US09345018B2
A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a user equipment configured for multi-carrier operation from a first downlink control information set to a second downlink control information set while carrier aggregation is being used, including receiving a physical downlink control channel with downlink control information formats containing a carrier indicator field.
US09345013B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for enhanced control channel-based operation. A method for a base station for transmitting a downlink control channel in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: determining one antenna port to be used for the downlink control channel; mapping the downlink control channel to a resource element on the basis of a reference signal for the one antenna port; and transmitting the mapped downlink control channel to a terminal, wherein an index for the one antenna port can be determined on the basis of a control channel element (CCE) index of the downlink control channel derived from the terminal identifier.
US09345010B2
A radio communication apparatus receives control information on one or more control channel elements (CCEs) with consecutive CCE number(s). The radio communication apparatus first-spreads a response signal with a sequence defined by a cyclic shift value that is determined among a plurality of cyclic shift values from an index of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), which is associated with a first CCE number of the one or more CCEs, and second-spreads the first-spread response signal with an orthogonal sequence that is determined among a plurality of orthogonal sequences from the index. One of cyclic shift values used for an orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an odd CCE number, and another one of the cyclic shift values used for the same orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an even CCE number.
US09344996B2
Provided is a radio communication device including a radio communication section that communicates by radio with a base station that changes a cycle for sending a paging channel to a second cycle in a case where no response is made from the radio communication device responsive to the paging channel sent in accordance with a first cycle, a detecting section that detects a state change of the radio communication device, and a receipt control section that switches a receiving cycle for receiving the paging channel from the first cycle to the second cycle according to a detection result obtained by the detecting section.
US09344993B2
A location verifier can be configured to receive a location report of a target mobile device, wherein the location report includes data characterizing a location for the target mobile device. The location verifier can also be configured to receive a list of mobile devices that are within a predefined proximity of the target mobile device. The location verifier can further be configured to interrogate each mobile device in the list of mobile devices for a list of detected devices. Each device in the list of detected devices can be detected through peer-to-peer communications.
US09344991B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and devices for responding to changes in a wireless access type occurring in connection with a handover event affecting a mobile terminal while the mobile terminal is engaged in a position determination session with a location server. If a first positioning protocol employed in the position determination session is not supported or enabled by the changed wireless access type, the position determination session may be resumed or restarted using a second positioning protocol supported or enabled by the changed wireless access type.
US09344981B2
A method for synchronizing clocks in a communication network includes a first clock of a first network element which is a master element is used for synchronizing second clocks of one or more second network dements which are slave elements. A first sequence of first messages transmitted from the first network element to the second network element and/or a second sequence of second messages transmitted from the second network element to the first network element is recorded. First messages and/or second messages out of those sequences are identified by using an appropriate threshold function with respect to the transmission delays of those messages. Those identified messages have the same constant minimum delay, and based on those messages clock synchronization between the first clock and the second clock is performed.
US09344977B2
A method and apparatus for reporting Power Headroom (PH) of a User Equipment (UE) per carrier efficiently in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes calculating PHs for multiple activated carriers based on whether data channel transmission takes place on each carrier, configuring indicators indicating whether the data channel transmission takes place on the corresponding carriers, and transmitting the PHs and indicators as aggregated in an extended PH Report (PHR) on one of the carriers.
US09344974B2
Logic may coordinate communications of different types of wireless communications devices such as high power and low power wireless communications devices. Logic may coordinate communications by assigning time slots to a low power station (LP-STA) in a management frame such as a beacon transmitted by an access point (AP) associated with the LP-STA. Logic of the high power stations (HP-STAs) may receive the beacon and shepard logic of the HP-STA may defer transmissions by the HP-STA throughout the duration(s) indicated in the beacon from the AP. Logic of the LP-STA may comprise carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance logic to determine when to transmit a communication. Shepard logic of an HP-STA may detect the communication from the LP-STA and defer transmission of communication during a time duration for the communication by the LP-STA.
US09344971B2
In a mobile communication system, an apparatus acquires a first variant amount by which to vary uplink transmit power as requested by a base station, based on a control command issued from the base station. The apparatus controls the uplink transmit power using a second variation amount smaller than the first variant amount when accumulated uplink transmit power obtained by accumulating the first variation amount satisfies a suppression condition for adjusting the uplink transmit power to be outputted.
US09344970B2
One example method of operation of a basestation in a mobile communications network is disclosed. The basestation may operate on a carrier channel and may be a member of a group of such basestations within the network. The method comprises establishing the presence of an adjacent basestation outside the group, which basestation operates on a carrier channel at least partially overlapping the carrier channel of the basestation and determining a degree of association between the basestation and the adjacent basestation with reference to other group members. The method further comprises setting at least one of a maximum downlink power for transmissions from the basestation and a maximum uplink power for transmissions from user equipment devices attached to the basestation, based on the degree of association between the basestation and the adjacent basestation. Also disclosed is a basestation operating in accordance with such a method.
US09344967B2
A wireless apparatus including a machine-to-machine (M2M) device. The M2M device has an applications processing element, RF transceive elements, and a deep sleep controller. The applications processing element executes one or more functions corresponding to an M2M processing environment, and directs the transmission and reception of radio frequency (RF) messages. The RF transceive elements are operationally coupled to the applications processing elements and transmit and receive the RF messages over the one or more wireless communications links. The deep sleep controller is coupled to the applications processing element and the RF transceive elements, and directs the applications processing element to request a sleep time from a corresponding base station, and causes the M2M device to enter a deep sleep mode upon acceptance of the sleep time by the corresponding base station, where the deep sleep mode is entered by removing power from the RF transceive elements.
US09344964B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed to indicate PPI in a wireless communication network. The method includes enabling a PPI feature. The method further includes taking a last reported PPI into account when the UE wants to indicate a current PPI for a first time on a current serving cell but not a first time since a full configuration was performed. The method further includes ignoring or not taking into account the last reported PPI when the UE wants to indicate the current PPI for a first time since a full configuration was performed.
US09344959B2
A method for enhanced Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) selection in a cellular mobile network, a User Equipment having information related to a PLMN selection mode, includes: transmitting the information related to the PLMN selection mode to a Registered Public Land Mobile Network (RPLMN) of the User Equipment; and in case that the User Equipment is able to attach to its RPLMN and to at least one other PLMN, performing an attachment of the User Equipment to the other PLMN based on the information related to the PLMN selection mode.
US09344953B2
An apparatus and method for initialization and mapping of reference signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a reference signal employable with a plurality of physical resource blocks corresponding to a bandwidth of a communication system, and allocate resource elements of an assigned physical resource block from the plurality of physical resource blocks to a user equipment. The memory and the computer program code are further configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to generate a dedicated reference signal for the user equipment by allocating elements of the reference signal in accordance with allocated resource elements of the assigned physical resource block.
US09344951B2
Opportunistic forwarding of packet based communication is implemented by way of attention to link quality to determine a suitable prioritised route for communication. Ranking of potential routes (or the next hop in a route) can be conducted locally, with reference to a link quality metric also. Channel access by nodes of the same rank in a graph based network can be by way of link quality also.
US09344948B2
A method to provide mobility support of UEs (12) that are served by mobile relay base stations (14), by providing handover of a UE (12) for data traffic only between two mobile relay base stations. This is achieved by information exchanging between the source and target mobile relay stations of the concerned UE in handover, and/or the corresponding donor base stations (13, 11) if applicable. The handover is triggered by any of the following: based on UE's measurement report, the signal quality of a neighbour cell is better than the current serving cell; based on the measurement of the serving mobile relay base station, the signal quality of the link to the UE is worse than a certain threshold; or based on the measurement of the serving mobile relay base station, the signal quality of a neighbour cell (potential donor base station) is much better than the current donor base station.
US09344947B2
Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate efficient transfer of quality of service (QoS) context during inter-radio access technology (RAT) handovers. In particular, techniques are described herein for establishing rules for whether a user equipment unit (UE) or an associated network should establish QoS for a mixed-mode application, identifying flow to bearer mappings when translating QoS across an inter-RAT handover, mapping QoS parameters of respective RATs, mitigating QoS depreciation upon multiple handovers, performing one or more actions if QoS is not acceptable in a new RAT, maintaining QoS during tunnel mode, and handling scenarios in which a UE moves between a RAT using network-initiated QoS and a RAT using UE-initiated QoS.
US09344944B2
A method for performing mobility by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes: receiving a report configuration from a serving cell, the report configuration including detection basis information; detecting whether a cell is present based on the detection basis information; transmitting, by the UE, a detection report reporting the detected cell is present to the serving cell; receiving a measurement configuration used for measuring the detected cell from the serving cell; measuring the cell based on the measurement configuration; and performing mobility with the cell.
US09344940B2
A handover method includes the steps: (1a) detecting, at a serving node, signal quality of a signal transmitted from the serving node to a user equipment (UE) being worse than a predefined threshold; (1b) identifying, at the serving node, node(s) transmitting to the UE the strongest signals interfering with signals being transmitted to the UE; (1c) sending, by the serving node, a request for starting an inter-cell interference coordination scheme; (1d) rescheduling, by the node(s) identified in step (1b), users currently being served by the node(s); (1e) informing, by the node(s) identified in step (1b), the serving node of the UE which resources have, been reserved in step (1d); (1f) scheduling, by the serving node, the UE to the resources reserved in step (1d); (1g) starting, by the serving node, handover of the UE from the serving node to a target node; and (1h) completing the handover of the UE.
US09344939B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of controlling Radio Access Technology (RAT) communication managers. For example, a RAT controller may communicate with a plurality of RAT communication managers to receive measurement information from one or more of the RAT communication managers, and, based on the measurement information, to send traffic steering information to at least one RAT communication manager.
US09344937B2
Provided is a method for reporting mobility information by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method includes generating mobility information and reporting the mobility information via a network. The mobility information includes mobility state information indicating the estimated mobility state of the terminal, and mobility history information relating to the mobility history of the terminal.
US09344936B2
A mobility management device makes an ISR feature operate in collaboration with an SGSN. It is assumed that a location registration area managed by the mobility management device exists within a location registration area managed by the SGSN, and an incoming voice call is made to a mobile communication device during when the mobile communication device is moving out of the location registration area. The mobility management device includes an incoming voice call control unit that, in the above case, sends a response message indicating that the mobile communication device is moving to a switching device and, when an incoming voice call message is sent again from the switching device to a switching device after the lapse of a specified period of time, performs call attempt to the mobile communication device.
US09344935B2
Configurations are described for maintaining a continuity and quality of wireless signal connection between a mobile device and systems accessible through the internet. In particular, configurations are disclosed to address the challenge of a mobile device that moves through a physical environment wherein the best wireless connectivity performance is achieved by switching between available connection sources and constantly evaluating a primary connection with other available connections that may be switched in to become a new primary connection. The mobile device may be self-propelled or carried by some other mobilizing means.
US09344934B2
A wireless access point (102) detects an indicia of a change in wireless connectivity of a mobile station (101) with respect to itself and another wireless access point (103). The wireless access point then automatically effects at least one of establishing a communication between itself and the second wireless access point regarding the change in wireless connectivity and/or establishing a temporary data tunnel as between itself and the second wireless access point. These network elements can also act to automatically establish a data flow path for the mobile station as between the second wireless access point and a network element (such as a mobility management agent (105)) that is external to the common subnet. In a preferred approach this comprises, at least in part, automatically sending a registration request to the network element other than in response to a specific request from the mobile station to send such a registration request.
US09344931B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device for re-establishing a radio link. The method comprises: a destination NodeB receives a re-establishment request message sent by UE, the re-establishment request message carrying a cause value, and the cause value comprising information used for indicating UE handover success or handover failure; and the destination NodeB determines, according to the cause value, a security algorithm applied radio link re-establishment between the destination NodeB and the UE, and establishes a radio link using the security algorithm. The disclosure solves the technical problem in the traditional art that the radio link re-establishment fails as a security algorithm fallback process fails, thereby achieving the technical effect of improving the success rate of radio link re-establishment.
US09344921B2
An apparatus and a method for supporting a communication network in a portable terminal are provided. The method includes receiving a registration confirmation message from a first base station, determining whether the first base station satisfies a switching condition to a packet switching mode, switching a mode of the portable terminal from a circuit switching mode to the packet switching mode when the first base station satisfies the switching, and registering the portable terminal in a first communication network through the first base station in the packet switching mode.
US09344913B2
A wireless network encoding management method and device. The method includes: determining whether a network infrastructure allows inter-network wireless network encoding; if the inter-network wireless network encoding is allowed, selecting, from neighboring networks of the network infrastructure, a node capable of forming an inter-network wireless network encoding group; and forming the inter-network wireless network encoding group and performing a scheduling design. Therefore, network encoding management in heterogeneous networks can be implemented, and the system capacity of the network and an effective data rate can be increased.
US09344909B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for monitoring a wireless link. A method for monitoring a wireless link by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a precoded control channel; and estimating the quality of the wireless link for the received precoded control channel, wherein the quality of the wireless link can be estimated on the basis of an assumption by the terminal regarding the precoding applied to the precoded control channel.
US09344906B2
A system, method and network communications device including a processing unit configured to communicate data packets with one or more network communications devices. The data packets include network performance information generated by the one or more network communications devices in response to receiving a portion of the data packets. The network communications device further includes a memory in communication with the processing unit. The memory is configured to store a table containing network performance information associated with the node segments through which the data packets are communicated with the one or more network communications devices. The processing unit is further configured to process the data packets to store the network performance information in the table. The network performance information is utilized to alter future communications of the data packets through the node segments.
US09344896B2
A method and system for delivering a command to a mobile device is provided. A one-time password is generated using a token shared with a mobile device and one of a challenge and an input string. The one-time password and a command are transmitted, along with the challenge or the input string, to the mobile device for execution thereon.
US09344895B2
A method and a system for securely accessing a portable hotspot for intelligent mobile phones, comprises an intelligent mobile phone used as an AP and another intelligent mobile phone used as an STA. The AP comprises an AP NFC module and a first data transmission module; and the STA comprises an STA NFC module and a second data transmission module. The AP uses the NFC module to perform a WPA security authentication with the STA, and uses the first data transmission module to perform data encrypted transmission with the second data transmission module. In the method and the system of the present disclosure, the common WLAN authentication mechanism is not adopted, and the security authentication process between the AP and the STA is completed in the NFC manner instead.
US09344891B2
In a first configuration, a UE receives, from a service provider, a certificate authority list. The certificate authority list is at least one of integrity protected or encrypted based on a credential known by the UE and the service provider and stored on a smartcard in the UE. The UE authenticates a server using the received certificate authority list. In a second configuration, the UE receives a user service discovery/announcement including a reception report configuration and an address of a server. The UE sends a protected reception report to the server based on the reception report configuration. In a third configuration, the UE receives a protected broadcast announcement and communicates based on the broadcast announcement. The broadcast announcement is at least one of integrity protected or encrypted based on a credential known by the UE and stored on a smartcard in the UE.
US09344890B2
A method to support two scenarios in trusted wireless local area network (WLAN) access is provided herein. The method may be performed, for example, by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes requesting a nonseamless wireless offload (NSWO) connection to a network during an extensible authentication protocol (EAP) procedure and receiving, after successful authentication, at least one of an internet protocol (IP) address or a reason code from a network entity indicating NSWO is not allowed.
US09344888B2
The service layer may leverage the access network infrastructure so that applications on a device may bootstrap with a machine-to-machine server without requiring provisioning beyond what is already required by the access network.
US09344886B2
A communication apparatus detects network information concerning a network that communicates via a base station and performs acquisition processing for acquiring authentication information used for authentication with an authentication server via the base station from another communication apparatus according to the network information detected by the detection unit.
US09344885B2
A communication device may include: a circuit being identified by a unique identifier; a determiner configured to determine as to whether the communication device is unwantedly out of the authorized user's control; a communication connection establisher configured to establish a Subscriber Identity Module less communication connection; and a transmitter configured to transmit a verification state request message including information indicating the unique identifier to another communication device.
US09344877B1
Various embodiments include methods implemented on a mobile communication device for acquiring service when the mobile communication device has a first subscription and a second subscription that belong to the same network operator. The methods may include receiving a first equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN) database associated with the first subscription, determining whether a second EPLMN database associated with the second subscription is the same as the first EPLMN database, and modifying the second EPLMN database based on the first EPLMN database in response to determining that the second EPLMN database associated with the second subscription is not the same as the first EPLMN database.
US09344866B2
In a first node of a home network, such as a GMSC, on receiving a request message (50), requesting call set-up to a called terminal, a message (52) is sent to a second node of the home network, such as an HLR, to obtain an address of a mobile switching center where the called terminal is located. On receiving a reply (58) from the second node, the first node initiates (60) a missed call notification service if it is determined that the called terminal is in a visited network. The first node then initiates a call set-up (64) to the called terminal and, if it is notified that the call has been released (66), with no call forwarding having taken place, it notifies (68) the missed call notification service that the call has been released. The missed call notification service causes (72) a message to be sent (74) to the called terminal, notifying it of the missed call.
US09344860B2
A mobile arrangement (102), such as a mobile communication device, including a user interface (UI) configured to receive user input, a wireless data transfer interface configured to receive a command, such as a PTT (Push-to-Talk) command, sent by an RSM (Remote Speaker Microphone) device (104a, 104b) or other accessory, such as an in-car device or a headset, wirelessly connected to the mobile arrangement, and an interfacing logic (114) configured to map the received command to a predetermined command locally providable via the user interface to a communication application (112) running on the mobile arrangement and capable of receiving user input via the user interface so as to enable utilization of the communication application through the RSM or other accessory. Corresponding method and computer program product are presented.
US09344849B2
Methods, computer readable storage medium, and systems for mobile devices to locate persons or places are described. In a feature, the invention is a method implemented in a server for providing beaconing sequences to the mobile devices for location sharing. In a feature, the invention is a server executing a method of locating a user using a beaconing mobile device. In a feature, the invention is a non-transitory computer readable medium on a server that encodes a program to execute a method on a first mobile device that determine directions and/or distance between the first mobile device and a second mobile device. In a feature, the invention is a server executing a method to remember a place on a mobile device.
US09344848B2
Methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced location information on or about a mobile device may include hybrid lateration and/or trilateration solutions in which the mobile device determines whether information obtained via a geospatial system of the mobile device is accurate, collects location information from a plurality of mobile devices in a communication group in response to determining that the information obtained via the geospatial system of the mobile device is not accurate, computes computing more precise location information (including three-dimensional location and position information) based on the location information collected from the plurality of mobile devices, and using the generated location and position information to provide an enhanced location based service, such as an emergency location service, a commercial location service, an internal location service and/or a lawful intercept location service.
US09344840B2
A Location Based Service (LBS) enabled Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application operating in a microbrowser of a mobile device is given the ability to trigger a network initiated LBS request from a WAP application server. The WAP application server (or SMS gateway) acts as a proxy and issues an LBS request to a relevant LBS platform. In response, the WAP application server receives the requested location information from the LBS platform and initiates a WAP session with the mobile device using a WAP PUSH command. In this way, the WAP application running on the mobile device can act on requested and received LBS input from a network LBS platform.
US09344825B2
A system for improving intelligibility or loudness of an audio program includes an encoder that receives signals of the audio program including at least one of left/front and right/front or left and right signals that include some anchor components of the audio program and to downmix the received signals to obtain left downmix and right downmix signals. The system includes a decoder that upmixes the left downmix and right downmix signals to obtain a center upmix signal that includes a majority of the anchor components including at least some anchor components that were included in the left/front and right/front signals or the left and right signals. The system also includes a system output that provides the center upmix signal to process at least one of the signals of the audio program based on the center upmix signal to improve intelligibility or loudness of the audio program.
US09344814B2
A hearing aid device (2) is disclosed. The hearing aid device (2) is configured to be sealingly inserted into the bony region (20) of the ear canal (16). The hearing aid device (2) comprises a receiver (12) and at least one microphone (4, 6) and means for processing sound signals detected by the at least one microphone (4, 6). The hearing aid device (2) comprises means for carrying out electronic feedback suppression by applying a frequency shift (ΔF) and/or a time delay to the detected sound signals. A method for providing electronic feedback reduction in a hearing aid device (2) is also disclosed.
US09344812B2
A portable electronic device (100) comprises a fuel cell (101) and a boost converter (102), wherein said boost converter (102) is adapted for boosting the fuel cell voltage to a level suitable to power the portable electronic device (100) and wherein said boost converter (102) is powered by said fuel cell (101). The invention also provides a method of operating a portable electronic device.
US09344811B2
A system for detection of speech related acoustic signals by using laser based detection that includes a mask configured for being worn over a face part of a speaker covering the speaker's mouth, where the mask includes at least one reflective coating covering at least one area of the mask that reflects collimated electromagnetic signals; and a laser microphone configured for detecting vibrations of the reflective coating area for detection of acoustic signals associated with speech of the speaker by using collimated electromagnetic signals. The mask the reflective coating area thereof allow enhancing detection of vibrations resulting from speech carried out by the speaker wearing said mask.
US09344806B2
Measures are provided for improving the acoustic properties of a component (10) having a micromechanical microphone structure realized in a layer construction (20) over a substrate (1), and for simplifying the production method. The microphone structure of such a component (10) includes a diaphragm (11) deflectable by acoustic pressure, spanning a cavity (13) that acts as a rear-side volume in the rear side of the component, and includes a stationary, acoustically permeable counter-element (12) situated over the diaphragm (11). According to the invention, the layer construction (20) has, between the diaphragm (11) and the substrate (1), an enclosing layer (3) in which there is fashioned an acoustically transparent aperture (4). The diaphragm (11) is connected to the rear-side volume (13) via this aperture in the enclosing layer (3). Under the enclosing layer (3), the rear-side volume (13) extends laterally beyond this aperture (4).
US09344804B2
Disclosed is a miniature moving-coil speaker comprising a magnetic circuit system, a vibration system, and an auxiliary system for fixing the magnetic circuit system and the vibration system. The vibration system comprises a diaphragm and a voice coil integrated with the diaphragm. The auxiliary system comprises a plastic enclosure. The diaphragm is installed correspondingly at one end face of the enclosure, while the magnetic circuit system is installed at the other end face of the enclosure opposite the diaphragm; also: a flexible circuit board is arranged on the end face of the enclosure where the magnetic circuit system is installed, and the voice coil is electrically connected to the flexible circuit board. The design reduces product installation height, while at the same time facilitates wire-leading and wire-combing for the miniature moving-coil speaker, and simplifies product design.
US09344801B2
A headset is provided. The headset includes: a hook hung on a user's neck; a pair of sound output units connected to both end parts of the hook; and a clipping module provided to at least one sound output unit and coupled to a cap worn by the user to allow the at least one sound output unit to be detachable.
US09344800B2
A loudspeaker array element with an internal rigid structural frame and at least one interface for attaching one or more of enclosures, rigging components, waveguides, sound chambers, transducers and electronics to the frame is provided. Further configurations are provided for heat sinking of electrically powered devices such as loudspeakers, as well as power amplifiers, digital signal processing and networking hardware.
US09344798B2
A wireless audio rendering device, such as headset (2) or speaker phone (3), which audio rendering device (2, 3) is adapted to be paired with a wireless audio gateway device, such as a smart phone (1), whereby a first radio link (4) for transmitting audio can be established between the audio gateway (1) and the first audio rendering device (2). The first audio rendering device (2) is adapted to wirelessly recognize a second audio rendering device (3) also paired with the audio gateway device (1). When brought within an activation distance (D1-D3) of the second audio rendering device (3) the first audio rendering device (2) is adapted to initiate an audio transfer step, in which the first audio link (4) is replaced by a second radio link (5) for transmitting audio between the audio gateway (1) and the second audio rendering device (3). The invention also relates to a method of audio transferring and an audio rendering device for use with the method.
US09344790B2
An audio signal receiving device, an audio signal adapter device and a system for transmitting an audio signal are provided. The audio signal adapter device is connected with an audio signal sending device and the audio signal receiving device and is configured to transmit a signal between the audio signal sending device and the audio signal receiving device, and the device comprises: a loudspeaker interface having an audio pin, a ground pin and a MIC pin; and a adapter end interface having an audio signal pin, a reference signal pin and a ground pin. The audio signal pin of the adapter end interface is connected with the audio pin of the loudspeaker interface, the reference signal pin of the adapter end interface is connected with the ground pin of the loudspeaker interface, for sending the audio signal output from the audio signal sending device to the audio signal receiving device.
US09344782B2
A method and system for providing a moving-screen sound system for a portable communication device such as a cell phone employs a fixed, pivoted, or hinged display screen driven directly or indirectly by an audio actuator. While the frequency response of the screen may have defects that would negatively impact overall sound quality from the device, in embodiments a supplemental audio transducer is placed adjacent the screen or elsewhere on the device so as to supplement or correct the frequency response of the screen. In an embodiment, the supplemental audio transducer is driven to correct a notch or other defect in the screen response. In another embodiment, the supplemental audio transducer is driven to extend the bass response of the screen.
US09344777B2
Methods, systems, and devices for short-range low-power wireless communication of analyte information are provided. In some implementations, short-range low-power wireless communication of analyte information may include receiving an electromagnetic wireless communication signal and harvesting energy from the electromagnetic wireless communication signal. In some implementations, short-range low-power wireless communication of analyte information may include enabling capabilities associated with an external sensor in response to detecting the external sensor. In some implementations, short-range low-power wireless communication of analyte information may include detecting an analyte sample; determining an analyte concentration associated with the detected analyte sample; and transmitting an indication of the analyte concentration to an external device.
US09344775B2
A sliding tray is configured to support one or more optical communications modules and includes a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules, a trough projecting from the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules, and a cover pivotably connected to the tray for selectively covering the trough.
US09344770B2
A wireless access system comprises a base station and a control system. The base station wirelessly broadcasts a pilot signal including a network access provider identifier that identifies a wireless video service. The base station wirelessly receives a wireless video uplink request from a wireless video device in response to the pilot signal. The control system processes reservation data for the base station to determine if the wireless video device has a current wireless video uplink reservation and directs the base station to provide a wireless video uplink to the wireless video device if the wireless video device has the current wireless video uplink reservation. The base station wirelessly receives video data from the wireless video device over the wireless video uplink as directed by the control system.
US09344765B2
A method of using an individual electronic program guide (EPG) for management of links to on-demand TV programs on a TV services platform of a digital TV service provider includes establishing a viewer-individualized EPG through a Log-In step by which the individual viewer can be uniquely identified, enabling the individual viewer to select a title of an on-demand TV program listed on the individual EPG and save it as a link to the on-demand TV program for later reference. Each title for an on-demand TV program listed on the individual EPG is associated with metadata structured as a string of category and subcategory terms separated by delimiters corresponding to the position of the title in a hierarchically categorized ordering of the individual EPG. The bookmark address corresponds to a URL address for the video content on the Internet in a common addressing scheme with the on-demand TV program on the individual EPG.
US09344755B2
Embodiments are provided for fast-resume of audio playback. An example method includes transmitting a plurality of frames, each frame comprising audio information and playback timing information, the playback timing information identifying a time to play the audio information of the respective frame, wherein the playback timing information comprises a time relative to a clock; receiving a pause command, wherein the pause command indicates that the at least one playback device is to cease playback of the audio information; subsequent to receiving the pause command, receiving a resume command; based on the resume command, identifying a range of frames previously transmitted, wherein the range of frames have playback timing information subsequent to a time of receiving the pause command; and, based on the resume command, instructing at least one playback device to (i) update the playback timing information in the range of frames, and (ii) play the audio information.
US09344748B2
Techniques for synchronizing streams in an adaptive streaming environment include cross-chassis and intra-chassis synchronization of video and/or audio. In an adaptive streaming system that streams content in segments or chunks at varying levels of quality corresponding to different coding rates, implementations enable seamless switching between transcoded audio output streams. The streams synchronized may be those that have been ingested by the transcoder in a compressed format and transcoded into a different compressed format, as part of the transcoding process. The transcoded audio output streams may be synchronized such that audio frame boundaries contain identical pulse-code modulation (PCM) samples, packetized elementary stream (PES) location, and presentation time stamp (PTS) value.
US09344746B2
A process distributing video streams to a plurality of addressees, comprising a marking step comprising adding at least one visual element to a video stream, which marking step is applied to an original video stream common to all the addressees and which is personalized for each addressee by addition of a visual element specific to the addressee that allows rapid visual identification of the addressee, wherein the added visual element replaces part of the original video stream that is stored in complementary information on a multimedia server.
US09344740B2
Initial value is selected when motion estimation is performed using predicted motion vector in video codec in which multiple references are allowed, and coding amount of motion vectors is reduced using predicted motion vector. Motion vector encoding apparatus includes predicted motion vector generator that generates adjacent motion vectors of current block with respect to each of reference pictures and generates each predicted motion vector of the current block from the generated adjacent motion vectors, motion estimator that determines final motion vector of the current block and final reference picture corresponding to the final motion vector with regard to search regions of the reference pictures, differential unit that obtains difference between the final motion vector of the current block and final predicted motion vector corresponding to the determined final reference picture among the predicted motion vectors, and unit for encoding information about the final reference picture and the difference.
US09344732B2
An method of encoding a video in the unit of blocks, includes: encoding information on a picture size of the video and information on available block sizes; setting an initial size of a current block to be encoded to a largest block size among the available block sizes; determining a location of the current block within a picture; identifying whether the current block is fully located inside the picture, based on the picture size, the size of the current block and the location of the current block; resetting the size of the current block to a smaller size among the available block sizes, when the current block is not fully located inside the picture; and encoding the current block in the reset size.
US09344729B1
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for selective prediction signal filtering. One aspect of the disclosed implementations is a method for encoding a frame of a video stream including determining a first performance measurement for a first set of prediction samples identified for a group of pixels using a first prediction mode, generating a filtered set of prediction samples by applying a filter to a second set of prediction samples, wherein at least one of the filtered set of prediction samples or the second set of prediction samples are identified using a second prediction mode, determining a second performance measurement for the filtered set of prediction samples, generating, using a processor, a residual based on the filtered set of prediction samples and the group of pixels if the second performance measurement exceeds the first performance measurement, and encoding the frame using the residual.
US09344720B2
In a communication system, parallel encoding and decoding of serially-coded data occurs in a manner that supports low latency communication. A plurality of data items may be coded as serially-coded data sequences and a transmission sequence may be built from them. An index table may be built having a plurality of entries representing respective start points of the serially-coded data sequences within the transmission sequence. The transmission sequence may be transmitted to a channel and, thereafter, the index table may be transmitted. Latencies otherwise involved in inserting an index table into the beginning of a transmission sequence may be avoided.
US09344712B2
Image processing device, image processing method, computer program product, and image display device
According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes an obtaining unit, a first determining unit, and a detecting unit. The obtaining unit is configured to obtain an input image. The first determining unit is configured to determine a detection order that indicates an order of performing a detection operation for detecting whether an object is present with respect to partitioned areas into which the input image are divided, according to an existence probability that is set in advance for each of the partitioned areas and indicates a probability at which an object exists. The detecting unit is configured to perform, according to the detection order, the detection operation to detect whether the object is present in an area corresponding to a partitioned area subjected to the detection order in the input image.
US09344701B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a depth map in a scene are disclosed herein. According to one aspect, a method includes collecting focus statistical information for a plurality of focus windows. The method may also include determining a focal distance for each window. Further, the method may include determining near, far, and target focus distances. The method may also include calculating a stereo-base and screen plane using the focus distances.
US09344694B2
A semiconductor device comprises an array of individually controllable image pixels arranged in a plurality of reset groups. Each of the image pixels in the array of individually controllable image pixels has a one-to-one correspondence with at least one memory cell in an array of memory cells. The semiconductor device further comprises a plurality of sub-pixel sets, wherein each sub-pixel in the plurality of sub-pixel sets is a micromirror, and wherein each of the image pixels comprises a sub-pixel set.
US09344688B2
A small wearable recall device is provided to capture images triggered by a combination of a detection of a capture condition (e.g., changes in motion, temperature or light level) followed by a relatively stable period, as detected by an accelerometer. By triggering on the combination of a detected capture condition followed by a detected stability condition, a clearer image of the environment of an interesting event is expected to be captured. The small size of the recall device makes it possible to integrate it into common portable consumer products, such as MP3 players, purses, clothing, hats, backpacks, necklaces, collars, and other human-wearable products.
US09344675B1
A computer-implemented technique can include receiving a video chat request to initiate a video chat with at least one invitee user. The technique can include for a specific invitee user, determining a degree of notification for a specific video chat invitation for the specific invitee user, the degree of notification comprising a notification medium and a notification level each having a degree of intrusiveness, wherein determining the degree of notification is based on: (a) a number of invitee users specified by the video chat request, and (b) video chat attributes of the specific invitee user. The technique can also include outputting the specific video chat invitation to an invitee computing device associated with the specific invitee user via the determined notification medium, wherein receipt of the specific video chat invitation causes the invitee computing device to notify the specific invitee user according to the determined notification level.
US09344668B2
A system and method for time-shifted viewing of broadcast television programs is disclosed. Simultaneous recording and playback are provided by using buffer storage as the source and destination of compressed or uncompressed digital video/audio programs. Full VCR-like control is provided for all playback within the buffer storage. Playback and control of recorded programs may be initiated by the user at any time after initiation of the broadcast program with simultaneous continuous recording of the ongoing live broadcast. Larger archival storage and removable is also provided for storing and building a library of programs. Viewer playback control data may be stored as part of the program or used as edit points prior to archival. Numerous options are provided for features such as continuous automatic recording in a circular buffer fashion, program archival, editing, Internet interfaces, multiple-channel recording and more.
US09344658B2
A pixel cell includes a photodiode disposed within a first semiconductor chip for accumulating an image charge in response to light incident upon the photodiode. A transfer transistor is disposed within the first semiconductor chip and coupled to the photodiode to transfer the image charge from the photodiode. A bias voltage generation circuit disposed within a second semiconductor chip for generating a bias voltage. The bias voltage generation circuit is coupled to the first semiconductor chip to bias the photodiode with the bias voltage. The bias voltage is negative with respect to a ground voltage of the second semiconductor chip. A floating diffusion is disposed within the second semiconductor chip. The transfer transistor is coupled to transfer the image charge from the photodiode on the first semiconductor chip to the floating diffusion on the second semiconductor chip.
US09344654B2
A solid-state imaging device includes pixels each including: a charge storage portion; an amplifier transistor having a gate connected to the charge storage portion; a selection transistor having a source connected to a source of the amplifier transistor and a drain connected to a column signal line; and a reset transistor having a source connected to the charge storage portion and a drain connected to the column signal line, and further includes a control unit which applies to a gate of the selection transistor a first voltage to place the selection transistor in a conductive state and applies to a gate of the reset transistor a second voltage to place the reset transistor in a non-conductive state in a pixel signal readout period, and applies to the gate of the selection transistor a voltage intermediate between the first voltage and the second voltage in a charge storage portion resetting period.
US09344653B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging apparatus, including pixels each including: a photoelectric conversion unit; a charge accumulation unit; a transistor including a control electrode; a waveguide; and a light-shielding portion. The waveguide includes an incident portion and an output portion, the light-shielding portion includes a first portion that covers the control electrode of the transistor and a second portion that covers a part of the photoelectric conversion unit, the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit are arranged with an interval therebetween, the interval between the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit is larger than an interval between a lower end of the second portion of the light-shielding portion and the photoelectric conversion unit, and the interval between the output portion and the photoelectric conversion unit is smaller than an interval between an upper end of the second portion of the light-shielding portion and the photoelectric conversion unit.
US09344647B2
An imaging system may include an image sensor having an array of image pixels. Each image pixel may include an electronic shutter for controlling when a photosensor in the image pixel accumulates charge. The electronic shutter may be operable in an open state during which charge is allowed to accumulate on the photosensor and a closed state during which charge is drained from the photosensor. The electronic shutter may be cycled through multiple open and closed states during an image frame capture. At the end of each open state, the charge that has been acquired on the photosensor may be transferred from the photosensor to a pixel memory element. By breaking up the total exposure time for a pixel during an image frame into shorter, non-continuous periods of exposure time, dynamic scenery image artifacts may be minimized while maintaining the desired total exposure time.
US09344645B2
A camera system includes: a camera device which outputs a picked-up image signal in synchronization with an input synchronization signal; a camera controller which is input with the image signal of the camera device; and a relay device which is connected between the camera device and the camera controller and relays the image signal to be transmitted from the camera device to the camera controller, wherein the relay device transmits at least an externally input synchronization signal to the camera device and outputs the image signal to the camera device in synchronization with the externally input synchronization signal.
US09344642B2
According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a method of capturing images using a camera. The method comprises analyzing a view depicted by the digital camera and determining, based on the analysis, a subset of configurations of the digital camera. The method further comprises capturing, in response to a detection of an image capturing command at the camera, a set of at least two images using at least two different configurations of said subset of configurations.
US09344640B2
This image capture device (100) includes: an image sensor (102); an integrated value calculating section (210) which calculates, on a frame-by-frame basis, a value of a line integral of luminance values with respect to each of a plurality of horizontal lines included in a frame; a memory (220); an average calculating section (230) which calculates a line average value by working out the average of the values of the line integral on the same horizontal line between the newest frame and a number of other frames gotten earlier than the newest one in the memory (220); a waveform data generating section (240) which generates waveform data by normalizing the value of the line integral in the memory (220) based on the value of the line integral and a line average value; and a flicker extracting section (250) which extracts information about the phase and frequency of the flicker based on the waveform data.
US09344633B2
FIG. 2C depicts a live view screen when a movement is made in a direction of approaching the camera position at the time of pre-photographing (frontward direction) and also in the right direction in the drawing. When the camera position is changed, the display state of a provisional subject image in the live view screen is changed according to the change. In this case, the display size of the provisional subject image is changed according to the movement distance of the camera position in the frontward direction and the display position of the provisional subject image is changed in the left direction according to the movement distance in the right direction.
US09344631B2
A method of selecting an image captured on an image capture device (101) is disclosed. A captured image is displayed on a display (114) associated with the image capture device (101). A viewer image of a viewer viewing the captured image displayed on the display (114) is captured using the image capture device (101). The captured image and the viewer image are compared to identify at least one common feature in the captured image and the viewer image. The captured image is selected if the at least one common feature is identified in both the captured image and the viewer image.
US09344626B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device may be configured to capture still frames during video capture, but may capture the still frames in the 4×3 aspect ratio and at higher resolution than the 16×9 aspect ratio video frames. The device may interleave high resolution, 4×3 frames and lower resolution 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and may capture the nearest higher resolution, 4×3 frame when the user indicates the capture of a still frame. Alternatively, the device may display 16×9 frames in the video sequence, and then expand to 4×3 frames when a shutter button is pressed. The device may capture the still frame and return to the 16×9 video frames responsive to a release of the shutter button.
US09344624B2
An image generation method is provided for generating an output image from an input image acquired by an image sensor that has an array of multiple pixels, each of which has arranged therein multiple sub-pixels that each receive a light beam that passes through a different pupil sub-area of an imaging optical system. The method includes a step of generating multiple parallax images that respectively correspond to the different pupil sub-areas; a step of generating multiple pixel shifted images by performing different shifting for each of the parallax images according to a virtual image forming plane of the imaging optical system; and a step of generating an output image that has a higher resolution than the resolution of the parallax images from the pixel shifted images through composition processing.
US09344623B2
Methods and systems for providing functionality of an interface to control orientations of a camera on a device are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving an input on an interface indicating a command for an orientation of a camera on a robotic device, and the interface may be provided on a device remote from the robotic device. An indicator may be provided on the interface representing a location of the input, and the indicator may be representative of the command for the orientation of the camera on the robotic device. The method may also include determining that the location of the input on the interface is within a distance threshold to a pre-set location on the interface, and repositioning the indicator on the interface to be at the pre-set location.
US09344622B2
A mobile terminal which includes a touch-screen display method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes a touch-screen display; a camera configured to capture image data; a sensing unit located in a corresponding area of the camera; and a controller configured to: receive a first touch gesture in the corresponding area of the camera, turn on the camera in response to the received first touch gesture and display a preview image on the touch-screen display, receive a second touch gestures in the corresponding area of the camera, said first touch gesture being different than the second touch gesture, and capture the image data in response to the second touch gesture, wherein the camera and the sensing unit are mounted on an area of the mobile terminal that excludes the touch-screen display.
US09344619B2
Techniques are described for generating an all-in focus image with a capability to refocus. One example includes obtaining a first depth map associated with a plurality of captured images of a scene. The plurality of captured images may include images having different focal lengths. The method further includes obtaining a second depth map associated with the plurality of captured images, generating a composite image showing different portions of the scene in focus (based on the plurality of captured images and the first depth map), and generating a refocused image showing a selected portion of the scene in focus (based on the composite image and the second depth map).
US09344604B2
A display processing apparatus includes a first correcting unit that, based on original data containing first-type color image data that indicates a color image in each drawing area and containing first-type gloss control image data that indicates a type of gloss effect to be given to a recording medium and indicates a gloss area to which the gloss effect is to be given in each drawing area, corrects color saturation of an area in the first-type color image data that corresponds to the gloss area specified by the first-type gloss control image data depending on the type of gloss effect, to thereby generate first-type corrected image data; and a display control unit that, on a display unit, displays the first-type corrected image data as a print preview of a projected printing result of the original data.
US09344600B2
An encoding system is for generating a data-bearing halftone image. The encoding system is configured to: convert a grayscale image into a halftone image having a plurality of image cells; select, from the halftone image, at least one of the image cells to be a carrier cell according to a set of reference dot patterns, the carrier cell having a dot pattern identical to one of the reference dot patterns; and generate a data-bearing halftone image by replacing the dot pattern of the carrier cell by a specified one of multiple encoding dot patterns of one of a plurality of the sets of encoding dot patterns each being associated with a code. The data-bearing halftone image is encoded with a code associated with the one of the sets of the encoding dot patterns.
US09344599B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus and a portable terminal. The image forming apparatus includes: a preview-image-data generating circuit that generates preview image data from image data; and a preview-image-data transmitting circuit that transmits the preview image data to the portable terminal. The portable terminal includes: a preview-image-data receiving circuit that receives the preview image data from the image forming apparatus via wireless communication; a preview-image display circuit that displays an image of the preview image data; and a rotation detecting circuit that detects rotation of a main body of the portable terminal with a predetermined rotation procedure. When the rotation detecting circuit detects rotation of the main body of the portable terminal while the image of the preview image data is displayed, the portable terminal displays an image of the preview image data corresponding to a back side of the displayed image.
US09344596B2
An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.
US09344593B2
An image reading apparatus includes a base, a supporter supporting a reading object, a reader provided on a mover and disposed between the base and the supporter. The image reading apparatus further includes a flexible flat cable. A first holder provided on the mover and holds a portion of the flat cable in a state in which the first holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. A second holder holds the portion of the flat cable together with the first holder in a state in which the second holder is held in contact with a surface of the flat cable. The flat cable is interposed between the first holder and the second holder and held by the first holder and the second holder.
US09344579B2
Examples of the disclosure provide variable step size (VSS) adaptive echo cancellation in the presence of near-end noise such as dense double talk without using an explicit double talk detector and/or without using a dual-filter. During a conversation, the present value for an error signal is monitored. Based on the monitored present value for the error signal, a first function is determined. A second function is determined based on long-term statistics describing a reference signal, a near-end noise signal, and the error signal. An adaptation coefficient is calculated for the VSS adaptive filter based on the determined first function and the determined second function. The calculated adaptation coefficient is used in the VSS adaptive filter for echo cancellation against interference due to the near-end noise signal during the conversation.
US09344563B2
Systems and methods for recycling contact numbers are presented. A service provider receives a disconnect request for a device associated with a contact number. The system retrieves and stores the device's contact list and/or communication history. One or more messages are created and stored. The contact number is placed in a pool of recycled numbers and mapped to the stored information, and may later be assigned to a second device. Subsequently, when a call is made over the service provider's network, the called number is compared with numbers in the pool. If a match is found, the system retrieves the stored contact list and/or communication history, and compares the calling number to numbers in the contact list and/or communication history. If a match is found, the system retrieves and plays the message to inform the calling party that the number they are trying to reach has been re-assigned.
US09344562B2
A system, process and computer-readable media that incorporate teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an interactive application delivering captions of an audio signal, such as a voicemail message or audio received concurrently during a telephone conversation. The application can be a television application, for example, receiving at a media processor associated with equipment of a first party, a textual interpretation of an audio signal of a second party, for example, during an active telephone call between the first party and the second party. A graphical image of the textual interpretation of the audio signal is rendered at the media processor and presented to a display device, such as a television display. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09344561B2
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed which aggregate presence detections, and use the diversity of presence detections to resolve presence ambiguities and increase the correctness of information. Presence confidence levels and reliability values increase the effectiveness of services based on presence. A variety of methods enable presence detection and reporting. Each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages. The limitations of each of the individual methods are overcome with exemplary embodiments of the subject disclosure.
US09344560B2
A recording device provides conversation recording with real-time notification between users of communication terminals engaged in a conversation. The recording device provides a recording start notification to a second communication terminal in response to receiving an initiate recording request from a first communication terminal, and initiates recording of the conversation. The recording device terminates recording of the conversation in response to receiving a terminate recording request from the first communication terminal, provides a recording stop notification to the second communication terminal, and saves the recorded conversation to a file in a file storage medium. The recording start and recording stop notifications can be either audible or electronic notifications. The first communication terminal may be muted prior to providing a notification, and un-muted subsequent to the notification. The recording device may obtain permission from the second communication terminal to record the conversation.
US09344556B2
A system for automated audio quality testing, comprising a plurality of endpoint emulators, call engines, and optionally audio generator devices and head and torso simulator devices, and a method for using such a system for testing of audio quality over a variety of system architectures for optimization of contact center operations and improvement of customer experience.
US09344555B2
A system for providing enhanced history information across multiple clients comprises a call application server having a history system, a telephony system and a history cache. The call application server advantageously maintains a history records for each user of the system. The enhanced history system is particularly advantageous because regardless of the endpoint (e.g., phone, thin client, personal call manager or standalone IP phone) with which the user is interacting, the history information specifically for that user is delivered by the call application server to that endpoint. Furthermore, the call application server allows the user to access history information using end points which heretofore were unable to provide history functionality. Finally, the call application server makes the history records universal across all endpoints with which the user interacts, in contrast to prior art, which had limited call history information specific to a particular endpoint.
US09344554B2
A method for activating user functions by types of input signals and a portable terminal adapted to the method are disclosed. The input means of the portable terminal generate various types of input signals. The portable terminal activates and controls particular user functions according to corresponding input signals. In a multi-tasking situation where a plurality of user functions are simultaneously used, the portable terminal can activate and control the user functions according to the particular types of input signals.
US09344553B1
Techniques for authenticating a user of a mobile device at a computing platform are provided. A method according to these techniques includes generating a first profile and second profile of user behavior for the user of the mobile device, the first profile comprising a first type of profile having at least a first duration and the second profile comprising a second type of profile having a second duration that is shorter than the first duration, monitoring user behavior to generate usage behavior data, comparing the usage behavior data to the first profile and the second profile, performing a first type of authentication action responsive to the usage behavior data deviating from the first profile, and performing a second type of authentication action responsive to the usage behavior data deviating from the second profile.
US09344544B1
A method moves a sound localization point (SLP) of a voice of a first person during an electronic call between the first person and a second person.
US09344539B2
Portable electronic devices are provided. Each device may be formed from two parts. A first part may be provided with components such as a display, a touch screen, a cover glass, and a frame. A second part may be provided with a plastic housing, circuit boards containing electrical components, and a bezel. Engagement members may be connected to the first and second parts. The engagement members may be formed from metal clips with holes and springs with flexible spring prongs that mate with the holes in the clips. The metal clips may be welded to frame struts on the frame and the springs may be welded to the bezel. During assembly, the first part may be rotated into place within the second part. Retention clips attached to the frame may be used to secure the two parts together. Assembly instructions and associated connector numbers may be provided within the devices.
US09344529B2
A system for synchronizing agricultural data uses a synchronization device adapted to receive information from a storage medium associated with a monitor for an agricultural implement. The synchronization device has wireless communication with a mobile device to share the information from the monitor with the mobile device. The mobile device will compress and store the data until the mobile device has communication coverage. Once the mobile device has communication coverage, it will automatically communicate the compressed data to a remote server, such as a cloud server. The server will process the data. The processed data may be communicated back to the monitor via the mobile device and the synchronization device. The processed data may also be accessed on the server by a remote computer.
US09344524B2
A method and system for providing composite web application is provided. The method operates at a server computer to receive a client request in the form of an API language request, having a plurality of CLI commands for querying Web services. The process allows generating an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) from the client request and sequentially executing each node of the AST to query the Web services. All web data received are combined into a composite data structure send back in the form of an API language response to the originator.
US09344521B2
A server computer system receives a request to launch a deployment and determines a set of matches from a pool of cloud providers that meets minimum requirements for the deployment. The server computer identifies a selection criteria comprising priority ranking criteria and probability ranking criteria for the deployment. The server computer then determines one of the cloud providers for the deployment from the set of matches based on the priority ranking criteria and the probability ranking criteria.
US09344519B2
Receiving and correlation of user choices to facilitate recommendations for peer-to-peer connections
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed which facilitate collecting information about users, including responses to poll prompts, and analyzing such information in order to determine correlations and inter-relationships of information and information areas. In an aspect, information from many users is collected across a variety of user interaction channels and computing device platforms. Such information is analyzed in order to generate profiles of like-minded individuals. Such profiles may be useful for recommending peer-to-peer connection between individuals, marketing products and services to individuals with similar attributes and traits, and examining changes in individual preferences over time or in response to external factors.
US09344518B2
Embodiments relate to facilitating social interactions. An aspect includes determining that a first communications device is in communicative contact with a second communications device, identifying at least one artifact relating to a user of the first communications device, and searching at least one database for information about a user of the second communications device that is in common with the user of the first communications device with respect to the artifact. Also, results of the searching are provided as a topic of conversation to the first communications device.
US09344517B2
An apparatus operates in an offline mode and a playback mode, and includes a relatively large cache buffer. In the offline mode, the apparatus is configured download multimedia content identified in a user content queue, over a communication network, into the cache buffer. In the playback mode, after the multimedia content has been downloaded in the offline mode, the apparatus fetches content from the cache buffer and plays back the fetched content on the client device until all of the content in the cache buffer has been fetched and played back. Then the apparatus streams content over the communication network and plays back the streamed content.
US09344514B2
The present relates to a method and a proxy for transporting IP messages over a Default Tolerant Network. The method and proxy receive a message composed of multiple IP packets payload, and create partial messages by bundling sub-groups of subsequent IP packets payload with a unique identifier and a corresponding sequence number. The partial messages are transported over the DTN. The partial messages are received at another proxy after transport over the DTN, are unbundled and ordered based on the sequence number; and delivered.
US09344507B2
A server includes an operation number counting part configured to count the number of operations on a link on a Web page; an operation ratio predicted value calculating part configured to calculate the predicted value of the ratio of the operations of the link based on the Web page; and a link prominence determining part configured to determine the prominence of the link based on the number of the operations and the predicted value of the ratio of the operations.
US09344499B2
Techniques are described regarding providing consumers with devices on which digital content appropriate for those consumers has been loaded, such as digital media player devices or other consumer devices that are able to play or otherwise present digital media loaded on those devices. In some situations, when a consumer orders such a digital media player or other consumer device from a merchant (or other distributor of the device), the merchant preloads a copy of the device with digital media content before delivering that device to the consumer or other specified recipient, such as digital media items that are automatically selected in a personalized manner for the recipient to whom the device will be sent. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09344496B2
A system and method are provided of minimizing network bandwidth used from an external network by client peers in a local network. The method can include the operation of organizing a plurality of clients each having media streamlets and a client parent in a structure within the local network. Mapping information propagates through the structure. The mapping information represents local streamlet locations as stored by the plurality of clients. Another operation is retrieving a local streamlet from a client identified in the mapping information as having the local streamlet for the requesting client.
US09344491B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media of providing applications style functionality to a user of a mobile radio terminal are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the systems, methods, and computer readable media include the steps of receiving a data stream transmission having a plurality of states, wherein each state is associated with output instructions and storage instructions, and wherein the plurality of states is configured such that moving through the states creates the appearance of executing an application on the mobile radio terminal; decoding the data stream transmission and caching each of the plurality of states with the associated output instructions according to the associated storage instructions; rendering a first state; responsive to an event on the mobile radio terminal, moving from the first state to a second state by applying the output instructions associated with the second state; and communicating a change of state to a server.
US09344483B2
A method for facilitating remote downloading, in accordance with particular embodiments, includes receiving, at a proxy server maintained by a wireless service provider, a remote download request. The remote download request is relayed to the proxy server via at least one component of a wireless service provider's network. The remote download request includes an address associated with at least one file hosted by a remote server. The method also includes downloading the at least one file from the remote server to the proxy server. Upon detecting a presence of the endpoint, the method includes transferring the at least one file from the proxy server to the endpoint via a femto base station associated with the endpoint.
US09344482B2
Systems and methods for remote file access are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a local agent polls a server for a task request at a polling interval scheduled by a schedule timer in accordance with a set of local agent and remote client preferences. The local agent is responsible for executing a task from the task request and causing a file to be uploaded to the server. The local agent uses a task processor for polling a server, a schedule timer for controlling polling, and one or more protocol stacks, such as TCP/IP and SOAP, for communicating with the server. The local agent can also interface with a MAPI database for message delivery.
US09344479B2
In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a server from a computing device coupled to a first network, a request to access a first web page via a second network. The method includes redirecting the computing device to a second web page in response to a determination that the computing device is not permitted access to the second network. The method further includes providing, to the computing device, baseline content and additional content associated with the second web page. The additional content is retrieved from a content management server.
US09344477B2
A method and apparatus for an adaptive Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming service using metadata of media content are provided. The media content may include a sequence of one or more periods. The metadata may include a start time attribute and/or a duration attribute of each of the periods. The metadata may determine a start time of each of the periods, and a start time of each of segments included in each of the periods. A terminal may access segments included in each of the periods, may decode and render data of media content included in the segments, and may play back the media content.
US09344471B2
Method and apparatus for managing and processing information of an object for multi-source-streaming
Preparing of information about a content source is disclosed. One method in accordance with the information preparing creates item information on a first component pertaining to an arbitrary content source, incorporates the created information on the first component into a first structure element (e.g., tag), creates a second structure element containing information making display layout information for the arbitrary content source accessible, creates information on at least one component pertaining to the arbitrary content source other than the first component, and incorporates the created information on the at least one component into at least one third structure element included within the second structure element.
US09344469B2
A scheduling request to schedule an online meeting is received. The online meeting involves a plurality of participants during which multiple participants may become presenters to present content during the online meeting. A presentation queue is generated that includes an ordering of presenters for the online meeting and associated time slots for each of the presenters during the online meeting. Content to display the presentation queue is sent to each of the participants of the online meeting.
US09344464B2
An aspect provides a method, including: responsive to receiving a content request of a user device, determining if the user device has access to one or more applications associated with the content requested; responsive to determining that the user device does not have one or more applications associated with the content requested, determining an associated application; and responsive to determining an associated application, provisioning access to the associated application for the user device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09344462B2
Techniques are provided for leveraging narrowband connectivity (such as dial-up communications or other types of low bandwidth communications) to provision or configure broadband connectivity between a broadband access provider and a broadband device, such as a DSL modem or a cable modem. Specifically, because narrowband connectivity does not require advance configuration or provisioning by the host system of connectivity parameters for an access-seeking device, a modem at an access-seeking device may be leveraged to establish a narrowband connection between that device and a host system and to enable an exchange or negotiation of connectivity parameters necessary to enable future broadband connectivity. Thus, once established, the narrowband connection may be used as a conduit for communicating required provisioning information between the broadband-enabling host and the access-seeking device to enable broadband connectivity by the device in the future.
US09344459B2
The present invention applies to telecommunication networks, such as wireless mobile networks. In particular, the present invention deals with providing more efficient use of the resources of such mobile networks. The present invention provides in a wireless mobile telecommunications network, having a wireless mobile access interface, a message filter function adapted to remove, store and/or adapt header information from messages transferred to/from a wireless mobile device. The present invention is based on using the SIP signalling channel within the workings of a mobile network system more efficiently.
US09344456B2
A system and method for a distributed multi-processing security gateway establishes a host side session, selects a proxy network address for a server, uses the proxy network address to establish a server side session, receives a data packet, assigns a central processing unit core from a plurality of central processing unit cores in a multi-core processor of the security gateway to process the data packet, processes the data packet according to security policies, and sends the processed data packet. The proxy network address is selected such that a same central processing unit core is assigned to process data packets from the server side session and the host side session. By assigning central processing unit cores in this manner, higher capable security gateways are provided.
US09344455B2
A first communication device having a secure access to a security module establishes a collaborative network by forming a collaborative security association with a second communication device associated with a user of the first communication device. The first communication device (a) sends an advertisement of services associated with the security module to the second communication device and receives an advertisement response from the second communication device or (b) receives a solicitation request for services associated with the security module from the second communication device. Responsive to receiving one of the advertisement response and the solicitation request, the first communication device determines whether the second communication device is authorized to access the security module. The first communication device processes and forwards security service messages between the second communication device and the security module, in response to determining that the second communication device is authorized to access the security module.
US09344450B2
A method and a system for detecting phishing of a matrix barcode is provided. The matrix barcode comprises colored and white squares in rows and columns. The method comprises scanning the matrix barcode row by row and column by column resulting in received squares, storing a corresponding white color level for each received white square, and comparing the white color levels of the received white squares couple-wise.
US09344448B2
A method and system for detecting and mitigating attacks performed using a cryptographic protocol are provided. The method comprises establishing an encrypted connection with the client using the cryptographic protocol, upon receiving an indication about a potential attack; receiving an inbound traffic from a client, wherein the inbound traffic is originally directed to a protected entity; analyzing application layer attributes of only the inbound traffic received on the encrypted connection to detect at least one encrypted attack; and causing to establish a new encrypted connection between the client and the protected entity, if the at least one encrypted attack at the application layer has not been detected.
US09344447B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data analysis system that may automatically generate memory-efficient clustered data structures, automatically analyze those clustered data structures, and provide results of the automated analysis in an optimized way to an analyst. The automated analysis of the clustered data structures (also referred to herein as data clusters) may include an automated application of various criteria or rules so as to generate a compact, human-readable analysis of the data clusters. The human-readable analysis (also referred to herein as “summaries” or “conclusions”) of the data clusters may be organized into an interactive user interface so as to enable an analyst to quickly navigate among information associated with various data clusters and efficiently evaluate those data clusters in the context of, for example, a fraud investigation. Embodiments of the present disclosure also relate to automated scoring of the clustered data structures.
US09344444B2
In one aspect, a method to generate an attack graph includes determining if a potential node provides a first precondition equivalent to one of preconditions provided by a group of preexisting nodes on the attack graph. The group of preexisting nodes includes a first state node, a first vulnerability instance node, a first prerequisite node, and a second state node. The method also includes, if the first precondition is equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, coupling a current node to a preexisting node providing the precondition equivalent to the first precondition using a first edge and if the first precondition is not equivalent to one of the preconditions provided by the group of preexisting nodes, generating the potential node as a new node on the attack graph and coupling the new node to the current node using a second edge.
US09344442B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for identifying malware attacks collects data traffic information. A system receives data traffic information indicative of communications between computers within a network and computers external to the network. The system parses the data traffic information to identify communication links between the computers within the network and computers external to the network. The system can generate communication link profiles for each of the computers within the network. The system can then group computers within the network into computer clusters based on similarities between the communication link profiles for each computer. The system can identify computer clusters having anomalous communication patterns as being indicative of a malware attack.
US09344439B2
Disclosed herein is a method for executing unprotected mode services in a protected mode computing environment includes initiating a protected mode service that is configured to execute in a protected mode. Further, the method includes verifying an integrity of one or more unprotected mode services configured to execute in an unprotected mode. The one or more unprotected mode services is registered with the protected mode service. The method also includes initiating an unprotected mode service of the one or more unprotected mode services in response to the integrity of the unprotected mode service being verified.
US09344434B2
An example of the present disclosure includes a Group Member (GM) registering on a Key Server (KS) in a Group Encrypted Transport Virtual Private Network (GET VPN). The KS is to manage at least one group, and GMs belonging to the same group have the same group ID. The KS receives a group ID and a Security Association, SA, policy list supported by a GM sent by the GM. The KS, according to the group ID, determines a KS SA policy list corresponding to the group, and matches the SA policy list supported by the GM with the KS SA policy list according to a priority. A group SA policy with the highest priority is sent the GM.
US09344422B2
Methods, devices, and systems are described to modify the life cycle of a Google Android® application, in its application manifest file and byte code, such that the execution of the application can be controlled via policies and security governed by a workspace application installed on an Android-based device. Dummy wrapper classes are inserted into the byte code for network and I/O system calls that call security code before calling the original classes.
US09344418B2
Systems and methods for inhibiting attacks with a network are provided. In some embodiments, methods for inhibiting attacks by forwarding packets through a plurality of intermediate nodes when being transmitted from a source node to a destination node are provided, the methods comprising: receiving a packet at one of the plurality of intermediate nodes; determining at the selected intermediate node whether the packet has been sent to the correct one of the plurality of intermediate nodes based on a pseudo random function; and forwarding the packet to the destination node, based on the determining. In some embodiments an intermediate node is selected based on a pseudo random function. In some embodiments, systems and methods for establishing access to a multi-path network are provided.
US09344414B2
A user similarity provision method for providing mobile communication devices with information about common interests among first and second users of the mobile communication devices is described. The current position of each mobile communication device are periodically acquired in association with the current time and accumulated as a visited location history. The visited location history consists of location visited records each of which consists of a visited location and a visit time. Similar visited location records are extracted from the visited location histories of the first and second users to indicate common interests shared by them. The similar visited location records are then displayed on the mobile communication devices.
US09344411B2
In a method for key handling in mobile communication systems, first and second numbers are exchanged between entities of the mobile communication system. The first and second numbers are respectively used only once with respect to the respective system parameters of the communication system and therefore allowing greater security in the communication system.
US09344410B1
The invention provides for a telecommunication method of securely exchanging unencrypted data between a telecommunications device and a first server computer system via a digital cellular wireless telecommunications network, wherein the telecommunications device is a battery powered mobile end user telecommunications device, wherein the method comprises the steps of: encrypting the unencrypted data using a first encryption algorithm into first encrypted data, sending the first encrypted data to a second server computer system via a first network connection of the digital cellular wireless telecommunications network, storing the first encrypted data by the second server computer system, sending an order request to the first server computer system via a second network connection of the digital cellular wireless telecommunications network by the telecommunications device, sending a data publishing request to the second server computer system, generating a cryptographic key pair, sending the first encrypted data, the public key, and the private key to the telecommunications device, decrypting the first encrypted data into the unencrypted data, encrypting the unencrypted data into second encrypted data using the public key, sending the second encrypted data to the second, generating a web service for providing the second encrypted data via an URL, sending the URL to the telecommunications device, sending the URL and the private key, requesting the second encrypted data from the second server computer system, sending the second encrypted data to the first server computer system by the second server computer system using the wired network connection, decrypting the second encrypted data by the first server computer system into the unencrypted data, and combining the order request with the unencrypted data.
US09344408B2
A method for formal verification of a digital circuit using a cloud-based verification engine. The method comprises extracting a proof problem from a design of a digital circuit with a local processor, reducing said proof problem to proof relevant data, encrypting said reduced proof problem, transmitting said encrypted reduced proof problem to a remote server, decrypting said encrypted reduced proof problem at said remote server, storing said reduced proof problem in a memory at said remote server, running a proof on said reduced proof problem at said remote server to generate a proof result; encrypting said proof result at said remote server; transmitting said encrypted proof result to said local processor; decrypting said encrypted proof result at said local processor; and reconstructing a verification result of said digital circuit design at said local processor using said decrypted proof result.
US09344407B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for centrally managed use case-specific entity identifiers. An identifier translation service receives an identifier translation request from a requesting service. The request specifies a first use case-specific entity identifier, which is specific to a first use case. An actual entity identifier is obtained by decrypting the first use case-specific entity identifier. A second use case-specific entity identifier is generated based at least in part on encrypting the actual entity identifier. The second use case-specific entity identifier is sent to the requesting service in response to the identifier translation request.
US09344383B2
A network switch includes a plurality of internal ports, a plurality of external ports, an event handler, an action engine, and an event processor. The event handler detects an event and, in response, assembles a construct that includes event parameters. The action engine uses the construct to generate an event syntax. The event processor executes the event syntax to automatically configure the communication between the plurality of internal ports and the plurality of external ports. A first event may include the connection of a cable to a first external port and result in each of the plurality of internal ports communicating with the first external port. A second event may include the connection of a cable to a second external port and result in a first subset of internal ports communicating with the first external port and a second subset of internal ports communicating with the second external port.
US09344377B2
A method to process a packet is described herein. The method comprises receiving a packet including a header and a payload. The header is parsed using a packet processor to determine type and priority of the packet. The header is then processed using a hardware acceleration block based on one or more of incoming bandwidth, priority and type of the packet. The custom hardware acceleration block generates header modification data that is sent to the packet processor. The header is modified using the packet processor, based on the header modification data, to generate a modified header. The modified header is appended to the payload and transmitted.
US09344371B1
A lightweight throttling mechanism allows for dynamic control of access to resources in a distributed environment. Each request received by a server of a server group is parsed to determine tokens in the request, which are compared with designated rules to determine whether to process or reject the request based on usage data associated with an aspect of the request, the token values, and the rule(s) specified for the request. The receiving of each request can be broadcast to throttling components for each server such that the global state of the system is known to each server. The system then can monitor usage and dynamically throttle requests based on real time data in a distributed environment.
US09344360B2
Techniques for allocation of a VLAN for a deployment by at least one VM provided on a host in a network. A VLAN manager is adapted to allocate a free physical VLAN identifier to the requested virtual VLAN identifier. The VLAN manager queries a VLAN mapping table for determining a free physical VLAN identifier. In case the physical VLAN identifier for the requested virtual VLAN identifier is in use, a procedure for determining the at least one free physical VLAN is performed. The determination procedure may be based on pre-defined zoning or it may apply a retagging after a free physical VLAN identifier has been calculated. The determined physical VLAN identifier is assigned to the requested VLAN. The VLAN switch devices are instructed about the assignment between the virtual and the physical VLAN identifier in order to apply the assignment of the data packets transported over the requested VLAN.
US09344359B1
Techniques include providing ingress protection for multipoint label switched paths (LSPs). According to the techniques, a primary ingress node and a backup ingress node of a network are both configured to advertise a virtual node identifier of a virtual node as a next hop for a multicast source. Two or more egress nodes of the network then use the virtual node as a root node reachable through the primary ingress node to establish a multipoint LSP. After the multipoint LSP is established, the primary ingress node forwards traffic of the multicast source on the multipoint LSP. When failure occurs at the primary ingress node, the backup ingress node forwards the traffic of the multicast source along a backup path and onto the same multipoint LSP with the virtual node as the root node reachable through the backup ingress node. The techniques enable ingress protection without tearing down the multipoint LSP.
US09344357B2
Techniques are disclosed for aggregating label-switched paths (LPSs). One method for aggregating LSPs may include a first node comparing forwarding equivalence classes (FECs) associated with respective label-switched paths (LSPs). The first node identifies FECs that differ by a given number of bits, such as one or two bits based on the comparison. The first node generates an aggregate FEC that masks out the differing bits, thereby reducing the number of LSPs. The first node transmits the aggregate FEC to an ingress node.
US09344353B2
A communications device is provided. This includes a processor adapted to receive one or more identified data sources from at least one network database. An applications component is configured to determine one or more network applications that communicate with the processor based in part on the one or more identified data sources. A filter can be configured to at least partially disable data exchanges to the one or more identified data sources during communications with at least one of the one or more network applications.
US09344350B2
In one embodiment, a method includes storing a service topology route at a network device interconnecting at least two zones comprising a plurality of hosts, and propagating the service topology route to create a service chain comprising a service node in communication with the network device. The service topology route creates a forwarding state at network devices in the service chain for use in inter-zone routing in a virtual private network. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US09344325B2
A system, method and apparatus of failover indication of a Multicast Virtual Private Networking (MVPN) P-Tunnel at a leaf provider equipment (PE) router. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) attributes may be adapted to associate a BFD discriminator with a P-Tunnel terminated at the Leaf PE router such that BFD session status may be used to indicate a tunnel failure condition.
US09344324B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a radio link of a terminal communicating via aggregated carriers including a primary cell and a secondary cell are provided. The method includes detecting a Radio Link Failure (RLF) for the secondary cell, deactivating the secondary cell, and reporting at least one of a measurement result of the secondary cell and a measurement result of neighboring cell of the secondary cell to a base station. The apparatus includes a transceiver for communicating with a base station, and a controller configured to detect a RLF for the secondary cell, to deactivate the secondary cell, and to report at least one of a measurement result of the secondary cell and a measurement result of neighboring cell of the secondary cell to the base station.
US09344323B2
A method, network element, and network provide detecting a failure on both ports of a major ring at a network element that has an interconnecting sub-ring terminating thereon; causing a block at an associated sub-ring termination port of the interconnecting sub-ring responsive to the failure on both the ports of the major ring; and monitoring the failure and clearing the block responsive to a recovery of one or both ports from the failure. The method, network, and network element include G.8032 multiple concurrent or simultaneous fault recovery mechanisms that traffic being transported between an interconnected major ring and a sub-ring to be successfully delivered in the event of dual concurrent faults on the major ring.
US09344321B1
A frame delineation method for a generic framing procedure (GFP) that includes: searching a serial data stream comprising GFP frames, octet by octet, to identify an eight octet sequence; and delineating GFP frames from the serial data stream in response to determining that a first group of four octets of the identified eight octet sequence comprises a valid Core Header, and in response to determining that a second group of four octets of the identified eight octet sequence comprises one of a valid Core Header and a valid descrambled Type Header.
US09344298B2
The present disclosure described herein relates to a device and method for managing access to a service of an account associated with an electronic device is provided. The method monitors a status of the account. If the account is inactive, then a notification is provided on the device indicating same with an option to reactivate the account. Upon reactivation of the account, access to the service is provided. In the device five modules are provided to: evaluate a status flag associated with the account; generate a notification on a display when the account is inactive; control access to the service related to the account depending on the status flag; generate and send an outbound message from the device to request reactivation of the account when requested; and monitor for receipt of a signal indicating approval of reactivation of the account and to update the status flag.
US09344290B2
A wireless communication system and methods thereof are disclosed. A server (e.g., a push-to-talk (PTT) server) determines a multicast message to be a final multicast message for a multicast session having an indeterminate end time. The server inserts a flag into the multicast message, the inserted flag indicating that the flagged multicast message is a final multicast message for the multicast session. The server sends the flagged multicast message to a communication entity (e.g., a radio access network (RAN), a broadcast serving node (BSN), etc.) supporting the multicast session. The communication entity (e.g., RAN, BSN, etc.) receives the multicast message from the server. The communication entity determines whether the received multicast message includes a flag relating to multicast session termination. The communication entity releases at least one channel associated with the multicast session based on the determining step.
US09344289B2
A local router stores a content distribution map that specifies a plurality of permitted multicast groups. The local router receives communications from user devices on an access-network side of the local router. Those received communications identify multicast groups for which user devices wish to receive data. The local router ascertains if those identified multicast groups are permitted multicast groups specified by the stored content distribution map. For multicast groups ascertained to be permitted multicast groups, the local router sends communications across a network-side interface requesting membership in those multicast groups. The local router may then receive data for those multicast groups and forward that data to user devices. For multicast groups identified in user device communications ascertained not to be permitted multicast groups, the local router sends no communications across the network-side interface requesting membership.
US09344284B2
Methods for anonymous authentication and key exchange are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes initiating a two-way mutual authentication between a first entity and a second entity. The first entity remains anonymous to the second entity after performing the authentication. The method also includes establishing a mutually shared session key for use in secure communication between the entities, wherein the initiating and the establishing are in conjunction with direct anonymous attestation (DAA).
US09344278B2
Encrypted information is conventionally broken into blocks which are transmitted sequentially. Because the order and the size of such blocks can be easily determined, an eavesdropper can gain valuable information regarding the content of the communication. More specifically, if known types of information exist within a block, the encryption key may be determined allowing the content of other encrypted blocks to be obtained. Embodiments of a system, method and computer program product described herein can overcome this deficiency by securely transferring information through random ordering and random block sizing. An original data set to be transferred is divided into a plurality of blocks, where at least two blocks have different sizes. The blocks are encrypted and inserted into a sequence of data transfer slots. The blocks are then selected for transfer in random order by selecting a slot to transfer based on a generated random number.
US09344275B2
Devices, system, and methods of secure entry and handling of passwords and Personal Identification Numbers (PINs), as well as for secure local storage, secure user authentication, and secure payment via mobile devices and via payment terminals. A computing device includes: a secure storage unit to securely store a confidential data item; a non-secure execution environment to execute program code, the program code to transport to a remote server a message; a secure execution environment (SEE) to securely execute code, the SEE including: a rewriter module to securely obtain the confidential data item from the secure storage, and to securely write the confidential data item into one or more fields in said message prior to its encrypted transport to the remote server.
US09344274B2
A method and system for encrypting data. Ciphertext is generated from plaintext by applying an initialization vector and an encryption key to the plaintext. The initialization vector is combined with the ciphertext to generate encrypted data, by using an embedding rule to perform the combining.
US09344272B1
Apparatus and methods reduce channel-dependent phase detector offset and/or gain errors. A conventional Mueller-Muller phase detector places a main cursor at the midpoint of a pre-cursor and a post-cursor. However, for example, when the impulse response of an associated transmission line is not symmetric, the main cursor can be misaligned by conventional Mueller-Muller techniques. By providing a replica clock and data recovery path, trial and error experiments on the phase detector offset and/or gain can be performed, and relatively good values found for the phase detector offset and/or gain without disturbing the reception of data by the phase detector that is being used to receive data. These settings can then be used by the phase detector that is being used to receive data, which can improve the bit error rate of the phase detector.
US09344270B2
Techniques for detecting and correcting phase discontinuity of a local oscillator (LO) signal are disclosed. In one design, a wireless device includes an LO generator and a phase detector. The LO generator generates an LO signal used for frequency conversion and is periodically powered on and off. The phase detector detects the phase of the LO signal when the LO generator is powered on. The detected phase of the LO signal is used to identify phase discontinuity of the LO signal. The wireless device may further include (i) a single-tone generator that generates a single-tone signal used to detect the phase of the LO signal, (ii) a downconverter that downconverts the single-tone signal with the LO signal and provides a downconverted signal used by the phase detector to detect the phase of LO signal, and (iii) phase corrector that corrects phase discontinuity of the LO signal in the analog domain or digital domain.
US09344269B2
A receiving circuit includes circuits arranged in parallel, each circuits including a voltage-controlled-oscillator (VCO) configured to generate a clock having an oscillation frequency according to an inductor and a capacitor, and a gain circuit. Each circuit is configured to sample a piece of input data with an output clock of the VCO and adjust the oscillation frequency of the VCO based on a phase difference and a frequency difference between the piece of input data and the output clock, thereby recovering data and a clock based on the piece of input data. The gain circuit is configured to adjust ratios of gains of up and down of the oscillation frequency of the VCO in a loop in each circuit arranged adjacent to each other, based on a phase difference between the pieces of input data and a phase difference between the output clocks of the respective circuits.
US09344268B1
A phase alignment architecture enhances the performance of communication systems. The architecture aligns a divided clock (e.g., in differential Inphase (I) and Quadrature (Q)) to a main clock, even at extremely high speeds, where skew variations of the divided clock are comparable to the main clock period. The improvement in phase alignment facilitates ultra high-speed communications.
US09344265B2
Network timing synchronization for virtual machine (VM) host systems and related methods are disclosed that provide synchronization of master/slave clocks within VM host hardware systems. Master timing messages are sent from the master clocks to slave clocks within VM guest platforms hosted by the VM host hardware system within a virtualization layer, and return slave timing messages are communicated from the VM guest platforms to the master clock. Virtual switches within the virtualization layer use virtual transparent clocks to determine intra-switch delay times for the timing packets traversing the virtual switch. These intra-switch delay times are then communicated to target destinations and used to account for variations in packet transit times through the virtual switch. The VM guest platforms synchronize their timing using the timing messages. The master/slave timing messages can be PTP (Precision Time Protocol) timing messages and/or timing messages based upon some other timing protocol.
US09344262B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention include converting satellite signals to an intermediate frequency signal for content decoding, and selecting modulated digital data within the satellite signals for content decoding using digital signal processing. One embodiment includes a system configured to select at least one content channel from an input signal including a plurality of content channels modulated onto a carrier, the system including: a digital channelizer switch including: a high speed analog to digital converter configured to digitize an intermediate frequency signal; a digital channelizer configured to digitally tune a content channel from the digitized intermediate frequency signal; and a high speed digital to analog converter configured to generate an analog output signal using the content channel digitally tuned from the digitized intermediate frequency signal by the digital channelizer.
US09344261B2
A carrier aggregation system, includes transmitting a first signaling to configure one additional carrier to a user equipment (UE) at which the additional carriers are deactivated, to configure a timer to each additional carrier for the UE by which the carrier is deactivated after the corresponding timer expiry; transmitting a second signaling that carries an activation indication to the UE to activate one deactivated additional carrier in the configured carriers for the UE; activating at least one deactivated additional carrier, starting the timer, controlling the UE to start Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) monitoring and Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) receiving on the activated additional carrier; transmitting PDCCH on the activated additional carrier for the UE, by which the corresponding timer being restarted; deactivating the activated carrier after the corresponding timer expiry, controlling the UE to stop the PDCCH monitoring and the PDSCH receiving on the deactivated additional carrier.
US09344257B2
A radio frequency communication device (100A) comprising a radio frequency communication interface (130) and a controller (110), wherein said controller (110) is configured to transmit a first message through said radio frequency communication interface (130) to a receiving radio frequency communication device (100B) using a transmission format, receive an indication of a type of interference limiting the reception of the message, adapt a transmission parameter for transmission based on said type of interference (I); and transmit a second message according to said adapted transmission parameter. In one embodiment the transmission parameter is transmission time. In one embodiment the transmission parameter is message length. In one embodiment the transmission parameter is transmission power. In one embodiment the transmission parameter is a coding scheme.
US09344252B2
A user equipment comprises a transmitter and an adaptive modulation and coding controller. The transmitter is configured to transmit data over an air interface in a single transmission time interval with a first specified modulation and coding scheme, where the single transmission time interval has a plurality of transport block sets. In response to receiving a repeat request for retransmission of at least one particular transport block set, the transmitter retransmits the at least one of the particular transport block sets. The adaptive modulation and coding controller is configured to change the specified modulation and coding scheme to a second specified modulation and coding scheme, enabling a combining of a particular transport block set transmitted at the first specified modulation and coding scheme with a retransmitted version of the particular transport block set transmitted at the second specified modulation and coding scheme.
US09344244B2
A base station (BS) encodes antenna configuration information of a neighboring cell of a first cell, and sends encoded information relating to the antenna configuration information of the neighboring cell to a user equipment (UE). The UE is capable of communicating with the BS in the first cell. The UE receives the encoded information; decodes the antenna configuration information of the neighboring cell from the encoded information; and performs determination of predetermined time-frequency resource according to the antenna configuration information of the neighboring cell. The predetermined time-frequency resource is used by a BS of the neighboring cell for transmitting pilot measurement information.
US09344241B2
The present invention is designed to measure interference with high accuracy, without changing the density of CSI-RSs, in a future system that does not reply on CRSs. A base station apparatus (20) allocates CSI-RS to CSI resources that are defined for CSI-RS transmission, changes arbitrary resources in the CSI-RS resources in resource block units or in resource block group units, and determines and reports to a mobile terminal apparatus (10) the resources to be muted, and the mobile terminal apparatus (10) is configured to measure interference using the muted resources.
US09344236B2
A method and apparatus of performing channel estimation in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes determining a channel response value of a midamble sequence included in a downlink slot, detecting a first channel response value of a window allocated to a user and a second channel response value of a window allocated to at least one other user based on the channel response value of the midamble sequence, determining whether a Base Station (BS) of a current cell uses beamforming based on the first and second channel response values, and combining the first and second channel response values and using the combined channel response value for signal detection if it is determined that the BS does not use beamforming.
US09344234B2
A method of radio link monitoring (RLM) and radio link failure (RLF) handling over a secondary serving cell (SCELL) is proposed. In a wireless network, a user equipment (UE) establishes a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a base station (eNB). The UE applies carrier aggregation for multiple component carriers (CCs) configured as multiple serving cells. The UE performs radio link monitoring over a primary serving cell (PCELL). The UE also performs radio link monitoring over a secondary serving cell (SCELL). The SCELL belongs to a CC group of one or more CCs, and used as a reference cell for the CC group. When SCELL performance is below pre-defined criteria, the UE and the eNB apply certain actions over the SCELL. The proposed SCELL RLM/RLF handling prevents spurious and uncontrollable uplink SCELL transmission and interference to other UEs.
US09344219B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for preventing false packet acceptance in high-speed links. Under one aspect, correctable symbol errors are detected, and determination is made to whether a symbol error rate or ratio (SER) exceeds an SER threshold. In response to detection of such a condition, the link is disconnected or temporarily paused. The value for the SER threshold is determined using a statistical analysis of various link parameters to meet desired performance levels, such as a mean time to false packet acceptance (MTTFPA) of >approximately 15 billion years while providing a mean time to disconnect of >100 years.
US09344206B2
In general, techniques of controlling a plurality of multimedia players in groups are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a mechanism is provided to allow a user to group some of the players according to a theme or scene, where each of the players is located in a zone. When the scene is activated, the players in the scene react in a synchronized manner. For example, the players in the scene are all caused to play a multimedia source or music in a playlist, wherein the multimedia source may be located anywhere on a network.
US09344193B2
A method and system for generating an optical channel signal for transmission through an optical fiber link of an optical communications system. A digital filter processes an input data signal using a compensation function and a shaping function to generate a pair of multi-bit sample streams representing a target optical E-field envelope of the optical channel signal. A modulator modulates an optical carrier light using the pair of multi-bit sample streams to generate the optical channel signal. The compensation function is designed to at least partially compensate impairments of the optical fiber link. The predetermined shaping function is designed to modify a baseband spectrum of the target optical E-field envelope.
US09344185B2
A system of securely paired Bluetooth devices includes a host device and a peripheral device, where each device includes an audio interface and a Bluetooth transceiver. The host device and the peripheral device connect to each other by physically connecting their corresponding audio interfaces and communicate with each other by establishing an out-of-band audio communication channel via the connected audio interfaces. The host device and the peripheral device exchange Bluetooth authentication data via the out-of-band audio communication channel, and then are securely paired with each other by turning on and initializing the corresponding Bluetooth transceivers with the corresponding exchanged Bluetooth authentication data.
US09344177B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing wireless communication. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a processing unit to run a scheduling selection algorithm to update user terminal scheduling weights in response to scheduling feedback transmitted by a plurality of user terminals by an end of an immediately preceding scheduling event; a scheduler and precoder, responsive to the updated user terminal scheduling weights generated by the scheduling algorithm and channel estimates of user terminals, to choose a set of user terminals for scheduling and to choose precoder beams and their power for such user terminal in the set of user terminals; a plurality of precoding blocks to receive one coded ARQ block for at least one packet for each user terminal in the set and, responsive to the precoder beams, to generate precoded data, where the one coded ARQ block is one of a plurality of ARQ blocks generated for a single packet and being generated using a single ARQ scheme for such each user terminal; and a transmitter to transmit the precoded data using MIMO transmission.
US09344170B2
Systems and methods provide channel state information feedback in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system. A method quantizes a pre-coding matrix indicator (PMI) and feeds it back from a user equipment (UE) to an evolved Node B (eNodeB). The method may use codebooks for vector quantization of optimal horizontal direction and a scalar quantizer to quantize an optimal vertical direction from the eNodeB to a selected UE.
US09344165B2
The disclosed invention provides an efficient method for MIMO beam training for multiple antennas to enable spatial multiplexing MIMO operation and spatial combining in a wireless network. The invention discloses a simple and efficient beam-training algorithm and protocol for MIMO operation that operates in high SNR condition for reliable MIMO operation. In one novel aspect, the best MIMO beam combinations are determined after TX sector sweeping and RX sector sweeping. The best MIMO beam combinations are determined in such a way that no any selected TX/RX sectors come from the same TX/RX antenna/beamformer. The selection criteria includes not only signal quality, but also considers mutual interference and leakage among multiple MIMO spatial streams to improve overall MIMO performance. Simultaneous RX or TX training are also supported to reduce training time.
US09344144B1
A method and system for implementing a passive intermodulation (PIM) coaxial protection circuit is provided. An electrical circuit is created between a radio source, coaxial cable, and antenna to prevent passive intermodulation. The radio source or an external power supply provides direct current and voltage in the electrical circuit, causing the current and voltage to pass through any corrosion that might build up in the path, especially at connectors.
US09344133B2
The operation of a mobile electronic device is controlled at least partially in accordance with operating characteristics adopted while the phone is at a first location. The operation of a mobile electronic device is controlled at least partially in accordance with a theme that defines how an electronic device responds to user input.
US09344132B2
Systems, devices, and methods for adjusting a transmission power at a femto node are described herein. According to the systems, devices, and methods herein, a measurement of a signal transmitted from a transmitting node may be communicated to the femto node, for example from a user equipment or a neighboring femto node, for use in adjusting the power. The transmitting node may comprise the femto node, a macro node, or a neighboring femto node. In addition, statistics regarding such measurements may be communicated to the femto node for use in adjusting the power. The femto node may also adjust the power based on unsuccessful registration attempts or interference communications received at the femto node.
US09344130B2
Techniques are described for calibration of a frequency converter for reducing a leakage-based direct current component at an output of the frequency converter. In an apparatus comprising a frequency converter arranged to perform frequency conversion on an input signal, a variable load arranged to act on at least one of an input and an output of the frequency converter, and a detector arranged to detect a direct current component of an output signal of the frequency converter, a plurality of states of the variable load are sequentially set, a variation between the direct current components for each one of the plurality of states of the variable load is observed, and at least one parameter influencing the direct current component of the output signal of the frequency converter is adjusted such that the observed variation is reduced.
US09344121B2
The disclosure discloses a Software Defined Radio (SDR)-based radio communication transmission system. A front-end analog interface unit, a Digital-to-Analog (D/A) and Analog-to-Digital (A/D) conversion unit, a core processing unit and a storage unit adopt the universal bus for interconnection and interworking. The core processing unit is configured to acquire the front-end processed data from the front-end analog interface unit, and to choose to transmit the front-end processed data to the D/A and A/D conversion unit by the control of the universal bus according to whether the radio communication standard of the current data accords with the current working mode. The disclosure further discloses an SDR-based radio communication transmission method, which includes that: the core processing unit chooses to transmit the front-end processed data to the D/A and A/D conversion unit by the control of the universal bus according to whether the radio communication standard of the current data accords with the current working mode. The system and method of the disclosure can adapt to the coexistence of multiple radio communication standards and complement the advantages of each structure at the same time.
US09344115B2
A method of compressing configuration data used in a reconfigurable processor including generating one piece of combined data by combining configuration data used at two or more cycles and generating a bit table indicating valid operations at each of the two or more cycles among operations included in the combined data.
US09344107B1
The invention concerns an analog to digital conversion and filtering circuit comprising: an input for receiving an analog input signal; an asynchronous continuous-time analog to digital converter adapted to generate, based on the analog input signal, a digital continuous-time signal; a feedback path comprising a digital continuous-time filter adapted to generate a filtered signal to be combined with the analog input signal, the digital continuous-time filter being adapted to generate the filtered signal by: filtering out at least one first frequency range of the digital continuous-time signal; and amplifying at least one second frequency range of the digital continuous-time signal.
US09344102B2
A threshold correction method is for a multi-voltage threshold sampling digitization device. The method includes: generating a triangular wave, and measuring the slope k1 of the rising edge part and the slope k2 of the falling edge part of the waveform of the triangular wave and the peak value amplitude Vpeak thereof, the width DOT of the part of the pulse higher than an actual working threshold Vt being represented as DOT(Vt)=(Vpeak−Vt)/k1−(Vpeak−Vt)/k2; setting n groups of threshold pairs; calculating a threshold under an actual working state using the measured pulse width DOT according to a formula; and establishing a threshold correction function according to a corresponding relationship between actual working state thresholds and reference voltages set practically, and then correcting a set threshold according to the function.
US09344097B2
A phase-frequency detector (PFD) circuit that includes a binary phase detector and a ternary phase detector coupled to the binary phase detector. The binary phase detector is configured to, based on the PFD circuit being in a frequency acquisition state, compare a clock signal with a data signal and output up and down signals based on the comparison. The binary phase detector is also configured to be disabled based on the PFD circuit being in a frequency locked state. The ternary phase detector is configured to compare the clock signal with the data signal and output up, down, and hold signals based on the comparison.
US09344092B2
A technique relates to a superconductor tunable notch filter. A Josephson junction filter array is connected to a coupling pad and connected to ground. The Josephson junction filter array includes a filter inductance. The Josephson junction filter array connected to the coupling pad forms a filter capacitance. A Josephson junction bias array is connected to the coupling pad and connected to a current source. The Josephson junction bias array includes a bias inductance. A transmission line is connected to the coupling pad in which connection of the transmission line and the coupling pad forms a coupling capacitance, such that the filter inductance and the filter capacitance connect to the transmission line through the coupling capacitance. The Josephson junction filter array includes a notch filter frequency that is tunable according to a magnitude of a current bias from the current source.
US09344083B2
A reliable and secure activation of an access based on a detection of movement in a remote access system by providing a secure method for opening/closing of an access in hands-free access mode. The detection of movement relates to the displacement of a lower member of a user by a remote access system, this access system including at least two elements of detection which each emit a signal whose variations (31, 33, 35) are analyzed. The detection of a movement of a lower member is validated by the application of a double verification step according to parameters (dAsA, dAsB) of a criterion for identification (tA, tB; dAsA, dAsB) of a form of variation (F2; A, B) of each signal (31, 33, 35) with a model form of the movement, and according to a criterion for simultaneity of detection of the forms of variation (F2) identified on the two signals.
US09344082B2
A rapid cutoff device includes a thyristor DC switch, a switch and a capacitor. An operation method includes: connecting the thyristor DC switch between a first DC circuit and a second DC circuit; serially connecting the switch and the capacitor which further parallel connects the first DC circuit; when the thyristor DC switch is conducted, supplying a DC current via the thyristor DC switch; when a drive signal of the thyristor DC switch stops, operating the switch to conduct the capacitor which is charged by the first DC circuit to rapidly lower a current of the thyristor DC switch approaching a zero value, thereby rapidly cutting of the thyristor DC switch.
US09344068B2
A device for the generation of short electric pulses, comprising a base generator for the generation of base monocycle pulses, wherein the base generator is followed by a transistor stage 4.
US09344066B2
A duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit includes a master delay line that receives an input clock and determines a period of the input clock. A calibration module is coupled to the master delay line and generates a calibration code based on a desired duty cycle and the period of the input clock. A slave delay line generates a delayed input clock based on the input clock and the calibration code. A clock generation module generates an output clock, having the desired duty cycle, in response to the input clock and the delayed input clock.
US09344065B2
A clock generating apparatus includes an oscillator and a frequency synthesizer. The oscillator is utilized for generating a reference clock signal. The frequency synthesizer is coupled to the oscillator and utilized for synthesizing a target clock signal in accordance with the reference clock signal and a frequency division factor that has been adjusted or compensated, and outputting the target clock signal as an output of the clock generating apparatus.
US09344059B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and an insertion film that is inserted into the piezoelectric film, is located in at least a part of an outer periphery region in a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, and is not located in a center region of the resonance region.
US09344055B2
Signal-processing devices having memristors are described for performing frequency-discrimination functions, amplitude-discrimination functions, and time-oriented functions. In each case, the time-domain behavior of the memristors described herein enables these functions to be performed. In one embodiment, memristance of an arrangement of memristors of a device is, after an initial transitional period, predominantly at a first level if frequency of an input signal of the device is less than a first frequency and predominantly at a second level if the frequency of the input signal is greater than a second frequency.
US09344052B2
To control loudness during a junction between different types of broadcast content, such as a junction between programme and commercial or promotional content, representative loudness values for content respectively before (P) and after (C) the junction are received from a playout automation system. A time-varying gain control is applied before and after the junction in order to smooth loudness around the junction. The audio gain is smoothly increased prior to the junction to a gain (P+C)/2P times higher than the original gain value. Then, the gain is reduced shortly before the junction to a value (P+C)/2C times lower than the original gain value. After the junction, the gain is returned smoothly to the original value.
US09344044B2
The present invention provides a power amplifier that can reduce irregularities in characteristics such as gains. A high-frequency power amplifier that is used for a mobile communication terminal includes: an amplifier element that includes a composite semiconductor bipolar transistor and that amplifies high-frequency power of a predetermined frequency band with a bias voltage and a bias current supplied thereto; a bias circuit that supplies the bias voltage and the bias current to the amplifier element on the basis of a bias reference voltage; a bias reference voltage supply circuit that generates and supplies the bias reference voltage to the bias circuit; and a bias reference voltage control unit that controls the bias reference voltage supply circuit so as to generate the bias reference voltage of a voltage corresponding to a given signal.
US09344039B2
A down-conversion circuit for a receiver circuit is disclosed. It comprises a first mixer arranged to down-convert an RF signal with a first LO signal (LO1), thereby generating a first down-converted signal. It further comprises a second mixer arranged to down-convert the RF signal with a second LO signal (LO2) having the same LO frequency as the first LO signal (LO1), but a different and a second duty cycle, thereby generating a second down-converted signal. The second mixer has an enabled and a disabled mode. The down-conversion circuit also comprises a third mixer arranged to down-convert the RF signal with the second LO signal (LO2), thereby generating a third down-converted signal. A passive output combiner network is used to combine the first and the second down-converted signals such that harmonically down-converted signal content present in the first down-converted signal and harmonically down-converted signal content present in the second down-converted signal cancel in a combined output signal of the down-conversion circuit. The down-conversion circuit further comprises a detection unit adapted to detect interference based on the first and third down-converted signals and to selectively set the second passive switching mixer in the enabled mode, for counteracting the interference, or in the disabled mode, for saving power compared with the enabled mode, based on the detection. A corresponding receiver circuit, a corresponding communication device, and a corresponding method are also disclosed.
US09344033B2
A variable capacitance circuit includes a plurality of variable capacitance elements (varicaps) each having the capacitance value controlled in accordance with the inter-terminal voltage applied between the terminals of the variable capacitance element and connected in parallel to each other, has the combined capacitance value of the plurality of variable capacitance elements variable taking a predetermined capacitance value as a base, sets the inter-terminal voltage of at least one of the plurality of variable capacitance elements to a first voltage as a variable voltage, and sets the inter-terminal voltage of the rest of the plurality of variable capacitance elements to a second voltage as a stationary voltage.
US09344031B2
A concentrator-driven, photovoltaic power generator system and method for capturing and transmitting electromagnetic radiation utilizing a reflector having a concave reflecting surface for concentrating electromagnetic radiation to a focal point.
US09344029B2
The invention relates to an asynchronous motor unit including a frequency converter for regulating the asynchronous motor. The frequency converter comprises an input-side, uncontrolled bridge rectifier, a DC voltage intermediate circuit and an output-side inverter. According to the invention, the DC voltage intermediate circuit furthermore comprises a DC-to-DC converter with galvanic isolation, with the result that electrical isolation between the bridge rectifier and the inverter is produced.
US09344023B2
A motor device includes a motor unit and a converter unit. The motor unit includes an inverter circuit; an inverter drive circuit; a brushless DC motor comprising a rotor and a stator; a first shunt resistor; a first input terminal; a second input terminal; a third input terminal; a first output terminal; and a first ground terminal. The converter unit includes a case; a AC/DC converter; a microcomputer; a first output terminal; a second output terminal; a third output terminal; a first input terminal; a second shunt resistor; and a second grounding terminal. The microcomputer calculates a current value by using the terminal voltage and a resistance value of the second shunt resistor, compares the current value with a specified current value, and limit or cut off the output of the analog control signal when the current value exceeds the specified current value.
US09344012B2
A method for controlling an ultrasonic motor coupled to a motor driver circuit, comprises obtaining a position of a first encoder coupled to the ultrasonic motor, calculating an error between the position of the first encoder and a target position, and sending a control signal to the motor driver circuit to control the ultrasonic motor to adjust the position of the first encoder based the calculated error.
US09344011B2
A system for generating power for an electric sub-assembly of a motor vehicle may include at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element coupled to a tire of the motor vehicle. The system may further include at least one controller configured to accumulate electric energy generated by the at least one reverse electrowetting energy harvesting element and supply the accumulated electric energy to at least one sub-assembly mounted on the tire.
US09344005B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to methods and systems for producing a three-phase current to a three-phase output. Switching converters are used to generate a positive current, a negative current, and an intermediate current. The system is configured such that the produced positive current follows a path of a highest phase of a sinusoidal three-phase signal at a given time, the produced negative current follows a path of a lowest phase of the three-phase signal at the given time, and the produced intermediate current follows a path of a phase of the three-phase signal between the highest and the lowest phase at the given time. The produced currents are switched to each phase conductor of the three-phase output in sequence so that phase currents of the three-phase current are formed in the output conductors.
US09343997B2
A two-wire load control device (such as, a dimmer switch) for controlling power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load (such as, a high-efficiency lighting load) includes a thyristor coupled between the source and the load, a gate coupling circuit coupled between a first main terminal and a gate terminal of the thyristor, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to control the gate coupling circuit to conduct a pulse of current through the gate terminal to render the thyristor conductive at a firing time during a half cycle of the AC power source, and to allow the gate coupling circuit to conduct at least one other pulse of current after the firing time during the half cycle. The load control device is further arranged to conduct current through the electrical load if the thyristor becomes non-conductive and remains non-conductive during the half-cycle.
US09343991B2
Systems and methods for reducing current imbalance between parallel bridge circuits used in a power converter of a power generation system, such as a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) system, are provided. The power converter can include a plurality of bridge circuits coupled in parallel to increase the output power capability of the system. Each of the bridge circuits can include a pair of switching elements, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), coupled in series with one another. The switching elements of the parallel bridge circuits can be controlled, for instance, using control commands (e.g. pulse width modulation commands) according to a substantially non-interleaved switching pattern. The timing of the control commands according to the substantially non-interleaved switching pattern can be adjusted to reduce current imbalance between the parallel bridge circuits.
US09343984B2
A controller of a power converter with adjustable jitter amplitude includes a feedback pin, a logic circuit, an auxiliary pin, and a current sensing pin. The feedback pin is used for receiving a feedback voltage from a secondary side of the power converter. The feedback voltage corresponds to an output voltage of the secondary side of the power converter. The logic circuit is used for generating a jitter signal according to a clock, the feedback voltage, and a first resistor. The auxiliary pin is used for receiving a voltage corresponding to an auxiliary winding of the power converter. The current sensing pin is used for generating a detection voltage according to a current flowing through a primary side of the power converter. The voltage, the jitter signal, and the detection voltage determine turning-on time of the primary side of the power converter.
US09343976B2
A power supply apparatus is provided. The power supply apparatus includes a power conversion circuit, an AC safety capacitor and a control unit. An AC input voltage is received by an input side of the power converting circuit, and is converted to a DC output voltage. The AC safety capacitor is connected across the input side. The control unit controls the operation of the power converting circuit, where the control unit samples and holds a voltage between two terminals of the AC safety capacitor to obtain a holding voltage, and compares the holding voltage and the AC input voltage during each period of a clock signal, so as to decide to discharge electric energy stored by the AC safety capacitor according to a comparison result.
US09343975B2
A power converter includes a primary side compensation capacitor, a transformer and a secondary side compensation capacitor. The primary side compensation capacitor receives a first AC voltage from a first switch circuit. The transformer receives the first AC voltage to generate a second AC voltage. The secondary side compensation capacitor transfers the second AC voltage to a second switch circuit to generate a DC output voltage. The operating frequency of the first switch circuit is set within the 0.8*fa to 1.2*fb, and fb is at most 1.5 times of fa. The primary side compensation capacitor and a primary side leakage inductance of the transformer correspond to a first resonant frequency, the secondary side compensation capacitor and a secondary side leakage inductance of the transformer correspond to a second resonant frequency, fa and fb are the lower one and the higher one of the first and second resonant frequency respectively.
US09343964B2
Providing a fast current sensor direct feedback path to a modulator for controlling switching of a switched power converter in addition to an integrating feedback path which monitors average current for control of a modulator provides fast dynamic response consistent with system stability and average current mode control. Feedback of output voltage for voltage regulation can be combined with current information in the integrating feedback path to limit bandwidth of the voltage feedback signal.
US09343960B2
A method of controlling a switched capacitor voltage regulator includes modifying a topology factor associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator in response to a change in output voltage associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator, thereby maintaining an average output voltage associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator. The method also includes modifying a loop delay associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator in response to a change in operational frequency associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator, thereby reducing ripple amplitude associated with the switched capacitor voltage regulator. A corresponding feedback/feed forward switched capacitor voltage regulator, controller, computer-readable medium, and voltage regulation system are also disclosed.
US09343955B2
An electronic device includes a controller configured to apply slope compensation to a reference signal in a power factor corrector. The device also configured to adjust the slope compensation based on an input voltage of the power factor corrector.
US09343954B2
The application discloses a multi-input DC converter and a PFC circuit. The multi-input DC converter of the application includes n diodes, a transformer, a switching transistor, a rectifier and filter circuit, and a load. The transformer includes a primary winding and a secondary winding, the number of turns of the primary winding is N1, and the primary winding is divided into n sections by leading out n−1 taps in a specific manner; anodes of the n diodes are respectively connected to n input sources in turn, cathodes of the n diodes are respectively connected to a first terminal of the primary winding and n−1 tap terminals in turn, a second terminal of the primary winding is grounded through the switching transistor, and the secondary winding delivers energy to the rectifier and filter circuit and then to the load. The structure is simple, and the cost is low.
US09343942B2
A rotating electrical machine for a vehicle includes a protective cover including a protruding portion projected to an opening side from a circumferential edge portion of a through hole formed in a bottom portion, a stud bolt that is inserted into the through hole to fix a rectifier to a portion of a casing at a position on one side in an axial direction, a mold resin including a projecting portion projected toward the protective cover, for electrically insulating the rectifier and the stud bolt from each other, and a fitting fixed to an extending portion of the stud bolt that extends from the through hole. A harness clamp is held by the fitting, and the projecting portion and the protruding portion are arranged at a position so that the projecting portion and the protruding portion are overlapped with each other in the axial direction of the stud bolt.
US09343941B2
In a terminal block 10 which is interposed between a motor case 100 and an inverter case 200 placed in the motor case 100 and connects a motor input terminal to an inverter output terminal, an upper base 10U for accommodating an inverter side connecting terminal 20T connected to the inverter output terminal is fixed to the inverter case 200, and a lower base 10D for accommodating a motor side connecting terminal 20M is fixed to the motor case 100, and a waterproof and elastic member 60 is interposed between the upper base 10U and the lower base 10D and the motor side connecting terminal 20M is connected to the inverter side connecting terminal 20T by a flexible conductive member (a braided wire) 20H.
US09343928B2
Disclosed are a wireless power transmitter, a wireless power receiver, and a method of wirelessly receiving power. The wireless power receiver includes a receiving unit receiving the power from the wireless power transmitter using resonance, and a rectifying unit rectifying the power received therein from the receiving unit to supply the power to a load side. The rectifying unit changes an output impedance of the wireless power receiver in order to change an input current of the wireless power transmitter.
US09343927B2
In the method of controlling a public lighting network for public street lighting, a member, such as a server uses a telecommunications network to send at least one command for switching a power supply circuit of an electricity outlet to an electricity source of the network. The outlet is accessible from the public street and from an outside portion of the device of the lighting network.
US09343923B2
An implantable medical device is disclosed that includes a charging coil configured to inductively couple to a first external coil to receive a charging signal to charge a charge storage element of the implantable medical device. The implantable medical device also includes a circuit coupled to the charging coil. The circuit includes a circuit component that, in response to the charging signal, generates a backscatter signal. The implantable medical device also includes a communication coil orthogonal to the charging coil and coupled to the circuit component. The communication coil is configured to inductively couple to a second external coil to communicate the backscatter signal to the second external coil.
US09343907B2
An energy assist system selection supporting apparatus equipped with a step-up/step-down chopper unit, an electricity storage unit, and an electric motor configured to drive a machine includes an operation-pattern generating section for generating an operation pattern taking into account an electronic machine configuration, a load-pattern generating section for generating a load pattern concerning power consumption according to the generated operation pattern, a data processing section for evaluating, according to the generated load pattern, a characteristic of the energy assist system applied with the generated operation pattern while comparing the characteristic with a limit value and generate, according to an evaluation result, configuration information including the number of each unit of the energy assist system, and a layout section configured to lay out and arrange the units on a virtual space and display the units on a display screen according to the generated configuration information.
US09343906B2
A method for initializing a power inverter of a photovoltaic system includes: opening an AC mains switch and a DC switch to disconnect the power inverter from an electrical grid and to disconnect a capacitor bank associated with the inverter from a solar cell array; closing the AC mains switch to allow power to flow from an electrical grid to the DC capacitor bank to charge the DC capacitor bank; monitoring the DC capacitor bank until a desired voltage is reached; initiating the operation of the power inverter; stabilizing the DC voltage received from the DC capacitor bank at a predetermined power up voltage for the power inverter; waiting for an inverter initialization period to elapse; and adjusting DC voltage received by the power inverter to a voltage associated with a maximum power output level of the solar cell array.
US09343877B2
A spark plug includes a center electrode, a ground electrode, and a cylindrical metal shell. The ground electrode is welded to the metal shell via a weld portion. The weld portion is formed along the outer circumference end part of an annular part in the ground electrode. The weld portion has a plurality of melt extending parts extending toward the inner circumference side from the outer circumference end part of the annular part and aligned such that adjacent ones are connected to each other at the end part. The plurality of melt extending parts partially include smaller melt extending parts whose melting depth is smaller than others.
US09343871B1
Nonpolar or semipolar laser diode technology incorporating etched facet mirror formation and conventional optical coating layer techniques for reflectivity modification to enable a method for ultra-high catastrophic optical mirror damage thresholds for high power laser diodes are disclosed.
US09343863B2
A mount assembly includes a member in which a mount component is mounted at least on one main face of the member and at which a member connecting electrode is formed; and a connection member that has a pillar-shaped parallel portion arranged so that a longitudinal direction of the parallel portion is parallel to the main face of the member, one end side of the parallel portion being connected to the member connecting electrode.
US09343856B2
An electrical connector is provided and includes an insulating housing, a contact, and a metal spring. The insulating housing includes a body with a substantially planar lower wall and a receptacle extending through the body. The contact is disposed in the insulating housing and includes an inner portion extending into the receptacle and an outer portion disposed along an outer periphery of the insulating housing. The metal spring is disposed in the receptacle and includes a mid-section extending into and bias towards the receptacle.
US09343852B2
A connector includes a connector housing having a mating connector receiving portion adapted to receive a mating connector, a plurality of signal contacts each having a connector contact portion formed at one end thereof and disposed in the mating connector receiving portion of the connector housing, a metal shell disposed to cover at least the connector contact portion of each of the plurality of signal contacts, a switch contact having a switch contact portion formed thereon, and a switch member connected to the metal shell and disposed facing the switch contact portion of the switch contact, the switch member being deformed, when pressed, to come into contact with the switch contact portion of the switch contact and thereby connect the switch contact with the metal shell.
US09343847B2
An electric connector includes a first housing including a guide shaft and a second housing including a guide hole into which the guide shaft is inserted. The guide shaft includes a main body, and a projection radially projecting from the main body, the guide hole being formed at an inner surface thereof with a groove into which the projection is fit. The projection and the groove are formed such that a first imaginary line intersects with a second imaginary line, the first imaginary line being defined by extending a contact plane at which the projection and the groove make contact with each other when the first housing rotates relative to the second housing, towards a center of the main body. The second imaginary line is defined as a line bisecting a top surface of the projection and extending towards a center of the main body.
US09343846B2
A connector unit for connecting at least two cables includes at least a male part, a female part, and a shuttle piston. The shuttle piston includes an opening configured for receiving at least a section of the male part, at least one latching device, and at least one latching structure. The male part includes the section configured for insertion into the opening of the shuttle pin, at least one latching aid, and an interaction area configured for a force-fitting interaction with at least one backing latch of the female part. The female part includes the at least one backing latch.
US09343837B2
A docking apparatus of an electronic apparatus that can support the electronic apparatus is provided. The docking apparatus of an electronic apparatus may include a body that forms an exterior of the docking apparatus, a support portion rotatably coupled to the body, and an interface module coupled to the body and including an interface terminal configured to connect the docking apparatus to the electronic apparatus.
US09343835B2
The invention provides a terminal including a base, a first arm, a second arm, a first contact portion and a second contact portion. The base is of a plate-like shape. The first arm is of a plate-like shape and extends from the base in a first direction. The second arm is of a plate-like shape, extends from the base in the first direction, is spaced apart from the first arm in a second direction crossing the first direction, and has a larger dimension in the first direction than that of the first arm. The first contact portion is of a plate-like shape and extends from the first arm to one side of the second direction. The second contact portion is of a plate-like shape and extends from the second arm to the one side of the second direction so as to be located on one side of the first direction of the first contact portion.
US09343833B2
The present invention provides a device for connecting a first electric cable to a second electric cable, said device comprising: a first cable lug which comprises a first connection portion for electrically contacting the first electric cable and a socket portion having a conical socket; a second cable lug which comprises a second connection portion for electrically contacting the second electric cable and a plug portion having a conical plug; wherein the plug can be inserted into the socket and conductively contacted therewith in order to connect the first cable to the second cable in an electrically conductive manner.
US09343822B2
Shields, wire connectors, crimping devices, and wire managers. At least some of the shields are used with a cable that includes a jacket surrounding wire pairs, and a different pair shield surrounding each wire pair. Such shields include a compressible member positioned adjacent end portions of a portion of the wire pairs. The compressible member presses a conductive member against the pair shield surrounding each wire pair in the portion of wire pairs. At least some of the wire connectors include a conductive body positionable alongside a selected wire having a connector surrounded circumferentially by an insulating jacket. The body includes a receptacle with a tapered opening defined between first and second edge portions of the body. As a portion of the selected wire passes through the opening into the receptacle, the first and second edge portions cut through the insulating jacket to contact the conductor.
US09343821B2
A terminal waterproofing structure for a wire harness is provided, including a front end side of a tubular braided shielding member covering the wire harness overlaid on a tubular part of a shield shell, and fixed by crimping with a first crimp ring, and a tubular grommet made from an elastic member externally fitted to the tubular part of the shield shell that projects beyond a front end of the tubular braided shielding member while covering the section of the tubular braided shielding member that is fixed. The front end abuts on a flange part and the outer periphery of the grommet on the front end side is fixed by crimping with a second crimp ring. An annular sealing rib protrudes from the inner periphery of the grommet and a recess into which the annular sealing rib is press-fit is provided on the outer periphery.
US09343818B2
Antenna configurations for wireless speakers are disclosed. An example playback device includes a housing having a metallic face and a non-metallic face, the metallic face including an opening; a first antenna of a first type positioned within the housing adjacent an inner surface of the non-metallic face; and a second antenna of second type different from the first type positioned within the housing, the second antenna including a slot aligned with the opening of the metallic face.
US09343815B2
A metal plate of small, reflective cells of varying, random (within a limited rage) heights that reflect radio frequency energy such that individual reflective paths are of random length, adding neither constructively nor destructively, and thus not creating a standing wave condition between the reflective plate and the emitter or receiver is disclosed.
US09343813B2
The present invention provides an antenna with high light transmittance, which includes a transparent substrate and a conducting material. A micro-nanometer groove is formed on a surface of the transparent substrate, and the conducting material is located in the micro-nanometer groove. The antenna with high light transmittance is prepared through a micro-nano processing technology, so that the impact of the conducting material on the light transmittance of the antenna is minimized. The groove has a micro-nanometer width, so that the conducting material is not limited to the transparent conducting materials, but can also be nanometer silver paste. Moreover, by means of the micro-nano processing technology, the antenna with high light transmittance in which the transparent substrate and the conducting material are integrally formed can be obtained; thereby reducing the thickness of the antenna, and the antenna is not easily deformed or damaged.
US09343809B2
An RF system comprising of outputs to an electronically scanning antenna for radiating electromagnetic energy; at least one waveform generator; two multiphase phase-locked loops integrated with the waveform generator, the phase locked loops operating to provide multiple shifted phases to a waveform. Optionally, the two multiphase phase-locked loops may each be divided down by a bank of frequency dividers to further increase the number of phase shifts. The phases generated from each multiphase phase-locked loops are selected with multiplexers then mixed together. These upper or lower sidebands are then mixed with the up converted waveform which results in a phase shift for the waveform associated with each antenna element.
US09343807B2
An antenna system includes an antenna and N integrated passive components (IPCs). A first end of each IPC of the N IPCs is directly coupled to the antenna for receiving signals of a band corresponding to the IPC and filtering signals of bands corresponding to other IPCs of the N IPCs. The antenna system can prevent signals of various bands from interfering with each other, reduces parasitic effect, and further improves nonlinear distortion.
US09343806B2
Antennas are integrated into shield cans by etching one or more slots from a body portion thereof. Multiple antennas can be grouped onto a single shield can to provide both cost and space saving features. Antenna feed and ground connections are positioned on the circuit board and connections to the antenna are made when the shield can connects to the circuit board assembly.
US09343800B2
A mounting apparatus (102) comprises a plurality of flexible interconnected spacer segments (104) for receiving the antenna (106), the plurality of flexible interconnected spacer segments provide a continuous offset (114) between the antenna and another surface. Each of the plurality of flexible interconnected spacer segments (104) comprises a unitarily molded flexible link, each link having a triangular cross sectional geometry (350) having an opening (108) on top (302) for receiving the antenna, and the top leading to a wider base for mounting to a surface. The links are separable (312) providing for a customizable length and form factor.
US09343799B2
A device for mounting an antenna to a rail is provided. The device includes a first clamp member and a second clamp member. The first clamp member includes a planar base plate having a first surface and a second surface. The planar base plate has at least two slots spaced apart on a longitudinal axis. At least two extension sections extend from the first surface of the planar base plate and being spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and closer to a center than the at least two slots. Each extension section includes a patterned cutout area configured to receive the rail. A plurality of threaded fasteners extend from the first surface of the planar base plate and being positioned outside the patterned cutout area along a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The second clamp member has a plurality of through-holes configured to receive the plurality of threaded fasteners and a planar surface facing toward the first surface of the first clamp member.
US09343796B2
A system and method for a wide-band low loss quadrature phase antenna feed system is provided. A 180° phase shifter is configured to generate a 0° and 180° phase output. The phase shifter's outputs are fed into a 90° hybrid coupler to generate 0°, 90°, 180° and 270° outputs for used to feed a quadrature phase antenna.
US09343789B2
A method and device for a compact microstrip bandpass filter that includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a plurality of quarter-wavelength resonators, a resonant disk, a plurality of layers, and a microstrip line which connects the resonant disk to a joint point of the quarter-wavelength resonators. A method of forming two signal paths in a compact microstrip bandpass filter includes forming a first signal path between an input terminal and an output terminal of the filter with a plurality of quarter-wavelength resonators with a resonant disk and a microstrip line which connects the resonant disk to a joint point of the quarter-wavelength resonators. The method includes forming a second signal path of the quarter-wavelength resonators, the filter includes a plurality of layers.
US09343788B2
A battery cell (10), having a low-inductance, capacitive parallel path interconnected between the poles of the battery cell (10), wherein the parallel path is embodied as a discrete capacitor (11).
US09343775B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided and includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte contains a nonaqueous solvent, an electrolyte salt, a matrix polymer and a ceramic powder, and further contains a polyacid and/or a polyacid compound.
US09343772B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly undergoing charging and discharging, a pressurization holder covering the electrode assembly and fixing the electrode assembly, a positive terminal and a negative terminal electrically connected to the electrode assembly, and a case accommodating the electrode assembly and the pressurization holder in a state in which the positive terminal and the negative terminal protrude from the case.
US09343767B2
Chromium-free catalyst for the low-temperature conversion of carbon monoxide and water into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, which comprises a mixed oxide comprising at least copper oxide, zinc oxide and aluminum oxide, with the catalyst precursor being present essentially as hydrotalcite and the copper oxide content being not more than 20% by weight.
US09343765B2
A fuel cell module includes a first area where an exhaust gas combustor and a start-up combustor are provided, an annular second area disposed around the first area where a heat exchanger is provided, an annular third area disposed around the second area where a reformer is provided, and an annular fourth area disposed around the third area where an evaporator is provided. In the first area, the exhaust gas combustor and the start-up combustor are provided coaxially in the same space.
US09343754B2
A fuel cell system (10) includes a pressure decrease valve (121) and a flow control valve (122) provided in a hydrogen supply line (120P) that extends from a high pressure gas tank (110) to a fuel cell (100). A low temperature environment may cause the function of these devices to decrease. Therefore, if the gas temperature inside the high pressure gas tank (110) is higher than the temperature of this low temperature environment and is a temperature at which the decreased function can be recovered, high pressure gas inside the tank is made to flow through the hydrogen supply line (120P) to expose the pressure decrease valve (121) and the like to the relatively high temperature gas before a start signal that starts the system is received.
US09343749B2
In at least one embodiment, a method of forming a platinum thin film is provided, including performing a first atomic layer deposition (ALD) process on a substrate using a first platinum organometallic precursor in a first step and an oxidizing precursor in a second step to form an at least partially coated substrate. A second ALD process is then performed on the at least partially coated substrate using a second platinum organometallic precursor in a first step and a reducing precursor in a second step to form a thin film of platinum on the substrate. The first ALD process may be performed for 5 to 150 cycles to nucleate platinum on the substrate surface and the second ALD process may be performed thereafter to grow the thin film and remove surface oxides. A conformal platinum thin film having a thickness of 1 to 10 monolayers may be deposited.
US09343745B1
Provided are methods of passivating active materials for use in electrochemical cells as well as active materials and cell components prepared using such methods. Active material particles may be combined with passivating material particles, and this combination may be mixed together using high shear mixing. The mixed combination may not include any solvents or binders. As such, drying mixing may be performed on this combination of the active material particles and passivating material particles. A passivating layer is formed on the active material particles during mixing. This passivating layer later prevents direct contact between the active material particles and the electrolyte while still allowing ionic exchange. Furthermore, the passivating layer may increase electronic conductivity between active material particles in an electrode. The passivating layer may be mechanically bonded to the surface of the active material particles rather than chemically bonded.
US09343736B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a lithium-ion battery system comprising an anode, an anode current collector, and a layer of lithium metal in contact with the current collector, but not in contact with the anode. The lithium compensation layer dissolves into the electrolyte to compensate for the loss of lithium ions during usage of the full cell. The specific placement of the lithium compensation layer, such that there is no direct physical contact between the lithium compensation layer and the anode, provides certain advantages.
US09343735B2
A hybrid power cell is provided that combines a nickel-metal hydride battery, solid state hydrogen storage, and alkaline fuel cell technologies in a single cell operating within a targeted intermediate temperature range. A cell includes a cathode that is capable of using raw atmospheric air as an oxygen source and an anode that is capable of reversible electrochemical and gas phase hydrogen storage, where the anode and the cathode are highly functional at intermediate temperatures. The resulting hybrid power cell overcomes prior challenges of reliable high-capacity grid-tied energy storage necessary for greater renewable energy adoption.
US09343733B2
An electrode having a three-dimensional pore network structure including a fibrous pore channel is disclosed. A lithium battery including the electrode and a method of manufacturing the electrode are also disclosed. The three-dimensional pore network structure formed in the electrode allows for improved mobility of lithium ions in the electrode. Therefore, a lithium battery including the electrode may have improved output characteristics.
US09343726B2
A rechargeable battery comprises an electrode assembly comprising a plurality of electrodes, wherein each of the plurality of electrodes comprises a coated region and an uncoated region; a case housing the electrode assembly; a cap plate coupled to the case for enclosing the electrode assembly in the case; a current collection plate coupled to the cap plate; and a connecting member electrically connected to the uncoated regions of at least two electrodes.
US09343720B2
The described embodiments relate to methods and apparatus for improving pick and place operations. Pick and place operations involving the movement of flexible substrates can be improved by cooling a flexible substrate below a threshold temperature at which the flexible substrate transitions from a flexible state to a rigid state. Once in the rigid state, the flexible substrate can be handled and maneuvered by pick and place operations for a period of time with a limited risk of the flexible substrate wrinkling and tearing. In some embodiments, the flexible substrate is a thin polymeric substrate used to separate oppositely charged battery cells within a battery assembly.
US09343719B2
The present invention produces a laminated porous film which improves the stability of an aqueous dispersion of a metal oxide without lowering battery characteristics, while having high binding properties and excellent heat resistance. This laminated porous film exhibits excellent characteristics when used as a separator for batteries. This laminated porous film is produced by forming a porous coating layer on at least one outer surface of a resin porous film, which is formed of a single layer or a laminate of a plurality of layers, by applying a coating liquid that contains a metal oxide, a resin binder and a volatile acid thereto and drying the applied coating liquid. The coating liquid is prepared so that the difference between the pH (pH1) of the coating liquid and the pH (pH2) of the coating layer is not less than 2.
US09343718B2
A battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an elastic member at an interior of the electrode assembly and being configured to exert an elastic force on the electrode assembly, a polymer member between the elastic member and the electrode assembly, and a case for housing the electrode assembly, the elastic member, and the polymer member.
US09343717B2
A method for producing battery modules or battery systems having a plurality of battery cells includes interconnecting and optionally arranging the battery cells with cell connectors to form the battery module or battery system architecture. The method also includes fitting the battery module or battery system with terminals and packaging all the battery cells of the battery module or system in a common plastic sheath by injection molding, so that the battery cells and cell connectors of the battery module or system are surrounded substantially completely by the plastic sheath. The battery module terminals or battery system terminals remain accessible from outside. A battery module or battery system can be produced in accordance with the method of the disclosure.
US09343716B2
Flexible battery packs for use in electronic devices are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the flexible battery pack may include a plurality of cells, such as galvanic or photovoltaic cells. The battery pack also may include a plurality of laminate layers coupled to the cells that include a top laminate layer and a bottom laminate layer. An adhesive may be used to couple the top and bottom laminate layers together such that each of the plurality of cells is isolated from each other. This arrangement may allow the battery to be shaped to fit a form factor of the electronic device. This arrangement also may allow one or more of the cells to be selectively removed from the plurality, which may be desirable from a manufacturing perspective.
US09343711B2
According to one embodiment, it is provided with a positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery represented by a general formula Li(LiaMnbNicCodFee)O2-xFx, wherein a, b, c, d, e and x in the general formula are values such that 0
US09343710B2
A method of manufacturing an EL display device having a panel part is such that a constituent element of the panel part is formed through film formation in a vacuum atmosphere. After the constituent element of the panel part has been formed on a substrate in the vacuum atmosphere, the post-film-formation substrate is placed on standby during transporting the substrate from a place in the vacuum atmosphere to a place in an atmospheric-pressure atmosphere. The placing the substrate on standby includes a first intake period and a second intake period. During the first intake period, an intake gas is gradually introduced to change the atmosphere, from the first vacuum atmosphere to the second vacuum atmosphere that exhibits a lower degree of vacuum than that of the first vacuum atmosphere. During the second intake period, the intake gas is introduced to change the atmosphere, from the second vacuum atmosphere to the atmospheric-pressure atmosphere. The first period is set to be longer in time than the second period.
US09343708B2
A mask strip for manufacturing an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the mask strip is extended in a length direction and fixed to a frame. The frame includes a plurality of masking pattern units arranged in a matrix format in which an opening pattern includes a plurality of rows that are substantially parallel to a width direction crossing the length direction and a plurality of columns that are substantially parallel to the length direction. The rows respectively have a curvature which is concave toward an inside of the masking pattern unit, and the columns respectively have a curvature which is convex toward an outside of the masking pattern unit.
US09343701B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a pixel array on a first substrate, a second substrate disposed above the first substrate to face the pixel array, a sealant between the first and second substrates to surround the pixel array, and a barrier layer on outer surfaces of the first substrate, the second substrate, and the sealant.
US09343700B2
Provided is a display apparatus including: a substrate including a display area and a periphery; a display element disposed on the display area of the substrate; and an encapsulation layer including a first inorganic layer, an organic layer, and a second inorganic layer that are sequentially formed to cover the display element, wherein the organic layer includes: a first organic layer formed on of the periphery of the substrate and on the substrate; and a second organic layer formed on the first inorganic layer so as to overlap the display element.
US09343697B2
Provided are an adhesive film, an organic electronic device (OED) encapsulation product using the same, and a method of encapsulating the organic electronic device, and more particularly, an adhesive film for encapsulating an organic electronic element including a first adhesive layer having a loss coefficient (tan δ) at 60 to 100° C. of 1 to 5, and a second adhesive layer formed on the first adhesive layer, and a method of encapsulating an organic electronic device using the same.
US09343695B2
OLED panels and techniques for fabricating OLED panels are provided. Multiple cuts may be made in an OLED panel to define a desired shape, as well as the location and shape of external electrical contacts. The panel may be encapsulated before or after being cut to a desired shape, allowing for greater flexibility and efficiency during manufacture.
US09343691B2
A novel light-emitting device is provided. A novel light-emitting device with high emission efficiency, low power consumption, and small viewing angle dependence of chromaticity is provided. The light-emitting device includes at least one light-emitting element and one optical element. A spectrum of light emitted from the light-emitting element through the optical element in a range of greater than 0° and less than or equal to 70° with respect to a normal vector of the light-emitting element has a first local maximum value in a wavelength range of greater than or equal to 400 nm and less than 480 nm and a second local maximum value located on a longer wavelength side than the first local maximum value. The intensity ratio of the second local maximum value to the first local maximum value is less than or equal to 15%.
US09343689B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element capable of emitting light with a high luminance even at a low voltage, and having a long lifetime. The light-emitting element includes n EL layers between an anode and a cathode (n is a natural number of two or more), and also includes, between m-th EL layer from the anode and (m+1)-th EL layer (m is a natural number, 1≦m≦n−1), a first layer including a first donor material in contact with the m-th EL layer, a second layer including an electron-transport material and a second donor material in contact with the first layer, and a third layer including a hole-transport material and an acceptor material in contact with the second layer and the (m+1)-th EL layer.
US09343682B2
An organic electroluminescence device having a layer of an organic light emitting medium which comprises (A) a specific arylamine compound and (B) at least one compound selected from specific anthracene derivatives, spirofluorene derivatives, compounds having condensed rings and metal complex compounds and is disposed between a pair of electrodes and an organic light emitting medium comprising the above components (A) and (B) are provided. The organic electroluminescence device exhibits a high purity of color, has excellent heat resistance and a long life and efficiently emits bluish to yellowish light. The organic light emitting medium can be advantageously used for the organic electroluminescence device.
US09343677B2
The present disclosure includes GCIB-treated resistive devices, devices utilizing GCIB-treated resistive devices (e.g., as switches, memory cells), and methods for forming the GCIB-treated resistive devices. One method of forming a GCIB-treated resistive device includes forming a lower electrode, and forming an oxide material on the lower electrode. The oxide material is exposed to a gas cluster ion beam (GCIB) until a change in resistance of a first portion of the oxide material relative to the resistance of a second portion of the oxide material. An upper electrode is formed on the first portion.
US09343672B2
A nonvolatile memory cell includes first and second interlayer insulating films which are separated from each other and are stacked sequentially, a first electrode which penetrates the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film, a resistance change film which is formed along a side surface of the first electrode and extends parallel to the first electrode, and a second electrode which is formed between the first interlayer insulating film and the second interlayer insulating film. The second electrode includes a conductive film which is made of metal and a diffusion preventing film which prevents diffusion of a conductive material contained in the conductive film.
US09343651B2
An organic packaging carrier is provided. The organic packaging carrier includes an organic substrate, a conductive circuit layer, and a sealing metal layer. The organic substrate has a first surface. The conductive circuit layer is located on the first surface and includes at least a conductive layer and a sealing ring. The sealing ring is a closed ring. The sealing metal layer is located on the sealing ring, wherein a material of the sealing metal layer includes AgSn and is lead-free.
US09343644B2
Provided is a light emitting diode (LED) in which a side surface of a reflective metal layer has a predetermined angle, and occurrence of cracks in a conductive barrier layer formed on the reflective metal layer can be prevented. Also, an LED module using LEDs is disclosed. A reflection pattern electrically connected to a second semiconductor layer is partially exposed by patterning a first insulating layer. Accordingly, a first pad is formed through the partially opened first pad region. Also, a conductive reflection layer electrically connected to a first semiconductor layer forms a second pad region formed by patterning a second insulating layer. A second pad is formed on the second pad region.
US09343640B2
A light emitting device is described, including a second conductive type semiconductor layer; an active layer over the second conductive type semiconductor layer; a first conductive type semiconductor layer over the active layer; a second electrode in a first region under the second conductive type semiconductor layer; a current blocking layer including a metal; and a first electrode over the first conductive type semiconductor layer. Further, the first electrode has at least one portion that vertically overlaps the current blocking layer.
US09343638B2
An electro-optic device, comprising a layer of light-carrying material; and a rib, projecting from the layer of light-carrying material, for guiding optical signals propagating through the device. The layer of light-carrying material comprises a first doped region of a first type extending into the rib, and a second doped region of a second, different type extending into the rib such that a pn junction is formed within the rib. The pn junction extends substantially parallel to at least two contiguous faces of the rib, resulting in a more efficient device. In addition, a self-aligned fabrication process can be used in order to simplify the fabrication process and increase reliability and yield.
US09343635B2
There is provided a light-emitting device with enhanced luminescence efficiency, which simultaneously exhibits excitation enhancement and emission enhancement of a light-emitting material by controlling two or multiple surface plasmon resonance bands of anisotropic metal nanoparticles to be formed in a near ultraviolet light range and a visible light range and optimizing overlapping of a wavelength of a near ultraviolet or blue light source with an absorption wavelength and an emission wavelength of the light-emitting material. There is also provided a light-emitting device with improved color gamut and luminance, which simultaneously exhibit emission enhancement of different types of light-emitting materials by controlling two or multiple surfaces plasmon resonance bands of anisotropic metal nanoparticles to be overlapped with absorption and emission wavelengths of two or more light-emitting materials having different emission wavelengths from one another.
US09343633B1
A light-emitting diode (LED) lighting device includes a substrate, a first bottom electrode, a second bottom electrode, a first bottom transparent isolation layer, a second bottom transparent isolation layer, a first vertical LED, a second vertical LED, and a top transparent electrode. The substrate has a first recess and a second recess therein. The first bottom electrode and the second bottom electrode are respectively disposed in the first recess and the second recess and are reflective. The first vertical LED is disposed in the first recess and on the first bottom electrode. The second vertical LED is disposed in the second recess and on the second bottom electrode. The first bottom transparent isolation layer and the second bottom transparent isolation layer are respectively disposed in the first recess and the second recess. The top transparent electrode electrically connects the first vertical LED and the second bottom electrode.
US09343629B2
A light emitting device including a light emitting structure having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer between the first and second semiconductor layers; a first electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; and a second electrode disposed on the second semiconductor layer. Further, the second electrode include a reflective layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer; a metal layer disposed on a side surface of the reflective layer and on a top surface of reflective layer; a first anti-oxidation layer on the metal layer; and a second anti-oxidation layer on the first anti-oxidation layer. In addition, the second anti-oxidation layer is more than 10 times thicker than the first anti-oxidation layer.
US09343628B2
A light emitting device includes a first layer of a first conductivity type, a second layer of a second conductivity type, and a light emitting layer between the first and second layers. A resin layer is disposed on a first surface of the first layer. The first layer has an outer portion that extends beyond the second and light emitting layers to an outer edge. A first electrode contacts the first layer in the outer portion on a second surface opposite the first surface; and a second electrode contacts the second layer. A first insulating material contacts the first surface in the outer portion of the first layer and has a wall surface extending from the first surface at a position that is in the outer portion and spaced from the outer edge.
US09343620B2
A method for fabricating a light emitting diode die includes the steps of providing a carrier substrate and forming an epitaxial structure on the carrier substrate including a first type semiconductor layer, a multiple quantum well (MQW) layer on the first type semiconductor layer configured to emit light, and a second type semiconductor layer on the multiple quantum well (MQW) layer. The method also includes the steps of forming a plurality of trenches through the epitaxial structure, forming a reflector layer on the second type semiconductor layer, forming a seed layer on the reflector layer and in the trenches, and forming a substrate on the seed layer having an area configured to protect the epitaxial structure.
US09343614B2
Provided are a high-speed superluminescent diode, a method of manufacturing the same, and a wavelength-tunable external cavity laser including the same. The superluminescent diode includes a substrate having an active region and an optical mode size conversion region, waveguides including an ridge waveguide in the active region and a deep ridge waveguide in the optical mode size conversion region connected to the active waveguide, an electrode disposed on the ridge waveguide; planarizing layers disposed on sides of the ridge waveguide and the deep ridge waveguide on the substrate, and a pad electrically connected to the electrode, the pad being disposed on the planarizing layers outside the active waveguide.
US09343612B2
A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a wafer of semiconductor devices grown on a growth substrate. The wafer of semiconductor devices has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface is a surface of the growth substrate. The method further includes bonding the first surface to a first wafer and bonding the second surface to a second wafer. In some embodiments, the first and second wafer each have a different coefficient of thermal expansion than the growth substrate. In some embodiments, the second wafer may compensate for stress introduced to the wafer of semiconductor devices by the first wafer.
US09343611B2
The invention relates to a method for producing serially interconnected optoelectronic components as well as optoelectronic components interconnected according to the method. In a first step, an electrically non-conductive layer with optoelectronic material introduced therein and at least one first wire or thread (2) located in the layer is produced. The first wire or thread either is electrically conductive from the outset or can subsequently be treated in such a way that it becomes electrically conductive as a result of the treatment. A first and second electrooptically active region of the layer is electrically connected to the first wire or thread in such a way that they are electrically interconnected to each other in series. By the wire, regions of the layer are subdivided in a simple manner, as a result of which a plurality of optoelectronic components are produced in a technically simple manner. Continuous production is possible.
US09343601B2
Provided is a photodetector including a graphene p-n homogeneous vertical-junction diode by evaluating photodetection characteristics of the manufactured graphene p-n vertical junction according to the amount of doping. The photodetector comprises a substrate and graphene having a p-n homogeneous vertical junction as a photodetection layer formed on the substrate, wherein the photodetection layer has a detectability of 10E11 (Jones) or higher within the range of 350 nm to 1100 nm, and first and second electrodes are formed on the photodetection layer.
US09343600B2
Systems and devices relating to an integrated housing for microinverters. The housing has a cavity for housing the circuitry of the microinverter. The housing is mountable on a back sheet of a PV module by way of the housing's top cover. An opening at the back of the housing accommodates DC contacts coming from the PV module while a void configured for an output port is also present in the housing. When mounted on the PV module, the housing is spaced apart from the module.
US09343599B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes forming jagged portions non-uniformly on a surface of a substrate, forming a first type semiconductor and a second type semiconductor in the substrate, forming a first electrode to contact the first type semiconductor, and forming a second electrode to contact the second type semiconductor. An etchant used in a wet etching process in manufacturing the solar cell includes about 0.5 wt % to 10 wt % of HF, about 30 wt % to 60 wt % of HNO3, and up to about 30 wt % of acetic acid based on total weight of the etchant.
US09343597B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an optical device, a transparent conductive film, an electrode pad, and a penetrating electrode. In the optical device, an optical element area for receiving light is formed on a first surface side of a substrate, and an external connection terminal is formed on a side of a second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate.The transparent conductive film is formed to face the first surface of the substrate. The electrode pad is formed on the first surface of the substrate and configured to perform connection with a fixed potential.The penetrating electrode is connected to the electrode pad and formed to penetrate the substrate between the first surface and second surface. The transparent conductive film is connected to the electrode pad, and the penetrating electrode is connected to the external connection terminal on the side of the second surface of the substrate.
US09343587B2
Methods for forming field effect transistors (FETs) with improved ON/OFF current ratios in addition to short charging times and the resulting devices are disclosed. Embodiments include forming a gate oxide layer above a channel region in a substrate, forming a partial self-adjusting threshold voltage layer above a drain-side end of the gate oxide layer, and forming a gate above the partial self-adjusting threshold voltage layer and the gate oxide layer.
US09343583B2
A thin film transistor, a thin film transistor array panel including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided, wherein the thin film transistor includes a channel region including an oxide semiconductor, a source region and a drain region connected to the channel region and facing each other at both sides with respect to the channel region, an insulating layer positioned on the channel region, and a gate electrode positioned on the insulating layer, wherein an edge boundary of the gate electrode and an edge boundary of the channel region are substantially aligned.
US09343580B2
A semiconductor device (100a) with a thin-film transistor (10a) includes: a gate electrode (62) formed on a substrate (60); a gate insulating layer (66) formed on the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer (68) formed on the gate insulating layer; source and drain electrodes (70s, 70d) electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer; a protective layer (72) formed on the oxide semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrodes; an oxygen supplying layer (74) formed on the protective layer; an anti-diffusion layer (78) formed on the oxygen supplying layer; and a transparent electrode (81) formed on the anti-diffusion layer and made of an amorphous transparent oxide.
US09343562B2
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a group III-V merged cascode transistor. Such a group III-V merged cascode transistor includes a group III-V body disposed over a substrate and configured to produce a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). The group III-V body includes a group III-V barrier layer situated over a group III-V channel layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode. The group III-V merged cascode transistor also includes an enable gate disposed in a recess extending substantially through the group III-V barrier layer, and an operational gate disposed over the group III-V barrier layer, the operational gate not being in physical contact with the enable gate.
US09343543B2
Embodiments of a gate contact for a semiconductor device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure and a dielectric layer on a surface of the semiconductor structure, where the dielectric layer has an opening that exposes an area of the semiconductor structure. A gate contact for the semiconductor device is formed on the exposed area of the semiconductor structure through the opening in the dielectric layer. The gate contact includes a proximal end on a portion of the exposed area of the semiconductor structure, a distal end opposite the proximal end, and sidewalls that each extend between the proximal end and the distal end of the gate contact. For each sidewall of the gate contact, an air region separates the sidewall and the distal end of the gate contact from the dielectric layer.
US09343539B2
A semiconductor device and a method for fabricating a semiconductor device involve a semiconductor layer that includes a first material and a second material. The first and second materials can be silicon and germanium. A contact of the device has a portion proximal to the semiconductor layer and a portion distal to the semiconductor layer. The distal portion includes the first material and the second material. A metal layer formed adjacent to the relaxed semiconductor layer and adjacent to the distal portion of the contact is simultaneously reacted with the relaxed semiconductor layer and with the distal portion of the contact to provide metallic contact material.
US09343534B2
According to example embodiments, a semiconductor material may include zinc, nitrogen, and fluorine. The semiconductor material may further include oxygen. The semiconductor material may include a compound. For example, the semiconductor material may include zinc fluorooxynitride. The semiconductor material may include zinc oxynitride containing fluorine. The semiconductor material may include zinc fluoronitride. The semiconductor material may be applied as a channel material of a thin film transistor (TFT).
US09343529B2
A material stack comprising alternating layers of a silicon etch stop material and a germanium nanowire template material is formed on a surface of a bulk substrate. The material stack and a portion of the bulk substrate are then patterned by etching to provide an intermediate fin structure including a base semiconductor portion and alternating portions of the silicon etch stop material and the germanium nanowire template material. After recessing each germanium nanowire template material and optionally the base semiconductor portion, and etching each silicon etch stop material to define a new fin structure, a spacer is formed on sidewall surfaces of the remaining portions of the new fin structure. The alternating layers of germanium nanowire template material are then suspended above a notched surface portion of the bulk substrate and thereafter a functional gate structure is formed.
US09343526B2
An integrated semiconductor device includes a substrate of a first conductivity type, a buried layer located over the substrate, an isolated region located over a first portion of the buried layer, and an isolation trench located around the isolated region. A punch-through structure is located around at least a portion of the isolation trench. The punch-through structure includes a second portion of the buried layer, a first region located over the second portion of the buried layer, the first region having a second conductivity type, and a second region located over the first region, the second region having the first conductivity type.
US09343518B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and an outermost area surrounding the peripheral area, a first insulating layer on the substrate across the display area, the peripheral area, and the outermost area, the first insulating layer being discontinuous in the peripheral area, a second insulating layer on the substrate across the display area and the peripheral area, is the second insulating layer being positioned on the first insulating layer in the display area and on a layer under the first insulating layer in a discontinuous portion of the first insulating layer in the peripheral area, and a pixel electrode on the second insulating layer in the display area.
US09343516B2
A display unit includes a light emitting layer including a light emitting device (10R, 10G, 10B); a color filter layer including a color filter (23R, 23G, 23B) corresponding to the light emitting device; and a light blocking layer (22) including a light blocking member (22B) arranged to overlap an end of the color filter, a center position of the light blocking member being offset from the end of the color filter.
US09343513B2
An organic electroluminescent display device includes a first substrate having a pixel area including a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of sub pixels, a light emitting devices are provided in correspondence with the sub pixels, and a partition layer covering a peripheral portion of each of the sub pixels; and a second substrate having a sensing unit including a first electrode pattern extending in one direction and a second electrode pattern extending in a direction intersecting the one direction, and the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern is provided out of contact from each other. The first electrode pattern is located to overlap the partition layer so as to enclose the sub pixels. The first electrode pattern included in the sensing unit encloses the sub pixels, and thus light is prevented from leaking to adjacent sub pixels.
US09343499B1
An integrated circuit system includes a first device and second device wafer. A wafer bonding region is disposed at an interface of a front side of a first dielectric layer of the first device wafer and a front side of a second dielectric layer of the second device wafer such that wafer bonding region bonds the first device wafer to the second device wafer. The wafer bonding region includes dielectric material having a higher silicon concentration than a dielectric material of the first and second dielectric layers of the first and second device wafers. A conductive path couples a first conductor of the first device wafer to a second conductor of the second device wafer. The conductive path is formed in a cavity etched through the wafer bonding region between the first conductor and the second conductor.
US09343492B2
Provided are a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor based on a thin-film-on-application specific integrated circuit (TFA), and a method of operating the same. The CMOS image sensor may include at least one floating diffusion region formed in a semiconductor substrate, and a thin film type light sensor disposed to correspond to a plurality of pixels. The CMOS image sensor may also include at least one via electrically connected between the light sensor and the at least one floating diffusion region. The CMOS image sensor may also include a first micro lens disposed to correspond to at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels.
US09343490B2
Color filter array devices and methods of making color filter array devices are disclosed herein. A color filter array may include a substrate having a plurality of pixels thereon, one or more nanowires associated with each of the plurality of pixels, wherein each of the one or more nanowires extends substantially perpendicularly from the substrate, and an optical coupler associated with each of the one or more nanowires. A method of making a color filter array may include, making an array of nanowires, wherein each of the nanowires extend substantially perpendicularly from a substrate, disposing a transparent polymer material to substantially encapsulate the nanowires, removing the nanowires from the substrate, providing a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein a hard polymer substantially covers an image plane of the pixel array, disposing the array of nanowires on the pixel array, and removing the transparent polymer encapsulating the nanowires.
US09343487B2
A TFT substrate includes a TFT including a source electrode having a lower source electrode and an upper source electrode, which are electrically connected to each other, and a drain electrode having a lower drain electrode and an upper drain electrode, which are electrically connected to each other. The lower source electrode and the lower drain electrode are in contact with a lower surface of the semiconductor film, and the upper source electrode and the upper drain electrode are in contact with an upper surface of the semiconductor film.
US09343481B2
The present invention discloses a TFT array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a liquid crystal display device, which is aiming at lowering the resistance value of a common electrode and not diminishing the aperture ratio of pixels on the premise that the manufacturing cost is not additionally increased. The TFT array substrate includes: a substrate, a common electrode layer arranged on the substrate, a first insulating layer arranged on the common electrode layer and a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in an array on the first insulating layer, wherein via holes penetrating through the first insulating layer are formed between adjacent pixels in some of a plurality of pixels, and common electrode lines are grown between rows and/or columns of pixels in some of the plurality of pixels, and in parallel with the common electrode layer below the first insulating layer through the via holes.
US09343479B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a memory array having alternating levels of semiconductor materials and dielectric material with strings of memory cells formed on the alternating levels. One such apparatus includes a memory array formed starting adjacent to a surface of a substrate. Peripheral circuitry is formed on an elevated portion that is adjacent to the memory array and has an uppermost portion substantially coplanar with an uppermost surface of the memory array. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09343478B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes gate electrodes three dimensionally arranged on a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor pattern extending from the semiconductor substrate and crossing sidewalls of the gate electrodes, a metal liner pattern formed between the semiconductor pattern and formed on a top surface and a bottom surface of each of the gate electrodes, and a charge storage layer formed between the semiconductor pattern and the metal liner pattern.
US09343476B2
The inventive concepts provide semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. According to the method, sub-stack structures having a predetermined height and active holes are repeatedly stacked. Thus, cell dispersion may be improved, and various errors such as a not-open error caused in an etching process may be prevented. A grain size of an active pillar used as channels may be increased or maximized using a metal induced lateral crystallization method, so that a cell current may be improved. A formation position of a metal silicide layer including a crystallization inducing metal may be controlled such that a concentration grade of the crystallization inducing metal may be controlled depending on a position within the active pillar.
US09343474B2
A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of first conductive patterns stacked over a substrate, dummy patterns formed in the first conductive patterns, respectively, first barrier patterns each surrounding the respective first conductive patterns and partially interposed between the respective first conductive patterns and the respective dummy patterns, second barrier patterns each surrounding the respective first barrier patterns and the respective dummy patterns, a second conductive pattern located over or under the first conductive patterns, and a third barrier pattern surrounding the second conductive pattern, wherein the second conductive pattern has a greater thickness than the first conductive patterns.
US09343472B2
A device having a substrate prepared with a memory cell region having a memory cell is disclosed. The memory cell includes an access transistor and a storage transistor. The access transistor includes first and second source/drain (S/D) regions and the storage transistor includes first and second storage S/D regions. The access and storage transistors are coupled in series and the second S/D regions being a common S/D region. An erase gate is disposed over the common S/D region. A program gate is disposed over the first storage S/D region. Such an arrangement of the memory cell decouples a program channel and an erase channel.
US09343470B2
A polysilicon gate electrode is formed in a memory cell area, and a dummy polysilicon gate electrode is formed in a logic cell area of a silicon substrate. The dummy polysilicon gate electrode is removed and a gate insulation film and a metal gate electrode having a recess portion are formed. Further, contact holes are formed on source regions and drain regions of the memory cell area and the logic cell area. The recess portion of the metal gate electrode and the contact holes are filled with a wiring metal, substantially simultaneously, and thereafter the wiring metal is planarized by polishing.
US09343468B1
A split-gate flash memory cell (cell) includes a semiconductor surface. A first control gate (CG) on a first floating gate (FG) and a second CG on a second floating gate (FG) are on the semiconductor surface. A common source or common drain is between the first and second FG. A first select gate and a second select gate on a select gate dielectric layer is between a first BL source or drain (S/D) and the first FG and between a second BL S/D and the second FG, respectively. The first select gate has a first pocket region that has a first doping distribution different from a second doping distribution in a second pocket region associated with the second select gate which reduces a variation in read current (Ir) for the cell between measuring Ir using the first select gate and measuring Ir using the second select gate.
US09343465B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an embedded flash (e-flash) memory device that includes a flash memory cell and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). The flash memory cell includes a control gate disposed over a floating gate. The MOSFET includes a logic gate disposed over a gate dielectric. The floating gate and a first gate layer of the logic gate are simultaneously formed with a first polysilicon layer. A high temperature oxide (HTO) is then formed over the floating gate with a high temperature process, while the first gate layer protects the gate dielectric from degradation effects due to the high temperature process. A second gate layer of the logic gate is then formed over the first gate layer by a second polysilicon layer. The first and second gate layers collectively form a logic gate of the MOSFET.
US09343462B2
Semiconductor devices including a plurality of thyristor-based memory cells, each having a cell size of 4F2, and methods for forming the same are provided. The thyristor-based memory cells each include a thyristor having vertically superposed regions of alternating dopant types, and a control gate. The control gate may be electrically coupled with one or more of the thyristors and may be operably coupled to a voltage source. The thyristor-based memory cells may be formed in an array on a conductive strap, which may function as a cathode or a data line. A system may be formed by integrating the semiconductor devices with one or more memory access devices or conventional logic devices, such as a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device.
US09343456B2
A method of forming a metal gate diode ESD protection device and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a metal gate diode including a metal gate on a substrate; forming an n-type cathode on a first side of the metal gate diode; and forming a p-type anode on a second side of the metal gate diode, opposite the first side.
US09343455B2
An electronics chip includes a charge pump and at least one high voltage (HV) electro-static discharge (ESD) module. The charge pump is configured to provide a predetermined voltage across a microphone. The devices described herein are implemented in a standard low voltage CMOS process and has a circuit topology that provides an inherent ESD protection level (when it is powered down), which is higher than the operational (predetermined) DC level. At least one high voltage (HV) electro-static discharge (ESD) module is coupled to the output of the charge pump. The HV ESD module is configured to provide ESD protection for the charge pump and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphone that is coupled to the chip. The at least one HV ESD module includes a plurality of PMOS or NMOS transistors having at least one high voltage NWELL/DNWELL region formed within selected ones of the PMOS or NMOS transistors. The at least one high voltage NWELL/DNWELL region has a breakdown voltage sufficient to allow a low voltage process to be used to construct the chip and still allow the HV ESD module to provide ESD protection for the chip.
US09343453B2
A field plate electrode is repetitively disposed in a folded manner or a spiral shape in a direction along an edge of a first circuit region. A coupling transistor couples a first circuit to a second circuit lower in supply voltage than the first circuit. A second conductivity type region is disposed around the coupling transistor. A part of the field plate electrode partially overlaps with the second conductivity type region. The field plate electrode is electrically coupled to a drain electrode of the coupling transistor at a portion located on the first circuit region side from a center thereof in a width direction of the separation region. A ground potential or a power potential of the second circuit is applied to the field plate electrode at a portion located on the second conductivity type region side from the center.
US09343438B1
A semiconductor apparatus may include a plurality of core chips and a base chip. The plurality of core chips may respectively include a plurality of channels, and each of the plurality of channels may include at least two pseudo channels. Each of the plurality of core chips may include a channel selection unit that selects one or more of the pseudo channels based on a channel mode signal, a pseudo channel signal, a stack information signal, and a slice information signal.
US09343437B2
Semiconductor package devices and methods of forming the semiconductor package devices are provided. The semiconductor package devices may include a lower package including a lower semiconductor chip on a lower substrate, an upper package including an upper semiconductor chip on an upper substrate. The upper substrate may include a protruding part corresponding to the lower semiconductor chip and a connection part that has a bottom surface lower than a bottom surface of the protruding part and is disposed around the protruding part. The semiconductor package devices may also include a heat dissipation part in a space between the lower semiconductor chip and the protruding part on the upper substrate and a package connection pattern electrically connecting the lower package to the upper package.
US09343436B2
A stacked package includes a substrate, and a first structure bonded to the substrate. The first structure has a plurality of bumps, and a first hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of the first structure. The stacked package further includes a second structure bonded to the plurality of bumps. The first hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of the second structure. The first structure is between the second structure and the substrate. The stacked package further includes a housing, wherein the housing defines a volume enclosing the first structure and the second structure. A second hydrophilic coating is on sidewalls of an inner surface of the housing. The stacked package further includes a cooling fluid within the volume enclosing the first structure and the second structure. A top surface of the cooling fluid is above a top surface of the second structure.
US09343425B1
According to one embodiment disclosed herein, a first substrate may be bonded to a second substrate by a method which includes providing the first substrate which includes a bonding surface, providing the second substrate which includes a complementary bonding surface, providing a bonding layer precursor which includes metal particles of a first metal composition and metal particles of a second metal composition, and forming a transient liquid phase bonding layer by spark plasma sintering the bonding layer precursor. The bonding layer precursor may be positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the bonding layer may be in contact with the bonding surface of the first substrate and the complementary bonding surface of the second substrate.
US09343418B2
An integrated circuit (IC) can include an analog region of a die of the IC. The analog region includes analog circuitry. The IC further includes a plurality of solder bumps implemented on a surface of the die in an area in vertical alignment with the analog region of the die.
US09343417B2
An integrated circuit includes a bottom substrate, a metal layer disposed over the bottom substrate and a hollow metal pillar disposed on the metal layer. The metal layer and the hollow metal pillar are electrically connected.
US09343414B2
Microelectronic packages and methods for fabricating microelectronic packages are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes producing a plurality of vertically-elongated contacts in ohmic contact with interconnect lines contained within one or more redistribution layers built over the frontside of a semiconductor die. A molded radiofrequency (RF) separation or stand-off layer is formed over the redistribution layers through which the plurality of vertically-elongated contacts extend. An antenna structure is fabricated or otherwise provided over the molded RF stand-off layer and electrically coupled to the semiconductor die through at least one of the plurality of vertically-elongated contacts.
US09343396B2
A semiconductor wafer contains semiconductor die. A first conductive layer is formed over the die. A resistive layer is formed over the die and first conductive layer. A first insulating layer is formed over the die and resistive layer. The wafer is singulated to separate the die. The die is mounted to a temporary carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the die and carrier. The carrier and a portion of the encapsulant and first insulating layer is removed. A second insulating layer is formed over the encapsulant and first insulating layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first and second insulating layers. A third insulating layer is formed over the second insulating layer and second conductive layer. A third conductive layer is formed over the third insulating layer and second conductive layer. A fourth insulating layer is formed over the third insulating layer and third conductive layer.
US09343388B2
A power semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor-element substrate in which a front-surface electrode pattern is formed on a surface of an insulating substrate; semiconductor elements for electric power which are affixed to the surface of the front-surface electrode pattern; a partition wall which is provided on the front-surface electrode pattern so as to enclose the semiconductor elements for electric power; a first sealing resin member which is filled inside the partition wall; a second sealing resin member which covers the first sealing resin member and a part of the semiconductor-element substrate which is exposed from the partition wall, wherein an electrode for a relay terminal is provided on a surface of the partition wall, and a wiring from inside of the partition wall to outside of the partition wall is led out via the electrode for a relay terminal.
US09343384B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip comprising a first and second terminal surfaces. An insulator surrounds an outer circumference of a side surface of the chip. A reinforcing-member is arranged between the side surface of the chip and an inner side surface of the insulator and surrounds the outer circumference of the side surface of the chip. A first and second holders hold the reinforcing-member therebetween at a top and bottom surfaces of the reinforcing-member. The first and second holders comprise protrusions facing an inner wall surface of the reinforcing-member, and the when φ1in represents an inner-diameter of parts of the reinforcing-member opposing to the protrusions, φ1out represents an outer-diameter of the reinforcing-member, φ2 represents an outer-diameter of the protrusion of either the first or the second holder, and φ3 represents an inner diameter of the insulator, the following Expression 1 is satisfied φ1in−φ2<φ1out.
US09343372B1
A method includes forming an n-FET device and a p-FET device on a substrate, each of the n-FET device and the p-FET device include a metal gate stack consisting of a titanium-aluminum carbide (TiAlC) layer above and in direct contact with a titanium nitride (TiN) cap, and removing, from the p-FET device, the TiAlC layer selective to the TiN cap. The removal of the TiAlC layer includes using a selective TiAlC to TiN wet etch chemistry solution with a substantially high TiAlC to TiN etch ratio such that the TiN cap remains in the p-FET device.
US09343370B1
An exemplary method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. First and second hard mask patterns adjacent to each other are formed on a substrate. First and second active fins are formed by etching the substrate using the first and second hard mask patterns as a etch mask. An isolation layer is formed to fill a region defined by the first and second active fins and the first and second hard mask patterns. A mask pattern is formed to be positioned on the first hard mask pattern and overlap the first active fin. A first trench is formed by etching a portion of the isolation layer and a portion of the second active fin using the mask pattern as an etch mask. The remaining portion of the second active fin is removed by performing an isotropic etching process.
US09343365B2
The present invention provides a method for plasma processing a substrate, the method comprising providing a process chamber having a wall; providing a plasma source adjacent to the wall of the process chamber; providing a work piece support within the process chamber; loading a work piece onto the work piece support, the work piece having a support film, a frame and the substrate; providing at least two cutting regions on the substrate, the cutting regions being positioned between all adjacent device structures on the substrate; generating a plasma using the plasma source; and processing the work piece using the generated plasma.
US09343364B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having two surfaces. First side faces second side and includes recesses, and a plurality of through silicon vias (TSV), which penetrate through the semiconductor substrate, are exposed by the recesses. Even when the TSVs have different heights from each other or the degree of back-grinding is changed, due to a process parameters, yield of the semiconductor device is improved by reducing failure caused when a TSV is not exposed.
US09343350B2
An anti-slip end effector for transporting a workpiece, configured to be attached to a robotic arm, includes: a workpiece-supporting area for placing a workpiece thereon for transportation; and at least one anti-slip protrusion disposed in the workpiece-supporting area for supporting a backside of the workpiece, said anti-slip protrusion having a top face capable of contacting and adhering to the backside of the workpiece by van der Waals force and capable of pivoting on a pivot axis, said pivot axis being disposed away from a center of the top face as viewed from above.
US09343349B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a substrate holding apparatus is provided. The substrate holding apparatus includes a first holding part, a second holding part and a controller. The first holding part adsorbs and holds a first region including a central portion of a substrate. The second holding part adsorbs and holds a second region located outside the first region of the substrate. The second holding part adsorbs and holds the second region of the substrate after the first holding part adsorbs and holds the first region of the substrate.
US09343333B2
A semiconductor package includes at least one semiconductor die having an active surface, an interposer element having an upper surface and a lower surface, a package body, and a lower redistribution layer. The interposer element has at least one conductive via extending between the upper surface and the lower surface. The package body encapsulates portions of the semiconductor die and portions of the interposer element. The lower redistribution layer electrically connects the interposer element to the active surface of the semiconductor die.
US09343331B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device provided with a stack of a first film substantially free of oxygen and a second film disposed above the first film and comprising a metal oxide containing an uneasily etched material is disclosed. The method includes etching the second film by a first process using a first etch gas containing a boron trichloride containing gas and by a second process following the first process using a second etch gas containing an inert gas. In the second process, the second etch gas is used while a bias power is controlled to be equal to or greater than an etching threshold energy of the second film.
US09343318B2
A semiconductor device having a source feature and a drain feature formed in a substrate. The semiconductor device having a gate stack over a portion of the source feature and over a portion of the drain feature. The semiconductor device further having a first cap layer formed over substantially the entire source feature not covered by the gate stack, and a second cap layer formed over substantially the entire drain feature not covered by the gate stack. A method of forming a semiconductor device including forming a source feature and drain feature in a substrate. The method further includes forming a gate stack over a portion of the source feature and over a portion of the drain feature. The method further includes depositing a first cap layer over substantially the entire source feature not covered by the gate stack and a second cap layer over substantially the entire drain feature not covered by the gate stack.
US09343316B2
Various embodiments include methods of forming memory cells. In one embodiment, a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material are formed on a substrate. A conductive material is formed between the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material. An opening is formed through the first dielectric material, the second dielectric material, and the conductive material. The conductive material is recessed laterally from the opening to form a recessed control gate and to expose portions of the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material. Portions of a third dielectric material are formed over the exposed portions of the first dielectric material and the second dielectric material and a charge storage element is formed between the portions of the third dielectric material and adjacent to the recessed control gate. Portions of the third dielectric material are substantially removed. Additional methods, as well as apparatuses, are disclosed.
US09343315B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided, including: providing a solid precursor having a first average particle size; solving the solid precursor in an organic solvent into an intermediate; recrystallizing the intermediate to form solid granules, wherein the solid granules has a second average particle size larger than the first average particle size; vaporizing the solid granules to form a film-forming gas; and depositing the film-forming gas on a substrate to form a resistance film. A method for modifying a resistance film source in a semiconductor fabrication and a solid precursor delivery system are also provided. The method for fabricating a semiconductor structure in the present disclosure can remove small particles or ultra-small particles from solid precursor, and does not need extra time to dump cracked solid precursor.
US09343313B2
First irradiation which causes an emission output from a flash lamp to reach its maximum value over a time period in the range of 1 to 20 milliseconds is performed to increase the temperature of a front surface of a semiconductor wafer from a preheating temperature to a target temperature for a time period in the range of 1 to 20 milliseconds. This achieves the activation of the impurities. Subsequently, second irradiation which gradually decreases the emission output from the maximum value over a time period in the range of 3 to 50 milliseconds is performed to maintain the temperature of the front surface within a ±25° C. range around the target temperature for a time period in the range of 3 to 50 milliseconds. This prevents the occurrence of process-induced damage while suppressing the diffusion of the impurities.
US09343312B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, and performing an ion implantation process to a surface of the substrate. The ion implantation process includes intermittently applying an ion beam to the surface, and while applying the ion beam, applying a heating process with a heating temperature above a threshold level.
US09343310B1
An apparatus and a method are disclosed for forming electrical conductors and/or semiconductors on a glass substrate. The electrical conductors and/or semiconductors are formed by applying a conducting material or a semiconductor material to a surface of the glass substrate and irradiating the interface with a focused laser beam transmitted through the glass. An electrical conductor may be formed on a glass substrate or a semiconductor substrate to provide an electrical antenna for radio frequency communication.
US09343300B1
The present disclosure is directed to forming relatively abrupt junctions between the channel region and source/drain regions of a PMOS transistor device with a germanium-containing channel region. A liner layer is formed in previously formed source/drain cavities prior to the formation of epi semiconductor material in the source/drain cavities above the liner layer. The materials for the liner layer and, particularly, the concentration of germanium (if any is present) are adjusted relative to the germanium concentration in the channel region and the epi source/drain material such that, during an anneal process, dopant materials (e.g., boron) that diffuse from the source/drain region during the anneal process tend to accumulate in or near the liner layer.
US09343298B2
The disclosure provides a method for producing a stack of layers on a semiconductor substrate. The method includes producing a substrate a first conductive layer; and producing by ALD a sub-stack of layers on said conductive layer, at least one of said layers of the sub-stack being a TiO2 layer, the other layers of the sub-stack being layers of a dielectric material having a composition suitable to form a cubic perovskite phase upon crystallization of said sub-stack of layers. Crystallization is obtained via heat treatment. When used in a metal-insulator-metal capacitor, the stack of layers can provide improved characteristics as a consequence of the TiO2 layer being present in the sub-stack.
US09343294B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first dielectric layer overlying a substrate, forming at least a first opening in the first dielectric layer, forming a conformal dense layer lining the at least first opening in the first dielectric layer, forming a barrier layer overlying the conformal dense layer, forming a conductive feature in the at least first opening, removing a portion of the first dielectric layer between any two adjacent conductive features to form a second opening, wherein the second opening exposes the conformal dense layer between the two adjacent conductive features, and depositing between the two adjacent conductive features a second dielectric layer having an air gap formed therein.
US09343293B2
Methods are described for forming a dielectric layer on a patterned substrate. The methods may include combining a silicon-and-carbon-containing precursor and a radical oxygen precursor in a plasma free substrate processing region within a chemical vapor deposition chamber. The silicon-and-carbon-containing precursor and the radical oxygen precursor react to deposit a flowable silicon-carbon-oxygen layer on the patterned substrate. The resulting film possesses a low wet etch rate ratio relative to thermal silicon oxide and other standard dielectrics.
US09343277B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing the time period of a CID event of an MS3 experiment and making the overall fragmentation event more generic. A CID event of an MS3 experiment performed on a sample by a mass spectrometer is divided into two time periods using a processor. At the beginning of a first time period of the CID event, the mass spectrometer is instructed to both open a pulse valve in order to pulse a collision gas and apply a first CID voltage. At the beginning of a second time period of the CID event, the mass spectrometer is instructed to both close the pulse valve and apply a second CID voltage. The mass spectrometer is pumped down during the second time period. The overlap in time of the pump down and CID reduces the overall time period of the CID event.
US09343274B2
Apparatus for processing substrates is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first shield having a first end, a second end, and one or more first sidewalls disposed between the first and second ends, wherein the first end is configured to interface with a first support member of a process chamber to support the first shield in a position such that the one or more first sidewalls surround a first volume of the process chamber; and a second shield having a first end, a second end, and one or more second sidewalls disposed between the first and second ends of the second shield and about the first shield, wherein the first end of the second shield is configured to interface with a second support member of the process chamber to support the second shield such that the second shield contacts the first shield to form a seal therebetween.
US09343269B2
A plasma processing apparatus has a long chamber having an opening portion, a gas supply apparatus that supplies gas into the chamber, a spiral coil having a long shape in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the chamber, a high-frequency electric power supply connected to the spiral coil, a base material mounting table which is disposed opposite to the opening portion and holds a base material and a moving mechanism which is disposed in parallel with the longitudinal direction of the chamber and the longitudinal direction of the opening portion, and enables the chamber and the base material mounting table to relatively move perpendicularly with respect to the longitudinal direction of the opening portion.
US09343267B2
A method for mask process correction or forming a pattern on a reticle using charged particle beam lithography is disclosed, where the reticle is to be used in an optical lithographic process to form a pattern on a wafer, where sensitivity of the wafer pattern is calculated with respect to changes in dimension of the reticle pattern, and where pattern exposure information is modified to increase edge slope of the reticle pattern where sensitivity of the wafer pattern is high. A method for fracturing or mask data preparation is also disclosed, where pattern exposure information is determined that can form a pattern on a reticle using charged particle beam lithography, where the reticle is to be used in an optical lithographic process to form a pattern on a wafer, and where sensitivity of the wafer pattern is calculated with respect to changes in dimension of the reticle pattern.
US09343262B2
An ion implantation apparatus includes a beam parallelizing unit and a third power supply unit. The beam parallelizing unit includes an acceleration lens, and a deceleration lens disposed adjacent to the acceleration lens in an ion beam transportation direction. The third power supply unit operates the beam parallelizing unit under one of a plurality of energy settings. The plurality of energy settings includes a first energy setting suitable for transport of a low energy ion, and a second energy setting suitable for transport of a high energy ion beam. The third power supply unit is configured to generate a potential difference in at least the acceleration lens under the second energy setting, and generate a potential difference in at least the deceleration lens under the first energy setting. A curvature of the deceleration lens is smaller than a curvature of the acceleration lens.
US09343258B2
An exemplary magnetic actuator for a circuit breaker arrangement includes a coil, a core with a groove for accommodating a section of the coil, and a movable plate configured to be attracted by the core. When a magnetic field is generated by the coil, the movable plate actuates the circuit breaker arrangement based on the attraction to the core. The magnetic actuator also includes a position locker for locking the coil in the groove. The position locker having a locking part protruding away from the core and over a section of the coil not accommodated in the groove.
US09343256B1
A trip cam is for an indication assembly of an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a housing and a number of poles. Each of the number of poles includes a pair of separable contacts and an operating mechanism structured to open and close the separable contacts. The indication assembly includes a cradle member. The trip cam includes: a mounting portion; a transfer leg extending from the mounting portion, the transfer leg being structured to cooperate with each of the number of poles; a driving leg extending from the mounting portion in a first direction, the driving leg being structured to be driven by the cradle member; and a trip indicator leg including a base portion. The base portion extends from the mounting portion in a second direction generally opposite the first direction.
US09343255B2
Normally closed microelectromechanical switches (MEMS), methods of manufacture and design structures
Normally closed (shut) micro-electro-mechanical switches (MEMS), methods of manufacture and design structures are provided. A structure includes a beam structure that includes a first end hinged on a first electrode and in electrical contact with a second electrode, in its natural state when not actuated.
US09343253B2
A reflowable thermal fuse includes a positive-temperature-coefficient (PTC) device that defines a first end and a second end, a conduction element that defines a first end and a second end in electrical communication with the second end of the PTC device, and a restraining element that defines a first end in electrical communication with the first end of the PTC device and a second end, in electrical communication with a second end of the conduction element. The restraining element is adapted to prevent the conduction element from coming out of electrical communication with the PTC device in an installation state of the thermal fuse. During a fault condition, heat applied to the thermal fuse diverts current flowing between the first end of the PTC device and the second end of the conduction element to the restraining element, causing the restraining element to release the conduction element and activate the fuse.
US09343245B2
A molded case circuit breaker, includes: a case; a power side terminal portion and a load side terminal portion formed at two sides of the case; a mounter installed at the terminal portion with a structure to enclose a terminal connector connected to the terminal portion, wherein the mounter includes: a mounting surface for mounting the terminal connector; insulation surfaces extending from two side edges of the mounting surface, and spaced from each other; and a cover surface having an opening, and formed on outer side surfaces of the insulation surfaces so as to cross the insulation surfaces and the mounting surface. Under such configuration, a regulated insulation distance can be obtained, and the terminal connector can be supported more stably.
US09343239B2
An improved process for forming a capacitor, and improved capacitor formed thereby is described. The process includes: providing an anode comprising a dielectric thereon; applying a first layer of an intrinsically conducting polymer on the dielectric to form a capacitor precursor; applying at least one subsequent layer of an intrinsically conducting polymer on the first layer from a dispersion; and treating the capacitor precursor at a temperature of at least 50° C. no more than 200° C. at a relative humidity of at least 25% up to 100%, or fusing the layered structure by swelling the layered structure with a liquid and at least partially removing the liquid.
US09343237B2
A capacitor structure includes at least two capacitors. A first electrode includes a bottom conductive plane and first vertical conductive structures. The bottom conductive plane is disposed over a substrate. The bottom conductive plane has a first area and a first shape. At least two second electrodes include top conductive planes and second vertical conductive structures. A combined area of the top conductive planes and a gap area between adjacent top conductive planes has a second area and a second shape. The first area and the second area are about the same and the first shape and the second shape are about the same. An insulating structure is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrodes. The first vertical conductive structures and the second vertical conductive structures are interlaced with each other. The capacitors share the bottom conductive plane and have separate top conductive planes.
US09343231B2
A capacitor, and methods of its manufacture, having improved capacitance efficiency which results from increasing the effective area of an electrode surface are disclosed. An improved “three-dimensional” capacitor may be constructed with electrode layers having three-dimensional aspects at the point of interface with a dielectric such that portions of the electrode extend into the dielectric layer.
US09343230B2
In an electronic component, a body includes top and bottom surfaces, first and second end surfaces, and first and second lateral surfaces. A first outer electrode partially extends over the bottom surface and the first end surface without being disposed on the top surface, the second end surface, and both the lateral surfaces. A second outer electrode partially extends over the bottom surface and the second end surface without being disposed on the top surface, the first end surface, and both the lateral surfaces. An area of a first end surface portion of the first outer electrode disposed on the first end surface and area of a second end surface portion of the second outer electrode disposed on the second end surface are in a range of about 6.6% to about 35.0% of area of the first and second end surfaces, respectively.
US09343228B2
A laminated inductor may include a body having a plurality of ceramic layers stacked therein, a plurality of conductive patterns formed on the ceramic layers, and via electrodes disposed between the ceramic layers and connecting the conductive patterns disposed in a vertical direction to form a coil. Each of the conductive patterns may include a plurality of unit patterns disposed in parallel to be spaced apart from each other on each of the ceramic layers.
US09343225B2
There provided a power receiving device connectable with a first load circuit operating according to AC power from a power transmitting device in which the power receiver receives the AC power from the power transmitting device via magnetic coupling, the impedance adjuster is capable of converting at least one of voltage and current of the AC power received at the power receiver, the controller controls increase in output voltage of the power transmitting device, the AC power is supplied to the first load circuit via the impedance adjuster when the first load circuit is connected to the power receiving device, and the controller controls the impedance adjuster such that an input impedance of the impedance adjuster is lower than an input impedance of the first load circuit during at least a part of a time period where the output voltage of the power transmitting device is increased.
US09343219B2
The present invention is directed to a reactor 1 including a combined product 10 made up of a coil member 2 and a magnetic core 3, and a case 4 storing the combined product 10. The case 4 is formed by a combination of a side wall portion 41 surrounding the combined product 10 and a bottom plate portion 40 being a member separate from the side wall portion 41. Between the bottom plate portion 40 of the case 4 and the coil member 2 (coils 2a and 2b), an insulating sheet 42 is interposed. In order to fabricate the reactor 1, the insulating sheet 42 is disposed on the bottom plate portion 40, and the combined product 10 is disposed on the insulating sheet 42. Then, the side wall portion 41 is disposed from above the combined product 10, and the side wall portion 41 and the bottom plate portion 40 are engaged with each other.
US09343218B2
An assembly includes an electromagnetic actuator (80) and a voltage response arrangement (26) to enable the position of the armature (1) within the actuator to be monitored. The actuator includes two coils (4) joined together in series, the armature being switchable between at least two magnetically latched stable rest positions by passing a current pulse through the coils, and an output contact (82) electrically coupled to the junction (24) between the coils to facilitate monitoring of the voltage at the junction. The voltage response arrangement (26) is electrically coupled to the output contact (82) so as to provide an output signal giving an indication of the position of the armature (1) in response to the voltage generated on the output contact when a current pulse is passed through the coils (4). A method of monitoring the armature position is also provided.
US09343211B2
An ignition coil for an internal combustion engine is provided with a coil section that includes a primary coil and a secondary coil, and a connector case section. The primary coil is formed by winding a primary electric wire about the outer periphery of a primary spool made of a resin. The connector case section is provided with terminals each formed of a conductor and arranged from a fitting hole of the connector case section to a connector portion. In each terminal, an insertion portion arranged in the fitting hole is formed with an insertion slit in a fitting direction in which the coil section is fitted to the connector case section. Each winding end portion is drawn out substantially along a winding direction of the primary electric wire and inserted into the insertion slit in the fitting direction.
US09343195B2
Certain pyridine-ketone compounds have been found to provide anticorrosion properties when incorporated into silver nanowire containing films. Such compounds may be incorporated into one or more silver nanowire containing layers or in one or more layers disposed adjacent to the silver nanowire containing layers.
US09343188B2
A high-temperature gas reactor control rod is provided that does not degrade the joining state between the control rod elements even when stress is applied thereto, and that can improve the safety of the high temperature gas reactor remarkably by improving the heat resistance thereof.The high-temperature gas reactor control rod has a plurality of control rod elements (1) each having a neutron absorber (7) between an outer cylinder (9) and an inner cylinder (8) that form a double cylindrical tubular shape, the control rod elements (1) joined to each other in a vertical direction, characterized by: a columnar support member (2) for supporting at least the neutron absorber (7), disposed in the inner cylinder (8); and joining means for joining to another control rod element (1), provided at least one of upper and lower ends of the support member (2).
US09343173B2
A semiconductor device comprises a bit determination circuit to count the number of bits at a first level in an input address signal formed of a plurality of bits and to output a result indicating whether or not a value of the count exceeds a predetermined determination threshold value, as a bit determination result signal, and a selection control circuit to select a non-volatile program element to be cut off, based on the bit determination result signal and the address signal. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US09343171B1
An erase operation for a memory cells in a block provides a consistent and sufficient erase depth regardless of the number of programmed word lines in the block. A lower erase-verify voltage is used for a first-programmed word line of a set of word lines than for remaining word lines in the set. As a result, the resistance of a memory cell of the first-programmed word line dominates during sensing of the NAND string so that the number of erase loops can be controlled in a predictable way regardless of the number of programmed word lines. The lower erase-verify voltage can be optimized so that it does not change the number of erase loops to complete an erase operation, compared to the case where a common erase-verify voltage is used on all word lines.
US09343166B2
A non-volatile memory includes a plurality of word lines, power supply units are provided for word line columns, a different unit voltage is applied for each of power supply units depending on whether a selected memory cell exists in the column, a switching mechanism in each power supply unit is switched by the word line depending on a voltage value on a control line, a charge storage gate voltage or inhibition gate voltage is applied for each of the word lines so that the inhibition gate voltage value and a bit line voltage value can be freely set for each of the word line columns to values at which occurrence of disturbance can be suppressed. A plurality of power supply units are connected to the control line in a common row direction, and a row-direction address decoder, which is independent for each of the word line columns is not required.
US09343163B2
A semiconductor memory device and an operating method of the semiconductor memory device change a read voltage used in a read operation by performing a moving read operation, a randomize operation, and a program/erase compensation operation independently or in combination, thereby stably performing the read operation without an error and reducing a time for the read operation even when distribution of threshold voltages of the memory cells is changed according to a program/erase cycling effect or a retention effect.
US09343150B2
A programmable logic device includes: a first memory element including a first electrode connected to a first wiring line, a second electrode, and a first resistive change layer, a resistance between the first and second electrodes being changed from a low-resistance state to a high-resistance state by applying, to the second electrode, a voltage higher than a voltage applied to the first electrode; a second memory element including a third electrode connected to the second electrode, a fourth electrode connected to a second wiring line, and a second resistive change layer, a resistance between the third and fourth electrodes being changed from a low-resistance state to a high-resistance state by applying, to the fourth electrode, a voltage higher than a voltage applied to the third electrode; and a first transistor, of which a gate is connected to the second electrode and the third electrode.
US09343135B2
Physically unclonable function based on programming voltage of magnetoresistive random-access memory
One feature pertains to a method of implementing a physically unclonable function. The method includes initializing an array of magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) cells to a first logical state, where each of the MRAM cells have a random transition voltage that is greater than a first voltage and less than a second voltage. The transition voltage represents a voltage level that causes the MRAM cells to transition from the first logical state to a second logical state. The method further includes applying a programming signal voltage to each of the MRAM cells of the array to cause at least a portion of the MRAM cells of the array to randomly change state from the first logical state to the second logical state, where the programming signal voltage is greater than the first voltage and less than the second voltage.
US09343132B2
A write method for a STT-RAM MTJ is disclosed that substantially reduces the bit error rate caused by intermediate domain states generated during write pulses. The method includes a plurality of “n” write periods or pulses and “n−1” domain dissipation periods where a domain dissipation period separates successive write periods. During each pulse, a write current is applied in a first direction across the MTJ and during each domain dissipation period, a second current with a magnitude equal to or less than the read current is applied in an opposite direction across the MTJ. Alternatively, no current is applied during one or more domain dissipation periods. Each domain dissipation period has a duration of 1 to 10 ns that is equal to or greater than the precession period of free layer magnetization in the absence of spin torque transfer current.
US09343131B1
A technique for sensing a data state of a data cell. A comparator has a first input at a node A and a second input at a node B. A first n-channel transistor is connected to a first p-channel transistor at the node A. A second n-channel transistor is connected to a second p-channel transistor at the node B. A multiplexer is configured to selectively connect a first reference cell or the data cell to the first n-channel transistor and configured to selectively connect the data cell or a second reference cell to the second n-channel transistor. The comparator outputs the data state of the data cell based on input of a node A voltage at the node A and a node B voltage at the node B.
US09343129B2
A magnetic memory according to an embodiment includes: a first MTJ element including a first storage layer including a first magnetic film having a changeable magnetization direction, a first reference layer including a second magnetic film having a fixed magnetization direction, and a first tunnel barrier layer provided therebetween; and a second MTJ element including a second storage layer including a third magnetic film having a changeable magnetization direction and magnetically connected to the first storage layer, a second reference layer including a fourth magnetic film having a fixed magnetization direction parallel to the magnetization direction of the first reference layer, and a second tunnel barrier layer provided therebetween, the second MTJ element being arranged in parallel with the first MTJ element in a direction perpendicular to a stacking direction of the first MTJ element.
US09343127B1
A memory device comprises a memory array, at least one row address buffer, a set of row data buffers, a row decoder, an array of sense amplifiers, and a demultiplexer. The memory array comprises data elements organized into rows and columns. Each of the rows is addressable by a row address. Each of the data elements in each of the rows is addressable by a column address. The at least one row address buffer holds a selected row address of a set of successive selected row addresses. The set of row data buffers holds respective contents of selected rows that correspond to the set of successive selected row addresses. The row decoder decodes the selected row address to access a selected row. The array of sense amplifier reads the selected row and transmits content of the selected row to one of the row data buffers through the demultiplexer, and writes the content of the selected row back to the selected row.
US09343117B1
Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of memory chips stacked therein. Each of the memory chips may include: a pumping enable signal control unit suitable for generating a pumping enable signal in response to a power-up signal or a trigger signal received from a first adjacent memory chip, delaying the pumping enable signal by a given time, and outputting the delayed pumping enable signal to a second adjacent memory chip; and a pumping unit suitable for generating a pumping voltage by performing a pumping operation in response to the pumping enable signal.
US09343094B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of servo tracks defined by servo bursts. A number of burst correction values are generated by reading at least one of the servo bursts at a number of different radial locations across the disk. The burst correction values are filtered to generate filtered burst correction values, and the filtered burst correction values are downsampled to generate downsampled burst correction values. The downsampled burst correction values are written to the disk, and the head is servoed over the disk by reading the downsampled burst correction values from the disk.
US09343071B2
A method for generating a reconstructed audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes deformatting an encoded audio signal into a first part and a second part and decoding the first part to obtain a decoded baseband audio signal. The method also includes extracting an estimated spectral envelope of the highband portion and a noise parameter from the second part and filtering the decoded baseband audio signal to obtain a plurality of subband signals. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and adjusting a spectral envelope of the high-frequency reconstructed signal based on the estimated spectral envelope of the highband portion to obtain an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal.
US09343065B2
A mobile device for accessing information over a communication network using a keyword identifier. The mobile device comprises: i) transceiver circuitry configured to transmit information to, and receive information, from the communication network; ii) voice recognition circuitry configured to receive from a microphone of the mobile device a voice input spoken by a user of the mobile device and convert the voice input to a text string; and ii) a controller configured to determine if the text string includes a valid keyword identifier. In response to a determination that the text string includes a valid keyword identifier, the controller generates a query from the valid keyword identifier and transmits the query to a remote server. In response to a determination that the text string does not include a valid keyword identifier, the controller identifies in the text string at least one candidate keyword and at least one candidate domain name. The controller transmits the at least one candidate keyword and at least one candidate domain name to a keyword server associated with a keyword management database.
US09343062B2
In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include two or more recognition results, including a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether a meaning of any of the alternative recognition results differs from a meaning of the top recognition result in a manner that is significant for a domain, such as the medical domain. In some embodiments, words and/or phrases that may be confused by an ASR system may be determined and associated in sets of words and/or phrases. Words and/or phrases that may be determined include those that change a meaning of a phrase or sentence when included in the phrase/sentence.
US09343051B2
A performance information output control apparatus includes a detection part which detects a plurality of positions of a music performance interface during a single stroke with respect to an operator of a keyboard instrument, the music performance interface including a mechanism that interlocks with the operator, an estimated music-sound generation time analysis part which calculates an estimated music-sound generation time point representing a time point at which music sound according to the single stroke with respect to the operator is estimated to be generated, based on a detection result of the positions of the music performance interface by the detection part, and a music performance information output part which outputs, when the detection result by the detection part is obtained, music performance information representing music performance contents corresponding to the single stroke with respect to the operator prior to the calculated estimated music-sound generation time point.
US09343048B2
A rim raising device attaches to a drum rim, or operates remotely from a drum. The device provides additional elevation above the drum, and increased surface area to a section of the drum rim such that a percussion technique is enhanced. The increased elevation provides space for other components to attach to the drum rim. A trigger assembly comprises at least one piezoelectric sensor and/or at least one force sensor that detect the force. The piezoelectric sensor generates an intensity sensitive signal. The force sensor generates an on/off, linear signal that produces sound, or serves as a gate for the piezoelectric sensor. The force converts into both types of signals, and wirelessly transmitted to a sound module for generating a predetermined sound. A transmitter on the device uses wireless technology, or an instrument cable/wire to transmit the signal. A vibration suppression portion inhibits interferences and other unwanted vibrations.
US09343037B2
Provided is a method capable of performing serial transmission of data whose data values change in short fixed cycles, while suppressing an increase in power consumption. In a liquid crystal controller, data sequence conversion is performed on data included in an input image signal by a first data sequence conversion circuit and a second data sequence conversion circuit every predetermined period of time. The data sequence conversion is performed by reversing the values of predetermined bits of each data. The data obtained after the data sequence conversion is transmitted, as a digital video signal, to a source driver. In the source driver, the same data sequence conversion as that performed by the liquid crystal controller is performed on each data included in the digital video signal by a first data sequence restoring circuit and a second data sequence restoring circuit.
US09343033B2
A method of controlling polarity of a data voltage and a liquid crystal display using the same, the method including calculating a direct current DC value of the data from each group which data to be output through I-channels adjacent to each other in a source drive IC belong; accumulating the DC value; comparing an absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group obtained by adding the accumulation DC value of the n−1-th group accumulated up to the n−1-th group to the DC value of the n-th group (n is positive integer) with a predetermined threshold value; and changing a group polarity data when the absolute value of the accumulation DC value of the n-th group exceeds the threshold value.
US09343031B2
An electronic device display may have an array of display pixels that are controlled using a grid of data lines and gate lines. The display may include compact gate driver circuits that perform gate driver operations to drive corresponding gate lines. Each compact gate driver circuit may include a first driver stage and a second driver stage. The first driver stage may receive a start pulse signal and produce a control signal. The control signal may be stored by a capacitor to identify a control state of the gate driver circuit. The second driver stage may receive the control signal, a clock signal, and a corresponding inverted clock signal and drive the corresponding gate line based on the received signals. The second driver stage may include pass transistor circuitry that passes the clock signal to the corresponding gate line and may include short circuit protection circuitry.
US09343030B2
A gate driving circuit includes N stages (where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2). The N stages are cascaded, and each of the N stages has a gate line connected thereto. A first stage group includes k stages of the N stages (where k is a natural number less than N), and the first stage group outputs a first output signal in response to a start signal. A second stage group (including N−k stages) generates a second output signal in response to the first output signal and outputs the second output signal to a corresponding gate line. The first stage group includes a first buffer and a second buffer, each of which receives the start signal. A size of the first buffer is smaller than a size of the second buffer.
US09343026B2
Provided is the pixel circuit for active matrix display apparatus and the driving method thereof, which is controlled by digital signal. The pre-charge pixel voltage is controlled and discharged by controlling the resistor and transistors, so that the desired grey scale is generated. The pixel circuit includes: a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, an energy storage device and resistor. By controlling the third switch, the first end of the energy storage device is charged to the voltage of the second source. The first switch and the second switch are controlled to switch on, so that the first end of the energy storage device discharging to the first source. The second switch switches off when the first end of the energy storage device reaches the desired pixel voltage.
US09343025B2
A display device includes a display module and a protective member that accommodates the display module. The protective member includes a first curved-line part extending in a horizontal direction and curved to have a concave surface on the top, a second curved-line part spaced apart from the first curved-line part to face the first curved-line part, formed below the first curved-line part, extending in the horizontal direction, and have a concave surface on the bottom, and connection parts that connect the first curved-line part and the second curved-line part to define an opening portion through which the portion of a display area is exposed. The display area comprises a display part exposed through the opening portion to display the effective image, a first peripheral part overlapped with the first curved-line part, and a second peripheral part overlapped with the second curved-line part.
US09343022B2
A display panel includes a plurality of pixels including at least four even-numbered subpixels. The at least four even-numbered subpixels includes: a first red subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to a first data line and a first gate line; a first green subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to a second data line and a second gate line, where the second data line is disposed adjacent to the first data line; a first blue subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to the first data line and the second gate line; and a first multi-primary subpixel including a pixel electrode electrically connected to a switching element which is connected to the second data line and the first gate line.
US09343015B2
An organic light emitting display device includes pixels each including a driving transistor and an organic light emitting diode, and a sensing unit configured to extract threshold voltage information of the driving transistor and degradation information of the organic light emitting diode from each of the pixels, wherein the sensing unit includes a conversion unit configured to convert pixel current supplied from a respective one of the pixels into a first voltage, and configured to convert a reference current from a current source into a second voltage, and a comparison unit configured to calculate a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage, and configured to output a comparison voltage corresponding to the difference.
US09343008B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate; and a red subpixel, a green subpixel, a blue subpixel, and a white subpixel arranged in a matrix of rows and columns on the substrate, wherein three different-colored subpixels selected from the red subpixel, the green subpixel, the blue subpixel, and the white subpixel form one pixel in which the three different-colored subpixels are simultaneously driven. Four red subpixels in the matrix enclose two green subpixels, two white subpixels, and one blue subpixel. Accordingly, the organic light emitting diode (OLED) display has a RGBW structure, and improves the luminance by the two white subpixels.
US09343001B2
A display device has liquid crystal display panels aligned in a horizontal scan direction. The liquid crystal display panels constitute one virtual display area. A decoder decodes image data, to thereby generate pieces of pixel data having addressees corresponding to the virtual display area. A bridge circuit specifies a target (display destination) on which the pixel data is to be displayed on the basis of a parameter table indicating a correspondence between the virtual display area and each of display areas of the liquid crystal display panels. The pixel data are stored in line buffers corresponding to the specified display destinations and outputted to the liquid crystal display panels. Out of the pixel data, pixel data corresponding to a gap formed between two liquid crystal display panels are discarded.
US09342997B2
This invention is directed to a modular staged simulator and a process of simulating medical trauma and maladies for the purpose of training or certifying individuals including medical professionals. More specifically, this disclosure relates to ex vivo training exercises as opposed to traditional forms of training using intact cadavers, in vivo surgery on animal subjects; and supervised apprenticeship performing surgery on human subjects with trauma or maladies under the watch of a skilled medical practitioner.
US09342991B2
Systems and methods for learning a high-level visual vocabulary generate inter-visual-word relationships between a plurality of visual words based on visual word-label relationships, map the visual words to a vector space based on the inter-visual word relationships, and generate high-level visual words in the vector space.
US09342987B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for providing flight response to flight-restricted regions. The location of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may be compared with a location of a flight-restricted region. If needed a flight-response measure may be taken by the UAV to prevent the UAV from flying in a no-fly zone. Different flight-response measures may be taken based on the distance between the UAV and the flight-restricted region and the rules of a jurisdiction within which the UAV falls.
US09342980B2
A generation unit generates a command based on operation history information read from a storage unit and operation status information obtained by an obtainment unit when power is supplied from a first power source unit to a communication apparatus, and generates the command based on the operation history information read from the storage unit when the power is not supplied from the first power source unit to the communication apparatus, when power is supplied from a second power source unit to each of the storage unit, the generation unit, and a proximity wireless communication unit.
US09342977B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for providing security on a mobile endpoint device are disclosed. For example, the method scans for a radio frequency signal, determines a state of the mobile endpoint device and triggers an alarm on the mobile endpoint device if the radio frequency signal is not detected for a predefined period of time and the state of the mobile endpoint device is an inactive state.
US09342975B2
Using wireless features, a public service agency is enabled to provide alert information to first responders. An automatic call back from the first responder triggers a voice call launching a location fix on the current location of the first responder. Preferably delivery confirmation that the responder has received the message is received. Once the location fix has been completed, then driving directions with map images are sent to the first responder based on their current location and desired destination for response.
US09342974B2
Systems and methods for searching for lost moving objects such as children are disclosed. In some embodiments, the systems and methods initiate an autonomous, expanding electronic search by emitting a search activation signal from a search initiation device. The search activation signal may include the target tag identifier of a target tag conveyed by the moving object. Search devices detecting the target tag may generate a hit signal, which may be used to determine the location of the target tag. In some instances, focused human searching for the moving object may be initiated based on this determined location, and/or on location information included in one or more hit signals.
US09342946B2
A method of gaming comprising: conducting a base game; modifying a current value of a feature counter by a random value in response to a designated counter event occurring in the base game; determining whether the current value of the feature counter corresponds to one of a plurality of feature games in response to a feature trigger event occurring; and conducting any feature game to which the current value of the feature counter corresponds.
US09342940B2
A cashbox and a money validator using the same, wherein the cashbox includes a box body, a partition for separating an inner space of the box body into a storage space and a temporary storage space that are horizontally arranged, a supporting plate assembly located inside the storage space, and a currency pressing assembly for pressing a paper currency in the temporary storage space into the storage space; further includes a sliding plate assembly located inside the storage space for supporting the paper currency, wherein the sliding plate assembly includes a sliding plate, and a plurality of rolling bodies located between the sliding plate and a bottom wall of the box body; wherein the sliding plate contacts with an end face of the paper currency, and can move back and forth along a stacking direction of the paper currency.
US09342938B2
A portable device acquires a signal of noise component data that is based on signal intensity of a signal received in an OFF time in which the portable device does not communicate with the vehicle-side device, and then transmits an information signal that is based on the noise component data, and a vehicle-side device transmits a measurement signal controlled based on the information signal, at a predetermined time period.
US09342935B2
An apparatus and method for monitoring a vehicle. Some embodiments include: capturing and securely storing OBD and location data from the vehicle, maintaining the data on storage in control of a user for a user-specified amount of time, securely transmitting the stored data to an internet-based server, storing the data on the internet server and processing the data for retrieval, retrieving the data from the internet server for display via a web server or specialized application, and performing remote diagnostics in the vehicle based on the VIN. Some embodiments include extracting a make and model of the vehicle from the VIN; wirelessly transmitting the make and model to a server; wirelessly receiving, from the server, a particular set of on-board-diagnostic (OBD) queries to perform to determine whether any abnormal measurements exist for this make and model; and executing a plurality of queries from the particular set of OBD queries.
US09342934B2
There is provided a device, system, and method for generating vehicle-specific diagnostic reset procedures using a data signal representative of vehicle identifying information. Diagnostic reset procedures corresponding to a vehicle are generated in response to converting vehicle identifying information into a data signal representative of the vehicle's VIN or license plate number, and matching the data signal with corresponding reset procedures stored in a reset procedure database. The vehicle-specific reset procedure(s) may be displayed on a mobile communication device, such as a smart phone, for instructing the user to manually perform the corresponding reset procedure(s). Alternatively, the corresponding reset procedure(s) may be communicated directly to the vehicle's electronic control unit for electronically implementing the corresponding reset procedure(s).
US09342932B2
A system for monitoring a plurality of objects in motion (OIMs) along a static route using a plurality of sensory detection devices, the static route having a plurality of route portions, each route portion having an entering boundary and an exiting boundary, at least one OIM being a designated OIM and having a tag indicating the location of the designated OIM along the route, the system comprising a plurality of sensory detection devices corresponding to the plurality of route portions for monitoring activity in each of the plurality of route portions and for providing monitor output representing activity within each of the plurality of route portions, a plurality of data stores corresponding to each of the plurality of route portions for receiving and storing the monitor output for each of the plurality of route portions, and a plurality of location detectors communicative with the tag of the designated OIM for identifying the location of the designated OIM, each location detector providing output when the designated OIM is located within a route portion.
US09342915B2
The present application provides an image display method and device. A frame of 3D image including a left eye image and a right eye image is received, two fields of compensation images are inserted between the left eye image display and the right eye image display, so that the superposed effect of displaying four fields of images of the frame of 3D image is the left eye image or the right eye image, to achieve a 2D image, furthermore, the left spectacle lens of the 3D glasses is opened when the left eye image is displayed, the right spectacle lens of the 3D glasses is opened when the right eye image is displayed, and both the left spectacle lens and the right spectacle lens are closed when the compensation images are displayed, to achieve the 3D image display.
US09342913B2
System and method are provided for achieving “inverse kinematics” of 3D graphics depicting an object that consists of multiple parts. The system displays an animation of a 3D graphics object that consists of multiple moving parts. The animation is associated with an animation timeline defined by two end points—a starting time point and an ending time point. The user can manipulate the object back and forth along the animation timeline, between the two end points, by selecting (e.g., clicking on) and moving (dragging) any of the movable parts of the object on a display screen. In short, the user can use any of the movable parts as a scroll/slide button to move the animation forward and backward along the animation timeline, to achieve real-time inverse kinematics movement.
US09342907B1
A method for analyzing ballistic trajectories comprises determining invariants for known ballistic objects, defining a reference graph having nodes corresponding to the invariants, and defining a query graph having nodes connected to nodes of the reference graph corresponding to anticipated invariant queries to be made using the query graph. One or more sets of invariants corresponding to trajectories of one or more observed objects are input into the reference graph and traverse through the nodes of the reference graph, leaving a record in the nodes traversed. A query is selected for the query graph corresponding to one or more range of invariants, the query generating a query result identifying the nodes of the reference graph that satisfy the query. Identifying each of the observed objects identified by a record in the identified nodes determines which of the one the observed objects satisfy the query.
US09342906B2
A connecting method for drawing includes the steps of selecting a first target and moving a cursor; calculating a distance between the cursor and a second target; determining whether the distance is less than a predetermined value; and prompting/displaying a connecting shortcut if the distance is less than the predetermined value.
US09342897B2
In an in-vehicle target detecting device, a captured image which is an image capturing an area ahead of the own vehicle is acquired at a predetermined measurement cycle. Radio waves are transmitted and received. Positional information indicating at least an orientation and a distance of at least one target candidate in relation to the own vehicle is acquired. The target candidate reflects radio waves. Image recognition is performed to detect a detection object by searching a predetermined image search area in the captured image. At least an image detection position of the detection object in the captured image is stored. The image search area is set, based on an image-plane measurement position corresponding to a measurement position in the captured image. The measurement position is a position in three-dimensional space of the target candidate indicated by the positional information acquired at a timing at which the captured image is acquired.
US09342891B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes techniques for rasterizing primitives that include edges shared between paths. For each edge, a rasterizer unit selects and applies a sample rule from multiple sample rules. If the edge is shared, then the selected sample rule causes each group of coverage samples associated with a single color sample to be considered as either fully inside or fully outside the edge. Consequently, conflation artifacts caused when the number of coverage samples per pixel exceeds the number of color samples per pixel may be reduced. In prior-art techniques, reducing such conflation artifacts typically involves increasing the number of color samples per pixel to equal the number of coverage samples per pixel. Advantageously, the disclosed techniques enable rendering using algorithms that reduce the ratio of color to coverage samples, thereby decreasing memory consumption and memory bandwidth use, without causing conflation artifacts associated with shared edges.
US09342879B2
A method for reviewing defect, comprising the steps of: as an image acquisition step, imaging a surface of a sample using arbitrary image acquisition condition selected from a plurality of image acquisition conditions and obtaining a defect image; as a defect position calculation step, proceeding the defect image obtained by the image acquisition step and calculating a defect position on the surface of the sample; as a defect detection accuracy calculation step, obtaining a defect detection accuracy of the defect position calculated by the defect position calculation step; and as a conclusion determination step, determinating whether the defect detection accuracy obtained by the defect detection accuracy calculation step meets a predetermined requirement or not; wherein until it is determined that the defect detection accuracy obtained by the defect detection accuracy calculation step meets a predetermined in the conclusion determination step, the image acquisition condition is selected from the plurality of image acquisition conditions once again and the image acquisition step, the defect position calculation step, the defect detection accuracy calculation step and the conclusion determination step are repeated.
US09342878B2
For inspection of a pattern such as a semiconductor device, it is useful to selectively detect a defect on the specific pattern in order to estimate the cause of the occurrence of the defect. An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam apparatus capable of setting, on the basis of the shape of the pattern on a sample, a region to be inspected. The invention is characterized in that the contour of the pattern on the sample is extracted using a template image obtained on the basis of an image of the sample, the region to be inspected is set on the basis of the contour of the pattern, a defect candidate is detected by comparing the image to be inspected with a comparative image, and the sample is inspected using a positional relationship between the region to be inspected and the defect candidate included in the region to be inspected.
US09342873B1
A computing device may determine a per-tile motion estimate between a first m×n pixel tile from a first captured image of a scene and a second m×n pixel tile from a second captured image of the scene. A per-tile confidence of the per-tile motion estimate may be obtained. The per-tile motion estimate and the per-tile confidence may be upsampled to obtain respective per-pixel motion estimates and associated per-pixel confidences for pixels of the first m×n pixel tile. The respective per-pixel motion estimates and associated per-pixel confidences may be iteratively filtered. The iterative filtering may involve multiplying the respective per-pixel motion estimates and associated per-pixel confidences by an affinity matrix. The iterative filtering may also smooth the respective per-pixel motion estimates and associated per-pixel confidences.
US09342870B2
Image denoising techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a denoising result is computed by a computing device for a patch of an image. One or more partitions are located by the computing device that correspond to the denoising result and a denoising operator is obtained by the computing device that corresponds to the located one or more partitions. The obtained denoising operator is applied by the computing device to the image.
US09342867B2
An apparatus and method for reconstructing a super-resolution three-dimensional (3D) image from a depth image. The apparatus may include an error point relocation processing unit to relocate an error point in a depth image, and a super-resolution processing unit to reconstruct a 3D image by performing a super-resolution with respect to the depth image in which the error point is relocated.
US09342865B2
A system and method of processing raw image pixel information includes an integrated decimation filter and raw image scaling filter for a set of M columns of raw image pixel information. The decimation filter operates in the time domain; for example, to calculate a weighted average of time samples. The raw image scaling filter operates in the spatial domain; for example, to calculate a weighted average of spatial samples. The raw image pixel information is modulated by a sigma-delta analog-to-digital modulator. The system and method scale the raw image pixel information by a factor of 1/N. M and N are positive integers.
US09342840B2
Methods and arrangements for managing execution of multiple campaigns. At least two campaigns are directed to a target. A monitor is associated with the target, and the at least two campaigns are delivered to the monitor, wherein at least one campaign is in a run mode and at least one campaign is in a wait mode.
US09342838B2
Systems (100) and methods (2000) for providing a rewards program. The method involves presenting a Digital Dynamic Mark (“DDM”) to a viewer that comprises a sequence of Active Image Patterns (“AIPs”). Each AIP exclusively comprises First Pattern Regions (“FPRs”) for encoding symbols. At least two FPRs are rendered with at least one color other than a defined background color for the image pattern. The FPRs are arranged in a non-grid like pattern. Each FPR has a non-square shape with a single side boundary line directly abutting a single side boundary line of at least one other FPR. Information is received which indicates that the viewer captured an image of the DDM using a computing device thereof. Reward points are awarded to the viewer for capturing the image of the DDM. The reward points are redeemable by the viewer for one or more redemption items.
US09342835B2
In one aspect, a system includes a transaction handler to process transactions, a data warehouse to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler, a profile generator to generate a profile of a user based on the transaction data, an advertisement selector to identify an advertisement based on the profile of the user in response to the transaction handler processing a transaction of the user, and a portal coupled to the transaction handler to provide the advertisement for presentation to the user in connection with information about the transaction of the user. In one example, the profile includes a plurality of values representing aggregated spending of the user in various areas to summarize the transactions of the user.
US09342832B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing an account token to an external entity during the lifecycle of a payment transaction. In some embodiments, an external entity may be a merchant computer requesting authorization of a payment message. In other embodiments, the external entity may be a support computer providing a payment processing network or a merchant support functions.
US09342824B2
The present invention provides a seamless entry system that comprises a universal session manager. Users connect to the host service provider with a unique username and password. Then, through a series of data exchanges between the universal session manager, a validation database, and the remote service module, the customer may be transparently logged into remote service providers. Internet banking customers utilize a browser system to connect to a host server providing a range of banking services supported by a remote or distinct server. According to the method, the customer first enters a username and password to gain access to the host service provider. The universal session manager transmits data required for login to the remote service provider. The user is thus able to utilize the remote services with his/her web browser system without having entered a username or password particular to the remote service.
US09342822B2
An identification information obtaining unit obtains identification information which is assigned in order to identify an industrial machine. An extraction target identifying unit identifies as an extraction target a portion of the document information accumulated in advance, based on the identification information. An extracting unit extracts the extraction target from the document information. A display unit displays what is extracted by the extracting unit.
US09342820B2
The invention proposes a method for managing email attachments in an email application, said method used, on opening an attachment using an editing application defined based on the nature of said attachment, to edit a copy of said attachment and to save the modifications made to said copy as a modified version of said attachment, said method also allowing a logical link to be created between the modified version and the email, said logical link being used to attach said modified version to said email as a modified attachment.
US09342809B2
Methods and arrangements for performing a tree-based asset search. An asset model is assimilated. The asset model is transformed into an asset tree search model. An asset search query is accepted and the asset search query is parsed. An asset search is conducted via applying the parsed asset search query to the asset tree model.
US09342804B2
Centralized monitoring of a system, such as a content management system is performed by a monitoring apparatus that stores status information from elements in the system by element according the status information severity. The monitoring apparatus processes the status information for each element in the order of severity by applying at least one user-specified rule to determine whether to generate an alert for such information.
US09342799B2
Method and server in a business intelligence analysis system for building a response to a client request. The response includes information regarding the response in an updated server context. The updated server context is round tripped to the client and included in a subsequent request. After being received from the client, the subsequent request is optimized based on the included updated server context.
US09342784B1
Embodiments of a method system and computer readable media are provided. In some embodiments, a system for analyzing application environments is provided. The system includes a difference module, residing in at least one computer. The difference module is operable to extract differences between a source environment for an application and a target environment for the application. The system includes a rule-based module, residing in the at least one computer. The rule based module is operable to cooperate with the difference module in applying a plurality of rules to the differences to produce a plurality of weighted differences, each rule of the plurality of rules operable to apply a weight to an environmental difference, the weight quantifying impact, risk, or relevance, of the environmental difference to operability or failure of the application.
US09342783B1
Embodiments are directed to data verification of business or consumer data. Certain embodiments include a data verification system that receives or selects data to be verified, selects one or more verification methods to verify, update, and/or append/enhance the data. The data verification system may verify the data with one or more data verification methods, either alone or in combination. The methods may include a web-crawling verification method, an agent web verification method, a call verification method, a direct mail method, an email method, an in-person verification method, or other methods. The system has the ability to, automatically or manually, (1) blend automatic and manual segmentation of records or elements by criteria such as industry type, best times of day/month/year to verify, update, or append, cost, and level of importance (2) select the best verification processing method(s), and (3) manage the results and properly verify, update, append/enhance records.
US09342779B2
A smart card with two read-write modes includes antenna layer, and an antenna and a chip module circuits on the antenna layer, wherein the antenna and the chip module circuit are electrically connected via an elastic conductive device. The invention also provides a manufacturing method of the aforesaid smart card with two read-write modes, which includes steps of: embedding an antenna on a back side or a front side of an antenna layer; after completing embedding on the antenna layer, add bedding sheets, printed sheets and protection films respectively above and underneath the antenna layer, then laminating to obtain a card base carrier; cutting card from the treated whole-sheet card base carrier to obtain a card base, and milling slots on the obtained card base, then finally encapsulating.
US09342773B2
A product authentication label includes a carrier layer made of a transparent or translucent material, a plurality of first reflection pattern forming bodies disposed in the carrier layer and configured to reflect a substantially identical reflection pattern regardless of the direction of irradiated light, and a plurality of second reflection pattern forming bodies randomly disposed in the carrier layer and configured to reflect a reflection pattern which varies depending on the direction of irradiated light.
US09342772B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate structure is disclosed, including: providing a carrier board having a first surface; and forming a circuit layer and metallic lines on the first surface. The metallic lines and the carrier board constitute a two dimensional code, thereby eliminating the need to form 2D codes by laser or inkjet after the substrate structure is manufactured. Therefore, the method is simplified, and the substrate structure has a reduced cost. The present invention further provides the substrate structure.
US09342770B2
Provided is an equipment control device capable of performing more appropriate equipment control in accordance with detection by a user.The present invention includes: an equipment layout information storage unit for storing equipment layout information including positional information of control-target equipment to be controlled within a managed space; related ID information storage unit for storing related ID information representing the correspondence relationship between the control-target equipment and IDs given to users of the control-target equipment; an ID-affixed motion line information acquisition unit for acquiring ID-affixed motion line information, in which the ID of a user is associated with the time series of the positional information of the user in the managed space; and an equipment controller for acquiring, on the basis of the related ID information, the control-target equipment associated with the ID in the ID-affixed motion line information, generating control information for controlling, on the basis of the ID-affixed motion line information and equipment layout information, the state of the control-target equipment, and outputting the control information to the control-target equipment.
US09342767B2
An image formation apparatus including: a first image data creation unit configured to create image data of a main image to be formed on the front side of a first medium; a second image data creation unit configured to create image data of a sub-image to be formed on the back side of the first medium; and an engine unit configured to form the main image on the front side of the first medium on the basis of the image data of the main image, and the sub-image on the back side of the first medium on the basis of the image data of the sub-image. A position indication part that indicates a position of the main image on the front side of the first medium is formed on the sub-image.
US09342764B1
A system for performing queue-based routing of print jobs in a multi-site print production environment may include a computing device having a scheduling queue and a processor, and a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the computing device. The computer-readable storage medium may include one or more programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a plurality of print jobs from one or more client computing devices, store the received print jobs in the scheduling queue, determine that a released print job has been released by a print production environment, identify a similar print job from the received print jobs in the scheduling queue, remove the identified similar print job from the scheduling queue, and route the identified similar print job to the print production environment.
US09342748B2
A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.
US09342745B2
A vehicle light source detection device in a light beam control system detects a position of a light source appeared and detected in captured image data. The device calculates a gradient of a road on which the own vehicle is running. The vehicle light source detection device estimates a vanishing point in the captured image data on the basis of the detected gradient of the road. The device further increases a reliability value of the detected light source when the point of the detected light source more approaches the vanishing point. When the reliability value of the detected light source is not less than a predetermined reference value, the device determines that the detected light source is a head lamp of an oncoming vehicle, and adjusts an irradiation range of the light beam of the head lamps of the own vehicle to avoid the oncoming vehicle.
US09342741B2
According to one embodiment, a method includes: capturing an image of a financial document using a camera of a mobile device; performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image of the financial document; extracting an identifier of the financial document from the image based at least in part on the OCR; associating the image of the financial document with metadata descriptive of one or more of the financial document and financial information relating to the financial document; and storing the image of the financial document and the associated metadata to a memory of the mobile device. Exemplary systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US09342731B1
A method for automated fingerprint identification and special purpose programmed computer for carrying out the method are disclosed. The method and system comprise identifying a scar region in a set of pixels in a fingerprint image by using a second order Gaussian derivative filter parameterized using standard deviation, wherein the scar region has a width greater that the width of a regular ridge or a valley of separation between ridges; wherein a boundary, intensity, and flow direction of each pixel is calculated; each pixel being connected to a next adjacent pixel using flow co-ordinates and flow directions; wherein the Gaussian derivative filter has an output and the output is thresholded to create an output mask with value=1 at the scar regions and value=0 outside the scar regions; and changing the intensity of pixels in the identified scar region with the intensity of the nearest boundary pixel until the intensities of all the pixels in the scar region are changed to the intensity of their flow direction identified boundary pixels.
US09342715B2
Methods of marking paper products and marked paper products are provided. Some methods include irradiating the paper product to alter the functionalization of the paper.
US09342713B2
An electronic device has a lower power state in which power to a storage device is disabled. Predetermined information stored in a memory is useable to unlock the storage device during a procedure to transition the electronic device from the lower power state to a higher power state. The predetermined information is different from a credential for use in unlocking the storage device.
US09342709B2
Data is moved through a pipeline as processing of the data unrelated to detection of pattern is performed. The detector detects the pattern within the data at a predetermined location or based on a predetermined reference as the data is moved through the pipeline, in parallel with the processing of the data as the data is moved through the pipeline. The detector detects the pattern within the data as the data is moved through the pipeline without delaying movement of the data into, through, and out of the pipeline.
US09342707B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selecting columns for selecting encryption to perform an operator during execution of a database query. Implementations include actions of determining a current encryption type of a column that is to be acted on during execution of the database query, the column storing encrypted data, determining a minimum encryption type for performance of the operator on the column, selecting a selected encryption type based on the current encryption type, the minimum encryption type, and a budget associated with the column, and performing the operator based on the selected encryption type.
US09342705B1
A computer-implemented method for searching shared encrypted files on third-party storage systems may include (1) receiving, at a server-side computing system, a request from a user to search at least one encrypted file to which a group of users that includes the user shares access, (2) identifying, in response to the request, at least one encrypted search index compiled for and shared by the group of users that enables the encrypted file to be searched, (3) decrypting the encrypted search index with a key with which each user within the group of users has access, and (4) using the decrypted search index to respond to the request from the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09342698B2
An apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable medium may perform a method of minimizing the disclosure of a domain name contained in a DNS query. The method may include determining a first label and a second label associated with a domain name included in a DNS query. A first nameserver may be queried for a first resource record type associated with the first label without revealing information related to the second label by removing information related to the second label from the DNS query. A response may be received from the first nameserver, and the response may include the first resource record type which directs a resolver to a second nameserver. The second nameserver may be queried for a second resource record type associated with the first label and the second label.
US09342678B2
The present specification discloses a method for controlling a thumbnail image page including thumbnail images with respect to visual information for which security is set, and a digital device using the same. The digital device according to the present specification provides a first thumbnail image page mode (“first mode” hereinafter) to a display unit when security information on a user corresponds to predetermined security information and provides a second thumbnail image page mode (“second mode” hereinafter) to the display unit when the security information on the user does not correspond to the predetermined security information. For example, the thumbnail image page displays thumbnail images with respect to visual information for which security is set in the first mode, whereas the thumbnail image page does not display thumbnail images with respect to visual information for which security is set in the second mode.
US09342677B2
An authentication method, system and device are provided to continuously collect dynamic personal identification data (DPID) samples through a user device by using one or more sensors to continuously collect biometric and location data samples associated with the user and then securely transfer the DPID samples to a central authentication server where attributes of the DPID samples may be captured and incorporated as part of a challenge-response pair which requests an arbitrarily generated N-tuple of the DPID samples from a predetermined time interval from the user device that is unique to the user and dynamic based on the sensed data and the time-interval of collection.
US09342673B2
A method for user authentication in a device comprising a touch screen is provided. In operation, the device stores a user authentication code corresponding to a user. When a trigger for user authentication is detected, the device randomly selects one or more character positions in the sequence of characters. The device further requests the user to enter a character corresponding to each of the selected one or more character positions in the sequence of characters. When the device detects a user entry made using a keypad on the touch screen, the device determines whether the user entry matches a character corresponding to each of the selected one or more character positions. When the user entry matches a character corresponding to each of the selected one or more character positions in the sequence of characters, then the user is successfully authenticated to the device.
US09342670B2
Evaluating content is disclosed. Evaluating includes determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted, automatically assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part on a context associated with the use of the content, and combining the compliance assessments to make a compliance evaluation.
US09342669B2
Systems and methods of licensing and identification of a virtual network appliance. The systems and methods obtain information specific to an instance of a virtual machine corresponding to the virtual network appliance. The instance of the virtual machine is deployed on a predetermined virtualization platform. The systems and methods can generate an identifier as well as a serial number for the virtual machine based at least on the information specific to the instance of the virtual machine, and generate a license including license data for the virtual network appliance, embedding at least the identifier for the virtual machine in the license data. The information specific to the instance of the virtual machine can include a universally unique identifier (UUID) and at least one virtual media access control (MAC) address for the virtual machine deployed on the predetermined virtualization platform.
US09342668B2
An apparatus comprising a memory, a processor coupled to the memory and configured to obtain a protection description for media content comprising a plurality of content items, wherein the protection description comprises data signaling at least two protection mechanisms for at least two content items in a media content, wherein each of the at least two content items is protected by one or more of the at least two protection mechanisms, and wherein the protection mechanisms for the at least two content items are different, determine the protection mechanisms for the at least two content items from the data, and process the at least two content items according to their associated protection mechanisms.
US09342667B2
Method, device, and storage medium to receive a request to authorize a release of protected resource data, wherein the request includes one or more indicators that indicate one or more instances of the protected resource data being requested; identify a sensitivity level for each indicator of the protected resource data; determine whether the one or more indicators of the protected resource data require consent from a resource owner of the protected resource data; transmit a request, to a user device associated with the resource owner, for consent from the resource owner in response to a determination that at least one of the one or more indicators require consent from the resource owner; generate an authorization code in response to receiving consent from the resource owner; and transmit, to the sending device of the request, the authorization code.
US09342662B2
A method and system for controlling video input media is described. The method includes receiving video media via a video media input device. The video media input device is communicatively coupled with and operable in conjunction with the electronic device. The method further includes monitoring a data path within the electronic device associated with the video media. The monitoring is performed by a compliance mechanism communicatively coupled with and operable in conjunction with the electronic device. The method further includes preventing the video media from reaching a usage mechanism via the data path, the usage mechanism communicatively coupled with the electronic device. The usage mechanism is able to create an environment in which the video media can be used in an unauthorized manner. The preventing performed by the compliance mechanism is done when usage of the video media with the usage mechanism violates a usage restriction applicable to the video media.
US09342661B2
Methods and apparatus for providing access to content across a plurality of devices and environments. In one embodiment, a downloadable rights profile is utilized in order for a user device to determine whether to provide content to a subscriber. The user device is first registered to content delivery the network; the device then requests a rights profile indicating the rights of the subscriber associated with the device to access content. The rights profile is transmitted to the device. The rights profile may be configured to be valid only for a pre-determined time, thus enabling a subscriber's rights to be updated (including revoked). Security mechanisms may also be utilized to ensure access to content is limited only to authorized subscribers. In another embodiment, a user-based authentication procedure is utilized, thereby making the rights determination and content provision process completely agnostic to the underlying hardware.
US09342658B2
A dynamic refill level is used for determining medication refill requirements for a medication at a medication dispensing apparatus. A quantity of medication likely needed from the medication dispensing apparatus until a next scheduled refill is determined. A dynamic refill level is set for the medication based on the quantity of medication likely needed. A current count for the medication in the medication dispensing apparatus is compared against the dynamic refill level. If the current count satisfies the dynamic refill level, there is no need to refill the medication. However, if the current count does not satisfy the dynamic refill level, there is a need to refill the medication.
US09342657B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products that predict an individual's treatment outcome from a sampling of a group of patients' biological profiles. Biological profile information is received from patients who had a medical condition and who received a treatment. Treatment outcome information regarding the patients who had the medical condition and who received the treatment is also received. A discriminant analysis-based pattern recognition process is then performed on the biological profile information and the treatment outcome information, thereby generating a model that correlates between the biological profile information and the treatment outcome information. The model can be used for, among other things, predicting treatment outcome for the new patient for the treatment.
US09342654B2
A system for encoding web accessible high quality medical images (5) includes one or more processors (45) and one or more servers (14). The one or more processors a reprogrammed to divide (54) the high quality medical image into multiple 8 bit files (12) by bit location in each pixel of the high quality medical image (5) and padding bits in each file to total 8 bits where the divided number of bits from the high quality medical is less than 8 bits. The one or more processors compress (56) each 8 bit file. The one or more servers (14) are configured to send the compressed files in response to a hyper-text transport protocol(HTTP) request for the high quality medical image (5).
US09342646B2
A method comprises: accessing data representing a layout of a layer of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising a plurality of polygons defining circuit patterns to be divided among a number (N) of photomasks for multi-patterning a single layer of a semiconductor substrate, where N is greater than one. For each set of N parallel polygons in the layout closer to each other than a minimum separation for patterning with a single photomask, at least N−1 stitches are inserted in each polygon within that set to divide each polygon into at least N parts, such that adjacent parts of different polygons are assigned to different photomasks from each other. Data representing assignment of each of the parts in each set to respective photomasks are stored in a non-transitory, computer readable storage medium that is accessible for use in a process to fabricate the N photomasks.
US09342642B1
Place-and-route (P&R) includes maintaining a set of local arrival time information and local required time information associated with a circuit layout; determining a candidate fix on a critical path in the circuit layout; statistically determining, using one or more computer processors, a set of one or more adjusted local slacks associated with a region affected by the candidate fix; and in the event that the set of one or more adjusted local slacks indicates that the candidate fix results in a timing improvement, accepting the candidate fix.
US09342640B1
A method for designing a system on a target device using an electronic design automation (EDA) tool including identifying synchronizer chains in a system design using timing relationships. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes conveniently reporting system reliability considering synchronization, and automatically protecting and optimizing synchronizer chains to improve system robustness.
US09342639B1
Timing analysis of a chip component using feedback assertions without disrupting the timing of internal latch to latch paths in the chip component maintaining timing accuracy for all the boundary paths. This is achieved by using slack based feedback assertions for non-clock chip inputs and outputs which are used to dynamically derive the arrival time or the required arrival time assertions. The assertions on the clock inputs are not updated via feedback assertions to facilitate non-disruption of the latch to latch path timing. The timing non-disruption of the resulting latch to latch paths of the chip component increases the designer productivity during timing closure resulting in a shortened time to take the chip design through timing closure to manufacturing. This method is applicable for statistical as well as deterministic timing analysis.
US09342638B1
An improved approach is provided to implement performance checking. A check is performed as to whether two designs are equivalent without needing to analyze their outputs on a cycle-by-cycle basis, where the two designs are checked to see if they are equivalent on the transaction-level. Thereafter, the outputs for the transactions are analyzed relative to delay time periods, which allows verification and identification of possible performance issues and differences between the two designs.
US09342632B2
In exemplary implementations of this invention, a computer-assisted, handheld machining tool allows even an inexperienced user to carve a complex 3D object, while maintaining artistic freedom to modify the sculpture from an initial CAD design. The tool prevents the user from unintentionally removing material from a volume defined by the CAD design. It does so by slowing or halting spindle rotation as the bit approaches or penetrates the protected volume. The user can override this protective feature. The tool may operate in at least three interaction modes: (i) a static mode in which a static CAD model is used, where the computer assists by preventing the user from damaging the static model; (ii) a dynamic mode where the computer dynamically modifies the CAD model during the sculpting process; and (iii) an autonomous mode where the computer can operate independently of the user, for tasks such as semi-automatic texture rendering.
US09342613B2
A client computer system, method and software tool for displaying portlet content are provided. The system comprises a user interface, a portlet server and a portlet view tool. The user interface allows the display of a page including one or more view window(s), each displaying content provided by a component of the computer system. The portlet server processes requests for portlet content, and has one or more portlet(s) installed thereon. The portlet view tool is associated with a portlet installed on the portlet server, and controls the associated portlet. A web browser is used to display content from the associated portlet in a view window on the display.
US09342607B2
A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least one key word in a search query and generate an alternative search query from the at least one key word, the alternative search query being based at least on computing an intermediary search of a plurality of characters from the at least one key word as the plurality of characters are being typed by a user, and for use in searching unaltered internet documents. Also a web server that may be configured to generate a first search result based on the alternative search query and cause display of the first search result in a web browser.
US09342600B1
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for identifying chains of related search queries is presented. Historical search query data is obtained. Chains of related search queries issued by users and search results corresponding to last related search queries in the chains of related search queries that were selected by the users are identified from the historical search query data, where each related search query in a chain of related search queries except for a last related search query in the chain of related search queries violates a search result selection criterion. The chains of related search queries are aggregated into groups, where a respective group has a common first search query and a common search result corresponding to at least one last related search query that was selected by the users. Aggregate data for the groups are stored in a query database.
US09342591B2
According to an aspect, there are provided an apparatus, a program for causing a computer to function as such an apparatus, and a method, wherein the apparatus includes a selection section for selecting a plurality of sample documents from a plurality of documents and a first parameter generation section for analyzing the plurality of sample documents to generate an initial parameter matrix expressing a probability that each of a plurality of words included in the plurality of sample documents is included in each of a plurality of topics. The apparatus also includes a second parameter generation section for analyzing the plurality of documents by using each value included in the initial parameter matrix as an initial value to generate a parameter matrix expressing a probability that each of a plurality of words included in the plurality of documents is included in each of a plurality of topics.
US09342587B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for reusing information/knowledge. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for retrieving previously stored data to satisfy queries (e.g., jobs/tickets) for solutions to problems while maintaining privacy/security of the data as well as ensuring the quality of the results. In a typical embodiment, a query for a solution to a problem is received and details are extracted therefrom. Using the details, a search is performed on a set of data stored in at least one computer storage device. Based on the search, a set of results will be generated and classified into a set of categories. In any event, the quality of each of the set of results will be assessed based on the usefulness of the set of results.
US09342577B2
Described herein is a technology for facilitating preference-based data representation. In accordance with one aspect of the technology, preference information is acquired from a user. Rank scores of objects are generated based at least in part on the user preference information. The objects are grouped into one or more clusters of objects based on the rank scores. A visualization of the one or more clusters of objects is then generated.
US09342571B1
Obfuscating data is disclosed. A processor identifies structured information in log data. The structured information is transformed in a manner that preserves the structure to form transformed raw data. The transformed raw data is sent to a remote analysis engine. The remote analysis engine receives a query and responds to the query by providing as results at least a portion of the transformed raw data. A processor is configured to de-transform the transformed raw data.
US09342566B2
Method and systems may be used to provide search results in response to plain language queries from a database. A search query may be received and a database may be queried. A metadata search of the database data structures may be performed to determine a search set based on the search query. Using the search set, a data search may be performed to determine the database data structures for a result set. Result data structures may be generated based on the result set. The result data structures may be iteratively provided to a client to display the search results responsive to the search query quickly. The relevant data may be retrieved from the database in response to a selection. In some instances, the results retrieved from the database in response to a selection of a result data structure may be limited based on a count parameter.
US09342564B2
A distributed data processing apparatus and method through hardware acceleration are provided. The data processing apparatus includes a mapping node including mapping units configured to process input data in parallel to generate and output mapping results. The data processing apparatus further includes a shuffle node including shuffle units and a memory buffer, the shuffle units configured to process the mapping results output from the mapping units in parallel to generate and output shuffle results, and the shuffle node configured to write the shuffle results output from the shuffle units in the memory buffer. The data processing apparatus further includes a merge node including merge units configured to merge the shuffle results written in the memory buffer to generate merging results.
US09342562B2
At least one quasi-identifier attribute of a plurality of ranked attributes is selected for use in anonymizing a database. Each of the ranked attributes is ranked according to that attribute's effect on a database-centric application (DCA) being tested. In an embodiment, the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) has the least effect on the DCA. The database is anonymized based on the selected quasi-identifier attribute(s) to provide a partially-anonymized database, which may then be provided to a testing entity for use in testing the DCA. In an embodiment, during execution of the DCA, instances of database queries are captured and analyzed to identify a plurality of attributes from the database and, for each such attribute identified, the effect of the attribute on the DCA is quantified. In this manner, databases can be selectively anonymized in order to balance the requirements of data privacy against the utility of the data for testing purposes.
US09342557B2
A low latency query engine for APACHE HADOOP™ that provides real-time or near real-time, ad hoc query capability, while completing batch-processing of MapReduce. In one embodiment, the low latency query engine comprises a daemon that is installed on data nodes in a HADOOP™ cluster for handling query requests and all internal requests related to query execution. In a further embodiment, the low latency query engine comprises a daemon for providing name service and metadata distribution. The low latency query engine receives a query request via client, turns the request into collections of plan fragments and coordinates parallel and optimized execution of the plan fragments on remote daemons to generate results at a much faster speed than existing batch-oriented processing frameworks.
US09342548B2
Data entities in a client-server system are accessed. The client-server system comprises a set of clients, a server system, and a repository for storing a plurality of data entities. The server system comprises an inter-transactional cache, the inter-transactional cache being accessible for each client of the set of clients. A first client of the set of clients comprises a first intra-transactional cache. If a copy of a first data entity is in the inter-transactional cache, a version identifier of the original first data entity is read from the repository. If the copy of the first data entity is to be accessed with an exclusive lock, a copy of the copy of the first data entity is added to the first intra-transactional cache. The copy of the copy of the first data entity in the first intra-transactional cache is accessed for further processing of the first data entity by the first client.
US09342547B2
An approach for managing memory usage in cloud and traditional environments using usage analytics is disclosed. The approach may be implemented in a computer infrastructure including a combination of hardware and software. The approach includes determining that space is available within one or more tables which have schema definitions with string fields having a predefined length. The approach further includes creating a virtual table and mapping the available space to the virtual table for population by one or more records.
US09342545B2
A partially built index is used in a computer database system. When a database index is being built, or rebuilt, the database manager keeps track of the records processed using a relative row number (RRN) to track what part of the partially built index is complete. Queries are optimized by a query optimizer associated with the database manager that uses the portion of the index that is complete with reference to the RRN. The remainder of the database table beyond the RRN can be estimated or implemented using the completed data or can be determined by searching the relevant portion of the database table.
US09342541B1
An improved mainframe application framework system and method for the publication and manipulation of content that provides for rapid development, encapsulated and extensible functionality, and simplified communication with a wide variety of systems, each of which may support multiple data formats.
US09342537B2
A data storage system includes a generic snapshot interface, allowing for integration with a wide variety of snapshot-capable storage devices. The generic interface can be a programming interface (e.g., an application programming interface [API]). Using the snapshot interface, storage device vendors can integrate their particular snapshot technology with the data storage system. For instance, the data storage system can access a shared library of functions (e.g., a dynamically linked library [DLL]) provided by the vendor (or another by appropriate entity) and that complies with the specifications of the common programming interface. And by invoking the appropriate functions in the library, the data storage system implements the snapshot operation on the storage device.
US09342536B2
Provided are a method, computer program product, and system for processing a data management request. User intent that defines properties of target data is determined. Policies and constraints for the data management request are determined. An abstract data management request that identifies source data, the target data, and the polices and constraints is created. A technology to use to process the data management request based on the user intent, policies, and constraints is determined.
US09342535B2
Logging events in a media file, including: providing a logger tool to allow a user to view media in multiple ways and to capture and validate key events within the media file; and tracking and logging events in the media file by adding information to the media file including locations of bars and tone, slates, content, logos, commercial blacks, quality control issues, subtitles, and captions.
US09342532B2
A system and method for lost and found includes enabling information about found objects to be stored in real time. The method further includes enabling adjustment of a field of view of an interactive map. The method further includes receiving a search input for search of a lost object. The method further includes performing a search for the lost object based on at least the stored information about the found objects, the search input, and the field of view of the interactive map. The method further includes enabling results of the search to be overlaid on the interactive map.
US09342521B2
Provided are a storage system, a storage controller and a data compression method that will not deteriorate the performance of a storage system by adjusting the compression processing time required for compressing data. This storage controller includes a statistical information management unit for managing a throughput value decided based on statistical information of previously compressed file data as a system performance value, a mode setting unit for setting a compression mode of either a system performance priority mode that terminates compression of the file data and gives priority to system performance or a compression priority mode that gives priority to compression of the file data based on a comparison between a system performance target value preset as a target value and the system performance value, and a compression controller for compressing the file data based on the compression mode set with the mode setting unit.
US09342510B1
State handles mark application data states within a sequence of operations for preservation. Applications can maintain non-linear sets of operations that include multiple sequences of operations between state handles. Applications can determine a sequence of operations between any two state handles, allowing applications to change from the data state associated with one state handle to the data state associated with another state handle. The sequence of operations between any two state handles may include executing operations and/or reversing operations. An application automatically adds new branches in the set of operations to preserve the sequences of operations necessary to reconstruct data states of previously set handles and removes branches that are not needed. Applications may use state handles to implement non-linear undo and redo functions, to validate journal entries, to combine incremental operations into a cumulative operation, and to speculatively execute operations for error detection, user guidance, or performance optimization.
US09342503B1
Proper nouns may be correlated across languages by identifying a proper noun term in a first language and identifying a translation associated with the proper noun term, when available. A determination may be made as to whether one or more data stores associates the proper noun term with the translation, and the translation may be correlated with the proper noun term based on the determination.
US09342495B2
Methods, software, and devices for processing a user-filled form are disclosed. A parsable electronic representation of the user-filled form is received. Based on parsing this electronic representation, at least one of a first or a second subset of input elements is identified. The first subset of input elements represents input fields that have received user-filled data while the second subset of input elements represents input fields that have not received user-filled data. Those text elements representing text providing descriptive context to input fields represented by the identified subset of input elements are associated with the identified subset of input elements. A graphical representation of the user-filled form is generated. In this graphical representation, text represented by text elements associated the first subset of input elements are highlighted relative to text represented by text elements associated with the second subset of input elements.
US09342492B1
A provisioning source receives a request from a mobile computing device to download at least one mobile software application, the mobile software application comprising executable computer code and at least one structured document. The provisioning source sends the requested mobile software application to the mobile computing device. When executed, the downloaded mobile software application will perform a method for using the mobile software application on the mobile computing device, the mobile software application including programming code and at least one structured document that together describe at least a portion of functionality provided by the mobile software application. Upon execution of the mobile software application, an abstraction layer populates a Document Object Model (“DOM”) structure at least in part representing the running state of the mobile software application. The abstraction layer receives user input and reconfigures the DOM based upon the input.
US09342487B2
A system and method of speech bubbles layout are described. A context module determines geometric constraints of speech bubbles for characters in an image and features of the characters in the image, receives a speech content for one or more characters, and identifies a conversation order of the characters. A layout module generates a layout of the speech bubbles based on the features of the characters, the speech content, and the conversation order. The layout of the speech bubbles is within the geometric constraints of the speech bubbles in the image.
US09342485B2
A circuit for use in conditioning a signal from a speed sensor. The circuit is configured to receive an analog signal from a speed sensor coupled to the circuit, acquire a threshold of the analog signal, generate a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal, based on the threshold, and output the digital signal.
US09342484B2
A variable dose dispensing system may include a processor and memory. The processor may receive a request for a variable dose order of a medication, such as from a user. The processor may request an amount of the medication to be administered, and receive, in response to the request, an indication of the amount to be administered. The processor may verify that the amount to be administered is within a range of the variable dose order. The processor may determine an item in a local inventory that contains at least the amount of the medication to be administered, and may dispense the item. If an amount of the dispensed item exceeds the amount to be administered, such as by a waste amount, the processor may display an indication of the waste amount to the user, and may transmit a notification of the waste amount, such as to a management server.
US09342482B2
A computing device uses a recursive discrete Fourier transform (RDFT) engine to reduce time required by a frequency transform module, memory required to hold intermediate products, and/or computing resources used for the testing. In an embodiment the windowing function is integrated and processed simultaneously with the recursive DFT funcions. A frequency-bin power module is configured to determine the frequency bin within the set of frequency bins that has a greatest signal power at various levels of recursion.
US09342481B2
A method for health monitoring of a damper associated with a landing gear is described which includes receiving sensor data from a pressure transducer and an accelerometer and optionally a thermal sensor operably mounted on or near the damper, a computer system, and applying, using the computer system, a diagnostic algorithm to the sensor data to induce and predict the health of the damper.
US09342480B2
An apparatus and method for generating a very long instruction word (VLIW) command that supports predicated execution, and a VLIW processor and method for processing a VLIW are provided herein. The VLIW command includes an instruction bundle formed of a plurality of instructions to be executed in parallel and a single value indicating predicated execution, and is generated using the apparatus and method for generating a VLIW command. The VLIW processor decodes the instruction bundle and executes the instructions, which are included in the decoded instruction bundle, in parallel, according to the value indicating predicated execution.
US09342477B2
A multi-core processor includes M cores. If the multi-core processor is operated under a non-multiprocessing support operating system, only a single core is configured as a central processing unit and N cores are configured as co-processors, wherein M and N are positive integers, and N is smaller than M.
US09342474B2
A computer system includes a first processor, a second processor, and a common memory connected to the second processor. The computer system is switched from a high performance mode, in which at least a portion of the first processor and at least a portion of components on the second processor are active, to a low power mode, in which at least a portion of the first processor is active and the components on the second processor are inactive. All central processing unit (CPU) cores on the second processor are quiesced. Traffic from the second processor to the common memory is quiesced. Paths used by the first processor to access the common memory are switched from a first path across the second processor to a second path across the second processor.
US09342461B2
A cache memory system includes a cache memory including a plurality of cache memory lines and a dirty buffer including a plurality of dirty masks. A cache controller is configured to allocate one of the dirty masks to each of the cache memory lines when a write to the respective cache memory line is not a full write to that cache memory line. Each of the dirty masks indicates dirty states of data units in one of the cache memory lines. The cache controller may include a dirty buffer index which stores an identification (ID) information that associates the dirty masks with the cache memory lines to which the dirty masks are allocated. A cache line may include a fully dirty flag indicating when each byte in that cache line is dirty, so that a dirty mask does not need to be allocated for that cache line.
US09342458B2
System and method for operating a solid state memory containing a memory space. The present invention provides a computerized system that includes a solid state memory having a memory space; a controller adapted to use a first portion of the memory space as a cache; and a garbage collector adapted to use a second portion of the memory space to collect garbage in the solid state memory. The controller is adapted to change a size of at least one of the first portion and the second portion of the memory space during operation of the solid state memory.
US09342455B2
A mechanism is provided in a cache subsystem for cache prefetching based on non-sequential access. The mechanism determines frequently accessed non-sequential cache records in the cache subsystem. The mechanism collects trailing record statistics for the frequently accessed non-sequential cache records. The mechanism determines a caching strategy. The caching strategy comprises prefetching a set of trailing records responsive to a read of a given frequently accessed non-sequential cache record. The mechanism applies the caching strategy to the cache subsystem.
US09342452B2
A computer apparatus and related method to access storage is provided. In one aspect, a controller maps an address range of a data block of storage into an accessible memory address range of at least one of a plurality of processors. In a further aspect, the controller ensures that copies of the data block cached in a plurality of memories by a plurality of processors are consistent.
US09342431B2
A technique to generically manage extensible correlation data is provided for correlating a series of events. The technique employs a global unique identifier (GUID) for identifying an event and uses the GUID as a key to associate one or more extensible correlators of correlation data. A transport correlator may be configured to transport the GUID for associating with a GUID of a second event such that a small and fixed amount of data is passed by the communications layer providing the transport, minimally impacting communications. An arbitrary amount of data may be logged and keyed with the GUID, providing optimization and flexibility.
US09342426B2
A distributed system according to an exemplary embodiment includes first and second servers capable of executing the same application, wherein when a failure occurs in the application in the first server, the first server generates failure information identifying a cause of the failure in the application, and the second server performs failure prevention processing which is determined based on the failure information and intended to prevent a failure in the application.
