US09615465B2
A method of production of a multilayer circuit board comprising using a curable composition which contains a heat curable resin and curing agent (I) to form an uncured or semicured resin layer on a board (step A), then bringing a curing agent (II) able to substantially to cure the heat curable resin at a temperature at which the curing agent (I) cannot substantially cure the heat curable resin into contact with the surface of the resin layer, then heating the resin layer at a temperature at which the curing agent (I) cannot substantially cure the heat curable resin and the curing agent (II) can substantially cure the heat curable resin (step B), next heating and curing the resin layer at a temperature at which the curing agent (I) can substantially cure the heat curable resin to form an electrical insulating layer (step C).
US09615464B2
A method of mounting a semiconductor element, the method includes: attaching a first solder joint material onto a first pad formed on a substrate supplying a second solder joint material onto the first solder joint material, a second melting point of the second solder joint material being lower than a first melting point of the first solder joint material; arranging the semiconductor element so that a second pad formed on the semiconductor element faces the first pad and a joint gap is provided between the semiconductor element and the substrate; and performing reflow at a reflow temperature lower than the first melting point and higher than the second melting point to join the first solder joint material and the second solder joint material.
US09615460B2
A circuit board device for reducing acoustic noise is provided. The circuit board device includes a substrate, a first capacitor packaging area, a second capacitor packaging area, a first pad, a second pad, a third pad and a fourth pad. The first and second capacitor packaging areas are respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of the substrate in a back-to-back manner. The first and second pads are disposed in the first capacitor packaging area for mounting a first capacitor. The third and fourth pads are disposed in the second capacitor packaging area for mounting a second capacitor, wherein the first and third pads are set back-to-back and electrically connected to each other, and the second and fourth pads are set back-to-back and electrically connected to each other.
US09615459B2
An inductor, a circuit board and a method for forming an inductor are provided. The inductor comprises: a first pad arranged on a first metal wiring layer of a circuit board; a second pad arranged on a second metal wiring layer of the circuit board; and a first hole with conducting medium filled therein, one end of the first hole being located in the first pad and the other end thereof being located in the second pad. The inductor can effectively reduce the area of the circuit occupied by the inductor.
US09615450B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a conductive pattern, comprising the steps of: a) forming a conductive film on a substrate; b) forming an etching resist pattern on the conductive film; and c) forming a conductive pattern having a smaller line width than a width of the etching resist pattern by over-etching the conductive film by using the etching resist pattern, and a conductive pattern manufactured by using the same. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to effectively and economically provide a conductive pattern having a ultrafine line width.
US09615444B2
An electronic device is attached to a first surface of a board which includes vias. A heat sink precursor for the electronic device is attached to the second surface of the electronic board. The heat sink precursor includes a cavity facing the vias. A wave of solder is applied to the second surface. The solder penetrates into the cavity of the heat sink precursor and flows by capillary action through the vias to join a thermal radiator and/or electronic contact of the electronic device to the vias. The solder further remains in the cavity to form a corresponding heat sink.
US09615438B2
CT devices and methods thereof are disclosed. The CT device comprises a circular electron beam emission array including a plurality of electron beam emission units that are distributed uniformly along a circle, wherein each electron beam emission unit emits electron beams that are substantially parallel to an axis of the circular electron beam emission array in sequence under the control of a control signal; a circular reflection target which is disposed to be coaxial with the circular electron beam emission array, wherein the electron beams bombard the circular reflection target to generate X-rays that intersect the axis of the circular electron beam emission array; and a circular detector array which is disposed to be coaxial with the circular reflection target and configured to include a plurality of detection units which receive the X-rays after they have passed through an object to be detected.
US09615431B2
A lighting apparatus for a motor vehicle includes a daytime running light device, a low-beam, high-beam, or low- and high-beam light device, and a drive device operable to drive an illumination level of the daytime running light device. With the low-beam and/or high-beam light device switched off, the drive device drives the daytime running light device so as to have a first illumination level. With the low-beam and/or high beam light device switched on, the drive device drives the daytime running light device so as to have a second illumination level. With the low-beam and/or high-beam light device switched on and with poor weather conditions, the drive device drives the daytime running light device so as to have a third illumination level. The second illumination level is less than or equal to the first illumination level. The third illumination level is less than the second illumination level.
US09615426B2
A method for controlling a light source associated with an environment includes: receiving, over a wireless mesh network and by a control node corresponding to the light source, a first light intensity value for the environment from a first sensor node; calculating, by the control node, a resulting light intensity (RLI) value based on the first intensity value; determining, by the control node, that the RLI value exceeds a light intensity threshold; and modifying, by the control node and in response to determining the RLI value exceeds the light intensity threshold, an output of the first light source.
US09615420B2
An LED lighting system having at least one LED circuit and at least two circuits or drivers capable of receiving an AC voltage at a first frequency and having an output capable of driving the at least one LED circuit, wherein the output of each circuit or driver capable of driving the at least one LED circuit is provided to the at least one LED circuit through a circuit or sensor capable of permitting only a single output from the at least two circuits or drivers be provided to the at least one LED circuit.
US09615416B2
An apparatus for sensing input power source includes; an input power source; a rectifier for rectifying input power source (Vin) of the input power source into rectified power source (Vr); a dimming interface for sensing the state of the input power source; a first light; and a converter for converting the rectified power source (Vr) into a first power source (V21) and a second power source (V22) which were preset to apply them to the dimming interface and the first light, wherein the dimming interface and the first light are connected with the converter in a feedback type.
US09615399B2
The present invention relates to a sensor network, and more particularly, to an implanted sensor network in a human body sensor network in which a plurality of sensor nodes are implanted in the human body to detect biosignals of the human body, wherein the implanted sensor network can prevent the temperature of a sensor node implanted in a human body from rising and thus protect the human body from injury caused thereby.
US09615395B2
Systems, methods, and devices for controlling transport of ratelessly coded messages are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be configured to receive a data object using a plurality of radios having distinct radio protocols. The data object may divided into a plurality of segments, and the segments may be encoded with a random linear network code before transmission. The random linear network code may permit the UE to reassemble each segment from any large enough set of encoded packets. The UE may use delivery control messages with very low overhead to control the flow of packets for each radio. The UE may control the number of packets received for each segment without specifying which particular packets should be sent. The transmitters may transmit the packets with very little overhead, and encoding information for the packets may be included in the packets in a compact form.
US09615392B2
Extending cellular telecommunication service from a first UE to another device. The first UE may register for cellular telecommunication service with a cellular network using a first cellular service account, using a cellular communication link via a cellular radio. A second device may be discovered and a communication link may be established between the first UE and the second device. The second device may be registered to use cellular telecommunication capability provided by the first UE. Communications between the second device and the cellular network may be conveyed via the communication link between the first UE and the second device and the cellular communication link. Conveying communications between the second device and the cellular network may provide use of the first cellular service account for cellular telecommunication service to the second device.
US09615383B2
An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
US09615379B2
This disclosure provides a Scheduling Request transmission method (10) for decoupled downlink-uplink in heterogeneous network, where the heterogeneous network comprises at least two cells in charge of downlink and uplink transmission separately and connected with any backhaul, the method comprising: determining (11) a positive Data Scheduling Request, D-SR, is to be transmitted in a current D-SR's subframe together with HARQ-ACK/NACK on PUCCH using PUCCH format 1a/1b/3; transmitting (12) a HARQ-ACK/NACK in the current D-SR's subframe on PUCCH together with a negative D-SR using PUCCH format 1/1a/1b or format 3 while transmitting a Scheduling Request, SR, in a next SR's subframe subsequent to the current D-SR's subframe. In this method, the Scheduling Request (SR) of the UEs can be correctly detected in the Pico base station to trigger UL transmission in decoupled UL/DL scenario in various case and any kinds of backhaul can be supported.
US09615378B2
Technology is discussed to allow transmission points within a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) to adapt to Up Link (UL) and Down Link (DL) traffic demands independently. To mitigate potential interference arising from transmission points scheduled for conflicting UL and DL transmissions, measurements between transmission points can be made to indicate a level of coupling. Based on the various levels of coupling between transmission points, clusters can be formed. Where a high level of coupling is present, transmission points can be included in a common cluster. Where a low level of coupling is present, they can be isolated. Transmission points within the same cluster are scheduled with a common pattern of UL and DL transmissions to avoid interference. Transmission points in different clusters can have different patterns of UL and DL transmission to independently adapt to the relative demands for UL and DL transmissions experienced within these different clusters.
US09615373B2
A method includes determining, at a wireless access point, a signal quality indicator associated with a user device in communication with the wireless access point. The method also includes determining, based on the signal quality indicator, a particular frequency band of a set of candidate frequency bands to use in a channel change operation, where each candidate frequency band of the set of candidate frequency bands supports a threshold power level that enables communication between the wireless access point and the user device. The method further includes selecting a particular channel from the particular frequency band to use in the channel change operation.
US09615365B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for enabling a terminal to receive control information in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: determining resource units for Enhanced Physical Downlink Control Channel (EPDCCH) of a plurality of resource units, with respect to each of one or more resource sets; and blind-decoding the resource units for the EPDCCH with respect to each of the one or more resource sets, wherein each of the one or more resource sets is set for one of localized EPDCCH transmission or distributed EPCCH transmission.
US09615361B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed to allocating and handling peer discovery resources. One method includes a wireless network allocating multiple sets of peer discovery resources, wherein different sets of peer discovery resources are used by user equipments (UEs) to transmit/receive peer discovery signals for different uses. Another method includes UE receiving a configuration of peer discovery resources from a system information message of a cell, wherein the configuration contains multiple sets of peer discovery resources and different sets of peer discovery resources are used by the UE to receive peer discovery signals for different uses. The method further includes the UE determining which set of peer discovery resources to receive peer discovery signals. The method also includes the UE receiving the peer discovery signals at a set of peer discovery resources determined by the UE.
US09615359B2
Random access technology is provided for establishing an individual channel between a radio communication terminal device and a base station device in a short time and a radio communication terminal device executing the random access method. A RACH sub-channel allocation unit allocates a transmission packet input from a replication unit to an arbitrary sub-carrier at the RACH arbitrary time slot at random. An allocation unit judges whether an overlap is generated in the allocation result obtained by the RACH sub-channel allocation unit.
US09615357B2
A method is implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system that supports flexible-TDD (flexible-time division duplex) UL-DL (uplink-downlink) configuration. The method includes configuring a first type of user equipment (UE) with a first type of configuration; configuring a second type of UE with a second type of configuration; and receiving from a user equipment a HARQ-ACK (hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement) signal according to a DL association set. The DL association set includes: a first DL association set for a UL-DL TDD configuration used by the first type of UE; and a second DL association set for a reference UL-DL TDD configuration including a third DL association set for PUCCH resource mapping used by the second type of UE.
US09615354B2
The present invention provides a method and a controller to control not only cellular radio connections in a cell of a cellular communication system but also direct device-to-device communication links established between terminal devices within the cell. Particularly, the controller selects portion of the terminal devices to function as relay terminals for the other terminals to enable relayed communication links between the terminal devices and the base station through the relay terminals. The relay terminals link device-to-device connections to the cellular radio connections between the relay terminals and the base station.
US09615352B2
Lazy-lock control methods for use with a real-time communication network are presented, the real-time communication network incorporating a right-to-send procedure, the methods including: a) sending a first floor control request message to the real-time communication network by a first requesting user equipment (UE), the real-time communication network configured for connecting the first requesting UE with a receiving UE; b) sending a first media to the real-time communications network by the first requesting UE before receiving a floor control grant message from the real-time communications network; c) substantially simultaneously sending the floor control grant message to the first requesting UE and a floor taken message to the at least one receiving UE by the real-time communication network; and d) forwarding the first media to the at least one receiving UE by the real-time communications network.
US09615346B2
A method for a terminal for notifying a change in a resource group(s) supported by a terminal due to a firmware update in a wireless communication system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a server, a command for setting an indicator for managing a notification; receiving, from the server, a command for managing a firmware update; and transmitting, to the sever, information regarding the resource group(s) supported by and usable on the terminal if the indicator is set and the resource group(s) supported by the terminal has changed due to the update.
US09615337B2
A method for controlling uplink transmit power for a plurality of basestations in a mobile communications network is disclosed. The basestations may form a second layer within the network, and the network may comprise another plurality of basestations forming a first layer. The method comprises clustering the plurality of second layer basestations according to association with first layer basestations, exchanging second layer basestation loading information between second layer basestations belonging to the same cluster, and dynamically setting uplink transmit power limits for individual second layer basestations based on the exchanged loading information. The method may further comprise updating the clustering of the second layer basestations according to dynamic variation in association of second layer basestations with first layer basestations. The method may also comprise dynamically controlling uplink resource allocation such that concurrent use of the same frequency resource by more than one second layer basestation is reduced.
US09615334B2
An electronic device includes a communication interface configured to establish a communication channel; and a controller configured to adjust an amplification current of a signal outputted through the communication channel corresponding to a measured Adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) based on the communication channel, wherein the controller is configured to adjust a size of the amplification current corresponding to a difference between the measured ACLR and a specified condition.
US09615333B2
According to one embodiment, a first battery number is determined representing a battery condition of a battery of a mobile device using a predictive model, where the predictive model is configured to predict future battery conditions based on a past battery usage of the battery. A second battery number is determined representing the battery condition using a drain model, where the drain model is configured to predict a future battery discharge rate based on a past battery discharge rate. A third battery number is determined representing the battery condition based on a current battery level corresponding to a remaining life of the battery at the point in time. Power management logic performs a power management action based on the battery condition derived from at least one of the first battery number, the second battery number and the third battery number.
US09615332B2
A mobile terminal device includes a wireless communication unit that performs wireless communication with another battery-operated device; and a processor connected to the wireless communication unit, wherein the processor executes a process including: calculating power consumption for each of network configurations that differ in a connection relation between a plurality of devices including the mobile terminal device and the another device, the power consumption consumed by the devices for wireless communication, determining a network configuration having a longest battery duration of the devices, based on the calculated power consumption, and setting a connection between the devices according to the determined network configuration.
US09615330B2
A method for transmitting data from a primary station to a secondary station, includes at the primary station signaling to the secondary station that a data message is to be received, and at the primary station transmitting the data message. The time of transmission of the data message relative to the time of the signaling depends on a state of the secondary station.
US09615329B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for performing delayed hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) communications in the downlink (DL) to reduce power consumption for a user equipment (UE) during a connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle. An enhanced NodeB can be configured to monitor a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for DL HARQ information to determine when the PUCCH contains a negative acknowledgement (NACK) message, and in response to determining that the PUCCH contains a NACK message, the eNodeB can wait until a next C-DRX ON duration to transmit a HARQ DL retransmission. The eNodeB can also determine whether or not to bundle the HARQ DL retransmission in consecutive transmission time intervals, based on a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) associated with the UE.
US09615326B2
An apparatus may comprise a signal mapper to map a pre-emphasized signal to sub-carriers symmetrically about DC, and a peak-to-average-power reduction (PAPR) module arranged to receive a pre-emphasized signal and treat the pre-emphasized signal so as to reduce PAPR in a transmit signal sent from the transmitter. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09615322B2
A method and system for providing a service based on space are disclosed herein. The method includes registering multiple smart access points respectively included in multiple spaces—each of the access points are connected to at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device that is further included in the corresponding space, providing first service control information to a first smart access point, in accordance with a request of the first smart access point, the first smart access point being accessed by a terminal of a user, among multiple access points, and providing second service control information to a second smart access point in accordance with a request of the second smart access point, when the terminal of the user accesses the second smart access point, among the multiple access points, and when the second smart access point recognizes a movement of the user.
US09615321B2
User Equipments (UEs) can be adapted to enter into a lower RRC state from a higher RRC state, and search for one or more layers of higher priority within a predetermined period of time upon entering into the lower RRC state. According to at least one aspect, this search for one or more layers of higher priority may be performed irrespective of RF quality of a current serving cell. According to at least another aspect, this search for one or more layers of higher priority may be conducted within the predetermined period of time if a wait period has elapsed since the UE camped on the current serving cell. If the wait period has not elapsed since camping on the current serving cell, the search for one or more layers of higher priority may be performed within the predetermined period of time following a duration of the wait period.
US09615316B2
Access terminals are adapted to facilitate use of modified cell reselection parameters and/or procedures for access terminals exhibiting low or no mobility. An access terminal may employ one or more mobile thresholds to determine whether to perform cell reselection when the access terminal is mobile, and one or more stationary threshold to determine whether to perform cell reselection when the access terminal is stationary or substantially stationary. Methods operational on access terminals include determining the access terminal to be stationary or substantially stationary, and employing one or more stationary thresholds to determine whether to perform a cell reselection when the access terminal is determined to be at least substantially stationary. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US09615314B2
A system and method for authorizing access to a transmission station for a mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device can receive device extended access barring (EAB) configuration information in a broadcast control channel (BCCH) from a transmission station. The mobile device can bar the mobile device configured for EAB and having characteristics identified in the EAB configuration information for barring from accessing the transmission station. Alternatively, a system and method for barring a mobile device from accessing a transmission station is disclosed. The transmission station can receive from the mobile device a radio resource control (RRC) connection establishment request. The transmission station can configure a system information block (SIB) with extended access barring (EAB) configuration information. The transmission station can broadcast the SIB with EAB configuration information to the mobile device.
US09615311B2
Methods and apparatus for the communication of cellular network information between a wireless local area network (WLAN) and a mobile station are disclosed. In one illustrative example, the mobile station receives a generic container message from the WLAN. The generic container message includes cellular network information associated with one or more available cellular networks previously received by the WLAN. The generic container message is not technology or standard-specific, as it may contain cellular network information from a variety of different cellular networks (e.g. 3GPP, 3GPP2, IETF, etc.). The mobile station decodes the generic container message to identify and store the cellular network information in its memory. Preferably, the cellular network information includes information for identifying the cellular networks so that the mobile station may appropriately select one of the cellular networks for communication.
US09615306B2
Information on one or more networks in which a communication apparatus has participated before and information on one or more external apparatuses to which the communication apparatus has been connected before are held. Information on a first network previously formed by the communication device and information on a second network previously formed by an external access point are held such that the information on the first network and the information on the second network are identifiable. If it is judged that there is not a network corresponding to the held information on the second network, it is determined to use a network based on the held information on the first network.
US09615303B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for performing cell reselection, the method includes detecting a signal of cell for cell reselection on a frequency, where the signal includes an intra-frequency reselection indicator, determining from the signal whether the cell is a barred cell, on a condition that the cell is a barred cell, determining that the barred cell is not a candidate for cell reselection, determining whether the barred cell is a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) cell, and allowing intra-frequency cell reselection to a different cell on the frequency regardless of the value of the intra-frequency reselection indicator on a condition that the barred cell is a CSG cell and that the different cell meets reselection criteria.
US09615300B1
A wireless access node and method for handing-off of a wireless communication device (WCD) to a relay node are provided. The wireless access node in one example includes a communication interface configured to exchange communications between the wireless access node and the WCD and a processing system coupled to the communication interface. The processing system is configured to determine that a hand-off of the WCD is imminent, if the hand-off is imminent, determine whether the WCD is receiving streaming media, if the hand-off is imminent, determine whether the WCD is located to hand-off to a decode-and-forward relay device of the wireless network, and if the WCD is about to hand-off to a decode-and-forward relay device and if the WCD is receiving streaming media, then extend a hand-off criteria in order to delay hand-off of the WCD to the decode-and-forward relay device.
US09615292B2
A method of determining member Base Stations (BSs) providing cooperative communication to a Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system. The method includes when a candidate list of the member BSs generated using at least one of strengths of signals received from adjacent BSs and cell loading state information of the adjacent BSs is received from the MS, selecting candidate BSs having a service quality larger than or equal to a threshold from candidate BSs included in the candidate list as targets to receive a member negotiation; and performing a capability negotiation with each of the selected targets to receive the member negotiation to select final member BSs and transmitting information on the determined final member BSs to the MS.
US09615290B1
a method and apparatus for detecting interference within a communication system is provided herein. During operation, a base station will determine whether the interference is caused by in-system excessive collisions (e.g. multiple simultaneous registration and/or call requests). An appropriate mitigation technique will be applied by the base station based on a type of interference detected.
US09615285B2
An electronic device includes a first communication unit that communicatively connects to a network using the user information; a second communication unit that communicatively connects to a second electronic device; a determination unit that, upon obtaining data by the first communication unit, determines whether or not the data is to be obtained by the second electronic device, based on the data; a user information transmitter that, when the determination unit determines that the data is to be obtained by the second electronic device, sends the user information to the second electronic device via the second communication unit; and a migration unit that blocks the first communication unit from communicating with the network, and causes the second electronic device to obtain the data through the network using the user information.
US09615274B2
Small anechoic chambers for evaluating a wireless device under test (DUT) are characterized by a set of antennas to which a test signal is applied and for which excitation coefficients are applied such that the test signal approximates a single plane wave or a preselected superposition of plane waves in the near field of the antennas. The test-equipment antennas in the chamber may be as close as one wavelength from the boundary of a test zone in which the DUT is disposed. Hence, the test zone can be in the near field of the test-equipment antennas and the test zone can be less than a wavelength from the chamber walls. Consequently, it is possible to perform tests in a small anechoic chamber that previously required a large anechoic chamber, e.g., advanced spatial channel-model tests and antenna-pattern measurements.
US09615269B2
A system for detecting a fault in a first wire of a power grid that affects a transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves that transport data and that propagate along a surface of the first wire, selecting a backup communication medium from one or more backup communication mediums according to one or more selection criteria, and redirecting the data to the backup communication medium to circumvent the fault. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09615255B2
A computer implemented method for wireless communications access security, the method comprising: measuring at least one parameter during a wireless communication with an active access point, calculating at least one indicator from the measured parameter(s), and determining a threat indication by applying a threat evaluation function on the calculated indicator(s).
US09615239B2
Systems and methods are provided for reliable, wireless group messaging or alerting in a system having a database, switch, wireless network, and a plurality of intelligent mobile receivers. A message is broadcast to and received by a selected group of the mobile receivers. The network replies to the sender with detailed information about the individual members in the group. Each of the mobile receivers in the group can acknowledge the group message back to the system such as when the message is received, when the message is read, and a response when sent. The system employs centralized management to provide the sender with response information of the mobile receivers.
US09615235B2
A personal protective device is combined with a cellular telephone. Activation of either device causes activation of the other device. Activation is achieved by a switch or voice command. Upon activation, a message asking for assistance at the present location is sent to a previously agreed upon emergency contact. The smartphone also starts both audio and video recording, which are also part of the data sent to the emergency contact person or service. Additionally, the personal protective devices are integrated into a unit that may combine such items as a protective spray, Taser, strobe light, dye pack, siren and other deterrent technologies to ward off would-be attackers. These devices are integrated into a hand held unit that can be unobtrusively worn or carried in a purse or pocket. An optical safety device is included to protect the user from a potential assailant approaching from rearward.
US09615222B2
A method is provided for establishing a verified user account record for a user using a device. A text message is received on the user's device addressed by phone number. The text message includes a custom URL. When the user actuates the custom URL from the device, a session is established of a dedicated web page on the user's browser, and the Device ID of the device is passed together with the phone number for storage in a non-transitory record associated with the user.
US09615213B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for detecting, monitoring and/or controlling one or more of mobile services for a mobile communication device (also referred to herein as a Controllable Mobile Device or CMD), and in particular, when the device is being used and the vehicle, operated by the user of the device, is moving. In addition, one aspect of the invention generally relates to a method and system for modifying a user's driving behaviors, in particular to a system and method for modifying a user's unsafe driving behaviors, e.g., using one or more services of a controllable mobile device while driving, by providing a score to the user rating indicating that they are using a mobile device in a distracting way, or driving in a manner that indicates that they are distracted.
US09615207B1
A method and apparatus for changing geofence-based operating parameters is provided herein. During operation, all members within a first geofence will have their radio parameters change to those used within a second geofence when a member of the first geofence crosses into the second geofence. Therefore, even though a particular member of the first geofence may not have crossed over the second geofence, the particular member will still have their radio parameters changed to those in use within the second geofence if a member of the first geofence has crossed the second geofence.
US09615206B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining geo-location of one or multiple User Equipment, that belong to the same subscriber subscription, that collectively are in simultaneous communication with a Cellular network and a Wi-Fi network. In use, it is determined that a subscriber utilizing at least one User Equipment is in simultaneous communication with at least one Cellular network and at least one Wi-Fi network. Cellular network measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment is received. Additionally, Wi-Fi network measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment is received. Further, the Cellular network measurement data and the Wi-Fi network measurement data are correlated to generate correlated measurement data associated with the at least one User Equipment. Moreover, the correlated measurement data is utilized to determine the geo-location of the at least one User Equipment, utilizing at least one geo-location determination algorithm and/or method, including and not limited to triangulation and correlation to Radio Frequency fingerprint.
US09615188B2
Signals in an automobile audio system having at least two near-field speakers located close to an intended position of a listener's head are adjusted such that in a first mode, audio signals are distributed to the near-field speakers according to a first filter that causes the listener to perceive a wide soundstage, and in a second mode, the audio signals are distributed to the near-field speakers according to a second filter that causes the listener to perceive a narrow soundstage. A user input of a variable value is received and, in response, distribution of the audio signals is transitioned from the first mode to the second mode, the extent of the transition being variable based on the value of the user input.
US09615177B2
Aspects capture, view, present and display photo-realistic, fully-immersive panoramic virtual environments, displaying to a user via a display screen, in a first layer at a first level of opacity, an image of current surroundings of the user from image data captured from the current surroundings of the user by an image capture device; and in a second layer at a second level of opacity, an image of another environment that differs from the current surroundings of the user as a function of time or of place, wherein the second layer is located coextensive with the first layer. The first level of opacity is selected to present image data of the panoramic image within the first layer as transparent relative to image data of the panoramic image within the second layer; or as opaque relative to image data of the panoramic image within the second layer.
US09615170B2
An audio processing system for a listening device includes an input device, a voice activity detector and a ratio-based attenuator. The input device is configured to receive a first audio signal emanating from an environment and including a signal of interest. The voice activity detector is configured to generate a control signal in response to the first audio signal. The ratio-based attenuator is configured to receive the control signal and determine whether the signal level of the first audio signal exceeds the signal level of an audio signal received from an audio playback device by at least a target difference. If so, then the audio level of the playback audio signal is maintained. Otherwise, the audio level of the playback audio signal is adjusted, where, at the adjusted value, the first signal level exceeds the playback signal level by at least the target difference.
US09615168B2
An adaptive method and device of an audio interface and an electronic signature token are provided. The audio interface comprises a first pin and a second pin, and the method comprises: not implementing an identification operation on the first pin and the second pin of the audio interface when an absolute value of a voltage difference between the first pin and the second pin is less than a first threshold; determining a type of each of the first pin and the second pin according to a sign of the voltage difference between the first pin and the second pin when the absolute value of the voltage difference is greater than or equal to a second threshold, in which the second threshold is greater than or equal to the first threshold; and connecting the identified ground pin to a common ground.
US09615163B1
A loudspeaker port may include tunable physical components to tune the port to different frequencies to improve speaker efficiency at those frequencies. The ports may be activated by at least partly opening associated shutters, or disabled by closing the associated shutters. Activated ports may enhance speaker efficiency in a frequency range. However, activated ports may also introduce sound artifacts, thereby reducing sound quality. Therefore, the ports may be disabled when appropriate to reduce their negative impact to sound quality. A Digital Signal Processor (DSP) may determine the frequency components of a played sound to determine when to open the ports and how to tune the ports. Accordingly, a loudspeaker may benefit from the improved efficiency facilitated by the ports while also avoiding typical drawbacks created by the ports.
US09615162B2
The earphone with inverse sound waves includes an earphone housing, a high frequency driver, and a low frequency driver. The earphone housing includes an inner space, a sound output portion, and a reflecting portion. The reflecting portion receives a passive diaphragm. The high frequency driver produces high frequency sound waves and has a sound output direction toward the sound output opening. The low frequency driver is mounted in the inner space of the earphone housing by a mounting brace. The low frequency driver is located between the high frequency driver and the passive diaphragm. A sound transmitting portion is formed between the mounting brace and the earphone housing. The low frequency driver produces low frequency sound waves and has a sound output direction toward the passive diaphragm. The passive diaphragm reflects the low frequency sound waves to the sound output opening via the sound transmitting portion.
US09615152B2
An optical element includes: a polarization splitter that splits light input from an input port into a first signal and a second signal according to a plane of polarization; a polarization rotator that rotates a plane of polarization of the second signal output from the polarization splitter by 90 degrees; a first optical coupler that combines the first signal output from the polarization splitter and the second signal output from the polarization rotator and splits the resultant signal into a third signal and a fourth signal with an equal amplitude; a phase controller that controls a phase of the third signal; and a second optical coupler that combines the third signal output from the phase controller and the fourth signal output from the first optical coupler and splits the resultant signal into a fifth signal and a sixth signal with an equal amplitude.
US09615151B2
The present disclosure provides an optical transceiver, method of mapping, and method of management utilizing a plurality of Optical Channel Transport Unit layer k (OTUk) links to form an aggregate signal, such as, for example, 10 OTU2s to provide a single 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100 GbE) signal. Specifically, the present invention enables use of existing circuitry and methods at lower speed signals, e.g. 10G, to support higher speed aggregate signals, e.g. 100G. The present invention may be utilized to support carrier-grade OTN applications with optical transceivers such as, for example, pluggable optical transceivers. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention includes a method which receives a plurality of signals, frames each of the plurality of signals into an OTUk frame, and manages/monitors each of the plurality of signals in an OTUk frame in the aggregate.
US09615145B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing supplemental information and interactive features for content, such as a movie. In one implementation, a content provider builds a package of information and interactive features (“interactive extras”) using a defined structure and API (application programming interface). The content provider gives the package of extras to several distributors (or provides access to some or all of the package through a network resource). Each distributor uses the package in the distributor's content distribution platform or system by conforming to the API for the package. In this way, the content provider can provide the same package of extras to multiple distributors that may have incompatible platforms without having to build custom packages for each platform. This allows the content provider to build the package once and also provides a more consistent experience across the distributor services.
US09615138B2
Systems and methods are discussed for providing guidance for Internet-delivered media. In some embodiments, information on available media on the Internet is gathered. The information is associated with existing media guidance data. The associations enable a media guidance application to identify relevant online media and to display listings in a user-friendly way. A user interface for an online media guidance application is also provided. The user interface allows a user to narrow down the large amount of Internet-delivered media in a systematic way according to criteria that interests a user.
US09615120B2
Systems and methods for associating additional content with broadband content are provided. A pairing between a customer premise device configured to output broadband content and a customer device may be identified by a service provider system. Information associated with content output by the customer premise device may be received by the service provider system from the customer premise device. Based at least in part upon an evaluation of the received information, the service provider system may identify additional content to be communicated to the customer device. The service provider system may then facilitate communication of the additional content to the customer device.
US09615116B2
System, method and apparatus for securely distributing content via an encrypted file wherein a Publisher Key (PK) associated with an authorized publisher enables presentation of the content by the authorized user via a Limited Capability Viewer (LCV), the LCV lacking the capability to forward, print, copy or otherwise disseminate the content to be presented.
US09615113B2
A device receives, from a content provider, traffic parameters associated with a video content request received from a fixed user device connected to a wireless access network, and determines, based on the traffic parameters, a trigger for creating a dedicated bearer for the fixed user device in the wireless access network. The device also provides the trigger to the wireless access network, where the wireless access network creates the dedicated bearer for the fixed user device based on the trigger, and the wireless access network assigns quality of service (QoS) parameters, based on the traffic parameters, to video content delivered to the fixed user device.
US09615111B2
An improved technique of compressing image data involves separating a prediction error of image data into distinct factors and applying a separate set of context models to each factor. Such factors may take the form of a sign, a bit category, and a relative absolute value of the prediction error. For each factor, the improved technique provides a set of context models and a procedure for selecting a context model from each respective set. The context model for each factor determines a probability distribution of symbols that may represent that factor, which in turn enables compression of the prediction error. Additionally, the symbols that represent certain factors into which the prediction error is separated result from a binary representation whose form—either unary or uniform—depends on the size of the prediction error.
US09615100B2
Second-order orthogonal spatial intra-prediction may include generating a reconstructed frame by generating a plurality of reconstructed blocks by decoding a portion of the current encoded frame, generating a decoded residual block by decoding a current block from the current encoded frame, identifying a current pixel location in the current block, identifying reconstructed pixels in respective reconstructed blocks, wherein first and second reconstructed pixels are at respective oblique angle to the current pixel location, and a third reconstructed pixel at the second oblique angle to the first reconstructed pixel or at the first oblique angle to the second reconstructed pixel, determining a predictor pixel for the current pixel location using a difference between the third reconstructed pixel and a sum of the first reconstructed pixel and the second reconstructed pixel, and identifying a reconstructed pixel as a sum of the predictor pixel and a corresponding residual pixel.
US09615098B1
An adaptive resolution transcoding system and method adaptively transcodes a source video with an optimized resolution and visual quality based on the video coding complexity (VCC) of the source video. The transcoding system is configured to receive a source video in its native format, and to obtain the video coding complexity score of the source video from a video coding complexity engine. The transcoding system is further configured to set a resolution adjustment level based on the complexity score. Based on the resolution adjustment level, the transcoding system determines an optimal output resolution for the source video for each video output format supported by the transcoding system. Responsive to a user selection of video output format, the transcoding system determines an optimal output resolution for the source video and encodes the source video with the determined optimal output resolution.
US09615096B2
A video encoding device calculates number of frames into which the current image needs to be encoded. The video encoding device divides the current image into a plurality of macro blocks, identifies importance of the respective macro blocks according to content of the current image and ranks the macro blocks from high to low according to the assigned importance. The video encoding device labels each macro block with a label, and encodes the macro blocks according to its label to form frames.
US09615091B2
A hybrid block motion compensation/adaptive overlapped block motion compensation apparatus for an encoding apparatus includes: a selector for selecting between a block motion compensation BMC and an overlapped block motion compensation OBMC with respect to a current block in units of pixels according to a set criterion; an adaptive motion compensator; a scan mode setter for scanning the current block in a plurality of set scan modes and establishing a scan mode causing a smallest number of transitions between the BMC and OBMC; and an information recorder for recording transition information at locations of the pixels corresponding to the transitions between the BMC and OBMC. A decoding apparatus is disclosed including: an interpreter for scan mode information of a current block and information about transitions between the BMC and OBMC for each of pixels of the current block; and an adaptive motion compensator for operating in units of the pixels.
US09615088B2
A predicted signal generation unit provided in a video predictive encoding device estimates a zero-th motion vector for derivation of a zero-th predicted signal, selects a zero-th motion vector predictor similar to the zero-th motion vector, and generates zero-th side information containing a zero-th motion vector predictor index to identify the motion vector predictor and a motion vector difference determined from the zero-th motion vector and the zero-th motion vector predictor. The video predictive encoding device selects a motion vector for generation of a first predicted signal having a high correlation with a target region, generates first side information containing a first motion vector predictor index to identify the motion vector as a first motion vector predictor, sets the first motion vector predictor to a first motion vector, and combines the zero-th and first predicted signals to generate a predicted signal of the target region.
US09615086B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for filtering a reference pixel. A method of smoothing a reference pixel may include determining whether or not to perform smoothing on a reference pixel based on the size of a transform block and information about an intra-prediction mode for the transform block and determining a smoothing method by comparing the size of the transform block with the size of a maximum transform block. Accordingly, image coding efficiency can be increased, and picture quality can be improved.
US09615083B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a display device in which the occurrence of the crosstalk can be suppressed. A display unit includes a display panel (12), a storage unit (54), a confirmation unit (56), and a correction unit (52). The display panel displays a synthetic image. The storage unit stores respective crosstalk levels set with respect to a plurality of areas (13a, 13b, 13c) that the display panel has. The confirmation unit that confirms in which one of the plurality of areas a pixel exists that displays an image that a viewer is supposed to see, among the plurality of images contained in the synthetic image. The correction unit reads the crosstalk level corresponding to the area, among the plurality of areas, in which the confirmation unit confirms the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see exist, from the storage unit, and corrects the gray scale level data of the pixel displaying the image that a viewer is supposed to see, by using the crosstalk level.
US09615079B2
The present technique relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method capable of generating a color image of a display viewpoint using a color image and a depth image of a predetermined viewpoint.The viewpoint generation information generation unit generates viewpoint generation information used to generate a color image of a display viewpoint in accordance with a generation method of the color image of the display viewpoint obtained by performing warping processing using multi-viewpoint corrected color images and multi-viewpoint depth images. The multi-viewpoint image encoding unit encodes the multi-viewpoint corrected color images and the multi-viewpoint depth images, and transmits them with the viewpoint generation information. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a multi-viewpoint image processing apparatus.
US09615075B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for improving the depth impression of stereoscopic images and image sequences. In autostereoscopic multi-viewer display devices, generally a plurality of intermediate perspectives are generated, which lead to a reduced stereo base upon perception by the viewers. The stereo base widening presented in this application leads to a significant improvement and thus to a more realistic depth impression. It can either be effected during recording in the camera or be integrated into a display device. The improvement in the depth impression is achieved by the generation of synthetic perspectives situated, in the viewing direction of the camera lenses, on the left and right of the extreme left and extreme right recorded camera perspective on the right and left lengthening of the connection line formed by the extreme left and extreme right camera perspectives. These synthetic perspectives are calculated only on the basis of a disparity map, which is supplied or which is calculated in a preprocessing step. In this case, the method presented solves the following problems: 1. Calculation of the new extension perspectives, 2. Correct repositioning of the camera perspectives supplied within the visual zones, 3. Definition of which disparities are intended to be continued in the case of collision in the extension and 4. Interpolation of the image regions which become visible as a result of the extension of the stereo base. In this case, instances of left and right masking are also identified and optically correctly maintained and supplemented in the extension perspectives.
US09615071B2
A camera tuning circuit has a first storage space, a second storage space and a controller. The first storage space stores a first reference camera correction setting for a reference camera module under a first color temperature. The second storage space stores a second reference camera correction setting for the reference camera module under a second color temperature, wherein the second color temperature is different from the first color temperature. The controller receives a default camera correction setting of a target camera module, the first reference camera correction setting, and the second reference camera correction setting, and generates a tuned camera correction setting for the target camera module according to the default camera correction setting, the first reference camera correction setting, and the second reference camera correction setting.
US09615068B2
A method for generating three dimensional (3D) displays. The method includes displaying a hologram that combines three (or more) images encoded into three (or more) different OAM channels, and the method also includes reflecting light from the displayed hologram to create a multichannel light beam. Then, the method involves decoding the multichannel light beam to decode and display the three encoded images. The decoding step includes displaying the three encoded images in decoded form in three view zones, three focal planes, or on three spaced-apart planes. The decoding is performed by a single decoding screen using holograms used for generating the three encoded images or is performed by three decoding screens configured based on a differing one of the holograms used for generating the three encoded images. The displaying of the hologram step includes operating a spatial light modulator (SLM) to display the hologram on a screen of the SLM.
US09615059B2
An imaging apparatus includes a storage unit to store information about one or more persons, the information about each of the persons including a direction in which the person exists, and permission for imaging the person by an imaging unit, and the information about each of the persons being associated with identification information to uniquely identify the person; a detection unit to detect a direction in which a person who speaks exists; a determination unit to determine whether the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging, based on the information about the person stored in the storage unit; and a control unit to control an imaging direction of the imaging unit to turn towards the detected direction of the person, in a case where the determination unit has determined that the person in the detected direction is permitted for imaging.
US09615049B2
A video multiviewer system may include a video input/output (I/O) controller, a system memory, and a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a GPU memory. The system may further include a central processing unit (CPU) for operating the video I/O controller to transfer video data to the GPU memory via direct memory access (DMA) without being stored in the system memory, and a display for displaying multiple video windows based upon video data in the GPU memory.
US09615044B2
An imaging apparatus and a method of driving the same that can generate a digital data of a high resolution pixel signal are provided. The imaging apparatus includes: a pixel (10-1) for generating a signal by photoelectric conversion; a comparing circuit (30-1) for comparing a signal based on the pixel with a time-dependent reference signal; a counter circuit (40-1) performing a counting operating until an inversion of a magnitude relation between the signal based on the pixel and the time-dependent reference signal; and a selecting circuit (30-2) for setting a time-dependent change rate of the reference signal, according to a signal level of the signal based on the pixel.
US09615041B2
Provided are an image sensor and a method of manufacturing the same. The method may include forming a photo-electric conversion region and a charge storage region in a semiconductor layer; forming a transistor on a front surface of the semiconductor layer; forming a recess by etching a portion of the semiconductor layer between the charge storage region and a rear surface of the semiconductor layer; and forming on a bottom surface of the recess a shield film that blocks light incident on the charge storage region.
US09615035B2
A specialized multi-smartphone rig is configured to simultaneously hold and operate multiple camera-equipped smartphones to enable capture of the same image by each camera under identical conditions using a single shutter release button on the rig. Because smartphones typically vary in how much time they use to process user input, custom native applications (“apps”) are installed on each smartphone to enable the cameras to operate in a synchronized manner. When the button is actuated, a signal is received at a microcontroller which hosts a server. The shutter release signal is passed to the server which, in turn, sends individual control signals to the custom native apps according to a timing model. When the custom native apps receive their respective control signals, they trigger their respective smartphone cameras to operate so that all the photos are captured in parallel across the rig at the same time.
US09615031B2
An imaging unit is configured to capture images of a subject. A sensor is configured to detect brightness. A first detector is configured to detect whether or not a period during which a predetermined brightness has been detected by the sensor continues for a first period of time. A second detector is configured to detect whether or not a period during which the predetermined brightness has been detected by the sensor continues for a second period of time shorter than the first period of time. A determiner is configured to determine a circumstance where the imaging unit captures images of the subject in a daytime in a specific state where light is temporarily cut off, based on a first detection result by the first detector and a second detection result by the second detector.
US09615030B2
The luminance information of an image captured by a multi-lens camera system can be improved by selecting a luminance information source for each portion of the captured image. Each lens of the camera system can capture an initial image. For each portion of a final image, a corresponding initial image portion can be selected as the luminance information source. The portions of the final image and initial images can be pixels, groups of pixels, or other image portions. The luminance information from the selected initial image portions is combined to form final image luminance information. Chrominance information can also be selected from the initial images to form final image chrominance information, and the final image chrominance information and the final image luminance information can be combined to form a final image.
US09615029B2
There is provided a method for determining a need for a change in a pixel density requirement due to changing light conditions. The pixel density requirement specifies a pixel density which enables identification of an object in images captured by a camera. The method comprises receiving and monitoring (S02) a camera setting which is indicative of a light condition to which the camera is subjected and which affects the quality of images captured by the camera, and determining (S06) that there is a need for a change in the pixel density requirement upon detection (S04) of a change in the camera setting. The camera setting includes at least one of a gain and an exposure time used by the camera when capturing images.
US09615025B2
Some embodiments include an optics assembly. In some embodiments, the optics assembly includes an optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is configured to move within the apparatus on one or more axes orthogonal to an optical axis of the optics component. In some embodiments, the optics assembly is suspended by a plurality of wires on a base component of the apparatus, each wire of the plurality of wires being substantially parallel to the optical axis of the optics component. Some embodiments include a base assembly component or substrate having an upper surface plane and a lower surface plane. In some embodiments, one or more terminations are disposed around the plurality of wires. In some embodiments, the terminations are located beyond the upper surface plane of the base assembly component.
US09615020B2
An auto focus method includes (a) obtaining a selected exposure value and an un-normalized contrast value; (b) executing a normalized contrast value obtaining procedure at each of the stepping positions; and (c) executing a focal point searching procedure according to the normalized contrast values. Accordingly, the normalization procedure is applied to eliminate the effect of the exposure value on the contrast value, so that the focal point of the image can be obtained correctly. In addition, an image capturing apparatus using the focus method is provided.
US09615014B2
The present specification relates to a portable device controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle and a method of controlling therefor. According to one embodiment, a method of controlling a portable device controlling an unmanned aerial vehicle capturing an image includes the steps of obtaining first image information of a target object using a camera unit, transmitting a capture control signal controlling image capture for the target object to the unmanned aerial vehicle, receiving second image information of the target object captured based on the capture control signal from the unmanned aerial vehicle and generating a 3D image corresponding to the target object using the first image information and the second image information.
US09615009B1
A light source within a real world scene can be identified. The light source can be associated with a one or more attributes. The light source can emit light to illuminate the real world scene. The attributes can include intensity, wavelength, and/or orientation. A live view of the real world scene can be presented within an interface of a computing device. The attributes associated with the light source can be determined. A light map for the light source within the real world scene can be computed. The light map can be a graphical visualization of an approximation of a propagation of light emanating from the light source within the scene.
US09615006B2
Infrared camera systems and related methods for facilitating target position acquisition are provided for various applications. For example, a system may include a portable imaging/viewing subsystem having a target position finder and may also include a fixed mount camera subsystem having a camera and a camera positioner. A communications link may be configured to communicate a signal from the target position finder to the camera positioner. The signal may be representative of a position of a target being imaged/viewed with the portable imaging/viewing subsystem. The camera positioner may aim the camera toward the target in response to the signal. The target may, for example, be a man overboard. Thus, the system and related method may be useful in search and rescue operations.
US09615005B1
This invention relates to a movable reflective device that allows a user to use a mobile phone camera in an inconspicuous manner. Further, the movable reflective device is adapted to hide a camera of a mobile device while capturing an image or video. Further, the movable reflective device includes a mobile device case and an optical sliding assembly which is removably attached to the case of the mobile device.
US09615004B2
Intrapersonal communication systems and methods that provide an optical digital signal link between two or more local devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes a first signal converter disposed at a first end of the optical digital signal link and configured to convert between electrical digital signals from a first local device and optical digital signals from the optical digital signal link. The system can include an optical connector having a non-contact portion configured to couple optical digital signals between the first signal converter and the optical digital signal link across a gap. The system can include a second signal converter disposed at a second end of the optical digital signal link and configured to convert between electrical digital signals from the second local device and optical digital signals from the optical digital signal link.
US09614999B2
An image processing apparatus includes a gain calculation unit that calculates a plurality of first gains that respectively correspond to a plurality of predetermined edges based on a target pixel value and values of pixels adjacent to the target pixel, a blend ratio calculation unit that calculates a plurality of characteristic amounts that represent an accuracy of detecting the plurality of edges based on the target pixel value and the adjacent pixel values and calculates a plurality of weights that respectively correspond to the plurality of first gains based on the plurality of characteristic amounts, a gain adjustment unit that calculates a second gain based on the plurality of first gains and the plurality of weights and an output image generation unit that applies the second gain to the target pixel value to generate output image data.
US09614987B2
A mobile device or an image forming apparatus for providing a user interface, wherein the mobile device or the image forming apparatus receives product specifications of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus via near field communication (NFC) to determine a layout of the user interface of the mobile device or the image forming apparatus, and displays the user interface having the layout determined with respect to a predetermined application before.
US09614986B2
In an image output apparatus for outputting an image supplied from an image supply apparatus, the image supply apparatus and the image output apparatus are connected wirelessly and send and receive data. The state of the wireless connection is determined and the image to be output is changed in accordance with the determined state of the connection.
US09614984B2
An electronic document generation system includes an image forming apparatus that generates a scanned image of an original document, and an external terminal that generates an electronic document based on image data regarding the scanned image received from the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes an auxiliary data generation unit that generates auxiliary data to be used in processing for generating the electronic document, and a communication unit that transmits the auxiliary data to the external terminal. The external terminal includes a document generation unit that uses the auxiliary data received from the image forming apparatus to generate the electronic document based on the image data regarding the scanned image in cooperation with an external cooperative device different from the external terminal. The document generation unit generates the electronic document by complementing the result of processing performed on the image data with the auxiliary data.
US09614982B2
A system according to the present invention includes a first communication unit, a second communication unit, and an executing unit. The first communication unit is connected to a first network segment. The second communication unit is connected to a second network segment different from the first network segment, and receives a processing request, which requests to execute predetermined processing, from an apparatus via the second network segment and transmits the received processing request to the first communication unit. The executing unit executes the predetermined processing in response to the processing request received by the first communication unit.
US09614980B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium comprising instructions for handling insufficient account balance of subscribers in a mobile communications network is disclosed. A request for communication is received from a mobile station. A determination is made as to whether a subscriber of the mobile station has an insufficient account balance. If the subscriber has an insufficient account balance, the request is withheld and the mobile station is notified by a short message.
US09614977B1
A method for controlling media presentation during a teleconference. The method generally includes the steps of coupling a buffer operatively to a host device and a participant device, storing media information associated with the teleconference in the buffer and directing playback of the media information from the buffer to the participant device. The host device is associated with a host of the teleconference and the host thereby enables playback of the stored media information to a participant other than the host.
US09614961B2
An agent efficiency analysis system for a contact center performs analysis and comparisons on where the agents' time is being spent. The system integrates data from multiple systems Automatic Call Distribution, Integrated Voice Response and Work Force Management contact center applications and organizes the data against a standard set of metrics. Statistical trend analysis (long-term and short-term) may be performed.
US09614956B2
A technique provides a phone call from a caller device operated by a human caller to an answerer device operated by a human answerer. The technique involves receiving a call request from the caller device. The call request includes a call button identifier which uniquely identifies a browser call button which is rendered on the caller device to the caller. The technique further involves identifying a source phone number based on the call button identifier. The technique further involves placing a call communication to the answerer device operated by the human answerer. The call communication indicates the source phone number as a source of the call communication. Accordingly, if the answerer device already has the context of associated with the source phone number already saved (e.g., in a contact list), the answerer device is able to automatically display that context in response to the call.
US09614951B2
An apparatus for analyzing data associated with proximate devices may include a processor. The processor may be configured to detect that a first device is proximate to a second device and receive indications of active data directly from the first device. The processor may also be configured to perform an analysis of the indications of active data and cause a user interface to present results of the analysis. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.
US09614949B2
A system and method of networking in a portable device in a modular device environment detects connection of a second device to the portable device, and configures the second device to form a parallel network connection with the portable device. In an embodiment, the second device is configured to form a direct WiFi connection to the portable device when the devices are separated.
US09614944B2
A multi-media device interface (18) couples a multi-media device (16) to a portable electronic device (10). Multi-media and other information can be loaded into the portable electronic device (10) from the multi-media device (16) or stored in the multi-media device (16) from the portable electronic device (10). The multi-media device interface (18) queues commands to the multi-media device (16) from the portable electronic device (10) while the multi-media device (16) completes a previously-issued command.
US09614943B1
A method and apparatus in which multiple Internet Protocol (IP) based wireless data transmissions are simultaneously provided between a wireless device and a server, including providing multiple antennas, multiple T/R units, multiple processors and multiple I/O ports on the wireless device. The method includes receiving multiple IP data packets on the I/O ports at substantially the same time, and sending multiple data packets from the wireless device to the server, whereby the transmission rate between the wireless device and the server is increased.
US09614939B2
A system and method is provided for generating network timeouts by utilizing intentionally delayed message transmissions sent internal to a network controller. For example, according to this system and method a network controller transmits a data message externally over a network and the data message invokes a response network message. The network controller also transmits a timeout message corresponding to the data message; however, the timeout message is intentionally delayed for a predetermined duration of time prior to being internally transmitted. controller host device receives at least one of the response message and the timeout message and determines which is received first. If the timeout message is received, a request associated with the transmitted data message is treated as having timed out.
US09614936B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for processing MMTP packets. When an MMTP packet is transmitted, the packet processing apparatus calculates a reference value from partial field values of a reference MMTP packet header, and inserts the calculated reference value into the compressed header. By the reference value, MMTP packets may be correctly distinguished and may be correctly referred to when there are two reference MMTP packets in which the lower 5 bits of packet sequence numbers are identical to each other, or even when the number of reference MMTP packets is a multiple of 256.
US09614924B2
A network attached storage device for performing network attached storage operations with cloud storage services. The device comprises at least one network controller for communicating with a plurality of clients over a local area network (LAN) and with a cloud storage service (CSS) over a wide area network (WAN); a plurality of storage devices for locally storing data in the device; a CSS module for at least synchronizing between data locally stored in the plurality of storage devices and data stored in the CSS; and a processor for enabling the plurality of clients to perform file-based operations on the device using a file sharing protocol.
US09614921B2
Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices with wired and/or wireless communications capabilities, etc.). In addition, the techniques include enabling the creation and maintenance of location-based virtual groups of users (also referred to as “clouds”), such as for users of mobile and/or fixed-location devices. Such clouds may enable various types of interactions between group members, and may be temporary and/or mobile.
US09614918B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of migration (e.g., seamless migration) of a network connection under mobility (e.g., host mobility). In various examples, migration (e.g., seamless migration) of a network connection under mobility (e.g., host mobility) may be implemented in the form of systems and/or algorithms.
US09614915B2
A system and methods for seamlessly providing access to a data network via a peer-to-peer connection service is provided. The peer-to-peer connection service is provided to a client device by a host device. The client device scans for available data network connections and recognizes a beacon broadcast by the host device. The beacon contains a unique identifier that indicates that the host device is configured to provide the peer-to-peer connection service. Upon recognizing the unique identifier, the client device transmits authentication credentials to the host device, which in turn transmits the authentication credentials to a server configured to determine whether a social media connection exists between a user account associated with the client device and a user account associated with the host device. If the social media connection exists, then the host device provides access credentials for the client device to access the peer-to-peer connection service.
US09614914B2
The present invention provides a method for sending a message to a network device with a specific MAC address, in an IP network implementing a internet group management protocol IGMP, comprising: sending, by a network terminal, to the network device, a multicast group management status message including a destination address set as the specific MAC address A system comprises a multitude of end-user devices coupled via a broadband connection with a service provider network, a publish/subscribe broker adapted to communicate with the multitude of end-user devices and at least a first back-end entity coupled with the service provider network. The first back-end entity includes a first client software application for connecting to the publish/subscribe broker and publishes control data via a control data channel for a device management of the end-user devices. The end-user devices include a second client software application for connecting to the publish/subscribe broker for subscribing to the control data channel and for receiving the control data, and for publishing device data and action data as instructed by the control data. The backend entity authorization is validated in particular by using a control data signature.
US09614913B2
A method and a system for providing TTY services in a vehicle. The method may be carried out by the following steps: (a) providing a vehicle telematics unit configured to receive calls according to a first telecommunication standard and a second telecommunication standard, wherein the second telecommunication standard is newer than the first; (b) receiving an indication that a vehicle user desires to use a TTY device at the vehicle; (c) in response to step (b), switching to the first telecommunication standard until another indication is received indicating the user no longer desires to use the TTY device; and (d) sending or receiving a TTY message from the vehicle using the TTY device via the first telecommunications standard.
US09614909B2
A method for generating remote replicates of a logical volume at a remote site, the method comprises performing a plurality of replication cycles for generating a plurality (N) of points in time replicates of the logical volume at the remote site. Wherein for each positive integer n that ranges between 2 and N, a performing of a n'th replication cycle comprises: calculating in parallel and by multiple computerized resources of a storage system, multiple n'th point in time differences of multiple subsets of the logical volume; wherein n'th point in time differences of different subsets are calculated by different computerized resources; wherein a n'th point in time difference of a subset is a difference between an (n−1)'th point in time content of the subset and an n'th point in time content of the subset; and sending, in parallel, the multiple n'th point in time differences to the remote site.
US09614893B2
An auto-synchronization method, apparatus, and system for synchronizing compressed content file automatically in such a way of tracing the modification history of source files of the compressed content file and synchronizing the modified source files selectively are provided. The portable device includes a radio communication unit configured to connect to the synchronization server to transmit and receive data related to the compressed content file, a storage unit configured to store at least one of the compressed content file, compressed content file information, and source file information related to source files constituting the compressed content file, and a control unit configured to detect a synchronization request signal generated by an event modifying the compressed content file, extract at least one modified first source file from the compressed content file based on the source file information, and synchronize the extracted first source file with a second source file matching among source files stored in a synchronization server.
US09614882B2
A system and a method are disclosed for a content delivery system that enable system-independent, remote storing of digital content on any number of a user's devices. The system and method enable a user to designate a digital content item appearing in a web page for storage, as well as a specific, separate device on which to store the content item. The digital content item is not restricted to being viewed or accessed within the content delivery system, but rather the content delivery system enables remote storing of digital content across multiple different systems, from multiple different content sources, for viewing on multiple different devices for any given user.
US09614879B2
Method, software, and system for efficiently enabling n-way collaborative work using common software over a network of computers. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, each participant in a collaborative session starts up a common software application, which includes a collaboration component. This collaboration component is used to establish a common session that includes all interested parties. The collaboration component replicates operations performed on any one instance of said application to all other instances participating in the same session, so the effect is as if all members of the session were sharing a single instance of the application on a single computer. In one aspect, the collaboration component also supports broadcast of audio and video over a computer network, to enable session participants to see and/or hear each other, and further includes other features that support collaborative work.
US09614878B2
A method of providing supplemental information synchronized with a piece of media content being played and related to a current state of the piece of media content being played is provided. The supplemental information may be transmitted to an electronic device in synchronization with the playing of the piece of media content on an audio/visual display interface. The method includes receiving identifying information from the electronic device and/or the audio/visual display interface, storing the identifying information in an active device table, receiving a viewing initiation notification, and transmitting the supplemental information to the electronic device in response to the viewing initiation notification. The electronic device may also transmit a request to begin playing the piece of media content. Transmission of the supplemental information may be paused, stopped, or resumed in synchronization with the piece of media content being played.
US09614874B2
An access control module in an enterprise computing network receives contextual information of a first active network session at a first network endpoint and contextual information of a second active network session at a second network endpoint. The access control module is configured to evaluate the contextual information of one or more of the first or second network sessions based on one or more network policies to determine a policy action for enforcement on at least one of the first or second network endpoints.
US09614871B2
In one embodiment, a security system includes a central communication unit and a first surveillance device. The central communication unit is communicatively connected over a network to cloud storage, by way of a first transmission channel and a second transmission channel. The second transmission channel is redundant with the first transmission channel. The first surveillance device configured to record first surveillance data, and is communicatively connected to the central communication unit by way of a third transmission channel and a fourth transmission channel. The fourth transmission channel is redundant with the third transmission channel. The first surveillance device is configured to transmit the first surveillance data to the central communication unit, and the central communication unit is configured to transmit the first surveillance data to the cloud storage.
US09614866B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided for sending information extracted from a potentially unwanted data sample to generate a signature. In use, information is extracted from a portion of a sample of potentially unwanted data. Further, the information is sent to generate a signature.
US09614862B2
A system and method for classifying a webpage may include generating, by an analysis server, a first representation of a webpage. A system and method may include generating, by a unit installed in a user web browser, a second representation of the webpage and the method may comprise producing a classification of the webpage by relating the first representation to the second representation.
US09614860B2
A monitoring system is continuously coupled to and in communication with a selected network. The system monitors characteristics of the network and characteristics of assets of the network. Removal of assets can be detected and alarm indicating messages can be generated locally at the monitoring system or at a wireless communication device.
US09614858B2
A system and method for securely storing, retrieving and sharing data using PCs and mobile devices and for controlling and tracking the movement of data to and from a variety of computing and storage devices.
US09614855B2
System and method for implementing a secure web application entitlement service are described. One embodiment of the system comprises a plurality of entitlement point records each comprising a unique identifier associated therewith such that each of the enforcement point records can be associated with an enforcement point within an application; an identity service (“IS”) configured to provide a first token for enabling a user to access the application; an access gateway configured to provide a second token, the second token including a list of at least a portion of the unique identifiers; an entitlement server (“ES”) configured to receive an entitlement request from the application, the entitlement request including the second token, the ES further configured to associate the entitlement request with a user-authenticated session in the IS; and a policy decision point (“PDP”) configured to receive the list of at least a portion of the unique identifiers and to render a decision on the entitlement request based at least in part on policy information associated with ones of the enforcement point records identified by the unique identifiers of the list and attribute information from the IS; wherein subsequent to the rendering of a decision by the PDP, the decision is communicated to the application.
US09614852B2
A mechanism is provided for sensor sharing control dynamically. One or more sensor use permissions are received from one or more sensor provider terminals. For each sensor use permission, a sensor use permission is recorded in an authorization policy thereby forming a set of authorization policies. A use request is recorded for sensor use request information received from a sensor user terminal in a request policy. A search is performed for any authorization policy in the set of authorization policies that matches the request policy. Responsive to identifying the authorization policy that matches the request policy, a list of sensors included in the sensor use permissions of an authorization policy that matches the request policy is created. The list of sensors is transmitted to the sensor user terminal, where the search is performed again dynamically when the request policy or one of the set of authorization policies is changed.
US09614849B2
A method comprises a portable device obtaining a graphical encoded information item which is displayed on a display of a computing apparatus, decoding the encoded information from the encoded information item, and transmitting a first message to first server apparatus, the first message including the decoded information and a first identifier identifying the device or a user of the device, wherein the decoded information includes an apparatus identification information item for allowing identification of the computing apparatus, and the first server apparatus receiving the first message from the device, establishing the identity of the user of the device, wherein establishing the identity of the user comprises using the first identifier to determine if the user is registered with the first server apparatus in response to establishing the identity of the user, authorizing the user to access a service, and providing the service to the user via the computing apparatus using the apparatus identification information item or sending a second message to a second server apparatus, the second message including the apparatus identification information item and indicating that the user is authorized to access the service provided by the second server apparatus, the second server apparatus responding to receipt of the second message by providing the service to the user via the computing apparatus using the apparatus identification information item.
US09614847B2
Method and system for user authentication are described. The method comprises receiving an authentication code from an application server seeking authentication of the user. Further, a private key of the user is computed in real time based on a user identity (ID) of the user and a master secret key of the PKG. The method further comprises, ascertaining a verification code based on the private key of the user and a verification timestamp, wherein the verification timestamp indicates a time at which the ascertaining of the verification code was initiated. Further, the authentication code is compared with the verification code. Further, the method comprises authenticating the user based on the comparison.
US09614832B1
An access control system removes the human element from static protection by detecting a level of static energy when the user attempts to authenticate to the access control system, and when the user's detected level of static energy exceeds a defined threshold, access is denied until the user discharges the static energy. A static energy detection mechanism in a badge reader includes two conductive plates that form a first capacitor, and the space between an electrically conductive badge and one of the conductive plates on the badge reader forms a second capacitor. Using these two capacitors, the level of static energy on the user can be measured by the sum of the voltage across these two capacitors as the user presents the badge to the badge reader. The access control system assures the user is properly grounded before allowing access to an area, equipment, etc.
US09614825B2
A role mapping method and system for a collaborative computing environment in provided. A set of permissions defining access to a generic business component for a named permission set is stored in a database. The set of permissions for the named permission set are mapped to an abstract role. Based on these mappings, access permissions to a business component instance within a community can be set.
US09614824B2
Embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for handling open authentication (OAuth) of an invoked web service in a process. An aspect includes determining whether an OAuth access token has expired. Another aspect includes initiating an automatic update of the OAuth access token based on determining that the OAuth access token has expired.
US09614819B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method that includes receiving a first packet through a network at a first device. The first packet includes a first message generated according to a precision time protocol and a first encapsulation that encapsulates one or more fields of the first message. Further, the method includes security-verifying the first packet based on the first message and the first encapsulation, and processing the first message according to the precision time protocol after the first packet is security-verified.
US09614814B2
A computer-implemented method for de-identifying data by creating tokens through a cascading algorithm includes the steps of processing at least one record comprising a plurality of data elements to identify a subset of data elements comprising data identifying at least one individual; generating, with at least one processor, a first hash by hashing at least one first data element with at least one second data element of the subset of data elements; generating, with at least one processor, a second hash by hashing the first hash with at least one third data element of the subset of data elements; creating at least one token based at least partially on the second hash or a subsequent hash derived from the second hash, wherein the token identifies the at least one individual; and associating at least a portion of a remainder of the data elements with the at least one token.
US09614812B2
A method for improving the operations and efficiency of virtual machine management. In one embodiment, the method includes storing identification information of a user and a first computer executing software that is related to a virtual machine. Next, a third computer that is already executing software of a target user is identified. And finally, a second computer transmits, to the third computer, broadcast data corresponding to the software of the target user.
US09614805B2
A computer-implemented method receiving receives information describing a current or future activity from a user of a computing system via a mobile device. The current activity is an activity occurring at a current time when the information is received, while the future activity is an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time when the information is received. The method transmits the information describing the current or future activity to a backend database coupled to the Internet and remote from the mobile device. The information describing the current or future activity is accessible to at least one recipient having access privilege to information associated with the user and describing the current or future activity via the Internet.
US09614802B2
A user selects a content item that he wishes to send. He then performs a “sending” gesture and specifies an initial “content-sharing zone.” In order to be eligible to receive the selected content item, a receiving device must be located within the content-sharing zone. However, the content-sharing zone can evolve over time. It can grow in size, change shape, or move (e.g., it can remain centered on the sending user as he moves). A potential recipient makes a “receiving” gesture, and, if the location of the receiving device is located within the evolving content-sharing zone, as currently defined, then the content item is sent from the sending device to the receiving device (either directly or via a content server). A maximum size or duration of the evolving content-sharing zone can be specified. Other restrictions can be stated so that, for example, only intended recipients can receive the content item.
US09614801B2
A system and method for facilitating email messaging combines the convenience of an auto-fill of the recipient fields in a standard email message with a blank canvas for composing a new, quick reply message. By selecting the quick reply feature that can be provided with the message view screen of an email utility, the user is shown a second user interface with a blank compose screen. The email recipients are automatically filled in from the message view screen of the current message. The quick reply message can be transmitted as an email message through the email utility.
US09614799B2
A method for a first mesh device associated with two mesh networks to serve as a conduit in an overlapping mesh network environment comprises associating with both a first access point over a first mesh network and a second access point over a second network, wherein each access point manages a respective mesh network; responsive to receiving a neighbor information broadcast from a first neighboring mesh device in the first mesh network, updating a neighborhood table; responsive to receiving a neighbor information broadcast from a second neighboring mesh device in the second mesh network, updating the neighborhood table; responsive to a request to transmit a message from a device in the first mesh network to a destination in the second mesh network, determining a next device, wherein the next device is on a path towards the destination in the second mesh network; and transmitting the message to the next device.
US09614794B2
In a decoupled messaging system, a producer device sends produced messages to a message fabric. The message fabric either stores the received message in designated queues, from which consumer devices may retrieve the messages, or broadcasts the messages to consumer devices that subscribe to topics assigned to the messages. A message consumption orchestrator service gathers capabilities information for the message producer, the message fabric, and the message consumer, and configures resources allocated for the message consumer to more fully optimize message throughput. Further, the message consumption orchestrator identifies patterns in changes of the rate of produced messages, i.e., through analysis of historical data and/or received information. The message consumption orchestrator configures resources for the message consumer to account for predicted need based on the identified patterns.
US09614792B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for knowledge generation and deployment in a distributed network. In one embodiment, a method for processing messages in a social network includes receiving a new message from a first node in the network, the new message including a query, providing the first node with an answer to the query, if the answer is located in a repository, and initiating generation of the answer, if the answer is not located in the repository.
US09614790B2
A software execution control apparatus includes a reference information management unit for collecting and renewing reference information to be referred to for execution of a plurality of applications, a user message preprocessing unit for receiving a user message, extracting one or more components from the user message, and analyzing the user message based on the extracted components, a message processing unit for specifying one or more actions required by the user based on the analysis result of the user message, and an APP execution unit for selecting and executing one or more applications based on reference information managed by the reference information management unit.
US09614787B2
An apparatus provides signal links of M with N signal connections. A first stage has first switching matrices, wherein the first switching matrices are designed to establish at least one switchable signal link between each associated first signal connection and an associated second signal connection. A second stage has a second switching matrix with a size of N×M. In a sub-area of the second switching matrix the intersection points X2p,q that comprise switching elements are precise those that for N≧M satisfy the conditions: p−Σλ=1i−1nλ≡q (mod ni); 1≦p−Σλ=1i−1nλ≦ni and 1≦q≦M.
US09614785B1
Systems and methods to process packets of information use an on-chip information processing system configured to receive, resolve, convert, and/or transmit packets of different packet-types in accordance with different protocols. A first packet-type may use a protocol for wired local-area-networking (LAN) technologies, such as Ethernet. A second packet-type may use a proprietary protocol. The proprietary protocol may be used to exchange information with one or more packet processing engines, such as neural processing engines.
US09614780B2
Systems and methods are described for predictive delaycast feedback in relation to content object queuing and offer and request handling via communications systems. When a subscriber of communications and/or media services requests access to a content object, embodiments can determine where the content object can and/or should be placed in a delaycast queue. The queue can include multiple regions associated with different estimated delivery timeframes. The placement determination can involve determining an appropriate queue location for the requested content object (e.g., an appropriate queue region), and determining an associated promise time for the requested object.
US09614779B2
Technologies for contention-aware cloud compute scheduling include a number of compute nodes in a cloud computing cluster and a cloud controller. Each compute node collects performance data indicative of cache contention on the compute node, for example, cache misses per thousand instructions. Each compute node determines a contention score as a function of the performance data and stores the contention score in a cloud state database. In response to a request for a new virtual machine, the cloud controller receives contention scores for the compute nodes and selects a compute node based on the contention score. The cloud controller schedules the new virtual machine on the selected compute node. The contention score may include a contention metric and a contention score level indicative of the contention metric. The contention score level may be determined by comparing the contention metric to a number of thresholds. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09614776B1
A transceiver of a first network device including an autonegotiation circuit and a first serializer interface. The auto-negotiation circuit is to negotiate a first data rate for transmission of data between the first network device and a second network device. The first serializer interface to receive the negotiated first data rate from the auto-negotiation circuit, receive first data from the second network device at the negotiated first data rate, replicate portions of the first data received from the second network device in accordance with the negotiated first data rate, and transmit, at a second data rate different from the first data rate, the first data including the replicated portions from the first serializer interface to a second serializer interface of the first network device.
US09614774B2
A method for transmitting data packets of a data traffic between a sending device (10, 80) and a receiving device (80, 10) via a VPN client (200) and a VPN server (500) over a network using a secure encapsulation of the data packets, the method comprising the steps of determining a Quality of Service, QoS, parameter for the data packets of said data traffic, selecting, for the data packets, either a first tunnel (91) connecting the VPN client (200) and the VPN server (500) or a second tunnel (92) connecting the VPN client (200) and the VPN server (500) based on determined Quality of Service.
US09614769B2
Described is a method for channel management on one or more digital signal processors. The method distinguishes itself by the fact that channel management occurs at any time based on a current load utilization of each digital signal processor, taking into account an actual load requirement of each channel and a maximum total performance capacity of each digital signal processor. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method.
US09614763B2
A method for programming a MAC address table by a first leaf node in a network comprising a plurality of leaf nodes is provided. Each leaf node comprises one or more Virtual Tunnel End Points (“VTEPs”) and instantiates a plurality of Virtual Routing and Forwarding elements (“VRFs”), with a corresponding Bridge Domain (“BD”) assigned to each VRF. The method includes obtaining information indicating one or more VTEP Affinity Groups (VAGs), each VAG comprising an identification of one VTEP per leaf node, obtaining information indicating assignment of each VRF to one of the VAGs, assigning each VAG to a unique Filtering Identifier (“FID”), thereby generating one or more FIDs, and programming the MAC address table, using FIDs instead of BDs, by populating the MAC address table with a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a unique combination of a FID and a MAC address of a leaf node.
US09614760B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals. The method includes, processing input streams into BB (Base Band) frames of PLPs (Physical Layer Pipes), wherein the input streams include a plurality of input packets, wherein each of the input packets include a packet header including information about synchronization of the input streams, wherein the processing input streams into BB frames further includes compressing the packet headers of the input packets in the input streams, generating the BB frames by using the compressed input packets; encoding data of the PLPs; building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded data of the PLPs; and modulating data in the built signal frame by OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) method and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US09614750B2
Described is a method for improving both the bandwidth efficiency and bit rate of data streams flowing through binary tree networks. In an embodiment, the invention provides a method for efficiently utilizing end-consumer computers possessing a variety of upstream bandwidth capabilities to deliver online streaming video in a distributed manner.
US09614742B1
Described herein are systems, mediums, and methods for detecting blockage of network traffic at a network server. A signal representative of time series data associated with network traffic is received at a processor for analysis. A data segmentation algorithm and an anomaly detection algorithm are applied in series to the received data. The segmentation algorithm detects regime shifts in the data. Data between regime shifts is considered a segment of data. The anomaly detection algorithm analyzes each segment individually to determine whether anomalies exist in the segment. If a cyclic pattern is found in the segment, the cyclic pattern is extracted from the segment leaving a residual data for analysis. A probability distribution of the residual data is determined for analysis. When an anomaly is detected in the segment o based on the probability distribution of the residual data, it is determined that blockage has occurred on the network traffic.
US09614737B1
A backnet can be created within a dedicated private network of a customer that enables a distinct party to access and/or control a portion of the resources within the private network. In one example, a backnet includes a separate virtual interface for an appliance or other such resource that is not visible or accessible to the customer owning the customer cloud, but can be accessed by another appliance or component in the customer cloud, or an appliance vendor external to the customer cloud. While the customer can control the permission for the backnet, the vendor can control or implement the resources within the backnet in a way that is isolated from the customer. Usage of the backnet can be separately monitored and billed to the vendor, even though the resources are part of the dedicated customer cloud.
US09614735B2
A method, computer storage medium, computer system of performing monitor deployment under budget constraints includes obtaining a network topology and a deployment budget, decomposing the network topology into a plurality of components having a predetermined property, computing a benefit and a cost for identifying each of the components, selecting at least one targeted component based on a ratio of the benefit to the cost for identifying each of the components, and deploying monitors to identify links in the at least one targeted component within a remaining portion of the deployment budget.
US09614724B2
Techniques for session-based device configuration are described. According to one or more implementations, various settings of a wireless device are configured to optimize device performance while participating in a communication session via a wireless network. The settings, for instance, are configured dynamically and on a per-session basis.
US09614722B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring connectivity in a network at a bearer path layer are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request to monitor a user endpoint, identifies an internet protocol address of the user endpoint, an internet protocol address of each transport network element between the user endpoint and a bearer trace server, a bearer path identification of each bearer used by the user endpoint, a quality of service associated with each bearer used by the user endpoint, and a tunnel identification of each bearer used by the user endpoint; and performs a fault isolation and performance monitoring at a bearer path layer, wherein the fault isolation identifies a particular segment where a fault is detected at the bearer path layer.
US09614718B2
A communication device is connected to an end of a first network of a cascade topology, and also to a second network. This communication device transmits a first list including information of communication devices, in the first network, that are destinations of transmission of frames through the first network, to an opposing communication device, in the second network, located at another end of the first network, and receives, from the opposing communication device, a second list including information of communication devices, in the first network, that are destinations of transmission of frames from the opposing communication device through the first network. The communication device determines in which of the first list and the second list a destination of a frame is included, and when the destination of the frame is included in the second list, transmits the frame to the second network.
US09614717B2
The disclosure discloses a method for terminal access and management in cloud computing, including: a terminal with a management and control module accesses a bidirectional data transmission network and acts as a node; the node searches for a first responding control node or agent control node and connects with a network management server via an agent control node connected to the found control node or via the found agent control node; a management and control module of a node at each level collects running information of the terminal and reports the running information level by level, and a nearest super-ordinate node performs a management operation. The disclosure further discloses a system for terminal access and management in cloud computing. With the method and the system, the problems that the system status has to be pre-estimated and a proper node has to be selected when new equipment access an original system can be solved, and after the access, a super-ordinate node can perform actively a control operation on the topological structure.
US09614709B2
Disclosed is a method including communicating, by a mobile device, with a base station via first and second component carriers having different frequency bands and time division duplexing (TDD) configurations. The method may include receiving one or more downlink transmissions via the second component carrier. The method may include selecting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing sequence based on the TDD configurations of the first and second component carriers. The method may include transmitting one or more positive acknowledgment and/or negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) signals, associated with the one or more downlink transmissions, according to the selected HARQ timing sequence. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09614708B1
One exemplary embodiment provides an efficient method and architecture that allows the transmission of at least two different data services with different quality of service (QOS) and source encoding for the IEEE 802.11.ax-HEW (and beyond, 802.11ax+) Wi-Fi systems/networks. An exemplary embodiment capitalizes on the behavior of spatial modulation (SM-OFDM) transmission techniques to allow, for example, using different channel encoding rates for each category/service of data.
US09614706B2
A method is disclosed for detecting packet at a receiving system in a Multi-Carrier Modulation (MCM) system. The method starts with receiving a signal at the receiving system. Then a deviation value of the signal is computed, where the deviation value is computed at least partially based on phase differences between some number of carriers in the preamble. The deviation value is compared with a threshold to determine whether a packet has been detected from the received signal. In response to the determination that a packet has been detected, a symbol offset is computed optionally, where the symbol offset indicates a number of sample points from a beginning of a symbol.
US09614691B2
A method and a device for detecting an unoccupied transmission channel in a multi-channel transmission system having a plurality of transmission channels for an audio and/or video transmission, as it is frequently installed in seats of vehicles, trains, airplanes or in auditoriums and conference rooms. When expanding or modifying the transmission system, each receiving module until now had to be uninstalled and appropriately adapted in case of unoccupied transmission channels. This is very labor-intensive and costly. According to the invention, an encoding of the unoccupied transmission channels using an identification is provided, which is detectable by the receiving modules. Upon detection of the identification, the respective transmission channel is automatically blocked for the selection. A complicated disassembly and a corresponding manual adaptation of the receiving modules may therefore be dispensed with.
US09614689B2
An in-line tester (10) for testing a telecommunications network. The tester (10) is connectable in line in a communications channel in the network, between network elements or nodes (12), so that all packets within that channel have to flow through it.
US09614682B2
A digital message is signed and, if a request is approved, receives a time stamp. The request is computed as a first function of the message and a current one of a sequence of passwords computed such that each password corresponds to an index unit. Each of the passwords may be computed as a function, such as a hash function, pseudo-random function, or encryption function, of the subsequent password, whereby the sequence terminates with an initial password that forms a public key parameter for the password sequence. At least one hash tree uses at least a subset of the passwords as inputs to a hash tree used to verify the passwords.
US09614675B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to encode auxiliary data into text data and methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to obtain encoded data from text data are disclosed. An example method includes assigning encoded data units to respective ones of a plurality of groups, the encoded data units including text data, identifying a symbol present in a first one of the encoded data units assigned to a first one of the groups, and outputting auxiliary data embedded in the encoded data units based on the symbol and based on the one of the groups of the first one of the encoded data units.
US09614673B2
A method of managing keys and an electronic device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes creating a first key, based on information included in a memory space of a processor, creating a second key, based on at least one item of user information, and creating a third key that was created through at least one encryption process, based on the created first key and the created second key.
US09614671B2
A user inputs a pattern consisting of a plurality of lines. The lines are classified by relative length, overall direction and degree of curvature. Where a line is started from a new position, the direction from the previous starting point is taken into account. The series of lines is then serialized into a key value, which may then be used to decrypt data stored on a device. This enables data to be securely stored since the key is supplied by the user at runtime and is not itself stored on the device.
US09614669B1
One embodiment includes hardware-based cybersecurity devices that create a physical barrier (“hardware security barrier”) between a computer's (or other device's) processor and a public or private network. Hardware security barriers typically use immutable hardware in accomplishing cybersecurity activities including generating and distributing cryptographically secure numbers, encryption, decryption, source authentication, and packet integrity verification. This hardware security barrier protects against remote threats and guarantees that all exported and received data are strongly encrypted. A hardware security barrier can be included in any computing or networking device that contains a network interface. One embodiment of a hardware security barrier is implemented as part of a network interface, such as, but not limited to being part of a network interface controller, or as a standalone unit between a communications interface of a host system and a connection to a network.
US09614666B2
Encryption interface technologies are described. A processor can include a system agent, an encryption interface, and a memory controller. The system agent can communicate data with a hardware functional block. The encryption interface can be coupled between the system agent and a memory controller. The encryption interface can receive a plaintext request from the system agent, encrypt the plaintext request to obtain an encrypted request, and communicate the encrypted request to the memory controller. The memory controller can communicate the encrypted request to a main memory of the computing device.
US09614662B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems of a multi-input receiver. In one or more embodiments, a receiver receives a plurality of signals each via a respective one of a plurality of wireless channels. In one or more embodiments, a processing stage of the receiver combines the received plurality of signals into a combined signal for input to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) of the receiver. In one or more embodiments, the ADC generates, at a predetermined sampling frequency, samples of the combined signal. In one or more embodiments, the receiver recovers from the generated samples at least one signal component corresponding to at least one of the plurality of signals.
US09614656B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes sending, by a first entity associated with an access network, a first request message including a session identifier associated with a user session to a second entity associated with a core network. The method further includes establishing a first control channel with the second entity in which the first control channel is associated with the session identifier. The first control channel is an in-band channel between the first entity and the second entity. The method further includes receiving policy information associated with the user session from the second entity using the first control channel. The policy information is indicative of one or more policies to be applied in the access network to user data associated with the user session.
US09614652B2
Embodiments herein relate to a system for enabling communication in the radio communications network (1). The system comprises the first radio base station (12), the second radio base station (13) and the wireless terminal (10). The first radio base station (12) and the second radio base station (13) are configured to serve the wireless terminal (10) simultaneously. The first radio base station (12) is configured to set up to the wireless terminal (10), a first channel for receiving data over from the wireless terminal (10), and a first assisting channel for transmitting feedback data regarding transmissions over the first channel. The second radio base station (13) is configured to set up to the wireless terminal (10), a second channel for transmitting data over to the wireless terminal (10), and a second assisting channel for receiving, from the wireless terminal (10), feedback data regarding transmissions over the second channel.
US09614635B2
The invention relates to an optical OFDMA communication network, comprising a plurality of optical network units (ONUs), wherein each one of the ONUs is configured to generate a ranging sequence for upstream synchronization of the ONUs, a receiving unit for receiving signals of the ONUs, the receiving unit being also configured to receive the ranging sequences of the ONUs. The receiving unit comprises a correlator unit in which a plurality of ranging sequences is stored. The receiving unit is configured to perform a ranging detection operation including performing a correlation operation with a plurality of the received ranging sequences using at least one of the stored ranging sequences and to transmit a ranging response to the ONUs depending on the result of the correlation operation.
US09614621B2
To enable signal position detection, frequency offset compensation, clock offset compensation, and chromatic dispersion amount estimation in a communication system based on coherent detection using an optical signal, even on a signal having a great offset in an arrival time depending on a frequency due to chromatic dispersion. An optical signal transmitting apparatus generates specific frequency band signals having power concentrated on two or more specific frequencies and transmits a signal including the specific frequency band signals. An optical signal receiving apparatus converts a received signal into a digital signal, detects positions of the specific frequency band signals from the converted digital signal, estimates frequency positions of the detected specific frequency band signals, and detects a frequency offset between an optical signal receiving apparatus and an optical signal transmitting apparatus. Moreover, the optical signal receiving apparatus detects a clock offset between the optical signal receiving apparatus and the optical signal transmitting apparatus from an interval between the estimated frequency positions of the specific frequency band signals. Furthermore, the optical signal receiving apparatus estimates temporal positions of the detected specific frequency band signals and detects a chromatic dispersion amount from a difference between the temporal positions of the specific frequency band signals corresponding to different frequencies.
US09614620B2
A coaxial transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA) including a cuboid type TO laser package may be used in an optical transceiver for transmitting an optical signal at a channel wavelength. The cuboid type TO laser package is made of a thermally conductive material and has substantially flat outer surfaces that may be thermally coupled to substantially flat outer surfaces on a transceiver housing and/or on other cuboid type TO laser packages. An optical transceiver may include multiple coaxial TOSAs with the cuboid type TO laser packages stacked in the transceiver housing. The cuboid type TO laser package may thus provide improved thermal characteristics and a reduced size within the optical transceiver.
US09614614B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for locating a physical connector module are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein a method that includes selecting, via a locator beacon activation control function, a physical connector module to be located. The method further includes communicating, from the locator beacon activation control function, a locator beacon activation signal to a locator beacon activation client function included in the selected physical connector module and, in response to receiving the locator beacon activation signal at the locator beacon activation client function, triggering a transmission of a locator beacon from the selected physical connector module.
US09614604B2
A multi-protocol, multi-band array antenna system may be used in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system reader and sensory networks. The antenna array may include array elements with an integrated low noise amplifier. The system may employ digital beam forming techniques for transmission and steering of a beam to a specific sensor tag or group of tags in a cell. The receive beam forming network is optimized for detecting signals from each sensor tag. Narrow and wideband interferences may be excised by an interference nulling algorithm. Space division multiplexing may be used by the antenna system to enhance system processing capacity.
US09614598B2
Uplink transmission from a mobile device having multiple antennas to a base station having multiple antennas includes transmitting in an open-loop single-user MIMO mode when the mobile device is at high speed, transmitting in a closed-loop single-user MIMO mode when the mobile device is at low speed, and, upon request, transmitting in a multi-user collaborative MIMO mode. The method also includes controlling uplink transmissions in a selected one of the open-loop single-user MIMO, the closed-loop single-user MIMO and the multiuser collaborative MIMO modes. Uplink transmissions from the mobile device may be transmitted using multiple antennas of the mobile device. Upon request, the mobile device may switch to transmitting in multi-user collaborative MIMO mode with a subset of the multiple antennas.
US09614586B2
A system and method for inferring schematic and topological properties of an electrical distribution grid is provided. The system may include Remote Hubs, Subordinate Remotes, a Substation Receiver, and an associated Computing Platform and Concentrator. At least one intelligent edge transmitter, called a Remote Hub Edge Transmitter, may transmit messages on the electrical distribution grid by injecting a modulated current into a power main that supplies an electric meter. The Subordinate Remotes, Remote Hubs, the Substation Receiver, and the associated Computing Platform and Concentrator may contain processing units which execute stored instructions allowing each node in the network to implement methods for organizing the on-grid network and transmitting and receiving messages on the network. The Substation Receiver, Computing Platform and Concentrator may detect and infer schematic grid location attributes of the network and publish the detected and inferred attributes to other application systems including geospatial information systems maintaining the logical and physical network model.
US09614582B2
Various examples of mechanisms, systems, methods, techniques and devices for dynamic rate adaptation in a vectored G.fast (G.9701) system are described. A first communication device may perform estimation of a residual noise to derive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) loss for each carrier of one or more carriers with respect to a transmitting port of the first communication device. The residual noise may be an increased noise expected to be experienced by a second communication device when one or more other ports in a vectored group of a plurality of ports of the first communication device are switched off. The first communication device may adapt to the residual noise during time slots of one or more downstream symbol positions where the one or more other ports in the vectored group are switched off by dynamically changing bit-loading.
US09614579B2
A device operated in a network using a channel hopping communication protocol may select a channel for each transmission by first generating and storing a sequence of pseudo-random index numbers. A list of good channels is selected from a plurality of channels. For each channel hop, one of the good channels is selected from the list of good channels for use by a transceiver in the device by using an index number selected from the sequence of pseudo-random index numbers. The list of good channels may be revised periodically and channels may be selected from the list of good channels for use by the transceiver without revising the sequence of pseudo-random index numbers.
US09614575B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed to couple a transmission amplifier and a reception amplifier to a shared medium. An output of the transmission amplifier is directly coupled to an input of the reception amplifier to form a common connection. The transmission amplifier and the reception amplifier may receive a first amplifier bias via the common connection. In response to the first amplifier bias, the transmission amplifier provides a first communication signal to the shared medium and the reception amplifier does not provide a second communication signal from the shared medium. Alternatively, the transmission amplifier and the reception may receive a second amplifier bias via the common connection. In response to the second amplifier bias, the reception amplifier provides the second communication signal from the shared medium and the transmission amplifier does not provide the first communication signal to the shared medium.
US09614563B2
An apparatus includes a first receiver frequency conversion stage and a second receiver frequency conversion stage. The first receiver frequency conversion stage may be configured to generate at least four first intermediate frequency signals in response to a radio frequency (RF) input signal and respective phases of a first local oscillator signal. The second receiver frequency conversion stage may be configured to generate at least four output signals in response to the at least four first intermediate frequency signals and one or more phases of a second local oscillator signal. Each of the at least four output signals is generated in an independent channel in response to a respective one of the at least four first intermediate frequency signals and a respective one of the one or more phases of the second local oscillator signal.
US09614561B2
A method and circuit for mitigating RFI in an electronic device that occurs while the device is in a low power mode utilizes one or more antenna elements in the device to receive RF energy. When the RF energy is sufficiently high that it could affect signal states in the device while in the low power mode, the device transitions from the low power mode to an active mode and begins an RFI mitigation process to ensure signal states and other circuit operations in the device are not changed by the RFI.
US09614547B2
A data storage device includes a memory and a decoder. In one embodiment, the decoder includes a bit-flipping stage and a second decoding stage. The decoder is configured to receive data from the memory and to process the received data at the bit-flipping stage to generate first stage result data. The data corresponds to an error correction coding (ECC) codeword of an ECC code. The data is processed at the bit-flipping stage based on parity checks of the error correction code (ECC) code that are not satisfied by the data. The data is processed at the bit-flipping stage without first attempting to decode the received data at the second decoding stage. The decoder is further configured to provide the first stage result data to an input of the second decoding stage and to initiate decoding at the second decoding stage at least partially based on the first stage result data.
US09614539B2
Systems and methods are provided for a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with an ultra-low burst error rate. Analog-to-digital conversions may be applied via a plurality of successive conversion cycles, with each conversion cycle corresponding to a particular bit in a corresponding digital output. Meta-stability may be detected during each one of the plurality of successive conversion cycles, and for each one of the plurality of successive conversion cycles, a next one of the plurality of successive conversion cycles may be triggered based on a cycle termination event. After completion of all of the plurality of successive conversion cycles, a meta-stability state of each of the plurality of successive conversion cycles may be assessed, and the digital output may be controlled based on the assessment.
US09614526B1
Example apparatus for power-domain assignment, having: a first bus-to-switch interface; a second bus-to-switch interface; a first power-domain bus, coupled to the first bus-to-switch interface; a second power-domain bus, coupled to the second bus-to-switch interface. A set of I/O signal level shifters, coupled between the first and second power-domain buses; a switch including, a set of IP block power coupling outputs; a set of IP block I/O signal paths; and a selection signal input. The switch is coupled to the first and second bus-to-switch interfaces. Wherein, in response to receiving a first signal on the selection signal input, the switch is configure to couple the first power-domain bus to the set of IP block power coupling outputs; and wherein, in response to receiving a second signal on the selection signal input, the switch is configure to couple the second power-domain bus to the set of IP block power coupling outputs.
US09614524B1
Methods and systems for RF pulse reflection reduction are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes (a) providing a plurality of pulsed RF power waveforms from a plurality of RF generators to a process chamber during a first duty cycle, (b) measuring a first power level impedance Z1 and a different second power level impedance Z2 at different time periods during the first duty cycle, (c) adjusting the second power level impedance Z2 towards 50 ohm such that a standing wave ratio (SWR) of the second power level impedance Z2 decreases towards 50 ohm and a SWR of the first power level impedance Z1 increases from 50 ohm, and (e) repeating (d) until the SWR of the first power level impedance Z1 is substantially equal to the SWR of the second power level impedance Z2.
US09614523B2
A keypad with optical sensors is provided. The keypad comprises keycaps, each keycap having a top surface. One or more optical sensors are located beneath top surfaces of adjacent keycaps. One or more light guides extend from a respective optical sensor towards the top surfaces.
US09614521B2
A pushbutton switch has a pressure switching function to recognize a key actuation and a capacitive sensor function to recognize a key touch. It has an at least partly electrically conductive key (12) and a printed circuit board (16) which includes at least one electrical contact (18) that is activated by depressing the key (12) via a switching mat (22) arranged between the key (12) and the printed circuit board (16). The printed circuit board (16) also has at least one capacitive sensor surface (20) located opposite to and at a distance from the key (12), with a capacitive coupling existing between the key (12) and the sensor surface (20).
US09614504B2
A user terminal device and a display method thereof are provided. A method for controlling a clock according to an exemplary embodiment includes generating a clock, generating a comparison clock corresponding to a frequency of an external alternating current (AC) power source, counting a number of clock cycles according to the comparison clock, and controlling a generation period of the clock according to the counted number of clock cycles.
US09614503B2
A MOS pass transistor includes a semiconductor layer having first conductivity, a trench isolation layer disposed in the semiconductor layer to define a first active region and a second active region, a first junction region having second conductivity, disposed in the first active region, and being in contact with a first sidewall of the trench isolation layer, a second junction region having the second conductivity, disposed in the second active region, being in contact with a second sidewall of the trench isolation layer, and being spaced apart from the first junction region, and a gate electrode disposed over the trench isolation layer. A lower portion of the gate electrode extends from a top surface of the trench isolation layer into the trench isolation layer to a predetermined depth.
US09614499B2
A method of designing a truncated filter includes designing a prototype filter with a target frequency response, and selecting a soft truncation function with a roll-off parameter specifying a rate in which the soft truncation function transitions to zero. The method also includes applying the soft truncation function to the prototype filter to produce a truncated filter, and storing the truncated filter to a memory.
US09614498B2
An active balun circuit includes a CG transistor having a source terminal thereof connected to an input terminal and a gate terminal thereof grounded, a CS transistor having a gate terminal thereof connected to the input terminal and a source terminal thereof grounded, an asymmetrical transformer, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The asymmetrical transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil includes a first inductor connected to the CG transistor and a second inductor connected to the CS transistor. The secondary coil includes a third inductor associated with the first inductor and a fourth inductor associated with the second inductor. The first output terminal outputs a first signal generated at the third inductor, and the second output terminal outputs a second signal generated at the fourth inductor.
US09614486B1
A gain control system is responsive to a user gain setting and to an effective signal level to calculate and adaptively vary an output gain to avoid output clipping. The effective signal level is calculated by smoothing the energy of an input audio signal in accordance with selected attenuation factors. In times during which fast transient sounds are occurring, attenuation factors corresponding to relatively low levels of attenuation are selected. In times during which fast transient sounds are not detected, attenuation factors corresponding to relatively higher levels of attenuation are selected. The effective signal level is held at a constant level during periods of silence in order to avoid increasing the output gain during these periods. The output gain is calculated based on a comparison of the effective signal level to a compression threshold.
US09614484B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for control of a multiple-input-single output (MISO) device. For example, the method includes partitioning a waveform constellation space into a plurality of regions, where each region of the plurality of regions is associated with one or more control functions of the MISO device. The method also includes transitioning the MISO device between a plurality of classes of operation based on the one or more control functions.
US09614479B2
It is provided an amplifier arrangement for optimizing efficiency at a peak power level and a back-off power level γ. The amplifier arrangement comprises an input power splitter dividing an input signal into a first signal having a power Pm and a second signal having a power Pa, a main transistor operating in a class-B like mode receiving the first signal, an auxiliary transistor operating in a class-C mode receiving the second signal. The received first and second signals have a phase offset value θ, wherein −π<θ<π. The amplifier arrangement further comprises a combining network. Circuit element values of the combining network, the power Pm and the power Pa, the phase offset value θ, a bias condition of the auxiliary transistor; and a relative size Saux of the auxiliary transistor, are based on a predetermined back-off power level γ, a current scaling factor rc of the auxiliary transistor, a main transistor oversizing factor ro,m, and an auxiliary transistor oversizing factor ro,a, where rc<1, ro,m≧1 and ro,a≧1. It is also provided a method for determining properties for an amplifier arrangement.
US09614474B2
In suppression of torque ripple with a periodic disturbance observer, adjustment of a gain portion is determined sequentially during monitoring operation of monitoring an operating condition. Therefore, many adjusting parameters are involved and achievement of correction is dependent on the skill of a person in charge of adjustment or design. The periodic disturbance observer is provided with a model correcting means or section which calculates an error of an identification model by using a time difference quantity by an output of the periodic disturbance observer and a sensed value of a plant and corrects the identification model with the error of the identification model. Finally, the system performs the torque ripple suppression control with an accurately estimated periodic disturbance.
US09614469B2
An apparatus and method for controlling an electric vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a battery that is configured to charge electrical energy and a motor that is configured to generate a driving torque from electrical energy charged in the battery. A controller is configured to determine a driving range of the vehicle, perform maximum efficiency control in which efficiency of the motor is maximized when the driving range of the vehicle is a main driving range, and perform minimum torque ripple control in which torque ripple of the motor is minimized when the driving range of the vehicle is a supplementary driving range.
US09614463B2
A piezoelectric device is provided with a piezoelectric element including a piezoelectric layer exhibiting a polarizability γ smaller than 1×10−9 (C/(V·m)) in the case where an electric field is applied until polarization is saturated and a circuit having a means to set a minimum value of a drive electric field to become larger than a positive coercive electric field of the above-described piezoelectric layer and a means to set a maximum value of the above-described drive electric field to become smaller than (Pm′(maximum value of polarization)−Pr′(quasi-remanent polarization))/(1×10−9) and, therefore, an object is to drive the piezoelectric element in an electric field range in which maximum piezoelectric characteristics are obtained, improve the characteristics of the piezoelectric device, and enhance the reliability.
US09614457B2
Power conversion apparatus for controllably converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC). An example apparatus includes multiple AC sources, galvanically isolated from one another, and multiple bridge rectifier circuits, including one or more controllable bridge rectifier circuits, where each bridge rectifier circuit has respective AC-side terminals and DC-side terminals and each bridge rectifier circuit is connected to a corresponding one of the AC sources via its AC-side terminals. The DC-side terminals are connected so that the outputs of the bridge rectifier circuits are combined in series. A control circuit is configured to individually control each controllable bridge rectifier circuit to selectively operate in a regulator mode, whereby a non-zero voltage less than or equal to the maximum rectifier voltage is provided, and a bypass mode, whereby the controllable bridge rectifier circuit provides a negligible voltage to its DC-side terminals and draws negligible current from its corresponding AC source.
US09614450B2
A feedback signal generating circuit may include a control voltage adjusting circuit outputting a feedback voltage by comparing a control voltage input from an external voltage source with a reference voltage and adjusting a ratio of control voltage drop, and an amplifying circuit generating a feedback signal by differentially amplifying the feedback voltage and a detection voltage associated with a current flowing in a load.
US09614449B2
The present invention provides a flyback power converter with a programmable output and a control circuit and a control method thereof. The flyback power converter converts an input voltage to a programmable output voltage according to a setting signal, wherein the programmable output voltage switches between different levels. The flyback power converter includes: a transformer circuit, a power switch circuit, a current sense circuit, an opto-coupler circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit adaptively adjusts an operation signal according to a level of the programmable output voltage, to maintain a same or relatively higher operation frequency of the operation signal when the programmable output voltage switches to a relatively lower level, so as to maintain a phase margin while supplying the same output current.
US09614448B2
A switching power-supply device, in which an input power is applied to a primary winding of a transformer, a pulse voltage is induced in a secondary winding of the transformer by turning on and off a switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer and an output voltage rectified and smoothed by a secondary-side rectifying-and-smoothing circuit having a rectifier diode and a smoothing capacitor is outputted. The switching power-supply device includes: a transient state detection circuit, which detects a transient state and outputs a soft-drive instruction signal; and a drive circuit which turns on-and-off the switching element in a soft-drive operation, in which a charging speed of a gate voltage at a time of passing a gate threshold voltage is delayed as compared to a normal operation, in a case where the soft-drive instruction signal is inputted.
US09614446B2
A power adaptor to supply power for a portable device has an input circuit (21) for receiving mains input power, a power switch device (25), a power inductance (24) and an output circuit (22) coupled to the power inductance to provide the supply power for the portable device, and a controller (26) for controlling the power switch device according to a supply power requirement of the portable device. The adaptor has a measurement inductance (27) magnetically coupled to the power inductance, and the controller comprises a measurement input (28) for detecting a measurement signal indicative of a magnetic state of the power inductance. The controller detects the supply power requirement based on the magnetic state in response to a controlling of the power switch device via the controller. Advantageously different portable devices can be supplied by appropriate power.
US09614437B2
Disclosed are a switching regulator and a control circuit and a control method therefor. In one embodiment, a switching control signal with decreasing on time is generated to control a power switch in a second mode so that audio noise can be avoided when the switching regulator operates in a light loaded or unloaded condition.
US09614433B2
A switching-capacitor regulator with a charge injection mode for a high loading current is used to generate an output voltage at an output node, where the switching-capacitor regulator includes a storage capacitor, a switch module, a current source and a control unit. The switch module is coupled between the storage capacitor, a first supply voltage, a second supply voltage and the output node. The current source is coupled to the output node, and is used for selectively providing a current to the output node. The control unit is coupled to the switch module and the output node, and is used for controlling the switch module to selectively charge or discharge the storage capacitor, and for controlling the current source to selectively provide the current to the output node, to adjust a voltage level of the output voltage.
US09614425B2
A fast-response horizontal vibration micro motor that includes a housing, a cover plate, a vibration assembly and coils. The cover plate is installed on the housing; the vibration assembly is suspended in the installation space; the coils are located at positions a certain distance above the vibration assembly; the vibration assembly can perform reciprocating vibration in a direction substantially parallel to the bottom surface of the housing, and also enables the two elastic supporting members located on the two opposite sidewalls to be correspondingly stretched and compressed during vibration; the vibration assembly includes a vibration block, and the vibration block is provided with at least three installation through holes and permanent magnets installed in the installation through holes. The arrangement of the three permanent magnets increases the response speed of the motor, and the arrangement of the two serially-connected coils also increases the response speed of the motor.
US09614420B2
A redundant brushless drive system, including a coil (12) having first and second phase windings operable independently of one another and first and second independently operable sensor groups for the rotational position of a rotor (11) and for commutation of the phase windings. The first and second sensor groups are positioned along the motor axle one-behind-the-other parallel to each other and symmetrical to the motor axle (10). An encoder circuit board (7) is configured such that an association of the sensor groups (G1, G2) to a phase winding (W1, W2) is configurable such that either the first sensor group (G1) is used for controlling the first phase winding (W1) and the second sensor group (G2) for controlling the second phase winding (W2), or the first sensor group (G1) is used for controlling the second phase winding (W2) and the second sensor group (G2) for controlling the first phase winding (W1).
US09614408B2
An electric linear actuator has a housing, an electric motor, a speed reduction mechanism, and a ball screw mechanism. The ball screw mechanism has a nut and a screw shaft. Both include a helical screw groove. The nut is supported by rolling bearings mounted on the housing. The screw shaft is coaxially integrated with the drive shaft. The screw shaft is inserted into the nut, via a large number of balls. The housing has a first housing and a second housing. The electric motor is mounted on the first housing. The second housing abuts against an end face of the first housing. At least one of the first and second housings is formed with ribs. The ribs extend from each of securing portions to a containing portion that contains the screw shaft. The securing portions are arranged on the periphery of the housing to receive fastening bolts.
US09614396B1
The multi-element portable wireless charging device includes a transmitter having a DC power source (battery), an oscillator connected to the battery for converting the DC to AC, a power amplifier connected to the AC output of the oscillator, and at least one flat, planar primary coil connected as a load of the power amplifier circuit. The system also includes a receiver (typically installed in the device requiring recharging) that has a flat, planar secondary coil in which an AC current is induced when placed in close proximity (1-3 cm) to the primary coil, a full-wave bridge rectifier to rectify the AC current to DC, and a voltage regulator connected to the rectifier to provide a steady DC voltage required by the charging circuit to charge the mobile device. Power is transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver by magnetic inductive coupling.
US09614389B2
A method for controlling a current flow through a power distribution circuit includes determining a current flow through a load electrically connected with the power distribution circuit, and a wire gauge of the power distribution circuit based on a measured output current and output voltage of the power distribution circuit. The method also includes controlling the output current based on the current flow through the load and the wire gauge.
US09614388B2
An output stage of a charging device includes a first secondary winding of a transformer, a first rectifier which is connected to the first secondary winding, a step-down controller which is connected to the output of the first rectifier, and a first output capacitor. In order to be able to reduce the switching losses in the switch of the step-down controller and to reduce the magnitudes of the inductance, the transformer includes a second secondary winding to which a second rectifier) together with a second output capacitor are connected, wherein the first and second output capacitors are connected in series.
US09614384B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a portable charging case that can serve as both a charging base and a protective carrying case for a rechargeable stylus. The portable charging case can enable a quick connect and release of the stylus using magnetic force for magnetic engagement of the stylus to the charging base. The charging base may include a logic board that dynamically changes the polarity of the charge coming in through the charging base charging contacts. Such a dynamic change of polarity can recharge the stylus irrespective of the polarity alignment between the stylus charging terminals and the charging base charging contacts.
US09614381B2
A system is provided for performing recharging and data communication. The system includes a terminal and a connection device that connects the terminal and an external device, and that selectively provides the terminal with a recharging function, a data communication function, and a recharging and data communication function, according to a type of the connected external device. The terminal determines the type of the connected external device based on a voltage received from the connection device, when the terminal is connected to the connection device, and selectively operates in a recharging mode, a data communication mode, and a recharging and data communication mode based on the type of the connected external device.
US09614373B2
Modular consumption management systems provide benefits of adaptability, customization, and progressive investment to electrical utility customers, particularly those with loads and electrical systems capable of curtailment and mitigation. Providing modules based on measurements made and consumption patterns detected in load profiles of individual loads and the site as a whole is described. Control and mitigation capabilities and methods are described in conjunction with identifying correlative modules that will best serve the needs of the site being monitored by a measurement module. Combined measurement and control modules or control and mitigation modules are also described, as well as interchangeable modules that can be put in place when excess consumption patterns at the site change over time.
US09614369B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) device is disclosed having two PNP transistors. During a high-voltage ESD event a parasitic NPN transistor couples to one of the two PNP transistors to provide ESD protection.
US09614360B2
A lightning protection device for placing on a structure for protecting, and including a first coating including at least one layer of conductive paint; and a second coating deposited on the surface coating and including a material that is thermally insulating and electrically conductive.
US09614359B2
A while-in-use electrical box including a housing having a front wall, a back wall, a top wall, a bottom wall and two opposed side walls. The housing has a longitudinal axis extending along the length of the box between the two side walls. The housing has a transverse axis extending from the back wall to the front wall. A device plate is disposed within the housing dividing the housing into a first section and a second section. The first section of the housing is enclosed and adapted to house an electrical device and the second section forms an electrical device access area. The device plate has a first panel forming a face plate for receiving a face of the electrical device. The second section is spaced from the first section along the longitudinal axis, and the face plate is in a non-parallel, non- perpendicular alignment with the housing transverse axis.
US09614352B2
The coordinates of an unit configuration region R11 is (X1, Y1), and the coordinates of an unit configuration region Rmn is (Xm, Yn) (m and n are natural numbers). Rotation angles φ with respect to a center of apexes of an isosceles triangle are different according to coordinates, and at least three different rotation angles φ are contained in all of the photonic crystal layer.
US09614347B2
An optical communication device, reception apparatus, transmission apparatus and transmission and reception system are disclosed. The optical communication device includes a drive circuit substrate. A first through via extends through the drive circuit substrate and is configured to electrically connect an optical element disposed on a first surface side of the drive circuit substrate to a drive circuit disposed on a second surface side of the drive circuit substrate. A positioning element is attached to an interposer substrate and is configured to align optical axes of a first lens that is attached to a lens substrate and that faces a second lens that is disposed on the first surface side of the drive circuit substrate. A second through via extends through the interposer substrate and electrically connects the drive circuit to a signal processing circuit disposed on a signal processing substrate positioned above the interposer substrate.
US09614345B2
An arrayed optical amplifier includes: at least one first amplifier including a first excitation light source controlled to a first temperature; at least one second amplifier including a second excitation light source controlled to a second temperature different from the first temperature; and a control circuit coupled to the at least one first amplifier and the at least one second amplifiers.
US09614343B2
A device for amplifying a multi-wavelength pulsed laser beam is provided, which comprises: a solid amplifying medium with two planer faces, a front face and a reflecting rear face; and a device for cooling the amplifying medium by the rear face. The front face of the amplifying medium is tilted relative to its rear face by a first non-zero tilt and the device further comprises a trapezoidal prism, with an input face and an output face which form between them a second non-zero tilt, the first and second tilts being such that the beams of each wavelength are parallel to one another at the output of the prism.
US09614338B2
A power receptacle module for a work surface having multiple power receptacles includes a mounting frame configured to be received within an aperture in the work surface, a pivoting receptacle assembly pivotally mounted in the mounting frame and configured to pivot between a first orientation and a second orientation, relative to the mounting frame. The pivoting receptacle assembly has a flat face plate and a plurality of power receptacles fixedly mounted below the flat face plate. When the pivoting receptacle assembly is in the first orientation, the flat face plate is flush with a top surface of the work surface, and the plurality of power receptacles are hidden below the work surface. When the pivoting receptacle assembly is in the second orientation, the flat face plate is disposed at an oblique angle relative to the work surface, and the plurality of power receptacles are exposed.
US09614336B2
A desktop receptacle includes: a housing having a top surface with a receptacle opening formed therein; an electrical receptacle including at least one electrical port and pivotally mounted within the housing adjacent to the receptacle opening, the electrical receptacle having a recessed position where the at least one electrical port is below the top surface of the housing and an exposed position where the at least one electrical port is at least partially exposed above the top surface; and a gas spring connected to the electrical receptacle so as to bias the electrical receptacle toward the exposed position.
US09614327B2
A connector assembly is provided and includes a connector, a lock, and a spring arrangement. The connector has a housing, a spring arrangement holder, and a plug section. The housing has an upper shell and a lower shell that provide a lock receiving passageway into an interior thereof. The spring arrangement holder is disposed along the lower shell. The plug section is disposed along the lower shell and opposite the spring arrangement holder. The lock is inserted into the lock receiving passageway. The spring arrangement is inserted into the spring arrangement holder.
US09614326B2
In a connecting structure of a terminal configured to connect a female terminal inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber to the male terminal, the female terminal comprises a tubular part made of a metal plate and formed into which the male terminal is inserted, a plate shaped engaging piece continued from a side wall of the tubular part and folded back so that the engaging piece is located in a path into which the male terminal is inserted, a notch formed on an outer side surface of a folded back part of the engaging piece. The male terminal is provided with a cut-out part which can accommodate the engaging piece, and the engaging piece is accommodated in the cut-out part when the female terminal is inserted to a set position to lock a movement of the female terminal in a pulling out direction.
US09614309B1
An electric connector assembly includes an intermediate connector for connecting the first mating connector to the second mating connector to facilitate connections between two circuit boards, which includes a power supply terminal having a main body portion and a flange portion having a larger width than the main body portion; an outer housing including a first inner housing portion affixed to the outer housing, the first inner housing portion having a first terminal penetrating portion configured to engage with the main body portion of a power supply terminal and latching portions. The intermediate connector also includes a second inner housing portion configured to align with the first inner housing portion that has engaging portions configured to engage the second inner housing portion to the outer housing via the latching portions; and a second terminal penetrating portion, configured to engage with the main body portion of the power supply terminal.
US09614308B2
A good mating state can be obtained while reducing interference of transmission signals by a simple configuration. A contact portion is provided at a single location on each of mating recessed portions of signal contact members arranged in a multipolar shape, contact portions are provided at a plurality of locations for a mating recessed portion of an integrated power-source contact member, and signal transmission is carried out through the single-location contact portion provided at the single location for each of the mating recessed portions of the signal contact members. As a result, particularly, interference in high-frequency transmission is reduced to obtain good transmission characteristics, while sufficient mating retention force is configured to be obtained by causing the contact portions at the plurality of locations provided on the mating recessed portion of the power-source contact member to be in a state in which the contact portions are in contact with contact portions of a mating counterpart by the plurality of locations.
US09614305B2
A connector including a terminal fitting having a wire connecting portion crimped to an end of a wire and configured to be inserted into a terminal accommodating chamber of a housing. A sleeve is mounted on a rear part of the terminal fitting and retains the terminal fitting by engaged the terminal fitting and a wall surface of the terminal accommodating chamber. A heat shrinkable tube is fitted on an outer periphery of the wire connecting portion while being accommodated in the sleeve and held in close contact with an outer periphery of the terminal fitting by being thermally shrunk. The sleeve includes a lift-up portion for holding the heat shrinkable tube in a fitted state so that a clearance is secured between the heat shrinkable tube and an upper surface of the wire connecting portion by lifting up the heat shrinkable tube before thermal shrinkage in a radial direction.
US09614303B2
Provided is a plug connector housing for protecting a plug connector. The housing has at least one pre-equipped cable outlet for connecting a threaded cable connection and at least one closure for closing the at least one cable outlet. The at least one cable outlet has a thread which forms a screw channel and the plug connector housing has a predetermined breaking point in the transition region to the closure. Also provided is a method for opening a cable outlet of a plug connector housing.
US09614294B2
An antenna device includes a ground; a monopole antenna including a first section running from a feeding point along the ground, a second section running in a direction away from the ground, and a third section running along the ground, the monopole antenna having a length corresponding to ¼ of a wavelength at a first resonance frequency; a parasitic element including a first section whose end is connected to the ground in the vicinity of the end of the first section of the monopole antenna and that runs in a direction away from the ground, and a second section, the parasitic element having a length corresponding to ¼ of a wavelength at a second resonance frequency; and a dipole antenna provided along the third section of the monopole antenna and the parasitic element, the dipole antenna having a length corresponding to ½ of a wavelength at a third resonance frequency.
US09614285B2
An RFID antenna assembly configured to be energized with a carrier signal is disclosed. The RFID antenna assembly includes an inductive component including a loop antenna assembly, at least one capacitive component coupled to the inductive component, and an eddy current trap positioned a predetermined distance from the loop antenna assembly.
US09614283B2
An antenna structure includes a main portion, a first radiating portion connected to the main portion, a second radiating portion connected to the main portion and opposite to the first radiating portion, and a coupling portion spaced from and coplanar with the main portion and opposite to the second radiating portion. The main portion and the first radiating portion excite a low frequency mode, the main portion, the first radiating portion, the second radiating portion, and the coupling portion excite a high frequency mode, and when the antenna structure is interfered by a user's human body when close to the user's human body, the coupling portion transmits the interference to ground. A wireless communication device employing the antenna structure is also disclosed.
US09614275B2
Methods and apparatus for a directive, instantaneous wide bandwidth antenna including a ground plane having a recess with a tapered region accessible by an electromagnetic field via a radiating aperture at a forward end of the recess. The dielectric feed can have a tapered portion proximate the tapered region to guide the electromagnetic field into the recess through the radiating aperture and influence pattern directivity. The antenna can further include a conductive plating disposed at least partially about the dielectric feed in a wedge configuration to influence pattern beam width. The dielectric feed can include a conductive portion on a bottom of the wedge coupled to the conductive plating and to a grooved trace.
US09614271B2
A wireless communication module includes a circuit board, and an antenna and a connection member mounted on a mounting surface of the circuit board. The antenna is mounted in a region along a first end edge of the circuit board, and the connection member is mounted in a region along a second end edge of the circuit board.
US09614269B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a radio frequency coupler and an adjustable termination impedance circuit. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a radio frequency coupler and a termination impedance circuit configured to provide an adjustable termination impedance, in which the termination impedance circuit includes two switches and a passive impedance element in series between a reference potential and a selected port of the RF coupler, the selected port being one of an isolated port of the RF coupler or a coupled port of the RF coupler.
US09614258B2
To provide a power storage device, an operation condition of which is easily analyzed. A secondary battery includes a sensor that is a measurement unit, a microcontroller unit that is a determination unit, and a memory that is a memory unit. With the sensor, conditions of the secondary battery such as the remaining battery power, the voltage, the current, and the temperature are measured. The microcontroller unit performs arithmetic processing of the measurement results and determines the operation condition of the secondary battery. Further, the microcontroller unit stores the measurement result in the memory in accordance with the operation condition of the secondary battery.
US09614254B2
Disclosed are a safety device and a secondary battery using the same. The safety device includes a voltage sensitive heating device generating heat when a voltage difference between both ends thereof exceeds a predetermined voltage level and a temperature sensitive device having a reversible current ON/OFF function according to a temperature. The temperature sensitive device is coupled with the voltage sensitive heating device such that the temperature sensitive device detects the heat generated from the voltage sensitive heating device.
US09614252B2
A new electrolytic solution system for lithium secondary batteries. Provided is a lithium secondary battery electrolytic solution containing a nonaqueous solvent and a lithium salt. The nonaqueous solvent is mixed at an amount of not more than 3 mol with respect to 1 mol of the lithium salt.
US09614250B2
Various embodiments of solid-state conductors containing solid polymer electrolytes, electronic devices incorporating the solid-sate conductors, and associated methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a solid-state conductor includes poly(ethylene oxide) having molecules with a molecular weight of about 200 to about 8×106 gram/mol, and a soy protein product mixed with the poly(ethylene oxide), the soy protein product containing glycinin and β-conglycinin and having a fine-stranded network structure. Individual molecules of the poly(ethylene oxide) are entangled in the fine-stranded network structure of the soy protein product, and the poly(ethylene oxide) is at least 50 % amorphous.
US09614249B2
A separator according to the present disclosure is a separator for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery that includes a porous layer that contains cellulose fibers and resin particles. The ratio of the amount of the resin particles to the total amount of the cellulose fibers and the resin particles increases with decreasing distance from one surface of the porous layer.
US09614248B2
The stack-folding type electrode assembly according to the present disclosure is an electrode assembly including a plurality of stack type unit cells which is stacked on one another with a continuous folding separator sheet interposed between each of the stacked unit cells, wherein the unit cells has a combination of at least two quad cells of a positive electrode/separator/negative electrode/separator/positive electrode/separator/negative electrode structure, and one C-type bicell of a negative electrode/separator/positive electrode/separator/negative electrode structure, and unit cells disposed above and below a central part or a winding start point have an asymmetrical structure each other with the quad cell disposed at the central part, or unit cells disposed above and below a central part or a winding start point have a symmetrical structure each other with the C-type bicell disposed at the central part.
US09614246B2
The invention discloses a high-capacity cylindrical lithium ion battery. Tab-position end face is shaped; a high frequency oscillation and pressure are applied on to make the foil bodies softened in the scope of 0.1-6.5 mm. At the instant of high-frequency oscillation, the rigidity of the foil body is greatly decreased; and the foil bodies are mutually wound and compressed together, so that the weight density of the foil body in unit volume is increased and meanwhile, the rigidity of the compressed foil body at the Tab-position end face is greatly increased, thereby laying a firm foundation for laser welding of the 1 Tab-position end face and a current collector, increasing a laser welding effective area of the Tab-position end face and the current collector, and improving the welding strength.
US09614245B2
A flow battery includes a positive electrode, a positive electrode electrolyte, a negative electrode, a negative electrode electrolyte, and a polymer electrolyte membrane interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode electrolyte includes water and a first redox couple. The first redox couple includes a first organic compound which includes a first moiety in conjugation with a second moiety. The first organic compound is reduced during discharge while during charging the reduction product of the first organic compound is oxidized to the first organic compound. The negative electrode electrolyte includes water and a second redox couple. The second couple includes a second organic compound including a first moiety in conjugation with a second moiety. The reduction product of the second organic compound is oxidized to the second organic compound during discharge.
US09614239B2
A separator of a fuel cell may have a planer shape, may be provided on one surface of a membrane electrode assembly, and may include a first protrusion formed over a region between a first position which is provided a first distance apart from a first hole being pierced in the separator and a second position which is provided a second distance apart from a second hole being pierced in the separator on a first surface opposed to the membrane electrode assembly, the first protrusion abutting the membrane electrode assembly. The separator further may include a second protrusion formed over a region at least between the first position and the second hole on the first surface, the second protrusion abutting the electrode membrane assembly between the first position and the second position.
US09614237B2
The invention relates to a device for the transfer of water and heat between a first and a second air flow. The inventive device consists of a stack of at least two transfer sub-assemblies having a lamellar configuration, each sub-assembly comprising a two-layer transfer structure with hydrophilic porous materials (3, 4), which is disposed between a first structure for the distribution of the first air flow (1) and a second structure for the distribution of the second air flow (2).
US09614232B2
A modular unit fuel cell is disclosed, which comprises a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), an anode current collector/porous transport layer (PTL), a bipolar separator plate (BSP), a corrugated or finned spring cooling and transport structure, a cathode current collector/PTL and an anode frame. In this embodiment, air is passed through the finned spring cooling and transport structure and the air acts as both the cathode reactant and as a coolant.
US09614231B2
Redox flow devices are described including a positive electrode current collector, a negative electrode current collector, and an ion-permeable membrane separating said positive and negative current collectors, positioned and arranged to define a positive electroactive zone and a negative electroactive zone; wherein at least one of said positive and negative electroactive zone comprises a flowable semi-solid composition comprising ion storage compound particles capable of taking up or releasing said ions during operation of the cell, and wherein the ion storage compound particles have a polydisperse size distribution in which the finest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume, is at least a factor of 5 smaller than the largest particles present in at least 5 vol % of the total volume.
US09614223B2
The present invention aims to provide an anode active material which may intend to improve safety of a battery. The object is attained by providing an anode active material being used for a sodium ion battery or a lithium ion battery, wherein the anode active material has an A4Nb6O17 phase (A is at least one kind of H, Na and K).
US09614212B2
A method produces a composite porous membrane including a porous membrane A formed of a polyolefin-based resin; and a porous membrane B containing a heat-resistant resin and laminated on the porous membrane A, including: (i) applying a heat-resistant resin solution onto a base film, followed by passing the coated film through a low-humidity zone, and then through a high-humidity zone to form a heat-resistant resin membrane on the base film; and (ii) bonding together the heat-resistant resin membrane formed in step (i) and a porous membrane A formed of a polyolefin-based resin, followed by converting the heat-resistant resin membrane into a porous membrane B by immersion in a solidification bath, and washing and drying the same to obtain the composite porous membrane.
US09614210B2
A battery module includes a housing having an interior defined by multiple sides, one side of which is a lid. The battery module also includes lithium ion electrochemical cells disposed in the housing, each cell having a vent through which gases may be vented. Moreover, the battery module includes a first chamber defined by interior aspects of the housing. Furthermore, the first chamber receives vented gases directed in a first direction from the electrochemical cells. In addition, the battery module includes a surface of the first chamber. The surface is configured to direct the vented gases in a second direction. The battery module also includes a second chamber defined partially by the lid. The second chamber receives the vented gases from the first chamber and directs the vented gases from the housing.
US09614207B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of compartments filled with an inert gas and sealed in a thermally conductive casing, a plurality of battery units each comprising rechargeable batteries and each stored in one of the plurality of compartments, internal heat-exchange systems each of which can circulate the inert gas to exchange heat with the rechargeable batteries in the one of the plurality of compartments, and an external heat-exchange system positioned outside the thermally conductive casing which can exchange heat with the thermally conductive casing surrounding the one of the plurality of compartments.
US09614195B2
An energy storage device including: a cylindrical case having at least one end closed; and an electrode assembly housed in the case. A reduced-diameter portion, at which an outer diameter of the case is reduced, is formed at the closed end of the case.
US09614191B2
A method of manufacturing an organic-light emitting diode (OLED) display can include providing on a substrate a first electrode associated with a first sub-pixel and a second electrode associated with a second sub-pixel, wherein a gap is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode and wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are positioned in a well having boundaries defined by a confinement structure on the substrate. The method can also include depositing in the well with the electrodes positioned therein, active OLED material to form a substantially continuous layer of active OLED material that spans the boundaries of the well such that a surface of the layer of active OLED material that faces away from the substrate has a non-planar topography. The depositing can be via inkjet printing.
US09614190B2
A method for manufacturing a flexible display device includes forming a heat generator on a carrier substrate, forming a flexible substrate on the heat generator, forming a thin film transistor on the flexible substrate, forming a light emitting element connected to the thin film transistor, and separating the flexible substrate from the heat generator by application of heat to the flexible substrate, the application of heat including generation of heat by the heat generator.
US09614187B1
An electronic device package including a substrate, a base film, a first seal, an electronic device and a second seal is provided. The first seal is disposed between the substrate and the base film and partially exposed by the base film. The electronic device is formed on the base film. The second seal disposed on the electronic device includes absorbents. A part of the second seal adheres to a part of the first seal exposed by the base film. The first seal and the second seal encapsulate the base film and the electronic device. The first seal and the second seal are the same host materials. A packaging method of an electronic device package is also provided.
US09614185B2
The present invention provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The display panel comprises a first substrate, a display component provided on the first substrate, and a packaging structure for packaging the display component on the first substrate, wherein the packaging structure includes at least two first water blocking layers and at least one planarization layer that are stacked alternately above the display component, each first water blocking layer includes a plurality of first areas and a plurality of second areas, and joint lines between the first areas and the second areas in any two first water blocking layers are staggered with each other.
US09614180B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a pixel-defining layer disposed on a substrate, wherein the pixel-defining layer defines an emission region and a non-emission region, an organic light-emitting device disposed in the emission region, and a protruding portion disposed on a portion of the pixel-defining layer in the non-emission region. The display apparatus also includes a thin film encapsulating layer disposed on the substrate for sealing the organic light-emitting device and the protruding portion, the thin film encapsulating layer comprising at least one organic film and at least one inorganic film, wherein at least one organic film corresponds to a functional organic film, and a height of a first upper surface of the functional organic film disposed away from the protruding portion is lower than a height of a second upper surface of the functional organic film disposed near a top of the protruding portion.
US09614173B2
The present invention provides a packaging method for an electronic device, which includes a step of forming a packaging substrate, the step of the forming a packaging substrate includes: forming, on a base substrate, a defining pattern which comprises a groove for defining position of frit; providing colloidal frit in the groove; presintering the colloidal frit to obtain preliminarily cured frit; polishing upper surfaces of the defining pattern and the preliminarily cured frit; and removing the defining pattern, and completely curing the preliminarily cured frit, so as to form solid frit on the base substrate. The present invention also provides a packaging system. By using the packaging method provided by the present invention, a better packaging effect can be achieved.
US09614162B2
Light-emitting devices comprising an fluorescent emissive layer, and three different phosphorescent emissive layers are described herein.
US09614158B2
A method for forming a semiconductor body, the method comprising: forming a mixture of an organic semiconducting material and a binder material; causing the semiconducting material to at least partially solidify; and causing the binder material to crystallize in such a way as to cause the semiconducting material to at least partially segregate from the binder material.
US09614147B2
A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes a free layer. The MTJ also includes a barrier layer coupled to the free layer. The MTJ also has a fixed layer, coupled to the barrier layer. The fixed layer includes a first synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) multilayer having a first perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and a first damping constant. The fixed layer also includes a second SAF multilayer having a second perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and a second damping constant lower than the first damping constant. The first SAF multilayer is closer to the barrier layer than the second SAF multilayer. The fixed layer also includes a SAF coupling layer between the first and the second SAF multilayers.
US09614146B2
A magnetoresistive memory cell includes a magnetoresistive tunnel junction stack and a dielectric encapsulation layer covering sidewall portions of the stack and being opened over a top of the stack. A conductor is formed in contact with a top portion of the stack and covering the encapsulation layer. A magnetic liner encapsulates the conductor and is gapped apart from the encapsulating layer covering the sidewall portions of the stack.
US09614145B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ). The MTJ includes at least a pinned layer, a barrier layer, and a free layer. The MTJ is formed over a surface of the substrate. Of the pinned layer, the barrier layer, and the free layer, the free layer is formed first and is closest to the surface. This enables a spacer to be formed over a perimeter region of the free layer prior to etching the free layer. Any damage to the free layer that results from etching or other free layer edge-defining process is kept at a distance from the tunneling junction by the spacer.
US09614144B1
Techniques for forming OTP memory elements with reduced breakdown voltage are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming an OTP MRAM element includes the steps of: creating a substrate having surface topology; and forming the OTP MRAM element on the substrate over the surface topology, wherein the OTP MRAM element comprises a first magnetic metal layer and a second metal magnetic layer separated by a tunnel barrier, and wherein by forming the OTP MRAM element over the surface topology the tunnel barrier has both a first thickness T1 and second thickness T2, wherein T1 is greater than T2. A method of forming a device having both MTP MRAM and OTP MRAM elements is provided, as is an MRAM device.
US09614141B2
A piezoelectric ceramic compatibly represents both an excellent piezoelectric constant and an excellent mechanical quality factor. The piezoelectric ceramic contains a metal oxide expressed by general formula (1) shown below and Mn by not less than 0.04 weight parts and not more than 0.36 weight parts relative to 100 weight parts of the metal oxide in terms of metal. The piezoelectric ceramic includes a plurality of first crystal grains having a perovskite structure and a plurality of second crystal grains existing at grain boundaries between the first crystal grains. The second crystal grains contain at least a metal oxide expressed by general formula (2) shown below: (Ba1-xCax)a(Ti1-yZry)O3 (1) where 0.09≦x≦0.30, 0.025≦y≦0.085 and 0.986≦a≦1.020; (Ba1-vCav)b(Ti1-wZrw)cOd (2) where 0≦v≦1, 0≦w≦1, 1≦b≦6, 2≦c≦19, b+2c−1≦d≦b+2c and b
US09614136B2
In an optical substrate (1), a concave-convex structure (12) including a plurality of independent convex portions (131 to 134) and concave portions (14) provided between the convex portions (131 to 134) is provided in a surface. The average interval Pave between the adjacent convex portions (131 to 134) in the concave-convex structure (12) satisfies 50 nm≦Pave≦1500 nm, and the convex portion (133) having a convex portion height hn satisfying 0.6 h≧hn≧0 h for the average convex portion height Have is present with a probability Z satisfying 1/10000≦Z≦1/5. When the optical substrate (1) is used in a semiconductor light-emitting element, dislocations in a semiconductor layer are dispersed to reduce the dislocation density, and thus internal quantum efficiency IQE is improved, and a waveguide mode is removed by light scattering and thus the light the extraction efficiency LEE is increased, with the result that the efficiency of light emission of the semiconductor light-emitting element is enhanced.
US09614130B2
A light emitting device which emits a secondary light with high color purity and has a fast response speed is obtained. A KSF phosphor (15) which absorbs a part of blue light and emits red light and a CASN phosphor (16) are distributed in a resin (14) which seals an LED chip (13) which emits the blue light. The KSF phosphor (15) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by forbidden transition, and the CASN phosphor (16) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by allowed transition.
US09614128B2
The present invention relates to a surface mountable semiconductor device comprising at least one semiconductor element mounted on or integrated in a device substrate (1) having a top surface and a bottom surface. One or several electrical pads (2) of a first height and at least one thermal pad (3) of a second height are arranged at the bottom surface of the device substrate (1). In the proposed surface mountable semiconductor device the height of the thermal pad (3) is larger than the height of the electrical pads (2). This allows the mounting of such a device to an IMS with a locally removed dielectric layer in an easy and reliable manner in order to directly connect the thermal pad with the metallic substrate of the IMS.
US09614123B2
A deep ultraviolet LED with a design wavelength of λ is provided that includes a reflecting electrode layer, a metal layer, a p-type GaN contact layer, and a p-type AlGaN layer that are sequentially stacked from a side opposite to a substrate, the p-type AlGaN layer being transparent to light with the wavelength of λ; and a photonic crystal periodic structure that penetrates at least the p-type GaN contact layer and the p-type AlGaN layer. The photonic crystal periodic structure has a photonic band gap.
US09614117B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a solar cell having excellent long-term reliability and high efficiency, said method including: a step (7) for applying a paste-like electrode agent to an antireflection film formed on the light receiving surface side of a semiconductor substrate having at least a pn junction, said electrode agent containing a conductive material; and an electrode firing step (9) having local heat treatment (step (9a)) for applying heat such that at least a part of the conductive material is fired by irradiating merely the electrode agent-applied portion with a laser beam, and whole body heat treatment (step (9b)) for heating the whole semiconductor substrate to a temperature below 800° C.
US09614116B2
At least one electronic device, system and method of manufacturing an electromagnetic wave detector are provided herein. The electronic device for receiving at least one electromagnetic wave of a given frequency may comprise at least one first field effect transistor, and at least one antenna configured to receive the at least one electromagnetic wave and connected to a gate of the at least one first field effect transistor, wherein a length of the gate is in a same order of magnitude as an oscillation length of an oscillation regime of the at least one first field effect transistor at the given frequency, and a width of the gate is such that an impedance presented by the at least one first field effect transistor in the oscillation regime is adapted to an impedance of the at least one antenna.
US09614109B2
A p− type semiconductor substrate 20 has a first principal surface 20a and a second principal surface 20b opposed to each other and includes a photosensitive region 21. The photosensitive region 21 is composed of an n+ type impurity region 23, a p+ type impurity region 25, and a region to be depleted with application of a bias voltage in the p− type semiconductor substrate 20. An irregular asperity 10 is formed in the second principal surface 20b of the p− type semiconductor substrate 20. An accumulation layer 37 is formed on the second principal surface 20b side of the p− type semiconductor substrate 20 and a region in the accumulation layer 37 opposed to the photosensitive region 21 is optically exposed.
US09614103B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first region including an oxide semiconductor containing indium (In), gallium (Ga), and zinc (Zn), a second region and a third region between which the first region is disposed, at least one of the second region and the third region having a higher indium (In) concentration than the first region and containing at least one metal element from the group consisting of titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), aluminum (Al), lead (Pb), and tin (Sn), an electrode; and an insulating layer disposed between the first region and the electrode.
US09614101B2
Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing an array substrate. The method includes forming a source electrode and a drain electrode on a substrate. A semiconductor layer, an organic insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer are sequentially formed to cover the substrate, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the gate electrode layer. The exposed portion of the gate electrode layer, and a portion of the organic insulative layer and a portion of the semiconductor layer thereunder are removed to form a gate electrode. An organic passivation layer is formed on the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. The organic passivation layer has a contact window to expose a portion of the drain electrode. A pixel electrode is formed on the organic passivation layer and the exposed portion of the drain electrode.
US09614100B2
The semiconductor device includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film having a channel formation region, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode layer. In the transistor, the channel length is small (5 nm or more and less than 60 nm, preferably 10 nm or more and 40 nm or less), and the thickness of the gate insulating film is large (equivalent oxide thickness which is obtained by converting into a thickness of silicon oxide containing nitrogen is 5 nm or more and 50 nm or less, preferably 10 nm or more and 40 nm or less). Alternatively, the channel length is small (5 nm or more and less than 60 nm, preferably 10 nm or more and 40 nm or less), and the resistivity of the source region and the drain region is 1.9×10−5 Ω·m or more and 4.8×10−3 Ω·m or less.
US09614096B2
To provide a liquid crystal display device suitable for a thin film transistor which uses an oxide semiconductor. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light is used as an interlayer film which covers at least the oxide semiconductor layer. As the film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light, a coloring layer can be used and a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer is preferably used. An interlayer film which includes a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer and a light-blocking layer may be formed in order that the light-blocking layer is used as a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light.
US09614095B2
An oxide semiconductor transistor comprising an oxide semiconductor layer with high conductivity is provided. A semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor layer comprising an oxide containing indium, gallium, and zinc (IGZO) and a particle of indium oxide; a gate electrode overlapping with a channel formation region in the oxide semiconductor layer with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween; and a source electrode and a drain electrode overlapping with a source region and a drain region in the oxide semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device may be a top-gate oxide semiconductor transistor or a bottom-gate oxide semiconductor transistor. The oxide semiconductor layer may be formed over or below the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09614086B1
A semiconductor device includes a fin having a first semiconductor material. The fin includes a source/drain (S/D) region and a channel region. The S/D region provides a top surface and two sidewall surfaces. A width of the S/D region is smaller than a width of the channel region. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor film over the S/D region and having a doped second semiconductor material. The semiconductor film provides a top surface and two sidewall surfaces that are substantially parallel to the top and two sidewall surfaces of the S/D region respectively. The semiconductor device further includes a metal contact over the top and two sidewall surfaces of the semiconductor film and operable to electrically communicate with the S/D region.
US09614077B1
A vertical transistor including a strained vertical semiconductor material channel pillar and a method of forming the same are provided. A strained vertical semiconductor materials pillar is first formed and is used to provide the strained vertical semiconductor material channel pillar of the vertical transistor of the present application. The strained vertical semiconductor material pillar is always mechanically anchored during various vertical transistor processing steps so that in the final structure strain is preserved.
US09614072B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first insulation region, a second insulation region, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, and a fourth electrode. The second electrode includes first portions and a second portion. The second portion extends in a first direction. The first portions extend in a direction away from the second portion. The second portion is between the first portions and the first electrode in a second direction. The fourth semiconductor region is positioned between adjacent first electrode portions in the first direction.
US09614070B2
A uni-terminal transistor device is described. In one embodiment, an n-channel transistor comprises a first semiconductor layer having a discrete hole level H0; a second semiconductor layer having a conduction band minimum EC2; a wide bandgap semiconductor barrier layer disposed between the first and the second semiconductor layers; a gate dielectric layer disposed above the first semiconductor layer; and a gate metal layer disposed above the gate dielectric layer and having an effective workfunction selected to position the discrete hole level H0 below the conduction band minimum Ec2 for zero bias applied to the gate metal layer and to obtain n-terminal characteristics.
US09614057B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of enriching and electrically isolating a fin of a FinFET. The method includes forming at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a first set of conditions an enriched upper portion of the at least one fin. The method further includes forming under a second set of conditions an electrically isolated region from a lower portion of the at least one fin, wherein forming under the first set of conditions is spaced in time from forming under the second set of conditions. The method further includes controlling the first set of conditions separately from the second set of conditions.
US09614045B2
In various embodiments, a method of processing a semiconductor device may include providing a semiconductor device comprising a contact pad and a polymer layer; and subjecting at least a part of the contact pad and the polymer layer to a plasma comprising ammonia.
US09614042B2
A structure and method for fabricating a vertical heterojunction tunnel field effect transistor (TFET) using limited lithography steps is disclosed. The fabrication of a second conductivity type source/drain region may utilize a single lithography step to form a first-type source/drain region, and a metal contact thereon, adjacent to a gate stack having a first conductivity type source/drain region on an opposite side.
US09614026B2
An electronic device includes a trigonal crystal substrate defining a (0001) C-plane. The substrate may comprise Sapphire or other suitable material. A plurality of rhombohedrally aligned SiGe (111)-oriented crystals are disposed on the (0001) C-plane of the crystal substrate. A first region of material is disposed on the rhombohedrally aligned SiGe layer. The first region comprises an intrinsic or doped Si, Ge, or SiGe layer. The first region can be layered between two secondary regions comprising n+doped SiGe or n+doped Ge, whereby the first region collects electrons from the two secondary regions.
US09614025B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises forming a first etch stop layer over a first dielectric layer. The method also comprises forming a first opening in the first etch stop layer and the first dielectric layer. The method further comprises filling the first opening with a conductive material. The method additionally comprises forming a second etch stop layer and a second dielectric layer over the first etch stop layer. The method further comprises forming a second opening to expose the conductive material. The method additionally comprises forming a capacitor in the second opening and in contact with the conductive material.
US09614024B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, one embodiment of a fractal variable capacitor comprises a capacitor body in a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) structure, wherein the capacitor body has an upper first metal plate with a fractal shape separated by a vertical distance from a lower first metal plate with a complementary fractal shape; and a substrate above which the capacitor body is suspended.
US09614020B2
An oxide semiconductor device includes a first insulation layer pattern and a second insulation layer pattern disposed on a substrate, an active layer disposed on the first and second insulation layer patterns, the active layer including a source region including the first insulation layer pattern, a drain region including the second insulation layer pattern, and a channel region disposed between the source and drain regions, a source electrode contacting the source region, and a drain electrode contacting the drain region.
US09614007B2
Some embodiments include a memory array having a first memory cell adjacent to a second memory cell along a lateral direction. The second memory cell is vertically offset relative to the first memory cell. Some embodiments include a memory array having a series of data/sense lines extending along a first direction, a series of access lines extending along a second direction, and memory cells vertically between the access lines and data/sense lines. The memory cells are arranged in a grid having columns along the first direction and rows along the second direction. Memory cells in a common column and/or row as one another are arranged in two alternating sets, with a first set having memory cells at a first height and a second set having memory cells at a second height vertically offset relative to the first height. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays.
US09614006B2
Some embodiments include vertical stacks of memory units, with individual memory units each having a memory element, a wordline, a bitline and at least one diode. The memory units may correspond to cross-point memory, and the diodes may correspond to band-gap engineered diodes containing two or more dielectric layers sandwiched between metal layers. Tunneling properties of the dielectric materials and carrier injection properties of the metals may be tailored to engineer desired properties into the diodes. The diodes may be placed between the bitlines and the memory elements, or may be placed between the wordlines and memory elements. Some embodiments include methods of forming cross-point memory arrays. The memory arrays may contain vertical stacks of memory unit cells, with individual unit cells containing cross-point memory and at least one diode.
US09614000B2
Presented herein is a device comprising an image sensor having a plurality of pixels disposed in a substrate and configured to sense light through a back side of the substrate and an RDL disposed on a front side of the substrate and having a plurality of conductive elements disposed in one or more dielectric layers. A sensor shield is disposed over the back side of the substrate and extending over the image sensor. At least one via contacts the sensor shield and extends from the sensor shield through at least a portion of the RDL and contacts at least one of the plurality of conductive elements.
US09613995B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, at least one sensor, a dielectric layer, at least one light pipe structure, at least one pad, a shielding layer, and a protection layer is provided. The sensor is located in the substrate of a first region. The dielectric layer is located on the substrate. The light pipe structure is located in the dielectric layer of the first region. The light pipe structure corresponds to the sensor. The pad is located in the dielectric layer of a second region. The shielding layer is located on the dielectric layer, wherein the light pipe structure is surrounded by the shielding layer. The protection layer is located on the shielding layer. At least one pad opening is disposed in the dielectric layer, the shielding layer, and the protection layer above the pad. The pad opening exposes a top surface of the corresponding pad.
US09613992B2
A detector module for detecting photons includes a detector formed from a semiconductive material, the detector having a first surface, an opposing second surface, and a plurality of sidewalls extending between the first and second surfaces, and a guard band coupled to the sidewalls, the guard band having a length that extends about a circumference of the detector, the guard band having a width that is greater than a thickness of the detector such that an upper rim segment of the guard band projects beyond the first surface of the detector, the upper rim segment being folded over a peripheral region of the first surface along the circumference of the detector, the guard band configured to reduce recombinations proximate to the edges of the detector.
US09613974B2
According to one embodiment, the contact electrode extends in the inter-layer insulating layer toward the second semiconductor region. The metal silicide film is in contact with the second semiconductor region and the contact electrode. The metal silicide film includes a first part and a second part. The first part is provided between a bottom of the contact electrode and the second semiconductor region. The second part is provided on a surface of the second semiconductor region between the first part and the gate electrode. A bottom of the second part is located at a position shallower than a bottom the first part.
US09613965B2
An embedded transistor for an electrical device, such as a DRAM memory cell, and a method of manufacture thereof is provided. A trench is formed in a substrate and a gate dielectric and a gate electrode formed in the trench of the substrate. Source/drain regions are formed in the substrate on opposing sides of the trench. In an embodiment, one of the source/drain regions is coupled to a storage node and the other source/drain region is coupled to a bit line. In this embodiment, the gate electrode may be coupled to a word line to form a DRAM memory cell.
US09613953B2
A layout of a semiconductor device is stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The layout includes an active area region extending in a first direction, a gate electrode extending in a second direction and crossing the active area region, and a dummy gate extending in the second direction. The dummy gate is adjacent the gate electrode. The dummy gate is a dielectric dummy gate.
US09613948B1
An ESD protection semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first isolation structure formed in the substrate, a gate disposed on the substrate, a source region formed in the substrate a first side of the gate, a first doped region formed in the substrate at a second side of the gate opposite to the first side, and a drain region formed in the first doped region. The gate overlaps a portion of the first isolation structure. The drain region is spaced apart from the first isolation by a portion of the first doped region. The substrate includes a first conductivity type, the source region, and the first doped region and the drain region include a second conductivity type. And the second conductivity type is complementary to the first conductivity type.
US09613947B2
A cascode transistor circuit having an active region, the active region having a source, a drain, a floating source/drain, a first gate disposed between the source and the floating source/drain and a second gate disposed between the floating source/drain and the drain. A first gate pad is displaced from the active region and is electrically connected to the first gate and a second gate pad is displaced from the active region and is electrically connected to the second gate. The first and the second gate pads are disposed on opposite sides of the active region.
US09613936B2
An LED module includes a carrier plate having an arrangement face and a wall on the upper side of the plate, the wall running peripherally around the arrangement face and being raised upwards with respect to said arrangement face; an LED arranged on the face; a contact element, to which the LED is connected; and an at least partially transparent potted body covering the arrangement face and the LED towards the top and laterally adjoins an inner face of the wall. The wall is formed monolithically with the remaining carrier plate and is interrupted over its periphery, and the potted body does not adjoin the inner wall face of the wall. The contact element extends away from the arrangement face along the upper side of the carrier plate in the interruption region so that electrical contact can be made with the LED via the contact element from outside the body.
US09613933B2
An apparatus is described that includes a substrate and a mold compound disposed on the substrate. The semiconductor die is embedded within the mold compound and is electrically coupled to lands on the substrate. Solder balls are disposed around the semiconductor die on the substrate. Each of the solder balls have a solid coating thereon. The solid coating contains a cleaning agent to promote its solder ball's coalescence with another solder ball. Respective vias are formed in the mold compound that expose the solder balls and their respective solid coatings. In combined or alternate embodiments outer edges of the mold compound have smaller thickness than regions of the mold compound between the vias and the semiconductor die. In combined or alternate embodiments micro-channels exist between the solder balls and the mold compound.
US09613932B2
A chip package includes a first die with an active surface having at least one die pad positioned thereon; a first adhesive layer having a first surface coupled to the active surface of the first die and a second surface opposite the first surface; and a first dielectric layer having a top surface. A first portion of the top surface of the first dielectric layer is coupled to the second surface of the first adhesive layer. A second portion of the top surface of the first dielectric layer, distinct from the first portion, is substantially free of adhesive.
US09613920B2
A microelectronic package having a first bumpless build-up layer structure adjacent an active surface and sides of a microelectronic device and a second bumpless build-up layer structure adjacent a back surface of the microelectronic device, wherein conductive routes are formed through the first bumpless build-up layer from the microelectronic device active surface to conductive routes in the second bumpless build-up layer structure and wherein through-silicon vias adjacent the microelectronic device back surface and extending into the microelectronic device are electrically connected to the second bumpless build-up layer structure conductive routes.
US09613916B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image sensor. The image sensor includes a pixel sensor array including a plurality of photosensors arranged in a semiconductor substrate. Peripheral circuitry is arranged in or on the semiconductor substrate and is spaced apart from the pixel sensor array. A protection ring circumscribes an outer perimeter of the pixel sensor array and separates the pixel sensor array from the peripheral circuitry. The protection ring has an annular width of greater than 20 microns. The protection ring includes a first ring in the substrate neighboring the pixel sensor array, a second ring circumscribing the first ring and meeting the first ring at a first p-n junction, and a third ring circumscribing the second ring and meeting the second ring at a second p-n junction.
US09613908B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to the formation of a silicon and aluminum containing layer. Methods described herein can include positioning a substrate in a process region of a process chamber; delivering a process gas to the process region, the process gas comprising an aluminum-containing gas and a silicon-containing gas; activating a reactant gas comprising a nitrogen-containing gas, a hydrogen containing gas, or combinations thereof; delivering the reactant gas to the process gas to create a deposition gas that deposits a silicon and aluminum containing layer on the substrate; and purging the process region. The above elements can be performed one or more times to deposit an etch stop stack.
US09613905B2
An interconnect is disclosed with enhanced immunity of electrical conductivity to defects. The interconnect includes a material with charge carriers having topological surface states. Also disclosed is a method for fabricating such interconnects. Also disclosed is an integrated circuit including such interconnects. Also disclosed is a gated electronic device including a material with charge carriers having topological surface states.
US09613897B2
Magnetic core inductors implemented on integrated circuits and methods for fabricating such magnetic core inductors are disclosed. An exemplary magnetic core inductor includes a bottom magnetic plate that includes a center portion and first, second, third, and fourth extension portions extending from the center portion. The exemplary magnetic core inductor includes an interlayer dielectric layer disposed over the bottom magnetic plate, and within the interlayer dielectric layer, first, second, third, and fourth via trenches extending above a respective one of the first, second, third, and fourth extension portions, and a fifth via trench extending above the center portion. The magnetic core inductor further includes a stacked-ring inductor coil including a plurality of inductor rings surrounding the fifth via trench and a top magnetic plate including a center portion and first, second, third, and fourth extension portions extending from the center portion.
US09613896B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: when three directions intersecting each other are assumed to be first through third directions, and two directions intersecting each other in a plane extending in the first and second directions are assumed to be fourth and fifth directions, a memory cell array including: a conductive layer stacked in the third direction above a semiconductor substrate and having a first region; and a first columnar body penetrating the first region of the conductive layer in the third direction and including a semiconductor film, the first columnar body having a cross-section along the first and second directions in which, at a first position which is a certain position in the third direction, a length in the fourth direction is shorter than a length in the fifth direction.
US09613876B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate includes a base substrate, a TFT disposed on the base substrate. The TFT includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer comprising a channel region, and a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from one another by a length of the channel region. The TFT substrate further includes a gate insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer and a measuring pattern configured to measure a length of the channel region.
US09613873B1
A method for forming a nanowire device comprises depositing a hard mask on portions of a silicon substrate having a <110> orientation wherein the hard mask is oriented in the <112> direction, etching the silicon substrate to form a mandrel having (111) faceted sidewalls; forming a layer of insulator material on the substrate; forming a sacrificial stack comprising alternating layers of sacrificial material and dielectric material disposed on the layer of insulator material and adjacent to the mandrel; patterning and etching the sacrificial stack to form a modified sacrificial stack adjacent to the mandrel and extending from the mandrel; removing the sacrificial material from the modified sacrificial stack to form growth channels; epitaxially forming semiconductor in the growth channels; and etching the semiconductor to align with the end of the growth channels and form a semiconductor stack comprising alternating layers of dielectric material and semiconductor material.
US09613869B2
FinFET devices and processes to prevent fin or gate collapse (e.g., flopover) in finFET devices are provided. The method includes forming a first set of trenches in a semiconductor material and filling the first set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes forming a second set of trenches in the semiconductor material, alternating with the first set of trenches that are filled. The second set of trenches form semiconductor structures which have a dimension of fin structures. The method further includes filling the second set of trenches with insulator material. The method further includes recessing the insulator material within the first set of trenches and the second set of trenches to form the fin structures.
US09613865B2
The present disclosure provides die cutting methods and semiconductor dies. A semiconductor substrate has a test region, isolation regions, and core regions. A device layer, an interconnection layer, and a soldering pad layer are formed on the semiconductor substrate. The soldering layer includes a plurality of soldering pads. A passivation layer covers the soldering pads and the interconnect layer, and is etched to form trenches on the soldering pads above the core regions and the test region. The passivation layer, the interconnect layer, and the device layer are etched to form isolation trenches at junctions of the isolation region and the test region, disconnecting the passivation layer, the interconnect layer and the device layer. A cutting process is performed along the test region, each of the semiconductor substrate, the device layer, the interconnect layer and the soldering pad layer is cut in two.
US09613864B2
Semiconductor device interconnect structures having low capacitance and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing an interconnect structure includes forming an opening in a surface of a semiconductor device and forming an interconnect structure at least within the opening. Forming the interconnect structure includes depositing a first insulator material on both the surface and a sidewall of the opening, selectively removing a first portion of the first insulator material on the surface over a second portion of the first insulator material on the sidewall, depositing a second insulator material on the second portion, and depositing a conductive material on the second insulator material. The method further includes selecting the thickness of the first and second insulators materials based on a threshold level of capacitance between the sidewall and the conductive material.
US09613852B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes providing a substrate and a conductive feature formed over the substrate; forming a first etch stop layer over the conductive feature; forming a low-k dielectric layer over the first etch stop layer; etching the low-k dielectric layer to form a contact trench aligned with the conductive feature; performing a sputtering process to the first etch stop layer exposed in the contact trench; and forming a sealing oxide layer on the low-k dielectric layer. In some embodiments, the sealing oxide layer is self-aligned and conformed to surfaces of the low-k dielectric layer exposed in the contact trench.
US09613851B2
A dual damascene article of manufacture comprises a trench containing a conductive metal column where the trench and the conductive metal column extend down into and are contiguous with a via. The trench and the conductive metal column and the via have a common axis. These articles comprise interconnect structures incorporating air-gap spacers containing metal/insulator structures for Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) and Ultra Large Scale Integrated (ULSI) devices and packaging. The trench in this regard comprises a sidewall air-gap immediately adjacent the side walls of the trench and the conductive metal column, the sidewall air-gap extending down to the via to a depth below a line fixed by the bottom of the trench, and continues downward in the via for a distance of from about 1 Angstrom below the line to the full depth of the via. In another aspect, the article of manufacture comprises a capped dual damascene structure.
US09613845B2
Embodiments using immersion de-taping are described. A substrate having a substrate tape attached thereto is provided. The substrate includes electrically conductive connectors attached to the substrate tape. A fluid is provided between the substrate and the substrate tape. While the fluid is between the substrate and the substrate tape, the substrate tape is removed from the substrate. Another embodiment is an apparatus comprising an immersion tank, a substrate chuck, first and second fixed rollers, and a moveable roller. The substrate chuck is configured to secure a substrate and to place the substrate into the immersion tank. The first fixed roller is operable to dispense a clamp tape. The second fixed roller is operable to roll the clamp tape. The moveable roller is operable to extend into the immersion tank and to adhere the clamp tape to a substrate tape on the substrate.
US09613842B2
A wafer handler with a removable bow compensating layer and methods of manufacture is disclosed. The method includes forming at least one layer of stressed material on a front side of a wafer handler. The method further includes forming another stressed material on a backside of the wafer handler which counter balances the at least one layer of stressed material on the front side of the wafer handler, thereby decreasing an overall bow of the wafer handler.
US09613840B2
This invention relates to a method and a device for temporary bonding of a first substrate with a second substrate. The device is comprised of a mounting apparatus for mounting of the first substrate on a mounting contour with an active mounting surface. The mounting apparatus has an outer ring section for controllable fixing of the first substrate. Deformation means are provided for controllable deformation of the first substrate. The deformation means act within the outer ring section. Bonding means are provided for bonding of the first substrate with the second substrate.
US09613835B2
Embodiments of heating lamps and heating lamp assemblies are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a heating lamp may include a bulb; a reflector circumscribing the bulb proximate a first end of the bulb; a base coupled to the reflector on a side opposite the bulb; a handle coupled to the base on a side opposite the reflector, wherein the handle comprises a body having a first end coupled to the base and an opposing second end; a first conductor extending from the bulb and through the base and the handle in a direction opposite the bulb; and a second conductor extending from the bulb and through the base and the handle in a direction opposite the bulb.
US09613832B2
A mold release film to be disposed on a cavity surface of a mold in a method for producing a semiconductor package wherein a semiconductor element is disposed in the mold and encapsulated with a curable resin to form a resin-encapsulation portion, characterized in that it has a first surface to be in contact with the curable resin at the time of forming the resin-encapsulation portion, and a second surface to be in contact with the cavity surface, at least one of the first surface and the second surface has irregularities formed thereon, and the surface having irregularities formed thereon, has an arithmetic mean roughness (Ra) of from 1.3 to 2.5 μm and a peak count (RPc) of from 80 to 200; and a process for producing a semiconductor package by using the mold release film.
US09613831B2
The present disclosure relates to enhancing the thermal performance of encapsulated flip chip dies. According to an exemplary process, a plurality of flip chip dies are attached on a top surface of a carrier, and a first mold compound is applied over the top surface of the carrier to encapsulate the plurality of flip chip dies. The first mold compound is thinned down to expose a substrate of each flip chip die and the substrate of each flip chip die is then substantially etched away to provide an etched flip chip die that has an exposed surface at the bottom of a cavity. Next, a second mold compound with high thermal conductivity is applied to substantially fill each cavity and the top surface of the second mold compound is planarized. Finally, the encapsulated etched flip chip dies can be marked, singulated, and tested as a module.
US09613829B1
Provided are a method for fabricating a semiconductor package and a semiconductor package using the same, which can simplify a fabricating process of the semiconductor package by forming a lead frame on which a semiconductor die can be mounted without a separate grinding process, and can improve product reliability by preventing warpage from occurring during a grinding process. In one embodiment, the method for fabricating a semiconductor package includes forming a frame on a carrier, forming a first pattern layer on the frame, first encapsulating the frame and the first pattern layer using a first encapsulant, forming conductive vias electrically connected to the first pattern layer while passing through the first encapsulant, forming a second pattern layer electrically connected to the conductive vias on the first encapsulant, forming a first solder mask formed on the first encapsulant and exposing a portion of the second pattern layer to the outside, removing the frame by an etching process and etching a portion of the first pattern layer, and attaching a semiconductor die to the first pattern layer.
US09613828B2
Laser annealing of a semiconductor wafers using a forming gas for localized control of ambient oxygen gas to reduce the amount of oxidization during laser annealing is disclosed. The forming gas includes hydrogen gas and an inert buffer gas such as nitrogen gas. The localized heating of the oxygen gas and the forming gas in the vicinity of the annealing location on the surface of the semiconductor wafer creates a localized region within which combustion of oxygen gas and hydrogen gas occurs to generate water vapor. This combustion reaction reduces the oxygen gas concentration within the localized region, thereby locally reducing the amount of ambient oxygen gas, which in turn reduces oxidation rate at the surface of the semiconductor wafer during the annealing process.
US09613808B1
A method of forming a multilayer hard mask includes the following steps. An unpatterned multilayer hard mask is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The unpatterned multilayer hard mask includes a first hard mask layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and a second hard mask layer directly formed on the first hard mask layer. A treatment is performed on a top surface of the first hard mask layer before the step of forming the second hard mask layer, and the treatment is configured to remove impurities on the first hard mask layer and form dangling bonds on the top surface of the first hard mask layer. Defects related to the first hard mask layer and the second hard mask layer may be reduced, and the manufacturing yield may be enhanced accordingly.
US09613806B2
A NAND flash memory array is initially patterned by forming a plurality of sidewall spacers according along sides of patterned portions of material. The pattern of sidewall spacers is then used to form a second pattern of hard mask portions including first hard mask portions defined on both sides by sidewall spacers and second hard mask portions defined on only one side by sidewall spacers.
US09613805B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises forming an amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer adjacently to at least one semiconductor doping region having a first conductivity type located in a semiconductor substrate. The method further comprises incorporating dopants into the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer during or after forming the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer. The method further comprises annealing the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer to transform at least a part of the amorphous or polycrystalline semiconductor layer into a substantially monocrystalline semiconductor layer and to form at least one doping region having the second conductivity type in the monocrystalline semiconductor layer, such that a p-n junction is formed between the at least one semiconductor doping region having the first conductivity type and the at least one doping region having the second conductivity type.
US09613803B2
A method provides a substrate having a top surface; forming a first semiconductor layer on the top surface, the first semiconductor layer having a first unit cell geometry; epitaxially depositing a layer of a metal-containing oxide on the first semiconductor layer, the layer of metal-containing oxide having a second unit cell geometry that differs from the first unit cell geometry; ion implanting the first semiconductor layer through the layer of metal-containing oxide; annealing the ion implanted first semiconductor layer; and forming a second semiconductor layer on the layer of metal-containing oxide, the second semiconductor layer having the first unit cell geometry. The layer of metal-containing oxide functions to inhibit propagation of misfit dislocations from the first semiconductor layer into the second semiconductor layer. A structure formed by the method is also disclosed.
US09613795B2
A wafer is formed by slicing a single crystal ingot and removing crystal strains remaining in a peripheral portion of the wafer. In the crystal strain removing step, a laser beam having such a wavelength as to be transmitted through the wafer is applied to the wafer from one side of the wafer in positions located along the margin of the wafer and spaced a predetermined distance inward from the margin, to cause growth of fine holes and amorphous regions shielding the fine holes, over the range from one side to the other side of the wafer, whereby shield tunnels are formed in an annular pattern. Then, an external force is applied to the wafer along the shield tunnels so as to break the wafer in the region of the shield tunnels, thereby removing the peripheral wafer portion where the crystal strains are remaining.
US09613794B2
An apparatus for changing a light bulb that is out of reach for a person even with the use of a six foot ladder includes a substantially hollow elongated member and an extendable member which is disposed within the substantially hollow elongated member. A locking member is engageable with the hollow member and the extendable member for adjusting the length of the apparatus. A replaceable vacuum cup having a predetermined shape is disposed on a first end of the extendable member for attachment to such light bulb. A vacuum pump is disposed adjacent a bottom portion of the hollow elongated member, such pump is engageable with the cup for creating a vacuum in the cup for securing such light bulb therein. A vacuum release assembly is disposed on the pump for releasing such vacuum.
US09613791B2
There is provided a calcium fluoride optical member formed from monocrystalline calcium fluoride and having a tubular shape. A {110} crystal plane or a {111} crystal plane of the monocrystalline calcium fluoride is orthogonal to a center axis of the tube.
US09613789B1
A relatively compact dual ion composition instrument and associated methodology for measuring plasma and ion populations in a variety of interplanetary and planetary environments. The unitary device can measure mass and ionic charge state compositions and 3D velocity distributions of 10 eV/q to 40 keV/q plasma and pick-up ions; and (2) mass composition, energy spectra and angular distributions of 30 keV to 10 MeV energetic ions.
US09613784B2
A sputtering system that includes a sputtering chamber having a target material serving as a cathode, and an anode and a work piece. A direct current (DC) power supply supplies electrical power to the anode and the cathode sufficient to generate a plasma within the sputtering chamber. A detection module detects the occurrence of an arc in the sputtering chamber by monitoring an electrical characteristic of the plasma. In one embodiment the electrical characteristic monitored is the impedance of the plasma. In another embodiment the electrical characteristic is the conductance of the plasma.
US09613781B2
An embodiment of the invention relates to a SEM enabling a surface analysis of a sample at a high throughput. The SEM has an electron gun, an irradiation unit, and a detector. The detector, as a first structure, includes an MCP, an anode, and a dynode. The dynode is set at a potential higher than a potential of an output face of the MCP and the anode is set at a potential higher than that of the dynode. The anode is disposed on the dynode side with respect to an intermediate position between the output face of the MCP and the dynode. The anode has an aperture for letting electrons from the output face of the MCP pass toward the dynode.
US09613780B2
A method of fabricating a sample support membrane used to support an electron microscope sample starts with forming a first layer on a first layer of a substrate (S100). A second surface of the substrate that faces away from the first surface is etched to form an opening that exposes the first layer (S102). A second layer is formed on the first layer (S104). The region of the first layer that overlaps the opening as viewed within a plane is removed to expose the second layer (S106).
US09613771B2
Disclosed is a relay. The relay includes a first fixed contact connected to a power source, a second fixed contact separated from the first fixed contact, and connected to a load, and a moving contact configured to be brought into contact with or separated from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact. The moving contact includes a first moving contact configured to be brought into contact with or separated from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact and a second moving contact separated from the first moving contact, and configured to be brought into contact with or separated from the first fixed contact and the second fixed contact. Accordingly, the moving contact can be prevented from being separated from the fixed contact by an inter-electron repulsion.
US09613760B2
An electrode in an energy storage device, including: an activated carbon, including: a surface area of from 1000 to 1700 m2/g; a pore volume from 0.3 to 0.6 cc/g; a chemically bonded oxygen content of 0.01 to 1.5 wt %; and a pH of from 7.5 to 10. Also disclosed is a method of making the activated carbon, the electrode, and the energy storage device.
US09613759B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing fluorine/nitrogen co-doped graphitized carbon microspheres with high volumetric specific capacitance, which is a simple process with moderate reaction conditions, high reproducibility, and low costs. The fluorine/nitrogen co-doped graphitized carbon microspheres prepared according to the present invention have a very high density, exhibit good electrochemical properties in an alkaline environment, as well as very high volumetric specific capacitance and good cyclic stability, and is of great importance in improving the properties of the electrode material for a capacitor.
US09613756B2
As a dielectric ceramic constituting dielectric layers of a laminated ceramic capacitor, a dielectric ceramic is used which contains, as its main constituent, a perovskite-type compound containing Ca and Zr and optionally containing Sr, Ba, and Ti, and further contains Si, Mn, and Al, and when the total content of Zr and Ti is regarded as 100 parts by mol, the total content (100×m) of Ca, Sr, and Ba meets 1.002≦m≦1.100 in terms of parts by mol, the Si content n meets 0.5≦n≦10 in terms of parts by mol, the Mn content u meets 0.5≦u≦10 in terms of parts by mol, and the Al content w meets 0.02≦w≦4 in terms of parts by mol, m and n satisfying −0.4≦100(m−1)−n≦3.9.
US09613754B2
A laminated film capacitor that includes a laminated body having alternately stacked first dielectric films with respective first internal electrodes and second dielectric films with respective second internal electrodes, a first metallikon part connected to the first internal electrodes, and a second metallikon part connected to the second internal electrodes, and the laminated body has principal surfaces in the shape of a trapezoid as viewed from the stacking direction of the first dielectric films and the second dielectric films.
US09613752B2
There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component and a mounting board therefor, the multilayer ceramic electronic component, including a ceramic body having a hexahedral shape, including dielectric layers, and satisfying T/W1.0 when a length of the ceramic body is defined as L, a width of the ceramic body is defined as W, and a thickness of the ceramic body is defined as T, and first and second internal electrodes stacked in the ceramic body to face each other, having the respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween.
US09613742B2
To restrict a phenomenon that the direct-current resistance value after firing is larger than the direct-current resistance value before firing in an electronic component in which a conductor formed of a wire rod is embedded in a ceramic sintered compact. An electronic component 10 includes a ceramic sintered compact 12 and an inner conductor 30. The inner conductor 30 configures a circuit element, and is formed of a wire rod having nickel added thereto and containing copper as a major constituent.
US09613733B2
Method for jacketing elongate material such as more particularly leads or cable looms, where an adhesive tape comprising a carrier, more particularly textile carrier with a curative composition applied to its top side and a reactive composition to its bottom side, is passed in a helical line around the elongate material, or the elongate material is wrapped in the axial direction by the adhesive tape in such a way that the curative composition and the reactive composition come into contact, the elongate material together with the adhesive tape wrapping is brought into the desired disposition, more particularly into the cable loom layout, the elongate material is held in this disposition, the curative composition reacts with the reactive composition, to produce a curing layer of composition.
US09613732B2
A wire harness manufacturing method prevents inadvertent deformation of thermoplastic material and separation of thermoplastic material. A predetermined part of an electric wire 91 is accommodated in a through hole of a tubular body formed by connection between a first and second nest members (123, 124) of a nozzle (12), by integrally connecting first and second case body members (121, 122) of the nozzle (12), with the predetermined part of the electric wire 91 therebetween. An approximately tubular covering member (92) covering the predetermined part of the electric wire (91) is molded integrally with the thermoplastic material, by discharging thermoplastic material plasticized by a material plasticizing unit (11) from thermoplastic material discharge orifices (1213) and (1223) in the nozzle (12) to the outer periphery of the electric wire (91), while moving the electric wire (91) and the nozzle (12) relatively to each other.
US09613726B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing the storage time of spent nuclear fuel. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes providing a sample of spent nuclear fuel and irradiating the spent nuclear fuel with substantially collimated gamma ray photons having energy levels of about 10 MeV to about 15 MeV for a predetermined time period to initiate a photofission reaction in the remaining fertile fissile material in the spent nuclear fuel.
US09613725B2
A neutron detector detects a neutron flux distribution of the inside of a reactor. The neutron detector includes a thimble guide tube that is inserted inside of the reactor, for inserting the neutron detector. A drive apparatus is connected to the thimble guide tube for inserting or extracting the neutron detector into or out of the thimble guide tube. A vacuum unit controls the vacuum state in the thimble guide tube. A supply unit supplies carbon dioxide gas. A gas purge unit is connected to the supply unit and conducts gas purge in the thimble guide tube. A gate valve is provided between the thimble guide tube and the drive apparatus, and performs an open/close operation. A control apparatus controls the gate valve, the drive apparatus, the vacuum unit, the supply unit, and the gas purge unit.
US09613721B2
A semiconductor memory may include a plurality of stacked semiconductor chips which are interconnected using through-chip vias. The semiconductor memory may set chip IDs of the respective semiconductor chips by using a chip code such that the chip IDs are different from each other, and perform a through-chip via test for the plurality of stacked semiconductor chips by changing the chip IDs of the respective semiconductor chips during a test mode period.
US09613713B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first and second memory cells; first and second word lines coupled to the first and second memory cells, respectively. When data is read from the first memory cell, first and second voltages are applied to the first word line. A voltage of the second word line varies continuously by a first potential difference with time while the first voltage is applied to the first word line, and the voltage of the first word line varies continuously by a second potential difference with time while the second voltage is applied to the first word line.
US09613710B2
A multiple-time programmable (MTP) structure is provided that can operate using a power supply with a supply voltage of 1.5 V to 5.5 V. When the supply voltage is above a first voltage, a first circuit is configured to induce a second constant voltage at a drain of a second transistor, and to induce the second constant voltage on a terminal in a third circuit. In some embodiments, the third circuit provides a third constant voltage on a gate of a third transistor. When the supply voltage is below the first voltage, a fifth circuit is configured to induce a fourth constant voltage on a terminal in the third circuit. The fourth constant voltage is substantially equal to the second constant voltage.
US09613709B2
The present disclosure relates to a non-volatile memory cell on a semiconductor substrate, comprising a first transistor comprising a control gate, a floating gate and a drain region, a second transistor comprising a control gate, a floating gate and a drain region, in which the floating gates of the first and second transistors are electrically coupled, and the second transistor comprises a conducting region electrically coupled to its drain region and extending opposite its floating gate through a tunnel dielectric layer.
US09613705B1
In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes: determining whether a used capacity of first physical units initially configured to be programmed based on a first programming mode reaches a preset capacity and whether specific data stored in the first physical units matches a preset condition; and if the used capacity of the first physical units reaches the preset capacity and the specific data stored in the first physical units matches the preset condition, selecting at least one physical unit from second physical units initially configured to be programmed based on a second programming mode, and programming the selected physical unit based on the first programming mode. Accordingly, the writing speed decreased by the fully written buffer area may be improved.
US09613700B1
A content addressable memory (“CAM”) field enabling logic comprises fields and field enable logics. The fields each have local match lines and a corresponding field enable control for enabling the respective field. The field enable logics are serially connected. Each of the fields is coupled to a corresponding one of the field enable logics via the respective local match lines. The corresponding field enable control for each of the fields is coupled to the corresponding one of the field enable logic and to any ones of the field enable logics that come after the corresponding one of the field enable logic along the serially-connected field enable logics.
US09613686B2
A method for data storage includes storing data in a group of memory cells, by encoding the data using at least an outer code and an inner code, and optionally inverting the encoded data prior to storing the encoded data in the memory cells. The encoded data is read from the memory cells, and inner code decoding is applied to the read encoded data to produce a decoding result. At least part of the read data is conditionally inverted, depending on the decoding result of the inner code.
US09613685B1
A static random access memory (SRAM) includes an array of storage cells arranged as rows and columns and a read controller to manage reading from the storage cells. The array of storage cells includes word lines that correspond to the rows and bit lines that correspond to the columns. The read controller is configured to receive a precharge signal and a word line signal and identify consecutive reads from storage cells accessed via a same one of the word lines. The read controller is further configured to, based on the precharge signal and the word line pulse signal indicating that the SRAM is to operate in a partial burst mode, precharge the bit lines no more than once during the consecutive reads and charge the same one of the word lines after each read of the consecutive reads.
US09613679B2
A controller includes first and second functional units, first and second clock-signal sources that provide corresponding first and second clock signals that drive the first and second functional units respectively. The second clock-signal generates its second clock-signal based on the first clock-signal. The clock-retardation unit dynamically causes the second clock-signal to have a target time-domain offset relative to the first clock-signal.
US09613674B2
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.
US09613672B2
A circuit includes first and second reference cells and a current sense amplifier. The first and second reference cells are configured to store opposite logic values, respectively. The current sense amplifier is configured with a first node and a second node for currents therethrough to be compared with each other. The current sense amplifier includes a multiplexer configured to couple the first reference cell or the second reference cell to the first node of the current sense amplifier, and couple the second reference cell or the first reference cell to the second node of the current sense amplifier for reading bits stored in the first reference cell and the second reference cell.
US09613671B2
According to one embodiment, a memory includes a memory cell array with banks, each bank including rows, a first word lines provided in corresponding to the rows, an address latch circuit which latches a first row address signal, a row decoder which activates one of the first word lines, and a control circuit which is configured to execute a first operation which activates one of the banks based on a bank address signal when a first command is loaded, and a second operation which latches the first row address signal in the address latch circuit, and execute a third operation which activates one of the first word lines by the row decoder based on a second row address signal and the first row address signal latched in the address latch circuit when a second command is loaded after the first command.
US09613662B2
A method and apparatus for obtaining multimedia point of interest includes: obtaining a redirection request for multimedia, and collecting redirection time that is included in the redirection request; segmenting a time period of the multimedia with a predetermined interval, to be multiple time sections; obtaining a number of time sections that have most recorded redirection time; and recording time points that are corresponding to locations of recorded redirection times of the obtained number of time sections, thereby effectively reducing workload and improve efficiency for obtaining multimedia point of interest
US09613661B2
There is provided an information processing that acquires captured image data of a subject; and associates a plurality of time points of the image data and a plurality of time points of event information based on sensor time information, the event information acquired based on sensor information acquired in time series by a sensor apparatus and indicating occurrence of an operation of the sensor apparatus.
US09613653B2
A soundtrack creation method and user playback system for soundtracks synchronized to electronic text. Synchronization is achieved by maintaining a reading speed variable indicative of the user's reading speed. The system provides for multiple channels of audio to enable concurrent playback of two or more partially or entirely overlapping audio regions so as to create an audio output having, for example, sound effects, ambience, music or other audio features that are triggered to playback at specific portions in the electronic text to enhance the reading experience.
US09613651B1
This bearing apparatus includes a shaft portion, a sleeve portion, and a fluid arranged between the shaft portion and the sleeve portion. A thrust dynamic pressure portion is filled with the fluid, and a surface of the fluid is defined in a seal portion. The thrust dynamic pressure portion includes a dynamic pressure generation portion including thrust dynamic pressure grooves, an intermediate portion arranged outside of the dynamic pressure generation portion and including an annular groove in the shape of a circular ring, and a discharge portion arranged outside of the annular groove and including discharge grooves. The annular groove is arranged to have a depth smaller than a minimum radial width of the seal portion. This makes it easier for any air bubble in the thrust dynamic pressure portion to travel into the seal portion in accordance with a flow of the fluid caused in the discharge portion to be discharged outward. This reduces the likelihood that any air bubble will stay in the vicinity of the dynamic pressure generation portion.
US09613650B2
A method of manufacturing a base unit of a spindle motor includes the steps of: defining a base plate including a support fitting portion; fitting a support to a hole portion passing through the support fitting portion; measuring an inclination of the support fitting portion; calculating a laser irradiation area and a laser irradiation output based on the inclination; irradiating the support fitting portion with a laser beam; and measuring the inclination of the support fitting portion again. The base plate is made of a metal, and is defined by press working, casting, or forging. The support is fitted to the hole portion by crimping, press fitting, or welding. This method reduces the inclination of the support fitting portion, thereby reducing a distortion of the support, which serves as a rotation center of an access portion.
US09613642B1
A read/write head includes two or more first transducers of a first type, the first type selected from a magnetic read transducer and a magnetic write transducer. The read/write head includes one or more switching elements coupled to the two or more first transducers. The switching elements are configured to, in response to a control signal, couple a selected one of the two or more first transducers to a preamplifier circuit and decouple others of the two or more first transducers from the preamplifier circuit.
US09613640B1
A speech/music discrimination method evaluates the standard deviation between envelope peaks, loudness ratio, and smoothed energy difference. The envelope is searched for peaks above a threshold. The standard deviations of the separations between peaks are calculated. Decreased standard deviation is indicative of speech, higher standard deviation is indicative of non-speech. The ratio between minimum and maximum loudness in recent input signal data frames is calculated. If this ratio corresponds to the dynamic range characteristic of speech, it is another indication that the input signal is speech content. Smoothed energies of the frames from the left and right input channels are computed and compared. Similar (e.g., highly correlated) left and right channel smoothed energies is indicative of speech. Dissimilar (e.g., un-correlated content) left and right channel smoothed energies is indicative of non-speech material. The results of the three tests are compared to make a speech/music decision.
US09613630B2
An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes receiving coding mode information indicating a speech coding scheme or an audio coding scheme, linear prediction coding degree information indicating a linear prediction coding degree, and the signal including at least one of a speech signal and an audio signal; decoding the signal according to the speech coding scheme or the audio coding scheme based on the coding mode information; decoding linear prediction coding coefficients of the signal based on the linear prediction coding degree information; and generating an output signal by applying the decoded linear prediction coding coefficients to the decoded signal. In this case, the linear prediction coding degree information is determined based on a variation of a value of an LPC residual generated from performing the linear prediction coding on the signal. It further determines whether or not the said residual decreases by an increase in the linear prediction coding degree, and it determines an appropriate LPC coding degree in each case.
US09613629B2
A signal processing device, media, and method are provided, where a signal comprises a succession of samples distributed in successive frames. The processing is implemented during decoding of such a signal in order to replace at least one signal frame lost in decoding, and comprising in particular: a) searching, in a valid signal available to the decoder, for a signal segment of length corresponding to a period set as a function of the valid signal; b) analyzing a spectrum of the segment in order to determine spectral components of the segment; and c) synthesizing at least one replacement frame for the lost frame by construction of a synthesized signal from at least a portion of the spectral components.
US09613627B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a memory configured to store recorded voice data; a display unit configured to display a graphic object representing a reproduction progress of the recorded voice data; and a controller configured to receive a selection signal indicating a portion of the graphic object has been selected, select a section of the recorded voice data including a point-in-time at which the graphic object is selected, convert keyword voice data included in the selected section of the recorded voice data to keyword text data, and display the keyword text data on the display unit.
US09613626B2
An audio device and a method thereof are provided. The method is adopted by an audio device to detect a voice, wherein the audio device is coupled to a host device. The method includes an acoustic conversion circuit converting an acoustic wave into an analog audio signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converting the analog audio signal into digital audio data; a first-level voice detection circuit detecting voice activity in the analog audio signal; a second-level voice detection circuit detecting a beginning syllable of a key phrase in the digital audio data when the voice activity is detected in the digital audio data; and a third-level voice detection circuit detecting the key phrase from the digital audio data only when the beginning syllable of the key phrase is detected in the digital audio data.
US09613625B2
A dynamic speech recognition dictionary generating unit extracts, from phrases stored in a speech recognition dictionary, phrases of which heads match a head of a character string inputted through a character string input unit and generates a dynamic speech recognition dictionary that stores difference phrases that are each part of an extracted phrase excluding a common phrase that is common among the extracted phrases. A speech recognition unit carries out recognition of a user utterance by using the dynamic speech recognition dictionary. An input character string confirming unit confirms an input character string candidate that includes a recognized difference phrase as an input character string.
US09613617B1
An “auditory eigenfunction” approach is provided for auditory language design, implementation, and rendering optimized for human auditory perception. The auditory eigenfunctions employed approximate solutions to an eigenfunction equation representing a model of human hearing, wherein the model comprises a frequency domain bandpass operation with a approximating the frequency range of human hearing and a time-limiting operation in the time domain approximating the time duration correlation window of human hearing. The method can be used to implement entirely new auditory languages, or modification to existing auditory languages, which are in various ways performance optimized for human auditory perception, either with or without the constraints of human vocal-tract rendering. The method can also be used, for example, to implement traditional speech synthesis, and can be useful in speech synthesis involving rapid phoneme production. The method could also be used to implement various other types of user machine interfaces.
US09613615B2
The present invention relates to a noise cancellation system, a headset and an electronic device. The noise cancellation system may include a loudspeaker, a first microphone, a second microphone, a housing and a processing unit. The housing may be mounted at an ear of a user, wherein the loudspeaker, the first microphone and the second microphone are installed in the housing. The processing unit may be coupled to the loudspeaker, the first microphone and the second microphone, and may be configured to generate a noise cancelling signal based on at least one of a first audio signal from the first microphone or a second audio signal from the second microphone, wherein the noise cancelling signal, when being output via the loudspeaker, at least partially compensates for environmental noise in the ear of the user.
US09613609B2
A sound-absorbing panel comprising a padding layer with heat-bonded synthetic fibers, wherein the padding layer has a first outer surface, a second outer surface and a first thickness, wherein the panel is made of said padding layer with no further layers of a different material between the first outer surface and the second outer surface, wherein the padding layer in at least one portion of panel has a variable density in a direction transverse to the first and second outer surfaces, the density being higher in proximity of the first and second outer layers thereof and being lower in proximity of its inner layer.
US09613604B1
Disclosures teach managing humidity within a musical instrument. For example, a fluid tank, which may be attachable to an instrument holder, may hold fluid deliverable through a conduit into a breathable housing, which may be configured for insertion within, for example, a sound box. A fluid trap may be included within the housing to collect the entering fluid. The trap may also store the fluid during evaporation, increasing humidity in the instrument. A flow regulator may be included within the channel passing through the conduit to manage the fluid flow rate. A measuring device may be included to provide measurements of humidity within the instrument. Management logic may generate, based on humidity measurements from the measurement device, adjustment signals, adjusting the flow regulator to change the flow rate to impact humidity. A detector, indicating overflow from the fluid trap, and/or an overflow structure, capturing overflow, may also be provided.
US09613603B2
In some aspects, a musical percussion instrument includes a musical drum having a generally cylindrical musical drum body and a sound generating surface secured to an upper end of the drum body by multiple drum lugs and a drum mounting clamp mounted to one drum lug of the multiple drum lugs for releasable mounting of a mounting rod to the drum body. The drum mounting clamp includes a mounting base for mounting upon the musical drum body. The mounting base has a mounting rod recess and a securement element to secure the drum clamp to a mounting rod, arranging the musical drum body relative to the mounting rod.
US09613601B1
Minawi Straw is invented by a Musician/Music Teacher/Composer Mr. Hasan Ahmad Minawi. It is a unique Musical Instrument, made of simple and inexpensive plastic materials, and it is characterized with a new unique musical sound that has accurate music dimensions according to Music Industry Notes, compatible with other music instruments, as it produces unique different sounds when using a special way of inflation (FIG. 5).The Minawi Straw is made up of one plastic tube of 19.60 centimeters in length equal to 7.72 inches, and the length can be adjusted longer as needed. It has 8 Sound holes—7 Sound holes on the front side and 1 Sound hole which is Opening 8 on the Upper Rear side (described in the drawing (FIGS. 1 and 2) as openings 1-8). It can be adjusted up to 10 Sound holes, as needed by Player.
US09613595B2
A driving circuit comprises a plurality of shift register (SR). An ith SR among the plurality SR's comprises a resetting circuit, an input switch, a capacitor, and an output circuit. The resetting circuit is used for adjusting a resetting voltage according to a control voltage. The input switch is used for adjusting the control voltage according to an (i−2)th driving signal from an (i−2)th SR among the plurality of SR's, selectively. The capacitor is used for adding a voltage variation of a boosting signal to the control voltage. The output circuit is used for taking an ith input signal as an ith output signal according to the control voltage and the resetting voltage, selectively. The positive edge of the boosting voltage leads the negative edge of the ith input signal.
US09613594B2
A driving circuit includes first and second source driving circuits, and first and second control units. Each of the first and second control units includes multiple first control subunits. Each of the first control subunits includes a control end, an input end, and an output end. The control end receives a control signal to turn on or off the first control subunit. The input end receives a clock signal. The output end is connected with the associated source driving circuit. The first and second control units enable switching between the unilateral driving mode and the bilateral driving mode for the clock signal.
US09613592B2
A transmission type head mounted display device includes an image display unit including an image-light generating unit configured to generate image light on the basis of image data and emit the image light, the image display unit causing a user to visually recognize the image light as a virtual image and transmitting an outside scene in a state in which the image display unit is worn on the head of the user, and a control unit configured to set, as the image light that the control unit causes the user to visually recognize using the image display unit, specific image light generated on the basis of set specific image data and changing according to elapse of time.
US09613587B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for enhancing display viewability in high ambient conditions without excessive increase in power consumption. In one aspect, a controller associated with the display device can be configured to obtain an indication of ambient light conditions from an ambient light sensor or from a host device hosting the display device. Upon receiving an image frame, the controller can derive a set of color subfields and determine a bit-depth value for each color subfield based on the obtained indication of current ambient light conditions and mapping data which maps ranges of ambient light to respective bit-depth values on a color subfield by color subfield basis. The controller can then generate a number of subframes for each color subfield based on the respective determined bit-depth value and cause the generated subframes to be displayed.
US09613582B2
Provided is a gate driver including a plurality of stages respectively transferring gate-on voltages to a plurality of gate lines. The stage includes a pull-up driver including a first transistor, the first transistor having a control terminal connected to a first node, an output terminal connected to a output terminal of a present stage and an input terminal connected to a first clock terminal, a first node pull-down portion including a second transistor, the second transistor having an input terminal connected to a buffer node, an output terminal connected to the first node and a control terminal connected to a second node, and a buffer node stabilizer including a third transistor, the third transistor having an input terminal and a control terminal connected to the first node, and an output terminal connected to the buffer node.
US09613561B2
A display device includes a plurality of common lines, a plurality of drive lines, a plurality of light emitting elements, a source driver, and a sink driver. At least one charging device is connected to at least one of the common lines and configured to increase a voltage of the common lines to a predetermined value when the voltage of the common lines is lower than the predetermined value during a period while the source driver does not apply the voltage. At least one discharging device is connected to at least one of the plurality of common lines and configured to decrease the voltage of the common lines to the predetermined value when the voltage of the common lines is higher than the predetermined value during the period while the source driver does not apply the voltage.
US09613556B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and a display. A display driver integrated circuit in the display may have a spectrum analyzer circuit. An antenna may monitor for wireless signals. The display driver integrated circuit may use the spectrum analyzer circuit to analyze the wireless signals and determine whether there is a potential for visible display artifacts. In the presence of conditions that can lead to display artifacts, the display driver integrated circuit may adjust a gate driver control signal. Adjustments to the gate driver control signal may be made using adjustable signal dividers. The adjustments to the gate driver control signal eliminate the visible display artifacts.
US09613554B2
A driving method of a display device includes: determining each of a plurality of pixel rows of the display device as one of a motion picture display pixel row and a still image display pixel row by comparing image data of each of the pixel rows in a current frame and in a previous frame; and driving the motion picture display pixel row with a motion picture frequency and driving the still image display pixel row with a still image display frequency, which is lower than or equal to the motion picture frequency, where a plurality of still image display pixel rows are driven with at least two still image display frequencies.
US09613551B2
An organic light emitting diode display apparatus and a method and apparatus for easily inspecting the organic light emitting diode display apparatus to determine whether an electrical failure occurs. The organic light emitting diode display apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels each comprising a pixel electrode, an intermediate layer including an organic emission layer, and an opposite electrode; scan lines and data lines corresponding to the plurality of pixels; first power supply lines connected to the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction; second power supply lines connected to the first power supply lines; and a control line unit for simultaneously supplying control signals to the plurality of pixels, the control line unit including a plurality of control lines extending in one direction and two common lines being respectively connected to both ends of each of the plurality of control lines.
US09613548B2
Exemplary embodiments provide an advanced cooling system for an electronic display having a plurality of open loop fluid flow paths as well as a closed loop fluid flow path. The open loop divides a fluid, such as ambient air, among a series of sub-paths including front and rear open loop layers and a heat exchanger. The first and second open loop layers may comprise a corrugated element, forming peaks and valleys. The peaks and valleys of the front and rear layers may be arranged such that they do not align. A section of the rear open loop layer may be sealed from open loop flow. The closed loop preferably passes through an electronics compartment and the heat exchanger, also passing in front of the electronic display.
US09613542B2
A method and an apparatus for recording and evaluating a sound source are provided. The sound source evaluation method calculates a creativity index, which indicates a difference of a sound source property of test performance information with respect to a sound source property of reference performance information at a specific performing time, by comparing the test performance information, which is acquired by quantifying, according to passage of the performing time, a sound source property in a provided test sound source, with the reference performance information, which is acquired by extracting a sound source property and a sound source property having the same attribute according to passage of the performing time from a plurality of verified sound sources and then through a statistical analysis of the extracted properties.
US09613539B1
This disclosure describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) and system that may perform one or more techniques for protecting objects from damage resulting from an unintended or uncontrolled impact by a UAV. As described herein, various implementations utilize a damage avoidance system that detects a risk of damage to an object caused by an impact from a UAV that has lost control and takes steps to reduce or eliminate that risk. For example, the damage avoidance system may detect that the UAV has lost power and/or is falling at a rapid rate of descent such that, upon impact, there is a risk of damage to an object with which the UAV may collide. Upon detecting the risk of damage and prior to impact, the damage avoidance system activates a damage avoidance system having one or more protection elements that work in concert to reduce or prevent damage to the object upon impact by the UAV.
US09613538B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes receiving, by the UAV, flight information describing a job to perform an inspection of a rooftop. A particular altitude is ascended to, and an inspection of the rooftop is performed including obtaining sensor information describing the rooftop. Location information identifying a damaged area of the rooftop is received. The damaged area of the rooftop is traveled to. An inspection of the damaged area of the rooftop is performed including obtaining detailed sensor information describing the damaged area. A safe landing location is traveled to.
US09613536B1
A method for operating a distributed flight management system. The method includes operating a control station instance of the distributed flight management system. The method includes receiving flight management system data from a remotely accessed vehicle. The method includes receiving time-space-position information of the remotely accessed vehicle from the remotely accessed vehicle. The method includes updating the control station instance of the distributed flight management system based at least on the received flight management system data and the time-space-position information of the remotely accessed vehicle. The method includes outputting updated flight management system data for transmission to the remotely accessed vehicle to synchronize a remotely accessed vehicle instance of the distributed flight management system with the control station instance of the distributed flight management system.
US09613534B2
Systems and methods for creating a network cloud based hierarchical architecture for supporting unmanned aircraft are disclosed. A system may include a higher level server, one or more lower level server in direct communication with the higher level server, and one or more control station in direct communication with the lower level server. Each control station may be configured to: control flight operations of an unmanned aircraft; acquire flight information and position information of the unmanned aircraft; and provide updates to the lower level server regarding the flight information and position information of the unmanned aircraft. Each lower level server may be configured to: process the flight information and position information received from the control station; and provide updates to the higher level server regarding the flight information and position information received from the control station.
US09613532B2
A computer-implemented system and method for providing directions to available parking spaces via dynamic signs is provided. A plurality of available parking spaces is determined. Two or more parking signs in a proximate location are identified. One sign is located prior to the other sign. At least one of the available parking spaces is selected from the plurality of parking spaces for providing directions via the identified signs. A direction of the available parking space is determined for each of the parking signs in relation to that parking sign. The direction of the available parking space from each parking sign is displayed on that parking sign.
US09613523B2
A system for hazard mitigation in a structure including a subsystem coupled to a circuit of an electrical distribution system and set of nodes. The nodes monitor operating conditions of the circuit and generate data in response. A data processing system is operable to process the data generated by the set of nodes and in response identify a trigger representing a condition requiring that an action be taken. The data processing system processes the trigger in accordance with a predetermined policy to initiate an action by the subsystem.
US09613519B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a system for tracking hand hygiene may comprise a plurality of dispensers, each dispenser configured to detect a hand-hygiene event and wirelessly transmit hand-hygiene event information associated with the hand-hygiene event. The system may also include a room hub configured to wirelessly transmit location information. Further, the system may include a user circuit module configured to wirelessly receive the hand-hygiene event information, wirelessly receive the location information, and store the hand-hygiene event information, a first time stamp associated with the hand-hygiene event information, the location information, and a second time stamp associated with the location information, in a memory. The user circuit module may also be configured to transmit the hand-hygiene event information, the first time stamp, the location information, the second time stamp, and a user identifier to a central server.
US09613514B2
A system includes one or more sensors to gather information about an environment, a memory device that stores one or more computer executable components, and a processor to execute the computer executable components in the memory, including an event detection component to obtain information from the one or more sensors and identify whether a first level event has occurred based on the obtained information, a coalescence component to consolidate a plurality of events into a hierarchically higher-level, pre-defined coalesced event, and a communication component to send to one or more users a notification of a hierarchically highest level event determined to have occurred during a pre-determined time range.
US09613513B2
The present invention relates to an alarm for detecting and alerting a person of an event where a device is pulled on for an extended period of time. Specifically, the present invention relates to an alarm implemented on a pull-string. Even more specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus, system, and method of using the same that alerts a person when something becomes tangled or is otherwise caught up in the pull-string of window blinds, shades, or other light blocking devices.
US09613511B2
A detection system for detecting the presence and direction of a subject moving through a doorway is disclosed. The system comprises magnets disposed on the doorway, a communication device, typically a smartphone and a server. The magnets are positioned on the doorway to create a magnetic field across the doorway. When the subject having the smartphone on the body passes through the doorway, a magnetometer in the smartphone senses perturbations caused by the magnetic field and generates signals corresponding to the sensed perturbations and a processor of the smartphone processes the signals to detect the presence and direction of the subject through the doorway. The data generated by the processor and a unique identification associated with the smartphone is transmitted to the remotely located server.
US09613506B2
A system determines to use at least two independent renderers to render at least two output streams that are to be synchronized. The independent renderers are provided with a shared synchronization object when instructed to render the respective output stream. A time when all of the independent renderers can render a respective first buffer of the respective output stream is determined from the shared synchronization object. Rendering of the output streams utilizing the independent renderers is begun at the determined time. In this way, rendering of the output streams may be synchronized.
US09613495B2
A gaming machine for playing a wagering game includes a game display and a controller. The game display is operable to display a randomly selected outcome of a wagering game in response to receiving a wager from a player. The wagering game has a game-play progression that includes a plurality of game episodes, at least one of the plurality of game episodes having a plurality of episode features. The controller is in communication with the game display and is programmable to cause, in response to a manual selection received from the player, the start of the wagering game from any previously played feature of the plurality of episode features.
US09613488B2
A gaming table apparatus has a gaming table with a gaming table support surface. At least two token sensors are provided, which are electrically connected in series to a token sensor controller. The at least two token sensor units are physically restrained by the table support surface. The game controller is in communication with the token sensor controller, wherein the game controller is configured to associate player position data with transmitted wager data received from the token sensor controller.
US09613479B2
The described device for separating coins comprises a rotatable base disc (32), a delimiting element (34) and a driver disc (36). A circular ring-shaped sorting track (12) is arranged eccentrically relative to the base disc (32). The driver disc (36) and a circularly arranged conveying element (14) interact in a transfer region (38) such that the lowest layer of coins among a quantity of coins conveyed by the driver disc (36) are pushed underneath the conveying element (14), clamped thereat and conveyed further.
US09613470B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a fleet management computer system configured for forecasting travel delays within a geographic area. According to various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is configured to assess operational data, including vehicle telematics data. In various embodiments, the fleet management computer system is further configured to determine, based on the operational data, a value indicative of the average amount of travel delay time per unit of distance within the geographic area, such as the average amount of idle time second per mile of travel with the geographic area.
US09613468B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a mapping management computer system. According to various embodiments, the mapping management computer system may be configured for updating geographical maps by assessing map data and operational data including vehicle telematics data to identify portions of a vehicle path that do not correspond to known travel paths. In various embodiments, the system is configured to define these identified portions as new known travel paths corresponding to a public road, private road, parking lot lane, or the like, and update the map data to reflect the new known travel paths.
US09613460B2
For augmenting a digital image, code identifies a structure image in a digital image. The code further augments the digital image with structure information for the structure image and/or the digital image with structure image removed.
US09613459B2
A system and method for interaction in a vehicle includes establishing a bi-directional interaction session between a first display and a second display via a communication link, wherein each of the first display and the second display are communicatively coupled to the vehicle and the first display is operated by a first user and the second display is operated by a second user. Upon receiving a first interaction input associated generating a first augmented reality object based on the first interaction input and transmitting via the communication link the first augmented reality object to the second display. Upon receiving a second interaction input, generating a second augmented reality object based upon the second interaction input and transmitting via the communication link the second augmented reality object to the first display.
US09613458B2
A method and system for automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of a project is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes inputting parametric information, and accessing a file associated with a schematic drawing of a project and identifying a plurality of elements in the schematic drawing from the file. The method further includes obtaining geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements by analyzing each of the plurality of elements. Additionally, the method includes selecting one or more predefined objects from a spatial database based on the geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements and the inputted parametric information. The method further includes automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of the project using the one or more predefined objects, wherein the co-ordination drawing provides routing information of the plurality of elements in the project.
US09613455B1
Methods, systems and computer readable media for identifying local georeferenced data are described. A method can include receiving a plurality of images and corresponding metadata for each image, the metadata including location information indicating where the corresponding image was acquired and object information indicating one or more objects shown in the corresponding image. The method can also include determining based on the images and corresponding metadata, that a group of images within the plurality of images is associated with a given object at a given location. The method can further include updating a digital map to include a cartographical feature based on the determination of the given object at the given location, wherein the cartographical feature is caused to be displayed on the digital map at a location corresponding to the given location.
US09613454B2
Image editing techniques are disclosed that support a number of physically-based image editing tasks, including object insertion and relighting. The techniques can be implemented, for example in an image editing application that is executable on a computing system. In one such embodiment, the editing application is configured to compute a scene from a single image, by automatically estimating dense depth and diffuse reflectance, which respectively form the geometry and surface materials of the scene. Sources of illumination are then inferred, conditioned on the estimated scene geometry and surface materials and without any user input, to form a complete 3D physical scene model corresponding to the image. The scene model may include estimates of the geometry, illumination, and material properties represented in the scene, and various camera parameters. Using this scene model, objects can be readily inserted and composited into the input image with realistic lighting, shadowing, and perspective.
US09613451B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for rendering anti-aliased paths by first generating an alpha buffer representing coverage data. To generate the alpha buffer, jittered versions of the rendered path are rendered and corresponding stencil buffers indicating sub-pixel samples of the path that should be covered are generated. After each stencil buffer is generated, the jittered path is rasterized to convert the sub-pixel coverage into coverage weights that are stored in the alpha component of a frame buffer. As each jittered path is rasterized, the coverage weights are accumulated. Finally, geometry representing the union of the jittered versions of the path is rendered to shade pixels based on the accumulated coverage weights. The anti-aliased rendered paths may be filled or stroked without tessellating the paths.
US09613444B2
An information input/display device including: a sensor detecting contact and outputting contact positions; a display unit displaying video signals each corresponding to one screen; a first drawing unit generating first video signals each corresponding to one screen, when displayed, that includes an image of a drawing of a continuous line formed by the contact positions; a second drawing unit generating second video signals each corresponding to an image of the drawing of the continuous line, the second drawing unit generating images of the drawing of the continuous line at a higher speed than the first drawing unit; and an adding unit adding each of the second video signals to a corresponding one of the first video signals. Images of the drawing of the continuous line generated by at least one of the first drawing unit and the second drawing unit change as time elapses in drawing processing.
US09613438B2
An X ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X ray tube generating X rays, a first detector detecting the X rays, at least one second detector arranged in front of a first detection surface of the first detector and including a second detection surface narrower than the first detection surface and indicator points provided on a rear surface of the second detection surface, a projection data generation unit generating first projection data based on an output from the first detector, and a positional shift detection unit detecting a positional shift of the second detector relative to the first detector in accordance with an imaging direction by using the first projection data and a predetermined positional relationship between the points and detection elements in the second detector.
US09613434B2
In accordance with some examples, when an image of an object is displayed at a display device, responsive to one or more user inputs, a computing device may be configured to adjust the image so that the object in the adjusted image approximates its actual size. A scale of a representative length may then be generated on the image, responsive to one or more other user inputs, such that the actual size of the object is visualized based on the scale.
US09613429B2
An image reading out apparatus reads out a partial image in a frame of an image within an image sensing unit, and outputs image data corresponding to the frame of the image and the partial image to an image development processing unit. A detection unit detects an object in a frame of a first image read out from the image sensing unit, and detects a moving speed of the object. A control unit (i) determines an area corresponding to the object, and (ii) controls, in accordance with the moving speed of the object detected by the detection unit, an interval of time to read out the partial image in the area in a frame of a second image within the image sensing unit. A reading unit reads out the frame of the first image and the partial image within the image sensing unit.
US09613427B2
The disclosure provides an information processing method applied to an electronic device. The method comprises: performing edge detection on a first image to obtain edge strength values for respective pixels of the first image; determining, according to the edge strength values of the pixels, a main information region of the first image; cropping, according to the main information region, the first image to obtain a second image which includes the main information region; and setting the second image as a background image for a graphical interactive interface of the electronic device, wherein the graphical interactive interface includes N controls, N being a positive integer.
US09613424B2
A method of constructing 3D clothing model based on single image, estimating a 3D model of human body of an inputted image and constructing 3D clothing plane according to the clothing silhouette of the inputted image. The method includes utilizing the 3D clothing plane and the 3D model of human body to generate a smooth 3D clothing model through a deformation algorithm. A decomposition algorithm of intrinsic image is utilized along with a shape-from-shading algorithm to acquire a set of detail information of clothing from the inputted image. A weighted Laplace editing algorithm is utilized to shift the acquired detail information of clothing to the smooth 3D clothing model to yield a final 3D clothing model. A 3D clothing model is used to generate the surface geometry details including folds, wrinkles.
US09613415B2
Disclosed herein is a protective film detecting method including the steps of supplying a mist to a work surface of a workpiece in the condition where the work surface is coated with a protective film, applying light to the work surface of the workpiece, imaging the work surface of the workpiece after supplying the mist, and detecting an uncoated area where the protective film is not formed, by using a difference in light intensity between a coated area where the protective film is formed and the uncoated area where the protective film is not formed to cause the formation of asperities due to droplets formed from the mist supplied to the work surface of the workpiece and the occurrence of Mie scattering of the light applied to the asperities, the difference in light intensity being detected from an image obtained in the imaging step.
US09613414B2
Disclosed are a method and an accompanying system for inspecting objects (5) provided with a gas-barrier layer. The objects have at least one base layer (5a) of a first material, polyethylene or polypropylene, for example, and at least one gas-barrier layer of a different material, EVA or EVOH, for example. An image-recording module (6), such as an infrared camera, records an image of each object (5) and processes the images by means of a processing module (7) in such a way that faulty objects (5) are detected and eliminated. More specifically, the image recording module (6) creates the image of each object (5) within the invisible light spectrum, and the processing module (7) then examines the recorded image, wherein the presence, the absence or the thickness of the gas-barrier layer is determined on the basis of the image.
US09613407B2
A display management processor receives an input image with enhanced dynamic range to be displayed on a target display which has a different dynamic range than a reference display. The input image is first transformed into a perceptually-quantized (PQ) color space. A non-linear mapping function generates a tone-mapped intensity image in response to the characteristics of the source and target display and a measure of the intensity of the PQ image. After a detail-preservation step which may generate a filtered tone-mapped intensity image, an image-adaptive intensity and saturation adjustment step generates an intensity adjustment factor and a saturation adjustment factor as functions of the measure of intensity and saturation of the PQ image, which together with the filtered tone-mapped intensity image are used to generate the output image. Examples of the functions to compute the intensity and saturation adjustment factors are provided.
US09613401B2
A method for imaging a flowing media within static regions includes obtaining a plurality of signals using the speckle properties of the flowing media. The plurality of signals are compared to one another such as by subtraction. The static regions are removed from the plurality of signals by the comparison. The remaining signals are combined (such as by summing) to produce an image of the flowing media.
US09613397B2
A display method and an electronic apparatus include a display unit with various kinds of different display modes, so that when the current display mode of the display unit is the first display mode, the first application in the electronic apparatus is initiated, and then the electronic apparatus detects the first parameter information of the first application, and then determines the correspondence relationship between the first parameter information and the display modes, determines the second display mode corresponding to the first parameter information, and adjusts the display unit from the first display mode displayed currently to the second display mode at last. Determining the display modes according to different applications running in the electronic apparatus increases the display effect of the electronic apparatus and reduces the power consumption of the display of the electronic apparatus.
US09613393B2
The invention provides a technique for targeted scaling of the voltage and/or frequency of a processor included in a computing device. One embodiment involves scaling the voltage/frequency of the processor based on the number of frames per second being input to a frame buffer in order to reduce or eliminate choppiness in animations shown on a display of the computing device. Another embodiment of the invention involves scaling the voltage/frequency of the processor based on a utilization rate of the GPU in order to reduce or eliminate any bottleneck caused by slow issuance of instructions from the CPU to the GPU. Yet another embodiment of the invention involves scaling the voltage/frequency of the CPU based on specific types of instructions being executed by the CPU. Further embodiments include scaling the voltage and/or frequency of a CPU when the CPU executes workloads that have characteristics of traditional desktop/laptop computer applications.
US09613391B2
An inspection system that receives image data corresponding to an image and processes the image data to produce a report corresponding to characteristics of the image. Interface cards receive the image data in a flow, where each interface card receives image data corresponding to a different portion of the image. Process nodes connect to the interface cards, and receive the image data from the interface cards. A host computer is connected to the process nodes, and job managers implemented in the host computer manage the flow of image data to and from the process nodes. The job managers remain operable during a crash of one of the process nodes. Process node programs are implemented in the process nodes, and analyze a portion of the image data and produce the report corresponding to the characteristics of the analyzed portion of the image data. At least one process node program is implemented in each process node. The process node programs rapidly analyze the image. The process node programs are isolated from the job managers so that a crash of a process node program does not crash the job manager.
US09613382B1
A computer-implemented method for automatically synchronizing online communities may comprise identifying login information for a first user account associated with the first online community, accessing the first user account using the login information for the first user account, obtaining information from the first user account, and modifying, based on the information obtained from the first user account, a second user account associated with a second online community. Corresponding systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09613379B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer-implemented trader portal system and method for use within a trading organization supporting multiple traders. The trader portal system integrates available trader related resources from multiple sources for trader viewing and utilization. The trader portal system may include administrative controls for allowing administrative configuration of the trader related resources visible to the multiple traders within the trading organization. The trader portal system may further include a source collection engine for collecting the trader-related resources from the multiple sources and a source integration engine for integrating the collected trader related resources with the trader portal system in accordance with the administrative configuration. The trader portal system may further include multiple modules accessible to the traders through a user interface, each of the multiple modules displaying at least one of the collected trader related resources as determined by the source integration engine.
US09613376B2
An apparatus and method of maintaining beneficiary information are disclosed. The apparatus can be configured to perform the method, which may include obtaining information for one or more recipients of one or more conveyances of property, obtaining one or more digital IDs from the one or more recipients, maintaining the one or more digital IDs from the one or more recipients by periodically sending notifications to the one or more recipients, and distributing assets with the one or more digital IDs to the one or more recipients.
US09613367B2
In one embodiment, feedback data of a software object is received through a sequence of cascaded GUIs. The cascaded GUIs include an interaction portion to receive the feedback data from users at a plurality of feedback levels. Further, user role weightings of the users, account weightings of enterprises associated with the users and a time weighting corresponding to a life-cycle phase of the software object are retrieved. Furthermore, average rating of the software object corresponding to each feedback level is determined as a function of the user role weightings, the account weightings, the time weighting, the feedback data corresponding to a feedback level and a number of users submitted the feedback data. The determined average ratings and rating distribution corresponding to each feedback level are graphically displayed on the interaction portion associated with a next feedback level.
US09613365B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for secure near field communication (NFC) of a non-secure memory element payload. The method includes receiving, at an NFC enabled mobile device and from a content provider, a payload. The method also includes storing the received payload in a non-secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device. The method further includes transferring the stored payload from the non-secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device to a secure memory element of the NFC enabled mobile device, wherein transferring the stored payload includes loading the stored payload into a secure reloadable payload instance. The method further includes establishing a NFC link between the NFC enabled mobile device and an NFC reader. The method further includes communicating, via the NFC link, the transferred payload from the secure reloadable payload instance to the NFC reader.
US09613364B2
A computing device is configured to identify a concept of a good or service for an unmet market potential. A Global User Search Data file (GUSD) comprising information related to a search object is read. A morpheme combination in the search object from the GUSD is identified. The morpheme combination is compared to a first set of pre-existing terms. A first score is assigned to the search object based on the comparison, wherein a higher first score is assigned if the morpheme combination is not found in the first set of pre-existing terms. An un-successfulness of the search object is determined and a second score is assigned, wherein a higher second score is assigned the more un-successful the search object is. An aggregate of all the scores for a search term is compared to a predetermined threshold. If the aggregate score is above the predetermined threshold, the search term is identified as a concept of a good or service for an unmet market potential.
US09613363B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine a consumer classification segment. A disclosed example method involves generating, with a processor, a list of consumer classification segments based on geographic indicators associated with a mobile device, associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a first consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a first application was executed, and associating, with the processor, the mobile device with a second consumer classification segment of the list of consumer classification segments if the geographic indicators were retrieved while a second application was executed.
US09613352B1
Payments and financial transactions are made without a physical card (and without a password). Payment information of a payer is functionally handicapped while stored in a payment user profile on a hosting payment processor server. When a payment request from a payee is received by the payment processor server, a QR-code or other machine readable information is generated for display by a payee device. Once the QR-code is scanned by the payer device, a human gesture is requested in order to unlock the payment information stored in the payment user profile. The correct human gesture reconstitutes the key (or security data) stored on the payer device, and then transmits the key to the payment processor server for reconstituting another key used to enable payment information to be used to execute the payment.
US09613351B2
An apparatus for effecting commercial transactions with a server using a transaction card via a communication device is provided. The apparatus includes a transaction device coupled with the communication device for capturing information from the transaction card and a controller for converting the captured card information into an encrypted audio signal and for transmitting the audio signal to the communication device. The communication device delivers the audio signal to the server for processing the commercial transaction.
US09613346B2
An embodiment includes a method executed by at least one processor comprising: determining inventories for first and second times for a first vending machine (VM); determining inventories for first and second times for a second VM; determining inventories for first and second times for a third VM; and determining a service route to visit the first and second VMs on a specific date, and to specifically avoid visiting the third VM on the specific date, in response to determining the inventories for the second times for the first, second, and third VMs. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09613342B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire first failure information on failures that have occurred in a first device of a predetermined model of a predetermined customer, and acquire second failure information on failures that have occurred in a second device of the predetermined model; a calculating unit configured to calculate first operation information on the first device by using the first failure information, and calculate second operation information on the second device by using the second failure information; and an output unit configured to output proposal information indicating a proposal based on the first operation information and the second operation information.
US09613341B2
A method for calculating trust level of a user on social networking sites, comprising: consolidating information related to users operatively associated with at least a web based social platform; assigning weight to each of the consolidated information; computing aggregated score for at least an information; computing weighted average of the aggregated scores of the information; and calculating trust score based on the weighted average score. It further comprises assigning a trust level to the users based upon the trust. The method enables a user to create web of trust for social contacts or friends on the web based social platform wherein the web of trust comprises of most trusted friends, average trusted friends and least trusted friends.
US09613338B1
In some examples, a reader system is provided for managing inventory items in an inventory system. The reader system may be configured to read tags associated with items stowed in an inventory holder. The inventory holder may be detachably coupled to a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder to a first position near an antenna of the reader system and the tags may begin to be read. While reading or at other times in the reading process, the mobile drive unit may move the inventory holder relative to the antenna. The identified tags may be compared to a manifest list of items expected to be stowed in the inventory holder.
US09613333B2
Infrastructure-mounted RFID-readable tags or transponders are provided for various applications. Such infrastructure tags may be employed in combination with RFID-readable product tags and an RFID reader for an improved inventory-management system which requires both types of tags to be scanned to constitute a successful product count. Infrastructure tags may also be employed as “read” or “no-read” tags in an RFID read field. The infrastructure tags of the RFID read field are combined with an RFID reader which is dynamically adaptable during initial set-up and use to improve the performance of the read field. When a perturbing object is detected in the read field, one or more performance parameters of the reader are adjusted to overcome any perturbing influence caused by the object.
US09613330B2
A computer-implemented process for an endpoint for automated fulfillment, includes: in an Automatic Fulfillment (AF) server: creating an endpoint on the AF server; selecting supported commands; and for each command, defining required and optional parameters and endpoint type specific implementation details; and in a Compliance Manager (CM): running discovery to find new endpoint and create metadata for it in the CM; for each command to be automated, filling in mappings for at least all required parameters; and enabling the command; enabling the endpoint; binding the endpoint to a business source; and ensuring that the business source uses a fulfillment process that uses the AF server.
US09613327B2
Systems and methods for adapting an incremental information object (IIO) to accommodate a change in a workflow are provided. A method includes analyzing an IIO, wherein the IIO comprises a plurality of tiles, and wherein the plurality of tiles comprise a code. The code is confirmed and, if the confirmation is successful, a determination is made as to whether the workflow has changed. If the workflow has changed the IIO is modified to change the information density of the IIO, a new code comprising a bitstream is generated, and the bitstream is overwritten on the plurality of tiles.
US09613326B2
A system and method for display of graphical components on a user interface. Multiple components may be displayed on a graphical user interface an active dashboard. Each component is a graphical representation of a report generated from plurality of data fields stored in objects on a database. At least some of the reports are generated from different data models. The displayed components are filtered on the basis of at least one data field that is a common field among the different data models.
US09613318B2
A system for assessing a user interaction experience of content displayed on a mobile device, implemented by a computing processor, receives an indication of content to be displayed on the mobile device. The indication is received in response to a user attempting to access the content. The system analyzes the content to assess the user interaction experience of the content to be displayed on the mobile device. The analysis is based at least on the mobile device on which the content is to be displayed. The user interaction experience is comprised of the viewing quality of the content to be displayed on the mobile device, and/or a feasibility of user interaction with the content. Based on the user interaction experience, the system presents, on the mobile device on which the content is to be displayed, an indication of the user interaction experience and the indication of the content to be displayed on the mobile device.
US09613308B2
Robotic devices may be operated by users remotely. A learning controller apparatus may detect remote transmissions comprising user control instructions. The learning apparatus may receive sensory input conveying information about robot's state and environment (context). The learning apparatus may monitor one or more wavelength (infrared light, radio channel) and detect transmissions from user remote control device to the robot during its operation by the user. The learning apparatus may be configured to develop associations between the detected user remote control instructions and actions of the robot for given context. When a given sensory context occurs, the learning controller may automatically provide control instructions to the robot that may be associated with the given context. The provision of control instructions to the robot by the learning controller may obviate the need for user remote control of the robot thereby enabling autonomous operation by the robot.
US09613304B2
A smartcard connector for connecting a smartcard within a card holder to an electronic device. The smartcard connector includes a card holder having a card holding space, a contact pad integral with the card holder and in communicative contact with the card holding space, and an external adapter integral with the card holder and in electrical contact with the contact pad. The adapter is for communicatively connecting a smartcard received and held within the card holding space and in electrical contact with the contact pad to an external data cable. The data cable is also connected to an electrical device, such as a computer, so that the smartcard may be accessed by the computer without removing the smartcard from the card holder. The card holder may also include a battery, display screen, read/write memory, security unit, notification unit, amplification unit, and/or a light.
US09613301B2
Provided is a print data processing apparatus including an intermediate data acquisition section that acquires intermediate data which is generated from document data described in a page description language and includes plural image elements, an extraction section that extracts image elements of a watermark from among the image elements of the intermediate data acquired by the intermediate data acquisition section, a deformation section that deforms each of the image elements of the watermark extracted by the extraction section into a shape that does not include an overlapping portion between the image elements of the watermark, and an output section that outputs an image element group of the watermark deformed by the deformation section, to an image data generation device that generates image data for a printing device from the intermediate data.
US09613299B2
Methods and systems for performing character recognition of a document image include analyzing verification performed by a user on a recognized text obtained by character recognition of a document image, identifying analogous changes of a first incorrect character for a first correct character, and prompting the user to initiate a training of a recognition pattern based on the identified analogous changes.
US09613291B2
A method for patching up a point cloud comprises obtaining a point cloud and a predetermined interval and a filtering parameter of curvature. Then a void in the point cloud which needs to be patched up is identified. A minimum encasing box is created to enclose the void. Points inside the minimum encasing box and outside the void are selected to create a B-spline curve surface. The B-spline curve surface are interpolated by the predetermined interval to obtain a plurality of discrete points which are used to patch up the void. Messy points in the void according to the predetermined interval and the filtering parameter of curvature are determined and deleted. Positions of the points in the void are adjusted along their normal vector directions to smooth the point cloud.
US09613289B2
According to an embodiment, in an X-ray diagnosis apparatus, a detector detects a position of a feature point in the sequentially generated X-ray images. A corrector performs a correction process such that an angle of a line segment including the feature point and a single point based on the feature point detected in any one of the sequentially generated X-ray images substantially agree with an angle based on the feature point and a single point based on the feature point detected in a new X-ray image generated after the X-ray image, thereby sequentially generating corrected images in which a position different from the feature point in the images is substantially the same. Every time each of the corrected images is newly generated by the corrector, a controller sequentially generates the corrected images, thereby displaying a moving image on a display unit.
US09613277B2
A method for surveilling a monitored environment includes classifying an individual detected in the monitored environment according to a role fulfilled by the individual within the monitored environment, generating a trajectory that illustrates movements and locations of the individual within the monitored environment, and detecting when the trajectory indicates an event that is inconsistent with an expected pattern for the role.
US09613267B2
This disclosure provides an exemplary method and system for extracting structured label and value pairwise textual data from a textual document. According to an exemplary method, initially a layout analysis is performed resulting in one or more alternatives for grouping and ordering the textual elements of interest. Next, textual elements are tagged as including a label term, a value term or a label and value term. Finally, a sequence-based method is applied to the tagged elements to generate one or more sequence listings representative of the label and value pairwise data structure(s) and label:value pairwise data is extracted.
US09613265B2
A method and device for capturing a positionally corrected image of a document is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a two-dimensional image of the document with a mobile terminal apparatus; performing edge detection within the two-dimensional image to identify edges of the document; determining angles between detected edges; calculating, based on the detected edges and the angles determined, a three-dimensional position of the document relative to a position of the mobile terminal apparatus; calculating correction information to correct, by relative movement, the position of the document relative to the position of the mobile terminal apparatus; providing first guidance information derived from the correction information to a user of the mobile terminal apparatus, guiding the user to perform the relative movement; and capturing a positionally corrected image of the document. Thereby, the document can be captured with a quality sufficient to permit Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
US09613264B2
Shape recognition is performed based on determining whether one or more ink strokes is not part of a shape or a partial shape. Ink strokes are divided into segments and the segments analyzed employing a relative angular distance histogram. The histogram analysis yields stable, incremental, and discriminating featurization results. Neural networks may also be employed along with the histogram analysis to determine complete shapes from partial shape entries and autocomplete suggestions provided to users for conversion of the shape into a known object.
US09613244B2
Systems and methods of operation for a machine-readable symbol reader for estimating the relative position, orientation and/or distance of a scanned target object or item labeled with two dimensional (2D) indicia, such as a digital watermark. Such estimation information may be provided to a localization process or a decoding process to assist such processes in decoding the 2D indicia from an image of the object labeled with the 2D indicia. The machine-readable symbol reader may include an aiming system which projects a light pattern onto a target object. The reader may capture one or more images of the target object while the light pattern is projected thereon and analyze at least one characteristic of the pattern to estimate position, orientation or distance of the target object relative to the machine-readable symbol reader. Such information may be used to improve decoding of the 2D indicia.
US09613243B2
An apparatus and method for reading optical information and that includes an interface with reduced visual fatigue. In an embodiment, the apparatus may include an acquisition means for acquiring the optical information. The apparatus may further include a body with a frontal face to be disposed between a minimum and maximum work distance, an illuminating means for emitting an illuminating pattern, an aiming means for emitting an aiming pattern, an indicating means for emitting a reading apparatus outcome pattern. The illuminating means, aiming means, and indicating means including respective non-coherent light sources, and each are configurable by operating parameters that include wavelengths of each of the light sources are selectable. The wavelength of the aiming means may range from 430 to 470 nm, illuminating means may range from 590 to 650 nm, and indicating means may range from 530 to 560 nm.
US09613241B2
A system and method for identifying persons near a mobile device includes a wireless signaling system including an incoming wireless signal receiver, a device motion sensing system including at least a first sensor and a controller configured to determine whether the device is being moved in accordance with a predetermined gesture and to responsively enter a personnel data collection mode. In the personnel data collection mode, the device may transmit a query and receives an identification signal from at least one other device and identifies a user of the device based on the received identification signal. The predetermined gesture is a spinning gesture in an embodiment. In an embodiment, a thermal sensor is used to identify or enumerate personnel. The identification signal may be one of a Bluetooth ID and a WiFi ID.
US09613234B2
A magnetic reader head assembly includes a magnetic reader head compartment, a frame and an elastic component. The magnetic reader head compartment comprises electronic and mechanical components of the magnetic reader head. The frame has a front side and a back side and has a footprint matching the footprint of the magnetic reader head compartment. The front side is configured to attach to a back wall of the magnetic reader head compartment while allowing the magnetic reader head compartment to move out or retract from the frame. The elastic component is configured to be placed at the back side of the frame and to push the frame out in order to press the magnetic reader head compartment against a magnetic card stripe.
US09613223B2
A method for application management is provided. First, an original application is received. A license code is injected into the original application through a repackaging process to generate a repackaged application. Next, the repackaged application is published for a user device to download and install, wherein the user device executes a client program. When the user device executes the repackaged application, the license code sends a license check request to activate the client program to send a license check response according to license information of the repackaged application. The license check response indicates whether the repackaged application is allowed to be further executed. When the license check response indicates that the repackage application is not allowed to be further executed, the license code terminates the repackaged application.
US09613221B1
A device that displays signed application cards. The device receives a card object that includes: an application function identifier that identifies an application function of a native application, a digital signature, and a certificate that comprises a public key. The device verifies the authenticity of the digital signature with the public key in the certificate. The device determines that the certificate is signed by a developer of the native application referenced by the card object. The device renders an application card on the display based on the information included in the card object. The application card includes a text string, an image, an audio, and/or an image. The device overlays an indicator onto the application card. The indicator indicates that the authenticity of the digital signature has been verified. The indicator also indicates that the developer of the native application authorized the rendering of the application card.
US09613220B2
The present invention provides a method and system for securing sensitive data from unauthorized access or use. The method and system of the present invention is useful in a wide variety of settings, including commercial settings generally available to the public which may be extremely large or small with respect to the number of users. The method and system of the present invention is also useful in a more private setting, such as with a corporation or governmental agency, as well as between corporation, governmental agencies or any other entity.
US09613218B2
For a host that executes one or more guest virtual machines (GVMs), some embodiments provide a novel encryption method for encrypting the data messages sent by the GVMs. The method initially receives a data message to send for a GVM executing on the host. The method then determines whether it should encrypt the data message based on a set of one or more encryption rules. When the process determines that it should encrypt the received data message, it encrypts the data message and forwards the encrypted data message to its destination; otherwise, the method just forwards the received data message unencrypted to its destination. In some embodiments, the host encrypts differently the data messages for different GVMs that execute on the host. When two different GVMs are part of two different logical overlay networks that are implemented on common network fabric, the method in some embodiments encrypts the data messages exchanged between the GVMs of one logical network differently than the data messages exchanged between the GVMs of another logical network. In some embodiments, the method can also encrypt different types of data messages from the same GVM differently. Also, in some embodiments, the method can dynamically enforce encryption rules in response to dynamically detected events, such as malware infections.
US09613214B2
Several embodiments of systems incorporating nonvolatile memory devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a system can include a central processor (CPU) and a nonvolatile memory device operably coupled to the CPU. The nonvolatile memory device can include a memory that stores pre-measurement instructions that are executable by the nonvolatile memory upon startup, but not executable by the CPU upon startup. In operation, the pre-measurement instructions direct the nonvolatile memory to take a measurement of at least a portion of its contents and to cryptographically sign the measurement to indicate that the measurement was taken by the nonvolatile memory device. In one embodiment, the CPU can use the measurement to determine whether the nonvolatile memory device is trustworthy.
US09613213B2
Clients send telemetry data to a cloud server, where the telemetry data includes security-related information such as file creations, timestamps and malware detected at the clients. The cloud server analyzes the telemetry data to identify malware that is currently spreading among the clients. Based on the analysis of the telemetry data, the cloud server segments malware definitions in a cloud definition database into a set of local malware definitions and a set of cloud malware definitions. The cloud server provides the set of local malware definitions to the clients as a local malware definition update, and replies to cloud definition lookup requests from clients with an indication of whether a file identified in a request contains malware. If the file is malicious, the client remediates the malware using local malware definition update.
US09613211B1
A computer-implemented method for identifying suspicious text-messaging applications on mobile devices may include (1) identifying at least one outgoing text message on a mobile device, (2) analyzing at least one attribute of the outgoing text message identified on the mobile device, (3) determining that the outgoing text message is illegitimate based at least in part on analyzing the attribute of the outgoing text message, (4) identifying, in response to the determination, a suspicious text-messaging application that created the illegitimate outgoing text message on the mobile device, and then (5) performing, in response to the determination, at least one security action on the suspicious text-messaging application to prevent the suspicious text-messaging application from creating additional illegitimate text messages on the mobile device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09613209B2
An anti-malware program monitors the behavior of a system after a system restore to determine the likelihood of a hidden infection of malicious code still existing after the system restore. The anti-malware program observes the dynamic behavior of the system by monitoring conditions that are likely to signify the possibility of an infection thereby necessitating the need to initiate anti-malware detection. The anti-malware program may observe the restoration history, system settings, malware infection history, to determine the likelihood of an existing hidden infection after a system restore.
US09613205B2
A user may utilize an existing digital identity to authorize the user's access to security-enabled device operations, where the security-enabled device comprises a cryptographic chip. The device can receive a user authentication token from the digital user identification service, which authenticates a user's identity. Further, the security-enabled device can validate the user authentication token, and provide the user access to device security operations on the security-enabled device if the user authentication token is successfully validated, allowing the user to reset their security access information for the device.
US09613200B2
The current document discloses an ear-biometrics-based authentication and identification system that includes an ear-image-capture subsystem that generates an image of a user's ear, a template-generation subsystem that extracts features from the generated image to generate a template that is stored in an electronic memory, and a template-comparison subsystem that compares the generated template to previously generated and stored templates in order to identifier the user.
US09613196B2
This disclosure is directed to a protection system including machine learning snapshot evaluation. A device may comprise a machine learning engine (MLE) to generate snapshots of device operation. The MLE may use active or planned operations in the snapshot to learn user behavior. Once normal user behavior is established for the device, the MLE may be able to determine when snapshots include unusual behavior that may signify a threat to the device. Snapshots determined to include unusual behavior may be transmitted to a remote resource for evaluation. The remote resource may include at least a user behavior classification engine (UBCE) to classify the user behavior by characterizing it as at least one type of use. The snapshot may be analyzed by the UBCE to determine if potential threats exist in the device, and the threat analysis may be provided to the device for evaluation and/or corrective action.
US09613193B1
A computer system, portable electronic device, and method are provided for preventing accidental enabling of a disabled display and/or graphical user interface (GUI) of the display screen. The computer, device, and method hereof enable the display screen by first detecting the difference between an accidental or unintended touch on the display screen and a purposeful user interaction. An accidental touch actuation can cause a button to appear on the display, yet the display and GUI remain disabled or “locked”. It is not until the user actuates the button for a predetermined amount of time will the display and GUI be restored to an enabled or “unlocked” state. If purposeful user interaction is detected, the display screen is immediately transitioned from a disabled to enabled state to quickly awaken the computer system or portable electronic device.
US09613183B2
A data processing control comprising an outgoing payment request control object having 1) user-selectable data records, each user-selectable data record having one or more associated fields, 2) graphical attributes to allow the user-selectable data records to be displayed, and 3) functional attributes to allow the user-selectable data records to be submitted for payment authorization by a third party. An incoming authorized payment control object having 1) authorized payment data records, each of the authorized payment data records having one or more associated fields, 2) graphical attributes to allow the authorized payment data records to be displayed, and 3) functional attributes to allow the authorized payment data records to be submitted for fund transfer in a single bundled payment transaction. The outgoing payment request control object and the incoming authorized payment control object are generated in a user interface for a healthcare services provider.
US09613177B2
One method disclosed herein involves, among other things, generating a set of mandrel mask rules, block mask rules and a virtual, software-based non-mandrel-metal mask. The method also includes creating a set of virtual non-mandrel mask rules that is a replica of the mandrel mask rules, generating a set of metal routing design rules based upon the mandrel mask rules, the block mask rules and the virtual non-mandrel mask rules, generating the circuit routing layout based upon the metal routing design rules, decomposing the circuit routing layout into a mandrel mask pattern and a block mask pattern, generating a first set of mask data corresponding to the mandrel mask pattern, and generating a second set of mask data corresponding to the block mask pattern.
US09613176B2
Systems and techniques for alleviating congestion are described. A set of buffer chains that pass through a congested region of the circuit design can be identified. Next, the set of the buffer chains can be removed from the circuit design. A placement blockage in the circuit design can then be created that covers at least a portion of the congested region. Next, the buffer chains that were removed can be reconstructed in the circuit design in the presence of the placement blockage, thereby alleviating congestion. Once the buffer chains have been reconstructed, the placement blockage can be removed from the circuit design. In some embodiments, congestion can be alleviated by spreading out buffer chains based on spreading out center of mass lines corresponding to the buffer chains.
US09613172B2
A system for conducting numerical analysis includes a processor that is configured to define a plurality of components in a circuit and a condition to be analyzed, a module that is configured to perform a table look-up for components of the plurality of components, a module that is configured to acquire a result for the condition to be analyzed based on table information when a component of the plurality of components is defined in a table and when the table includes the condition to be analyzed, and a module that is configured to conduct the analysis of the circuit using the result based on the table information for the component.
US09613169B2
The present document describes a computing platform for simulating stability-related variables of a vessel comprising vessel elements placed in a given configuration, the computing platform comprising: a database for storing: a list of the vessel elements and information about the vessel elements; a simulation module for computing values of the stability-related variables using the vessel elements placed in the given configuration and the information about the vessel elements; and a graphical user interface for: receiving user instructions about a selection of the vessel elements among the list of the vessel elements and about the configuration of the vessel elements on the vessel; outputting the values of the stability-related variables; and displaying a representation of the vessel indicative of the values of the stability-related variables.
US09613168B2
A solution is introduced in which, instead of providing an object with all information, some of the information is provided by means of one or more group definitions. This is achieved by performing a grouping operation during which an object having object data defining at least one property of the object is assigned to a group having at least one group definition defining at least one feature shared by objects assigned to the group; and storing as mapping information a grouping time indicating the time the grouping operation was performed to the object and a link between the object and the group.
US09613164B2
A system and method for storing an input data network, in the form of graph is provided. The system includes a master node and a plurality of slave nodes. The master node is operable to receive the data network in the form of a graph, the graph including a plurality of vertices connected by edges; calculate a probability of co-retrieval for each of the plurality of vertices; and assign each of the plurality of vertices to one of the plurality of compute nodes based on the calculated probability of co-retrieval. Another method and system are provided for converting a dataset into a graph based index and storing the index on disk. Respective systems and methods of querying such data networks are also provided.
US09613159B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for integrating a fit-to-size scale factor in a sequence of scale factors. A fit-to-size scale factor can be determined based on original dimensions of information to be displayed and on dimensions of a window in which to display the information. The determined fit-to-size scale factor can be integrated in a listing of scale factors such that when a user steps through the sequence of scale factors, the user can select from the sequence the fit-to-size scale factor with which to display the information. In some cases, a auto-resize mode can be seamlessly enabled such that the information may automatically scale to its fit-to-size scale factor when the window is re-sized.
US09613156B2
This invention discloses a cookie information sharing method that comprises the following steps: reading cookie information in a parent browser, said parent browser being a browser which stores the cookie information; importing the cookie information read from the parent browser into a child browser, said child browser being a browser which needs to acquiring the cookie information from the parent browser. This application also provides a cookie information sharing system for realizing the proceeding method. The cookie information sharing method and system of this application are able to reduce occupancy of system resources by user's information records, and also to realize sharing of the user's information records.
US09613155B2
An apparatus and method for accessing and controlling data has a computer coupled to a display screen and to a source of a plurality of data items. The computer is programmed with a program having a graphical user interface that displays symbols on the display screen that represent the data items. The symbols may be displayed and colored in groups based upon the similarity of content of the data that the symbols represent. The content may also generate labels for the symbols. Lines extending between symbols graphically indicate the relatedness of the data that the symbols represent and the size of symbols may indicate the calculated relevance to user interests.
US09613149B2
Systems and methods for automatic mapping of a location identifier pattern of an object to a semantic type using object metadata are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of identifying a set of tags associated with a website that is hosted by a web server. The method further includes, detecting a web page in the website in which a tag of the set of tags is identified, extracting a pattern from a Universal Resource Locator (URL) of the web page, and/or storing the pattern in a database embodied in a machine-readable storage medium as being mapped to the semantic type. The tag corresponds to a semantic type with which the content embodied in the web page has a semantic relationship and the pattern corresponds to the semantic type with which the content embodied in the web page has a semantic relationship.
US09613125B2
Data stores that store content units and annotations regarding the content units derived through a semantic interpretation of the content units. When annotations are stored in a database, different parts of an annotation may be stored in different tables of the database. For example, one or more tables of the database may store all semantic classifications for the annotations, while one or more other tables may store content of all of the annotations. A user may be permitted to provide natural language queries for searching the database. A natural language query may be semantically interpreted to determine one or more annotations from the query. The semantic interpretation of the query may be performed using the same annotation model used to determine annotations stored in the database. Semantic classifications and format of the annotations for a query may be the same as one or more annotations stored in the database.
US09613110B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for serializing data for data transfer. One computer-implemented method includes analyzing a column of data stored in the first database to determine at least one serialization parameter, the at least one serialization parameter comprises a repetition counter, a replication counter, or a variable type; determining a data serialization scheme associated with the data based on at least one of the repetition count or the replication counter; determining a variable serialization scheme associated with the data based on the variable type; repeating the analyzing, the determining of the data serialization scheme, and the determining of the variable serialization scheme; serializing the data stored in the first database using the data serialization scheme associated with the data and the variable serialization scheme associated with the data; and transferring the serialized data to the second database.
US09613105B1
During a data-entry technique, a subset of desired information is determined based on an attribute of the user (such as an identifier). For example, the subset of the information may be associated with at least a field in a document, and the remainder of the information may be associated with at least a second field. This second field may be: empty, related to the subset of the information, and/or redundant with the subset of the information. Using the determined subset of the information, the data-entry process may be simplified. In particular, a user may only have to provide the subset of the information, instead of all the information.
US09613104B2
A method and system for building a point-in-time snapshot of an eventually-consistent data store. The data store includes key-value pairs stored on a plurality of storage nodes. In one embodiment, the data store is implemented as an Apache® Cassandra database running in the “cloud.” The data store includes a journaling mechanism that stores journals (i.e., inconsistent snapshots) of the data store on each node at various intervals. In Cassandra, these snapshots are sorted string tables that may be copied to a back-up storage location. A cluster of processing nodes may retrieve and resolve the inconsistent snapshots to generate a point-in-time snapshot of the data store corresponding to a lagging consistency point. In addition, the point-in-time snapshot may be updated as any new inconsistent snapshots are generated by the data store such that the lagging consistency point associated with the updated point-in-time snapshot is more recent.
US09613099B2
A dynamical hierarchical tagging system connected to a user site through a remote communications network. The system may comprise a master controller, a job management server connected to the master controller, one or more scanners in communication with the job management server, wherein the one or more scanners are configured to scan for one or more user assets located at the user site, resulting in scan results, a scan logic processor connected to the master controller, wherein the scan logic processor is configured to store the scan results in a user database, a tagging logic engine connected to the master controller, wherein the tagging logic engine is configured to tag the scan results stored in the user database, and an indexing logic processor connected to the master controller, wherein the indexing logic processor is configured to search and index the tagged scan results stored in the user database.
US09613079B2
A system and method for providing a synchronized data rerepresentation is provided. Data maintained by an originating application is accessed and the data is presented thorough an originating user interface. The data is marshaled into a form useable by a surrogate application with rerepresentation of the data through a surrogate user interface. Selections of the data are reflected across the originating user interface and the surrogate user interface. Actions on the data are synchronized between the originating application and the surrogate application.
US09613078B2
At a logging service, a representation of a transaction requested by a client is received. The transaction includes at least a first write operation directed to a data object at a first data store. Based at least in part on the contents of the representation and contents of a persistent log of the logging service, a determination is made that the requested transaction is to be committed. A log record corresponding to the first write operation is inserted into the persistent log. The first write is propagated to the first data store after the record has been inserted in the persistent log.
US09613076B2
A client module of an object state storage is configured to identify a live object at a client. The client module is further configured to receive an update message for the live object from storage, the update message is stored by an object ID associated with the live object, and the update message allowing the property to be updated for the live object at the client in real-time. The client module is further configured to transmit the update message for the live object to the client.
US09613071B1
A method, system, and computer readable storage medium for deferred data storage are disclosed. Data sent via a local-area network is intercepted at a first hardware appliance of a plurality of hardware appliances in response to a first request for the data. A determination is performed of whether the data is locally accessible to the first hardware appliance. Instructions are transmitted to the first hardware appliance to retrieve the data locally accessible to the hardware appliance. The data is stored on at least one temporary page at a hardware appliance. The first hardware appliance and the second hardware appliance are in communication via the local-area network.
US09613070B2
In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for normalizing data representing entities and relationships linking the entities including defining one or more graph rules describing searchable characteristics for the data representing the entities and relationships linking the entities, applying the one or more graph rules to the data representing the entities and the relationships linking the entities, identifying one or more matching instances between the one or more graph rules and the data representing the entities and the relationships linking the entities, and performing one or more actions to update the one or more matching instances between the one or more graph rules and the data representing the entities and the relationships linking the entities.
US09613069B2
A data migration system and method are disclosed for migrating data from a source server to a target server. The system includes an index containing a plurality of data migration operations in a normalized data model, each data migration operation being stored in association with an attribute, and a data mover communicably connected to the index. The data mover is adapted to move data from the source server to the target server in accordance with the data migration operations contained in the index. The data mover has an attribute corresponding to the associated attribute of at least one data migration operation contained in the index, the attribute indicating the type of data migration operations that can be performed by the data mover.
US09613068B2
A data transformation system includes a schema inference module and an export module. The schema inference module is configured to dynamically create a cumulative schema for objects retrieved from a first data source. Each of the retrieved objects includes (i) data and (ii) metadata describing the data. Dynamically creating the cumulative schema includes, for each object of the retrieved objects, (i) inferring a schema from the object and (ii) selectively updating the cumulative schema to describe the object according to the inferred schema. The export module is configured to output the data of the retrieved objects to a data destination system according to the cumulative schema.
US09613053B1
Techniques are described for allowing a data storage system to provision all vVols (or other similar virtual storage containers) as logical storage devices, which can be bound to either a block-based protocol endpoint as an exposed LUN or to a file-based protocol endpoint as a file. This may be accomplished by operating, as part of the file-based protocol endpoint, a lightweight filesystem that creates file abstractions that map to underlying logical storage devices.
US09613051B2
An data processing method includes: determining, from execution-target data, a plurality of data items included in the execution-target data, a same series of a plurality of processes being executed for the plurality of data items; associating identification information with each of the plurality of data items; and executing batch processing of the plurality of data items with which the identification information has been associated.
US09613049B2
A system is configured to receive a data file from an electronic device. The system, in one embodiment, is operable to receive a user's selection of a party together with information input by the user. The system is operable to send the data file to the selected party. The system stores, in association with the selected party, the input information and data related to the sending of the data file.
US09613042B1
Some content players use manifest files to obtain and play video content. The manifest files include metadata information for obtaining video chunks that together constitute a full video, and can be used by content players to obtain the chunks, stitch them together, and render the video as a stream. Described herein are techniques for dynamically generating manifest files. A request for a manifest file is received, such as from a video player. Manifest file contents are retrieved, such as from an original manifest file. A manifest file to be used by a video player to fetch video chunks is then dynamically generated and returned.
US09613037B2
A method and system for intelligent tiering is provided. The method includes receiving a request for enabling a tiering process with respect to data. The computer processor retrieves a migration list indicating migration engines associated with the data. Additionally, an entity list of migration entities is retrieved and each migration entity is compared to associated policy conditions. In response, it is determined if matches exist between the migration entities and the associated policy conditions and a consolidated entity list is generated.
US09613033B2
Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break).
US09613030B2
A method for translating content includes providing a plurality of content on a user device. The plurality of content is associated with a first region display mode. The plurality of content is displayed on the user device in the first region display mode. A predefined orientation is then detected in the user device. The plurality of content is then translated according to a second region display mode to produce a plurality of translated content. The plurality of translated content is then displayed on the user device. In different embodiments, the plurality of content may have been previously provided on the user device, may be retrieved over a network by the user device, or my be received through a user interface on the user device. A specific embodiment allows a user to rotate the user device 180 degrees to quickly and easily translate text displayed on the user device.
US09613027B2
Annotated training data (e.g., sentences) in a first language are used to generate annotated training data for a second language. For example, annotated sentences in English are manually collected first, and then is used to generate annotated sentences in Chinese. The annotated training data includes slot labels, slot values and carrier phrases. The carrier phrases are the portions of the training data that is outside of a slot. The carrier phrases are translated from the first language to one or more translations in the second language. The translations may include machine translations as well as human translations. Entities for the slot values are determined for the translated sentences using content sources that include locale-dependent entities. The determined entities are used to fill the slots in the translations of the second language. All or a portion of the resulting sentences may be used for training models in the second language.
US09613019B2
Techniques for automatically generating test data solve various problems in test data generation. A technique of automatically generating test data includes receiving a signature to be embedded in at least one character string to be generated and determining a total sum of attribute values intrinsic to characters in the character string. The sum is associated with each element of the signature. At least one of the characters in the character string may be selected from a character table describing characters prepared to create the test data so as to achieve the determined total sum for each element of the signature. The generated test data contains the character string including the selected character.
US09613018B2
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for GUI display effect formatting.
US09613011B2
Manipulation of a Web page displayed through a first device as a function of user interaction with a second device is contemplated. The manipulation may include operating the second device as a touchscreen or other gesture-based controllable device and automatically providing corresponding navigation within the Web page as a function of interactions registered through the second device.
