end, a closed groove on the rear end, and a closed trough on the rear end wherein length of the trough is greater than that of the groove; a transformer in the housing and electrically connected to the prongs; a cap including a closed projection on a forward end, and a closed protrusion on the forward end wherein length of the protrusion is greater than that of the projection; an electrical socket disposed through the cap and electrically connected to the transformer; and adhesive disposed in the groove. The projection is complimentarily disposed in the groove to press the adhesive for forming a first waterproof structure. The protrusion is complimentarily disposed in the trough to form a second waterproof structure.
US09276349B2
A receptacle is provided to connect modular electronic instruments to each other. A box-shaped case has a front face having an opening for inserting a single modular electronic instrument into the box-shaped case. A first connector is disposed inside the box-shaped case to connect the single modular electronic instrument to the receptacle. A second connector is disposed on a first side face of the receptacle for connecting the receptacle to a first receptacle on the side of the first side face. A third connector is disposed on a second side face of the receptacle for connecting the receptacle to a second receptacle on the side of the second side face. A lock secures the connection with one of the first and second receptacles. A leg is disposed on the bottom face. The position of the leg is deviated only to one of the first or second side faces.
US09276339B2
A surface mount electrical interconnect adapted to provide an interface between contact pads on an LGA device and a PCB. The electrical interconnect includes a socket substrate having a first surface with a plurality of first openings having first cross-sections, a second surface with a plurality of second openings having second cross-sections, and center openings connecting the first and second openings. The center openings include at least one cross-section greater than the first and second cross-sections. A plurality of contact members are located in the socket substrate such that first contact tips are located proximate the first openings, second contact tips are located proximate the second openings, and center portions located in the center openings.
US09276337B2
A surface mount post header comprising at least one post and at least one lead, the post and the lead extending from a body and being distinct from each other, the body defining body's longitudinal axis, the lead configured to at least partially define a base of support for the post header on a surface of a substrate; the lead comprising a foot portion distal from the body, wherein at least one longitudinal portion of the foot portion forms an angle between 0 and 90 degrees with a projection of the body's longitudinal axis on the base of support is disclosed. In addition, a surface mount post header with a pick and place pad, and an assembly comprising the header and the substrate are disclosed.
US09276336B2
A surface mount electrical interconnect to provide an interface between a PCB and contacts on an integrated circuit device. The electrical interconnect includes a substrate with a plurality of recesses arranged along a first surface to correspond to the contacts on the integrated circuit device. Contact members are located in a plurality of the recess. The contact members include contact tips adapted to electrically couple with the contacts on the integrated circuit device. An electrical interface including at least one circuit trace electrically couples the contact member to metalized pads located along a second surface of the substrate at a location offset from a corresponding contact member. A solder ball is attached to a plurality of the metalized pads.
US09276333B1
A terminal block includes a terminal block body, an engaging member, an elastic member, and a hook member. The terminal block body includes left and intermediate blocking portions. The engaging member is slidably provided on the terminal block body and includes a clawed operating portion, a connecting portion connected to the operating portion, and a stop block provided on the operating portion in order to be blocked by the left blocking portion. A blocking portion is formed where the connecting portion and the operating portion are connected. The elastic member is provided in the operating portion and pressed between the intermediate blocking portion and the blocking portion. The hook member includes an upper end movably connected to the connecting portion, a hooked lower end, and a pivotal connecting portion located therebetween and pivotally connected to the terminal block body. The terminal block is space-saving and features increased convenience of operation.
US09276329B2
Ultra-wideband dual-band cellular dual-polarization base-station antennas and low-band radiators for such antennas are disclosed. The low-band radiator comprises a dipole and an extended dipole con figured in a crossed arrangement, a capacitively coupled feed connecting the extended dipole to an antenna feed, and a pair of auxiliary radiating elements. The dipole comprises two dipole arms, each of approximately λ/4, for connection to the antenna feed. The extended dipole has anti-resonant dipole arms of approximately λ/2. The auxiliary radiating elements are configured in parallel at opposite ends of the extended dipole. The radiator is adapted for the frequency range of 698-960 MHz and provides a horizontal beamwidth of approximately 65 degrees. The dual-band base-station antenna comprises high-band radiators configured in at least one array and low-band radiators interspersed amongst the high-band radiators at regular intervals.
US09276322B2
There is provided an antenna device that includes a substrate, a slot provided in the substrate so that the slot includes a cut opening that is close to an edge of the substrate and the slot includes a crooked portion, a conductor section configured to include a slit in an area of the substrate, the area being sandwiched by the slot in the crooked portion, and an antenna that is placed close to the conductor section and is side by side with a surface of the substrate.
US09276319B2
Electronic devices may be provided that include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antennas. An antenna may be formed from an antenna resonating element and an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may have a shorter portion that resonates at higher communications band frequencies and a longer portion that resonates at lower communications band frequencies. An extended portion of the antenna ground may form an inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element. The antenna resonating element may be formed from a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure that is separated from the antenna ground by an opening. A first antenna feed may be coupled between the peripheral conductive electronic device housing structures and the antenna ground across the opening. A second antenna feed may be coupled to the inverted-F antenna resonating element portion of the antenna resonating element.
US09276312B2
An antenna tuner control system includes an RF path, a lookup table and a state table analysis component. The RF path is configured to generate an RF signal. The lookup table has a state table that correlates antenna states with impedance values. The state table analysis component is configured to generate a tuner control signal from the RF signal using the lookup table.
US09276306B2
An automatically deployable, portable communications system includes an inflatable antenna stored in a case that also houses the antenna support assembly, drive mechanisms, inflation control modules, power supply modules and a control system. The case also includes a switch configured to close a circuit with the power supply module and initiate deployment and operation of the antenna when the case lid is opened.
US09276304B2
A power combining apparatus includes a waveguide structure and a plurality of antenna elements arranged in the waveguide structure, wherein each of the antenna elements comprises a center planar antenna layer, two outer planar antenna layers arranged on opposite sides of the center planar antenna layer, a non-conductive layer between the center planar antenna layer and one of the outer planar antenna layers, and another non-conductive layer between the center planar antenna and the other one of the outer planar antenna layers. The power combining apparatus includes a waveguide structure having an input, an output, and a plurality of antenna elements arranged in the waveguide structure, wherein each antenna element is configured to transform an electric field direction of an electromagnetic field by substantially 90 degrees rotation about a longitudinal axis of the waveguide structure, wherein a bandwidth of the antenna is less than, equal to, or greater than a decade of frequency range.
US09276302B2
A waveguide rotary joint includes a first waveguide portion for receiving a microwave signal, a second waveguide portion for outputting the received microwave signal, and a conductive pin including a first end and a second end distal from the first end, the first end arranged in and RF coupled to the first waveguide, and the second end arranged in and RF coupled to the second waveguide, and a choke cavity is arranged between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion. The first waveguide and the second waveguide are rotatable relative to each other about a longitudinal axis of the conductive pin.
US09276300B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing having a shaft extending therefrom. An end effector is operably supported at the distal end of the shaft includes a pair of jaw members. A generator operably coupled to the housing is in operable communication with a battery assembly of the surgical instrument to convert electrical energy into at least one of RF and ultrasonic energy to energize the at least one activatable jaw member. A thermally-activatable device in operable communication with either the generator or the battery assembly is configured to promote air-flow around the generator and battery assembly.
US09276296B2
A sensor device is provided for determining a pressure of a medium located inside a housing of an electrochemical energy storage. The sensor device includes a detection unit which may be or is inductively coupled to an electrically conductive layer, which is deflectable by the pressure of the medium to be determined. The detection unit is designed to inductively detect a distance, which is dependent on the pressure of the medium to be determined, between the layer and the detection unit, to determine the pressure of the medium from the distance.
US09276295B2
A storage battery arrangement includes a plurality of battery cells each having a cell housing having at least one cell terminal protruding from an end of the cell housing. The storage battery arrangement also includes a plurality of control units each having a control unit housing and electronic circuitry provided inside the control unit housing for monitoring and controlling at least one of the plurality of battery cells. The control units each include at least one control terminal extending to the outside of the control unit housing, the control terminal being electrically connected to the electronic circuitry. The size and shape of each of the control unit housings are substantially similar to the size and shape of the cell housings so that the control units can be arranged side-by-side among the battery cells and electrically connected the same way to the battery cells.
US09276286B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery having a structure in which a jelly-roll having a cathode/separator/anode structure is mounted in a cylindrical battery case, wherein a plate-shaped insulator mounted on the top of the jelly-roll includes a molded article made of a polymer resin or a polymer composite and a plurality of fine pores is perforated through the molded article.
US09276281B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for manufacturing a fuel cell membrane-electrode assembly by forming a catalyst layer, which has uniform distribution, excellent porosity, and excellent bondability to a polymer electrolyte membrane, on a metal roll by an electrospray process and transferring the catalyst layer to a polymer electrolyte membrane.
US09276278B2
Disclosed herein is a method of producing hydrogen, including selectively applying heat to a fuel within a canister thermally insulated and inside a cartridge, firing fuel with heating elements to facilitate decomposition and release hydrogen, and, removing said hydrogen from said cartridge via a fluid communication means.
US09276258B2
There are provided a positive electrode active material for an alkaline storage battery, a positive electrode for an alkaline storage battery, and an alkaline storage battery each of which has an excellent output characteristics and also has an excellent self-discharge characteristic and an excellent cycle lifetime characteristic. The positive electrode active material for an alkaline storage battery according to the present invention has nickel hydroxide particles each containing at least magnesium in a solid solution state and a cobalt compound layer coating the surface of each of the nickel hydroxide particles. Among them, the cobalt compound layer contains cobalt having an average valence of not less than 2.6 and not more than 3.0 and also contains sodium at a proportion of less than 0.10 wt % to the total weight of the cobalt compound layer. The positive electrode active material for an alkaline storage battery according to the present invention has a conductivity smaller than 1.0×10−5 S/cm in a state pressurized at 39.2 MPa.
US09276250B2
A battery array includes: a plurality of batteries arranged into 2N+1 bundles, each of the bundles including M+1 batteries of the batteries arranged in parallel (where N and M are natural numbers); a plurality of connection tabs arranged at a first end of the battery array and at a second end of the battery array, each of the connection tabs being coupled to a corresponding pair of the bundles to electrically couple a first bundle through a 2N+1th bundle of the bundles in series; a first output terminal having a first polarity, and electrically coupled to the first bundle; and a second output terminal having a second polarity, and electrically coupled to the 2N+1th bundle, the second output terminal being adjacent to the first bundle.
US09276241B2
The case for a molten salt battery is used for a molten salt battery containing as an electrolyte a molten salt containing sodium ions. The case is formed of aluminum or an aluminum alloy containing 90% by mass or more of aluminum.
US09276240B2
A laminate battery comprising: a flat electrode assembly having a main face and a side face having a smaller area than the main face; and a laminate casing having a cup portion that is capable of housing therein the electrode assembly. The laminate casing is sealed with the electrode assembly housed in the cup portion and has a reduced pressure interior. The cup portion includes a base portion that covers the main face of the electrode assembly, a side portion that extends along the side face of the electrode assembly, and a bend portion that extends from the base portion beyond the side face of the electrode assembly, forms a bend towards the side face of the electrode assembly, and connects with the side portion. An angle of a vertex of the bend is within a range of 40° to 85° inclusive.
US09276238B2
An organic light-emitting diode manufactured from an organic light-emitting diode substrate in which a concave-convex structure is provided in at least a part of the surface, in which the concave-convex structure is capable of obtaining an atomic force microscope (AFM) image in which a plurality of dots is dispersed when observed by an AFM. A histogram is created by measuring a diameter (nm) of each of the plurality of dots present in a randomly selected region having an area of 25 μm2 on the atomic force microscope image, resulting in a plurality of peaks including one main peak and one or more sub-peaks, and the chromaticity of light emitted from the organic light-emitting diode is in a range of (x, y)=(0.28 to 0.50, 0.29 to 0.45) in a CIE standard colorimetric system.
US09276236B1
The present invention provides an OLED element, a substrate (1), an OLED thin film element (2), being positioned on the substrate (1), an organic package thin film (3), being positioned on the substrate (1) and completely covering the OLED thin film element (2), an inorganic package thin film (4), being positioned on the substrate (1) and completely covering the organic package thin film (3), a protective cover (5) sealing the peripheric edges of the substrate (1) and mantling on the inorganic package thin film (4) and a rigid support plate (6) positioned at a side of the protective cover (5) away from the substrate (1). The OLED element of the present invention possesses the better mechanical property and is hard to be damaged by an external force. Meanwhile, the better airtightness protection can be provided to the OLED thin film element.
US09276232B2
A display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes a substrate, an encapsulation substrate disposed to face the substrate, a display unit formed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate and displaying an image, and a sealing unit disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation substrate to bond the substrate and the encapsulation substrate to each other and containing a filler containing Cr, Cu, and Mn and a glass frit mixed with the filler.
US09276230B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a display part on the substrate and configured to display an image, the display part including a thin-film transistor (TFT) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED); and a pad electrode on the substrate and outside the display part, and the pad electrode includes an embossed-shaped conductive reflective layer.
US09276229B2
A method is presented for reducing the light output capacity of light emitting components (C1, C2, C3), each with a different absorption band, of an OLED device (1). By irradiating at least a portion of each light emitting component (C1, C2, C3) with light (L) having a wavelength within at least one of the absorption bands, the light output capacity of the irradiated portion (P, P1, P2, P3) of each organic light emitting component having a light absorption band in which the wavelength of the light (L) is included is reduced. An OLED device (1) is also presented.
US09276224B2
The present invention has an object of providing a light-emitting device including an OLED formed on a plastic substrate, which prevents degradation due to penetration of moisture or oxygen. On a plastic substrate, a plurality of films for preventing oxygen or moisture from penetrating into an organic light-emitting layer in the OLED (“barrier films”) and a film having a smaller stress than the barrier films (“stress relaxing film”), the film being interposed between the barrier films, are provided. Owing to a laminate structure, if a crack occurs in one of the barrier films, the other barrier film(s) can prevent moisture or oxygen from penetrating into the organic light emitting layer. The stress relaxing film, which has a smaller stress than the barrier films, is interposed between the barrier films, making it possible to reduce stress of the entire sealing film. Therefore, a crack due to stress hardly occurs.
US09276223B2
The invention relates to novel metal-organic materials for hole injection layers in organic electronic components. For example, in light-emitting components such as organic light diodes (OLED) or organic light-emitting electrochemical cells (OLEEC) or organic field effect transistors or organic solar cells or organic photo detectors. Luminescence (cd/m2), efficiency (cd/A), and service life (h) of organic electronic components such as from organic light diodes in particular are highly dependent on the exciton thickness in the light-emitting layer and on the quality of the charge carrier injection and are also limited by same, among other things. The invention relates to a hole injection layer consisting of quadratic planar mononuclear transition metal complexes such as copper 2+ complexes, for example, which are embedded into a hole-conducting matrix.
US09276221B2
A light-emitting element that emits light with high luminance and can be driven at low voltage. The light-emitting element includes n (n is a natural number greater than or equal to 2) EL layers between an anode and a cathode, and includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer between an m-th (m is a natural number, 1≦m≦n−1) EL layer from the anode and an (m+1)th EL layer. The first layer functions as a charge-generation region, has hole-transport properties, and contains an acceptor substance. The third layer has electron-transport properties and contains an alkali metal or the like. The second layer is formed of a phthalocyanine-based material and is provided between the first layer and the third layer, whereby an injection barrier at the time of injecting electrons generated in the first layer into the m-th EL layer through the third layer can be lowered.
US09276220B2
An anthracene compound and organic light emitting diode including the same are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode includes, at least two stacks formed between a first electrode and a second electrode and a charge generation layer (CGL) including an N-type CGL and a P-type CGL formed between the stacks, wherein the N-type CGL is formed of the anthracene compound.
US09276210B1
In a thin-film resistor stack (e.g. A ReRAM embedded resistor), a metallic barrier layer 1-5 nm thick protects an underlying or overlying ternary metal nitride layer from unwanted oxidation while having negligible effect on the resistance or height of the stack. For devices subjected to temperatures over 650 C after forming the stack, the metallic barrier layer may be iridium or ruthenium. For devices with temperatures kept below 650 C after forming the stack, the metallic barrier layer may be Al. The metallic barrier layer(s) and the ternary nitride layer may be formed in situ, for example by sputtering or atomic layer deposition.
US09276208B2
A method for fabricating the phase change memory cells. The method includes forming an electrically conductive bottom electrode within a substrate. A heat shield is formed within the substrate and above the bottom electrode. The heat shield is thermally coupled to the bottom electrode, includes a sidewall and extends away from the bottom electrode. A heating element is formed within the sidewall of the heat shield. The heating element is electrically coupled to the bottom electrode and is configured to generate heat during programming of the phase change memory cell.
US09276207B2
A memory device, comprising: a phase change material; and an electrode configured to heat the phase change material to change a state of the phase change material, the electrode comprising a material having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance, wherein the electrode has a narrow wall-type shape comprising a broad vertical face and a narrow vertical edge that is narrower than the broad vertical face.
US09276204B2
A memristor with a channel region in thermal equilibrium with a containing region. The channel region has a variable concentration of mobile ions. The containing region, formed of stoichiometric crystalline material, contains and is in thermal equilibrium with the channel region.
US09276189B2
A thermoelectric material has a Heusler alloy type crystal structure and is based on an Fe2VAl basic structure having a total number of valence electrons of 24 per chemical formula. The thermoelectric material has a structure expressed by General Formula Fe2V1−ZAl1+Z, where 0.03≦z≦0.12, or General Formula Fe2V1−ZAl1+Z, where −0.12≦z≦−0.03, by controlling its chemical compositional ratio. The former acts as a p-type material and has a Seebeck coefficient whose absolute value reaches a peak at a temperature of 400 K or higher; and the latter acts as an n-type material and has a Seebeck coefficient whose absolute value reaches a peak at a temperature of 310 K or higher.
US09276186B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device is provided, including: providing a base, which includes a heat dissipation layer made of graphene; forming a buffer layer on the heat dissipation layer; and forming a light emission unit on the buffer layer. The light-emitting device so made includes a graphene-made heat dissipation layer that effectively dissipates away heat emitting from an emissive layer of the light emission unit so as to effectively reduce the temperature of the light-emitting device and extend the service life of the light-emitting device. Particularly, when the light-emitting device is a light-emitting diode, the emissive layer thereof is a quantum dot emissive layer for effectively improving color saturation of the light-emitting diode and enhancing color displaying performance of the light-emitting diode.
US09276178B2
In accordance with certain embodiments, semiconductor dies are embedded within polymeric binder to form, e.g., light-emitting dies and/or composite wafers containing multiple light-emitting dies embedded in a single volume of binder.
US09276177B2
An LED device with improved angular color performance has a silicone lens shaped as a portion of a sphere. The lens is molded over an array of LED dies disposed on the upper surface of a substrate. Phosphor particles are disbursed throughout the material used to mold the lens. The distance between farthest-apart edges of the LED dies is more than half of the length that the lens extends over the surface of the substrate. The distance from the top of the lens dome to the surface of the substrate is between 57% and 73% of the radius of the sphere. Shaping the lens as the top two thirds of a hemisphere reduces the non-uniformity in the emitted color such that neither of the CIE color coordinates x or y of the color changes more than 0.004 over all emission angles relative to the surface of the substrate.
US09276175B2
Provided are a light emitting device, a light emitting device package, and a lighting system. The light emitting device includes a light emitting structure, a buffer layer on the light emitting structure, and a filter layer on the buffer layer.
US09276159B2
A structure comprised of an InAsSb layer adjacent to a GaSb layer, with the adjacent InAsSb and GaSb layers repeating to form a superlattice (SL). The structure is preferably an unstrained SL, wherein the composition of the InAsSb layer is InAs0.91Sb0.09; the InAs0.91 Sb0.09 layers are preferably lattice-matched to the GaSb layers. The SL structure is preferably arranged such that the Sb component of the InAsSb layers reduces the strain in the SL structure so that it is less than that found in an InAs/GaSb Type-II Strained Layer Superlattice (SLS). The present SL structure is suitably employed as part of an infrared photodetector.
US09276157B2
Methods for treating a semiconductor layer including a semiconductor material are presented. A method includes contacting at least a portion of the semiconductor material with a passivating agent. The method further includes forming a first region in the semiconductor layer by introducing a dopant into the semiconductor material; and forming a chalcogen-rich region. The method further includes forming a second region in the semiconductor layer, the second region including a dopant, wherein an average atomic concentration of the dopant in the second region is greater than an average atomic concentration of the dopant in the first region. Photovoltaic devices are also presented.
US09276156B2
A solar cell includes a first layer having a first-layer lattice parameter, a second layer having a second-layer lattice parameter different from the first-layer lattice parameter, wherein the second layer includes a photoactive second-layer material; and a third layer having a third-layer lattice parameter different from the second-layer lattice parameter, wherein the third layer includes a photoactive third-layer material. A transparent buffer layer extends between and contacts the second layer and the third layer and has a buffer-layer lattice parameter that varies with increasing distance from the second layer toward the third layer, so as to lattice match to the second layer and to the third layer. There may be additional subcell layers and buffer layers in the solar cell.
US09276148B2
A space solar power system that has sun-tracking curved reflectors, such as off-axis parabolic reflectors, a secondary reflector, and a power conversion module for converting the sunlight into microwave energy and transmit the energy to remote locations. The power conversion module can have a modular stepped conical shape, with additional radiator area configured in vertical sidewalls, horizontal radiator panels, or both. Hinged, fold-out units can house the microwave conversion electronics and the antenna for transmitting the microwave radiation to the remote ground station.
US09276144B2
A quantum cascade detector includes a semiconductor substrate, and an active layer formed by laminating unit laminate structures each having an absorption region with a first barrier layer to a second well layer and a transport region with a third barrier layer to an n-th well layer. A second absorption well layer has a layer thickness ½ or less of that of a first absorption well layer thickest in one period, and a coupling barrier layer has a layer thickness smaller than that of an exit barrier layer thickest in one period. The unit laminate structure has a detection lower level arising from a ground level in the first well layer, a detection upper level generated by coupling an excitation level in the first well layer and a ground level in the second well layer, and a transport level structure for electrons.
US09276143B2
In one aspect, the present invention provides a silicon photodetector having a surface layer that is doped with sulfur inclusions with an average concentration in a range of about 0.5 atom percent to about 1.5 atom percent. The surface layer forms a diode junction with an underlying portion of the substrate. A plurality of electrical contacts allow application of a reverse bias voltage to the junction in order to facilitate generation of an electrical signal, e.g., a photocurrent, in response to irradiation of the surface layer. The photodetector exhibits a responsivity greater than about 1 A/W for incident wavelengths in a range of about 250 nm to about 1050 nm, and a responsivity greater than about 0.1 A/W for longer wavelengths, e.g., up to about 3.5 microns.
US09276140B1
An imager module having an interposer chip electrically connected to and routing signals between an image sensor, a printed circuit board (PCB), and a voice coil motor (VCM) is disclosed. In some example embodiments, one or more surface mount devices (SMDs) may further be attached to the interposer chip, the PCB, or both the interposer chip and the PCB. The interposer chip may further have a cavity therethrough to allow light to impinge in the image sensor. The interposer chip may still further have through silicon vias (TSVs) to route signals from the PCB to the VCM.
US09276128B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a first conductive film over a substrate; forming an insulating film over the first conductive film; forming an oxide semiconductor film over the insulating film to overlap with the first conductive film; forming a second conductive film including a metal film containing molybdenum as its main component and a metal film containing copper as its main component over the oxide semiconductor film; and etching the second conductive film by an etchant. At the time of etching the second conductive film by the etchant, the oxide semiconductor film is used as an etching stopper film. In addition, the etchant which can be used for a transistor including the oxide semiconductor film is provided.
US09276125B2
A miniaturized transistor having high electrical characteristics is provided with high yield. In a semiconductor device including the transistor, high performance, high reliability, and high productivity can be achieved. The semiconductor device includes a base insulating film, an oxide semiconductor film with a bottom surface and side surfaces in the base insulating film and a top surface exposed from the base insulating film, a source electrode and a drain electrode over the base insulating film and the oxide semiconductor film, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, the source electrode, and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode over the gate insulating film and overlapping the oxide semiconductor film.
US09276117B1
The present disclosure provides an embodiment of a fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device. The device includes The device includes a strain-relaxed buffer (SRB) stack over a substrate, a first fin structure disposed over the SRB stack and a liner layer extending along the portion of the second SRB layer and the first semiconductor material layer of the first fin structure.
US09276116B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first fin on a substrate, a first gate electrode formed on the substrate to intersect the first fin, a first elevated source/drain on the first fin on both sides of the first gate electrode, and a first metal alloy layer on an upper surface and sidewall of the first elevated source/drain.
US09276113B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device that includes forming a gate structure on a fin structure and etching the source and drain region portions of the fin structure to provide a recessed surface. A first semiconductor layer is formed on the recessed surface of the fin structure that is doped to a first conductivity type. A leakage barrier layer is formed on the first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor layer is formed on the leakage barrier layer. The second semiconductor layer is doped to a second conductivity type.
US09276109B2
An isolation area (10) is provided over a drift region (12) with a spacing (d) to a contact area (4) provided for a drain connection (D). The isolation area is used as an implantation mask, in order to produce a dopant profile of the drift region in which the dopant concentration increases toward the drain. The implantation of the dopant can be performed instead before the production of the isolation area, and the later production of the isolation area (10) changes the dopant profile also in a way that the dopant concentration increases toward the drain.
US09276107B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second gate electrode structures and a connection plug. The first gate electrode structure is buried in a semiconductor portion and has array stripes inside a first cell array of transistor cells and a contact stripe outside the first cell array, the contact stripe structurally connected with the array stripes. The second gate electrode structure is buried in the semiconductor portion and has array stripes inside a second cell array of transistor cells. An array isolation region of the semiconductor portion separates the first and second gate electrode structures. The connection plug extends between a first surface of the semiconductor portion and the contact stripe of the first gate electrode structure.
US09276091B2
A transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, which has stable electric characteristics is provided. A transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, which has excellent on-state characteristics is also provided. A semiconductor device in which an oxide semiconductor film having low resistance is formed and the resistance of a channel region of the oxide semiconductor film is increased. Note that an oxide semiconductor film is subjected to a process for reducing the resistance to have low resistance. The process for reducing the resistance of the oxide semiconductor film may be a laser process or heat treatment at a temperature higher than or equal to 450° C. and lower than or equal to 740° C., for example. A process for increasing the resistance of the channel region of the oxide semiconductor film having low resistance may be performed by plasma oxidation or implantation of oxygen ions, for example.
US09276082B2
A semiconductor device includes a Schottky diode and a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) formed on a III-nitride stack. The III-nitride stack includes at least a lower and an upper III-nitride layer forming a heterojunction therebetween, so that a 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer may be formed in the lower layer. The 2DEG layer serves as a charge carrier for the diode and the HEMT. A doped III-nitride layer may be present between a portion of the anode of the diode and the III-nitride stack, and the portion may be located between the diode's Schottky junction and the cathode. A further layer of doped III-nitride material may be present between the gate electrode of the HEMT and the III-nitride stack. The thickness of the III-nitride layers is not equal, so that the turn-on voltage of the diode and the threshold voltage of the HEMT may be tuned according to specific requirements. The disclosure also involves a method of producing such a semiconductor device.
US09276081B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming diodes in which a first electrode is formed to have a pedestal extending upwardly from a base. At least one layer is deposited along an undulating topography that extends across the pedestal and base, and a second electrode is formed over the least one layer. The first electrode, at least one layer, and second electrode together form a structure that conducts current between the first and second electrodes when voltage of one polarity is applied to the structure, and that inhibits current flow between the first and second electrodes when voltage having a polarity opposite to said one polarity is applied to the structure. Some embodiments include diodes having a first electrode that contains two or more projections extending upwardly from a base, having at least one layer over the first electrode, and having a second electrode over the at least one layer.
US09276080B2
A method for fabricating an integrated MEMS-CMOS device uses a micro-fabrication process that realizes moving mechanical structures (MEMS) on top of a conventional CMOS structure by bonding a mechanical structural wafer on top of the CMOS and etching the mechanical layer using plasma etching processes, such as Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE). During etching of the mechanical layer, CMOS devices that are directly connected to the mechanical layer are exposed to plasma. This sometimes causes permanent damage to CMOS circuits and is termed Plasma Induced Damage (PID). Embodiments of the present invention presents methods and structures to prevent or reduce this PID and protect the underlying CMOS circuits by grounding and providing an alternate path for the CMOS circuits until the MEMS layer is completely etched.
US09276058B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of lower electrodes on a substrate, with each of the lower electrodes extending in a height direction from the substrate and including sidewalls, the lower electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a first direction and in a second direction, a plurality of first supporting layer patterns contacting the sidewalls of the lower electrodes, the first supporting layer patterns extending in the first direction between ones of the lower electrodes adjacent in the second direction, a plurality of second supporting layer patterns contacting the sidewalls of the lower electrodes, the second supporting layer pattern extending in the second direction between ones of the lower electrodes adjacent in the first direction, the plurality of second supporting layer patterns being spaced apart from the plurality of first supporting layer patterns in the height direction.
US09276054B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a first substrate, a display unit defining an active area on the first substrate and including an insulating layer, a second substrate on the display unit, one or more signal lines outside the active area and on the insulating layer, and a sealant between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealant bonds the first substrate and the second substrate, and covers at least a portion of the signal lines.
US09276045B2
A display panel has first and second unit regions staggered to each other and includes a pixel array layer and a color filter layer. The pixel array layer includes white organic light emitting units generating a white light. The color filter layer includes red, green and blue filter patterns and first and second white filter patterns. A first white light CIE color coordinate of the white light passing through the first white filter patterns is different from a second white light CIE color coordinate of the white light passing through the second white filter patterns. Each first unit region has one red filter pattern, one green filter pattern, one blue filter pattern, and one first white filter pattern disposed therein, and each second unit region has one red filter pattern, one green filter pattern, one blue filter pattern, and one second white filter pattern disposed therein.
US09276044B2
A display device includes a substrate; a color filter layer positioned on the substrate correspondingly to a path where an image is outputted; and an organic overcoat layer covering the color filter layer and including an ion implantation layer coated on the surface.
US09276039B2
The semiconductor storage device includes a memory cell array region in which a plurality of storing MTJ elements capable of changing resistance depending on a direction of magnetization are arranged on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor storage device includes a resistive element region in which a plurality of resisting MTJ elements are arranged on the semiconductor substrate along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. An area of a first cross section of the resisting MTJ element parallel with an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate is larger than an area of a second cross section of the storing MTJ element parallel with the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09276032B2
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels and a plurality of on-chip lenses. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a matrix pattern. Each of the pixels has a photoelectric conversion portion configured to photoelectrically convert light incident from a rear surface side of a semiconductor substrate. The plurality of on-chip lenses are arranged for every other pixel. The on-chip lenses are larger in size than the pixels. Each of color filters at the pixels where the on-chip lenses are present has a cross-sectional shape whose upper side close to the on-chip lens is the same in width as the on-chip lens and whose lower side close to the photoelectric conversion portion is shorter than the upper side.
US09276030B2
A focal plane array (FPA) comprising a photodiode array (PDA) and a read out integrated circuit (ROIC), wherein the FPA can include a plurality of conductive bumps that electrically couple PDA circuitry to ROIC circuitry. In an embodiment, an optically transparent lid can include a plurality traces electrically coupled to circuitry on the ROIC which can be used as a conductive path between the ROIC and external pads.
US09276028B2
A semiconductor device includes a microlens provided in a pixel area and a monitoring structure provided in a peripheral area that is separate from the pixel area. The monitoring structure has a shape correlated with a shape of the microlens. A shape of a section of the monitoring structure in a plane perpendicular to a substrate is constant.
US09276016B2
An array substrate including: a gate barrier layer on a substrate; a gate line on the gate barrier layer, the gate line having a gate open portion exposing the gate barrier layer in a gate electrode region; a gate insulating layer on the gate line; an active layer on the gate insulating layer over the gate barrier layer in the gate electrode region; and source and drain electrodes spaced apart from each other on the active layer.
US09276013B1
A method of fabricating silicon (Si) and silicon germanium (SiGe) fins is described. The method includes forming at least two Si fins on a buried oxide (BOX) layer disposed on a substrate, at least one Si fin being formed in a first region and at least one Si fin being formed in a second region, the at least one Si fin in the second region being thinner than the at least one Si fin in the first region. The method also includes depositing an oxide mask over the first region, epitaxially growing an SiGe layer on the at least one Si fin in the second region, and performing a thermal annealing process to drive Ge from the SiGe layer into the at least one Si fin in the second region to form at least one SiGe fin in the second region.
US09276005B1
A memory cell includes source and drain regions in a substrate with a channel region therebetween, an erase gate over the source region, a floating gate over a first channel region portion, a control gate over the floating gate, and a wordline gate over a second channel region portion. A first logic device includes second source and drain regions in the substrate with a second channel region therebetween under a first logic gate. A second logic device includes third source and drain regions in the substrate with a third channel region therebetween under a second logic gate. The wordline gate and the first and second logic gates comprise the same conductive metal material. The second logic gate is insulated from the third channel region by first and second insulation. The first logic gate is insulated from the second channel region by the second insulation and not by the first insulation.
US09275996B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate, and a plurality of fins spaced apart on the substrate. Each of the fins may include a lower semiconductor fin portion extending vertically upward from the substrate, and at least one superlattice punch-through layer on the lower fin portion. The superlattice punch-through layer may include a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers of the superlattice punch-through layer comprising a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. Each fin may also include an upper semiconductor fin portion on the at least one superlattice punch-through layer and extending vertically upward therefrom. The semiconductor device may also include source and drain regions at opposing ends of the fins, and a gate overlying the fins.
US09275993B2
A semiconductor device includes a first interface film on a first area of a substrate, the first interface film including a first growth interface film and a second growth interface film on a lower portion of the first growth interface film, a first dielectric film on the first interface film, and a first gate electrode on the first dielectric film.
US09275992B1
Trenches may be formed in layers on a semiconductor substrate for defining electrical components for an electronic device, such as an amplifier. A polishing step may be performed after formation of the trenches and deposition of other layer(s) to define regions for resistors, capacitors, or other elements in a metal layer on a semiconductor substrate. The polishing step may create discontinuities in metal layers on the semiconductor substrate that define electrically isolated regions corresponding to the resistors, capacitor, and other components of the electronic device.
US09275988B2
An integrated circuit and method with a metal gate transistor and with a Schottky diode where the metal used to form the Schottky diode is the metal used to form the metal gate.
US09275981B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has one or more integral nitride-type sensors. In one embodiment, an integral nitride-type sensor and a coplanar supplemental circuit are formed from a common silicon substrate base. In another embodiment, an integral nitride-type sensor and a supplemental circuit are integrated in a vertical orientation.
US09275977B2
An electronic system includes a first electronic device (with a first integrated-circuit chip) and a second electronic device (with a second integrated-circuit chip). The second electronic device is stacked above the first electronic device on a same side as the first integrated-circuit chip. Electrical connection elements located around the first integrated-circuit chip electrically connected to the second electronic device to the first electronic device. A metal plate configured for heat capture and transfer extends between the first and second electronic devices. The metal plate includes through-passages aligned to permit the electrical connection elements to pass at a distance.
US09275976B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a system-in-package with integrated socket. In one such implementation, the system-in-package includes a first active die having a first plurality of electrical connectors on a top surface of the first active die, an interposer situated over the first active die, and a second active die having a second plurality of electrical connectors on a bottom surface of the second active die. The interposer is configured to selectively couple at least one of the first plurality of electrical connectors to at least one of the second plurality of electrical connectors. In addition, a socket encloses the first and second active dies and the interposer, the socket being electrically coupled to at least one of the first active die, the second active die, and the interposer.
US09275968B2
A flip chip package includes a chip having a surface, main bumps disposed on a first region of the surface of the chip, dummy bumps disposed on a second region of the surface of the chip, a substrate having a surface, dams disposed on the surface of the substrate, connection pads disposed on the surface of the substrate and electrically connected to respective ones of the main bumps, and adhesion patterns attaching the dummy bumps to respective ones of the dams.
US09275960B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes depositing a metal spacer over a core supported by a first extremely low-k dielectric layer having metal contacts embedded therein, etching away an upper portion of the metal spacer to expose the core between remaining lower portions of the metal spacer, removing the core from between the remaining lower portions of the metal spacer, and depositing a second extremely low-k dielectric layer over the remaining lower portions of the metal spacer.
US09275954B2
Methods for sealing a porous dielectric are presented including: receiving a substrate, the substrate including the porous dielectric; exposing the substrate to an organosilane, where the organosilane includes a hydrolysable group for facilitating attachment with the porous dielectric, and where the organosilane does not include an alkyl group; and forming a layer as a result of the exposing to seal the porous dielectric. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the organosilane includes: alkynyl groups, aryl groups, flouroalkyl groups, heteroarlyl groups, alcohol groups, thiol groups, amine groups, thiocarbamate groups, ester groups, ether groups, sulfide groups, and nitrile groups. In some embodiments, method further include: removing contamination from the porous dielectric and a conductive region of the substrate prior to the exposing; and removing contamination from the conductive region after the forming.
US09275950B2
An integrated circuit package having a multilayer interposer has one or more metal wiring beads provided in the interposer, each of the one or more metal wiring beads has a convoluted wiring pattern that is formed in one of the multiple layers of wiring structures in the interposer, and two terminal end segments connected to the power lines in the integrated circuit package, wherein the one or more metal wiring beads operate as power noise filters.
US09275947B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a sealing portion, a controller, a semiconductor chip, and a plurality of differential signal balls. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface positioned on a side opposite to the first surface. The sealing portion is formed on the first surface of the substrate. The controller is covered with the sealing portion. The semiconductor chip is electrically connected to the controller, and is covered with the sealing portion. The plurality of differential signal balls are formed on the second surface of the substrate. At least some of the plurality of differential signal balls are arranged substantially parallel to one side of the substrate.
US09275945B2
Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a step of arranging a plurality of semiconductor chips next to each other over a chip mounting surface of a die pad. Further, the method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes a step of electrically coupling the semiconductor chip and the semiconductor chip via a wire. In this regard, a pad (chip-to-chip connection pad) of the semiconductor chip on a second bonding side in the step of coupling the wire is provided such that it is distantly located from a peripheral portion of a surface of the semiconductor chip.
US09275920B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a TSV formed to be electrically connected with another chip and a TSV test unit configured to check a capacitance component of the TSV to generate a TSV abnormality signal.
US09275918B2
A statistical process control method for monitoring and controlling semiconductor manufacturing processing operations is provided. For a chosen processing operation, multiple measurement sites are used to generate data of a measurable characteristic that is impacted by and associated with the processing operation. The data from the sites is compared over time and one or more outlier sites are identified. The outlier sites are the sites at which the data values are most divergent from the rest of the data. Algorithms are used to mathematically compare the outlier sites to the other sites to produce a comparative index. The comparative index is monitored graphically or otherwise to identify changes in the processing operation, and corrective actions are taken.
US09275915B2
An electrical circuit device includes a semiconductor component which has power terminals and a control terminal electrically insulated from the power terminals, for applying a control voltage, and a control terminal contact surface for contacting the control terminal for measuring the electrical behavior of the semiconductor component. A connection device is provided, via which the control terminal is electrically connectable to a series device, the connection device being transferable from a nonconductive state into a conductive state, in which the control terminal is connected to the series device.
US09275912B1
Methods for quantifying extended defects in a gallium-containing nitride crystal, wafer, or device, are disclosed. The methods include providing a gallium-containing nitride crystal, wafer, or device, processing the gallium-containing nitride crystal, wafer, or device in an etchant solution comprising one or more of H3PO4, H3PO4 that has been conditioned by prolonged heat treatment to form polyphosphoric acid, and H2SO4; removing the gallium-containing nitride crystal, wafer, or device from the etchant solution; and quantifying the concentration of at least one of etch pits or etch grooves.
US09275909B2
Semiconductor structures may include a stack of alternating dielectric materials and control gates, charge storage structures laterally adjacent to the control gates, a charge block material between each of the charge storage structures and the laterally adjacent control gates, and a pillar extending through the stack of alternating oxide materials and control gates. Each of the dielectric materials in the stack has at least two portions of different densities and/or different rates of removal. Also disclosed are methods of fabricating such semiconductor structures.
US09275908B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one first semiconductor fin formed on an nFET region of a semiconductor device and at least one second semiconductor fin formed on a pFET region. The at least one first semiconductor fin has an nFET channel region interposed between a pair of nFET source/drain regions. The at least one second semiconductor fin has a pFET channel region interposed between a pair of pFET source/drain regions. The an epitaxial liner is formed on only the pFET channel region of the at least one second semiconductor fin such that a first threshold voltage of the nFET channel region is different than a second threshold voltage of the pFET channel.
US09275900B2
A method for forming a semiconductor interconnect structure includes forming a dielectric layer on a substrate and patterning the dielectric layer to form an opening therein. A metal layer fills the opening and covers the dielectric layer. The metal layer is planarized so that it is co-planar with a top of the dielectric layer. A treating process is performed on the metal layer to convert a top surface thereof into a metal oxide layer. A copper-containing layer is then formed over the metal oxide layer and the dielectric layer. The copper-containing layer is etched to form interconnect features, wherein the etching stops at the metal oxide layer and does not etch into the underlying metal layer. A radiation exposure process is thereafter performed on the metal oxide layer to convert it into a non-oxidized metal layer.
US09275888B2
Temporary substrates may include a bonding surface prepared for receiving an additional substrate that will transfer a thin layer. Such substrates may include a principal part or support and a surface layer thereon with the surface layer having a plurality of inserts therein. The inserts are made of a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion that is significantly different from that of the material constituting the surface layer. Processing methods for transferring a selected portion of an original substrate may involve such temporary substrates and productions methods may produce such temporary substrates.
US09275885B2
A spiral cam has a tubular shaped portion defined by an interior cavity and an exterior surface that includes a cam contour. A linear slide assembly having a length defined along a rotational axis is defined to slide lengthwise into the interior cavity of the spiral cam. The linear slide assembly allows for movement of the spiral cam along the rotational axis and prevents rotation of the spiral cam relative to the linear slide assembly. A cam roller is fixed at a position proximate to the exterior surface of the spiral cam. The cam roller is disposed separate from the linear slide assembly and within the cam contour of the spiral cam. The cam roller engages the cam contour to move of the spiral cam along the rotational axis when the linear slide assembly and spiral cam are rotated in unison about the rotational axis relative to the cam roller.
US09275884B2
A substrate handling robot includes an arm section and a wrist portion connected to the arm section. An end effector is connected to the wrist portion and is configured to support a substrate. A housing is arranged adjacent to the end effector and includes a gas outlet that directs gas onto an exposed surface of the substrate during transport.
US09275878B2
Integrated circuits are packaged by placing a plurality of semiconductor dies on a support substrate, each one of the semiconductor dies having a plurality of terminals at a side facing the support substrate and covering the semiconductor dies with a molding compound to form a molded structure. The support substrate is then removed from the molded structure to expose the side of the semiconductor dies with the terminals, and a metal redistribution layer is formed on the molded structure and in direct contact with the terminals of the semiconductor dies and the molding compound. The redistribution layer is formed without first forming a dielectric layer on a side of the molded structure with the terminals of the semiconductor dies. A corresponding molded substrate and individual molded semiconductor packages are also disclosed.
US09275876B2
Systems and methods for preventing warpage of a semiconductor substrate in a semiconductor package. A continuous or uninterrupted stiffener structure is designed with a recessed groove, such that passive components, such as, high density capacitors are housed within the recessed groove. The stiffener structure with the recessed groove is attached to the semiconductor substrate using anisotropic conductive film (ACF) or anisotropic conductive paste (ACP). The stiffener structure with the recessed groove surrounds one or more semiconductor devices that may be formed on the semiconductor substrate. The stiffener structure with the recessed groove does not extend beyond horizontal boundaries of the semiconductor substrate.
US09275872B2
A method for forming a stair-step structure in a substrate is provided. An organic mask is formed over the substrate. A hardmask with a top layer and sidewall layer is formed over the organic mask. The sidewall layer of the hard mask is removed while leaving the top layer of the hardmask. The organic mask is trimmed. The substrate is etched. The forming the hardmask, removing the sidewall layer, trimming the organic mask, and etching the substrate are repeated a plurality of times.
US09275871B2
A method of forming nanostructure comprises forming self-assembled nucleic acids on at least a portion of a substrate. The method further comprises contacting the self-assembled nucleic acids on the at least a portion of a substrate with a solution comprising at least one repair enzyme to repair defects in the self-assembled nucleic acids. The method may comprise repeating the repair of defects in the self-assembled nucleic acids on the at least a portion of a substrate until a desired, reduced threshold level of defect density is achieved. A semiconductor structure comprises a pattern of self-assembled nucleic acids defining a template having at least one aperture therethrough. At least one of the apertures has a dimension of less than about 50 nm.
US09275868B2
Substrates (wafers) with uniform backside roughness and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a material on a backside of a wafer. The method further includes patterning the material to expose portions of the backside of the wafer. The method further includes roughening the backside of the wafer through the patterned material to form a uniform roughness.
US09275857B1
Various embodiments provide non-planar nanowires, nanowire arrays, and nanowire networks as well as methods of their formation and applications. The non-planar nanowires and their arrays can be formed in a controlled manner on surfaces having a non-planar orientation. In embodiments, two or more adjacent nanowires from different surfaces can grow to merge together forming one or more nanowire branches and thus forming a nanowire network. In embodiments, the non-planar nanowires and nanowire networks can be used for cantilever oscillation, switching and transistor actions.
US09275850B2
A cleaning solution and method for removing submicron particles from the surface of an electronic substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The cleaning solution comprises a polycarboxylate polymer, a base and water. The method comprises the step of contacting a surface of the substrate with a cleaning solution comprised of the polycarboxylate polymer. Additional optional steps in the method include applying acoustic energy to the cleaning solution and/or rinsing the surface with a rinsing solution with or without the application of acoustic energy to the rinsing solution.
US09275846B2
A light source device comprising a filament showing high electric power-to-visible light conversion efficiency is provided. A light source device comprising a translucent gastight container, a filament disposed in the translucent gastight container, and a lead wire for supplying an electric current to the filament is provided. The filament comprises a substrate formed from a metal material and a visible light reflectance-reducing film coating the substrate for reducing visible light reflectance of the substrate. The reflectance of the substrate for visible lights is thereby made low, and the reflectance of the substrate for infrared lights is thereby made high. Therefore, radiation of infrared lights is suppressed, and visible luminous efficiency can be enhanced.
US09275844B2
Techniques for nanoflow serial femtosecond x-ray protein crystallography include providing a sample fluid by mixing a plurality of a first target of interest with a carrier fluid and injecting the sample fluid into a vacuum chamber at a rate less than about 4 microliters per minute. In some embodiments, the carrier fluid has a viscosity greater than about 3 centipoise.
US09275842B2
Aspects and embodiments of the present invention are directed to spectrometry systems and for apparatus and methods for delivering dopants to same. In one example, there is provided a dopant delivery device configured to supply dopants to a spectrometry system comprising a tube including a first chamber and a second chamber, a first dopant source included in the first chamber, and a second dopant source included in the second chamber.
US09275837B2
A parallel resonance frequency can be adjusted in order to stably and securely block different high frequency noises flowing into a line such as a power feed line or a signal line from electric members including a high frequency electrode within a processing chamber. A filter 102(1) coaxially accommodates a coil 104(1) within a cylindrical outer conductor 110, and a ring member 122 is coaxially installed between the coil 104(1) and the outer conductor 110. The ring-shaped member 122 may be a plate body of a circular ring shape on a plane orthogonal to an axial direction of the outer conductor 110 and made of a conductor such as cupper or aluminum and electrically connected with the outer conductor 110 while electrically insulated from the coil 104(1).
US09275833B2
A method of forming a layer, the method including providing a substrate having at least one surface adapted for deposition thereon; and directing a particle beam towards the surface of the substrate, the particle beam including moderately charged ions (MCIs), substantially all the MCIs independently have charges from ±2 to ±6 and kinetic energies of not greater than about 200 eV, wherein the MCIs do not penetrate more than about 30 Å into the surface of the substrate to form a layer on the substrate.
US09275830B2
A scanning charged particle microscope is offered which can selectively detect and image electrons. The scanning charged particle microscope (100) has: a source (1) of a charged particle beam (E1); an objective lens (6) for bringing the charged particle beam (E1) emitted from the source (1) into focus at a sample (S); a scanning deflector (4) for scanning the focused charged particle beam (E1) over the sample (S); a sorting portion (10) for sorting out electrons emitted at given emission angles from electrons released from the sample (S) in response to irradiation of the sample (S) by the charged particle beam (E1); an electron deflector (20) for producing a deflecting field to deflect the electrons (E2) sorted out according to their energy; a detection portion (30) for detecting the electrons (E2) deflected by the electron deflector (20); and an image creating portion (44) for creating an image, based on the results of the detection performed by the detection portion (30).
US09275829B2
In an image forming apparatus and a computer program, extraction of information about distortion in a charged particle beam scan area can be implemented. An image forming apparatus integrates image data obtained by a charged particle beam apparatus and calculates, from a plurality of images with different scan directions of the charged particle beam apparatus, first information about the amount of change in a feature quantity in accordance with the time of irradiation of the charged particle beam, second information about the amount of change in the feature quantity before and after a change in beam scan direction, and/or third information about a position error of a pattern on the image before and after the change in beam scan direction.
US09275820B2
An ion implantation system, having a temperature controlled ion source chamber is disclosed. The temperature of the ion source chamber is regulated by disposing a heat sink in proximity to the ion source chamber. A gas fillable chamber is disposed between and in physical communication with both the ion source chamber and the heat sink. By controlling the amount of gas, i.e. the gas pressure, within the gas fillable chamber, the coefficient of heat transfer can be manipulated. This allows the temperature of the ion source chamber to be controlled through the application or removal of gas from the gas fillable chamber. This independent temperature control decouples the power used to heat the ion generator from the ion species that are ultimately generated.
US09275813B1
A remote racking tool can have a drive assembly, remote control assembly, and radio remote pendant station. The remote racking can enable operators to install or remove circuit breakers in switchgear or equipment rooms while outside of an arc flash zone.
US09275812B2
A movable contact for a rotary switch is provided. The movable contact includes first and second contacts for contacting a stationary contact, where the first and second contacts are arranged at a distance from each other for receiving the stationary contact between the first and second contacts. The first contact is a straight contact blade for contacting stationary contacts at both ends of the blade. The second contact is a spring element configured to bend when the stationary contact is placed between the first contact and the second contact, and to cause a pressing force to the stationary contact to press the stationary contact against the first contact after the stationary contact has been placed between the first contact and the second contact.
US09275799B2
A wet electrolytic capacitor that includes a sintered porous anode body containing a dielectric layer, a fluid electrolyte, and a cathode is provided. At least one longitudinally extending channel is recessed into the anode body. The channel may have a relatively high aspect ratio (length divided by width), such as about 2 or more, in some embodiments about 5 or more, in some embodiments from about 10 to about 200, in some embodiments from about 15 to about 150, in some embodiments from about 20 to about 100, and in some embodiments, from about 30 to about 60.
US09275798B2
A thin energy storage device having high capacity is obtained. An energy storage device having high output is obtained. A current collector and an active material layer are formed in the same manufacturing step. The number of manufacturing steps of an energy storage device is reduced. The manufacturing cost of an energy storage device is suppressed. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing of an electric double layer capacitor, or a lithium ion capacitor, which includes porous metal electrodes formed by removing a metal from an alloy foil, and an electrolyte provided therebetween. A surface area per volume of the porous structure is greater than or equal to 100 m2/cm3.
US09275791B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for decoupling multiple wireless charging transmitters. In one aspect, a device is configured to transmit wireless power to a first receiver. The device includes a first driver coil and a second driver coil. The device further includes a common reactance element connected to the first driver coil and the second driver coil. The reactance element is configured to at least partially cancel mutual inductance between the first driver coil and the second driver coil.
US09275790B2
A contactless power supplying device is provided. A primary coil and a basic power supplying unit circuit are arranged in a power supplying area. The primary coil supplies secondary power through electromagnetic induction to a secondary coil of a power receiving device in the power supplying area. The basic power supplying unit circuit excites the primary coil in the power supplying area. The basic power supplying unit circuit transmits an oscillation signal from the power supplying area to the power receiving device, receives a modulated wave signal from the power receiving device that detects a modulation wave that is in accordance with a magnetic flux change, and detects the modulated wave signal to demodulate the modulation wave. A system control unit determines whether or not a metal foreign object is present in the power supplying area corresponding to the basic power supplying unit circuit based on the modulation wave.
US09275785B2
Disclosed herein are a multilayered power inductor including an inner electrode coil pattern formed on a ceramic substrate; an outer electrode layer; and a magnetic layer made of a metal powder insulated along a grain interface of the metal powder included in a part or the whole of a chip, and a method for preparing the same. According to the exemplary embodiments of the present invention, the magnetic layer made of the metal powder insulation-coated with the ceramic material along the grain interface of the magnetic metal powder can be used for a part or the whole of the chip, thereby increasing the filling ratio of the magnetic metal powder to 90% within the magnetic layer. Therefore, a high-capacity power inductor can be implemented to effectively improve efficiency characteristics.
US09275780B2
A method for manufacturing a coil for generating an intense magnetic field when an electric current passes through it. Turns are formed in a cylindrical tube made of conducting or superconducting material. At least one indentation is formed in an edge of at least one turn. Insulating material is positioned between the turn including the indentation and an adjacent turn. The recess forms with the insulating material a channel between the interior and the exterior of the tube when the coil is stressed.
US09275778B2
The present invention relates to a permanent magnet obtained by wet-mixing a Dy compound or a Tb compound with a magnet raw material to coat a surface of the magnet raw material with the Dy compound or the Tb compound, and sintering a green sheet obtained by mixing the resulting magnet raw material with a resin binder and molding the resulting mixture. Since the present invention has the above-mentioned constitution, it becomes possible to sufficiently improve coercive force by Dy or Tb while decreasing the amount of Dy or Tb used. Further, it can be prevented that Dy or Tb is solid-solutionized in magnet particles to decrease residual magnetization.
US09275764B2
In an operation monitoring apparatus of a nuclear power plant, a first operation console (12) that can be operated by an operator and includes displays (31 to 37), an operation command console (14) that can be operated by a shift supervisor and includes displays (41 to 44) , a transfer device (51) that can display an image displayed on the displays (31 to 37) of the first operation console (12) on the displays (41 to 44) of the operation command console (14), and a switching device (54) that switches an image on the displays (41 to 44) of the operation command console (14) to the image on the displays (31 to 37) of the first operation console transferred by the transfer device (51) are provided. With this configuration, it is possible to improve communications between the supervisor and the operation in operation of the nuclear power plant.
US09275748B2
A method of reading a memory device having rows and columns of memory cells formed on a substrate, where each memory cell includes spaced apart first and second regions with a channel region therebetween, a floating gate disposed over a first portion of the channel region, a select gate disposed over a second portion of the channel region, a control gate disposed over the floating gate, and an erase gate disposed over the first region. The method includes placing a small positive voltage on the unselected source lines, and/or a small negative voltage on the unselected word lines, during the read operation to suppress sub-threshold leakage and thereby improve read performance.
US09275747B2
Integrated circuits and methods for deactivating user circuit operation with one or more wide channel sensing transistors biased to an on condition for exposure to total ionizing dose and then to an off condition for measurement and comparison of a leakage current or threshold voltage parameter to a predetermined reference, and a deactivation circuit selectively disables operation of the user circuit if the sensed parameter is greater than or equal to the reference.
US09275745B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks, each of the memory blocks including a plurality of pages, wherein at least one of the plurality of memory blocks functions as a first storage unit to store a plurality of page addresses associated with the plurality of pages. A second storage unit loads a page address stored in the first storage unit. A control circuit is configured to cancel a program operation if an externally inputted page address is less than or equal to the page address loaded into the second storage unit, and perform the program operation and update the second storage unit with the externally inputted page address if the externally input page address is greater than the page address loaded into the second storage unit.
US09275739B2
The invention provides a NAND-type semiconductor memory device capable of high speed operation. A semiconductor memory device of the invention includes: a memory array, which forms a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix direction; a vertical selecting mechanism, which couples to the memory array, and selects the memory cells in a vertical direction of the memory array according to a vertical address signal; a horizontal selecting mechanism, which couples to the memory array, and selects the memory cells in a horizontal direction of the memory array according to a horizontal address signal; and a controlling mechanism, which reads data from the memory cells or writes data into the memory cells. A plurality of cell units is disposed in the memory array. Each cell unit is consisted of a data memory cell which storages data and a reference memory cell which storages reference data.
US09275734B2
There is provided an externally readable memory for storing information in each memory address, and this memory is provided with an information refinement detection function; this memory comprises: an input means for entering first input data for comparing data items stored in the memory and second input data for comparing addresses in the memory, wherein the first and second comparison data are externally; means for determining matches/mismatches of both data items stored in the memory and addresses of the memory according to both of the input data provided by the input means, and further performing logic operations on both of the match/mismatch determination results; and means for outputting addresses with positive results of the logic operations. This memory may be applicable in a broad range of fields including intelligent information search as well as artificial intelligence.
US09275731B1
A resistive random access memory system includes a plurality of bitlines, a plurality of wordlines, and an array of resistive random access memory cells. Each of the resistive random access memory cells in the array includes a transistor and a resistive random access memory element connected in a common gate configuration.
US09275729B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises: first lines; second lines; memory cells; a first and second select gate transistor; and a control circuit. The first lines are arranged with a certain pitch in a first direction perpendicular to a substrate and are extending in a second direction parallel to the substrate. The second lines are arranged with a certain pitch in the second direction, are extending in the first direction, and intersect the plurality of first lines. The memory cells are disposed at intersections of the first lines and the second lines. The first and second select gate transistors each include a first or second channel line that are connected to a lower end or an upper end of the second line and a first or second gate line. The control circuit controls the first and second select gate transistors independently.
US09275725B2
A memory device includes a memory cell, a sensing circuit connected to sense data stored in a memory cell and to connect the memory cell by first and second paths separate from one another A sample and hold circuit connected between the memory cell and the sensing circuit may separate a period during which voltages of the first and second paths are developed by the data stored in the memory cell from a period during which the sensing circuit senses the data stored in the memory cell by detecting the developed voltages of the first and second paths.
US09275721B2
Apparatus and methods for providing a high density memory array with reduced read access time are disclosed. Multiple split bit lines are arranged along columns of adjacent memory bit cells. A multiple input sense amplifier is coupled to the multiple split bit lines. The loading on the multiple split bit line is reduced, and the corresponding read speed of the memory array is enhanced over the prior art. The sense amplifier and the memory bit cells have a common cell pitch layout height so that no silicon area penalty arises due to the use of the multiple split bit lines and sense amplifiers. Increased memory array efficiency is achieved.
US09275712B1
A semiconductor system includes a controller configured to output external commands and external addresses; and a semiconductor device configured to generate internal commands from the external commands by a delay amount controlled according to PVT information in a boot-up operation, generate internal addresses by delaying the external addresses, and select a plurality of banks according to the internal addresses in synchronization with the internal commands.
US09275710B2
A semiconductor memory comprises a dual-port memory array having a plurality of cross-access dual-port bit cells arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, wherein each of the plurality of cross-access dual-port bit cells has two cross-access ports for read and write of one or more bits of data to the cross-access dual port bit cell. The semiconductor memory further comprises a pair of word lines associated with at least one of the plurality of rows of the dual-port memory array, wherein the pair of word lines is configured to carry a pair of row selection signals for enabling one or more read and write operations on one or more cross-access dual-port bit cells in the row. The semiconductor memory further comprises a pair of column selection lines associated with at least one of the plurality of columns of the dual port memory array, wherein the pair of column selection lines is configured to carry a pair of column selection signals for enabling the cross-access dual-port bit cells in the column during the read and write operations.
US09275708B2
Decoding blocks, memories, and methods for decoding pre-decoded address information are disclosed. One such decoding block includes a first latch and voltage shift circuit configured to receive first pre-decoded address information at first voltage levels and further configured to latch the first pre-decoded address information and shift the voltage levels of the same to second voltage levels. An address decoder includes a second latch and voltage shift circuit configured to receive second pre-decoded address information at the first voltage levels and latch and shift the voltage levels of the same to the second voltage levels. The address decoder is further configured to select control gates of the memory cells of the memory based at least in part on the first and second pre-decoded address information.
US09275704B2
The disclosure provides an asynchronous FIFO circuit that includes a data memory which is coupled to a write data path and a read data path. The data memory receives a write clock and a read clock. A FIFO write pointer counter receives a write enable signal and the write clock. The FIFO write pointer counter provides a FIFO write pointer signal to the data memory. A FIFO read pointer counter receives a read enable signal and the read clock. The FIFO read pointer counter provides a FIFO read pointer signal to the data memory. A control circuit receives the write enable signal, the read enable signal, the FIFO write pointer signal, the FIFO read pointer signal, the write clock and the read clock. The control circuit generates a memory full signal when the data memory is full and a memory empty signal when the data memory is empty.
US09275703B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit including first semiconductor chip and second semiconductor chip that are vertically stacked, wherein the first semiconductor chip includes a first column data driving circuit configured to transmit internal data to the second semiconductor chip in a DDR (double data rate) scheme based on an internal strobe signal, and a first column strobe signal driving circuit configured to generate first column strobe signals that are source-synchronized with first column data transmitted to the second semiconductor chip by the first column data driving circuit, based on the internal strobe signal, and transmit the first column strobe signals to the second semiconductor chip.
US09275697B2
A host including a controller configured to be connected to a storage device separate from the host. The controller is configured to maintain random access memory (RAM) code on the host, the RAM code configured to provide a destructive function, temporarily load the RAM code onto a volatile memory in the storage device during a manufacturing process, wherein the loaded RAM code, when executed by a processor in the storage device, is configured to cause the processor in the storage device to perform a destructive function on the storage device, and remove the loaded RAM code from the volatile memory after the manufacturing process, wherein the destructive function is unable to be performed by the processor when the loaded RAM code is removed from the volatile memory.
US09275679B2
The present invention comprises an input part for inputting image data, a receiving part for receiving production information relating to production transmitted from another apparatus, a recording part for recording the production information received by the receiving part and image data input by the input part, a detection part for detecting a recording position on a recording medium at an editing point of image data recorded by the recording part, and a transmission part for transmitting information of the recording position detected by the detection part, whereby identification information for identifying image data and voice data is recorded in a recording medium or a recording device, this relieving a burden on a photographer and an editor and facilitating extraction of image data and voice data.
US09275677B1
A hard disk drive (HDD) top cover removal tool includes a nest assembly, a clamp, a guide plate, and a purge and vacuum assembly (PAVA). The nest assembly secures an HDD and rotates it from a first to a second position. The clamp presses against a top cover of the HDD such that the top cover maintains contact with a hard drive body of the HDD. A hole defined in the guide plate is aligned with a screw location of the top cover and the hard drive body, and receives a screw driver for removing a screw fastening the top cover to the hard drive body. The PAVA purges and evacuates particles from the screw location of the top cover and the hard drive body of the HDD in the second position. The clamp releases the top cover. The PAVA removes the released top cover from the hard drive body.
US09275673B2
A system and method for controlling media through a user interface integrated within a taskbar is described. This system and method enable a user to control media while a user interface of another application remains in perspective. Further, this system includes a taskbar media player, which can play media and enable a user to control the play of that media from within a taskbar.
US09275671B2
An optical information storage medium includes a multilayer film that includes a plurality of extruded alternating active data storage layers and buffer layers, which separate the active data storage layers. The active data storage layers and buffer layers have thicknesses that allow the active data storage layers to be writable by permanent or reversible one- or multiphoton, linear, nonlinear, or threshold optical writing processes to define data voxels within the active data storage layers that are readable by an optical reading device.
US09275667B1
A disk drive has a servo control system that implements just-in-time (JIT) seeks with low power consumption for all long seeks. The servo controller receives a seek command to move the transducer to a target data track and sector, calculates rotational latency from the seek command, and limits the transducer velocity for seeks longer than a predetermined seek length. The servo controller then generates a JIT gain from the calculated rotational latency, modifies the transducer acceleration and deceleration using the JIT gain, and modifies the transducer velocity limit using the JIT gain. Positive current is applied to the actuator to move the transducer with the JIT gain-modified acceleration until the transducer reaches the modified velocity limit. The servo controller determines when to initiate deceleration of the transducer, and applies negative current to the actuator to move the transducer with the JIT gain-modified deceleration until the transducer reaches the target track.
US09275660B1
A magnetic head of an embodiment has first and second magnetic shields, a stack, a side shield, and an antiferromagnetic layer. The stack has a pin layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and first and second free layers. The second free layer is antiferromagnetically exchange coupled to the first free layer and is exchange coupled to the antiferromagnetic layer. The side shield is exchange coupled to the antiferromagnetic layer.
US09275658B2
A return path section includes first and second yoke portions and first, second and third columnar portions. The first and second yoke portions and the first columnar portion are located on the front side in the direction of travel of a recording medium relative to a waveguide core. The second and third columnar portions are located on opposite sides of a plasmon generator and connected to a shield. The first yoke portion connects a main pole to the first columnar portion. The second yoke portion connects the first columnar portion to the second and third columnar portions. A coil is wound around the first columnar portion. A heater and an expansion layer are located on the rear side in the direction of travel of the recording medium relative to the core.
US09275648B2
A method of processing an audio signal is disclosed. The present invention includes receiving spectral data corresponding to a first band in a frequency band including the first band and a second band, determining a copy band based on frequency information of the copy band corresponding to a partial band of the first band, and generating spectral data of a target band corresponding to the second band using the spectral data of the copy band, wherein the copy band exists in an upper part of the first band.
US09275644B2
A method for redundant frame coding by an electronic device is described. The method includes determining an adaptive codebook energy and a fixed codebook energy based on a frame. The method also includes coding a redundant version of the frame based on the adaptive codebook energy and the fixed codebook energy. The method further includes sending a subsequent frame.
US09275642B2
In one aspect of this disclosure, a voice-operated internet-ready ubiquitous computing device and a method implemented by the computing device are disclosed. A sound input associated with a user is received at the first computing device, and in response to receiving the sound input, the first computing device establishes a voice session associated with the user. The first computing device then determines a session quality associated with the voice input, and sends the session quality to a further computing device such as a second computing device or a server. The first computing device will receive a request to transfer the voice session to a second computing device; and in response to receiving the request, transfers the voice session to the second computing device.
US09275640B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products for accepting a predetermined vocabulary-dependent characterization of a set of audio signals, the predetermined characterization including an identification of putative occurrences of each of a plurality of vocabulary items in the set of audio signals, the plurality of vocabulary items included in the vocabulary; accepting a new vocabulary item not included in the vocabulary; accepting putative occurrences of the new vocabulary item in the set of audio signals; and generating, by an analysis engine of a speech processing system, an augmented characterization of the set of audio signals based on the identified putative occurrences of the new vocabulary item.
US09275637B1
Natural language controlled devices may be configured to activate command recognition in response to one or more wake words. Techniques are provided to receive a candidate word for evaluation as a wake word that activates a natural language control functionality of a computing device. The candidate word may include one or more words or sounds. Values for multiple wake word metrics are then determined. The candidate word is evaluated based on the various wake word metrics.
US09275635B1
Speech recognition systems may perform the following operations: receiving audio at a computing device; identifying a language associated with the audio; recognizing the audio using recognition models for different versions of the language to produce recognition candidates for the audio, where the recognition candidates are associated with corresponding information; comparing the information of the recognition candidates to identify agreement between at least two of the recognition models; selecting a recognition candidate based on information of the recognition candidate and agreement between the at least two of the recognition models; and outputting data corresponding to the selected recognition candidate as a recognized version of the audio.
US09275630B2
In some illustrative embodiments, an incoming signal from a transducer in an ultrasound imaging beam-former apparatus is applied to an in-phase sample-and-hold and a quadrature sample-and-hold. The quadrature sample-and-hold may be clocked a quarter period behind the in-phase sample-and-hold. The output of the sample-and-holds are applied to in-phase and quadrature analog-to-digital converters. A magnitude calculator receives the in-phase and quadrature digital values, and outputs a magnitude. A phase calculator receives the in-phase and quadrature digital values, and outputs a phase. An apodizer applies a difference between an amplitude of the outgoing signal and the magnitude and applies a first illumination to a image point in substantial proportion to the difference, and a phase rotator applies a second illumination to the image point in substantial proportion to the phase.
US09275628B2
An acoustic structure and a method for dampening sound. The acoustic structure includes an acoustic absorber having one or more acoustic elements. The acoustic absorber is disposed inside a volume. The acoustic structure further includes an acoustic radiator having one or more acoustic elements. The acoustic radiator is disposed outside the volume. A cross-sectional area of the one or more acoustic elements decreases with a distance from a mouth of the one or more acoustic elements to a throat of the one or more acoustic elements. The acoustic structure also includes one or more acoustic waveguide ducts configured to acoustically couple the acoustic absorber and the acoustic radiator.
US09275626B2
An audio system comprises a headset comprising a pair of earpieces positionable with respect to the user's ears so that, in use, the user is inhibited from hearing sounds from the user's environment, at least one of the earpieces having a transducer for reproducing sounds from an input audio signal; a microphone for generating a captured audio signal representing captured sounds from the user's environment; a detector for detecting the presence of any of a set of one or more characteristic sounds in the captured audio signal; and a controller operable to transmit sounds from the user's environment to the user in response to a detection that one or more of the set of characteristic sounds is present in the captured audio signal.
US09275625B2
Apparatus and methods for audio noise attenuation are disclosed. An audio signal analyzer can determine whether an input audio signal received from a microphone device includes a noise signal having identifiable content. If there is a noise signal having identifiable content, a content source is accessed to obtain a copy of the noise signal. An audio canceller can generate a processed audio signal, having an attenuated noise signal, based on comparing the copy of the noise signal to the input audio signal. Additionally or alternatively, data may be communicated on a communication channel to a separate media device to receive at least a portion of the copy of the noise signal from the separate media device, or to receive content-identification data corresponding to the content source.
US09275617B2
Methods and apparatus for choreographing movement of individuals for a performance event are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a performance event configuration having a plurality of location indicators to assist in the placing or movement of individuals conducting a performance event. The method also includes providing each individual with a wireless audio unit and transmitting body movement instruction signals to the audio units of each individual. In this embodiment, the wireless audio unit may be a wireless, cellular, or mobile telephone. The audio units are configured to receive the signals and to play audio directions for each individual that correspond to choreographed and coordinated body movements directly the individuals at, towards or away from the location indicators to carry out the performance event.
US09275605B2
Image data is encoded for distribution in a lower bit-depth format. The image data has a range that is less than a maximum range and is mapped to the lower bit depth format using a mapping such that a ratio of a range of the lower bit depth representation to a maximum range of the lower bit depth representation is greater than a ratio of the range of the image data to a maximum range of the image data. Metadata characterizing the mapping is associated with lower bit depth representation. The metadata may be used downstream to reverse the mapping so that tonal detail is better reproduced.
US09275598B2
A two-stage digital-to-analog converter for outputting an analog voltage in response to a M-bit digital input code includes a two-bit serial charge redistribution digital-to-analog converter having a high reference voltage input node for receiving a high reference voltage and a low reference voltage input node for receiving a low reference voltage, and a voltage selector. The voltage selector sets the high reference voltage and low reference voltage to selected levels depending on at least a portion of the M-bit digital input code.
US09275597B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes signal lines, scanning lines, pixel switching elements, a signal line driving circuit, a scanning line driving circuit and a display pixel, wherein the signal line driving circuit is configured to apply a voltage, which is identical to a voltage of the counter-electrode, to all the signal lines when a control signal, which is supplied from an outside of the insulative substrate, is at a first logic level, and the scanning line driving circuit is configured to turn on all the pixel switching elements when the control signal is at the first logic level, and to turn off the pixel switching elements at different timings when the control signal is at a second logic level.
US09275593B2
In one embodiment, a display panel includes a substrate and a gate driver disposed on the substrate. The gate driver comprises a wiring unit which receives signals and a circuit unit which outputs driving signals in response to the signals received from the wiring unit. The circuit unit comprises a shift register and a shift register wiring connected to the shift register. The wiring unit comprises first through n-th signal lines (n is a natural number greater than two) arranged sequentially adjacent to the shift register. The first line is located farthest from the shift register and the n-th signal line is closest from the shift register. Further, the first signal line is electrically connected to the shift register by a first connection line that comprises a first contact portion connected to the first signal line and a second contact portion connected to the shift resistor wiring.
US09275591B2
A liquid crystal display includes a gate driver including stages, and a clock generator which receives a clock generation control signal, generates a clock signal and a clock bar signal based on one or more of the clock generation control signal, a gate-on voltage and a gate-off voltage, and outputs the clock signal and the clock bar signal to the gate driver. The clock generator includes an overcurrent protector unit which intercepts at least one of the clock signal and the clock bar signal when a voltage level of at least one of the gate-on voltage and the gate-off voltage is greater than a reference level.
US09275590B2
A liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a register for storing pixel information of a problem pattern and polarity pattern information, a block pattern recognition unit for comparing input data with the problem pattern to count the number of problem patterns contained in the input data and comparing the count value with a first threshold value, a line pattern recognition unit for determining the line containing the problem pattern as a problem line, a frame pattern recognition unit for comparing the number of problem lines with a second threshold value, and determining the frame containing the input data as a problem frame, a polarity control signal generating unit for generating vertical and horizontal polarity control signals, and source drive integrated circuits (ICs) for controlling the vertical and horizontal polarities of data voltages supplied to the data lines.
US09275586B2
A method provides additional information from a server to a visible light communication terminal through visible light communication in an information display device having a Light Emitting Diode (LED) backlight unit. To this end, if content data regarding an image output through a screen of an information display device is provided from a server, it is determined whether additional information regarding an object of the image is included in the content data, and if so, the additional information is acquired from the content data. The information display device controls light emission of an LED backlight unit of a display unit based on the additional information, thus performing visible light communication. As such, various additional information regarding an object of an image displayed at a particular position of a current screen of the information display device can be provided to a visible light communication terminal.
US09275580B2
The present invention relates to a driver and a display device including the same, wherein the driver includes: a first driving circuit generating a first output signal; a second driving circuit generating a second output signal; and at least one buffer circuit generating a third output signal of a voltage level corresponding to a gate-on voltage level of the first output signal or the second output signal when the first output signal or the second output signal is transmitted as a gate-on voltage level, and the buffer circuit includes a first transistor transmitting the voltage of the first level as the third output signal, and a second transistor transmitting the voltage of a second level turning off the first transistor and connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor.
US09275576B2
An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a display panel and comprises a control section configured to control a duty pulse width for controlling an illumination period within a horizontal line period on a timing synchronized with a horizontal synchronization pulse.
US09275570B2
A field emission display includes a panel and a control unit. The panel has a number of pixel units. Each of the pixel units has at least one fluorescent layer. The control unit which electrically connects to the pixel units receives an objective image. The control unit further selects a part of the pixel units corresponding to the objective image, divides the part of the pixel units into a number of pixel unit groups, and scans the pixel unit groups to make the plurality of pixel unit groups sequentially work such that the panel displays the objective image.
US09275567B2
A pixel may include an organic light emitting diode (OLED) with a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor with a first electrode coupled to a data line, with a second electrode coupled to a first node, the first transistor being turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a third power source to charge a first capacitor voltage corresponding to a data signal supplied from the data line, and a pixel circuit charged by the first capacitor voltage to supply current corresponding to a charged first power source voltage from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED.
US09275559B2
An identification medium is optimized for displaying visible and excitable indicia. The medium includes a substrate having a color change layer, such as a direct thermal layer, and a patterned excitable layer placed over the color change layer. The color change layer produces the visible indicia. The excitable layer produces the excitable indicia. The excitable indicia is not easily readable under ambient light but becomes more easily readable under directed radiation, i.e., UV or IR light.
US09275552B1
A method includes, for each of two or more driving sessions in which a student driver operates a vehicle, gathering driving skill data indicative of at least one of behavior of the student driver, acceleration of the vehicle, braking of the vehicle, or steering of the vehicle, and generating a driving session report. The method further includes causing the driving session reports corresponding to the two or more driving sessions to be displayed to a driving instructor, and receiving comments from the driving instructor about the two or more driving sessions of the student driver. Still further, the method includes storing the driving session reports corresponding to the two or more driving sessions along with the received comments from the driving instructor.
US09275542B2
Associations between pieces of electronic audio content and geographic locations are stored. An indication of a present link between an electronic device and a particular geographic location is received. A particular piece of electronic audio content is identified as being related to the particular geographic location. The identified piece of electronic audio content then is made available to the electronic device.
US09275541B2
Remote control systems and methods for providing page commands to digital electronic display devices
A remote control system, set forth by way of example and not limitation, includes a remote control device including one or more controls operative to develop at button control signals in response to activation by a user. An interface device is responsive to the button control signals and is operative to provide device control signals via a wired connection to an electronic display device. The device control signals are operative to control an application running on an electronic display device.
US09275537B2
An inter-communication system has a security functionality capable of reporting incidents such as abnormalities occurring in a security system. In an inter-communication system, if a communication sound control device receives an alarm from a security system via a main shop processing device, the communication sound control device notifies a predetermined order reception communication device, such as a manager communication device, of the reception of the alarm, and the main shop processing device reports to a preset destination over a communication network.
US09275535B1
Systems and techniques are presented for identifying fare evasion at an access control to a paid area. Received signal strength (RSS) is determined for wireless signals communicated between two or more wireless transceivers and a fare media. A position of the fare media is determined based on the RSS and the position is added to a collection of positions. A position of an object is detected and the position of the object is compared with each position in the collection of positions. A determination is made that the position of the object is not proximate to any position in the collection of positions and an indicator light is generated on the floor proximate to the position of the object.
US09275527B2
A first controller can provide system state information and a second controller can receive the system state information. The second controller can be programmed to control the state of a component. The state of the component can be based on information programmed in the second controller and the system state information. The component can include an off state and an operating state indicated by a signal from the second controller.
US09275521B2
Methods, systems, and devices for adapting a Class II game to provide play characteristics of a Class III game are provided. Plays of the Class III game are simulated in a computer to obtain frequencies of occurrence of at least one Class III award. Plays of the Class II game are simulated in a computer to obtain frequencies of occurrence of at least one Class II outcome. A Class III award is selected. A Class II outcome having a similar frequency of occurrence to the selected Class III award is selected. An award is defined for the selected Class II outcome according to the selected Class III award.
US09275516B2
A system, method and apparatus provides a unique betting product where players make selections in one or more different events. Players who are in contention to win may be offered an opportunity to sell their tickets, in whole or in part, in response to a full or partial buy-out offer made at any time prior to completion of a wagering event.
US09275506B1
Systems and methods for processing an off-line stored value card transaction are provided. The store where the gift card transaction is being processed may save stored value card account information for a plurality of stored value cards. For example, the store may maintain stored value card account information for cards that were issued at the store or previously used at the store. When the store is off-line and cannot verify a stored value card using a home office, the store may verify the card using the account information that is locally saved. The store may upload information for stored value card transactions that occurred while the store was off-line to the home office once the store is back online. The home office may update the store's account information at regular intervals when the store is online.
US09275504B1
A feedback system and indicator for aerodynamic positioning while bicycling comprising one or more sensors located on the bicycle in positions that indicate when rider is in an aerodynamic position that activates and or otherwise records data associated with aerodynamic positioning while riding.
US09275503B2
The present invention relates generally to the communication of vehicle data, diagnostics and related information with a network remote from the vehicle, and more particularly to communications and storage of vehicle data in the cloud. In one or more preferred embodiments, vehicle information is securely gathered from a vehicle, processed in accordance with instructions and a profile set remotely, and stored at a remote data store, where remote access to such information can be accommodated through applications, smartphones and other remote devices.
US09275477B2
A shading method and computer graphics system are provided in which a path of light is reflected at a given object from a virtual light source. The path of light reaches a given eye point is sampled. A distribution function for a surface of the object is obtained using the sampled path of light, and arithmetic processing is performed such that a maximum value of the distribution function is less than or equal to a predetermined value. In this regard, an estimated specular roughness of the surface of the object is obtained by setting the distribution function to be less than or equal to the predetermined value.
US09275471B2
A method for measuring motion from biological imaging data including collecting non-carrier data images; patterning the non-carrier data images with synthetic carrier properties; and processing the patterned non-carrier data images with a carrier based motion tracking technique to generate images representing motion measurements. The method preferably converts images lacking a carrier signal to ones with a synthetic carrier signal such that highly accurate and robust speckle tracking can be achieved.
US09275469B2
This disclosure relates to methods and devices for analyzing x-ray images. Futhermore, bone condition of a subject can be evaluated by analyzing x-ray images of the subject's bone and therapies can then be selected or devised for the subject.
US09275468B2
Techniques related to managing the use of motion estimation in video processing are discussed. Such techniques may include determining dividing two video frames each into corresponding regions, generating phase plane correlations for the corresponding regions, determining whether the video frames are motion estimation correlated based on the phase plane correlations, and providing a video frame prediction mode indicator based on the determination.
US09275456B2
An embodiment of the current invention includes a non-invasive imaging system, comprising: an imaging scanner suitable to generate an image representing a tissue region of a subject under observation, the tissue region having at least one substructure and the image comprising a plurality of image voxels; a signal processing system in communication with the imaging scanner to receive the imaging signal from the imaging scanner; and a data storage unit in communication with the signal processing system, wherein the data storage unit is configured to store: an atlas comprising spatial information of the at least one substructure in the tissue region, and a database comprising a plurality of pre-stored medical images representing the tissue region, and wherein the signal processing system is adapted to: identify, based on the atlas and for each of the at least one substructure, a corresponding portion of image voxels in the image; provide a computed quantification of the corresponding portion of image voxels for each of the at least one substructure of the tissue region by performing spatial filtering on the image; and search the database to provide at least one selected medical image from the plurality of pre-stored medical images, the at least one selected medical image having a corresponding quantification that is substantially similar to the computed quantification.
US09275452B2
A method of verifying compliance of a cross sectional imaging scan of a subject is provided, which includes determining one or more body volumes covered by the cross sectional imaging scan, and for each of the determined one or more body volumes, locating a presence of at least a portion of one or more internal organs of the subject encompassed in a corresponding determined volume, thereby verifying whether the cross sectional imaging scan is compliant with predetermined criteria. The predetermined criteria can be body coverage criteria for a scan of one or more body regions of the subject. Additionally, a method for verifying whether an image series of a cross sectional imaging scan is performed with contrast is provided.
US09275449B2
A method of determining a dose-to-clear of a photoresist on a wafer includes providing an image of the wafer after the photoresist was exposed to a dose of energy and was developed, transforming the image of the wafer into frequency spectrum data, calculating an average frequency spectrum component of the frequency spectrum data, calculating a difference between the average frequency spectrum component and a noise average frequency spectrum component of a noise average frequency spectrum, and determining a dose-to-clear of the photoresist based on the difference between the average frequency spectrum component and the noise average frequency spectrum component.
US09275448B2
Provided are methods and systems for generating a binarized representation of a document using a mobile device configured to provide a Flashed and No-flashed image of the document. According to an exemplary method, the Flash and No-flash images are aligned and blended, where the resulting image includes the No-flash image where any hot spots are included in the Flash image. After blending, the blended image is binarized.
US09275441B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method for calibrating an imaging system for analyzing a plurality of molecular species in a sample. According to one embodiment, the method comprises acquiring a plurality of images of the sample with an image acquisition device at a plurality of different wavelengths, comparing a region of interest associated with at least one of the images acquired at one respective wavelength to a region of interest associated with at least one of the images acquired at a different wavelength, and aligning the plurality of images such that the region of interest associated with at least one of the images acquired at one respective wavelength corresponds to the region of interest associated with the at least one of the images acquired at a different wavelength.
US09275438B2
An apparatus comprising one or more processors configured to receive a digital image comprising a current pixel and a plurality of nearby pixels, determine a pixel intensity of the current pixel, wherein the pixel intensity comprises a noise component, and reduce the noise component by applying a bilateral filter as a combination of a domain filter and a range filter on the current pixel, wherein the domain filter is dependent on the pixel intensity and geometric closeness between the current pixel and the nearby pixels, and wherein the range filter is dependent on the pixel intensity and photometric similarity between the current pixel and the nearby pixels.
US09275432B2
An apparatus for registering medical image data representing a tubular structure comprises a data processing unit for obtaining first medical image data representing the tubular structure and second medical image data representing the tubular structure, a region identification unit for identifying the tubular structure in the first medical image data, defining in the first medical image data a volumetric region of interest comprising the tubular structure along the length of the tubular structure and defining a subset of the first medical image data corresponding to the region of interest, and a registration unit for performing a registration of the subset of the first medical image data with at least some of the second medical image data, wherein the registration comprises at least one of a rigid registration and an affine registration.
US09275431B2
A method for calibrating a laser measuring apparatus having a laser illumination unit and an image capturing unit includes the following steps. A calibration board having at least one slit gap and a plurality of markers is provided. The relative position between the calibration board and the laser illumination unit is adjusted to allow a slit laser beam emitted by the laser illumination unit to pass through the at least one slit. The calibration board is captured by the image capturing unit to generate a calibration board image. The calibration board image is processed so as to obtain a camera coordinate of each of the markers. A plurality of calibration parameters are calculated according to the camera coordinate and an actual coordinate of each of the markers so as to obtain actual coordinates of an object captured in an object image generated by the laser measuring apparatus.
US09275425B2
Generating a data model may include receiving a raw data set and generating a first repository based on a first set of features of the raw data set, a second repository having a second set of features based on an aggregation of features of the first repository, and a third repository having a third set of features based on the first and second features sets. The data model may be generated based on a tradeoff between accuracy and provenance of the model.
US09275416B2
Devices, systems, and methods of automatic Financial-Instrument (FI) management. In some embodiments, a system includes, a memory having stored thereon financial-instrument-based (FI-based) management instructions; and a processor to execute the FI-based management instructions resulting in a FI-based management application, wherein the FI-based management application may receive portfolio data corresponding to a plurality of financial-instrument portfolios associated with a plurality of clients, wherein the FI-based management application may automatically identify one or more portfolios of the plurality of portfolios satisfying at least one criterion, wherein, for each identified portfolio, the FI-based management application may receive client-specific management data corresponding to a client associated with the identified portfolio, wherein the client-specific management data includes at least client-specific destination information defining at least one destination, and wherein, for each identified portfolio, the FI-based management application may automatically communicate portfolio-related data corresponding to the identified portfolio to the destination defined by the management data.
US09275405B1
A method of providing data communication services is provided. The method comprises a mobile electronic device establishing a data connection to a content source, a gateway creating a record comprising information related to the data connection and providing the record to a server, and the server charging the content source for the data connection and providing at least a part of the record to the content source.
US09275395B2
Methods for optimizing social media are disclosed. Such methods may include identifying at least one keyword utilized for at least one webpage, identifying social media correspondence referencing the at least one keyword, analyzing content collected from the social media to determine a frequency of references to the at least one keyword and generating at least one report including information based on the analysis. The report may include recommendations for optimizing social media by, for example, increasing visibility by using high-performing keywords. Systems for performing the methods are also disclosed.
US09275394B2
A marked target representation (100; 200) includes a human-cognizable relation mark (104; 206). The marked target representation represents a target. An image capture device (130; 302) is used to capture (114; 413) an image (112; 304) of the target representation. A data structure (120; 332) indicating a relation between a user (125; 326) of the image capture device and the target is generated (116; 415) using the image.
US09275385B2
A POS terminal includes an application unit that outputs a first command that performs a first operation on a medium to a first communication port, or a second command that performs a second operation different from the first operation to a second communication port; a receiving unit that receives the first command or second command output by the application unit, the first command or the second command being received by the first communication port or the second communication port; a command control unit that converts the first command to a third command, or converts the second command to a fourth command; and a communication unit that transmits the third command or fourth command output from the command control unit to a third communication port.
US09275384B2
A method for point of sale payments includes receiving, from a seller device over a network, payment information. The payment information is associated with payment code information in a database. The payment code information is then sent to the seller device over the network for posting at a service location. The payment code information is then captured by a payer device at the service location and transmitted over the network. The payment information is then retrieved from the database using the associated payment code information. The payment information is then sent to the payer device over the network. A payment confirmation is received from the payer device over the network and, in response, a payment from a payer account to a seller account is initiated and the payment information and an indication of the payment confirmation is sent to the seller device over the network.
US09275383B2
In some embodiments, a mobile kiosk includes a vehicle and a kiosk portion coupled to the vehicle. The mobile kiosk provisions financial products. The mobile kiosk receives information for a first configuration customized according to a first customer location, applies the first configuration, and provisions a first set of the financial products using the first configuration. The mobile kiosk then receives information for a second configuration customized according to a second customer location, applies the second configuration, and provisions a second set of the financial products using the second configuration. The second configuration differs from the first configuration and the second location differs from the first location.
US09275382B2
A checkout station for a retail store is configurable between an employee-assisted mode and a self-service mode. In the employee-assisted mode, the checkout station is positioned on a checkout lane and a merchant operates the checkout station to checkout a customer from the store. In the self-service mode, the checkout station is positioned on the opposite side of the checkout lane and the customer performs the checkout functions with little or no help from the merchant. A motor in the checkout station is controlled to move the entire checkout station laterally across the checkout lane in response to receiving reconfiguration commands from the merchant. The reconfiguration commands may also control the checkout station to raise or lower its vertical height.
US09275377B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining a monotonic set of presets. In use, a plurality of parameters associated with a product or service is identified. Additionally, a monotonic set of presets associated with the product or service are determined, based on the plurality of parameters.
US09275376B2
An approach is provided for presenting soft reminders (e.g., reminders for notes with no triggering criteria). A reminder manager receives an input, from a user, for specifying a note. The note is not associated with triggering criteria. In response to the request, the reminder manager retrieves contextual information from a device associated with the user, and causes, at least in part, presentation of a reminder of the note based, at least in part, on the contextual information.
US09275374B1
A computer-implemented method and system for pre-fetching label and place page data from a remote, backend mapping system, and subsequently displaying the pre-fetched data, is disclosed. User activity data generated by execution of an application on the mobile device may be analyzed to determine geographic locations that indicate places the user is likely to be in the future. The user activity data may be analyzed at either the frontend or the backend to determine these geographic locations. Label and place page data corresponding to the geographic locations may then be retrieved from the mapping system and stored in a cache memory of the mobile computing device. The label and place page data may describe map features and include plain text, a data feed, or a URL. During periods of reduced connectivity to the mapping system, the mobile device may retrieve the stored label and place page data from the cache memory.
US09275369B2
Techniques for automating the administration of computer systems. In one set of embodiments, information can be received specifying one or more commands and a list of target computer systems. Upon receiving this information, the one or more commands can be automatically executed in parallel against the target computer systems. In certain embodiments, executing the one or more commands in parallel can include forking a child process for each target computer system, and executing the one or more commands against that target computer system in the context of the child process. Output and error information that is collected by each child process as a result of executing the one or more commands can be aggregated and made available to a system administrator upon completion. Further, error information that is generated as a result of the automated administration process itself can be stored and made available to the system administrator for review.
US09275367B2
Described is the display on a visual display device of one or more first visual indicators that indicate that one or more first process parameters of a process are critical process parameters. The critical process parameters are displayed on the visual display device as part of a hierarchical data structure.
US09275366B2
Example systems and methods of extracting and processing data are described. In one implementation, a method accesses genealogy data (which includes a root node) associated with multiple data sources. The genealogy data is expanded from the root node. The method identifies data objects associated with the genealogy data and identifies a simplification rule to apply to the genealogy data. Data objects in the genealogy data that satisfy the simplification rule are identified by the method. A simplified representation of the genealogy data is generated by replacing each identified data object with a link to a predecessor data object.
US09275359B1
A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing discovery and prediction of long-term high-level nearly periodical business processes from low-level logs is presented. Query activity vectors are extracted from database logs. Groups of queries having similar behavior for a set of business processes are identified by clustering of the query activity vectors. Periodic structure is discovered in the business processes and their future activity is predicted. The predictions of future activity are provided to a storage system.
US09275350B2
A method and a system for managing an online shop use an instant messaging system to allow an auxiliary account to log in and manage an online shop of a primary account user. The primary account user creates an online shop in an online shop server, and associates itself with one or more auxiliary accounts in an instant messaging system. Upon authorization by primary account user to allow an auxiliary account to manage the online shop, the system records an authorization relation between the auxiliary account and the primary account. The authorization relation may be recorded in the instant messaging system. Based on the recorded authorization relation, the system allows a user of the authorized auxiliary account to manage the online shop system through the instant messaging system. An instant messaging server serving for this purpose is also disclosed.
US09275348B2
Identifying participants for collaboration in a threat exchange community can include receiving security data from a plurality of participants at a threat exchange server within the threat exchange community; and in response to receiving from a first participant from the plurality of participants security data associated with a security occurrence, identifying at the threat exchange server the first participant and a second participant from the plurality of participants for collaboration based on characteristics of the first participant and the second participant.
US09275347B1
Embodiments are directed towards online content classification that includes training a machine learning system. A batch of data items may be randomly selected from unlabeled test data. The batch of data items may be communicated to a client computer enabling a user to label each data item based on the contents of each data item. These labeled data items may be employed to train the machine learning system. While a classification result score is less than a threshold value, iteration may be performed to train the machine learning system. For each iteration another batch of data items may be selected from the unlabeled test data. This batch of data items may be classified using the machine learning system. The batch of classified data items may be communicated back to the client computer to be labeled by the user.
US09275332B2
A method including generating a global topic model based on a set of data that is updated according to an activity of each user of a plurality of users, the global topic model including a topic representation for a topic, generating a plurality of user models, each user model being generated based on the activity of a respective user, generating an expertise model for the topic based on the activity of at least one user of the plurality of users, the expertise model for the topic setting a target level of knowledge for a first user of the plurality of users, comparing a user model of the first user with the expertise model for the topic, the comparing being performed by a processor of a computer system, and recommending an activity associated with the set of data to the first user based on the comparison.
US09275330B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a neural core circuit comprising a synaptic interconnect network including plural electronic synapses for interconnecting one or more source electronic neurons with one or more target electronic neurons. The interconnect network further includes multiple axon paths and multiple dendrite paths. Each synapse is at a cross-point junction of the interconnect network between a dendrite path and an axon path. The core circuit further comprises a routing module maintaining routing information. The routing module routes output from a source electronic neuron to one or more selected axon paths. Each synapse provides a configurable level of signal conduction from an axon path of a source electronic neuron to a dendrite path of a target electronic neuron.
US09275329B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for implementing behavioral homeostasis in artificial neurons that use a dynamical spiking neuron model. The homeostatic mechanism may be driven by neuron state, rather than by neuron spiking rate, and this mechanism may drive changes to the neuron temporal dynamics, rather than to contributions of input or weights. As a result, certain aspects of the present disclosure are a more natural fit with spiking neural networks and have many functional and computational advantages. One example method for implementing homeostasis of an artificial nervous system generally includes determining one or more state variables of a neuron model used by an artificial neuron, based at least in part on dynamics of the neuron model; determining one or more conditions based at least in part on the state variables; and adjusting the dynamics based at least in part on the conditions.
US09275326B2
Apparatus and methods for activity based plasticity in a spiking neuron network adapted to process sensory input. In one embodiment, the plasticity mechanism may be configured for example based on activity of one or more neurons providing feed-forward stimulus and activity of one or more neurons providing inhibitory feedback. When an inhibitory neuron generates an output, inhibitory connections may be potentiated. When an inhibitory neuron receives inhibitory input, the inhibitory connection may be depressed. When the inhibitory input arrives subsequent to the neuron response, the inhibitory connection may be depressed. When input features are unevenly distributed in occurrence, the plasticity mechanism is capable of reducing response rate of neurons that develop receptive fields to more prevalent features. Such functionality may provide network output such that rarely occurring features are not drowned out by more widespread stimulus.
US09275324B2
In various embodiments, a booster antenna structure for a chip card is provided, wherein the booster antenna structure may include a booster antenna; and an additional electrically conductive structure connected to the booster antenna.
US09275320B2
A financial transaction product includes a housing, an electrical assembly, a button, a face panel, and an account identifier. The housing includes a panel having an outside surface. The electrical assembly is maintained within the housing and includes an activation switch and at least one of a light and a speaker. Movement of the activation switch causes activation of the electrical assembly including at least one of illumination of the light and audio emission via the speaker. The button is separate from the housing and the electrical assembly and positioned over the activation switch. The face panel is formed separately from the housing and secured to the outside surface extending over the button such that user interaction with the activation switch is performed at least partially via the face panel and the button. The account identifier is coupled with the housing and associates the product with an account or record.
US09275316B2
A method of generating an attribute map for processing an image. An image encoded into a plurality of segments is received. Each segment is characterized by a position within a base region associated with the image and is encoded according to a corresponding encoding format. A segment from the plurality of segments is decoded into a sub-image. The sub-image is associated with a combination operation and an attribute value derived based on at least one of a segment decoding format and a segment encoding format. The combination operation determines a process of combining the sub-image with the underlying base region. An information-carrying pixel value in the sub-image is determined based on the sub-image pixel content and the attribute value associated with the sub-image. The attribute map for processing the image is generated using the attribute value associated with the sub-image for at least one pixel of the attribute map.
US09275309B2
A face recognition method is provided to use sparse representation and regularized least squares-based classification on a computing device. The method includes obtaining an image to be recognized as a test sample y and a set of training images of certain subjects as training sample matrix T, obtaining a sparse representation of the test sample and the training samples including an initial estimation of a sparse vector a, and constructing a new face dictionary comprising training samples with non-zero corresponding coefficients in the sparse vector a for the initial estimation. The method also includes obtaining new coefficients by solving a regularized least squares problem based on the constructed new face dictionary, and determining a face identity of the test sample based on minimum class residual calculated by using the new coefficients.
US09275305B2
A learning device includes: a generating unit configured to generate an image having different resolution from an input image; an extracting unit configured to extract a feature point serving as a processing object from an image generated by the generating unit; a calculating unit configured to calculate the feature amount of the feature point by subjecting the feature point to filter processing employing a predetermined filter; and an identifier generating unit configured to generate an identifier for detecting a predetermined target object from the image by statistical learning employing the feature amount; with the filter including a plurality of regions, and the calculating unit taking the difference value of difference within the regions as the feature amount.
US09275296B2
An image processing apparatus for searching for a feature point by use of a depth image and a method thereof are provided. The image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input a three-dimensional image having depth information, a feature point extraction unit configured to obtain a designated point from an object image extracted from the depth image to obtain a feature point that is located at a substantially farthest distance from the designated point, and to obtain other feature points that are located at substantially farthest distances from feature points that are previously obtained as well as the designated point. The apparatus includes a control unit configured to control the input unit and the feature point extraction unit so that time in estimating a structure of the object is reduced, and a recognition result is enhanced.
US09275282B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for merging maps used by a positioning server are presented. Original maps are overlaid, concatenated or inset to create a more detailed map. The original maps are from different sources and/or in different formats. By merging or fusing maps together, a positioning server may create a better structural map, which is in turn used to create improved positioning assistance data.
US09275274B2
An in-vehicle information system includes a camera and a controller that accept gesture input. A controller receives frames of video data and generates trajectory data for a movement of a hand in the video data. The controller uses a first hidden Markov model (HMM) to decode a sequence of strokes from the trajectory data, removes a starting and ending stroke to form an edited stroke sequence, and re-normalizes the strokes in the edited stroke sequence. The controller uses a second HMM corresponding to a predetermined set of characters to identify a character corresponding to the re-normalized edited stroke sequence.
US09275270B2
This invention provides a technique which can enhance personal recognition precision in personal recognition processing of a face in an image. To this end, a management unit classifies feature patterns each including feature information of a plurality of parts of a face region of an object extracted from image data, and manages the feature patterns using a dictionary. A segmenting unit determines whether or not feature information of each part of the face region of the object is segmented, and segments the feature information of the part of interest into a plurality of feature information as new feature information. A registration unit registers a feature pattern as a combination of the new feature information of the part of interest and feature information of parts other than the part of interest in the dictionary as a new feature pattern of the object.
US09275255B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information are disclosed. According to one method, a viewing position of a person other than a user with respect to information on a user interface is identified. An information viewability threshold is determined based on the information on the user interface. Further, an action associated with the user interface is performed based on the identified viewing position and the determined information viewability threshold.
US09275248B1
Approaches are described for updating code and/or instructions in one or more computing devices. In particular, various embodiments provide approaches for updating the microcode of one or more processors of a computing device without requiring a restart of the computing device and without disrupting the various components (e.g., applications, virtual machines, etc.) executing on the computing device. The microcode updates can be performed on host computing devices deployed in a resource center of a service provider (e.g., cloud computing service provider), where each host computing device may be executing a hypervisor hosting multiple guest virtual machines (or other guest applications) for the customers of the service provider.
US09275247B2
A networking system may comprise a web site incorporating a combination of one or more of the following: a crediting system, a chat bidding system, a performance bidding system, a telephony switching system, a media interaction system, a display system, a photo management system, and a messaging system. The networking system may categorize each user of the web site into classes, including a featured class, a common class, a sponsored class, and a sponsoring class. The networking system may facilitate user interactions, some of which may be partially dependent on user classes. A featured user may opt to temporarily appear as a common user, thus activating an alternative user profile and hiding his featured status. A sponsored user may participate in interactions on the web site if a sponsoring user offers his credits to pay for the sponsored member's participation. Other aspects of the networking system are also disclosed herein.
US09275240B2
In at least one embodiment, a method for secured rollback of a virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM) that renders available functionalities offered by Trusted Platform Module (TPM) on a computer to a virtual machine (VM) is provided. The method includes taking and saving a snapshot of current state of a virtual machine as well as a snapshot of the corresponding vTPM, upon receiving a request for taking a snapshot of the virtual machine. The method further includes converting the snapshots into the current state of the virtual machine and the current state of the vTPM, respectively, upon receiving a request to roll back the virtual machine.
US09275238B2
A method for data security reading includes steps of: receiving a hardware instruction; analyzing said hardware instruction; if said hardware instruction is a reading instruction, obtaining the source address in the reading instruction; searching a mapping bitmap and modifying the reading address in the reading instruction according to the data of the mapping bitmap, wherein the mapping bitmap is used to indicate whether the data stored in a local storage address is dumped to said security storage device; transmitting the modified reading instruction to a hardware layer. An apparatus for data security reading includes a receiving unit, an instruction analyzing unit, an instruction modifying unit and a transmitting unit. The Trojan horse or malicious tools cannot store or transmit the acquired information even if the secret information has been obtained, so that the data always exists in controllable security range.
US09275235B2
A method for preventing unauthorized recording of media content on an Apple operating system (OS). The present method registers a compliance mechanism on a client system having the Apple OS operating thereon. The compliance mechanism comprises a framework for validating the compliance mechanism on the client system, and a multimedia component opened by the framework. The present method uses the multimedia component for decrypting the media content on the client system. The present method also prevents decryption of the media content on the client system having the Apple OS operating thereon if a portion of the compliance mechanism is invalidated.
US09275234B2
A password protection application is executed on a mobile device and provides an interface by which an authorized user can define and configure a “data protection profile” for the device. This profile defines at least one security event (criteria or condition) associated with the device, and at least one protection action that should occur to protect data on the device upon the triggering of the event. Once defined in a profile, the application monitors for the occurrence of the security event. Upon the occurrence of the specified event, the protection action is enforced on the device to protect the data.
US09275232B2
Apparatuses, methods, and non-transitory computer readable medium that evaluate a source code scanner are described. In one implementation, the method comprises obtaining source code. One or more good code snippets and one or more bad code snippets are inserted into the source code to obtain a modified source code. An issue list generated by the source code scanner upon scanning the modified source code is obtained. The issue list comprises code segments having security defects identified by the source code scanner, reasons for the security defects, and locations of the security defects in the modified source code. The code segments present in the issue list are compared with the one or more good code snippets and the one or more bad code snippets. A plurality of metrics, indicating quality of the source code scanner, are generated based on the comparison.
US09275231B1
A method and apparatus for securing a computer using an optimal configuration for security software based on user behavior is described. In one embodiment, the method for providing an optimal configuration to secure a computer based on user behavior includes examining computer user activity to produce behavior indicia with respect to computer security from malicious threats and determining an optimal configuration for security software based on the behavior indicia.
US09275224B2
An apparatus for improving detection performance of an intrusion detection system includes a transformed detected data generation unit for changing original detected data, detected based on current detection rules, to transformed detected data complying with transformed detected data standard. A transformed detected data classification unit classifies the transformed detected data by attack type, classifies transformed detected data for attack types by current detection rule, and classifies transformed detected data for detection rules into true positives/false positives. A transformed keyword tree generation unit generates a true positive transformed keyword tree and a false positive transformed keyword tree. A true positive path identification unit generates a true positive node, and identifies a true positive path connecting a base node to the true positive node in the true positive transformed keyword tree. A true positive detection pattern generation unit generates a true positive detection pattern based on the true positive path.
US09275215B2
Systems and methods for providing identification tests. In some embodiments, a system and a method are provided for generating and serving to a user an animated challenge graphic comprising a challenge character set whose appearance may change over time. In some embodiments, marketing content may be incorporated into a challenge message for use in an identification test. The marketing content may be accompanied by randomly selected content to increase a level of security of the identification test, hi some embodiments, a challenge message for use in an identification test may be provided based on information regarding a transaction for which the identification test is administered. For example, the transaction information may include a user identifier such as an IP address. In some embodiments, identification test results may be tracked and analyzed to identify a pattern of behavior associated with a user identifier. A score indicative of a level of trustworthiness may be computed for the user identifier.
US09275211B2
A behavioral characteristics authentication system and method (“BCA system”) that facilitates authentication of the identity of a user, registrant, or applicant of a website, application, or other accessible computer resource using a verification process that incorporates behavioral characteristics. In operation, the BCA system compares a single user's behavior with their previous behavior, a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to non-fraudulent behavior, or a user's behavior with behavior generally attributed to fraudulent behavior. The population of other users that a user's behavior is compared with may be selected to have similar demographic or other characteristics as the user. By analyzing various behavioral characteristics associated with legitimate or fraudulent multi-factor authentication attempts, the BCA system adds another layer of security to online transactions.
US09275204B1
In aspects of enhanced network access-control credentials, a network access device includes a network interface for data communication with network-connected devices via a network. The network access device implements an access control manager that receives a network access request from a requesting device to access the network, where the network access request includes authentication credentials. The access control manager can then modify the network access request to generate a modified network access request, and initiate communication of the modified network access request to an authentication server that authenticates the requesting device to the network based on the modified network access request.
US09275203B1
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for preventing software piracy. One method includes specifying at least one codemark that is intrinsic to a computing system. The method further includes inserting guard code in an application. The guard code including a first code portion that uses a codemark and produces an output that depends on a value of the codemark and a second code portion that uses the output of the first code portion. The method further includes executing the first and second code portions and selectively triggering a protective action based on the output of the second code portion. Multiple types, styles, and frequencies of guard codes can be used to provide in-depth, long lasting, and strong protection.
US09275197B2
An individual may wish to make a gift of digital media to a designated recipient. The digital media may be previously purchased by the individual or may be new, unused digital media purchased specifically as a gift for the recipient. The sender of the gift sends a gift notification. The sender is then verified to ensure that the sender is authorized to make the gift by matching an identifier of the digital media with an identifier associated with the sender. The digital media may be associated with a set of rights and privileges. Further rights and privileges associated with the digital media may be offered to the recipient.
US09275193B2
A method and computer program product for monitoring one or more processes occurring during a first portion of a multi-portion recipe being executed on a processing device to obtain data concerning at least of portion of the one or more processes. At least a portion of the data is stored. The availability of the at least a portion of the data is enabled to one or more processes occurring during a second portion of the multi-portion recipe.
