US09282670B2
A stand includes a base, a rotating element and a cover. The base includes a main body and a position device combined moveably with the main body. The rotating element combines rotatably with the position device to form a pivoting portion and is moved with the position device. The rotating element includes a guiding pillar. The cover combines with the main body, and the cover includes at least one guiding structure. The guiding pillar can be moved along the at least one guiding structure when the position device is moved, and a rotation operation of the guiding pillar can be limited by the at least one guiding structure when the guiding pillar is rotated with the rotating element.
US09282665B1
An illuminated doorbell chime system is disclosed having a chime coil and LED lights. A chime control circuit has a power supply unit, an LED driver and a chime driver. The power supply unit is connected to the LED lights and the chime coil. The LED driver is connected to the LED lights. The chime driver is connected to the chime coil. A door switch selectively applies power to the power supply unit. The LED driver has a bipolar junction transistor, a base Zener diode, and a voltage divider. The chime driver has a Mosfet transistor, a gate resistor, a gate capacitor, and a gate Zener diode. The LED driver and the chime driver are interconnected, with a cathode of the gate Zener diode connected to the collector of the bipolar junction transistor, and a cathode of the base Zener diode connected to the drain of the Mosfet transistor.
US09282657B2
A terminal device is provided that includes a first case; a second case disposed in the terminal device with a gap with respect to the first case; and a transparent member that includes a transparent front-surface-side member bonded to a transparent rear-surface-side member and is disposed in the gap to connect the first case and the second case.
US09282655B2
An electrical distribution center includes an upper housing, a circuit board disposed in the upper housing, and a lower housing having a plurality of lower terminal receiving cavities and a plurality of alignment cavities. A plurality of terminals is mounted on the circuit board such that each terminal is in electrical communication with a respective electrically conductive member. The terminals have contact portions below the circuit board and disposed in the lower terminal receiving cavities such that each of the terminals extends from the circuit board no more than a first predetermined distance. A plurality of alignment posts are fixed to the circuit board and received within the alignment cavities such that each of the alignment posts extends from the circuit board at least a second predetermined distance which is greater than the first predetermined distance.
US09282651B2
The present invention relates to a pin-less registration and inductive heating system involving the use of a pre-alignment station for imaging an initial position of a laminate element, an imaging and computer operation control system for determining a required correction factor between an alignment of the laminate element at the pre-alignment station and a preferred stack orientation for the laminate element, and an alignment and transfer system for securely gripping, transferring, and repositioning a laminate element from a top position to the preferred stack orientation employing a preferred four-axis orientation.
US09282645B2
A laser patterning touch panel includes an active area, an inactive area, and a plurality of first coaxial patterns. The active area is disposed in a center area of the substrate. The inactive area does not overlap the active area and has a transparent conductive layer thereon. The plurality of first coaxial patterns are disposed on the transparent conductive layer and surround the active area. Each of the plurality of first coaxial patterns includes a continuous line segment with a width, and partially overlaps with a neighboring one of the first coaxial patterns.
US09282644B2
Disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which has excellent concealing properties for appearance defects of a circuit and the like, while having excellent coloring power and resolution that enable the formation of a high-resolution solder resist layer. Specifically disclosed is a photosensitive resin composition which contains a perylene coloring agent, a coloring agent that is in a complementary color relation with the perylene coloring agent, a carboxyl group-containing resin, a compound that contains two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups in each molecule, and a photopolymerization initiator.
US09282642B2
A wiring board includes a base wiring board 10 and a frame wiring board 20. The base wiring board 10 has an element mounting portion 1a and a frame-shaped frame joining portion 1b on the upper surface and a solder resist layer 4 deposited in a portion between the element mounting portion 1a and the frame joining portion 1b. In the wiring board 10, a first joining pad 6 provided in the frame joining portion 1b and a second joining pad 16 provided in a lower surface of the frame wiring board 20 are joined together via a solder bump H so that a gap may be formed between the frame joining portion 1b and the frame wiring board 20. The base wiring board 10 has a resin injection hole 8 penetrating through the base wiring board 10 in the frame joining portion 1b, and the gap is filled with a sealing resin 18.
US09282635B2
A multilayer wiring board with a built-in electronic component includes a substrate, a conductor layer formed on surface of the substrate, one or more electronic components positioned in a cavity formed through the substrate, an insulating layer formed on the substrate such that the insulating layer is formed on the component in the cavity, and a wiring layer formed on the insulating layer. The conductor layer has an opening formed such that the cavity is formed in the opening of the conductor layer and that the conductor layer has a first side in the opening and a second side in the opening on the opposite side across the cavity, and the cavity is formed in the opening of the conductor layer such that width between the cavity and the first side of the conductor layer is greater than width between the cavity and the second side of the conductor layer.
US09282629B2
A wiring substrate includes a heat spreader, a first insulating layer provided on the heat spreader via an adhesion layer, the first insulating layer, a plurality of through wirings formed to fill through holes provided at the first insulating layer, respectively, a thermal diffusion wiring provided on the first insulating layer so as to be connected to the through wirings, the thermal diffusion wiring being configured not to be electrically connected to a semiconductor device, an electrical connection wiring provided on the first insulating layer, the electrical connection wiring being configured to be electrically connected to the semiconductor device, wherein the heat spreader is provided with a projection portion, made of a composition same as the heat spreader, at a surface of the heat spreader on which the adhesion layer is formed, the projection portion being aimed at least at an area overlapping the through wirings in a plan view.
US09282624B2
An antenna structure includes four induction antennas which have the same structure, are connected in parallel and are disposed to be overlapped. The induction antennas include an external upper section arranged on a first quadrant of a first layer, an internal upper section connected to the external upper section and arranged on a second quadrant of the first layer, an internal lower section connected to the internal upper section and arranged on a third quadrant of a second layer arranged on a lower part of the first layer, and an external lower section connected to the internal lower section and arranged on a fourth quadrant of the second layer. An RF power is supplied to one end of the external upper section, and the other end of the external lower section is grounded.
US09282622B2
A modular x-ray source in which the x-ray tube is removably attached to a case and power supply by a removable cap.
US09282619B2
A light device for use with a fan device includes a light neutral terminal coupled to a neutral terminal of an AC power source and a fan neutral terminal of the fan device, a light line terminal for connection to a line terminal of the AC power source, a light control unit for light emission upon receipt of the electrical power from the light neutral terminal and the light line terminal, and a switch device coupled between the light neutral terminal and the light control unit.
US09282611B2
A LED driving apparatus and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The LED driving apparatus includes a power, at least one LED string, a LED control unit, and an input voltage detection circuit. At least one LED string is coupled to the power and includes LEDs connected in series. The input voltage detection circuit is coupled to two ends of at least one LED of the LEDs respectively and used to judge whether an input voltage is lower than a LED conducting voltage. The input voltage detection circuit includes a charging capacitance to be charged when the at least one LED string is conducted. If the judged result of the input voltage detection circuit is yes, the input voltage detection circuit will control the charging capacitance having a charging voltage to discharge to the at least one LED string.
US09282607B2
The present invention relates to a LED device with shared voltage-limiting unit and individual voltage-equalizing resistance, wherein two ends of a LED set constituted by a plurality of same-polarity series LEDs are in parallel connected with a shared voltage-limiting unit, and two ends of individual LED are respectively in parallel connected with an voltage-equalizing resistance for providing an overvoltage protection to the LEDs.
US09282606B1
An LED driving apparatus includes a rectifier bridge generating a DC bus voltage, a bus capacitor coupled between the output terminal of the rectifier bridge and a reference ground, a tank element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a free-wheeling switch, an output capacitor, a voltage sensing circuit generating a voltage sensing signal indicative of the DC bus voltage, a bleeding circuit providing a bleeding current for the bus capacitor, and a bleeding control circuit generating a control signal to control the bleeding circuit based on the voltage sensing signal.
US09282603B2
The invention relates to a dimmable, multi-channel voltage/current source (47) with several outputs (CH1, CH2) for connecting an electrical load (10, 20), which provides a regulated direct current (I1, I2) at every output (CH1, CH2). The voltage source (47) comprises, for every output (CH1, CH2), a first dimming device (3), with which part of the current (I1′, I2″) flowing to the output (CH1, CH2) can be conducted to a reference potential (GND) and which in each case comprises a switch (17, 27) that is controlled by a first PWM signal, and a second dimming device (4) with a second switch (12, 22) that is arranged in series to the electrical load (10, 20) and which is controlled by a second PWM signal (open1, open2).
US09282594B2
A microwave heater capable of heating a bundle of wood and equipped with an optimized system for launching and/or dispersing microwave energy. The microwave launching system can include one or more split microwave launchers at least partly disposed in the interior of the heater. The microwave dispersing system can include one or more moving reflectors for rastering microwave energy emitted from the split launchers.
US09282593B2
An induction heating system comprises inductive rings, which in one example are concentrically wound about a center axis to form a coil array. The inductive rings are situated in the coil array to permit activation of the inductive rings independent of the other inductive rings in the coil array. In one embodiment, the induction heating system includes a control structure with a power supply and switches coupled to each of the inductive rings, wherein activation of the switches permits current from the power supply to flow to the corresponding inductive ring. The induction heating system is amenable to appliances such as ovens and ranges, as well as to cooktops such as free-standing cooktops for countertops.
US09282590B2
A method of controlling the temperature of an environment, including the steps of providing a thermostat and receiving a signal from an occupancy sensor indicating whether an area has been occupied for each discrete time period of a 24 hour time period, assigning a first point value to each discrete time period where occupancy has been sensed, and repeating the steps for the next two 24 hour periods, and averaging the point values for each discrete time period in the first, second, and third 24 hour periods, to obtain an average point value, and sending a first signal to a heating device adapted for heating a second area to provide a temperature-related setting for a given discrete time period when the average point value for that discrete time period is above a threshold point value.
US09282588B2
An architecture, system and associated method for dynamic coordination of radio resource usage in a network environment. In one aspect, a relay communication method comprises detecting, by a first wireless mobile device, sensory data associated with multiple radio channels relative to at least one radio element in a sensing area of the first wireless mobile device. If the first wireless mobile device is out of range of a wide area cellular network, a short-range wireless communication path is established with a second wireless mobile device having a wide area cellular communication connection. The sensory data is transmitted by the first wireless mobile device to the second wireless mobile device for reporting to a network element via a wide area cellular network serving the second wireless mobile device.
US09282583B2
There is provided a base station including a communication unit for communicating with a user equipment according to a frame format where subframes for uplink and subframes for downlink are structured in a time division manner, and a scheduler for moving a boundary between a subframe for downlink and a subframe for uplink. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with another base station by using a subframe between the boundary before movement by the scheduler and the boundary after the movement.
US09282578B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes the steps of: starting, by a UE, re-attach processing for MME#2, upon receiving “Paging”; transmitting, by MME#1, “DDN Ack” including the IMSI of the UE, which is included in the “DDN”, and “Cause=Re-Attach Success”, to S-GW#1 specified by S-GW address #1 included in the “DDN”; and releasing, by S-GW#1, a PDN connection #1 between S-GW#1 and P-GW#1, upon receiving the “DDN Ack”, the PDN connection #1 corresponding to the IMSI of the UE included in the “DDN Ack”.
US09282577B2
In order to provide a transmission device and transmission method with which a response signal for random access preamble transmitted from a preamble transmission device is efficiently transmitted, base station (100) sets a first resource candidate group, which enables terminal (200) capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmission to be selected, and a second resource candidate group, which enables terminal (300) incapable of receiving a latch response transmitted by DMRS transmission but capable of receiving a latch response transmitted by cell-specific reference signal (CRS) transmission to be selected. Base station (100) selects DMRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when a resource in which latch preamble has been received is included in the first candidate group, but selects CRS transmission as the latch response transmission method when the resource is included in the second resource candidate group.
US09282573B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for performing a random access operation between a mobile station and a network element such as a base transceiver station (10), wherein allowed access slots for random access channels are defined by the network and are signaled to the mobile station (20). The definition of the allowed access slots is performed on the basis of a parameter set by the base transceiver station (10) and transmitted to the mobile station (20) which determines the allowed access slots based on the parameter. Thus, the number of allowed access slots can be defined by the network and can be changed dynamically based on the random access messaging load and the hardware requirements.
US09282569B2
The present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies, and provides an method, the method includes: when a CS service and PS service of a local LTE single-card dual-standby multi-mode terminal are concurrent, detecting, by a local LTE single-card dual-standby multi-mode terminal, whether a peer communication terminal that is performing voice communication with it is in a voice silent period; when detecting that the peer communication terminal is not in the voice silent period, receiving, by the local LTE single-card dual-standby multi-mode terminal, downlink data in an LTE system, and suspending, by the local LTE single-card dual-standby multi-mode terminal, sending of uplink data in the LTE system at the same time; and when detecting that the peer communication terminal is in the voice silent period, sending the uplink data and receiving the downlink data, by the local LTE single-card dual-standby multi-mode terminal, in the LTE system.
US09282568B2
A method for dynamically determining power and scheduling assignments in a communications network includes selecting, by a controller, a mobile station in each cell to define a mobile station set, determining, by the controller, a power allocation for each of the mobile stations in the mobile station set, calculating, by the controller, a global utility function by evaluating a contribution from each of the mobile stations in the mobile station set in accordance with the power allocation, repeating, by the controller, the selecting, the determining, and the calculating steps a predetermined number of times to generate additional ones of the global utility function, and choosing, by the controller, the mobile station set corresponding to the global utility function having a particular value for a resource block of a frame. The method may also include repeatedly dividing a user set into clusters to obtain a best power allocation.
US09282566B2
A method and apparatus for transferring buffered enhanced uplink (EU) data is disclosed. The WTRU transmits an EU data transmission request message. The WTRU determines, based on the EU data scheduling message, whether granted resources allow for the amount of EU data stored in the buffer to be transmitted and transmits a portion of the EU data stored in the buffer along with an indication indicating whether the granted resources allow the amount of EU data stored in the buffer to be transmitted.
US09282560B2
A intelligent backhaul radio is disclosed that is compact, light and low power for street level mounting, operates at 100 Mb/s or higher at ranges of 300 m or longer in obstructed LOS conditions with low latencies of 5 ms or less, can support PTP and PMP topologies, uses radio spectrum resources efficiently and does not require precise physical antenna alignment.
US09282555B2
A resource control method and device are provided in the present invention. The method includes: a base station collecting in real time an S1 transmission bandwidth occupied by one or more operators in the base station; and, when a user equipment (UE) initiates a service request, according to the remaining S1 transmission bandwidth of the operator to which the UE belongs, the base station determining whether the UE is allowed to access to the service or not. By collecting in real time the S1 transmission bandwidth resource occupied by each operator in the system, the present invention realizes resource control, ensures each operator's profit, avoids the case that the quality of service of the users of other operators is damaged or can not be accepted since one operator occupies excessive S1 transmission resource, thus guaranteeing user experience and enhancing user satisfaction.
US09282549B2
A method for transmitting feedback information and a user equipment are disclosed in the present document, wherein, one method includes: a User Equipment (UE) performing time domain extension on feedback information within one subframe; and mapping respectively data which go through the time domain extension and demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension to multiple uplink Single Carrier-Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) symbols within the subframe, and transmitting the data which go through the time domain extension and the demodulation reference signals corresponding to the data which go through the time domain extension in the same frequency domain position in a way of time division multiplexing; wherein, each uplink SC-FDMA symbol occupies n successive physical resource blocks in the frequency domain, and n is a positive integer.
US09282542B2
Apparatus, system and method of wireless backhaul communication between wireless communication nodes
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of wireless backhaul communication between wireless communication nodes. For example, a wireless communication controller may control a wireless communication node to communicate with one or more other wireless communication nodes via one or more backhaul links of a backhaul network over a first frequency band, and to communicate with a control station via a control link over a second frequency band, the first frequency band is higher than the second frequency band.
US09282540B2
Transmitting signals to at least one wireless terminal by a wireless network having a channel frequency reuse pattern. A transceiving device within the wireless network selects a channel in contradistinction to the channel frequency reuse pattern to service transmission of a signal to the at least one wireless terminal.
US09282536B2
Access terminals employing multiple subscriptions are adapted for paging channel arbitration. According to at least one example, an access terminal can determine whether there will be a collision between a first paging channel associated with a first subscription and a second paging channel associated with a second subscription. The access terminal may additionally determine whether a time period between a paging indicator bit for the first subscription and the second paging channel is greater than or equal to an amount of time it takes to switch from operating on the first subscription to operating on the second subscription. The access terminal can monitor for a paging indicator bit indicating an incoming paging message on the first paging channel and, if no paging message is indicated, may switch to the second subscription to monitor the second paging channel for incoming paging messages. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US09282528B2
In a mobile communication system, a mobile-station location information management device creates plural transmission-power output data-sets including individual pieces of transmission-power data of plural base-stations with changing the transmission-power of the plural base-stations; creates plural reception-power data-tables individually corresponding to the created plural transmission-power output data-sets and each including plural pieces of divided-area data individually corresponding to plural individual divided-areas within a location-detection target area where each piece of divided-area data includes reception-power data of signals transmitted from the plural base-stations; selects a reception-power data table corresponding to the changed transmission-power data-set from among the created plural reception-power data-tables when the transmission-power of the plural base-stations are changed after the mobile-station has moved into the location-detection target area; and detects, as a location of the mobile-station, an area indicated by divided-area data where a difference from a reception-power data-set received from the mobile-station is slight, within the selected reception-power data-table.
US09282524B2
A method for adjusting power in a mobile terminal is disclosed and may include determining a total transmit power control (TPC) command for a downlink channel based on a plurality of TPC commands. The plurality of TPC commands may be calculated based on a plurality of control channels. The transmit power may be adjusted based on the determined total TPC command. The plurality of control channels may include a dedicated physical channel and a common pilot channel. Noise power may be determined for each of the plurality of control channels. A TPC command may be determined based on the plurality of control channels. A reliability weight value may be determined for each of the plurality of TPC commands, based on the determined noise power for each of the plurality of control channels.
US09282523B2
A method of maximum output power configuration with UE preference in carrier aggregation is provided. A UE configures multiple component carriers (CCs) with carrier aggregation for communicating with a serving base station in a mobile communication network. The UE determines channel condition of multiple serving cells over the corresponding multiple CCs. The UE then determines maximum output power for each CC based at least in part on the corresponding channel condition of each CC. Finally, the UE transmits power headroom report (PHR) for each CC to the serving base station, wherein the PHR is calculated based on the determined maximum output power. As a result, the reported PH information is channel condition dependent, which can be used by eNB for facilitating better transmission scheduling.
US09282520B2
A network including a plurality of nodes each configured as transmitters, receivers, or transceivers. At least one of the nodes may be configured to wirelessly transmit a repeating isochronous signal for reception by one or more of the other nodes. The isochronous phase and/or frequency of the repeating isochronous transmission may be variably adjusted to reduce signal interference.
US09282519B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling transmission and reception control in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes at least one voltage regulator, a power source consumer, at least one capacitor, and a controller. The at least one voltage regulator provides a power source that is a regulated voltage. The power source consumer processes a Radio Frequency (RF) signal using the power source that is the regulated voltage. The at least one capacitor is connected to an output port of the at least one voltage regulator and a power source input port of the power source consumer. The controller turns off the at least one voltage regulator during a deactivation period of the communication apparatus and turns on the at least one voltage regulator during an activation period of the communication apparatus.
US09282514B2
Methods and apparatus for intelligently selecting and operating one or more air interfaces of a mobile wireless device for e.g., call setup time reduction. In one embodiment, operation of a high speed cellular interface is selectively adjusted or disabled or switched out when not required so as to minimize call setup times by, e.g., using a different cellular interface to receive pages. In one implementation, the wireless device includes a high-speed cellular interface, a lower-speed cellular interface, and a WLAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) interface.
US09282498B2
Various embodiments of a cell switching strategy for an LTE-Advanced system based on the carrier aggregation technology are provided. Compared with the conventional cell switching strategy, the proposed strategy monitors the channel conditions of all the component carriers that are utilized for the communication of a user. The proposed strategy switches cell for one or more of the component carriers with relatively weaker signal strength while maintaining the cell for the other component carriers with better channel quality.
US09282494B2
A radio network node and method for improved control of handover decisions of a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communications network. The UE is in a served cell and is moving towards a neighboring cell. The network node obtains neighboring cell characteristics and determines a mobility threshold based on the obtained neighboring cell characteristics. The handover decisions of the UE to the neighboring cell are then controlled based on the determined mobility threshold.
US09282486B2
The invention deals with a method of communication in cellular networks comprising mobile user equipments (1, 2, 3, 4), base stations (5, 6, 7, 8) and core networks (9, 10), backhauls (1, 12, 13, 14, 15) between base stations (5, 6, 7, 8) and core networks (9, 10), including, if a request from or to a mobile user equipment (4) cannot be satisfied by a base station (6) of a first network through own backhaul according to traffic load thereon, the step of trying to satisfy said request through backhaul of another neighbor base station (8) of a second network different from first network, said another neighbor base station (8) being selected according at least to availability and to offered quality of service thereof.
US09282484B2
A policy control component may be installed in a telecommunication network as a “supplemental” or “proxy” policy control component that may be given limited interaction with the telecommunication network. The proxy policy control component may communicate with policy enforcement devices in an external network. In one implementation, a method may include monitoring a first network to obtain information relating to a traffic flow through a gateway associated with the first network, the gateway connecting the first network to a second network. The method may further include establishing a communication session with a policy enforcement device located within the second network; and transmitting over the communication session, and to the policy enforcement device, information relating to enforcement of network policy functions for the traffic flow.
US09282480B2
A radio terminal apparatus is operable in a discontinuous communication mode in which at least one of transmission and reception for communicating with a radio base station is performed periodically and discontinuously. The radio terminal apparatus includes a measurement unit configured to measure time from when download of data via the radio base station is completed to when download of the next data is requested in response to a user operation, a transmitting unit configured to transmit time information on the time measured by the measurement unit to the radio base station, and a radio control unit configured to acquire, from the radio base station, a parameter indicating at least one of a transmission period and a reception period that is determined on the basis of the time information, and control the discontinuous communication mode.
US09282479B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a link adaptation feedback method and a transmitting device. The method includes: receiving, by a transmitting device, a link adaptation feedback frame sent by a receiving device, where the link adaptation feedback frame carries space-time block coding type indication information; and determining, by the transmitting device according to the space-time block coding type indication information, information about use of space-time block coding by a data frame related to the link adaptation feedback frame, and selecting, according to the use information, a space-time stream, and a modulation and coding scheme used when the transmitting device sends a data frame. Through the embodiments of the present invention, and according to the use information, the transmitting device may select the space-time stream, and the MCS used when the transmitting device sends a data frame, thereby improving link performance.
US09282471B2
The invention provides a method of computing positioning of a mobile device in a wireless network. This positioning method receives associated pings exchanged among a network of nodes. The pings include count stamps of ping transmit and receipt, and a count stamp of a message received by the network nodes from the mobile device. The method evaluates count stamps to determine clock differences among clocks of the network nodes. From the clock differences, the method determines pseudo ranges between the network nodes and the mobile device. The method determines location of the mobile device by evaluating the differences between ranges of candidate positions of the mobile device and the pseudo ranges. It minimizing a function of error associated with the position candidates to determine the mobile device's location.
US09282470B2
A method and apparatus of detecting a radio link failure in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobile station initializes a radio link failure (RLF) counter for detecting the radio link failure and determines whether decoding of a message on a downlink channel is successful. The mobile station decrements a value of the RLF counter if the decoding fails, and increments the value of the RLF counter if the decoding is successful, and declaring the radio link failure if the value of the RLF counter is less than or equal to a specific value. A decrement size of the value of the RLF counter varies according to a received signal strength of the downlink channel.
US09282467B2
A method for pilot sequence design in a communications system includes selecting an initial cell in the communications system, and grouping other cells in the communications system relative to the initial cell into one of a neighbor group and a non-neighbor group in accordance with a neighborness measure of each of the other cells to the initial cell. The method also includes designing pilot sequences that are substantially orthogonal to one another for the initial cell and the other cells in the neighbor group, and providing information about the pilot sequences to the initial cell and the other cells in the communications system.
US09282466B2
Systems, methods, and devices for deploying a network of nodes in an area of interest are described herein. For example, in one or more embodiments, the area of interest can be determined, a bounding box can be created for the area of interest, the bounding box can be filled with a node deployment grid, a determination of whether a node in the node deployment grid is an essential node or an enhancement node can be made, the enhancement node can be removed when it provides duplicate coverage to each portion of the area of interest that is provided coverage by the enhancement node, at least one of the essential node and the enhancement node can be connected to a node in the node deployment grid when they are disconnected from nodes in the node deployment grid with a minimum spanning tree.
US09282465B2
A method provided in one embodiment includes receiving a resource list including a first core network identifier identifying a first core network, at least a first resource identifier identifying a first subset of network resources from a plurality of network resources associated with the first core network, and a first priority value associated with each of the identified resources of the first core network. The method further includes receiving a first device identifier associated with a first user equipment, determining whether a portion of the first device identifier matches the first core network identifier, and modifying the resource list to include at least a second resource identifier identifying a second subset of the network resources from the plurality of network resources associated with the first core network when the portion of the first device identifier is determined to match the first core network identifier.
US09282460B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling communications over a wide area network and a local area network, wherein one or more computing devices may communicate with a wireless router over the local area network, and wherein the one or more computing devices may obtain access to the wide area network if authorized. Authorization of the one or more computing devices can be dependent upon discovery of the one or more computing devices, as well as a device type of the one or more computing devices. Authorization may also involve discovering a service being run or requested by the one or more computing devices, and determining whether the type of service being run or requested by the one or more computing devices is authorized by the wide area network.
US09282454B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are for managing opt-in and opt-out for private data access. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device can receive a request to obtain private data associated with a user of the mobile device and, in response to the request, determine whether an application program associated with the request is permitted to access the private data based upon a rule. The mobile device, in response to determining that the application program is permitted to access the private data based upon the rule, can instruct the application program to proceed to obtain the private data. The mobile device, in response to determining that the application program is not permitted to access the private data based upon the rule, can instruct the application program to avoid obtaining the private data.
US09282453B2
Mutual remote support between users is easily facilitated without troublesome complicated user registration. For user terminals between which remote support is performed and each of which sets a call to be an originator of remote support, a user can use an appropriate supporter user terminal to enable the supporter user terminal to access a supportee user terminal to thereby facilitate setting manipulation and check device (or terminal) status with regard to not only the supportee user terminal but also a supportee device that is communicably connected to the supportee user terminal, by merely selecting the supportee device (or terminal) from an address book stored in the corresponding user terminal.
US09282449B2
A wireless device that discovers other wireless devices for the formation of a peer-to-peer connection may perform a scan that is limited in duration and power consumption. The scan nonetheless is highly likely to discover a device, if a discoverable device exists. In addition, the scan may be performed in compliance with parameters of a peer-to-protocol such that the scan may be readily implemented in a wireless device, in some embodiments even as a firmware upgrade on a wireless network interface card. Parameters of the scan may be adjusted to increase the likelihood that, if the scan completes without discovering a device, no discoverable device exists. The scan may be used in an overall process in which discovery ends or the scan is selectively repeated following an unsuccessful scan, without entering a find phase.
US09282445B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for identifying backup coverage in wireless networks. An active network resource to be analyzed is identified, and a at least one potential backup network resource is identified. The at least one potential backup network resource is evaluated to determine if the at least one potential backup network resource is available to function as the backup coverage for the active network resource. If the at least one potential backup resource is available to function as the backup coverage for the active network resource, a power management parameter associated with the wireless networking environment can be updated.
US09282435B2
A spoofed location detection system using information collected from a radio signal or information from multiple receivers collecting multiple radio signals to validate a location estimate.
US09282430B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a computer-implemented method and system for the assignment of roadside assistance service providers such as tow trucks to distressed vehicles/drivers requiring roadside assistance. The methods and systems may include a roadside assistance service provider system with a collection module, an assignment module, and a feedback module. The collection module collects roadside assistance service provider information and historical statistics from real-world information and stores the information in a database that may then be analyzed using particular rules and formulas. The assignment module assigns particular roadside assistance service providers to particular distressed vehicles/drivers based on one or more characteristics. The feedback module may provide near real-time cues to the tow truck driver's mobile device, such as alerting when the amount of time spent on a task exceeds a predefined threshold, flagging high priority tasks/assignments, providing a step-by-step checklist for the repair.
US09282427B2
Methods, devices, and systems for commissioning and programming a network of wireless devices are disclosed herein. These can include utilizing a commissioning tool having a directional radio frequency antenna, a microprocessor, and memory. The commissioning tool can function with a Smartphone, or be a stand-alone device. The commissioning tool can program wireless devices without direct physical access or direct line-of-sight from the commissioning tool to the device. The commissioning tool can establish network connections with a “query,” “wink,” “ping” protocol, connecting devices that control HVAC, water heating, and lighting systems wirelessly with a border router that can be for upload data collected by devices to the Internet. The method can also include collection, analysis, and illustrations of building system performance data on web-based software.
US09282406B2
A digital microphone, the microphone includes a microelectromechanical (MEMS) component and a frequency boost component. The MEMS component is configured to convert. sound into an electrical signal. The frequency boost component is configured to receive the electrical signal and ultrasonically boost the electrical signal to create a frequency response. The frequency response does not substantially affect an audio band of interest of the microphone.
US09282402B2
A control and distribution system provides electrical power distribution, audio signal distribution, and control signal distribution to one or more audio components, such as a powered loudspeaker element or a signal conditioning device such as a rack-mounted amplifier. Embodiments allow for the monitoring and/or control of parameters and/or components at or near the endpoint of the system. These parameters or components include low-level parameters associated with the external audio devices, as opposed to merely higher level parameters of the system. The control and distribution system may include an uninterrupted power source for providing power in an online or offline mode to selected components of the external audio devices. In some embodiments, online backup power is provided to low-power components without providing power to amplifiers within the external audio devices.
US09282396B2
A wireless digital audio system includes a portable audio source with a digital audio transmitter operatively coupled thereto and an audio receiver operatively coupled to a headphone set. The audio receiver is configured for digital wireless communication with the audio transmitter. The digital audio receiver utilizes fuzzy logic to optimize digital signal processing. Each of the digital audio transmitter and receiver is configured for code division multiple access (CDMA) communication. The wireless digital audio system allows private audio enjoyment without interference from other users of independent wireless digital transmitters and receivers sharing the same space.
US09282389B1
A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device optimized for flip-chip assembly and method of attaching the same are presented herein. A device can include a substrate, an acoustic seal, and a MEMS device mechanically attached to the substrate utilizing bond pad(s) that electrically couple the MEMS device to the substrate and/or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). A portion of the MEMS device includes an acoustic area, an acoustic seal area that surrounds the acoustic area and includes the acoustic seal, and electrical interconnect area(s) that are located outside of the acoustic seal area and include the bond pad(s). The acoustic seal can be compressed between the acoustic seal area and the substrate and/or the ASIC, and include a thixotropic adhesive material. Mechanical support(s) that define a gap between the MEMS device and the substrate and/or the ASIC can be attached to the acoustic seal area and/or the substrate.
US09282384B1
In one embodiment, photonic switching fabric includes an input photonic commutator switch configured to receive a photonic frame stream including a plurality of containerized photonic packets and a first high port count photonic switch coupled to the input photonic commutator switch. The photonic switching fabric also includes a second high port count photonic switch coupled to the input photonic commutator switch, where the input photonic commutator switch is configured to route the photonic frame to either the first high port count photonic switch or the second high port count photonic switch and an output photonic commutator switch coupled to the first high port count photonic switch and the second high port count photonic switch, where the output photonic commutator switch is configured to output a switched photonic frame.
US09282383B2
Embodiments of the invention propose volt/VAR optimization that may be time synchronized and automated based on actions invoked at a control system utilizing a smart grid solution that incorporates metering end points which are capable of reporting to a utility the information that is needed by the utility or to another system for making real time decisions on events that may occur at the distribution level. Embodiments of the invention incorporate large numbers of end points (e.g., smart meters) which a utility can use to determine how any event or events it may invoke at the grid level affect its compliance at the end user level.
US09282381B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing an action during playback based on a media manifest file. A system, such as a media player, configured to practice the method receives a media manifest, extracts, from the media manifest, a list of media chunks and at least one tag associated with the list of media chunks. The list of media chunks can describe two or more separate media assets. Then the system parses the at least one tag to identify an action to perform during playback and a playback position to perform the action. The system retrieves, for playback, at least one media chunk associated with the playback position from the list of media chunks, and, during playback of the at least one media chunk and at the playback position, performs the action. Modifying the media playback control can include temporarily disabling a media playback control.
US09282380B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving one or more wireless digital television signals, wherein each of the one or more wireless digital television signals comprise a plurality of data segments for presenting media content, buffering the plurality of data segments of each of the one or more wireless digital television signals to generate one or more buffered data segments to cause a presentation delay of the media content, and detecting a missing data segment in the one or more buffered data segments. The method can further include transmitting a first request to a cellular communication system to provide the missing data segment, and receiving from the cellular communication system the missing data segment prior to an expiration of the presentation delay to continue a presentation of the media content without interruption. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09282372B1
Method and system to automatically select data network videos as television shows based on a persona
A system includes a television set for displaying a video for a viewer. The television set connects to a persona television system over a data network and sends a request for a television show for a persona to the persona television system. A “persona” includes a character representation of a person other than the viewer, an event, or a group. The persona television system selects a television show based on the persona. The persona television system sends to the television set a show description of the television show. The show description includes video source information about video source such that the television set can obtain television show from video source. In this manner, a data network video is automatically selected as a television show based on a persona and provided to the television set, increasing the ease with which the viewer can identify video choices of interest.
US09282368B2
A first media client may set a parental control feature of the first media client to a first setting. The first media client may determine an occurrence of an event associated with the parental control feature. The first media client may determine a second setting of a parental control feature of a second media client. The second media client may be different from the first media client. The first media client may determine that the second setting is a more restrictive setting relative to the first setting. The first media client may set the parental control feature of the first media client to the second setting based on the occurrence of the event and based on the second setting being the more restrictive setting.
US09282366B2
Methods and apparatus to communicate audience measurement information are disclosed. An example method includes analyzing a plurality of media identifiers collected over a first period of time to identify a dominant one of the media identifiers for the first period of time; and communicating the dominant media identifier for the first period of time via a text-only messaging service to a storage facility.
US09282358B2
Software receives a communication from a smart-television device. The communication includes a device identifier, which is unique, for the smart-television device and a geo-location associated with the smart-television device. The software causes the smart-television device to display a first view that includes a visual icon along with a message identifying a connected-television service. The software receives a request from a mobile device to connect to the connected-television service. The request results in transmission of a geo-position from the mobile device. Upon determining that the geo-position of the smart-television device is proximate to the geo-location of the mobile device, the software causes the mobile device to display a second view that includes the visual icon for the device identifier. The software receives a communication from the mobile device that indicates a match between the visual icons. The software causes the smart-television device to display a user identifier received from the mobile device in a third view.
US09282356B2
An apparatus, method and data structure for generating at least one table in a broadcast environment, are provided. The apparatus includes a generator to generate an event information table (EIT) and an extended text table (ETT). The ETT has program guide information for an n-hour span and has a transmission interval. The ETT has a transmission interval and program description information according to the EIT. The transmission interval of the EIT is shorter than the transmission interval of the ETT.
US09282354B2
Techniques are provided for content delivery via on-demand mobile broadcast service. For example, there is provided a method operable by a network entity, such as a Broadcast-Multicast Service Center (BM-SC), that may involve receiving a request for content, and performing predictive analysis of at least one of the requested content or user information to target content to at least two user equipments (UEs) in a coverage area. The method may involve providing at least one of the requested content or the targeted content via an on-demand mobile broadcast service. The targeted content may include at least one of supplemental content related to the requested content or targeted advertising.
US09282339B2
A sub-pel-unit image interpolation method using a transformation-based interpolation filter includes, selecting, based on a sub-pel-unit interpolation location in a region supported by a plurality of interpolation filters for generating at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value located between integer-pel-unit pixels, one of a symmetric interpolation filter and an asymmetric interpolation filter from among the plurality of interpolation filters; and using the selected interpolation filter to generate the at least one sub-pel-unit pixel value by interpolating the integer-pel-unit pixels.
US09282336B2
A method for encoding a picture is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating at least one respective macroblock statistic from each of a plurality of macroblocks in the picture, (B) generating at least one global statistic from the picture and (C) generating a respective macroblock quantization parameter for each of the macroblocks based on both (i) the at least one respective macroblock statistic and (ii) said at least one global statistic.
US09282335B2
A method including modifying at least a first pixel value in a first portion of a first image frame to create a first difference between the first pixel value in the first image and a first pixel value in a first portion of a second image frame that, at least in part, represents a first code and providing the first image frame and the second image frame to a display device for display at different times is provided.
US09282330B1
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for compressing a video signal. In one embodiment, the method includes storing a function derived from a set of human ratings in a memory, identifying within at least a portion of the video signal at least one content-based feature, inputting the at least one identified content-based feature into the stored function, determining a compression ratio based on the function using a processor and generating a compressed video signal at the determined compression ratio.
US09282328B2
Sample adaptive offset (SAO) in accordance with video coding. SAO filtering may be performed before de-blocking processing (e.g., in accordance with video signal decoding and/or encoding). For example, a receiver and/or decoder communication device may receive signaling from a transmitter and/or encoder communication device that includes various band offsets. Corresponding band indices may be determined via analysis of the received video signal (e.g., received from the transmitter and/or encoder communication device), inferentially without requiring signaling of such band indices from the transmitter and/or encoder communication device. Upon appropriate analysis of one or more largest coding units (LCUs) generated from the video signal to determine a pixel value distribution (e.g., which may be using a histogram in one instance), then based on that pixel value distribution, the band indices are identified and the band offsets applied thereto.
US09282321B2
A system that coordinates multiple simultaneous reviews of a 3D model, potentially from different viewpoints. Embodiments support multiple reviewers using review stations that render images of the model based on the pose of the reviewer. For example, multiple reviewers may use virtual reality headsets to observe a 3D virtual environment from different orientations. A coordinator uses a coordinator station to observe the entire 3D model and the viewpoints of each of the reviewers in this 3D model. Embodiments may support reviewer designation of regions within the model that require review or modification; these designated regions are also displayed on the coordinator station. Embodiments may support real time updates to the 3D model and propagation of updated images to the coordinator and to the multiple viewers.
US09282312B2
Provided is a technique capable of correcting unique shading characteristics of a single-eye stereoscopic imaging device. A focal length is acquired. A one-dimensional correction table corresponding to the focal length is acquired from a plurality of stored one-dimensional correction tables. Shading correction is performed using the acquired one-dimensional correction table. An arbitrary pixel is selected from main pixels, a correction value corresponding to the position of the selected pixel is read from the acquired one-dimensional correction table for the main pixel, and shading correction is performed for the basis of the correction value and the value of the arbitrary pixel. This process is performed for all of the main pixels and the sub-pixels. A two-dimensional SD correction unit performs normal shading correction for the data subjected to the shading correction using a two-dimensional correction table.
US09282310B2
A mobile terminal and a control method of the mobile terminal are disclosed. A mobile terminal and a control method of the mobile terminal according to the present invention comprises a memory storing captured stereoscopic images; a display displaying the stored stereoscopic images; and a controller obtaining at least one information of a user viewing the display and changing attributes of the stereoscopic images according to the obtained information of the user and displaying the attribute-changed images. The present invention, by changing attributes of stereoscopic images according to obtained information of a user and displaying the attribute-changed images, can provide stereoscopic images optimized to a user watching a display apparatus.
US09282299B2
A method, apparatus and system for sharing a local oscillator in a satellite signal delivery system is disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a first set of satellite signals broadcast in a first frequency band, wherein the first set of satellite signals is downconverted to a first intermediate frequency band of signals, a second set of satellite signals broadcast in a second frequency band, wherein the second set of satellite signals is downconverted to a second intermediate frequency band of signals and a third intermediate frequency band of signals using the shared local oscillator, a first signal stacker for stacking the second intermediate frequency band of signals and the third intermediate frequency band of signals into a stacked signal, a second signal stacker for stacking the first intermediate frequency band of signals with the stacked signal into a delivery signal, a distribution unit, coupled to the combiner, for distributing the delivery signal to a plurality of outputs, and at least one receiver, coupled to an output of the plurality of outputs, wherein the at least one receiver processes at least the first intermediate band of signals in the delivery signal.
US09282293B2
A method for measuring critical dimension (CD) includes steps of: scanning at least one area of interest of a die to obtain at least one scanned image; aligning the scanned image to at least one designed layout pattern to identify a plurality of borders within the scanned image; and averaging distances each measured from the border or the plurality of borders of a pattern associated with a specific type of CD corresponding to the designed layout pattern to obtain a value of CD of the die. The value of critical dimensions of dies can be obtained from the scanned image with lower resolution which is obtained by relatively higher scanning speed, so the above-mentioned method can obtain value of CD for every die within entire wafer to monitor the uniformity of the semiconductor manufacturing process within an acceptable inspection time.
US09282290B2
An interactive mosaic channel video stream with indicators as to the action on a given video stream. The interactive mosaic channel is displayed on a video monitor, with a plurality of individual video feeds being presented at a given time, comprising a plurality of video cells presenting at least video information, each video cell associated with one of the plurality of individual video feeds, each video cell further comprising an area within the video cell reporting data related to the video feed, and a cursor, which can be moved between the plurality of video cells, for selecting at least one characteristic associated with a selected video cell, such that the user can then directly select a video program associated with the selected video cell.
US09282289B2
In various embodiments, an attendee of a live online meeting selects screen data from an earlier point in time in the online meeting for playback while the meeting is still ongoing. Automatically generated image thumbnails of the screen data for the online meeting may be employed to navigate to the earlier point in time. Attendees may annotate screenshots associated with the thumbnails, and a summary document may be generated that includes the screenshots and the annotations.
US09282288B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for distributing video conference resources among connected parties and methods thereof. In an illustrative embodiment, an ad-hoc network providing conferencing resources is presented. The network can include a master device and a number of slave devices. Each of the slave devices can present their bandwidth capabilities to the master device. End devices can be connected to the master device. When no additional connections can be made to the master device, slave devices can be used to add the end devices into the conference. The slave device can thus share its resources to the conference. In one embodiment, individual slave devices can handle different types of codecs.
US09282271B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising a plurality of pixels generating a photoelectric conversion signal, a column amplifying unit corresponding to columns of the pixels, for outputting a first and second signals generated by amplifying the photoelectric conversion signal at a smaller first gain and larger second gain respectively, an analog to digital converter (21) for converting the first and second signals from an analog signal to a digital signal, a comparing unit (224) for inputting the digital signal from the analog to digital converter, level-shifting into the same gain level the first and second signals converted by the analog to digital converter, and thereafter detecting a gain error between the level-shifted first and second signals, and a correction unit (226) for correcting the first and second signals based on the gain error.
US09282268B2
A solid-state image pickup device includes an array of a first pixel and a second pixel. The second pixel includes a light shielding portion provided above a photoelectric conversion portion thereof and configured to block some of incident light so as to perform focus detection, and a light guiding portion provided at least above an upper face of the light shielding portion.
US09282264B2
One embodiment of an analog-to-digital converter includes at least one comparator and a restriction circuit. The comparator has first and second input nodes and a connection node. The connection node is one of an internal node and an output node of the comparator. The restriction circuit is electrically connected to the connection node, and the restriction circuit is configured to restrict a voltage of the connection node.
US09282259B2
Devices and methods for generating infrared (IR) images with improved quality are disclosed. In embodiments of the invention, temporal averaging techniques are used to reduce temporal noise that may be present in thermal images. This is especially useful in low-contrast thermal scenes, where a relatively small amount of thermal noise may become exceedingly prevalent. In order to average properly, some embodiments of the invention provide methods or means for aligning multiple images that are to be averaged together to eliminate inaccuracies and misrepresentations that may result from averaging misaligned images.
US09282254B2
An image pickup module is provided with: lenses; a lens support unit that supports the lenses in a freely movable manner in the optical axis direction; an image pickup unit that detects light from the lenses and outputs an image signal; an operation information storage unit in which information about the operating state of the image pickup unit is stored; and a lens drive control unit including a drive circuit for driving the lenses in the optical axis direction and a drive method switching circuit for switching the drive method therefor between linear drive and pulse drive. The drive method switching circuit of the lens drive control unit is made so as to switch the drive method in accordance with the operating state information stored in the operation information storage unit.
US09282252B2
A camera with a pair of lens/sensor combinations, the two lenses having different focal lengths, so that the image from one of the combinations has a field of view approximately two to three times greater than the image from the other combination. As a user of the camera requests a given amount of zoom, the zoomed image provided will come from the lens/sensor combination having the field of view that is next larger than the requested field of view. Thus, if the requested field of view is less than the smaller field of view combination, the zoomed image will be created from the image captured by that combination, using cropping and interpolation if necessary. Similarly, if the requested field of view is greater than the smaller field of view combination, the zoomed image will be created from the image captured by the other combination, using cropping and interpolation if necessary.
US09282240B2
An imaging device includes a controller; an image sensor connected to the controller and outputting RAW data; and a memory connected to the controller. The image sensor is configured to output the RAW data to the controller at a predetermined pixel output rate. The controller generates first image data by reducing the RAW data output from the image sensor. The controller generates second image data by carrying out correction processing with respect to the first image data. The controller is configured to store the RAW data output from the image sensor and the second image data in the memory.
US09282238B2
A camera system may include an image sensor to generate real-time image data of a scene having a subject. A pose evaluator can generate a pose metric signal having a pose value that provides a variable measure of a pose quality for the subject in the scene. A pose feedback indicator can provide user-perceptible feedback demonstrating the value of the pose metric signal, such that the variable measure of the pose quality is provided.
US09282228B2
Camera methods and apparatus using optical chain modules which alter the direction of received light
Methods and apparatus for capturing or generating images using multiple optical chains operating in parallel are described. Pixel values captured by individual optical chains corresponding to the same scene area are combined to provide an image with at least some of the benefits which would have been provided by capturing an image of the scene using a larger lens than that of the individual lenses of the optical chain modules. By using multiple optical chains in parallel at least some benefits normally obtained from using a large lens can be obtained without the need for a large lens. Furthermore in at least some embodiments, a wide dynamic range can be supported through the use of multiple sensors with the overall supported dynamic range being potentially larger than that of the individual sensors. Some lens and/or optical chain configurations are designed for use in small handheld devices, e.g., cell phones.
US09282227B2
The present invention relates to a camera module mounted with an external look-forming holder improved in heat emission function, the camera module including: a housing; a lens insertion hole opened toward an upper surface of the housing for insertion of a lens; a filter attachment unit formed on a floor surface of the housing for attaching a filter; and a heat emission outlet formed on an upper surface of the lens insertion hole in an upper-wide/bottom-narrow shape, wherein a heat emission outlet is formed at an upper surface of a lens insertion hole to induce heat generated from inside of a housing to be emitted to outside along an inner side of the heat emission outlet.
US09282223B1
Disclosed herein are a curved display apparatus and a gamma correction method thereof. The curved display apparatus includes first, second, and third regions and a driving module. The first and third regions are located respectively along two opposite edges of the curved display apparatus, while the second region is located between the first and third regions. A control signal instructs the curved display apparatus to display by a grayscale value. The driving module is configured to receive the control signal and thereby generate first, second, and third voltage commands for the three regions respectively, in order to drive the three regions. According to the disclosed gamma correction method, the absolute voltage values indicated by the first and third voltage commands is less than that by the second voltage command when the grayscale value is not greater than a threshold value.
US09282221B2
A facsimile apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a receiving section configured to receive facsimile data, a data storage section configured to store the facsimile data received by the receiving section, a non-decolorable printing section, and a decolorable printing section. The facsimile apparatus further comprises a transmission source information detection section configured to detect transmission source information of the received facsimile data, an accumulation section configured to accumulate in advance a list containing a plurality of facsimile transmission source information, a comparison section configured to determine whether the detected transmission source information of the received facsimile data is included in the list and a printing control section configured to control printing of the content of the received facsimile data in the non-decolorable printing section or in the decolorable printing section, based on the determination by the comparison section.
US09282202B2
A system for creating image and or text-based projects on a computing appliance having a space-constrained display includes a server, the server having access to least one processor, a data repository, and a non-transitory physical medium. Software running from the non-transitory physical medium provides a first function for establishing a client server connection between the server and at least one mobile computing device, a second function for initiating an active data session between a user involved in project creation and or in project editing through a graphics user interface (GUI), a third function for displaying a field of a multi-field form for text input on the display of the mobile computing appliance, a fourth function for detecting that the field of the multi-field form displayed by the third function is populated, and a fifth function for displaying a next field on the mobile computing device for text input.
US09282196B1
A method moves a sound localization point (SLP) of a voice of a computer program during a voice exchange between the computer program and a person.
US09282186B2
A system for handling an outbound call from a call originator to a plurality of call targets, including a database storing a plurality of outgoing telephone numbers, each outgoing telephone number having one of two or more area codes. The system including an information processor configured to process at least an area code of a telephone number of the call targets, select from the database telephone numbers from the plurality of outgoing telephone numbers where the selected telephone numbers have at least an area code the same as the area code of the telephone number of the call targets, set caller identification data of the outbound calls to the selected telephone numbers, and transmit the caller identification data to the call targets in connection with the outbound calls.
US09282181B2
A mobile device executes a background process under an on demand model that queries a remote service exposed by a mobile broadband network to receive status updates as to the capabilities of devices, such as the ability to stream video, that are associated with contacts that are stored on the mobile device. When a mobile device user invokes an action like using a dialer application that causes a contact to be displayed on the device's user interface (UI) such as in a contact card or contact list format, the background process immediately retrieves status for that contact card or list. While waiting for the status retrieval to complete, the background process will trigger the display of a temporary UI on the mobile device which can show either unknown capabilities status or show the most recently retrieved status that is read out of a cache.
US09282174B2
A system and method for detecting a transient outage of an Internet Protocol (IP) network. A probe sending device sends probe packets over the IP network. A probe packet includes a probe sequence number and a timestamp value issued by the probe sending device. A probe receiving device receives a current probe packet. The probe receiving device overwrites probe packet data obtained from a last received probe packet with the current probe packet when the current probe sequence number exceeds the sequence number of the last received probe packet by one. The probe receiving device stores the current probe packet data obtained from the current probe packet when the current probe sequence number exceeds the sequence number of the last received probe packet by more than one.
US09282169B1
Methods, apparatus and systems for altering a scope of data synchronization are disclosed. The scope of data synchronization is altered in real-time via user interactions with the data. In one embodiment, a client device may include folder stubs that reference folders of information stored at a remote server. In response to a user selecting the folder stub, additional folder and/or file stubs provided within the folder are acquired by the client device from the remote server, and a scope of data synchronization is expanded to include the path to the folder referenced by the folder stub. The scope of data synchronization may also be contracted. In response to a user commanding the client device to de-synchronize a synchronized folder, the scope of synchronization may be contracted to exclude the folder and any sub-folders.
US09282165B2
A method of context replication including receiving a first context item at a first system in a network, determining that the first system is a context management master system, establishing a first peer-to-peer session with a second system in the network in response to determining that the first system is the context management master system, and providing, from the first system, the first context item to the second system.
US09282159B2
An information terminal configured to execute an application, functions as a proxy that accesses a server through a network and performs communication by executing a native part execution unit, and functions as a browser that acquires download information from the server through the proxy and outputs the download information by executing a web browser.
US09282158B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing redirects. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data indicating that a user device has requested a content item. The request data specifies other data processing apparatus to which user interactions with the content item are to be reported. The content item includes a reference to a resource that is requested in response to user interaction with the content item. Response data is provided. The response data includes data that cause presentation of the content item. Interaction data is received specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. Redirect data is provided that cause the user device to be redirected to the resource. Reporting data is provided to the other data processing apparatus, specifying user interaction with the content item occurred. The reporting data is provided asynchronously relative to the redirect data.
US09282148B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, multi-user peer-to-peer collaboration systems and methods are described herein. An example method may include establishing peer-to-peer communications channels with end-user devices. Display signals may be received from each of the end-user devices over the peer-to-peer communications channels. Each end-user device may transmit a separate display of a separate peer-to-peer communications channel. A composite data stream may be generated from the display signals. The composite data stream may comprise a subset of the display signals. The method may further include outputting the composite data stream to a display device.
US09282146B2
Targeted content may be provided to a designated set of one or more interconnected resources. Programmatic operations are executed using resources that are private to the one or more interconnected devices. The operations, when executed, cause or result in (i) monitoring activities of one or more users of the designated set; (ii) developing profile information of the one or more users, where the profile information is based at least partially on information determined from monitoring activities of the one or more users; (iii) generating, from the profile information, a set of coded data that represent selection criteria; and (iv) communicating the set of coded data to a programmatic source external to the system, where the represented selection criteria enables programmatic selection of content resources from a content library for the system.
US09282137B2
Embodiments optimize web page downloads through a customized manifest to reduce latency and network data consumption. A proxy device creates or selects a pre-defined manifest identifying page resources associated with the web page. The manifest is customized by identifying the page resources already cached on a computing device. A single package of resources representing the web page is created. The single package of resources excludes the identified page resources already cached on the computing device. The computing device renders the web page using the single package and the page resources already cached. Some embodiments perform web crawling to create manifests for other web pages.
US09282127B1
A method and electronic device configured for automatically terminating, or providing an option to a participant of a video-chat session, upon determining that more than a user's face is being exposed to a camera of the electronic device during the video-chat session.
US09282125B2
A gateway receives a message from a first terminal to establish a connection between the first terminal and a second terminal. The gateway sends a second message to the second terminal to offer a connection. After receiving the first message from the first terminal, the gateway receives subsequent third messages from the first terminal that identify candidates for assisting in the formation of the connection. The gateway saves information about these candidates. The gateway either uses such information for facilitating the formation of the connection or forwards that information to the second communication terminal after receiving an answer accepting the establishment of a connection from the second terminal and determining whether the second terminal has a Web Real-Time Communications (“WebRTC”) client.
US09282123B2
A method and an apparatus for specifying a time-varying, intelligent service-oriented model are provided. A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions, includes defining information of a service which is to be provided to one or more users having access to a system storing the defined information. The method further includes defining policies associated with the defined information to allow and deny access to selected portions of the defined information, and exposing to a user of the one or more users the selected portions of the defined information based on the defined policies allowing access to the selected portions of the defined information.
US09282103B2
A method of granting a client device remote access to a media server after receiving a port request from a remote client device at a residential gateway through an intermediate remote access control server by opening one or more wide area network ports temporarily mapped to local area network ports, such that the remote client device can communicate with the media server through the wide area network ports, transmitting a list of the one or more wide area network ports to the remote client device through the remote access control server, receiving a media content request from the remote client device and passing the media content request to the media server through the one or more wide area network ports, and passing media content from the media server to the remote client device through the one or more wide area network ports according to one or more restriction lists.
US09282099B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the management of privileges associated with certain applications that are accessible by users of electronic equipment, such as, for example, networked computers, mobile wireless communications devices, and the like. In a broad aspect, a method for managing privileges associated with applications comprises: monitoring a plurality of electronic devices within a system; detecting a change in privileges associated with one or more applications resident on the plurality of electronic devices, wherein one or more privileges that are to be revoked are identified; and in response to a detection of the change in privileges, revoking the one or more privileges, such that each of the one or more applications resident on the plurality of electronic devices no longer has access to the one or more privileges.
US09282094B1
Enhanced security processes are integrated into online service provider workflow activities in a transparent fashion with little or no impact on the servers. Enhanced security processes may include adaptive authentication and transaction monitoring. The enhanced security processes are partially implemented in a network device, such as a network communication device, a firewall, or a load balancing system, or a separate security device, rather than being implemented in the server systems hosting on-line websites. With such an arrangement, server software is minimally modified or rewritten, and third party software, such as security applications, remains in operation.
US09282089B2
Media relay services are often used to establish sufficiently direct connections in order to enable provisioning of a real-time media service and/or improve the quality of real-time media services. However, media relay services are often gated using authentication systems that add undesirable delay to the delivery and/or access to a real-time media service, which in turn diminish the user experience. By contrast, various implementations disclosed herein include apparatuses, systems, and methods of providing low latency authentication of gated media relay services. For example, in some implementations, a method includes receiving a request for access to a gated media relay service, providing provisional access to the service until an authentication result is available, determining whether the requesting device is authorized to access the media relay service, and at least one of ending or continuing access to the media relay service based on the authentication result.
US09282088B2
An authentication mechanism for use in network-based services generates an authentication token. The authentication token is provided to a client device as part of the code comprising a content page. The content page code is received and loaded by a browser application at the client device. When the content page code is received and loaded by the browser application, the authentication token is loaded by the browser as well. Upon receiving subsequent input, the browser application may send a content request to the server. The content request includes the authentication token maintained by the browser application in the content page. A server may validate the authentication token provided in the request using version information and one or more master authentication tokens.
US09282081B2
An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. An electronic message is separated into a message content and container (header) information. In one aspect, the message content and header information are entered by a user separately using a single display image screen having separate portions for entry of message content and header information. The separate portions do not allow visibility of content in the portions to be displayed at the same time.
US09282078B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically responding to domain name abuse is described. The method comprises the following steps. A plurality of disparate abuse feeds are received from a plurality of service providers. Each of the service providers is configured to collect information regarding a subset of potential domain name abuse and each abuse feed comprises data identifying domain names associated with the subset of potential domain name abuse. The data is filtered to create a custom abuse feed comprising a selective portion of the plurality of disparate abuse feeds. The filtered data from the custom abuse feed is grouped into groups of data based on predefined priority levels of the filtered data. For each of the groups of data, one or more corresponding workflows is executed as a response to the potential domain name abuse, wherein the workflow includes temporarily suspending a domain associated with the potential domain name abuse.
US09282077B2
An example method includes receiving an Internet protocol (IP) address request in a network and selecting an IP address associated with a prefix that represents an IP subnet. The prefix includes a color attribute to be provided as part of a communication session that includes a plurality of packets. The prefix defines one or more properties associated with an application for the session. The prefix is communicated to a network element in a signaling plane, the prefix is configured to be used to make a routing decision for at least some of the plurality of packets. In more specific embodiments, the method can include applying one or more network policies based on the prefix associated with the IP address. The method could also include decrypting an encryption protocol in order to identify the prefix of a subsequent communication flow, and executing a routing decision based on the prefix.
US09282066B2
A tool for targeting a message response. The tool monitors reactions of a user to message subject lines, message content, and social networks. The tool analyzes user interest data and calculates a user interest rating per keyword. Rated keywords are stored in association with the user. When a user drafts a message addressed to a recipient, the tool compares rated keywords within the recipient's log with the subject line and message content. The tool suggests an alternative subject line likely to elicit a faster and more detailed response from the recipient.
US09282050B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating fragmentation of packets with hierarchically structured variable-length identifiers (HSVLIs). During operation, the system receives an interest packet with an HSVLI corresponding to a piece of content. The system then identifies a minimum path maximum transmission unit (MTU) value carried in the packet. In response to the piece of content not being stored locally, the system then determines an egress port for the packet based on the HSVLI. The system further determines an MTU associated with the egress port. Subsequently, in response to the MTU associated with the egress port being less than the minimum path MTU value carried in the packet, the system updates the minimum path MTU value in the packet to the MTU value associated with the egress port.
US09282049B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products providing feedback for network congestion management
A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly recording computer program logic for providing feedback in a network, the computer program product including code to receive first data and second data over the network at a receiving device, code to increment a first counter and a second counter in response to the first data and second data, respectively, code to generate a plurality of feedback signals reflecting states of the first and second counters using at least three bits, the bits defining a set of code points mapped to the states of the first and second counters so that each individual code point represents a different one of the states and each one of the states is represented by one code point, and code to transmit the plurality of feedback signals to a sending device in the network.
US09282046B1
Network device and associated methods are provided. The network device includes a plurality of base-ports, each base-port coupled to a plurality of network links and each base-port includes a plurality of sub-ports configured to operate as independent ports for sending and receiving information. Each network link is coupled to a smoothing first in-first out (FIFO) memory module that is used to temporarily store information at a first clock rate and information is read from the smoothing FIFO at a second clock. A sub-port can include one network link or more than one network link for receiving information from another device. A controller module monitors the smoothing FIFO for each network link to insert or delete characters from each of the smoothing FIFO based on a sub-port configuration for maintaining an order in which information is received for the sub-port.
US09282044B2
A system and method for routing electronic content to a recipient device comprising a plurality of network nodes, each network node adapted to receive and forward electronic content and an activity profile server adapted to be in data communication with each network node, the activity profile server adapted to monitor the activity level of each network node and inform each network node on the congestion level of an adjacent network node; wherein each network node is adapted, on receiving the information on congestion level to store electronic content if the adjacent network node is congested and forward the electronic content to the adjacent network node if the adjacent network node is not congested is disclosed.
US09282043B1
A device may determine a first aggregation level for aggregating incoming packets. The device may aggregate the incoming packets using the first aggregation level. The device may determine that a controlled packet pass rate for the incoming packets satisfies an arrival rate threshold based on aggregating the incoming packets using the first aggregation level. The device may determine a bandwidth violation trend associated with the incoming packets and the first aggregation level based on determining that the controlled packet pass rate satisfies the threshold. The device may determine that flow suppression is not effective at the first aggregation level based on the bandwidth violation trend, and may determine a second aggregation level based on determining that the flow suppression is not effective. The device may set the first aggregation level to the second aggregation level. The device may use the first aggregation level for aggregating additional incoming packets.
US09282037B2
A multiprocessor computer system comprises a dragonfly processor interconnect network that comprises a plurality of processor nodes and a plurality of routers. The routers are operable to route data by selecting from among a plurality of network paths from a target node to a destination node in the dragonfly network based on one or more routing tables.
US09282034B2
Techniques are described for transmitting a packet from a source switch module to a destination switch module. Embodiments include determining, at the destination switch module, a path from the source switch module to the destination switch module. Path information specifying the determined path from the source switch module to the destination switch module is transmitted from the destination switch module to the source switch module. Additionally, embodiments include receiving, at the destination switch module, from the source switch module, a packet that includes (i) at least a portion of the path information and (ii) payload data to be processed at the destination switch module, wherein the packet was routed using the at least a portion of the path information. The payload data within the received packet is processing by the destination switch module.
US09282032B2
A routing management component is provided for distributing routing information among a hierarchical distributed routing architecture. The routing management component can function to associate levels of the routing architecture with subsets of a network address format. The routing management component can further assign routers of the routing architecture to portions of network addresses defined at least in part by the network address format. For example, a router may be assigned to route packets addressed to a network address with a first octet between a range of values. The router management component may further distribute, to the routers of the hierarchical distributed routing architecture, sections of routing information associated with their assigned portions of network addresses. Because routing information can be distributed between various routers, the memory requirements of individual routers can be reduced comparatively to systems in which a single router maintains an entire set of forwarding information.
US09282014B2
A computer system is configured to monitor server stability based on a stability time specification of a server. An embodiment specifies a stability time for the server, wherein the stability time is defined as a time between a starting state of the server and a stability point of the server. The server activity is monitored by an availability manager to determine an availability status of the server. Responsive to the server activity progressing to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is stable. Responsive to the server activity failing to progress to the stability point within the stability time, an embodiment determines that the server is unreliable.
US09282002B2
A method for operating a remote-controlled network element in a telecommunication network includes: configuring the network element with a new configuration; determining whether a network connection failure between the network element and a network management system of the telecommunication network exists after the configuration; and in response to detecting a network connection failure, setting the network element automatically to a standard configuration and establishing a network connection between the network element and the network management system using the standard configuration. Setting the network element automatically to a standard configuration and establishing the network connection includes: loading a previous IPSec certificate in case that the previous Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) certificate has been at least partly replaced during the configuration; and establishing the network connection between the network element and the network management system using the previous IPSec certificate.
US09281995B2
There is a need to generate a virtual network across multiple physical networks without the need for users to understand information about the respective physical networks.A network system includes: multiple communication systems for communication with a user; multiple physical network management servers that manage multiple physical networks including multiple routers; and a virtual network management server that manages a virtual network connecting the communication systems with each other through the physical networks. The virtual network management server acquires physical network configuration information. The virtual network management server generates management information in order to manage the physical networks as one abstraction network. The virtual network management server configures the abstraction network by transmitting the generated management information to each of the physical network management servers and the routers.
US09281994B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managed object expression and provide a method, system and computer program product for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set can be provided. The method can include specifying one-dimensional sets of managed objects each with a corresponding single partial object identifier with wildcard and incorporating each single partial object identifier with wildcard into an algebraic expression compositing managed objects in the keyed data set. The method further can include evaluating the algebraic expression to generate an index for the composited managed objects in the keyed data set, and managing the composited index in a computer communications network by reference to the index.
US09281991B2
A system and associated method for minimizing network traffic in playing a media stream with a media module running in a client computer system. The media stream is stored in a media content server. A video file of the media stream is processed to generate an audio file corresponding to the video file, such that the media module downloads and plays the audio file when the media module is invisible on a computer screen of the client computer system. When the media module becomes visible, the media module switches back to downloading and playing the video file. A current location is tracked by a location sync file stored in the media content server to synchronize the video file and the audio file.
US09281985B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes transmitting a first parameter and a second parameter, which are cell specific parameters; transmitting a third parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; transmitting a CSI; and receiving at least one of a first reference signal, which is generated based on the CSI, for a PUSCH and a second reference signal for a PUCCH. The first reference signal is generated by not applying sequence hopping and group sequence hopping, 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 second reference signal is generated by applying the group sequence hopping, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the third parameter indicates that the sequence hopping and the group sequence hopping are disabled.
US09281964B2
Provided are a method and signaling gateway for establishing an optimized media path applied in an IMS network. The method includes: during the process of forwarding a session description protocol (SDP) request and response, when receiving a SDP response of a first session, a first ALG judging that there is an optimized media path between itself and a second ALG, then when sending the SDP response of the first session, including indication information in the send SDP response; the first ALG sending a SDP request with the target being the second ALG; and after having received the SDP response of the first session including the indication information or after having received the SDP request with the target being the second ALG and the SDP response of the first session including the indication information, the second ALG sending the SDP response of the first session.
US09281962B2
A spam detector for determining likelihood of forgery of a source in an email addressed to a destination is provided, comprising extraction means for extracting delivery path information from one or more packets in the packet flow of the email, and comparison means for comparing the extracted delivery path information with trusted delivery path information from the source to the destination.
US09281952B2
A system, method, and program product is provided that selects an instant messaging message that includes one or more words in a text area. The instant message is a communication with an instant messaging participant that corresponds to an instant messaging participant identifier. A count is kept of the words that match keywords that are associated with a selected instant messaging group data store that is stored in a nonvolatile data area. If the count exceeds a particular threshold, the instant messaging participant identifier is added to the selected instant messaging group.
US09281950B2
A method for using a charging system to account for service provided by a network element (NE) of a service provider network includes receiving an accounting request (ACR) from the NE at a router in the charging system, the ACR associated with service provided by the NE in the service provider network in conjunction with a communication session; modifying the ACR to form a modified ACR; sending the modified ACR to a charging collection function (CCF) server; receiving an accounting answer from the CCF server indicating the CCF server was not able to process the modified ACR; and resending the modified ACR to the CCF server or changing the modified ACR to form a revised ACR and sending the revised ACR to an alternate CCF server. A router associated with the method includes a service network communication module, a message processing module, and a charging system communication module.
US09281948B2
Techniques for providing revocation information for revocable items are described. In implementations, a revocation service is employed to manage revocation information for various revocable items. For example, the revocation service can maintain a revoked list that includes revoked revocable items, such as revoked digital certificates, revoked files (e.g., files that are considered to the unsafe), unsafe network resources (e.g., a website that is determined to be unsafe), and so on. In implementations, the revocation service can communicate a revoked list to a client device to enable the client device to maintain an updated list of revocation information.
US09281943B1
An improved technique involves combining a random seed with unique identifying information to form an input into a RNG. Along these lines, a key pair generator obtains a primary random seed through an interaction with a random process from a web server on which the key pair generator runs. Before putting the primary random seed into a RNG, however, the key pair generator obtains a web domain name that uniquely identifies the web server. The key pair generator concatenates the web domain name, the primary random seed, and an epoch time to produce a secondary random seed. The key pair generator inputs the secondary random seed into the RNG, obtains a large integer output, and finds a first prime factor of a modulus of the public key near the large integer through a search technique.
US09281940B2
Speed-up of a cryptographic process by software (program) is realized. A data processing unit which executes a data process according to a program defining a cryptographic process sequence is included, and the data processing unit, according to the program, generates a bit slice expression data based on a plurality of plain text data items which are encryption process targets and a bit slice expression key based on a cryptographic key of each plain text data item, generates a whitening key and a round key based on the bit slice expression key, executes the cryptographic process including operation and movement processes of a block unit of the bit slice expression data, and an operation using the round key, as a process according to a cryptographic algorithm Piccolo, and generates the plurality of encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain text data items by the reverse conversion of the data with respect to the cryptographic process results.
US09281936B2
A phase detector includes a crossing-point phase detection circuit to compare signals levels of pairs of sensor signals and output crossing-point phase detection signals indicating phases of crossing points between the pairs of the sensor signals, each having a signal level corresponding to a rotational position of a rotor of a motor having coils, a crossing-point level detection circuit to output crossing-point level signals indicating crossing-point levels detected, a signal selection circuit to select one of the sensor signals as a selection signal, a phase detection circuit to detect that a signal level of the selection signal has reached a threshold level, and output a phase data signal indicating a phase of the rotor corresponding to the threshold level, and a threshold-level correction circuit to correct the threshold level based on the crossing-point level signals.
US09281931B2
The present description relates to an apparatus and method for receiving a control channel in a multi-component carrier system. The method for performing random access disclosed in the present description comprises the steps of: transmitting a random access preamble to a base station from an activated sub-serving cell; monitoring physical downlink control channel candidates during a response window one the basis of a certain aggregation in a temporary search space in a control region of the activated sub-serving cell, wherein the control region consists of a group of control channel elements; and adjusting an uplink time of the activated sub-serving cell according to a time advance command indicated by a random access response when the random access response, including a random access identifier corresponding to the random access preamble, is received in the response window.
US09281926B2
To provide a radio base station apparatus and radio communication method capable of performing radio communications using downlink reference signal structures suitable for antenna virtualization, a radio base station apparatus (200) has a plurality of transmission antennas, generates CRSs used in demodulation of at least downlink control information, CQI-RSs generated for each of the transmission antennas used in measurement of channel quality, and DM-RSs generated for each stream used in demodulation of downlink transmission data, and multiplexes the CRSs, CQI-RSs and DM-RSs into a same transmission time unit to transmit from each of the antennas.
US09281923B2
A method of assigning a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process using a frequency division duplex (FDD) frame structure by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system. The method according to one embodiment includes transmitting information related to a number of HARQ processes between the BS and a relay node (RN) to the RN. The number of the HARQ processes depends on subframes configured for transmission between the BS and the RN. The method according to the embodiment further includes assigning the HARQ processes subframes other than subframe indexes 0, 4, 5, and 9 based on the number of HARQ processes.
US09281920B2
A mobile station capable of efficiently detecting control information addressed thereto, by prioritizing CRC decoding to control channel element at a candidate position, is disclosed. A mobile station (1) according to the present invention, in order to detect the control information addressed from a base station to the mobile station itself included in a downlink control channel having a plurality of control channel elements, for decoding a signal of a control channel element at a candidate position to be assigned with the control information, includes a generating unit (10) configured to generate a reception level of each of the control channel elements at the candidate position and a control unit (20) configured to prioritize the control channel elements based on the reception level and to control decoding of the signal of each of the control channel elements in order of priority.
US09281918B2
A link quality reporting method and apparatus, and a carrier selection method and apparatus, for a multicarrier communication system utilizing carrier aggregation are disclosed. In the system, the user equipment measures, for each component carrier divided into a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource region and a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) resource region, link quality of the PDSCH resource region and the PDCCH resource region of the component carrier and sends measured link quality information as feedback information to the base station, and the base station adaptively selects a set of component carriers for control information transmission (i.e., a PDCCH Component Carrier (CC) SET) and a set of component carriers for data transmission (i.e., a DownLink (DL) CC SET) on the basis of the feedback information.
US09281917B2
A shared control channel structure includes at least one control channel to be allocated at least to a user for at least one of uplink and downlink directions in a network, which the at least one control channel is arranged as at least a part of a modular structure comprising of modular code blocks on at least two different sizes. One of such modular structures may be represented as a tree structure in particular, where each of the modular code blocks define one node of the tree, respectively.
US09281916B2
Methods and apparatus for transferring data along a link with a 10GBASE-T transceiver at a variable data rate are disclosed. One exemplary method includes detecting a link quality metric; and selecting a symbol transmission rate and a data modulation scheme based on the detected link quality metric. In many implementations, for a selected symbol transmission rate, if the detected link quality metric is less than a link quality threshold, then the selecting of the data modulation scheme is performed such that a data bit per symbol value represented by the selected data modulation scheme is decreased by at least ½ data bit per symbol. The selected symbol transmission rate and the selected modulation together represent a selectable data rate from a selection of data rates.
US09281912B2
There is disclosed a method of indicating a resource occupancy scheme and processing a resource occupancy scheme indicator so as to enable a UE to be aware a resource occupancy scheme of the network side and avoid an unnecessary power waste and unnecessary interference, and in the method, a base station generates a corresponding resource indicator for a resource occupancy scheme of a legacy control resource area and an enhanced control resource area in each downlink subframe to be transmitted in a specific periodicity and sends the resource indicator to a UE in a resource indication message, and the UE determines from the obtained resource indicator the resource occupancy scheme of the legacy control resource area and the enhanced control resource area in each downlink subframe to be transmitted in the specific periodicity and performs a corresponding resource handling mode, so that the UE can blindly detect in PDCCH common and user spaces or receive control information carried on PHICH resource at an accurate position to thereby avoid an unnecessary power waste of and unnecessary interference to the UE due to blind detection or reception and improve effectively the performance of a system.
US09281909B2
An Emergency Alert System (EAS) alert message is distributed in multiple languages. The multiple language EAS alert message can be provided via a single channel and/or multiple channels. The multiple language EAS alert message can be provided with a language vector indicating the languages provided and the location of respective language specific EAS alert messages. A mobile device receiving the multiple language EAS alert message, selects a preferred language specific EAS alert message and renders the EAS alert message in the preferred language.
US09281905B2
An electrical insulation configuration for an electrical device having a power circuit includes a first insulation device to provide a level of basic insulation between the power circuit and a user, and an additive insulation device in series with the first insulation device, the additive insulation device to increase the level of basic insulation to a level of double insulation or reinforced insulation between the power circuit and the user.
US09281902B2
Broadband access networks are driving the upgrade of DWDM networks from 10 Gb/s per channel to more spectrally-efficient 40 Gb/s or 100 Gb/s. Signal quality degradation due to linear and non-linear impairments are significant and error control coding and signal processing solutions play increasingly key roles in meeting increasing demand, providing improved quality of service, and reduced cost. It would be beneficial to reduce the power consumption of optical receivers for optical links exploiting for example LPDC encoding. Accordingly, the inventors have established a low complexity soft-decision front-end compatible with deployable LDPC codes in next-generation optical transmission systems. Beneficially the optical receiver design can be retro-fitted into deployed hard-decision based optical systems and replaces the 3-to-2 encoder of the prior art in the electrical portion of the receiver with a single gate design. Further, the design may act as a 2-bit Flash ADC in multimode fiber based optical receivers.
US09281901B2
A planar lightwave circuit includes a substrate in which a groove being formed, the groove dividing the substrate into a first area and a second area; a first filter, a second filter, and a third filter intruded into the groove; as are formed in the first area, a first and a second waveguides formed to guide signal light and local oscillation light; a third and a fourth waveguides formed to guide signal light and local oscillation light; a first 90-degree optical hybrid; as are formed in the second area, a fifth and sixth waveguides formed to guide signal light and local oscillation light; and a second 90-degree optical hybrid.
US09281897B2
An electro-optical single-sideband modulator comprising: an electro-optical substrate; a bimodal optical waveguide structure formed in the substrate to support different optical modes having associated optical frequencies and optical propagation constants and comprising an optical input to receive an input optical carrier signal having an optical frequency, and a pair of optical outputs to output corresponding SSB modulated optical signals, each having an optical frequency spectrum with a single side lobe; and an electrode structure formed on the substrate to receive an input electrical modulating signal having an associated electrical frequency and electrical propagation constant, and to responsively apply an electrical field to the bimodal optical waveguide structure.
US09281896B2
Disclosed embodiments may help a balloon network to provide substantially continuous service in a given geographic area. An example method may be carried out at a balloon that is at a location associated with the first geographic area in a balloon network that includes a plurality of geographic areas. The balloon may determine that it should update its balloon-state in accordance with a balloon-state profile for the first geographic area. Then, in response, the balloon may determine the balloon-state profile for the first geographic area, which may include one or more state parameters for balloons operating in the first geographic area. The balloon may then operate according to the balloon-state profile for the first geographic area.
US09281889B2
A relay node (RN) apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal according to a link mode in a wireless communication system and a method thereof are disclosed. A processor transmits or receives a signal to or from at least one of a base station and a terminal based on link mode information. At least one antenna receive the link mode information and transmit or receive the signal to or from at least one of the base station and the user equipment. The link mode information includes information a link mode in which the relay node apparatus will operate.
US09281882B2
A method for transmitting data in a multiple-input-multiple-output space-time coded communication using a mapping table mapping a plurality of symbols defining the communication to respective antennae from amongst a plurality of transmission antennae and to at least one other transmission resource. The mapping table may comprise Alamouti-coded primary segments and may also comprise secondary segments, comprising primary segments. The primary segments in the secondary segments may be defined in accordance to an to Alamouti based code pattern applied at the segment level to define a segment-level Alamouti based code.
US09281874B2
A wireless communication device for communicating in the near-field via active load modulation. The device including an antenna configured to receive a magnetic field, a recovery device configured to recover a clock from the magnetic field, and a multiplexer configured to receive the recovered clock and a reference clock, and to output one of the recovered clock and the reference clock based on a current operational state of the wireless communication device, The wireless communication device further including a shunt regulator configured to produce the active load modulation by modulating an impedance of the wireless communication device, a phase-locked loop (PLL) configured to receive one of the recovered clock and the reference clock and to utilize the received clock to control the active load modulation, and a driver configured to contribute to the active load modulation by adjusting an amplitude of a voltage across the antenna.
US09281873B2
An accessory device to be mounted on a main device is provided with a wireless IC device. The main device is provided with a reader/writer that is an interrogator that communicates with the wireless IC device of the accessory device. When the accessory device is mounted on or about to be mounted on the main device, the reader/writer selects two or more frequencies in a frequency band in which an authentic wireless IC device can communicate to perform communication with the wireless IC device. With this configuration, even if the identification code written in an RFID tag is read and the RFID tag is duplicated, the duplicated RFID tag can be accurately and effectively determined as being counterfeit.
US09281872B2
Various aspects are directed to circuit apparatuses, portable electronic devices, and executable applets pertaining to storing and providing secure access to data. As consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory circuit that stores executable applet data, a near-field communication (NFC) controller that communicates and receives power via an NFC antenna, and a secure element connected to and powered by the NFC controller circuit (e.g., and operable within a portable device). The secure element executes the applet data as follows. In response to an update command and identification (ID) data, the secure element operates in an update mode by storing the ID data. In response to a read command, the secure element operates in a read mode by providing access to the stored ID data. In response to a read-only command, the secure element operates in a read-only mode by providing read-only access to the stored ID data and preventing changes to the stored ID data. With this approach, the ID data can be stored (e.g., in a manufacturing environment) and future changes thereto can be prevented.
US09281871B2
Various configurations and arrangements of various communication devices are disclosed. Various integrated circuits that form these communication devices can be fabricated onto one or more semiconductor substrates, chips, and/or dies using a high voltage semiconductor process, a low voltage semiconductor process, or any combination thereof. Some of these high voltage and/or low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits can be fabricated along with other high voltage and/or low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of other modules onto a single semiconductor substrate, chip, and/or die. This allows the low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits and/or high voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of one module to be combined with low voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits and/or high voltage semiconductor process integrated circuits of another module of the communication device.
US09281862B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving references signals. A method includes receiving a first parameter, which is a cell specific parameter; receiving a second parameter, which is a UE specific parameter; acquiring a first reference signal for a PUSCH, based on the second parameter; acquiring a second reference signal for a PUCCH, based on the first parameter; and transmitting at least one of the first reference signal and the second reference signal. Group sequence hopping is not applied to acquire the first reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled. The group sequence hopping is applied to acquire the second reference signal, if the first parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is enabled and the second parameter indicates that the group sequence hopping is disabled.
US09281856B2
A support base for an electronic device includes a base, a trigger mechanism and an operating mechanism. The base includes a limit rib. The trigger mechanism includes a trigger member and a swing member. The trigger member is movably disposed on the base and therefore has an untriggered position and a triggered position. The swing member is pivoted on the trigger member and therefore has a pressed position and a room-making position. The operating mechanism is movably disposed on the base and therefore has a first operating position and a second operating position. The operating mechanism has an operating end and a moving end opposite to each other. The moving end corresponds to the swing member and is used for rotating relative to the operating end. When the operating mechanism is at the first operating position, the moving end of the operating mechanism is hooked at the limit rib.
US09281849B2
A method and apparatus for compensating is described, in which a tuning network is electrically coupled to an antenna and to a phase shift network. Baseband signals travel to and from the phase shift network. A controller communicatively linked to the tuning network and to the phase shift network receives data regarding the state of a communication device. The controller changes the impedance of the tuning network, and changes the phase shift of the phase shift network based on the received data. The received data may include information regarding the channel, band, or sub-band on which a communication device is communicating; information regarding on the application state of the device; information regarding the modulator and demodulator state of the device; and information regarding the state of the communication device's antenna.
US09281842B2
Improving decoding of a set of k data symbols received from several receivers, the data symbols being encoded by a systematic block error correcting code of dimension k and size n. The set of data symbols is received along with a corresponding subset of parity symbols, forming a partial data block comprising m symbols. A partial data block transmitted by one emitter, comprising a set of k data symbols and a subset of (m−k) parity symbols, is received from each receiver. For each received partial data block, a subset of parity symbols is generated and an item of reliability information is computed as a function of the received parity symbols and parity symbols generated from a received set of data symbols. The items of computed reliability information are compared with each other to select one received set of data bits.
US09281841B2
A method for determining update candidates in a low-density parity-check decoding process includes dividing the quasi-cyclic columns into groups and identifying an update candidate in each group. One or more of the identified update candidates are then updated. In the first half of iterative process, the higher quality candidate is updated. In the second half of the iterative process, the lower quality candidate is updated.
US09281836B2
Provided is an integrating analog-digital converter. According to the present examples, the resistance against external noise is improved by incorporating a differential amplifier into an integrating analog-digital converter. Some examples also include a section where an input voltage and a reference voltage are simultaneously blocked such that switching noise may be minimized and a reference voltage may also be stably supplied. Further, examples are designed to manage a residue, which may be generated when an integral operation to an analog input value is finished, to be processed not in an additional converter but in control logic itself, thereby reducing a size of a circuit device.
US09281831B2
Embodiments of a pipeline analog-to-digital converter is provided. In accordance with some embodiments, a pipeline analog-to-digital converter includes a stage, the stage including a residue amplifier that amplifies a residual voltage generated by the stage to obtain an amplified residual voltage; a backend digitizer that digitizes the amplified residual voltage to generate a digitized residual; and a digital correction circuit that corrects the digitized residual according to which zone the digitized residual is found.
US09281820B2
An asynchronous pipeline structure includes a plurality of functional blocks comprising dynamic logic, each block precharged to an idle state responsive to a precharge control signal applied thereto, with each block, upon being precharged, receiving input data thereto for processing, and holding output data generated thereby during an evaluate phase, independent of a reset of the input data; for each block, a completion detector circuit coupled to the output of the functional block, the completion detector circuit generating an acknowledgement signal that indicates validity or absence of data at the output of the block; and for each block, a precharge control circuit generating a precharge signal, wherein for a given block, a first input to the precharge control circuit comprises the acknowledgment signal from a downstream completion detector, and second input to the precharge control circuit comprises the precharge signal from an upstream precharge control circuit.
US09281819B2
A resistor renormalization method for a source driving circuit is provided, wherein the source driving circuit includes a plurality of resistors coupled in series, and the resistors respectively have a resistance and correspond to a number section value. The resistor renormalization method includes the steps of: (A) adding the resistances of the resistors to generate a total resistance; (B) providing a radix, wherein the radix is a natural number; (C) dividing the total resistance by the radix to generate a calculated section value; (D) dividing the resistances of the resistors by the radix to generate a plurality of remainders, respectively, and adding the remainders to generate an accumulated remainder; and (E) setting the number section value and the resistance of each resistor according to a relation between the calculated section value and the number section value and a relation between the remainder of each resistor and the radix.
US09281818B2
A method of reducing power consumption caused by leakage current in an interface circuit between modules that are driven by different power sources is disclosed. The interface circuit includes an output driver that operates by a first power supply voltage in a first mode and does not operate in a second mode in which the first power supply voltage is prevented from being applied, an input buffer that is operated by a second power supply voltage in the first and second modes, and a transmission line that connects an output terminal of the output driver to an input terminal of the input buffer. The interface circuit further includes a current leakage prevention circuit that prevents, in the second mode, a current leakage in the input buffer between a second power supply voltage source that supplies the second power supply voltage and a ground voltage source.
US09281816B2
Alternating on-die termination impedances are applied within an integrated circuit device to up-convert signal reflections to higher frequencies that are attenuated by the signaling channel as the reflections propagate toward an intended signal receiver. Through this approach, the disruptive effect of reflected signals may be significantly reduced with relatively little overhead within the interconnected integrated circuit devices and little or no change to the printed circuit board or other interconnect medium. Changes to the printed circuit board or other interconnect medium can be made to further increase attenuation over the frequency band of the up-converted reflection and outside of the transmission band of signals of interest.
US09281812B2
Provided is a metal-insulator transition (MIT) transistor system including an MIT critical current supply device allowing MIT to occur between a control terminal and an outlet terminal of an MIT transistor for easily and conveniently driving the MIT transistor. A current supplier according to the present invention provides a critical current for allowing an MIT phenomenon to occur between the control terminal and the output terminal of the MIT transistor.
US09281806B2
The present invention concerns a signal generator circuit powered by a supply voltage and including flip flop means including a first input to which is connected a continuous input signal whose amplitude is defined, a second input to which is connected a clock signal whose duty cycle is defined, and a third, reset input, and outputting an output signal whose duty cycle is that of the clock signal and whose amplitude is that of the input signal, characterized in that said circuit further includes regulating means arranged to compare the output signal to a set point signal representative of the desired duty cycle and to deliver a control signal connected to the third input of the flip flop means so as to activate the reset to modify the duty cycle of the output signal.
US09281805B2
A clock control circuit includes: a first buffer that receives a first pair of input clocks of multi-phase clocks, buffers and outputs the first pair of input clocks; a second buffer that receives a second pair of input clocks of the multi-phase clocks, and is controllable to buffer and output the second pair of input clocks or to output a fixed level; and a frequency multiplier that performs a logical operation on an output of the first buffer and an output of the second buffer, and outputs a first pair of output clocks or a second pair of output clocks as an output clocks, the first pair of output clocks is based on a frequency which is obtained by multiplying frequencies of the multi-phase clocks, and the second pair of output clocks is based on the same frequencies as the multi-phase clocks.
US09281803B2
A method and a circuit system for actuating a number of modules. The method is carried out using the circuit system, which implements a flexible trigger mechanism.
US09281793B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for determining tones and/or volumes based on color information associated with an image file. Some embodiments provide for generating tones as background chords, automatically in an auto-play mode, and/or manually (e.g., based on a user touching a touch screen).
US09281785B2
A differential cross-coupled common-source or common-emitter low-noise amplifier having capacitive degeneration is disclosed. Further, a radio receiver comprising such a low-noise amplifier is disclosed. Further, a method of controlling switched capacitive networks of an amplifier is disclosed. The method comprises controlling capacitances of the switched degeneration capacitor networks and/or the switched cross-coupling capacitor networks. Further, a computer program for implementing the method is disclosed.
US09281778B2
A mounting bracket assembly comprises a flexible body including at least one top member and a flexible angled bottom member connected to the top member. The flexible body defines a beam insertion aperture between the top member and the bottom member. The mounting bracket assembly further comprises at least one clamp attached to the top member. The mounting bracket assembly may further comprise a threaded rod running through the at least one top member and a clamping nut securing the threaded rod to the top member such that rotating the clamping nut compresses the top member and grounds an electricity generating device such as a photovoltaic module. The mounting bracket assembly may further comprise an integral grounding device disposed adjacent the top member to electrically ground the electricity generating device.
US09281754B2
An electrical circuit, in particular a circuit used for generating electric power, wherein this circuit comprises a generator with n phases, a converter and a transformer to which a p-phase load can be connected. The converter comprises m partial converters, each of the partial converters is composed of p units and each of these units is provided with n/m switching circuits. The switching circuits of the individual units are connected symmetrical to the generator.
US09281753B2
A resonant power converter system includes an output load and a rectifier stage that provides a DC output voltage to the output load from an AC intermediate voltage. The resonant power converter system also includes a resonant inverter stage that provides the AC intermediate voltage from a DC input voltage, wherein an inverter gain is controlled by switching between full-bridge and half-bridge topologies based on an external variable of the resonant power converter system. The resonant power converter system further includes a controller that controls the resonant power converter system. Additionally, a method of operating a power converter includes rectifying an AC intermediate voltage to provide a DC output voltage and providing the AC intermediate voltage by inverting a DC input voltage, wherein an inversion gain of the AC intermediate voltage is controlled by switching between full-bridge and half-bridge inversion topologies based on an external variable.
US09281742B2
In DC/DC converter circuit, the peak value of the reactor current is found based on output voltage and an input voltage, thereby, the operation with the predetermined electric current mode is thereby enabled. The AC/DC converter circuit is run with a predetermined current mode, the power factor improvement is accomplished. The first control part 211 inputs a detected value of output voltage Eo, and a turn-off timing predicted value of switch Tr of the DC/DC converter 1 is calculated. The first control part 211 sends the calculation result to the switch drive signal generate part 213. The second control part 212 inputs the detected value of the output voltage and the input voltage, and it receives the turn-off timing predicted value from the first control part 211. Even more particularly, the second control part 212 calculates the peak value of the reactor current of the DC/DC converter 1 based on the turn-off timing predicted value, and it calculates the time that the reactor current decreases to a predetermined preset value from the peak value as a turn-on timing predicted value.
US09281740B2
When a snubber capacitor is charged to a level greater than or equal to a predetermined voltage, a protection circuit renders a clamp diode conductive to complete charging of the snubber capacitor.
US09281739B2
An electrical assembly includes a substrate, a bridge magnetic device disposed on an outer surface of the substrate, and at least one electrical component. The bridge magnetic device includes (1) a magnetic core disposed over and offset from a first portion of the outer surface of the substrate, (2) N windings wound around at least a portion of the magnetic core and electrically coupled to conductors of the substrate, where N is an integer greater than zero, and (3) a ground return conductor disposed on an outer surface of the magnetic core facing the first portion of the outer surface of the substrate. The at least one electrical component is disposed on the first portion of the outer surface of the substrate.
US09281735B2
Advantageous motors, such as flux-switching linear synchronous motors (FSLSMs) are provided. In an FSLSM, all magnets can be magnetized in the same direction. In addition, an FSLSM can be yokeless and can have two stators displaced from one another by half a pole pitch. FSLSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective and provide high thrust, and can operate well even under fault conditions.
US09281731B2
Methods of precisely positioning a rotor of a machine into one or more service positions for the purpose of servicing the machine. In some embodiments, the machine includes A rotor and a stator segmented into multiple removable stator modules. During servicing, a stator-module replacement tool is precisely located in any one or more of multiple service positions corresponding to the multiple stator modules by selectively energizing the machine. In other embodiments, the machine includes a stator and a rotor having multiple removable permanent magnets corresponding respectively to multiple service positions. During servicing, the rotor is precisely located in any one or more of multiple service positions corresponding to the permanent magnets by selectively energizing the machine. A servicing control system is disclosed for controlling the excitation of a machine stator in a manner that effects precise positioning of the rotor into a selected service position.
US09281720B2
A wireless power charging system includes an intermediate relay coil. In one aspect, a wireless power charging system is designed to charge a separate device having a receiver that includes a receiver coil. The separate device conforms to a specification for the wireless power charging system, which may be a public standard for wireless power charging systems. The wireless power charging system includes a transmitter and a relay coil resonator. The transmitter includes a driver coil that is driven by a power source. The relay coil resonator includes a relay coil that is used to inductively couple power from the driver coil to the receiver coil. The wireless power charging system is designed so that it satisfies Eqn. (11) above.
US09281718B2
A system and method for controlling characteristics of supplied electrical power. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise an integrated circuit comprising a first circuit module that receives electrical power. The integrated circuit may comprise a second circuit module that monitors at least one characteristic of electrical power received by at least one of the first circuit module and the integrated circuit. The second circuit module may also communicate with a third circuit module regarding the monitored at least one characteristic. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise an integrated circuit comprising a first module that monitors at least one characteristic of electrical power received by a first electrical device that is external to the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may also comprise a second module that communicates with a second electrical device, external to the integrated circuit, regarding the monitored at least one characteristic.
US09281709B2
Disclosed herein are a power receiving device for wireless charging and a portable electronic device having the same. The power receiving device for wireless charging include a body having a receiving space formed therein; and a charging kit detachably received in the receiving space, and including a coil formed to receive power by magnetic coupling with a power supplying device and a charging circuit configured to charge a battery by electromotive force induced in the coil.
US09281703B2
Methods and systems for depowering a rechargeable battery in a rapid, yet controlled, manner. The methods comprise (i) providing a depowering medium comprising expanded graphite (and optionally, one or more dispersible non-ionic electric conductors) dispersed in a substantially non-ionic aqueous medium; (ii) contacting terminals of the battery with the depowering medium; and (iii) maintaining contact between the depowering medium and terminals for a period of time sufficient to depower the battery. The systems comprise (i) the depowering medium; and (ii) a container configured to receive a battery and the depowering medium such that the battery body is contacted with the depowering medium prior to the terminals.
US09281701B2
A charging system having a charging device with a groove for receiving a mobile/portable device for charging is provided having a magnetic core located in a housing of the charging device with the magnetic core having a base and two legs that are located around the groove. A coil is wrapped around the base and a driver circuit is connected to the coil as well as to an external power source. A power receiver is located in a mobile/portable device that can be placed in the groove in the charging device. The power receiver includes a receiver magnetic core as well as a receiving coil wrapped around the receiver magnetic core for receiving an inductive current from the charging device. A charging circuit is connected to the receiving coil and adapted to be connected to the battery of the mobile/portable device for charging.
US09281700B2
A power supply system has an n-phase electric machine, where n≧1, and a controllable energy store serving to control and to supply electrical energy to the electric machine. The controllable energy store has n parallel power supply arms which each have at least two series-connected energy storage modules which each include at least one electrical energy storage cell with an associated controllable coupling unit, are connected on one side to a reference bus and are connected on the other side to one respective phase of the electric machine. In dependence on control signals, the coupling units either bridge the respectively associated energy storage cells or connect the respectively associated energy storage cells into the power supply arm.
US09281696B2
A current steering circuit for controlling a branch current flowing through a branch is provided. The branch is coupled to a first main switch. The current steering circuit includes a sensing device, a first auxiliary switch and a control unit. The sensing device is coupled to the branch and arranged for sensing the branch current to generate a sensing result. The first auxiliary switch is coupled in parallel with the first main switch. The control unit is coupled to the sensing device and the first auxiliary switch, wherein while the first main switch is turned on, the control unit generates a first switch control signal to the first auxiliary switch, and adjusts a duty cycle of the first switch control signal according to the sensing result in order to adjust the branch current.
US09281694B2
A wireless power receiver for receiving power from a wireless power transmitter using resonance according to the embodiment includes a reception resonant coil resonance-coupled with a transmission resonant coil of the wireless power transmitter for receiving the power, a reception induction coil coupled with the reception resonant coil for receiving the power, and a connecting unit, and the reception resonant coil includes at least one conductive line having one end and an opposite end being open with each other, and the connecting unit couples the one end and the opposite end of each conductive line with each other so that the reception resonant coil forms a closed loop.
US09281687B2
A system for controlling electrical outlets includes two devices. The first device connects to a switched outlet and sends a signal to the second device when the outlet is turned on or off. The second device mimics the power state of the first device. The first device may include a socket for receiving a sensor module, which may alter the functionality of the device. For example, the device may be controlled by a remote device or it may be motion-activated, depending on the module that is connected.
US09281678B2
An electrical surge protection device is structured to be installed on an electrical enclosure and to be electrically connected between one or more line conductors and one or more ground or neutral conductors. The electrical surge protection device includes a support that is structured to be installed on the electrical enclosure and a number of varistors or other electrical components that will, in the event of a voltage surge on a line conductor, shunt electrical energy from the voltage surge to the ground or neutral conductor with which it is connected. The electrical surge protection device advantageously further includes a shield apparatus that is structured to restrain an increased ambient pressure and that is electrically conductive and is electrically connected with the ground or neutral conductor.
US09281658B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for controlling laser beams for a plurality of collocated laser assemblies. The laser beams are optimized by controlling outputs of a primary power source (current for generating a laser beam) and a secondary power source (heating device) for each of the respective laser assemblies. The states of the power supply may be cycled and modulated to provide optimal performance.
US09281657B2
An apparatus for output light with a wavelength tunable function, includes: a semiconductor laser diode (LD) including regions to determine an oscillation wavelength, the regions providing respective diffraction gratings and electrodes to control refractive index of the regions; a temperature controller for mounting the LD thereon to control a temperature of the LD; and a controller configured to vary the refractive index of the regions by providing control signals to the electrodes and another control signal to the temperature controller for varying the temperature of the LD to coincide the oscillation wavelength with a target wavelength.
US09281650B2
Various embodiments include large cores fibers that can propagate few modes or a single mode while introducing loss to higher order modes. Some of these fibers are holey fibers that comprise cladding features such as air-holes. Additional embodiments described herein include holey rods. The rods and fibers may be used in many optical systems including optical amplification systems, lasers, short pulse generators, Q-switched lasers, etc. and may be used for example for micromachining.
US09281647B2
An exemplary pass-through connector includes a connector housing a first end and a second end. A first amount of terminals extends from said first end to said second end. A supply line connects to a second amount of terminals. The supply line is located apart from the first end and the second end. The second amount of terminals is less than said first amount of terminals.
US09281643B1
The present invention is to provide a connector having a metal separating plate being fastened by a tongue plate in integral formation, which is compatible to USB Type-C standard and includes a tongue plate made of plastic integrally and provided with a metal separating plate fixedly disposed therein; a plurality of first connection terminals respectively inserted into first connection slots formed in the tongue plate near a top surface of the metal separating plate; a plurality of second connection terminals respectively inserted into second connection slots formed in the tongue plate near a bottom surface of the metal separating plate; grounding boards having structures respectively matched with the tongue plate, so as to enclose an outer edge of the tongue plate; and a metal casing having a structure matching with the tongue plate, so as to allow the tongue plate and grounding boards to be assembled into the metal casing.
US09281635B2
A connector includes a connecting terminal, a fixed contact, a movable plate, a movable contact provided at an end of the movable plate, a card that includes an insulator and contacts the movable plate, a button that contacts the card, an opening spring connected to the button, and a sliding operation part that controls a contact between the fixed contact and the movable contact. When the sliding operation part is moved in a first direction, the movable contact is brought into contact with the fixed contact and the connector is turned on. When the sliding operation part is moved in a second direction opposite to the first direction, the movable contact is caused to move away from the fixed contact and the connector is turned off. The sliding operation part is provided on a surface that is different from a surface on which the connecting terminal is provided.
US09281631B2
A connector suitable for a storage device is provided. The storage device has a storage module. The connector includes a body, a plurality of terminals, and a housing. The terminals are disposed in the body, and a first end of each terminal protrudes from the body and is electrically connected to the storage module. The housing covers the body and has an indentation and a shielding portion. The first end of each terminal is located at the indentation. The shielding portion shields the indentation, and the first end of each terminal is located between the shielding portion and the storage module. A storage device is also provided.
US09281621B2
An HDMI cable, an HDMI connector and an HDMI interface for a high-definition video/audio apparatus are provided. The HDMI interface includes the HDMI connector and the HDMI cable. The HDMI connector includes a connecting terminal having an extending cable terminal arranged in parallel in a main body. The HDMI cable includes at least one connecting unit consisting of a plurality of parallel metal wires. An insulating unit covers an outside of a face of the connecting unit, in such a manner that the metal wires are parallel and isolated from each other. The present invention is using design of single row of the connector terminal and single row of the HDMI cable, to simplify an HDMI interface structure and reduce size and weight, and manual identification is not required for pin bit definitions, which simplifies production process, reduces the manual work, and greatly improves production efficiency.
US09281620B2
A communication connector including a housing and a plurality of contact pairs arranged relative to the housing. One of the plurality of contact pairs includes a first conductor termination zone centerline, and another contact pair includes a second conductor termination zone centerline, wherein the second conductor termination zone centerline is an approximately perpendicular bisector of the first conductor termination zone centerline.
US09281618B2
A lock device that locks or unlocks a locking subject includes a lock member moved between a lock position where the lock member locks the locking subject and an unlock position where the lock member unlocks the unlocking subject and a movable transmission member that acts to move the lock member to at least the lock position. A guide mechanism is arranged between the transmission member and the lock member. The guide mechanism includes a sloped lock guide surface. The lock guide surface guides the lock member to the lock position when the transmission member moves in a first direction.
US09281607B2
The present invention relates to an electronic control device which is an electronic control device such as an engine ECU for a vehicle and has a tight sealing structure between a case and a connector. The present invention provides an electronic control device for a vehicle, which implements a new type of sealing manner in which a space to be filled with a sealing material is formed between a case side dam and a connector side dam when a case and a connector of the electronic control device are assembled, and the sealing material is applied in the space, which is formed as described above, such that airtightness for an assembly region between the case and the connector is maintained, thereby securing sufficient sealing areas because of enlarged sealing sections, and achieving stable sealing quality and improving quality.
US09281605B2
The invention relates to a plug (1), with a first plug-and-socket connector (5) and at least a second plug-and-socket connector (4) in which the first plug-and-socket connector (5) can be received, and with a surrounding housing (6) in which the second plug-and-socket connector (4) can be received non-displaceably in at least one securing direction (A). Furthermore, the invention relates to a mating plug (2) with a first mating connector (7) and at least a second mating connector (2a), in which the first mating connector (7) can be received. In order to facilitate the assembly of a plug-and-socket connector arrangement (3), provision is made according to the invention for the surrounding housing (6) to have a securing member (17, 18) which is designed to be able to be brought into engagement with the second plug-and-socket connector (4) and the first plug-and-socket connector (5) received in the second plug-and-socket connector (4), and by means of which the first (5) and second (4) plug-and-socket connectors can be fixed relative to the surrounding housing (6). For a mating plug (2), the object is achieved in that the first mating connector (7) is designed to be able to be constructed in modular fashion from a receiving module (7e) and a connection module (7f).
US09281604B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing, a shell retained on the insulating housing, a plurality of terminals retained on the mating portion of the insulating housing, and a spacer engaging with the insulating housing. The insulating housing includes a base portion and a mating portion protruding from the base portion, the base portion has a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls connecting with the top wall and bottom wall, a front wall connecting with the mating portion and a rear wall. The front wall of the base portion has a pair of slanted portions formed on two sides of the mating portion, the rear wall of the base portion has a plurality of barriers for retaining the terminals and a pair of flange portions on two sides of the barriers, each flange portion has a groove on an inner side surface to engage with the spacer.
US09281591B2
A contact member has a first flat-plate portion, a pair of leg portions, a second flat-plate portion, and a projection portion. The pair of leg portions extends from opposite ends of the first flat-plate portion along a first orientation in a direction intersecting with the first flat-plate portion. The second flat-plate portion is connected to a projecting end of the leg portion. The projection portion extends from an end of the first flat-plate portion on a first direction side of a second orientation, which intersects with the first orientation, to the same direction as the direction where the leg portion extends. The projection portion is bent in a second direction of the second orientation to pass through the space between the pair of leg portions, thereby projecting in the second direction of the second orientation. The projection portion is provided with a protruding portion that expands along the first orientation.
US09281590B1
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a longitudinal slot and at least one row of contacts retained in the housing. Each of the contacts defines a retention portion, a resilient contacting arm extending from the retention portion with a contacting portion protruding into the longitudinal slot, and a soldering tail extending out of the housing. The contacts include at least two differential pairs adjacent to each other and at least one grounding contact sandwiched therebetween in the longitudinal direction. The contacting portions of each differential pairs are closer to the mating face than the contacting portion of the grounding contact in the mating direction, which can improve resonance of the electrical connector during transferring high-speed signals.
US09281589B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals fixed in the insulative housing. The conductive terminals includes a first terminal group, the first terminal group includes a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of grounding terminals. The insulative housing defines a cured conductive adhesive, the cured conductive adhesive makes the grounding terminals of the first terminal group shorted to each other.
US09281573B2
An electrical plug connector in the form of a solid contact pin that has a contact portion, a transition portion adjoining the contact portion, and a connection portion adjoining the transition portion for electrical connection to an electrical line by ultrasonic welding. The connection portion is formed from a first leg and a second leg and has at least one geometric wave refraction element for refracting waves during ultrasonic welding.
US09281570B2
An antenna circuit includes a substrate, an antenna, and a projected artificial magnetic mirror (PAMM). The antenna is fabricated on the substrate and is positioned in a region of the substrate that has a high permittivity. The PAMM produces an artificial magnetic conductor at a distance above a surface of the substrate to facilitate a radiation pattern for the antenna.
US09281568B1
A method for improving bandwidth and gain of a microstrip patch antenna and a microstrip patch antenna are provided. The method includes forming a highly anisotropic superstrate, and positioning the highly anisotropic superstrate at a predetermined distance away from the ground plane side of the microstrip patch antenna, increasing the bandwidth of the microstrip patch antenna. The antenna provides a microstrip patch antenna having a highly anisotropic superstrate. The highly anisotropic superstrate can include a spacing layer, a dielectric material positioned on the spacing layer and a plurality of conductive strips disposed on the dielectric layer.
US09281567B2
A broadband internal antenna using double electromagnetic coupling is disclosed. The disclosed antenna may include: a first conducting member electrically connected to a feeding point; a second conducting member placed at a designated distance from at least a portion of the first conducting member so as to allow a first electromagnetic coupling with at least a portion of the first conducting member, and remaining in a floating state without being coupled to a ground and the feeding point; a third conducting member placed at a designated distance from the second conducting member so as to allow a second electromagnetic coupling with the second conducting member, and electrically connected to the ground; and a fourth conducting member extending from the third conducting member, for radiating RF signals. The disclosed antenna has the advantage of providing broadband characteristics within a limited size.
US09281566B2
A stacked bow tie antenna array structure is placed within, for example a rectangular reflector. Spaces between the bow tie elements and the reflector are filled with close spaced conductive plates.
US09281563B2
A shared antenna communicates radio waves with different frequencies or different polarization characteristics, and has a simple configuration that can be placed in a small device. The antenna includes a plurality of loops of the shape of a cross in a spiral fashion and includes a gap provided at a certain midpoint in the spiral loops and a power supply portion provided in a central portion. The distance of the gap is set such that electromagnetic coupling is caused at a first frequency and no electromagnetic coupling is caused at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US09281545B2
A method of controlling discharge in a battery pack, including: measuring an ambient temperature of a battery cell and a voltage of the battery cell; a first discharge processing of discharging the battery cell until the voltage of the battery cell becomes a second voltage lower than a first voltage when the ambient temperature is higher than a first predetermined temperature and the voltage of the battery cell is higher than the first voltage; and a second discharge processing of discharging the battery cell until the voltage of the electrical battery cell becomes a fourth voltage lower than a third voltage when the ambient temperature is lower than the first predetermined temperature and the voltage of the battery cell is higher than the third voltage.
US09281540B2
A lithium-ion battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte system and an ion-selective conducting layer disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The ion-selective conducting layer consists of high polymers and an inorganic lithium salt having lithium-ion conductivity, or consists of the inorganic lithium salt. The inorganic lithium salt includes LimMnOx, wherein the values of the m and n ensure the LimMnOx an electrically neutral compound, M is selected from at least one of B, P, Si, Se, Zr, W, Ti, Te, Ta, Al and As. The lithium-ion battery has a conduction layer having preference-selective conductivity for the lithium ions and disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The selective-conduction layer has improved mobility for lithium ions. Metal ions generated from the oxidized metal current collector at the negative electrode due to the over-charging of the battery can be blocked.
US09281533B2
To achieve smooth drawing of air into a fuel cell, the air-flow resistance of an exhaust passage is reduced and intrusion of water into an exhaust duct is prevented. In the present invention, in an exhaust device of a fuel cell vehicle, an exhaust chamber is attached to a lower surface of the front hood, the exhaust duct extends upward in a vertical direction from a rear portion of a fuel cell case, an exhaust port at an upper end of the exhaust duct opens to an interior of the exhaust chamber, a penetrating hole through which the inside of the exhaust chamber communicates with the outside space, is formed in the front hood in a portion in front of the exhaust port in a vehicle front and rear direction, the penetrating hole is covered with a cover, and an opening portion opening toward a rear side of the vehicle and being positioned above and away from an upper surface of the front hood, is formed in the cover.
US09281531B2
The present teachings relate to an electrochemical system including an electrochemical device and multiple independent circuits which permit independent control of the reaction rates at different sections of the electrochemical device. The electrochemical device can be a fuel cell or an electrolyzer, and can include a common electrode in electrical communication with two or more independent circuits. The present teachings also relate to operating methods of the electrochemical system described.
US09281519B2
Provided is a lithium ion positive electrode active material for a secondary battery that can realize a high operating voltage and a high capacity while suppressing capacity drop with cycles by using a low-cost material. A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, which is a lithium manganese composite oxide represented by the following general formula (I) Lia(MxMn2−x−yYy)(O4−wZw) (I) wherein in the formula (I), 0.5≦x≦1.2, 0
US09281505B2
A battery mounting structure for a vehicle includes a battery frame upper fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin, a battery frame lower fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin, and an intermediate member fabricated of fiber-reinforced resin. A battery that is disposed at a vehicle body lower side of a floor panel is attached at the battery frame upper. With the battery frame upper the battery frame lower structures a closed cross section structure. The intermediate member is interposed between the battery frame upper and the battery frame lower. The intermediate member is provided with a plural number of upper end portions that abut against or are disposed close to a lower face of the battery frame upper and a plural number of lower end portions that abut against or are disposed close to an upper face of the battery frame lower.
US09281494B2
A display device includes: a display substrate; a display unit formed on the display substrate and a sealing substrate affixed to the display substrate by an adhering layer that surrounds the display unit. The sealing substrate includes a composite member including a resin and a plurality of carbon fibers and an insulating member attached to the composite member. The insulating member includes a through hole. A metal film is disposed at one side of the sealing substrate, facing the display substrate; and a conductive connection portion contact the metal film through the through hole.
US09281493B2
A flexible substrate, a manufacturing method for the flexible substrate and an OLED display device including the flexible substrate are provided. The flexible substrate includes a flexible base on which a mesh depression layer is provided, in which a mesh current sinking layer is embedded. The mesh current sinking layer is configured to enhance electrical conductivity of the flexible substrate. With the mesh depression layer, the mesh current sinking layer may be embedded in the flexible substrate, which effectively enhances the electrical conductivity of the flexible substrate.
US09281491B2
A white organic light emitting device including an anode and a cathode opposite to each other, a plurality of stacks disposed between the anode and the cathode, each of the stacks including a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer and an electron transport layer, and an n-type charge generation layer and a p-type charge generation layer disposed between different adjacent stacks, wherein the n-type charge generation layer includes a first organic host, and the p-type charge generation layer includes a second organic host having a LUMO energy level smaller than or equal to a LUMO energy level of the first organic host, and an inorganic dopant containing 1% to 20% by volume of a metal.
US09281490B2
The present specification discloses an organic electroluminescent device including: a substrate; a cathode provided on the substrate; a light emitting layer provided on the cathode; an anode provided on the light emitting layer; a first p-type organic material layer provided between the cathode and the light emitting layer; and a first n-type organic material layer provided between the first p-type organic material layer and the light emitting layer.
US09281489B2
The objects of the present invention are to provide an organic luminescent material capable of being easily controlled for dopant concentrations. The present invention is characterized in that a organic light-emitting device comprising a upper electrode, a lower electrode; and a light-emitting layer positioned between the upper electrode and the lower electrode, wherein the light-emitting layer contains a host, a first dopant and a second dopant, the first dopant is a blue-light-emitting dopant or a green-light-emitting dopant, the first dopant has a first functional group, and the first functional group makes the first dopant transfer toward the surface of the light-emitting layer on the upper electrode side in the light-emitting layer.
US09281483B2
Compounds comprising phosphorescent metal complexes comprising cyclometallated imidazo[1,2-f]phenanthridine and diimidazo[1,2-a:1′,2′-c]quinazoline ligands, or isoelectronic or benzannulated analogs thereof, are described. Organic light emitting diode devices comprising these compounds are also described.
US09281480B2
In one embodiment, a method for forming pattern includes forming a guide layer on a substrate, forming a copolymer layer of a high-molecular block copolymer on the guide layer; and forming a phase-separation structure with a phase-separation cycle d by self-assembling the copolymer layer. The high-molecular block copolymer includes a first and a second polymer. The guide layer includes a first and a second region disposed on the substrate. Widths of the first and second region respectively are approximately (d/2)×n and (d/2)×m. Both of the first and second region are to be pinned with none of the first and second polymer. Surface energies of the first and second region are different from one another. Integers n and m are odd numbers. Value d is a phase-separation cycle of the high-molecular block copolymer.
US09281472B2
The present invention provides a memory structure including a resistance-changing storage element, which enables a reset operation with a reset gate and in which cross-sectional areas of a resistance-changing film and a lower electrode in a current-flowing direction can be decreased. The semiconductor device of the present invention comprises a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film formed around the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a gate electrode made of a metal and formed around the gate insulating film, a gate line made of a metal and connected to the gate electrode, a second gate insulating film formed around an upper portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a first contact made of a second metal and formed around the second gate insulating film, a second contact which is made of a third metal and which connects an upper portion of the first contact to an upper portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a second diffusion layer formed in a lower portion of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer, a pillar-shaped insulating layer formed on the second contact, a resistance-changing film formed around an upper portion of the pillar-shaped insulating layer, a lower electrode formed around a lower portion of the pillar-shaped insulating layer and connected to the resistance-changing film, a reset gate insulating film that surrounds the resistance-changing film, and a reset gate that surrounds the reset gate insulating film.
US09281469B2
The blocking temperature of the AFM layer in a TMR sensor has been raised by inserting a magnetic seed layer between the AFM layer and the bottom shield. This gives the device improved thermal stability, including improved SNR and BER.
US09281467B2
An embodiment of the invention includes a memory cell having a magnet layer coupled to a metal layer and read line. The metal layer is also coupled to write and sense lines. During a write operation charge current is supplied to the metal layer via the write line and induces spin current and a magnetic state within the magnet layer based on the spin Hall effect. During a read operation read current is supplied, via the read line, to the magnet layer and then the metal layer and induces another spin current, within the metal layer, that generates an electric field and voltage, based on inverse spin Hall effect, at a sense node coupled to the sense line. The voltage polarity is based on the aforementioned magnetic state. The memory operates with a low supply voltage to drive charge, read, and spin currents. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09281466B2
A magnetic cell includes a magnetic region formed from a precursor magnetic material comprising a diffusive species and at least one other species. An amorphous region is proximate to the magnetic region and is formed from a precursor trap material comprising at least one attracter species having at least one trap site and a chemical affinity for the diffusive species. The diffusive species is transferred from the precursor magnetic material to the precursor trap material where it bonds to the at least one attracter species at the trap sites. The species of the enriched trap material may intermix such that the enriched trap material becomes or stays amorphous. The depleted magnetic material may then be crystallized through propagation from a neighboring crystalline material without interference from the amorphous, enriched trap material. This enables high tunnel magnetoresistance and high magnetic anisotropy strength. Methods of fabrication and semiconductor devices are also disclosed.
US09281459B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate; a stacked structure including a first type semiconductor layer positioned on the substrate, a light-emitting structure positioned on the first type semiconductor layer, and a second type semiconductor layer positioned on the light-emitting structure, wherein the stacked structure includes a depression exposing the first type semiconductor layer; a first electrode positioned on the first type semiconductor layer in the depression, the first electrode including at least one first pad and at least one first extending wire with one end connected to the first pad; a second electrode positioned on the second type semiconductor layer, the second electrode including at least one second pad and at least one second extending wire with one end connected to the second pad; wherein the distance between the first pad and the second pad is greater than 70% of the width of the light-emitting device.
US09281456B2
A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element for emitting primary light, and a wavelength conversion unit for absorbing part of the primary light and emitting secondary light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light, wherein the wavelength conversion unit includes plural kinds of phosphors having light absorption characteristics different from each other, and then at least one kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors has an absorption characteristic that can absorb the secondary light emitted from at least another kind of phosphor among the plural kinds of phosphors.
US09281454B2
Light emitting devices comprise a substrate having a surface and a side surface; a semiconductor structure on the surface of the substrate, the semiconductor structure having a first surface, a second surface and a side surface, wherein the second surface is opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface, relative to the second surface, is proximate to the substrate, and wherein the semiconductor structure comprises a first-type layer, a light emitting layer and a second-type layer; a first and a second electrodes; and a wavelength converting element arranged on the side surface of the semiconductor structure, wherein the wavelength converting element has an open space, and wherein the open space is a portion not covered by the wavelength converting element.
US09281453B2
A method of producing an optoelectronic component includes providing a cavity; introducing a liquid matrix material with phosphor particles distributed therein into the cavity; introducing a semiconductor chip into the matrix material; sedimenting the phosphor particles in the matrix material; and curing the matrix material, wherein a conversion layer including phosphor particles is produced, said conversion layer being arranged on the semiconductor chip.
US09281445B2
An LED includes a mesa having a Group III Nitride mesa face and a mesa sidewall, on an underlying LED structure. The mesa face includes Group III Nitride surface features having tops that are defined by mask features, having bottoms, and having sides that extend along crystal planes of the Group III Nitride. The mask features may include a two-dimensional array of dots that are spaced apart from one another. Related fabrication methods are also disclosed.
US09281443B2
The application provides a light-emitting diode array, including: a first light-emitting diode including a first area; a second area; a first isolation path between the first area and the second area, and the first isolation path including an electrode isolation layer; and an electrode contact layer covering the first area; a second light-emitting diode including a semiconductor stack layer; and a second electrical bonding pad on the semiconductor stack layer; and a second isolation path between the first light-emitting diode and the second light-emitting diode, wherein the second isolation path includes an electrical connecting structure electrically connected to the first light-emitting diode and the second light-emitting diode.
US09281441B2
A device comprising a semiconductor layer including a plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions is provided. The difference between an average band gap for the plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions and an average band gap for a remaining portion of the semiconductor layer can be at least thermal energy. Additionally, a characteristic size of the plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions can be smaller than an inverse of a dislocation density for the semiconductor layer.
US09281439B2
A nitride semiconductor element 1 includes a base structure part 5, and an element structure part 11 formed on the base structure part 5 and having at least an n-type AlGaN based semiconductor layer 6, and p-type AlGaN based semiconductor layers 8, 9, 10, and further includes an n-electrode contact part 13a formed on the n-type AlGaN based semiconductor layer 6, an n-electrode pad part 13b formed on the n-electrode contact part 13a, and a p-electrode 12 formed on the p-type AlGaN based semiconductor layers 8, 9, 10, in which an AlN mole fraction in the n-type AlGaN based semiconductor layer 6 is 20% or more, the n-electrode contact part 13a includes one or more metal layers, and the p-electrode 12 and the n-electrode pad part 13b have a common laminated structure of two or more layers having an Au layer as an uppermost layer, and an Au diffusion preventing layer composed of conductive metal oxide and formed under the uppermost layer to prevent Au diffusion.
US09281425B2
A method for producing a semiconductor component is disclosed. A carrier substrate includes a mounting region and an opening, which is formed in the mounting region of the carrier substrate. After mounting a semiconductor chip, an electrically insulating layer is applied to the carrier substrate in such a way that the electrically insulating layer completely fills the first opening in the carrier substrate. A second opening is formed in the electrically insulating layer. An electrically conductive layer is then applied to the electrically insulating layer in such a way that the second opening is filled with the electrically conductive layer in the form of a via. A semiconductor component produced in this way is also provided.
US09281422B2
A method includes obtaining a photosensor substrate (236) having two opposing major surfaces. One of the two opposing major surfaces includes at least one photosensor row (230) of at least one photosensor element (232, 234), and the obtained photosensor substrate has a thickness equal to or greater than one hundred microns. The method further includes optically coupling a scintillator array (310) to the photosensor substrate. The scintillator array includes at least one complementary scintillator row (224) of at least one complementary scintillator element (226, 228), and the at least one complementary scintillator row is optically coupled to the at least one photosensor row (230) and the at least one complementary scintillator element is optically coupled to the at least one photosensor element. The method further includes thinning the photosensor substrate optically coupled to the scintillator producing a thinned photosensor substrate that is optically coupled to the scintillator and that has a thickness on the order of less than one hundred microns.
US09281421B2
A conductive reflective film has a silver nanoparticle-sintered film with a surface coating composition containing a hydrolysate of a metal alkoxide wet-coated thereto. The coated film is then fired. Also provided is a method of manufacturing the conductive reflective film comprising the steps of coating a surface coating composition containing a hydrolysate of a metal alkoxide on a silver nanoparticle-sintered film using a wet coating method, and firing the silver nanoparticle-sintered film having the coated film. The conductive reflective film provides improved adhesion properties with respect to a base material while maintaining a high reflectivity and a high conductivity of a silver nanoparticle-sintered film.
US09281387B2
A high voltage durability III-nitride semiconductor device comprises a support substrate including a first silicon body, an insulator body over the first silicon body, and a second silicon body over the insulator body. The high voltage durability III-nitride semiconductor device further comprises a III-nitride semiconductor body characterized by a majority charge carrier conductivity type, formed over the second silicon body. The second silicon body has a conductivity type opposite the majority charge carrier conductivity type. In one embodiment, the high voltage durability III-nitride semiconductor device is a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) comprising a support substrate including a <100> silicon layer, an insulator layer over the <100> silicon layer, and a P type conductivity <111> silicon layer over the insulator layer. The high voltage durability HEMT also comprises a III-nitride semiconductor body formed over the P type conductivity <111> silicon layer, the III-nitride semiconductor body forming a heterojunction of the HEMT.
US09281368B1
A plurality of gate trenches is formed into a semiconductor substrate in an active cell region. One or more other trenches are formed in a different region. Each gate trench has a first conductive material in lower portions and a second conductive material in upper portions. In the gate trenches, a first insulating layer separates the first conductive material from the substrate, a second insulating layer separates the second conductive material from the substrate and a third insulating material separates the first and second conductive materials. The other trenches contain part of the first conductive material in a half-U shape in lower portions and part of the second conductive material in upper portions. In the other trenches, the third insulating layer separates the first and second conductive materials. The first insulating layer is thicker than the third insulating layer, and the third insulating layer is thicker than the second.
US09281362B2
According to an example embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region. The substrate includes first active regions defined by a first trench isolation region in the cell array region, a second active region defined by a second trench isolation region in the peripheral circuit region, and at least one deep trench isolation region. The first active regions may be aligned to extend longitudinally in a first direction in the cell array region. The at least one deep trench isolation region is recessed in the substrate to a level lower than those of other points of a bottom surface of the second trench isolation region in the peripheral circuit region. The at least one deep trench isolation region includes at least one point that is spaced apart in the first direction from a corresponding one of the first active regions.
US09281358B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device is manufactured by giving stable electric characteristics to a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film is used for a channel. An oxide semiconductor film which can have a first crystal structure by heat treatment and an oxide semiconductor film which can have a second crystal structure by heat treatment are formed so as to be stacked, and then heat treatment is performed; accordingly, crystal growth occurs with the use of an oxide semiconductor film having the second crystal structure as a seed, so that an oxide semiconductor film having the first crystal structure is formed. An oxide semiconductor film formed in this manner is used for an active layer of the transistor.
US09281356B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate including an isolation region, forming a resistor over the isolation region, and forming a contact over the resistor. The method also includes implanting with a dopant concentration that is step-increased at a depth of the resistor and that remains substantially constant as depth increases.
US09281355B2
An electronic device comprising a semiconductor structure having a back end capacitor and a back end thin film resistor and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor structure includes a first dielectric layer, a bottom plate of the capacitor and a thin film resistor body. The bottom plate and the resistor body are laterally spaced apart portions of the same thin film layer. The bottom plate further includes a conductive layer overlying the thin film layer. A second dielectric layer is disposed on the conductive layer of the bottom plate of the capacitor. A top plate of the capacitor is disposed on the second dielectric layer.
US09281346B1
A display device includes an array substrate including a display area and a non-display area, a driving circuit chip disposed on the non-display area and including a bottom surface, a top surface, a first pair of side surfaces extending in a first direction, and a second pair of side surfaces extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and first, second, and dummy bumps, each disposed on the bottom surface in a single column along the first direction, in which the dummy bumps include first and second dummy bump groups disposed between the first and second bumps along the first direction, the dummy bumps in the first dummy bump group are spaced apart from each other by a first pitch, and the dummy bumps in the second dummy bump group are spaced apart from each other by a second pitch different from the first pitch.
US09281343B2
A thin film transistor display panel includes: a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are included in a thin film transistor on a substrate; a data line connected to the source electrode; a pixel link member connecting the drain electrode to a pixel electrode; and a gate pad connected to the gate electrode through a gate line and including a first gate subpad, a second gate subpad and a gate pad link member, in which the pixel link member and the gate pad link member are substantially same in thickness.
US09281339B1
A method for mounting a chip on a printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a chip having a plurality of bonding pads and a PCB having a recess portion and a plurality of connectors; gluing the recess portion; placing the chip into the recess portion; and forming circuit patterns linking associated bonding pad and connector. A bottom of the recess portion is substantially flat and a shape of the recess portion is similar to that of the chip but large enough so that the chip can be fixed in the recess portion after being glued.
US09281333B2
A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate containing a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. A color filter layer is disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements. A light shielding layer is disposed between the color filter layer and substrate. The light-shielding layer has a plurality of first light shielding partitions extended along a first direction and a plurality of second light shielding partitions extended along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first light shielding partitions have different dimensions along the second direction and the second light shielding partitions have different dimensions along the first direction.
US09281330B2
One sensor pixel includes amplifying transistor, coupled between first bias line and data line; switch transistor, operated by control line and coupled between data line and gate of amplifying transistor; storage capacitor, coupled to second bias line; and sensor being coupled to gate of amplifying transistor. Another sensor pixel includes first amplifying transistor coupled between first bias line and data line; second amplifying transistor being coupled between second bias line and data line; switch transistor being operated by control line and being coupled between data line and gates of first and second amplifying transistors; storage capacitor coupled to gates of first and second amplifying transistors; and sensor coupled to gates of first and second amplifying transistors. Trap-assisted absorption, variable capacitor described for sensor pixels, and also biasing to reduce flicker and aging, and to compensate for aging, described for sensor pixels.
US09281329B2
By selectively anisotropically etching a stack film formed to cover a plurality of photodiodes and a gate electrode layer of a MOS transistor, the stack film remains on each of the plurality of photodiodes to form a lower antireflection coating and the stack film remains on a sidewall of the gate electrode layer to form a sidewall Using the gate electrode layer and the sidewall as a mask, an impurity is introduced to form a source/drain region of the MOS transistor. After the impurity was introduced, an upper antireflection coating is formed at least on a lower antireflection coating At least any of the upper antireflection coating and the lower antireflection coating is etched such that the antireflection coatings on the two respective photodiodes are different in thickness from each other.
US09281327B2
There is provided an apparatus including an image sensor of a back-illuminated type using a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), including a light receiving unit, formed in a semiconductor substrate, which receives incident light, an anti-reflection film formed on a back-surface side of the semiconductor substrate in which the light receiving unit is formed, and a silicon oxide film, formed on a back-surface side of the anti-reflection film, which has a refractive index lower than a silicon nitride film and has a higher density in a back-surface side than in a front-surface side thereof.
US09281322B2
A thin film transistor array panel is disclosed. The thin film transistor array panel may include a gate line disposed on a substrate and including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor disposed on the substrate, a data wiring layer disposed on the substrate and including a data line crossing the gate line, a source electrode connected to the data line and a drain electrode facing the source electrode, a polymer layer covering the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a passivation layer disposed on the polymer layer. The data wiring layer may include copper or a copper alloy and the polymer layer may include fluorocarbon.
US09281318B2
A method to fabricate a three dimensional memory structure includes forming an array stack, creating a layer of sacrificial material above the array stack, etching a hole through the layer of sacrificial material and the array stack, creating a pillar of semiconductor material in the hole to form at least two vertically stacked flash memory cells that use the pillar as a common body, removing at least some of the layer of sacrificial material around the pillar to expose a portion of the pillar, and forming a field effect transistor (FET) using the portion of the pillar as the body of the FET.
US09281315B1
A memory structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The memory structure comprises a substrate, stacks, memory layers, a conductive material and conductive lines. The stacks are positioned on the substrate. The stacks are separated from each other by trenches. Each of the stacks comprises alternately stacked conductive stripes and insulating stripes. The memory layers conformally cover the stacks respectively. The conductive material is positioned in the trenches and on the stacks. The conductive material in the trenches forms one or more holes in each of the trenches. The conductive lines are positioned on the conductive material. Each of the conductive lines comprises a first portion and a second portion connected to each other, the first portion extends along a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the stacks, and the second portion extends along the extending direction of the stacks.
US09281314B1
Non-volatile storage devices and methods for fabricating non-volatile storage device are described. Sidewalls of the memory cells and their associated word line may be covered with silicon oxide. Silicon nitride covers the silicon oxide adjacent to the word lines, which may provide protection for the word lines during fabrication. However, silicon nitride can trap charges, which can degrade operation if the trapped charges are near a charge trapping region of a memory cell. Thus, the silicon nitride does not cover the silicon oxide adjacent to charge storage regions of the memory cells, which can improve device operation. For example, memory cell current may be increased. Techniques for forming such a device are also disclosed. One aspect includes a method that uses a sacrificial material to control formation of a silicon nitride layer when forming a memory device.
US09281311B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of metal layers of bit cells of a memory cell array disposed in a first metal layer and extending in a first direction, a plurality of word lines of the memory cell array disposed in a second metal layer and extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and at least two conductive traces disposed in a third metal layer substantially adjacent to each other and extending at least partially across the memory cell array, a first one of the at least two conductive traces coupled to a driving source node of a write assist circuit, and a second conductive trace of the at least two conductive traces coupled to an enable input of the write-assist circuit, where the at least two conductive traces form at least one embedded capacitor having a capacitive coupling to the bit line.
US09281308B2
A method (and semiconductor device) of fabricating a semiconductor device adjusts gate threshold (Vt) of a field effect transistor (FET) with raised source/drain (S/D) regions. A halo region is formed in a two-step process that includes implanting dopants using conventional implantation techniques and implanting dopants at a specific twist angle. The dopant concentration in the halo region near the active edge of the raised S/D regions is higher and extends deeper than the dopant concentration within the interior region of the raised S/D regions. As a result, Vt near the active edge region is adjusted and different from the Vt at the active center regions, thereby achieving same or similar Vt for a FET with different width.
US09281292B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a system in package (SiP) is described which includes a plurality of device components with different form factors embedded within a molding compound layer. A surface for each of the device components is coplanar with a surface of the molding compound layer, and a single redistribution layer (RDL) formed on the coplanar surfaces of the molding compound layer and the plurality of device components. An active device die is electrically bonded to the single RDL directly vertically adjacent the plurality of device components. In an embodiment, the SiP is electrically connected to a circuit board with the active device die between the single RDL and the circuit board. In an embodiment, the SiP is electrically connected to a circuit board with the active device die over the single RDL and the circuit board.
US09281291B2
To provide a technique capable of positioning of a semiconductor chip and a mounting substrate with high precision by improving visibility of an alignment mark. In a semiconductor chip constituting an LCD driver, a mark is formed in an alignment mark formation region over a semiconductor substrate. The mark is formed in the same layer as that of an uppermost layer wiring (third layer wiring) in an integrated circuit formation region. Then, in the lower layer of the mark and a background region surrounding the mark, patterns are formed. At this time, the pattern P1a is formed in the same layer as that of a second layer wiring and the pattern P1b is formed in the same layer as that of a first layer wiring. Further, the pattern P2 is formed in the same layer as that of a gate electrode, and the pattern P3 is formed in the same layer as that of an element isolation region.
US09281287B2
A system and method for bonding semiconductor devices is provided. An embodiment comprises halting the flow of a eutectic bonding material by providing additional material of one of the reactants in a grid pattern, such that, as the eutectic material flows into the additional material, the additional material will change the composition of the flowing eutectic material and solidify the material, thereby stopping the flow. Other embodiments provide for additional layouts to put the additional material into the path of the flowing eutectic material.
US09281280B2
A bonding pad for thermocompression bonding of a carrier material to a further carrier material includes a base layer and a top layer. The base layer is made of metal, is deformable, and is connected to the carrier material. The metal is nickel-based. The top layer is metallic and is connected directly to the base layer. The top layer is arranged at least on a side of the base layer which faces away from the carrier material. The top layer has a smaller layer thickness than the base layer. In at least one embodiment, the top layer has a greater oxidation resistance than the base layer.
US09281277B2
A wiring structure includes a first insulation layer, a plurality of wiring patterns, a protection layer pattern and a second insulation layer. The first insulation layer may be formed on a substrate. A plurality of wiring patterns may be formed on the first insulation layer, and each of the wiring patterns may include a metal layer pattern and a barrier layer pattern covering a sidewall and a bottom surface of the metal layer pattern. The protection layer pattern may cover a top surface of each of the wiring patterns and including a material having a high reactivity with respect to oxygen. The protection layer pattern may cover a top surface of each of the wiring patterns and including a material having a high reactivity with respect to oxygen.
US09281257B2
The semiconductor package according to an exemplary embodiment in the present disclosure includes: at least one electronic device; a lead frame including a plurality of leads electrically connected to the electronic device; a lead connecting member coupled to at least one of the leads; and a molded portion sealing the electronic device and the lead connecting member.
US09281253B2
A method of controlling polishing includes polishing a substrate at a first polishing station, monitoring the substrate with a first eddy current monitoring system to generate a first signal, determining an ending value of the first signal for an end of polishing of the substrate at the first polishing station, determining a first temperature at the first polishing station, polishing the substrate at a second polishing station, monitoring the substrate with a second eddy current monitoring system to generate a second signal, determining a starting value of the second signal for a start of polishing of the substrate at the second polishing station, determining a gain for the second polishing station based on the ending value, the starting value and the first temperature, and calculating a third signal based on the second signal and the gain.
US09281225B2
A substrate processing apparatus including a transfer unit for transferring, under reduced pressure, a laminate including a wafer and a support plate which are bonded to each other and supported by use of support pins that supports an inner periphery of a first surface of the wafer, the first surface being opposite to a second surface of the wafer onto which a second surface the support plate is bonded.
US09281222B2
A wafer handling system may include upper and lower linked robot arms that may move a wafer along a nonlinear trajectory between chambers of a semiconductor processing system. These features may result in a smaller footprint in which the semiconductor processing system may operate, smaller transfer chambers, smaller openings in process chambers, and smaller slit valves, while maintaining high wafer throughput. In some embodiments, simultaneous fast wafer swaps between two separate chambers, such as load locks and ALD (atomic layer deposition) carousels, may be provided. Methods of wafer handling are also provided, as are other aspects.
US09281218B2
A method of manufacturing a lead frame includes providing an electrically conductive layer having a plurality of holes at a top surface. The plurality of holes form a structure of leads and a die pad on the electrically conductive layer. The plurality of holes are filled with a non-conductive material. Next; an electrically conductive foil is attached on the top surface of the electrically conductive layer and the non-conductive epoxy material. Then, the electrically conductive foil is etched to create a network of leads, die pad, bus lines, dam bars and tie lines, wherein the bus lines connect the leads to the dam bar, the dam bar is connected to the tie line and the tie line is connected to the die pad.
US09281217B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device includes forming a first attached layer on a substrate, forming a stack layer on the first attached layer, separating the stack layer and the first attached layer from each other, forming vertical holes by performing a first etch process on the stack layer in a direction from bottom to top, removing the first attached layer, attaching the stack layer in which the vertical holes are formed to the substrate, and performing a second etch process so that each of the vertical holes has a uniform width.
US09281213B2
A process of forming an integrated circuit forms a high precision capacitor bottom plate with a metallic surface and performs a plasma treatment of the metallic surface. A high precision capacitor dielectric is formed by depositing a first layer of the capacitor dielectric on the high precision capacitor bottom plate wherein the first layer is silicon nitride, depositing a second layer of the capacitor dielectric on the first layer wherein the second portion is silicon dioxide, and depositing a third layer of the capacitor dielectric on the second portion wherein the third layer is silicon nitride. Plasma treatments may also be performed on the layers of capacitor dielectric pre- and/or post-deposition. A metallic high precision capacitor top plate is formed on the high precision capacitor dielectric.
US09281209B1
A method for fabricating semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a material layer on the substrate; forming a patterned first hard mask on the material layer; forming a patterned second hard mask on the material; utilizing the patterned first hard mask and the patterned second hard mask to remove part of the material layer for forming sacrificial mandrels; forming sidewall spacers adjacent to the sacrificial mandrels; removing the sacrificial mandrels; and using the sidewall spacers to remove part of the substrate.
US09281208B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure can include forming a photolithography mask on a silicon fin having a hard mask layer thereon extending in a first direction. A trench can be formed through the hard mask layer into the silicon fin using the photolithography mask, where the trench extends in a second direction to separate the silicon fin into first and second fin structures extending end-to-end in the first direction. A portion of the trench formed by the hard mask layer can be widened relative to a lower portion of the trench defined by the first and second fin structures.
US09281207B2
Solution processible hardmasks are described that can be formed from aqueous precursor solutions comprising polyoxometal clusters and anions, such as polyatomic anions. The solution processible metal oxide layers are generally placed under relatively thin etch resist layers to provide desired etch contrast with underlying substrates and/or antireflective properties. In some embodiments, the metal oxide hardmasks can be used along with an additional hardmask and/or antireflective layers. The metal oxide hardmasks can be etched with wet or dry etching. Desirable processing improvements can be obtained with the solution processible hardmasks.
US09281202B2
A nonvolatile memory cell and a method for fabricating the same can secure stable operational reliability as well as reducing a cell size. The nonvolatile memory cell includes a drain region formed in a substrate, a source region formed in the substrate to be separated from the drain region, a floating gate formed over the substrate between the drain region and the source region, a halo region formed in the substrate in a direction that the drain region is formed, a dielectric layer formed on sidewalls of the floating gate, and a control gate formed over the dielectric layer to overlap with at least one sidewall of the floating gate.
US09281201B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a metal gate is provided. A substrate having a first conductive type transistor and a second conductive type transistor formed thereon is provided. The first conductive type transistor has a first trench and the second conductive type transistor has a second trench. A first work function layer is formed in the first trench. A hardening process is performed for the first work function layer. A softening process is performed for a portion of the first work function layer. A pull back step is performed to remove the portion of the first work function layer. A second work function layer is formed in the second trench. A low resistive metal layer is formed in the first trench and the second trench.
US09281198B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer on a substrate; forming a set of bias lines on the first dielectric layer; covering the set of bias lines with a second dielectric layer; forming a semiconductor layer on the second dielectric layer; and forming a set of devices on the semiconductor layer above the set of bias lines.
US09281195B2
A semiconductor structure has a MOSFET and a substrate to accommodate the MOSFET. The MOSFET has a gate, a source, and a drain in the substrate. A first substrate region surrounding the MOSFET is doped with a stress enhancer, wherein the stress enhancer is configured to generate a tensile stress in the MOSFET's channel and the tensile stress is along the channel's widthwise direction.
US09281189B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a thin film, the method including: growing an epitaxial layer on a surface of a wafer at a growth temperature, wherein the growing of the epitaxial layer comprises controlling a defect present on a surface of the wafer. Also, disclosed is a wafer including: a substrate; and an epitaxial layer located on the substrate, wherein a basal dislocation density of the epitaxial layer is equal to or less than 1/cm2.
US09281188B2
A method for fabricating a wafer according to the embodiment comprises the steps of depositing an epi layer in an epi deposition part; transferring the wafer to an annealing part connected to the epi deposition part; annealing the wafer in the annealing part; transferring the wafer to a cooling part connected to the annealing part; and cooling the wafer in the cooling part, wherein the depositing of the wafer, the annealing of the wafer and the cooling of the wafer are continuously performed. An apparatus for fabricating a wafer according to the embodiment comprises an epi deposition part; an annealing part connected to the epi deposition part; and a cooling part connected to the annealing part.
US09281187B2
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a nitride semiconductor device that grows a multilayer film of a III-V group nitride semiconductor in a reaction furnace into which a III group element raw material gas and a V group element raw material gas are introduced, the method including: growing a first nitride semiconductor layer at a first raw material gas flow rate of the V group element raw material gas and a first carrier gas flow rate; and growing a second nitride semiconductor layer at a second raw material gas flow rate of the V group element raw material gas lower than the first raw material gas flow rate and a second carrier gas flow rate higher than the first carrier gas flow rate, wherein the first nitride semiconductor layer and the second nitride semiconductor layer are stacked.
US09281176B2
Provided is a microwave plasma discharge lamp apparatus which includes a rectangular waveguide having a rectangular shape one end of which is closed and the other end is open and receiving a microwave through an opening to put out linearly polarized microwaves; a discharge lamp; a resonator cavity, formed in a cylindrical shape, one end of which is open, which is disposed to surround the discharge lamp, and which is made of a conductive mesh, thereby allowing the passage of the light from the discharge lamp; and a phase shifter, which has a cross-shaped waveguide opened in a propagation direction of the linearly polarized microwaves, is disposed between the other end of the rectangular waveguide and one end of the resonator cavity, and receives the linearly polarized microwaves from the rectangular waveguide to generate elliptically polarized microwaves in the cylindrical resonator cavity. The elliptically polarized microwaves discharge the discharge lamp.
US09281169B2
Provided is a mass spectrometer capable of easy exchange of a measurement sample and suppressing a carryover. The mass spectrometer includes a mass spectrometry section, an ion source the internal pressure of which is reduced by a differential pumping from the mass spectrometry section and the ion source ionizes the sample gas, a sample container in which the sample gas is generated by vaporizing the measurement sample, a thin pipe that introduces the sample gas generated in the sample container into the ion source, an elastic tube of openable and closable that connects the sample container and the thin pipe, a pair of weirs that closes or opens the elastic tube so as to sandwich the elastic tube, and a cartridge that integrates the sample container, the thin pipe, and the elastic tube, and is detachable in a lump from a main body of the mass spectrometer.
US09281157B2
A radiation generating apparatus includes a cathode array including a plurality of electron emitting portions, and an anode array including a plurality of targets and a chained connection unit that connects the targets. The chained connection unit includes a plurality of shielding members and a thermal transfer member, the shielding members being arranged at locations corresponding to the locations of the respective targets, and the thermal transfer member having a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of the shielding members. The thermal transfer member has a portion that is continuous in a direction in which the targets are arranged.
US09281138B2
A movable contact assembly for use with a transfer switch, the moveable contact assembly comprising a center portion, a first conductor portion extending from the center portion, the first conductor portion comprising a first arm comprising two longitudinal extending fingers; and a second conductor portion extending from the center portion, the second conductor portion comprising a second arm comprising two longitudinally extending fingers. The moveable contact assembly may be pivoted about the center portion from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the two longitudinally extending fingers of the first conductor portion resides in a conductive state with a blade connector of a first stationary contact assembly and in the second position, the two longitudinally extending fingers of the second conductor portion resides in a conductive state with a blade connector of a second stationary contact assembly.
US09281135B2
A nitrogen-containing carbon porous material, which has a nitrogen content of 0.5 to 30 mass %, and which has a specific surface area of 200 to 3,000 m2/g.
US09281134B2
A power storage device which can have an improved performance such as higher discharge capacity and in which deterioration due to peeling of an active material layer or the like is difficult to occur, and a method for manufacturing the power storage device are provided. The power storage device includes a current collector, a mixed layer formed over the current collector, and a crystalline silicon layer which is formed over the mixed layer and functions as an active material layer. The crystalline silicon layer includes a crystalline silicon region and a whisker-like crystalline silicon region including a plurality of protrusions projecting over the crystalline silicon region. The whisker-like crystalline silicon region includes a protrusion having a bending or branching portion.
US09281130B2
The invention provides an electrolytic solution for an aluminum electrolyte capacitor with which there is little deterioration of the electrolytic solution properties, the sparking voltage is high, and shorting does not occur, even when the voltage used is high. The invention also provides an electrolyte (C) formed from anions of at least one phosphoric acid alkyl ester (A) and amidinium cations (B), at least one boric acid compound (F) selected from the group consisting of boric acid and boric acid esters, a C2-15 carboxylic acid (D) formed from carbon atoms, oxygen atoms, and hydrogen atoms only, and an organic solvent (E).
US09281128B2
A switchable capacitor having: a dielectric; a pair of electrodes, a first one of the electrodes having the dielectric thereon and a second, flexible one of the electrodes being suspended over the dielectric when the switchable capacitor is in an de-activated state; and top plate disposed between the dielectric and the second, flexible electrode and connected to a reference potential. When the switchable capacitor is electrostatically driven to an activated state, the second one of the electrodes contacts the top plate and when the switchable capacitor is returned to the de-activated state, charge on the top plate is discharged to the reference potential.
US09281126B2
There is provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor including a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and having first and second main surfaces, first and second side surfaces, and first and second end surfaces, a capacitor part formed in the ceramic body and including a first internal electrode exposed to the first and second end surfaces and a second internal electrode having a lead-out portion exposed to the first main surface, an internal connection conductor formed in the ceramic body and exposed to the first and second main surfaces, and first to fourth external electrodes formed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes and the internal connection conductor, wherein the internal connection conductor is connected to the capacitor part in series.
US09281122B2
An electrode structure of a laminated metallization film capacitor includes at least two laminated metallization films. Each metallization film is further disposed with a plurality of metal-uncoated curved gap strips with a certain width on the plane of section of the laminated metallization film capacitor core to separate two adjacent metal coating units partially or totally. A center of the curved gas strip is concaved with a notch. Both sides of the notch form like misaligned shoulders. A projection forms opposite to the open of the notch; in two adjacent curve gap strips. An extreme point of the projection of one curve gap strip is disposed inside the notch of the other one in any event.
US09281108B2
A clamp assembly comprises a first clamp including a plurality of magnet devices. Each magnet device includes a permanent magnet and a coil surrounding the permanent magnet. The clamp assembly further comprises a controller for pulsing the coils to selectively magnetize and demagnetize the permanent magnets.
US09281106B2
A material for anisotropic magnet, comprising, (1) a Pr-T-B—Ga-based composition containing Pr: 12.5 to 15.0 atomic percent, B: 4.5 to 6.5 atomic percent, Ga: 0.1 to 0.7 atomic percent, and the balance of T and inevitable impurities, wherein T is Fe or obtained by substituting Co for a portion of the Fe; and having, (2) a degree of magnetic alignment of 0.92 or more, wherein the degree of magnetic alignment is defined by remanence (Br)/saturation magnetization (Js); and (3) a crystal grain diameter of 1 μm or less.
US09281101B2
An electric wire with a terminal may include an insulated electric wire that may include an insulating coating of polyolefin based resin, an adhesive layer that may be formed over an entire circumference of a surface of the insulating coating, and a waterproofing resin portion that may be formed by insert molding. The waterproofing resin portion may cover a region between the adhesive layer of the insulated electric wire and a portion where the metal terminal is connected to a core wire. The adhesive layer may include a composition of a copolymer of ethylene and glycidyl methacrylate and a phenol based curing agent. The waterproofing resin portion may include aromatic nylon.
US09281095B2
For the purpose of producing an alumina composite in which the integrity between alumina and an inorganic material is further improved, a dispersion liquid preparation step, a solidification step and a burning step are performed, wherein the dispersion liquid preparation step comprises preparing a dispersion liquid in which an inorganic material such as a carbon material is homogeneously dispersed in an alumina raw material solution having an organic additive dissolved therein, the solidification step comprises drying the dispersion liquid to produce a solid raw material, and burning step comprises burning the solid raw material in a non-acidic atmosphere while contacting hydrogen chloride with the solid raw material. In this manner, an alumina composite can be produced, in which at least a portion of an inorganic material such as a carbon material is embedded in the inside of each of α-alumina single crystal particles the constitute alumina particles.
US09281089B2
A method and apparatus for using a parent radionuclide. The apparatus includes a radiation impervious case, a vial disposed within the case, a stopper with a central bore, the central bore aligned at an oblique angle with respect to the case so that a straight line through the central bore does not pass through any part of the vial and a curved tube that connects the central bore of the stopper and a cap of the vial.
US09281087B2
A mobile boration system (60) has a number of components that are mobile and include a water source (10), H2BO3 powder supply (14), a mixer to mix the solution (20) capable of providing a boric acid solution (30) with minimal air entrainment and optional heat exchanger(s) (12), and wherein the system (60) is capable of transport to a nuclear power plant facility by land, sea or air, rather than being in place in a large vulnerable footprint.
US09281084B2
A motor stand of a primary motor-driven pump unit of a pressurized water nuclear reactor comprises an upper flange and fixing means suited to ensure the fixing of transverse holding means of the said primary motor-driven pump unit, the said primary motor-driven pump unit comprising an electric motor having a lower flange suited to be integrated with the said upper flange of the said motor stand. The motor stand is characterized in that the said fixing means comprise an annular element resting on the said upper flange of the said motor stand suited to be flanged between the said upper flange of the said motor stand and the said lower flange of the said motor, the said fixing means comprising at least one radial excrescence in which there is arranged a space suited to receive the said holding means.
US09281083B2
A traveling wave nuclear fission reactor, fuel assembly, and a method of controlling burnup therein. In a traveling wave nuclear fission reactor, a nuclear fission reactor fuel assembly comprises a plurality of nuclear fission fuel rods that are exposed to a deflagration wave burnfront that, in turn, travels through the fuel rods. The excess reactivity is controlled by a plurality of movable neutron absorber structures that are selectively inserted into and withdrawn from the fuel assembly in order to control the excess reactivity and thus the location, speed and shape of the burnfront. Controlling location, speed and shape of the burnfront manages neutron fluence seen by fuel assembly structural materials in order to reduce risk of temperature and irradiation damage to the structural materials.
US09281081B1
A semiconductor apparatus includes first and second address buffer groups. The first address buffer group receives first address signals from an external source and outputs the first address signals to a first internal circuit, in first and second operation modes. The second address buffer group receives second address signals from the external source and outputs the second address signals to the first internal circuit, in the first operation mode, and receives third address signals which are generated in a second internal circuit and outputs the third address signals to the first internal circuit, in the second operation mode.
US09281080B2
A system for testing a device under test (DUT) includes a test controller unit that includes a first memory operable to store a data pattern; a bridge circuit that includes a second memory that is smaller than the first memory, and a functional unit that includes a third memory that is smaller than the second memory. Portions of the data pattern are selectively transferred from the first memory to the second memory during and for DUT testing operations. The functional circuit interfaces with the DUT for testing. Portions of the data pattern are selectively transferred from the second memory to the third memory for application to the DUT.
US09281077B2
A shift register includes series-connection circuits to transmit a shift pulse. The series-connection circuits include a continuous stage group with continuous stages. Each stage of the continuous stage group includes a first output transistor, a first capacitor, an input gate, a first switching element, a second switching element, a third switching element, and a fourth switching element.
US09281076B2
A semiconductor device has an antifuse element and a measurement unit. The antifuse element stores information according to whether the antifuse element is in the broken or unbroken state. The measurement unit determines a resistance value related to the resistance value of the broken antifuse element.
US09281070B2
An erase method of a nonvolatile memory includes supplying an erase voltage to a substrate, supplying a selection word line voltage to word lines connected with a selected sub-block within a memory block of the nonvolatile memory, supplying a non-selection word line voltage to word lines connected with an unselected sub-block within the memory block during a first delay time from a point of time when the erase voltage is supplied, and thereafter floating the word lines connected with the unselected sub-block.
US09281069B2
In method of programming a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of multi-level cells that store multi-bit data according to example embodiments, a least significant bit (LSB) program operation is performed to program LSBs of the multi-bit data in the plurality of multi-level cells. A most significant bit (MSB) program operation is performed to program MSBs of the multi-bit data in the plurality of multi-level cells. To perform the MSB program, an MSB pre-program operation is performed on first multi-level cells, from among the plurality of multi-level cells, that are to be programmed to a highest target program state among a plurality of target program states, and an MSB main program operation is performed to program the plurality of multi-level cells to the plurality of target program states corresponding to the multi-bit data.
US09281068B2
A method of reprogramming a nonvolatile memory device, comprising setting up bit lines of selected memory cells according to logic values of first and second latches of a page buffer connected to the bit lines, supplying a program pulse to the selected memory cells, performing a program verify operation on the selected memory cells using the first and second latches, and performing a predictive program operation on the selected memory cells according to a result of the program verify operation. In the predictive program operation, bit lines of the selected memory cells are setup according to a logic value of a third latch of the page buffer that corresponds to each of the selected memory cells.
US09281067B1
A semiconductor test system includes a nonvolatile memory and a test device. The nonvolatile memory is configured to include an information region. The test device is configured to include a pin memory and a pin memory controller. The pin memory controller is configured to separate information data into a plurality of information data groups, sequentially transmit the separated plurality of information data groups to the pin memory, sequentially transmit the transmitted plurality of information data group in the pin memory to the nonvolatile memory, and program the transmitted plurality of information data group in the nonvolatile memory into the information region.
US09281052B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device that includes: a frequency dividing circuit dividing a frequency of a first clock signal to generate second clock signals that are different in phase from one another; a multiplier circuit multiplying the second clock signals to generate a third clock signal; a data input/output terminal; data buses; and a data input/output circuit coupled between the data input/output terminal and the data buses. The data input/output circuit includes a data output circuit and a data input circuit. The data output circuit outputs read data supplied in parallel from the data buses to the data input/output terminal in serial in synchronism with the third clock signal. The data input circuit outputs write data supplied in serial from the data input/output terminal to the data buses in parallel in synchronism with a predetermined one of the second clock signals.
US09281051B2
A semiconductor package may include a first die and a second die disposed adjacent to the first die. The semiconductor package may include a plurality of pads configured for receiving and outputting data mask addresses. The semiconductor package may include mapping blocks configured to map data mask signals among the first die, the second die, and the plurality of pads in response to a received address.
US09281049B1
Systems, devices, and circuits for source-synchronous memory interfaces are disclosed. For example, a device includes a first NAND gate with an input for receiving a serial mode enable signal. In addition, the device also includes a second NAND gate with an input for receiving a forwarded strobe signal and an input for receiving an output of the first NAND gate. The device also includes a third NAND gate with an input for receiving a data strobe signal, and an XNOR gate with an input for receiving an output of the second NAND gate and an input for receiving an output of the third NAND gate.
US09281048B2
A semiconductor memory device that includes a command decoder, a refresh controller, an oscillator and a delay unit. The command decoder generates a self refresh command, and the oscillator generates an oscillation signal. The refresh controller generates a refresh control signal and a recovery signal in response to the self refresh command and the oscillation signal. The delay unit transitions internal nodes included in the delay unit that are not transitioned during a refresh period in response to the refresh control signal and the recovery signal.
US09281046B2
A data processor includes a memory accessing agent and a memory controller. The memory accessing agent generates a plurality of accesses to a memory. The memory controller is coupled to the memory accessing agent and schedules the plurality of memory accesses in an order based on characteristics of the memory. The characteristics of the memory include a row cycle page time (tRCPAGE) indicative of an acceptable number of activate commands to a row in the memory within a predetermined time window.
US09281045B1
A first data access request to a first row of a first memory array of the DRAM is received while a refresh operation in the first memory array is executing. The refresh operation is paused. The first data access request is executed, and simultaneously, the bits of the first row of the first memory array, including any updates indicated in the first data access request, are latched to a transfer register. The bits latched to the transfer register are written to a corresponding first row in a second memory array of the DRAM. A bank select logic is updated to indicate that subsequent data access requests to the first row in the first memory array will be executed from the second memory array. The refresh operation is then resumed.
US09281039B2
An apparatus includes a group of data cells and a reference cell coupled to the group of data cells. The reference cell includes four magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cells.
US09281022B2
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set.
US09281016B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a memory cell array configured having a plurality of memory units, each of the memory units including a plurality of memory cells connected in series, the plurality of memory cells being stacked, the plurality of memory units involving a first memory unit and a second memory unit; and a plurality of bit lines connected to ends of each of the memory units in the memory cell array. The first memory unit and the second memory unit are arranged in a staggered manner by the first memory unit being displaced in a row direction with respect to the second memory unit by an amount less than an arrangement pitch in a row direction of the first memory unit or the second memory unit.
US09281014B2
An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an interface configured to obtain management information that has been generated along with movie data generated; and a controller configured to generate, as a representative picture representing the movie data, image information including characters or an icon to be determined by reference to the management information. When selected by a user, the representative picture is presented on a display device in order to start playing back movie data represented by the representative picture.
US09281013B2
A method provide a selection option to the at least one portable device, the selection option relating to selection of the first audio content and retrieving a selection from the at least one portable device based on the selection option. The method further retrieves a selection of the second audio content and synchronizing the first audio content, the second audio content, and the video content by embedding a synchronizing signal in the first audio content, the second audio content, and the video content. The method further outputs the second audio content and the video content to an output device according to the synchronizing signal. Responsive to the selection of the first audio content, the first audio content with the embedded synchronizing signal is transmitted to the least one portable device, wherein the at least one portable device outputs the first audio content according to the synchronizing signal.
US09280995B2
Described embodiments provide a magnetic mass storage device with a system clock phase-locked to servo address marks on the magnetic disk. A head sequentially reads multiple adjacent servo address marks in a spiral track of servo address marks. When a servo address mark detector detects a mark, the count value of a counter driven by the system clock is sampled and held by a latch. A system clock synthesizer calculates differences in value between successively sampled count values from the latch, averages the differences in value to create an average difference value, and normalizes a difference between the average difference value and a target value to create a phase error value. The phase of the system clock is updated using the phase error value.
US09280989B2
An apparatus having at least an air bearing surface (ABS), the apparatus including a near field transducer (NFT) positioned adjacent the ABS of the apparatus, wherein the NFT includes a plasmonic material; and not greater than about 200 ppm of one or more microalloy dopants.
US09280986B2
Provided is an acoustic signal processing device for producing an output sound meeting listener's preferences by adjusting attack sound, reverberation, and noise component. The device includes: an FFT section for transforming an input audio signal from a time-domain to a frequency-domain to calculate a frequency spectrum signal and for generating a first amplitude spectrum signal and a phase spectrum signal; an attack component controller (10) for controlling an attack component of the first amplitude spectrum signal to generate a second amplitude spectrum signal; a reverberation component controller (20) for controlling a reverberation component of the first amplitude spectrum signal to generate a third amplitude spectrum signal; a first adding section (40) for synthesizing the first amplitude spectrum signal, the second amplitude spectrum signal, and the third amplitude spectrum signal to generate a fourth amplitude spectrum signal; and an IFFT section for generating an audio signal transformed from a frequency domain to a time domain based on the fourth amplitude spectrum signal and the phase spectrum signal generated by the FFT section.
US09280985B2
A noise suppression apparatus selectively uses an adaptive beamformer and fixed beamformer for each frequency. A direction of a null of the fixed beamformer is determined from a direction of a null automatically formed by the adaptive beamformer. Filter coefficients of the adaptive beamformer based on an output power minimization rule are calculated by a minimum norm method using a norm of the filter coefficients as a constraint. The above selection is made based on, for example, a depth of a null automatically formed by the adaptive beamformer in the selection.
US09280982B1
A method for estimating acoustic noise in an environment where a mobile communication device is operating and where the acoustic noise includes nonstationary noise or speech-like noises, and wherein the environment also includes speech signals. The method includes searching for a local minimum energy over a plurality of frames using at least two reference signals including a first signal comprised of a time-sensitive current local minimum energy estimate, emin, and a second signal comprised of a time-weighted average of previous detected local energy minima, eminmean; and deciding whether the detected local energy minima of the second reference signal is a noise signal. Also, binning the detected input signal energy minima values within a plurality of histograms; and calculating a composite noise energy estimate comprised of a weighted sum of a maximum probability noise energy estimate and an expected value noise energy estimate. As such a nonstationary noise estimator is formed.
US09280973B1
In a content browsing environment, a system analyzes content to identify audio commands to be made available to users. The audio commands may be chosen so that they are easily differentiable from each other when using machine-based speech recognition techniques. When the content is displayed, the system monitors a user's speech to detect user utterances corresponding to the audio commands and performs content navigation in response to the user utterances.
US09280970B1
A language processing system uses a lattice parser that semantically parses a command input represented by a lattice. The parser receives a hypotheses space of outputs as encoded in a lattice. Annotations of the input are projected back into the lattice and then lattice parsing is performed to rectify with the annotations. Parsing rules are applied to path fragments in the lattice. The rules that successfully parse from the start node to the end node of the lattice are used to determine whether the command input sentence invokes a specific action, and if so, what arguments are to be passed to the invocation of the action.
US09280969B2
Techniques and systems for training an acoustic model are described. In an embodiment, a technique for training an acoustic model includes dividing a corpus of training data that includes transcription errors into N parts, and on each part, decoding an utterance with an incremental acoustic model and an incremental language model to produce a decoded transcription. The technique may further include inserting silence between a pair of words into the decoded transcription and aligning an original transcription corresponding to the utterance with the decoded transcription according to time for each part. The technique may further include selecting a segment from the utterance having at least Q contiguous matching aligned words, and training the incremental acoustic model with the selected segment. The trained incremental acoustic model may then be used on a subsequent part of the training data. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09280968B2
A system and method for processing speech includes receiving a first information stream associated with speech, the first information stream comprising micro-modulation features and receiving a second information stream associated with the speech, the second information stream comprising features. The method includes combining, via a non-linear multilayer perceptron, the first information stream and the second information stream to yield a third information stream. The system performs automatic speech recognition on the third information stream. The third information stream can also be used for training HMMs.
US09280963B1
A pad for generating rhythmic sound waves according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: at least two first patterns configured to generate a first sound wave in response to friction; and at least two second patterns configured to generate a second sound wave in response to the friction, wherein each of the first patterns is spaced and positioned in a constant distance, the at least two second patterns are positioned between the spaced first patterns, and for each of specific directions between the spaced first patterns, the first patterns and the second patterns are spaced and positioned in a different distance.
US09280960B1
A device is configured to display images of sheet music or electronic sheet music. The device may generate and display an index including markers, locations of markers and series of notes associated with the markers. The device may link directly to a particular image of the sheet music or a particular location in the electronic sheet music using the index. The device may identify musical symbols displayed in the sheet music and generate electronic musical symbols associated with the musical symbols. The device may modify the electronic musical symbols and display the modified electronic musical symbols superimposed over the images of sheet music. The device may generate and output audio using the electronic musical symbols. The device may detect a series of pitches and display the sheet music or electronic sheet music based on a most recent pitch in the series of pitches.
US09280959B2
The present invention is directed to an apparatus providing a removable playing surface to a percussion instrument. The apparatus includes a mount assembly for fixing the apparatus to the percussion instrument and a paddle providing a playing surface. The paddle can movable between a playing position over the head of the percussion instrument and in a non-playing position away from the head of the percussion instrument.
US09280957B1
A practice system for a stringed instrument is disclosed. The practice system includes a rigid body having proximal end unto which one or more tuning pegs are disposed for attaching a first end of a cord, and a distal end until which a first rigid plate is disposed having one or more apertures therein configured for attaching a second end of said cord. The practice system further includes a second rigid plate fixedly attached to said proximal end having a first slot therein, and a second slot substantially matching said first slot disposed in said first rigid plate, wherein said first and said second slots cooperate to allow said practice system to be worn on a person by passing a fastening device therethrough.
US09280956B2
Systems and methods are described including creating a mask that indicates which pixel groups do not need to be loaded from Graphics Memory (GMEM). The mask indicates a pixel group does not need to be loaded from GMEM. The systems and methods may further include rendering a tile on a screen. This may include loading the GMEM based on the indication from the mask and skipping a load from the GMEM based on the indication from the mask.
US09280949B2
Displaying colors in a color selection interface is disclosed. Displaying includes identifying a first plurality of colors associated with a color selection interface, mapping each color in the first plurality of colors to an allowed color in an allowed color set of one or more colors to obtain a second plurality of colors, wherein mapping is performed based at least in part on a color lookup table, and visually displaying the second plurality of colors in the color selection interface, wherein the color selection interface is configured to receive a color selection from the second plurality of colors.
US09280942B2
An electro-optical device is configured to be capable of using a region of a gate line drive circuit efficiently and preventing rising speed of a gate line selection signal from decreasing (rising delay), and a shift register circuit is composed of a single conductivity type transistor which is suitable for the device. The gate line drive circuit including an odd driver to drive odd rows of a plurality of gate lines, and an even driver to drive even rows thereof. Each unit shift register in the odd and even drivers receives a selection signal in the second previous row and activates its own selection signal two horizontal periods later. A start pulse of the even driver is delayed in phase by one horizontal period with respect to a start pulse of the odd driver.
US09280938B2
In embodiments of mixed sequential color display, a light source sequentially generates different colors of light in a timed sequence. A display panel is implemented with multiple sub-pixel combinations, where each pixel of the display panel is a combination of sub-pixels that emit a color based on a color of the light that illuminates a sub-pixel combination. The emitted color from a sub-pixel combination is generated as a product of the color of the light and a combination of sub-pixel colors (to include clear and/or colored sub-pixels). The clear and/or different colored sub-pixels in a sub-pixel combination are a spatial aspect of the emitted color, and the sequentially generated different colors of light are a temporal aspect of the emitted color. The pixel combination and the light source together enhance the luminescence of the emitted color over the chrominescence of the emitted color.
US09280932B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method for driving the same, which can display an image with more uniform luminance is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; a data driver supplying second data signals corresponding to a second data obtained by converting a first data, in response to first data signals corresponding to the first data or a data control signal; and a compensator converting output currents output from the pixels, corresponding to the first data signals into a output voltages, and supplying, to the data driver, the data control signal for converting the first data into the second data, corresponding to the output voltages and the first data based on the output voltages and the first data.
US09280926B2
A control board in a display device includes terminals and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to output a control signal an image signal through the terminals and to generate a drive voltage in response to a feedback signal, which is fed back to a second terminal of the terminals when a source voltage is applied to a first terminal of the terminals.
US09280924B2
A display device that adopts a field sequential method and that is capable of achieving desired luminance while suppressing mixing of colors is provided. With respect to display of each color by a liquid crystal display device adopting a field sequential method, a period is provided for which light sources of each color remain turned on until a turning-off delay time has elapsed since an end timing of a subframe period. The turning-off delay time relating to LEDs for which an off state begins in a preceding subframe period is configured in such a way as to be shorter than a turning-on delay time relating to LEDs for which an on state begins in a succeeding subframe period. As a result, an all-off period, in which LEDs of all colors are in the off state, is provided between on periods of two colors.
US09280914B2
The present invention discloses a vision-aided hearing assisting device, which includes a display device, a microphone and a processing unit. The processing unit includes a receiving module, a message generating module and a display driving module. The processing unit is electrically connected to the display device and the microphone. The receiving module receives a surrounding sound signal, which is generated by the microphone. The message generating module analyzes the surrounding sound signal according to a present-scenario mode to generate a related message related with the surrounding sound signal. The display driving module drives the display device to display the related message.
US09280904B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media are disclosed for direct arming aircraft runway approach guidance modes, for example and without limitation, for aircraft operational. In some aspects, a method for directly arming a runway approach guidance mode of an aircraft includes displaying on a display unit an airport, selecting the airport and selecting an active runway for final approach, displaying an path toward the selected final approach runway, selecting the final approach runway, displaying on the display unit at least one symbol associated with at least one runway approach guidance mode, and arming at least one of the at least one runway approach guidance mode.
US09280896B2
A law enforcement fleet multiplier device including a law enforcement vehicle silhouette may include a plurality of sections connected to one another and connectors to connect each of the plurality of sections to a surface. The device may also include a control module carried by one of the plurality of sections and a light array carried by an upper portion of at least one of the plurality of sections and in communication with the control module. The device may further include a power supply carried by one of the plurality of sections and in communication with the control module and a sensor carried by one of the plurality of sections and in communication with the control module. The light array and the sensor may be remotely operable based on a sensed condition, and/or responsive to user defined conditions.
US09280892B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for disrupting bone conduction signals. According to one aspect, a device can receive a signal via a communication path that is external to a body of a user associated with the device. The device can generate a disruption signal to disrupt the signal. The device can send the disruption signal through the body of the user to disrupt the signal.
US09280874B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a game employing a player-selected one of a plurality of different features. In one embodiment, the gaming system is configured to operate a game associated with a set of a plurality of different features, and enables a player to select one of the features for a play of the game. In certain instances, the gaming system provides the play of the game in accordance with the selected feature. In other instances, the gaming system provides the play of the game without the selected feature, and uses the selected feature to modify one of the other, non-selected features that has a designated relationship with the selected feature. The gaming system subsequently enables the player to select the modified feature for a subsequent play of the game.
US09280871B2
Techniques for providing authentication functionality in a gaming system are disclosed. In one aspect, a gaming system is configured such that, at a given point during a current session of a game in progress that involves at least one user previously granted access by the system to participate in the current session, information available from an authentication token associated with the user is obtained prior to allowing the user to take a particular action in the game. A determination is made as to whether or not the user will be allowed to take the particular action in the game, based on the obtained information. The obtained information may comprise, for example, at least a portion of a one-time password generated by a hardware or software authentication token.
US09280865B2
Systems and methods for identifying defects in a roulette wheel are described. A first trajectory of a roulette ball may be determined after launch of the roulette ball by capturing movement of the roulette ball on the roulette wheel. The roulette wheel has a region where the roulette ball orbits and spins around before the roulette ball falls into a roulette number pocket. The determining step may be repeated to determine additional trajectories, and a plurality of areas that the roulette ball avoided during travel along the trajectories may be identified. A graphical representation of the plurality of avoided areas may be generated to identify regions of the roulette wheel that include defects.
US09280857B2
A dynamic uploading protocol comprises an input interface configured to receive a manifest comprising a plurality of events which may be uploaded; wherein the manifest additionally comprises sensor information relating to each of the plurality of events. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises a processor configured to determine whether to upload additional information about each event, wherein determining whether to upload additional information about each event is based at least in part on the sensor information and contextual information. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises an output interface configured to request the additional information. The system for a dynamic uploading protocol additionally comprises a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US09280850B2
A system, method, and computer program product for automatically combining computer-generated imagery with real-world imagery in a portable electronic device by retrieving, manipulating, and sharing relevant stored videos, preferably in real time. A video is captured with a hand-held device and stored. Metadata including the camera's physical location and orientation is appended to a data stream, along with user input. The server analyzes the data stream and further annotates the metadata, producing a searchable library of videos and metadata. Later, when a camera user generates a new data stream, the linked server analyzes it, identifies relevant material from the library, retrieves the material and tagged information, adjusts it for proper orientation, then renders and superimposes it onto the current camera view so the user views an augmented reality.
US09280847B2
There is provided an image retrieval method including obtaining a parallax that exists in a material image which is viewed as an object in a three-dimensional manner, retrieving a three-dimensional image that satisfies a predetermined condition as a selectable candidate image from a plurality of three-dimensional images, each of which is viewed in a three-dimensional manner, and executing image composition by superposing the material image on the three-dimensional image that is retrieved as the selectable candidate image in the retrieving of the three-dimensional image.
US09280846B2
A method for performing occlusion queries is disclosed. The method includes steps of: (a) a graphics processing unit (GPU) using a first depth buffer of a first frame to thereby predict a second depth buffer of a second frame; and (b) the GPU performing occlusion queries for the second frame by using the predicted second depth buffer, wherein the first frame is a frame predating the second frame. In accordance with the present invention, a configuration for classifying the objects into the occluders and the occludees is not required and the occlusion queries for the predicted second frame are acquired in advance at the last of the first frame or the first of the second frame.
US09280835B2
The disclosure relates to encoding and decoding image information. The encoding comprises receiving a block of pixels; determining a set of potential reference samples for the block of pixels; selecting a subset of the set of potential reference samples to be used as reference samples for the block of pixels; and using the selected reference samples to determine a DC prediction value for the block of pixels. A prediction error is determined for a pixel in the block of pixels on the basis of the DC prediction value. The decoding comprises receiving an encoded block of pixels; determining reference samples for the encoded block of pixels; and using the determined reference samples to define a DC prediction value for the block of pixels. A prediction error is received for a pixel of the encoded block of pixels. The pixel value is reconstructed on the basis of the DC prediction value.
US09280830B2
An image processing apparatus for extracting an area of a detection target from an image includes an image input section that acquires an image, an image generation section that generates a plurality of images with different resolutions from the image, and a segmentation section that performs segmentation using the plurality of images with the different resolutions. The segmentation section segments an image with a low resolution and then segmenting an image with a high resolution using, as a processing target area, an area in the image with the high resolution corresponding to an area near a boundary resulting from processing of the segmentation of the image with the low resolution.
US09280829B1
Technologies are described herein for using linear functions to calculate depth information for scenes illuminated with structured light. Instead of performing matrix operations to determine depth information for each dot of light projected onto a scene, the depth information associated with each projected dot is calculated of light using a linear function.
US09280819B2
Methods for image segmentation are provided herein. A method includes creating an anatomical model from training data comprising one or more imaging modalities, generating one or more simulated images in a target modality based on the anatomical model and one or more principles of physics pertaining to image contrast generation, and comparing the one or more simulated images to an unlabeled input image of a given imaging modality to determine a simulated image of the one or more simulated images to represent the unlabeled input image.
US09280790B2
A trading interface is provided for displaying market data related to a tradeable object being traded at an electronic exchange. According to one example embodiment, market data related to a tradeable object is displayed in relation to a value axis, such as a price axis. As new market data is received, the displayed market data is updated and may be repositioned so that a trader can view current market conditions in a viewable portion of the interface. The interface also includes a number of market movement indicators that assist a trader in tracking market movement. These viewable references allow a trader to navigate and immediately understand the “real” direction of the market activity despite any underlying adjustment of the viewable area of the trading interface.
US09280784B2
A method for measuring engagement includes presenting a set of stimuli to a set of subjects, capturing neural data from the subjects, calculating a set of neural similarities between the first set of subjects, and generating a measure of engagement from the set of neural similarities.
US09280776B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering content based on physical object characteristics. When a physical object is detected within a specified proximity of a component of a computer system, the computer system submits an accessed object identifier for the physical object to a content portal. The content portal identifies content and corresponding layout information for the computer system by at least determining the commonality between object keywords for the physical object and target keywords for content providers and determining content placement priorities corresponding to content providers. The content portal sends the content and layout information to the computer system. The computer system filters a subset of content from the received and presents the filtered subset of content on a presentation surface in accordance with corresponding layout information.
US09280775B2
A server is operable to receive a media device identifying number (ID) and establish an association between a media device and a payment account and, in one embodiment, supports at least one of payment authorization and payment clearing based at least in part on the media device ID and the payment account. A network and system includes a payment card processor server that is operable to receive a payment authorization request and to determine if an authorized media device generated a purchase selection message and to determine to approve a received payment authorization request based, in part, if the media device was authorized for the purchase selection based upon a received media device ID. The system is further operable to perform a key rotation to protect payment account information.
US09280774B1
According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a memory and a processor is provided. The memory is operable to store information associated with a user account. The processor can receive a message indicating that a transaction associated with a card has occurred and receive a first input indicating that the transaction is fraudulent. The processor can receive a second input indicating that a report should be filed and present, on a display, a plurality of questions to determine whether the card has been stolen. The processor can receive a third input indicating an answer to each of the plurality of questions and present, on the display, an affidavit. The processor can receive a fourth input indicating the affidavit has been electronically signed and present, on the display, a confirmation message indicating that the report has been filed.
US09280771B2
A method, programmed medium and system are provided for implementing a prebuilt and encrypted personal identification information (PII) profile which resides only on a user's computer and is prevented from being permanently stored in a server's database. When a user visits a web site and creates a new account, the site submits a request to query the user's profile using an extension to the HTTP protocol. The user is prompted by the user's browser to grant the site permission to do so and the site automatically uploads a non-personal identifying number (ID) to the user's system to create an account. User-selected fields of the PII are transmitted to the server for processing a user-requested transaction. All personal information remains on the user's computer within the user's encrypted PII profile and is deleted at the server after the completion of the requested transaction.
US09280768B2
A transaction system including at least two transaction communicators, at least one of which is a mobile communicator, at least one of the at least two transaction communicators having sequential visually sensible indicia generation functionality operative to generate a time sequence of indicia which provides at least transaction data and at least one of the at least two transaction communicators having sequential visually sensible indicia receiving functionality and transaction data extraction functionality capable of extracting at least the transaction data from the time sequence of particular indicia, whereby a time sequence of indicia which provides at least transaction data is transmitted from one of the at least two transaction communicators to another of the at least two transaction communicators.
US09280762B2
An electric mail processing apparatus includes a communication control unit for receiving a mail from the mail server; a main storage unit for storing the mail; a determining unit for determining process contents of the mail; a process performing unit for performing the process contents on the mail; and a mail deletion instructing unit for sending a deletion instruction to the mail server to delete the mail. The determining unit determines whether a first received mail is a subsequently received mail. The communication control unit deletes the subsequently received mail when the determining unit determines that the first received mail is the subsequently received mail. The communication control unit controls the mail deletion instructing unit to send the deletion instruction to the mail server to delete the subsequently received mail.
US09280743B2
A truth maintenance method and system. The method includes receiving by a computer processor, health event data associated with heath care records for patients. The computer processor associates portions of the health event data with associated patients and related records in a truth maintenance system database. The computer processor derives first health related assumption data and retrieves previous health related assumption data derived from and associated with previous portions of previous health event data. The computer processor executes non monotonic logic with respect to the first health related assumption data and the previous health related assumption data. In response, the computer processor generates and stores updated first updated health related assumption data associated with the first health related assumption data and the previous health related assumption data.
US09280742B1
Methods and systems for suggesting one or more semantic tags for a media clip are disclosed. In one aspect, a media clip provided by a user is identified, and a first set of semantic tags is generated for the media clip based on a feature vector associated with the media clip. The first set of semantic tags is then provided to a classifier that is trained based on user selection of semantic tags. Further, a second set of semantic tags is obtained from the classifier and is suggested to the user for the media clip.
US09280737B2
A system in package (SIP) structure, an electroplating module thereof and a memory storage device are provided. The SIP structure includes a first layout layer, a second layout layer and a rewritable non-volatile memory module. The first layout layer includes a first pad and a wire. The first pad is close to a first side of the first layout layer, and the first pad is configured to couple to a ground voltage. One terminal of the wire is coupled to the first pad, and another terminal of the wire is coupled to an opening of the SIP structure, wherein the opening is located at a second side of the first layout layer opposite to the first side, and the opening is configured to couple to an external voltage.
US09280727B2
A information processing unit includes: a control unit configured to control operation processing of individual units through a user interface; a print set value storage unit configured to store a print set value that is set by operation of an operation unit on a basic setting screen displayed on a display unit on which setting relating to the color printing is performed at a basic level and a print detail set value that is set by operation of the operation unit on a detail setting screen as another dialog on which the setting is performed at a detail level under operation control of the control unit; and a print data creating unit configured to create print data of the color printing based on the print set value and the print detail set value under operation control of the control unit.
US09280724B2
A pose classification apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first image analyzer and a second image analyzer configured to estimate a body part for each pixel of an input image including a human body, a body part decider configured to calculate reliabilities of analysis results of the first image analyzer and the second image analyzer, and configured to decide the body part for each pixel of the input image based on the calculated reliabilities, and a pose estimator configured to estimate a pose of the human body included in the input image, based on the decided body part for each pixel.
US09280723B2
The techniques introduced here include a system and method for transcoding multimedia content based on the results of content analysis. The determination of specific transcoding parameters, used for transcoding multimedia content, can be performed by utilizing the results of content analysis of the multimedia content. One of the results of the content analysis is the determination of image type of any images included in the multimedia content. The content analysis uses one or more of several techniques, including analyzing content metadata, examining colors of contiguous pixels in the content, using histogram analysis, using compression distortion analysis, analyzing image edges, or examining user provided inputs. Transcoding the multimedia content can include adapting the content to the constraints in delivery and display, processing and storage of user computing devices.
US09280719B2
Foreground and background image segmentation is described. In an example, a seed region is selected in a foreground portion of an image, and a geodesic distance is calculated from each image element to the seed region. A subset of the image elements having a geodesic distance less than a threshold is determined, and this subset of image elements are labeled as foreground. In another example, an image element from an image showing at least a user, a foreground object in proximity to the user, and a background is applied to trained decision trees to obtain probabilities of the image element representing one of these items, and a corresponding classification assigned to the image element. This is repeated for each image element. Image elements classified as belonging to the user are labeled as foreground, and image elements classified as foreground objects or background are labeled as background.
US09280718B2
A system and method for automating an appropriate voxel prescription in a uniquely definable region of interest (ROI) in a tissue of a patient is provided, such as for purpose of conducting magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in the ROI. The dimensions and coordinates of a single three dimensional rectilinear volume (voxel) within a single region of interest (ROI) are automatically identified. This is done, in some embodiments by: (1) applying statistically identified ROI search areas within a field of view (FOV); (2) image processing an MRI image to smooth the background and enhance a particular structure useful to define the ROI; (3) identifying a population of pixels that define the particular structure; (4) performing a statistical analysis of the pixel population to fit a 2D model such as an ellipsoid to the population and subsequently fit a rectilinear shape within the model; (5) repetiting elements (1) through (4) using multiple images that encompass the 3D ROI to create a 3D rectilinear shape; (6) a repetition of elements (1) through (5) for multiple ROIs with a common FOV. A manual interface may also be provided, allowing for override to replace by manual prescription, assistance to identify structures (e.g. clicking on disc levels), or modifying the automated voxel (e.g. modify location, shape, or one or more dimensions).
US09280717B2
A method is disclosed for operating a computing device. One or more images of a scene captured by an image capturing device of the computing device is processed. The scene includes an object of interest that is in motion and that has a rounded shape. The one or more images are processed by detecting a rounded object that corresponds to the object of interest. Position information is determined based on a relative position of the rounded object in the one or more images. One or more processes are implemented that utilize the position information determined from the relative position of the rounded object.
US09280714B2
The present invention discloses an identification system which includes an image sensor, a storage unit and a comparing unit. The image sensor captures a plurality of images of the motion trajectory generated by a user at different timings. The storage unit has stored motion vector information of a group of users including or not including the user generating the motion trajectory. The comparing unit compares the plurality of images with the motion vector information to identify the user. The present invention also provides an identification method.
US09280713B2
An apparatus and a method for processing an image mounted in a vehicle include a camera mounted in the vehicle to acquire image data around the vehicle. A controller is configured to analyze the image data to extract at least one light region having an elliptical shape or a closed surface shape formed of a free curve, separates the light region into a point source and reflected light, and then corrects and outputs the image data of a location at which the reflected light is confirmed.
US09280709B2
The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily adding an annotation to content.A feature amount extracting unit 21 extracts an image feature amount of each frame of an image of learning content and extracts word frequency information regarding frequency of appearance of each word in a description text describing a content of the image of the learning content (for example, a text of a caption) as a text feature amount of the description text. A model learning unit 22 learns an annotation model, which is a multi-stream HMM, by using an annotation sequence for annotation, which is a multi-stream including the image feature amount of each frame and the text feature amount. The present invention may be applied when adding the annotation to the content such as a television broadcast program, for example.
US09280706B2
The present disclosure is directed towards methods and systems for capturing images of an iris and a scene using a single image sensor. An image sensor may capture a view of a scene and a view of an iris in at least one image. An image processing module may apply a level of noise reduction to a first portion of the at least one image to produce an image of the scene. The image processing module may apply a reduced level of noise reduction to a second portion of the at least one image to produce an image of the iris for use in biometric identification.
US09280700B2
A method and apparatus for verifying an input signature are provided. The method includes generating signature data based on a real touch event and a proximity touch event that occur on a touch input unit of and apparatus, extracting a feature of the input signature based on the signature data, and determining whether to authenticate the input signature based on a similarity between the feature of the input signature and a corresponding feature of a previously stored reference signature.
US09280682B2
A private information management apparatus, a method, and a program that allows individual users to easily set and apply their privacy rules. A private information management apparatus receives setting data from a user terminal and creates a privacy rule that defines a condition for restricting disclosure of private information and a restriction method. If undisclosed image data contains private information of a user, the private information management apparatus extracts metadata contained in this undisclosed image data, and determines whether or not the metadata satisfies the condition for restricting disclosure of the private information. If it is determined that the condition is satisfied, the private information management apparatus executes the restriction method defined by the privacy rule.
US09280679B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for granting application permissions and providing notifications of API activity are provided. An example method may include processing a request to install an application that requires API calls by the application. The method may further include determining an authoring entity of the application, and determining whether the authoring entity is certified by one or more trusted entities. In addition, the method may include allowing an installation of the application when the authoring entity is certified by at least one trusted entity. An example system may include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to process a request to install an application that requires access to one or more APIs, determine a sensitivity level of each of the required APIs, and when the determined sensitivity level of at least one API of the required APIs is associated with a restricted API classification, require that code of the application be delivered using a secure mechanism.
US09280676B2
In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, a system and methods are provided for managing development of business applications. The system and methods may be provided for defining security relevance for data types associated with business objects, defining security rules for the data types associated with the business objects, and defining validation and test fulfillment of the security rules by providing one or more security runtime modules for each security rule defined by the security rules handler to ensure validation and test fulfillment of each security rule.
US09280673B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that connects to a device. The image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores, for each types of page description languages for describing printing data, permission information indicating whether execution of a control command described in the corresponding page description language is allowed; a receiving unit that receives the control command transmitted from the device; a determination unit that determines whether the execution of the control command is allowed for the image forming apparatus, based on the permission information being stored in the storage unit; and a controller that controls the image forming apparatus. When the execution of the image forming apparatus is disallowed for the image forming apparatus, the controller prevents the image forming apparatus from executing the control command.
US09280665B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for fast and accurate identification of message-based application programming interface (API) calls in Objective-C binaries. An application binary is analyzed to determine a first listing of classes and a first listing of methods. Metadata is extracted from the application to determine a second listing of classes and a second listing of methods. A listing of external classes and a listing of external methods are determined. Data identifying public API definitions is obtained. Public APIs invoked by the application are determined by comparing the external classes and methods with the public API definitions.
US09280662B2
When a computer system process is acting contrary to the rules established for that process for the resource it is running on, the process is moved to a quarantined section and its continued operation is isolated from other processes. While in isolation, the quarantined process is tested and appropriate action, such as, for example, rehabilitation, change of the rules, or termination, is performed. The divided quarantined sections are used for each misbehaving process.
US09280655B2
A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes executing, by a processor of the electronic device operable in a first mode (e.g. a trusted execution environment (TEE)) or a second mode (e.g. a non-trusted execution environment (NTEE)), wherein the first mode is more secure than the second mode; receiving, by the processor operating in the first mode, data or information related to a first software program stored in a first memory region; and authenticating, by the processor operating in the first mode, at least a portion of the data or information using a second software program stored in a second memory region.
US09280653B2
A system and method for employing a mechanism for unlocking a vehicle ECU. The ECU stores a unique ECU identification value that identifies the particular ECU and a secure server stores the ECU identification value and a unique ECU security key value, where the identification value identifies the security key value in the server, and where the secure server stores the unique ECU identification value and the unique security key value for many ECUs. A service tool that wants to gain access to the ECU for software reprogramming or service requests the ECU identification value and a challenge from the ECU and sends them to the secure server, which then identifies the security key value associated with that ECU identification value and the response for the challenge. The secure server then sends the response to the service tool, which provides it to the ECU to unlock it for programming.
US09280652B1
An unlock procedure for an electronic device can be based at least in part upon a determined gaze direction or viewing location of a user. During a device unlock process, the user can be directed to follow an element or path on a display element with the user's eyes. Image information captured of the user during this process can be used to correlate the user's eye position in the image with the corresponding gaze location on the device, in order to calibrate the gaze tracking in a way that is substantially transparent to the user. Further, certain devices can also utilize captured image information during the unlock process to authenticate the user using a process such as iris recognition or retinal scanning. Such an approach enables secure access to the device without requiring the user to manually enter identifying information, and re-authentication can be performed without distracting the user.
US09280649B2
A user detecting apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor that executes a procedure, the procedure including: obtaining a first image and a second image, extracting a user-associated area from the first image according to a given condition, dividing the user-associated area into a plurality of areas, storing a histogram of each of the plurality of areas in the memory, detecting from the second image a corresponding area that corresponds to an area that is one of the plurality of areas and has a first reference histogram according to similarity, and changing a reference histogram used for a third image from the first reference histogram to a second reference histogram.
US09280646B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for implementing role-based access control (RBAC) are disclosed. According to one method, the method includes authenticating a user for implementing RBAC across multiple components associated with one or more converged infrastructure systems, receiving, from the user, RBAC related information for implementing RBAC across the multiple components associated with the one or more converged infrastructure systems, and implementing, using the RBAC related information, RBAC across the multiple components associated with the one or more converged infrastructure systems.
US09280635B2
Systems in a flow cytometer having an interrogation zone and illumination impinging the interrogation zone include: a lens subsystem including a collimating element that collimates light from the interrogation zone, a light dispersion element that disperses collimated light into a light spectrum, and a focusing lens that focuses the light spectrum onto an array of adjacent detection points; a detector array, including semiconductor detector devices, that collectively detects a full spectral range of input light signals, in which each detector device detects a subset spectral range of the full spectral range of light signals; and a user interface that enables a user to create a set of virtual detector channels by grouping detectors in the detector array, such that each virtual detector channel corresponds to a detector group and has a virtual detector channel range including the sum of subset spectral ranges of the detectors in the corresponding detector group.
US09280625B2
Techniques and systems are described for improving the efficiency of timing calculations in numerical sequential cell sizing and for improving the efficiency of incremental slack margin propagation. Some embodiments cache timing-related information associated with a source driver that drives an input of a sequential cell that is being sized, and/or timing-related information for each output of the sequential cell that is being sized. The cached timing-related information for the source driver can be reused when sizing a different sequential cell. The cached timing-related information for the outputs of the sequential cell can be reused when evaluating alternatives for replacing the sequential cell. Some embodiments incrementally propagate slack margins in a lazy fashion (i.e., only when it is necessary to do so for correctness or accuracy reasons) while sizing gates in the circuit design in a reverse-levelized processing order.
US09280623B2
Disclosed is a system in which in order to obtain the operation parameter of a circuit based on an implementable area indicating a circuit scale that can be implemented on a circuit implementation device, circuit area information, and operation parameter measuring circuit area information, an observation signal number determining means determines observation signal information on a circuit that obtains the operation parameter of the circuit. The number of the extracted signals is determined in view of the area that can be implemented on a digital LSI or an emulator and the area of the circuit to be implemented (refer to FIG. 1).
US09280619B2
Virtual material handling systems can be used to drive the operation of real material handling systems for purposes such as testing and validation of the components of the real material handling systems. The real material handling system, in turn, can provide data regarding system operation which may be fed back to the virtual material handling system to control its function.
US09280618B1
The systems and methods perform simulations in a systematic way as to minimize redundant data fetching and computations and reduce run-time. The systems and methods can cache information that can be used across multiple control strategies and speed up the process of simulation by several orders of magnitude. A business analyst can first generate a set of matching criteria that meets business intuition for the specific initiative and set of stores under analysis. A systematic approach in building similar sites models from control strategies that are combinations of this set of matching criteria can be applied to minimize data extraction and processing. The similarity function allows for the distance of each criterion to be combined linearly. Data for each matching criteria only needs to be extracted once but can be used in all control strategies that uses that criteria.
US09280606B2
Aspects retrieve, organize and display different classifications of sets of search results in different, respective tabbed sheets that are nested on top of one another in a web-based interface dashboard. A text string search query is classified into constituent primary search terms that are likely to return satisfactory search results as indicated by retrieved search history data as a function of search resources and language classification rules associated with the user identity indicia. Secondary search terms related to the primary search terms and including synonyms and antonyms are determined as substitutes for the primary search terms in response to search history indicating follow-up searches immediately subsequent to searches of the primary search terms at less than a specified threshold of frequency. The set of peripheral knowledge article results is generated by searching knowledge article resources for background information on the primary search terms or the secondary search terms.
US09280603B2
Techniques are provided for generating descriptions of matching resources in a manner that takes into account the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about the matching resources. For example, after the search engine identifies matching resources based on the query terms, the search engine determines the kinds of available sources of information about each matching resource. For each matching resource, based on the kinds of available sources of information about the matching resource, one of a plurality of processes is selected to generate a description for the matching resource. Using the content-sensitive description generation techniques described herein, a single result set may include abstracts that were generated using several different processes, where the difference in process corresponds to a difference in the kind, quality, and relevance of the available sources of information about each matching resource.
US09280595B2
A set of potential search-query terms can be identified based on empirical queries for apps. For each potential search-query term, a subset of documents within a set of documents can be identified based on apps that users were likely to click on or download following entry of a search query with a comparable or same term. One or more other indicator terms can be identified as being related to the potential search-query term based on the one or more second indicator terms being prevalent within the subset of documents. Upon receipt of a subsequent search query, a search can then be performed using both a term within the search query and one or more related other indicator terms.
US09280589B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for user interfaces. In one aspect, there is provided a method. The method may include generating a virtual desktop including a plurality of objects organized in accordance with at least one of a theme and a structure; providing a navigation pane on the virtual desktop to navigate through the plurality of objects; and providing a controller to enable a multi-level zoom on at least one of the plurality of objects on the virtual desktop. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US09280588B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing search result page previews. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data that specify a set of search results responsive to a search query. Query-relevant content is selected to be included in a page preview for at least one of the search results. In turn, data that cause presentation of the page preview are provided. The data provided can cause presentation of the query-relevant content at an initial zoom level and at a higher zoom level, where the initial zoom level is a zoom level at which both the query-relevant content and other content from the resource are presented. The page preview can include a page tear that defines multiple portions of the page preview for a resource.
US09280571B2
A method performed in a system that has a plurality of volumes stored to storage hardware, the method including generating, for each of the volumes, a respective space saving potential iteratively over time and scheduling space saving operations among the plurality of volumes by analyzing each of the volumes for space saving potential and assigning priority of resources based at least in part on space saving potential.
US09280569B2
Embodiments include a system for matching an element of a source schema to an element of a target schema. The system includes a processing unit and a communication unit. The processing unit may be configured to: identify a sample data item of the element of the target schema; match a part of the sample data item to a part of a sample instance of the source schema; and match the element of the source schema to which the part of the sample instance of the source schema belongs to the element of the target schema. The communication unit may be configured to: provide the sample data item through an interface and receive the sample instance of the source schema.
US09280563B2
A system and method, which may be an offline method, extracts relevant image features about images in a network-based publication system for enabling image similarity searching of such images. An image is uploaded and may be sent to a picture processing service, which generates digests. The digests are compressed data structures each representing a particular image feature such as edge, color, texture, or words. These digests are then stored in a search database, where the digests can be used to retrieve images by image similarity at scale. A similar process can be performed for an image query for searching the search database for images similar to the image.
US09280556B2
A mechanism is provided for generating enumerated information in which a plurality of files is enumerated except entirely-invalidated files on a sequential medium. Management information for managing locations where the plurality of files on the sequential medium are recorded is acquired from the sequential medium. The enumerated information in which the plurality of files are enumerated is generated in an order according to the locations where the plurality of files are recorded on the basis of the acquired management information.
US09280555B1
A technique for protecting host data using, for example, snaps, asynchronous replication, and/or synchronous replication, includes storing both block-based objects and file-based objects in a common form—as files. With both block-based objects and file-based objects represented as the same type of underlying objects, data protection of both block-based and file-based objects is accomplished using a single set of data protection technologies, which are configured to perform data protection operations on files.
US09280554B2
A system, computer implemented method, and computer program product for analyzing an installation to determine a file system promotion path during an online patching cycle. The method commences by identifying an initial file system and a shadow file system, the shadow file system being at least some duration older than the initial run file system, then analyzing a history of events that occurred in or on the installation during the duration to determine a degree of confidence. Based on the degree of confidence, then selecting the initial file system to be used on the online patching cycle when the confidence value is equal or above a threshold, or selecting the shadow file system to be used in the online patching cycle when the confidence value is below a threshold. The history of events is recorded in forms of a patch list, a log file, or a list of configuration events.
US09280553B2
A server is implemented with a modified file open action, which, when a user performs the modified open, initially opens a file without locking the file. When a user indicates (either explicitly or implicitly) that the user is attempting to or intending to open the file, the file can then be locked for editing. In this way, the default action when a user requests a file is to open the file without denying other users access to the file. Then, when the user indicates that editing should occur, the lock for the file is obtained.
US09280552B2
A plurality of workers is configured for parallel processing of deduplicated data entities in a plurality of chunks. The deduplicated data processing rate is regulated using a rate control mechanism. The rate control mechanism incorporates a debt/credit algorithm specifying which of the plurality of workers processing the deduplicated data entities must wait for each of a plurality of calculated required sleep times, the calculated required sleep times being calculated as a best fit between a maximum allowable sleep time, a delta vector, and a limit per time vector, wherein the required sleep time is one of the plurality of calculated required sleep times.
US09280529B2
A computer-implemented collaborative editing method includes receiving input from a user of a browser-based document editing application on a document displayed by the application; identifying a current location in the document for a cursor of a first user executing the application; receiving from a central server system data that reflects changes made to the document by one or more users other than the first user and current positions in the document of cursors for the one or more other user; updating a document model stored on a computing device that is executing the browser-based application and rendering at least a portion of the model to the browser; and rendering the current positions of the cursors for the one or more other users to the browser.
US09280528B2
An example of a method includes determining features of a first type for a web page of a plurality of web pages. The method also includes electronically determining a plurality of rules for an attribute of the first web page, wherein the plurality of rules are determined based on features of the first type. The method also includes electronically identifying a first rule, from the plurality of rules, which satisfies a first predefined criterion. The first predefined criteria include at least one of a first threshold for a precision parameter, a second threshold for a support parameter, a third threshold for a distance parameter and a fourth threshold for a recall parameter. The method further includes storing the first rule to enable extraction of value of the attribute from a second web page.
US09280526B1
A resident mobile application for application and mobile web navigation on a mobile communication device is disclosed herein. The resident mobile application interfaces with a motion sensor of a mobile communication device.
US09280522B2
A system may aggregate highlighting information associated with a document that includes a number of elements. The highlighting information may identify one or more of the elements that have been highlighted by a group of users. The system may determine weight values for the one or more elements, generate information associated with the document based on the weight values, and provide the information.
US09280518B2
According to an embodiment, a computing device includes a receiving unit, a calculating unit, a solving unit, a selecting unit, and a determining unit. The receiving unit is configured to receive pieces of input data indicative of elements of a subgroup of a multiplicative group in a finite field and pieces of first additional data for identifying conjugates of the respective pieces of input data. The elements are represented by traces. The calculating unit is configured to calculate a coefficient of an equation based on the pieces of input data. The solving unit is configured to obtain solutions of the equation. The selecting unit is configured to select one of the solutions as a result of computation, based on the first additional data. The determining unit is configured to determine second additional data for identifying a conjugate of the selected result of computation based on the first additional data.
US09280513B1
Processor-to-processor (P-P) and/or broadcast proxies may be designated in a microprocessor matrix comprising a plurality of mesh-interconnected matrix processors when default processor-to-processor or broadcast routing algorithms used by data switches within the matrix to route messages would not deliver the messages to all intended recipients. The broadcast proxies broadcast messages within individual non-overlapping broadcast domains of the matrix. P-to-P and broadcast proxies may be designated as part of a boot-time testing/initialization sequence. Improving system fault tolerance allows improving semiconductor processing yields, which may be of particular significance in relatively large integrated circuits including large numbers of relatively-complex matrix processors.
US09280506B1
A system and corresponding method for transferring data via an interface assembly is provided. The data is transferred between a USB port of a first device and a media port of a second device. Uncompressed high definition media data may be received from the USB port. The received uncompressed high definition media data may be supplied to a media connector in accordance with a first media standard, such that the supplied data can be transmitted in accordance with the first media standard via the media connector to the media port of the second device. The uncompressed high definition media data may include multimedia data and side-band communication data. A single signal may be encoded and decoded in accordance with a protocol that enables the single signal to communicate all side-band communications to and from the source device via a single pin of a USB connector.
US09280494B2
A method on a computing system for associating an output of a coupled peripheral device to an input of the peripheral device is provided. A computing system configured to be coupled to a peripheral device comprising an input and an associated output is provided. The computing system comprises an input logical layer configured to receive descriptor configuration information from the peripheral device and build interface sets including attributes of the input of the peripheral device and the associated output. The input logical layer uses the interface sets to select and set attributes of the output of the peripheral device.
US09280486B2
A host selects a memory page that has been allocated to a guest for eviction. The host may be a host machine that hosts a plurality of virtual machines. The host accesses a bitmap maintained by the guest to determine a state of a bit in the bitmap associated with the memory page. The host determines whether content of the memory page is to be preserved based on the state of the bit. In response to determining that the content of the memory page is not to be preserved, the host discards the content of the memory page.
US09280485B2
A processor, operable in a computing storage environment, allocates portions of a Scatter Index Table (SIT) disproportionately between a larger portion dedicated for meta data tracks, and a smaller portion dedicated for user data tracks, and processes a storage operation through the disproportionately allocated portions of the SIT using an allocated number of Task Control Blocks (TCB).
US09280484B2
A storage system comprises a cache for caching data blocks and storage devices for storing blocks. A storage operating system may deduplicate sets of redundant blocks on the storage devices based on a deduplication requirement. Blocks in cache are typically deduplicated based on the deduplication on the storage devices. Sets of redundant blocks that have not met the deduplication requirement for storage devices and have not been deduplicated on the storage devices and cache are targeted for further deduplication processing. Sets of redundant blocks may be further deduplicated based on their popularity (number of accesses) in cache. If a set of redundant blocks in cache is determined to have a combined number of accesses being greater than a predetermined threshold number of accesses, the set of redundant blocks is determined to be “popular.” Popular sets of redundant blocks are selected for deduplication in cache and the storage devices.
US09280481B1
In order to optimize efficiency of deserialization, a serialization cache is maintained at an object server. The serialization cache is maintained in conjunction with an object cache and stores serialized forms of objects cached within the object cache. When an inbound request is received, a serialized object received in the request is compared to the serialization cache. If the serialized byte stream is present in the serialization cache, then the equivalent object is retrieved from the object cache, thereby avoiding deserialization of the received serialized object. If the serialized byte stream is not present in the serialization cache, then the serialized byte stream is deserialized, the deserialized object is cached in the object cache, and the serialized object is cached in the serialization cache.
US09280478B2
Methods and structure are provided for rebuilding cache data from a failed cache device based on tracking data for the failed cache device. The system includes a memory and a cache manager. The memory stores tracking data that correlates entries at a cache with logical block addresses of a logical volume. The cache manager is able to determine that a device implementing the cache has failed and to analyze the tracking data to identify logical block addresses correlated with cache entries from the failed cache device. The cache manager is further able to generate new cache entries at a new cache device, and to populate the new cache entries with data from the identified logical block addresses.
US09280476B2
An apparatus may include a first memory, a control circuit, a first address comparator and a second address comparator. The first memory may store a table, which may include an expected address of a next memory access and an offset to increment a value of the expected address. The control circuit may read data at a predicted address in a second memory and store the read data in a cache. The first and second address comparators may determine if a value of a received address is between the value of the expected address and the value of the expected address minus a value of the offset. The control circuit may also modify the value of the offset responsive to determining the value of the received address is between the value of the expected address and the value of the expected address minus the value of the offset.
US09280465B2
A technique of operating a data processing system, includes logging addresses for cache lines modified by a producer core in a data array of a producer cache to create a high-availability (HA) log for the producer core. The technique also includes moving the HA log directly from the producer cache to a consumer cache of a consumer core and moving HA data associated with the addresses of the HA log directly from the producer cache to the consumer cache. The HA log corresponds to a cache line that includes multiple of the addresses. Finally, the technique includes processing, by the consumer core, the HA log and the HA data for the data processing system.
US09280455B2
Provided is a memory control device, including a write control unit that sequentially designates a memory block, a write processing unit that writes write data in the designated memory block, a verifying unit that reads read data from the memory block and verifies whether or not the read data matches the write data for each of a plurality of memory cells, a retry inhibiting unit that inhibits a retry process from being performed in a memory cell in which the read data matches the write data among the plurality of memory cells, and a retry control unit that designates at least some memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks and simultaneously executes the retry process when the read data does not match the write data in any one of the plurality of memory cells in which all the write data is written.
US09280451B2
A testing device for evaluating operations of software installed in a mobile terminal includes a scenario selecting unit configured to select a scenario that includes information for causing the mobile terminal to execute a function that should be operated by the mobile terminal, a scenario execution determining unit configured to determine whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable, a scenario execution unit configured to execute the scenario determined to be executable by the scenario execution determining unit, and a scenario execution result determining unit configured to determine whether an execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit is the same as a result expected beforehand. The scenario execution determining unit determines whether the scenario selected by the scenario selecting unit is executable based on the execution result of the scenario executed by the scenario execution unit in the past.
US09280444B2
A system and computer-implemented method for determining a runtime of a thread of an application. Synchronization events for a first thread of an application executing on the computer system are received, the synchronization events including at least a first synchronization event and a second synchronization event for the first thread. A first difference between a synchronization event timestamp of the first synchronization event and the synchronization event timestamp of the second synchronization event is calculated. A second difference between an accumulated timestamp of the first synchronization event and the accumulated timestamp of the second synchronization event is calculated. A runtime of the first thread of the application is calculated as a difference between the first difference and the second difference.
US09280439B2
Systems and methods to provide usage analysis of a productive environment are provided. In example embodiments, a logging module links to a compiler to obtain information on a program as the program is being executed by the compiler. One or more procedures of the program may be determined and a count for each of the one or more determined procedures maintained. The determined one or more procedures and the count for each of the one or more determined procedures are stored in a buffer as log data. The log data is compiled, using one or more processors, into a detailed data source for further analysis.
US09280438B2
A processor performance profiler is enabled to for identify specific instructions causing performance issues within a program being executed by a microprocessor through random sampling to find the worst-case offenders of a particular event type such as a cache miss or a branch mis-prediction. Tracking all instructions causing a particular event generates large data logs, creates performance penalties, and makes code analysis more difficult. However, by identifying and tracking the worst offenders within a random sample of events without having to hash all events results in smaller memory requirements for the performance profiler, lower performance impact while profiling, and decreased complexity to analyze the program to identify major performance issues, which, in turn, enables better optimization of the program in shorter developer time.
US09280436B2
To model a computing entity, information relating to transactions associated with the computing entity is received. The received information forms a collection of information. The collection is segmented into a plurality of segments, and at least one anomalous segment is identified. A model of the computing entity is built.
US09280434B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the automated testing of a system that includes software or hardware components. In some embodiments, a testing framework generates a set of test cases for a system under test using a grammar. Each test case may perform an action, such as provide an input to the system under test, and result in an output from the system under test. The inputs and outputs are then compared to the expected results to determine whether the system under test is performing correctly. The data can then be interpreted in the grammar system or used as input to a fault isolation engine to determine anomalies in the system under test. Based on identified faults, one or more mitigation techniques may be implemented in an automated fashion.
US09280431B2
A system, method, and computer program product provide a process that includes storing data on first data storage devices, and a backup copy of the data on the first and/or on second ones of the data storage devices. A probability of a failure of each of at least some of the first and/or second data storage devices is determined, and at least one of the first and/or data storage devices that is determined to have a higher probability of failure than a threshold and/or a probability of failure of another of the data storage devices, is selected. A second backup copy of the data, stored on the selected data storage device(s), is also stored on third ones of the data storage devices. The first and/or second data storage devices determined to have the higher probability of failure are used for their designated purpose after the second backup copy is created.
US09280427B1
A method performed by a storage system includes a first storage processor performing input/output (IO) requests on a first one or more logical units, and a second storage processor performing IO requests on a second one or more logical units. If the first storage processor fails, the third storage processor performs the IO requests on the first one or more logical units. If the second storage processor fails, the fourth storage processor performing the IO requests on the second one or more logical units.
US09280420B2
Methods of operating memory systems and nonvolatile memory devices include performing error checking and correction (ECC) operations on M pages of data read from a first “source” portion of M-bit nonvolatile memory cells within the nonvolatile memory device to thereby generate M pages of ECC-processed data, where M is a positive integer greater than two (2). A second “target” portion of M-bit nonvolatile memory cells within the nonvolatile memory device is then programmed with the M pages of ECC-processed data using an address-scrambled reprogramming technique, for example.
US09280415B2
A semiconductor device includes a mode register set suitable for generating a first internal control signal and a second internal control signal, a per-DRAM addressability (PDA) driving unit suitable for resetting the mode register set in response to the first internal control signal and an input value of data inputted through a data pad, and a cycle redundancy check (CRC) driving unit suitable for performing a CRC operation by checking whether or not data are correctly inputted through the data pad without an error in response to the first internal control signal and the second internal control signal.
US09280409B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for single point of failure analysis (SPOF) and remediation. According to one embodiment, a SPOF analysis is performed based on component configuration information associated with a plurality of system components. Based on the SPOF analysis, at least one SPOF component is identified. In addition, remediation information for the identified SPOF is computed based on the component configuration information. The result of the SPOF analysis and the remediation information are then displayed to an operating user.
US09280407B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for processing a computer program for a distributed server environment executes the computer program in the distributed server environment in accordance with a configuration for the computer program. The computer program is generated within a development environment. The configuration indicates a type of server environment and is associated with one or more data sets for processing by the computer program. The system monitors execution of the computer program within the distributed server environment and provides a program status to the development environment. The system displays results produced by the computer program within the distributed server environment via the development environment. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for processing a computer program in substantially the same manners described above.
US09280403B2
To facilitate changing a system configuration and allow having high redundancy in a computer system connecting a plurality of nodes. A node includes a CPU and constitutes a computer system. The node executes one or more processes and including predetermined functions. The node includes a shared memory that stores system information including process information related to each process executed by each node, in a state accessible from each process of its own node. In the node, the system information including the process information related to each process of its own node is multicast to the other nodes. A shared memory control process of the node receives the system information multicast from the other nodes and stores the system information in the shared memory.
US09280393B2
A middleware processor provisioning process provisions a plurality of processors in a multi-processor environment. The processing capability of the multiprocessor environment is subdivided and multiple instances of service applications start protected processes to service a plurality of user processing requests, where the number of protected processes may exceed the number of processors. A single processing queue is created for each processor. User processing requests are portioned and dispatched across the plurality of processing queues and are serviced by protected processes from corresponding service applications, thereby efficiently using available processing resources while servicing the user processing requests in a desired manner.
US09280392B1
A host system reallocates resources in a virtual computing environment by first receiving a request to reallocate a first quantity of a first resource type. Next, potential trade-off groups are evaluated and a trade-off group is selected based on the evaluation. The selected trade-off group includes a set of applications running in the virtual computing environment that can use one or more alternate resource types as a substitute for the first quantity of the first resource type. After the selection, the host system reallocates the first quantity of the first resource type from the trade-off group. This reallocation may be made from the trade-off group to either a first application running in the virtual computing environment or the host system itself. If the reallocation is to the host system, then the total quantity of the first resource type allocated to applications running in the virtual computing environment is thereby reduced.
US09280390B2
Techniques are described for managing distributed execution of programs, including by dynamically scaling a cluster of multiple computing nodes performing ongoing distributed execution of a program, such as to increase and/or decrease computing node quantity. An architecture may be used that has core nodes that each participate in a distributed storage system for the distributed program execution, and that has one or more other auxiliary nodes that do not participate in the distributed storage system. Furthermore, as part of performing the dynamic scaling of a cluster, computing nodes that are only temporarily available may be selected and used, such as computing nodes that might be removed from the cluster during the ongoing program execution to be put to other uses and that may also be available for a different fee (e.g., a lower fee) than other computing nodes that are available throughout the ongoing use of the cluster.
US09280388B2
In general, the invention relates to a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processor perform a method. The method includes obtaining lock overhead times for a plurality of threads, generating a set of thread groups, wherein each of the plurality of threads is assigned to one of the plurality of thread groups based on the lock overhead times, allocating at least one core of a multi-core system to each of the plurality of thread groups, and assigning a time-quantum for each of the plurality of thread groups, wherein the time-quantum for each of the plurality of thread groups corresponds to an amount of time that threads in each of the plurality of thread groups can execute on the at least one allocated core.
US09280386B1
Among other disclosed subject matter, a method includes receiving metric data associated with an execution of each of a plurality of task instances. The plurality of task instances include task instances associated with a task and the metric data for each task instance relating to execution performance of the task instance. The method includes for each task instance determining a deviation of the metric data associated with the task instance relative to an overall deviation of the metric data for the plurality of task instances of the task during each of a plurality of intervals and combining deviation measurements for the task instance that exceed a threshold deviation to obtain a combined deviation value. Each deviation measurement corresponds to the deviation of the metric data for one of the plurality of intervals. The method includes ranking the combined deviation values associated with at least a subset of the task instances.
US09280378B2
An installer installing an operating system on a host computer system detects that the operating system is to be run under a hypervisor, and causes at least one configuration parameter of the operating system to be adjusted based on the hypervisor. A migration tool migrating a virtual machine from one hypervisor to another hypervisor, identifies the types of the two hypervisors, the operating system used by the virtual machine, and causes at least one configuration parameter of the operating system to be adjusted based on the target hypervisor.
US09280372B2
A computer system implements a hypervisor which, in turn, implements one or more computer system instances and a controller. The controller and a computer system instance share a memory. A request is processed using facilities of both the computer system instance and the controller. As part of request processing, information is passed between the computer system instance and the controller via the shared memory.
US09280367B2
Examples are disclosed for assigning a switch identification to data received at an input/output device coupled to a host device. In some examples, the data may be associated with a virtual station interface (VSI) for a virtual machine implemented at the host device. For these examples, a switch identification may be assigned to the data based on identification information for the data or an originator of at least a portion of the identification information. The assigned switch identification may then be used as part of a lookup table to determine one or more actions for processing the data at the input/output device. Other examples are described and claimed.
US09280359B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes logging in to a multipath target via first and second boot devices instantiated on a network device, the first and second boot devices respectively connected to the multipath target via first and second paths; determining which of the first and second paths comprises a least cost path; and booting the operating system via the least cost path. The determining may include comparing network statistics of the first path with network statistics of the second path, the network statistics comprising at least one of packet loss on the path, errors encountered via the path, and congestion on the path.
US09280357B2
Techniques for configuration are provided. A chassis ID identifies a chassis type. A device, such as a circuit board, may receive the chassis ID from the chassis. The device may be configured based on the chassis type.
US09280356B2
Embodiments of the present invention are provided that include executing, by a processor, a software stack received from a first boot image, and retrieving and executing, by the processor, a second software stack. A writeable boot device such as a storage device with a removable medium is detected, and the second software stack is saved by replacing, on the writeable boot device, the first boot image with a second boot image comprising the second software stack.
US09280352B2
An apparatus and method for avoiding bubbles and maintaining a maximum instruction throughput rate when cracking microcode instructions. A lookahead pointer scans the newest entries of a dispatch queue for microcode instructions. A detected microcode instruction is conveyed to a microcode engine to be cracked into a sequence of micro-ops. Then, the sequence of micro-ops is placed in a queue, and when the original microcode instruction entry in the dispatch queue is selected for dispatch, the sequence of micro-ops is dispatched to the next stage of the processor pipeline.
US09280351B2
Embodiments relate to second-level branch target buffer bulk transfer filtering. An aspect includes a system for second-level branch target buffer bulk transfer filtering. The system includes a first-level branch target buffer and a second-level branch target buffer coupled to a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform a method. The method includes receiving branch target buffer miss indicators, receiving instruction cache miss indicators, and recording information about the branch target buffer miss indicators and the instruction cache miss indicators in search trackers. Based on detecting, by the processing circuit, a search tracker representing a correlated pair of the branch target buffer miss indicators and the instruction cache miss indicators, the search tracker is activated by the processing circuit to perform a bulk transfer from the second-level branch target buffer to the first-level branch target buffer.
US09280350B2
Methods and apparatus to perform adaptive pre-fetch operations in managed runtime environments are disclosed herein. An example disclosed method includes determining an object size associated with a pre-fetch operation; comparing the object size to a first one of a series of thresholds having increasing respective values; when the object size is less than the first one of the series of thresholds, pre-fetching a first amount of stored data assigned to the first one of the series of thresholds; and when the object size is greater than the first one of the plurality of thresholds, comparing the object size to a next one of the series of thresholds.
US09280340B2
A pipeline development environment includes a toolset that includes a visual design editor. The editor comprises a display interface having a palette of known Annotators that may be selected by a developer. The pipeline development environment also includes or has associated therewith a data repository. The data repository stores datasets. A particular dataset is associated with an Annotator and comprises dependency data generated from execution of a pipeline (or some portion thereof). The repository typically stores datasets from many pipeline runs, including runs of other pipelines, multiple runs of a given pipeline with different inputs, etc. Using the editor, a developer creates a visual representation of the pipeline. As Annotators are added into the pipeline, system tooling dynamically generates the descriptor files and other configuration parameters (for the new pipeline), preferably based on the dependency data associated with the individual Annotators and retrieved from the repository.
US09280335B2
A composable software bundle is created by retrieving a semantic representation of a set of software modules. A functional representation of a set of operations is retrieved. Each operation in the set of operations is to be performed on the set of software modules during at least one virtual image life-cycle phase in a set of virtual image life-cycle phases. A set of artifacts including a set of executable instructions associated with the set of operations is identified. The semantic representation, the functional representation, and the set of artifacts, are stored in a composable software bundle.
US09280329B2
A device including a data analysis element including a plurality of memory cells. The memory cells analyze at least a portion of a data stream and output a result of the analysis. The device also includes a detection cell. The detection cell includes an AND gate. The AND gate receives result of the analysis as a first input. The detection cell also includes a D flip-flop including an output coupled to a second input of the AND gate.
US09280325B2
A request to invoke a text-list definition of a componentized application is received. The text-list definition of the componentized application identifies a collection of different listed independent application sub-components specified by a user to be executed as a set. A componentized user interface is created with a different user interface component associated with each of the different listed independent application sub-components within the text-list definition of the componentized application. The different listed independent application sub-components are independently accessed based upon user inputs received in association with the respective different user interface component associated with each of the different listed independent application components within the text-list definition of the componentized application.
US09280323B2
Example systems and methods of displaying semantic layers of source code of a computer program are presented. In one example, a user selection of a first portion of the source code is received. The first portion is displayed in a first display area and corresponds to a first semantic layer of the source code. A user command referring to a second portion of the source code related to the first portion is received, with the second portion corresponding to a second semantic layer of the source code. In response to the user command, a second display area for the second portion of the source code is displayed to indicate a relationship between the first and second portions while indicating a difference in semantic layers between the first and second portions.
US09280309B2
A setting information editing unit of a printer driver changes the print setting of an input print job. Upon changing the print setting, a print function is limited by inhibiting selection of the print function provided by the printer driver in accordance with a print authorization processed by a print authorization processing unit. Since the resetting process after inputting the print job to a print control apparatus is also subjected to print function limitation, the print function can be limited upon print job input. Hence, consistent print function limitation can be done.
US09280306B2
An information processing system includes an information management apparatus that accepts image generation requests and an image generation section that generates image data, which is provided independently of the information management apparatus. The information management apparatus issues a job ID in response to a print request from a client, and transmits the job ID and a URL of the image generation apparatus to the client. Based on the URL, the client directly requests the image generation apparatus for image data corresponding to the job ID.
US09280298B2
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a first memory, an interface that includes first physical layers and connects a host and the first memory, a second memory that temporarily stores the data transferred between the host and the first memory, a controller that controls operation of the interface. When the data is transferred from the first memory to the host, the controller reads the data corresponding to the data transfer request into the second memory, the controller selects the physical layer to transfer the data from the second memory to the host based on a first period until the data is ready for transmission after data transfer is requested.
US09280292B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks as data erase units, a measuring unit which measures an erase time at which data of each block is erased, and a block controller which writes data supplied from at least an exterior into a first block which is set in a free state and whose erase time is oldest.
US09280284B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer readable medium for polygon gesture detection and interaction, adapted to an electronic apparatus having an input unit, are provided. In the method, a gesture moving from a starting point to an end point is received by using the input unit and sampling points thereof are collected. A trajectory of the sampling points is analyzed to obtain a center of the gesture. A surrounding area of the center is divided into equal label areas. A distance and an angle relative to an origin of each sampling point in the label areas are calculated and used as a vertical axis and a horizontal axis to draw a waveform diagram. A shape formed by the trajectory is determined according to characteristics of the waveform diagram and a specific function corresponding to the shape is performed.
US09280283B2
Methods, devices and sensors for detecting a gesture are described. In an embodiment, a gesture sensor includes a time of flight sensor having a sensing element configured to generate an electrical signal responsive to received light. The time of flight sensor also includes a light source for emitting a burst of light. The sensing element has a sensing side for receiving light and a non-sensing side which is opposite the sensing side. The gesture sensor also includes one or more light inhibitors positioned relatively nearer the sensing side of the sensing element than the non-sensing side. The light inhibitors are asymmetric about a first center line of the sensing element. The first center line is located midway between first and second sides of the sensing element. The gesture sensor further includes a processor coupled to the time of flight sensor configured to detect a gesture.
US09280282B2
A touch unlocking method includes obtaining position information of a plurality of touch points on a device screen in response to sliding of a touch medium on the device screen. A value that reflects a change of a distance between touch points of the plurality of touch points is monitored when the plurality of touch points are located in plurality of touch areas on the device screen respectively. The unlocking control on the device screen is performed according to a result of a comparison between the value that reflects the change of the distance between the touch points and a distance change threshold.
US09280278B2
According to an aspect, a portable electronic apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image; an input detection unit for detecting contact with an area in which the image is displayed by the display unit as input; and a control unit for causing the display unit to display a plurality of item objects and a group object surrounding the item objects. If the input detection unit detects first input of coming into contact with two different points in an area in which the group object is displayed and moving the contact with at least one of the two different points in a direction away from the other while maintaining the contact, the control unit causes the display unit to display the item objects in an aligned manner in a direction in which the distance between the two points increases.
US09280275B2
According to an aspect, a device includes a touch screen display and a controller. The controller displays a home screen in a layer on the touch screen display. The controller displays a different home screen in the same layer when a first gesture is performed on the home screen displayed on the touch screen display. The controller displays a home screen in a different layer when a second gesture is performed on the home screen displayed on the touch screen display.
US09280263B2
A mobile terminal capable of sensing a touch input, and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display screen information; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch input applied to the display unit; and a controller configured to display an indicator bar including at least one icon together with the screen information, and select any one of icons displayed in the indicator bar.
US09280262B2
A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thumbnails, enabling a user to select, from the thumbnail group, a segment of the media item, and enabling a user to transfer the selected segment to the project pane.
US09280261B2
A graphical user interface for a media player application is described. A method is provided comprising: determining a screen orientation of the GUI in accordance with a device orientation; rendering a first user interface screen in a portrait screen orientation comprising an album list when the screen orientation is a portrait screen orientation; rendering a second user interface screen in a landscape screen orientation comprising an array of album art images arranged in rows and columns when the screen orientation is a landscape screen orientation; and displaying the rendered first or second user interface screen on the display.
US09280260B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided for organizing semi-structured data having properties. In this method, the semi-structured data are accessed and rendered on a graphical user interface. A user input defining a first graphical layout of a first subset of the semi-structured data is received. A second subset of the semi-structured data is identified as having properties similar to the properties of the first subset of the semi-structured data. A second graphical layout of the second subset of the semi-structured data is then provided. The second graphical layout matches the first graphical layout.
US09280255B2
Presentation descriptions are provided to an operating system of a computing device to present outputs associated with the applications in an organized and intuitive manner to the user. The presentation descriptions provide the operating system with information about the structure and meaning of the output element. The task of organizing at least part of the output elements associated with applications is delegated to the operating system. The operating system analyzes the presentation descriptions, and organizes the output elements associated with the applications at least partly based on the presentation descriptions.
US09280248B2
Electronic devices may use touch pads that have touch sensor arrays, force sensors, and actuators for providing tactile feedback. A touch pad may be mounted in a computer housing. The touch pad may have a rectangular planar touch pad member that has a glass layer covered with ink and contains a capacitive touch sensor array. Force sensors may be mounted under each of the four corners of the rectangular planar touch pad member. The force sensors may be used to measure how much force is applied to the surface of the planar touch pad member by a user. Processed force sensor signals may indicate the presence of button activity such as press and release events. In response to detected button activity or other activity in the device, actuator drive signals may be generated for controlling the actuator. The user may supply settings to adjust signal processing and tactile feedback parameters.
US09280245B2
An apparatus configured to determine an approximate position of an object utilizing mutual-capacitance sensing capabilities during a first mode of operation and determining one or more attributes of the object utilizing self-capacitance sensing capabilities during a second mode of operation is disclosed. The apparatus includes a touch panel controller configured to operatively couple to a touch panel sensor. The touch panel sensor includes a plurality of drive electrodes and at least one sense electrode. A plurality of nodes are formed at the intersections of the plurality of drive electrodes and the at least one sense electrode. The touch panel controller is configured to determine an approximate position of an object performing a touch event over the touch panel sensor during the first mode of operation and to determine one or more attributes of the object during the second mode of operation.
US09280237B2
Infrared-style touch screens are described having light emission means and light detection means along only two opposing sides of a touch input area, which are nevertheless able to detect and locate a touch object in two dimensions. Certain embodiments use an edge-blurring algorithm to determine the second coordinate, while other embodiments use a form of stereo-scopic vision to determine both coordinates by triangulation. These touch screens have minimal bezel width along two opposing sides of the touch input area, and also offer cost reductions associated with components and product assembly and manufacturing.
US09280232B2
A method for touch detection is provided for detecting a touch point on a display device. The method includes: providing a display signal, according to which the display device has two parts of a vertical blanking interval within each frame period, wherein the two parts of the vertical blanking interval are discontinuous; and performing a touch detection in the two parts of the vertical blanking interval, respectively. The touch detection method is capable of performing multiple touch detections within one frame period.
US09280229B2
A touch alphabet and communication system is provided. The communication system uses a predetermined set of touch gestures, such as fingertip touch patterns performable on keyless touch-sensitive surfaces, to express the user's desired communication. The touch-sensitive surface may be the touch screen display of a computer, tablet device, cell phone, or a touch-sensitive pad, for example. The finger touch patterns are based on a limited set of unique and ergonomically pleasing finger positions that may be performed in a limited area. The touch alphabet allows the user to comprehensively communicate without looking at the communication device, and with just one hand, or in another implementation, with two hands. Thus, a user can comfortably tap an entire alphabet and related functions, with one hand, without having to visualize the user interface surface or hunt for individual keys.
US09280227B2
A display unit comprising a plurality of display modules arranged in a row and having an upper display section and a lower display section. One of the display modules includes an interactive Kiosk, and a second of the display modules includes at least one computer controlled card reading video station. A consumer may pass a coded paint color sample card past a code reader in the video station and is thereafter presented with a display of a color present on the sample card followed by a selectable sequence of video display screens, which may comprise part of a color selection application program.
US09280205B2
A haptic feedback planar touch control used to provide input to a computer. A touch input device includes a planar touch surface that inputs a position signal to a processor of the computer based on a location of user contact on the touch surface. The computer can position a cursor in a displayed graphical environment based at least in part on the position signal, or perform a different function. At least one actuator is also coupled to the touch input device and outputs a force to provide a haptic sensation to the user contacting the touch surface. The touch input device can be a touchpad separate from the computer's display screen, or can be a touch screen. Output haptic sensations on the touch input device can include pulses, vibrations, and spatial textures. The touch input device can include multiple different regions to control different computer functions.
US09280203B2
Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for a gesture recognizer system architecture. A recognizer engine is provided, which receives user motion data and provides that data to a plurality of filters. A filter corresponds to a gesture, that may then be tuned by an application receiving information from the gesture recognizer so that the specific parameters of the gesture—such as an arm acceleration for a throwing gesture—may be set on a per-application level, or multiple times within a single application. Each filter may output to an application using it a confidence level that the corresponding gesture occurred, as well as further details about the user motion data.
US09280202B2
A vision system of a vehicle includes an interior monitoring system operable to determine a gaze direction of the driver of the vehicle. A plurality of cameras is disposed at a vehicle and the cameras have respective fields of view exterior of the vehicle. A heads up display system is operable to display virtual images for viewing by the driver of the vehicle, with the displayed virtual images being displayed in the driver's gaze direction, such as via heads up display glasses worn by the driver. Responsive to a determination of the driver gazing in a direction towards a non-transparent portion of the vehicle, the heads up display system displays an image derived from image data captured by at least one of the plurality of cameras to display a virtual image representative of the driver's view as it would be through the non-transparent portion of the vehicle.
US09280199B2
This invention is directed to reducing power consumption even when there is a great amount of power consumed by a root complex in a printing apparatus that employs a PCI Express architecture. To accomplish this, a printing apparatus that includes a controller capable of switching between a root complex and an endpoint and an accelerator controller serving as a root complex performs the following processing. More specifically, in the power saving mode, the power source of the accelerator controller is turned off and the controller is set as a root complex. Power consumption in the power saving mode can be greatly reduced, and a return sequence from the power saving mode can be executed.
US09280197B1
In one embodiment, a method implemented on a first computing device includes: receiving video conference data for a video conference session; receiving battery level information for at least one other computing device participating in the video conference session, where the at least one other computing device is a mobile computing device; presenting the video conference session on the first computing device, where the presenting comprises presenting a representation of the battery level information associated with at least one the mobile computing device.
US09280196B2
A power management method for a computer system is provided. The power management method includes: obtaining a system power consumption; determining whether the system power consumption is greater than a first safe operating point; when the system power consumption is greater than the first safe operating point, controlling a CPU and a graphics processing unit (GPU) to activate a frequency reduction mechanism according to a first adjustment sequence; when the system power consumption is not greater than the first safe operating point, determining whether the system power consumption is smaller than a second safe operating point; and when the system power consumption is smaller than the second safe operating point, controlling the CPU and the GPU to deactivate the frequency reduction mechanism according to a second adjustment sequence. The second adjustment sequence is reverse to the first adjustment sequence.
US09280191B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that may be used for controlling information handling system power supply based on current system power policy such as current system load power need and/or based on current system load power capping information. The disclosed systems and methods may be so implemented to improve power use efficiency for information handling system applications in which a power supply unit (PSU) has a power delivery capability that is overprovisioned relative to the power-consuming system load component/s of an information handling system.
US09280187B2
Housing for at least one electric or electronic device, the housing surrounding a housing interior comprising a storage space, the electric or electronic device being arrangeable in the storage space, the housing comprising a housing upper part, which delimits the housing interior, the housing comprising at least one intermediate ceiling portion, which is arranged in the housing interior below the housing upper part and, together with the housing upper part, encloses at least one intermediate space, the intermediate ceiling portion having at least one cooling air passage, through which cooling air can flow from the storage space into the intermediate space, the housing upper part having at least one cooling air outlet, through which the cooling air can escape outwardly from the intermediate space, wherein the intermediate ceiling portion forms a catching arrangement for dripping water, which infiltrates the intermediate space through the cooling air outlet.
US09280183B2
Techniques for combining a polymer layer and a metal layer to form a multi-layer structure are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intermediate layer having pores, openings or voids is secured to the metal layer, and then the polymer layer is molded to the intermediate layer, whereby the pores, openings or voids in the surface of the intermediate layer serve to facilitate securing of the polymer layer to the metal layer. The multi-layer structure is suitable for use in as a portion of a housing for an electronic device, such as a portable electronic device.
US09280180B2
An information handling system provides connectors along a housing periphery with a reduced vertical footprint by adjusting a display circuit portion relative to a display panel portion to provide vertical space for the connectors. For example, the circuit portion aligns with the display panel portion along one side of the display to provide space for connectors at that side of the display, and the circuit portion extends past the perimeter of the display panel portion at an opposing side of the display. In one embodiment, the circuit portion extending outside the perimeter of the display panel portion includes circuits for powering a backlight disposed in the circuit portion.
US09280179B2
A tablet information handling system processes information with processing components disposed in a planar housing for presentation as images at a display disposed at the upper surface of the planar housing. Support members extend at the lower surface of the planar housing to support the planar housing in an upright configuration having the housing in a first orientation or an inclined configuration having the housing in a second orientation. A cooling fan controller manages cooling airflow direction through the planar housing based upon the orientation of the planar housing to blow hot air exiting the housing in a direction away from the likely location of an end user relative to the planar housing.
US09280177B2
The present application describes various embodiments regarding systems and methods for providing a lightweight and durable portable computing device having a thin profile. The portable computing device can take the form of a laptop computer. The laptop computer can include a uni-body top case having an integrated support system formed therein, the integrated support system providing structural support that distributes applied loads through the top case preventing warping and bowing.
US09280172B2
With the progress toward multi-core processors, each core is can not readily ascertain the status of the other dies with respect to an idle or active status. A proposal for utilizing an interface to transmit core status among multiple cores in a multi-die microprocessor is discussed. Consequently, this facilitates thermal management by allowing an optimal setting for setting performance and frequency based on utilizing each core status.
US09280156B1
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for controlling autonomous vehicles utilizing maps that include visibility information. A map is stored at a computing device associated with a vehicle. The vehicle is configured to operate in an autonomous mode that supports a plurality of driving behaviors. The map includes information about a plurality of roads, a plurality of features, and visibility information for at least a first feature in the plurality of features. The computing device queries the map for visibility information for the first feature at a first position. The computing device, in response to querying the map, receives the visibility information for the first feature at the first position. The computing device selects a driving behavior for the vehicle based on the visibility information. The computing device controls the vehicle in accordance with the selected driving behavior.
US09280133B2
In a development device in which a developer containing unit underlies a development chamber, a supplying member in the development chamber forms a nip portion with a developer carrier and the developer carrier and the supplying member rotate in the direction in which their respective surfaces move from an upper end to a lower end of the nip portion.
US09280131B2
Provided is a developer container that accommodates developer, including: a first frame that has a recessed portion; and a second frame that has a first protruding portion, wherein the first frame and the second frame are joined by a first adhering portion in which the recessed portion and the first protruding portion are welded together, and a second adhering portion in which a second protruding portion and a flat portion are welded together, the recessed portion having a positioning inner side face that performs positioning of the first frame and the second frame within a recessed portion. Also provided are a method to manufacture a developer container, a developing apparatus having the developer container, a cleaning apparatus, a process cartridge, and an image forming apparatus.
US09280129B2
A developer cartridge has a rotatable body, a casing, a conveying guide structure, and a cover. The cover includes a facing part and a first covering part. The conveying guide structure includes a first conveying guide extending in the second direction, and a second conveying guide connected from the first conveying guide at an end on the other side of the second direction and extends toward the other side of the second direction so as to curve in the first direction with respect to the first conveying guide. The first covering part includes a first contacting part configured to contact the first conveying guide, and a second contacting part configured to curve in the first direction with respect to the first contacting part so as to extend toward the other side in the second direction, and contact the second conveying guide.
US09280127B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main casing having side wall and a frame defining a sheet opening. The side wall of the main casing and the frame define an accommodating space therebetween. The frame defines a first vent, and the frame further defines a second vent disposed below the first vent closer to the side wall than the first vent.
US09280121B2
The present invention relates to a rotational force driving assembly and a process cartridge used for being engaged with a rotational force driving head inside an electrophotographic image forming device. The rotational force driving assembly can comprise a hub, a rotational force receiving component, a side plate, and an axis offset adjusting mechanism. When the axis offset adjusting mechanism is not subjected to external force, the axis offset adjusting mechanism enables the axis of the rotational force receiving component to be parallel and offset to the axis of the hub. When the axis offset adjusting mechanism is subjected to external force, the rotational force receiving component extends out to be engaged with the rotational force driving head.
