US09699942B1
Component carrier having a chassis, a first component sled engaged with and receivable into the chassis, a fan module mounted at the front of the first component sled, and a second component sled engaged with and receivable into the chassis above the first component sled and rearward of the fan module. The first and second component sled each transitionable between an extended position and a withdrawn position. The extended position having the respective component sled at least partially outside of the chassis and the withdrawn position having the respective component sled substantially received into the chassis. Transition of the first component sled from the withdrawn to the extended position moves the fan module from the chassis but does not move the second component sled while transition of the second component sled from the withdrawn position to the extended position moves the first component sled to the extended position.
US09699941B2
A chassis of an information handling system (IHS) includes a lateral segment that spans across a directional path of air travelling from an air intake side to an air exhaust side and including receiving affordances for insertion of a lateral support for a directional air mover. A user can select one of a first lateral support and a second lateral support that is insertable into the lateral segment and securable to the receiving affordances. The first lateral support has apertures of a first size to receive respective first fan modules and the second lateral support has apertures of a second size to receive respective second fan modules. An inserted one of the first and second lateral supports is selected based on a cooling air requirement corresponding to user selected compute components placed within the chassis to operate within the IHS.
US09699934B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first body; a second body; a connection device including: a connection body through which the first body is connected with the second body; with a first torque generator and a second torque generator provided inside the connection body. When an angle value is in a first preset threshold range, the first torque generator generates a first torque for balancing a second torque generated by gravitation of the first body. When the angle value is larger than a maximum value of the first preset threshold range, the first torque generator generates a third torque and the second torque generator generates a fourth torque; the third torque and the fourth torque balancing a fifth torque generated by a first composite force, which is the composite force of the gravitation of the first body and a push force acting on a touch control unit.
US09699933B2
A server rack includes a power mapping module, a power receptacle that includes a power tine communication module wherein the power receptacle is uniquely associated with a rack unit of the server rack and is collocated with the associated rack unit, and a server coupled to the power mapping module via a management network, wherein the server asserts an interrupt request to the power mapping module via the management network. The power mapping module sends a unique identifier via the first power tine communication module in response to receiving the interrupt request. The server receives the unique identifier via the second power line communication module and sends the unique identifier to the power mapping module via the management network. The power mapping module determines that the server is installed into the rack based upon the receipt of the unique identifier.
US09699927B2
A cable is drawn through a first opening of a cable holder from a rear side to a front side, and drawn back through a second opening to the rear side, and drawn again through a third opening to the front side. The cable holder on which the cable is wound is contained in a chamber of a load cell. Central lines of the cable are soldered to a circuit board in the load cell. A male thread of a nut is screwed into a female thread of the chamber, so that the cable holder is pressed against a front side of the chamber via a rubber sleeve.
US09699926B2
A case for an electronic device includes an injection preform having a recess on at least one portion of a surface thereof, a deposition layer deposited on a surface of the injection preform, and a paint layer formed on the deposition layer. The deposition layer may directly contact a surface of the injection preform. A method of manufacturing a case includes injection-molding an injection preform having a recess on a surface thereof, forming a deposition layer directly contacting a surface of the injection preform, and forming a paint layer on the deposition layer.
US09699922B1
The invention generally relates to an interactive audio pass-through device constructed as a portable unit that houses Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth wireless hardware and software, a microprocessor for processing a unique queuing algorithm for a plurality of users, and a plurality of colored light sources for visually indicating the queue to the users. The queuing algorithm assigns specific Bluetooth codes to users' Bluetooth devices, and a user software application loaded on the users' Bluetooth enabled devices allows the device to stream content wirelessly using its unique Bluetooth code to the interactive audio pass-through device. The microprocessor also allows private interactive chats among users in the queue, and also includes administrator control software to allow the unit's owner to set parameters for the unit.
US09699912B2
A wiring board includes an insulating layer; and a wiring layer embedded in the insulating layer at one surface side of the insulating layer, one surface of the wiring layer being exposed from one surface of the insulating layer, the wiring layer including a first portion and a second portion whose width is wider than that of the first portion, one surface of the first portion and one surface of the second portion being flush with each other, and the first portion being thinner than the second portion.
US09699907B2
A semiconductor package module may include a first substrate, and a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate. The semiconductor package module may include an interconnection member electrically connecting the first substrate to the second substrate and including a plurality of wires. Portions of the plurality of wires may be twisted and wound together and may be bent to extend in a predetermined direction.
US09699905B2
To provide a wiring board ensuring adhesion strength of a connecting terminal to reduce the connecting terminal from being fallen over or peeled off under fabrication process. The wiring board according to the present invention includes a laminated body where one or more layer of each of an insulating layer and a conductor layer are laminated. The wiring board includes a plurality of connecting terminals formed separately from one another on the laminated body and a filling member filled up between the plurality of connecting terminals. The filling member is filled up to a position lower than a height of the plurality of connecting terminals. The connecting terminals has a cross section with a trapezoidal shape where a width of a first principal surface on a side contacting the laminated body is wider than a width of a second principal surface facing the first principal surface.
US09699900B2
A circuit board, including a plurality of wiring lines extending along a first direction and arranged side by side along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a plurality of pads having a predetermined length along the first direction, the plurality of pads being on the wiring lines; ground pad outside the pads, the wiring lines including first wiring lines delivering a positive polarity signal and second wiring lines delivering a negative polarity signal, the pads including first pads on the first wiring lines and second pads on the second wiring lines, and a cross-sectional area of each wiring line being substantially equal to that of each pad.
US09699898B2
The present invention provides a conductive film including a plurality of groove units of which horizontal sections are formed in a lattice form, and a plurality of cells that are regions surrounded by the groove units, wherein at least a part of the groove unit include a conductive pattern formed through separation by a separation unit, and a method for preparing the same.
US09699893B2
An elastic flexible substrate including an insulating film base material provided with a wire is provided. In the insulating film base material, a plurality of slits are provided with a predetermined space left therebetween, the insulating film base material has a bellows shape in which the insulating film base material is bent or curved by using the slits as base points, and the slits are deformed when the insulating film base material is stretched.
US09699886B2
An electronic device includes: a casing; a board disposed inside the casing and having a heating element mounted thereon; an opposing member disposed inside the casing and having an opposing face opposed to a face of the board on which the heating element is mounted; a heat sink formed by alternately laminating thermal diffusion sheets and adhesive layers each having an opening at a location corresponding to the heating element on the opposing face of the opposing member; and a press member configured to press the heating element against a region of the heat sink corresponding to the opening of the adhesive layer, thus joining the thermal diffusion sheets together at the location of the opening.
US09699883B2
A thermal switch includes a substrate having a target region and a peripheral region. A metallization array is coupled to the substrate and is positioned adjacent the target region, the metallization array including a plurality of first temperature dependent thermally conductive metallization segments and a plurality of second temperature dependent thermally conductive metallization segments. The metallization array directs heat flux toward the target region within a first temperature range and directs heat flux away from the target region within a second temperature range.
US09699880B2
A plasma generating system is provided. The plasma generating system includes: a pair of electrodes having distal ends; an electrode holder holding the pair of electrodes; a gate having a surface on which the electrode holder is slidably mounted and adapted to be controlled by sliding the electrode holder on the surface; and a resilient member secured to the gate and adapted to generate a force to close the opening. The distal ends are adapted to move into an opening of the gate as the electrode holder slides along a direction on the surface and adapted to generate an electric arc to thereby ignite plasma in a gas.
US09699876B2
An EUV light source target material handling system is disclosed which may comprise a droplet generator having a target material reservoir in which the target material may be replenished while a nozzle portion of the droplet generator is maintained at temperature. Also disclosed is a system for selectively draining spent target material.
US09699868B2
In one example, a device includes a transformer configured to electrically isolate one or more components of the device from a communication bus, and a controller configured to receive and transmit data via the communication bus, wherein the controller is operable to communicate via a plurality of communication standards that include at least one analog unidirectional communication standard and at least one digital bidirectional communication standard, and wherein both the received data and the transmitted data pass through the transformer.
US09699866B2
Some embodiments include a remote for gesture recognition for an external light system. In some embodiments, the remote may include an acceleration sensor; a wireless transceiver; memory; and a processor communicatively coupled with the acceleration sensor, the wireless transceiver, and the memory. In some embodiments, the processor may be configured to: sample acceleration data from the acceleration sensor; determine a first event type based on the acceleration data; determine a second event type based on the acceleration data; determine a command for an external system based on the first event type; and transmit the command to the external device using the wireless transceiver. In some embodiments, the first event type and/or the second event type comprises an event selected from the list consisting of a swipe, a tap, a double tap, a directional point, and a tilt; exclude the second event type.
US09699865B2
A spotlight and a method of controlling the spotlight with an external device. The spotlight includes a first light source, a second light source, and a power supply. The spotlight also includes a transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with the external device and a processor. The processor is operable to receive a first input from the external device specifying a first amount of power to be provided to the first light source, and receive a second input from the external device specifying a second amount of power to be provided to the second light source. The processor is also operable to control the power supply to provide the first amount of power to the first light source in response to the first input, and control the power supply to provide the second amount of power to the second light source in response to the second input.
US09699862B2
In some examples, non-lighting application controller technology includes methods and apparatuses. In other examples, the technology includes a non-lighting application controller system. The system includes one or more light fixtures. Each light fixture of the one or more light fixtures has one or more non-lighting elements, such as a speaker, alarm, motor, and camera. Each light fixture of the one or more light fixtures is electrically coupled via a power line. Each light fixture of the one or more light fixtures includes a conversion module configured to convert instructions between power line communication and non-lighting control communication, a communication module configured to communicate the power line communication over the power line, and a non-lighting element controller configured to control the one or more non-lighting elements in a respective light fixture based on the instructions.
US09699856B2
A lighting fixture includes an outer frame, a solid-state light source, a lens, and a sensor module connector. Driver circuitry is coupled to the outer frame and provides one or more drive signals for powering the light source. The lens is supported by and attached to the outer frame. The solid-state light source is mounted to the outer frame and at least partially surrounded by the lens, such that at least a portion of the light provided by the solid-state light source is transmitted through the lens towards an area of interest. The sensor module connector is mounted to the outer frame and configured to accept a connector from a sensor module such that when the sensor module is installed in the lighting fixture, a surface of the sensor module faces the area of interest towards which light from the solid-state light source is provided.
US09699852B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling an isolated switch are disclosed. The apparatus and the method for controlling an isolated switch according to the present invention, configure a circuit so as to maintain a light emitting diode (LED) included in an isolated switch in an OFF state at normal times and control the LED in an ON state when an event occurs in an isolated switch such as a photo MOS relay to reduce power consumed for emitting the LED by decreasing a duration for which the LED is maintained in an emission state and improve durability of a system adopting the isolated switch by improving a life-span of the isolated switch.
US09699845B2
An error signal generating unit is configured such that (i) in a calibration period, the error signal generating unit is set to a first state in which it amplifies an error signal by amplifying a difference between a predetermined first reference voltage and the lowest one from among multiple first detection voltages, and such that (ii) after the calibration period, the error signal generating unit is set to a second state in which it generates the error signal by amplifying a difference between a second detection voltage and a second reference voltage. A reference voltage setting unit holds, as the second reference voltage, the largest value of the second detection voltage detected in the calibration period.
US09699840B2
In one embodiment, a light-emitting diode (LED) driver can include: (i) a reference voltage control circuit configured to provide a reference voltage signal in response to an enable signal; (ii) a current control circuit configured to control an output current of the LED driver in response to the reference voltage signal; and (iii) the LED driver being configured to drive an LED load when the enable signal is active.
US09699835B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for a processing apparatus configured to authenticate an item based on at least one optical indicium associated with the item before processing the item. An interface may be configured to receive processing information from a machine readable element associated with an item to be processed. An image acquisition device may be configured to acquire image information relating to at least one optical indicium associated with an item. At least one processor may be configured to verify authentication of the item based upon the image information acquired by the image sensor unit. The processor may be further configured to receive processing information from the interface and to determine one or more instructions for processing the item based on the processing information. The apparatus may be further configured to processing the item in accordance with the instructions after the item has been verified as authentic.
US09699832B2
A second cellular client delegates cellular communication to a first cellular client. The first cellular client determines that the first cellular client has been assigned to perform cellular communication for the second cellular client. The first cellular client receives a transmission from a cellular service-provider antenna intended for the second cellular client. The first cellular client sends a first command based on the transmission to the second cellular client. The first command instructs the second cellular client to enable the cellular functionality of the second cellular client.
US09699807B2
Embodiments of a high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) station, access point (AP), and method for random access contention in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the HEW station may receive a beacon frame that indicates a number of trigger frames (TFs) included in a beacon interval. The beacon frame may be received from an HEW access point (AP) in channel resources that include multiple sub-channels. The HEW station may receive a random access TF that indicates a random access portion of the sub-channels that are allocated for random access contention during an uplink transmission period. The HEW station may select a candidate sub-channel from the channel resources. When the candidate sub-channel is included in the random access portion, the HEW station may transmit an association request (AR) frame on the candidate sub-channel during the uplink transmission period.
US09699806B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention provides a method for enabling a user equipment (UE) to retransmit uplink data on the basis of a signal received through a physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel (PHICH) in a wireless communication system and a device for the same, and the method for retransmitting uplink data comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, an indication on whether or not to detect the PHICH; retransmitting the uplink data on the basis of a PHICH detection result if the received indication is to detect the PHICH; and retransmitting the uplink data on the basis of an uplink grant received from the base station if the received indication is not to detect the PHICH.
US09699802B2
A Long Term Evolution (LTE) protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of dual connectivity User Equipment (UE) in LTE networks by providing a toggling mechanism to alleviate uncertainty in available transmit power, or power headroom, for uplink transmissions so that efficient utilization of the uplink radio resources can be achieved in dual connectivity. A new field for Radio Resource Control (RRC) messages enables toggling for alternating transmissions to Master and Secondary Evolved Node Bs (MeNBs and SeNBs) during alternating time periods. An enhanced Media Access Control Element enables toggling by the MeNB, SeNB or UE. In one embodiment, the UE schedules uplink transmissions to a SeNB during even numbered time divisions when the UE schedules the uplink transmissions to the MeNB during the odd numbered time divisions, or during the odd numbered time divisions when the UE schedules the uplink transmissions to the MeNB during the even numbered time divisions.
US09699800B2
Systems and methods for bearer splitting among multiple radio links are disclosed herein. User equipment (UE) may be communicatively coupled to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) by multiple radio links (e.g., an LTE link and a WLAN link). A transmitter may dynamically determine a splitting policy for how to split traffic among each link (e.g., what proportion to send over each link). In some embodiments, the transmitter may determine the splitting policy explicitly based on lower layer metrics. Alternatively, or in addition, each radio access interface may request data when a transmission opportunity becomes available, and the splitting policy may be determined implicitly from the data requests. For a UE, the splitting policy may be determined with network assistance, which may include a resource allocation for an LTE link, a probability of successful transmission over a WLAN link, and/or the like.
US09699796B2
A HeNB includes a CQI acquiring unit and an SIR acquiring unit that measure communication qualities of transmission bands on an uplink side and a downlink side. The HeNB, upon detecting an interference difference between bands in a transmission band on each of the uplink side and the downlink side on the basis of a result of measurement of the communication qualities, sets allocation of a band in which the communication quality satisfies a predetermined condition in the transmission band in which the interference difference is detected. The HeNB includes a control unit that, upon detecting signal interference on the downlink side on the basis of the result of the measurement of the communication qualities, controls a band on the downlink side, and controls a band on the uplink side in the transmission band in cooperation with the control on the band on the downlink side.
US09699794B2
Performing scheduling operations by a centralized scheduler in a wireless communication system. Receiving Channel State Information (CSI) about a channel between each of a plurality of Transmission Points (TPs) and each of a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) performing communication with each of the plurality of TPs from each of the plurality of TPs, performing a first scheduling operation for allocating wireless resources to each of the plurality of TPs based on the CSI received from each of the plurality of TPs, and transmitting first scheduling information representing a result of the first scheduling operation to each of the plurality of TPs. The first scheduling information contains transmission power information representing transmission power for each of the wireless resources allocated to each of the plurality of TPs, and is used to perform a second scheduling operation to select a UE to communicate with each of the plurality of TPs.
US09699792B2
A base station apparatus including a plurality of communication units which communicate through a different plurality of communication channels with an upper layer apparatus of the base station apparatus, a base station information acquisition unit which acquires base station information relating to the state of the base station apparatus, a channel selection unit which selects any of the plurality of communication channels in accordance with base station information, and a channel switching unit which dynamically switches the channel which is used for transmission of traffic of the mobile station apparatus to a channel which is selected by the channel selection unit.
US09699790B2
A mobile station for transferring delay-sensitive data to a wireless communications network is provided with an uplink resource release controller that selectively inhibits release of an uplink resource in order to meet requirements of a delay-sensitive data application, such as a VoIP or streaming application. In one embodiment, the uplink resource release controller causes dummy blocks to be written to a data buffer to prevent initiation of a countdown process. By intelligently controlling resource release, delay-sensitive data may be transmitted in a more reliable fashion, thereby increasing application performance.
US09699784B2
An electronic device has wireless communications circuitry. The wireless circuitry may transmit and receive wireless signals over a network having first and second wireless base stations. The first base station may establish a primary wireless connection with the device using selected connection settings and may transmit the selected connection settings to the second base station. The second base station may copy the received connection settings to establish a secondary wireless connection with the device while the primary connection is simultaneously maintained. After the primary and secondary connections have been established, the first and second base stations may transmit data streams to the electronic device over different frequency bands in a carrier aggregation link. By using the second base station to copy the received connection settings that were used by the first base station to establish the primary connection, the connection time for establishing the carrier aggregation link may be improved.
US09699780B2
A base station device and a mobile station device efficiently communicate by using a flexible subframe. When a physical uplink shared channel and a sounding reference signal are not scheduled in a first flexible subframe, and at least the physical uplink shared channel is scheduled in a second flexible subframe immediately following the first flexible subframe, the mobile station device monitors a downlink grant which is used for scheduling the physical downlink shared channel in the first flexible subframe, and receives the physical downlink shared channel except for a last part in a time domain, in the first flexible subframe, based on the detected downlink grant.
US09699777B2
The present invention relates to wireless communication, and more particularly, to a method for transmitting a signal using a plurality of antenna ports and a transmission end apparatus for same. According to a method for a transmission end transmitting the signal in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) wireless communication system of the present invention, a step of transmitting instruction information on a first channel transmission method to a reception end, and a step of transmitting the first channel to the reception end using a resource region are comprised, wherein the first channel is either an advanced-physical downlink control channel (A-PDCCH) or a relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH), the first channel is not transmitted when at least a portion of the resource region overlaps with a resource region used for transmitting a second channel, and wherein the second channel can be periodically transmitted using a predetermined portion of the resource region.
US09699765B2
Method in a user equipment (120), a user equipment (120), a method in a base station (110) and a base station (110) for setting values of system parameters used within a wireless communication system (100). A first set of parameter values and an associated first tag is sent from the base station (110) to be received and stored by the user equipment (120). Further, a second set of parameter values and an associated second tag is sent from the base station (110) to be received and stored by the user equipment (120). When the base station (110) determine to change system information parameters, a command tag is sent, to be received by the user equipment (120), which apply the set of parameter values associated with the tag corresponding to the received command tag.
US09699758B2
Various techniques are provided for Location Services (LCS) Assistance Data broadcast, for example for implementation in LTE and LTE-A systems. The embodiments described herein may use the LPP/LPPe positioning protocol, by making use of existing unsolicited Provide Assistance Data (PAD) messages. Embodiments avoid the need to define and implement a separate broadcast Assistance Data protocol. Additional exemplary embodiments for scheduling and verifying of the broadcast Assistance Data messages are described herein.
US09699748B2
A first communication device receives respective beamforming training packets as part of a procedure for developing respective transmit beamforming matrices for use by a plurality of second communication devices during a subsequent UL MU transmission. The first communication device generates respective beamforming feedback information based on reception of the respective beamforming training packets, and transmits the respective beamforming feedback information to the plurality of second communication devices. The first communication device transmits a synchronization signal to a group of multiple second communication devices to the group to simultaneously transmit to the first communication device at a particular time as part of the UL MU transmission, and receives simultaneous transmissions from the group responsive to the synchronization signal, the simultaneous transmissions having been beamformed by second communication devices in the group using transmit beamforming matrices.
US09699743B2
The present invention relates to a method implemented by a wireless device in a wireless communication system, for adjusting a maximum output power level of the wireless device. The method comprises obtaining an indication indicating a current level of criticality in the system in which a network node serving the wireless device is operating, and adjusting the maximum output power level based on the current level of criticality indicated by the obtained indication.
US09699741B1
A wireless communication system includes a first access point, and at least one first station in communication with the first access point. The first access point controls access parameters for communications with a first station. The access parameters may include Enhanced Distributed Channel Access parameters such as a minimum or maximum contention window parameter, an arbitration interframe spacing parameter, or a transmit opportunity limit parameter. The access parameters also may include a channel bandwidth parameter, a transmit power parameter, or a data rate parameter such as a modulation and coding scheme parameter. Where the system includes an additional access point, and at least one additional station in communication with the additional access point, the first access point and the additional access point control access parameters to avoid interference between the first access point and the additional access point. A central controller may coordinate between the first and additional access points.
US09699739B2
In some implementations, a mobile device can analyze motion sensor data and proximity sensor data during a voice call to determine whether the mobile device is on a stationary object or worn on a user's body (e.g., in the lap or pocket of a user of the mobile device). The mobile device can adjust the transmit power level of the telephony transceiver during the voice call based on the determination.
US09699726B2
A data transmitting/receiving method capable of effectively suppressing power consumption includes: establishing synchronization between a master device and a slave device; receiving a data frame; extracting payloads from the received data frame; generating a new payload section by combining the extracted payloads with another payload extracted from another data frame received from another device or a new payload generated by the device; generating a new synchronization section and a new header section; generating a new data frame by combining the new synchronization section and the new header section that are generated with the new payload section; and transmitting the generated new data frame.
US09699715B2
An embodiment of the present invention entails a method in which discovery is effected by a first device supporting a WiFi direct service, the method comprising the steps of: scanning usable channels; switching channel to a first channel; and effecting a procedure relating to probe sending and receiving, together with a second device on the first channel. Here, the first channel is determined from either a time stamp or the scanning result.
US09699711B2
An apparatus comprises a first interface module configured to interface with one or more user devices through a wireless local area network (WLAN) connection; a second interface module configured to interface with a wireless communication network through a wireless wide area network (WWAN) connection; and a controller. The controller is configured to detect availability of carrier hotspots; if no carrier hotspot is detected, route traffic to and from the one or more user devices through the WWAN connection; and if a carrier hotspot is detected, route traffic to and from the one or more user devices through the detected carrier hotspot.
US09699695B2
Described embodiments provide an apparatus and method for selectively providing system information in a heterogeneous network environment including a first network overlaid on a second network. The apparatus may include a location determination unit, a mapping table, and a signal processor. The location determination unit may be configured to determine a first network base station in the first network. The mapping table may be configured to store information on at least one second network cell in a second network, which is spatially in a comparatively close distance to each first network base station in the first network. The signal processor may be configured to determine at least one second network cell spatially close to the determined first network base station based on the mapping table and to transmit system information of the at least one second network cell to the user equipment.
US09699694B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and a computer program products for Mobility Management Entity (MME) triggered detach and re-attach to a specific target MME are provided. One method includes receiving or obtaining a trigger to move a UE attached to a source MME to another target MME. The receiving of the trigger may cause the initiating of a GUTI reallocation command towards the UE in which the MME code (MMEC) specifies the target MME and the M-TMSI is set to a reserved value. The method may further include receiving a GUTI reallocation complete message from the UE, sending a detach request to the UE with a detach type of “re-attach required,” and receiving a detach accept message from the UE. The new attach request initiated by the UE is then directed towards the target MME. The target MME recognizes the reserved value, requests UE permanent identity with Identity Request message, UE responds with Identity Response specifying the permanent identity, and the registration with Attach towards the target MME continues.
US09699693B2
An architecture is described that can provide enhancement with respect to circuit switched fall back. In particular, the architecture can reduce the signaling and delay of conventional systems that are necessitated by establishing a radio resource control connection prior to establishing the circuit switched fall back connection. For example, when user equipment is not in a radio resource control connected state at the time of a circuit switched fall back call, the radio resource control connection can be at least partially avoided by responding to a radio resource control connection request message with a radio resource control connection reject message that includes target cell reselection information.
US09699692B2
A node of a cellular network detects entry of a vehicle-to-vehicle communication device into a cell of the cellular network. The node allocates resources to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device, and sends channel information to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device. The channel information can be included in a handover command to the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device. The channel information indicates the allocated resources. The vehicle-to-vehicle communication device uses the allocated resources for sending of vehicle-to-vehicle communication messages.
US09699686B1
A method in a network entity for generating resource templates for a plurality of radio links. The method provides for obtaining link interference information representing interference relation among the plurality of radio links; dividing the plurality of radio links into a number of groups based on the link interference information, such that each radio link in each group does not interfere with any radio link in any other group; and generating resource templates for the plurality of radio links by determining, for each group individually, schedulabilities of resource elements for each radio link in the group.
US09699681B2
A method for transmission of environment-related information between a user equipment and a mobile communication network includes: transmitting measurement configuration information from a mobile communication network to a user equipment; obtaining local network information by conducting a requested measurement; and transmitting the local network information together with at least one other uplink transmission performed by the user equipment to the base station entity by using at least one radio interface of the user equipment.
US09699675B2
A method of handling an interference measurement for a communication device in a time-division duplexing (TDD) system comprises receiving a signal; measuring an interference coming from at least one cell with at least one uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration in the TDD system in a subframe according to the signal, to obtain a measured interference; and generating a measurement result comprising the measured interference and information of the at least one UL/DL configuration of the at least one cell.
US09699674B2
An approach for the analysis of the impact of over the top (OTT) applications is provided, which operate “over the top” of the network applications, with respect to network performance and power consumption on mobile devices. A wireless network for an application-carrying device separate from wireless communications network test equipment is simulated. A wireless communications interface between the simulated network and the application-carrying device is monitored. The monitoring comprises measuring signaling data on a control plane, and measuring application data on a user plane related to at least one application implemented on the application-carrying device. Cross-layer measurement data is generated based on the measured signaling data and application data. The signaling data and the application data are measured on the basis of a common time reference of the test equipment.
US09699669B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to a communication between an element manager and a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP). The WLAN AP may be configured with one or more counters. The one or more counters may measure events, such as data transmission and/or reception at the WLAN AP or a carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) procedure by the WLAN AP. The element manager may be configured to read one or more of these counters and compute one or more values based on the values read from the one or more counters. The element manager may be configured to communicate the one or more computed values to a network manager. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09699667B2
A particular method includes transmitting a frame from a station to an access point. The frame includes a beacon sequence number related to a configuration of the access point. The method also includes, in response to transmitting the frame, receiving an update frame from the access point. The update frame indicates at least one change in the configuration of the access point.
US09699662B2
A method for generating a signal of a broadcasting receiving apparatus is provided. The method includes receiving a broadcasting signal, setting a guide band frequency according to a preset frequency range and a tuned frequency, and transmitting information for the set guide band frequency to at least one external apparatus.
US09699655B1
When manufacturing, distributing, or selling mobile phones, each phone is associated with an asymmetric cryptographic key pair, comprising a public key and a private key. The private key is stored on the phone, and the public key is stored in a public key repository. When connecting to a cellular network, a phone provides its device ID to the network. The cellular network queries the public key repository to determine the public key of the phone and authenticates the phone using the phone's public key. The cellular network also provides a digital identity certificate to the phone, allowing the phone to authenticate the cellular network using a public key infrastructure (PKI).
US09699649B2
A mobile device, such as a smart phone, receives program instructions, such as program instructions to evaluate components and/or software in the mobile device. The mobile device detects a local network and determines whether an attribute of the local network matches a desired attribute, such as a service set identifier (SSID) identified in the program instructions. When the attribute of the local network matches the desired attribute, the mobile device executes the program instructions. If the attribute of the local network does not match the desired attribute, the mobile device continues to look for a matching local network before executing the program instructions.
US09699642B2
Embodiments are described for identifying and accessing an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) and associated content of the eSIM in a multiple eSIM configuration. An embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) can include multiple eSIMs, where each eSIM can include its own file structures and applications. Some embodiments include a processor of a mobile device transmitting a special command to the eUICC, including an identification that uniquely identifies an eSIM in the eUICC. After selecting the eSIM, the processor can access file structures and applications of the selected eSIM. The processor can then use existing commands to access content in the selected eSIM. The special command can direct the eUICC to activate or deactivate content associated with the selected eSIM. Other embodiments include an eUICC platform operating system interacting with eSIMs associated with logical channels to facilitate identification and access to file structures and applications of the eSIMs.
US09699637B1
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.
US09699633B2
An input/output system interconnects a mobile terminal, a cooperative processing apparatus, and a plurality of electronic devices, and is configured to implement a cooperative process of prompting an electronic device corresponding to an input apparatus to input electronic data and prompting an electronic device corresponding to an output apparatus to output the input electronic data. The input/output system includes an acquisition unit that acquires input/output apparatus information from the electronic device corresponding to the input/output apparatus, an input control unit that controls the electronic device specified by the input apparatus information to input electronic data, and an output control unit that controls the electronic device specified by the output apparatus information to output the input electronic data in an output format compatible with the electronic device specified by the output apparatus information if the electronic device is capable of directly outputting the input electronic data from the mobile terminal.
US09699628B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to determine whether a user of the user device is being transported by a vehicle; determine whether any of multiple events pertaining to a message application is detected in response to a determination that the user is being transported by the vehicle; obtain input characteristic data attributed to the user in response to a determination that any of the multiple events is detected; determine whether the user is a driver of the vehicle based on the input characteristic data; and block receipt of an inbound message and a creation of an outbound message in response to a determination that the user is the driver of the vehicle.
US09699622B1
An embodiment of the invention includes a system, method and computer program product for managing dynamic events. The embodiment may include managing, by a first subsystem, an event in a first region of the plurality of geographic regions using a first event agent. The embodiment may include determining whether the event is predicted to spread from the first region to a second region. The embodiment may include generating a first dynamic event agent to monitor the event as a dynamic event based on predicting the event may spread from the first region to the second region. The first dynamic event agent may receive information relating to the dynamic event, update a status of the dynamic event based on the received information, and transmit the received information. The embodiment may include generating, by a second subsystem, a second dynamic event agent for handling the dynamic event in the second region.
US09699612B2
The principles described herein provide methods and systems for locating a tracking device. In particular, one disclosed method includes associating a user with a tracking device, receiving an indication that the tracking device is lost, setting a flag indicating that the tracking device is lost, receiving a location within a proximity of the tracking device from one of a plurality of mobile devices associated with a community of users, and providing the location to the user.
US09699610B1
Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for consumer interfaces including ambient map displays are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display with a graphical representation of a map. The ambient map display may further include merchant location indicators within the map. The merchant location indicators may indicate the activity level for merchant locations that are determined to be near a consumer device, such as through a variable blink rate or other indicator. The activity level may represent, for example, the number of consumers at a particular venue or the rate of a particular consumer activity, such as transaction activity. The system may be configured to provide real-time merchant data to consumer device based on tracking the consumer device location.
US09699609B2
A method and system are disclosed for determining the geographic location of a user communicating on a communications network such as the Internet. In one embodiment, a provider of a product or service: (a) receives the user's phone number (or other identification for contacting the user's station), and (b) supplies the user's station with a distinctive identifier. The provider of the product or service then supplies a location determining service (or location service provider) with the user's phone number (or other identification). A phone call is made to the phone number by the location determining service (or location service provider) for retrieving the distinctive identifier from the network station having the phone number. If the distinctive identifier is retrieved and the location determining service (or location service provider) determines that the user's station is within an appropriate geographical area (or not within an inappropriate area), then the provider of the product or service can provide the requested product or service to the user.
US09699600B1
An interpersonal communication and an interactive information system, where a user can access a wireless local area network connected to a cloud computing service from any compatible mobile device and obtain information specific to the user's location and communicate with other mobile devices in the user's location through the wireless local area network.
US09699593B2
Methods and systems for storing data regarding received advertising packets are disclosed. An example method involves determining parameters of at least one batch-scan mode for a Bluetooth device. The parameters of the at least one batch-scan mode specify a format for storing data regarding particular advertising packets that are received by the Bluetooth device when operating in the at least one batch-scan mode. The method also involves receiving, by the Bluetooth device, one or more advertising packets on an interval basis. Further, the method involves storing data regarding the one or more advertising packets into a memory of the Bluetooth device in accordance with the at least one batch-scan mode. And the method involves providing the stored data regarding the one or more advertising packets to the host Bluetooth stack.
US09699590B2
A wireless communication apparatus stores therein, in an associated manner, each piece of path information on a plurality of destinations and a use frequency of data communication that is performed by using the path information. When the wireless communication apparatus receives data whose send source is a first destination, the wireless communication apparatus specifies, on the basis of the use frequency, path information that is less frequently used from among the pieces of the stored path information. The wireless communication apparatus updates the specified path information to path information whose destination is the first destination.
US09699589B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses can involve receiving, from a network node, a radio resource control (RRC) configuration message that includes configuration information for a first user equipment (UE) for an inter-device session (IDS) between the first UE and a second UE, the UE1 configuration information including an inter-device session (IDS) radio network identifier.
US09699582B2
A self calibrating dipole microphone formed from two omni-directional acoustic sensors. The microphone includes a sound source acoustically coupled to the acoustic sensors and a processor. The sound source is excited with a test signal, exposing the acoustic sensors to acoustic calibration signals. The responses of the acoustic sensors to the calibration signals are compared by the processor, and one or more correction factors determined. Digital filter coefficients are calculated based on the one or more correction factors, and applied to the output signals of the acoustic sensors to compensate for differences in the sensitivities of the acoustic sensors. The filtered signals provide acoustic sensor outputs having matching responses, which are subtractively combined to form the dipole microphone output.
US09699580B2
The volume of a sound generated from a source is monitored. Contextual data is collected from sensors. Based on the collected contextual data listeners of the sound are identified. The identified listeners are grouped into listeners that are bothered by the sound and listeners that are unbothered by the sound. An acceptable range for the volume of the sound is determined based on the bothered listeners and the unbothered listeners.
US09699575B2
A hearing aid device comprising a receiver unit arranged in a compartment in a shell, wherein the shell comprises a venting passage between first and second opposite faces of the shell to provide air passage from one side of the shell to another, and wherein the shell comprises an opening in the first face into the compartment and a closing member positioned to close off the compartment. The opening is shaped to allow the receiver unit to be inserted into the compartment through the opening, and the compartment is acoustically connected to the venting passage to allow the sound to emit through the venting passage. The receiver unit may be releasably mounted in the compartment such that the receiver unit can be retracted from the shell through the opening.
US09699573B2
An example of an apparatus configured to be worn by a person who has an ear and an ear canal includes a first microphone adapted to be worn about the ear of the person, and a second microphone adapted to be worn at a different location than the first microphone. The apparatus includes a sound processor adapted to process signals from the first microphone to produce a processed sound signal, a receiver adapted to convert the processed sound signal into an audible signal to the wearer of the hearing assistance device, and a voice detector to detect the voice of the wearer. The voice detector includes an adaptive filter to receive signals from the first microphone and the second microphone.
US09699572B2
An audio system includes a transient suppression circuit that rectifies an input signal representing target sounds and transient sounds and produces a threshold envelope of the rectified input signal. The transient suppression circuit accumulates the difference between the rectified input signal and the threshold envelope, and normalizes the accumulated difference using the rectified input signal. A gain is calculated using this normalized accumulated difference and applied to the input signal to suppress the transient sounds without substantially affecting the target sounds.
US09699570B2
A voice signal processing apparatus and a voice signal processing method are provided. A last sampling point of an mth original frequency-lowered signal frame is determined according to a phase reference sampling point number of the mth original frequency-lowered signal frame. Here, the phase reference sampling point number corresponds to a middle sampling point of an mth renovating frequency-lowered signal frame, and the last sampling point is phase-matched with a sampling point corresponding to the phase reference sampling point number in the mth original frequency-lowered signal frame. P consecutive sampling points starting from the last sampling point are applied as sampling points of an (m+1)th renovating frequency-lowered signal frame.
US09699566B2
The present invention provides an electromagnetic signal converter for an osteophone, comprising a soft magnetic yoke, an electrical coil arranged concentrically to the longitudinal axis of the yoke, an elastically suspended, soft-magnetic armature which, viewed in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the yoke, is separated from the yoke by a working air gap and can move along the longitudinal axis of the yoke, and a permanent magnet which is magnetized in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the yoke in order to generate a magnetic biasing voltage of the yoke and of the armature, characterized in that the permanent magnet and the coil do not overlap one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the yoke and that means is provided for dividing the magnetic flux that can be produced by the coil onto at least two flux paths, wherein one flux path runs outside of the permanent magnet, and characterized in that the permanent magnet, yoke and coil are surrounded in the signal converter of the invention by a soft magnetic housing which is separated by an air gap from the armature and from the yoke so that the magnetic flux which can be generated by the coil can be guided by the soft magnetic housing onto a flux path outside of the permanent magnet.
US09699556B2
Embodiments disclosed herein enable detection and improvement of the quality of the audio signal using a mobile device by determining the loss in the audio signal and enhancing audio by streaming the remainder portion of audio. Embodiments disclosed herein enable an improvement in the sound quality rendered by rendering devices by emitting an test audio signal from the source device, measuring the test audio signal using microphones, detecting variation in the frequency response, loudness and timing characteristics using impulse responses and correcting for them. Embodiments disclosed herein also compensate for the noise in the acoustic space by determining the reverberation and ambient noise levels and their frequency characteristics and changing the digital filters and volumes of the source signal to compensate for the varying noise levels.
US09699544B2
A user terminal device, and a method of controlling a user terminal device are discussed. The user terminal device includes an ear accessory of the user terminal device including a first electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode contacted with an ear of a user, a second ECG electrode contacted with a hand of the user, and a first speaker configured to output an audio signal; a display; and a controller configured to display, on the display, bio information based on a first ECG signal from the first ECG electrode when the ear of the user is contacted with the first ECG electrode, and control an audio playback in response to a second ECG signal from the second ECG electrode when the hand of the user is contacted with the second ECG electrode.
US09699541B2
An ear pad to be mounted to a base body to which a speaker unit is fixed includes an elastic body in which a plurality of elastic members having different coefficients of restitution are laminated together in a sound emitting direction of the speaker unit. A skin material covers an exterior of the elastic body. The elastic body includes a first elastic member arranged at a side of the base body, and a second elastic member laminated on and fixed to the first elastic member. The first and second elastic members respectively have ring shapes having a substantially same external diameter. The second elastic member has an inner peripheral surface having a different dimension compared to an inner peripheral surface of the first elastic member, and has a portion having a larger inner diameter than an inner diameter of the first elastic member.
US09699539B2
A stereo microphone for mobile devices, comprising a coupling body provided with elements for electromechanical connection to a mobile device and a supporting body for sound wave transducer means, which are integral therewith, the supporting body being pivoted to the coupling body by way of pivoting elements that allow its rotation about a single rotation axis for transition between a first shooting configuration, which corresponds to the use of the mobile device in portrait mode, and a second shooting configuration, which corresponds to the use of the mobile device in landscape mode.
US09699527B2
A method of processing telematics data associated with multiple machines. The method includes receiving the telematics data from multiple telematics data providers in communication with the machines. The method also includes determining if the telematics data from each of the telematics data providers is in a non-standard format and transforming the telematics data in the non-standard format to a standard format. The method further includes displaying, via a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the telematics data in the standard format.
US09699524B2
Disclosed are a signal transmitting method, a signal transmitting apparatus, and a system for transmitting and receiving a signal. The signal transmitting method comprises the steps of: discovering a companion device using a multicast mode; receiving and storing device type information from the discovered companion device; receiving an application uniform resource identifier (URI) and storing the application URI to correspond to the device type information; and identifying the device type information of the companion device selected by a user and transmitting to the selected companion device the application URI corresponding to the device type information.
US09699520B2
A video receiving apparatus includes: a receiving unit which receives video content; an extracting unit which extracts a partial content which is a portion of the video content by analyzing the video content, to obtain a feature of the partial content item, the feature being characteristic within the video content; an information generating unit which generates a composition information item indicating the partial content item and including at least one of a character and an image; a priority setting unit which sets a priority of the composition information item based on the feature obtained from the partial content item, the priority indicating a degree of association between the video content and the composition information item; and a display control unit which controls display of the composition information item on a display screen according to the priority of the composition information item set by the priority setting unit.
US09699517B2
The satellite television antenna device scans the sky and locks onto a first satellite candidate by measuring microwave radiation. The antenna acquires identification (ID) of a first satellite candidate from a set top box (STB), if possible. Then, the antenna moves to a second satellite candidate and acquires the corresponding ID from the STB, if possible. Antenna dish orientation information is stored in memory for at least all satellites that were identified as corresponding to a user's television programming package. The antenna can switch directly between two or more stored dish positions in response to the user changing channels on the STB. The antenna can be powered solely by the STB. A two-way communication conduit can be established between the STB and the antenna via a single cable. The communications conduit can also be used to transmit power to the antenna.
US09699512B2
A DVR, server, or other agent correlates media metadata from diverse sources, like an EPG data provider and multiple video-on-demand (VOD) service providers. Metadata sets from different sources are compared in order to attempt to identify identical programs to which the metadata sets pertain. From at least one metadata set, information about the program that the other metadata set lacks is selected. A “canonical” data structure instance for the program is created. The information that is lacking from at least one of the metadata sources is inserted into that instance. For each source from which a program is available, the DVR stores the identity of that source on the DVR's persistent storage device in association with the canonical data structure instance for that program. The DVR receives search criteria from a user and then searches the stored canonical data structure instance for programs that satisfy the criteria.
US09699500B2
An apparatus and method for session management and control procedures for supporting multiple groups of sink devices in a peer-to-peer wireless display system are described. One implementation may include an apparatus configured to transmit multimedia content to a plurality of sink devices. The apparatus may comprise a processor configured to connect to each of the sink devices with a Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connection. The processor may further be configured to receive capability information from each of the sink devices. The processor may further be configured to generate a control message including a group session ID and a transport port number. The processor may further be configured to determine a set of streaming parameters for the sink devices. The processor may further be configured to transmit, using the transport port number and according to the set of streaming parameters, the particular multimedia content to each of the Wi-Fi peer-to-peer connected sink devices.
US09699490B1
This disclosure provides examples of computer-implemented systems and processes for determining a user browsing session context, intent, or activity based on contextual information associated with a user's browsing session, and using this determined context as a basis to filter or improve selection of content items for the user. For example, if the user is building up a watch list (for example, discovering new titles), then it may be desirable to filter out items for recommendation which are already on that watch list. However, when the user is searching for something to watch in the current session (for example, consuming content), then it may be more appropriate to show items already added to the watch list as recommended content. Item recommendations can thus be improved or filtered based in part on parameters of the user's browsing activity with respect to content items.
US09699481B2
A technique is provided for processing decoded video data to mask visual compression artifacts resulting from video compression. In accordance with this technique, a hardware block is provided for generating and adding random noise to the decoded video stream. In one embodiment, a random number is generated for each pixel of the decoded video data and compared against one or more threshold values to determine a threshold range. In such an embodiment, a noise addend value is selected based upon the threshold comparison and summed with the current pixel. While the present technique may not eliminate the compression artifacts, the addition of random noise renders the compression artifacts less noticeable to the human eye and, therefore, more aesthetically pleasing to a viewer.
US09699479B2
There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH.
US09699476B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for efficiently generating images and videos as an array of objects of interest (e.g., faces and hands, plates, etc.) in a desired resolution to perform vision tasks, such as face recognition, facial expression analysis, detection of hand gestures, among others. The composition of such images and videos takes into account the similarity of objects in the same category to encode them more effectively, providing savings in terms of time transmission and storage. Transmission time is less advantage to such a system in terms of efficiency, while less low cost storage means for storing data.
US09699463B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media are described that are associated with content distribution. In embodiments, an encoder may be configured to encode portions of content, such as video and/or audio data, utilizing different sets of encoding control variable settings. The different sets of encoding control variable settings may include different resolutions, different frame rates, and/or different compression levels. In embodiments, different segments and/or different portions of a single segment of data may be encoded using different sets of encoding control variable settings. In embodiments, the sets of encoding control variable settings may be selected based on quality of the encoded video and/or audio data. Instances of video and/or audio data encoded with different sets may be compared to the data from which they were generated to determine one or more quality metrics. One of the instances may then be selected for provisioning to a content consumption device.
US09699460B2
An apparatus of decoding an image is discussed. The apparatus can include an intra prediction unit for generating a prediction block using an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit; an inverse scanning unit for inversely scanning significant flags, coefficient signs and coefficient levels according to an inverse scan pattern which is selected based on the intra prediction mode and a size of a transform unit to generate a quantized block; an inverse quantization unit for inversely quantizing the quantized block using a quantization parameter and a quantization matrix to generate a transform block; an inverse transform unit for inversely transform the transform block to generate a residual block; and an adder for adding the prediction block and the residual block to generate a reconstructed block.
US09699459B2
Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image decoding method
The present invention provides an image encoding/decoding technique that is capable of achieving the higher compression efficiency. An image encoding method comprises: an intra prediction step which performs intra prediction on a block basis to generate a predicted image; a subtraction step which calculates the difference in prediction between the predicted image generated by the intra prediction step and an original image; a frequency conversion step which performs frequency conversion processing for the difference in prediction; a quantization step which subjects the output of the frequency conversion step to quantization processing; and a variable-length encoding step which subjects the output of the quantization step to variable-length encoding processing; wherein the intra prediction encoding step predicts a target pixel to be encoded by use of pixel values of two reference pixels between which the target pixel to be encoded is located.
US09699457B2
A video coder can be configured to determine an intra-prediction mode for a block of video data, identify a most probable transform based on the intra-prediction mode determined for the block of video data, and code an indication of whether the most probable transform is a transform used to encode the block of video data. The most probable transform can be a non-square transform.
US09699440B2
An image processing device includes: a parallax control processing section performing an image processing for modifying a parallax magnitude, on each of a plurality of parallax images obtained through shooting from a plurality of respective view point directions different from one another, with use of shooting information related to a shooting condition for each of the parallax images.
US09699436B2
A display system includes a display arranged in sight of a viewer, a sensory subsystem configured to sense an ocular condition of the viewer, and a controller. Operatively coupled to the display and to the sensory subsystem, the controller is configured to adjust an operating parameter of the display system in response to the ocular condition, in order to prevent or relieve eye discomfort experienced by the viewer.
US09699434B2
A depth adjusting method and apparatus is described. The depth adjusting method and apparatus may calculate an average depth value of objects based on a spatial feature of an image, may adjust a depth of the image based on the calculated average value, and may adjust a depth of the image according to a difference in depth between a current frame and a previous frame, based on a temporal feature of the image.
US09699431B2
One variation of a method for monitoring an object during a presentation, includes: initiating capture of a video with a camera defining a field of view, the camera arranged on a first side of a mobile computing device supported on a base device; generating a position signal defining a position of the remote device relative to the camera; in response to wirelessly receiving a first input selection from the remote device, indexing through digital slide content rendered on a display arranged on the first side of the mobile computing device; in response wirelessly receiving sensor data from a remote device coupled to the object, generating an event tag including a timestamp; and generating a multimedia stream including the video, the position signal data, digital slide content, the first input selection, and the event tag.
US09699415B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, programming content and program-related content (PRC) cues are delivered to a subscriber via an interactive multi-service distribution network. The PRC cues comprise interactive visual elements that may be used to create a PRC object that is selectable by a subscriber. Upon selection of a PRC object, the subscriber receives PRC through a communication service separate from the video programming delivery service, VOD service, PVR service, and NDVR service.
US09699413B2
A method for allocating a video conferencing task within a computer network comprising a plurality of candidate processing devices, the method comprising: for each of the candidate processing devices: determining a topological score, the topological score being a function of at least one end-to-end delay between a pair of participating endpoints through the candidate processing device; for each candidate processing device within at least a subset of the candidate processing devices: determining an availability score, the availability score being a function of an available processing capacity of the candidate processing device; selecting a preferred processing device among the candidate processing devices as a function of the topological scores and of the availability scores, and allocating the video conferencing task to the preferred processing device.
US09699410B1
A method and system for dynamic layout generation in video conferencing system by a layout selection system is disclosed. The layout selection system set-up receives one or more feeds comprising top view of a location associated with video conference from a first camera in real-time, computes information associated with one or more participants of the video conference set-up in real-time based on the one or more feeds and one or more pre-determined parameters to map the one or more participants in the location, obtains live audio data from at least one directional microphone of a plurality of directional microphones placed in the location. The layout selection system receives live video feed from at least one second camera of a plurality of second cameras placed in the location and generate a dynamic layout for the video conference set-up based on the live video feed from the at least one second camera.
US09699409B1
Conference recording is carried out by identifying a virtual conference operated by a conferencing system connected to a communications network. A virtual participant process executing in a processor is registered with the conferencing system as a co-participant in the virtual conference. Information streams produced by the human participants are recorded and distributed with the virtual participant process.
US09699407B2
A method for outputting sensitive data to a user includes a communication terminal checking to determine whether at least a portion of the sensitive data is to be outputted by determining whether the communication terminal is in one of a plurality of predefined communication configurations for outputting the sensitive data. If the communication terminal is found to be a first configuration, the communication terminal transmits the sensitive data so that at least one of the video data and the audio data is output to the user via at least one peripheral device connected to the communication terminal. If the communication terminal is in a second configuration, the communication terminal performs at least one security action to help further protect the sensitive data.
US09699399B2
A mobile terminal which reproduces a video including image data and audio data and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal which reproduces a video including image data and audio data includes a display unit configured to display an image corresponding to the image data based on a reproduction command with respect to the video, a subtitle processing unit configured to output subtitles related to the video along with the image to the display unit, and a controller configured to control the subtitle processing unit to change a display format of the subtitles according to sound characteristics of the audio data related to the image.
US09699396B2
An imaging system disposed on a TFT array employing a capacitance input sensing stage into a diode peak detecting circuit used as a single pixel on a semiconductor or TFT array that is capable of accessing the generated charge across the capacitor, peak detecting it, amplifying it and then distributing it to an external system via row and column addressing. The resulting imaging system is suitable for fingerprint imaging or as a computer touchpad input device.
US09699393B2
An image sensor may include a pixel array having visible and infrared imaging pixels for simultaneously detecting light in the visible and infrared spectral ranges. The pixel array may include an array of photodiodes, an array of filter elements formed over the photodiodes, and an array of microlenses formed over the array of filter elements. The filter elements may include infrared cutoff filter elements that block infrared light while passing visible light. The infrared cutoff filter elements may be formed from a patterned layer of infrared blocking material. Each visible imaging pixel includes a portion of the infrared blocking material and a color filter element. Each infrared imaging pixel is aligned with an opening in the infrared blocking material. The opening may be filled with an infrared pass filter element that passes infrared light while blocking visible light.
US09699392B2
Aircraft imaging system, including apparatus and methods, with compensation for changes to an attitude of an aircraft. In some embodiments, the system may include an array of image detectors having fields of view that partially overlap to create a wider field of view collectively. The system also may include a processor programmed to (a) splice video images collected by the array of image detectors while the array remains mounted in a fixed relation to an aircraft having a varying attitude, to create a series of spliced frames representing the wider field of view over a time interval, and (b) select a frame portion of each spliced frame based at least in part on one or more signals from an attitude sensor carried by the aircraft such that the selected frame portions each represent a same angle of view with respect to horizontal.
US09699385B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging module configured to capture an image, and a controller. The controller obtains a luminance of a minimum luminance area or a maximum luminance area in an imaging target area of an image captured by the imaging module and controls an exposure amount in the imaging module on the basis of the luminance.
US09699375B2
An approach is provided for processing and/or facilitating a processing of one or more images to determine camera location information, camera pose information, or a combination thereof associated with at least one camera capturing the one or more images, wherein the camera location information, the camera pose information, or a combination thereof is represented according to a global coordinate system. The approach involves causing, at least in part, an association of the camera location information, the camera pose information, or a combination thereof with the one or more images as meta-data information.
US09699368B2
A focus detection unit detects a defocus value, and a correction value for shifting an in-focus position based on the defocus value is obtained by a first method or by a second method. The correction value obtained by the second method is converted to a correction value of the first method by changing units, and the correction value obtained by the first method or the converted correction value is stored in a storage unit. A control unit controls driving of a focus lens to a lens position based on a value obtained by correcting the defocus value by the stored correction value. In the second method, a user selects one of a plurality of images obtained by driving the focus lens, and the correction value is calculated based on the defocus value of the selected image.
US09699364B2
The invention provides an imaging module that can reliably perform probing, and an electronic apparatus including the imaging module. An imaging module includes a lens unit, and an imaging element unit that is fixed to the lens unit. The lens unit includes a focus drive unit, first and second image blur-correction drive units, a housing, a first connecting portion that is electrically connected to the imaging element unit, a first wiring portion that electrically connects the respective drive units to the first connecting portion, second connecting portions that are disposed outside the housing, a second wiring portion that is electrically connected to the second connecting portions and is electrically connected to the respective drive units to which the first wiring portion is connected, and a wiring board that includes at least a part of the second wiring portion and the plurality of second connecting portions.
US09699361B2
A camera skid and thrust nozzle assembly for supporting a camera while being positioned in a tubular pipe or conduit spaced from any wall of the conduit and permitting movement of the assembly along the conduit. The assembly includes a cage rotatably fastened to a high pressure fluid tractor nozzle, wherein the cage can rotate about an axis through the tractor nozzle. A camera support structure is fastened within the cage for rotation of the support structure about the axis independent of rotation of the cage. The camera support structure has a weight attached thereto for urging rotational orientation of the camera support structure within the cage according to a sensed external gravitational force on the assembly.
US09699359B2
An imaging apparatus includes a lens module having a lens at a front thereof, a dome cover including a lens module housing space, an apparatus main body attached with the dome cover, a first support member supported at the apparatus main body in a free pan rotation manner inside the dome cover, a second support member supported at the first support member in a free tilt rotation manner and supports the lens module, a ring-shaped light shielding cover that surrounds the front of the lens module and comes into contact with an inner surface of the dome cover, an illumination mount that includes an illumination member provided further outward than an inner circumference of the light shielding cover and the light shielding cover disposed thereon and supported at the second support member, and a first elastic member that biases the illumination mount toward the dome cover.
US09699356B2
A management apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus for managing usage of the image forming apparatus is disclosed. The management apparatus includes a user data storage part for storing user identification data and use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data, and a use restriction data acquiring part for acquiring the use restriction data corresponding to the user identification data.
US09699352B1
A laser scanning unit for an image forming device includes a light source for emitting a laser beam, a scanning member having at least one reflective surface for scanning the laser beam onto an imaging surface across a plurality of scan lines, and driver circuitry for driving the light source to emit the laser beam. The driver circuitry has a first input for receiving a first signal indicating image information and a second input for receiving a second signal indicating shading information. The driver circuitry modulates the laser beam based on the first signal to form an image on the imaging surface corresponding to the image information and adjusts an output power of the modulated laser beam based on the second signal to substantially reduce energy variation across each scan line.
US09699350B2
A communication device includes: a communication control section; a variable resistor; a voltage detecting section; and a resistance value adjusting section. The communication control section performs control necessary for facsimile communication. The variable resistor is arranged between two line-connecting terminals, each of the line-connecting terminals is for connecting a telephone line. The voltage detecting section detects a line voltage of the telephone line to which the variable resistor is connected under closed state of the telephone line. The resistance value adjusting section changes a resistance value of the variable resistor. When the changed resistance value of the variable resistor becomes a standard resistance value to be a voltage value where the line voltage detected by the voltage detecting section is capable of the facsimile communication, the resistance value adjusting section sets the resistance value of the variable resistor to a resistance value for the facsimile communication.
US09699337B2
According to an embodiment, an image forming system includes at least one image processing device in communication with a server. The server stores an awards account for each of a plurality of users. The server receives, from the at least one image processing device, a reused sheet count of a number of sheets provided by a user and subject to image formation by the image processing device. The server also receives, from the at least one image processing device, a user identification corresponding to the user. The server updates the awards account corresponding to the user based on the received reused sheet count and user identification.
US09699329B2
When provision of a movement instruction for moving a file stored in a first folder to a second folder is detected, whether exclusion processing is already performed for the file is determined. In a case where it is determined that the exclusion processing is not performed for the file, the exclusion processing is performed so that the file to be operated by another user is not allowed and information indicating that the file is being moved is stored. After the file is moved to the second folder, the exclusion processing for the file is canceled. In a case where it is determined that the exclusion processing has already been performed for the file and when the information indicating that the file is being moved is stored for the file for which the exclusion processing has been performed, a notification indicating that the file is being moved is provided.
US09699320B2
A method and apparatus are provided for processing a request to instigate communication, received by a routing device associated with a plurality of terminals. The request relates to a communication to be established between a sender device of the request and at least one of the terminals. The method includes a step of comparing communication capabilities of said sender device with respective communication capabilities of one or more terminals, called addressee terminals, which are able to establish said communication, so as to identify at least one terminal having capabilities making it possible to establish with the sender device a communication of maximum quality. A call notification is transmitted to at least one of the addressee terminals, which is suitable for triggering on the addressee terminal a call presentation prompting a user to use, by priority, one of the terminals identified during the comparison step to establish the communication.
US09699303B2
A secure telephone call management system is provided for authenticating users of a telephone system in an institutional facility. Authentication of the users of the telephone call management system is accomplished by using a personal identification number, biometric means, and/or radio frequency means. The secure telephone call management system includes accounting software capable of limiting access to the system based on funds in a user's account, and includes management software capable of implementing widespread or local changes to the system. The system monitors a conversation in the telephone call to detect a presence of a first characteristic in audio of the conversation, and terminates the telephone call if the first characteristic does not match a second characteristic of biometric information of a user or a called party.
US09699300B2
A method of operating a portable electronic apparatus, a portable electronic apparatus, and a computer readable storage medium are described. The method includes detecting a motion amplitude of the portable electronic apparatus and vibrating the portable electronic apparatus by a vibrating amplitude that is based upon the detected motion amplitude of the portable electronic apparatus.
US09699297B2
The present invention relates to a method for selecting and downloading content from a content provider which is accessible via an IP/DNS/URL address to a mobile device, the content being any text information data, for converting the text information data to at least one audio message and for storing the at least one audio message as at least one audio file on the mobile device, wherein the at least one audio file is playable and discernable as a music file. Said method implemented on a mobile phone enables controlling and playing the audio messages as music files by determining a short title associated with the audio file using word underline and size attributes of the text, for user selection on the mobile's graphical user interface, for instance also in a car environment with a car kit enabling a control and a selection of one or more of said at least one audio files for playing from the mobile phone.
US09699296B1
A wireless communication device may include logic configured to receive a voice request, wherein the voice request includes a request to access information stored in another wireless communication device, a request for device status information associated with the other wireless communication device, or a request to configure an alert trigger in the other wireless communication device; identify the other wireless communication device; convert the received voice request into a text request; send the text request to the other wireless communication device; and receive a response from the other wireless communication device, wherein the response includes the requested information stored in the wireless communication device, the requested device status information, or an indication that the requested alert trigger has been configured.
US09699295B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for displaying an icon in a terminal device and the terminal device thereof. The method includes monitoring an implementation of an event which controls a display of the icon; determining animation display parameters according to properties of the icon, if the implementation of the event which controls the display of the icon is detected; and controlling the icon to be displayed in an animated manner in accordance with the animation display parameters. The present disclosure provides more enriched display effects of the icon.
US09699285B1
An apparatus for holding a cell phone in a vehicle that includes a cradle assembly to receive a cell phone or a mobile device and a speaker assembly removably connected to the cradle assembly. The cradle assembly includes a cradle base and a cradle rotatably attached to the cradle base. The cradle rotates such that the cell phone is located in either a portrait configuration or a landscape configuration. The cradle includes a pair of cradle arms and a pair of grips to hold the cell phone. The speaker assembly includes a speaker housing and one or more speakers located within the speaker housing. The cradle base includes a cradle release button that when pressed, releases the cradle assembly from the speaker assembly. The cradle arms and the grips creates a twist-to-release securement system such that when a user twists the cell phone in the cradle, the cell phone is released from the phone holder.
US09699283B2
A shell is configured to attach to an electronic portable device (such as a smart phone or a pad/tablet-styled device). The shell comprises a unitary integral component having a stand that selectively moves between a deployed position and a stowed position and a corresponding stand brace that selectively moves between a deployed position and a stowed position. By one approach the stand pivots with respect to a portion of the shell that attaches to the electronic portable device and the stand brace pivots with respect to the stand. By one approach the stand and the stand brace are substantially disposed planar to one another when both are in their respective stowed positions. By one approach a free end of the stand brace contacts the electronic portable device when the stand brace is in its deployed position to thereby bias the stand towards the deployed position for the stand.
US09699279B2
A mobile phone is provided, which includes a metal bezel having a left bezel portion and a right bezel portion and covering at least one part of an outer circumferential edge of a main body of the mobile phone, wherein upper and lower corner bezel portions of the left and right bezel portion are formed to be thicker outwardly in comparison with a middle portion of the left and right bezel portions.
US09699262B2
The embodiments provide a system and method for providing integrated view of applications installed in multi-platform environment. The method includes creating a connection between server(s) in a cloud and a client device using a connection broker. Further, the method includes providing a list of remote applications installed in at least one Operating System (OS) of the server on the client device, where each remote application generates a remote graphical view. Furthermore, the method includes allowing a user of the client device to select a remote application, and launching the selected remote application on the server. Furthermore, the method includes displaying, on the client device, an integrated view where including the remote graphical view of the launched application and local graphical views of local applications installed in OS of the client device.
US09699260B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving from a plurality of publisher clients a plurality of messages, assigning each of the messages to one of a plurality of distinct channels wherein each channel comprises an ordered plurality of messages, storing messages of each of the channels in one or more respective buffers according to the order, each buffer having a respective time-to-live, retrieving messages for one or more of the channels from respective buffers having time-to-lives that have not expired and according to the order, and sending the retrieved messages to a plurality of subscriber clients.
US09699259B2
A computer-implemented method for updating a web user interface on a client device is provided. A router back-boned to the Internet communicates with the client device web-user interface data defined in markup language to dynamically update the web-user interface on the client device. The router contains no logic regarding the web-user interface running on the client device. The client device has a browser server for dynamically updating the web-user interface through downloading and caching the data from the router. The browser server on the client device has (i) a user interface model of the web-user interface running on the client device defined in Javascript, and (ii) a JavaScript Runtime Engine for dynamically converting the downloaded and/or cached web-user interface markup language data into JavaScript objects. The web-user interface is dynamically updated by combining steps (i) and (ii).
US09699241B2
Methods and apparatus related to identifying content accessed on a computing device that is likely actionable on another computing device. Some implementations are directed to methods and apparatus for identifying a computing device of a user, identifying content accessed on another computing device by the user, determining content that is actionable on the computing device, determining a confidence level that the actionable content is of interest to the user, and providing the actionable content for use on the computing device if the confidence level satisfies a threshold. The confidence level may be based on an indication of time passage between the user accessing the content on the other computing device and the identified use of the computing device.
US09699238B2
An image display system with one or more client computers in selective communication with a visual server having image processing capabilities. The client computer generates image-modifying data corresponding to a generated image, and transmits the data to the visual server. The visual server receives the image-modifying data, generates a modified image based upon the image-modifying data, and transmits the modified image as compressed data to the client. The client decompresses the modified image data and displays the modified image. In the system, the visual server and client can provide a sequential display of modified frames on client to support animation with complex 3-dimensional graphics.
US09699235B2
A relaying device is provided, which can mediate by using communications of a wireless apparatus without clipping off the beginning of verbal communication. The relaying device includes: a network interface that receives an audio signal as a group of packet trains via a network; a wireless apparatus interface to which a wireless apparatus is connected; a voice buffer that temporarily stores the audio signal; and a control unit that starts temporarily storing the audio signal in the voice buffer and requests the wireless apparatus to reserve a channel, when a leading packet of the group of packet trains is received, and that reads the temporarily stored audio signal from the voice buffer and transfers the audio signal to the wireless apparatus, after receiving from the wireless apparatus a reply indicating that a channel has been reserved.
US09699224B2
A web application assigns a number that resembles a conventional telephone number and that uniquely identifies the current Web session, and injects this number into a signalling message or signalling messages that flow towards a WebRTC gateway. The WebRTC gateway inserts this number into the signalling information element that conveys Caller ID in the signalling message that it sends into the telephone network. This allows the recipient of a WebRTC call to identify the web session from which the WebRTC call originates.
US09699222B2
A system for implementing VoIP over a cloud-based network includes a first edge proxy server operatively connected to a plurality of target proxy servers to receive resource information from one or more of the target proxy servers. Each target proxy server is associated with the cloud-based network. A first endpoint is operatively connected to the first edge proxy server and is configured for voice communications with a second endpoint. The voice communications are facilitated by the first edge proxy server using the received resource information.
US09699219B2
A first service submits a request to a second service on behalf of a customer of a service provider. The request may have been triggered by a request of the customer to the first service. To process the request, the second service evaluates one or more policies to determine whether fulfillment of the request is allowed by policy associated with the customer. The one or more policies may state one or more conditions on one or more services that played a role in submission of the request. If determined that the policy allows fulfillment of the request, the second service fulfills the request.
US09699210B2
A data processing device, that includes: a first storage device; and a processor configured to execute a procedure. The procedure includes: receiving write data to be written to a second storage device provided at a computer, outputting the write data to the second storage device, and duplicating and outputting the write data; executing control that writes the duplicated write data to the first storage device that is separate from the second storage device; executing virus countermeasure processing related to virus infection, on the write data stored in the first storage device; and in a case where the write data is output while executing the virus countermeasure processing, suspending the virus countermeasure processing and prioritizing execution of the control that writes the duplicated write data to the first storage device.
US09699209B2
Embodiments of the present technology relate to cyber attack vulnerability analyzes. In one embodiment, a method includes determining an external infrastructure of an entity, the external infrastructure including one or more cyber assets utilized by the entity, collecting infrastructure information regarding the one or more cyber assets, performing passive cyber security vulnerability testing on the one or more cyber assets using the collected infrastructure information, assessing cyber security vulnerabilities of the one or more cyber assets, calculating an association score for the one or more cyber assets based on the assessed cyber security vulnerabilities, and automatically recommending, based on the association score, computer network changes to reduce the cyber security vulnerabilities.
US09699208B1
Examples described herein provide for a system that evaluates a security level of a network system. Additionally, examples described herein evaluate a security level of a network system in order to enable a determination of components that can be used to enhance the security level of the network system.
US09699207B2
A system for evaluating the susceptibility of an organization to social engineering, the organization having a plurality of sources and a plurality of members using electronic devices, is provided. The system includes an appliance in communication with the plurality of sources configured to retrieve contact information of members and to detect triggering events from the plurality of sources. The system includes a platform remote from the appliance configured to receive signals from the appliance indicative of the triggering events and to prepare and send communications, including templates based on each of the triggering events to the appliance. Upon receipt of the communications, the appliance is configured to retrieve the contact information of intended recipient members, to create messages based on the templates, and to send the messages to the intended recipient members. The platform does not receive the contact information of the plurality of members from the appliance.
US09699206B2
Creation of new edges in a network may be used as an indication of a potential attack on the network. Historical data of a frequency with which nodes in a network create and receive new edges may be analyzed. Baseline models of behavior among the edges in the network may be established based on the analysis of the historical data. A new edge that deviates from a respective baseline model by more than a predetermined threshold during a time window may be detected. The new edge may be flagged as potentially anomalous when the deviation from the respective baseline model is detected. Probabilities for both new and existing edges may be obtained for all edges in a path or other subgraph. The probabilities may then be combined to obtain a score for the path or other subgraph. A threshold may be obtained by calculating an empirical distribution of the scores under historical conditions.
US09699204B2
An abnormal traffic detection apparatus and method based on Modbus communication pattern learning is provided. The abnormal traffic detection apparatus based on the Modbus communication pattern learning previously detects and responds to abnormal traffic on a Modbus/TCP protocol. According to the present invention, a communication service between control systems can be stably provided by previously detecting the abnormal traffic capable of interfering with a stable operation of the control system. Particularly, since the effective abnormal traffic on the Modbus/TCP protocol can be previously detected, security of the control system can be increased by rapid detection and response with respect to security threats on the Intranet of the control system, and availability can be secured.
US09699203B1
Systems and methods for account security are provided. In one example embodiment, a first login request including a username and a password is analyzed to identify a first internet protocol (IP) address and a first request time associated with the first login request. A login history comprising login request data for the server computer is analyzed to identify a plurality of usernames, wherein each username of the plurality of usernames is associated with a corresponding login request from the first IP address within a threshold time period of the first request time. In response to determining a login success ratio is below a threshold login success ratio and a number of unique usernames in the analyzed data is above the unique username threshold, the system automatically performs a security action.
US09699200B2
An inline ARINC data authenticity inspection module, method and computer program product are provided. In the context of a method, ARINC data that is transmitted via an ARINC bus is received into a buffer partition. The method also includes inspecting the ARINC data from the buffer partition within an inspection partition. The method further includes determining, as a result of having inspected the ARINC data within the inspection partition, whether the ARINC data is authentic. In an instance in which the ARINC data is determined to not be authentic, the method logs receipt of the ARINC data that is determined to not be authentic. However, in an instance in which the ARINC data is determined to be authentic, the method permits data corresponding to the ARINC data to be transmitted to an intended destination.
US09699194B2
A container that manages access to protected resources using rules to intelligently manage them includes an environment having a set of software and configurations that are to be managed. A rule engine, which executes the rules, may be called reactively when software accesses protected resources. The engine uses a combination of embedded and configurable rules. It may be desirable to assign and manage rules per process, per resource (e.g. file, registry, etc.), and per user. Access rules may be altitude-specific access rules.
US09699193B2
Embodiments for enterprise-specific functionality watermarking and management are provided. A request, originated in response to an attempt to perform an enterprise function on a client device, can be received by at least one computing device over a network, where the enterprise function is associated with a remotely-stored compliance rule. At least one watermark template can be identified from a plurality of available watermark templates based at least in part on the enterprise function, and a communication can be generated that, when received by the client device, authorizes the client device to: perform the enterprise function where at least one resource is generated or modified, and apply the at least one watermark template to the at least one resource such that performing the enterprise function complies with the compliance rule.
US09699192B2
A method for managing a data item includes a hub receiving a first access request from a first engine executing on a computing device operated by a first host and sending the first access request to a second engine executing on a first computing device of a second host. The second host owns the data item. The hub receives, from the second engine, the data item and an access rule set by the second host for the first host, and sends the first access rule and the data item to the first engine for storage. The first engine grants the first host access to the data item according to the first access rule.
US09699187B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a user to access content for a group of users of a social networking system, and send the content to the user including an interface to a third party system. The interface is to enable the user to retrieve information related to a third party service from the third party system to share with the group. The user sends the information related to the third party service to share with the group to the social networking system. The social networking system sends the shared information related to the third party service to a group member based on the group member requesting access to the content. In one embodiment, the third party service stores a file or folder on a third party server and the shared information includes a link to the shared file or folder.
US09699180B2
Providing access to a cloud service includes a system receiving an application request to access a cloud service. In response, the system sends an identity provider (IP) a token request, comprising an application identifier (ID), an operating system (OS) cloud credential associated with login credentials of a user of an OS hosting the application, and a cloud service ID of the cloud service. Based on sending the token request, and on the IP authenticating the user and verifying the application ID is valid, the system receives a token from the IP. The token, which is signed with an IP signature, comprises the cloud service ID, the application ID, and a user assigned ID associated with the cloud service. The system provides the token to the application for submission to a cloud service provider for access, and obtains cloud service access based on the cloud service provider validating the IP signature.
US09699177B2
A technique to reassign one or more stored elements of web application client state information is provided in an HTTP-based client upon receipt of an HTTP redirect in response to a request-URI. One or more stored elements associated to the request-URI are saved in or in association with the client. Upon receipt of an HTTP 301 (permanent) redirect, the client automatically reassigns (re-associates) the one or more stored elements to the redirect domain when the redirect can be verified as authentic (e.g., to originate from the application to which the client is attempting to connect).
US09699176B2
A method for determining if a user of a computer system is a human. A processor receives an indication that a computer security program is needed and acquires at least one image depicting a first string of characters including at least a first and second set of one or more characters. A processor assigns a substitute character to be used as input for each of the second set of one or more characters. A processor presents the at least one image and an indication of the substitute character and when to use the substitute character to the user. A processor receives a second string of characters from the user. A processor determines whether the second string of characters substantially matches the first string of characters based on the substitute character assigned to each of the second set of one or more characters and determines whether the user is a human.
US09699169B2
Systems and methods for selective proxification of applications are disclosed. One or more computer readable storage media may be encoded with instructions executable by one or more processing units of a computing system. The instructions encoded on the computer readable storage media may comprise authenticating a single sign-on access at a proxy server, receiving a request at the proxy server to access an application on an application server requiring authentication, accessing the application on the application server, authenticating a user to the application without additional authentication input from the user, and selectively providing a proxified session between the user and the application.
US09699168B2
A rich client performs single sign-on (SSO) to access a web- or cloud-based application. According to the described SSO approach, the rich client delegates to its native application server the task of obtaining a credential, such as a SAML assertion. The native server, acting on behalf of the user, obtains an assertion from a federated identity provider (IdP) that is then returned to the rich client. The rich client provides the assertion to a cloud-based proxy, which presents the assertion to an identity manager to attempt to prove that the user is entitled to access the web- or cloud-based application using the rich client. If the assertion can be verified, it is exchanged with a signed token, such as a token designed to protect against cross-site request forgery (CSRF). The rich client then accesses the web- or cloud-based application making a REST call that includes the signed token. The application, which recognizes the request as trustworthy, responds to the call with the requested data.
US09699167B1
A method can include receiving a request from a requestor to a given resource, which requestor is registered to access a set of one or more resources. The request includes a ticket that includes signature data generated by an authenticating entity in response to authenticating the requestor. The signature data may be decrypted to provide a decrypted signature. The ticket may be validated in response to the request based on evaluating the decrypted signature. A response can be provided to the requestor based on the validation, and the response can grant the requestor access to the given resource if the validation determines the ticket to be authentic and authorized for the given resource or the response can deny the requestor access to the given resource if the validation determines to reject the ticket.
US09699157B2
In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for reviewing a posting to a secure social network (SSN). The method includes receiving a first media item from a SSN member, evaluating the first media item to identify a first media attribute, and receiving a request to access the first media item from an inmate of a controlled facility. The method further includes retrieving a set of restricted attributes corresponding to the inmate, and determining whether the inmate is allowed to access the media item based on comparing the first media attribute to the set of restricted attributes. When the inmate is allowed to access the media item, granting the inmate access to the media item based on the first determination. When the inmate is not allowed to access the media item, denying the inmate access to the media item based on the first determination.
US09699152B2
A sending device receives a user input indicating that the user wishes to share and open item of content with a receiving device. A near field communication link is opened between the sending device and the receiving device. Metadata for sharing the open data is gathered on the sending device and a permission setting user interface display is displayed, with the user input mechanism that allows a user to set permissions corresponding to the open item. User actuation of the permission setting user input mechanism is received, the permissions are added to the open item, and the metadata is sent to the receiving device over the near field communication link. The metadata includes a location of the open item. The open item can then be accessed by the receiving device, with the permissions applied to the open item.
US09699151B2
Methods and systems for managing encrypted network traffic using spoofed addresses. One example method includes receiving a request to resolve a domain name; determining that the domain name is included in a predetermined set of domain names; associating a spoofed address with the domain name; sending a response to the request to resolve the domain name, the response including the spoofed address; receiving a secure request for a resource, the secure request directed to the spoofed address; determining that the secure request is directed to the domain name based on the association between the spoofed address and the domain name; and selectively decrypting the secure request based at least in part on determining that the secure request is directed to the domain name.
US09699145B2
A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving input from a user with respect to masking of a data element in one or more documents of a java script object notation (JSON) type, wherein the input comprises: an identifier of the data element, and one or more constraints for masking the data element based on the hierarchy of the one or more documents of the JSON-type; and generating a masking rule for the one or more documents of the JSON-type based on the input.
US09699140B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for selecting identifiers for wireless access points may include (1) receiving a request to establish an identifier for a configurable wireless access point, (2) identifying an existing access-point identifier that is used to identify at least one additional wireless access point, (3) determining a physical location of the configurable wireless access point, (4) verifying that the existing access-point identifier is not being used within a predetermined proximity of the physical location of the configurable wireless access point, and (5) assigning the existing access-point identifier to the configurable wireless access point. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09699132B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods, apparatuses, and systems for exchanging electronic business card. One of the methods includes: receiving a first request message sent by a first terminal, wherein the first request message includes first condition information, a first electronic business card, and first location information of the first terminal; selecting a second request message from at least one request message received during a preset period of time, according to the first location information, the first condition information, and the time when the first request message was received; sending an electronic business card corresponding to the second request message to the first terminal; and sending the first electronic business card to a second terminal, wherein the second request message was sent by the second terminal. The methods, the apparatuses, and the systems can be directed to simplify the process of exchanging electronic business cards.
US09699130B2
A method of providing a user interface with recipient status information, in one aspect, may comprise detecting a message (e.g., online message such as instant messaging, chat, etc.) being initiated by a first user to a second user; gathering information associated with the second user; analyzing the gathered information; predicting a state of the second user based on the analyzing; and determining a notification action based on the predicted state of the second user, the notification action notifying the first user of the second user's state; and presenting a notification comprising one or more of graphical, textual, auditory, or tactile indications or combinations thereof to the first user.
US09699129B1
A system and method for increasing email productivity based on an analysis of the content of received email messages. The system includes a content analysis engine that analyzes the content of a received email message using natural language processing techniques. A prioritization module produces a priority score and a priority level for the message using a prioritization knowledge base. A message sorting module produces a set of suggested folders for the message using a sorting knowledge base. A junkmail module produces a junkman score for the message using a junkmail knowledge base. The prioritization knowledge base, the sorting knowledge base, and the junkmail knowledge base are updated with feedback from the user for each received email message, which allows the system to learn in real-time the user's preferences.
US09699127B2
Embodiments of a content delivery system are disclosed herein. In particular, an embodiment of a content delivery system may receive content associated with a first destination identifier associated with a first delivery method, determine a second destination identifier and a second delivery method associated with the first delivery destination, and deliver the content to the second destination identifier according to the second delivery method.
US09699118B2
A network switch including a set of communication ports is provided. The communication ports may have an allocated prebuffer to store data during packet switching operations. The network switch may further include a calendar associated with the set of communication ports that provides bandwidth configuration for the set of communication ports. The network switch may further include a secondary calendar that may be dynamically setup. The secondary calendar may provide an alternative bandwidth configuration strategy for the set of communication ports. The switch includes circuitry that may increase the prebuffer size and upon the successful increase of the prebuffer size reconfigure the set of communication ports from the original calendar to the secondary calendar, without a reboot. The circuitry may reset the prebuffer size after reconfiguration is complete and the switch may continue operation according to the reconfigured settings.
US09699096B2
Disclosed herein is a router configured for priority-based routing. The router is configured to receive a plurality of packets, wherein each packet is assigned a priority value. The router includes an output circuit configured to select the packet with the highest priority value. The output circuit is configured to forward the priority value of the selected packet to a second router. The output circuit is configured to transfer the selected packet to the second router when the link between the first router and the second router is available.
US09699092B2
A method for dynamically adjusting QoS parameters associated with a virtual circuit is disclosed. The virtual circuit includes a first end connected to a first router and a second end connected to a second router. The method includes receiving an offer message at the second router, and sending a request message to the first router. The offer message includes a first set of QoS parameters and the request message includes a second set of QoS parameters. The method further includes receiving a request confirmation message at the second router, receiving a new offer message at the second router, and sending information compliant with the second set of QoS parameters to the first router. The new offer message includes the second set of QoS parameters.
US09699087B2
A system and method for advertising out-of-resources (OOR) conditions for entities, such as nodes, line cards and data links, in a manner that does not involve using a maximum cost to indicate the entity is “out-of-resources.” According to the technique, an OOR condition for an entity is advertised in one or more type-length-value (TLV) objects contained in an advertisement message. The advertisement message is flooded to nodes on a data network to inform them of the entity's OOR condition. Head-end nodes that process the advertisement message may use information contained in the TLV object to determine a path for a new label switched path (LSP) that does not include the entity associated with the OOR condition.
US09699083B2
A frame search processing apparatus includes a frame information extraction unit (1) that extracts frame information from an input frame, a search processing unit (2) that compares the frame information with entry information, and a frame information output control unit (3) that controls output of the frame information to the search processing unit (2). The search processing unit (2) includes a plurality of comparison units that read out N pieces of entry information from a search table, and perform comparison between the entry information and the frame information at once. The frame information output control unit (3) includes a frame information buffer that accumulates the frame information, and an output processing unit that, when triggered by a predetermined accumulation count of the frame information or an elapse of a predetermined accumulation time of the frame information, distributes a plurality of pieces of frame information accumulated in the frame information buffer to the comparison units of the search processing unit (2) one by one.
US09699075B2
A network includes routing arcs for routing network traffic to a destination. Each arc comprising nodes connected in sequence by reversible links oriented to direct network traffic to first and second edge nodes through which the network traffic exits the arc. The nodes in the arc detect a first failure. In response, the nodes exchange first management frames to reverse links in the arc so that the network traffic in the arc is directed away from the first failure toward the first edge node of the arc through which the network traffic exits the arc. The nodes detect a second failure in the arc that is spaced apart from the first failure. In response, the nodes exchange second management frames to freeze incoming edges of parent arcs to prevent network traffic in the corresponding parent arc from entering the arc.
US09699067B2
A communication network includes multiple nodes, which are arranged in groups such that the nodes in each group are interconnected in a bipartite topology and the groups are interconnected in a mesh topology. The nodes are configured to convey traffic between source hosts and respective destination hosts by routing packets among the nodes on paths that do not traverse any intermediate hosts other than the source and destination hosts.
US09699056B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for diagnosing a network and identifying problems in a network which reduce the data transfer rate of data through the network. One embodiment of a method for network diagnosis may include infusing data into a network upstream and downstream of a portion of the network relative to a library drive, querying the drive at intervals over time for drive data to determine the data transfer rate at the drive and comparing the data transfer rate of the data infused upstream of the device or network portion with the data transfer rate of the data infused downstream of the device or network portion to determine throughput. By comparing the data transfer rate of data infused upstream and downstream of a network device or network portion, problem devices in a network may be identified.
US09699051B2
A method for measuring one-way link delay includes transmitting a first packet from a first network device. The first packet is passively intercepted, a first copy of the first packet is transmitted to the first network device, and a second copy of the first packet is transmitted to a second network device. A time of receipt of the first copy of the first packet is recorded as an origin timestamp at the first network device. A time of receipt of the second copy of the first packet is recorded as a receive timestamp at the second network device. A second packet including the origin timestamp is transmitted from the first network device. The second packet is passively intercepted, and a first copy of the second packet is transmitted to the second network device. The first copy of the second packet is received at the second network device, and the origin timestamp is extracted from the first copy of the second packet. Link delay from the first network device to the second network device is calculated using the origin timestamp and the receive timestamp.
US09699041B2
A link cost determining method including computing, by a station, a new composite data rate using a set of data rates including an average data rate, a geometric mean data rate, and a minimum data rate for data samples, computing, by the station, a pair of hysteresis thresholds for a previous composite data rate, determining, by the station, whether the new composite data rate exceeds one of the pair of hysteresis thresholds, and advertising, by the station, the new composite data rate when the new composite data rate exceeds one of the pair of hysteresis thresholds.
US09699038B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a Packet Domain Network Gateway (PGW), and corresponding methods therein, for service usage reporting and quota management in a Policy and Charging Control (PCC) based network. Example embodiments presented herein are also directed towards an Online Charging System (OCS) for receiving service usage reporting and quota management in a PCC based network. Quota reporting and quota management is performed on a pre-rating group basis.
US09699030B1
A device may receive an indication to generate a probe packet associated with a tunnel included in a first network. The tunnel may include a first tunnel endpoint and a second tunnel endpoint and may correspond to a path, associated with a second network, between the first tunnel endpoint and the second tunnel endpoint. The device may generate the probe packet including information associated with the tunnel. The device may provide the probe packet, via the first tunnel endpoint, such that the probe packet is received by a network device that lies on the path. The device may receive a response packet, associated with the probe packet and provided by the network device, that includes path information. The path information may include information associated with the network device. The device may store the path information to allow the network device to be identified as lying on the path.
US09699026B2
There is provided a distributed processing system including: a data store server for storing data; a data store part for storing data in the data store server; a data acquisition part for obtaining data from the data store server; and an operation manager part for performing configuration change on the whole system. The distributed processing system has a function of managing the configuration content and the configuration order for each device according to the change content, to determine the target and order to be configured based on the managed information by the operation manager part. Further, the distributed processing system has a function of performing a configuration change process on the data store part, the data acquisition part, and the data store server by the operation manager part.
US09699025B2
A system and method are described for managing a plurality of sever nodes. In one embodiment, the sever nodes are organized into groups referred to as “instances.” Each instance includes a group of redundant sever nodes and a dispatcher for distributing service requests to each of the sever nodes. In addition, a central message passing architecture is defined which allows the various instances to communicate with one another. In one embodiment, a hierarchical configuration data object is stored within a database and is centrally accessible by all of the servers from all of the instances. The hierarchical configuration data object organizes configuration data and binary data in a logical hierarchy which simplifies sever node management in an enterprise network.
US09699024B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating anticipatory distribution of applications to a network of remote hosts. A demand for each of the applications is calculated. Based on criteria within the demand and computing resources available, remote hosts are selected to receive the applications. Transmissions of the applications to the selected remote hosts are scheduled and monitored for completion according to the schedule.
US09699018B2
A communication terminal reads, from a removable memory, user-specific application information indicating one or more of the plurality of applications that are allowed for use by a specific user, and transmits a request for address information that includes application identification information of each one of one or more applications that are allowed for use by the specific user at the communication terminal to obtain address information associated with the application identification information.
US09699016B2
Disclosed are a sign-in method and system. The method includes: obtaining, by using a location-based service (LBS) of a mobile terminal, geographical information of a current location of a person who signs in; binding the geographical information of the current location with identity information of the person who signs in and time information, using the geographical information of the current location, the identity information of the person who signs in, and the time information as sign-in information, and sending the sign-in information to a sign-in server; verifying, by the sign-in server, the sent sign-in information; and recording the sign-in information if the verification succeeds. The present disclosure not only can save costs of labor, material, and money, but also can enable several people to sign in simultaneously, thereby greatly improving sign-in efficiency.
US09699013B2
Transceiver device and method therein, for baseband processing of signals associated with TDD communication over wire lines. The method involves use of a single burst I/O N-point complex FFT kernel for baseband processing of receive and transmit signal blocks, where the processing involves simultaneously performing a respective FFT or IFFT of two N-sample signal blocks.
US09698999B2
Natural language controlled devices may be configured to activate command recognition in response to one or more wake words. Techniques are provided to enable a voice controlled system to detect or receive an indication of a secondary device available to be controlled. The voice controlled system communicates with the secondary device to obtain information related to the secondary device. The voice controlled system may output of an audio query requesting audio input data related to controlling the secondary device from a user and generate, based on the requested audio input data, recognition data utilized to recognize of at least part of one or more commands to issue one or more controls to the secondary device.
US09698994B2
Systems, methods and transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting one or more loops in a multicast tree. The method includes calculating a multicast tree radius for a first multicast tree, the multicast tree radius representing a maximum number of hops from a root node to a furthest edge node in the first multicast tree, forwarding, by the root node, a first packet to each edge node within the first multicast tree, the first packet having a time-to-live (TTL) value equal to twice the first multicast tree radius, receiving, at the root node, a copy of the forwarded first packet, and determining an existence of a loop in the first multicast tree based at least upon receiving the copy of the forwarded first packet.
US09698993B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for producing hash values are disclosed. A prefix-free value is obtained based on input data. The prefix-free value can be based on an implicit certificate, a message to be signed, a message to be verified, or other suitable information. A hash value is obtained by applying a hash function to the prefix-free value. The hash value is used in a cryptographic scheme. In some instances, a public key or a private key is generated based on the hash value. In some instances, a digital signature is generated based on the hash value, or a digital signature is verified based on the hash value, as appropriate.
US09698990B1
Very strong, complex, unforgettable passwords unique to each web site are created for a user's Web site authentication by altering all or part of the web site address using, in a preferred embodiment, a predetermined encoding dictionary with more a single code for each entry and unique to each user. The entries in this preferred embodiment are single characters including characters used for words, punctuation, symbols and numerals; each single entry character appears more than once in the dictionary. The codes are of various character lengths and can be comprised of the same characters used in the entries. In a Web site authentication embodiment as well as for embodiments not used for Web site authentication, including pass-protecting files, the string of characters altered by encoding can be a private word or group of words. In another embodiment the password created by encoding is pseudo-randomly scrambled by using a seed unique to the user in order to create the password actually used. In yet another embodiment, the password is created without the encoding step, by pseudo-randomly scrambling the web address or other user-selected character string using a seed unique to the user.
US09698989B2
Embodiments of an invention for feature licensing in a secure processing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes an instruction unit and an execution unit. The instruction unit is to receive an instruction to initialize a secure enclave. The execution unit is to execute the instruction. Execution of the instruction includes determining whether a requested feature is licensed for use in the secure enclave.
US09698987B2
A system and methods for location authentication are presented. An estimated server signal is estimated based on a generated known code signal, and a client received satellite signal is received from a client device. The client received satellite signal is compared to the estimated server signal to provide a comparison result.
US09698984B2
In a decryption apparatus according to an embodiment, a holding device pre-holds a verification formula. A determination device performs a calculation based on the verification formula read from the holding device by substituting, into the verification formula, the part of the re-encrypted data received from a re-encryption apparatus and the public key of a re-encryption key generation apparatus and the private key of the decryption apparatus, to determine whether or not the verification formula holds true. An output device outputs verification success when a result of the determination indicates that the verification formula holds true.
US09698978B2
Provided is a network equipment and an authentication and key management method for the same. The network equipment generates a Network Key (NK); the network equipment performs authentication protocol interaction with opposite communication equipment, and calculates a Basic Session Key (BSK) according to parameters for the authentication protocol interaction and the NK; and the network equipment calculates link Encryption Keys (EKs) used respectively for Media Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) layers using various access technologies according to the BSK, and provides the EKs for respective MAC and PHY layer function modules. With the disclosure, the legality of the equipment is verified by performing an authentication process on the heterogeneous network equipments in one pass, and keys in various MAC layer technologies are managed in a unified way.
US09698976B1
A pool of public keys, having a pool size, is received from a first device. The pool size reflects a target number of keys to be included in the pool. One of the received public keys included in the pool of keys is designated as a reserve key. A public key is selected from the pool of received public keys for use in conjunction with encrypting a communication to the first device. The selecting includes preferentially selecting a public key that is not designated as a reserve key, if at least one such key is present in the pool in addition to the reserve key. The size of the pool can be dynamically adjusted.
US09698960B2
A method is provided for decoding data in a wireless access system. A user equipment (UE) receives a higher layer signal including an indication that 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (256 QAM) is to be enabled. The UE further receives, via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), downlink control information (DCI) including an index field representing a modulation and coding scheme (MCS). The UE also receives data via a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the PDCCH, and decodes the received data using the MCS represented by the index field. The UE has a first MCS index table supporting up to 64 quadrature amplitude modulation (64 QAM) and a second MCS index table supporting up to the 256 QAM.
US09698958B2
Various aspects of the disclosure provide a method of operating a user equipment (UE) to determine and report a throughput enhancing channel quality indicator (CQI) value when a physical channel between the UE and a base station is temporally uncorrelated. Reporting such CQI value may maximize the throughput of the channel when it remains temporally uncorrelated. In one aspect of the disclosure, the UE communicates with a base station utilizing a channel and determines that the channel is temporally uncorrelated. The UE further determines a plurality of CQIs in a first CQI reporting mode and computes the respective throughputs of the channel based on the plurality of CQIs. In addition, the UE selects a CQI of the plurality of CQIs corresponding to the highest throughput among the plurality of throughputs, and reports the selected CQI to the base station in a second CQI reporting mode while the channel remains temporally uncorrelated.
US09698956B2
Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to one example embodiment, a method may include determining, at a base station in a wireless network, an uplink channel quality for a mobile station, sending an acknowledgment/negative acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) aggregation indicator to the mobile station based on the determining, sending a plurality of data bursts to the mobile station, and receiving at least one aggregated ACK/NAK report from the mobile station.
US09698949B2
A method of handling a device-to-device (D2D) signal and a device-to-cellular (D2C) signal for a first communication device comprises communicating with a second communication device according to a D2D communication; communicating with a network according to a D2C communication; and transmitting one of the D2D signal and the D2C signal in a subframe, wherein the D2D signal and the D2C signal are transmitted to the second communication device and the network, respectively.
US09698927B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for independently signaling features supported by a user equipment (UE) in different duplexing modes. The UE may be capable of communicating in frequency division duplexing (FDD) and time division duplexing (TDD) modes. The UE may obtain a FDD-specific feature group indicators (FGIs) set and a TDD-specific FGIs set, and signal at least one of the FDD-specific FGIs set or TDD-specific FGIs set. In addition, the UE may take one or more actions to reduce the likelihood of transitioning to a mode of operation that is different from its current mode of operation.
US09698923B2
The invention provides an electronic device configured to operate as a traffic information client. The traffic information client device comprises an interface adapted to receive traffic information messages, where a traffic information message comprises a location code which identifies a location of a traffic event. The traffic information client device further comprises a memory and a relational database stored in the memory, the relational database comprising at least a first set of relations including at least one relation which directly or indirectly associates location codes with location information.
US09698919B1
A system and method sequentially measure the amplitude and phase of a signal in each of two or more noncontiguous spectrum segments (e.g., harmonics) which each include two or more portions which together span the spectrum segment, using a local oscillator (LO) signal whose frequency and phase change for each measurement. The measured phase of the signal for at least one of the portions in each spectrum segment is adjusted to account for the change of phase in the LO signal from measurement of one portion to another, using phases of one or more pilot tones measured in each portion. The phase-adjusted measurements of the output signal in the various portions are stitched together to determine the amplitude and phase of the output signal across the spectrum segment. The phase relationships between the spectrum segments are determined from phases of comb teeth of a comb signal measured in each spectrum segment.
US09698916B2
One or more embodiments describe controlling audio signals at a user device during a communication session between the user device and a remote node, in which a primary audio signal is received at audio input means of the user device for transmission to the remote node in the communication session. It is determined whether the user device is operating in a first or a second mode. In dependence upon determining that the user device is operating in the first mode, the secondary audio signals are selectively suppressed from being output from the user device during the communication session.
US09698913B2
A phase-modulated optical link and methods are provided to suppress distortions in phase-encoded analog photonic links. The phase-modulated optical link includes a distortion compensation element. The distortion compensation element includes an optical comb generator that is seeded by a phase-encoded optical signal. The methods include generating an optical comb seeded by a portion of a phase-encoded optical signal and isolating desired peaks to be combined with a separate portion of the phase-encoded optical signal.
US09698912B2
Methods and systems for superchannel subcarrier monitoring using frequency modulated (FM) tones includes frequency modulating an optical subcarrier of a superchannel with a first frequency that is unique to the optical subcarrier and is chosen to be smaller than an optical transmission frequency for carrier data modulated onto the optical subcarrier. Then, downstream detection and monitoring of the optical subcarrier may be performed based on demodulation of the first frequency. Each optical subcarrier in the superchannel may be modulated using a respectively unique FM tone.
US09698905B2
An optical transmission system includes comprising: a first optical transmission apparatus to transmit wavelength-multiplexed optical signals; and a second optical transmission apparatus to receive the wavelength-multiplexed optical signals, the second optical transmission apparatus including: a receiver to perform digital coherent reception; a wavelength spacing monitor to transform a reception signal obtained by the digital coherent reception from a time domain signal to a frequency domain spectrum signal, and to monitor wavelength spacing of the spectrum signal; and a transmitter to transmit, to the first optical transmission apparatus, wavelength control information according to a monitor result obtained by the wavelength spacing monitor or the monitor result, wherein the first optical transmission apparatus includes: a receiver to receive the wavelength control information or the monitor result; and a control unit to control the wavelength spacing based on the wavelength control information or the monitor result received by the receiver.
US09698904B2
Embodiments provide an apparatus for monitoring an optical signal to noise ratio (OSNR), a transmitter and a communication system. The apparatus for monitoring optical signal to noise ratio includes: a signal extracting unit and a signal processing unit. The signal extracting unit is configured to extract pilot signals and non-pilot signals at two polarization states from received signals, frequencies of the pilot signals at the two polarization states being different, and the polarization states being differentiated by the frequencies of the pilot signals; and the signal processing unit is configured to obtain OSNRs at the two polarization states by using the pilot signals and the non-pilot signals extracted by the signal extracting unit. With the embodiments of the present disclosure, by making the frequencies of the pilot signals at different polarization states be different, OSNRs at different polarization states may be obtained more accurately.
US09698891B2
There is provided an arrangement for a wireless communication system that includes a set of power amplifiers and a set of antennas based on which at least two different configurations are provided, including a first configuration of power amplifiers and antennas and a second configuration of power amplifier(s) and antennas. The arrangement also includes switching circuitry configured to switch between the configurations. The second configuration employs a smaller number of power amplifiers than the first configuration, and the second configuration has fewer power amplifiers than antennas where at least one power amplifier is connected to at least two antennas via respective antenna branches that are configured with different delays, as represented by delay elements. A difference in delay between a pair of these antenna branches is based on a measure representative of the inverse bandwidth of a signal to be transmitted through the antennas.
US09698890B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for selective application of cyclic shift diversity in uplink communications of mobile communication systems. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09698885B1
A procedure to establish a link in a directional wireless system where two nodes cannot listen to each other unless optimized beamforming pair is used and timing and framing synchronization is acquired. The procedure determines a set of beamforming pairs that the nodes can use for communication in addition to acquiring the framing and timing synchronization. Training packets are periodically transmitted by a transmitter while a receiver listens in each of a number of receive directions. Training packets are sent N times in N directions while a receiver listens in each of M receive directions until all N×M possible transmit and receive direction pair possibilities are tried. The receiver informs the transmitter which transmit and receive direction pairs were successful in creating communication links between the nodes.
US09698881B2
A method by a network node in a communications system includes determining a codebook subset restriction indicating a reduced set of precoding matrices out of an original set of precoding matrices in an original codebook. The full set of Precoding Matrix Indicator, PMI, bits is used to identify the original set of precoding matrices in the original codebook. The method includes determining a reduced set of Precoding Matrix Indicator, PMI, bits for use in a feedback channel based on a number of entries in the reduced set of precoding matrices. The reduced set of PMI bits has fewer bits than the full set of PMI bits. Related user equipments, methods by user equipments and network nodes are disclosed.
US09698879B2
The present invention relates to a method and arrangements in a communication system for Multi User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) signaling via Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennas between a base station and one of a plurality of mobile terminals supporting both Single User and Multi User Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO) signaling modes. Switching between the modes is supported in the system and the modes have partly shared signaling. SU-MIMO mode signaling which is redundant, i.e. not needed, for MU-MIMO mode signaling is identified. Bits, i.e. data bits, of the identified redundant signaling is re-interpreted or re-defined to comprise signaling information associated with MU-MIMO mode. The signaling information associated with MU-MIMO mode is signaled to the mobile terminal by using the reinterpreted redundant bits.
US09698874B2
A power transmission device includes a communication unit that transmits a power capability information transmission request, receives power capability information in response to the power capability information transmission request, and transmits randomized parameter information by a communication channel. The power transmission device also includes a processing unit that produces the randomized parameter information, based on the power capability information. Further, the power transmission device includes a power transmission unit that wirelessly transmits power based on the randomized parameter information.
US09698867B2
In a multiple interface, low power and lossy network comprising a plurality of nodes, a sender node dynamically selects a data packet for setting a transmission parameter request in response to determining that an age value for a set of transmission parameters associated with a recipient device has expired or is expiring. The sender node selects an desired data packet for sending a transmission parameter request and transmits the selected data packet to the recipient device. The sender node receives a transmission parameter response from the recipient node comprising updated transmission parameters for that recipient node and then updates the current transmission parameters associated with the recipient node accordingly.
US09698865B2
Synchronous FHSS networks operating within mesh networks typically require a certain amount of network traffic to maintain time as well as for executing other functions, such as registration and neighbor discovery. The concepts presented in this disclosure provide a mesh network with enhanced communication capabilities without adding significant hardware or firmware costs to nodes within the network. The disclosed concept of using acquisition channels (frequencies) integrated within FHSS pseudo-random sequences speeds network responses to conditions like outage and restoration. Assignment of unique hop sequences by hop level or at time of manufacture can guarantee minimal network contention while minimizing system network traffic.
US09698858B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which can include computer instructions to determine a subset of use cases from a group of use cases stored in a memory of a communication device, and to determine a target use case from among the subset of use cases based on an operational parameter associated with a transceiver of the communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09698855B1
A cellular radio architecture that includes a receiver module having a delta-sigma modulator that includes a plurality of gm cells configured in stages, where each stage includes at least two gm cells and an LC filter circuit. The gm cells in each stage can be controlled to be active or inactive to convert, for example, the modulator from a fourth order modulator to a second order modulator to reduce power dissipation. Further, the gm cells can be controlled to optimize a dynamic range of the modulator and to redirect current from inactive cells to active cells in order to optimize power consumption.
US09698854B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas. An antenna may have an antenna feed that is coupled to a radio-frequency transceiver with a transmission line. An impedance matching circuit may be coupled to the antenna feed to match the impedance of the transmission line and the antenna. The impedance matching circuit and tunable circuitry in the antenna may be formed using integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may include switching circuitry that is used in switching components such as inductors and capacitors into use. Sensors such as temperature sensors, current and voltage sensors, power sensors, and impedance sensors may be integrated into the integrated circuits. Each integrated circuit may store settings for the switching circuitry and may include communications and control circuitry for communicating with external circuits and processing sensor data.
US09698850B1
A protective case with a function of clearing and cleaning a display screen of an electronic device includes a case body, a clear component, and a mounting component. The case body defines a receiving space in which the electronic device is held and an opening at one end of the case body. Two opposite slide grooves are provided in the case body. The clear component on the mounting component can be pushed from an end of the case body along the display screen of the electronic device, to clear and clean it.
US09698849B2
A portable information device case according to the present invention includes three plate-like members: a holder part for housing a portable information device (smartphone) therein, a cover part for covering the holder part, and an optical panel part including an image-forming optical element (micromirror array) fitted therein in light-transmissive fashion. When these members are combined together to have a predetermined shape, the optical panel part is held in an attitude inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a display surface of the smartphone. Thus, the case allows selection with ease between a usage form in which an image appearing on the display surface is projected as a spatial image and a storage form in which these members are folded and stacked so that the entire case is made compact. The portable information device case according to the present invention is easy to carry.
US09698846B2
A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal including a first antenna and a second antenna is provided. The method includes receiving transmission data to be transmitted, applying first power smaller than a first threshold value to the first antenna, applying second power smaller than the first threshold value to the second antenna, and cooperatively transmitting the transmission data based on the first power and the second power, respectively, by the first antenna and the second antenna, wherein a sum of the first power and the second power is larger than a second threshold value.
US09698836B2
Systems and methods which provide mitigation of self-interference in spectrally efficient full duplex (e.g., transmit and receive using the same frequency simultaneously) communications are described. Embodiments provide an interference mitigation structure having a multi-tap vector modulator interference cancellation circuit operable to cancel time varying multipath interference in the analog RF domain. A multi-tap vector modulator interference cancellation circuit of embodiments may comprise part of a multi-stage interference cancellation circuit, such as a multi-stage interference cancellation circuit comprising a multi-tap vector modulator interference cancellation circuit and a digital residual interference cancellation circuit. A digital residual interference cancellation circuit of embodiments provides residual interference cancellation. A multi-stage interference cancellation circuit configuration of embodiments is operable to provide cancellation of strong multipath signals as well as cancellation of residual multipath signals, including interference in the received signal associated with circulator leakage, antenna reflection and multipath.
US09698827B2
An operating method of a controller that includes: when a first ECC decoding on data read from a semiconductor memory device according to a hard read voltage fails, generating one or more quantization intervals based on the number of unsatisfied syndrome check (USC), which is a result of the first ECC decoding; and performing a second ECC decoding on the data by generating soft read data according to soft read voltages determined by the hard read voltage and the quantization intervals.
US09698824B2
A data transfer device includes a calculation unit and a compression processing unit. The calculation unit determines, from a plurality of compression techniques, a combination of a first compression technique and a second compression technique for optimizing effective throughput based at least on compression performance parameters related to the plurality of compression techniques and a transfer performance parameter related to transfer processing, the first compression technique being a technique in which a speed of compression processing serves as a constraint in a data transfer as compared with a speed of transfer processing, the second compression technique being a technique in which a speed of transfer processing serves as a constraint in a data transfer as compared with a speed of compression processing. The compression processing unit compresses target data using at least one of the first compression technique and the second compression technique.
US09698814B2
A method for indirect conversion of a voltage value to a digital word consisting in sampling an input voltage through a parallel connection of a sampling capacitor to a source of the input voltage, and next in mapping a sample value of the input voltage to a time interval, and in assignment of a corresponding value of n-bit output digital word by the use a control module characterized in that the time interval is mapped to a difference of a length of a reference time and a length of a signal time, while the reference time is generated from an instant when the beginning of the time interval is detected by the use the control module, and the signal time is generated from an instant when the end of the time interval is detected by the use the control module, whereas generation of the reference time and the signal time is terminated at the same instant.
US09698811B2
Aspects of a method and apparatus for converting an analog input value to a digital output code are provided. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator, and control logic circuitry. The digital-to-analog converter is configured to generate an analog reference value based on a received digital reference value. The comparator is configured to compare an analog input value to the analog reference value after expiration of an allotted settling time for the digital-to-analog converter and generate a comparison result indicative a relationship between the analog input value and the analog reference value. The control logic circuitry is configured to select the allotted settling time for the digital-to-analog converter based on a bit position of a digital output code to be determined, and update the bit position of the digital output code based on the comparison result.
US09698804B1
During a period of calibration of the ADC, the effect of unexpected external noise can be excluded.Provided is an analog to digital convertor including: an ADC that converts an analog value into a digital value; and an averaging circuit that calculates a correction value by a calibration operation. The converted value is corrected and output using the correction value being held in a normal operation. The analog to digital convertor is configured as follows. In the calibration operation, an elemental correction value on the basis of a converted value by the ADC corresponding to a predetermined analog value is supplied to the averaging circuit. The averaging circuit calculates the average value of the remaining elemental correction values obtained by removing the maximum value and the minimum value from the elemental correction values supplied a plurality of times, and calculates the correction value on the basis of the average value.
US09698802B2
A method for amplifying an echo signal, in which an analog echo signal suitable for detection of a vehicle's surroundings is amplified by a gain dependent on the transit time of the echo signal, the analog echo signal being amplified by an amplifier having a plurality of outputs, each having a different gain, and a downstream A/D converter having a time-variable reference voltage. In the process, there is a switch between the different outputs of the amplifier at predefined switching points in time, and the reference voltage of the A/D converter varies over time between the switching points in time in such a way that the echo signal is present at the output of the A/D converter with a transit time-dependent total gain having a predefined characteristic.
US09698800B2
A system and a method generate clock signals using an output divider with modulus steps of half-integers (i.e., the output circuit includes a divider which divides by one or more of 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4 . . . ).
US09698799B2
A phase locked loop frequency calibration circuit and a method are provided. The circuit includes a timer, a counter, a control module, a frequency divider and a voltage controlled oscillator; output of voltage controlled oscillator is connected with first input of frequency divider, output of frequency divider is connected with first input of counter, second input of frequency divider, first input of timer and second input of counter are respectively connected with first output of control module, third input of counter is connected with output of timer, output of counter is connected with first input of control module, a reference clock signal is respectively sent to second input of timer and second input of control module, the number of clocks used by frequency divider to perform frequency division on output clock signal of voltage controlled oscillator is sent to third input of control module.
US09698798B1
A digital control loop circuit is disclosed which is coupleable to an oscillator to form a configurable, digital phase-locked loop to generate an output signal having a configurable or selectable output frequency. A representative embodiment of the digital control loop circuit may include a memory storing a plurality of configuration parameters, at least one configuration parameter specifying the output frequency; and a digital controller coupleable to receive an input signal from a reference frequency generator having a reference frequency, the digital controller adapted to access the memory and retrieve the plurality of configuration parameters, and to generate a plurality of control signals to the oscillator both to generate the output signal having the output frequency in response to the plurality of configuration parameters, and to match a phase of the output signal to an input signal phase.
US09698790B2
A programmable device comprises one or more programming regions, each comprising a plurality of configurable logic blocks, where each of the plurality of configurable logic blocks is selectively connectable to any other configurable logic block via a programmable interconnect fabric. The programmable device further comprises configuration logic configured to, in response to an instruction in an instruction stream, reconfigure hardware in one or more of the configurable logic blocks in a programming region independently from any of the other programming regions.
US09698783B2
Provided is a configuration of a driver integrated circuit that can output a voltage exceeding the withstand voltage of a process, and that satisfies required apparatus performance (high speed and high voltage). A differential input circuit, a level shift circuit, and an output circuit are manufactured by the same process and divided and disposed on three or more chips with different substrate potentials (sub-potentials). By setting different applied voltages to the substrates of the chips, an output voltage greater than the process withstand voltage can be provided (see FIG. 2).
US09698780B2
This disclosure relates to leakage current reduction in integrated circuits (ICs). In one aspect, an IC can include a digital logic circuit and a polarization circuit. The digital logic circuit can have a plurality of inputs and can include a plurality of logic gates. The polarization circuit can receive a standby signal and a digital input signal comprising a plurality of bits. When the standby signal is deactivated, the polarization circuit can control the plurality of inputs of the digital logic circuit based on the digital input signal. However, when the standby signal is activated the polarization circuit can control the plurality of inputs of the digital logic circuit to a low power state associated with a smaller leakage current of the plurality of logic gates relative to at least one other state of the digital logic circuit.
US09698772B2
A drive circuit includes a first output node for connection to the control electrode of the semiconductor switch, a voltage supply circuit, and a first switching stage connected to the voltage supply and a second switching stage connected to the voltage supply. A first resistor network is connected between the first switching stage and the first output node. A second resistor network is connected between the second switching stage and the first output node. A control logic is designed to generate control signals for the guiding of the first switching stage and the second switching stage in such a way that in a first operating mode of the semiconductor switch the semiconductor switch is driven only via the first resistor network, and in a second operating mode of the semiconductor switch the semiconductor switch is driven only via the second resistor network or both resistor networks.
US09698770B1
A low power reset circuit includes a bias generator for receiving an operating voltage generated by a power supply and generating a bias voltage in response to the received operating voltage. The operation speed of a shaper for generating a shaped signal for indicating the operating voltage and the operation speed of a comparator for comparing a threshold reference voltage with the shaped signal are both controlled in response to the generated bias voltage. The comparator also generates a comparison signal for indicating a result of the comparison. In response to the comparison signal, a reset signal generator generates a reset signal for resetting protected circuitry powered by the operating voltage generated by the power supply.
US09698756B2
RF circuitry, which includes a first acoustic RF resonator (ARFR), a first compensating ARFR, and a second compensating ARFR, is disclosed. The first compensating ARFR is coupled between a first inductive element and a first end of the first ARFR. The second compensating ARFR is coupled between a second inductive element and a second end of the first ARFR. The first inductive element and the second inductive element are negatively coupled to one another. The first compensating ARFR, the second compensating ARFR, the first inductive element, and the second inductive element at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the first ARFR.
US09698743B2
Methods, media and apparatus for smoothing a time-varying level of a signal. A method includes estimating a time-varying probability density of a short-term level of the signal and smoothing a level of the signal by using the probability density. The signal may be an audio signal. The short-term level and the smoothed level may be time series, each having current and previous time indices. Here, before the smoothing, computing a probability of the smoothed level at the previous time index may occur. Before the smoothing, calculating smoothing parameters using the probability density may occur. Calculating the smoothing parameters may include calculating the smoothing parameters using the smoothed level at the previous time index, the short-term level at the current time index and the probability of the smoothed level at the previous time index. Calculating the smoothing parameters may include calculating the smoothing parameters using breadth of the estimated probability density.
US09698741B2
A chopper stabilzed amplifier with synchronous switched capacitor noise filtering is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a chopper amplifier having an input that receives an input signal and an output that outputs an amplified signal. The chopper amplifier includes an input chopping circuit and an output chopping circuit, where the input and output chopping circuits operate in response to a chop clock. The apparatus also includes a switched capacitor filter having an input that receives the amplified signal and an output that outputs a filtered signal. The switched capacitor filter operates in response to a filter clock. The apparatus also includes a filter timing adjuster that receives a reference voltage and adjusts a phase of the filter clock with respect to the chop clock to reduce chopper noise on that reference voltage.
US09698736B2
Compression control through power amplifier load adjustment. A power amplifier module can include a power amplifier including a cascode transistor pair. The cascode transistor pair can include a first transistor and a second transistor. The power amplifier module can include a power amplifier bias controller including a current comparator configured to compare a first base current of the first transistor and a second base current of the second transistor to obtain a comparison value. The power amplifier module can include a saturation controller configured to supply a reference signal to an impedance matching network based on the comparison value. The impedance matching network can be configured to modify a load impedance of a load line in electrical communication with the power amplifier based at least in part on the reference signal.
US09698731B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a power amplifier, a transceiver, and a base station. The power amplifier includes: a signal control unit, configured to generate a mode control signal and an auxiliary power amplifier control signal; a signal processing unit, configured to separately process an envelope signal and a radio-frequency signal; an envelope modulator, configured to output a fixed voltage or output an amplified envelope signal under the control of the mode control signal; a primary power amplifier, configured to perform amplification processing on the received radio-frequency signal that is input from the signal processing unit; and at least one auxiliary power amplifier, configured to operate or be disabled under the control of the auxiliary power amplifier control signal, and when in an operating state, perform amplification processing on the received radio-frequency signal that is input from the signal processing unit.
US09698728B2
Several circuits and methods for transferring an input data signal in a digital isolator are disclosed. In an embodiment, the digital isolator includes an isolation element, input circuit, and output circuit. The isolation element includes at least one input node and at least one output node, the input circuit is electronically coupled to the input node and generates modulated differential data signals based on modulating the input data signal on a carrier signal. The input circuit operates using a first supply voltage with respect to a first ground. The output circuit is electronically coupled to the output node to receive the modulated differential data signals, operates using a second supply voltage with respect to a second ground and includes a frequency-shift keying demodulator configured to generate a demodulated data signal in response to detection of presence of the carrier signal. The output circuit further generates an output data signal.
US09698726B2
The disclosed technology describes methods and devices for generating electricity and heat using a parabolic solar panel which employs photo-voltaic and photo-thermal technology. Embodiments include forming a flexible substrate into a parabola. A plurality of flexible photo-voltaic cells is disposed in a grid pattern over the interior surface of the parabola. Photo-reflective mirrors are disposed on the parabola's interior surface in areas not occupied by photo-voltaic cells. A copper pipe is positioned to coincide with the parabola's focal line, so that light rays reflected off the parabola are focused on the copper pipe. Inflow and outflow tubes are attached to opposite ends of the copper pipe. Water or other heat absorbing liquid is circulated through the copper pipe where the liquid absorbs thermal energy of the sunrays reflected from the photo-reflective mirrors. The liquid can be directed to a device which converts the liquid's thermal energy to electricity. Electricity produced by the photo-voltaic cells is stored in a battery.
US09698707B2
A device for converting thermal power into electric power includes many conversion cells arranged inside and on top of a substrate. Each conversion cell includes a curved bimetal strip and first and second diodes coupled to the bimetal strip. The diodes are arranged in a semiconductor region of the substrate.
US09698705B2
To suggest an electromechanical transducer device with a high S/N ratio, an electromechanical transducer device includes a first substrate; electromechanical transducer elements two-dimensionally arrayed on a front surface of the first substrate and configured to provide conversion between acoustic waves and electric signals; an electric wiring substrate that is a second substrate electrically connected with a back surface of the first substrate; a first acoustic matching layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; an acoustic attenuating member arranged on a back surface of the second substrate; and a second acoustic matching layer provided between the second substrate and the acoustic attenuating member.
US09698704B2
A converter includes multiple submodules that are serially connected on the input side to a DC power supply circuit via an inductor. Each submodule has an input-side half bridge and an at least single-phase output-side full bridge and an intermediate circuit capacitor connecting the half bridge and the full bridge forming an intermediate DC voltage circuit. According to the method, the submodules are alternately connected to the power supply circuit, thereby also connecting the intermediate circuit capacitor of the respective connected submodule to the power supply circuit, and the intermediate circuit voltage dropping across the respective intermediate circuit capacitor of each submodule is measured. The submodule to be connected is selected according to the voltage deviation of the corresponding intermediate circuit voltage from a specified target voltage value.
US09698702B1
A switching power supply and a power supply apparatus that incorporates the switching power supply are provided. Advantages of the switching power supply include the following: 1. Two or more switching power supplies can be used in parallel when they have the same kind of input power and the same rated output power. 2. Two or more switching power supplies can be used in parallel when they have the same rated output power but different kinds of input power. 3. Two or more switching power supplies can be used in parallel when they have the same kind of input power but different rated output powers. 4. Two or more switching power supplies can be used in parallel when they have different kinds of input power and different rated output power. 5. When the above-described switching power supplies are connected in parallel, the respective load proportion of each of them can be adjusted at will.
US09698694B2
Control circuits are provided for regulating an output voltage of a switched mode power supply having a variable input voltage and at least one power switch. The control circuits are operable to generate a comparison voltage based on the output voltage of the switched mode power supply and a duty cycle of a control signal provided to the at least one power switch, determine a reference voltage based on whether the generated comparison voltage falls within one of a plurality of voltage ranges, and adjust the duty cycle of the control signal provided to the at least one power switch of the switched mode power supply as a function of the determined reference voltage and the output voltage. Each voltage range is associated with a different reference voltage. Switched mode power supplies including the control circuits and methods implemented by the control circuits are also disclosed.
US09698693B2
A control circuit configured to control a power stage circuit of a switch-type converter can include: a current detection circuit configured to detect whether an inductor current rises to a first threshold value during an on time of a first switch, and to detect whether the inductor current is greater than a second threshold value when an on time of a second switch is greater than or equal to a current detection blanking time, where the power stage circuit includes the first and second switches and the inductor; and a logic circuit configured to deactivate a first switch control signal and to activate a second switch control signal when the inductor current rises to the first threshold value such that the first switch remains off and the second switch remains on during a regulation time.
US09698684B2
A control apparatus for use in controlling a power converter adapted to carry out power conversion between a high-voltage end and a low-voltage end includes an input configured for receiving at least one input signal conveying a sensed voltage across the high-voltage end, a sensed voltage across the low-voltage end and a sensed current through the low-voltage end; circuitry configured for determining a target switching frequency, a target dead time and a target duty cycle for the converter based at least in part on the sensed voltages, the sensed current and at least one circuit characteristic of the converter; and an output configured for releasing at least one output signal to cause the converter to carry out soft switching in accordance with the target switching frequency, the target dead time and the target duty cycle.
US09698682B2
Disclosed are an LDC control apparatus for preventing an LDC from being overheated, and a method of operating the same. The LDC control apparatus includes a comparator configured to compare a heat release temperature of an LDC with a predetermined criterion temperature, an adjustor configured to adjust a predetermined criterion current value according to a result of the comparison of temperature, and a controller configured to compare the adjusted criterion current value with an output current value being output from the LDC, and control the LDC by converting a control mode of the LDC according to a result of the comparison of current.
US09698681B2
An adaptive duty cycle limiting circuit is used with a switching DC-to-DC converter for preventing the duty cycle entering a region of operation having negative gain. The adaptive duty cycle limiting circuit includes a duty cycle ramp signal generator, a voltage source for providing a voltage having a fractional value of an input voltage source, and a comparator that compares the duty cycle ramp signal with the fractional value of the input voltage source. When the voltage level of the duty cycle ramp signal is less than the fractional value of the voltage source, a cycle limit signal is activated and communicated to a switching control circuit to adjust the duty cycle of the switching DC-to-DC converter to prevent the duty cycle entering the region of operation where the gain of the switching DC-to-DC converter becomes negative.
US09698678B2
A circuitry for regulating a current for an electromechanical load comprises a first connection and a second connection for the electromechanical load. The first connection can be coupled to a first supply potential thereby, and a potential of the second connection can be modified by means of a pulse width modulation. The circuitry also comprises a measurement assembly having a first measurement signal input, which is coupled to the first connection and a second measurement signal input, which is coupled to the second connection. The measurement assembly is designed thereby to determine a measurement signal that is proportional to a potential difference between the first and second connection, in order to regulate the current for the electromechanical load on the basis of the measurement signal.
US09698669B2
A control device for a switching device with separate start-up and holding coils includes control electronics to control the current supply to the start-up and holding coils and a direct voltage supply unit for the holding coil and the control electronics with the same reference potential for the holding coil and the control electronics.
US09698659B2
A singly-excited flux-switching electrical machine, that includes field coils and phase windings, is provided. The field coils and the phase windings are accommodated respectively in the unevenly shaped notches of a stator, such that the field coils and phase windings are radially offset.
US09698656B2
A motor incorporating a power converter that includes a printed board on which an inverter IC, which converts a voltage of an external power supply into a high-frequency voltage and supplies the high-frequency voltage to a stator, is mounted, wherein on a surface of the printed board opposed to the stator, a high-voltage direct-current input wire, which is a copper foil provided on a surface on a stator side, is disposed. One end of the high-voltage direct-current input wire is electrically connected to a high-voltage input line of the external power supply and the other end of the high-voltage direct-current input wire is electrically connected to a high-voltage electrode of the inverter IC.
US09698654B2
An apparatus for controlling a high-power drive device external to a package of a motor drive circuit includes a motor drive circuit. The motor drive circuit includes a driver to control the high-power drive device based on a first reference voltage, a second reference voltage, and a control signal based on a received control signal. A fault circuit generates a failure indicator based on a voltage across terminals of the high-power drive device. A fault condition is based on the failure indicator. A first terminal coupled to the driver charges a node of the high-power drive device over a first length of time in response to an absence of the fault condition and a first level of the control signal. A second terminal coupled to the driver discharges the node over a second length of time different from the first length of time.
US09698649B2
A motor component for coupling a motor to a work component is provided. The motor component includes a flange coupled to the motor; and an adapter coupled to the flange. The adapter includes a shaft aperture and a pattern of a plurality of through-holes disposed about the shaft aperture and configured to couple to a plurality of pads of the work component. A method of assembling an electrical machine to a work component includes coupling a motor component to a motor of the electrical machine. The method further includes aligning a pattern of a plurality of through-holes of the motor with at least one pad of a plurality of pads of the work component. The method includes coupling the pattern of the plurality of through-holes to the at least one pad of the plurality of pads of the work component.
US09698646B2
A rotating electrical machine includes: a case; a rotor; a stator; a control portion including a field circuit portion used to supply a current to a control circuit and the field winding; a power circuit portion controlling a stator current; a heat sink installed so as to cool the control portion and the power circuit portion; a first waterproof portion providing waterproofing to signal terminals of the power circuit portion and the field circuit portion; a second waterproof portion provided with through-holes from which a part of the control portion and the power circuit portion is exposed and providing waterproofing between the control portion as well as the power circuit portion and the heat sink; and insulation portions installed in the through-holes of the second waterproof portion and isolating the control portion and the power circuit portion from the heat sink.
US09698630B2
A wireless energy reception apparatus includes a target resonator configured to receive energy on a frame-by-frame basis from an energy transmission end through a resonance with a source resonator in a symbol duration constituting a criterion for transmitting energy from the energy transmission end to an energy reception end; a load end configured to receive power from the target resonator; a switching unit configured to connect the target resonator to the load end, and disconnect the target resonator from the load end; and a controller configured to control symbol synchronization by detecting a start point of a symbol based on a distance between the source resonator and the target resonator.
US09698622B2
The invention relates to an on-board assembly for producing and storing electricity, including at least one hydrogenerator having an output line connected to at least one electrical battery having predetermined electrical load parameters. The hydrogenerator includes a load-bearing structure onto which a generator and an impeller, secured to a shaft for driving a rotor of the generator, are mounted. Said assembly is characterized in that the generator is an excitation generator, and the hydrogenerator includes a rectifier circuit, connecting the generator to the output line, and at least one circuit for exciting the generator. The excitation circuit is connected to an excitation current regulator controlled by a control unit set up so that the generator provides a load current consistent with the electrical load parameters on the basis of a resisting torque of the generator, said torque being predetermined so as to limit drag of the impeller.
US09698621B2
A portable generator system having an internal combustion engine, a starting device for starting the internal combustion engine and a power generating device for generating an AC signal for powering a charger assembly, the charger assembly adapted to receive the AC signal and to generate a DC charging signal. The charger assembly includes a first user controllable switch and a second user controllable switch.
US09698618B2
An energy storage device includes an integrated fuel gauge that is operatively connected to the energy storage device. The fuel gauge evaluates an operating parameter of the energy storage device and dynamically determines a state of charge. The fuel gauge communicates a communication including a requested operating parameter to the charging component with the single communication line and the signal indicates to an operating system component a change of an energy storage device state. The signal is used to trigger an alert or interrupt that causes the operating system component to display the change of the enemy storage state based on the signal.
US09698617B2
A charging method and system. The method includes detecting and monitoring by a computer processor, a frequency signal associated with an input voltage signal used for powering power consumption devices at a first specified location. The computer processor generates frequency level data associated with the monitoring. The computer processor receives a request to enable a charging process for charging a rechargeable power source and power source data associated with the rechargeable power source and a user. In response to the request, the computer processor enables a customized charging process associated with charging the rechargeable power source based on the frequency level data and/or the power source data.
US09698614B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for adjusting an extended power line disruption time and end-of-life for at least one battery backup unit used in a system. A request is received to change from a first extended power line disruption time currently used in the system to a second extended power line disruption time. A first end-of-life and a second end-of-life correspond to the first extended power line disruption time and the second extended power line disruption time, respectively. A message is sent to a power distribution unit with information on the second extended power line disruption time to cause the power distribution unit to initiate a graceful shutdown of the system after power is supplied from the at least one battery backup unit for the second extended power line disruption time.
US09698608B2
An apparatus for wirelessly transferring power to a receive coupler is provided. The apparatus comprises a first coupler connected to a second coupler. The apparatus further comprises a third coupler overlapping the first and second couplers. The apparatus further comprises a controller configured to receive power from at least one power supply, provide a first current to the first coupler and the second coupler in a first charging mode, and provide the first current to the first coupler and the second coupler and provide a second current to the third coupler in a second charging mode. A magnetic flux generated by the first current passing through a first portion is constructively additive with a magnetic flux generated by the first current passing through a second portion.
US09698600B2
Systems and methods for connecting a power source to switched capacitors are provided. A method may be used in controlling the connection of a multiple phase power source to a plurality of capacitors. Each phase of the multiple phase power source is electrically connectable to at least one of the capacitors through a switching device. The method comprises, for each phase of the multiple phase power source, determining a first voltage of a power signal for the respective phase of the power source using a first voltage divider that is electrically connected to a first terminal of the switching device for the phase. The method further comprises determining a second voltage across a capacitor that is connected to a second terminal of the switching device for the phase. The second voltage is determined using a second voltage divider that is connected to the second terminal of the switching device.
US09698599B2
An electric power system includes N electric power sources and N switching circuits, where N is an integer greater than one. Each switching circuit includes an input port electrically coupled to a respective one of the N electric power sources, an output port, and a first switching device adapted to switch between its conductive and non-conductive states to transfer power from the input port to the output port. The output ports of the N switching circuits are electrically coupled in series and to a load to establish an output circuit. Each of the N switching circuits uses an interconnection inductance of the output circuit as a primary energy storage inductance of the switching circuit.
US09698597B1
A method performed by a circuit for managing power, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of voltages at a microcontroller, where each voltage is associated with a distinct power supply; determining one or more voltages of the plurality of voltages are being or will be adjusted by the respective power supply; in response to the determining, optimizing, using the microcontroller, one or more parameters of one or more of the power supplies to minimize power loss.
US09698596B2
A power converter module includes: a DC input terminal configured to receive an input voltage from a DC source; an intermediate circuit coupled directly to the DC input terminal; a DC output terminal configured to provide an output direct voltage; an AC output terminal configured to provide an output alternating voltage; a DC converter coupled between the intermediate circuit and the DC output terminal in order to receive an input voltage from the intermediate circuit; an inverter coupled between the intermediate circuit and the AC output terminal in order to draw an input voltage from the intermediate circuit; and a regulating device coupled to the DC converter and to the inverter, the regulating device being configured to regulate the input voltage of the inverter and of the DC converter to a maximum power drain from the DC source.
US09698591B2
An over-current protection method and circuit for a DC Inverter is provided in the present invention. Said over-current protection circuit comprises: a sampling unit for sampling output currents from a power module to form a sampling signal; a signal-processing unit for amplifying with various magnification factors and low-pass filtering the sampling signal to generate a first over-current signal and a second over-current signal; a signal-generating unit for generating a first interrupt trigger signal based on the first over-current signal; a comparison unit for comparing the second over-current signal with a reference voltage corresponding to an over-current threshold of a motor, with a comparison result being a second interrupt trigger signal; and a control unit for controlling the power module based on the first interrupt trigger signal, and the motor based on the second interrupt trigger signal. The over-current protection method and circuit provided in the present invention are able to satisfy over-current protection of the power module and the motor of the inverter simultaneously.
US09698589B1
This specification describes direct current (DC) power distribution systems. One of the systems includes a DC power distribution bus that includes a plurality of sector distribution buses. Each sector distribution bus is coupled to a respective sector power source. A plurality of sector isolation switches are coupled between the sector distribution buses and configured to individually isolate each sector distribution bus from the DC power distribution bus. At least one load is coupled to at least two different sector distribution buses of the DC power distribution bus.
US09698588B2
A universal bushing is described herein. The universal bushing can include a base member and a first bushing member. The base member can include at least one outer portion and at least one inner wall that forms a first cavity, where the at least one inner wall has a perimeter that is substantially uniform along a first height of the at least one inner wall. The first bushing member can be removeably coupled to the base member and disposed within the first cavity, where the first bushing member includes at least one first wall having a first inner surface that forms a second cavity and a first outer surface, where the at least one first wall has a first inner perimeter that is substantially uniform along a second height of the at least one first wall, and where the first outer surface forms a first outer perimeter.
US09698587B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a flat cable reeling device reducing a size. A flat cable reeling device includes a case housing a flat cable, a center shaft provided in the case and fixing a first end side of the flat cable, a rotating table rotatively provided, centering on the center shaft, and a biasing means biasing the rotating table in a reeling direction of the flat cable. The rotating table is provided with a plurality of rollers adapted to reel the flat cable from an outside of the case along a circumferential direction of the rotating table. The rotating table is integrally provided with a disk-like table main body and a plurality of guiding portions formed to project from an upper surface of the table main body, and the plurality of guiding portions rotatively support the respective rollers and guide the respective rollers to be slidable in a radial direction of the rotating table.
US09698578B1
A bus bar for electrical power distribution may be an elongated extruded metal bar having slots extending the entire length thereof. The slots may be of T-shape cross section, each with the channel opening through a face of the bar. Bolts are arranged with their heads captured in, and slidable along the length of the slots to any desired position. The bolts may have threaded stems which extend from the head through the channel of the T-slot in which its head is disposed and beyond that face of the bar through which the associated T-slot opens. Each stem is adapted to threadably receive a nut for clamping, supporting or connecting lugs to the bar. The bus bars can be mounted on insulating support members.
US09698576B2
Method for manufacturing an ignition electrode for spark plugs and spark plug manufactured therewith
A method for manufacturing an ignition electrode for spark plugs for internal combustion engines. The method includes producing by powder metallurgy a green part or brown part containing the base metal or the base metal alloy, coating of a part of the surface of the green part or brown part with a mixture that contains the precious metal or the precious metal alloy in the form of a powder and a binder, removing the binder from the layer that was formed by the coating and that contains the precious metal or the precious metal alloy, and sintering the coated green part or brown part to form a composite part. The composite part is welded as an end piece to the one end of the base-metal section of the ignition electrode.
US09698564B1
A multi-chip module (MCM) includes: an interposer, a photonic chip, an optical gain chip, and a waveguide-fiber connector. The photonic chip, which may be electrically coupled to the interposer, may be implemented using a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology, and may include an optical waveguide that conveys an optical signal. Moreover, the optical gain chip, which may be electrically coupled to the interposer, may include a III-V compound semiconductor, and may include a second optical waveguide that conveys the optical signal and that is vertically aligned with the optical waveguide relative to a top surface of the interposer. Furthermore, the waveguide-fiber connector may be mechanically coupled to the interposer, and remateably mechanically coupled to an optical fiber coupler that includes the optical fiber. The waveguide-fiber connector may convey the optical signal between the optical waveguide in the photonic chip and the optical fiber.
US09698557B2
An optical fiber for amplification includes a core having an inner core and an outer core surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the inner core. The relative refractive index difference of the inner core to a cladding is smaller than the relative refractive index difference of the outer core to the cladding. The outer core is entirely doped with erbium. The theoretical cutoff wavelength of an LP11 mode light beam is a wavelength of 1,565 nm or more. The theoretical cutoff wavelength of an LP21 mode light beam is a wavelength of 1,530 nm or less. The theoretical cutoff wavelength of the LP02 mode light beam is a wavelength of 980 nm or less.
US09698548B2
A splice connector for a busway system utilizes individual connectors made of a conductive material and having a u-shaped cross-section that fit over ends of a pair of busbars to be connected to each other, and within which are mounted multi-contact louvers that extend the length of the connectors to establish a low impedance electrical connection between the connector and the respective busbars. The louvers are secured in place by a dovetail groove that retains the louvers within the connectors and causes the individual contact sections of the louvers to bow outwardly so as to press against the busbars when the connector is fitted over the busbars. The connectors are snapped into insulative housing halves or sections that align the connectors with the busbars, and that provide isolation between horizontally aligned pairs of connectors.
US09698546B2
A blind-mate connector (10, 20, 100) has a barrel (11, 21, 105), a base (12, 22, 110) at the back end of the barrel, an insulator (17, 27) mounted in the base, and a center conductor (15, 25) extending from near the front end of the barrel, through the insulator, and extending beyond the back end of the base, with the center conductor being held by the insulator. One type has sidewalls (13, 23) extending rearwardly from the back end of the base, and alignment notches (14, 24) on the sidewalls, the alignment notches extending only partially from the back ends of the sidewalls toward the base. Another type has alignment tabs (125) extending rearwardly from the back end, and sidewalls (130) extending rearwardly from the back end of the base, the first tab being above the first sidewall.
US09698545B2
A machine case includes a sink-like main portion and opposite deck stations by two ends of said main portion, and a terminal module. Said terminal module includes an insulator defining opposite top and bottom surfaces and a set of contacts retained to the insulator via a first insert molding process and arranged along a transverse direction. Each of said contacts is stamped and bent from sheet metal and unitarily formed with an upper contacting section and a lower contacting section. One of said upper contacting section and said lower contacting section defines an exposed end for originally linking to a contact carrier. The insulator forms a set of recesses originally formed between the contacting sections of neighboring contacts during the first insert molding while successively filled with material by the corresponding deck station in which said terminal module is embedded.
US09698534B2
An electrical connector includes a front wire terminal and a rear wire terminal. The front wire terminal and the rear wire terminal are configured to couple to a conductor of a cable. A front signal trace is coupled to the front wire terminal. A rear signal trace is coupled to the rear wire terminal. The front signal trace is positioned adjacent to the rear signal trace. A front mating contact is coupled to the front signal trace. A rear mating contact is coupled to the rear signal trace. The front signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the front wire terminal and the front mating contact. The rear signal trace conveys an electrical signal between the rear wire terminal and the rear mating contact. An electro-mechanical compensation is positioned between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace to control crosstalk between the front signal trace and the rear signal trace.
US09698523B2
A fitting work for a connector (40) and a counterpart connector (70) can be performed smoothly. The connector (40) includes a housing body (42) from which an electrical wire (100) connected to a terminal metal fitting (30) extends out from a rear face thereof; and a guide (43) arranged at a rear side of the housing body (42) and configured by having the electrical wire (100) arranged within a through portion (52) passing through in a direction intersecting a front-rear direction, the electrical wire (100) extending out in both directions through both end openings of the through portion (52). The electrical wire (100) extending out in both directions is configured of the electrical wire (100) configuring a main line (10) of a wire harness.
US09698501B2
An electrical shield connector configured to be attached to an end of a shielded cable having a conductive wire and a shield conductor longitudinally surrounding the conductive wire. The shield connector includes a connection portion that is configured for connection with a corresponding mating electrical shield connector and a cable attachment portion that is configured to longitudinally receive an end of the shield conductor. The connection portion defines a shroud surrounding an electrical terminal attached to the conductive wire. The cable attachment portion and/or crimp wings projecting therefrom define a projection that is configured to contact and indent the shield conductor, thereby mechanically and electrically connecting the shield connector to the shield conductor. The cable attachment portion may also define a knurled pattern in an interior surface of the cable attachment portion, such as a knurled pattern having a number of rhomboid-shaped indentations.
US09698492B2
A multiple beam integrated antenna system for a satellite including a support structure having an alignment plate. The antenna system further includes a plurality of feed horns mounted to the alignment plate, where each feed horn includes a plurality of tapered sections that support propagation modes for both up-link signals and down-link signals. A septum polarizer is mounted to an input end of each feed horn that converts linearly polarized signals to circularly polarized signals for the up-link signals and converts circularly polarized signals to linearly polarized signals for the down-link signals. A Y-shaped waveguide is coupled to each of the polarizers and includes separate receive reject and transmit reject filters so as to keep the up-link signals and the down-link signals from interfering with each other. Flex waveguides couple the transmit leg and the receive leg of each Y-shaped waveguide to RF modules.
US09698486B2
A higher band radiating element for use in a multiband antenna includes first and second dipole arms supported by a feedboard. The feedboard includes first and second matching circuits, each comprising a capacitor-inductor-capacitor (CLC) matching circuit. The matching circuit further includes a CM tuning circuit connecting a portion of the matching circuit to ground via a microstrip trace selected to pass lower band currents while blocking higher band currents. The CM tuning circuit moves the common mode resonance of the higher band support PCB down below the operating frequency of additional, lower band radiating elements present in the multiband antenna, which is preferable to moving the common mode resonance above the lower band frequencies.
US09698480B2
A first base radiation element has a first end connected to the feed point, and a second end. A second base radiation element has a first end connected to the ground point, and a second end. The first and second base radiation elements respectively include portions extending in a first direction and close to each other. The first base radiation element is branched into first and second branch radiation elements at a first branch point located at the second end of the first base radiation element, the first branch radiation element includes a portion extending in the first direction, and the second branch radiation element includes a portion extending in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The end of the second base radiation element is connected to a connecting point different from the first branch point of the first branch radiation element.
US09698476B2
An antenna device includes: a case; a board which is encased in the case and receives a signal from an antenna element; and a base for which closes a bottom face of the case. The base is integrally provided with a metal fastening member, and includes a sheet metal part for conducting earth connection between an earth electrode of the board and a vehicle panel, and the sheet metal part is surrounded with resin to be integrally molded therewith.
US09698472B2
An antenna device for radio communications in a wearable device comprises a ground plate having an arc shape, a first antenna plate extending essentially parallel to the ground plate and connected thereto at a first end portion of the ground plate, the first antenna plate having a first feed terminal, and a second antenna plate extending essentially parallel to a the ground plate and connected thereto at a second end portion of the ground plate opposite to the first end portion of the ground plate, the second antenna plate having a second feed terminal. A gap is provided between the first antenna plate and the second antenna plate.
US09698464B2
A transmission line is provided with a line portion with a first relative permittivity which is composed of a first dielectric and a conductor filler dispersed in the first dielectric, and a surrounding dielectric portion composed of a second dielectric with a second relative permittivity, wherein, the surrounding dielectric portion exists around the line portion in a cross section perpendicular to a direction in which electromagnetic waves transmit in the line portion, the first relative permittivity is 600 or more, and the second relative permittivity is smaller than the first relative permittivity. An electronic component has the transmission line. Further, an electronic component is provided with a resonator having a resonant frequency ranging from 1 GHz to 10 GHz, wherein, the resonator is formed by using the transmission line.
US09698457B2
A WDM transmitter and/or receiver optoelectronic integrated circuit includes a plurality of microresonators and corresponding waveguides and couplers that are integrally formed on a substrate. For the WDM transmitter, the microresonators and waveguides are configured to generate a plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths. Each coupler includes a resonant cavity waveguide that is configured to transmit one optical signal from one waveguide to the output waveguide such that the plurality of optical signals are multiplexed on the output waveguide. For the WDM receiver, an input waveguide is configured to provide for propagation of a plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths. Each coupler includes a resonant cavity waveguide that is configured to transmit at least one optical signal from the input waveguide to one waveguide. The waveguides and microresonators are configured to perform optical-to-electrical conversion of the plurality of optical signals at different wavelengths that propagate in the waveguides.
US09698454B1
A process for forming a coating for an RF window which has improved secondary electron emission and reduced multipactor for high power RF waveguides is formed from a substrate with low loss tangent and desirable mechanical characteristics. The substrate has an RPAO deposition layer applied which oxygenates the surface of the substrate to remove carbon impurities, thereafter has an RPAN deposition layer applied to nitrogen activate the surface of the substrate, after which a TiN deposition layer is applied using Titanium tert-butoxide. The TiN deposition layer is capped with a final RPAN deposition layer of nitridation to reduce the bound oxygen in the TiN deposition layer. The resulting RF window has greatly improved titanium layer adhesion, reduced multipactor, and is able to withstand greater RF power levels than provided by the prior art.
US09698426B2
The present invention provides an aluminum alloy foil for electrode current collector, high in strength and superior in heat resistance after the active material coating/drying process of the manufacture of the battery, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium ion secondary battery. According to the present invention, an aluminum alloy foil for electrode current collector, including 0.1 to 0.5 mass % (hereinafter mass % is referred to as %) of Fe, 0.01 to 0.5% of Si, 0.01 to 0.2% of Cu, 0.01 to 0.5% of Mn, with the rest being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein tensile strength of an aluminum alloy foil and a heat treatment selected from 24 hours at 100° C., 3 hours at 150° C., and 15 minutes at 200° C., is 210 MPa or higher, a manufacturing method thereof, and a lithium ion secondary battery are provided.
US09698418B2
The invention relates to cathode materials for Li-ion batteries in the quaternary phase diagram Li[Li1/3Mn2/3]O2—LiMn1/2Ni1/2O2—LiNiO2—LiCoO2, and having a high nickel content. Also a method to manufacture these materials is disclosed. The cathode material has a general formula Lia ((Niz(Ni1/2Mn1/2)yCox)1−kAk)2−aO2, wherein x+y+z=1, 0.1≦x≦0.4, 0.36≦z≦0.50, A is a dopant, 0≦k≦0.1, and 0.95≦a≦1.05, and having a soluble base content (SBC) within 10% of the equilibrium soluble base content.
US09698403B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a PCB and a high current interconnect mounted on the PCB. The high current interconnect is configured to electrically couple a first high current bladed component, a second high current bladed component, and a trace disposed on the PCB. The high current interconnect includes feet made of a conductive material that are coupled to the PCB. The trace is coupled to the feet via a weld.
US09698402B2
A method of welding a bus bar to battery cell terminals to produce a bus bar clip assembly. A bus bar is provided with spring clips. The clips fit over the battery terminals and hold the bus bar and terminals in contact for welding the components together.
US09698399B2
An organic-inorganic composite layer for a lithium battery includes an organic polymer and a plurality of composite inorganic particles. The weight ratio of the organic polymer to the composite inorganic particles is 10:90 to 95:5, wherein the composite inorganic particles have at least two structural configurations stacked in staggered configuration.
US09698393B2
A battery unit of an automated guided vehicle comprises a casing installed in a chassis of the automated guided vehicle, a battery housed in the casing, a control panel housed in the casing to monitor a charge and discharge state of the battery, and electric components housed in the casing and electrically connected to the battery. The battery is arranged in the casing such that a battery bottom surface is separated from the casing bottom surface.
US09698390B2
The present disclosure relates to an extremely deformable structure comprising a basic displacement unit having an embedded form, in which m polygonal basic unit cells are disposed adjacent to each other, m separation parts are formed among the m basic unit cells, a junction part connecting the basic unit cells to each other is formed between the basic unit cells in which the junction part has a junction part pattern in which an external junction part disposed at the outer portion of the basic unit cell and an internal junction part which is not in contact with the outer portion of the basic unit cell are sequentially repeated, and the relative positions of the m basic unit cells are changed according to the junction part pattern, and thus, are activated (here, m is an integer of 4 or 6). Further, the present disclosure relates to a lithium secondary battery made from the extremely deformable structure.
US09698384B2
Provided are an OLED display panel and its manufacturing method, as well as a display device. The OLED display panel includes: a base substrate; and an organic light emitting unit, a pixel defining layer and a packaging substrate, arranged on the base substrate. The pixel defining layer is provided with a via hole at least one side of the organic light emitting unit. The via hole is filled with a total reflection-eliminating layer through which incident light is processed to obtain emergent light capable of arriving at an interface between the packaging substrate and an atmosphere at an incident angle smaller than a total reflection angle at the interface between the packaging substrate and the atmosphere.
US09698382B2
Each of blue light emitting elements includes: a photoanode; a translucent cathode; an organic light emitting layer between the photoanode and the translucent cathode; a first functional layer between the organic light emitting layer and the photoanode; and a second functional layer between the organic light emitting layer and the translucent cathode, and has a resonator structure. The first functional layer has an optical film thickness of 48-62 nm. The translucent cathode is a stack of a first translucent conductive layer, a metal layer, and a second translucent conductive layer stacked in this order from the second functional layer side. The first translucent conductive layer has a refractivity of 2.0-2.4, and a film thickness of 85-97 nm. The metal layer has a refractivity different by 0 to 2.0 from that of the first translucent conductive layer, and has a film thickness of 2-22 nm.
US09698377B1
A copolymer according to the present disclosure is provided, which includes 30 to 80 mol % of a repeating unit represented by formula (I), 5 to 25 mol % of a repeating unit represented by formula (II), and 5 to 30 mol % of a repeating unit represented by formula (III): wherein R1 is C6-C13 aryl group, C7-C13 aralkyl group, C6-C8 halogenated aryl group or C7-C8 aryloxyalkyl group; R3 is C3-C16 alkyl group or C3-C6 alkoxy substituted alkyl group; R5 is a single bond or C1-C3 alkylene group, R6 and R7 are independently C1-C3 alkoxy group, R8 is polysiloxane with methyl and phenyl groups; and R2, R4 and R9 are independently hydrogen or methyl. In addition, a resin composition, a packaging film and a package structure including the same are provided.
US09698374B2
The present application provides a pressure-sensitive adhesive film, an organic electronic device including the same and a method of manufacturing an organic electronic device using the same. The present application provides the pressure-sensitive adhesive film which forms a structure effectively blocking water or oxygen from penetrating into an organic electronic device from the outside, and has excellent mechanical properties such as handleability, formability or the like and transparency.
US09698373B2
A barrier film layer, a photoelectric device comprising the barrier film layer and a manufacturing method of the photoelectric device are provided. A material forming the barrier film layer includes a topological insulator, and the barrier film layer is formed on a surface of an base plate which is patterned. In this way, a better package of the photoelectric device can be achieved.
US09698363B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes depositing a dielectric layer on a substrate and a nanomaterial on the dielectric layer. The method also includes depositing a thin metal layer on the nanomaterial and removing a portion of the thin metal layer from a gate area. The method also includes depositing a gate dielectric layer. The method also includes selectively removing the gate dielectric layer from a source contact region and a drain contact region. The method also includes patterning a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode.
US09698358B2
Disclosed are a nitrogen-containing polycyclic compound and an organic electroluminescent device including the same.
US09698357B2
The present invention discloses a novel phenanthroline-based compound is represented by the following formula(I), the organic EL device employing the phenanthroline-based compound as hole blocking material/electron transport material or phosphorescent host can display good performance. L, m, n, X, Y and R1 to R20 each have the same meaning as described in the present invention.
US09698352B2
To provide a novel amine compound which is especially suitable for a hole transport material for organic EL devices, and an organic EL device which employs such an amine compound and is excellent in the driving voltage, luminous efficiency and device lifetimeAn amine compound represented by the formula (1): (wherein X is a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom, each of R1 to R10 which are independent of one another, is a hydrogen atom, a deuterium atom or a phenyl group, and each of Ar1 and Ar2 which are independent of each other, is a C6-18 aromatic hydrocarbon group, a dibenzothienyl group or a dibenzofuranyl group, which, each independently, may have a substituent consisting of a methyl group, a methoxy group, a dibenzothienyl group, a dibenzofuranyl group or a 9-carbazolyl group.).
US09698344B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for increasing thermal insulation in a resistance change memory device, also known as a phase change memory (PCM) device. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage structure of a PCM device, the storage structure having a chalcogenide material, an electrode having an electrically conductive material, the electrode having a first surface that is directly coupled with the storage structure, and a dielectric film having a dielectric material, the dielectric film being directly coupled with a second surface of the electrode that is disposed opposite to the first surface. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09698341B2
A magnetoresistive-based device and method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive-based device using a plurality of masks. The magnetoresistive-based device includes magnetic material layers formed between a first electrically conductive layer and a second electrically conductive layer, the magnetic materials layers including a tunnel barrier layer formed between a first magnetic materials layer and a second magnetic materials layer. In one embodiment, the method may include removing the first electrically conductive layer and the first magnetic materials layer unprotected by a first mask, to form a first electrode and a first magnetic materials, respectively, and removing the tunnel barrier layer and the second magnetic materials layer unprotected by a second mask to form a tunnel barrier and second magnetic materials, and the second electrically conductive layer unprotected by the second mask to form, and a second electrode.
US09698339B1
Embodiments are directed to an electromagnetic memory device having a memory cell and an encapsulation layer formed over the memory cell. The memory cell may include a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ), and the encapsulation layer may be formed from a layer of hydrogenated amorphous silicon. Amorphous silicon improves the coercivity of the MTJ but by itself is conductive. Adding hydrogen to amorphous silicon passivates dangling bonds of the amorphous silicon, thereby reducing the ability of the resulting hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer to provide a parasitic current path to the MTJ. The hydrogenated amorphous silicon layer may be formed using a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, which can be tuned to enable a hydrogen level of approximately 10 to approximately 20 percent. By keeping subsequent processing operations at or below about 400 Celsius, the resulting layer of hydrogenated amorphous silicon can maintain its hydrogen level of approximately 10 to 20 percent.
US09698337B2
A piezoelectric ceramic includes: a metal oxide represented by General Formula (1); and 0.04 parts by weight or more and 0.36 parts by weight or less of Mn and 0.042 parts by weight or more and 0.850 parts by weight or less of Bi on a metal basis relative to 100 parts by weight of the metal oxide, wherein the piezoelectric ceramic includes a plurality of first crystal grains having a perovskite structure, and a plurality of second crystal grains provided at a grain boundary between the first crystal grains and having a crystal structure different from that of the first crystal grain, and the second crystal grain mainly contains at least one metal oxide selected from Ba4Ti12O27 and Ba6Ti17O40. (Ba1-xCax)a(Ti1-yZry)O3 (1) (where 0.09≦x≦0.30, 0.025≦y≦0.085, 0.986≦a≦1.02)
US09698336B2
The present invention relates to a zinc oxide-cellulose nanocomposite made of cellulose and zinc oxide nanoparticles and to a preparation method thereof. The nanocomposite of the present invention is prepared by producing zinc oxide nanoparticles as seeds on the surface and/or inside of a cellulose film and growing the seeds into zinc oxide crystals to form a zinc oxide layer strongly attached to the cellulose film. The nanocomposite of the present invention has significantly improved piezoelectricity compared to simple cellulose piezoelectric paper and may be used for LEDs and photovoltaic power generation devices thanks to zinc oxide doped therein.
US09698327B2
An LED illumination module in which LED bare chips are mounted on a mounting substrate at a high density, the module comprising many LED bare chips having the same specifications, the mounting substrate at least a surface of which is metal, and a reflection region in which the LED bare chips are sealed off with resin, wherein a surface of the reflection region of the mounting substrate is covered with an inorganic white insulating layer that functions as a reflection member, a unit LED chip group including a plurality of LED bare chips connected in series is disposed plural, the plural unit LED chip groups being connected in parallel, overall light flux is 10,000 lumens or more, and a mounting area density of the LED bare chips in the reflection region is 15 mm2/cm2 or more. An LED illumination apparatus including the LED illumination module is also provided.
US09698318B2
A light emitting device includes a base member, a light emitting element, and a sealing member. The substrate includes a wiring portion. The element is arranged on or above the substrate. The sealing member covers the element, and at least a part of the substrate. The sealing member includes a wavelength conversion member. The part of the substrate is divided into first and second sections by a straight line that passes through the center of the part as viewed in plan view. The wiring portion is arranged so that its area on the first section side is larger than on the second section side. The element is arranged so that its area in the second section is larger than the first section. The height of the sealing member on the second section side is greater than on the first section side.
US09698315B2
A light emitting device is provided which includes a light emitting element, a phosphor, and a sealing member. The light emitting element has a light emission peak wavelength in the range not shorter than 400 nm and not longer than 460 nm. The phosphor can be excited by light from the light emitting element, and emit luminescent radiation with a light emission peak wavelength in the range in not shorter than 600 nm and not longer than 700 nm. The sealing member includes a pigment for absorbing a part of the light from the light emitting element. X of the light emission chromaticity of the light emitting device falls within the range of x≧0.600 in the chromaticity coordinates in the CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram.
US09698301B2
A wafer processing method for dividing a wafer (including a substrate and a functional layer formed on the front side of the substrate) along a plurality of division lines. The functional layer is partitioned by the division lines to define a plurality of regions. The method includes the following steps: attaching a protective member to the front side of the wafer; cutting the back side of the substrate of the wafer in an area corresponding to each division line with a cutting blade, thereby forming a division groove having a depth not reaching the functional layer so that a part of the substrate is left in this area; applying a laser beam to the wafer from the back side of the substrate along the bottom of each division groove extending along each division line to thereby cut the part of the substrate and the functional layer along each division line.
US09698299B2
A device having a plurality of thin film photovoltaic cells (PV) formed over a passivation layer. The device comprises a plurality of thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells formed over the passivation layer, each PV cell includes at least a lower conducting layer (LCL) and an upper conducting layer (UCL); and a conducting path connecting at least a UCL of a first PV cell to at least a LCL of a second PV cell, wherein at least a first array of PV cells comprised of at least a first portion of the plurality of PV cells is connected by the respective UCL and LCL of each PV cell to provide a first voltage output. In an embodiment the passivation layer is formed over a target integrated circuit (TIC), the TIC having a top surface and a bottom surface.
US09698295B2
An optoelectronic device for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a body of semiconductor material. A first region and a second region that form a junction are provided within the body. A recess extends into the body and is delimited by side arranged transverse to a main surface of the body. The junction is exposed by the sidewall to coupled electromagnetic radiation received in the recess into a photodiode formed by the junction.
US09698289B2
A method for detaching a self-supporting layer of silicon of crystalline orientation <100>, particularly with the aim of applications in the field of photovoltaics, wherein the method includes the steps of: a) Implanting ionic species in a substrate made of silicon having a crystalline orientation <100> so as to create an embrittlement plane in the substrate, delimiting on both sides a self-supporting layer and a negative of the substrate, and b) Applying a heat treatment to the substrate implanted at step a) with a temperature ramp greater than 30° C./s so as to detach the self-supporting layer of silicon.
US09698282B2
An optoelectronic component including a connection carrier comprising a structured carrier strip in which interspaces are filled with an electrically insulating material and an optoelectronic semiconductor chip attached and electrically connected to a top portion of the connection carrier, wherein the electrically insulating material terminates substantially flush with the carrier strip in places or the carrier strip projects beyond the electrically insulating material, and the carrier strip is not covered by the electrically insulating material on the top portion and/or on a bottom portion of the connection carrier.
US09698281B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming at least one sacrificial layer on a substrate during a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process. An absorber layer is deposited on top of the at least one sacrificial layer. A portion of the at least one sacrificial layer beneath the absorber layer is removed to form a gap over which a portion of the absorber layer is suspended. The sacrificial layer can be an oxide of the CMOS process with the oxide being removed to form the gap using a selective hydrofluoric acid vapor dry etch release process. The sacrificial layer can also be a polymer layer with the polymer layer being removed to form the gap using an O2 plasma etching process.
US09698274B2
A transistor with stable electrical characteristics or a transistor with normally-off electrical characteristics. The transistor is a semiconductor device including a conductor, a semiconductor, a first insulator, and a second insulator. The semiconductor is over the first insulator. The conductor is over the semiconductor. The second insulator is between the conductor and the semiconductor. The first insulator includes fluorine and hydrogen. The fluorine concentration of the first insulator is higher than the hydrogen concentration of the first insulator.
US09698273B2
A thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode and a pair of source-drain electrodes provided on a substrate; an oxide semiconductor layer provided between the gate electrode and the pair of source-drain electrodes, the oxide semiconductor layer forming a channel; a protection film provided over whole of a surface above the substrate; and a gate insulating film provided on a gate electrode side of the oxide semiconductor layer, the gate insulating film having end faces part or all of which are covered with the pair of source-drain electrodes or with the protection film.
US09698270B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a fin structure, the fin structure having a height in a substantially perpendicular direction to the substrate, and having consecutive upper and lower portions along the height, the lower portion being closer to the substrate than the upper portion. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure wrapping around a portion of the fin structure, the gate structure having a gate dielectric layer disposed around the fin structure, and a gate electrode layer disposed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate electrode layer includes a first gate metal layer formed along both sides of the lower portion of the fin structure, the first gate metal layer having a first workfunction, and a second gate metal layer formed disposed over the first gate metal layer and wrapped around the upper portion of the fin structure, the second gate metal layer having a second workfunction. The first and the second workfunctions are different.
US09698267B2
A transistor is disclosed and includes forming a gate of a transistor within a substrate having a surface and a buried oxide (BOX) layer within the substrate and adjacent to the gate at a first BOX layer face. The method also includes a raised source-drain channel (“fin”), where at least a portion of the fin extends from the surface of the substrate, and where the fin has a first fin face adjacent to a second BOX layer face of the BOX layer.
US09698266B1
A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises forming a first buffer layer with a first melting point on a substrate. A second buffer layer is formed on the first buffer layer. The second buffer layer has a second melting point that is greater than the first melting point. Annealing process is performed that increases a temperature of the first buffer layer such that the first buffer layer partially liquefies and causes a strain in the second buffer layer to be substantially reduced.
US09698253B2
A semiconductor fin fabrication method includes: providing a substrate; selectively epitaxially growing a first mask layer in a predetermined zone on the substrate; selectively epitaxially growing a first epitaxial layer on the substrate by using the first mask layer as a mask; and removing the first mask layer and a part, under the first mask layer, of the substrate by using the first epitaxial layer as a mask and by using an anisotropic etching method, so as to form a fin under the first epitaxial layer. According to the foregoing solutions, a manner in which a selective epitaxial growth technology and an anisotropic etching technology are combined is used It can be ensured that a semiconductor fin and a surface of a gate oxidized layer are perpendicular to each other, roughness of a surface of the semiconductor fin is reduced, and a fin with a smooth side surface is formed.
US09698245B2
A vertical transistor has a first air-gap spacer between the gate and the bottom source/drain, and a second air-gap spacer between the gate and the contact to the bottom source/drain. A dielectric layer disposed between the gate and the contact to the top source/drain decreases parasitic capacitance and inhibits electrical shorting.
US09698242B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor arrangement comprises a conductive contact in contact with a substantially planar first top surface of a first active area, the contact between and in contact with a first alignment spacer and a second alignment spacer both having substantially vertical outer surfaces. The contact formed between the first alignment spacer and the second alignment spacer has a more desired contact shape then a contact formed between alignment spacers that do not have substantially vertical outer surfaces. The substantially planar surface of the first active area is indicative of a substantially undamaged structure of the first active area as compared to an active area that is not substantially planar. The substantially undamaged first active area has a greater contact area for the contact and a lower contact resistance as compared to a damaged first active area.
US09698241B1
Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating integrated circuits includes forming a gate dielectric overlying a substrate, and forming a base work function layer that includes tungsten overlying the gate dielectric. The base work function layer overlies the gate dielectric in a first and second region, where the first region is one of a pFET region or an nFET region and the second region is the other of the pFET region or the nFET region. A mask is formed over the first region, and then the second region is exposed. A work function value of the base work function layer in the second region is altered to produce a modified work function layer. The mask is removed from the over the first region, and a gate electrode is formed overlying the base and modified work function layers.
US09698240B2
A semiconductor device and methods of formation are provided. The semiconductor device includes a gate over a channel portion of a fin. The fin includes a first active area of the fin having a first active area top surface coplanar with a first shallow trench isolation (STI) top surface of a first STI portion of STI, and a second active area of the fin having a second active area top surface coplanar with a second STI top surface of a second STI portion of the STI. The method herein negates a need to recess at least one of the fin, the first STI portion or the second STI portion during device formation. Negating a need to recess at least one of the fin, the first STI portion or the second STI portion enhances the semiconductor device formation and is more efficient than a semiconductor device formation that requires the recessing of at least one of a fin, a first STI portion or a second STI portion.
US09698227B2
An integrated circuit device includes a pad layer having a body portion with a first doping type laterally adjacent to a drift region portion with a second doping type, a trench formed in the pad layer, the trench extending through an interface of the body portion and the drift region portion, a gate formed in the trench and over a top surface of the pad layer along the interface of the body portion and the drift region portion, an oxide formed in the trench on opposing sides of the gate, and a field plate embedded in the oxide on each of the opposing sides of the gate.
US09698214B1
In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a capacitor structure of an integrated circuit chip includes an insulation layer, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The insulation layer includes an insulation partition and has a first trench and a second trench separated from the first trench by the insulation partition. The first electrode is disposed in the first trench. The second electrode is disposed in the second trench. The first electrode first electrode is arranged along a spiral trajectory and surrounds a spiral channel. The second electrode is disposed within the spiral channel.
US09698190B2
Various structures of image sensors are disclosed, as well as methods of forming the image sensors. According to an embodiment, a structure comprises a substrate comprising photo diodes, an oxide layer on the substrate, recesses in the oxide layer and corresponding to the photo diodes, a reflective guide material on a sidewall of each of the recesses, and color filters each being disposed in a respective one of the recesses. The oxide layer and the reflective guide material form a grid among the color filters, and at least a portion of the oxide layer and a portion of the reflective guide material are disposed between neighboring color filters.
US09698186B2
A near-infrared-absorbing composition includes a copper compound and a compound having a partial structure represented by Formula (1) described below and the content of the copper compound is in a range of 3×10−3 mol to 1 mol in relation to 1 g of the compound having the partial structure represented by Formula (1) described below, in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group.
US09698184B2
With an image sensor in which the amplifier circuit is disposed at each pixel, there is such an issue that the threshold voltage of the transistor fluctuates so that the signal voltage fluctuates because a voltage is continuously applied between the source and the gate of the transistor at all times when using the amorphous thin film semiconductor as the transistor that constitutes an amplifier circuit. The gate-source potential of the TFT that constitutes the amplifier circuit is controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes smaller than the source terminal voltage in an integrating period where the pixels accumulate the signals, and controlled so that the gate terminal voltage becomes larger than the source terminal voltage in a readout period where the pixels output the signals.
US09698180B2
An integration method of fabricating optical sensor device and thin film transistor device includes the follow steps. A substrate is provided, and a gate electrode and a bottom electrode are formed on the substrate. A first insulating layer is formed on the gate electrode and the bottom electrode, and the first insulating layer at least partially exposes the bottom electrode. An optical sensing pattern is formed on the bottom electrode. A patterned transparent semiconductor layer is formed on the first insulating layer, wherein the patterned transparent semiconductor layer includes a first transparent semiconductor pattern covering the gate electrode, and a second transparent semiconductor pattern covering the optical sensing pattern. A source electrode and a drain electrode are formed on the first transparent semiconductor pattern. A modification process including introducing at least one gas is performed on the second transparent semiconductor pattern to transfer the second transparent semiconductor pattern into a conductive transparent top electrode.
US09698166B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a TFT, a method for manufacturing the TFT, an array substrate, a method for manufacturing the array substrate, and a display device. The method for manufacturing the TFT includes a step of forming a pattern including a source electrode, a drain electrode and an active layer by a single patterning process, wherein the source electrode, the drain electrode and the active layer are arranged at an identical layer, and the active layer is arranged between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US09698163B2
A free-form display is disclosed which makes a step-like pattern adjacent to a free-form portion less visible. The free-form display has an active area and a bezel area, and at least part of a boundary between the active area and the bezel area has a free-form portion. The free-form portion comprises subpixel electrodes and a light blocking portion. A plurality of subpixel electrodes are placed in areas defined by a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines that intersect each other. A light blocking portion has openings exposing the subpixel electrodes, respectively, and is arranged to overlap the gate lines and the data lines. The active area comprises subpixel areas where the subpixel electrodes are placed, and a non-pixel area where no subpixel electrodes are placed. The openings of the light blocking portion adjacent to the non-pixel area, are made in different sizes.
US09698160B2
A method for transferring micro devices is provided. The method includes the following operations: providing a carrier substrate and forming micro devices on the carrier substrate; forming a fixing layer on the carrier substrate, in which the fixing layer is at least in contact with bottom parts of the micro devices; patterning the fixing layer to selectively expose a portion of the micro devices; providing a transfer device correspondingly located on the carrier substrate, and picking up the exposed micro devices by the transfer device; and providing a receiving substrate and transferring the exposed micro devices to the receiving substrate.
US09698159B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) with integrated passive structures and methods of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The method includes forming a stacked structure in an active region and at least one shallow trench isolation (STI) structure adjacent to the stacked structure. The method further includes forming a semiconductor layer directly in contact with the at least one STI structure and the stacked structure. The method further includes patterning the semiconductor layer and the stacked structure to form an active device in the active region and a passive structure of the semiconductor layer directly on the at least one STI structure.
US09698158B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack structure, peripheral gate structures and residual spacers. The substrate includes a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region. The stack structure is disposed on the cell array region, having electrodes and insulating layers alternately stacked. The peripheral gate structures are disposed on the peripheral circuit region, being spaced apart from each other in one direction and having a peripheral gate pattern disposed on the substrate, and a peripheral gate spacer disposed on a sidewall of the peripheral gate pattern. The residual spacers are disposed on sidewalls of the peripheral gate structures, having a sacrificial pattern and an insulating pattern that are stacked. The insulating pattern includes substantially the same material as the insulating layers of the stack structure.
US09698155B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of second layers alternately and vertically stacked on a substrate. Each of the plurality of second layers includes a horizontal electrode horizontally separated by a second insulating layer. A contact plug penetrates the plurality of first insulating layers and the second insulating layer of the plurality of second layers.
US09698153B2
Alignment between memory openings through multiple tier structures can be facilitated employing a temporary landing pad. The temporary landing pad can have a greater area than the horizontal cross-sectional area of a first memory opening through a first tier structure including a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first spacer material layers. An upper portion of a first memory film is removed, and a sidewall of an insulating cap layer that defines the first memory opening can be laterally recessed to form a recessed cavity. A sacrificial fill material is deposited in the recessed cavity to form a sacrificial fill material portion, which functions as the temporary landing pad for a second memory opening that is subsequently formed through a second tier structure including second insulating layers and second spacer material layers. A memory stack structure can be formed through the first and second tier structures.
US09698142B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a pad region and a peripheral region, a first buffer layer formed to include a capacitor over the semiconductor substrate in the pad region, a second buffer layer formed to include a first contact pad over the first buffer layer, and a third buffer layer formed to include a second contact pad over the first contact pad. The semiconductor device, by additionally forming a buffer layer at a lower part in the pad region, reduces a stress caused by wire bonding. Thus, an applied stress to a lower structure in the pad region is also reduced. As a result, the buffer layer prevents formation of an electrical bridge between the pad region and the peripheral region.
US09698137B2
Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection using lateral surface Schottky diodes is disclosed. In one embodiment, a Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) capacitor with ESD protection comprises a group III-V substrate, a first metal layer contacting the substrate, an insulation layer formed over the first metal layer, and a second metal layer formed over the insulation layer and also contacting the substrate. A MIM capacitor is formed by overlapping portions of the first metal layer, the insulation layer, and the second metal layer. First and second Schottky diodes are formed where the first and second metal layers, respectively, contact the substrate, such that the cathodes of the Schottky diodes are electrically connected to one another and the anodes of the Schottky diodes are electrically connected to the respective overlapping portions of the first and second metal layers.
US09698132B1
A chip package stack up includes a processor chip package that has a top surface and a bottom surface, an interposer, disposed above and connected to the processor chip package top surface; a memory chip package disposed above the interposer and connected to the processor chip package through the interposer; and a processor chip package heat spreader having a bottom surface adhered to the processor chip package top surface, and having an extending portion that extends outwardly from an edge of the processor chip package.
US09698126B2
A method of integrating a first substrate having a first surface with a first insulating material and a first contact structure with a second substrate having a second surface with a second insulating material and a second contact structure. The first insulating material is directly bonded to the second insulating material. A portion of the first substrate is removed to leave a remaining portion. A third substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substantially the same as a CTE of the first substrate is bonded to the remaining portion. The bonded substrates are heated to facilitate electrical contact between the first and second contact structures. The third substrate is removed after heating to provided a bonded structure with reliable electrical contacts.
US09698124B2
An embedded integrated circuit package is made by providing a substrate with a patterned conductor layer defining bond pads. One or more components typically with upwardly facing contact pads are mounted on the substrate. The contact pads are wire bonded to the bond pads of the patterned conductor layer. A series of layers, each with one or more cut-outs corresponding to locations of the components forms a first solid stack containing cavities accommodating the components and associated wires. In one embodiment the layers are fiberglass layers and the layers are cured in the presence of a resin to form a solid body. In another embodiment the layers are thermoplastic layers.
US09698107B2
Various embodiments provide a semiconductor device, wherein the semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor device chip formed at a substrate, wherein the semiconductor device chip comprises an active region formed in a center of the substrate and a boundary region free of active components of the semiconductor device chip; and a detection wiring arranged in the boundary region of the substrate and at least partially surrounding the active region, wherein the detection wiring and the semiconductor device chip are electrically isolated from each other; and wherein the detection wiring and the substrate are electrically connected with each other via a connection having a high electrical resistance.
US09698106B2
Various techniques, methods, devices and apparatus are provided where an isolation layer is provided at a peripheral region of the substrate, and one or more metal layers are deposited onto the substrate.
US09698105B2
A method includes forming a molded panel that includes a number of integrated circuits, fan-out components and stiffeners embedded in an encapsulation material. A redistribution layer is formed over the integrated circuits and the fan-out components. The redistribution layer is electrically coupled to contacts of the integrated circuits. The molded panel is singulated to form electronic devices. Each electronic device each an integrated circuit that is separated from a fan-out component by a portion of the encapsulation material and a stiffener separated from the fan-out component by a second portion of the encapsulation material.
US09698104B2
A wafer level packaging method entails providing electronic devices and providing a platform structure having cavities extending through the platform structure. The platform structure is mounted to a temporary support. One or more electronic devices are placed in the cavities with an active side of each electronic device facing the temporary support. The platform structure and the electronic devices are encapsulated in an encapsulation material to produce a panel assembly. Redistribution layers may be formed over the panel assembly, after which the panel assembly may be separated into a plurality of integrated electronic packages. The platform structure may be formed from a semiconductor material, and platform segments within each package provide a fan-out region for conductive interconnects, as well as provide a platform for a metallization layer and/or for forming through silicon vias.
US09698103B2
A semiconductor device comprises a conductive layer, a first insulating film, a barrier metal, a contact electrode, and a surface electrode. The first insulating film is located on the conductive layer and comprises a contact hole reaching the conductive layer. At least a surface part of the first insulating film is a BPSG film. The barrier metal covers an inner surface of the contact hole. The contact electrode is located in the contact hole and on the barrier metal. The surface electrode is located on the BPSG film and the contact electrode. The barrier metal is not interposed between the BPSG film and the surface electrode so that the surface electrode is directly in contact with the BPSG film. At least a part of the surface electrode is a bonding pad.
US09698101B2
A self-aligned interconnect structure includes a fin structure patterned in a substrate; an epitaxial contact disposed over the fin structure; a first metal gate and a second metal gate disposed over and substantially perpendicular to the epitaxial contact, the first metal gate and the second metal gate being substantially parallel to one another; and a metal contact on and in contact with the substrate in a region between the first and second metal gates.
US09698097B2
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric structure which has an opening exposing a surface of a substrate; and a conductive structure which is formed in the opening, wherein the conductive structure comprises: a first conductive pattern recessed in the opening; a second conductive pattern covering a top surface and sidewalls of the first conductive pattern; an air gap defined between sidewalls of the opening and the second conductive pattern; and a third conductive pattern capping the second conductive pattern and the air gap.
US09698092B2
An electronic device, suitable for achieving a smaller size, includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface and a back surface opposite to the main surface, a main electronic element arranged on the substrate, and a conducting layer electrically connected to the main electronic element. The substrate is formed with an element arrangement recessed portion that is recessed from the main surface and in which the main electronic element is arranged. The element arrangement recessed portion has a bottom surface facing in the thickness direction, and a side surface inclined with respect to the thickness direction of the substrate. The electronic device includes an auxiliary electronic element formed on the side surface of the element arrangement recessed portion.
US09698089B2
An electronic circuit includes a substrate device which includes a first substrate section including a first plurality of layers attached to each other having a first orientation (x2) and a second substrate section including a second plurality of layers attached to each other. The second plurality of layers have a second orientation (x3). The first orientation (x2) and the second orientation (x3) are perpendicular with respect to one another.
US09698084B2
A semiconductor device includes a lead frame having terminals, a semiconductor chip electrically coupled to the terminals, and a resin part configured to encapsulate the semiconductor chip such as to expose part of the terminals, wherein a given one of the terminals includes a first lead and a second lead welded together such that an upper face of the first lead is placed against a lower face of the second lead, wherein the lower face of the second lead extends further than the upper face of the first lead toward the semiconductor chip in a longitudinal direction of the terminal, and also extends further sideways than the upper face of the first lead in a transverse direction of the terminal, and wherein an area of the lower face of the second lead is covered with the resin part, the area extending further than the upper face of the first lead.
US09698080B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device using redundant bonding-conductor structures to make inter-level electrical connections between multiple semiconductor chips is disclosed. A first chip, or other semiconductor substrate, forms a first active area on its upper surface, and a second chip or other semiconductor substrate forms a second active area on its upper surface. According to the present invention, when the second chip has been mounted above the first chip, either face-up or face-down, the first active area is coupled to the second active area by at least one redundant bonding-conductor structure. In one embodiment, each redundant bonding-conductor structure includes at least one via portion that extends completely through the second chip to perform this function. In another, the redundant bonding-conductor structure extends downward to the top level interconnect. The present invention also includes a method for making such a device.
US09698078B2
A semiconductor module of the present invention includes: a semiconductor element having a first main surface and a second main surface facing the first main surface, the semiconductor element including a front surface electrode and a back surface electrode on the first main surface and the second main surface, respectively; a metal plate electrically connected to the back surface electrode of the semiconductor element through a sintered bonding material including metal nanoparticles; and a plate-shaped conductor electrically connected to the front surface electrode of the semiconductor element through the sintered bonding material including the metal nanoparticles. The metal plate and the conductor include grooves communicating between a bonding region bonded to the semiconductor element and the outside of the bonding region.
US09698077B2
Provided is a heat conductive silicone composition disposed between a heat generating electronic component and a member for dispersing heat, wherein the heat conductive silicone composition contains (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in one molecule and having a dynamic viscosity at 25° C. of 10 to 100,000 mm2/s, (B) a hydrolyzable dimethylpolysiloxane having three functional groups at one end expressed by formula (1), (C) a heat conductive filler having a heat conductivity of 10 W/m° C. or higher, (D) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane expressed by formula (2), (E) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane containing a hydrogen directly bonded to at least two silicon atoms in one molecule other than component (D), and (F) a catalyst selected from the group consisting of platinum and platinum compounds. The heat conductive silicone composition provides a cured object having a storage modulus, loss modulus, and coefficient of loss within appropriate ranges; peeling and pump out during heating/cooling cycle tending not to occur, and increases in thermal resistance being suppressed.
US09698072B2
The present invention relates generally to flip chip technology and more particularly, to a method and structure for reducing internal packaging stresses, improving adhesion properties, and reducing thermal resistance in flip chip packages by using more than one underfill material deposited in different regions of the flip chip interface. According to one embodiment, a method of forming a first underfill in an interior region of an interface such that a periphery region of the interface remains open, and forming a second underfill in the periphery region is disclosed.
US09698069B2
Provided is a glass composition for protecting a semiconductor junction which contains at least SiO2, B2O3, Al2O3, ZnO and at least two oxides of alkaline earth metals selected from a group consisting of CaO, MgO and BaO, and substantially contains none of Pb, As, Sb, Li, Na and K, wherein an average linear expansion coefficient within a temperature range of 50° C. to 550° C. falls within a range of 3.33×10−6 to 4.13×10−6. A semiconductor device having high breakdown strength can be manufactured using such a glass material containing no lead in the same manner as a conventional case where “a glass material containing lead silicate as a main component” is used.
US09698066B2
A semiconductor chip includes: a gate pattern on a substrate; an interlayer insulation layer on the gate pattern; a first wiring structure on the interlayer insulation layer; and a defect detection circuit electrically connected to the gate pattern and the first wiring structure. The first wiring structure is electrically connected to the gate pattern via a contact plug through the interlayer insulation layer. The defect detection circuit is electrically connected to the gate pattern and the first wiring structure, and the defect detection circuit is configured to detect defects in the first wiring structure and at least one of the gate pattern and the substrate.
US09698064B2
A semiconductor device uses a lead frame, in which an outer lead is electrically connected to an inner lead suspension lead via an inner lead. An encapsulating resin covers the inner lead and part of the outer lead, and a plated film is formed on an outer lead cut surface so that a solder layer is easily formed on all surfaces of the outer lead extending from the encapsulating resin. The inner lead suspension lead includes a narrowed portion that is smaller in cross-sectional area than other portions of the inner lead suspension lead to suppress impact forces generated when the inner lead suspension lead is cut.
US09698063B2
The invention concerns a method of testing a semiconductor-on-insulator type structure comprising a support substrate, a dielectric layer having a thickness of less than 50 nm and a semiconductor layer, the structure comprising a bonding interface between the dielectric layer and the support substrate or the semiconductor layer or inside the dielectric layer, characterized in that it comprises measuring the charge to breakdown (QBD) of the dielectric layer and in that information is deduced from the measurement relating to the hydrogen concentration in the layer and/or at the bonding interface. The invention also concerns a method of fabricating a batch of semiconductor-on-insulator type structures including carrying out the test on a sample structure from the batch.
US09698062B2
A system and method for performing a wet etching process is disclosed. The system includes multiple processing stations accessible by a transfer device, including a measuring station to optically measure the thickness of a substrate, a controller to calculate an etch recipe for the substrate, in real time, and cause a single wafer wet etching station to etch the substrate according to the recipe. In addition, the system can measure the after etch thickness and calculate etch recipes, in real time, as a function of the final measurements of a previous substrate. The system can also include an in situ end point detection device for detecting the TSV reveal point while etching TSVs substrates. The system provides an automated solution to adjust etch recipe parameters in real time according to feedback concerning previously etched wafers and precisely control the TSV reveal height and etch duration using end point detection.
US09698055B2
A method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a semiconductor strip and trenches on opposite sidewalls of the semiconductor strip. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of the semiconductor strip which is used as an etching mask to extend the trenches down into the semiconductor substrate. A dielectric material is filled into the trenches and then planarized to form insulation regions in the trenches. The insulation regions are recessed. After the recessing, top surfaces of the insulation regions are lower than a top surface of the semiconductor strip and a gate structure may be formed thereon.
US09698032B2
A mounting system includes retaining bars which are structurally independent of one another, which can be optionally directly disconnected and directly connected relative to a support device through coupling devices that are activatable and deactivatable without tools. Using the mounting system, a method for charging a treatment device can also be carried out, with which the retaining bars are directly connected to a first support device, and following this, the retaining bars are directly connected to a second support device, in particular a rotor that is arranged in the treatment device. Following that, the mechanical connection between the first support device and the retaining bars is directly disconnected.
US09698013B2
Trenches (and processes for forming the trenches) are provided that reduce or prevent crystaline defects in selective epitaxial growth of type III-V or Germanium (Ge) material (e.g., a “buffer” material) from a top surface of a substrate material. The defects may result from collision of selective epitaxial sidewall growth with oxide trench sidewalls. Such trenches include (1) a trench having sloped sidewalls at an angle of between 40 degrees and 70 degrees (e.g., such as 55 degrees) with respect to a substrate surface; and/or (2) a combined trench having an upper trench over and surrounding the opening of a lower trench (e.g., the lower trench may have the sloped sidewalls, short vertical walls, or tall vertical walls). These trenches reduce or prevent defects in the epitaxial sidewall growth where the growth touches or grows against vertical sidewalls of a trench it is grown in.
US09698001B2
Described herein are mass spectrometry systems and methods which improve the accuracy of isobaric tag-based quantification by alleviating the pervasive problem of precursor interference and co-isolation of impurities through gas-phase purification. During the gas-phase purification, the mass-to-charge ratios of precursor ions within at least a selected range are selectively changed allowing ions having similar unmodified mass-to-charge ratios to be separated before further isolation, fragmentation or analysis.
US09697998B2
A mass spectrometer includes: an ionization unit configured to ionize an analyte gas; a filter unit configured to allow passage of only a target ion which is a component of the analyte gas ionized in the ionization unit and which has a specific mass-to-charge ratio; and an ion detection unit configured to detect an ion detection value based on the target ion having passed through the filter unit, wherein the ion detection unit includes a Faraday electrode which includes an electrode portion disposed along a centerline of the filter unit and a bottom electrode provided at a position downstream of the electrode portion in a flow of the target ion, the electrode portion and the bottom electrode being connected to each other, a secondary electron multiplier provided to face the electrode portion with the centerline located therebetween, and a blocking portion connected to the bottom electrode.
US09697992B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a plasma generation element physically coupled to a first main electrode. The plasma generation element includes at least a first open end and a second open end. Each open end defines a nozzle such that the first open end directs an ablative plasma to a second main electrode and the second open end directs the ablative plasma to a third main electrode.
US09697990B2
Provided is a method of plasma etching on a substrate using an etchant gas mixture to meet integration objectives, the method comprising: disposing a substrate having a structure pattern layer, a neutral layer, and an underlying layer, the structure pattern layer comprising a first material and a second material and the underlying layer comprising a silicon anti-reflective (SiARC) layer, a spin-on carbon hardmask (CHM) layer, an oxide layer, and a target layer; performing an first etch process to selectively remove the second material and the neutral layer using a first etchant gas mixture to form a first pattern; performing an second etch process to selectively remove the SiARC layer to form a second pattern; performing an third etch process to selectively remove the CHM layer to form a third pattern; concurrently controlling selected two or more operating variables wherein the first etchant gas include oxygen and sulfur-containing gases.
US09697988B2
Ion implantation systems and processes are disclosed. An exemplary ion implantation system may include an ion source, an extraction manipulator, a magnetic analyzer, and an electrode assembly. The extraction manipulator may be configured to generate an ion beam by extracting ions from the ion source. A cross-section of the generated ion beam may have a long dimension and a short dimension orthogonal to the long dimension of the ion beam. The magnetic analyzer may be configured to focus the ion beam in an x-direction parallel to the short dimension of the ion beam. The electrode assembly may be configured to accelerate or decelerate the ion beam. One or more entrance electrodes of the electrode assembly may define a first opening and the electrode assembly may be positioned relative to the magnetic analyzer such that the ion beam converges in the x-direction as the ion beam enters through the first opening.
US09697987B2
The scanning charged particle beam microscope according to the present invention is characterized in that, in acquiring an image of the FOV (field of view), interspaced beam irradiation points are set, and then, a deflector is controlled so that a charged particle beam scan is performed faster when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample between each of the irradiation points than when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample corresponding to each of the irradiation points (a position on the sample corresponding to each pixel detecting a signal). This allows the effects from a micro-domain electrification occurring within the FOV to be mitigated or controlled.
US09697975B2
Circuit breakers with moving contacts having a rocking movement, e.g., heel-toe action, are configured to direct arcing across one of two (first and second) spaced apart contacts on a moving arm to an adjacent arc chute to thereby alleviate deterioration due to arcing and improve conductivity of the first moving contact over time.
US09697972B2
A switching electrical power contactor having a bi-blade type switch, has ferrous plates attached to the blades to increase the current carrying capacity and reduce the resistance of the switch. The contacts of the switches are arranged in pairs with at least one pair of contacts being arranged to close before another pair of contacts.
US09697966B2
An operating device includes a knob, which is formed into a rod form, and a resilient body, which is formed into a ring form. Position limiting parts, which limit a position of the resilient body, include at least one primary rib, which is placed on one side of the resilient body in a longitudinal direction of the knob, and at least one secondary rib, which is placed on another side of the resilient body in the longitudinal direction of the knob. The at least one primary rib and the at least one secondary rib radially outwardly project from the outer peripheral portion of the knob within an extent that does not extend beyond the resilient body.
US09697965B2
A key structure with reduced resonant noise includes a base plate formed with a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion, a conductive film layer, an elastic conducting element, a linking rod, and a keycap on the linking rod. The linking rod has a main portion, a first arm extended from one end of the main portion and pivotally connected to the first supporting portion, and a second arm extended from the other end of the main portion and pivotally connected to the second supporting portion. The key cap has a bottom surface pivotally connected to the main portion of the linking rod. The base plate has openings under the linking rod and adjacent to the first supporting portion and the second supporting portion. The openings can reduce resonant effect of clapping sound in the keycap, when the keycap is pressed.
US09697961B2
A PhotoVoltaic (PV) panel bypass switching arrangement includes first and second switches. The first switch is to be coupled between a power system and a first end of a circuit path of the PV panel in which PV cells are connected, and is controllable to connect the first end of the circuit path to a power system and to disconnect the first end of the circuit path from the power system. The second switch is to be coupled between (i) a point between the first switch and the power system and (ii) a point between a second end of the circuit path and the power system, and is controllable to open and close a bypass circuit path that bypasses the circuit path. The first and second switches are controlled based on a determination as to whether the circuit path of the PV panel is to be bypassed.
US09697960B2
A switch has a rotary shaft that rotates in response to an external force, a cam provided on the rotary shaft and including a cam action section, wherein the cam rotates in response to the rotation of the rotary shaft, a displacement member including a cam support section that contacts the cam action section, wherein the displacement member is displaced in response to the cam support section being pressed by the cam action section rotating, and a switch module that performs an on-off action in response to the displacement of the displacement member. The cam action section is made of a metal. The cam support section is made of a resin softer than the cam action section.
US09697958B2
A movable contact of a rotary switch, including a pair of contact blades for making an electrical contact to a stationary contact receivable between the contact blades. The movable contact includes a traction member for providing a traction force between the contact blades, wherein the traction member is a unitary piece including two frame portions for framing the pair of contact blades, the traction member including a spring portion for pressing one of the contact blades against the other contact blade, wherein the spring portion is arranged between the two frame portions arranged at a distance from each other.
US09697956B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) based on DPP moiety being useful as metal-free organic sensitizers or dyes of type D-π-A in electrochemical or optoelectronic devices, their use as sensitizer or dye and an electrochemical or optoelectronic device comprising a compound of the invention.
US09697955B2
A capacitor device has an accommodating case in which a plurality of accommodating parts are formed for accommodating capacitor main bodies. The plurality of accommodating parts are oriented so that the longitudinal directions thereof all face the same direction, and the plurality of capacitor main bodies are accommodated in the accommodating parts in a manner such that the sides having terminal parts are set up in the same orientation. The sides of the capacitor main bodies having the terminal parts are provided with engaging parts that engage with engaged parts provided to a predetermined element member, and the capacitor main bodies are accommodated all together in the accommodating case in a manner such that the engaging parts are engaged with the engaged parts.
US09697950B2
An electrical component is disclosed, the electrical component comprising: a magnetic body having a top surface, a bottom surface, wherein at least one first conductive through hole is formed from the top surface to bottom surface of the magnetic body; and a coil disposed in the magnetic body, wherein a first end of the coil is electrically connected to one of the at least one first conductive through hole.
US09697945B2
Since the magnetic film of the present invention has a much thinner thickness compared to a corresponding conventional magnetic layer and radiator coil material assembly and has no adhesive layer or air layer between the magnetic layer and the radiator, permeability required at the time of charging can be improved, a loss rate can be reduced and high charging efficiency can be obtained, Furthermore, since a band width and a gain rate can be improved, the magnetic film can be very usefully applied to wireless charging products which pursue slimming in design.
US09697942B2
An electromagnet including a wire coil and a coil core, wherein the wire coil is accommodated on a coil body and includes a plurality of windings which surround the coil core and define a winding axis, wherein the coil body includes end pieces spaced apart along the winding axis and axially bounding the wire coil, which end pieces are connected to each other by at least two connecting webs extending along the winding axis and defining, together with a recess in at least one of the end pieces, an accommodating space for the coil core which is bounded by a rectangular envelope having at least one profile protruding inwards in a cross-sectional plane oriented perpendicular to the winding axis, and wherein the coil core has a recess which extends along the winding axis in at least some sections and which corresponds to the profile.
US09697935B2
A barium titanate based PTC thermistor ceramic composition without using Pb. Its Curie temperature is shifted to a temperature higher than 120° C. The PTC thermistor can readily turn semiconductive even if it is sintered in air. The resistivity at 25° C. is low and the variation rate of the resistivity at 25° C. with time is little. The PTC thermistor ceramic composition includes a sintered body having a barium titanate based compound represented by formula (1) as the main component, (Ba1-x-y-wBixAyREw)α(Ti1-zTMz)O3 (1), wherein, 1.02y≦x≦1.5y (2), 0.007≦y≦0.125 (3), 0≦(w+z)≦0.01 (4), 0.97≦α≦1.06 (5), and the sintered body contains Ca in a ratio of 0.01 mol or more and less than 0.05 mol relative to 1 mol of Ti site in terms of element.
US09697929B2
Two electromagnetic interference (EMI) controlling tape application methodologies for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable include Fixed Tape Control (FTC) and Oscillating Tape Control (OTC). In FTC, tape application angle and edge placement are controlled to maintain position of the tape edges over a base of nonconductive filler in the cable. In OTC, the tape application angle is continuously varied, resulting in crossing of the tape edges over all of the pairs of conductors with varying periodicity. In both implementations, the filler allows a cylindrical shape.
US09697921B2
A ventilation system operating method for a service personnel-accessible operations room or control room in a nuclear plant or nuclear power plant enables a supply of decontaminated fresh air at least for a few hours in the event of serious incidents involving the release of radioactive activity. The content of radioactive inert gases in the fresh air supplied to the operations room should be as low as possible. Therefore, an air supply line is guided from an external inlet to the operations room, a first fan and a first inert gas adsorber column are connected into the air supply line, an air discharge line is guided from the operations room to an external outlet, a second fan and a second inert gas adsorber column are connected into the air discharge line, and a switchover device interchanges the roles of the first and second inert gas adsorber columns.
US09697914B2
According to an embodiment, a nuclear power plant has a core; a reactor pressure vessel; a dry well; a wet well; a vacuum breaker; a containment vessel including the dry well, the LOCA vent pipe, the wet well, and the vacuum breaker; a cooling water pool placed outside the containment vessel; a heat exchanger at least partially submerged in cooling water; a gas supply pipe connected to the inlet plenum of the heat exchanger and the dry well; a condensate return pipe connected to the outlet plenum of the heat exchanger and the containment vessel; and a gas vent pipe connected to the outlet plenum of the heat exchanger and an outside of the wet well so that non-condensable gas inside the heat exchanger is released out of the wet well. The gas vent pipe is not connected to the wet well.
US09697902B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes memory cell units, bit lines, word lines, and a controller. Each of the memory cell units includes a plurality of memory cells connected in series. Bit lines are connected respectively to the corresponding memory cell units. Each of the word lines is commonly connected to control gates of the corresponding memory cells of the memory cell units. The controller is configured to control a programming operation of data to the memory cells. The controller is configured to execute a first procedure including programming the data to the memory cell connected to the (4n−3)th (n being a natural number) bit line and the memory cell connected to the (4n−2)th bit line, and a second procedure including programming the data to the memory cell connected to the (4n−1)th bit line and the memory cell connected to the 4nth bit line.
US09697901B2
A three-dimensional (3D) flash memory includes a first dummy word line disposed between a ground select line and a lowermost main word line, and a second dummy word line of different word line configuration disposed between a string select line and an upper most main word line.
US09697898B2
A content addressable memory system, method and computer program product is described. The memory system comprises a location addressable store having data identified by location and multiple levels of content addressable stores each holding ternary content words. The content words are associated with references to data in the location addressable store and the content words containing at least one next entry bit for sorting content words in a physical ordered sequence to create content ordered memory. The content store levels might be implemented using different technologies that have different performance, capacity, and cost attributes. The memory system includes a content based cache for improved performance and a content addressable memory management unit for managing memory access operations and virtual memory addressing.
US09697893B2
An embodiment of a driving circuit is provided. The driving circuit is coupled to an I/O pad. The driving circuit includes an output driver, a first termination resistor, a second termination resistor and a monitoring circuit. The output driver outputs an output data via the I/O pad. The first termination resistor and the second termination resistor are coupled to a node between the output driver and the I/O pad. The monitoring circuit monitors a first current passing through the first termination resistor and adjusts resistance of the first termination resistor and the second termination resistor according to the first current.
US09697880B2
Self-referenced reading of a memory cell in a memory includes first applying a read voltage across the memory cell to produce a sample voltage. After applying the read voltage, a write current is applied to the memory cell to write a first state to the memory cell. After applying the write current, the read voltage is reapplied across the memory cell. An offset current is also applied while the read voltage is reapplied, and the resulting evaluation voltage from reapplying the read voltage with the offset current is compared with the sample voltage to determine the state of the memory cell.
US09697879B2
In some examples, a memory device may be configured to use shared read circuitry to sample a voltage drop across both a bit cell and a resistive circuit in order to perform a comparison that produces an output corresponding to the bit stored in the bit cell. The shared read circuitry can include a shared sense amplifier as well as shared N-MOS and P-MOS followers used to apply read voltages across the bit cell and resistive circuit.
US09697871B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to synchronously presenting companion content, such as text content of an electronic book, while recording or presenting narration audio content spoken by a narrator. For example, recorded audio content may be received that corresponds to words of the companion content as spoken by a narrator. The recorded audio content may be received at least substantially in real time as the words are spoken. Content synchronization information for the recorded audio content and the text content may be generated, where the content synchronization information maps portions of the recorded audio content to corresponding portions of the text content. The audio content and the text content may be synchronously presented to a user based at least in part on the content synchronization information.
US09697868B2
A recording apparatus, a reproduction apparatus and a file management method are disclosed wherein, even if one of files recorded on a recording medium cannot be reproduced regularly, another file selected by the user can be reproduced normally. A file having a hierarchical structure formed from video data and audio data both in the form of compressed data together with information necessary for processing of the video data and audio data is produced and recorded on a predetermined recording medium. Upon production of the file, information regarding decoding of the video data and audio data is disposed collectively on the top side of the file.
US09697854B1
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write apparatus has a media-facing surface (MFS) and includes a pole, coil(s) and a waveguide. The waveguide is optically coupled with a laser and directs energy toward the MFS. The waveguide includes an entrance, a bottom and a mode converter having a core, an inner cladding, high index layer(s) and an outer cladding. The core has sides that diverge in width. The core has a first index of refraction. The outer cladding has a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction. The inner cladding has a third index of refraction not greater than the second index of refraction. The inner cladding is between the high index layer(s) and the core. The high index layer(s) are between the inner and outer cladding. The high index layer(s) have a high index of refraction greater than the second index of refraction.
US09697851B2
A note-taker terminal (200) and an information delivery device (100) are used. The information delivery device (100) includes a breathing detection unit (104) that specifies breathing sections from silent sections of uttered speech, a data processing unit (105) that determines, for every allocated time period of a note-taker, whether a breathing section exists in a range based on an end point of the allocated time period, and generates, if a breathing section exists, speech data of the utterance from a start point of the allocated time period until the breathing section, and, if a breathing section does not exist, speech data of the utterance from the start point until the end point of the allocated time period, and a data transmission unit (106) that transmits the speech data to the note-taker terminal (200). The note-taker terminal (200) receives the speech data, and transmits input text data to a user terminal (300) of a note-taking user.
US09697849B1
Multiple audio files may be synchronized using energy vectors produced from energy portions of individual frequency energy representations. Individual energy samples and time values of individual energy vectors may be compared using a multi-resolution framework to correlate energy samples and time values of multiple audio tracks to one another.
US09697834B2
A computer implemented method and system of formatting text output from a speech recognition system is provided. The method includes determining if a user correction to a text output from a speech recognition system can be accomplished by changing a formatting setting associated with the speech recognition system. The formatting setting is changed based on an inferential indication that the change to the formatting setting is acceptable to the user and/or an explicit confirmation from the user that the change to the formatting setting is acceptable.
US09697830B2
A method for spoken term detection, comprising generating a time-marked word list, wherein the time-marked word list is an output of an automatic speech recognition system, generating an index from the time-marked word list, wherein generating the index comprises creating a word loop weighted finite state transducer for each utterance, i, receiving a plurality of keyword queries, and searching the index for a plurality of keyword hits.
US09697828B1
Features are disclosed for detecting words in audio using environmental information and/or contextual information in addition to acoustic features associated with the words to be detected. A detection model can be generated and used to determine whether a particular word, such as a keyword or “wake word,” has been uttered. The detection model can operate on features derived from an audio signal, contextual information associated with generation of the audio signal, and the like. In some embodiments, the detection model can be customized for particular users or groups of users based usage patterns associated with the users.
US09697821B2
An automatic speech recognition method includes at a computer having one or more processors and memory for storing one or more programs to be executed by the processors, obtaining a plurality of speech corpus categories through classifying and calculating raw speech corpus; obtaining a plurality of classified language models that respectively correspond to the plurality of speech corpus categories through a language model training applied on each speech corpus category; obtaining an interpolation language model through implementing a weighted interpolation on each classified language model and merging the interpolated plurality of classified language models; constructing a decoding resource in accordance with an acoustic model and the interpolation language model; and decoding input speech using the decoding resource, and outputting a character string with a highest probability as a recognition result of the input speech.
US09697820B2
Systems and processes for performing unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis are provided. In one example process, a sequence of target units can represent a spoken pronunciation of text. A set of predicted acoustic model parameters of a second target unit can be determined using a set of acoustic features of a first candidate speech segment of a first target unit and a set of linguistic features of the second target unit. A likelihood score of the second candidate speech segment with respect to the first candidate speech segment can be determined using the set of predicted acoustic model parameters of the second target unit and a set of acoustic features of the second candidate speech segment of the second target unit. The second candidate speech segment can be selected for speech synthesis based on the determined likelihood score. Speech corresponding to the received text can be generated using the selected second candidate speech segment.
US09697814B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method for changing the interpretation style of music, comprising the following steps of: analyzing an audio file to obtain a waveform audio file; acquiring behavior information of a user, and converting the behavior information into control parameter information; and, processing the waveform audio file according to the control parameter information and outputting music that has been changed in terms of interpretation style. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a device for changing the interpretation style of music, comprising: an analysis module, a control information acquisition module and a processing and outputting module. By the technical solutions provided by the present invention, a user may change the interpretation style of music according to the current emotional needs, so that the diverse demands of the user are satisfied, and the user experience is improved; further, outputting a waveform audio file in real time solves the problem on time delay in the prior art, so that a user can better interact with friends in real time to share the music that has been changed in terms of interpretation style.
US09697813B2
A system is described that permits identified musical phrases or themes to be synchronized and linked into changing real-world events. The achieved synchronization includes a seamless musical transition—achieved using a timing offset, such as relative advancement of an significant musical “onset”, that is inserted to align with a pre-existing but identified music signature, beat or timebase—between potentially disparate pre-identified musical phrases having different emotive themes defined by their respective time signatures, intensities, keys, musical rhythms and/or musical phrasing. The system operates to augment an overall sensory experience of a user in the real world by dynamically changing, re-ordering or repeating and then playing audio themes within the context of what is occurring in the surrounding physical environment, e.g. during different phases of a cardio workout in a step class the music rate and intensity increase during sprint periods and decrease during recovery periods.
US09697811B1
A cradle for supporting a bass drum, the bass drum having a front hoop and a rear hoop disposed on either side of a cylindrical shell, the front and rear hoops being secured against the drum shell by a plurality of drum lugs or connector rods extending along the shell. The cradle comprises a base platform, and front and rear vertical support plates extending from the base platform and having top edges. The cradle includes a plurality of brackets attached to the front and rear vertical support plates along the top edges, the brackets each having an upward facing channel, the brackets and channels being located to removably receive drum lugs or connector rods along a lower side of the shell. The channels of the brackets engage the drum lugs or connector rods along the lower side of shell to support the bass drum.
US09697801B2
The present invention relates to a digital display plotter for plotting images on a digital display device 18. A cursive imagery generator 12 generates imagery inputs at a plurality of respective update phases during a refresh period of the display device. A control 20 for the display device activates selected pixels of the digital display device in response to respective said imagery inputs, activation being controlled subsequent to each update phase during a refresh period. An input store 14, 16 associates each cursively generated imagery input with an update phase that the imagery input was generated during a refresh period. The control 20 is responsive to the input store and configured to deactivate the selected pixels activated in response to each imagery input dependent on the associated update phase of each imagery input.
US09697799B2
A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
US09697796B2
Techniques related to generating downscaled image or image frame data in a luma chroma separated color space for an image or video pipeline architecture are discussed. Such techniques may include converting input image data to the luma chroma separated color space based on adaptive color coefficients determined based on an illumination indicator associated with the input image data and storing downscaled color converted image data to an input image buffer of the image or video pipeline.
US09697787B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of gate lines for receiving gate signals, a plurality of data lines for receiving data voltages, and a storage line for receiving a storage voltage. The gate driver is configured to generate the gate signals. The data driver is configured to operate individually in first and second frequency periods to generate the data voltages. The data voltages include a positive data voltage and a negative data voltage, and polarities of the data voltages are inverted every two data lines during the first frequency period and inverted every data line during the second frequency period.
US09697783B2
A display apparatus includes a first interpolator configured to generate first correction data for a first polarity corresponding to an input data using a first look up table which stores correction data for the first polarity compensating for a luminance difference between the first polarity and a second polarity opposite to the first polarity of a data voltage for the sub pixel, a first delay compensator configured to apply a correction value to the first correction data for the first polarity and generate second correction data for the first polarity, the correction value compensating for an RC delay based on a pixel position corresponding to the input data.
US09697766B2
A comparator unit includes: a comparison section configured to compare a control pulse with an electric potential based on a signal voltage; and a control section configured to control, based on the control pulse, operation and non-operation of the comparison section.
US09697765B2
An organic light emitting display and a method for driving the organic light emitting display. The organic light emitting display includes a display unit, a data accumulator, and a data compensator. The display unit is configured to be driven by image data. The data accumulator is configured to compress and accumulate first data corresponding to a first portion of the image data for driving a first region of the display unit, identify a second region of the display unit from the first region by analyzing the accumulated first data, and compress and accumulate second data corresponding to a second portion of the image data for driving the second region with a compression ratio based on a size of the second region. The data compensator is configured to compensate the image data based on the accumulated first and second data.
US09697763B2
The present invention relates to displays including resonant trace structures. Displays are disclosed that include a first array of first electrically conductive traces configured to conduct alternating current, each of the first electrically conductive traces can be coupled to a first microelectromechanical system (MEM) surface acoustic wave (SAW) frequency selective filter. The displays further include a second array of second electrically conductive traces configured to conduct alternating current, each of the second electrically conductive traces can be coupled to a second microelectromechanical system (MEM) surface acoustic wave (SAW) frequency selective filter. The displays further include a material located between at least a portion of the first array and the second array, the material having a property that changes to cause illumination at points of intersection between the first array and the second array in response to current conducted in one or more of the first electrically conductive traces and current conducted in one or more of the second electrically conductive traces.
US09697759B2
A drive device for a display medium includes a control unit that controls density of a display color of a predetermined range in which glare may likely occur, of display colors of an image displayed on a reflective type display medium, based on brightness information indicating brightness of irradiation beams irradiated on the display medium so that occurrence of the glare as to the display color of the predetermined range can be suppressed.
US09697750B2
A patient simulator system for teaching patient care is provided. The system includes a patient simulator. The patient simulator includes a patient body comprising one or more simulated body portions. The one or more simulated body portions include a lung compliance simulation system in some instances. In that regard, the lung compliance system is configured to be used with an external ventilator, including positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and assisted-control ventilation. In some instances, the lung compliance system includes a lung compartment, a simulated lung positioned within the lung compartment, where the lung compartment defines an available volume for the simulated lung to expand into and where the available volume for the simulated lung to expand into is adjustable to control a compliance of the simulated lung.
US09697745B2
Exemplary embodiments are described wherein an auxiliary sensor is removably attached to a touchscreen computing device and is communicably coupled to the device to provide additional user input to the computing device. In accordance with some embodiments, the additional user input may be used to affect how the computing device interprets and processes gestural user input from the touchscreen, or to simulate such input. In accordance with an illustrative embodiment, the auxiliary sensor establishes an optical path near the surface of the touchscreen and sensing user contact by observing blockage of the optical path by a user's pointing member.
US09697741B2
An apparatus used for training purposes contains an external casing, a primary shielding, a secondary shielding, and a control rod. The primary shielding and the secondary shielding are positioned within the external casing. The control rod and the secondary shield are used to adjust the radiation levels emitted from a radiation source placed within a hollow cylindrical portion of the control rod. A first rod receiving hole traverses the primary shielding. Likewise, a second rod receiving hole traverses the secondary shielding. The first rod receiving hole and the second rod receiving hole are concentrically aligned with a central receiving hole of the external casing to form a channel for the control rod to be slidably positioned.
US09697734B2
An information display device for a vehicle includes a object detection sensor that detects a target object positioned around a host vehicle, and a display unit that displays a first object marker which is displayed so as to surround the target object detected by the object detection sensor on a display area positioned between a driver of the host vehicle and the target object, and in a case where a distance from the host vehicle to the target object is long, that displays a second object marker with a degree of emphasis of the vertical components suppressed compared to a degree of emphasis of the vertical components of the first object marker in a case where the distance from the host vehicle to the target object is short.
US09697730B2
A method and apparatus for identifying parking areas may include identifying a plurality of coordinates representing vehicle spatial data, partitioning the plurality of coordinates into at least two groups of vehicle locations based on at least one condition existing when the plurality of coordinates was identified, clustering the vehicle spatial data for a first group of the at least two groups of vehicle locations based on proximity, comparing dimensions of the clustered vehicle spatial data for the first group with other location data within the vehicle transportation network information, and defining a respective location of the clustered vehicle spatial data as a parking area of a plurality of parking areas. Each parking area is associated with a respective location in a vehicle transportation network. The parking area information may be used in the identification of a route from an origin to a primary destination.
US09697725B2
A battery information providing apparatus includes a short-range communication module for performing short-range communication; an information detector for detecting battery information; and a microprocessor for controlling the battery information to be transmitted by the short-range communication module.
US09697722B2
Present example embodiments relate generally to methods, systems, devices, computer readable medium, and logic for managing a plurality of alarms initiated by a plurality of alarm sensors. The method comprises receiving the plurality of initiated alarm. The method further comprises prioritizing the initiated alarms. The method further comprises creating an initiated alarm being a condition-based alarm when an initiated alarm satisfies an event condition. The method further comprises reprioritizing an initiated alarm when said initiated alarm satisfies a reprioritization condition. The method further comprises suppressing an initiated alarm. The method further comprises reporting an unsuppressed initiated alarm based on the prioritizing of said alarm. The method further comprises providing information comprising an operator action for the unsuppressed initiated alarm and an initiated alarm suppressed based on the unsuppressed initiated alarm.
US09697707B2
A glassbreak detector includes first and second different audio transducers. The first transducer is omnidirectional. The second transducer is highly directional. Control circuitry processes signals from both of the first and second transducers and determines if a glassbreakage profile is present.
US09697704B1
A searchable binder which is operationally compatible with a binder management system having a cabinet with shelves for removable storage of the binder. Each binder has a body with front and rear covers and a spine. Inside the body is a binder mechanism for removably retaining sheet media. Each binder has a binder contact mechanism mounted to the spine at the upper end, a binder lock mechanism mounted to the spine at the lower end, a binder identification circuit electrically coupled to the binder contact mechanism and the binder lock mechanism, and a visible indicator. The binder contact mechanism has a contact element extending outwardly of the upper end of the spine and engaged with one of several first conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet. The binder lock mechanism has a lock bolt extending outwardly of the lower end of the spine with an end portion engaged with one of several grooved second conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet to normally lock the binder in the cabinet. When a binder identification signal from a host computer is supplied to the cabinet conductive elements, it is transferred by the binder contact mechanism and the binder lock mechanism to the binder identification circuit. If the signal matches a binder identification code stored in the binder identification circuit, the binder lock mechanism is activated to the release position and the visible indicator is activated to aid the user in finding the binder.
US09697702B2
A display device is provided, which includes a display configured to display a user interface (UI) screen, a status display which includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on an outline region of the display, and a controller configured to control a light emitting status of the plurality of light emitting elements so as to provide a light interaction in which the plurality of light emitting elements operate in a preset display pattern based on an interaction occurring on the UI screen.
US09697699B2
An automated banking machine that includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks from authorized machine users. The check acceptor is operable to continuously move a received check along its transport path while simultaneously rotationally orienting the check into alignment with the transport path. A check determined not to have at least one property of an acceptable check is returned to the machine user. Acceptable checks are processed and stored in the machine.
US09697685B1
The mobile device-enabled portable reward dispensing machine is a portable reward or gift-dispensing machine (i.e., hardware) controlled by two smart phone or tablet apps/software. The integrated system is designed to reward the players of a game with gifts awarded to that specific player as a result of their game play. A dispenser is loaded with reward gifts that are capable or being dispensed through a vending or exit port under control of the two apps. The dispenser includes a microcontroller unit integrated into the dispenser and two sensors. A first of the two sensors ensures the presence of gifts within the dispensing unit available for use, while the second sensor ensures that no reward gifts are stuck on the exit door or chute. The dispenser is Wi-Fi- or Bluetooth enabled, with direct connection to the two phone apps. The two apps work independently to assist in proper reward gift dispensing.
US09697681B2
A gaming system has a central authority connected to a plurality of gaming machines. Player activity is tracked at the gaming machines during regular gaming sessions and during virtual gaming sessions. Such data is transmitted to the central authority for providing player points in a player account file of a central database. Regular gaming sessions occur between player card insertion and player card removal. Virtual gaming sessions may occur prior to player card insertion as well as after player card insertion. For example, a coin-in event prior to player card insertion will establish a virtual session, and credits remaining on the credit meter at a card-out event will establish a virtual gaming session.
US09697678B2
Provided is a gaming machine that is able to offer a variety of gaming patterns with avoidance of monotony during a free game that is a game played in a bonus game. A gaming machine, when a free game trigger is established, performs a control of shifting a game from a base game to a free game. In the free game, symbols are displayed in rotation and stopped in a symbol display region 4 in accordance with a result of a symbol lottery. In the display of the symbols in rotation, the symbols are scrolled in a direction reverse to a rotation direction employed in the base game.
US09697677B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming devices that provide audio-visual animated characters in response to game play. The character has a personality that may be encouraging, taunting or another quality. A plurality of expressions of the personality is presented, between one extreme and another, dependant upon the history of game outcomes.
US09697673B2
A method, system and computer program product for managing interruption and reconnection of a game session in a computer based gaming system having a computerized gaming machine devised for executing a game and being communicatively connected to a remote data storage, wherein: the execution of a game comprises at least one instance of determining a set of associated game session data; an identity code is reserved for identification of each execution instance of a game; each determined set of associated game session data is associated with said identity code and stored in the remote data storage; and if an interruption occurs in the execution of a game, then the identity code for the current game execution instance is associated with a status indicator indicating that said game execution has been interrupted.
US09697652B2
A method is provided for monitoring a state of health of a vehicle system and includes measuring a plurality of parameter values for the system at different running conditions as an end of line test, storing the parameter values in a fingerprint file, measuring the same plurality of parameter values that is comprised in the fingerprint file after a predefined time interval, adding a predefined ageing offset to the fingerprint file, where the ageing offset corresponds to a predicted wear of the system during the predefined time interval, thereby obtaining a time modified fingerprint file for the system, comparing the measured values with the time modified fingerprint file, and issuing a message if the measured values deviates from the time modified fingerprint file. The state of health can be compared with initial measurements such that the state of health of a vehicle system or component can be monitored over a longer time period.
US09697638B2
Two sets of image data, a first image and a second image, are prepared as image data. If image controlling information is received, an image setting controlling section determines, on the basis of this information, area dividing information which allocates one of the first image and the second image to each of the areas into which an image plane is divided in the same coordinate system. A decoding section decodes the two sets of image data for the respective first and second image that were loaded into a main memory, determines which image data to adopt for each pixel based on the area dividing information, and writes the adopted image data to a buffer memory. The decoding process and writing process are carried out in tile image units of a predetermined size using a working memory.
US09697632B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an output control unit configured to display a sign indicating an indication relationship between a first point associated with tag information and a second point specified by a user in content in a manner that the sign is superimposed over the content, and output input information input by the user and contained in the tag information.
US09697630B2
Content substitution and/or picture-in-picture technology is used to provide a sign language window that provides a sign language interpretation of audio content in main program audio/video content. The sign language window can be selectively disabled by a user that does not wish to view the sign language video. Also, in some implementations, the user can move the sign language window to a desired location on the display. The desired location may be one of a plurality of pre-defined display locations. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09697623B1
A method and system for image reconstruction are provided. A projection image of a projection object may be obtained. A processed projection image may be generated based on the projection image through one or more pre-process operations. A reconstructed image including an artifact may be reconstructed based on the processed projection image. The artifact may be a detector edge artifact, a projection object edge artifact, and a serrated artifact. The detector edge artifact, the projection object edge artifact, and the serrated artifact may be removed from the reconstructed image.
US09697620B2
A method of processing borehole log data to create one or more image logs involve modeling the log data as components of an image in the form i(x, y)=l(x, y)×r(x, y) (1), in which i(x, y) is an image representative of the log data, l(x, y) denotes an illumination value of the image at two-dimensional spatial co-ordinates x, y, and r(x, y) denotes a surface reflectance value at the co-ordinates x, y. Equation (1) is transformed to a logarithmic domain, and a Fourier transform is obtained of the resulting logarithmic domain expression to obtain a Fourier domain expression. The Fourier domain expression is high-pass filtered, and an inverse Fourier transform is obtained of the resulting filtered Fourier domain expression. An exponential operation is performed on the result of inverse Fourier transform to obtain a filtered image model expression. Values of the filtered image model expression are mapped to respective color values across the range of the filtered image model expression values. The mapped color values can then be displayed, printed, saved and/or transmitted as one or more image logs.
US09697619B2
Techniques are disclosed for spatially resolving received light-based communication (LCom) signals. In an example case where one or more LCom signals are in the field of view (FOV) of an LCom receiver, the image representing the FOV may be captured and segmented into non-overlapping cells, such as hexagonal, triangular, rectangular, or circular shaped cells. Each LCom signal may be interpreted as a unique pixel cluster comprising one or more of the cells. In some cases, the LCom signals in the FOV may be received from multiple LCom-enabled luminaires and/or a single LCom-enabled luminaire having multiple light panels. The benefits of being able to spatially resolve received LCom signals may include establishing a link with multiple LCom signals within the FOV of a receiver without conflict and/or determining the location of those LCom signals, improving signal to noise ratio, augmenting position information, enhancing sampling frequency, and improving communication speed.
US09697617B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a trajectory of a axisymmetric object in 3-D physical space using a digital camera which records 2-D image data are described. In particular, based upon i) a characteristic length of the axisymmetric object, ii) a physical position of the camera determined from sensors associated with the camera (e.g., accelerometers) and iii) captured 2-D digital images from the camera including a time at which each image is generated relative to one another, a position, a velocity vector and an acceleration vector can be determined in three dimensional physical space for axisymmetric object objects as a function of time. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus can be applied to determine the trajectories of objects in games which utilize axisymmetric object objects, such as basketball, baseball, bowling, golf, soccer, rugby or football.
US09697612B2
Disclosed herein are techniques and systems for computing geodesic saliency of images using background priors. An input image may be segmented into a plurality of patches, and a graph associated with the image may be generated, the graph comprising nodes and edges. The nodes of the graph include nodes that correspond to the plurality of patches of the image plus an additional virtual background node that is added to the graph. The graph further includes edges that connect the nodes to each other, including internal edges between adjacent patches and boundary edges between those patches at the boundary of the image and the virtual background node. Using this graph, a saliency value, called the “geodesic” saliency, for each patch of the image is determined as a length of a shortest path from a respective patch to the virtual background node.
US09697610B2
An information processing device includes: a shape modeling section detecting, from frames of an image captured from a movie of a target object, an image frame representing the target object captured from a predetermined direction, the shape modeling section acquiring a shape model of the target object based on a target object figure in the detected image frame; an information processing section determining a posture of the target object detected from the captured image based on the shape model, the information processing section performing information processing on a result of the determination; and an output data transmitting section outputting to an output device the data output as a result of the information processing. The shape modeling section generates data denoting presentation information indicating how an ongoing processing by the shape modeling section is progressing. The output data transmitting section transmits the data denoting the presentation information to the output device.
US09697605B2
A method for the three-dimensional imaging of a sample in which image information from different depth planes of the sample is stored in a spatially resolved manner, and the three-dimensional image of the sample is subsequently reconstructed from this stored image information is provided. A reference structure is applied to the illumination light, at least one fluorescing reference object is positioned next to or in the sample, images of the reference structure of the illumination light, of the reference object are recorded from at least one detection direction and evaluated. The light sheet is brought into an optimal position based on the results and image information of the reference object and of the sample from a plurality of detection directions is stored. Transformation operators are obtained on the basis of the stored image information and the reconstruction of the three-dimensional image of the is based on these transformation operators.
US09697604B2
An image capturing device and a method for detecting image deformation thereof are provided. The method is for the image capturing device having a first sensor and a second image sensor, and the method includes the following steps. A first image is captured through the first image sensor, and a second image is captured through the second image sensor. A deform detection is performed according to the first and second images so as to obtain a comparison information between the first and second images. Whether a coordinate parameter relationship between the first and second images being varied is determined according to the comparison information, in which the coordinate parameter relationship is associated with a spatial configuration relationship between the first and second image sensors.
US09697602B1
A method for performing automatic contouring in a medical image. The method may include receiving an image containing a region of interest and determining a first contour of the region of interest using a boundary detector. The method may include refining the first contour based on a shape dictionary to generate a second contour of the region of interest and updating at least one of the boundary detector or the shape dictionary based on the second contour.
US09697597B2
Correction of an initial three-dimensional image of a deformed object comprises the provision of a model of the undeformed object comprising first zones, the determination in the initial three-dimensional image of second zones corresponding to the first zones, the determination of a first geometric transformation which maps the second zones to the first zones and the determination of a three-dimensional image corrected on the basis of the first geometric transformation and of the initial three-dimensional image.
US09697594B2
Apparatus for binning an input value into one of a plurality of bins which collectively represent a histogram of input values, each of the plurality of bins representing a corresponding range of input values, the apparatus comprising: an input for receiving an input value; a noise source configured to generate an error value according to a predetermined noise distribution; and a binning controller configured to mix the received input value with the error value so as to generate a modified input value and to allocate the modified input value to the bin corresponding to that modified input value.
US09697593B2
A system and method for tone mapping on a high dynamic range (HDR) image of a scene are disclosed. In one embodiment, tone mapping on the HDR image is performed using a set of bit-depths, that corresponds to a plurality of images of the scene, obtained at each unit of an irradiance range of the scene.
US09697576B2
For mitigating unauthorized content claims, an identification module ranks a plurality of content according to a value policy. The plurality of content is provided through a content host. Each content item of the plurality of content is associated with at least one authorized claimant. The identification module further identifies an unauthorized claim for a content item of the plurality of content by an unauthorized claimant. A mitigation module mitigates the unauthorized claim.
US09697565B2
An online auction system includes a set of memory resources that store auction data and one or more processors. The one or more processors implement multiple auction forums for transacting a corresponding set of assets. The one or more processors enable a registrant to participate in any of the multiple auction forums by providing the registrant with multiple interfaces to prompt the user for input or action. In some embodiments, the one or more processors provide an entity type interface to prompt the registrant to declare an entity type of the registrant. The one or more processors operate to determine a set of requirements for the registrant based at least in part on (i) a type designation provided by the user, and (ii) a geographic region of one or more assets that are being transacted by the multiple auction forums.
US09697561B2
A customer purchasing workflow management functionality related to a customer account hosted by a vendor system is presented on a client computing device in a dashboard page. The system allows a customer to visualize purchasing workflows and processes by authorized purchasers and by authorized approvers, including the spending and approval limits associated with each, and the relationships therebetween. The system further provides for editing of the stored information comprising the purchasing workflows and processes.
US09697542B2
A system for deploying Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services is provided. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a Call Session Control Function (CSCF) having a controller element to receive a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message from an originating communication device requesting communications with a terminating communication device, and establish an Internet Protocol (IP) connection between the originating communication device and an advertisement media system to present at the originating communication device an advertisement message that replaces a ringback tone associated with the terminating communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09697530B2
A system that transforms a customer order into a service order is provided. The system receives a customer order including customer order lines, where each customer order line includes a product action and a product offering that is based on a product specification. The system further defines a structured set of metadata including product specifications, customer-facing service specifications, relationships, and mappings. The system further defines a transformation sequence including customizable process logic, where the customizable process logic is structured within stages. The system further transforms the customer order lines into service order lines based on the metadata and the transformation sequence, where each service order line includes a service action and a customer-facing service based on a customer-facing service specification. The system further generates a service order including the service order lines.
US09697523B2
A recall management system allows generating, tracking, and verifying product recalls. The system provides notifications of a product recall to affected and unaffected businesses in the supply chain, as well as notification of the public and government agencies that may be affected. Verification of received notifications and the quantity of product removed from supply in response to the recall allows for closure of recall activity. Recalls may be extended over time as additional products needing to be recalled from the particular supplier of the recalled product are identified. Product returns over time are added to the total product recovered and scorecards updated in real-time as the return information is tabulated. Affected businesses and government agencies have visibility to both recall message receipt and product recovered as a part of total product recalled.
US09697519B2
Embodiments for tracking multi-layer secured transactions include systems for providing a dedicated secure transaction channel to a user and sending pre-authorization code to the user via the transaction channel. The systems allow the user to encrypt transaction data and receive the encrypted transaction data from the user via the transaction channel. The systems further unlock the encrypted data and match the sent pre-authorization code to the received pre-authorization code. The systems send a post verification notification to the user comprising the one or more transactions via the transaction channel and receive a post verification confirmation from user in response to the post verification notification.
US09697514B2
To facilitate conducting a secure transaction via wireless communication between a portable electronic device (such as a smartphone) and another electronic device (such as a point-of-sale terminal), the portable electronic device may, after a final command is received from the other electronic device, determine a unique transaction identifier for the secure transaction. In particular, the final command may be specific to an applet, stored in a secure element in the portable electronic device, which conducts the secure transaction. The secure element may generate the unique transaction identifier based on financial-account information associated with the applet, which is communicated to the other electronic device. Next, the secure element may provide, to a processor in the portable electronic device, an end message for the secure transaction with the unique transaction identifier.
US09697504B2
A method includes receiving a transacting media container having video content and an affiliate tracking identifier with first entity information associated with a first entity. The method also includes identifying second entity information associated with a second entity and retrieving supplemental content based on the second entity information. The method further includes adding the supplemental content to the transacting media container and the second entity information to the affiliate tracking identifier.
US09697502B2
A method, computer program product, and system for enforcing eMeeting guidelines is described. An indication of one or more use restriction guidelines is received. The one or more use restriction guidelines is associated with an electronic communication session. The one or more use restriction guidelines is provided to a computing device associated with an invitee associated with the electronic communication session. An indication is received that the invitee has accepted a portion of the one or more use restriction guidelines. The portion of the one or more use restriction guidelines is enforced with respect to one or more devices associated with the invitee.
US09697492B1
The exemplary embodiments described herein are related to techniques for automatically generating narratives about data based on communication goal data structures that are associated with configurable content blocks. The use of such communication goal data structures facilitates modes of operation whereby narratives can be generated in real-time and/or interactive manners.
US09697484B1
Morphing object types in enterprise content management systems is described. A text properties file is created that maps properties associated with an object type to properties associated with a new object type. A database associated with an enterprise content management system is queried to retrieve objects based on the object type. The objects are stored in a staging database. The objects are deleted from the database. Property tables are created in the database based on the new object type. The objects are migrated from the staging database to the newly created property tables based on the text properties file.
US09697482B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and systems for tracking and reporting environmental impact and agricultural-producer information. In an example embodiment, a method comprises receiving first data associated with an impact on groundwater pollution or surface water pollution, the impact on the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution resulting from a production of an agricultural product, the groundwater pollution or the surface water pollution comprising a contaminant of at least one of an inorganic or organic pollutant, the first data being received from a single representative sampling location; receiving second data associated with the impact on the groundwater pollution and the surface water pollution, the second data being received from at least one of a plurality of representative sampling locations; generating an aggregate result based on the second data; and calculating comparative data using the aggregate result and at least some of the first data; and reporting the aggregate result and the comparative data to a user.
US09697477B2
In order to provide a non-factoid question answering system with improved precision, the question answering system (160) includes: a candidate retrieving unit (222), responsive to a question, extracting answer candidates from a corpus storage (178); a feature vector generating unit (232) for generating features from combinations of a question with each of the answer candidates; SVMs (176) trained to calculate a score of how correct a combination of the question with an answer candidate is, upon receiving the feature vector therefor; and an answer ranker unit (234) outputting the answer candidate with the highest calculated score as the answer. The features are generated on the basis of the results of morphological analysis and parsing of the question, a phrase in the question evaluated as being positive or negative as well as its polarity, and the semantic classes of nouns in the features.
US09697476B1
A model is implemented that includes one or more classes. For each of the one or more classes of the model, a set of input variables of the big data set are represented as a matrix with non-zero values only provided as diagonal entries. A most likely class for each input variable is determined based at least in part on inverting the matrix. One or more predictions are determined for one or more output variables based at least in part on the most likely class of one or more input variables from the set of input variables.
US09697474B2
Multi-class classification by training a machine learning system based on training inputs each of which includes features and at least one class label. Each training input is assigned a membership value that can indicate if an entity having the features of the training input is a member of the class corresponding to the class label that is also included in the training input. To determine if an entity having test features is a member of several test classes, test inputs can be constructed where each input includes the test features and a class label corresponding to one of the test classes. The test inputs are processed by the trained machine learning system, which produces as outputs test membership values that represent the likelihood that the entity having the features in the test input belong to the test class corresponding to the test class label also included in the test input.
US09697458B2
An antenna module includes an antenna element including coil patterns and via conductors coupling together two adjacent two coil patterns. At least one of the coil patterns has a spiral shape, is wound three or more turns parallel or substantially parallel to an outer edge of a principal surface of a multilayer body, includes a first partial pattern including an outer end portion, a second partial pattern extending parallel or substantially parallel with the first partial pattern and being adjacent to the first partial pattern with a first gap provided therebetween, and a third partial pattern extending parallel or substantially parallel with the second partial pattern and being adjacent to the second partial pattern with a second gap provided therebetween, the second gap being smaller than the first gap.
US09697457B2
An RFID tag for location inside a tubular base portion of a freestanding cryogenic vial, the RFID tag comprising: an RFID chip; an antenna connected to the chip; a support medium configured to support the chip and connected antenna; and a plug at least partially surrounding the chip, the antenna and the support medium, the plug being shaped to engage the tubular base portion of the vial. The RFID tag may be used to retrofit vials already stored at cryogenic temperatures.
US09697456B2
An optically variable security element, for security papers, value documents and other data carriers, includes a single or multilayer central body having opposing first and second main surfaces, an arrangement of microlenses on the first main surface of the central body, the microlenses having a refractive effect defining a focal plane, a laser-sensitive recording layer arranged on the second main surface of the central body, a mask layer arranged between the arrangement of microlenses and the laser-sensitive recording layer and outside of the focal plane of the microlenses, and a plurality of micromarks produced in the laser-sensitive recording layer by the action of laser radiation, each micromark being associated with a microlens and being visible when the security element is viewed through the associated microlens. The mask layer comprises a macroscopic gap region that is in register with the plurality of micromarks.
US09697453B2
A wireless device security system for preventing the unauthorized reading of wireless devices by a reader. The wireless device security system generally includes a device holder that is adapted to receive a wireless device for storage, access and removal. The device holder includes an interference tag that interferes with the wireless communications between the wireless device and a reader when the wireless device is positioned at least partially within the device holder. The device holder preferably includes a layer of shielding material adjacent to or near the wireless device during storage to further prevent unauthorized wireless communications with a reader.
US09697452B2
An adapter and methods of using the adapter for communicating a personal electronic device to a smart card reader are disclosed. The adapter comprises a processor, a contact/contactless smartcard chip, an antenna and a power supply unit. The processor is adapted to exchange data with the personal electronic device, wherein that data is modulated on the audio signals. The processor is also adapted to exchange data with the smartcard chip, wherein the smartcard chip is adapted to communicate with the contactless smart card reader via the antenna. A method for enabling a personal electronic device to communicate with a contactless smart card reader via audio signals is also disclosed. The method comprises providing an adapter. The adapter comprises a processor, a contact/contactless smartcard chip, an antenna and a power supply unit. The method also comprises exchanging data between the personal electronic device and the processor.
US09697451B2
An electrical asset for distributing power for use with a Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tracking system and middleware. The electrical asset includes at least one electrical component defining an external surface and at least one radially extending portion or axially extending portion. An RFID transponder is overmolded with the at least one electrical component and embedded within the at least one radially extending portion or axially extending portion and below the exterior surface of the at least one electrical component. The transponder is configured to transmit a first signal to a transmitting and receiving device and receive a second signal from the transmitting and receiving device.
US09697443B2
Techniques related to object detection using binary coded images are discussed. Such techniques may include performing object detection based on multiple spatial correlation mappings between a generated binary coded image and a binary coded image based object detection model and nesting look up tables such that binary coded representations are grouped and such groups are associated with confidence values for performing object detection.
US09697435B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce a size of a feature descriptor while maintaining accuracy of object identification. A local feature descriptor extracting apparatus includes: a feature point detecting unit which detects a plurality of feature points in an image and which outputs feature point information that is information regarding each feature point; a feature point selecting unit which selects a prescribed number of feature points in an order of importance from the plurality of detected feature points, based on the feature point information; a local region acquiring unit which acquires a local region corresponding to each selected feature point; a subregion dividing unit which divides each local region into a plurality of subregions; a subregion feature vector generating unit which generates a feature vector of a plurality of dimensions for each subregion in each local region; and a dimension selecting unit which selects a dimension from the feature vector for each subregion so that a correlation between neighboring subregions is lowered, based on a positional relationship between subregions in each local region and which outputs an element of the selected dimension as a feature descriptor of the local region.
US09697431B2
A device and method for providing a visual cue for improved text imaging on a mobile device. The method includes determining a minimum text size for accurate optical character recognition (OCR) of an image captured by the mobile device, receiving an image stream of a printed substrate, and displaying the image stream and a visual cue superimposed onto the image stream, wherein the visual cue is indicative of the minimum text size. The method further includes capturing a digital image of the image stream, wherein the digital image does not include the visual cue. Additionally, the method further includes notifying a user of the mobile device when text displayed within the image stream is at least as large as the minimum text size.
US09697427B2
A method for tracking a cinematography target that has been associated with an emitter can comprise receiving an indication to track a particular identifier. The particular identifier can be associated with an object of interest. The method can further comprise identifying, using at least one tracker component, a direction associated with the particular identifier. The method can also include calculating a motor actuation sequence necessary to actuate a control component to track the object of interest with an audiovisual device. The method can further comprise actuating at least one motor to track the object of interest.
US09697421B2
In order to provide a stereoscopic camera apparatus capable of rapidly and accurately detecting a three-dimensional object even when the three-dimensional object abruptly appears in an angle of view, a stereoscopic camera apparatus 100 includes: three-dimensional object detecting means 105, 106, 107; to-be-covered object detecting means 108 for detecting a to-be-covered object having a known shape; and to-be-covered object covering-detecting means 109 and 110 for detecting whether or not the three-dimensional object detected by the three-dimensional object detecting means covers the to-be-covered object when the to-be-covered object is detected by the to-be-covered object detecting means 108. When it is detected that the three-dimensional object covers the to-be-covered object, the to-be-covered object covering-detecting means 109 and 110 detect the three-dimensional object which covers the to-be-covered object by performing a process for determining whether or not the three-dimensional object is present in a simpler way, as compared to a case where the to-be-covered object covering-detecting means 109 and 110 detect that the three-dimensional object does not cover the to-be-covered object.
US09697404B2
A system and method is provided wherein a device can be reprogrammed utilizing one or more programming symbols. A device subject to reprogramming can be a portable device. In one embodiment a device subject to reprogramming can be a portable symbol reading device capable of reading programming symbols.
US09697401B2
An add-on device for an image scanner for scanning barcodes is provided. The add-on device includes a housing mounted to the standard range lens front on an image scanner, and a lens holder. The lens holder has a first position for holding a first lens, a second position being an aperture, and a third position for holding a second lens. A high-density lens is mounted in the first position. An extended range lens is mounted in the third position. The lens holder is mounted in the housing and is transverse to the optical axis of the standard range lens of the image scanner. Further, the lens holder is movable within the housing in order to alternately position the high-density lens, the aperture, and the extended range lens to be in alignment with the optical axis of the standard range lens of the image scanner.
US09697392B2
A reader (112) for reading data, the data being associated with a radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tag (16) and carried by a data signal originating from the RFID tag, the reader (112) comprising processing means (118) and storage means, the storage means having instructions stored thereon, whereby the processing means (118) is operable, under control of the instructions, to periodically switch the reader (112) from a first state to a second state; wherein, when the reader (112) is in the second state, the reader (112) is operable to determine an occurrence of a tag present event corresponding to the presence of an RFID tag within a field generated to activate an RFID tag to transmit a respective data signal carrying data associated with the RFID tag, and one or more other events; following determination of the one or more other events, return the reader to the first state; and following determination of the tag present event, receive and store in the storage means a representation of the data signal originating from the RFID tag, process the RFID tag signal representation to determine the data signal, and read the data of the determined data signal.
US09697384B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for numeric keypad encryption using an augmented reality device. The method may include establishing a secure connection to an augmented reality device. A random keypad layout is generated and sent to the augmented reality device. The random keypad layout is displayed in the augmented reality view over a real-world numeric keypad.
US09697376B2
User storage is attached to a central storage management system when the central storage management system receives a request to attach a cloud-based user storage thereto. The central storage management system accesses the cloud-based user storage and determines a set of objects stored therein. For each object in the set of objects, the storage management system stores corresponding metadata therein.
US09697370B2
A method, system and computer program product are provided for implementing and processing a block extent granularity authorization mechanism for a Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) adapter. The CAPI adapter generates an authorization table with multiple authorization entries, each authorization entry including an Authorization Handle with CAPI server registers identification (ID) including a start Logical Block Address of the extent and range of Logical Block Addresses for each extent. When a command is received an authentication process uses the Authorization Handle contained in the received command and an Authorization Entry in the Authorization Table indexed by the Authorization Handle to authenticate the received command to prevent unauthorized data access.
US09697349B2
Data loss prevention (DLP) systems may be implemented with collaborative services that may be integrated with or work in coordination with productivity services. Administrators may be enabled to configure DLP policies in the collaborative service to mitigate their organization's information disclosure risks, along with the detection and remediation of sensitive information. Access blocking may be a feature of the DLP system, where provision of access blocking may include determining if a detected action associated with content processed by the collaborative service matches access blocking criteria defined by DIP policy rules. In response to the determination that the action matches at least one access blocking criterion defined by the DLP policy rules, a block access tag associated with the content may be activated, previously defined permissions associated with the content may be ignored or altered, and access to the content may be restricted to a number of predefined users.
US09697347B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal displays a plurality of figures arranged in a first composition on a touch screen when a specific mode is locked, rearranges the plurality of figures in a second composition different from the first composition upon receiving a specific input, and determines whether to unlock the specific mode on the basis of a pattern which is input using the plurality of figures arranged in the first or second composition.
US09697345B2
An electronic apparatus with fingerprint sensing function, a driving circuit, and a method for driving the electronic apparatus are provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a first fingerprint sensor adapted to perform fingerprint sensing; a second fingerprint sensor adapted to perform fingerprint sensing; and a driving circuit. The driving circuit provides a first fingerprint detection signal to the first fingerprint sensor for performing fingerprint detection, and determines whether to control the electronic apparatus to perform a first function, based on fingerprint detection information from the first fingerprint sensor; and provides a second fingerprint detection signal to the second fingerprint sensor for performing fingerprint detection, and determines whether to control the electronic apparatus to perform a second function, based on fingerprint detection information from the second fingerprint sensor. With above technical solution, security for usage of the electronic apparatus is improved.
US09697340B2
An administrative system generates a sequence of passwords by iterative evaluation of a hash function, initiated from a private key value and continuing to a final, public key value. A current token is created that includes a current one of the passwords. A protected device tests the validity of the current password by inputting it to a hash function sub-chain. The current password is considered valid if, after hashing the current password n+1 times, where n corresponds to the number of tokens previously received, the result is a revealed value, such as a previously verified password of the public key value. At least one unit of a one-time programmable hardware device, such as processor fuses or anti-fuses, is then physically and permanently altered, thereby incrementing a count entry indicating the number of tokens received. The protected device performs a desired action only if the current password is verified.
US09697336B2
In an embodiment, a method includes acquiring electronic data indicative of a property of a mammal without making physical contact with the mammal. The method also includes extracting digital information indicative of a physiological characteristic of the mammal from the electronic data indicative of the property of the mammal. The method further includes choosing from an electronically accessible treatment database a neuromodulation treatment regimen for administration to the mammal in response to the information indicative of a physiological characteristic of the mammal. The method also includes electronically initiating an administration of the chosen neuromodulation treatment regimen to a nervous system component of the mammal.
US09697333B2
A system and method using a mobile Internet device with ability to scan a barcode in which a uniform resource locator (URL) is placed, and plays a transmitted audio signal activated by the URL in a Cloud database where both audio and word contents are stored. From general information for direction, instruction and information on the bottle of medicine, nutrition facts and ingredient tables on the packages of food, monthly bills, invoices, menu, magazines, to advertisement—all are either possessed of limited language translation options or use small font to explain something in a limited space. The system and method provide translation options and an audible signal.
US09697332B2
Method and system for providing data management in integrated analyte monitoring and infusion system
Methods and systems for providing therapy related data management are provided. The subject systems include one or more device components, and at least one memory storage unit and at least one data storage unit associated with such one or more device components. The device components may include one or more of an analyte monitoring system, a fluid delivery device and a remote terminal. The subject methods include use of the subject systems to optimize treatment of a patient.
US09697329B2
Various aspects of the invention provide systems and methods for improving the privacy-protection of the exchange of STD's test results and the utility of STD test results. One aspect of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of improving privacy-protection during the exchange of STD test results by preventing the exchange of STD test results if user-definable criteria are not met and deliberately obscuring the cause of prevented attempts at exchanging STD test results. The method includes providing a software application for importing STD test results; inputting criteria; attempting to exchange STD test results; and either preventing or allowing the exchange of STD test results at a plurality of stages. Another aspect of the invention provides a computer-implemented method of improving the utility of STD test results by recommending safe sexual contact practices and sexual health-related products and services based upon the use of algorithms.
US09697318B2
In a first mode, a control circuit generates a circuit design implementation with storage circuits in an integrated circuit by programming configuration memory bits via configuration resources. The storage circuits can be accessed for read and write operations during the execution of the circuit design implementation with the integrated circuit. In a second mode, the control circuit can perform read and write access operations at the storage circuits via configuration resources or via an interface circuit and interconnect resources that are allocated to the circuit design implementation. Typical applications for performing access operations at the storage circuits include fault injection and observation, statistical monitoring of the circuit design, initialization and distribution of certain signals including reset signals, event sampling, just to name a few.
US09697317B1
An integrated device product having objects positioned in accordance with in-situ constraints. Said in-situ constraints comprise predetermined constraints and their local modifications. These local modifications, individually formulated for a specific pair of objects, account for on-the-spot conditions that influence the optimal positioning of the objects. The present invention improves the yield of integrated devices by adding local process modification distances to the predetermined constraints around processing hotspots thus adding extra safety margin to the device yield.
US09697315B2
A method comprises receiving, in a computer, an input indicative of a drawing of at least a portion of at least one layer of a semiconductor device. The at least one portion of the at least one layer is compared to corresponding portions in corresponding layers of a plurality of previously defined devices stored in a non-transitory machine readable storage medium. Each layer of at least one of the plurality of previously defined devices for which the corresponding portion in the corresponding layer matches the at least one portion of the at least one layer of the semiconductor device is displayed on a display device.
US09697311B2
A method to generate a reduced delay twinaxial SPICE model is provided. The method may include measuring near-end S-parameter components and far-end S-parameter components of a twinaxial cable, reducing an original time delay of the far-end S-parameter components by multiplying each of the far-end S-parameter components by a complex exponential based on an equivalent delay length, a signal frequency, and an effective dielectric constant, simulating a signal transmitted across a twinaxial cable by running a 4-port SPICE model using the near-end S-parameter components and the multiplied far-end S-parameter components, and recording a magnitude and a phase of the transmitted signal with respect to frequency as outputs of the reduced delay twinaxial SPICE model.
US09697309B1
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a metastability-hardened synchronization circuit. The metastability-hardened synchronization circuit includes a plurality of sampling circuits, and a multiplexer. The sampling circuits sample an input signal to generate a plurality of sampled signals. The multiplexer generates an output signal from the plurality of sampled signals.
US09697289B2
An Internet-based system capable of automatically maintaining contact-related information in any computer software application or digital device which stores or manages contact-related information. More particularly, the system allows users to automatically enter and maintain contact-related information in a digital address book or similar application or device with minimal or no manual entry of the contact-related information by the user. The system also allows contacts of the user to make corrections to their contact-related information contained in the user's address book, request reciprocal contact information from the user, deny the user access to additional or corrected contact-related information and take other actions relative to managing the contact-related information which others (users) have about them.
US09697284B2
A search engine tracks search queries from a user received at the search engine to generate a search query history. A prediction engine compares the search query history from the user with search query histories from other users on the search engine. A predicted search query for the user that the user is predicted to use to perform a next search in relation to other possible searches is generated in view of the comparison. Search query histories of the other users with greater similarities to the search query history of the user have a greater computation weight in generating the predicted search query than the search query histories of the other users with fewer similarities to the search query history of the user.
